Iffr MICHIGAN DAILY StIMAY, NOVEMBER 21,1954 SIX TW MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1954 F ~n Students EWEN OFF THE STAGE: Harmony Prevails in Stanley Quartet Engineers Scarce on Today's Market By MARY LEE DINGLER Four years ago engineering grad- uates flooded the market. Today, two years after the close of a "police action" and as a re- sult of the de-emphasis on engineer- ing education, there's a severe shortage of engineers. Because of the current demand, engineers are the highest-paid professional men in the country, excepting physi- cians. Many factors have combined to produce the present shortage. Aft- er World War II, returning GI's swamped the country's engineer- ing schools. By 1950 there were more graduates than jobs avail- able. Discouraged Students High school and college counsel- ors began to discourage .students from entering the engineering field. This program was so effective that the sudden "police action" found the country unable to supply the engineers which were so badly needed. Current procedence of universal military training over selective service has also influenced the present shortage. While the engineering.student has an excellent chance of obtaining his bachelor's degree, it is more than likely that he will be drafted before entering graduate school. Research Abandoned Although the shortage of engi- neers has benefited industry by encouraging the more effective use of technical personnel, it has also Frye To Discuss Persian History Under the combined auspices of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Fine Arts Departt- ment, Richard N. Frye will speak at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow in the Rack- ham Amphitheater on "The Per- sian Renaissance of the 11th Cen- tury A.D." Frye is an Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Har- vard University. resulted in the abandonment of many research projects. This shortage also has some in- ternational implications. Soviet Russia, now challenging the United States' position of a world leader in scientific development, is also producing more engineers per an- num. Communist China has some 70,000 students enrolled in her en- engineering schools and colleges. At the present time an extensive advertising campaign to remedy the situation is being conducted. For the past five years, the Engi- neering Manpower Commission and other organizations have been mak- ing serious efforts to correct the deficiency. These groups have stressed the importance of engineers to national technology and have pointed out our increasing dependence on their services. Read and Use Daily Classifieds Foreign Students Will Discuss Health Foreign students from countries all over the world will gather for a Public Health Assembly at 4 p.m. tomorrow in the Public Health Auditorium to discuss health pro- grams in their native regions. 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"Michigan veterans have been slighted by the VA and its con- gressional delegation on necessary beds for mentally-afflicted veter- ans," Buer explained. "High VA officials promised two years ago," he said, "that existing Michigan facilities would be full to 93 percent of capacity. As of last month, however, facilities were ,operating at little more than 65 percent of capacity." Local VA hospital administra- tors say that the 500-bed Ann Arbor hospital is not limited to mental patients, and not filled to capaci- ty because it's just been activated. Meanwhile, recent wide publici- ty on the "forgotten men" in the hospitals has led a group of De- troit residents, laden with gifts, to the Battle Creek veteran's hospi- tal today. 1,700 items have been donated and gift-wrapped for a pre- Thanksgiving party there. phrase, or if the movement should be "fast or juicy," the Quartet members vote. If the vote is even, they 'flip a coin. No member of the quartet is subordinate to an- other. The Quartet's four members are Prof. Gilbert Ross, first violinist, Prof. Emil Raab, second violinist, Prof Robert Courte, violist and Prof. Oliver Edel, cellist, all mem- bers of the School of Music. Experience Told Prof. Ross, pupil of Leopold Auer, taught at Cornell University and Smith College before he came to the University in 1942. Another member, Prof. Raab, '48SM, won the Stanley Medal, highest music school award, when he was at the University. He toured extensively in Michigan and was concertmas- ter of a United States Army orch- estra in England before joining the University's faculty in 1949. Violist Prof. Courte, as a fac- ulty member of the Brussels Con- servatory of Music, toured Europe with the Gertler Quartet of the Conservatory. He was with the Pa- ganini Quartet from 1946 to 1950, when he joined the University fac- ulty. Prof. Edel, cellist, after touring and recording extensivelyuwith both the Manhattan and Roth Quartets, joined the University staff in 1947. Because "we can't live only on the fruits of past eras," Prof. Ross said, the University tries to en- courage contemporary composing and public interest in contempor- ary music by each year commis- sioning one work by a modern composer to be premiered by the Stanley Quartet. Interpretations Merged One of the Quartet's greatest difficulties is to compromise each member's interpretation of a com- poser's work so that the final per- formance is not lifeless and dull. Remembering some of the Quar- tet's amusing experiences, Prof. Raab said, "Somebody always for- gets something." Once on tour Prof. Edel opened his suit case to find only two left shoes. Prof. Courte once appeared for a con- cert in a white dress coat instead of the proper black one. "People thought I was the leader of the band," he said. Itinerary Told After performing in Charleston (W. Va.) earlier this year, the Quartet will play at Princeton University early in December. Later that month they will play for the American Musicological Society in Ann Arbor. Along with its Beethoven series in Ann Arbor, the Quartet has been repeating the series for the benefit of Detroit audiences. Both the Princeton and the AMS program include Prof. Ross Lee Finney's "Quartet No. 6." Prof. Finney is Composer-in-Residence at the University. Today's concert at 3:30 p.m. in Rackham Lecture Hall will be the Quartet's fourth in the Beethoven series. The program will include "Quartet in F major, Op. 18," "Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 74" and "Quartet in A minor, Op. 132." WAA Volleyball As the Women's Athletic Associ- ation volleyball tournament reach- es its end, three games are sched- uled for the early part of this week. In the "B" Finals, Alpha Chi Omega II will play Yost House to- morrow at 7:15. At the same time, Couzens II will meet Mosher II for the "A" semifinal:. 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