PAGE FOUR THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY- DFICF.&R £ 1- 1M PAGN FOUR THE MICITf(~AN flAIIY WJ~'TbNTI~flAV Thii~~ I iota rrs.uI'%JrJ J-WtXX, us.l iKRlS G 2y laYa"! ! 4 Librarian Discusses Overseas Career gy DAVID KAPLAN After working in libraries in the United States and Germany, Carol Thomas, Grad., feels that her ex- periences would "show people that librarians don't necessarily lead extremely quiet lives." Working towards her advanced Master's degree in Library Science at the General Library, Miss Thom- as has spent the last 11 years fol- lowing her college graduation, in libraries in Michigan, New Mexico and with the Army in Germany. Born in Madison, Wisc., she was graduated from Milwaukee-Down- er College in 1940 and the follow- ing year received a Library Sci- ence degree at Columbia Univer- sity First Job Her first job was with a Minne- sota library as reference librarian. She then switched to college li- brary work at New Mexico's East- ern College library. During the Second World War, Miss Thomas had an opportunity to go to Europe as secretary for the iN's Relief and Rehabilitation Agency "Just when I wasiabout to sign ,the papers," she said, "a job in Dearborn came along that I couldn't resist." The job was as a branch librar- lan in charge of adult work, and after a while she was promoted to the main library's reference de- partment. Audio-Visual Department An audio-visual department was started at the library and Miss Thomas was put in charge of de- veloping the service. In the fall of 1948, she was made head of the department. After being with the Dearborn Library for five years, Miss Thom- as still wanted to go to Europe. "I couldn't get the bee out of my bon- net," she said. In June, 1951, she was sent to Grafenwehr, Germany as a civil- ian employee with the Army's Spe- cial Services Division. Under her charge were three small libraries and two bookmobiles. While in Ger- many, she maintained her Michi- gan citizenship. Discussing her impressions of post-war Germany, Miss Thomas noted that "it's beautiful country, but some areas that were badly bombed during the war still looked Pretty sad in 1951" Change to Nurenberg The following February, Miss Thomas was appointed to the Ar- my's central library for Nuren- berg's Military District, supervis- ing reference work. That September, she spent a three-week leave touring France. One of her stops was at the Loire River chateaux. "The chateaux brought me back to my French classes in high school. Seeing them was like a dream, for I never thought the buildings in those posters in high school would be before my eyes." Another trip to Yugoslavia in April, 1953, brought an interesting incident. When she visited Bel- grade, Miss Thomas inadvertently got a view of Yugoslavian troops. "Driving down one of the boule- Gandhi Movie Set For Friday A full-length documentary film presenting the high-lights of the life of Mahatma Gandhi will be shown free of charge at 4 and 7 p.m. Friday in the Michigan Union ballroom. The presentation is sponsored by the India Student Association, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Young Friends' Fellowship. Lar ge-Scale 'U' Building Plants Told By MARY LEE DINGLER "There is more construction un- der way now than at any time in the University's history," comment- ed Wilbur K. Pierpont, University vice-president and geperal super- visor of the current building pro- gram. Center of construction activity is the North Campus area where the modern Cooley Memorial Labora- tory was completed last spring. Since that time numerous other projects have been undertaken. Selection of Site Explaining how the site for a new building is selected, Pierpont pointed out that it is the result of a "three party agreement." First the school or college which will oc- cupy the proposed structure com- piles a plan of the various types of work to be done in the building. This outline is then related to work being done in areas already devel- oped and a recommendation is sent to Pierpont's office. The recommendations are dis-I cussed with the architects respon- sible for over-all planning of the campus. Final approval depends on the decision of the University Board of Regents. Recent Developments I10,000 SPECIMENS: U' Zoology 1 Extensive Coll By ERNEST THEODOSSIN American cities seek ways of eliminating troublesome bird pop- ulations, but the University mu- seum of zoology staff devotes much time to preserving and studying specimens of bird life. Housing over 110,000 bird speci- mens, the Museum has one of the world's largest and most extensive bird collections. The collection is particularly large in winged life of North and South America, in- u cluding the tropics. Specimens are skinned and cleaned. Then the skins are stuffed with cotton and laid flat in cabinets containing hundreds of wide drawers. Can Be Mounted OrTH CAM S"We could, of course, soften any ) I iof the skins and mount it with glass, eyes," Prof. Josselyn Van * * Tyne, Curator of Birds, said, "But 'xst we keep them laid flat because it takes less room and because it's ther P anets easier to work with them that way. ~ -~____ ------- Many of the tropical specimens, or animal or birds on earth are which are often brightly colored, the bes forms of life rth abio sport glistening metallic coats. che best foir ms ,nie that pro- They may range in size from two chemistry and star shie can pro- inches in length and two grams illiam Liin weight to huge creatures with SWilliam Liller of the astronoinyI wing spreads of several feet. department disputes with Prof. Shapely. "The possibilities of life Extint Birds [useum Houses ection of Birds PLANS FOR N( mens of 'animals are also avail- able for study and research. In- cluded are mammals, reptiles, am- phibians, fish, insects, and mol- lusks. Prof. J. Speed Rogers, Museum Director, said the many specimens are used to study the diversity and relationships of animal populations produced by evolution. Never Complete Collections are large, but "never complete." Each problem about the occurence, regional diversity, and relationships of a particular ani- mal or animal groups that is worked out shows new needs for additional data. As a result, a part of each staff member's time must be spent in the field searching for, additional specimens and field data. Some expeditions are financed by friends of the museum who have a special interest,. in a particular field of natural history. Others are pro vided from University budgets and Rackham grants. Although the Museum has only a few exhibits in the Museums dis- play section, Prof. Rogers said the specimens were open to all stu- dents interested in "research ou animal life." Soph Scandals Rehearse Today All-cast rehearsal for Soph Scandals will be held at 7 p.m. today in the Hussey Room of the League. -Daily-Dean Morton CAROL THOMAS .,.. Books from Wisconsin to Germany vards in Belgrade," she recalled, assume the directorship of the Kent "I had my driving lights on. A sol- County Library. dier in the roadway ahead motion- Outside of the world of the Dew- ed me to dim my lights, and as I ey Decimal System, Miss Thomas did I noticed a group of soldiers is interested in movie photography. marching down the street." She purchased a 16 millimeter "As they came nearer," she con- camera while working with Dear- tinued, "all the street lights went born's audio-visual center and took out. When the troops passed out of pictures of her travels in Europe. sight, the lights came on." Her other interests center around "Apparently the troops were not horseback riding. On her vaca- to be seen by anyone, so they tions, she has gone to dude ranches turned the street lights off. It in Colorado, Arizona and Texas. made you feel like you were in a Looking back on her experiences, police state." Miss Thomas feels that her time Enters University was well spent. "It pays to move Coming to the University last around," she said, "and see how fall, Miss Thomas is now working other libraries and people oper- on her advanced library degree. ate." When she is finished in February, "It does something for your per- she is moving to Grand Rapids' to sonality," she added. TENTH ANNIVERSARY: Plans For United Nations Holiday Now In Progress Shapel asL On Millions of Man has always looked to the stars with hope; now some men look in fear. "We are not alone," Prof. Har- low Shapely, Harvard University astronomer said recently. "There are 100 million planets which could support life in the higher i m sa St ne is SU re; w th( st fo w ou fu Summarizing r e c e n t develop- forms," Prof. Shapely added. ents on North Campus, Pierpont Makes 'Low Estimate' 4 id that the Library Service and Prof Shapely has made what lie ack Building would be finished calls a "low estimate" of life-con- ext month. The Phoenix Building taining planets in the following expected to be completed this way. "Our sun is a star and it has immer and bids for the nuclear planets. To be on the safe side let actor to be housed in one of its us assume that only one in every ings will go out early in 1955. At million stars has any planet or e present time workmen are con- family of planets. Next assume ructing an apartment dwelling that only one of every thousand of r married students. all these families of planets has Pierpont stated that the program one planet with the right condi- ould be "a long range one," and tions to support life. itlined some plans for the near "Now we have assumed thot orly ture. one in every billion stars cowd Future Plans 'have the kind of planet to suppon'i; life. If life actually develops to Included in the list is an area de- on any of the planets in our solar system is slight. No planets in this system have sufficient oxygen int its atmosphere to support life as1 we know it. Outside Invasion; "Our world can roll up its ironj curtain and use it for scrap if extraterestia Is ever invade this; world.' stated psychiatrist Dr. C. G. Jerig, in a recent magazine' article. . "We would be in the position ofj Also included in the collection are such now-extinct birds as the Carolina paraquet and the heath hen, a relative of the prairie chicken. Preserved materials are used for research in a great variety of ways. Students, graduates as well as under-graduates, come to the Mu- seum to study such things as spe- Pies' development and feather coloring. Birds, however, are only one 1.e primitive African societies in part of the Zoology Museum's Ijiir ;'7sh with the colonizing huge collection of animal life. European notions. More than six million other speci- m" . C LIZED TRAINING in TYPING I A world-wide holiday, celebrat- ing the tenth anniversary of the United Nations is being planned for Oct. 24, 1955. The holiday, endorsed in the United Nations Nov. 17, will "reach the hearts of many ascwell as the minds of a few," according to George Randall, '29, public rela- tions counsel to the American As- sociation for the United Nations. Nicknamed "UN D-Day," the decennial program is aimed at creating better public understand- ing of the UN so that it may gain strength and support for it from people throughout the community. AAUN Suggestions Among ways for observing the holiday, suggested by the AAUN are a UN Birthday Parade of Chil- dren, a UN "Governmental Invi- tation to Youth" and a UN Com- memorative Decennial Postage Stamp Project. The Children's Parade would be recorded locally by colored motion pictures, from which one or more professional films may be made. For the "Governmental Invita- tion to Youth" project, govern- ment officials at all levels would invite children into their office on UN D-Day, to share in the making of decisions which affect those and other children. Decennial Stamps People of all ages will be urged to request their governments to is- sue special UN Decennial Stamps. Designs for stamps, whenever pos- sible, will have been chosen from creative work of school children in art and design classes. Letters have been sent to 1100 stamp editors, publishers and collectors through- out the world. The AAUN has established local offices throughout the nation and in several foreign cities to plan the distributing of materials for proceedings on UN D-Day. Conferences Planned Conferences have been planned for chapters and cooperating or- ganizations. The high point of these conferences will be a special meeting in Washington D.C., Feb. 26-28, 1955. "The holiday will be an attack on ignorance, hostility, isolation- ism an dother future problenxs ," Randall said. "It will be serving the future," Randall added', "rath- er than celebrating the past." For further information on UN D-Day, anyone interested can write to the American Association fo rthe United Nations at 345 E. 46 St., New York 17, N.Y. voted to Aeronautical Engineering, a project which would provide wind tunnels and laboratories. As a re- sult of these facilities research work which formerly had to be done at Willow Run Airport couldj be done here. Eventually the entire College of Engineering, School of Music, the College of Architecture and Design and a majority of student and staff housing will be located on North Campus. However, the old campus has not been entirely neglected. Featured in its new look will be such buildings as the Law Library and the addition to Couzens Hall, which are both under construction. Pierpont said that a request for approximately $11,000,000 to be used for next years building pro- gram is now on file in Lansing. FR cROUP TWAVES IN LUX1URY' Ft1CM49R A REyXOttX GO TOGETHER To: Sports Events - Parties. Convenient, private, amazing- ly low in cost. Try it. high forms on only one in ve thousand of these planes, th could be human life on only on of every thousand billion sai n the universe. "There are enough stat s in oujr skies so that 100 million plome' s might be life producing." Prof. Shapely concluded, "There is no reason to assume thaz man New technique in Touch System. 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