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WAGE FOUR

THE MCBI+GAN DAILY"

,IVED'. ESDAY, At-GUST 1, 1956

rAGE FOUR TILE MICHIGAN DAILY ~VEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1,1956

HAS 30 PATIENTS:
Clinic Aids Defective Speech

By MARY ANN THOMAS
On the opposite side of the large
window a cute, blond boy abott
six years old clung to his father's1
knees while a young man asked
him to identify objects given to
him.
"What is this?" the young man
asked, giving the child a pencil.
After a moment's hesitation, he,
anwsered, "panthil." Asked what
he liked to eat, the youngster re-
peated a number of barely intelli-
gible items until, when pressed to
name others, he whimpered and
put his hands over his ears.
Speech Test
These proceedings were a speech
test given at the University's
Speech Clinic. In the adjoining
room several people were observ-
ing the boy's speech defects. After
a medical examination and pos-
sible psychological examinations
the child may be enrolled in the
clinic for speech correction treat-
ment.
Founded in 1937, the Speech
Clinic provides instruction for;
people who have lost or never ac-
quired the power of speech or
hearing or those who have defec-
tive speech or hearing.
Dr. Harlan T. Bloomer, director
Big Mountain
Range Once
In Michigan
Michigan once boasted moun-
tain peaks as high as any of those
In the Alps or the Andes, accord-,
ing to Russell C. Hussey, professor
of geology.
"At one time, the Killarney
Mountain range -- one of the
grandest mountain ranges in all
history - extended, in Michigan,
from Marquette west to the
Houghton-Hancock area. The Hu
rons and the Porcupines are rem-
nants of the great Killarney range
which in length extended some
1,000 miles from Ontario south-
west to Oklahoma," Prof. Hussey
said.
But this all-but-vanished gran-
deur was a feature of pre-
Cambrian days, more than 500,-
000,000 years ago, before the ad-
vent of the seas which covered
Michigan at intervals during long
geologic periods.
Invaded 12 Times
For Michigan has, in fact, been
invaded at least twelve times by
great bodies of marine water, the
geologist said. Evidence of the
one-time presence of these seas
is at hand in Alpena, Rogers City
and Petoskey where we can find
rocks containing marine fossils of
the animals which once lived in
these great shallow bodies of wa-
ter, he explained.
These rocks were soft muds pre-
vious to the withdrawal of the
seas. In the Upper Peninsula the
fossils are best studied in the Es-
canaba area where the rock crops
out along the Escanaba River.
According to Prof. Hussey, the
first sea that invaded Michigan
swept in about 500 million years
ago - the last about 200 million
years ago.
Used 4 Seaways
He said that these ancient seas
advanced along' four seaways -
lower California, the Alaskan
area, the Newfoundland-Nova
Scotia area, and the region of the
Gulf. The seas, which from time
to time have invaded all the con-
tinents, and on this continent
pushed in as far as Michigan, en-'
croached wherever the land, slow-
ly sinking, had subsided below
sea level.
The geologist calls attention to'
the fish-fossil-bearing rocks of

Alpena quarries of the Devonian I
period. "At that time," he ex-
plained, "tropical conditions pre-
vailed over a good part of North
America and Michigan was cov-
ered by warm, shallow seas in
which corals lived. Whole Silurian
coral reefs may be traced from,
Ontario, southwest'through north-
ern Michigan down into Ohio, Il-
linois and Indiana."
Commenting on North Amer-
ica's present "dry" interval, the
geology professor said that there
has been no invading sea for 60
million years. "But we are sure
to get another! At some time in
the future the land will undoubt-
edly sink and another great sea
will come in. It's quite likely that
Hudson Bay may be the beginning
of another such sea."
Iraqi Doctor
Visits University
Dr. Abdul Jabbar Rizali, director
gfieneral of Social Services with
the Ministry of Social Affairs, and
chief inspector of Health in Iraq,
has just completed a visit to the,

of the Clinic, reports that the
clinic is noted for its treatment of
aphasics, people who have lost
their power of speech due to an
injury to the brain. Aphasics come
from all parts of the United States
to the University Clinic.
"Aphasics may not be able to
speak, write, calculate, under-
stand what they see or read or
know when people are talking to
them," the lanky doctor explained.
. Use of Symbols
Speech involves the use and
recognition of symbols, but when
the brain has been injured, people
often lose the ability of association
along with the ability of speech,
In extreme cases people may not
know what they are looking at.
At present, the Speech Clinic
has about 30 patients, of whom
approximately half are aphasics.
Adults come to the Clinic for 5
hours every day for instruction
and treatment and children come
212 hours daily.
Administered through the In-
stitute for Human Adjustment of
the Graduate School, instruction
in speech and audiology is done
by the Department of Speech.
"The Clinic serves as a labora-
tory for students in speech correc-
tion and also serves as a clinic for
children and adults who have de-
fects in speech and hearing," Dr.
Bloomer said.
Provided House
Since patients must spend s'
much time at the Cinic, the Uni-
versity has provided a house for
12 men. "This makes a vast dif-
ference in what we are able to do
with these men," he observed,
"Here, all instruction may be
directed toward social situations "
he continued. "Lac& of the ability
to talk cuts the person off from
many social activities; it changes
his whole life. So i we want to
teach people to talk this is best
done in a situation where it is
actually being used."
Following this principle, classes
for children are made as social as
possible, and every morning milk
and cookies are served to further
enable the child to use his spech
and mae associatins.
"If a person is not able to talk
1Reveclli Says
U.S. Music
Program Good
Participation by the youth of
America in all branches of music
far exceeds that of any European
nation, declares William D. Revelli,
professor of wind instruments and
director of the University bands.
During the past six months, Prof.
Revelli has been in Europe where
he observed and conducted many
rehearsals and public concerts of
the leading windbands of Conti-
nental Europe and England. He
returned July 21 on the Queen
Mary.
"This participation is, of course,
due to our music education pro-
gram which encourages 'music for
every child and every child for
music.' America's music program
is indeed unique and not to be
found in any other nation," Prof.1
Revelli said.
He commented "The study of
music in Europe for those who
wish to follow it as a profession, is
limited to only the highly talented
students. These are accepted at
the state schools of music only
after they have successfully sur-
vived the rigorous competitions
conducted by the faculties and ad-
ministrators of the state conserva-
tories and colleges."
In Europe, Prof. Revelli ob-
tained much valuable data and
information through personal visits
and conferences with hundreds of

conductors, composers, artist per-
formers, directors of the state con-
servatories and colleges of music,
teachers, students, music publish-
ers and instrument manufacturers.
According to Prof. Revelli, his
most outstanding musical experi-
ence was conducting a band of
204 selected musicians, the cream
of British military bands, at Knel-
ler Hall, the school which trains
all the band conductors of Great
Britain's military bands. Kneller
Hall is in Twickenham, a suburb
of London. He also conducted
the Guard Band of Paris, the
Metropolitan Band of Rome, the
Metropolitan Band of Milan and
the Municipal Band of Venice.
In addition, Prof. Revelli visited
the conservatories and academies
of music in Rome, Florence, Ven-
ice, Milan, Amsterdam, Brussels,
Zurich, Munich, Frankfurt, Stutt-
gart, Paris and London.
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he will tend to rely upon other
means of identification," Dr.
Bloomer commented. "A child may
rry or point if he wants something
and the parents Ieain to recognize
what he means."
Encourage Speech
"However, it is b t to encouragc
hym, not to force him, to use
speech in real situations," he con-
tinued. "In our nouse, when all
sit down together at the table.
we try riot to let them get by
without talking."
A three story house on E. Huron
Street, the Speech Clinic has fai--
Aies for testing bth speech and
hearing, classrooms and a room
for physiotherapy. Its four divi-
sions provide treatrment for adult
aphasics, adults with speech de-
fects other than vphasics, chil-
dren and University students,
Length of treatment depends
entirely upon the individual case
Aphasics may need treatment for
as long as two or three years,
while ot er defects such as stut-
tering, chronic hoarseness, loss of
larynx or articulatory defects may
tequire iess time.
Univers3i ty
Journalists
Run Paper
University journalism students
who have taken over the writing
and editing of two weekly news-
papers in the state for the sum-
mer were looking for a storm cel-
lar with lighted matches in hand
recently - and they weren't look-
ing for a story.
Top priority item in their minds
was protection and lots of it.
When winds, reported at 75
miles per hour, swept the town
and offices of the Evart Review
and knocked out power lines they
thought it was time to head for
cover. They had to give it up as
a bad job, however, when flick-
ering matches failed to reveal a
sturdy shelter in their temporary
"city room",
As soon as the winds subsided
they grabbed pencils, copy paper,
and cameras and ran out among
the fallen trees, crumpled barns
and demolished house trailers to
get their "hottest" story this
summer.
The students, working on the
Marion Press and the Evart Re-
view, are getting practical experi-
ence in the various jobs connected
with the publication of commu-
nity newspapers. Fred Smith, pub-
lisher of the two papers, has
turned over all of the jobs on the
papers to the students.
So far, he said, he's satisfied
with the performance of the bud-
ding newshawks.
Of course, there have been some
minor "goofs". Such as the time
two decimal points appeared in
an advertisement for a home ap-
pliance and readers weren't quite
sure whether the cost was $17.50
or $175.00. Or the time a car deal-
er read the paper and found that
he was apparently selling a dif-
ferent brand of automobile than
was on his showroom floor. Since
then proof readers have become
eagle-eyed.
While the students are learning
the ins and outs of community
newspaper work, Prof. Karl Zeis-
ler, of the journalism deartment
staff, who is working with the
class, said, "I'm doing some learn-
ing up here myself. Our commu-
nity newspaper courses are going
to undergo some revisions as a
result of this summer's work."
He said that from the strictly
news-handling side the journalists

are doing very well but it has be-
come apparent that they need
more instruction in the field of
advertising.
The students agree. They also
agree that a good newspaper man
in a small town must be a good
writer, a good photographer, a
good advertising salesman, a good
advertising layout man, and a
good businessman.
Speech Assembly

Progress
Possible
By Study X
Michigan communities can make
real progress if they will put even
a fraction ofstheintelligence into
community study and action as
they put into industrial and medi-
cal research, said Howard Y. Mc-
Clusky, professor of educational
psychology and consultant in com-
munity adult education.
A community discussion course
offered by the Community Adult;
Education Service of the Univer-
sity is giving the state's citizens
a chance to go into action to solve
some of their local problems.
The University of Michigan has
been pioneering in community ac-
tion for eighteen years.
The nine-session course, which
has been developed over the last.
two years banks heavily on local
leadership.
"We are betting on the intelli-
gence of local people," said Prof.'
McClusky, "and we think it is a
safe bet. These towns have plenty
of able people in them."
In helping communities help
themselves, members of the Uni-
versity staff assist in setting up
the non-credit course, then stay
in the background as much as pos-
sible. University leaders have at-
tended not more than four of the
sessions in some of the commu-
ties, which have included North-
ville, Pontiac, Mendon, Escanaba,
Armada and others.
DAILY
OFFICIAL
BULLETIN
(Continued from Page 2)
sowell, Michigan -- Teacher Needs:
High School Latin.
Morrice, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Early Elementary; High School Science;
Commercial; Men's Physical Education.
New Lenox, Illinois - Teacher Needs:
Business Education (Office Machines/
Bookkeeping/Business English); Speech/
Dramatics/English.
New Paltz, New York-Teacher Needs:
Elementary (1st); 7th/8th grade So-
cial Studies; Girls' Physical Education;
Special Class.
Petoskey, Michgian .- Teacher Needs:
Kindergarten; Girls' Physical Educa-
tion.
Pontiac, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Junior High Art.
Racine, Wisconsin -- Teacher Needs:
Elementary (2nd, 3rd 5th, 6th); Ju-
nior High Commercial; Senior High In-
dustrial Arts; Physical T h e r a p i s t;
Speech Therapist.
Republic, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Industrial Arts; English (Grades 7-10.)
Rocky Ford, Colorado - Teacher Needs:
Spanish.
Marysville, Michigan-Teacher Needs:
High School English.
Roseville, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Elementary (Kdg., 1st, 2nd); Junior
High English; Shop; Vocal Music;
arithmetic; High School Industrial Arts.
Elementary.
Sparta, Michigan - Teacher Needs:
Elementary (1st Grade).
Trenton, Michigan - Teacher Needs
Elementary (4th Grade).
Tulare, California -Teacher Needs:
Walled Lake, Michigan - Teacher
Needs: Elementary; Speech Crrecton;
visiting eacher.
Whitehall, Michigan-Teacher Needs:
High School Vocal Music; Industrial
Arts; Spanish/English.
Willow Run, Michigan -- Teacher
Needs: Elementary (2nd, 3rd, 4th).
South San Francisco, California -
Teacher Needs: Elementary (Grades 4
to s): High School Mentally-handi-
capped; Vocal Music/other subjects;
Industrial Arts.
For additional Information contact

the Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad-
ministration Building, No. 3-1511, Ext.
489.
PERSONNEL REQUESTS:
For information contact the Bureau
of Appointments, 3528 Admin, Bldg.,
ext. 371.
PERSONNEL REQUESTS:
The Babcock & Wilcdx Co., Lynch-
burg, Va. needs a Numerical Analyst
with a Ph.D. in Math, to analyze prob-
lems in reactor design.
YwcA, winston-Salem, N. C., will
have two positions open September 1
requiring experienced workers. One for
Director of Physical Education and
the other for Director of Camp and
Teen-Age Program.
Calumet & Hecla, Inc., Calumet,
Mich., needs a Sales Engineer with an
engineering degree and experience or
interest in Industrial Selling, an Elec-
trical Engineer with 2 to 3 years ex-
perience desired, and an Industrial
Engr. with a degree in either business
or engineering and experience in de-

SCHOLARLY GATHERING:
Linguists Meet on

Campus

The recent meeting of the Lin-
guistic Society of America on cam-
pus drew members and visitors-
from all over the world.
Students and scholars from In-
dia, Pakistan, France, Ireland,
Indonesia and the first Egyptian
linguistists to study in this coun-
try were present for the meeting.
The members of the society ar-
rved throughout last week, spend-
ing their time before the official
meeting on Friday and Saturday
sitting in on the classes of the
Summer Session Linguistic Insti-
tute, consulting the Universities
research materials in linguistics
and in private meetings and dis-1
cussions.
Following a registration period
in Rackham Hall on Friday morn-
ing, the linguists met together for
their first formal meeting in Rack-
ham Amphitheater. At this meet-
ing, which was called to order by
the President of the society, Prof.
Roman Jakobson of Harvard Uni-
versity, papers were read by mem-
bers of the society on such diverse
subjects as "Some Instrumental
Observations a b ou t Speech
Production," "Morphophonemic
Change in Siouan," and "Siever's
Law and a Rule of IE Syllable For-
mation."

Charles E. Odegaard. Dean of
the College of Literature. Science
and the Arts opened the afternoon
meeting with an address of wel-
come. Following his speech, the
member listened to more papers
on linguistic problems. Prof. Ig-
nace J. Gelb, a member of the
summer session Linguistics Insti-
tute faculty, present a paper on
the recovery of a Semitic langu-
age, Amorite. Kenneth L. Pike of
the University faculty also pre-
sented a paper on Peruvian Lan-
guages.
Prof. Myles Dillon, a members of
the Royal Irish Academy was the
speaker at the banquet meeting
of the society. Friday night. He
presented the Coiiltz lecture, a reg-
ular part of each year's linguistics
meeting.

.

j

MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY REGISTER
IN THE LOBBY OF THE RACKHAM BUILDING

Executives Meet
While the regular meetings of
the society continued on Saturday,
the Executive Council met to con-
sider thedbusiness ofnthe society
which had arisen since their' last
meeting in the winter.
Linguistic problems in English,
old Persian and Maranao were
covered in papers presented, on
Saturday morning. Prof. Paul
Garvin of Georgetown University
presented a paper on linguistic
problems involved in machine
translation at the afternoon ses-
sion,
Like most of the conferences
which are held on campus each
year, the members of the Linguis-
tic Society didn't limit their dis-
cussion to the regular meetings.
Small groups gathered on campus
and off to talk about language
problems.
Study at 'U'
Many of the members of the
society are attending the Summer
Session Linguistic Institute which
is being sponsored on campus fo_*
the fourteenth time since 1928, by
the University and the Linguistic
Society. There are about 250 stu-
dents enrolled in the various
courses of the Institute this sum-
mer, studying such subjects as'Old
Irish, The Structure of the Span-
ish Language and Instrumental
Phonetics.
These students are drawn from
all over the United States and from
many foreign countries.

DAILY
PHOTO
FEATURE
Story by
KEN JOHNSON
Pictures by
HARDING WILLIAMS

PROF. A. A. HILL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
CONDUCTS A MEETING OF THE LINGUISTS

4

TWO EGYPTIAN LINGUISTS TALK AN INDONESIAN SCHOLAR LISTENS
WHILE WAITING FOR THE LECTURER INTENTLY TO THE LECTURER

"To Isolate or Not to Isolate" veloping engineered standardssfor Gist
will be the topic of Claude Kant- and operating performance measure-
11 ment and with a broad knowledge of
ner, director of the School of methods improvement techniques.
Dramatic Art and Speech at Ohio T.V. Guide is iooking for a woman
University, at a University Speech to work as Programmer on the Detroit
Assembly today, edition of the magazine. Journalism
The assembly, under the aus- background is helpful. but not neces-
pice ofthe epatmet ofspechsary.
pices of the department of speech, 'For further information contact the
will be held at 3 p.m. in Rackham Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Admin.
Amphitheater. Bldg., ext. 371.
s HENRY H. _

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