41 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. - - - - - - - - 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. _ TYPEWRITERS Office & Portable Models ~ STEVENS, Inc. Ir ii P -,'.4 - .. -