The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 16, 1948 Page: 3 of 8
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THE THRESHER
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Charity Committee Primes for New Semester
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President Announces Nine Promotions,
Positions, Eight New Instructors to Serve
Hudson to Serve
As Assistant
Psychology Prof
Rice will have eight new faculty
members and eight new instructors
this year, it was announced Sunday.
According to academic practice new
instructors serve a year in that ca-
pacity at Rice before they become
members of the faculty.
Bradford Benedict Hudson, A.Ifc
(Stanford) 1930, Ph.D. (California)
1947, has come to Rice as assistant
professor of psychology. Until re-
cently Dr. Hudson was psychologist
with the Office of Strategic Serv-
ices and the Central Intelligence
Agency, Washington, D.C.
Edward Sheldon Lewis, B.A. (Cal-
ifornia) 1940, Ph.D. (Harvard) 1947,
has become assistant professor of
chemistry. He was formerly teach-
ing fellow at Harvard University,
and'm&re recently national research
fellow at the University of Cali-
fornia at Los Angeles.
Coming to Rice as an assistant
professor of chemical engineering is
Guy. T. McBride, Jr., B.S. in Ch.E
(Texas) 1940, Sc.D. in Ch.E. (Mass
Inst, of Tech.) 1948. He was instruc-
tor in chemical engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, 1940-'42; design engineer for
for the Standard Oil Co. of Cali-
fornia, 1944-'46; and research as-
Returning to Rice as assistant
professor of mathematics is Gerald
Robinson MacLane, B.A. (Yale)
1941, A.M. (JJarvard) 1942, Ph.D.
(Rice^f 1946, who was a member of
the Institute for Advanced Study at
Princeton, New Jersey during the
year 1946-'47, and last year was
Benjamin Peirce instructor in math-
ematics at Harvard University.
Coming to Rice from Baylor
School, Chattanooga, Tenn., is Wil-
liam Henry Maaterson, B.A. (Rice)
1935, (Pennsylvania) 1946. He comes
as assistant professor of history, in
charge of • the freshman work in
American History.*-
Robert Plunkett, S.B. (Mass. Inst,
of Tech.) Sc.D. in M.E. (Mass. Inst.
Tech.) 1948, conies to Rice as as-
sistant professor of mechanical
engineering from an assistant pro-
fessorship of mechanical engineer-
ing at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Jurg Waser, B.A. (Univ. of Zu-
ich) 1939, Ph.D. (Calif. Inst. Tech.)
1944, has been appointed assistant
'professor of chemistry. He was for-
merly instructor in chemistry, and
for the last three years research fel-
low at the California Instiltute of
Technology.
Coming to Rice as associate li-
brarian is David A. Webb, A.B.
(South Carolina) 1939, A.B.L.S.
(Emory) 1940, A.M.L.S. (Michigan)
1947. Until recently he has been
librarian of the Technological In-
stitute at Northwestern University.
Eight new instructors have been
added to the staff of Rice this year,
including four new members of the
English Department, an instructor
in German, an instructor in his-
tory and government, an instructor
in civil engineering, and an instruc-
tor in mechanical engineering.
Coming from the Graduate Col-
lege at Princeton University is
Harry Blackburn Dilworth« A.B.
(William and Mary) 1941. Before
going to Princeton he served in the
Army. He has been appointed to an
instructorship in English at Rice.
Another* instructor in English will
be Wilfred Sellers Dowden, B.A.
(Vanderbilt) 1939, M.A. (Vander-
bilt) 1940, was formerly instructor
in German at Vanderbilt, and later
instructor in English at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina. After serv-
ice in the Navy Mr. Dowden re-
sumed his graduate studies in Eng-
lish at1 North Carolina. He becomes
instructor in English at Rice.
J. B. MacLean, B.A. (British Co-
lumbia) 1928, M.A. (Washington)
1935, has been an associate in Ger-
man at the University of Washing-
ton. He comes to Rice as instructor
in German.
Warner Everett Mills, Jr., B.A.
(Dartmouth) 1943, M.A. . (Yale)
1948; comes to Rice as instructor in
history and government.
Walter Dewitt Murphy, B.S. Th
Ch.E. (Rice) 1948; has been ap
pointed as an instructor in civil en-
gineering.
Coming to Rice from Minnesota
Farre Joseph Pequigney, B.A.
(Notre Dame) 1944, M.A. (Minne-
sota) 1947; comes as instructor in
English.
Richard Hardin Warren, B.S. (Ha-
verford) 1943) was formerly in-
structor in English at Haverford.
Mr. Warren comes from the Har-
vard Graduate School to be instruc-
tor in English.
Donald Dean Weeke, B.S. in M.E.
(Rice), lg48; will be instructor in
mechanical engineering.
Eight Faculty
Coming Year
Battista Becomes
Assistant Prof Of
Latin languages
In accordance with the adminis-
tration's long-range plan to increase
the faculty, President W. V. Hous-
ton has announced nine promotions
of previous faculty members.
Joseph Lloyd Battista, who has
taught at Rice since receiving his
second master's degree in 1929, will
become assistatnt professor of Ro-
mance Languages. He has studied
at Bordeaux, Michigan, Washington,
and Harvard.
New assistant professor of mathe-
matics will be Hugh Daniel Brunk,
who has been with the Institute
since 1940, except for two years
in the Navy. Dr. Brunk has studied
at California, and received his Ph.D.
from Rice in 1944.
Formerly assistant dean for stu-
dent activities, Hugh Scott Cameron
has been promoted to dean of stu-
dents. Having studied at Stevens
College, Mr. Cameron came to Rice
in 1944, and is assistant professor
of mechanical engineering.
Serving as professor of archi-
tecture this year will be James Chill-
man Jr. He has been at Rice since
1916, except from 1919-'22, when
he was fellow of the American
Academy in Rome. He holds degrees
from Pennsylvania, as well as the
Academy, and has served as as-
sociate professor of architecture.
Comeing to Rice in 1946 as as-
sistant professor of philosophy,
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Foreign School
To Be Selected;
Aid Plan Tentative
Last semester the student body
voted to establish a charity policy
for Rice. This policy authorizes one
charity drive on the campus each
year and states that the money don-
ated during this drive should be used
to aid some war-stricken foreign
school.
A charity committee, headed by
Ernie Maas, was appointed by the
student council to work out the de-
tails of this plan and expidite its
administration. This committee met
several times last year and was suc-
cessful in obtaining tha-lielp of Mr.
Pierre Girard, assistant professor of
French, in investigating prospective
foreign schools. Mr. Girard has been
visiting France this summer and up-
on his return will probably have
several suggestions to make to the
charity committee.
Many plans have been proposed
for the administration of this idea.
The one most generally discussed
seems to be that a foreign school,
approximately the size of Rice
should be selected to receive oar
aid. The administration of this
school would be granted the money
donated by Rice students and
would be empowered to use this
money as it saw fit, in order to
help the school and its students
recover from the devastation of
war.
During the period in which the
school is regaining its war-time loss-
es, every effort will be made to es-
tablish student contact between Rice
and the foreign school. This con-
tact could be accomplished by means
of exchanging student publications,
by communication through language
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