Vol. 14, No. 9
SUMMER EDITION
Friday, June, 18, 1948
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Naval
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ROTC Students
Summer Cruises
Sixty-four University of Ne
braska Naval ROTC students will
take summer training cruises in
Pacific waters, according to Capt.
Mitchell D. Matthews, USN, pro
lessor of Naval Science at the
university.
The cruises give practical ap
plication of information the stu
dents learn in classes on the
campus during the school year.
Five students will be commis
sioned in the U.S. Navy Reserve
upon completion of their course
at the university, and the rest
will be commissioned in the
regular Navy upon graduation
and serve a two year tour of
duty.
The five have been assigned
to the cruiser USS Duluth, which
embarks from San Francisco
June 26, spends five days at
Victoria, British Columbia, and
returns to San Francisco July 16.
They are: Robert W. Baum, La
Crosse, Wis.; Thomas E. Blom
gren, Cambridge, 111.; Patrick A.
Christel, Valders, Wis.; Russell J.
Peterson, Chicago, 111.; and James
H. Swanson, Lincoln.
45 on Pasadena.
Forty-five students will attend
the cruise on the cruiser USS
Pasadena which embarks from
San Francisco June 26 and dis
embarks there August 21 with a
major port of call, Pearl Har
bor, T. H. The students are: Hen
ry W. Abts, HI, Los Angeles,
Calif.; John W. Adams, Daykin;
Arnold O. Allen, Malcolm; Ed
win W. Allison, Waterloo, la.;
Larry F. Batson, Wes Plains, Mo.;
Richard T. Bick, Grand Island;
Neil V. Campbell, Rochester, N.
Y.; Harry U. Carpenter, Sioux
City, la.; Leonard Carstensen,
Odebalt, la.; Edward J. Condon,
"O'Neill; Donald A. Cook, Rock
Rapids, la.; Bob R. Farnham,
Lincoln.
John W. Gerbel, Cleveland
Heights, Ohio; Samuel J. Harbo,
Jr., Hanska, Minn.; Burton E.
Holthus, Bertrand; Charles B.
House, Rio, 111.; Carter Iddings,
Hammond, Indiana; Robert C.
Irwin; Hastings; Max A. James,
Clarinda, la.; Edwin G. Joselyn,
Randolph; Edward C. LeBeau,
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Harris Compares Nebraska,
New Zealand Stakes in Peace
Two of the world's smaller states
New Zealand and Nebraska
have the same vital stake in
world peace, Walter Harris, mem
ber of the United Nations perma
nent staff at Lake Success, N. Y.,
told the Lincoln Rotary club this
week.
Dr. Harris, a specialist in in
ternational relations and educa
tion, was the main speaker at the
two-day United Nations educa
tional clinic held on the Univer
sity campus last Monday and
Tuesday.
Harris a New Zealander drew
this parallel: ,
Should Support U.N.
"The people in both states ought
to support wholeheartedly the
world's only formal organization
of nations for peace the United
Nations because the alternative
is war,, or an armed armistice
which eventually leads to war,"
Mr. Harris said. "War will cost
the people of both states the
lives of many of their citizens,
cost us suffering and privation,
and cost us almost confiscatory
taxes to support and win another
war."
Earlier in his talk Mr. Harris
pointed out that the states of Ne
braska and New Zealand have
these things in common: Both are
English speaking, both were
settled by immigrants or first gen
eration citizens, both have about
the same population and same
area, both are dependent upon
agriculture for their prosperity,
and both now are seeking to de
velop local industry to utilize ag
riculture products to make them
selves more self-sufficient.
Look Overseas
"In New, Zealand, however, we
tend to look overseas because we
are an island nation. World events
affect our prosperity and our se
curity more quickly than world
events affect Nebraska," Mr. Har
ris said. "Your primary concern
here is the national market. Bu,t
in the long run, world 'events af
fect Nebraska as much as New
Zealanders.
"New Zealand, like Nebraska,
is an independent state. True, we
recognize the king ol England as
our king. But we could dispense
with this tomorrow. In fact, we
look as much or more to America
for leadership than we do to Eng
land. New Zealanders are well
aware, and deeply appreciative,
that it was the American navy's
heroic stand in the Coral Sea
which prevented a Japanese in
vasion of our homeland.
"In New Zealand, as in Ne
braska the people are skeptical
today of the United Nations and
its ability to win for the world a
lasting peace. The obstacles are
formidable. But all of us want to
see a world at peace.
Anthropologists Begin Survey
Work on Extinct Indian Culture
ALMA, Neb. The University
of Nebraska will attempt to fill
in a missing chapter in the his
tory of an extinct Indian culture
near here this summer.
Intensive survey work began
Monday on the site of the pro
posed Harlan County Reservoir,
where evidence of the Indian cul
ture known as the Dismal River
has been found in an old In
dian village site. The Indians
lived about 1700 in the western
Great Plains.
The survey and excavation
work is being done under the di
rection of Dr. John L. Champe,
head of the University Laboratory
of Anthropology. The site is be
ing studied at the request of the
Smithsonian Institution's Mis
souri River Basin Survey. The
survey seeks to recover buried
Dr. W. V. Lambert' Succeeds
Burr as Dean and Director
Dr. W. V. Lambert, 51, national authority on livestock
research, is the new dean of the college of agriculture, and
director of the agricultural experiment station at the Uni
versity of Nebraska. His appointment, effective October 1,
was announced Wednesday by Chancellor R. G. Gustavson.
Dr. Lambert is administrator of
the Agricultural Research Admin
istration of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.,
sometimes referred to as the
"world's greatest civilian research
agency."
He will succeed Dean W. W.
Burr who is retiring after 42 years
of service to Nebraska agriculture.
Regents Appoint
Dr. Lambert was appointed by
the Board of Regents upon recom
mendation of a faculty committee
which had made an intensive na
tionwide survey for the best qual
ified person.
"We in Nebraska are indeed
fortunate in having Dr. Lambert
join our staff," Chancellor Gus
tavson said. "He is without doubt
one of the nation's topflight re
search men. He is an able and
recognized administrator, known
m the midwest, and will bring a
wealth of experience to the state
and the university of Nebraska."
The new dean, a native Ne
braskan, has traveled widely over
the U.S. as head of the Agricul
tural Research Administration. He
has visited all the land-grant col
leges and has first hand knowl
edge of their operations. His
job has been the over-all direction
of over 200 " laboratories and re
search stations in the U.S. and in
some foreign lands.
Born in Nebraska
Dr. Lambert was born at Stella,
Neb., in 1897 and brought up on
a farm prior to attending the Uni
versity of Nebraska college of ag
riculture where he received his
bachelor's degree in 1921. He1 took
his " master's degree at Kansas
State College in Manhattan, and
his doctor's degree at the Univer
sity of Califrnia.
He was an assistant county agent
in Seward county before becom
ing an instructor in genetics and
later assistant professor at Iowa
State College in Ames. He was
later in charge of animal genetics
investigations at Ames,
From 1936 to 1940, Dr. Lam
See LAMBERT Page 3
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evidence of. man's early existence
in the basin before the sites are
buried beneath water in reser
voirs planned under the Pick
Sloan program.
The Indian site near here is
thought to be the eastern most
point of migration for tribes as
sociated with this culture, Dr.
Champe said.
The work is being done by the
university's first field school in
archeology. In addition to Dr. and
Mrs. Champe, there are nine
students. They are: Mr. and Mrs.
James Gunnerson, Aurora; Wal
ter Sehnert, Plainview; Sally Ann
Johnson, Madison; Mary Lou
Callen, McCook; Sally Herming
haus, Lincoln; Gerard Mulraney,
Lincoln; Ardith Tilly. Goodland,
Kas.; and James H. Howard,
Redfield, S. D.
Speech Clinic Draws 40 Youngsters
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THE CLINIC STAFF at the speech and hearing laboratories are from left to right: Standing, Dr.
Leroy T. Laase, director of the laboratories; Donald Kline, graduate student and assistant instruc
tor. Seated, Lucile Cypreansen, supervisor ci the laboratories; Cora Ann Didrickson, senior clinician;
Kirk Sorenson, junior clinician; Rex Cosier, junior clinician; Dorothy Frescoln, senior clnician; Doris
Crowl, graduate assistant; Lois Nortin, graduate assistant; Betty Hubka, junior assistant; Beverly
Spangler, junior assistant.
The Temple Building on the
campus is a beehive of activity
during the summer session. All
of those "little people" swarming
in and out of the doors do not
belong to the All State High
School program. Forty youngsters
from 5 to 12 years of age are at
tending the children's summer
speech clinic every afternoon from
1:30 to 3:00 o'clock.
Under the watchful eye of Miss
Lucile Cypreansen, supervisor of
the speech and hearing labora
tories, approximately 35 teachers-in-training
in the speech correc
tion and speech pathology classes
are learning how to help children
who have speech problems.
To the children, the speech
clintc is a "play class," but to
the clinicians-in-training each
case is a "speech problem" which
may be classified as phonatory,
articulatory, or linguistic in na
ture. In other words, there are
children who substitute 'th for
's or 'w' for T or 'r', and chil
dren who sutter, as well as chil
dren who stutter, as well as chil
by foreign dialect. There is also
the group of children who are
very hard of hearing and even
these little folks are learning to
talk with the help of the amplifi
cation of sound.
Not Limited
The university speech and hear
ing laboratories do not limit their
summer work to the teaching of
children. In the summer session,
main concern of the speech and
hearing laboratories is to service
University students. New studerrts
and transfer students are given
speech and hearing tests as a part
of their regular entrance exami
nations. Those students who have defec
tive speech or critical hearing
losses are required to report to the
laboratories for special retraining
work. For the most part, individ
ual help is given, but on occasion
small groups with similar diffi
culties work together. The com
mon experiences and similar am
bitions of the group members are
often found to have beneficial
therapeutic value. The foreign
group and the men's stuttering
group were two new groups that
developed during the past year.
"Deficient"
The speech and hearing testing
program also makes it possible to
determine those students who are
not "defective," but who are
merely "deficient" in speech, who
may be careless in forming
sounds or who may have unpleas
ant voices. These students are not
required to report to the labora
tories for special retraining, but
it is recommended that they reg
ister for accredited fundamental
speech classes which place em
phasis upon good habits of voice
and diction.
The speech and hearing labor
atories have operated at the uni
versity since 1940 and came in
with the advent of Dr. Leroy T.
Laase as Chairman of the De
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