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Mr Summer Nebraskan No. 4 Wednesday, July 5, 1967 Professor Retires After 18 Years In the past 50 years the em phasis in formal agricultural education has shifted from improved farming practices to management decision and marketing problems, accord ing to Dr. Howard Deems, professor of Agricultural Edu cation at the University of .Nebraska College of Agricul ture and Home Economics. Dr. Deems retired June 30 after 18 years at NU. Dr. Deems noted that the 1963 Vocational Education Act redefined agriculture to in clude the services now ren dered to a farmer such as those providing him with fer tilizer and fuel. The longtime chairman of the NU Dept. of Vocational Education (now Ag. Educa tion), also stated that there is increased emphasis on con tinuing education after high school in college, technical agriculture schools, adult edu cation courses or short courses. As part of this increased emphasis on continuing edu cation, the NU Agriculture Education department has been active in promoting in service education to help to day's high school Vo Ag teachers keep up to date. Service Examples He listed the programs in electric welding as one example of such services. Dr. Deems also noted that high school vocational agricul ture programs are no longer intended merely for farm boys. "We no longer insist on a supervised farming project as we once did," he commented. "We still require work ex perience but a boy can get this from working for an ele vator or a fertilizer dealer." In addition high school teachers now try to inform their students about oppor tunities in all fields of agri culture, both on and off the farm. The NU College of Agricul ture has made a number of changes in its program to meet changing needs. Among these are offering an Agricul ture Business Education op tion which stresses manage ment, marketing, finance and credit. There is also a Specialized Agriculture Edu cation option in such fields as horticulture. Dr. Deems noted that it is Migrating There aren't enough buying art collectors in the Midwest to prevent artists from mi grating to the east and west coasts, said Richard Randell, guest speaker at the Art Cen tennial Institute Thursday. "There are only enough artists west of the Hudson and east of the Rockies to ful fill the available teaching po sitions, the remaining ones migrate where the money is and the Midwest is left in a relative cultural void," Ran dell explained. One problem the artist Si Mmu ! . Si . i Hlchard Randell (right) explains to Norman A. Geske, director of Sheldon Memorial Art Haliery, that his work, Yellow Pylon, 1966, is made only of plywood. now possible for a student to meet all the requirements of one field of specialization, such as animal science, at the same time he is getting a teaching certificate. Programs such as this came about because "we are aware that modern agriculture is a specialized industry and these specialized programs help us to meet the needs of a parti cular area," Dr. Deems said. Practical Training Technical agriculture schools, such as the one oper ated by the University at Cur tis, help students get ad vanced practical training in greater depth than in high school. "Students at technical schools pick out an area of specialization and spend most of their time working on it. They study the topic and needed related subjects but the education is practical rather than academic," Dr. Deems stated. In addition the University's Agricultural Extension Ser vice and its County Agents help farmers keep up on the latest advances in agriculture through adult education courses. Such organizations as the Young Farmers Education Association are also available to help young men establish themselves in farming. Banks Sponsor Six Fellowships A staff member at the Uni versity of Nebraska was ac cepted as one of six faculty members at colleges from Hawaii to New York for sum mer employment in com mercial banks through a new American Bankers Associa tion fellowship program, i, Carl C. Neilsen, assistant professor of business organi zation and marketing, at the University is being sponsored by the Omaha National Bank. The fellowships are designed to give college and graduate level teachers with an interest in banking a working ac quaintance with practical banking problems. They also allow bank officers to discuss their problems with experi enced teachers and researchers. Midwest Artists Create Void faces today is the growing and extensive use of com mercial art. It is eliminating th artist by ehminating the necessity to make things by hand, Ran dell said.. Computerized moods and ideas into Dat terns and designs may elimi nate the need for artists. Roles Set Artists have been forced into playing a role, because those artists with less color ful lives have been played down, Randell said displaying his own color on stage with a . -, ; s ( -' - , ii f;. . . .J I - - . I If- , 4 ' f - ( I ' '. " ! I National Featured at Population, One of the greatest single challenges the world faces to day is whether or not the swelling ranks of mankind ' can produce enough food to sustain life without hunger. This will be the main con cern of those attending the Agricultural Economic Insti tute on the world population and food crisis at the Univer sity of Nebraska Center f o r Continuing Education Thurs day. The conference beginning at 9 a.m. will be sponsored by the NU departments of agri cultural, cooperative exten sion service, summer ses sions and the Nebraska Un ion. The world population is now 3.5 billion and increasing at the rate of one million a week, says Dr. Everett E. Petersob, professor of agri cultural economics and direc tor of the institute. It has taken over 6,000 years of recorded history to reach three billion people and it will only take another 33 years to add another three billion, Peterson said. "Food consumption has been greater than production in each of the past six years and this makes the statistics begin to sound very alarming indeed," Peterson noted. Statistics Shown These statistics are brought out in Dr. William Paddock's book Famine 1975 co-authored by his brother. Dr. Paddock will be one of the speakers at the institute Thursday. "Paddock and his brother have produced a book which is a well written, well docu mented nightmare. It is fas cinating, frightening reading and should be read by any one who has a stomach," said R. Neale Copple, head of the School of Journalism and one of the questioners on the afternoon panel at the insti tute. When the Paddock brothers finish building their case, the attentive reader may well find that he has been living in the midst of potential disaster and paying only lip service to it," Copple said. Everything that is a main concern in this part of the country food production, ed ucation and philosophy of eco nomicsis touched upon in this book, he noted. "No one can read and be- light yellow shirt, red and yellow flowered vest and blue and white striped pants. He looked very modish though not beatnikish in his "Cali fornia outfit." Accustomed to public speaking and teaching, most artists are university edu cated and have had an in creasing exposure to the hu manities and the liberal arts, he said. "An artist must believe in the methods and modes he is using. He can't just hop on the bandwagon and follow Leaders, - '- ' . k , 1 C ' ' f V ' jr Dr. Ivan L. Bennett, Jr. lieve even a part of Pad docks' account without know ing right here in the b r e a d basket of the world the battle of the world will be fought, with little assurance that it will be won," Copple stressed. "I'm sure not everyone agrees with the Paddock brothers, but I am also sure anyone who knows anything about food and population also agrees in part," he said. Good Job "Judging from n few pass- ing remarks in his book, I'm sure Paddock will feel com plimented, but as a journalist I am compelled to say he has done a good journalistic job of assembling the facts and presenting them to the read er," Copple said. He never attempts to de scribe or eliminate the conse quences of rioting, starving people. It is at least as ap palling to leave the results to the imagination of the reader, he said. . the latest trend such as pop art. Those who don't believe in what they are doing are found out by fellow artists and rejected," Randell ex plained. No one suddenly comes up with a gimmick, he a d d e d. Rosenquist, a popular pop artist, painted for nine years in New York before anyone besides his mother knew his name, Randell chuckled. Artists have always used materials, ideas and concepts of direct sensory experience Stone was the predominate medium used earlier since it was plentiful, Randell said. Plastics Used Now artists are beginning to u s e plastics and certain kinds of glass, he mentioned. "Carving wood now is very expensive and relatively hard to come by. It costs $200-$30O for a log. Marble takes months in transportation and may arrive broken. I often use plywood or whatever is available," Randell said. Some sculptures refuse to use bronze today because it is identified with traditions they don't believe in, he noted. "The art of t o d a y is ca pable of showing essential human characteristics today. I cannot make a sculpture of a horse. It is not in my daily life. I would have to go to a zoo to look at one," Randell said. "Daily impressions make up my world and give me subjects for art. I can create cars and traffic jams I see them every day and can't just close my eyes too them," he explained. Mechanistic sterile forms are in our lives today, like plastic cups and saucers, so artists are beginning to u s e more plastics and aluminum as a symbol of coldr ass, Ran dell said. International Concerns "Behind this situation are two forces the exploding population in the low income countries and the rapid rise in per capita incomes in t h e more, advanced ones," says Lester R. Brown, admin istrator of the International Development Service in Washington, another institute speaker. "T h e rapidly expanding food buying power of the high income nations is draining off food production .and. food re serves, thus aggravating the food supply situation, already critical because of burgeon ing populations in the less de veloped, lower income coun tries," Brown says. World grain consumption now runs ahead of produc tion and most of the avail able grain goes to those na tions which can afford it, not to the low-income nations which need it most, Brown explains. "Achieveing a satisfactory balance between food and people will not be easy. Sel dom has history required that so much change be com pressed into so short a per iod of time," Brown says. Face Problem "This problem is the con cern of those of us who will be alive in the next 33 years. It will affect agricultural and foreign policies, not to men tion the taxes touched upon by foreign aid. However, it is impossible for the U.S. to feed the world. Countries will have to embark upon self help programs," Peterson said. The first speaker at the in stitute will be Lester R. Brown with opening state ments concerning the world's food and population problem at 9:30 a.m. Policies and programs for meeting world food needs will be discussed by the second speaker, Dr. Ivan L. Bennett, Jr. at 10:15 a.m. Private Industry's role In world food production and ec onomic development is the topic Gordon Pehrson will discuss at 11:00 a.m. The luncheon speaker will be Chancellor Clifford Hard in mentioning the role of the land grant university in this area. Book Discussed The book Famine 1975 will be discussed by its author Dr. William Paddock at 1:30 p.m. This will be followed by a panel discussion. The ques tioners will be R. Neale Copple, Dr. James Kendrick, associate professor of agri cultural economics, and Her bert Hughes, a wheat farmer from Imperial. Lester R. Brown holds de grees in agriculture, econom ics and public administration from, respectively, Rutgers University, University of Maryland and Harvard Uni versity. Serves As Specialist In 1959, Brown entered the U.S. Department of Agricul ture, serving as a country specialist for i the Southeast Asian countries. Food Institute ' " .... N 1 s i, t ' f i V y, - s w La Lester After graduating from Harvard, Brown was in rap id succession: Regional Econ omist for the Far East and South Asia Branch, assistant to the deputy director of the Foreign Regional Analysis Di vision, assistant to the ad ministrator of the Economic Research Service, staff econ omist in the office of the Secretary and administrator, International Agricultural De partment Service, t In this position, he coordi nates the Department of Agri culture's programs to in crease world food production, generally sponored by the Agency for International De velopment, and advises the Secretary of Agriculture on problems of international trade, world food needs and agricultural development. In 1966 he received the Ar thur S. Fleming Award as one of ten Outstanding Young Men in the world food situa tion which may shape U.S. foreign agricultural policy in the years immediately ahead. Medical Training Dr. Ivan L. Bennett, Jr. re ceived his M.D. degree from Emory University. He contin ued his postgraduate and resi dency training in internal medicine at Emory, Johns Hopkins and Duke and was certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1954. From 1947 to 1949 he was a guest investigator at the Na val Medical Research Insti tute in Bdhesda. In 1958 he became Baxley Professor of Pathology and director of the department at Johns Hopkins University Nil Faculty Member Presents Operatic Arias The first Summer Sessions "Time for Enjoyment" pro gram, featuring operatic bar itone John J. Zei accompa nied by his wife Joyce Zei, will be presented at 3:30 this afternoon at Sheldon Me morial Art Gallery. Zei says the program will include six areas representa tive of Handel, Stradella, Wagner and Verdi plus a complete selection of Ger man, Ficoch and English art songs by Schumann, Debussy, Chausson, Hahn and Rach maninoff. The songs are "Si, tr i ceppi" from "Bernice" by Handel, "Tears Such as Ten der Fathers Shed" from "De borah" by Handel, "Thanks Be To Thee" from "Israel in Egypt" by Handel "Col Mio Sangue Compre rei" from "II Floridoro" by Stradella, "Song Cycle of Six, Opus 90" by Schumann, "O Du Mein Holder Abendstern" from "Tannhauser" by Wag ner, "Romance" by Debus sy, "L'Heure Exquise" by Hahn, "O Fb Offrande" by Hahn. "Le Charne" by Chaus R. Brown School of Medicine and pathologist-in-chief of the J o h n s Hopkins Hospital. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Executive Committee of the Division of Medical Science of the National Re search Council. Dr. Bennett was nominated in 1966 by President Johnson and confirmed by the Senate to be deputy director of the Office of Science and Techno logy in the Executive Office of the President. Appointment Made He was appointed by Presi dent Johnson as chairman of the President's Panel on the World Food Supply. Dr. William Paddock is the consultant in Tropical Agri cultural Development, a plant pathologist and the author of "Hungry Nations" and "Fam ine 1975." He received his B.S. for Iowa State College and his Ph. D. from Cornell Univer sity. Dr. Paddock was a profes sor of plant pathology at Pennsylvania State and Iowa State and spent five years as the director of the Pan Ameri can School of Agriculture in Honduras which serves 14 Latin American countries. He has also served as head of Latin American Affairs for National Academy of Sciences. Gordon O. Pehrson is the vice president of Internation al Minerals and Chemical Corporation in New York. son and "Four Songs" by Rachmaninoff. Zei and his wife have worked as a musical team since 1959. His musical in terests include opera, concert and oratorio. As well as appearing in ra dio and television, Zei said he has performed in and around Chicago, Milwaukee, Dallas, Toledo, Detroit and Boston. He is now assistant professor of voice at the University of Nebraska. Before coming to Nebras ka, Zei taught at the Univer sity of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan. He was featured in the Gard ner Series, Isabell Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. In a joint concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Boston, he also conducted The New hampshiremen, male chohus of the University of New Hampshire. Performing for television creates a grueling schedule and the effective presentation of a concert vocalist requires a keen director, according to Zei. . i 1 1 1 1 - .--