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Roy Proffilt
The campus and size cf
UNL have changed consider
ably since fee 1940s, but
despite the changing times,
students remain basically
the same, according to Roy
Proffitt.
In Proffitt's college days,
"beer and people of the
opposite sex" were the main
interests of" students, he
said, Proffitt's contact with
students at the University of
Michigan, where he is now a
professor of law, indicate thai modern student interests
have not changed much from the 40s, he said.
Proffitt was graduated from UNL in 1940 with a B.S.
m business administration. Following five years in the
US. Navy Proffitt received his law degree from the Uni
tferaty of Mkfajgan Law School in .1948. He currently
tes&ss admiralty law at the University of Michigan and L
Gefl Rock ;
Tm Lkdy to learn as
mss&k as dt students
week because Tm really in
terested to bear what Uds
have to say." said Gzl
Thomas Screnscn
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Rock.
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1961 wi2i a B.A. in broxd
. casting as J is a fkedaaee
author who" has written
dramatic tslstisea specials
2nd childness DOfS. -Rock
said that fee
Tcrsty has c&acrsd a lot in
fhs 15 years fcSowsej feer ra4aatg, and she lauded the
; charges as bef-g better for &s sod. ' .,.-7
Rggk also ss7 dhsss la tie moral tone of the ma-'
feiBly, mad tsid fhs tficst fcst &s Swocl was more
Lberzl than it was when she was graduated.
"The idea of a comic strip wh a pot head or of an
advertrsssct ia the BzZy Ne&ssfcan for a cure for
crabs fiie piper would fejfe been closed down if it had
pristed sosseihiag Hks that when I was ia school, Rock,
said. . -. ..: " ' .''
Locking back on dae vshse of her UNL education,
Ruck trd, ItecJxsSy fjdas, the vslue.of my educa
tion waszSdi, 1st pjagg3sicaSyt I learned a lot,
Bandings may have
changed and students ap
pearances may be different,
but Thomas Sorenson, now
. of Scarsdale, N.Y., sail the
basics of UNL and Neb
raska have remained the
same.
Sorenson, a Lincoln na
tive, was graduated from
NU in 1947. A journalism
and political science major,
he is currently a general
partner in Advest Co.
"Nebraska is still Nebraska," Sorenson explained. "It's
different from other places. There's something to be said
for that in a rapidly changing world .
lie said he would urge students to specialize in their
careers. , -
An example of the need for specialization is in jour
nalism, he ssld. People can no longer train to be general
assignment reporters, he said, because editors are looking
for people with backgrounds in certain areas.
Specialization wEl make it easier for students to find
jobs, he added.
David Thomas
David Thomas, senior
vice president of finance at
Duna & Bradstreet Co., Inc.
ia New York, said he came
to Lincoln because he
thought it would be exciting
to spend some time talking
to students.
impressed with to-
s generation. They're
smarter than we were,
Thomas saM.
v: Thomas : was 'graduated
with distinction fna UNL
ia 1949 with a BS. degree in business Admmistratica. He
S2d hs fessa't kept in touch with the university because
, he's so far !3?ay. , "
jC. -After i v "'iliatioo, Thomas worked in a financial
podikm fm Geserd Electric from 1949 to 1959. He then
became controller for the McCaTl Corp. in New York City
until 1961, whea he joined General Dynamics Corp.
"I wasn't the typical college student, Thomas said. He
eid fc -stered college at the end of World Var II after he
was ia the service.
Because he was married, Thomas said, he lived off
campus and didn't really get into the college social life.
l'm looking forward to seeing how tilings have
charged," he said.
High-speed computers
have revolutionized agricult
ural economics, said William
Tomek, agriculture econom
ics professor at Cornell Uni
versity in New York.
Computer - programmed
simulation and futures
tables games used in the
classroom are more realistic
than old teaching methods,
he said, and computers have
made an even bigger impact
on research.
Tomek, a native of Table Rock, was graduated from
NU in 1956. Tomek received the 1965 National Science
Foundation Fellowship and co-authored Agricultural
Product Prices.
The subject matter interests of agriculture students has
shifted, he said, from farm and farm management to
natural resources,' land use and the economics of irriga
tion and pollution. "
Farms are bigger and large corporate farms, mostly in
California and Arizona, have become specialized, he said.
vnek'j advice to students was "dont belittle your
background."
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The university was much
simpler in 1945, but it has
something solid that will
never change, said Jan Weir,
here for Masters Week.
Weir was graduated from
NU in 1945 as a history
major. She now is a princi
pal owner in Mefford,
Warren, Wkr Advertising
Agency in Denver and
chairman of ther board of
directors of Fontana Media
Corp. '
"When I went to the university it was mudi sasplier
because there were 4,000 students at the mcst on the
downtown campus," she said.
Weir said the campus now is like a new world for her.
Temple Eldg. is the only building she recognized, she said:
In the 1940s; the university was more socially oriented
then it is now, Weir said. Even though academic pursuits
were offered, she said it was not fashionable to partake in
-them. -
I was a secret library freak, Weir said. In this way,
she said, she could accomplish her academic goals while at
' the same time maintaining her social standing.
Weir was ia school during World War II and said
women then expected to get married immediately. A
career was not considered by most she'sdded.
But no matter how much things change, there is
something that remains unchanged, something solid " she
said. "I can't pinpoint what it is, but something about the
atmosphere Is the same.'
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