THURSDAY. JANUARY 12. 1961
Questionnaires Show Faculty Divided Thompson to Remain
On Merits of New Four-Term Plan As Men's Dormitory
Faculty opinion appears to be almost evenly divided on
plan, according to results of a survey taken by The Daily C
Returns from approximately 100 questionnaires show w:
subjects as quality of the courses, “breaks,” teaching plans,
Approximately 20% of the faculty members polled fel
Mountan To
Resign Post
As Dean
The dean of women’s office
announced yesterday the res
ignation of Mrs. Norma M.
Mountan, assistant to the dean
of women. Mrs. Mountan gave
her husband’s transfer to a 1 Answers to how many terms the
...» , . , . , , professors intend to teach ranged
different job in Pittsburgh asifrom “as many as possible” to “as
the reason for leaving. ; few as possible.” Most professors
. —6O per cent—said they intended
Mrs. Mountan has served in ( 0 on ]y three terms each
her present position since Sep- year. About 28 per cent plan to
tember, 1909. As assistant to thO: teach a u f our terms while two
dean of women she was in charge p ei . cen t were unsure. One solu
of Panhellenic affairs, women s on was offered by a professor
honorary societies, the summerj who p ] ans to take every other
pre-orientation program, women’s 'summer off.
student loans and student rec-: • „ ' _
=Ttra d sf l e° n t S f ?L j ° b diSded on the subjects of final
and ti ansfer to other colleges. She i exams The majority—s 3 per cent
has also served on the Onenta-!_ of those po j] ec t opposed the ad
tmn Committee and the Manual 1 ministration of exams during the
° n J rOC n? Ure f ComrTlltte f; , last class period.
Mrs. Mountan. originally fromi
Grove City has been at the Uni- 1 Most opponents of the plan felt
varsity since 1953 when she en- that , the exams u would be
rolled as a freshman. She grad- and less comprehensive, as well as
uated with a bachelor of science imore difficult for studCTt study
degree in 1957 and earned herjj n «- tban und f ,he P resent , S>.R
masters in education in 1959. 1 n fn hS two
She did part time secretarial thing up m his own two
work in the summer sessions de-i 0 ’
partment and the College ofj Forty-one per cent either fa-
Home Economics as an under-]y ore d Jhis kind of exam or felt
graduate and later worked in the ! the difficulties encountered would
Division of Counseling office. ;° e negligible.
“The opportunity afforded me| Only 22 per cent of the returns
by Dean Lipp to be a part of her, showed professors plan to change
staff at the University will always: the type of final they give. The
be one of the highlights of mv; other 78 per cent plan to continue
life,” Mrs. Mountan said. She with the same type of finals. One
added that she hoped she would; professor said that he intends to
be able to derive as much en-itake up_two class periods in ad
joyment and satisfaction from en-jministering his final exam,
deavors she might undertake ini Most of the professors seemed
the future ! to agree with the philosophic com
* J ! A. - J 1 - » A
Mrs. Mountan said she planned iment added to one questionnaire,
to "retire into housekeeping” andj“. . . good students will still get
that she had no plans at presentlgood grades and poor ones poor
to continue in the same type of; grades and that’s the way the
•work she has done here. 'cookie crumbles.”
Aid for Future Grad-Students
Now Available for Next Fall
Seniors considering graduate
studies and wanting financial aid
in graduate school for the fall
term, 1961. should act now.
Most universities set February
15 or March 1 as their closing dead
line for applications for fellow
ships, scholarships and assistant
ships.
The deadline for many financial
aids such as the National Science
Foundation Awards and the
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
have closed for 1961-62. As many
of these deadlines are in October
or November it is not too early
for juniors to start thinking about
which ones they wish to apply
for.
Further information' for pro-,
speclive graduate students may be
Soc Prof Writes Article
Dr. George A. Theodorson, as
sistant professor of sociology, is
the author of an article, “Change
and Traditionalism in the Ameri
can Family: Part I of a Compara
tive Study of the Indian and
American Family,” published in
the Journal of Social Research
(India).
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TAXI RETURN GRATIS
of course material will be im
proved by the change. Thirty four
per cent foresaw a change for the
worse while 46 per cent felt that
there would he no change in
course quality.
Most students probably will j
have to sit through the entire
75 minute class period as only
24 per cent of the professors
questioned indicated they
planned to allow for a break.
Fifty-five per cent were defi
nitely opposed io a break and
31 per cent were unsure. One
professor said he would allow !
his classes to vote on a 10-min- I
ute break.
Leonides and the Town Inde
pendent Men’s Council will spon
sor the Las Vegas Banquet for
all dealers and assistants from
, . ~ Las Vegas Night at 7 tonight at
obtained m the reception room {j ie Autoport restaurant.
of the Graduate School Office persons may sign
Suite, 103-107 Willard. |up f o r the dinner in the TIM of-
Information regarding special j fice,' 203 HUB.
types of aid for special groups of j Cars will leave S. Garner St.,
students or for study in special:in front of the Copper Kitchen,
areas is posted on the Graduate at 6:30 p.m. Anyone who can
School bulletin board in the front;drive, or who needs a ride, should
hall on the first floor of Willard, be there at that time.
Deadline for Deposits
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Jan. 16,1961
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he worth of the new four-term
lollegian.
idely diverging views on such
final exams and grading,
t that the quality or breadth
Warmth , Kindness
Aid Injured Family
By LYNNE CEREFICE
It was a cold night just
five days before Christmas
near the small town of
Marion, Virginia. The road
was icy and traces of the
recent snowstorm still re
mained.
Sam and Myrna Zamriek,
a University couple, and their
two small children, were driv
ing home to Jacksonville,
Texas, for the holidays.
Mrs. Zamriek had relieved
her husband at the wheel; he
and the children were asleep.
It was very dark and the road
was deserted.
In the next instant, the car
went into a skid, overturned
and plunged over a 20-ft. cliff
into the Holston River.
Zamriek, a graduate assist
ant in mechanical engineering,
said he and his little girl,
Jamila, 4 yearn old, escaped
the wreckage With only minor
cuts and bruises. He explained
that his son, Sammy, Jr., 18
months old, had been tossed
out on the highway above and
suffered a fractured skull.
But, Mrs. Zamriek, he said,
was trapped in the car ser
iously hurt. "When 1 pulled
her from the water she was
almost dead." he said. "But
what happened next was
amazing!"
Zamriek said he carried his
wife up to the highway, and
suddenly out of nowhere, an
ambulance appeared on the
scene.
“It was like a miracle,” Zam
rick said.
He soon learned that the
Leonides, TIM
Will Host Banquet
Director of Housing Otto E. Mueller said yesterday that
Thompson Hall will probably remain a men’s residence hall
despite a request by the West Halls Men’s Area Council.
The council voted, at it’s meeting Monday night, to ask
that Thompson Hall be made a women’s residence hall so
j that the present West Halls Coni-
Jmunity ratio of thi-ee men to one
; woman would become a one to
one ratio.
j Mueller said that this would not
be feasible because of the diffi
culties it would cause in the over
all housing plans for the Univer
sity.
ambulance had been sent by
a family living across the river
who had heard the crash and
assumed there was an accident
So began a fantastic cam
paign of kindness and gener
osity.
First, Mrs. Zamrick, who
was taken 120 miles to the
Roanoke Memorial Hospital,
was greeted on her arrival by
three specialists who immedi
ately performed a nine hour
operation to save her life. The
surgeons were summoned as a
result of a phone call from the
local Marion Hospital.
Mrs. Zamrick, who suffered
head lacerations, fractures to
both arms and a fractured
collarbone, is recovering nice
ly. Zamrick said.
In the days that followed,
Zamrick and the children, re
ceived calls and visits from
residents while they were in
the hospital.
“They told me that they had
recovered all our clothes from
the river and that everything
had been cleaned and mended.
They refused to acept any pay
ment,” he said.
The Zamrick children also
received letters and presents
from children all over the
country wishing them well.
In addition, a tree was set
up in their room for Christ
mas, and they were given a
party by the Roanoke Red
Cross, the . hospital staff and
the people of Roanoke, Zam
rick said.
Also, from their home town
of Jacksonville, Texas, the
Zamricks received an offer of
a privately - owned chartered
plane to carry Mrs. Zamrick
hpme when she is released
from the hospital.
Y eat on Authors Article
Kelly Yeaton, associate profes
sor of theatre arts, is the author
of an article on theatrical make-up
technique published in the De
cember issue of “Dramatics.”
j Illustrated with photographs.
Ithe article is titled, “A Latex Skin
:for Old-Age.”
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' Mueller said, however, that
ißunkle Hall would be a worn-
Sen’s residence hall next Septem
ber. Riinkle. which can accom
modate 287 students, would thus
[become the first women’s hall in
/North Halls which is now an all
male community with over 1100
(students.
i Mueller added that the new
;East Halls dormitories, which will
house 1050 students when they
,open in September will have a
one to one ratio of men and wom
en.
A spokesman for the West. Halls
Council said that, with the com
munity's present three to one ra
tio, the girls are a "little shy” :n
participating in area social activ
ities because they are usually out
numbered.
! Tile council plans to make its
[request in a letter to Dean of
iWomen Dorothy J. Lipp. Miss
ILipp said that she was not able
jto make any statement on the
matter at the present time.
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