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Volume LXX1II
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UNIVERSITY OK (iH)IUilA, THURSDAY, AUGUST fl. Il»«4
Dr. Fort
Dies At
Princeton
Dr. Marion Kirklan Fort Jr.,
Barrow professor of mathe
matics at the University died
Sunday at Princeton Univer
sity.
Dr. Fort, former head of the
mathematics department at
Georgia, was appointed to the
Barrow Professorship in June
of 1964. The professorship, es
tablished by the University’s
Class of 1911, is named in hon
or of Chancellor David C. Bar-
row.
One of the nation’s best-
known mathematicians, Dr.
Fort was a native of Spartan
burg, S. C. He attended Wof
ford College and the University
of Virginia.
He joined the Georgia faculty
in 1953, after having taught at
the University of Illinois.
A topologist. Dr. Fort was
an Alfred P. Sloan Research
Fellow. He had held a Ford
Foundation Faculty Fellowship
and had received extensive re
search grants from the National
Science Foundation and other
agencies.
Dr. Fort was engaged in re
search with the Institute for
Defense Analysis at Princeton
University at the time of his
death.
Survivorsr include his wife,
Doris; his daughter, Nancy;
and his son, John K. Fort, all
of Athens.
MARY BETH MASON
LESLIE G. MCNEIL
Media Workshop
I luins In Industry
Berryman, Hynds
Oversee Projects
luiv a.
geogrn-
AP ASSISTS IN TWO WEEK PROJECT
Klcliuril Null Instructs Workshop Participants
Dr. Charles Berryman ami I)r. Ernie llyntls of the Uni
versity faculty, are currently directing the “Newspaper
in the Classroom” project which h
Georgia is one of five univer
sities chosen to participate in
the two-week project sponsor
ed by the National Council for
Social Studies and the Ameri
can Newspapers Publishers As
sociation.
Current events are being em
phasized as teaching aids for
21 scholarshiped teachers who
are taking part in the program.
Lecturers include nine other
faculty members in the fields
of journalism, education, pollt-
20,000 BY 1970
Eleven Thousand Students
Estimated For 1964 Rolls
By THAYER SIBLEY
Eleven thousand students
are expected to attend the Uni
versity of Georgia during 19 64.
By 1970 there will an estimat
ed student body of 20,000.
This is because there is an in-
rease in the number of grad-1 larged bookstore. The capacity
uates from high school and an pf the school's steam heating
Library Names
New September
Appointments
University of Georgia Libra
ries announce the addition of
four new staff members for
1964. Their duties will com
mence September 1.
Miss Mary Lynn Blackwell
will join the staff as Assistant
Humanities-Catalog Librarian
Miss Blackwell graduated
from Columbia College in 1962,
and obtained her degree in li
brary science from the Univer
sity of North Carolina in Au
gust of this year. She has had
three years experience In the
Spartanburg Public Library.
Mrs. Jean It. Bruinincl will
become a member of the Cata^
loging Division.
She is a native of Athens,
Tenn. She earned the B.A. de
gree from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro,
the M.A. degree from the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and the M.Ln. from
Emory University in Atlanta
Her experience includes Instruc-
torships in Romance Languages
at Spartanburg Junior College
Middle Georgia College, and
Emory University, and library
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increase in the percentage of
these graduates who want to go
to college.
William Hudson, Director of
Campus Planning and Devel-
opement says that it is the Uni
versity’s responsibility to be
prepared to take any high
school graduate that can bene
fit by a college education.
The University now houses
about 50 per cent of its stu
dents. If it is to accept 9.000 ad
ditional students in the next
six years, the University should
provide housing for 4,500.
Already Georgia is author
ized to provide for 2,000 more
single students and 200 more
married students. This means
that 2,200 of the needed 4,500
units of housing faculties have
been authorized.
"We know we can build this
much again between now and
1970," Mr. Hudson said.
Along with added housing fa
cilities, other future projects
include more classrooms, addi
tional dining halls, additional
space in the infirmary, more
student uniou space and an eu-
Economics Mentor Dies
After Extended Illness
Dr. A. Aldo Charles, profes
sor of Economics at the Univer
sity, died Sunday in
hospital.
His honors include being
Southeastern chairman of the
local Accrediting Commission of the
'American Association of Prl
College Law, the text used vate Business Schools. In May
for the Business Law course ) 1957 he became a member of
at Georgia was Dr. Charles’ the University's Gridiron Sec
best known work. He had done ret Society and was listed in
writing in the field of insur- Who's Who of the South and
ance.
Born in Hurley Virginia he
Southwest.
Dr. Charles is survived
by
got his B.S. degree from Wash- his wife, Francis, a daughter
ington and Lee University. ■ Lydia, and two sons A. Aldo
Blackstone College of Law a-i Charles
warded him an LLD, and he re-'Charles,
ceived his Masters and Doctors
of Education degrees
Temple University.
Jr. and Roger H
Interment was held at Oco-
fromjnee Hills Cemetary Monday
I morning.
and electrical distribution are
also expected to be increased.
On the academic side, plans
have been approved for the new
extension of the Law School
with its library, auditorium,
court rooms, seminar rooms,
and class rooms.
egan
leal science, sociology
phy, and economics.
Guest Lecturers include Hen
ry H. Schulte, Jr. of the Savan
nah Morning News - Evening
Praia I Mrs. Pal LaHatte, the
Atlanta Journal and <\»nstltH-
tlon; William H. Parker, the
Augusta <’lironicle-llerald; and
W. I). Avera, the Moultrie Ob
server.
Sponsoring newspapers are
Tlie Journal and Sentinel, Win
ston-Salem, N. C.; State-Times
Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.;
Telegraph anti News. Macon,
On.; Citizen-Times, Asheville,
N. C.; Star-News, Wilmington,
North Carolina.
Commercial-News, Danville,
111.; News. Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Journal and (Mustitution, At
lanta, Ga.; News-Press, Savan
nah, Gu.; Herald, Miami, Fla
Tribune, Tampa, Fla.; Times,
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Journal, Shreveport, La.;
News and Piedmont, Greenville,
S. C.; News and Observer ami
Times, Raleigh, N. C.; Herald
Tribune, Sarasota, Fla.; tliron
leal and Herald, Augusta, Gu.;
and Post-Times, West Palm
Beach, Fla.
Davidson Selected For Council
At 101st Annual AMA Meet
Dr. F. C. Davidson, now dean
of the School of Veterinary
Medicine, was elected to the
Council of Biological and
Therapeutic Agents of the
American Veterinary Medicine
Association. This council Is
one of the six major councils
of. the AVMA.
The election of Dr. Davidson
was held at the Association's
101st Annual Convention July
19-23 In Chicago.
The Council of Biological and
Therapeutic Agents studies the
therapeutic and prophylactic
merits of veterinary, pharma
ceutical and biological products.
Second Session
Exam Dates Set
The examination schedule
for the second term of the
summer quarter has been an
nounced by the office of the
dean of faculties.
TUESDAY, August 18: All
classes containing any can
didates for degrees, either
graduate or undergraduate,
will be given thelj- exam on
this dnte.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
OR WEDNESDAY MORN-
ING, August IS nr 19: All
other classes will be given
exams.
Classes will meet at sched
tiled times on Tuesday, Aug.
18.
Students are asked to
check with their Instructors
as to the exact date and time
of the examination.
JOHN B REES, JR.
Law School
Picks Rees
John B. Rees Jr., associate
professor of law, became as
sistant dean of the University
of Georgia School of Law on
July 1.
Professor Rees is u graduate
Governor Sanders Presents Challenge
To Principals at Work Conference
It cooperates with regulatory
agencies, the United States Dc
partment of Agriculture and
other groups, in removing un
desirable products from the |
biological drug and food mar-1
liets.
The AVMA is advised on the
acceptability of advertising of
biological and therapeutic ag
ents In Association publica
tions.
The Council Is an advisory-
consultant body and not regu
latory. Regulation of products the Phillips Exeter Acad-
is carried out by the Food and Hobart College, and the
Drug Administration and by i University of Virginia Law
the Department of Agriculture. School. In his new post ho will
assist Lean Llndsye Cowen, who
succeeded Dean J. Alton Hosch
on July 1.
Professor Rees was born in
New York City and raised In
Westport, Conn. Before Join-
Governor Carl E. Sanders ing the Georgia faculty five
recently challenged Georgia’s years ago, he was an instructor
school principals to put forth In law at the University of Vir-
an all-out effort in correctly ginia.
"planting the seed and laying I He is a member of the Oeor-
the groundwork" for the state’s K (a, Virginia and District of
new education program.
!c
olumhla bars, and was named
This challenge was made atj"Faculty Member of the
the 14th Annual Principals Month" in December by the
Work Conference held July 29 | University's Blue Key Society,
at the Georgia Center for Con-I -—
tinuing Education.
Sanders commented
in the per cent of those com-
the pleting college, and 40 per cent
proposed Program for Progress of our state draftees failed to
which has as its main theme pass military mental tests.
the idea of giving our children
a chance to learn.
The governor went on to give
an estimate of the uses of the
Emphasizing the need for ' money that will be allocated to
improved education in Georgia, | the state education program by
he gave these alarming statis- Senate Bill 180 which will go
tics quoted from the recent into effect In the fall of 1965.
findings of his Commission to , Some $32 million will be for
Improve Education: Georgia the general operation of schools
ranks first in 50 states in the and }60 million will go into a
number of high school drop- proposed bond program. Also on
outs; it is 47th in the nation the agenda is the completion of
with less than five per cent of hIx new educational television
GOV. SANDERS CHALLANGES GEORGIA PRINCIPLES the population having at least stations whose transmission will
He Addressed The 14th Annual Confab On July 2» five years of school,; it is 40th blanket the schools of Georgia.
