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IDeadi Professor Joser Teacher Given lIt BY CAROL ROBINSON Feature Editor This week, people, we have a very important thing to think about. The question before us is this: Who is the teacher who will be acclaimed at graduation as the Distinquished Teacher of '63-64? It's not easy for the individual student to decide, although he often has his favorite teacher. One must think, though, in all fairness: (oes this professor, or doctor, or just mister, really teach well, or is he the favorite because of less admirable traits? Is it because he lets his students slide through do ing everything the easy way? Be cause he gives a lot of free cuts? Because nost of the class period is used for friendly talk and a lot of jokes and very little lecture? However, most students, if they are out for education, don't care much for this kind of professor. They realize that they are being cheated of time, learning, and money, when a teacher neglects to teach them. Overloaded Homework Of course, some professors go to opposite extremes, and are among the most disliked. They give overloads of homework, oh livious to the fact that their stu dents have four or five other sub jects that they owe their time to, plus other activities. In the classes where these ogres prevail, stu dlents either pass this subject at the expense of others, 01r fail it in order to give more attention to more important ones. Either way, they have wasted much time, money and energy. Happy Medium The good teacher falls some where in between, not always in exactly the same p)lace. lie gives a good prop)ortion of homework when neededl, a free cut or twvo, fair tests, and interesting lectures. Jokes andl discussion are delight ful in his knowledgable handls. His studlents like him, are inter ested in his subject, and may even follow some threads of it on their own time. Most professors, even the best ones, can't always meet all these requirements. But One thing is an absolute necessity: The Distinguished Teacher must make his subject interesting to his students. Fascinating Geography Of course, there are some sub jects that will never be found fascinating by some studlents. Eng lish 21 may be a football player's nightmare, andI he may live only for May to release him from it; RUSSELL DISTINGUISI I suggest the followi? sideration of the Russell Award for 1963-64. Sined: me Today T( Outstandin In Commil BY PAT ROESSLE News Editor An alarm clock sounds at 5 a.m M% registration day. Minutes later a shadow stealthily sneaks out th( side door of Preston and acros, the dark parking lot. Calmly h( opens his Boy Scout folding cami stool and plants himself before the main entrance of Currell College and settles back smuggly to watc] the sun rise. What precipitates this vigil of devotion is not love of nature few people will get up this early for an hour exam, much less r course they aren't even yet signee up for. This is a game called Get The Teacher. The contestants are those students like the above-men tioned with the stamina and in itiative and a few outstanding teachers around campus who are worth the resulting effort. Desire To Learn These are the teachers which inecock Stall Photo By Campbell fill students with an overpowering i W. 1oukiight desire to learn. Dr. William T. Evaluation Guide h HourNominators Geography 18 may never catch the students love, but who can't teach interest of a sleepy girl French very well. These make progress major. Still, the teachers owe them only on the strength of their per something, as the students owe sonalities, substituting interest in -Now Gamecock Stall Photo By Campbell Professor John R. 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Ifhe cn't ive hem et anes understrodng tha how hbestitosgthehisbjertisolaascibjtc taghntgispatithrerypo ~~'il los( willlose nteretuandhe ts. theirn' attentpeofecnonlfro them toillasbwiefastSoomon,lo Oftanleyseardner,torabe ashwitny interestrinnhia deepeinterettdant sign uknowledgelohehusessubPech.nAnk wn they buyhavexaIrightI toaexpecththeal get 0) eary jus brhnthin. Thisrweekwhen you oAbilcon sider. Look overtheateachershyo whichaonethasemaughtfyou most whichioneimade ou like the sub AsoigateulProfeerforson Ch______________ales W. Coonidge NOMI 0 011 g Qualities tee Of Past Foran of the history departmeni %ccomplishes this by insulting th( tudents. "I like USC and I lik( he students," he insists, "-I evet ike the state . . . it's just thai ,ome of the people here don't lik( o even explore mentally beyond hc state." Foran considers it hit unction to "develop interest break down S. C. isolation by ever3 weapon. Insult might make then nad enough to read and do some. hing." Dr. Bouknight of the chemistry lepartment derives awe from hiE .reshman students: "He knowE everybody's name!" Dr. Bouknighl denies it modestly . . . he "knowE a good many . . . especially the very good ones or the very bad ones." Dr. Nolan remembers his freshman English students with birthday cards. (One girl thought she was singled out for this com memoration because she dropped the course.) Canine Competition Dr. John R. Welsh, has an ex. cuse for any attention he may lose in class for he provides his own competition; "Tucker" an orphan pup found three years ago in the snow by Welsh's son, now insists upon accompanying his master to class daily. A veteran of English 21, the brown spotted tail-wagger proudly prances in after the last bell of any class in Davis, climbs aboard the front row center desk and looks more awake and intelli gent than any other student in the room. Pound Of Flesh Dr. Charles Coolidge encourages his History 11 students thusly: "There's nothing hard about this course, all it takes is blood, sweat and tears . . . and I intend to get my pound of flesh . . . no, they aren't called multiple choice ques tions . . . they're called multiple guess." The contributions of these teach ers extend far beyond the class - Cameecock Photo By Cam pbeli Profe.ssor FAlward F". Nolan roomn. D)r. Frank B. Hierty claim! memb)ership in four different Engi neering associations. Dr. Colemar Karesh of the law dept. has pub lished and contributed to numer ous editions of the S. C. Las' Quarterly. D)r. Bouknight is en. gagedl in a "small research proj ect" on comp)lex compounds ir mercury. D)r. Welsh has beer r'ecognized( for contribution t< Rteality and Myth: Essays ir American I,iterature to be pub ished this wveek by Vanderbil University press. Yankee Infiltration The subjects these teachers ar< responsible for, are of course -nany andl diversified. D)r. Foran, native of Ithaca, N. Y., received hi M.A. in English History; through >ut his studying he concentrater upon 12t.h century French, Vic .orian England, andl America he ween the years 1775-1808 an 886-1896. He was therefore con racted at USC to teach courses i' southern and specifically Civi War history. ,,nate'1 d Recognized Recipients tinguished seven are total book. worms, it could be mentioned thal both Dr. Nolan and Dr. Welsh arc 'ormer members of the Combal Military Police and Dr. Herty is v veteran of World War I. Honorary Acknowledgments The honorary degrees and ac knowledgments these men hav< achieved are too numerous to men. tion. Drs. Nolan and Foran clain membership in ODK; Bouknight Karesh and Welsh, Phi Betv Kappa; Bouknight and Welsh, Blu< Key; Nolan and Foran, ODK. The greek letter recognitions listed after their name make the faculty directory look like a page of tic original Illiad. Their undergrad. uate and graduate degrees claim such University names as Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Northwestern and the University of South Caro lina. It's the students who make a University and it's Vh, professors there who draw them and give them a reason for coming. Award S Since In4 (USC News service release, dated April is, 1957) The establishment of two an nual awards, open to the mem . ........ AssocLate Proles hers of the USC faculty, wvas an nlouncedl today by Rutledge L. Os borne of Orangeburg, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The two awards, which will be financed through gifts made to the University by President and Mrs. D)onald Russell, will be in two fields: one for productive research, creative production or scholarship. and the other for teaching excel lence. The awards will be presented at the commencement exercises of the University annually, and the first awards will be made June, 1957. Nominations for the research andl scholarship award will close annually on March 15 (this y/ear March 20) and will be submitted to the Faculty Committee on Re search, which will transmit its first three choices for the award to the President of the University. Nominations for the award for COPELAND CO. 1409 Main Street Traditional Wash and Wear Suits AND Sport Coats by HASPEL and CRICKETER COPELAND CO. 1409 ain St.,re lest Te - ---- - . - ->3 88838 8 - Profesor Fr tays Little tugura ion excellent teaching will also close on March 15-20. These nominations wili be surveyed by a special com mittee, to be named by the Presi -Gamecock Staft Photo By Bridge r William A. Foriani dent, comprising five faculty mem 'ers, not themselves nominees for the award, and three students. Winners of the excellent teach.. ing award shall not be eligible to receive the award a second time. The fund, out of which these anards will be financed, was given to the University some time ago. Mr. Osborne said. The Board of Trustees has, upon the recommen I love a rnan in He's completely r attractive in the's anfd trim all the s casual roll of the the neat look of t that smart authen or dress-Van H 41 VA r' V.T s4U... acher N . ~ * .......... ink B. Herty Changed In 1957 dation of President Russell, de termined to use a part of the divi dends from this fund, for these awards, in order to provide spe cial recognition to those members of the University faculty who an nually may make significant con tributions either in research and scholarship or in teaching, both fields basic to the real progress of education in South Carolina. This was the first story printed about the Distinguished Teacher award seven years ago. The only change (indicated in parentheses) is in the closing date and addition of $250 to the award fund. According to William H. Patter son, Dean of the University and head of the committee, the award was inaugurated as an incentive to the teacher, both to do research and be "the kind of professor stu dents expect and like them to be." The award will be presented thia year on commencement day as it was in the past, rather than awards day, The committee making the finat decision from nominations from the students and faculty consists of Dean Patterson, the past recip ientR, Donna Russell, editor of The Gamecock; Todd Wilson, stu dent body president, and Chuck Simons, head of the honor board. The committee's selection will be submitted to President Jones whlo will present the award. Van Heusen "417"~ aasculine and so-o-o -Taper fit. Slim iay. I like the Button-Down and he Snap-Tab. For tic styling - sport usen's really got it! J H ELJS EN* ror thleain trim. look.