| OCR Text |
Show 239 APPENDIX I APPOINTMEETS Faculty 1. Mrs. Mary Atwater, lecturer in Fine Arts for Extension Division course in weaving being conducted in the Auerbach Auditorium, effective February 4,1948, salary paid by Auerbach Company. Dr. Harold W. Bentley - rank of professor of English. (Dr. Bentley' s appointment last month as Director of Humanities Foundation, Dean of Summer School, and Director of the University Press. did not include professorial rank, hence bestowal of rank is now requested.) Harry Bunyan as instructor of English at $8600, effective school year 1948-49. Mr. Bunyan obtained his M.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 1941 and expects to receive his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin by December 1948. He has acted as an assistant and instructor of English at the University of Wisconsin and is recom~ mended by the English Department there as the best "scholar, teacher +5 and all«around personality" of any student they have had there. Eugene Nelson Stillings, assistant professor of applied botany and Director of the Greenhouse mwg-Jémffim-"flfiuvud'I' ---.i - at a salary of $4500 per eleven-month year, effective July 1,1948, or earlier if it can be arranged. Mr. Stillings received his M. S. in horticulture at Ohio State University which recommends him very highly. He has 15 publications to his credit, and at present is manager of the supply department of the Hill Floral Products, Company, Richmond. Indiana. Dr. Henry Ladd Smith. Authorization of the Board of Regents is requested to negotiate with this man to fill the position as professor and head of the Department of Journalism at an annual salary of $6500. He received his Ph.B. degree from Yale in 1929 and was awarded the Henry P. Wright Memorial prize for writing at Yale in 1939, and was awarded the $1200 Knopf award in history in 1940. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in history at the University of Wisconsin in 1946 at which time he was a Guggenheim fellow. He has had five years of newspaper experience in Canton and Cleveland, Ohio, and Takoma, Washington. Wisconsin. He has had teaching eXperience in Kansas, Minnesota, and During the war he served as a lieutenant commander of the Navy in the South Atlantic and China-Burma Theaters. Arle Richardson as lecturer in Meteorology for the spring quarter 1948 only at a salary of $600. Mr. Richardson is now working with the U. S. Weather Bureau in Salt Lake City. |
