Evening star., 1941-06-22
G. ". Faculty Active
In Varied Round Of
Summer Activities
Dr.. Johnson Assisting
Maritime Commission;
Miss TurnbuII at Comp

With the regular school year at an
end, numerous members of The fac
ulty and administrative staff at
George Washington University will
be engaged in activities which will
take many of them out of the city
during the summer.
DR.. Arthur F. Johnson, professor
of mechanical engineering, has &C.
cepted an invitation to become asSo-
ciated with the United States Mar
itime Commission and will assist in
co-ordinating the shipbuilding pro-
gram. He assumed his new duties
this month and leave cf absence
has been granted by the Board OF
Trustees in order that he may con-
tinue assisting the Government next
year.
Miss Jenny Tunbull. assistant
professor Of ply education, will
be in Pine Bush. N. Y. beginning
tomorrow, to act as director of Camp
Quannacut, Junior girls camp.
She will return to Washington
around the first of September.
Miss Ruth Atvell, director tf ply
sical education f)r women at the
university, will remain at the school
as director OF recreation for the
summer sessions. She will help out
of-toTn students plan trips to near
by Maryland and Virginia.
Dean DOYLE to Speak.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, pro-
fessor of romance languages and
dean of Columbian College, will
speak June 30 a1 a meeting of the
National Education AsSocia ton in
Boston, Mass, on the topic, What
Lies Ahead II Secondary Education
for the Modern Languages
Dean Doyle has been active for
many years in the modern foreign
language field He is chairman of
the Commission on Trends in Edu-
cation of the Modern Language As
sociation of America, chairman of
the Committee on the Place of Mod
ern Foreign Languages Of the Ma
tional Federation of Modern Lam
guage Teachers, editor of Language
Leaflets and former managing edl-
tor of the Modern Language Jour-
nal. He will alse go back to Harvard
University to attend the 30th re-
union of his college class, that OF
1911.
DR.. John Porter Foley, assistant
professor of psychology, is at the
University of Wisconsin on an ex-
change professorship with Dr. Harry
F. Harlow, who will teach at George
Washington University DR.. Foley
viii teach courses in applied pSychol-
ogy and emotions and motivation.
Instructor to Write Books.
DR.. Steuart Henderson Britt, as
sistant professor of psychology, will
teach courses In psychology at the
University of Virginia and DR..
Charles Norval Cofer, instructor in
educational psychology. will be in
Providence, R. l., doing writing and
research work.
Norris Ingersoll Crandall, profess
eor of art and executive officer of
the department, will spend the SUM-
mer in Alexandra. working on two
books, art as See 1t" and The
Perfect Home"
DR.. Robert F. Griggs, professor Of
botany and chairman of the di-
vision of biology and agriculture Of
the National Research Council. will
journey this week to Mount WASH
lngton, N. H., to lead the discussion
of timberlne and alpine geology at
the meeting of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science.
The nine-Week summer session
term opened last Monday and reg
1stratlon for the SiX-Week term will
be held tomorrow, which also is the
last day on which late registration
Is permitted for the nine-Week term
and for the first term of the law
school.