Milford chronicle., 1953-06-26
University OF Delaware
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Or. John A. Perkins, president oi
the University Of Delaware, has an
nouneed the appointment Of DR.
Gordon Keppel as University physi-
clan. Or. Keppel will assume his
duties September /, succeeding DR.
Robert III. Duenner, who has resign
ed.
Dr. Keppel comes to the Univer-
sity of Delaware from the College
Of William and Mary, Williams
burg, Virginia, where he has been
college physician since 1949.
Dr.. Gordon Keppel graduated
from Princeton University in 1886.
AS an undergraduate, he majOred in
art and archaeology. He was ac-
tive in rowing and student-faculty
work which included the post of
director of the Princeton Summer
Camp in 1885. He spent two years
at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in pre-
clinical medical work and finished
medical school at Columbia in 1941.
DR., Keppel did graduate work in
Internal Medicine at Strong Mem
Orial Hospital in New York before
and after World War II. During
the war he served as a battalion
surgeon with the Third Ranger
Battalion, and was a prisoner of
war for Is months in Germany
having been captured during the
Anzio landing.
In making the announcement of
DR.. keppePs appointment, Presi-
dent Perkins expressed his plea
sure and satisfaction that the Uni
versity of Delaware has been able
to secure the professional services
of such a broadly qualified and
vitality interested university ply
sician as DR.. Gordon Keppel."
Robert J. Davis, Jr., 61 Thomp-
son Circle, Newark, has been
awarded a graduate assistantship
IN agronomy at the University of
Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Mr.. Da-
Wis and his family will leave New
ark early in September.
He entered the University of Del
aware in June, 1949, graduating
with distinction in agronomy and
honOrs in course in 1862. He re-
ceiVed his masters degree il. agro-
nomy from the University of Della
ware the following year. He was
also commissioned as a second lieu
tenant in the chemical corps of the
ROTC at Delaware in 1858.
His graduate assistantship at the
University of Illinois is for three
years in preparation for the Phi. d.
degree. While there he will work
IN the division of soil biology m
der DR.. o. II. Sears. Mr.. Davis will
be assisting in the investigation of
the role of trace elements in the
nutrition of soil micr-organisms
and field crops. He will also be
concerned with the study of modu-
lation in leguminous plants and the
nitrogen fixing fora of midwest
soils and the conditions affecting
their growth and fixation.
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More than 35 junior women at
the University of Delaware have
been selected as cOunselors for
members of the incoming fresh
man class of 1857. The student
counselors are only one group of
interested student-faculty repre-
sentatiVes who will guide the new
freshmen through the experiences
OF their college days.
Although the idea of counseling
at Delaware is not new, consider
able progress has been made in re-
cent years to improve the extern
slve guidance program. A Junior
counselors' handbook will be avail
able for the first time, pre-
pared under the direction of Miss
Margaret Black, counselor in the
ONCE of the Dean of Students. and
Ihe counselOrs themselves. The
booklet gives advice to both the
junior counselor and to the new
student describing the benefits and
duties for each and the desired re-
suits of such a program.
CounselOrs are selected members
OF the junior class. They are cbos-
en- on the basis of interest. training
academic ability, and activity in
campus life. Each counselor is civ
en- small group of freshmen with
whom she meets and leads discus
slons on subjects pertaining to stu-
dent life. ~ ''U
Inc counselor serves as a link
DetWeen the administration and
the freshmen. She STRENGTHENS tbiq
INK and the guidance program he
comes more effective as a resuIt of
the reports she makes to the Dean
OF Women's Office. Helpful aid and
adVlce offered by junior counselOrs
nave been the means of startinp
many freshmen women on the road
life. ''' OOiiese
A new program of advanced stu
uies leading to a masters degree
IN the natural sciences got under
way officially with the openiDp of
summer school at the UNIVERSITY
OF Delaware last Monday. June %
Many instructors of Chemistry
Physlcs, Mathematics and the Bio
logical Sciences in Secondary
schools, and also some who teach
General Science, find that the usua1
masters degree programs. sDeciaI-
izlng IN single field, do not meet
tnelr needs as teachers. An onnor-
tunlty TO study and to unity the ma
IuraI sciences is sought. Not only
40 these teachers desire to prepare
themselves in more than one scien-
tine area, but they wish to pursue
studies that will enable them to
teach science in a vital, stimulating
and comprehensive way.
a masters degree program in
the Natural Sciences has been CON