ommcnccmcnt SEVENTY· NINTH COMMENCEMENT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON HAYWARD FIELD SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1956 ;' I :IRICH, B.S. Eugene ARTHUR SATOSHI FUJITA, B.S. Kapaa, Hawaii CAROL MARIE HARRISON, B.S. Tacoma, Wash. JOAN F. HEADY, B.S. Portland PAUL NORRIS JACKSON. B.S. Eugene J. C. JOHNSON, B.S. Springfield SHIRLEY RAE JONES, B.S. Medford JOHN EUGENE KELLER, B.S. Portland MARY ALICE ALLEN, B.S. Olympia, Wash. BURTON ARNOLD BENSON, B.S. Portland PATRICIA CASE, B.S. Portland JERROLD H. CLAUSSEN, B.S. Eugene DOROTHY MARIE ILER FREAR, B.A. Eugene SAMUEL THOMAS NORTH FREAR. B.S. Eugene AVIS ANNE HILL, B.A. Cottage Grove DAVID HAROLD LOBB, B.S. Portland KENNETH T. METZLER, B.S. Eugene ROBER" FREDERICK NOLAND, B.A. Jerome, Idaho JOHN HOWARD LOFTIS, B.S. Salem DONALD ERIC MCCLURP:. B.S. Eugene JAMES L. MCGINNIS, B.S. Klamath Falls CHARLOTTE MAY MARTIN, B.S. Eugene F. ROBERTA MULKEY. B.S. Portland LOIS MARIE OLSON, B.S. Portland THEODORE DAVID OVERTON. B.S. Eugene LOUISE ALICIA ROBINSON, B.S. Imbler OWEN WAYNE SABIN, B.S. Milwaukie TRINIDAD A. SANTOS TALAG, B.S. Manila. Philippines EMMET J. THOMAS, B.S. Elmira KEITH L. TUCKER, B.S. Fresno, Cal. JOANNE HARRIETT WIDNESS, B.S. Portland RICHARD E. YECNY, B.S. Fresno, Cal. KAROLEE KLAUDETTE PETERS, B.S. Sacramento, Cal. GORDON F. RICE, B.S. Lakeview JOSEPH CHARLES RIGERT, B.A. Beaverton ANNE STEWART R,TCHEY, B.S. Salem ROBERT PAUL ROBINSON, B.A. Eugene GORDON READE Ross, B.S. Eugene DONNA MAE RUNBERG, B.S. Longview, Wash. SALLY JOANNE RYAN, B.S. Oswego PETER EDWARD TAUSSIG, B.S. The Dalles [ 14 ] CARL MARTIN BRANDENFELS, B.S. St. Helens HARRY FRED ELLIOTT, JR., B.A. Hillsboro BENTON CHARLES FLAXEL, B.S. North Bend JERRY DONALD HAMILTON. B.S. Salem GENE HARLETH KNUTSON. B.S. Portland JOHN T. LONG, B.S. Enterprise SAMUEL A. McKEEN, B.S. Klamath Falls ROGER L. MIDDLETON, B.S. Salem MARY T. BEACHNER, B.S. Portland ANN BLATCHFORD, B.S. Milwaukie NANCY BRADLEY, B.S. Portland VERONICA M. BUCHHOLZ. B.S. Portland JOYCE LAVERNE CHAMBERS, B.S. La Grande OLGA H. CURTIS, B.S. Orange, Cal. DOROTHY MARJORIE EDWARDS, B.S. Woodsville, N. H. JOYCE MARIE GARRISON, B.S. Gladstone LYN G. HARTLEY, B.S. Tigard MARY ANN HASS, B.S. Weston JEAN MARGARET HELGERSON, B.S. Seattle. Wash DOROTHY RUTH JERMULOWSKE, B.S. La Grande MIRIAM K,yO KOYAMA, B.S. Portland LAURA G. LARSON, B.S. Boise, Idaho JOANNE HEADY LEACH, B.S. Portland ANN M. LEE, B.S. Portland PHYLLIS JOHNSTON LOEHDEN, B.S. Salem MARY OVERLIN McKEE. B.S. Portland * DegTees conferred June 8, 1956. KENNETH CAREY MOORE, B.S. Silverton PETER ALLAN PLUMRIDGE, B.S. Portland JOEL BRUCE REEDER, B.S. Dayton JON ROGER STEEDS, B.S. Portland JACOB BERNARD TANZER, B.A. Portland LLOYD W,LL,AM WEISENSEE. B.A. Milwaukie HOWARD KENNETH ZENGER, B.S. Portland ALINE MIDTHUN, B.S. Portland JOAN MARIE MILLER, B.S. Salem Lucy ELIZABETH MULLINS, B.S. The Dalles SILVIA OZOLS, B.S. Portland FRANCES ARDELL PAPPAS, B.S. Bozeman, Mont. NANCY ELIZABETH PARPALA, B.S. Aherdeen, Wash. PATRICIA ANNE PERKINS, B.S. La Grande RUTH MARIE PHILLIPS, B.S. Lee Vining, Cal. ETHEL LEMLEY REEVES, B.S. Springfield MARGARET ANNA SCHAFER, B.S. Milwaukie BARBARA LYNN SCHEIDEMAN, B.S. Wallace, Idaho AYAKO TERADA. B.S. Nampa, Idaho DOROTHY W. TOWNE, B.S. Algoma, Wis. MARY WALKER WILLIAMS, B.S. Reno, Nev. NORMA ELAINE WOLFE, B.S. Hazleton, Iowa NANCY ANN YANT, B.S. Portland KAY K. YARABINEC, B.S. Portland [ 15 ] School of Music 2ldbanctd I'roftSSional Iltgrtts School of Law Bachelor of Laws CAROL ANN ARNESON, B.Mus. Anacortes) Wash. JAMES MERLIN BAKER, B.Mus. Medford RICHARD LEE BARBOUR, B.A. Portland CHARLOTTE CHRISTINE BRITTS, B.Mus. Rainier ALAN KEITH CASEBOURN, B.S. Neodesha, Kans. JONNY ANN DAVIS, B.Mus. Sweet Home GARY JAMES DEBROEKERT, B.S. Eugene ROSALIE JUNE FULCO, B.Mus. Grants Pass JOHN LESTER HANSEN, B.S. Baker RAYMOND D. HILL, B.Mus. Roseburg JAMES DOUGLAS HUNTER, B.Mus. Vancouver, B. C. RAYMOND D. JOHNSON, B.Mus. Portland ROBERT LYLE KELLY, B.Mus. Cottage Grove BARTON A. McKAGAN, B.S. Seattle, Wash. WESLEY BAIRD NAISH, B.Mus. Cottage Grove EARL MARSHALL PALLETT, B.S. Eugene DONNA MAE PETERSON, B.Mus. Eugene ROBERT LEIGH RANSOM, B.A. Hermiston PATRICIA ANN RIEHL, B.S. Coalinga, Cal. SUZANNE PALMER SEIBERT, B.S. Springfield W,LL,AM R. SMITH, B.Mus. Portland MARY ANNE SWEENEY, B.Mus. Lewiston, Idaho MARY LOUISE TEAGUE, B.Mus. Eugene DONALD ALBERT THURBER, B.Mus. Fairfield, Idaho EVERETT ROGERS WINTER, B.Mus. Eugene [ 16 ] HAROLD M. DARON Redmond HARRY FRED ELLIOTT, JR. Hillsboro ALBERT HOLMES FERRIS Evanston, Ill. DONALD JAMES FORD Eugene WILLIAM F. FRYE Portland DONALD JAMES GEORGESON Portland ROBERT HUGH GRANT Eugene JOHN GRAHAM HOLDEN Portland JAMES W. ORAM Springfield ROGER HARMON REID Albany WILLIAM EMMETT HURLEY Eugene RALPH EDWIN ADAMS Jerome, Idaho GEORGE SIMPSON BARTON Bend JAMES HARVEY BAUER North Bend RODNEY KENNETH BEALS Salem JOHN ANDREW BELT Hermiston CHARLES STEPHEN BENNETT Portland RICHARD CHARLES BENNETT La Grande DELB>:RT DAVID BLICKIlNSTAFF Portland CHARLES ROBERT BOGE Portland DAVID JAMES BROWN Portland RICHARD K. BYLUND Eugene BERT DENNIS CAMPBELL Portland LERoy S. CASPERSEN Portland ELIZABETH STELLE RISLEY Eugene EDWARD LEE ROGERS Portland RICHARD GLADE SUIMANEK Scio WILLIAM MARSHALL SLOAN Eugene CAMERON CATESBY THOM Wedderburn GEORGE WALISER, JR. Milton-Freewater DELBERT ALLEN WEAVER Grants Pass JOH. WILLIAM WHITTY COOS Bay JAMES W,LL,AM YOUNG Eugene Doctor of Jurisprudence Medical School Doctor of Medicine"" DONALD HURLBERT CHEEVER Bozernan, Mont. ROBERT CHIAPUZIO Bessemer, Mich. MCGREGOR LENOIR CHURCH Portland Loy ERMAL CRAMER Salem WALLACE W,LK,NSON DUNN North Bend YURN OCK LEE DUNN Wahiawa, Hawaii ERNEST RICKARDS DUVALL Portland M,LES JOHN EDWARDS Portland DONALD LYNN ELLIS Niles, Ohio MARY PATRICIA FARNES Salem JOHN FRANCIS GARVEY Dutton, Mont. FREDERICK LAWRENCE GOODWIN Suffolk, Va. FRED DARWIN GREWE Arlington, Wash. [ 17 ] Master of Arts C5raduatr ~rgrrrsGEORGE RUSSELL HALLINGPortlandDANIEL JOHN HEINRICHS Dalras RICHARD ARTHUR HODGSON Portland DAVID MARSH HOLMES Portland KIYOAKY HORI Nyssa ROBERT TaSHIRO IWATA Portland TREVOR KNOX JONES Kelowna, It C. RICHARD THEODORE JONES Portland DONALD GENE KASSEBAUM Portland RICHARD ARTHUR LALLI Portland. LERoy FRANCIS LAMOREAUX Portland DARRELL WILLIAM LANDREY Portland MARION MARTHA LARSEN Portland FRED ARTHUR LEE Portland DONN KEITH McINTOSH Richland, Wash. THOMAS JOSEPH MANNELL Portland WILLIAM RUDOLPH MELBY Roundup, Mont. ROBERT OLIPHANT MORRISON Portland BYRON ULYSSES MUSA The Dalles JULES VERNE NAPIER Klamath Falls HOWARD RAY NEWTON Portland WAYNE MILTON PARPALA Aberdeen, Wash. LILA JEAN PASNICK Puyallup, Wash. • Degrees to be conferred June 15, 1956. CLARENCE AVNER PAUL Corvallis JOHN ROBERT PETERSON Wisdom, Mont. RALPH EDWARD PETERSON Portland RICHARD ADELBERT RAWLINSON Salem GEORGE RONALD REULE Hillsboro JOHN WESTON REYNOLDS Portland KENNETH MARVIN RIDEOUT Portland ANDRIS RITMANIS Portland RICHARD DONALD SLOOP Portland KENT RONALD SMITH Portland CARL EDWARD STIFF Baker JOHN ROBERT SULLIVAN St. Helens PAUL NORBERT SWARTZ Pierre, S. D. JOHN BROWN THOMPSON Portland JOHN FREDERICH VON WEISS Portland JOSEPH McKENDREE WALTZ Leaburg DAVID ELMER WILLIAMS Hailey, Idaho ROBERT DILLON WILSON Salem PAUL MANAO YAMADA Portland EDWARD VANCE YUNG Salem DANIEL LUIS YUZON Honolulu, Hawaii GEORGE ZUPAN Klamath Falls KRISHNA RAJ ARYAL Katmandu, Nepal; Education Tri-Chandra College; University of Alahabad ALBERT HENNING EARLieR San Francisco,-Cal.; Physics B.A. (1954), .Keed College JESSIE BECKEB Eugene; History B.S. (1949), University of Oregon Thesis: A Synthetic Rhetorical Criticism and Literary Analysis of De Corrigendi.< Studiis, the 1518 Inaugural Address of Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg. HELEN JANE BILLETT Elmhurst, Ill.i.. Psychology B.A. (1954), .Kipon College Thesis: Urnweg Bhavior in Normal and Brain-Operated Cats. LORNE ELLIS BROWN Vancouver, B. C.; Health and Physical Education B.P.E. (1950), University of Oregon PATRICK GARRY CARR Barrington Ill.; Mathematics B.S. (1953), Illinois Institute of Tech- nology JOHN HILL CARRUTHERS Hollywood, Cal.; General Studies B.A. (1951), University of California at Los Angeles Thesis: Mao Tse-tung and Dialectical Materialism. LIB YONG CHANG Taipei, Taiwan; Economics U nlversity of Nanking, China Thesis: Foreign Trade and Exchange Policy of Taiwan (Formosa), June 1949- December 1953. CHARLES HAMPTON CHICKS Sandpoint, Idaho; Mathematics B.A. (1953), Linfield College BERTRAM AGGREY NATHANIEL COLLINS Geora-etown, British Guiana; Political Science B.A. (1953), University of London Thesis: An Exploratory Study of the Anti·Colonial Policies of the United States during the Second World War. RICHARD VINCENT CRISERA Portland; Biology B.S. (1954), University of Oregon Thesis: The Distribution of Potentials Through the Isolated Frog Skin. WILBUR ARTHUR DAVIS Eugene; Anthropology B.A. (1949), Reed College Thesis: An Analytical Space-Time Study of Eskimo Pottery Elements. SAMUEL MILAN DRAGANOV Eugene; Chemistry B.S. (1942). The College of Idaho Thesis: Current Efficiencies in the An- odic Polishing of Metals. VIRGINIA EVANS Casper, Wyo.; Political Science B.S. (1953) University of Wyoming Thesis: A Quantitative Content Analysis of the Speeches of Richard M. Nixon ill the 1954 Congressional Campaign. JACK BRUCE GOEBEL Wallowa; Mathematics B.A. (1954), University of Oregon CLAUSE ROBERT GROTH, JR. Portland; Music B.A. (1952), University of Oregon Thesis: The Role Played by the Sonatas of Corelli and Biber in the Development of the Baroque Violin Sonata. RICHARD GORDON HIATT La Grande; Speech B.A. (1952), University of Oregon Thesis: A Study of the Speaking in Sac- rament Meetings of One Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. MAIlJORI~ CHURCH JOHNSON Canby; General Studies B.A. (1939), Willamette University Thesis: Study of Causes of Illness of Ninth Grade Girls at Parrish Junior High School, Salem, Oregon, from Oc- tober I, 1954 to May 31, 1955. QUENTIN G'J.0HNSON Fargo . D.; English B.A. (1952), Gonzaga University Thesis: The Letters of James Russell Lowell to Robert Carter 1842-1876. J. WILLIAM JONES Portland; Philosophy B.A. (1952), University of Oregon Thesi s: Josiah Royce: Philosopher and Critic. BHUWAN LAL JOSHI Katmandu, Nepal; Psychology Tri-Challdra College; University of Delhi Thesis: Discrimination of Ambivalent Cue Stimuli by Cats. JOSEPH DUANE KEUTER Klamath Falls; English B.A. (1949), University of Oregon Thesis: Affinities of Milton's Comus with the Morality Play. TIEN-SHUEY LEE . Tai1?ei, Formosa; Chemistry NatIOnal Institute of Technology, Chungking, China Thesis: Formation Fields and Current Efficincies in the Anodic Oxidation of Zirconium. CHARLES YASUO OYAMA Aiea, Hawaii; Education B.A. (1954), University of Oregon LEOPOLD POSPISIL Eugene; Political Science Charles University Thesis: The Collapse of Czechoslovak Democracy. BRUCE ELLENWOOD RAEMSCH Syracuse, N. Y.; English B.A. (1943). Syracuse University Thesis: William Henry Davies in Amer- ica. PULLETIKURTHI RAVI VARMA Ongole, India; Education B.A. (1932), Andhra University [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [20 ] Master of Science JOHN H. HOBSON Salem' Education B.A. (1941), Willamette University RAYMOND HERBERT HOHLE Reno, Nev.; PsycholollY B.A. (1954), UniversIty of Nevada Thesis: Shifts in Judgment of Single Stimuli. WARREN L. HOLBROOK Medford; Arehitecture and Allied Arts B.S. (1950), University of Oregon HAROLD W. HOWARD Seattle, Wash.' Pol itical Science B. S. (1948). Lewis and Clark College Thesis: Radio as a Medium of Municipal Reporting. HELEN WATSON HOWARD Galesburg, Ill.; Speech B.S. (1950), Central Missouri State College Thesis: A Production and Prompt Book of Blood Weddinu by Federico Garcia Lorca. ·FRANCIS V. HOWELL Portland; Pathology B.A: (1948), Stanford University • Thesis: Congenital and Acquired Pathol- ogy of the Tongue. GORDON THOMAS HOWERTON Grants Pass; Health and Physical Educa- tion B.S. (1951), Southern Oregon College of Education THOMAS M. HUMPHREY, JR. Fairfax, Cal. ~geol. (953), Iowa State College Thesis: A Study of the Effects of Solu- tion Composition and of Alloying Ele- ments on the Anodic Oxidation of Zir- conium and Zirconium Alloys. Adviser: Dr. Pierre Van Rysselberghe JOHN CUDD BROWN Gaffney, S. C.; Political Science B.S. (1947), Georgetown University; M.A. (952), American University Thesis: The Ghost Dance and Mau Mau: A Comparative Study in Colonial Ad· ministration. Adviser: Dr. E. S. Wengert WILLIAM JACKSON FEENEY Chicago, Ill.; English B.A. (1946), University of Kansas; M.A. (1948), University of Kansas Thesis: The Informer in Irish History and Literature. Adviser: Dr. John C. Sherwood JOSEPH FINK Phoenix, Ariz.; Psychology B.S. (1952), Arizona State College at Tempe; M.A. (1952), Arizona State Col- lege at Tempe Thesis: College Adj ustment and Achieve- ment: Criteria and Prediction. Adviser: Dr. Leona E. Tyler WARREN R. FLEMING Portland; Biology B.A. (1949), University of Portland; M.S. (1951), University of Portland Thesis: Some Aspects of Ion Transport across the Isolated Frog Skin. Adviser: Dr. Bradley T. Scheer RICHARD WESLEY WOODCOCK Ashland B.S. (1949), University of Oregon; M.Ed. (1953), University of Oregon Thesis: Construction and Evaluation of a Test for Predicting Success in Remedial Reading. Adviser: Dr. P. A. Killgallon PHILLIP OLIVER Foss Portland; Political Scicnce B.A. (1947), University of Washington; M.S. (1953), University of Oregon Thesis: Politics and Grass: The Admin- istration of the Taylor Grazing Act. Adviser: Dr. E. S. Wengert JOHN GIMBEL Decorah, Iowa; History B.A. (1949), Luther College; M.A. (1951), State University of Iowa Thesis: Marburg under Occupation. 1945-1952: A Study of the Impact of an American Military Government Detach~ ment upon a German Community, Adviser: Dr. Earl S. Pomeroy OLEG JEFIMENKO Eugene; Physics B.A. (1952), Lewis and Clark College; M.A. (1954), University of Oregon Thesis: Moddications of the Absorption Spectra of Cesium and Rubidium Due to Interatomic Interactions. Adviser: Dr. S. Y. Ch'en HERMAN ANDREW JOHANSEN Eugene; Chemistry B.A. (1948), Reed College; M.A. (1950), University of Oregon Thesis: Studies on the Anodic Oxidation of Aluminuffi7 Chromium, Hafnium, Nio·bium. Vanadium, Tantalum. and Titan- ium. Adviser: Dr. Pierre Van Rysselberghe C. DOUGLAS LIND Pittsburgh, Penn.; Chemistry B.S. (1952), Pennsylvania State College; M.S. (1954), University of Oregon Thesis: Polarography of Some Alkenyl- naphthalcnes. Adviser: Dr. LeRoy H. Klemm RAYMOND D. McCoy Eugene; Chemistry B.S. (1950), Willamette University; M.A. (1953), University of Oregon Thesis: A Mass Spectrometric Study of the Thermal Decomposition of Azome- thane at Low Pressures. Adviser: Dr. D. F. Swinehart TREODOR FRIEDRICH NAUMANN Wattenscheid, Germany; Education M.A. (1954), Oregon State College Thesis: The Development of an Inven- tory of Teaching Practices and Beliefs as Related to Contemporary Learning Theories and a Study of Teachers' Inven- tory Scores as Related to Certain Per- sonal Variables. Adviser: Dr. John Pierce-Jones -RICHARD ANTHONY NEVE Portland; Biochemistry M.S. (1951), University of San Francisco Thesis: Reduced Uroporphyrin III, A Direct Intermediate in Heme Biosyn- thesis Adviser: Dr. E. S. West WILLIAM LARAY ROACH, JR. Cincinnati, Ohio; Mathematics B.A. (1951), Denison University; M.A. (1953), University of Oregon Thesis: The A~plication of the Expon- ential DistributIon to a Truncated Sto- chastic Process. Adviser: Dr. Frank J. Massey, Jr. MADAN MOHAN SINHA Calcutta, India; Psychology B.A. (1945), University of Calcutta; M.A. (1947), University of Calcutta; M.S. (1955), University of Oregon Thesis: Formation of Learning Sets for Object-Quality Discrimination under Con- ditIOns of Differential Reinforcement by Rhesus Monkeys. Adviser: Dr. John M. Warren • Degree to be conferred June IS, 1956. JOSEPH WEISSBART San Francisco, Cal.; Chemistry B.A. (1950), University of California; M.A. (1954), University of Oregon Thesis: Polarography of Solutions of Zirconium Salts and Complexes and of Some Zirconium Precipitating Agents, in Particular Chloranilic Acid. Adviser: Dr. Pierre Van Rysselberghe HAROLD DOUGLAS WHITTLE Calgary, Alta.; Health and Physical Edu- cation . B.S. (1945), University of Toronto; M.S. (1952), University of Oregon Thesis: Effects of Elementary School Physical Education upon Some Aspects of Physical, Motor, and Personality De- velo~ment of Boys Twelve Years of Age. AdVIser: Dr. H. Harrison Clarke [ 30 ) [ 31 ] I consider knowledge to be the soul of a republic, and as the weak and the wicked are generally in alliance, as much care should be taken to diminish the number of the former as of the latter. Education is the way to do this, and ~othing should be left undone to aDord all ranks of people the means of obtaining a proper degree of it at a cheap and easy rate. JOHN JAY, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush (concerning Dickenson College), dated March 24, 1785. [ 32 ] Mens agitat molem