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Thoma, Harry C. (ed.) / Wisconsin alumnus
Volume 38, Number IX (June 1937)
While the clock strikes the hour, pp. 360-361
Page 360
HILE THE C OCK 0'' tIS THE HOUR Announce Martha Forster, Philadelphia, and on June 26, continuing through -June 28, with Association's Horace W. Wilkie, of Madison, classes beginning on June 29. Junior Awards son of Harold M. Wilkie, presi- dent of the Board of Regents, were Uncover Many a hoax has been sprung on the announced as the winners of Wisconsin Alumni as- Campus' world's press over the past 100 years, sociation awards to the outstanding junior class man Lost Art and most of them have been fake dis- and woman at the annual Parents' Weekend dinner coveries, pots of gold, copies of mas- last month. Awards are $100 cash prizes. ter's paintings. A group of seven men and seven girls were final- No hoax is the search for "lost art" by Prof. Laur- ists. Nominations were made by members of the ence Schmeckebier of the art history department, University faculty. who, with a $1,000 appropriation from the Board of Miss Forster is a political science major and has Regents is rejuvenating some 50 paintings thrown been active in many campus groups. She was the chair- away in 1912 "because they were not very note- man of the banquet committee for the 1938 "Par- worthy." Prof. Schmeckebier found paintings attri- ents' Weekend" which was held May 22. She buted to important Spanish, Flemish and Italian ar- was sub-chairman of the freshman orientation com- tists of the 17th century hidden beneath rubbish, etc., mittee, chairman of the Women's Self Government in Campus basements and attics. association judicial committee, a member of Crucible, Once the proud possessions of the late Prof. Paul junior women's honor society, and a member of Gam- Reinsch, University historian and former U. S. minis- ma Phi Beta sorority. ter to China, the paintings were discarded because Wilkie is president of the house president's council they were "in the way." Regent aid and pleas from and the university Y. M. C. A. He has been an ac- local proponents of art saved most of them from tive member of the Wisconsin men's Union board for complete obscurity. Others, torn and worn, will be the past two years and has also been active in for- destroyed. ensics. He is a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. His scholarship average is close to a perfect "Excel- Regents Vote University regents manifested gen- lent." Retirement eral approval of a ruling to auto- At 70 Years matically retire all professors at the Expect 5000 at An enrollment of close to 5,000 age of 70 at a recent meeting, but Summer Session students is expected for the 39th failed to arrive at a final vote on the proposition. annual Summer Session is indi- If the policy becomes effective one of the first prom- cated by the large number of inquiries and requests inent faculty members to be retired will be famed for summer school bulletins re- ceived at the office of Scott H. Goodnight, dean of the session. With the number of inquiries and requests for bulletins so far this year considerably ahead of last year at the same time, it is expected that enrollment in the 1937 sum- mer school at the University of Wisconsin will surpass the 4,500 students of last summer. The 1937 Summer Session of the State University opens on June 28. The general session for undergraduates and for graduates continues for six weeks, ending on Aug. 6, while the special nine- week courses for graduates only begin on June 28 and end Aug. 27, and the. Law School opens its 1 0-week session on June 2 1 and The stately portals of the Capitol closes Aug. 27. Registration opens The lawmakers are active here these days 360
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