UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE'S
CARDINAL
VOL. XI LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1942 NO. 14
New Municipal College Dean
Doyle Is Noted Sociologist
By CLARENCE SMITH
Dean Doyle climbed another rung in his ladder of success when
he assumed his duties as Dean of the Municipal College after having
terminated his ten year Professorship at Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn.
Bertram W. Doyle hails from Lownsburg, Alabama where his
father was a Methodist minister. Soon the Doyle family packed its
belongings and trekked south to Augusta, and from there to Shreve-port,
Louisiana where Dean
Doyle learned his ABC’s. Moving
west Bertram Doyle attended the
Academy of Wylie College in
Marshall, Texas. From there he
crossed the Mississippi River and
sailed up the Ohio to Delaware,
Ohio. Here for the first time the
field of sociology caught his
fancy. “Believe it or not, but my
major was in ..Greek and my
minor in sociology”, but it seems
that sociology took hold of Mr.
Doyle and pulled him by the shirt
sleeve, as it were, for he aban-doned
his Greek, German, Span-ish,
and French and decided to
devote his entire time to that
field.
Phi Beta Kappa Man
After the University of Chicago
gave him his Ph. D. certificate
he rehashed his Doctor’s thesis
and wrote The Etiquette of Race
Relations in The South. Dr. Doyle
has also written for The Journal
of Education of Society, The
Higher Education Journal, and
the Journal of Negro History. He
is a member of the American So-ciological
Society and the Amer-ican
Statistical Society; Phi Beta
Kappa and Kappa Alpha Psi fra-ternities.
Dr. Doyle has taught
sociology in colleges of Texas,
South Carolina, Georgia, and
Ohio. Dr. Doyle has been listed
in Who’s Who in Tenn., Who’s
Who in the Clergy, and Who’s
Who in Negro America. “I think
it’s a phony, but just the other
day I received a Who’s Who in
the Western Hemisphere ques-tionnaire”,
and he adds with a
smile, “next thing I know I’ll
receive a blank for Who’s Who
in the Solar System.”
Ex-Meihodist Preacher
Dr. Doyle has not only taught
humanitarianism, but has also
preached it as a Methodist pastor
in South Carolina and Tenn. In
1937 combining education with
religion, Dr. Doyle was appointed
Secretary of the Methodist
Church board in Nashville.
Dean Doyle numbers his out-side
interests as three . . . pho-tography,
model airplane con-struction,
and travel.
Widely-traveled Man
He has been interested in tak-ing
pictures for twenty-five
years, part of which he has spent
making photographs for college
catalogues. He takes and projects
16 mm films including Koda-chrome
pictures.
It seems that Dr. Doyle first
interested his fourteen year old
son in model airplanes, but the
Dean says that now at times he
can be found tinkering in the
shop alone. The father and son
have not as yet attempted any
gas-engine models, but are con-tent
with war planes with wing
spreads of 36 inches.
The Dean has traveled in near-ly
every state (particularly the
South, where he says he has worn
ruts) in the Union, besides Cana-da
and Mexico. In 1936 he set
some sort of record by seeing
both oceans, the Great Lakes and
the Gulf between September 1
and November 1.
Municipal Has Reserve
Asked what wartime needs the
Municipal College fulfills, Dr.
Doyle asserted that the Municipal
College for Negroes, has an En-listed
Reserve Corp. and offers
a course in the Chemistry of Ex-plosions,
in addition to various
radio courses. “We are trying to
formulate a course which will cut
across the traditional lines and fit
the needs of women in war.” The
unconventionality of the course is
that it would be a Divisional
study, rather than a Department-al
course.
Dean Oppenheimer,
Strickler Attempt
To Justify Action
The Campus Forum received
the first full explanation of the
need for the change in the Lib-eral
Arts Christmas Holidays at
their regular meeting Monday,
December 7. Dean Oppenheimer
of Liberal Arts and Dr. Strickler
of the L. A. faculty attempted to
give the reasons for the new
dates and the stages through
which the change went.
Dean Oppenheimer explained
that while the change was made
at the request of the Retail Mer-chants
Association, the new dates
were not exactly what the Mer-chants
wanted. So as to give stu-dents
three full weeks of work,
the original request had been for
a vacation which would start on
December 5. Since this would
necessitate the dropping of any
plans for a Spring Vacation, the
faculty voted to adopt the plan
which is now in effect. That is,
Christmas vacation will be from
December 11 to December 28,
with New Year’s Day also a
holiday.
So as to spike the rumors about
his not consulting the Student
Comprehensives
Will Be Given
After Holidays
Senior and sophomore exam-inations
will be held sometime
between Dec. 28th and the close
of the fall trimester. It will be
necessary for everyone who plans
to take the examinations at this
time to register before the Dean’s
office can make definite plans
for them. Prospective senior and
sophomore lists are to be found
on the bulletin-board in Gardi-ner
Hall.
Those who are eligible for the
senior comps include (1) all stu-dents
who expect to receive their
degrees in January or (2) all stu-dents
who expect to enter the
professional schools in April and
become candidates for the com-bined
degree at the close of the
first year there.
Those who are eligible for the
sophomore comps must have ap-proximately
50 semester hours or
more at the close of the semester
and who will have completed the
survey courses. Also any student
who have deficiencies in one or
more of the fields to remove.
If any student has any question
about his eligibility for the
exams, he is asked to sge Miss
Keith and clear up the situation.
‘Quiet Wedding’ HasFast Women
“Freudian” Barbara Thomas Steals Attention
By JOE E. DUNCAN
Victorian hangovers were cast aside by an appreciative Little
Theater audience Monday night as “Pop” Martin presented his latest
unmorality play, Esther McCracken’s “Quiet Wedding.” A fast-moving
drama, with fast women and faster lines, it was amply in keeping with
the current accelerated programs.
It was quite pleasant for a change to find a British household
shaken to its roots by a mere
“quiet wedding,” instead of by
the crash of bombs. But all the
trouble develops because the
wedding, what with a bevy of
bride’s maids, last-minute fittings,
and suggestive quipping over
night dresses, promises to be any-thing
but quiet.
Miss Baxter Gives Sensitive
Performance
Bride-to-be Jackie Baxter, as
the victim of this hullabaloo, be-comes
more confused than
amused, and contemplates break-ing
the engagement. Although
not yet ready to supersede Bette
Davis, Miss Baxter, in her por-trayal
of the high-strung bride,
gave an interpretation unusually
sensitive to the various subtleties
of mood and temperament, giving
to the comedy some poignant and
moving moments that served all
the better to set off the more
farcical sections. We regret that
the leading lady was too often
kept in the background in “Quiet
Wedding,” and hope that Miss
Baxter gets an opportunity to
take her part in a more serious
drama in the near future.
The bridegroom, played by Mr.
William Reese, was well-meaning
with sporadic sparks of genius,
which is probably about the best
way to describe his acting as well.
He was good in the scene repre-sented
as preceding the couple’s
own little accelerated program on
the night before the marriage.
Almost stealing the show from
the bewildered couple, however,
was Miss Barbara Thomas, play-ing
the role of Flower Lisle, a
Freudian devotee with more idio-syncrasies
than a university of
eccentric professors (who said
anything about U. of L.?). The
Hollywood press agents haven’t
invented a name for it yet, but
it’s kind of a cross between an
intellectual Gracie Allen with a
Veronica Lake finish and a super-surrealist
canvas, if you know
what we mean.
Coleman Gives Punch
Nor are we stooping to facile
rhetoric when we assert that the
drama was studded with an ex-traordinary
galaxy of supporting
players who merit special atten-tion
for the superlative quality
of their performances.
Private John Coleman of Bow-man
Field as the ruddy and ready
father persecuted by a household
U.-L. Council Meets Vote Test Today
Anew edition of the University
Student Council Constitution is
scheduled to make its bid for
ratification today in Liberal Arts,
Speed School, Law School, Music
School, and the Division of Social
Administration. The student
bodies of each college vote
separately and the plan must be
ratified by at least three of the
five schools.
The original constitution was
accepted two weeks ago by L. A.
and Speed but rejected by Law
and Music Schools. Since then,
representatives of the divers col-leges
have revised the member-ship
provisions and changed the
method of amendment so that the
representatives of the five groups
were satisfied. Most important
change was in representation.
Each school now receives two
offices with five additional mem-bers
to be elected from the stu-dent
body at large. Provision is
also made for amendment
through the student body rather
than through Council itself.
Off-campus schools may be
admitted after proper ratification
of the constitution with repre-sentation
to be granted equal to
that of the other schools with the
addition of one extra representa-tive
to be elected at large. Affairs
of the individual schooj which do
not affect the other groups will
remain under the direction of
that school alone according to a
limitation on powers agreed to by
the compromise committee.
The Council, when accepted
and operative, “shall have the
power to review any student gov-ernment
election within any in-dividual
school upon the sub-mittal
of a petition signed by at
least ten per cent (10%) of the
electorate involved and shall have
the power to declare the legality
of said election.”
Representatives who worked
on the revised constitution in-clude:
Law School; Russell
Smith, George Howard. Ray Har-mon;
Music School; Carol Frank
Watson, Courtney Thompson;
L. A.: Ted Sheets, Carol Wede-kind,
Morty Zimmerman; Speed:
Dave Pouchot, Bob Burns, Carl
Merritt; Social Administration:
Mary Trueheart Williamson, Ruth
Davidson.
DEAN BERTRAM W. DOYLE
Fraternity Men
Stand Highest
At Speed School
Over in Liberal Arts, it’§ the
non-fraternity students who rate
scholastically, but in Speed it’s
the other way around. Witness
the fraternity standing of 1.4895
with the non-fraternity standing
of 1.4851, the fraternity 49 mem-bers
and 862 registered hours
with the 154 non-fraternity mem-bers
and 2656 registered hours.
Another morsel of revelation
gives Triangle a nice, big pat on
the back, for «those slaving en-gineers
walked off with the
whole works by reason of their
24 members, 438 registered hours
and 1.7724 standing as compared
with Theta Tau’s 25 members,
443 registered hours and 1.2519
standing.
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