Sandspur, Vol. 69 No. 03, October 15, 1963

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VOL. 69    No. 3
THE ROLLINS SANDSPUR, WINTER PARK, FLORIDA
October  15,  1963
Left to right:   Dr. Bowers, Dr. Mulson, Prof. Riley-Smith, Dr. Vestal,
Dr. Carroll.
New Research Fund
Started At Rollins
This past summer five Rollins
professors participated in the
first Rollins College Research
Fund, established this past year
to encourage fundamental research as a vital force in science
education and to stimulate the
continued development of faculty and students in their pursuit of knowledge.
Dr. Donald Carroll, Dr. John
Bowers, Dr. Paul Vestal, Dr.
Riley Smith and Dr. Joe Mulson
were the five Rollins teachers
who spent long hours at
work and made numerous trips
throughout the summer in connection with their Rollins Research Fund work.
The Rollins Research Fund was
made available through an institutional grant given to Rollins by
the National Science Foundation.
The fund gives support to the
Rollins faculty for teaching related research activities during
the summer months.
Announcing the Rollins College Research Fund, President
Hugh F. McKean said, "As an
artist, I know the excitement and
the necessity of finding new
truths and seeing new things.
"The Rollins Research Fund
was established to help our venturesome science teachers do just
that in their research. It is a
great new step for them and for
all Rollins College."
Dr. Carroll, professor of chemistry at Rollins, has titled his research work Chemistry of a
Series of Substituted Hydantoin-
Carboxaldehydes. His research
is an extension of five years of
work supported by a grant under
the Public Health Service.
The Rollins professor has submitted 125 new compounds to the
cancer service center for screening against cancer and lukemia.
This summer Dr. Carroll selected
18 compounds which were sent
to Ciba Pharmaceutical Products
for study for anti-spasmodic properties in animals.
Dr. Carroll's Rollins research
work also involved characterizing
compounds by chemical analysis
and conducting analytical studies
for improving certain methods of
synthesis. Reporting on his research work, Dr. Carroll said, "A
Paper  is   in   preparation,   and   I
hope to report results in an
American chemical journal."
Dr. John Bowers, assistant professor of mathematics, conducted
his summer's research on Inequities Associated with Symmetric
Means.
This fundamental research involves the application of pure
mathematics. Reports Dr. Bowers,
"There is no termination to this
research, but the results of this
summer will probably produce
two papers, which will appear in
professional journals."
With the initiation of a student
research program on the growth
and culture of algae of Florida
water as his main objective, Dr.
Paul Vestal, professor of biology,
spent his summer collecting algae
from rivers and lakes throughout
the Sunshine State.
Dr. Vestal's preliminary work
was to find specific algae problems. In search of these problems the Rollins professor collected the algae and then returned to the laboratory to isolate the organisms and attempt
to grow clear cultures. The next
step will be to test the cultures
in a problem situation.
Two results which could eventually come of such a research
project would be the use of algae
as a food supply and the aid
which algae could offer in space
craft research.
Explaining the first possibility,
Dr. Vestal said, "With the constant
population increase, it could be
possible that land resources may
not be enough to supply us with
necessary food. If this were to
happen, we might have to turn
to water—to grow algae which
could supplement food supply.
"As for algae's role in space
research," continues Dr. Vestal,
"we know that algae organisms
use up carbon dioxide and give
back oxygen. It might be possible that these algae could turn
back other human bi-products
into something usable."
Dr. Joseph Mulson, assistant
professor of physics at Rollins,
was a fourth professor involved
in the Rollins College Research
Fund. His work was titled An
Investigation of Several Parameters Important in the Operation
of a Field Ion Microscope.
During  his  summer's research
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Union Dance
The Union Dance Committee has announced an all-college dance in the Union on
Friday, October 18. Urn and
The Moons will provide the
music and there will be free
cokes.
Dr. Mulson journeyed to Penn
State University to confer with
E. W. Mueller, foremost man in
field emission, ion and electrons.
The Rollins professor also attended the 10th annual Field
Emission Symposium held at
Baldwin Wallace College and
sponsored by Parma Research
Center of Union Carbide and the
Office of Naval Research.
The results of Dr. Mulson's
findings will be in the form of
a proposal to the Research Corporation which could result in a
grant for continued work in field
ion microscopy.
The final professor involved in
the Rollins College Research
Fund is Dr. Riley Smith, head of
the Rollins earth science department. He is involved in a study
of underwater geology of the Indian and Banana River.
"I'm just getting started with
this research," reports Dr. Smith.
"This is an open-end project. I
want to ascertain the type of
sediments now being formed on
the estuary bottoms, as well as
the environment of deposition,
and to relate these to ancient
rock formations."
Dr. Smith has made numerous
trips to the Indian River and the
Banana River, where with the
help of his son Randolph, a freshman at Rollins, he has successfully used a sediment coring device to retrieve portions of the
estuary bottom.
In the lab Dr. Smith then identifies the mineral matter through
a petorgraphic microscope. Already Dr. Smith reports that he
has come up with an interesting
observation that there is less organic materials on the Florida
river bottoms than expected.
"I expected a much larger percentage of organic material," said
Dr. Smith, "but then this is an
open-end project. I am just getting started, and there is no telling what we might discover in
the future."
And so it is with the other four
teachers involved in Rollins College's Research Fund. Through
the grant from the National Science Foundation, the professors
have started on research projects
in five different fields of science,
and there is no telling what they
might discover in the future.
A Party Held
In Author's Honor
An author's party honoring
Ruby Hart Phillips, author of
THE CUBAN DILEMMA, was
held on the Rollins campus at
the Casa Iberia this past Saturday afternoon.
THE CUBAN DILEMMA is an
outspoken, fully documented personal account of how Fidel Castro
put his nation into the Communist camp. It has been hailed by
the Columbus Dispatch as "the
most illuminating book on Castro's Cuba to date."
Bert Collier, writing in the
Miami Herald, referred to Mrs.
Phillips' book as "one of the most
important books yet written of
the Cuban tragedy — a scorching
critique of the U. S. Latin American policy by an expert witness.
Mrs. Phillips, who was a New
York Times correspondent from
1937 until 1961 when she incurred
the displeasure of Fidel Castro,
discussed her experiences in
gathering the material for her
book. She has previously published a history of 20th Century
Cuba, CUBA: ISLAND OF PARADOX, which she reviewed at Rollins in December of 1959.
The noted author was introduced by Mr. Frederick Babcock,
nationally-known literary critic
and for 18 years editor of the
Chicago Tribune's Magazine of
Books.
The author's party was sponsored by the Casa Iberia Club,
the Hispanic Institute of Florida,
and the Rollins College Latin
American Program.
New ID Cards
For Students
The temporary card which the
students are now carrying are to
be exchanged at the cashier's of-
ce in about a week for a pocket
size card in full color.
Unlike many schools, which
charge for the card, Rollins
wanted to provide them at no
cost to the students so we had
to compromise and order the
cheaper black and white card.
Luckily for us the photographer's
black and white camera was unavailable on the morning she was
to start taking the pictures. So
Electro Photo Systems of Florida
offered to supply color at no
extra cost.
All students are asked to carry
their ID at all times to establish
their identity either on the campus for various purposes, as well
as with local merchants for credit
purposes. When there are functions which require students to
be identified, it is no longer possible for one person to know all
of our student body. The card
identifies the holder as a member of the Rollins Student Association and admits them to all
the privileges of the Association.
Likewise it covers all the other
functions of the college where
students might receive free or
preferred treatment.
One important function of the
card is to identify our regular
boarders at the Dining Hall. For
this reason it will be necessary
for all boarding students to show
their cards to the cashier of the
Dining Hall at each meal. It is
suggested that for convenience
sake, the student might place his
card on the cafeteria tray so that
he will not need to be held up
at the desk while locating and
presenting his ID card. We will
appreciate the students' cooperation in an experiment to see if
we can eliminate their need to
show cards all through the
school year.
In the larger schools this is
necessary but we hope our cashier will be able to recognize the
regular boarders in a few weeks.
After she is able to do this there
will be no further need to show
the card to the cashier unless she
is not sure of her identification
in which case she would have
every right to request to see the
person's ID card.
If an ID card is lost a duplicate can be secured through the
cashier's office without the necessity of being rephotographed.
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An Eagle or
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Past President
Dunnill Speaks 6
Letters to Editor 7
Intramural
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