20 On Faculty Granted Leaves

More May Be Called For U. S. War Service

Twenty University faculty members already have been granted leaves of absence for portions or all of the school year 1941-42, with daily indications that war preparation service will call several more men before the year is over.

Sabbatical leaves for the first semester have been granted to Kenneth C McMurry, professor of geography; Jesse S. Reeves, William W. Cook, Professor of American Institutions; Ralph L. Belknap, associate professor of geology; Chester A. Arnold, assistant professor of botany; Ernest A. Philippson, assistant professor of speech; Harlow O. Whittemore, professor of landscape architecture; and Jean P. Slusser, associate professor of drawing and painting.

A second semester sabbatical leave has been granted to Harold J. McFarlan, assistant professor of geodesy and surveying, and leaves of absence for a year will be given Byron A. Soule, assistant professor of chemistry; Robert B. Hall, professor of geography and chairman of the division of the social sciences; Henry L. Kohler, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Roy S. Swinton, associate professor of engineering mechanics; Herbert F. Taggart, professor of accounting; Edward B. Greene, assistant professor of psychology, Frank H. Smith, assistant professor of mechanism and engineering drawing; Arthur Dunham, professor of community organization; and Frank A. Mickle, associate processor of mechanical engineering.

Other faculty members granted leaves of absence are Jesse Ormondroyd, professor of engineering mechanics, whose year leave began Feb. 21; Lloyd R. Gates, instructor in hygiene and public health, whose year leave began Feb. 18; and Arthur C. Curtis, associate professor of internal medicine, who began a leave Aug. 1 until Jan. 31, 1942.