Defense industries are calling for trained chemists and phys ici sts. Therefore, the chief objective of the Physica l Science Department thi s year has been to qualify its students for these vital positions. Three majors are now working with DuPont- L. D. Froshie r, L. E. Pryor and Tulon M cRight and one, Wayne Hemingway, in the Ford laboratories. Others are rapidly preparing for simil ar work . Three chemistry majors have been engaged in private investigati ons. Louis Green and Wayne Hemingway have studied rates of diffusion in silica gel s and among other results have obtained some remarkable crystals and rhythmic banding . Kern Sears has al so worked on Liesegang rings, studying especially the rhythmic condensation of water vapor when ce rtain mixtures of hydrogen and air are burned . Mechanics, heat , light, sound, and electricity were studi ed in Physics. Dr . Charles Chapman Snow, genial head of the department, is calm, unhurried , and efficient . The sou l of gentleness, he can show a pupil a mistake withaut deflating hi s ego too much . His appearance is invariably neat and he is faithful in the smallest details of any work he undertakes. Believe it or not , Dr. Snow will be found in hi s spare time in the kitchen mak ing tempting pastries or outdoors beautifying his lawn. Puerto Rico was th e scene of a few years of Dr. Snow's teaching career. Curiously, it was there that he met Mrs. Snow, a fellow American teaching in the some school. Virginia is hi s native home and its venerable William and Mary College, hi s Alma Mater . Serving as laboratory assistants and port-time instructors under Dr. Snow this year were Laui s Green, Kern Sears, and Ernest Salners.
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