Teaching
In 1948 we had an unusual experience when both Thelma and I were appointed as visiting professors at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Our group was the first one to go from the University of Chicago to Frankfurt. Our principal motivation for that enterprise was the opportunity to help, even in a very small way, to repair what is left after the physical and moral destruction in Europe. Our lectures and seminars in Frankfurt were scheduled on the first three days of each week so that we had every week end for visiting lectures at Marburg, Heidelberg, M�nster, and other places. We have never had more grateful students and colleagues. We brought American books and we were informed that these were the first books from outside Germany to reach their laboratories since before the war. We admired the efforts in reconstruction against terrific odds, including hunger, lack of supplies, and living quarters built by hand in the rubble.
We have had a number of foreign students in our laboratory. These included Charles Wang and E. H. Hs� from China, who have been productive. Mariano Yela from the University of Madrid, Spain, who spent two years here, was one of our best students. From South Africa we have had three superior students. John Karlin remained in this country and is now on the staff of the Bell Telephone Company laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Mrs. Melany Baehr was sent here from South Africa by the National Bureau of Personnel Research. Mrs. Baehr's dissertation was written here for a doctor's degree that was awarded in South Africa. We have had similar cooperative arrangements about several other dissertations for degrees that were awarded in other universities. Mrs. Carol Pemberton came here from South Africa and is now completing work for the doctorate with a dissertation on the closure factors in relation to personality traits. According to our last information several years ago, Nicholas Margineau was still a political prisoner in Rumania.