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Tuesday, July I, 1952THE SUMMER TEXANAfterYearsDeanfWifeReturns to StudyLawHereBy GEORGE F. JONES**I don't like to stay home by myself,” is the explanation Mis. Marian Boner gives for going back to school after 20 years.Mrs. Boner, the former Miss Marian Oldfather, married Dr. C. Paul Boner, now dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, in 1930, the same vear she received hermen’s Athletic Association, Mor-ar Board, and the Physics Colloquium. Mrs. Boner also served aa president of Mortar Board, the senior women's honorary frater-bachelor of arts in physics from the University. Three years ago with her children—Donald, 19, Charles, 9, and Richard, 6—inschool most of the day, Mrs. Boner felt restless during the day andre-entered the University.Today she is the only woman on the editorial board of the Tex-bi-monthlV*1 awReview', of thetheL/aw Schoolaspublication Only students w ith an 80 average and those who have done a con-side-able amount of technical writing in the law field are eligible for a place on the editorialboard.Dr. and Mrs. Boner had known each other for four years before their marriage. Both are interested in the field of physics, particularly acoustics.Dr. Boner, a professor of physics, is also a specialist in the fields of architectural and radio acoustics. Mrs. Boner wrote her master’s thesis in radio acousticsnity.After her University days, the task of keeping house, rearing three children, serving as recording secretary of the University Ladies’ Club, and, this year, as corresponding secretary of the Faculty Wives, and actively pursuing three hobbies, kept her occupied. Her bobbies are sewir.g, reading detective stories, and painting—houses, that is, not pictures.So, three years ago with herichildren all in school, she entered the College of Business Administration. Mrs. Boner planned to get a job later on w-h^n the children were grown, ami she felt that a twenty-year-oW physics degTeowould not be much help. While inthe college, she took a course inbusiness law. and was fascinated.Two years ago she transferredto the Law School.Since she is able to take onlya few courses at a time, Mrs.Boner is now only halfway toward her degree. She is still uncertain as to whether she will be able to complete her work. This year she is serving as Legislation Editor of the “Law Review.”InternationaOrderFacingNew CrisisModern International law maybe facing its most serious challenge, says Dr. George Wolfskill,who recently received his doctor of philosophy degree in history at the University.in 1931.Luring her years in the University, she was a member of the Orange Jackets, Phi Beta Kappa, the Council of the Cap and Gown Society, the Sidney Lanier Literary Society, the TWCA, the W©-In his doctoral dissertation, Dr. Wolfskill points out international law' achieved its greatest effectiveness in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, after Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century revolutions guaranteed the triumph of international capitalism.Law FoundationSince World War I and the depression, he says, the trend has been for governments to assume the role formerly occupied by individuals in trade and commerce.“Although freedom of action for the individual required law, freedom of action for the state implies an absence of legal fetters,” says Dr. Wolfskill. “Much of the present hostility toward the law may therefore result from this drive toward freedom of action by the states.”Dr, Wolfskill concludes that the solution to the current problem may be discovery of a unity to replace that formerly supplied bythe international interdependence of individuals during the age of the “New World Frontier.”In September, Dr. Wolfskill will be associate professor of history at William Jewell College, Liberty,Mo.
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