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Examples include a music playback file format, an audio compact disc, and recorded speech or sounds. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound [Back cover] ENCORE Jazz Incredibles 1. Bourbon Street Parade (Paul Barbarin, c. 1940) Sousaphone 3:12 2. 12th Street Rag (Euday Bowman, 1914) Banjo 1:52 3. You've Gotta See Your Mama Every Night (Rose & Conrad, 1923) Vocal 2:11 4. Black and White Rag (Charles L. Johnson, 1908) Ensemble 2:49 5. Somewhere My Love (from movie, Dr. Zhivago, 1965) Banjo 3:47 6. Frankie and Johnnie (19th cen. American folk song) Vocal 3:57 7. Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams, 1928) Sousaphone 2:54 8. After the Loving (Alan Bernstein, Richie Adams, 1976) Banjo 3:26 9. High Society (Porter Steele, 1901) Sousaphone 3:58 10. I Had Someone Else Before I Had You (Harry Harris, Joe Darcy, Jack Stanley, 1925) Vocal 3:29 11. Bohemia Rag (Joseph Lamb, 1919) Ensemble 3:30 12. Sugar Blues (Clarence Williams, 1923) Banjo 2:52 13. When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary (Lewis F. Muir & Edgar Leslie, 1911) Vocal 3:21 14. Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Johannes Brahms, 1869) Banjo/Sousaphone 1:58 15. Memories of You (Eubie Blake, 1930) Sousaphone 3:24 16. There'll Be Some Changes Made (Benton Overstreet, 1921) Vocal 4:12 17. Spanish Eyes, also titled Moon over Naples (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder, 1965) Banjo 2:58 18. Please Don't Talk about Me When I'm Gone (Stept, 1930) Vocal 3:34 19. Whispering (Schonberger, Coburn, V. Rose, 1920) Sousaphone 3:22 20. The Lady is a Tramp (Rodgers & Hart, 1937) Banjo 2:10 21. Tiger Rag (Nick LaRocca, 1918) Sousaphone 4:59 TOTAL PLAYING TIME 67:53 For Additional CDs, cassettes or bookings, please contact: JEAN KITTRELL [Inside jacket] THE JAZZ INCREDIBLES The JAZZ INCREDIBLES trio began a regular weekend gig in 1983 aboard the Lt. Robert E. Lee, a floating restaurant/saloon permanently moore on the Mississippi River just south of the famous Saarinen Arch memorializing St. Louis as the Gateway to the Western frontier. In the beginning we were just having fun playing jazz, and I do mean fun. These guys put humor into their music and crack wild jokes between tunes as well. As the months passed, and night after night they played beautiful, unique, often astounding, improvisations, I realized I was working with two world-class musicians. So many times I described their performances as "incredible" to our audiences that I finally said, "This Friday night trio is going to be called the JAZZ INCREDIBLES because you two are incredible, and I find it incredible that I'm playing piano with you." Thus our modest name came about. "BIG JOHN" BECKER, a native St. Louisan, is famous for his rapid single-string technique, eleveating the tenor banjor to a melodious solo isntrument. One of the world's greatest tenor banjoists, he is often compared to Harry Reser and Eddie Peabody. John began playing banjo at age eleven, then plaed guitar for twenty years before returning to the banjo in 1950. A professional musician since 1937, Becker became well known during the golden era of St. Louis' Gaslight Square, leading BIG JOHN'S BANJO BAND at the Golden Eagle and the Lorelei. Subsequently he and bassist Russ Polette formed a mighty duo, working for years at the Bayou Belle, a popular St. Louis Restaurant. After John and I played our first gig together in 1977, paired by booker and band leader Jack Engler, we liked our sound and decided to form a trio with bassist Bill Jouston. Charlie Wills booked us as the BLUES EMPORIUM into the RELee for a three-week engagement in January 1978. In 1983 Bill retired and Red joined the trio, which eventually became the JI. That three-week engagement on the Lee lasted thirdteen years (1978-1990). DAVID "RED" LEHR from New Athens, Illinios, where he owns a meat market and processing plant, is a jazz virtuoso of the sousaphone - a world-class musician combining technique with showmanship. His musical career began at age five when he was big enough, standing on an orange crate, to play his daddy's trombone. In high school, as the strongest and tallest kid, he began to play the big sousaphone with which he has intrigued audiences ever since. In 1955 he began a long-standing engagement in St. Louis at the Banjo Palace (across from Busch Stadium on Market Street), followed by two years at The Sting (on Lindbergh). In annual trips to New Orleans he made frequent guest appearances in jazz spots on Bourbon Street and elsewhere in the French Quarter. Red and I became acquainted when his four-piece OLD ST. LOUIS LEVEE BAND (they were together sixteen years before I met them) joined me on Saturday nights on the RELee in 1978 for what turned out to be another thirteen year engagement. So Friday nights Red and I played with John in the trio and Saturday nights with the OSLLB. And what about JEAN KITTRELL? Well, I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up playing piano in the Southern Baptist Church. At Blue Mountain College, Mississippi I didn't major in piano - I didn't like the teacher's pianistic style. Instead I majored in music theory - harmony, counterpoint, and musical coposition - valuable knowledge for jazz, which I began playing in 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia, where my then-husband, cornetist Ed Kittrell, and I organized the CHESAPEAKE BAY JASS BAND. In 1958 we moved to Chicago, joined the CHICAGO STOMPERS, and took them to Germany for a two-month tour in 1959. Then I dropped out of jazz until 1967, when I began a two-year SRO solo engagement in St. Louis at the Old Levee House on Laclede's Landing. After completing my Ph.D. in Modern British Literature (1973), I joined the English faculty at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the MISSISSIPPI MUDCATS JAZZ BAND. Eventually I served four years as Chair of the English Department, while playing jazz on the weekends. The JAZZ INCREDIBLES gradually became known throughout the USA, appearing in several jazz festivals. Then we traveled abroad to France, Germany, and The Netherlands, on three one-month European tours in 1985, 1987, and 1989. We were also featured in the week-long Edinburgh, Scotland, Jazz Festival in 1989, 1990, and 1991, where John's banjo artistry made him an outstanding favorite with the Scots. One of the best friends the trio has ever know entered our lives in 1983 when Gene Pokorny came as Principal Tubist to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Gene is a rare human being, a great talent - probably the world's greatest classical tubist - who can be completely self-forgetful in pushing to the fore another talent. Gene recognized in Red a unique, amazing musical phenomenon, and brought musicians, visiting conductors, the business manager, and the gneral manager of the St. Louis Symphony, to the RELee saloon to hear him. As a result, the JAZZ INCREDIBLES and the OLD ST. LOUIS LEVEE BAND gave a series of summer pop concerts with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 1987, 1988, and 1989, and were honored to be included on a cut of Gene's astounding CD, "Tuba Tracks." Another facet of the musical activities of the JAZZ INCREDIBLES is our function as the essential core of a seven-piece Dixieland jazz band, JEAN KITTRELL AND THE ST. LOUIS RIVERMEN, founded in 1984. This band concertizes throughout the USA and Canada and has produced seven cassettes. The Music of the JAZZ INCREDIBLES on this CD, selected from four of our cassettes recorded in 1990 and 1991, includes four Dixieland classics featuring the sousaphone (Bourbon Street Parade, Tiger Rag, High Society, and Basin Street Blues), three rags (Bohemia, 12th Street, and Black and White), one classical selection (Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5), several slow ballads - four featuring the banjo (Somewhere My Love, After the Loving, Spanish Eyes, and Sugar Blues), two featuring the sousaphone (Memories of You and Whispering), a brilliant banjo rendition of Rodgers and Hart's The Lady is a Tramp, and six vocals by me. There are no blues in terms of [Back jacket] musical structure and harmony included, even though two titles include the word "blues." High points for me are John Becker's original bluesy effect on Sugar Blues, his woderfully melodic obligato over the piano melody in Spanish Eyes, Red's trilling throughout the last chorus of High Society, and John and Red and Johannes Brahms. I'll confess I also enjoy my original words tagging I Had Someone Else Before I Had You, and added to the breaks in See Mama Every Night. John discovered that When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary was based on the 1898 Ethelbert Nevin composition, The Rosary. Listen when he plays it between my two vocal choruses on this song. (The Rosary was his very first banjo solo.) Our trio feels very lucky to have had so much fun playing and making friends throughout our music. We thank you for your interest in our work and hope you enjoy these selections. -Jean Kittrell THE JAZZ INCREDIBLES John Becker.....tenor banjo David "Red" Lehr......sousaphone Jean Kittrell......piano and vocals Recorded and mixed July 1990 and May 1991 at Music Masters, St. Louis, Missouri Engineering, Greg Trampe Producer, Jean Kittrell Photo, Richard Schaumberger Typography by John Pavlik, Type 1, Edwardsville CD Manufactured by Audio Duplication & Services, St. Louis, Missouri Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Compact disc Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 67:53:00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context SIUE_REF_CD.NRJA5 Title A name given to the resource Encore Description An account of the resource Jazz recording by the Jazz Incredibles for Music Masters. Personnel of the Jazz Incredibles on this recording include Jean Kittrell on piano/vocals, John Becker on banjo, and David "Red" Lehr on sousaphone. A full track list is available in the liner notes and cover transcription, which also includes the story of the forming and naming of the Jazz Incredibles written by Jean herself. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jazz Incredibles Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Music Masters Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990-1991 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource For digital rights and permissions, see <a href="https://www.siue.edu/lovejoy-library/about/policies.shtml">https://www.siue.edu/lovejoy-library/about/policies.shtml</a> In copyright. <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Relation A related resource Jean Kittrell Digital Collection Type The nature or genre of the resource Sound Jazz Incredibles Jean Kittrell John Becker Red Lehr https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/416082258fb6501246da9c8106e4fe34.pdf 89011ee6c166b1a70b358d2ed81df08f PDF Text Text r EXPANSION PROPOSALS PREPARED FOR DR. DELYTE W. MORRIS PRESIDENT NOVEMBER 13, 1956 Prepared by: Harold W. See, Director Resident Center Office Division of University Extension �3 -1 Option 3 Program Date: Program Expansion to start second semester with further expansion for September, 1957. Localities of Facilities: Belleville Junior High School Granite City High School and Granite City Engineering Depot Shurtleff College East St. Louis (Either in High School or in 4 rooms of 59th Street) Collinsville High School Edwardsville High School Other High Schools in area. Program: Four (4) year college program in Alton (Education, Liberal Arts, Busines-s Administration and Technical) Freshman program in East St. Louis >l: and Granite City Industrial Management Program in' Granite City (credit) General Adult Education in a number of locations Graduate and undergraduate work in a number of locations Additional Staff: In addition to the two (2) staff members appointed the previous semester, the addition of approximately fifty (50) full time faculty and adminis­ trative staff would be essential. In addition to this a large number of call staff would be required to properly service the program. It would be expected that administrative staff will teach when time permits. Clerical, maintenance, and educational staff would need to be added. For two locations (Shurtleff and East_ St. Louis) where heating, maintenance, etc. are a must tae Hgit-� would take at least thir.ty (30) individuals. �3 -3 Estimated:··Enr?'llm_ents (first serne�ter,, 19?7) Part· Time, Number Type Stud'ents . , Program. Center Full , Time Number Type Program' . 'Sfod'ents. Shurtleff 4 - year 500 ,,..,. Evening General, East St. Louis Freshman 150** Evening General Industrial Management Freshniari, 400>!<* Belleville Educational ane , · Libera.I Arts 150 Collinsville Adult Education Gerie:ta:l 150,:c Edwardsville Adult Education 'General · 100,:, Cahokia-Dupo Adult Education General 150* Miscellaneous Adult Education ·General , 200"" Granite City Totals 650 '800 400 60' 2410 ,:, Non credit Note: In Granite City, Alton and East St. Louis we are going to have to keep clear of non-credit courses. In Alton and East St. Louis the program should be more nearly like that done by Washington University or what they call University College work. Types of program would be almost unlimited. ** These figures are based on having the East St. Louis High School available. �r /J t!i t) rt. {,,h,t✓ f ;&'VJ y.,,..«·!!t I < � I t..J.A>,A,,µ� �ffl�CHART Southwestern Illinois Division CAMPUS S o u t h e-r n �I J 1 i n o i s • Uni v e r s i t y • - • C a r b o n-d a 1 e ,. 11 1 in o i s · 1/�:-: h�,o,. , ,.._ . , '. i,.-.:_ ,.·~.·= �--��.. -,. ·1••,. .•·. @; f),,. 1 _· _· _· Staff and Line Relationship ---- Shows coord­ inate respon­ sibility to , , , _c:_ampus ....,... ___ � ..- � . .. -� Director . Resident C . enter. I I I Ass 't Director E.ast St. Louis and Oth6r, Ce:dte;•s Ass 't Director· I I I I I I I I I I I I I I \ I I I I I · -Coordinators:· Advisory Serv.i.� Athletics . Shurtleff .Center' Building & Grounds Business and Personnel Informational Services Administrative Assistant Evening, Adult and Area """"��s ervi Ce S Tec�� · ' I · I ��� l · I I · ' B siness · � _ , Adm1n1stration . II ' I · · · · · -� · I I I, Registration• ,. • , �'·-� =· •":f::7·. Liberal f ,l · Arts, Libr . aries. � _ ,, i�-•·,;·� I •• ,f 1�·.,.:2;�. �: ',�il _� L,-<y.._, {.,.; . �ucation / ., (,, I Student :Personnel Physic l .. � Education I I ' w 6:·•c ��..... ,AMV f• It ...... 1 � ��;u:1t, ��·· e:J. �k:: I N �4 -1 Option 4 Program Date: Major program expansion to start in second semester with further expansion for September, 1957. Location of Facilities: Belleville Junior High School Granite City High School and Granite City Engineering Depot Shurtleff College East St. Louis (4 rooms at 59th Street) Collinsville High School Edwardsville High School Other High Schools in area Program: Four (4) year college program in Alton (Education, Liberal Arts and Business Administration) during second semester with the addition of a Technical Field in the first semester 1957. Industrial Management in Granite City (credit) Freshman Program in East St. Louis in September, 1957. General Adult Education in a number of localities Graduate and undergraduate work in a number of locations.' Additional Staff: See Organization Chart under Option 3. In addition to the two staff members appointed the previous semester the addition of approxi­ mately thirty (30) full time faculty and administrative staff would be essential. In addition to this, another twenty (20) full time staff mem­ bers would need to be added in the first semester 1957. A large num­ ber of call staff would be required to properly service this program. It would be anticipated that qualified administrative staff would teach where time permits. �4 -2 Clerical, maintenance and custodial staff would need to be added. Fo.r the one location at :Shurtleff it would take at least twenty (20) individuals. By' employing the' niaih' depa:rtm·ent 'heads at this 'time, it would be· po'ssible to 'do some ·1ong-rahge· planning. Estimated. Enro�lmen�s (s�cond semester. 19?6� 7) Genter Full 'Time· Type Number Program· St'udents Shurtleff 4 year 250 East St. Louis Granite City Belleville Collinsville · Patt Time Number Type -�Students Program.'· Evening General 400 60' · Edu� · Gradu. Evening Gen. 200 Education · · , Graduate · Industrial Management 450>!< ·Freshman '60 Education and Liberal Arts 150 'Adult Edu:ca·. 80* Adult Educa. General 150>:< Cahokia-Dupo Adult Edu. General 'Education Adult Educa. General 100* Miscellaneous Adult Educa. General 100* Edwardsville Totals * Non credit 250 60* 40 1850 �4 -3 Estimated Enrollments (1st semester 1957) (See Option 3 for these figures) Estimated Enrollments Summer (1957 and 1958) (See Option 3 for tqese figures) Note: L-1 Granite City, Alton, and East St. Louis, we are going to have to steer clear of non-credit courses. In Alton and East St. Louis the program should be more nearly like that done by Washing­ ton University or what they call University College work. Types of program would be almost unlimited. University: There will be a duplication of facilities under the option service we will still have the Broadview Hotel room and the Shurtleff campus. However, possibly, the Community Development Department could take up the slack at a more rapid pace. Special considerations: Study and augmenting Library at Shurtleff and provide for library facilities in East St. L,ouis. Shurtleff Library operates in coopera­ tion with the Alton Public Libraries based on a foundation grant provision. This arrangement might possibly be carried on under new manage�ent. Organization Chart under option 3 sets forth the special types of services that would be essential to put the program on a par with the campus activity. Budgetary Needs: Spe:dal consideration in providing adequate travel funds for visits by administrative and department heads to the campus is essential. 0. C. E. funds should be generous enough to allow for adequate tele­ phone communication from area to campus. A' direct line to the campus over which conforerice type ·calls, etc.· would be both eccirior:hic · ahd convenient in coordinating. Figures are available on this item. �5 -1 Option 5 If the Shurtleff campus does not become available and the East St. Louis High School Building is 1:ot availa�le, the reverse of Option 3 might be expected with slight reductions bacause of limited facilities in Alton. �Approach A: Approach B: Have approval of campus to allow University to carry on with basic program as outlined by Shurtleff for second semester. Change to Quarter system to take place in Summer 1957 Program. Change to a quarter system immediately substituting our courses and curriculum with a twelve and six week program. The six-week program to a concentrated program with fewer courses. From an administrative standpoint, student security and understanding as well as faculty preparation, Approach A seems to be both academic­ ally and adminstratively sounder than Approach B. Staff:Problem: It is extremely important that our campus departments be in accordance with the individuals retained from the Shurtleff staff. Therefore, it would probably be ill-advised to take the total group without careful screening. At the same time, there are a number of good reasons why we should take as many of the staff as possible, other than the acute shortage of college teachers. It would be good public relations to take as many as possible. While the administration of Shurtleff has not handled staff dismissals as one might desire, they have managed to rid the school of many of the weaker members. Since these individuals do have a contract for the remainder of the year, we should use them if possible if we were to take the school over. It is probabl� that the ordained ministers will either leave or become part of the proposed Baptist Foundation. Administration: While this may seem premature, careful consideration should be given to the overall administrative relationship that the division will have to the campus. It is better to try and clear these matters up before they become a problem. As a personal note, I'm extremely anxious that the fanulty and department heads at least feel that they are a part of this program so that they will give it their enthusia�tic support. �., 3 -4 Estimated Enrollments: (Summer 1957 and 1958) All programs 1957 - 100 1958 - 350 University Facilities: Office Space in the Broadview Hotel, Until first semester 1957. Please note that new lease as 'drafted ends with Jun'e 30, 1957, with an option to renew. If necessary arrangements to stay in the Hotel until September could be made. Special Considerations: Study �l"menting Library at Shurtleff and prov·i�i�g·'�ibrary facilities in East St; Louis. Shurtleff Library operates in cooper­ ation with the Alton Public Libraries based on a foundation grant provision. This arrangement might possibly be carried on under new management. Organization chart sets forth the special types of services that would be essential to put the program on in par with the campus activity. Bt:dgetary Needs: Special consideration in providing adequate travel funds for visits by administrative and department heads to visit the ca�pus. A direct line to the campus over which conference· type calls,' etc� · would be 'both a:ri economy and a great convenience iri 'cb·o'rdinating·.tL..,. � ' �� Figures are available on this item. c..-r-· �TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Programs for Expansion: Option 1 Limiting Expansion to Education and Adult Education starting 2nd semester 1956-7. Option 2 Limiting Expansion to Education and Adult Education starting 2rid semester 1956-7--Freshman program to start in September, 1957. Option 3 Limiting Expansion to Education and Adu.J,t_ :i;;quc:.,�tion starting 2nd semester 1956-7--Greatly expanded program to start in September, 1957 to include 4-year program in Alton and Freshman program in East St. Louis. Option 4 Expansion at Shurtleff College with 4-year program to start 2nd semester with Freshman program in East St. Louis added in September 1957. Option 5 Expansion at East St. Louis with major program in September, 1957 at East St. Louis High School with accelerated activities in other areas. General Considerations: Program Development Staff Problems Administration Advance Information on Shurtleff College Curriculum �Introduction· It seems highly probable that after the Shurtleff Board meets on December 14, 1956 that Southern Illinois University will be requested to start negotiations with a view to taking over Shurtleff College. There are numerous imponderables; therefore, this report is p repc1.red setting _ _ forth five options or course,of actioni,. There are��o� combinations and modifications that could �ti::'..:iU become a rea Ji�. ,. � ) �"""' i! i.;i_�:&'rtie Ji.d. and� This report is presented for the � k� purpose o�a starting point and in no sense � to suggest finality. , � �1 -1 Option 1. Program Date: Program Expansion to start second semester--school year 1956-7 (now in planning stages-}. Location and Facilities: Belleville Junior High School Granite City High School amt' Granite City Engineering Depot Shurtleff College East St. Louis High School Edwar.dsville High School Collinsville High School Dupo High School Cahokia Commonfields High School Program: This involves an expansion of graduate and undergraduate education, industrial management, general adult education, civil defense, liberal arts including some freshn;ian work. Advi'sory service in� area: to 'be ·provided. Additional Staff: Two (2) additional staff members in the fields of professional education already approved. �1 -2 Estimate.cl. Enr.ollments. {Academic, Year) Full Time Center Type Program· Part· Time Number · Students Type Program Freshman· Credit Industrial Manage •ment Granite City Alton Belleville 60 450>!< Education and Liberal Arts 45 Education and Liberal Arts ,Adult:-Qener�l 150 ?O>:< East St. Louis Education and Liberal Arts Collinsville Adult General 80 150>!< Adult Edwardsville General Education· · Adult General Cahokia -Dupo 60* 40 100>:< Adult Miscellaneous Gener,al. Total ,:c Number Students 100�1' 1315 Non Credit It might be noted that some of the courses now being given for adult education credit would be well received as a credit program. Estimated Enrollments {Summer, 1957) Various Centers All credit Total 100 �1 -3 University Facilities: Office space in the Broadview Hotel. Special Consideration: Provision of adequate library materials Budgetary Needs: Special consideration in providing adequate travel funds' for vis"its to campus during the first year by new staff is essential. �2 -1 Option 2 · Program Date: Program Expansion to start second semester with option 1 with further expansion for September, 195 7. Location of Facilities: Belleville Junior High School Granite City High School and Granite City Engineering, Depot Alton Public Schools--Roosevelt School (4 rooms). Edwardsville (4 rooms owned by local realty firm) East St. Louis (;Ei �her in High School or in 4 rooms at 59th Street) Collinsville High School Dupo High School Cahokia Commonfields High School Other Local High Schools Program: *Freshrnan level program in Alton, Edwardsville, � East St. Louis and Granite City. Industrial Management Pro·gram in Granite City (credit) General Adult Education Graduate and undergraduate education and Liberal Arts Advisory Service in the local residents in the area. Additional Staff: Eight (8) additional Full-Time Staff members in the Liberal Arts field plus the two (2) staff members in professional education added in the previous semester. * The scope of this activity would be determined by whether the High School is available. �2 -2 :Estimated Erifollmenfs (Academic' Year)· · Full · Time Type · P.rog-rarn Center · Part Number Students Granite City Time Type Program Number Students Freshman Credit Industrial Manage- ment ¢:reel.fr ' ' Freshman Alton 100 Graduate Educa­ tion and ·Liberal A·rts· Education and ·· Liberal Arts Belleville East St. Louis Freshman 100** Education and Liberal Arts General Adult (Or·edit) Collinsville Adult Education Edwardsville Freshman 50 Adult Education Graduate Education Adult Education -General Other Towns Totals * ** 250 60 ·5oo 45 ·, 150 90 150>!< 75>!< 40 .300* 1410 Non credit Could be much bigger if East St. Louis High School is available and if we offer a program similar to Washington University's program in the evening. Adult Education on a non-credit basis will be frowned upon in East St. Louis. Estimate� Enrollments (Summer$ 1957 and 1958): Various Centers - All Credit Note: 1957 - I 00 1958 - 100 It might be possible to use some of the Liberal Arts staff in the summer for refresher courses, but it woul� be difficult to fully utilize the total group. . �2 -3 University Facilities: Office Space in the Broadview Hotel. Special Consideration: Provision of adequate library materials. Social and Activity Program Physical Education Program to meet requirements. Budgetary Needs: Special consideration in providing adequate travel funds for visits to campus during the first year by new staff is essential. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Expansion Proposals Prepared for Dr. Delyte W. Morris, President Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 13, 1956 https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/3750fd412ad33a7de877a58647a136bc.pdf 4496e95c1b0c6d77c3611fded77f214f PDF Text Text III EXPLORING BLACK POETRY: A. Oral and Gestural Origins: CLASSROOM DYNAMICS Myth Development All bodies of literature--nationalistic, racial, religious, geographical--have oral and gestural beginnings for they were conceived and developed from ritual expression. earlier, "is as old as creation." 11 0ral literature," we noted Yet differences in life styles, traditions, customs, beliefs, and reactions to the impact of technology-all combine to create a rich, varied and changing fabric of contemporary international folklife. When one is hurt, happy, angry, ill, or bubbling with pride, one does not seek out a pen or typewriter to "express" the resulting spontaneous emotions. Rather, the "touched" person will react in tears, laughter, grief, pain or exhuberance. After all, man's pro- foundest statements arise from his responses to life's essential rites and ceremonies: birth, childhood, puberty, adulthood, marriage, parent- hood, old age, death, etc. Of prime importance to these atavistic cycles is the mythological world designed to explain or justify them and the ever presence of the elements: water,~, .!!E_, ~ and the quintessential element, God--whoever or whatever he/she/it may be. Through his cosmology, man attempts to develop a view of himself and time, tries to come to terms with the inevitablility of disaster, illness and death, and seeks to define and cormnunicate with his god. In these attempts, he often uses mediators such as prophets, sages, seers, poets and visionaries to probe and explain the regions of the unknown--the supernatural. Jerome Rothenberg calls these interlocutors (between God and man) Technicians of the Sacred. In traditional Black African cormnunities, myth-making and cosmological heraldry were carried from generation to generation-- essentially via drum, song, dance and, occasionally, by handwriting or hieroglyphics. When the rich storehouse of Black Ex- pression ("Archival Literature of Gesture") was brought to the Western Hemisphere, on the tongues, and in the minds and bodies of African slaves, the cosmological tree came along with it. Much was changed and much was lost, but the essentials remained in Black cormnunities up to this very day. Thus in researching, teaching or explicating Black Poetry, one must keep these important cultural items in mind. 1o8 Here, the point cannot be �over-stressed because while the Black poet English, he often Afro-American. 11 reeds 11 and 11 11 reads 11 and "writes'' in rites 1' in African or the deviative He is often--though not exclusively--concerned with sound and movement, like the members of his own community. For his community remains vigorously oral and uninhibited, even in the ear shot of missile launches, transistor radios, and helicopters that search ghetto rooftops for snipers. A good example of the 11 read 11 / 11 reed 11 duality is Robert Hayden, critically ranked as one of the best American poets. His live readings (despite his strict adherence to written craftsmanship) are overwhelming and electric. Hayden is doubtlessly an intellec- tual, and a partial product of the modern school of poetry, but his oral impact on intellectual and working-class audiences--the development of empathy--is sustained and genuine. In Hayden's presentations there is much of the spirit, force and sonority of the Black orators and poets of the past 200 years--especially of Douglass, Dunbar, Garvey, King and Ossie Davis. Hany of the poets unconsci ou sl y "rite" this spontaneity of expression into the ir works. Black poets, then, are generally better performers than their white counterparts--as far as Black audiences are concerned anyway--and this fact has more than a little to do with their persistent appeal to their community's "highly developed sense of sound. 11 Indispensable to an understandinc of t his area of Black Poetry is Stephen Henderson's 11 The Forms of Things Unknown" (Understanding the New Black Poetry, 1972) and Jean Wagner's discussions of Langston Hughes in Black Poets of the United States (1973). Professor Henderson's essay (in which he discusses theme, structure and saturation in Black poetry) has minor flaws stemming from an apparent unawareness of the full blast of contemporary Black Poetry and some premature critical assessments. Nevertheless, it is one of the best essays written on Black American Poetry in recent years and in the anthology section he includes a handfull of 11 new11 and unheard of poets as well as some folk poetry. Since initial attempts at producing poetry were oral, it is understandable that acoustically-charged poetry looses much of its power and spontaneity when it is written down or read silently. the dilema of written poetry--anywhere. Such, alas, is The phonology of the folk--no matter how faithfully represented in graphic symbols--can never appear 109 �on paper the way it is bantered about at family gatherings, athletic contests, in school yards, in churches or laundromats. agree, for example, that Dunbar's 11 Phoneticists ear 11 for dialect was practically perfect--meaning that, using the symbols of phonetic transcription, the poet accurately recorded the sounds, the tenses, the idioms. Yet many of the persons whose speech Dunbar tried to capture are unable to read his transcriptions. Even today, in Black Literature classes, students have great difficulty trying to read dialect aloud. But they must learn to read it--and to appreciate its principles and sound pockets--if they are to understand the later dialects and idioms of Hughes, Brown, Walker, Rogers, Hayden, Barake, Tolson, Cortez, Fields and Pfister and others. It is obvious by now that the study of Black Poetry traverses a field of ambiguities, frustrations, excitements, quaint surprises, intellectual brilliance and trauma, contradictions, linguistic genius, and grammatical experimentation and demands great amounts of time for research, reading and analyses. America was well into the 19th Century before Blacks could legally learn to read and write in all states. That we are today reading the works of men and women, who, a few generations ago, were forbidden by law to read and write, cannot be over-emphasized. Such a fact calls to mind many contradictions, two of them being of immediate importance. One, is that the Black Ameri- can is writing--and in many cases he is writing extremely well. The other is that while he occupies a viritual hell on earth (slavery, etc.) he has been able to master the highest symbol of correctness and intelligence in this land: The English language, including many of its derivatives and nuances, and the social amenities that accompany the use of it. Certainly the psychological implications of these contra- dictions are many and complex; and a study of Black Poetry provides many insights into this entire area. We know that in the final analysis, "important" society--even with regards to ethnic minorities--puts major emphasis on how one "presents" himself. Hence, from the employment interview to the office-hour session with the teacher, one is always cautioned to be on his linguistic P's and Q's. Yet, and psycho-linguists are beginning to bring this out in current studies, there exists in most of Black America a culturally 110 �distinct way of thinking things out, of forming abstractions, of showing approval or denial, or "putting one down" (reeding and riting). While an exploration of Black Psychology or Language is not being attempted in this pamphlet, it is important that those studying or teaching Black Literature recognize some essential cultural differences that exist between Blacks and larger America. For to invade the mind of a Black Poet or thinker is to walk through uncertain and troubled waters. The invader may risk, Baldwin notes, tampering "with the insides of a stranger." Yet, the trek is rewarding because the Black poet or novelist leads the reader--Black and white--down a human path and view (disfigured and beautiful) that is unique in American and world literature. This is so because Black Poetry is derivative of the Black Experience--which is unique to Black people. And while whites may record what they see, hear or think, they are still observers. Reacting to a question on the difference between observer and participant, Baldwin noted that An observer has no passion. It (Baldwin's journey) doesn't mean I saw it. It means that I was there. I don't have to observe the life and death of Martin Luther King. I am a witness to it. Follow me? Whether the poet in question is George Moses Horton or Alice Nelson Dunbar, Jupiter Hammon or Francis Harper, Angelina Grimke or Fenton Johnson, Gwendolyn Brooks or Quincy Troupe, Ray Durem or Melvin Tolson, there is always evidence that they have been there--to the fire and have agonized over personal and group joy or dismemberment, like the Blues singer. There is, of course, much daintiness, romantic nostalgia and nature in Black Poetry (which covers the human spectrum). However, it is not in the poling of nature and romance that the important differences can readily be found. Rather Black distinctions appear more blatantly in reflections of Black life and Black struggle. B. Music, Movement, Language: Suggestions for Special Projects One should attempt a serious study of Black Poetry before first saturating oneself in Black Music. Music is the most shared creative experience of Black people--in Africa and America. written art form closest to the musical experience. Poetry is the In their dramatic recitals, the poets reaffirm their view of themselves as songifiers of 111 �the language, as balladeering chroniclers of the tradition. evolved from the tradition of folk song. Blues Jazz developed from Blues. Blues were sung to the accompaniment of guitar, banjo, harmonica, wash tub, etc. With his instruments, the Jazz musician tries to achieve the vocal qualities of the Blues. Hughes, in The Weary Blues, works to establish the appropriate ancestral and literary links between his folk idiom and himself as poet. Johnson (God's Trombones) chose the trombone as a metaphor for evoking the old time Black preacher because it possessed 11 above all others the power to express the wide and varied range of emotions encompassed by the human voice--and with greater amplitude. 11 Before complete studio orchestras were used to accompany Black singing groups, the singers created instrumental harmony with their voices. They practiced assiduously, constantly searching for new harmonic and tonal possibilities in voice blendings--developing electrifying auditory combinations and extentions, falsettos, etc. One voice represented a bass, another a trumpet, still another a guitar, and so on. Hughes acknowledees this Black need--a deep, deep need--when in 11 Jazzonia 11 he calls the musicians "long-headed jazzers. 11 The poem makes no attempt to separate the instruments from the players. The instruments become extensions of the Jazzmen who are thus "longheaded.11 Hughes' important synthesis, similar to Johnson's, is wholly brilliant and speaks directly to the ritualized amalgamation and continuity of symbol and act--and the interdependence of Black forms of expressions. Generally, it is good to take at least a week (preferably two) to play, view and discuss various (all) kinds of Black Expression-using music as a base and moving intermingling discussions of speech, dance, social gestures, general family life, movies, funerals and church services. nator. In all aspects, music will be the common denomi- Helpful during such an introductory period are the use of slides, popular Black periodicals (Ebony, Jet, Encore, etc.) which should be leisurely examined and discussed, the examination of liner notes on albums, discussions of the most exciting and treasured Black events and things. Below are some questions and ideas students will want to probe along with general introductory material: 1. 2. Define the word "Aesthetic''• Is there a Black Aesthetic? 112 �3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. I f so, how docs one determine it? Establish tentative crit e ria f or the Black Experience. Messages in recorded Spirituals. Messages in recorded Blues. "Conversations" among Jazz instrumentalists (while playing). 11 Hessages 11 in recorded Soul Music. What is Language? Phonology? Dialect? Idiom? Slang? Jargon? Parlance?, etc. Is there a Black Language? If so, identify some of the components in its structure. Discuss such Black Metaphors as 11 dig," 11hawk," "selling wolf tickets," "main squeeze," 11 rap," "get down," 11 for real," "mellow," 11 fox, 11 etc. Define and discuss words like 11 Soul, 11 "Negritude," "Sensibility," etc. The list could go on, ad inf initum. There are so many things to cover-- so much air to clear--during the initial contact of course participants. It is in these early stages, however, that a basis for sound cormnunication, understanding and respect for the material must be established. Hence, most of the rhetorical this period. 11 bull 11 should be dispensed with during It is also at this juncture that course requirements are nonnally given: papers, tests, outside readings, mandatory attendance at readings by visiting poets, etc. Here the study of Black Poetry presents exciting challenges to students and teachers because much of the valid research is unorthodox and unprecedented. Naturally, the time-proven means of acquiring and retaining knowledge should not be abandoned in a Black Poetry course. However, because of the interdependent character nature of Black literature and a gross lack of critical study, today's students and teachers may find themselves pioneers in identifying and analyzing certain types and areas of the poetry. In view of the developing social awareness and technical virtuosity of the new Black song writers, students will want to top this meaningful source as a prospect for term papers, oral reports, group discussions, in-class performances (multi-media reports), close textual analyses or comparisons/contrasts with the literary (written) poetry. In presenting such reports, students will want to consider the possibility of using (in addition to tape recorders or turntables) overhead projectors, motion picture projectors (showing film shot in an appropriate Black cormnunity or setting), slide projectors or film 113 �strip projectors, for illustration and illumination. Numerous experi- mental research possibilities will arise from student-teacher discussions of this particular aspect of Black Expression. may want to sing and/or play an instrument. For example, a student Another student may elect to bring an individual instrument or group to class to animate examples given in the narration. In a recent Black Poetry class, two students traced the development of the Temptations up to their latest song. Here are some things the students were concerned with: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Biographies of members of the group History of the group as a singing unit History of MoTown--a Black recording company in Detroit Song writers for the Temptations Harmonic organization of the group Singing groups that influenced the Temptations Areas, Themes and Styles in lyrics and live concerts (love, protest, patroitism, etc.) Poetry in the written and sung word Development of Black Consciousness in the Temptations What the Temptations mean to Blacks White imitators of the Temptations and other Black groups The students had other concerns; in the classroom they used auditory and visual assistance to illustrate their points. On hand, for classmates to examine, they had all of the Temptations' albums plus information from magazines, newspapers, radio and TV programs and publicity releases from MoTown. Needless to say, it was a most exciting and listenable report. A freshman student in another class conducted an analysis of the lyrics and the singing style of Otis Redding. The student traced Redding back to his birth place (roots) and then came forward to the point of the singer's death. Redding, the student concluded (after viewing the Spiritual-Blues-Gospel tradition), used much Black minstrelsy in his work and was a 11 folk 11 poet. The report had been taped. After it had been heard, fellow students asked questions, made observations, raised objections and so on. In two successive semesters, a student studied Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye. The semester-length reports were called zation of Curtis Hayfield" and 11 11 The Politicali- The Politicalization of Marvin Gaye. 11 Fortunately, Mayfield was appearing in the area during the preparation of the first report and the student was able to obtain a brief interview. In each report, however, the work was detailed. 114 Emphasis was placed on �what the lyrics said (literally and figuratively), and how they were delivered. The student highlighted both singers religious character and noted that their art reflects their debts to the church and church choral groups. Following is just a sampling of individual and group recording artists and Black orators who can and ought to be examined in connection with Black Poetry: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Babs Gonzales Clara Uard Hahalia Jackson Hartin Luther King (speeches, sermons) Malcolm X (speeches) Smokey Bill and the Miracles Marvin Gaye Curtis Mayfield Leon Thomas The Impressions The Temptations Nina Simone Roberta Flack The Stylistics The Delphonics John Lee Hooker Lightnin' Hopkins B.B. King Current and Past Black Preachers (sermons) Al Hibbler Johnny Ace Ray Charles Melvin Van Peebles (albums) Albert 11 Blues Boy" King Bobby Womack James Brown Bill Withers Barry White The Four Tops War Billie Holliday Bessie Smith Stevie Wonder Otis Redding Oscar Brown, Jr. Dozens more recording artists and speakers, who work creatively with words, are available for investigation. In such studies, students must be sure that lyrics are authored by Blacks. In many cases, it is helpful to compare/contrast the spoken word and the written word--the poet who rites and the poet who writes, or the poet who reads and a poet who reeds. Toward this end, a list of corresponding poets would probably help. 115 �Associated roughly with the themes and styles of the recording artists above, the following list is not designed to limit or 11 brand 11 poets, but simply to open up vistas and ideas for exploring and reporting on the poetry. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Numbers correspond to those above. Bob Kaufman, Ray Durem, Ted Joans Margaret Walker, Helene Johnson Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Danner, Pinkie Gordon Lane Lance Jeffers, James Kilgore Ray Durem, Imamu Baraka, Larry Neal, Raymond Patterson Henry Dumas, Etheridge Knight, Stephany Al Young, Norman Jordan, Jay Wright Gil Scott-Heron, Robert Hayden, Al{ce Walker K. Curtis Lyle, Askia Muhamad Toure, Henry Dumas, Joe McNair James Kilgore, Margaret Walker, James Weldon Johnson, David Henderson Arthur Pfister, Don L. Lee, Karl Carter, Folk Rhymes Jayne Cortez, Lucille Clifton, Judy Simmons, Margaret Walker Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Mari Evans, Julia Fields, June Jordan Stephany, Carolyn Rogers, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Henry Dumas Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Kirk Hall Sterling Brown, OWen Dodson, Henry Dumas, Melvin Tolson Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Robert Hayden, Stanley Crouch K. Curtis Lyle, Quincy Troupe, Mari Evans, Fenton Johnson James Weldon Johnson, Owen Dodson, Folk Hymns and Stories Raymond Patterson, Ray Durem, Jayne Cortez Raymond Patterson, Norman Jordan, James Kilgore Bob Kaufman, early Imamu Baraka, Langston Hughes, Naomi Long Madgett Langston Hughes, Gil Scott-Heron, Ron Welburn, Julius Lester Stanley Crouch, Margaret Walker, Dudley Randall, Langston Hughes Arthur Pfister, David Henderson, Tom Weatherly, Tom Dent Julian Bond, Michael Harper, Calvin Hernton, Henry Dumas Lance Jeffers, Karl Carter, Judy Simmons, Nayo (Barbara Malcolm) Nikki Biovanni, Sonia Sanchez, William J. Harris David Henderson, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Zack Gilbert Sun Ra, Henry Dumas, Larry Neal, A.B. Spellman Jayne Cortez, Lucille Clifton, Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Bennett Julia Fields, Gwendolyn Brooks, Carolyn Rogers, Rhonda Davis Carl H. Greene, Ishmael Reed, Val Ferdinand, Raymond Washington Stanley Crouch, Clay Goss, Henry Dumas, Sterling Brown Robert Hayden, Countee Cullen, Dudley Randall, Etheridge Knight It must be reiterated that the pairings are only suggestions and do not attempt to place the poets within a specific tone, thematic preoccupation or style. some great. Obviously, however, there are similarities--some minor, The aggregate history and predicament of all Blacks make for general trends and attitudes while allowing for individual Black 116 �Experiences. Hence, (and any anthology or body of Black writing tell us this) one cannot stray very far from his essential Black human truth--despite his visions, his dreams, or his remanticism of his social status or the African past. The challenge for students and teachers, then, is to come up with other combinations such as the ones above. The range and number of combinations is endless and a successful development of them depends on the degree of interest of students. For example, it is possible for a music student or musician to deal with the harmony or melody of a written poem in contrast/comparison to a recorded or written piece of music--vocal or instrumental. For if the poem is regarded as a musical score or chart, which often must be assumed during in-class readings, then the researcher can come up with a loose notation of the poem which will render it singable or "musical" in the manner that 11 acappella 11 music is achieved. The poem, after all, is tight or loose meter and meter is organized rhythm. J. Rosamond Johnson wrote the music to his brother's (James') poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing. 11 But a more specific and recent example of the singing of poetry is seen in the work of a group like The Persuasions (Acappella, Street Corner Symphony, etc.) which uses no "instrument other than the human voice. 11 Husic majors and musicians, then, may want to compare the free or controlled verse forms of poets like Al Young, Robert Hayden or Gwendolyn Brooks to an instrumentalist like John Coltrane or Miles Davis. The current period has seen an outpouring of exciting musico-poetic" 11 experiments and new experiments in recorded and live expr.essions. Jazzman Horace Silver now writes and sings lyrics and so does Les McCann. Poets (exploring the oral/written synthesis) are recording more frequently, extending on Hughes' pioneering efforts to merge the musical instrument and the human voice. For the student or general reader who wants to get off the beaten track of simply unraveling linguistic puzzles and contrivances, there are nemerous new approaches and vehicles for excavating the juices of Black Poetry. Patient listeners will discover that many song writers exhibit technical abilities that are on par with the poets. 11 Smokey Bill 11 Robinson (formerly of The Miracles) has been recognized the world over for his sensitive lyrics on the subject of love. But few students have taken the time to view him against the landscape of modern and 117 �contemporary poetry. Robinson possesses metaphorical and imagistic insights that exceed those of many of the poets writing "seriously" on paper. A close listening to any of his songs (in contrast/com- parison with written poetry) will prove this point. Robinson tremendous auditory sensitivity (which complements his writing abilities) makes him a 11 poet 11 in the most authentic sense. Students of dance, drama, philosophy, social studies, popular culture--all can carve out areas of Black Poetry that suit their specialized interests. A popular project among dance majors is to choreograph poetry and present the dance interpretations in classes, at community functions and public schools. Drama majors follow a similar pattern--selecting sequential material to support a theme--and present a program of dramatic readings, often employing built-in audience response. Students do not have to be drama or dance majors to take on such challenges. Indeed persons who 11 feel 11 what they read and want to express and share those feelings through sounds and movements, should consider these projects. All new approaches should be thoroughly discussed with the teacher so there is a clear understanding of what is expected. Group projects-- involving multi-media--are exciting and intellectually rewarding, as all projects ought to be. The dancers must explicate both the dances and poems which are read by a participants in the project or have been pre-recorded. The dramatic reader has to assume the various roles that he dramatizes and be convincing to class members. The musician ought to exhibit a knowledge of fundamentals of his craft and explain the transition between the post-mortem or 11 flat 11 word on paper and the "activated" or animated work in the air. Such considerations broaden both the student reporting and class members who share an enlightening experience rather than waste their time. Other exciting class projects can be of benefit to the college or community at large. These endeavors allow students to meet course requirements while adding to campus and community breadth and consciousness. Readers Theater, Poetry Rituals, Dramatic Readings, Counter-Readings, Dance-Poetry Repertory Programs and other state presentations make the poetry come alive--make it breathe with all the accompanying acoustical and optical ancillaries. Such programs can coincide with Black History ll8 �Week observances or special cultural workshops. They provide excellent illustrative vehicles at reading, writing and speech clinics. What is required is the combined effort of persons from different artistic affiliations--sometimes the combined efforts of several campus departments or community components. In most instances, however, the dancers, singers, readers and chorus participants can be found among students who are eager and sometimes experienced but have to be galvanized into a cast. We observed earlier that Black communities have remained highly oral environments. From birth, the average Black child is inculcated with the feel and flair for verbal dexterity, verbal alacrity, verbal gymnastics. Through childhood and adolescence, most Black youngsters are rigorously tested by peers and adults--often in game-situations-on their abilities to handle or songify the 11 language. 11 In play, they pick up the games and the oral epics ("Shine," "Signifying Monkey," 11 Stackolee, 11 stories about the 11 bue;gah man," etc.), learn to "signify" and "put down" each other in verbal war, practice and probe harmonic blends by imitating ministers, speakers, singers and their parents. In short, they acquire Johnson's 11 highly developed sense of sound. 11 It is natural, then, that the poets--even the most literary and formal of them--would consciously or unknowingly ingrain these acoustical power bases (antiphony, spontaneity, diction) in their poetry. Accord- ingly, an important aspect of the study of Black Poetry is taping these sound fields--the echoes, repetitions, moans, cries, shouts, screams, hums, whistles, sighs, heavy breathings, drum beats, horns, bells, ringings. These acoustical power bases--perception and revelation via repetition--lace all ritual forms of expression. In an important series of poems entitled The Making of the Drum, West Indian poet Edward Braithwaite (Hasks) establishes the mythological bases for African and Black American phonology. to this area is called Black Expression. 11 ) 11 (One of my own lectures in a series devoted The Musico-graphic and Mythological Bases for Braithwaite•s anthro-poetic discoveries reveal and explain the sonorous components of the ceremonial orchestra. 11 In The Skin", the goat is killed and its skin "stretched" to make the drum head. Next 11 The Barrel of the Drum" is acquired from the wood 119 �11 ofthe tweneduru tree. 11 11 womb. 11 Through this 11 The "hollow blood" of the tree creates a womb 11 the 11 wounds 11 of the land can be heard; here also is developed the "vowels" ( 11 reed-/lips 11 ) and "consonants ( 11 pebbles 11 ) . 11 tree that 11 11 The Two curved Sticks of the Drummer" come from a blossoms 11 twice a year, whose wood is 11 heat-hard as stone." The "Gourds and Rattles" are made of dried gourds and the leaves of the Calabash tree which "makes and mocks our music. 11 Finally, 11 The Gong-Gong" is the signaling device and the leader of the orchestra. "God is dumb", says the poet, up to the point of the drum's announcement. 11 Dumb 11 also is the drum "until the gong-gong leads it. 11 Together, the pieces of the rhythmic orchestra (the voices) can walk men "through the humble" ancestors. Akan) speaks." It is then that "Odomankoma (sky-god-creator, God, however, speaks through "Atumpan", the talking drum, in a series of paced and spontaneous syllabic streams that build to chants reminiscent of the most uninhibited of human ritual language. In the end, we know that God cannot be called until the entire orchestra is assembled, until the official drummer ('Kyerema se) has struck the talking drum and an appropriate amount of force has been created. The voice of the assembled, of the folk, is (after all) the voice of God. Braithwaite builds a mythological case for the origin of organized rhythm and human sound; but the similarities between God's drummer (African) and Johnson's God's Trombones (Afro-American) are clearly there. Nor do the similarities end with topical references. All along the phonic line--from Blues singer to preacher, from Jazz musician to Gospel choir, from poet to the social calling on the great 11 poeres." 11 rap 1 ' session--there is a There is a reliance on forces whose ultimate wisdom and vision are invoked through intense ritual and whose powers provide therapy and direction for the community. In this ecstatically-charged atmosphere, the thrust of ritual expression is toward the dramatization of an attitude, idea or event. Hand-carried rhythmic instruments (tambourines, etc.), foot-stomping and hand-clapping, sighing and moaning, hollering and whispering, dancing and singing, shaking and shimmering, over-laying rhythm with rhythm, clashing of rhythms--everything moves to heighten the drama and reaffirm basic faith. In some gatherings, many of the components appear, at a glance, to be missing; but as the ritual language develops, the song is joined 120 �by moving bodies: The instruments and recepticles--"sensitive vessels," as Marvin Gaye calls them--in the journey toward understanding and "coping." The key to tapping this ritualistic base in much written Black Poetry is recognition of what Johnson calls "incremental leading line and iteration" (also called antiphony or call and response): Oh, de Ribber of Jordan is deep and wide (call) One mo' ribber to cross. (response) I don't know how to get on de other side, (call) One mo' ribber to cross. (response) This early Spiritual (like much early Black oral poetry) is built on the common African song form--utilizing leading lines and response. The 11 leader 11 would sing (or 11 call 11 ) the first or ''incremental" line and the chorus or community would respond or 11 iterate. 11 The "iteration" can be set in a pattern or allowed to intermingle with the reader or leader. In the church, the field, at parties, meetings, or almost any gathering, Blacks issued forth their "sustaining" song. Though modi- fied by time and events, the practice of songifying an event is still observed today. In time the single line increased to two, three, four, five lines or more. With the increase of the lead came an increase of the response to two or three lines (Margaret Walker, James Edwin Campbell) allowing for greater spontaneity within the frame of repitition. Spiritual merged with other verse forms (stanzas). The The Blues, a structural and secular cousin of the Spiritual, also merged with other forms of verse. Many poets make great use of Blues as a literary form (Hughes, Dumas, Joans, Baraka, Hayden, etc.) Spiritual-Blues-Ballad merger. In much Black Poetry there is a This pattern is consistent with Black and oral expression since all three forms were first sung or recited before the advent of written poetry. Gwendolyn Brooks, known as a skilled writer of sonnets, invented the sonnet-ballad for a freer, more ritual and animating verse. The student will want to examine these two forms in order to understand Miss Brooks' important achievement in this area of poetry. We see the merger of all these forms in much of the early and current poetry. In preparing for modern and recent poetry, however, the reader ought to saturate himself with the Spirituals, Work Songs, Blues, Sermons, Oral Epics, Rhymes and Ditties. 121 �c. Reeding and Riting Black Poetry in the Classroom Many of the English verse forms (hymns as well as literary poetry) lend themselves to the call-and-response pattern so common in the oral corranunities. So it is as easy to do a participatory reading of, say, Phillis Wheatley 1 s work as that of Dunbar's or Walker's. poem, 11 11 Hiss Wheatley's 0n the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770," Horton's Slavery," and Clark's 11 What Is a Slave?" can all be set to leader-chorus (antiphonal) movement in the classroom. The three poems, like every poem studied, should be read aloud--both by the students and teachers alone and then in class. Though stilted by the meter and language of the Neoclassical period, Miss Wheatley's poem still makes for exciting oral reading and analysis. It is an elegy which exalts the departed and celebrates the "Impartial Savior." The heroic couplet that it employs bears a rhythmic resemblance to the Spiritual "Oh, Wasn't Dat a Wide Ribber" in that there is a lead line and a chorus line: HAIL, happy saint, on thine immortal throne, (leader-reader) Possessed of glory, life and bliss unknown; (chorus-classroom) To make the reading more exciting, the response lines can alternate-between say the half-way mark and the end of each stanza. Another approach to this and similar poems is to have the chorus and leader change places. Variations of the call-and-response pattern can be found in Horton and Clark poems. Horton is known for his meditational or penitential verse and the influences of the ballad and English hymn can be seen in his poem. "Slavery'' can be sung in acappella or read in unison--as can most of the poetry of the era. Or, the chorus-- classroom or community--can arbitrarily "iterate" the third and sixth lines. One extremely effective approach is the use of an "announcer" who, in the Horton poem, could loudly shout the word "Slavery!" at the beginning of each stanza. Certainly a study of poetic conventions, devices and forms must always accompany exploration of the poems' auditory powers. This way one comes to terms with the social, tach- nical and intellectual aspects of the poets' works. Clark's 11 For example, in What Is a Slave?" the constancy of the question admonishes us to ascertain an answer. 11 A slave is--what?" Probably written to prick the con- sciences of whites, the poem chronicles the inhumane treatment of slaves and, by inference, the inhumanity of slave-holders. 122 There is an exciting �antiphony and syncopation in the way the poem exploits the dash in each stanza (especially in the first lines). The reiteration of trwhat? 11 swells to questioning indictment which pounds the ear of the listener and, like the enslaved in Dunbar's "Sympathy", allows the "caged" to fling his plea to the highest forces. "what?" anticipates the 11 I am" of DuBois, the will" of Miss Walker and the plea or 11 11 The repetition of How long" and 11 aiwa ~ " of Henry Dumas. 11 when This same cry 11 is heard in Miss Wheatley's poem when she advises Africans to accept the "Impartial Savior": 11 Take him, ye Africans, he longs for you; Indeed, the iteration--the reinforcement--is climactic for Miss Wheatley, who has exclaimed "Take him•••" at least three times before she reaches builds to the above line. This listing or cataloging of questions or data toward an emotionalintellectual build-up is a major ingredient in Black Poetry. It is, of course, a throw-back to the ancient tradition of oral narration and enumeration. This is why the universal oral poetic form, the ballad, is indi genous to all aboriginal peoples. It appears throughout the period of Wheatley, Horton and Clark and certainly it is a mainstay in the development of folk and literary forms right up through Dunbar. While the forms are literarily European, however, the themes--especially in the cases of Horton and Clark--take up social concerns or attitudes which underlie Black Poetry up to the present day. The question 11 What Is a Slave?:, for example, anticipates the syndromes developed in Nobody Knows Hy Name (Baldwin) and Invisible Man (Ellison): biguities of the Black life and struggle. the am- Herein are indications of the deep-seated turmoil in the Black psyche. Horton's wish to "hasten to the grave" foreshadows and complements the Spiritual motifs: Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave, or Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, and I lie in de grave an' stretch out my arms. This so-called "infinite longing for peace" becomes a major theme in Black 123 �Poetry--indeed, in much Black Expression. mood that death may not be 11 Dr. Thurman observed of this life 1 s worst offering." elegy is of course lofty--as elegies usually are. Miss Wheatley's Yet, a heaven of a sort awaits Rev. Whitefield--just as heaven awaits the traveler at the end of The Weary Blues. For Miss Wheatley, 11 life divine re-animates ••• dust." So we have said, the call-and-response pattern, and residual components of the song , persists in both dialect and literary poetry. Excellent examples of these traits are found in Dunbar's 11 A Negro Love Song" and "Sympathy," in Campbell's "De Cunjah Man" and DuBois' "The Song of the Smoke. 11 While Dunbar and Campbell write two different kinds of dialect poetry, the former examines southern plantation speech and the latter West Indian or Gullah dialect, both employ the reiterative refrain. Dunbar's chorus enjoins the hip-swinging, smooth-talking narrator to Jump back, honey, jump back , while Campbell's congregation warns: De Cunjah man, de cunjah man, 0 chillen run, de cunjah man! The first reader or leader (juju man, prophet, witch doctor, priest, preacher, priestess, etc.) enthralls listeners with amorous inf ormation while the responsive congregation reinforces and maintains continuous orchestration. 11 Sympathy 11 and "The Song of the Smoke 11 are in what is called literary Eng lish but their orchestral development and ritualistic f unctions are the same as the two dialect poems. 11 De Cunjah Man 11 enum- erates the abnormal anatomy and supernatural powers of a worker of spells. A Negro Love Song" recaptures and animates the effect of a man walking 11 his 11 lady 11 home at night. Both poems attempt to deal, phonetically and culturally, with common Black Experiences. Both have elements of super- naturalism (an ingredient of Folk Poetry) and provide the social and therapeutic prescriptions for wounds caused by fear of the unknown and the need f or love. The grouphood dances, shouts, sings, screams out its anxieties; looses its tensions in sweat and drama. (which, like Dunbar's has the word 11 DuBois' poem song 11 in the title) maintains the elequence and propriety of academic English. Like "Sympathy," it (and the dialect poems), enumerates toward the development of substantial 124 �data and momemtum. imagined. The 11 smoke king" and the 11 caged bird" are real and Wit and double entendre are used in both poems. cunjah man is the folk psychologist, 11 While the caged bird 11 and "smoke king" are the guilts and consciences of white America. Both are victims of racism, economic exploitation--but, ironically, are never fully~ by their oppressors. DuBois' central figure is common enough in American history--the undaunted Black Common man who (like Fenton Johnson I s ''Tired•• man) has helped build the empire but does not get to share it; dogged strength alone keeps him from being torn asunder." the Black plight analagous to that of the caged bird. 11 whose Dunbar makes Americans habit- ually cage things and people, the poet says, but never understands that the cries of the caged are often pleas to be free. can understand why the caged bird sings. 11 11 Only the oppressed These poems are deeply psy- chological and reveal those scars of racial strife and chaos that are not always seen by the naked eye; those scars behind Dunbar's "mask. 11 The reiterative 11 1 am" reinforces both the past and present frustrations of the "smoke king"; but it also proclaims the presence of the Black man. Yet color is not inherently good nor evil, DuBois says: I white my blackmen, I becon my white, What's the hue of a hide to a man in his might! However, the poet sides with the Black man whose cause he must work for, whose condition he must improve, whose struggle he must glorify: Hail to the smoke king, Hail to the black! The phrase 11 I am. 11 11 Sympathy. 11 11 I know" in "Sympathy" performs the same function as DuBois' "I know" appears at the beginning and end of each stanza in Its purpose is to create curiosity and build confidence in the assertion of knowing which is developed throughout the poem and resolved in the final lines. This poem is best performed when the chorus reads the first and last lines of each stanza. present the poem dramatically and convincingly. The leader ought to Thematically, this poem presents a recurring concern in Dunbar and other Black poets: that of dealing poetically with racial injustice without reducing one's work to tirade and torrential protest. see 11 We Wear the Mask," 11 For other examples of this in Dunbar, Ships that Pass in the Night," and "Ere Sleep Comes Dovm to Soothe the Weary Eyes. 11 �One is always aware that the Black poet achieves great songification with or without dialect. The incremental line leading in 11 A Negro Love Song" appears, in variation, in "The Song of the Smoke. 11 Increment occurs with the fourth lines in each stanza of the love poem. The "smoke king" starts to unfurl from the beginning and, like a cloud of smoke, ascends higher and higher (incrementally). Thus the "I am" gives the reader the effect of being moved constantly upwards. 126 �Certainly these poems provide much initial fuel for discussion and poetical 11 surgery. De Cunjah Man" should provike a student round robin examination of family superstitions, folk medicine and psychology {home remedies), West Indian and Gullah dialects, and the development of imagery in poetry (e.g., the "buggah man", the Black psyche (dualism, 11 11 cunjah man," etc.). Explorations of the twoness 11 , split-consciousness, paranoia, etc.) and Black stamina or endurance should accompany "Sympathy" and "The Song of the Smoke." Certainly, discussions of Black love and social life will follow a reading of "A Negro Love Song." "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is the poem in which Langston Hughes examined Blackness globally. The voices in Hughes' poetry are often those from the vast historical/geneological web of Black antiquity. And the tired man in Fenton Johnson's "Tired" speaks with a tongue as experienced as the man who has "known rivers." Conscious of having built "up somebody else's civilization," as were many of the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Johnson proposes some generally repulsive alternatives to his wife: alcoholics and "Throw the children into the river." they will become Hughes and Johnson announce Black contributions to the world but neither poet resolves anything. Neither poet proposes specific remedies for the inequities. The resolutions, then, must come in the dramatic reading and the internalizing of the poems. Since both poems represent the Black poet's coming-of-age in the mastery of modern poetic technique, students will want to familiarize themselves with the general poetic mood of the period. Hughes achieves musical quality and "responsive 11 power by repeating "I've" or "I" and by internalizing the rhythm and rhyme. and person. The Black aspect and the river are merged in imagery, symbolism The river motif, which runs like a spine through the Spirituals 127 �and general Black folk expression, is a favorite of Black poets. In reading Hughes' poem, the chorus can announce the past-present posture of the Black man by resoundly exclaiming "I've known rivers" whenever the phrase appears. The reading ought to be slow and deliberate suggesting the long history and endurance of African peoples. Another effective approach to reading this poem is for the chorus {class) to chant softly and repeatedly: My soul has gone deep like the rivers. When the appropriate mood or momentum has been established, the leader can then deliver the poem. The racial pride and exaltation of Hughes' poem can be compared/contrasted to "Tired" which uses cynicism and irony • .American "Civilization" is given those qualities normally associated with "primitive" cultures. Cullen exhibits a similar use of irony in "Heritage" when he notes that his "conversion" to Christianity makes him ''play a double part." I The contemporary Black poet John Echols is more blatantly sardonic in his phrase "Western Syphillization." A favorite theme of Black poets is the absence of "civilization'' in America. (Yet Johnson was to influence later Black poets in terms of style and theme. His influence on Margaret Walker, for example, can be seen in the prosaic stanzas which indent all but the first lines.) Still, the repeating of the word "tired" and "civilization" reinforces the basic assertion in the poem: that "building up somebody else's" country has robbed the builder of spirit; that stereotypes of Blacks {alcoholism, desertion of children, etc.) result from broken hopes, lack of opportunities and racial discrimination: ••• It is better to die than to grow up and find that you are colored. Yet, while Hughes' "soul has grown deep like rivers," Johnson advises: Pluck the stars out of the heavens. The stars mark our destiny. The stars marked my destiny. 128 �Here is a vague suggestion of predestination or ultimate control over one's life and future. For like Cullen's "curious thing" in "Yet Do I Marvel," the "stars 11 are there for the Black poet--yet it is not clear as to whether they work for or against him. Nevertheless the poet remains "tired 11 of a "civilization" which, according to Waring Cuney, rapes the streets of "palm trees" and :provides Black women with dishwater that "gives back no images." American :poets, Hayden has observed, have historically been critical of their society. However, it was the Black writer who carried the voice of artistic protest to its highest and most utilitarian stations. Hence, while Johnson's despair and rejection of "civilization" may have been "new" for Black poetry, such mood or attitude was not totally foreign to Black writing of the period. Certainly, if ironically, the two foregoing poems tell us much about "civilization." Hughes recounts the part he (as Black man) has played in the development of several societies. Johnson, conscious of not having received his "40 acres and a mule," drops out of a "civilization" he has helped to build. In any case, both narrators are weary from long travels and many trials and tribulations. Yet, the relentless pessimism in "Tired" is up- 1 ifted by the fact of the poem' s writing and the tentative hope in the "stars." Hughes implies that since he has been around so long, and his "soul has grown deep like rivers," he will be here a lot longer. Thematically and stylistically, "Tired" is a variation on the Blues motif, while Hughes' poem is reminiscent of the Spiritual. and the folk sermon. Many poems of the period flow from these particular styles and ideas discussed here. And readers will undoubtedly want to come to terms with Hughes' use of the word "soul." We have observed that Black Poetry makes use of folk symbols and mannerisms, exploits archetypal. symbols such as rivers and trees for religious or social 129 �use, and employs incremental leading line and iteration--which conceals other phonological and ritualistic devices that are tapped via responsive readings, etc. Such techniques are neither the sole ingredients nor the exclusive property of Black Poetry. materials. But most mack Poetry makes use of the folk Owen Dodson's "Lament" and Margaret Walker's "Since 1619 11 are testimonies to the modern mack poet's ability to place his folk forms and materials inside Western poetic techniques and idioms. Both poets have built in their own organized rhythms which allow for acoustical and inflectional nuances in the oral presentation of the poems. The words "Wake" and "How" are used to develop momentum {increment) and stage {dramatize) the intellectual discussions of the poems' respective problems or predicaments. To use the phrase "How long 11 in the presence of macks is to signal a special subject matter or a recurring theme: How long for the train? hunger last? How long for justice? How long will the dogs bark? How long is the river? and so on. How long for freedom? How long will the The title of Miss Walker's poem tells us that the wait has so far lasted "Since 1619." So we are pre- pared for the relentless hammering of "How," "When," etc., just as we are engulfed in the persistent "what?" in "What Is a Slave" and the demanding "I am" in "The Song of the Smoke." poem. "Since 1619 11 becomes a mack communal Slavery officially began in 1619 and every Black--regardless of his station--has been affected by slavery. Likewise, because Blacks did not enslave themselves nor perpetuate a dehumanizing system of judging human worth on skin color, whites are also locked into the poem. Surely, Miss Walker's debts to the Spirituals, Blues and the sermons can be seen in the organization of the rhythms and the basic, folksy appeal to the intestinally carried hopes and longings. The personal "I" ( vis-a-vis Blues) becomes a 130 �collective assault on the group problem. As stated earlier, "Wake" in "Lament" also satisfies an essential demand of residual oral expression-repetition that is cumulative in conveying information and emotion. the repetition, the image emerges--the epiphany occurs. In The power-idea concept demands that vigorous repetition, and allied acoustics and graphics, continue to the point of "understanding." In church, on stage, in the reci- tation, the priest-prophet must be acknowleged and regenerated by the responsive congregation which allows him to be the interlocutor between the Supreme Being and the flock. chant. This process takes place in "Lament" which is a eulogistic "Wake up" pushes a button that sets off associative values. "Wake up" to Blacks is to say many things. To say The phrase is used to invoke latent aggression, to shock a group into immediate political awareness or call·· "sinners" and "back sliders" to the church. I One cannot be the same or act th~ same after reading "Lament" just as one is not the same after having heard a rousing sermon or a brilliant Blues concert. We are carried by Dodson, as we are carried by Wright in "Between the World and Me," through the graphic accounts of the lynching. Wright is the tarred and feathered man--dead and recounting his own killing at the hands of a white mob. asks. "Lament" asks and Neither victim will ever rise again, however, but the cosmos is made a participant in each death. The sun stares "in yellow" surprise for Wright and Dodson gives up "mud," "grass," and "the cotton stem" before he flings his plea to the heavens: dead can wake up. "Save me!" The dead boy cannot wake up but the living "How long" and How many" and "what?" does it take before the people will wake up--before, Tolson asks, justice will become "unblinded. 11 ? The Black man's closeness to death, developed out of the circumstances of slavery, continues to inform his view of life and time in the United States. 131 �"Lament" catalogs the most repulsive aspects of dying and death to remind us that death is inevitable for all men, but too often premature and (many times) violent for Blacks. Dunbar builds "Sympathy" to a crecendo at which the higher forces are summoned to aid in the liberation effort. Dodson performs the same rite in "Lament" which ends in a request for the proverbial "sign": Tell me the acrostic, the cross, the crown or the fire ••• O, wake up, wake! Possibly, the poet says, the gods too are sleep or numb to the ill-treatment of Blacks. DuBois had already asked in Litany at Atlanta" if God too were "white"--"a pale, bolldless, heartless thing?" Black poets in the Western Hemisphere often ask if God is listening to the pleas of the oppressed or recording specific criminal offenses against Blacks. ,. The theme of God shrinking from his responsibilities to man and vice versa can be seen in most poetry that is critical of Christianity. Baraka announce~ in the contemporary period, however, that the Black man was "creating new gods." Indeed, Robert Hayden, in "Zeus Over Redeye, 11 implies that Western culture is spiritually and religiously bankrupt. This idea, an old one with Black poets in America, can also be found in Jayne Cortez's "Festival and Funerals" and Mari Evans' "I Am a Black Woman." However, the ritualistic components of Black Expression are more recessive in Hayden's poem than in Miss Evans', Miss Cortez's or Henry Dumas' "Ngoma." Nevertheless, all four of the poems depict major modes and preoccupations of contemporary Black Poetry. In his use of African words and development of the chant form, Dumas is merging the old forms with new ideas and interests in African and African-American Expression. Like Hughes nearly a half a century before her, Miss Cortez invokes a global Black spirit in "Festivals and Funerals." Typographically and orally, the latter poem approximates a "score" or musical organization of sights and sounds. 132 "I Am a Black Woman" continues the �historical. vein in Black Poetry (Hughes) and imbibes a "new" technical. defiance in a mastery of the free verse form. The poem al.so follows from tradition of announcing ("I am," etc.) as in "smoke king" and of reiteration through enumeration as in early song and poetry. The "humming in the night" recalls the vastness of the soul that has grown to encompass rivers. A humming of fragments of "Hobody Knows the Trouble I See" after the secong "humming" in the poem will vivify and stabilize the poem's underlying impact. The practice of imagining or actually singing or playing an appropriate song often helps actualize the experience and tap the hidden psychosocial. implications and acoustical. power bases. Miss Evans presents the history and the struggle in a way that is different from earlier writings--though she is still in the tradition. For the "Black Woman," the struggle has often meant a diminution of Black mal.-power. the source of all life. Yet, she is earth-mq:ther, Dumas re-affirms this in "Ngoma" by making the head of the I drum anal.agous to the belly of the pregnant woman. The "spirits of our fathers" speak "louder" from belly and drum--both life-giving forces. The child-voice in the mother is a reincarnation of the ancestors and a preservation of rhythm while the newly-dried goat skin (drum-head) celebrates all life--past and present. Using Swahili and Arabic terms coupled with biblical. words like ''thy" and "thine," the poem merges belly and drum in a ritualistic evocation of the spirits of the past. A responsive reading, with the congregation (classroom) repeating "aiwa" (yes:) and "louder", to an increasing tempo and rising momentum proves rewarding and electrifying with "Ngoma" and other similar poems. We have said that the drum, or the rhythmic instrument, is at the center of Black Expression. Hence, an array of rhythmic instruments (along with hand-clapping and foot-stomping) would be very helpful in delivering and getting maximum benefit and hidden meaning from the poem. The participants will want to 133 �Feel the skin-sound singing and know that the god-sound trembles in her belly ••• Both "Ngoma" and "I Am a Black Woman" show stylistic experiments and improvements upon time-tested Black themes and forms. "Festivals and Funerals" (a deeply psychological title, yet consistent with the ambiguities of the Black Experience) builds on the early Black African song form in use of the expanding stanze and iteration: Who killed Lumumba Who killed Malcolm and festivals & funerals festivals & funerals Miss Cortez streams references in the way that many modern and contemporary poets I do; but her associations are Black, sometimes asserted on the page and other times implied. This pattern gives the reader the effect of listening to himself and the poet at the same time. Certainly one has problems enough in trying to decipher anyone's ideas from a written work. The Black poet's work presents particular problems, however, because of his complex background, his specific brand of English, his myriad visions and his enumerable associations. Miss Cortez, Dumas, and Miss Evans, for example, dispense with punctuation and develop musical charts with complicated chordal structures and brilliant changes. the force in "Festivals & Funerals." The "word" then becomes It is a "word" that murmurs "through veins of gold" and against navels of beaten flesh walking the streets of Harlem on the rusty rims of a needly the word coming through like axes a million year lesson on solitude we are alone 134 �Alone, again, like Dodson who combs the universe for answers and for help. The comic-tragedy of everyday Black life is indeed a combustion of festivals and funerals: where the dope needle competes with the lates.t dance or police kill Blacks or Blacks kill each other. The power of Miss Cortez's chant ("the word," spirit-force) is arrayed against Larry Neal's "panorama of violence," against the chaos and nightmare webbed with bloodshed, assassinations, revolutions, mental and physical suicides. The poems have to be read over and over again--discussed, read again, sung, chanted, used as two-way mirrors to look into the Black psyche and to see the world through Black eyes. This is true of all the poems, from the new Blues efforts to the distilled intellectual genius of Hayden who warns Western man against atomic missile stock-piling. Such efforts, Hayden says, create an Enclave where new mythologies of power come to birth-where coral.led energy and power breed like prized man-eating animals. As an important modern poet, Hayden works within the critically articulated confines of modern poetic techniques. usually in theme and style. Yet he invariably emerges as a Black poet-- "Zeus Over Redeye" represents a Black poet making a significant statement on modern men who are at home in terra guarded like a sacred phallic grove. Man is "at home" among instruments of destruction. These instruments, Hayden notes, are named after western classical. and mythological figures: Nike, Zeus, Apollo, Hercules who, in personnifying war implements, lose their original purposes and accorded respect. Recessive oral components are seen in lines like question and question you, and burning all around us burning all around us. 135 �Yet, the fact that the "very light here seems flammable" speaks to more than missile sights and atomic bombs. For Hayden, 11 danger's 11 skin is "hypersensitive." But it only not only the visitors to missile arsenals who feel the around." 11 burning all Hayden, who aptly titles his book Words in the Mourning Time, reveals a crisp understanding of America's socio-political landscape in "Zeus Over Redeye. 11 He knows that the threat of destruction lurks in places other than missile arsenals. The death threat and wish lurks in all "hyper" activity--in all places where man is filled to his brim with assassinations, political conspiracies, racism, class exploitation, war, hunger and poverty. Thus mankind is "burning all around" with social ferment, suicidal tendencies, larceny, violence and myriad atrocities. In "Words in the Mourning Time 11 Hayden asked Killing people to save, to free them? With napalm light routes to the future? And in such an atmosphere--of festivals & f'unerals--Tolson finds that "infamy" is the Siamese twin of fame. For Hayden, pressed against a 11 flammable" sunlight ••• shadows give us no relieving shade. Hayden's criticism of America's war preparation is precise but laced with the prospects and fears of social explosions where "Lord Riot" reigns. So the Black poet criss-crosses a complicated psychological and physical terrain. his observations turn out to be mirages. Sometimes After all, Baldwin asserts, the Black man bought the capitalist-protestant ethic along with everybody else. The Black 11 poet, then, often anticipates violence but holds out for that ray of humanity in man. 11 Black poets reflect the assertions and ambivalences of Black people who prefer raising children and working to marching either in protest or troop lines. Many Blacks, however, unwillingly end up doing the latter two things. Historically, �this pattern of what Blacks preferred versus immediate need or demand has helped the African-American psyche and general outlook. His Africanisms are indisputably there, but the day-to-day demands often make him too "tired" to explore them. Dogged endurance carries him on in a struggle that allows room to stagger but non to halt. As artist, the Black poet distills all this desire and frenzy into usable fabrics of joy, anger, disgust, love, hatred, frustration, terror, violence and prophecy. The scope of the Black poet's complexity can be only vaguely glimpsed if one imagines that the poet often intends to dance, sing, preach, perform a play, extricate his people from oppression--all at the same time--in a poem, on paper. Some devices, techniques and attitudes one should look for in Black Poetry are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28 . Much repetition of words and sounds (polyrhythms) Symbolic and Imagistic development via sound (i.e., sound representing something) Syncopated or irregular rhythms Black Cultural Metaphors Poems or stanzas that resemble musical charts or scores Incremental Line and Iteration (call-and-response pattern) Enumeration, Cataloging, Listing Acronyms and Neologisms Folk Psychology and Medicine Superstition Irony, Cynicism in the use of "sacred" Western terms or concepts Blues as Poetic Form Spirituals as Poetic Form Ballad as Poetic Form Gaudiness of Language, Hyperpobolic Language White as a Symbol of Evil Black as a symbol of Goodness and Truth Ambivialence toward or Distrust of Christianity Reference ot Musical Instruments and Forms Use of Song titles Prophesying of Doom Rejection of Materialism Respect for but Distrust of Modern Technology Disavowal of Impersonal Relationships Employment of Sensuality Examination of Ecstasy Generally a more Gut-level Reaction to life Synonyms for Black: Ebony, Dusk, Purple, Evening, Night,~, etc. 137 �r t : \ I \ . \ 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 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Altonians, coming on Route 111, turn left at Sand Prairie Lane, and follow it to its junction with Route 40. (Route 40 is one and the same as Route 66 in this part of the country.) Bellevillagers go west on Main Street or Route 161 to Route 157. Turn right and follow 157 to Routes 40/66. Turn left and follow 40/66 toward East St. Louis until you see the Mounds Park on your right. Faculty members and families are invited to come at 2:00p.m. This year the state parks are charging an admission fee of ten cents for each person over twelve years of age, plus ten cents for each car. Mr. Webb, park supervisor, said that if anyone in the group possesses a $2.00 sticker (good for unlimited visits to all Illinois state parks for a period of one year), this person may bring in any number of persons without charge, making as many trips as he pleases. These stickers are on sale at this and all other Illinois state parks. Families with small children may avail themselves of the services of trained supervisors of children's activities. Mr. Norman Showers; health and P.E., Alton, has arranged to have several reliable students on hand to entertain children. Fee: fifty cents per family for the entire afternoon. A picnic supper is planned for 5:00 p.m. Each family is asked to bring its own table service, bread (or buns), hot dogs (or other meat), and beverages for the family members who do not drink coffee. Each family is also asked to bring one or two dishes to be "passed around." This could be salad, vegetable (e.g., baked beans), or des<Sert. Board members are bringing extra meat, bread, and table servic e for the bachelors. Bachelors are asked to bring pickles , potato chips, marshma l lows, or other picnic items, Dr. Alfred Harris will be in charge of making the coffee . .Mr. Hebb says that park facilities include rest rooms, play ground equipment, approved drinking water, and fire wood. Facilities will be available for grilling or cooking hot dogs. Since Mr. Webb would like to know how many people are coming, persons planning to attend should telephone Geneva Peebles (Alton 2-3425) or Betty Spahn (Adams 3-4424) by Friday evening, May 23 . . Persons planning to attend the picnic are asked to keep this bulletin as a reminder, since no other notice will be published. Dr. Leonard Wheat, graduate program coordinator, Residence Centers, and acting director, East St. Louis, was guest speaker of the Lorena Avenue Parent-Teacher Association at Lewis Clark School in Wood River April 22. (more) �- 2 - . Dr. Floyd Meyer, librarian, East St. Louis, and Thomas E. Parks, assistant Alton, attended the Midwest Academic Librarians' Conference at Carbondale ~pril 25-26. :; Chairman of a discussion group on the "Role of Faculty and Librarians in Book '~election," Dr. Meyer also participated in a discussion on "Library Building Problems." .'At the Library Recognition Dinner, at which SIU President Delyte H. Morris acted as ~oastmaster, the librarians heard Dr. Francis Horn, SIU distinguished professor '( formerly president of Pratt Institute) speak on "The Future of the Library in Higher ~ducation." "Talking in terms of building libraries from scratch, many of his coml'Pents were particularly apropos," Dr. Meyer reported. · ~ibrarian, , Mr. Chelsea Bailey, technical and adult education supervisor, Residence Office, and Mr. Thomas Evans, student affairs supervisor, East St. Louis, addressed luncheon meetings of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in East St. Louis on April 10, 17, and 24. Mr. Bailey spoke on "Leadership Training Techniques." Mr . Evans, on a continuing committee to develop plans for training lay leaders in the f:ommunity, outlined "Group Dynamics of the Conference Situation" and "Human Forces :that Influence the Conference Situation." Dr. Eric Baber, director, Alton, addressed a dinner meeting of the Edwardsville Lions Club this month on "Educational Trends and Opportunities in Madison and St. Clair Counties." ------------------------------~ Miss Babette Marks, health and P.E., Alton and East St. Louis, took part in a panel at a meeting of the Southwestern District of the Illinois Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation held at Granite City High School on April 25. Topic: "Evaluation ~n P.E." Miss Marks recently presented a demonstration of hockey skills at the ~ational convention of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in Kansas City. Virgil L. Seymour, sociology, East St. Louis, spoke on "The Design and Function of a .Social Service Exchange" at an April 10 board meeting of the usa-Traveler Is Aid i,n Belleville. The following day he discussed "Changing Sex Roles in a Changing Society!' ~t the first annual banquet of t .he Caseyville Methodist Church's Friendship Class. Mr. Seymour was re-elected a member of the executive committee of the Illinois Council pn Family Relations at the Council's annual conference in Urbana last month. Dr. S. D. Lovell, government, East St. Louis, reported today that he expects his new home at 200 Hinchester in Belleville to be completed by June 1. The new home of the Lovells is five blocks south of Main and 60th. One length of their basement has sliding doors opening on the garden at lawn level. ,. (more) �- 3 - Mr. David Van Horrt, Alton, and . Mr. Gene Turner., East St. Louis 1 working in ~heir capacity as admissions counselors, have vi Eit ted the followih g high sc·hob ls: ~viston, Trenton, Lebanon, Breese, Madison, Venice, Lovejoy, Lincoln (East St . . Louis), Assumption (East St. Louis), Marissa, New Athens, Cahokia Commonfields, East AitonHood River, Bethalto, Roxana, Freebur g , Staunton, Worden, Bunker Hill, Gillespie,, Southwestern, North>veste rn, Litchfield, Hillsboro, Mulberry Grove, Greenville, Winchester, Roodhouse, Whitehall, Carrollton, and Hardin. They made their visits nciw alone and nm·J as a team, and occacionally they were accompanied by other staff meml:>ers (e.>g. Dr. Eric Sturley, math, Alton; Dr. John Schnabel, associate registrar, Residence Office; Dr. Leonard Wheat, op.cit.; and Mr. Lionel Howell, business office, East St. Loui s .) Dr. Steven Barwick , piano, Carbondale, will play a concert engagement at Alton on May 12. Featuring Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, and Ponlenc, his concert in the chapel auditorium will begin at 8:30p.m. A former student of Claudio Arrau, Dr. Barwick has been on SIU's faculty since 1955. He taught previously at Harvard, Radcliffe, Blue Mountain College, the University of Pittsburgh, and Western Kentucky State ·~allege. His master's degree is from the Eastman School of Music and his doctorate :f rom Harvard. European critics hailed his "technical mystery" in a 1956 tour of England, France, Italy, Germany, Holand, and Scandinavia. Dr. Margaret Brady, secretarial science, Alton will sponsor a l-JOrkshop on the handling of manual and electric type•.;rriters at the Alton Center on Saturday, ~ay 3. Open to anyone interested in typing problems, the workshop will cover development of speed in both manual and electric typing, manipulative devices of ·· .t he electric typelvriter, and various short cuts in tabulation and letter writing. Each person taking part >vill have an electric typewriter to use, 1vith opportunity to follow the demonstrations. Dr. Brady, faculty sponsor of the student newspaper which appeared in printed form for its sixth issue on April 29th, is co-author with New York University's Pete r L. Agnew of a text book, Advanced Key-Driven Calculator Course, published this month by South-VJestern Publishing Company, Cincinnati . Dr. Eric Baber, op.cit .. lvith Mr. Morris Carr, business office , Alton, planned "Drive .. in Conference" on " School Lunch Pro grams" held at the Alton Center on April 26. Almost a hundred educators from Madison, St. Clair, Calhoun, and Jersey Counties, serving on panels with their counterparts from Carbondale, Chicago , St. Louis, and Springfield, spent several hours discussing subjects ranging from in s tructional possioilities and operating policies of school lunch programs to financin g and equipping of school cafeterias. .1 a Staff members from Alton and East St. Louis square-danced at Alton on Saturday, April 12, to the calling of Hiss Babette Narks, op.cit. (more) �... •.... "" - 4 - Homen's Club Hears John Allen ' Mr. John H. Allen, Emeritus, Carbondale, SIU expert on the southern half of 'Illinois, addressed the April meeting of the Residence Centers' \.Jomen' s Club. Mr. Allen told the women, mostly newcomers to southern Illinois, about the history of the area. Founding president of the Southern Illinois Folklore Society and past president of the Illinois Historic a l Society, Allen retired as SIU museum director several years ago. Dr. Howard Davis, student affairs, Alton, was guest speaker of the Granite City Junior High School Parent Teacher Association on April 28. Speaking at Central Junior High School, he discussed "Helping Adolescents over Emotional Hurdles." During the same fortnight he addressed a nurses' training group at Alton High School on vocational training. Mr. Thomas Evans, op.cit., l.S working with the East St. Louis Junior Chamber of Commerce to select one of this June's high school graduates to be awarded a four-year scholarship at SIU -- either at Carbondale or one of the Centers. Using test scores and personal interviews, he has narrowe d the field of applicants all seniors in hi gh schools of Eas t St. Louis -- from 25 to 7. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty News Bulletin April 1958, Vol. 1, No. 12 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 1958 https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/96fa869523686971e3f7c21924115bc3.pdf 42a81452d13ad578d26ad903d875ce05 PDF Text Text South1Nestern Illinois Residence Centers Southern Illinois University FACULTV I I i NEWS BULLETIN �ilPRILJ_, VoL •. 1959 FACULTY NEWS II~ No •. 6' BULLETIN Mildred Arnold, Editor Room 227, Broadview Hotel Bridge 4- 2100, ext. 3 SEE BECOMES TIIIRD SIU VEEP It happened on April l--our Executive Dean's promotion to Vice President of the Southwestern Illinois Campus of Southern Illinois University. His staff in the Broadvieu became very excited Hhen news of his promotion was telephoned by Ed Hasse of Information Service, Carbondale. It is a well-deserved promotion, as anyone who has seen him at work will tell you. His enercy, his loyalty, his enthusiasm and his ideas are boundless. Here He should like to quote in its entirety an editorial which appeared in the April. 5 edition of the Sunday Journal, East St. Louis: "The elevation of Dr. Harold See to a vice presidency of Southern Illinois University is a development ~-1hich should encourage advocates of higher education facilities in this area. "Dr. See han been with us in this community since the inception of SIU residence centers in East St. Louis and Alton. ~.J'e have watched him progress from the traditional academic approach to the problems of his adopted community to the more practical realization of those problems. This is not to be considered criticism of the academic approach; rather, it is to credit Dr. See with the ability to realize that he was and is de aline ~-1i th a community of hard realistn \-lhose life is dictated by hard-core industrialist problems. "This ability han enabled him to meet many problems arising area-wise which many another educator Hould have found insurmountable. "For that reason, SIU could not have selected a better qualified man to assume the directorate of hir;her education in the area. We might conclude this observation with the hope that Dr. See will continue to enlarge upon his education in community realism." FIVE NE\V APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED Southern Illinois University's Board of Trustees has approved five new appointments to its Southwestern Illiaois Campus. All five uill assume their duties with the opening of the next academic year, September 2 3. \valter L. Blackledge, currently associate professor at St. Joseph's College in Indiana, has been named professor of business management. · Blackledge, \-7ho holds doctorates in both philosophy and jurisprudence from the State University of Iowa, \vill be located on the Alton campus. Gerald J. T. Runl~le, who will teach at East St. Louis, hac been named associate professor of philosophy. Runkle, now an associate professor at Doane College in Nebraska, received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University. David G. R~nds, research chemist with Monsanto Chemical Company, St. Louis, will serve at the East St. Louis center as assistant professor of chemistry. He received his Ph.D. decree from the University of Iowa. Named associate professor of economics ' for the East St. Louis campus, Leo Cohen will come to Southern from Kansas State College. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. Charles Parish 'comes from the University of \.J'ichita (Kansas) where he is assistant professor of English. Parish will fill the same capacity at Alton. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of New Mexico. WHEAT ADDRESSES GROUPS On March 19 Leonard B. \Vheat addressed the Wood River chapter of the American �- 2 - • Association of University \.Jomen on the topic "Shall \\Te Separate School Pupils According to Innate Ability?" On March 25 he spoke to the teachers and school administrators of the Panhandle Unit District at Raymond, Illinois, on "Harking Systems and Reports to Parents." ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS' CONFERENCE School administrators from ten southwestern Illinois counties are expected to attend an elementary principals' conference at the Alton Residence Center on April 18. The conference is being sponsored by SIU's Southwestern Illinois Campus. Several outstanding school leaders from the State Department of Education, the area public schools and the University will participate in the program \·J hich Hill run from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00p.m. Comin~ from the Carbondale campus will be Dr. J. Murray Lee, education department chairman, Hho will serve on one of the panels; Rebecca Baker, Troy Edwards, Luther Bradfield, Ted Ragsdale and John Hees, all of whom \vill serve as consultants and resource persons during the conference. Those from the Southwestern Illinois Campus \vho will take part are David Bear, who is conference chairman; Robert Steinkellner, whouill serve on "The Principalship in Retrospect'~ panel and Leonard B. Wheat, who will serve as one of the consultants. Family Relations. Theme of the conference was "Hith Hhat Image of Harriage and Family do He Operate?" Seymour served as moderator of and participated in the panel discussion of "l·Jhat Idea and Value System Concerning Marriage and Family Life Shall lve Teach?" i\t last year's meeting, held at the University of Illinois, Seymour was re-elected to the council's executive board. "Macbeth and the Seven Degrees of Sin" is the title of the paper John Knoepfle will read i\pril 25 at the Central Renaissance Conference to be held at Stephens College. It is a study of the stages Macbeth passes through toward his despair. The work is based on a comparison of texts, using an analogy drawn by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, in his COMHENTARY ON THE SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSAL't-IS. Commenting on the "De Profundus" in that work, he compares the story of Jonah to the sevenfold movement of a man toward despair. Attending the HidHest District Convention of the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Indianapolis April 15-17 will be Babette Marks, Howard Nesbitt and Harjorie Logan. Babette Marks uill also attend the annual meeting of the Hidwest Association of Physical Education for College Women April 24-26 at McCormick's Creek State Park, Spencer, Indiana ATTEND CONFERENCES . . Howard Davis attended the national convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in Cleveland, Ohio, from March 22 to 25. On Harch 16 he addressed the Regional Illinois Guidance and Personnel Association Conference at Highland. His topic, "Guidance from the Kindergarten Through the High School." Davis also participated in the regional APGA Conference at St. Louis on i\pril 3. Theme, "Presentinfj Occ~pational Information to Students." Virgil Seymour Has at the University of 8hicago Harch 13 and 14 attending the annual meeting of the Illinois Council on Mary H. Brady attended the annual convention of the Illinois Business Education Association at the Pere Harquette Hate 1 in Peoria Narch 19-21. At this . convention she served as recorder of the section on "Guidance ln Business Education." She was also an area representative at the meeting of the IBEA Council. On April 24-25 she and David Bear will attend a workshop in East Lansing, Michigan, preparatory to the workshop to be held on the SHI Campus this summer, "Educational Utilbation of Communit•y Resources." Nicholas Joost Hill attend the annual �- 3 - convention of Illinois Teachers of English at DeKalb on April 25. Colle~e RECEIVES APPOINTl!EtlT TO "Y" Babette Marks hns been appointed to the Health Education Committee o£ the Alton Y\JCJ\. . NEWS OF TECHNICJ\.L /UTD ADULT EDUCATION • Chelsea Bailey has announced that on Nay 20 the Granite City and Alton industrial management proljrams uill join in graduation exercises for those students who have completed eight of the fourteen courses offere J in industrial mana~ement. At 6:30p.m. a social hour uill be held in the Hotel Strat ford in Alton, folloHed at 7:00 by a dinner. In addition to the [;raduates, sponsors from the organL; ations uhere they are employed will be present. Their instructors, too, will be on hand. Bailey will preside. Classes in Industrial Report \Vritinc were begun this month at Monsanto Chemical Company and at Laclede Steel Company. Another in-plant course being offered is the Supervisor and His Job at A. 0. Smith Corporation. The follmvinr; adult courses also opened this month: ABC's of Selling, sponsored by the lferchants Association of Highland, and a course in floral arrangement, sponsored by the Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce. Several other in-plant course s are being organized. On April 15 the first meeting of the East St. Louis coordinating committee \vill be held to prepare for industrial management courses to be started in September at the East St. Louis center. These courses will be similar to those now being offered at Granite City and Alton. The Life Underuriter' s Training Council, better known as the LUTC, continues to meet each Thursday afternoon at the East St. Louis center. Bailey advises us that great interest is being shown by the life insurance men attending. In September he hopes a chartered life underwriter course will be available for those life insurance men who wish to study for the CLU designation. This course takes a minimum of four years to complete. GUESTS OF EDWAl.\DSVILLE SCHOOLS Robert Duncan, John Ades and Milton Byrd attended English Curricula Evaluation Day at Edwardsville on April 1 as guests of A. Gordon Dodds, school superintendent, and his administrative staff. The three visited classes during the morning and during the afternoon were in conference with English teachers and the administration, at which time they made comments and criticisms of the school program. SERVED AS CONSULTANT AT EDl.JARDSVILLE Joseph C. Jurjevich served as consultant to the social studies teachers in the Edwardsville public schools on March 25. He and Eldon \<Jheeler of the Wood River public schools visited some of the social studies and languace arts core classes in the junior high school and as many of the senior high school social studies classes as time would permit. Following the visitation, the teachers and administrators met with the consultants for an evaluative session. CHANGES FOR YOUR CM1PUS DIRECTORY The following have either moved, have a new telephone number or both: Myron C. Bi8hop, 121 Thomas Terrace, Edwardsville, phone 3699 Clifton Cornwell, 930 Holyoake Street, phone 3681 Joseph C. Jur jevich, Jr., phone Alton 2-1270 Babette Marks, 72 Uest Beach Street, \.Jood River, phone Lf-3078 Gunter \.J. Remmlinr,, phone Alton 2-259l, Marian A. Taylor, phone Alton 9-2767 James D. Turner, phone Dickens 4-0275 FACULTY COUNCIL NEETING CHANGED Because the sub-committee on General Studies has not made sufficient progress for its official report, the Faculty Council meeting has been postponed until April 30. It had originally been scheduled for April 9. �- REFLECTIONS OF A UETUEAT was the title of the speech given by John J. Glynn on Harch 15 to a group of men at the King's Hous·e in Belleville. L; - (1956) and the second complete work of Fayrfax ever printed. Recently Warren's edition of the motet vJas recorded by the choir of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It is the first complete work of Faytfax to be recorded. PHILOSOPHY OF J.ELIGION AND SCIENCE BAKER'S was the title of a program in which Alfred E. Kuenzli participated on March 27. It \vas part of the annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology held in St. Louis. His paper \ ·laS concerned with contributions of psychological research to problems of ethical living. TO ADDRESS STUDENT- NEA TEACHERS Robert Steinkellner Hill speak on "Teaching in a Modern Society" April 16 in the East St. Louis High School auditorium. His audience will be nearly 500 student-NEA teachers. SELLS PLAY AND STORY Harian A~ Taylor has sold a play entitled THE WHITE WHALE to PLAYS magazine. The story concernc Herman Helville. A short story of hers, entitled THE ICE IS ON Trlli RICE, has been cold to U.S. LADY, a service women's magazine. On Harch 31, a book review by Mrs. Taylor uas carried in the St. Louis POST DISPATCH. The book revie\ved was THE CAVE 0::' ICE by Pamela Horton. DUNCAN SELLS • .~~TICLE Robert Duncan hac ::;old an article entitled "A Glance at Flight Literature" to AIR FACTS magazine. ANOTHER FIRST Ed\vin Harren's transcription and edition from the original sixteenth century manu- · script of "O lux beata" by Fayrfax was the first composition of ·this important early English Renaissance coQposer to be published f~TICLE PRAISED BY ATTORNEYS Richard C. Baker is author of an article Hhich was carried in three installments (Nov., Dec., 1958, Jan., 1959) in the ILLINOIS BAR JOURNAL. Entitled "Yesterday's Critics of the Federal Judiciary, 11 the article has been favorably commented on by Illinois attorneys. In his article, Baker has attempted to show that Governor Faubus of Arkancas is not the first public official to defy the Supreme Court. Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and . Franklin D. Roosevelt and numerous others among our well-knm-m patriots have been equally guilty, says Baker. "Three years after the constitution Hent into effect, Ilayburn's case was decided, which evoked the first serious reprimand of the federal judiciary. Under an act of congress, federal circuit judges had been empowered to pass on the validity of soldiers' pensions, subject, however, to the right of the Secretary of War to refuse, in his discretion, to honor and give effect to their findings. Several Supreme Court justicec sitting on the circuit held the lm1 in question unconstitutional on the ground that it attempted to impose on the judges non-judicial powers. The reaction following this ruling was immediate and vigorous, and was punctuated \·J ith numerous demands for impeaching the offending jurists." Citing another instance of lack of respect which young America occasionally had both for lmv and the federal judiciary , Baker pointed out in his article that "During our maritime controversies with England and France in 1808 and thereabouts, Jefferson instructed the collectors of customs to detain all vesse ls loaded uith provisions. A federal court, speaking through Supreme Court Justice Hilliam John~:;on on circuit, held, however, that the law gave the �- 5 - • collectors discretion in the matter, and that they therefore t·J ere not required to obey the president's command. Jefferson at once induced Attorney General Caesar Rodney to write an opinion controverting Johnson's and to send it to all collector s . In complying tvith Jefferson's request, Rodney commented: 'The judicial power, if permitted, uill sHallow the rest. They will become omnipotent It is high time for the people to apply some remedy to the disease.' In a like vein Senator William Giles of Virr;inia asserted: 'Hhen the judges so far forget the true character and dignity of their stations, judicial proceedings cannot lonr; preserve the respect heretofore attached to them.' "Acting under Jefferson's instructions as set forth in the Attorney General's opinion, the collectors began disregarding Johnson's decision. Their action caused a Baltimore neHspaper to remark: 'The opinion has ever since been acted upon, in preference to the decision. This obstinancy and disregard of the judiciary has been acquiesced in by the public . . . '" REVIEWS PAMPHLET A review by H. H. Smith of Hyron F. Hicke' s on TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE appeared in COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY: THE JOURNAL O::C THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE REGISTRARS AND ADHISSIONS OFFICERS, Vol. 3L; , No. 2, Winter, 1959, p. 231. A 63-page pamphlet, it uas published in 1958 by the Division of Educational Institutions, Board of Education, The Hethodist Church, Nashville, Tennessee. • ENGAGED IN RESEMCH FO:l HORCESTER ART HUSEUM Nicholas Joost Hill tal~e part in a symposium May 9-10 at Horcc ster Art Huseum in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of THE DIAL. An art exhibition, featuring the Dial Collectio n of Scofield Thayer, will be held in conjunction with the sympo s ium. Joost is doinr; research for the Huseum concerning THE DIL\L (1920-29). His participation has, for about tHo years and a half, . involved the findinG of unpublished papers, catalo guinG and ordering them, and with these resources writing a manuscript entitled nThe Dial and the Twenties." Joo s t has acted as a research consultant at the Huseum and has contributed to the catalog of the exhibition. Joost was also engaged this past year in the ~riting of a revised constitution and set of by-laws for Delta Epsilon Sigma, the national scholastic honor society for Catholic colleges and universities . Both the revised constitution and by-laws were published in the Delta Epsilon Sigma's Harch BULLETIN, of uhich he is editor. His revie\·J -essay, "Public Education and the Private Conscience," appeared in the CATHOLIC FlEE PRESS Narch 13. Among other things, he is compiling an anthology of modern religious poetry. Joost is a member of the advisory board of MODERN AGE. He has served for several years as a judr;c for the quarterly poetry contests sponsored by the Hospitali zed Veterans Uriting Contests, and is an editorial adviser for THE .POETRY PUB.LIC. GOLDIE TERSS GOING TO HASHINGTON lvhen Goldie Terss became secretary to Harold W. See in October, 1955, See had been here only one month. Since then Gpldie, under his leadership, has seen the residence pror;ram at SIU increase from one center at Belleville to three centers. She has seen him advance from director of the Belleville center to executive dean of the three centers, which now include Alton and East St. Louis. More recently she has seen him advance to vice precident. -Many times See has praised hie secretary's loyalty and efficiency. lie uill miss her--and so will the rest of uc. For sometime Goldie has had the urge to "go east." IIcr difficulty in deciding between rleH York City and Washington, D. C., deterred her for a time. However, our nation's capital won--despite the fact that her cohorts at the BroadvieH tried to convince her �- Gthere were already too many single women in l.Jashington. Goldie will leave at the end of this month. He are sorry to see her go but we 't'lish her a lot of luck and happiness in '"hatever new assignment she assumes. FROM THE DESK 0::? THE DEAN OF INSTRUCTIO!! . As you know from the brief mention about a General Studies Program in my recent memo to the staff, the Faculty Council has constituted itself into a "committee of the whole" to study this problem. Frederick A. Forrest has prepared a great deal of useful bibliographical material; Leonard B. Hheat has served as chairman of a sub-committee on the definition of the term General Education, and Eric A. Sturley is presently chairing a subcommittee to pull some of our preliminary discussions into more concrete proposals. We have also revie\'led the administrative and committee thinking about General Education on the Carbondale campus during the past eight years. This spring and next fall the Faculty Council ,.,ill continue to work on plans for a General Studie::; program. We are '"ell aware this is no easy task and that whatever plans '"e evolve must be in some fashion synchroni~ed with similar planning for the entire University. But we believe we can offer students a broader view of the core of kno't'lledge and skills peculiar to all disciplines and at the same time create more easily administered freshman and sophomore programs if together \ve can find enough unity in our thinking and in the implementation of that thinking. Again let me urge you to pass alons to the Council, in writing, your sugge::;tions about revising the General Education requirements. The Dean's list of honor students (now posted on bulletin boards) shmvs an increase of 28 per cent over last fall's list. Either the quality of our students' performance is improving or our faculty ha::; mellowed after the Christmas recess. I hope the former is true. VISITORS FROH CARBOllDALE CAMPUS The Southwestern Illinois Campus played host to a number of prominent staff members from the Carbondale campus early this month. On April 8 Pre::;ident Delyte H. Harris addressed a joint meeting of the Alton and East St. Louis faculties. The meeting was held in the chapel at Alton. Vice President for Instruction Charles D. Tenney and the following deans from Carbondale visited the two centers on April 10: H. E. Keeper, School of Agriculture; Henry J. Rehn, S~hool of Business; John E. Grinnell, College of Education; T. H. Abbott, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; C. Horton Talley, School of Communications; Raymond H. Dey, Division of University Extension; Burnett H. Shryoclc, School of Fine Arts; Hillis G. Swartz, Graduate School, and Harry B. Bauernfeind, assistant dean, Adult Education. After visiting the East St. Louis and Alton centers, the gu~sts were shown the proposed new campus site near Ed\vardsville. �It •• � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty News Bulletin April 1959, Vol. 2, No. 6 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource April 1959 https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/9b84a06ed592dd3fc0dfd94ed413722b.pdf 2661d0693839ad9e76de622e59e43888 PDF Text Text �APRIL-flAY, VoL. IV, No.7 1960 NEWS BULLETI N Southern Illinois University SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CAMPUS DIVISION HEADS NAMED At its May 7 meeting the Board of Trustees approved the appointment of five acting division heads for the Southwestern Illinois Campus. The new heads who will assume their duties July 1, are Kermit G. Clemans, science; John J . Glynn, business; Nicholas T. Joost, humanities; Cameron W. Meredith, education; and Herbert H. Rosenthal, social studies . A division chief for fine arts will be approved at a later meeting of the board. (With our new cover we are using a new format inside . News items about faculty members will be by divisions , Ed . ) BUSINESS DIVISION An -article by ETHEL HALE BLACKLEDGE (A) appears in the May issue of Business Education World . The article was an answer to a problem regarding elimination of various skill subjects, with the exception of shorthand and typewriting. The editor has entered Mrs. Blackledge's answer in a contest on the topic. Another article by Mrs . Blackledge, "They Instruct One Another," appeared in the May-June i .ssue of Business Teacher. This article resulted from an experiment in the Fall quarter with a group of advanced business education students. Each student was given the opportunity to act as office supervisor, giving instructions to potential secretaries and/or business educators , . . WALTER BLACKLEDGE (A) took part in Career Day May 5 at Southwestern Unit 9 High School, Piasa . . . MARY BRADY (A) and MR. and MRS. WALTER BLACKLEDGE visited the Vocational Tech- Mildred Arnold, Editor Fangenroth Road Edwardsville, Illinois nical Institute and the Business Division in Carbondale April 1, 2, and attended meetings of the Committee for Business Education in Illinois. Miss Brady also attended a Springfield meeting of the Committee for Business Education in Illinois, where she served as recorder for the first session and as a member of the social committee . . . On April 22 and 23 Miss Brady was in Bowling Green, 0., attending the Community Resources Workshop Directors Conference . She led one of the discussion groups on the topic, "Evaluation After the Workshop . " The conference was held in preparation for Commun~~ y Resources Workshops which will be held this summer on some 30 college campuses throughout the country. They are sponsored by the Iron and Steel Institute of America. DAVID BEAR (A) and Miss Brady will be director and assistant director, respectively, of the workshop to be held on the Alton Campus from June 20 to July 2 9 . , . DANIEL B. BOSSE (A) and VIRGIL I. PINKSTAFF (A) attended a conference March 31 through April 2 at Bloomington, Ind . It was sponsored by the Indiana University School of Business . Bosse and Pinkstaff sat in on a seminar entitled "How Will We Market $200 billion of New Business in 1970?" The men relate that while participating in an Executive Simulation Decision game they made a net p~ofit of over one million .d ollars in less than three hours . Unfortunately for them, this was "all on paper . " . LEO COHEN (E) has received word from the editor of the National Tax Journal indicating that his article entitled'~ More Recent Measurement of the Built-in Flexibility of the Individual Income Tax" has been accepted for publication in either the June or September issue of the journal . . • Cohen spoke to the Breakfast Optimist Club of East St . Louis on April 13 . His subject �- 2 - was "Some Misconceptions Concerning the Prevailing Distribution of the Burden of the Personal Income Tax." · JOHN GLYNN (A) served as a judge recently in an essay contest sponsored by the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons . . . ROBERT McDANIEL (E) attended the Illinois Business Association Conference at Springfield on March 24, 25, and 26 . FINE ARTS LLOYD BLAKELY (A) has been elected president of the Band and Orchestra Council of the R-2 Schools (Ferguson-Florissant, Mo . ). The new council represents the 16 schools within the district in assisting the instrumental music program . . . KENWYN BOLDT (A) .and h .i s wife Frina played • a one piano-four hand program for the Edwardsville Eastern Star installation ceremony on May 7 . On May 17 they will pre- sent a two piano recital at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. This program will also be presented at the Alton Center on May 20. The program will include the Bach Concerto in C major, Mozart's Sonata inC, .Carnival by Isadore Freed, Rachmaninoff Waltz, Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg, and Scaramouche Suite by Darius Milhaud . . . Call or write ROBERT HAWKINS (A) if you are interest.e d in sub-letting a six-room house from the middle of June to the end of August . There are two bedrooms, a large fenced-in yard, a garage, basement, and study . Also available are an automatic washer ·and dryer. Only a ten-minute drive from the Alton campus . . HERROLD E. HEADLEY (A) is to be congratulated for the outstanding performances the Southwestern Illinois Chorophonic Society gave last month in .~'m'«s tr appearances with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The St. Louis critics were . unstinting in their praise of the choral group's performance of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . "The chorus from the Southwestern Campus of SIU was well prepared by its director," said Thomas B. Sherman in the St . Louis Post-Dispatch . "Its singing in all stages of the finale was cokesive, alert and vital in tone quality, but it de serves a special citation for coping with the high tessitura . The sopranos held the high A for eight or more measures with unfaltering firmness of pitch and brightness of quality . " Critic F. A. Klein of the GlobeDemocrat said, "The chorus proved itself capable not only of a ringing, full-throated tutti, but also of a controlled and lyric pianissimo, with excellent interplay of choirs . It exhibited the results of close discipline and awareness of what it was about . " On April 4 Headley was the guest on Max Steindel's weekly program for the St. Louis Symphony which is carried by KFUO, St . Louis. Steindel and Headley discussed Beethoven's Ninth and the Chorophonic Society . Headley was asked to explain the 12 tone system of musical composition which one of Steindel's listeners had request.e d . . . On March 23 CATHERINE MILOVICH (E) spoke at a dinner meeting of the Collinsville Kiwanis Club . Her topic was "The Role of Art Education . " From April 9 to April 14 Mrs . Milovich attended the Western Arts Association Conference at Dallas, Texas, where she participated on a panel concerned with "Trends in Art Education for the Younger Child . . . JOHN A. RICHARDSON (A) addressed the Alton Woman.' s Council on the afternoon of April 8, speaking on "The Viewpoint in Art . " That evening he presented a 60-minute slide lecture, "The Theme of the Spectacle in Modern French Painting." He attended the Western Arts Association Conference in Dallas, .April 10-14. EDUCATION WILLIAM ~ANAGHAN (A) attended the American Personnel and Guidance Association meetings in Philadelphia April 11-17 . . . On April 7 he participated in the North Junior High School Student Council Conference, discussing "People, Groups, and Productivity" at �- 3 - one of the morning sessions Last month .DAVID BEAR (A) was elected to the Alton School · Board, leading a ticket of nine o The total vote registered was the largest ever recorded in an Alton election to name school board members o Bear received 1,945 of the 4,325 votes cast . . 0 H. BRUCE BRUBAKER (Ed) spoke April 12 at the convention of the Twenty-Second District, Illinois Feder.ation of ·women.• s Clubs. He discussed the impending bond issue REGAN CARPENTER (A) has accepted a request from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to meet with the Advisory Committee for Junior College Development in Illinois . . STEPHANIE CONWELL (A) acted as a judge for the East St. Louis Exchange Club • Nursing Scholarship Contest . o . From May 1 through May 7 she attended the American Nurses Association biennial con• vent ion in Miami, Fla. . . . HOWARD V. DAVIS (A) has been appointed state coordinator for the American Personnel and Guidance Association . . Davis spoke April 21 on "Financial Aid to College Students 11 at the Collinsville High School Parent-Teachers Association . . o Last month 1 s SWIC 1 s director of student affairs was elected to the East Alton-Wood River Community High School Board of Education . . . 0 JAMES ~. DIEKROEGER (E) spoke April 27 at Assumption High School 1 s . Career Day on the objectives and opportunities of physical education . . . A highly successful Elementary Principals• Conference was held on the Alton campus April 23 o DAVID E. BEAR (A) was chairman and served also as a consultant and resource person. On hand to welcome the participants was Alton•s Director JOHN J. GLYNN o Other SWIC staff members taking part were LEONARD WHEAT (A), who served on one of the panels as a consultant and resource person; BETTY JO KELLEY (E), panelist and chairman of the Evaluation of Pupil Growth and Reporting to Parents Group; and LAWRENCE TALIANA (A), REGAN CARPENTER (A), and CAMERON MEREDITH (A), who were consultants and resource persons for the conference. BABETTE MARKS (A) has been elected recording secretary of the St. Louis Board of Women Officials Miss Marks attended the annual meeting of the Illinois Association for Professional Preparation in Health, Physical Education and Recreation which was held at Pere Marquette State Park in Marcho She was a member of the committee on evaluation and curriculum o 0 • 0 Child Guidance Through Family Counseling 11 was the topic discussed by CAMERON MEREDITH (A) at the annual meeting May 1 of the Cooperative Nursery School • . o He spoke to more than 200 persons April 25 at the Allied Professions dinner sponsored by the Occupational Nurses Association. His topic was 11 Improving Human Relations 11 o o o Meredith was featured speaker at a conference of Mesa County Valley Teachers in Grand Junction, Colo. , April 14. While in Colorado he addressed a luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club and a dinner meeting of the Rotary Club. . 11 More than 400 persons attended a bowling clinic for the Alton area on April 3, reports NORMAN SHOWERS (A) who assisted with the clinic o Held at the Alton Bowl Haven Lanes, it was sponsored by the Bowling Proprietors As.sociatio ,; of America o Three top bowling stars were present . Principal speaker at the Madison County School Administrators meeting April 28 at the Highland Elementary Community Unit, Highland, was lWBERT STEINKELLNER (E) o He spoke on controversial issues in the teaching of reading and other language arts o' His talk was called 11 The 4 L. A. 1 s versus the 3 R 1 s o11 On May 16 he will appear before the Lindburgh Community Teachers , Association, St. Louis, to discuss 11What are the Purposes of a Formal Education. 11 . LAWRENCE TALIANA (A) attended the �- 4 Midwes t ern Psychologica l Ass ociation meet ings held April 28-30 a t t he Chase -Par k Plaza Ho t el in St . Louis • . . On May 4 he gave t he keynote addres s a t Bell ev il l e Junior High School's secon d annua l Car eer Day . The following day he a ddressed t he college-bound junior s an d seni or s of Southwestern High Schoo l at Pias a . . . Previously unrepor t ed in t h i s bul l et i n was the fact t hat Taliana a t t ended a meeting of the Illino i s Psychologi cal Associa t ion on March 26 . Th e mee ting was for school psycho l og i s t s an d t he topic concerned "The Dia gnos i s of Lea rn ing ,Difficul t ies." HUMANITIES JOHN ADES (A) , CHARLES PARI SH (A) , ROBERT DUNCAN (A), and MILTON BYRD (E) a t t ended a t wo - day session of t he Midwes t Moder n Language Associa t ion hel d l a s t mont h at the University of Kans a s i n Lawr en ce . Two pap.e rs were read, one by Ades , " Temp ta t ion i n Comus and Parad ise Re ga i n ed," and one by Pa rish, "Matt>h.ew Arnold' s Touchstone Theor y." . . . The recently published Bi b liographical Guide to t he St udy o f Lit er a t ur e of the U. S.A. lists Publicat i on Gu i de for Litera ry and Lin guis tic Schol ar s by MILTON BYRD (E) an d Arnold L. Goldsmith a s a valua ble volume under t he h ea d ing, "Prep arat ion of Manuscripts f or Pub l i cat i on." . . . Recen t ly EDWIN A. GRAHAM (E) received his doc t .o rat e in En gl i sh f rom Princeton Un i versi t y . NICHOLAS JOOST (A) wa s inv it e d by t he na t ional president of Del ta Eps i l on Si gma to at tend t he annual meeting o f the s o- · ciety in Chicago, Apr il 20 - 21. All pa s t president s of t he societ y wer e i nv i t ed to attend t he luncheon h eld a t t he St ockyard Inn as special gues t s of DES . J oos t was national president f or two t er ms . At present he i s edit or of t he f raterni t y's Bulletin , wi t h a circulat ion o f 5, 000 • . • On April 30 Joos t a t tended the second annual mee t ing of t he Johns on Society of t he Grea t Lakes Re gion wh ich was held at John Carro ll Univ er si t y, Cl eveland. He read a group o f t hre e paper s on "Leg i ti mi s t vs . Cons ervatism: Dryden , Swif t , Pope, and J ohnson " . . . Thus far in 1960 Mr . Joos t has ha d four pa per s publ i shed or in press : "A Centur y of Religious Verse," Per spe c t i ves (Ja nuar y 1960 ), reprin t ed from DESB; "What My Orphic Poe t s Sang," Modern Age (Spr i ng 196 0); and a review of Ra e Blanchar d ' s ed it i on o f four periodica ls by Sir Ri char d St eel e , Modern Philology (May 1960 ) . Joos wa s r e cently elec t ed t o t he boar d of d ir ec t or s o f Rena scen ce . . . ROBERT SAlTZ (E) was a gues t on the las t pro gram i n t his yea r 's Changing Wor ld seri e s wh i ch wa s t el ecas t April 18. The t h eme wa s "Lan gua ge i n Flux. " Sait z d i s cus sed s t r uc t ura l gr ammar . . • GLADYS STEI NMAN (A) has been named one of t he book r eviewer s of t he St . Loui s Pos t Dispat ch . She will s ubs ti t ute f or MARI ON TAYLOR (A) whil e t he l a tt er i s on leave of a b sence i n I ndia , wher e she will t each as a Fulbri gh t l ec t ur er . . . Mrs . Taylor ha s p l a ced a f ar ce wi t h t he Wa l t er Baker Company and t he I nt ernat iona l One-Act Play Thea t re of London. The name of the f_arc.e is "Men' s J obs f or Women . " . . . Mrs . Taylor 's t rav el book on Japan , published in i n England and ca ll e d "Ameri can Geisha': is b eing r e -issued i n London as a "cheap edi t i on . " Th e book ca me ou t or i gina lly i n 1956 On Apr il 13 Mr s . Taylor gave a n illus t rat e d lec t ure on J a pan b e fo r e t he At h ena e um . . . RUTH KI LCHENMANN (A) a ddr essed t he t ea chers meet i ng of Un i t 100 i n J er seyv i lle on Mar ch 30 . She r e l a ed h er exp eriences with t he Foreign Langua ges i n El ement ary Schools (FLES) pro j e c t s i n t he Al t on area . Appear ing with h er wa s Dr . Rober t 0 . deVe t t e , cons ul tan t, For e i gn La ngua ge Ti t le III , Nationa l Defens e Educa t i on Ac t , a ff il i at ed wi t h t he Of f i ce of t he Sup.e rint endent of Publ i c I n s t r uc tion , Spr ingfi el d . Dr . deVe t t e v is it ed t he Al ton Campus on Apri l 11 and t he differ en t FLES pr oj ec t s wh i ch a r e taugh t by Mrs . Ki lchenmann . . . On Apr il 12 one of her s t uden t s pr esent ed a German pr ogr am t o t he Par ent-Teachers Ass ociat i on , Wa shingt on School, Al ton . The pr ogr am was i n t r oduced and ex- �- 5 - plained by Mrs . Kilchenmann , . , On April 19 she addressed the PTA of Irv ing School, Alton , Her t op ic , "Th e Elementary Schoo lage is t he Bes t Age t o Learn to Speak a Language," 'N"as followed by a program presen ed by an elementary l anguage cl a ss under her sup ervision , On April 26 t he same class a ppeared before he PTA of t he Sou t h Roxana School . On May 2 Mr s . Kilchenmann s poke at a progr am at Ros ewood Height s School in which e l ementary cl a sses under her supervision appeared . On t he las t program o f t his year 's Changing Wor ld series she and two o f her s t u dents, and 12 of t heir s tudents from Horace Mann Elementary School , Alton, demons trat ed cur rent met hods of t eaching language . , . . WINSLOW SHEA (A) d id the commentary on the 49-minut e film shown on The Changing World series April 4 over KETC- 9 . The film was entitled "The New Age in Archit ecture . " SCIENCE HAROLD E. BROADBOOKS (A) t ook part in a zoology seminar a t Carbondal e on Apri l 12 . He discussed t he pika, an anima l resembling the guinea pig and found in Nor t hern America and Asia "Scienc e in our Lives" was t he title o f an a ddress given April 12 in Edwar dsv ille by WILLIAM SHAW (E). The occas ion was a recogni tion dinner for Edwar dsvill e s t udents who plac ed first at a dis t ric t science f a i r at Jacksonville on April 9. The dinner meeting was sponsor ed by t he local Lions Club , • . DAVID RANDS (E) and h i s family have moved fr om Kirkwood , Mo., to 655 Bur roughs Avenue, Collinsville, Ill. Their new t elephone numb er i s Di ckens 5- 0604 . . . ERI C STURLEY (A) s poke to the Edwardsv i lle Hi gh School mathematics cl ub April 6, discus sing "Job Opportuni ties in Mathemat ics . " SOCIAL STUDI ES The geographe s - -MELVIN KAZECK (A), PHILIP VOGEL (A), J OHN SNADEN (E), and MARY MEGEE (E)--att ended the national mee tin gs o f t he American Ass ociat ion o f Geographer s at Dallas , Texas, from April 18 to April 21. Snaden present ed a pap er ent i t led "Changing Land Use Patt erns of Cahokia, I llino i s- -The Res idential Period 1950 -1 969 . " It is t he outgrowth of his urban r esearch in t his area . Miss Megee read a pap er, "The Measurement of the Industrial Charac t er of an Ar ea. " Her s t udy was an out growt h of field work in La t in Ameri ca which culmina t ed her Ph . D. disser tat ion at the Univer s ity of Chica go . The la tt er , "Mon t erey, Mex ico--Int erna l Patt erns and External Relations , " was pub lished recently by t he Univ ersit y of Chi ca go Pr ess . . Late l a s t month STANLEY KIMBALL (A) t ook part in h e 22d annual Public Affairs Conference sponsored by The Principia College. He was accompanied by four social s t udies s t udent s who t ook part in pane l d i scuss ions. They were hear d over WOKZ April 16 • . . The periodical, "The Improvement Era ," will carry an article by Kimbal l in i t s Augus t i ssue. It i s ent itled "The Columbia Profess or and t he Book of Mor mon, Pa r t II. " GEORGE ARNOLD (E) will teach physic s full t im.e t h i s summer at Wa s hington Un i ver s ity • KURT GLASER (A) has been elected vice president of t he Rosewood School 's ParentTeacher s Associa ion . . . JOSEPH S. DAVIS (E) rea d a paper April 22 a t t he Iowa Academy o f Science at Iowa Ci t y . The t i le was "The Effec t of Bicarbonat e Ion Concentration on Cell Orient ation of Pediastrum. " • . • Da v i s recently received his doctorate in botany f r om t he St a t e Univers ity of Iowa . • . SEYMOUR MANN (E) attended the National Conference of t he American Soc i e t y for Public Adm·i.nis t ration. The conference wa s held in Los Angeles Cal i f ., April 12, 13, 14. While in Lo ~ Angeles Mann took part in specialized sessions conduct ed by t he hea ds of univer si t y bur eaus of government resear ch . o • o o • �- () HYMAN FRANKEL (A) attended the Institute on Juvenile Delinquency in Kansas City April 29-30 and May 1-2. He participated in panel discussions on each of those days On April 8 he attended a meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General held in Chicago . . . Frankel has been granted a year's leave of absence to spend a year in New York City, beginning in mid-June, to head .a "national research and information clearing center on crime and delinquency." It will be set up by the National Probation and Parole Association, with a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers 1 Fund . GUNTER REMMLING (A) has been invited by the American Sociological Association to read a paper on his research project, "The Age of Suspicion." He will present it in the s.ection on the Sociology of Knowledge and the Sociology of Science during the annual national meeting in Septemb.er . . . On April 3 ·he discussed "Jazz in West Germany" on the Alton radio station. The subject matter was interpreted with reference to the sociological and ideological significance of this medium. Hyman Frankel was moderator of ,the program . . . On April 21, 22, 23 Remmling attended the meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society . held in St. Louis . • . VIRGIL SEYMOUR (E) spoke on the bond issue at the March meeting of the TwentySecond District, Illinois Federation of Women.' s Club board meeting . . . April 19 meeting of the Guest speaker at the /Edwardsville Kiwanis Club was DONALD TAYLOR (E). The occasion was the club's spring fellowship meeting. Taylor discussed "Merits of the Family." REPORTS OF ILLNESS AND DEATH A number of hospitalizations and two deaths have occurred recently within the SWIC FAMILY. Sympathy is sincerely extended to JOHN KNOEPFLE (E) on the sudden death of his brother, Father Rudolph J. Knoepfle, and to SEYMOUR MANN (E) on the loss of his grandfather, Hyman Julius, who died early this month . KAY BISHOP, wife of MYRON BISHOP (A), is a patient in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. Her room number is llll . . • CATHERINE GLYNN, wife of Alton's director JOHN GLYNN, is a patient in St. Anthony's Hospital. Her room number is 212 . We are glad to report that UNA CORNWELL, chief library clerk (Ed) and wife of CLIFTON CORNWELL (E), has returned to her work at the central library after surgery in the Kirksville, Mo., Osteopathic Hospital " DOLORES KILLINGSWOR'rH, secretary to the East St. . Louis director JAMES TURNER, is back at work after a recent illness. Dolores was confined to St. Mary's Hospital for a time. We're glad you are back. DELYTE WESLEY MORRIS, 33° The following article on SIU's President Morr_is appeared in the April issue of NewsLetter, official publication of The Supreme Council, Thirty-third Degree Ancief?,t Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U.S.A. Carbondale Normal 11 a one-town teachers' college surrounded by vast areas of in~ difference," located on a small city block in Carbondale, Illinois, has become Southern Illinois University with 3722 acres to continue growing in. The dramatic story of mushrooming Southern Illinois University was related in six columns by Jack Rice, staff correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, on January 30, 1960. Said he, "For ll years Southern Illinois University, a do-good institution guided by a do-it now president, Delyte Wesley Morris, has made an art of explosion. There are no indications that either the University or Morris intends to quiet down." President Morris, former director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Ohio State University, said : 11 I came here frankly with one thought in mind.--that this was a new opportunity to .build a new kind of institution . This area is my home and I had thought that this institution was not �- 7 - doing wh.at it could and what it ought to do." Ill. Brother Morris h.a s raised academic standards at Southern and strengthened the faculty by attracting younger men, offering them a more liberal opportunity than they could expect at universities more settled in routine and seniorities. Outstanding men, retired by leading universities but not ready to quit, are invited to spend one or two years as resident celebrities on the Southern faculty. It has not been unusual for a Southern list to include a half-dozen former presidents and deans of major universities. Ill. Brother Morris was created an Honorary Member of the Supreme Council in 1958 and is highly esteemed by the \!alley of East St. Loui.s , Illinois. To join see Morris Carr at Alton or Lloyd Hubert at East St. Louis, or call Joe R. Small, Ext . 44, East St. Louis. INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL NEWS SWIC's Industrial and Technical Program received its fa~~t national recognition on May 2 when E. R. CASSTEVENS (Ed), supervisor of the program, participated in the national convention of the American Societyof Wrain ing Directors. He presented to the Ferrous Metals Group his course on Coaching and Coun seling . The course was developed especially for Granite City Steel Company arid has been presented to five different classes of their middle management people. It deals with t he development of managers through on-the-job coaching and periodic appraisal. Casstevens was also on the program May 3 as chairman of a session entitled "Removing Writers Cramps." SWICSIU CREDIT UNION RlPORT During the month of March the SWICSIU Credit Union .added six to its membership: Ronald Oursler, son of CLELLIE OURSLER (E), WILLIAM SHAW (A), DAVID RANDS (E), S. D. LOVELL (E), and Mr. and Mrs. DIMITER WASSEN (A). Additional shares were purchased in the amount of $748, bringing the total shares purchased to $1,978. Loans to members approved during the month were in the amount of $400, with an additional loan of $200 pending on April 1. There are now 36 members; $1,450 loans outstanding, and $2,178 on deposit. Balance Sheet March 31, 1960 Cash in Bank Savings Account (4%) Loans to Members (two) Total Assets $1,052 . 00 500.00 400.00 $1,952.00 Shares Purchased (27 members) Entrance Fee Organization Expenses Net Equity $1,978.00 6.75 32.75 $1,952.00 ATTEND AAUP MEETING NEDRA REAMES (E), MILTON BYRD (E) and S . D. LOVELL (E) attended the annual mee ting of the American Association of Universi t y Professors held in Detroit April 8-9. The meeting included an extensive repor t of the Committee on the Economic Status of t he Profession, in which average 1959-60 salar ies for the various ranks were reported by geographic sections and by types of ins t i tutions. The reporting institutions were rated on a grading scale of simple let t er grades (AA, A, B, C, D, E, F). Hundreds of colleges and universities are included i n the lists but SIU salaries are not included in the ranking because permission to publish was not granted . The spring issue of t he AAUP Bulletin includes the Economic Committ ee report . The summer issue will include t he final report of the committee . . . In other actions by the AAUP, the organizat ion reaffirmed its disapproval of t he affidavi t section of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and urged Congress t o repeal it . After discussion of committee repor t s con cerning cases involving academic freedom �- 8 - and tenure, the meeting took action censoring certain college administrations and removed censorship from others. The meeting looked with . "sorrow and indignation" upon the action of college authorities who have taken disciplin;1ry action against students protesting racial segregation. The AAUP reiterated its stand in support of the right of every teacher to be active in organizations which exert their influence toward educational opportunity without racial .segregation. Bliss received his doctorate in secondary education from the University of Nebraska, where he wrote his dissertaion on the Identification and Evaluation of Major Principles of Supervision in Selected Schools in the North Central States . He taught from 1945 to 1957 in the public schools of Nebraska and from 1957 to 1959 at the University of Nebraska . Last September he went to the University of Omaha as an assistant professor and will come to SIU as assistant professor of education. STUDY TOUR OF MEXICO NEW STAFF APPOINTMENTS Four new staff members have been appointed to teach at the Southwestern Illinois Campus. Two of them, CLARENCE E. VINCENT and RICHARD J. MILLES, have b.e .e n .a ssigned to the Alton Center; ALLAN J. McCURRY and GORDON C. BLISS have been assigned to East SL Louis. • Vincent received B. S. and M.B . A. degrees from Indiana University and expects con:ferral of his doctorate in marketing this year. He will be an assistant professor of marketing. Milles, a certified public accountant, Missouri, holds B.S.C. and M.S.C. degrees in economics and business administration from St. Louis University. He began his teaching career in the School of Commerce and Finance in St. Louis University's evening :division in 1943, and started teaching day classes and graduate classes there in January 1947. Much of his teaching has been in addition to his work as a certified · public accountant. He has been teaching evening classes since September 1959 at the SIU center in Alton, where he will be an associate professor of accounting. McCurry holdsM.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University an,d a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College. He has taught at the University of Chicago, and since 1953 has been an associate professor at Butler University. A specialist in the early n.a tional period of American history, he will be an associate professor of history. SWIC will sponsor a field trip and study tour of Mexico this summer. Students will tour Mexico from June 15 until July 6 and will study Mexican geography, including landforms, climates, soils, vegetation, transportation, and economic activities. The course is Geography 450-8, Travel Study Course, Mexico, and can be taken for eight hours of either undergraduate or graduate credit. The trip will be offered to 38 persons on a priority basis. A $225 charge includes transportation by air-conditioned Greyhound bus, tours, tourist card, 'tuition, lodging, and some meals. MARY MEGEE (E) will direct the tour. SEE ADDRESSES TRI-CITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SWIC's Vice President HAROLD' W, SEE addressed a Chamber of Commerce dinner given April 21 for the Illinois State Advisory Board of the Division of Industrial Planning and Development. The dinner meeting of the Tri-Cities Chamber was held in Granite City. In his talk See recommended twelve factors for a better integrated residential, business, and industrial community. "If we bring together all of the positive factors of our area we will--if we're not afraid to make big plans--become one of the greatest industrial, education, and residential developments in the Midwest," See told his audience. YOU AND SIU Roughly 1,000 persons from Madison and St. Clair counties attended YOU and SIU Night at Edwardsville April .26. Sponsored by �- 9 the Edwar dsville Lions Cl ub, t he mee t ing featured t alks by DELYTE W. MORRI S , president of SIU, and HAROLD W. SEE , executive v i ce president of SWIC o The school•s con cer t band under t he dir ec t ion of C. DALE FJERSTAD (E), which made i t s first off-campus appearance a t that time, received excelLent reviews . President Morri.s pa id tribute t o t he achievemen t s to date of in.d ividua ls and organizat ions working t oward the developmen t of a great university in sou t hern I llinois o He commended t he foresigh t of t he communities in placing t he common good befor e fac t ional interests by provid i ng an adequat e cent ral university campus si t e in sout hwestern Illinois. He t old his audience tha t t he university facility here is being planned specifically t o serve t he new t ype of metropolitan area developing i n t he area-one spread over a great deal of t erri t or y and geared t o the automobile . He predicted tha t t he central force of a university would serve to unify t h i s mul t iplicity of communi t ies o 11 I know of no ot her university which has planned a campus from th.e beginning with the scope of this one, 11 he said . 11Mos t o t her campuses t oday are suffering f r om a l a ck of foresight. 11 The President invited the people t o t ake part in planning t he new campus, and he urged that the problem of zoning be worked out early to the best interes t s of everyone concerned . He called a t t ent ion t o the bond issue for universi t y 'buildings scheduled for the November elec t ion, which --if passed --would make it possible for the development of the new campus t o begin within a mat ter of months. He pointed out that t he campus would have to be developed in any case because of the great need for i t , but t hat development would be much slower if t he bond issue is not passed . MYRON BISHOP spoke May 10 t o a luncheon ·ni!eeJtin:g ·af t he Edwardsville - Collinsville Real Estat e Boar d . He discussed the land acquisition program for the Edwar dsville campus , br i nging t hem up to da t e on the number of a cres purcha sed and advising them how t he lan d already pur chased is being used o In h i s ta lk Bishop pointed out t hat none of t he land is idl e ; it is being used t o house some of t he cent r a l off i ces of SWI C, and eight people ar e farming t he r es t of t he ar ea o The lar ges t f arm is 400 a cr es , he s aid , t h e second l arges t about 350 . The rea l t or s were briefed on changes be i ng ma de i n t he r oa ds on t he s it e and t he under gr ound cables t ha t have been la i do SWI C ARTICLE TO BE PUBL I SHED ' An ar t icle on t he Sout hwes t er n I ll i no i s Campus wi ll a ppear in t he May issue of AAC News, na t i ona l maga zin e of t he American Alumn i Counci l o AAC comprises r epresentat ives f r om more t han 850 coll e ges and universi t ies in t he Unit ed Stat e s and Cana da, as well as 110 priva t e secondar y schools and 15 na t iona l educa t iona l or ganiz a t ions o The a r t icle wa s wri tt en by MI LDRED ARNOLD (Ed) who i s t r ea sur er o f t he Grea t Lakes Dis t rict of AAC o FACULTY WOMEN 1 S CLUB NEWS A business meet i n g and coffee hour scheduled for Thursda y mor n i ng , May 19 , at 9 : 30, will be held a t t he Coll i nsville Amer ican Legion Club o Member s ar e urged t o at t end. There will be elec t ion of off i cer s and vo t ing on pr oposed amen dmen t s o The annua l spring picn i c for members of the Facul t y Women•s Club an d t he ir fam i lies will be he ld Sat ur day , May 21 , a t Co ll i nsville Ci ty Par k . The t i me i s 5 : 30 p . m. Br i ng a ho t dish and a s a l a d or desser t . Single fo l k, bring p ickles , ol i ves, potat o chips or a desser to Coffee, a c old drink and gar lic br ea d wi ll be fur nished by t he commi tt ee , whose chair man i s MRS. KERMIT CLEMANS . Br ing your own t ab l e ser v i ce . Ot her member s of Mrs . Cl eman s• commi tt ee are MRS . GERALD RUNKLE, MRS . MYLLAN SMYERS , MRS . DONALD L. TAYLOR and MRS . ASSEN KRESTEFF . The map on t he following pa ge should help you i n r ea ching Coll i nsv i lle Ci ty Park . �• �o, •i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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