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/. 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