https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/a9342bce84ee3e21d3f93dc3818033ae.pdf 2f5d0100673cd68c7ded2c41d6c5565c PDF Text Text ... £2. .., R1/2 £5 xo s J11/4 ]1- 3/4 R-3/2 N-1 y A-1 .. DECE11BER 1.:a,. 195 7 VoL.1, No.8 CoNPILED HONTHLY BY ]NFORHATION SERVICE, S ouTHWE STE RN ILLINOIS RESIDENDE OFFICE, SoU T HERN ]LLI N OIS UNIVERSITY, FOR THE STAFF 11E11BERS OF THE RESIDEN CE CENTERS, THE NEWSLETTER IS HADE POSSIB'LE BY THE COOPERATION OF STAFF J1E l1B E RS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEWS I TEI1S • F A C UL T Y N E ll S L E T T E R Robert w. Duncan, English, Alton, has appeared in Air Facts again, this with a technical article. The November issue of the magazine carries as its article Duncan's "Rapcon is My Co·- p·i l ot". (Rapcon stands for Radar Approach trol, the new radar approach corttrol equipment to direct planes to the field as far as 40 miles out. - ed.) time lead Confrom Carlyle C, Ring, director, East St. Louis, became an active member of the . East St. Louis Rot~ry Club Wednes&ay,. December 11. He had been attending meetings so regularly that all of the members knew him, and it was not necessary to present him formally. Ring transferred from the Jamestown, New York, Rotary Club, which he joined in 1937. A First of .First's Howard Davis' student affairs,. Alton, <,lCtua.lly was the first SIU staff member to have material publ i shed· a scholarly journal with the Residence Center designation. Howard has been keeping to himself the fact that he had an article published in the Vocational Guidance Quarterly, Summer, 1957, entitled "This Piorieer was Pretty Modern". In the · publication he is listed as a staff member of the Residence Centers of Southern Illinois University. Newsletter is glad to move Howard · to first place. Keep them coming! tn ·. The front office received a letterthis week (recommending a candidate for a possible opening in the Residence Centers) · which contained the following paragraph: "He is capable of profound thought but rarely engages in it. He is somewhat insensitive to subtleties. He is well · suited for teaching. 11 (D6 you think he got the job? - ed.) Eric Avern Sturley, associate professor of math . at Allegheny Coll~ge, Meadville, Pennsylvania, since 1947, assumes his new duties as associate professor of math at the Alton Residence Center on January 2. Sturley, who holds B,A. and M.A. degrees in math from Yale, took his doctorate at Columbia in math education. Born in England, he returned to Europe in 1932 for a year of study in GHttingen, Germany, and he made six subsequent trips to the continent as a leader of travel groups. 1 He will live at 2707 College Avenue, Alton, with his wife and two daughters, ages nine and six. �- 2 - SIU may have 3,000 resident students and a total of 5,300 students in Madison and St. Clair Counties next fall, the SIU Board of Trustees was informed l.Jednesday. Dean Harold TV. See told the Board that the largest enrollment increases are expected in the fields of nursing education, in technical fields, in liberal arts (with emphasis on science), and in an expanded graduate program. See said final enrollment figures for the fall term this year showed 2,874 SIU students in the area -- 1,873 taking credit work, 850 in the adult and technical education programs, and 151 in conference type courses and short courses. SIU may have as many as 3,100 student~ in credit courses at the Residence Centers next fall, See declared, along with 1,400 in adult and technical education courses, 300 registered for conferences and short courses, and 500 in extension classes. The Centers presently have a surprising concentration of students in mathematic$ and science courses. The number of graduate students has grown from 51 to 202 in the past two years, including those at the Belleville Center which has been operating since 1949. Ninety-four per cent of the Residence Center students live within 35 miles of their classes, although the student population represents 104 communities, 30 counties, and four states. Madison and St. Clair Counties account for 86 per cent of the student body. Macoupin County is third in representation. Only 34 students live outside Illinois. Babette Marks and Norman Showers, physical education, Alton, accompanied by three P.E. majors, attended the annual meeting of the Illinois Association for Health, P.E., and Recreation in Chicago last week. (According to an unconfirmed report, attributed to spiteful persons \vho don • t have talking dogs, Cathy Marks took quite a shine to the kennel keeper and some of his charges during the three days Babette was in Chicago; worse, she reportedly said in so many words that she was not returning home voluntarily. Babette could not be reached today for verification of the report. - ed.) Laurence McAneny, physics, Alton, attended the national meeting of the American Physical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, November 29-30. David VanHorn, assistant registrar, Alton, has sold his home in Parkville, Missouri, and bought one in Alton. The VanHorns will move into their new home at 1405 State Street in Alton on December 21. Son, Albert, will be a first-quarter freshman at SIU, Alton. Daughter, Cora Louise, is still in grade school. Alonzo F. Myers of New York University will visit the Residence Centers on Monday, December 16, to review the recommendations he made for their establishment, to see how his recommendations have been implemented, and to make recommendations for the future. � 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 December 1957, Vol. 1, No. 8 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 1957