https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/f51f4cebddd49211e28982cc4115ded4.pdf 120aa7c79a44fd3bc34859df2396d556 PDF Text Text • FEBRUARY 28, 1958 SERVICE~ - VoL .1-4_ No .10 ILL ~ CoMPILED noNTHLY BY ]NFORHATION S ouTHWESTERN RESIDENCE OFFIC E, SouTHERN ILLINOIS UNTvERSITY~ FOR THE STAFF ~ERS OF THE RESIDENCE CENTERS~ THE NEWSLETTER IS NADE POSSIBLE BY THE COOPERATION OF STAFF NEHB ERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEWS ITEJfS. FA C' ULTY NE · ?IS L E TT E R Howard Davis, student affairs, Alton told the Junior Service League about SIU last Thursday. Speaking at a noon luncheon at the Stratford Hotel, Howard told the forty women present about the Center's offerings and general set-up. The women in this organization take part in community servfce ··projects such as the Easter Seal Drive and summer day camps for cerebral palsy children. --------------------------------Chelsea Bailey, Technical and Adult Education, Southwestern Illinois Residence Office told the Highland Chamber of Commerce about "The Land of the Flying Carpet" on February 5. Dr. John DeLaurenti, Superintendent of Highland Community Schools, introduced Bailey. Mary Wyatt, nursing, Carbondale-Alton, by this corning week will have addressed every hospital in the Alton-East St. Louis area on SIU's supplemental program for graduate nurses. --------------------------------Babette Marks, physical education, Alton, has an article appearing in the 1958 Official Softball Guide, published by the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports. Title: "A New Approach to Some Difficult Softball Rules." ---------------------------------At least eight SIU faculty members have invested in homes of their own in the two-county area, according to unofficial reports. Next month's Newsletter plans an up-to-date report on homes bought and abuilding. ---------------------------------(more) �- 2 - • Er1·'c R • Ba ber, d"1rec t o r , Alton , headed a panel of VIP's last Monday at the . . 1 1 American Association of School Administrators n St. Lou s. Invited b F" i E gleman of AASA Hdq. in Washington, D.C. to lead a two-hour y 1n s n " b · d b panel on "Practical Solutions to Discipline Problems, Dr. Ba er_was ass1ste y: Mr. James M. Patterson, Director of Field Services, Public Relat1ons Department, Standard Oil Company, Chicago; Dr. Harley Lautenschlager, Lab School of Indiana State Teachers College, Terre Haute; Dr. J. B. Johnson, Superintendent of A~to~ Public Schools; Mr. E. H. Schultz, Superintendent of Schools, Homewood, Ill1no1s; Dr. R. M. Roelfs, College of Education, University of ~kans~s, Fayetteville~ and Miss Adah Peckenpaugh , teacher of English, Clinton, M1ssour1, ~nd_past pres1dent, Department of Classroom Teachers, Missouri State Teachers Assoc1at1on. Held at the Statler Hotel, the panel drew an audience of 150 educators. ------------------------------Thirty women attended the first regular meeting of the Resid~nc·~ .. Centers' Women's Club on February 20, according to Carma Davis, Alton, president of the newly organized group. Attending the meeting at the home of Geneva Peebles, Alton, were the following members of the Carbondale Chapter: Mrs. Amos Black, Mrs. Hellmut Hartwig, Mrs. Roscoe Pulliam, Mrs. Willis Swartz, and Mrs. Max Turner, president of the parent club. Elsie Baber and Margaret Going, Alton, arranged the table. Betty Sturley, Alton, scheduled a folk singer and a tour of the campus. Present at a meeting of the Club's Gouncil last Tuesday were: Ruth Bailey, Helen See, and Betty Spahn, Belleville; and Myra Bear, Carma Davis, Lucy McAneny, Geneva Peebles, Norma Showers, and Betty Sturley, Alton. Meeting in Belleville, the Council, headed by Carma Davis, laid plans for the March and April meetings. The March 13 meeting at the Broadview Hotel in East St. Louis will feature a finger lunch and card party (11 : 00 a.m.-2:00p.m.). All faculty Homenstaff members as well as wives -- are cordially invited, President Davis announced Wednesday. Plans include individual notification of each woman between now and March 13. Tentative arrangements for the April 17 meeting, also scheduled for the Broadview Hotel, include an address by Dr. John W. Allen, Emeritus, Carbondale Campus. A family picnic is on the bill for May, to be held at some point midway between the Centers. (Tentative plans by a campus wit to charter a river steamer for the event have been dropped - ed.) -----------------------------Plane spotters in the area have been making telephone inquiries recently about an unidentified plane reportedly operating in the two-county area. Coming from a southerly direction, the plane is said to circle certain strategic crossroads and then head south again. A usually reliable source on crafty movements refused to comment on the movements of the craft in question except to suggest, when pressed, that it might be looking for a good midway point to hold the May faculty picnic. ------------------------------(more) �- 3 - Leonard loJheat, graduate program, Alton, furnished Part II of the PTA program at East Jr. High School in Alton last Tu~sday. Following pupil speakers who told the one-hundred pa:ent~ and teachers . present about the different pupil organizations, Dr. Wheat t~ed ~n the co-curr~cular activities of the school with the program of social development of the pupils. He stressed the fact that both the school and the home sho_uld provide ample opportunity for boys and girls to get together in normal social relationships. At the junior high school age -- when boys and girls normally are not interested in heterosexual social activities - they need a large number of '"idely varied opportunities (such as those provided at East Jr. High School) for gaining _social experiences which will help them learn to live together. In January Dr. Wheat participated in a panel on the gifted pupil at the PTA Council of Alton, and on March 11 he is scheduled to take part in a similar panel at the Horace Mann School in Alton. On Harch 10 he is on the program at the Alton High Schoo 1. ------------------------------Virgil Seymour, sociology, East St. Louis, was guest lecturer last month at. St. Louis University, where he spoke on "Miniority Group Problems in East St. Louis" at the Institute for Human Relations. Three days before this he talked to the Social Action Committee of the Evangelical and Reformed Church Synod on "Trends in American Family Life." Place: St. Peter's Church in Granite City. On March 10 he will speak at an evening Women' s· Club meeting in Fairview on behalf of the Mental Health Center. Topic: "How Hature Are We?" Carlyle Ring, director, East St. Louis, addresses the juniors and seniors of Cahokia Commonfields on March S. On the school's Vocational Day Program with a representative of St. Louis University, Dr. Ring will tell of the educational opportunities provided in this area by sru. Next Tuesday Dr. Ring will present a "Comparison of American and European Education" at Webster Jr. High School in Collinsville. Dr. Ring visited many schools in England, France, and Germany in 1944-45, and again in 1954, when he studied Danish schools as well. ---~------------------------- � 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 February 1958, Vol. 1, No. 10 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1958