https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/9023d4655e68b2b3d1ee83638c769e8c.pdf 5aebe64fe92948a112351a3026f8aa67 PDF Text Text - SouthlNestern Illinois Residence Centers ' Southern Illinois University FACULTV NEWS BULLETIN /-:;0 r<::~~ f'' (... -·- I ~~;\. I? ~. : . ~:~} ~r �FEBRUA RY ~ Vo L. I960 FACU L T Y NEWS Southern Illinois University SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CAMPUS SWICSIU CREDIT UNION The Southwestern Illinois Campus Credit Union began operation officially February 1. Its initial organizational meeting of incorporators was held Janaar.y 22. Officers elected were: HARRY H. SMITH, president; S. D. LOVELL, vice president; ROBERT McDANIEL, secretary; and JOE R. SMALL, treasurer. Members of the Credit Committee are JOE R. SMALL, chairman; JAMES D. TURNER, FLORENCE FANNING; MORRIS CARR and LLOYD HUBERT, advisors. This committee must approve all loans made by the credit union. The Supervisory Committee examines the affairs of the credit union, including·its books and accounts. This committee comprises BEVERLY KITCHING, chairman; MILTON BYRD and NEDRA REAMES. To open an account you must be a full-time employee of the Southwestern Illinois Campus, SIU. An account may be opened for any member of the immediate family--husband or wife, or children. An initial deposit of $5.00, plus 25¢ for membership fee is necessary. Thereafter you may make deposits whenever you wish and in whatever even-dollar amounts you choose. You must be a member of the Credit Union to borrow money. Loan applications are available at the Alton and East St. Louis business offices. All loans are covered by insurance. Should you borrow money and die before the loan is fully paid, the insurance company will pay the balance. Temporary and permanent disability protection is included. If you should have an outstanding loan and become permanently or temporarily disabled for a period of 90 days or more, the insurance company will make payments until you are no longer disabled. Illinois law prohibits any member of the Board of Directors to borrow money in excess of his deposits and for any other member the loan cannot exceed ten per cent of the Credit Union's net assets. The Credit Union is available for loans immediately in the III~ No .5 BULLE T IN Mildred Arnold, Editor Fangenroth Road Edwardsville, Illinois amount of $125, and if a faculty or staff member desires more, it can be arranged. For further information concerning SWICSIU, call Mr. Small at Ext. 44, East St. Louis. FILL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS H. BRUCE BRUBAKER took part in the Sunday morning church services at St. John's Methodist Church, Edwardsville, January 31. It was Pioneer Sunday--Looking into the Future. Brubaker's subject was "Looking Into the Future at Education." Mr. Brubaker is assistant to the vice president for institutional research and professor of education. On January 25 GUNTER REMMLING, assistant professor of sociology at Alton, spoke to the East Alton Parent-Teachers Association on "Empire to Republic: Half a Century of Social Change in Germany." KURT GLASER, lecturer in government at Alton, and DIMITER WASSEN, associate professor of economics and business management at Alton, led a forum on Communism January 29 at the meeting of the American Association of University Women in Wood River. Glaser spoke February 7 to a breakfast meeting of the Men's Club of the Godfrey Methodist Church. His talk concerned Communism and "ways of dealing with it." DONALD TAYLOR, EUGENE GRAVES and THOMAS EVANS will participate in a panel discussion at the Emge School, Belleville, March 4 on "Parental Delinquency." Alton's Evening College supervisor, ROBERT DUNCAN, appeared on a panel before the American Society of Training Directors January 13. The directors met at the Gatesworth Hotel in St. Louis and heard Duncan and two Washington University faculty members discuss "What the �FEBRU A R Y_, VoL. III_, No. 5 1960 F ACU L T Y NEWS Southern Illinois University SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CAMPUS SWICSIU CREDIT UNION The Southwestern Illinois Campus Credit Union began operation officially February 1. Its i~itial organizational meeting of incorporators was held January 22. Officers elected were: HARRY H. SMITH, president; S. D. LOVELL, vice president; ROBERT McDANIEL, secretary; and JOE R. SMALL, treasurer. Members of the Credit Committee are JOE R. SMALL, chairman; JAMES D. TURNER, FLORENCE FANNING; MORRIS CARR and LLOYD HUBERT, advisors. This committee must approve all loans made by the credit union. The Supervisory Committee examines the affairs of the credit union, including·its books and accounts. This committee comprises BEVERLY KITCHING, chairman; MILTON BYRD and NEDRA REAMES. To open an account you must be a full-time employee of the Southwestern Illinois Campus, SIU. An account may be opened for any member of the immediate family--husband or wife, or chil• dren. An initial deposit of $5.00, plus 25¢ for membership fee is necessary. Thereafter you may make deposits whenever you wish and in whatever even-dollar amounts you choose. You must be a member of the Credit Union to borrow money. Loan applications are available at the Alton and East St . Louis business offices. All loans are covered by insurance. Should you borrow money and die before the loan is fully paid, the insurance company will pay the balance. Temporary and permanent disability protection is included. If you should have an outstanding loan and become permanently or temporarily disabled for a period of 90 days or more, the insurance company will make payments until you are no longer disabled. Illinois law prohibits any member of the Board of Directors to borrow money in excess of his deposits and for any other member the loan cannot exceed ten per cent of the Credit Union's net assets. The Credit Union is available for loans immediately in the BULLE T IN Mildred Arnold, Editor Fangenroth Road Edwardsville, Illinois amount of $125, and if a faculty or staff member desires more, it can be arranged. For further information concerning SWICSIU, call Mr. Small at Ext. 44, East St. Louis. FILL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS H. BRUCE BRUBAKER took part in the Sunday morning church services at St. John's Methodist Church, Edwardsville, January 31. It was Pioneer Sunday--Looking into the Future. Brubaker's subject was "Looking Into the Future at Education." Mr. Brubaker is assistant to the vice president for institutional research and professor of education. On January 25 GUNTER REMMLING, assistant professor of sociology at Alton, spoke to the East Alton Parent-Teachers Association on "Empire to Republic: Half a Century of Social Change in Germany." KURT GLASER, lecturer in government at Alton. and DIMITER WASSEN, associate professor of economics and business management at Alton, led a forum on Communism January 29 at the meeting of the American Association of University Women in Wood River. Glaser spoke February 7 to a breakfast meeting of the Men's . Club of the Godfrey Methodist Church. His talk concerned Communism and "ways of dealing with it." DONALD TAYLOR, EUGENE GRAVES and THOMAS EVANS will participate in a panel discussion at the Emge School, Belleville, March 4 on "Parental Delinquency." Alton's Evening College supervisor, ROBERT DUNCAN, appeared on a panel before the American Society of Training Directors January 13. The directors met at the Gatesworth Hotel in St. Louis and heard Duncan and two Washington University faculty members discuss 11 What the �- 2 - Universities Can Do for the Busy Training Director." In reporting this information, E. R. CASSTEVENS, supervisor of the Industrial and Technical Program, said "Bob was a big success." JOHN J. GLYNN, director of the Alt~n center, addressed a group of National Honor Society students January 28 at Civic Memorial High School, Bethalto. his wife, Frina, were heard February 11 in a program of music for one piano, four hands, at the Fosterburg Elementary School. Works performed included pieces by Schubert, Mozart, Grieg and Brahms. On February 25 they will appear as featured soloists at the Collinsville High School band concert. BAND GIVES FIRST CONCERT The Concert Band of SWIC gave its first concert February 18 in the Chapel Auditorium of the Alton Center. Conducted by C. DALE FJERSTAD, the band featured Leonard Smith, nationally known cornetist, as soloist. A cornet-trumpet clinic was held that afterWINSLOW SHEA spoke February 10 at the noon. A number of instrumental teachers and Athenaeum on Albert Camus and Existentialism. their students from the area attended. Shea is instructor of philosophy at the Alton Center. ARTICLE TO APPEAR IN JOURNAL "I Used to Think I Knew I Knew" was the Last month ASSEN KRESTEFF received the title of H. H. Smith's talk January 26 at following note: "Thanks very much for sendthe promotion exercises of Rock Junior High School, East St. Louis. The exercises were ing along your article (10,000 words) enheld in the auditorium of the East St. Louis titled "Musica Sonora and Musica Disciplina" Center where Smith is associate professor of which I have just read with a great deal of interest. This is an excellent article and education. I shall want to use it in the Journal of ROBERT STEINKELLNER spoke to the Association Research in Music Education . . . I shall do for Childhood Education at the Franklin my best to get it in the earliest possible School, Belleville, on February 3. This issue since we have nothing else similar on assistant professor of elementary education any kind of topic . . . " This letter was at East St. Louis chose "Preparing Our Stusigned by Allen P. Britton, chairman of the dents for Brotherhood Week" for his topic. journal's editorial board. Kresteff is lecSteinkellner is serving this year as head turer in foreign languages and music at East of the Heart Association's collection of St. Louis. funds in Collinsville. On February 14 EVELYN T. BUDDEMEYER, art instructor at Alton, discussed "The Art Program for the Young Child" before the Alton chapter of the American Association of University Women. • HOWARD DAVIS, SWIC's director of student affairs, spoke January 19 at the Horace Mann School Mother's Club in Alton. His subject was "What an Elementary Guidance Program Should Be." On January _25 he spoke at the North Junior High School (Alton) ParentTeacher Association meeting on vocational education. His topic was "Look, Ma, No Hands." BOLDTS GIVE PROGRAM KENWYN BOLDT, Alton piano instructor, and DRIFTWOOD FIRE (Reprinted from January 24 Sunday edition of the St. Louis POST-DISPATCH) JOHN KNOEPFLE of Edwardsville bases many of his river poems on a series of tape recordings he has made of the recollections of rivermen who go back to the days of the sidewheel packets. His recordings are being prepared for deposit in the Cincinnati Public Library's Inland Rivers Department. Mr. Knoepfle, who was born in 1923, is a graduate student at St. Louis University and lecturer in English �- 3 - at Southern Illinois University's East St. Louis Residence Center. His verses have appeared in The Yale Review and Poetry, among other publications. Fleur de Lis, student magazine edited and published by the Writers' Institute of St. Louis University, presents five of his river poems in i .ts current issue, one of them being "Driftwood Fire." I breathe before morning some driftwood into fire. The bank is dry now after late spring's raise, and the river slips a princely darkness. His silence needs . no counsel. My glance levels over these humming sticks an unsought dread no time shapes lovely as mist congeals itself to fear and stranger, though he carries no more than jugs his shoulders beam an a x is for. He'll spend his morning after cat, wrapped in his still world drifting where he has no place, his river bobbed with all his jugs, constellations he thinks positioned worth his while. My fire expands a bubble in air while I define myself like one who wakes to pain inside his pearl, some digger great with tunnels whose art cracked under a universe of river. I ought to shout that fisher here to warm himself and weatherwise the dawn, and for his part I know some friendly itch to share these coals catches his disappointed sleeve. • But he's united stat es and ha s a hand in pocket want and so am I. We can have no place. He has his dark and I my light, and neither one of us are kings. small craftsman experi enc e d during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Baker is associate professor of government on the Alton Campus. FRED W. ZURHEIDE, instructor of physics at Alton, is co-author of an article which appeared in a recent issue of ~n Italian scientific journal , Il Nuovo Cimento (New Experiments). Written in collaboration with Professor 0. B. Young, director of Atomic and Capacitor Resea rch for SIU (Carbondale), the article records the results of a study the two . made entitled "Primary Heavy Cosmic Ra ys Near the Geomagnetic Equator." "Writing for the Professional Journals" is the name of an article written by ETHEL HALE. It app ears in the February issue of The Balance Sh e et , a periodical for teachers in business and s e cret a rial science. Miss Hale is a lecturer in secretarial science and business education at Alton. TRIBUNE AND TIME S QUOTE MEREDITH CAMERON W. MEREDITH's paper presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science which met in Chicago during the Christmas holidays was quoted in the Sunday Chica go Tribune and the Sunday New York Times January 3 in a special from Walter Sullivan. ". . . Cameron W. Meredith of Southern Illinois University advocat e d self-re s t ra ine d silence on the part of the t ea cher or parent as the best way to foster an atmosphere of good behavior. He said that if the teacher showed he coul d n e ither be frightened nor pr ovoked, he would soon win the respect . of his student . This produced skepticism from teachers in schools where gangs and violence are a problem. Dr. Meredith replied that his procedure required courage and a sympathetic principal. It was better, he said, than the conversion of every teacher into a 'policeman.'" ARTICLES PUBLISHED The New Leader will soon carry an article by RICHARD C. BAKER entitled "The Small Farmer: Another Vanishing American." Baker's thesis is that the small farmer of today is in the same dying stage which the ON SELECTION COMMITTEE DEAN WILLIAM T. GOING served on the Senior Selection Committee for the Man of the Year, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce �- 4 - •· of St. Louis. The committee was chaired by James Hickok, president of the First National Bank; Dean Going represented the field of education in the Greater St. Louis area. Presentation of the award to F. William Human, mayor of Clayton, was made at the Statler ballroom, where forty years ago to the day the national organization of the Junior Chamber was founded. Governor William G. Stratton of Illinois was the principal speaker. ON JOHNSON SOCIETY PROGRAM NICHOLAS JOOST has been invited to appear on the program of the Johnson Society of the Great Lakes Region, April 30, with such scholars as Irvin Ehoenpreis and James Clifford. The society will meet at John Carroll University in Cleveland. Joost's paper is entitled "Legitimism versus Toryism." It will deal with the question of Jacobitism and Toryism as seen in the writings of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Joost is associate professor of English at Alton. CONDUCTED WORKSHOP On January 25 CATHERINE MILOVICH conducted a mid-term art workshop for approximately 40 primary teachers of the Edwardsville Community Schools at their Junior High building. Experiences were provided in finger paint, tempera paint, potato printing and texture constructions with tactile materials. At the same time, EVELYN T. BUDDEMEYER of the Alton staff conducted a similar workshop for the intermediate level. Mrs. Milovich is assistant professor of art at East St. Louis. • CLIFTON CORNWELL, assistant professor of speech at East St. Louis, was in Chicago January 28 to attend the Midwest Council on Airborne Television Instruction which was held at the Windermere Hotel. H. BRUCE BRUBAKER was official representative of SWIC at the annual meeting of the American Association of School Administrators held February 13-17 at Atlantic City. On February 15 SIU had an open house from four to six p.m. at the Traymore Hotel. Nearly 150 persons attended, Brubaker reported, including Gordon Dodds , superintendent of the Edwardsville schools, and George Wilkins, superintendent of public instruction for the state of Illinois, and Mrs. Wilkins. Dodds and Wilkins are alumni of SIU. Members of AASA heard some topnotch speakers, Brubaker said, among them Governor Rockfeller of New York and Secretary of Agriculture Benson. HYMAN FRANKEL read a paper at the Conference of the Council on Social Work Education held recently in Oklahoma City. In addition to reading the paper, he took part in a panel on workshop programs. Frankel, assistant professor of sociology at Alton, has been named to the board of directors of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society. Also attending the Council on Social Work Education Conference was DONALD TAYLOR, associate professor of sociology, East St. Louis. ATTENDED CONFERENCES Representing SWIC at a joint meeting in Chicago of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics were ERIC STURLEY, LYMAN HOLDEN and ARNOLD SEIKEN from Alton, and KERMIT CLEMANS and CLELLIE OURSLER from East St. Louis. The meeting was held in late January. MARY MARGARET BRADY, associate professor of secretarial science and business education at Alton, attended the annual meeting of the National Association for Business Teacher Education which was held in Chicago February ll-13. Miss Brady served on a committee which discussed problems of curriculum. WILLIAM C. SHAW, professor of physics at East St. Louis, was in New York January 27-30 attending the joint meetings of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He reports an interesting and worthwhile trip and commented on the demonstration of new equipment, particularly that of Russia and other �- 5 - , foreign countries. · It is much cheaper , he said. Mr. Shaw's specialty is solid state physics. At the meetings he met a number of people with whom he had worked in AEC and the Midwest Research Institute. Kresge Company, a representative, Mr. Zane, will be on the Alton campus February 24 from 9:00 to 12:00. WITH DEEPE ST SYMPATHY STUDY MADE BY SHOWERS NORMAN SHOWERS has completed a study on "An Investigation of Guidance Service at the Alton Center of the Southwestern Illinois Campus." Copies of the study were presented to students in a graduate guidance class at Washington University. Showers is instructor of physical education for men at Alton. We were all sorry to learn of the death of MARION TAYLOR's mother. Mrs. Taylor, assistant professor of English at Alton, wrote, "On behalf of my husband, my son, and me, I wish to thank the faculty for the beautiful basket of flowers sent to my mother's funeral in Iowa City, Iowa. We are all deeply grateful. " FROM DIEKROEGER ON TV FORUM Representing the University February 1 on The Changing World television series were JOHN J. GLYNN and WALTER BLACKLEDGE. ROBERT DUNCAN was moderator. Lloyd McBride, subdistrict director of Illinois for the United Steel Workers, and J. S. Kovic, industrial relations manager for the East Alton plant of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation , spoke for industry and labor in discussing problems of modern collective bargaining. The University participants are all members of the Alton staff. Glynn is director; Blackledge is professor of business management, and Duncan is supervisor of the Evening College. This was the eighth program of the series presented on KETC-9, St.Louis, the first and third Monday evenings at nine o'clock. HOTEL DISCOUNT AVAILABLE • • University faculty members may take advantage of a low-rate plan offered by a national hotel chain. The guest card arrangement allows one to charge rooms, meals, car rental, and other services. Check with your director for details . EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW If your students are interested in the management trainee program of the S. S. The gymnasium at East St. Louis will be open for faculty activity participation on Fridays from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m . and from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., according to an announcement by JAMES DIEKROEGER, instructor of physical education for men. FINER FILMS "The Seven Deadly Sins" will be shown Friday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the East St. Louis Center. The film, directed in part by Roberto Rossellini, is a series of seven short stories, each centered about one of the so-called mortal frailties. The film stars Michele Morgan, Francoise Rosy, Viviane Romance and Henry Vidal. Members of the Finer Films Group view and discuss distinctive foreign and domestic awardwinning motion pictures of the past and pre-. sent. FOREIGN LANGUAGE NEWS More than 200 persons attended the modern language festival February 13 at the Alton Center. Sponsored by the campus Deutschklub, the program featured selections from French, German , Russian and Spanish languages. High school students from Alton and Hardin, as well as university students from the Alton Center, sang and took part in dances, dialogues and readings in the four languages. �- 6 - • HERROLD HEADLEY, choral director for SHIC, sang in the three Western European languages. RUTH KILCHENMANN was in charge of festival arrangements . RUTH KILCHENMANN, associate professor of German at ' Alton, has advised us that another FLES project has been inaugurateu, this one in Washington School, Alton. Two of her advanced students are teaching in the second grade. A very successful program was started in South Roxana last month in grades one to six. instructional program. January 18 Taliana participated in a program with the Reverend Reuben Baerwald, president of the Madison County Mental Health Society. The two talked to the Alton Rotary Club on mental health at a meeting in the Stratford Hotel. On February ll he talked to the Mother's Club of the Fosterburg Elementary School on the topic of "Child Behavior Traits of the Six to Twelve Age Group." Taliana is assistant professor of guidance at Alton. PLAN CONFERENCE On March 5 German students of the area high schools will meet in Room 300 of th e Administration Building, Alton, for the first contest of the American Association of Teachers of German. Between 30 and 40 students will compete in this national contest, said Mrs. Kilchenmann, who will supervise the test. First prize is six weeks in Germany. Other prizes will be given to stimulate interest in foreign languages. A planning conference was held February 12 in Edwardsville to lay groundwork for a spring meeting of all area guidance personnel. Those participating '"ere H. H. SMITH, WILLIAM BANAGHAN and LAWRENCE TALIANA, chairman. The three are on the Alton staff . Smith is associate professor of education; Banaghan and Taliana are assistant professors of guidance. READING ASSOCIATION ALTON DEBATE TEAM The International Reading Association will meet March 4 at the East St. Louis Center. Coached by ROBERT HAWKINS, assistant professor of sp eec h at Alton, the debate team at that center entered its first intercollegiate competition this month in a tournament at P~: ·rdue . University in West Lafayette, Indiana. On February 16 the team met Principia College in a practice session, and on February 26 and 27 it will engage in a tournament at DeKalb. The question debated is: Resolved that the Congress should be given th e power to reverse decisions of the Supreme Court. Dr . St er l Artley, professor of ed ucati on at Missouri University, will speak on "Skills are Not Enough!" Artley is director of the Reading Clinic at Missouri University and current president of the International Reading Association. He is one of the major authors of the Scott-Foresman Basal Reader Series. TALIANA ON PROGRAMS • • LAWRENCE E. TALIANA addressed the Edwardsville Junior High School faculty January 25 at its mid-term workshop on "Methods of Integrating the Formal Guidance Program with the Regular Junior High School Program." On January 15 hE met with the School Sisters of Notre Dame, Notre Dame College, St. Louis, in a meeting designed to set up a testing program for the college's freshmen, sophomore and senior classes. The school has recently been designated dS a four-year college and is planning an evaluat ion of its FACULTY HOMEN MEET The SW IC-SIU Faculty Women's Club held a luncheon at the Edwardsville Gun Club on February 18. Chairman of this event was MRS. GENE TURNER. Her committee members included MRS . C. E. PEEBLES, MRS. EUGENE HERSCHER, MRS . DANIEL BOSSE, MRS. DALE FJERSTAD, MRS. ROBERT HAWKINS and MRS, SVERRE SCHELDRUP. The March 17 meeting will be a guest tea at the East Alton Saving. & Loan Company at 1:00 p.m. �- 7 - MRS. ALFRED KUENZLI will serve as chairman. • THE SYMPOSIUM The newly-organized faculty club at the East St. Louis Center has been named "The Symposium." Located at 600 1/2 Tenth Street, the club rooms are available for use by members and their spouses at any time. The first party was held Saturday night, February 20. Members of the board of governors include ROBERT ERICKSON (chairman), assistant professor of history; GERALD RUNKLE, associate professor of philosophy; and PETER SIMPSON, instructor of English. MARY MEGEE, assistant professor of geography is treasurer. S. D. LOVELL, who took the leadership in forming "The Symposium" and who is unofficially recognized as "The Founder," says, "This thing has tremendous possibilities." CONDUCTS SUNDAY SERVICE On February 21, D. E. WASSEN, associate professor of economics and business management at Alton, conducted the Sunday service at the Salem Presbyterian Church in Alton . • �el • � 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 1960, Vol. 3, No. 5 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1960