https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/8fce8de2f8c59a28d62b138a521d431f.pdf ca0dfb044fc4eee29169bd30531d9a17 PDF Text Text .:n...... '"'-'" lo-LIHUj!) UrJJVER:-i \' LIBRARIES-CARBONDALE RECE IVED JANUARY uz1 , J.\1-t u 3 1863 VoL • 1 , 1958 q No .f1 C'Ol1PI LED lfONTHLY By ] N FOR J'IA T ION S'E R VIC JfJiUlSS'f!;ff'frH WE STER N iLLI NOIS RESIDENCE OFFICE SouTHERN ] LL INO IS UN !VER SI T Y, F OR T H E STAFF 11El1BERS OF THE R~SIDENCE CEN TERS~ T H E iVEWSLE T T ER IS H A DE POSSIBLE BY THE COOPERA TION OF ST AFF HEHBERS WHO H A VE CO N T RI BUTED NEWS ITE!1S. F A C' U L T Y N E 1:1 S L E T T E R Ne-v1 Homen's Club Carmazelle Davis, Alton, Ha s e lee ted pres i dent o f the ne~v Re s idence Centers' Faculty Homen'D Club January 23. . . Betty Spahn, Scott Air Force Ba se, Has named v1ce -pres1dent, _and Geneva Peebles, Alton, is tre a surer. Betty Sturley, Ali:on, \·Jill be program cha irman, and Lucy NcAneny., Alton , · will he in charge of publicity. Named directors at large are Rui: h Ba iley, Bellevi l l e, and No rma. Sho-v1ers, Alton. on January 27 the club's executives met a t the home of Geneva Peebles to i~ormulatc plans for the year. Mary Margaret Brady, secretarial science, Alton, is co-author of a textbook for calculating machine instruction scheduled for publication this month . Dr. Brady, co-author Hith Peter AgneH, NeH York University, of the book Advanced Key-driven Calculator Course, secured much of the material for it as a part of her doctoral study, and organized it for teaching purposes from job analyses of work performed in offices on the key-driven calculator. The book is being published by the SouthHestern Publishing Company. A member of Shurtleff College's staff several years ago, Margaret Brady came to Alton this year from Madison College, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Board of Trustees Meeting in Alton SIU's Board of Trustees toured the Alton campus yesterday before a morning business session at Davis Lodge. The y met at lunch Hith t he executive committee of the Southwestern Illinois Council f or Hi ghe r Education and held their afternoon business session at the Alton Country Club. Dean See reported that total student enrollment for all types of programs shows a net increase of four per cent this quarter. Full-time day student enrollment increased sligh tly more than four per cent. With the enrollment of additional freshmen at mi d- t erm in a special accelerated program at East St. Louis, the percentage o f i ncrease Hill be even greater. Graduate student enrollment gains of slightly more than 11 per cent occurred simultaneously with a net drop of 21 per cent in evening credit course enrollment. Total student enrollment in credit cour ses showed a net decrease of two per cent, but when the registrar computed the full-time equivalent, he found an increase of five per cent in total instruction. Adult _and technical student enrollment incre a sed 22 per cent, principally because of an increase in "in-plant" and civil defense programs. (more) �- 2 - Students Receive Financial Aid More than 700 Residence Center students at Alton and East St. Louis receive state or federal help with their education. Well over ~alf of th:se.are studen~s who receive financial help only because they are attend1ng an Ill1no1s state un1versity. This makes 35 of them eligible for SIU Scholarship and Activity Awards, 156 for Illinois Military Scholarships, 65 for State Te .1 che: ~raining ~cholarships, and 124 for university part-time employment. Veterans re~e1v1ng benef1ts number 318, Roughly 40 per cent of the Residence Center students rece1ve help through these sources. Who's Who? \.Ji th the addition of seven new faculty members for the \vinter quarter, the regular full-time teaching staff of the Centers includes 24 doctorates (63 per cent); Twenty persons hold two or more degrees from the same university. ··' · ~ Midwestern universities account for most of the 103 degrees held by the 38 regular full-time staff members, but 13 of them are from Eastern universities, including Harvard and Yale, and four are from universities south of the MasonDixon line. Thirteen of the faculty took at least one degree in a university west of the Mississippi. Two men hold three degrees in addition to their doctorates, and one holds two bachelor's and two master's. Only two staff members hold degrees from SIU, and these two hold two each. Not included in the count are the Centers' degree-laden, non-teaching registrar and business managers. David Bear, education, Alton, spoke at two PTA meetings this month, in Edwardsville and Granite City. On the 17th he addressed the PTA of Trinity Lutheran High School in Edwardsville on the "Effects of Child Growth and Development on Curriculum Practices in the Elementary School." Ten days later, as guest speaker at the Granite City Jr. High School PTA at a meeting at Central School, he defined "A Good Education." Rings Visit New York Dr. and Mrs. Ring motored to Jamestown, New York, during the recent snow storm. Mrs. Ring, who broke her arm before Christmas, does not hold even a back seat driver's license, and Dr. Ring was at the wheel the entire trip. They reportedly reached Jamestown in less th~n three days. Course for VIP' r. Chels Bailey, Technical and Adult Education, Residence Office, and Joe Bird, Management, Alton, have designed a course in top-level management for VIP's in industry. C?mprised o~ supervis?rs who report to no one lower than a vice-president in the1r respect 1ve compan 1es, and selected because of the strategic positions they hold, the group includes a company president. (more) �• )) • A - 3 - Dean See was guest speaker January 9 at a meeting of the Nitchell PTA in Mitchell, Illinois. John Schnabel, associate registrar, Alton and East St. Louis, will address the Greene County Education Association at Eldred on Monday , February 3 on "An Effective Public School Program as Interpreted by an Admis s ions Director." nvo Hundred Miles for Bridge Helen See, Ruth Bailey, and Betty Spahn drove to Carbondale one day last week with the announced intention of carrying off some o f the 20 prizes offered at the dessert-bridge of the Faculty Homen's Club at Carbondale. Nembers of the delegation who could be reached at their homes have consistently dec114ed to comment as to the success of the mission. .... ·, .. .. . . · . ·~ . � 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 January 1958, Vol. 1, No. 9 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 1958