https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/5619c64ebdc335b1ef13daf241580bcc.pdf bc0a40322ecf456fa725f2ebb78dca59 PDF Text Text 1'958 GonPILED lfONTHLY BY ]NFORlfATION SERVICE, SouTHWESTERN ILLINOIS RESIDENCE' OFFICE, SoUTHERN ]LLINOIS UNIVERSITY, FOR THE STAFF 11ElfBERS OF THE RESIDENCE CENTERS, THE NEWSLETTER IS !fADE POSSIBLE BY THE COOPERATION OF STAFF lfElfBERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEWS ITE11S. FACULTY NE W SLETTER Chelsea Bailey, Technical and Adult Education head, Sbut:me ste:.::n IllinoiS Residence Office, addressed four groups within one fortnight recently. He told two separate groups at the East St. Louis High School about the Land of the Flying Carpet and Arabian Nights. He reported that the ·p·rincipal, Wirt Downing, is to be congratulated on the school's excellent discipline, and that the two audiences, totaling 1,700, were among the most attentive one could ask for anywhere. On June 2 he talked to the Central Illinois Master Plumbers Association in Red Bud about Sanitary Conditions in Baghdad. Three days later he told the Men's Club of Collinsville's First Presbyterian Church about the People, Customs, and Religion of Iraq. Kathryn VanHorn, Alton, was elected president of the Residence Centers' Women's Club at a meeting held Saturday, Y~y 24, at Cahokia MOunds State Park. ----------------------------~------ Dean Harold W. See gave the commencement address at Southwestern High School in Piasa, Macoupin County, on May 28. ----------------------------------Professor Joseph Bird, business management, Alton, spoke Sunday, May 18, at the Upper Alton Baptist Church's annual dinner in honor of the children being graduated. Topic: "We Grow". --------------------~-------------- Dr. Laurence McAneny, physics, Alton, was the commencement speaker June 2 at Pleasant Hill's Community High School. ----------------------------------- �, • - 2 - Thomas Evans, supervisor of student affairs, East St. Louis, talked to the Future Teachers of America at the East St. Louis High School on Nay 19. ----------------------------------Mary Wyatt, nursing, Alton and East St. Louis, attended the educational section of the American Nurses Association in Atlantic City June 9-13 as a delegate from the State of Illinois. ----------------------------------David Eli Bear and John Joseph Glynn this month brought ·to 23 the number of doctorates held by the 35 full-time instructional staff members . of. Southern Illinois University teaching at the Alton Residence Center the Spring quarter. (This is deliberately a tricky sentence. -- ed.) Bear, former Alton public school administrator, who joined SIU' s staff last year when it established a residence center on the campus of the former Shurtleff College in Alton, received his doctorate this week at Washington University. A specialict in elementary education, he came to Alton in 1949 after two years' teaching in Wood River. This summer he will serve as -assistant director of three SIU Horkshops at the Alton Center: Educational Utilization of Community Resources, June 16-July 11; School Public Relations, July 14-31; and Advanced Driver Education, August 18-28. Glynn's Ph.D. is in business administration. Appearing before a doctoral committee of St. Louis University professorsin business administration and economics headed by Henry A. K. Junckerstorff, he outlined the advantages of commercial arbitration of trade disputes -as opp_o·seii to expensive, time-consuming litigation -- in resolving difficult trade controversies while preserving friendly commercial relationships. Business administration head of St. Louis University's Parks College before joining the Alton Center staff, Glynn's appointment as evening college supervisor was confirmed by the board of trustees this Spring. ----------------------------------SIU Faculty Publish Articles "Should the Property Tax Remain as the Leading Source of Hunicipal Revenue?" Unless certa~n objectionable exemptions are removed, "it appears l:tut a matter of time until other tax sources supersede the traditional role of the tax on property as the chief source of municipal revenue," concludes Dr. s. D. L'ovell of Belleville, Illinois, in the current issue of the Atlanta Economic Review. A five-page tabulated description of the objectionable features of the property . tax, the article is the second published discussion of the subject by Lovell since he joined the SIU staff last September. ' Articles by two other Southern Illinois University faculty members appear in current issues of national publications. \ ----------------------------------(more) �- 3 - • • Dr. William Going, senior professor of Engl~sh at SIU:s Alton Residence ?ente:, has an article on Oscar Wilde and l.Jilfrid Blunt 1n the Sprwg number of The V1ctonan Newsletter, a publication of the Modern Language Association. . Two articles on Faulkner by Going, as well as a review of h~s on Welbourn Kelley, appeared in winter issues of three other scholarly publications. His first popular book a posthumous edition of William March's Ninety-Nine Fables was accepted for publication recently by the University of Alaba~a Press. Dr. Robert Duncan assistant professor of Engl1sh at the SIU center in Alton, received notice yesterday (6/19/58) that his short story "The Lady is a Pilot" has been accepted for publication. The fourth of his short stories to be published this year, "The Lady is a Pilot" is scheduled for the next issue of the magaz ine Air Facts. MM ----------------------------------.... ' ...... . · -~ - SIU Centers Add to Staff Seven new staff appointments to Southern Illinois University's Residence Centers were confirmed today by the university board of trustees meeting in Carbondale. Three men \..rere named as assistant professors: at Alton, Dr . . John I. Ades, English; to serve both Alton and East St. Louis: Dr. Harold Headley, vocal music, and Dr.Howard Nesbitt, men's physical education and supervisor of athletics. ~..ro men received instructorships, at Alton: Kenneth Martin, secretarial science; at East St. Louis: James L. Diekroeger, men's physical education. Two staff members were transferred from the Carbondale campus: Dr. Herbert H. Rosenthal, assistant professor of history, to Alton, and Miss Stephanie Conwell, associate professor of nursing, to serve both Alton and East St. Louis. ' Five lecturers received appointments for 1958-59, and the board confirmed the continuing appointments of 36 persons at present on the staff of the Centers. (On "continuing appointments" are staff members with the rank of instructor or above.) Executive Dean Harold W. See called attention to the fact that every staff member who received a continuing appointment on coming to the Centers last September has contracted to stay on, and only two of the staff members added in January have signed contracts elsewhere. Approximately 25 new positions have been created to help take care of this Fall's increase in enrollment, See stated, and negotiations with candidates for most ofthese are well under way. Posing the most serious problem are openings in chemistry, physics, · and psychology, he said. · ----------------------------------New Titles for SIU Faculty Ten staff members of Southern Illinois University's Residence Centers received new titles or promotion in rank through hoard of trustees' action at Carbondale today (6/24/58) • .Dr. William T. Going, senior professor, Language and Fine Arts Divisio~was appointed Dean of Instruction for the Residence Centers in Alton. Belleville. and East __ St. T,ouis. Going, a former staff member of the University of Alabama, took his master's degree at Duke and his doctorate at the University of Hichigan. ·. His experience, primarily at the university level included a year's teaching at West End High School in Birmingham. ' (n:orc) �• ·- - 4 - The educators of Southwestern Illinois heard some of his view~ on education a month after his arrival in the area, when he addressed the St. Cla~r County Institute of Junior and Senior High School Teachers on "Supermarket Cultur:. ,, . Since joining the SIU staff 1ast September, he h~s had publ~she~ two art~cles on William Faulkner one on Wilfrid Blunt and Oscar W~lde, and a rev~ew of Welbourn Kelley's Alabama Em;ire; a popular book -- a pos~hum~us edition o~ Wil~iam March's Ninety-Nine Fables __ has been accepted for publ~cat~on by the Un~vers~ty of Alabama Press. His doctoral dissertation is on l,Jilfred Scawen Blunt and the Tradition of the Sonnet Sequence in the 19th Century. , . While on the staff of the University of Alabama s 40-person Engl~sh Department, he served for a time as director of the teaching of technical English, conducted a Seminar in the Teaching of College English in connection with the Ph.D. program, and held a research grant from the University Research Council to make a study of the life and l'lorks of William March, author of Company K and The Bad Seed. While at Alabama he also had articles published in the Alabama ·School Journal, Georgia Review, Alabama Review, Modern Language Notes, Modern Language Quarterly, College English, The Explicator, and Notes and Queries. His work t'lith committees of the Alabama Education Association on the articulation of high school and college freshman English led to the publication of a pamphlet, Suggestions about the Preparation for College English. A member of the Modern Language Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (in which he served as Chairman of the Freshman English Section,) he also belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa. At SIU he is co-chairman of the Graduate Development Committee, and a member of the Scholarship, Curriculum, and Convocations committees. His wife, Ivlargaret, also an Alabaman, holds an M.A. from Hellesley and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. James D. Turner, of the Alton Center's sociology staff was named Director of the East St. Louis Residence Center by the SIU board. Turner brought to his new job seven years' university residence center experience (at the Gary, Indianapolis, and Jeffersonville Centers of Indiana University); teaching experience in a southern university (associate professor of sociology, Florida State University); two years' experience as a research analyst (American Bar Foundation, Chicago, ,.,here he knew Hyman Frankel, sociology Alton); and more than five years in the USMC (major). He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University in sociology, with minors in law and political theory, and a B.S. from Mississippi Southern University. Turner's group research, under the auspices of the American Bar Foundation, was on the implementation of criminal law in Kansas, Wisconsin, and ~tichigan. H~ individual research, conducted in the South, \'las on the differential implementation of the criminal law in bi-racial communities. The Turners, who live in Godfrey, have sons aged 5 and 2 and expect another child in August. Dr • Leonard B· Wheat, associate professor of education at the Alton Center ,.,as designated Supervisor of Graduate Advisement today. A Columbia University, Ph.D., he came to Southern Illinois University in January of this year from the University oi Minnesota's Duluth Branch, where he had headed (more) �- 5 - Mrs. t.Jheat will join him when their home in Duluth is sold. tvheat's three youngest children attend the University of Ninnesota, two boys at Duluth and a daughter at Minneapolis. The oldest son received his Ph.D. from Harvard this June, and the older daughter, a practicing physician is married ~o a practising physician. Dr ; John J. Glynn was officially desi gnated by the board as Evening College Supervisor of the residence center in Alton. Business administration head of SL. Louis University's Parks College before joining the Alton Center staff la s t September, he received a Ph.D. in business administration from St. Louis University this Spring. C:l i fton Cormzell _ , assistant professor of speech, \vas named Evening College Supervisor of the East St. Louis Center. Formerly assistant professor of speech and director of foren si cs at the University of Hawaii, he had completed two years toward a doctorate at the University of Missouri in 1950 when he wan recalled to active duty in the Korean Har. After Korea he spent several years in the foreign trade program, sandwiching in an assignment as foreign trade and development director for --the --Chamber of Commerce in metropolitan St. Louis in 1955. Dr. Harold H. See, executive dean of the centers, was promoted to professor, and Dr. David Bear, education, Alton, to assistant professor. Three staff members were made instructors: Caswell E. Peebles, business officer for the Centers; Virgil Seymour, sociology , East St. louis; and Hrs. 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