https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/eea8348d000c5cd1eedc288194a04d0c.pdf 98c0fd9af8ffd3f50842174781fa9ccd PDF Text Text . South'Western Illinois Residence Centers Southern Illinois University FACULTV . NEWS BULLETIN �JUNE~ Vaiiu .. IIJ' No .. 8 1959 FA. CULTY NEWS BULLETIN Mildred Arnold, Editor Room 227, Broadview Hotel Bridge 4-2100, ext. 3 NOTHING CAN HOLD BACK THE DAWN (Editorial lvhich appeared in the June 10 issue of the EDHl\RDSVILLE INTELLIGENCK"t . ) When it w·as learned recently that construction on the ne\v Southern Illinois University campus at Ed\vardsville would not begin immediately, the first reaction naturally Has one of disappointment. But a quick review of what has been done in just two short years to provide university facilities in this part of the state shaHs the positive steps far outdistance the negative. T\vo years ago the nearest state university was more than 100 miles away. Students in other portions of the state could commute to state-supported universities and still work full or part time in their home communities to finance their education. This was not the case with this area. ... Madison and St. Clair counties, with the greatest conce ntration of population in the state outside Chicago, furnished a lar ge volume of the tax money to support university facilities in other parts of the state, but the only young people of this re gion Hho could benefit from these facilities \vere the ones who could afford to live away from home. Since 1957 more than 4,500 individuals have been enabled to avail themselves of university offerings in this area, and it is expected that 6,000 different persons will be privileged to participate in some type of university activity this coming year. Assurances of support by the Governor, Hhich include funds for architectural and engi neering studies, are tangible evidence that the project to provide a major campus in this area will go fon1ard. It has also been reliably reported that in a few months the central administrative offices of the Southwestern Illinois Campus will be moving to the Edwardsville site. While these developments are important in themselves, of even greater import is the assurance that benefits will continue to evolve from the dynamic leadership provided by SIU's administrators. At the helm of SIU is a man with broad vision and a sensitivity to the needs of Southern Illinois, an educator highly regarded throughout the entire state, Dr. Delyte W. Morris. In charge of the university's program in this part of the state is an indefatigable and effective administrator, equally \veil-informed on our area's needs and highly regarded by each community in the area, Dr. llarold W. See. The effective teamwork displayed by these men could well set the tone of cooperation between our area and the rest of Southern Illinois. Basing our confidence on the impressive record scored by this leadership, we look to the day when Southern Illinois will achieve the level of development being planned for it by these and other dedicated individuals throughout the southern half of Illinois. GOVERNOR STRATTON ON SIU BRANCH (Editorial which appeared on the editorial page of a June 3 edition of the St. Louis POST-DISPATCH.) Although Governor Stratton did not encourage his visitors in beha~f of Southern Illi- �- 2 - nois University's Madison-St. Clair branch to expect an immediate appropriation to build a new campus, he did show a generally friendly attitude toward the development of greater educational facilities in the nearby Illinois area. The Governor pointed out that his current budget includen approximately $300,000 for engineerinG and architectural studies of the 1400-acre site near Edwardsville toHard whose purchase 60,000 people have contributed nearly $600,000. As Mr. Stratton said, this constitutes an actual investment by the State of Illinois in the new campus, and in any case, careful engineering and ~tchitectural studies ought to be conducted before the first spade of earth can be turned for the first new building. Meantime the Governor's budget recognizes the gro>·l ing use of the residence centers in Alton and East St. Louis by providing a $700,000 deficiency appropriation for additional expenses incurred as more and more young Illinoisans turned to the residence centers. The next two years will not be lost in the development of Southern Illinois' MadisonSt. Clair branch university. The site can be wholly acquired and carefully studied as to its best uses. Plans can, indeed must, be drawn thoughtfully and farsightedly. Meantime the increase in attendance at the residence centers will show the need still more clearly to the officials and lmvmakers at Springfield. PRAISEHORTHY PURPOSE (This editorial on the Southwestern Illinois Chorophonic Society was carried in the June 4 issue of the 1\lton EVENING TELEGRAPH.) Considerable pride can be felt by the Alton area over the nev1ly "unveiled" Southt-1estern Illinois Chorophonic Society. The chorus of nearly a hundred gave its first concert in the First Nethodist Church Monday niGht (June 1), largely as an invitational affair. If Dr. H. E. Headley's grooming of the choir is any indication of the general quality of faculty members on the SIU campus, then residents here have real reason for optimism. The choir's performance of an intricate and lengthy work completely new to all its members would have done credit to an organization with much longer to prepare it than was avai~able to this group. But the chief cause for complimenting Dr. Headley and his chorus is the announced aim to study and perform many other works in this tremendous field. Such masterpieces as the Cherubini mass performed the other night can lie about gathering dust for years without doing the world any good. It is Hhen they are brought out and given voice through such choruses as Dr. Headley's that they accomplish their missions. And a chorus such as Dr. Headley's owes it to the Horld of music to bring these pieces out and Hork with them, to see that they live. One can sit dovm and read a book, a magazine article or a newspaper easily and learn what is in it. Most of the public, however, must become acquainted with music through hearing it. And choral \vorks require choral orcanizations to make them available if the public is ever to rise above its "Mother Goose" acquaintance with music literature. The Southwestern Illinois Chorophonic Society, then, Hill be performing a great service to the world of music by presenting these pieces; to its members by making them acquainted with the \vorks at a performer's level, and to the public by interpreting them. It is a praiseworthy purpose, ~ndeed. We wish Dr. Headley the highest success in his avowed aims. COLLECTION PRESENTED'TO ALTON CENTER Harold E. Broadbooks has presented a $2,000 collection of stuffed birds and mammals to the University's Alton Residence Center. Collected in Mexico, Arizona, Ne\-1 Mexico, Y-Jashington, Oregon, Michigan, and Illinois, the 65 birds and 573 mammals Here skinned and stuffed as scientific study �- 3 - specimens. <~ong the birds are such specimens as a loon, sooty shearwater, black brant, murrelet, glaucous-winged gull, Cooper's hawk, chimney swift, wanderinG tattler and screech owl. Some of the mammals are the western mole, long-tailed shrew, several different kinds of bats, weasel, spotted skunk, ground squirrel s, western chipmunks, flying squirrel, pocl,e t gophers, kangaroo rats, beaver, many kind s of mice, cotton rat, packrat, jackrabbit and the skull of a mountain lion. Also included are a fe,., dozen reptiles and amphibians and about 100 marine invertebrates collected at Friday Harbor on Puget Sound. work is "Criteria for the Selection and Retention of Students in Business Education in Colleges and Universities." Miss Brady is recording secretary of the Soroptimist Club of Alton. She was installed in the office on June 11. TEA HELD FOR STUDENTS Babette Marks and Hary M. Brady were hostesses June 3 at a tea given in Tolman Hall for business education and physical education majors. MISCELLANY TAKING A VACATION? John Schnabel is not running a travel bureau (he knmvs the Administration frmvns on staff members holding down two jobs-Ed.). Hmvever, his office has been flooded with vacation material from all over the United States. Faculty members are welcome to any of the material to be found on di s play tables in the registrar's office at both centers. If you have not decided w;here to spend your vacation, perhaps you will find an idea. (Secure your information from the material available--personne l in those offices \·J ill not be able to ansue r your questions--Ed.). CHAIRMAN OF MUH BOARD Ruth Kilchenmann has been appointed to the board of the Alton branch of the i\merican Association of University Women. As chairman of International Relations, Miss Kilchenmann says she hopes to organize a study group in international relations as part of Alton's AAUH program. BRADY TO CI:IAIRHL\N RESEARCH COMMITTEE Mary M. Brady has been asked to serve as chairman of a research committee for the Alpha chapter (NeH York University) of Delta Pi Epsilon, graduate honorary fraternity in business education. The re search subject on which the committee members ui ll Hiscellaneous it ems picked up by your editor during lunch one day at the East St. Louis Residence Center • • . Olli0. Mae hli lliams says her vacation plans aren't very interesting; during most of the summer she >·Jill be on duty at · the East St. Louis library • . . hlillia~ Probst volunteered only one quotable quote, "I'm not getting married" . . . Robert McDaniel will teach one class and take graduate work at hTashinr;ton University--ibidem-George Arnold . . . Florence Fanning says she will be teaching at the center but she didn't get around to telling us her vacation plans . • . John Knoepfle will teach during the summer session and plans to go to Moose Factory, Canada. He says it has nothing to recommend it--that's \vhy he's going. He aren't sure whether or not he was pulling our leg . . . Peter Simpson reports he will spend the second summer session teaching at St. Louis University • . . Donald 0 . Harris' daughter, }largaret, a fresh6an last year at the University of Michigan, will serve this summer on the College Board at Scruggs Vandervoort Barney in St. Louis . . . After the summer quarter, H. H. Smith plans a vacation in Munising, Hichir;an . . . James Diekroeger will do graduate uork at Indiana University . . . Tom Evans told us about his new secretary, Mrs. E. C. Hemmer. Mrs. Hemmer, he says, has tHo s ons and a daughter; her husband is a partner in an accounting firm. They are from East St. Louis • . . S. D. Lovell atte nded t he Midwest Political �- 4 Science Association's annual meeting last month, which >vas held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Conclusion of your editor --lunch hour well spent. AAUP ELECTS OFFICERS Elected to serve as officers of the Alton chapter of the 1\rnerican Association of University Professors for the coming year are Melvin E. Kazeck, president; John I. ~. vice pr~sident; Marian Taylor, secretary-treasurer, and Hyman H. Frankel, executive committee member. At the East St. Louis center S. D. Lovell was re-elected president and John l· Knoepfl.e uas re-elected secretary-treasurer. Other officers include H. H. Smith, vice president, and Milton B. Byrd and Nedra Reames, executive committee memb ers . GOING TO UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Nedra Reames says she is getting excited about her plans for the summer. And well she might for she is leaving June 17 to attend the summer session at the University of Edinburgh. The course will be a studies program including history, philosophy and literature. "I'll have a few days to spend in Ireland before going to Scotland and then from August 8 until school starts in September, I'm going to to.u r England and Europe--at least until my money runs out." (Best wishes to you, Nedra, and a happy and profitable summer.--Ed.) ARTICLE IN GERMAN PUBLICATION Upon invitation of the editors Gunter H. ' Remmling wrote an artic.le for the Hay issue d f GESUNDHEITSPOLITIK published in Berlin-Munchen. The article was entitled "Automation and Public Health." BAILEYS FLYING TO VIRGIN ISLANDS Mr. and Mrs. Chelsea Bailey will leave July 5 for the Virgin Islands. Their Eastern Air Lines flight will be by \·7o.y of Miami and S.::m Juan. The Baileys Hill visit their daughter and son-in-lmv, Hr . and Mrs. Henry G. Wood. ~\'ood, former counsel for the Hoover Commission, is a practicing attorney in St. Thomas. Bailey plans to take a number of color slides while he is gone, he said. He and Mrs. Bailey are also looking forward to enjoying the Hoods' private beach at their home just eight miles from St. Thomas. They plan to return to their home in Edwardsville the last week of July. (Bon voyage, Ruth and Chelsea Bailey, from all your friends on the S~-JI Campus staff:-·Ed.) FREDERICK \JILLI/\11 THE FIFTH Frederick H. Zurheide and his wife Frances have a son, born last month. Their first child, he has been christened Frederick Hilliam and is the fifth so named in the Zurheide family. ' WOMEN' S CLUB ELECTS The Women's Club of the Southwestern Illinois Campus has elected Mrs. Melvin E. Kazeck to serve an president during the coming year. Other officers include ~trs. Lawrence NcAneny, vice president; Mrs. R. H. Steinkellner, \s ecretary; Mrs. James Turner, treasurer, and Mrs. Howard Davis, director-at-large. Mrs. S. D. Lovell presented the nominating committee's slate of officers at the May 14 meeting held' at the home of Hrs. D. Q. }{arris in Belleville. Presiding at a table displaying china from the Hin~ dynasty which the hostess brought from China, were Mrs. Harold W. See and Mrs. Raymond Spahn. TO GIVE PAPER AT HLA MEETING Nicholas Joost has been invited to give a paper at the Modern Language Association meeting, to be held next December in Chicago. The paper, Joost says, will be read during a symposium on satire and the modern Christian literary tradition. He has been in- �- 5 - vited to discuss poetic satire, such as that by Auden and Campbell. RECEIVES APPOINT}ffiNT ON WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE As a member of the East St. Louis Social Planning Committee, James Diekroeger has been asked to serve on the Family, Children and Old Age Division Committee to complete a study on the 1960 l.Jhite House Conference on Youth and Children. Diekroeger' s vmrl' will deal with information on recre~tional facilities in this area. FACULTY \~RSUS in music for the elementary school. "Although the workshop is designed primarily for the elementary classroom teach• er," Blakely said, "the presentation \vill be of interest to all who work with young children." Mins Zander is presently serving as music consultant for the Follett Publishing Company of Chicago. Blakely served as an adjudicator at the Class B state finals in the Illinois music contests, judging woodvrinds and bands at the state contest held in Carbondale.Last month he attended the North Central Division Convention of the Music Educators National Conference held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. STUDENTS STAFF MEMBERS i? ILL SPEAKING ENGAGENENTS In a volley ball match June 3 at East St. Louis, the faculty team outplayed a student team. The first game ended 14-11 in favor of the students but in the second match they were shut out by a score of 9-0. The third encounter resulted in an overtime contest, the faculty eking out a 16-14 victory. Playing for the faculty were \.Ji lliam Probst, Peter Simpson, Howard Nesbitt, James Diekroeger, George Arnold, Harold Berrv and David Henson. He wouldn't be quite honest, however, if \ve didn' t point out that Berry and Henson are students, although they uere drafted to fill out the faculty squad. LLOYD BLAKELY REPORTS that merit awards, admitting the~ecipients into the bands of the Southwestern Illinois Campus of SIU without audition, have been distributed to some 200 graduating seniors from the secondary schools in this area.The awards \vere given in recognition of outstanding musicianship in school bands and were awarded upon recommendation of each student's bandmaster. Enrollment of these students in our campus bands is providinG the potential for one of the finest instrumental ensembles in the midwest, Blakely said. He reports also that tentative plans call for Beulah Zander, former state supervisor of music uithin the State Department of Public Instruction of Illinois, to be on the Alton cnmpus July 6 and 7 for a workshop Some of the speaking engagements on Clifton Cornwell's sprinG schedule included a talk on "Speech Arts" ijiven May 24 at the Public Relations for Unions Conference and sponsored by AFL-CIO Community Services; a commencement address at St. Jacob High School May 28, and a talk last month before a Madison County organization of realtors. Chelsea Bailey spoke at the Edwardsville Rotary Club on June 4. James L. Diekroep,er spoke June 9 at the Athletic and Intramural Awards program at Rock Junior High School, East St. louis. On June 12 Stephnnie B. Conwell lectured staff nurses at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Harion. Her topic was "The Team Conference in Planning for Patient Care." Howard V. Davis npoke May 5 at Career Day at Southwestern High School on "The Place of the College in Educational Planning." On May 17 he gave the dedicatory address at Eastwood School, East Alton, and on May 29 delivered the commencemen·t address at Venice High School, Venice, Illinois "Our Present German Policy" was the topic Richard C. Baker discussed May 28 before . �- 6 the Alton League of Women Voters. Included on this program, also, were two professors at Principia College, who traced briefly the history of the foreign policy of the United States. Baker has been advised that a former pupil of his, Patricia Cravens, \oJho uas a freshman on the Alton campus last year, has been awarded a scholarship at Ohio State University for study this summer. Miss Cravens, who transferred to the Carbondale campus last fall, will study Russian government, Baker said. John J. Glynn spoke to the Lions Club of on Hay 12, discussing "What S. I. U. Will Mean to the Community." At therequest of A. Gordon Dodds, Southern alumnus and superintendent of the Edwardsville schools, on Hay 26 Glynn addressed 80 Edwardsville IIi ch Schoo 1 seniors who had distinguished themselves during their hi Gh school career. Title of his speech-" After Graduation, What?" On Memorial Day he was principal speaker at a program in Brighton sponsored by the Local American Legion Post. for Sergeants" are to be congratulated for the fine performance before an overflow audience June 6. Quoting from the ALTON TELEGRAPH, "The scenes with rare exception were adroitly paced, and in several of them--notably the one in which Will drives the psychologist nuts--equalled the slick HollyHood version . . . " (\\le are sorry to hear that Miss Smith's mother died the afternoon preceding the performance. In true "show must go on" tradition, she waited until after the final rehearsal to advise the cast. Our deepest sympathy to a real "trooper."--Ed.) ~\Iorden Harold H. See addressed the ~vitt High School graduatinG class on May 28. Topic of his address uas "All for the Hant of a Nail." Speaker at this year's Memorial Day services at Collinsville was· R. H. Steinkellner. His speech was carried in its entirety in the Nay 27 issue of the Collinsville weekly ne~vspaper. ART EXHIBIT AT LOOMIS HALL A "Best of the Year" exhibit has been on display in loomis Hall gallery representing the Hork of 22 students at the Alton Center. The 53 art pieces in oils, ceramics, drauings and water colors \vere selected by a committee as the best \oJorl' of the year by students of Evelyn Budderoever's classes. OVERFL0\7 AUDIEI:lCE ENJOYS ARC PLAYERS Mary BelJ.c Smith and the cast of "No Time CO-AUTHOR OF BOOK Herbert H. Rosenthal is one of three authors of THE CO~PS OF ENGINEERS: TROOPS AND EQUIPMENT, to be released June 18. Published by the Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Hashington, D. C., the book is the first of four volumes that will describe the participation bf the engineers in \~rld Har II and the contribution they made toward winning it. The war demanded unprecedented constuction from the Army's Corps of Engineers. In General Douglas HacArthur's island-hopping campaign, engineers manned landing craft, rolled supplies across beaches and Hewed out the jungle for landing strips. Thousands of miles of gasoline pipeline were laid, vital seaports reconstructed and vast quantities of maps furnished. Set in the United States, this volume describes the years of intricate planning and preparing \·lhich paved the way for these achievements overseas. The interplay be ·tween engineers and other services and higher commands is amply explored \vith lively delineation of personalities, according to advance publicity. Rosenthal joined the SIU staff at Carbondale in 1955 as an instructor of history and transferred to the Alton Residence Center in 1958. I~ received hi~ bachelor's and master's deGrees from the University of Virginia and his doctorate in nroerican �- 7 - history from Harvard University. During World War II he served in Europe with the 95th Infantry Division. He was associated with the Engineer Historical Division from 1948 to 1953. The SIU teacher is currently working on another book which concerns the Progressive }bvement in New York State, subject of his doctoral dissertation. His article, "The Cruise of the Tarpon," appeared in the October 1958 issue of Neu York History. Rosenthal's promotion to associate professor of history, to become effective September 23, was approved last month by the SIU Board of Trustees. The dominant theme before Pearl Harbor is the engineers' adjustment to new vehicles and \vecipons and their consequent struggle to maintain their position with• in the infantry division and carve out a role with armor~d and air forces. The months follmving Pearl Harbor were marked by shifts in strategic plans, fluctuatin 0 troop bases, accelerated training schedules, a growing m.Jareness of the magnitude and intricacy of logistical support and optimistic procurement programs. During the final years of the war the engineers turned out a more versatile soldier through lengthened and more realistic training. Improvements in forecasting requirements and greater access to raw materials having eased the procurement of supplies, an orderly distribution became the primary goal. • The book has been described as one which "captures the spirit of the priod--the confusion, the conflicts, the harassed officers, the briefly-trained troops, the atmosphere of scarcity, the urgency of time." �• • � 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/. 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