https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/cc695bf81f364e981f968b52628f3d0f.pdf 39c32548578894b563f7a043f02bfb39 PDF Text Text JiARCH 31 .• VoL.l~ 1958 No.11 ~ CoNPILED l10NTHLY BY JNFORI1ATION SERVICE, SouTHWESTERN ILLINOIS RESIDENCE Q S UTHERN ]LLI NOIS UNIVERSITY, FOR THE STAFF FFICE~ 0 NE V.I SLETTER IS !JADE POSSI11El1BERS OF THE RESIDENCE CENTERS, THE BLE BY THE COOPERATION OF STAF F J1El1B ERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED NEWS I TEJ1S. FACULTY NE WS LETTER Spring Quarter Staff Changes Dr. Leonard B. Hheat became acting director at the East St. Louis Center on March 26. A Columbia University Ph.D., he came to Southern Illinois University last quarter from the University of Minnesota's Duluth Branch, where he had headed secondary education for ten years. Mrs. t,J heat will move here \vhen their home in Duluth is sold . Wheat's three youngest children attend the Univ_~_rli~ .ty __,of Minnesota, two boys at Duluth and a daughter at Minneapolis. The oldest son receives his Ph.D. from Harvard this June, and the older daughter, a practicing physician, is married (to a practising physician). Wheat replaces Dr. Ring, who resigned as director in order to be able to spend more time at horne, where his wife is recovering from a serious illness. Dr. Ring is teaching education courses in the Centers this quarter and enjoying it tremendously. Best wishes to the two Rings and ' to Wheat too! (He'll need 'em.-ed.) A new position in math at the Center was filled by Colonel Donald Quitman . Harris, who will also teach two SIU math courses at Scott Air Force Base. He attended the University of Michigan for two years and holds degrees from \Vest Point and the University of Missouri, where he taught for five years. Three years ago he retired from the Army to go into bu s iness in Chicago. (From what other organization can one retire on a full pension at the tender age of fifty? - ed.) Colonel Harris will move his family here this summer from Oak Park, Illinoi s , when· his daughter Margaret finishes high school. This quarter he is staying at 2011 \Vest Main Street, Belleville. Spring Quarter appointments at the Alton Residence Center include four new lecturers: Dr. Marion Ansel Taylor, Ph.D. from SUI (State University of Iowa) and staff member at Illinois State Normal University for ten years; Robert E. McDaniel, holder of two SIU business degrees (single); Eileen T. Torney, Boston University math M.A.; Captain Robert B. Mornier, Syracuse University doctoral candidate; and Herbert J. Vent, Stanford University Ph.D. Vent and Mornie~ both from Air University's geography staff in Montgomery, Alabama, will alternate teaching geography. Vent will be here only until Mornier gets his military discharge next month. Peter Carl Nittolo , finance librarian at the Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, Nelv Jerse y , will become associate librarian at the Alton Center on June 12. A Rutgers graduate, he joined Cornell University's library staff after receiving his library degree at Columbia University. He was director of Roselle, New York, Public Library before joining Prudential tlvo years ago. He is teaching economics the Spring Quarter, and in June he will replace Librari an Alfred Harris, who has resigned. All of us would like to see Al stay on, but we love him too much to try to stand in the Vlay of his making a move \vhich he con si ders in his best interest. (More on Al in June . - ed.) (more) �.. - 2 - Clifton corm-1e 11 , speec h , East St · Louis ' didn't get . a write-up when he came to Southern Illinois University 60 Ne\·lsletter offers th~s belated sketch: Cornwell, a doctoral candid t t the University of Missouri when the Korean Har began, was aea h 'ld'' . recalled to active army duty in 1950 and assigned to osp~ta a m1n~strat1on, a field he had learned in W.H.II. After Korea he continued ·working \.Jith North and South American hospitals in the business field. In 1955 he sandHiched in an extra job as foreign trade and development director for the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis. His teaching experience includes two years as assistant professor of speech and director of forensics at the University of Hawaii. The Cornwell's have a one-year-old son, Mark and daughters, Kristin, L~; Constance, 6; and Carole, 14. ----------------------------Editorial Loyalty to the administration is well and good, but here is. at} .ex~mple of it that should be exposed: When Spring Quarter enrollment reached 1,498 recently, and Dean See remarked (casually but significantly) that 1, 500 -v:ould be a nicer, rounder number, one misguided staff member registered for a class himself and (worse) dragged hi.s poor wife along to become another statistie in See's records, ----------------------------Three Alton Staff M~mbers have Material Published Professor William T. Going, English, Alton, has articles appearing in the February issues of two magazines on Faulkner's famous short story, "A Rose for Emily." The first, concerning the meaning of the title of the story, appeared in The Exelicator. The second, entitled "Chronology in Teaching 'A Rose for Emily'," appeared in Exercise Exchange. (This latter magazine, financed in part by Rinehart & Company, pays small stipends for its articles --- a practice unusual in scholarly journals - ed.) Between quarters Professor and Mrs. Going journeyed to Alabama to visit their parents. Professor Going spent several days on the University of Alabama campus, where he conferred with the committee to appoint a new chairman of the Department of English and with the University of Alabama Press, which is planning to publish a book by Professor Going during the next year. Mrs. Going is rema~n1ng in Alabama for a time to be with her mother, who was injured in a fall. Dr. Howard Davis, student affairs, Alton, has had an article accepted for publication by the Journal of Educational Research. Entitled "The Status of Guidance Workers in Missouri, 1954-57", the article was written by invitation of A. s. Barr of the University of Hisconsin. Howard is convention news editor of the American Personnel and Guidance Association meeting in St. Louis scheduled for the week of March 31. He also served as chairman of one of the s~ctional meetings on the "Counselor's Self-Concept." On April 21 he will give Coolidge Jr. High School in Granite City some tips on "Helping Adolescents over Emotional Hurdles." Dr. Edwin B. Warren, music, Alton and East St. Louis, has been notified by Summy-Birchard of Chicago that his Responses are going into a second edition this summer. He has just finished proofreading the MS. for the second edition. The first edition of this collection of responses was published by Summey in 1956. (more) �, - 3 - On April 1 Warren speaks on the careers Night Program at the Alton Senior High School, and on April l8 and 19 he is one of the judges in the State Final Music Contests at Mount Vernon. ---------------------------Dr. Eric Baber, director, Alton, told the Phi Del~a Kappa Chapter of SIU at its Narch noon meeting in Carbondale about "Trends ~n Educational Administration.'' ---------------------------Dr. Joseph w. Bird, professor of management and business ~dm~nistrat~on, Alton, was the principal speaker at the Madison County Teachers Assoc~a,t _v~n~ . !ll~.et~ng at the East Alton Senior High School on March 5. Topic: "Everybody Knows What's t.Jrong with Education." He said "Never have so many people been so interested in education (vocally). Everyone knows all about education. Everyone has either had an education or not had one. If he's had one, he knows what is wrong with it. If he hasn't had one, he knmvs what's wrong with everybodyelse. He pointed out that our basic problem in education is to determine what >ve should be trying to do and then to do it. He granted that a solution to this complex problem will not be found easily. Bird maintained that we in education are making entirely too much of the science of studying the teacher rather than the textbook. He would advocate developing the mind rather than placing so much emphasis on teaching the specific action to be performed, regardless as to whether this might meet with some opposition from students, parents, or even school boards. He expressed concern about the fact that the products of our educational system would rather drive an automobile on a crowded highway on a holiday than read a good book, and asked whether our students should be expected t o learn to read, write, and spell or whether they should be permitted to continue to attend classes which require practically no preparation and in which they merely sit around and discuss things in general between coffee breaks. (His specific recommendations are too important to be condensed here, but Newsletter stands ready to furnish copies of the complete address on request.-ed.) --------------------------Dr. Leonard Wheat, acting director, East St. Louis, slaved through the last heavy snow of the season to address forty hardy parents on "Higher Educational Opportunities in the Alton Area." The following week he took part in a panel on "A Curriculum for Our Schools." FellaH participants, all from Alton Community School District 11 were: Dr. James B. Johnson, Superintendent; Mrs. Mary Hershey, Board of Education member; and Raymond Ready, Supervisor 9f Elementary Schools. --------------------------(more) �• - 4 - The staff members of the East St. Louis Center had a dinner March 14 at the East St . Lou1s · H'1gh Sc h oo 1 ca f eter1a. · Dr · Ring ' '"ho had planned the excellent dinner, introduced all of the guests. After dinner the adults Hent to the gym for square dancing planned by Hr. Evans and called by Babette Marks, and the children took part in activities planned by Dr. Lovell. --------------------------Babette Narks and Norman Showers planned a faculty square dance for the Alton faculty March 15. Ten couples danced to the calling of Babette Marks and enjoyed it so much that they want to make it a monthly aff air. The next square dance is planned for April 12 (Saturday) at the Alton Center gym. All staff members of both Centers are invited. --------------------------Homen 1 s Club Activities The follmving women attended the second regular meeting of the Residence Centers• Women 1 s Club at the Broadview Hotel Harch 13: from Alton - Nartha Lou Bardolph, Jane Broadbooks, Carma Davis, Anne Hampton, and Geneva Peebles; from East St. Louis and Belleville - Ruth Bailey, Una Cornuell, Franc e s Evans, Verita HoHell, Ruth Lovell, Marjorie Meyer, Rachael Parry, Lois Ring, Helen Se e , and Betty Spahn. The April 17 meeting of the club, also schedu l ed for the Broadview, \vill feature an address by Dr. John W. Allen, Emeritus, Carbond a le campus. Ne~vsletter for April will give details of the tvlO-campus family picnic being planned by the Club for May. The exe cutive council of the Club met last Monday at the home of President Carma Davis, 814 Bee Tree Lane, East Alton. Agenda included naming of a nominating committee to suggest candid ates for the election of next year's officers. Report on Housing A complete report of faculty housing will have to be postponed for at least another month. So far, the tentative list of home owners includes: Evans, Fanning, Seymour, McAneny, Bardolph, Showers, VanHorn, Davi s , Turner, Bear, Warren, and Lovell (abuilding). Reports on any other faculty home owners gratefully received. --------------------------- Faculty openings for 1958-59 If you know of good persons in l:he following f ields, please notify Dr. Eric Baber, Director, Alton Residence Center, 2809 Coll e ge Avenue, Alton: math, government-history, chemistry, general business-secretar i al science, economics-accounting, business administration, art, physic s , French, bot any, zoology , the early periods of English literature ££ 20th century wr iters, Chaucer or 17th ce ntury or America~ literature, choral directing, instrumental music wo r~ enginee r ing drawing, and women's P.E. --------------------------Betty Spahn, math, East St. Louis has asked Newsletter to publish her new home address so that staff members can cocrect their address books. The new address is: 3204 West Main Street, Belleville, Illinois, (Telephone: Adams 3-4424). ---------------------------- � 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 March 1958, Vol. 1, No. 11 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1958