https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/f3da932dbedc8922c0dadf759e0ccab4.pdf 479460ee12d1837f54e9655718849956 PDF Text Text FA C ULT Y NEWS BU L L E T I N SouTHERN I LLINOIS UN I VER S I TY RESIDEN CE CENTERS .. ( ]vfARCH_, 1959 Vo L. II _, No . 5 �J1ARCH~ VoL. II.! No . 5 1959 F A CULTY N Efi S BULLETIN Nildred Arnold, Editor Room 227 Broadview Hotel Bridge 4-2100, ext. 3 THE SNILING LINCOLN "Fetv artists ever captured the natural good humor of shy, self-conscious Abe Lincoln--and they needed psychology to do it, 11 according to John Allen and Ed Has ::;e. Allen and Hasse collaborated recently on a story about "The Smiling Lincoln," a portrait by 1Uban J. Conant which hangs in the Southern Illinois University library at the Alton Residence Center. The story appeared in the February 8 edition of Family Heeklv, a syndicated feature magazine included in many Sunday ne\'lspapers. Conant \'laS one of the fetv artists vJho successfully captured Lincoln's genial smile on canvas. Conant went to Springfield to paint Lincoln in September, 1860, two months before his election to the presidency."t-ihen the artist tvas ushered into his office, Lincoln was talking with a small group of men--and he was smiling. {.Jhen he sat for the portrait, however, he assumed hi::; characteristically sober expression. All thnt first day, Conant pleaded in vain; the smile did not return . . . "The next day Conant started by asking Lincoln questions about himself; before . long Abe tvas talldng of his early life, his storekeeping experience, his flatboat trips to New Orleans, how he became a lawyer.Uis itm1ediate tvorries forgotten, Lincoln again revealed the expression the artist wanted. 11 That uas the way he looked when hie friends Here about him, his wife said. "I hope he lool<s that way after the fir s t of November." Shurtleff College purchased the portrait from the artist in the 1860's. It was later lost in transferring furni shings from one building to another. Years after, it turned up in a storage area under n staircase and college officials had it cleaned and restored. John Allen, retired staff member, is well known in state historical circles. His articles on folklore of Southern Illinois are carried in many of the area newspapers. Hasse is an instructor and \vriter for Information Service at Carbondale. INVITED TO CONTRIBUTE ARTICLE Alfred E. Kuenzli has been invited to contribute an article to a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Education which >vi ll be devoted to problems of emotionally disturbed children. nn article by Kuenzli entitled "A Field Experience Program tvith Emotionally Disturbed Children'' appeared in the December 1958 issue of Exceptional Children. LOTS OF TIME FOR SERGEANTS A story about Camp Crawford, near Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, has been accepted by U. S. lady, a Washington publication for service wives. The story is called "Lots of Time for Sergeants" and was written by Narion A. Taylor, >·Jho lived in Japan for a year and a half . TO SERVE AS INTERH1 NINISTER Kenneth F. Estey has been invited by the First Baptist Church of Staunton to serve as its interim minister pending call of a new pastor. Estey is serving as a regional director for the Christian Higher Education Challenge, a program to raise $7,500,000 for educational institutions of the American Baptt c t Convention.On February 18 he gave an illustrated lecture on Brazil to the High Twelve Club in Wood River. �- 2 - DIRECTS JUNTOR BOHLING PROGRAM SERVED ON PANEL For the past 10 years Norman ShoHers has operated for the Alton Recreation Commission a junior bowling program. This program 1:-1as featured in the last issue of the National Limerican Junior Bm-1ling Congress maGazine. Showers helped \·lith a special junior bowling tournament Harch 5, part of the National A.B.C. tourney held in St. Louis during February and 1·1 arch. Fifty-two boys and girls took part in the program. Showers also prepared an aHards program for some 500 persons. The event was on Harch 13, at which time he presented 1,000 trophies, chevrons, certificates and other mvards. Mary H. Brady served on a panel at the State Leadership Conference for Office Occupations and Distributive Education which \vas held in SprinGfield February 28. Topic for discussion was '' Career Training in Secretarial Fields Beyond High School." ADDRESSES PTA On February 16 David E. Bear addressed the members of the Columbus-Hadley Parent-Teacher Association at Edwardsvill e . Bear described the history and developmen t of the grading system in public schools and explained the basic philosophy of the two major systems, that of grade standard~ set up for the class as a whole and that of grading according to the ability of the individual child. THE LITTLE TERPS The Terpsichorean Club has received a tremendous response in its organization of "The Little Terps Dance Group." Thi s dance class for children of staff members was organi z ed February 26 and will meet each Tuesday at l~: 15 p.m. at the gymnasium in the East St. Louis Residence Center. AccordinG to Marjorie Logan, 1:-1ho i s in charge, tap, ballet, acrobatics, foU: and creative rhythms are being taught. Children from three to ten are eligible. There is no charge for these lessons and absolutely no expense is involve~ for staff parents. The Little Terps 'lvill make their debut Hay 13 at convocation. They will also perform for the faculty potluck . READS PAPER AT NLA 1-IEETING At the Christmas meeting in Ne1:v York City of the Hodern Language Association, John I. Ades read a paper before Group 9. The general subject of the group tvas the literary criticism of the Romantic period in England. Ade 1 s paper was entitled "Charles Lamb and the Aesthetics of Sympathy." I t dealt tvith the problem of application of the doctrine of sympathy to the criticism of literature. For the past few months ~tr. Ades has been serving as music reviewer for the Alton Evening Telegraph. JAZY POETRY NIGHT Three faculty members of the East St. Louis Residence Center took part February 17 in Jazy Poetry Hight, a program staged to raise funds for the student literary magaz ine at St. Louis University. A very edifying representation of SIU students attended this event at Marguerite Hall on the St. Louis University campus. Poems read by John I. Knoepfle included "Acteon," "Little Harpe's Head" and 11 0n a Fall Night." Albert Hontesi, who teaches in the evening nchool, read "Job." Peter Simpson read "Let Be Be Finale of Sum" and "For Dylan Thomas: Five Years After." The follmvinG evening, a group of St. Loui s University Hriters read from their works at The Center in St. Louis. Included were Simpson and lfuoepfle. Knoepfle read "Three Poems Hritten in Sand" and Simpson, "St. Louis by the llississippi," "The Fourth Nature of the S1:-Jallou" and "A Trainee 1 s August Love." Simpson 1 s poem on the Mississippi 1:vas carried recently in the St. Louis PostDispatch. Here it is for you to read and enjoy: �- 3 I SAINT LOUIS BY Tlffi MISSISSIPPI For although \ve see that the city i s in· the world, we do not see that it follo\-lS that any things belonging to the city pe r t ain to the wor l d. For it is possible that such things may be worshipped and beli eved in the city, a ccording to false opinions, as have no existence either in the vmrld or out of it. --Saint Augustine, The City of God Freights cough across Ead c Brid ge, and spit their s oot to January \vinds; it marrie s \vith t he smoke a risin g from the licorice factory, sage into sl e ep , and s oils the rolling Mississippi's f latly s cowling fac e . Jus t nou the river's tired from a winte r's wild c a rouse; it suirls , it sucks the chilly driz z le and tiny veins streak out, and pump dead blood that yellows dry Missouri into mud. The muscles of the town don't fle x much any more from theold river's bright and tensil e s tren gth. A fe\·l men ride the sluggish bar ges; comme r c i a l e nte rpris e run s boats, mostly South to Nemphi s or Ne>v Orle ans. Hha t u e remember most: the afternoon e xcur s ions, the moonli ght dancing on the Steame r Admiral, hi ghb a lls, picnic s , and penny machines to tell a lit t l e f ortune . Ant e nna from the East, Highway 40 tune s the city's shoulde r ; the cars come \vhi zz ing in, e ach blank unruffled brm·J of uindshield streaked with unlucl' y bugs, made fos s il s in an hour's time. Cars filter t hrou gh the corpu s of the town. II Thus the sun of the spirit is like a gr a s s hopp e r in the Sun of God. --Paul Claude l, from Five Grand Odes I \vatch the ,..;rater that cut thi s bluf f and sculpte d a c;ity out of the heaving loam. Time-past ting l e s all my \vaving nerves: the virile penetr a tion o f the pioneers come to these lavish banks to trade. Nm-1 the squares are s enil e ; the icy trolley wires shrink ti gh t; jots are in the mute d s treet si gns; tittles fill the ho pe less homes. Things crumble; and motes lodge and smar t in the hollow hoosier e yes. Bishops' hopes rose, gripped in a gr e ement the mayor's hand. Their heads never hung on pike s do\mtown. The y guide some souls through sugar clouds on uin gs of cr a fty novena tunes. Poor sweat stinks under unhired arms. Di zz y and loaded old girls stumble and climb up the bricklaid cliffs, the ir dark unlls hung Hith Varga girls or tau dry Sacred Heart s . There's no mark here of the gore o f the lamb, on doors Hhcre clerks, still asleep, jump out, and do ze a long at the Globe's disgrace, Hhi le the bus snor e d dovm to the job. lmowing the river r uns at the town ' s Ea st end is part of their condition. Dut this flame do esn't leap, though these cold jack-diamonds burn. If my s oul crickets in God's sun, if I get f ried in an immolation of Ilis city, when my le gs curl to death, this crabb e d insect can cry, can clutch the Cros s 's splinters as the y float the mi ghty Mississippi. A little of His fl e sh e ach day can mal'e us grmv. A little o f his blood can make uc clean. �- L; - SERVED AS HODERATOP, ATTEND CONVENTIONS On February 23 Howard v. Davis served as moderato'r of a panel discussion at the East Aiton Junior High School on "Are He Spoiling Our Children?" Kenneth Hartin and Hary H. Brady attended the annual convention of the National Association for Business Teacher Education in Chica:.;o foebruary 12-14. The convention was held in conjunction with the meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. BECAUSE TilEY Hi\HT TO SING (The fo llouin~ editorial appeared in the February 25 issue of the Alton Evening Te ler;raph.) There are some things you like to see get grmvin:.; pains. The Alton Community Chorus suffered the malady at its first rehearsal lionday night. This group got a start, Hith an overcrmvded rehearse1l hall, that promiscsbright things for its future. The Choir Directors' and Organist f: ' Guild sponsored "Hessiah" earlier under Herrold Headley, Hho is organizing the Community Chorus, also demonstrated to the public the excellence of the neu group's leadership. Alton has needed a community chorus which has this sort of activity in mind, and which \vill not be satisfied to make it secondary to other choral activity. Only with this approach can such a group suc-cessfully negotiate the myriad choral masterpieces uhich lie open and challenging. Dr. Headley apparently struck the right note Hhen he invited folks to enter the group because they wanted to join together and sin~ fine music. \ GLYNN ADDRESSES UPPER ALTON COUNCIL . Talking as "one neighbor to another," John J .. Glynn addressed the Upper Alton Council of GAAC on February 5. He outlined the history of SID's residence centers and explained hmv "the need they filled proved the necessity for a still larger campus, such as is being planned near Edwardsville." c. E. Peebles uas in Atlantic City February 14 and 15 u here he attended the meeting of the American Association for School Administrators. Early in 1-larch, Dean Harold H. See attended the national conference of the Association for Higher Education. It vJas held at the Pick-Conz;ress Hotel in Chicago. EVALUATE CURRICULUH Robert Steinkellner and David Bear served on a team of educators \vho were invited to assist the teachers, administrators and people of Edwardsville in the evaluation of the mathematics-science curriculum, equipment and instruction at LeClair Elementary School. Hary H. Brady and Joe R. Small helped February 18 with an evaluation of the business education courses in Edwardsville Community School District 7. COLLABORATES ON ACCOUNTING BOOK Joe R. Small collaborated with a number of other persons in writing Principles of Accountin~ published by Pitman. The book is 596 pages long and Small's contribution appears on pages 191 to 200. ZURHEIDE' S HOVE Freaer•ick H. Zurheide and his wife . moved to their ne\·J home on Harch 7. Their address is 409 Nevade1, Rosewood Heights, East Alton. Their neH telephone number is Hood River 9-2109 �- 5 - FACULTY HONE N" S CLUB The Harch 19 meeting of the Faculty Women's Club has been changed from Rock Springs Recreational Center to the Germania Savings & Loan Building, 543 East Broad\vay, Alton. There is plenty of parking space at qHe rear of the building. You are asked not to park under the ramp, which is r~served for customers. The -meetin g will be held in Room 101 at one o'clock. Featured at the guest tea will be Mrs. Fral\lk Eversull, who will revie\v Doctor ~hivago by Boris Pasternak. A Book-of~The-Month selection and at the top of the fiction list for weeks, Doctor Zhivago is the first original work published by Pasternak after 25 years of silence. "The only truly great novel to come out of post-revolutionary Russia significantly appears first in translation, without the approval of the Ru?sian Communist Pa,rty censorship," according to the publisher, Pantheon. "But this sensational aspect should not obscure the fact that Doctor Zhivago is above all a stupendously rich and moving book." Even if they have read the book, members and gues~s of the club are sure to enjoy Mrs. Eversull's revieH and the opportunity of discussing it with others. THE INTER}ffiDIATE CHILD Robert Steinkellner spoke March 4 to about 450 intermediate grade teachers of Madison County. His subject was entitled "The Intermediate Child." Departmental chairman of the Americanism Committee, State of Texas Veterans of Forei gn Wars, Steinkellner spoke March 8 on Americanism at a meeting of District 14. The meeting was in New Athens. PONDER THESE QUESTIONS *Greeting his pupils, the Master asked: "What \vould you learn of me?" And the reply came: "How How How How How For shall \·Je care for our bodies ? shall \ve rear our children? shall we •wrk together? shall \ve 1ive with our fellowmen? shall \ve play? what ends shall we live?" And the teacher pondered these words, and a deep sorrow was in his heart, for his own learning touched not these things. ~·:chapman, James C. and Counts, George S., Principles of Education. Houghton-Mifflin Co.; Cambridge, Mass., 1924, p. 645. ****************** Robert Steinkellner further asks: How shall \ve live within ourselves? How shall \ve learn to work by ourselves? How shall \ve know "truth"? How shall we judge that which is of value? How shall \ve, the children, find the courage to judge and to challenge accepted traditions and test them for their truth? How shall vJe know God? How shall \ve learn to strive totally to do our best work according to our abilities so that we may find pride in a job well done? How, in the final analysis, shall we evaluate our lives? What is the purpose of living and of dying? (Do YOU teach and learn for these?) �• •· . � 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 1959, Vol. 2, No. 5 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1959