https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/4a8ef6bb22518807d924754ccf1a8f98.pdf ee1da17ac445db13a8900da62f83192a PDF Text Text Southvvestern Illinois Residence Centers Southern Illinois University FACULTV ' NEWS BULLETIN �J1AY_,_ J9 59 Vo L,.. F AC ULTY N E WS II, No •. 7 B U LL E TI N Mildred Arnold, Editor Room 227, Broadview Hotel Bridge 4- 2100, ext. 3 TEACHING BASEBALL TECHNIQUES Members of the physical education class in Baseball Techniques at the Alton Center are getting some practical work in this field. The \·] estern Cartridge Company has made its baseball facilities on Route 140, Alton, available to the class. Each 3aturday morning from 9:00 to 10:30 Howard C. Nesbitt teaches baseball techniques. From 10:30 until noon, children of the Western Cartridge Company's employees are "students" of the SIU physical education majors. There were 24 children on hand the first Saturday and the number has increased since news of the pro.gram was publicized in the company newspaper. According to Nesbitt, teams will probably be formed and league play developed . TAKES PART IN .. FO~EIGN LANGUAGE CONFERENCES Ruth Kilchenmann read a paper entitled "Les Portraits dans Ramuz" at the twelfth University of Kentucky Foreign Language Conference at Lexington April 23-25. On May 1-2 she took part in the Central States Modern Language Teachers Association meetinG in St. Louis. She presente d a paper in the German section called "Limits and Possibilities of Literary Interpretation in the Teaching of Forei 0n Languages." · (Also attending the meetinG in St. Louis was Ray Spahn.) Soviet Union last summer . "Their color slides and personal observations reports on both industry and agriculture in Russia stimulated more questions than time permit ted them to ans11er. The four were able to visit the new oil fields in southeast Russia and also the nevl agricultural lands of Siberia." A BELATED NEWS ITEH This item about Stephanie B. Conwell was received too late for inclusion in the last Faculty News Bulletin. Miss Conwell was a guest speaker at the monthly InService Education meeting at St. Hary's Hospital, Alton, on Larch 17. About 35 graduate nurses on the staff attended the meeting and heard Hiss Conwell discuss "Nurse's Concept of Self versus Public Image. 11 DONAL MYER MOVES TO EAn ALTON Donal Myer and his >-life have moved to 550 Nevada, Rose1vood Hei c hts, East Alton. Their new telephone number is 9-2453. GOINGS MOVE Mr. and Mrs. \,Ji lliam T. Going have moved to 516 Summit in Alton. ATTENDS i'-1EETINGS IN PITTSBURGH Melvin E. Kazeck attended the Association of American Geographers meetings in Pittsburgh f"!:'om ]'larch 29 through April 1. Highlights of the meetings, according to Kazeck, were papers given by four professors who were percitted to vi~it the BEAR PA..~TICIPATES I N CAREER COUNSELING At Alton Senior Hi c h School's Career Night, held April 17, David E. Bear spoke to two groups of students and parents on the career of teaching. On May 5 he participated in Career Day at the Southwestern Unit #9 High �2 School at Piasa, presenting the same subject, teachin g . attended. Thomas D. Evans took four students from the South\..restern Illinois •Campus. EDUCATION CLASS ATTENDS MEETING AT BRADLEY GUEST EDITOR H. H. Smith's Education 456 class, Educational Supervision, attended the annual meeting of the Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development held this year at Bradley University. The meeting was a tHo-day affair, Apri 1 2L;- 25 , and the cl a ss of 20 students attended the April 25 sessions. Robert H. Ste inke llne r, as guest editor, had an article published in the April . issue of TEXAS VFH NEHS. An 11-pcrge article by Steinkellner, "The Needs of Children as Children,'' was published in SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY, the Missouri State Teachers Association's monthly magazine. PRESENTS THIRD SCHOL!u';.SHIP AWARD ATTEND WORKSHOP DIRECTORS CONFERENCE In preparation for the Community Re·sourcc s Workshop which \vill be held at Alton thi s summer, David E. Bear and Mary M. Brady attended the Annual Conference of Horkshop Directors held thi s year at Michigan State University. Bear will direct the Educational Utilization of Community Resources Workshop (!une 22 to July 31). Miss Brady will serve as assistant director and J ohn J. Glynn as coordinator. EXHIBIT DP-1\\JS EUCII ATTENTION During the observance last month of National Library f~ek, the exhibit of faculty publications on display at the ARC library dreH a great deal of attentio n from both faculty and students, accordinG to Harriet J. Scheldrup, assistant libr arian. Publications ranged from such subjects as ''1-liss Hetz el 1 s Nose'' to "Lincoln and the Question of Slavery in the District of Columbia. 11 ADDRESSES ENGINEERING SOCIETY • Frank L. Eversull was principal speaker at a recent dinner meeting of the Illinoi s Society of Profes s ional Engineers. Held at the Wishbone Restaurant in Belleville April 21, the meeting was designed to stimulate interest in engineering and provide information about the field. Youn r; men from area hiGh s chools and colleges The 'tlarry Hayes Smith~' s cholarship was established in 1957 by the Faculty Service Club of the East Alton-Wood River Community High School. The third presentation of the award Has made April 23 by Mr. Smith to David l\pple o.f East Alton. One of the previous winners· of this $500 scholarship is nm..r a student at McKendree College; the other was a freshman last year at the Universit y of Illinois. Smith is a former member of the faculty at the East Alton- Wood River school. He also taught at Washing ton University, >..rhere he received his doctor o f education degree. Smith received hi s bachelor of arts degree from James Millikin University and his master of arts de gree from the University of Illinois. DISCUSSES PROS Al'lD CONS Leonard \~eat discussed the advantages and disadvantages of a lonGer school year at the April 29 meetin r; of the Southwestern Division of the Illinois Association of School Boards. The meeting was held in Bethalto. ATTEND WORKSHOP Babette Marks and Jane s Diekroeger attended the Southwest Distric t \oJorkshop of the Illinois Association f or Health, Physical Education and Recreation held at Mascoutah on April 24. Ruth Toomey, call staff, �- J - took her clas s in Elementary Physical Education Nethods. An interesting side light was the fact that members of the methods class attended voluntarily. HOST TO ILLINOIS BAPTIST STUDENT MOVEMENT j The Shurtleff Baptist Foundation Center was host to the Illinois Baptist Student Movement for college students on May 8 and 9. Nearly fifty registered delegates attended the sessions of the spring convocation, Kenneth F. Estey, foundation director, reports. EDITS BOOK Alfred Kuenzli has edited a book, THE PHENOMINOLOGICAL PROBLEM, which will be published by Harper & Brothers this fall. The book is concerned with scholarly papers in the fields of personality and social psychology. ATTEND MATH llEE Tii'!G' -. A joint meetin G of the Missouri Council of Teachers of Na.thematics and the Hathematical Association of America \vas held April 25 at Lindenwood College. Among those attending were Florence Fanning, Hilliam Probst, Eric Sturley and Arnold Seiken. director of the E. IL Eoore ·Company, supplier of physical education uniforms. According to Babette Harks, major students in women's physical education are taking advantage of the demonstration by planning a picnic for hi gh schoo 1 senior women 1-7ho will be attending SIU this fall. REPRESENTS CENTERS AT l1USICOLOGICAL SOCIETY Edwin B. h7arren represented the residence centers at the sprins meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the A7<erican Musicological Society in St. Louis llay 1-3. . . Accompanied by her husband, Linda Warren sang for the Illinois Sta.te Baptist Convention in Wood River April 25. PAPERS ON WAR AND PEACE Research papers by Alfred E. Kuenzli and Peter C. Nittolo have been accepted for a symposium in the area of war and peace which will be held this summer at the convention of the American Psychological Association in Cincinnati. Kuenzli's topic is "The ImaGe as a Factor in InterNation Conflicts"; Nittolo will speak on "The Reduction of Inter-Nation Conflicts Through Economic Uni f ication." Hyman Frankel is serving as a consultant on both projects. SEYMOUR ADDRESSES GROUPS DIEKROEGER 1\D:t-UNISTElUNG BASEBALL CLINIC James L. Diekroeger originated and is a city-wide baseball clinic devoted to teaching fundamental knowled ge and skills of that sport to boys from four junior high schools in East St. Louis. Diekroeger is a full-time member of the East St. Louis Social Planning Council. administerin ~ • THE HISTORY OF GYH SUITS TO BE DEHONSTRATED A demonstration of the history of gym suits will be given May 15 by the educational Virgi 1 Seymour spoke t o the Willard Haller Sociology Club at Carbondale on April 21-his subject, "Teachin~>; Sociology on TV." On April 27 he talked to the Retirement Class at the Granite City Engineering Depot about "Social Adjustment and Old Age." ATTEND THREE-DAY CO~VENTION The Midwest Economic Association held a three-day convention April 16-18 at the Hotel Statler in St. Louis. Such subjects as labor economics, statistics, money and b anking and accountin ~>; were covered at the �- conference. Attending from the Alton Residence Center \llere John Glynn, Joseph Bird, Norbert Schmitt, Peter Nittolo and Virgil Pinkstaff. 0 NIGHT NUMBERS For your convenience in contacting the offices at Alton and East St. Louis, \·Je are listinG night numbers to be used after the switchboard is closed. ALTON: 2-0001 2-0001 2-0001 2-0002 2-000 2 Evening College Office Book Store Registrar Business Office Student Affairs Cafeteria Pioneer Lodge Davis Lodge Director Physical Plant 2-ood2 2-0003 2-0003 2-0003 2-0003 EAST ST. LOUIS: Business Office Dean of Instruction Vice President Director Registrar Student Affaire Technical and Adult Education Information Service BRidge BRidg(:! BRidge BRidge BRidge BRidge 4-1404 4-0954 4-095lf 4-ll27 4-1554 4-160 lf UPton UPton 4-6500 4-6500 SUMS UP GOALS OF EDUCATION Joseph C. Jurjevich, Jr., attended the 21st Annual Public Affairs Conference held at Principia College April 16-18. He acted as advisor to four students from the Alton Residence Center who participated in this all-student conference. Theme of the conference was "American Youth: A Resource in the Space Age. 11 More than 40 universities and colleges sent delegates to the affair. In attendance were students from West Point, the Air Academy, Texas A & M, the University of Southern California, and many others. l;. - The commission in general summed up the goals of education as follows: helping develop the individual to his potentialities; sharpening his reasoning, analytical and communicative abilities; acquiring cultural and refined v alues of life; and teaching him to be a national and international citi z en. PREPARING REPORT Ernest L. Boyd is preparing a report on the 11 Effect of Increased Enrollments on Methods of Teachins the Basic Speech Course 11 for the Undergraduat e Instruction Interest Gcoup of the Speech Acs ociation of America. NEW ASSISTANT BUSINESS MANAGER Lloyd E. Hubert is the new assistant business manager at the East St. Louis Center. He replaces Lionel D. Howell, who resigned last month to accept a position as business manager of William .Hoods College in Fulton, Missouri. Hubert comes to Southern from American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Company, where he was agsistant office· manager and accountant. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEl\TS Robert Knittel, assistant director of the Department of Community Development was elected secretary of the Division of Community Development of the Naticnal University Extension Associat-ion at a convention held in Syracuse, New Yo.r k, on Apri 1 30. A recent survey bf the polio situation in East St. Louis uncovered the fact that only 30 per cent of the children in the most dangerous age group, 1 'to 6, had had polio shots. Only 29 per cen t in all age groups had received the recommended three vaccine shots. Alarmed at this situation, the Health Committee of Community Progress, Inc.~ initiated a polio drive. Other area civic organizations have joined Community Progress in the campaign to combat polio in this area. The Community Development Department of SIU is working with the local organization of CPI in a total community development program in East St. Louis. �Signs will be posted at each entrance . • ~Collinsville YOU ARE INVITED TO THE FACULTY PICNIC Belleville A faculty picnic, sponsored by the Southern Illinois University Women's Club of the Southwestern Illinois Campus, will be held Saturday, May 16, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Kendall Hill Park (owned by Shell Oil Company). A map indicating directions is shown above. Each family should bring a large main dish, a dessert, meat for their family, a beverage for their children, a tablecloth and table service. Coffee and extra meat for bachelors are being arranged for by the committee. So, you single men, don't disappoint us. Excellent playground facilities are available for the children and there is a large shelter in the event of rain. Bring the family and join the fun. • • COFFEE HOUR SCHEDULED On Thursday, May 14, the Women's Club will hold an important meeting at the home of Mrs. Donald Q. Harris, 71 Country Club Place, Belleville. The meeting is to be a coffee hour from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. There will be election of officers, proposed amendments, and an open panel discussion on the agenda. �• � 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 May 1959, Vol. 2, No. 7 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May 1959