https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/8ed094260ef6578cb74c6617ead0f0d6.pdf 1b46f05b5c56b5b7619d0ce707027b5f PDF Text Text SouthlNestern Illinois Residence Centers Southern Illinois University FACULTV •. NEWS BULLETIN �NO VE11BER _, Vo L .. III_, No •.2 1959 F ACU LTY N E !J S Southern Illinois University's SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS CAMPUS MOVING TO EDWARDSVILLE Moving day for the Vice President and the Dean of SIU's Southwestern Illinois Campus is November 30. At that time Vice President Harold W. See and Dean William T. Going will move from their offices in the Broadview Hotel into the former Gerling home on the Edwardsville campus site. In addition to See and Going, those who will have offices in the Gerling house include: H. Bruce Brubaker, assistant to the vice president for institutional research; Emery Casstevens, supervisor of the industrial and technical program; Raymond J. Spahn, assistant to the vice president for publications and information service; Mildred Arnold, editorial writer; Wilma Jean Boron and Beatrice Holmes, clerk-steno gr aphers; and Julia Maupin and Isla Steele, secretaries. The central offices ' of the registrar and director of admissions, and his staff occupy the former O'Brien homes on plats 24 an d 25. Assistant Registrar Robert Martin also has his offices in Edwardsville. B U L L E T I N Mildred Arnold, Editor Room 234, Broadview Hotel Bridge 4-2100, Ext. 5 The switchboard operator at Edwardsville is Hilda Schlemer. Edward E. Williams is custodian . A map and legend of the Edwardsville site appear on the next page. The abandoned right of way cuttin g through the heart of the 2600-acre tract was purchased last month from the Illinois Terminal Railroad. TO GIVE RECITAL KENWYN BOLDT, instructor of piano, will give a recital Friday, December 4, at 8:00p.m. in the auditorium on the Alton campus. His program will include compositions by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Prokofieff and Chopin. Boldt played for the Alton Council of the Federated Women's Club October 9 at the Alton YWCA. On November 6 he and his wife, Frina, presented a pro gram for one piano-four hands--for the ARC student chapter of the Music Educator's National Conference. ATTEND MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES Schnabel's Edwardsville staff includes Harilyn Armstrong, clerk-typist; Margaret Higginbotham, assistant recorder; Maude Lamb, clerk-stenographer; and Mina Popp e, secretary. MARY MARGARET BRADY, associate professor of secretarial science and business education, and STEPHANIE B. CONWELL, associate professor of nursing, attended the South Central Region Soroptimist convention at St. Joseph, Ho., October 24-25. Coordinator of libraries is Frederick A. Forrest, also assistant professor of hist ory and associate librarian. With him at the former Hardbeck house (plat 64) are TiehCheng Chin, lecturer and cataloguer-bibli og rapher; George Farnum, instructor and cataloguer-bibliographer; and Eugene Herscher, instructor. KENNETH F. ESTEY and Mrs. Estey attended the annual session of the Illinois Baptist State Convention held in the University Baptist Church in Champai gn on October 25-26. Estey is lecturer in reli gious education. He attended the Southern Area Fall Convocation of the Illinois Bapti s t Student Movement at Carbondale October 23 - 24. Others on hi s Edw a rd sville sta ff a r e Dorothy JAMES L. DIEKROEGER attended the annual Braunsdorf, clerk-stenographer; Una Cornwe ll, Southwestern Coaches Conference in East St. Robert Tweedy and Kathryn West, clerk-typists. Louis on October 29. Diekroeger is instruc- �NEW CAMPUS SITE I Conne c ts with St. Louis Road ·C 1/ l j f l //1 Illinoi s Terminal R. R. Right of l~ay liill l!tli ! il l Land Purcha sed Vice Pre s ident Re gistr a r Library , 1 ' [ 15 24- 25 64 �- 3 - tor in physical education for men. EDWIN B. WARREN, assistant professor of music, has been elected to membership in the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society of Great Britian, one of England's most important learned societies. Warren's second article dealing with the life and works of Robert Fayrfax, early English Renaissance composer, appeared in the last issue of Musica Disciplina, polylingual Yearbook of Music History published in Holland. The article is a 30-page stylistic study of the masses, which will be off the press before the end of the year. It will be the first volume of the collected works of Fayrfax which Warren is transcribing and editin g for the American Institute of Musicology. The 1960 issue of Musica Disciplina '"ill carry an article on Fayrfax's motets and settings of the Magnificat. Warren was one of the speakers on the National Secretaries Association Workshop held in Alton last month. His talk, entitled "look and Listen," dealt with the interrelations of the arts and how to get maximum enjoyment from them. In addition to all his other activities, Warren con~ tinues _to write the program notes for the Alton Civic Orchestra concerts. RECEIVES COPYRIGHT NORMAN SHOWERS, men's physical education instructor at Alton, received a copyright in September for his "Basic Mathematics for Physical Education Students." Showers gave a lecture-demonstration on bowling October 30 at Lewis and Clark Junior High . School, Wood River. He explained how to bowl and how to organize bowling leagues. Showers recently attended a bowling instructors' school in Granite City con. ducted by Joe Wilman, one of the "Hall of Fame" bowlers. CO-AUTHOR OF PUBLICATION GUIDE "Publication Guide for Literary and Linguistic Scholars," title of the book coauthored by MILTON B. BYRD, assistant professor of English, received a very favorable review in the current issue of PMLA, offi- cial publication of the Modern Language Association. The book is a reference text for academic authors on literary subjects. "We commend it as a useful tool for every scholar, young or old, who is about to submit an article for publication," PMLA said in its review. The other joint author is Arnold Goldsmith of Wayne State University. DUNCAN COMMENDED FOR ARTICLE IN AIR FACTS The following letter from Hilmer C. Nelson, colonel in the United States Air Force, was received by the editor of Air Facts magazine: "I recently read a reprint of an Air Facts article, "Grow Old With Me," in the August issue of the Navy flying safety magazine, Approach. "I have read numerous similar articles during my many years of flying, but none impressed me so deeply or had such a personal impact. "Grow Old With Me" is, in my opinion, the finest expression of flight safety philosophy yet published. "I have taken the liberty of reproducing the article for distribution to all pilots of my command. Although this is a post facto request for permission to reproduce your article, I hope this action meets with your approval. "May I congratulate you and your staff on the timeliness of your magazine and your contributions to aviation." This letter was forwarded to Robert W. Duncan by the editor of Air Facts, the magazine for which Duncan writes. The original appeared anonymously in Air Facts. BUSINESS EDUCATION TEACHERS MEET AT ALTON Business education teachers met on the Alton campus October 31 for an area conference. Dr. Alan C. Lloyd of the executive staff of the Gregg Publishing Division of McGrawHill Book Company spoke. Lloyd is considered "an outstanding authority in the field of teaching typewriting." His lectures and demonstrations on methods to develop skill in type- �- 4 writing and various techniques to use in classroom procedures were excellent, acc ording to MARY MARGARET BRADY, associate professor of secretarial science and business education. Miss ·Brady and a committee of Alton high school teachers arranged the conference. The one hundred teachers attending , Miss Brady said, came from Ashland, Blooming ton, Pittsfield, Chester, Shelbyville , Pe kin, Herrin and Mari ~ n. Members of the busine ss education depar ~ments at Normal, Easte rn and the Carbondale campus of SIU attended, as did a number of teachers from the St. Loui s public schools. IBM TYPEWRITING CLINIC HELD IN ALTON An IBM Typewriting Clinic was held in Alton on October 30 for SIU and high school s ec retarial science students. Miss Di xi e Davidson, educational represent a-tive for IBM, conducted the clinic, assisted by one of the IBM sales representatives, Herbert Giessing. MARY MARGARET BRADY arr anged the clinic. Roughly 150 high school and unive rsity students attended, as well as a numb e r of secretaries from the campus. month by PETER SIMPSON. He read from his 0\m works and those o f contemporary and well known mode rn poets . Musical background wa s furnished by the Jimmy Williams quartet . Simpson, an English instructor at the Ea st St. Louis center, and his wife have a new daughter, Mary Caroline, born October 4. KNOEPFLE JUDGES SHORT STORY CONTEST JOHN KNOEPFLE, lecturer in English at the East St. Louis center, recently served as one of the judges of a short story contest for Scott Air Base writers. Other judges were from Belleville Junior College and ~vashin g ton Universit y . An abstra ct of the paper Knoep f le read last March before the Central Renaissance Conf ere nce "will be printed in the September issue of The Shakespeare Newsletter, whenever The Shakes pear e Newsletter gets around to printing its Sept ember issue , " the author says. Title of the paper is "Macbeth and Seven Steps to Despair." QUOTING DUPO COLUMNIST HEART ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE MEETS The education committee of the St. Clair Heart Association--an integral part of the Illinois Heart Association--met October 26 at the East St. Louis center. VIRGIL SEYMOUR, instructor of sociolo gy and supe rvi so r of the ' Evening College and Adult Educ ation, East St. Louis , i s a membe r of the commi t t ee . JUDGES PLAY CONTEST MARY BELLE SMITH, speech instructor , served as a judge for the Catholic Youth Confe r ence play contest held at Marquette High Scho o l November 1. Five deanery CYC group s pr e sented plays, Miss Smith said, Springfield , Alton, Quincy, Effingham and Vecatur. GIVES POETRY CONCERTS A series o f four jaz z poetry concerts was given at Cry stal Palace, St. Louis, l ast Quoting from Lynn Ashton's column, "News, Views and Comments about Dupo Area , " a feature in the Dupo Herald Tribune: "TEACHERS' MEETING . . . something MUST be done to make time spent by teachers at teachers' meetings more profitable. True, this year the Thursday we spent at O'Fallon was ALMOST a day well spent . . . DR. ROBERT STEINKELLNER was just about the most dynamic speaker heard at a teachers' meeting in many o 'cotton-pickin' moon.' He thinks (and so do a lot of other teachers) that the language arts . . . which include talking, listening, reading and writing . . . are not getting nearly enough stress in our schools today. We a re failing to give our youth a completely well-rounded skill in the handling of the a rts." TUCKER TO HELP WITH NEA PROJECT MARK TUCKER, professor of special education, has been invited to participate in the development of a publication for the National �- 5 Education Association's Project on the Academically Talented. The publication will deal with guidance of the gifted student, Tucker said, and the meetings will be held in Washington, D. C., from November 19 to 21. PARTICIPATES IN PHILOSOPHICAL CONFERENCE The fourteenth Annual Conference of The Mountain-Plains Philosophical Association was held October 15-17 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The theme emphasized the hundredth anniversary of the Origin of The Species and the birth of John Dewey. GERALD RUNKLE, associate professor of philosophy, read a paper on "Human norms and biolog;cal theory." INTE~\VIEWED ON WOKZ On her November 4 morning interview program on WOKZ, Helen Walters had as her guest ROBERT DUNCAN, associate professor of English and supervisor of the Evening College and Adult Education at the Alton center. Duncan answered questions on course offerings and degree requirements at SIU. FACULTY WOMEN'S CLUB by contacting Mrs. C. E. PEEBLES, 3015 Leverett, Alton (HOward 2-3425). AWARDS PRIZES AT ART EXHIBITION On October 26 CATHERINE MILOVICH, art instructor at the East St. louis center, awarded the prizes in the Cole County (Missouri) art exhibition sponsored by the Jefferson City Art Club. There were three classifications, professional, amateur and student. Mrs. Milovich found entries from the state penitentiary of particular interest. Three of them received prizes. JUDGE HALLOWEEN FLOATS EVELYN BUDDEMEYER AND JOHN RICHARDSON of the art staff at Alton and Mrs. MILOVICH judged floats in the annual Halloween parade held in Alton on October 31. They were assisted by art teachers from Principia and Monticello colleges. FACULTY MEMBERS FILL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS EVELYN BUDDEMEYER spoke to the Federated Women's Club of Edwardsville on October 1. Her topic, "Man's At tempts to Meet His Aesthetic Needs." The Faculty Women's Club of SIU's Southwestern Illinois Campus will hold its November meeting on Thursday afternoon, November 19, at the Edwardsville Public Library. It will convene at one o'clock. Vice President Harold W. See will be the speaker. Members of the telephone committee will arrange for those who need transportation. Mrs. D. E. BEAR is chairman of the meeting. Dues ($2.00) are payable at this time. "Etiology of Delinquency" was the title of a talk given October 6 by JAMES TURNER, director of the East St. louis cente) at the Hillcrest Christian Church. An all-faculty Christmas dinner, sponsored by the Faculty Women's Club of SWIG, Hill be held at 7:00p.m., Saturday, December 12, at the Hotel Stratford in Alton. Cost of each dinner, including tax and tips, is $3.10. Reservations and money must be sent to Mrs. JAMES TURNER, 202 South Summit Drive, Collinsville, before December 9. Cance llations may be made on or before December 10 Speaking to the Parent-Teachers Association at Hartford on October 12, DAVID BEAR, assistant professor of education, Alton, discussed "Education in a Changing Society." He returned to the same school November 9 to talk to the Mother's Club on the "Function of the Home in the Pre-School Development of the Child." KURT GLASER, lecturer in government at Alton, addressed the International Relations Study Group of the American Association of University Women at Alton on November 3. His subject was "German Refugees and German Reunification." �- 6 - PRESENT SIU PROGRAM JOHN J. GLYNN, JOHN SCHNABEL and ROBERT aroused considerable interest in the SIU program October 27 when they presented it at the senior and parents' night at Hazelwood High School, in Missouri. (Copied from November 2 issue of the Alton Bulletin Board.) MARTI~ PARTICIPATES IN SYMPOSIUN WINSLOW SHEA, philosophy instructor at Alton, attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Aesthetics held in Cincinnati October 29-31 and participated in a symposium on "The Role of Iconology in Critical Understanding and Judgment." Last month he gave a lecture at a special honors seminar at Nonticello College on "The Bible and the Paradoxes of our JudeaChristian Heritage." He participated in a panel discussion with JOHN RICHARDSON on "Modern Automobile Design" November 1, over station WOKZ. This discussion inaugurated a series of programs on WOKZ called SIU ON THE AIR. BI-STATE PILOT CONNITTEE NEETS A committee of civic ieaders from St. louis and Nadison and St. Clair counties in Illinois will meet at Pere Narquette Park, Friday (11-13-59) to study development of the bi-state area. , , Acting as hosts will be the chief executives of the three major universities serving the area, Delyte W. Morris, president of Southern Illinois University; Paul Reinert, S.J., president of St. Louis University; and Ethan A. H. Shepley, ch -:ncc llor of h'ashington University. W. Victor Weir of Creve Couer and C. E. Townsend, editor of the Granite City Press Record, will serve as temporary chairmen of the 16-member pilot committee, which will propose ways and means to achieve increased voluntary coordination among agencies concerned with improvement programs in the bi-state area. Ia~ NcHarg, landscape ~rchitecture department chairman at the University of Pennsylvania and consultant to the planning commissions of Philadelphia and london, will meet with the committee. Illinois members of the committee are Lloyd NcBride of Granite City, sub-district director , United Steelworkers of l\IT!erica District 34; Curt E. Eckert, partner, Eckert Orchard Association, Belleville; Robert Gauen, vice-president, Gauen Lumber Co., Collinsville; William A. Hitchcock, vice-president, State Savings and loan Association, E~st St. Louis; Richard Judson, supervisor, Training and Community Relations, Standard Oil Co., Wood River; Robert Naucker, plant manager, Alton Box Board Co., Alton; Charles Schmidt, executive partner, Oscar Schmidt Agency, Edwardsville, and Townsend. Nissouri members of the committee, all officials of St. louis concerns, are Joseph P. Clark, president, St. Louis Labor Ccuncil; John F. Hallett, vice-president, First National Bank in St. louis; Robert E. Hillard, executive vice-president, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.; Fred B. Hunt, assistant vice-president in charge of operations, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.; Eugene J. Nackey, Murphy and Nackey; Mrs. John h'. Seddon, chairman, Committee on City Redevelopment, League of Homen Voters; C. Spencer Tocus, principal, Hadley Technical High Schoo 1; and Weir, president of the St. louis County Water Co. \ �• � 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 November 1959, Vol. 3, No. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 1959