https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/484258b6f23be4ed1c55736d58383cb3.pdf a6ab537f231dae4c11659e76e49e3c44 PDF Text Text • Vol.l, No.2 October 18, 19 5 7 Compiled weekly by Information Service, Southwestern Illinois ~esidence Office, Southern Illinois University, for the staff members of the Res~dence Centers, the Newsletter is made possible by the cooperation of staff members who have contributed news items. -------------------F-A-C-U-L-T-¥- ~ N-E-W-S-L-E-T-T-E-R A new class in Materials Handling at Granite City last week brought to a record 550 the number of persons enrolled in the program offered by SIU's Division of Technical and Adult Education, according to Supervisor Chelsea Bailey : . . .. ·'· The program, run in cooperation with industries, also offers courses in such work as practical psychology and effective speaking for supervisors; industrial economics, engineering, safety, and report writing; cost and quality control; and labor- s upervision relations. Courses carry no credit toward a degree. Formulated in 1956 to meet the demand from industry to provide employers and-employees with the "tools of the trade " and to prepare leaders for intelligent participation in their work, the program was an immediate success. Competent specialists from the area, including Ph.D.'s in economics and psychology; cost accountants and industrial and mechanical engineers from industry; and communica- : tions teachers from high schools and universities comprise the faculty. · Bailey came to SIU's Southwestern Illinois Residence Office in East Saint Louis last August from an assignment of more than two years in Baghdad, where his friends included a sheik in the dairy business (milk shiek?). Mr. Bailey called attention to an industrial test given by secretaries to prospective bosses, recently released by an East Saint Louis .paper. The test asks the hiring official to count the F's in the following sentence, reading it only once: FEDERAL FUSES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. (Turn to the bottom of the next page for rating key.) -------------------Jerry J. Fear, Field Director of the East Saint Louis Community Development Program, opened an office this week in Room 234 of the Broadview Hotel in East Saint Louis. Jerry, an SIU political science graduate, has been working in the East Saint Loui~ area since August. His work in community development at Cairo last year received na- · tion-wide press coverage. In line with Dean See's policy of supplying the faculty of the Residence Centers with background material on the various SIU activities, Fear told Faculty Newsletter that the Department of Community Development was established as a part of SIU's program of aiding in bringing about the full development of the human resources and natural wealth of southern Illinois . �., - 2 - He said that his immediate superior, Richard . hl . Poston, known throughout southern Illinois as "the doctor of sick towns, " envisages community development as encouraging the development of a community l~fe in which all_of the mem~ers of the community may join together to build an env1ronment best su1ted to the1r growth, development, and happiness. One of Jerry's first objectives in a new assignment is to get the community to see itself as a ,.,hole. He says in many communities he finds an assortment of many agencies and groups, all pulling separately, and in most instances without knowing what the others are doing. The program, began as a one-man operation by Poston in September, 1953, now has a staff of 16. Its activities have been the subject of 90 Radio-TV shows, including Ed Murrow's "See It Now " show on the famous Eldorado community project. ---------------------Dr. Howard Davis, student affairs, Alton, spoke before two groups in different communities last week. On Wednesday evening, October 9, he talked to the Wood River Lion's Club on their annual "Teacher Appreciation Day" on the rewards of being a teacher. All of the teachers in the dist~ict were present. Howard mentioned some of the things a community should expect to do for its teachers, and told them they could expect the cost of education to mount. He predicted an increasing shortage of teachers if schools did not make a greater effort to attract persons into the teaching profession. He called attention also to the fact that people are living longer and are demanding a longer period of formal training. On Thursday evening, October 10, Student Affairs Supervisor Davis spoke in a school district which had scheduled an election on a bond issue. Mitchell School in Granite City, whose PTA he addressed, ,-;ras not slated to share in this particular bond issue. He stressed the responsibility of citizens for maintaining schools in the entire school district. S. D. Lovell, government and history, East Saint Louis, has had an article on taxation accepted for publication by the Atlanta Economic Revie\v. Title: "The Adequacy of the Property Tax as the Principal Source of Municipal Revenue." The review, published by Georgia State College, has carried other recent articles of his on state-local fiscal relationships. Lovell, a native of Tennessee and a graduate of its state university, came to S!U from Georgia State College. His M.A. is from the University of Georgia, and his Ph.D. (in political science) is from the Ohio State University. He lives at 6003 West Main in Belleville with his wife and three children. (Dr. Lovell declined to comment when asked whether he was an authority on filling out income tax returns.-ed.) ~-------------------- Virgil Seymour, sociology, East Saint Louis, was back on the pay roll this week after a bout with the Asiatic flu. RATING KEY FOR BOSS'S TEST: There are six F's in the sentence. If the boss spots four, he is above average and would be inclined to notice the length of her coffee breaks. If he gets five, she'd hesitate to work for him, because he'd be sure to be too observing. Six would make him an impossible tyrant. Bailey says that most bosses get only three. �.. - 3 - John Knoepfle, English, East Saint Louis, disclosed t~is week that he has been accepted by Nimrod for his poetry. He has published also ~n Today, Four Quarters, and Yale Review. Knoepfle (pronounced Nofle) came here from Oh~o, where he started work on a river project two years ago while conducting.a ser1es of TV programs for WCET on the Ohio River. Since becoming acquainted w~th some of the men who served on stern wheel and side wheel packets and tows, he has recorded 60 full-hour tapes of the recollections of these old-timers. ' The tapes deposited \vith the Division of Inland Rivers of the Public Library of Cincinnati ~nd Hamilton County, were recorded wherever the old-timers could be found -- in the band room of night clubs, in desolate rooming houses, in the boiler rooms of hospitals, and on excursion boats. John, who writes his (meditative) poetry when he has time, modestly declined to submit a sample of it for this newsletter. ---------~----------- Professor Horace B. Huddle, chemistry, East Saint Louis, announced this week that almost daily shipments of new equipment and supplies for the science labs are· arriving at the Tenth Street campus, where both day and evening students take their lab work. Apat on the back. From the office of the executive dean comes an end-of-thefirst-month-of-classes gr~eting: "Congratulations on a job well done~ UndeJ' the very trying conditions of the past rather hectic month, it has been most gratifying to see the development of such a fine esprit de corps on the part of the Residence Center faculty and staff. The days ahead promise to be busy ones for each of us, with almost unlimited opportunities for professional growth. Ever present in our work is the satisfaction gained from the knowledge that we are providing a much-neede~ educational service for the people of this area. "We are most fortunate in having the fullest kind of support and cooperation from the Carbondate faculty and administrative staff, without which the task before us would be practically insuperable. The real test and challenge for the future l'ies in our ability to retain and justify this confidence now being placed in our program. This all-important feeling of oneness between the Carbondale staff and ours can best be assured through the development of a quality program ·in the Residence Centers. "As we look to the next crucial years in the growth and development of the programs of the Southwestern Illinois Residence Office, we not only welcome but request your suggestions for improvement. The future is what we make it." --------------------Dr. John Schnabel, registrar and admissions, Alton and East Saint Louis, served as registration chairman for the annual convention of the Association of College Admissions Counselors at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, October 12-15. John said. th~t a~cording to cloakroom reports on enro llnient, colleges in the MidWest are not f 1 nd~ng ~t substantially harder this year than last to make room for the students who seek admission. �- 4 - In the East the high school counselors are looking fo: colleges that will accept their students, i.e., those of their students who are not 1n the upper one-fourth of their senior classes. , . . Although the problem of getting into the college of one s c~o1~e in the M1d-West is not expected to become crucial before 1960, John says the adm1~s1ons officers in all parts of the country are laying the groundwork now for effect1ve cou~seling for 1960 admissions. . The admissions policy of the association is to counsel.each student so as to help h1m find the right college for his needs (whether or not th1s happens to be the college which is paying the salary of the admissions counselor concerned.) Speakers at this convention, ~hich had the best attendance of any ACAC convention to date, included: Dr. Lloyd s. Michael~ superintendent of Evanston, Illinois, High School; Frank H. Bowles, president of the College Entranc.e Examination Board; his assistant, F. L. MacMitchell; and H. R. Bartle, lawyer, former president of Missouri Valley College. --------------------Professor Joseph w. Bird, business management, Alton and East Saint Louis, this week addressed his second community group within a fortnight . The Men's Club of the First Baptist Church of Upper Alton, with their wives as guests, heard Dr. Bird charge them with the responsibility of setting standards and leading the way in the development of their children. He reminded them that all of the habits developed by the families in the home go to build up the habit patterns which are to carry the children through school and college. ("I am the sum total of every experience I have ever had.") Therefore it is up to the parents to see that their children have experiences which will enable them to establish proper habit patterns, --- patterns which result from essential experiences and which are not merely a veneer. Dr. Bird's talk of October 3 before the Exchange Club of Alton received front page coverage in the local press (S.ee Alton Evening Telegraph for October 4. - ed.) Next week's Faculty Newsletter will carry a report on Dr. Robert Duncan, English, Alton, who is scheduled to present the sermon at the Unitarian Church (Third Street, Alton) on Sunday, October 27. Dr. Eric Baber to address SIU Alumni Five me~bers of the SIU Alumni Board of Directors are expected to attend the October 21st meeting of the Madison County Division of the Alumni Association, Robert Odaniell, SIU Director of Alumn~ announced today. After a meeting at the Horace Mann School at 7:15p.m., the group will be conducted on tours of the Alton Residence Center by SIU students. At 8:00 p.m. Dr. Baber, director of the Alton Residence Center, will speak to the alumni and friends of the university. After the address, refreshments will be served at the Horace Mann School cafeteria. Faculty members are invited to make reser~ vations with Mrs. Hazel Towery, 1705 Spring Avenue, Nameoki Station, Granite City, Illinois. · NEWSLETTER URGENTLY REQUESTS to be put on the mailing list for all college bulletins, directories, class schedules, and announcements to .student or faculty. (Dean See indi~ cated today that in some instances the copies he receives of such material are quite ancient. - ed ·) � 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 October 1957, Vol. 1, No. 2 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1957