https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/3eda8a5a7a3ea6ba60b8d45cee4bf808.pdf 0d754913736af664e1d02a8f5f9e206b PDF Text Text �October 1960 NEWS BULLETIN Mildred Arnold, Editor Fangenroth Road Edwardsville, Illinois SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERS ITY Southwestern Illinois Campus SUMMER GRADUATION AT CARBONDALE Thirty-two seniors at SIU's Southwestern I l l inois Campus received the bachelor's degree August 12 at commencement e xercises a t Carbonda le . CLIFTON CORNWELL served as marshall for SWI G. Dr. E. c. Coleman, professor of English on the Ca rbondale campus, delivered the commencement address, "An Adventure in Education . " Since it .was impossible for most of the faculty members on this campus to attend, Dr. Coleman's speech is included in this issue of the Bulletin. "An Adventure in Education" by E. C. Coleman I salute you partially educa ted people who a re about to receive degrees . You are about to enter a society ma de up of uneducated, partly educated, and ba dly educated persons. There is no stigma a ttached to a condition of partial educa tion. All of us all of the time ha ve to make decisions and judgments on the basis of fragmentary and incomplete knowledge . I f you ar e aware of the fact that you are only partly educated, you are not in such bad shape . The badly educated people give us more cause for alarm; and unfortunately no individual can ever know whether he ha s been ba dly educated or not. But ~here is one phase of bad or ha rmful educa tion that seems dangerous to me. Socrates long ago noted this type--the person who has a little specialized knowledge or skill and because of it a ssumes that he has a right to sound off authoritatively about ~verything . Do We Know As Much As We Think? A society such as ours has to have these specia lists with their highly specialized skills and their technological know-how; but to me there is a great--a vast difference between know-how and knowledge and an even greater difference between knowledge and wisdom. For some reason or other, society has been going through a series of continuing and deepening crises. I ask this question which I am unable to answer. Could our troubles, foreign and domestic, arise from the inadequacy of our education? Maybe we just don't know enough to maintain a leading role among the nations of the world. Maybe we know far less than we think we do. �- 2 - I salute you partially educated people who are about to receive degrees. This commencement exercise has been devised as a symbol of your having reached that ·stage in life where your education commences . Let us hope that you have the necessary equipment for a good beginning. If these years in school have made you humble about your small store of knowledge, if you have learned just a little about tact and finesse (tact means keeping your big mouth shut most of .the time), if you have discovered that most of your training is planned t:o teach you to ask intelligent questions, if you have learned how to listen to what others are saying, if you can speak and write with a little more charm and precision, if your span of tolerance has broadened, if you have become more humane--if you have made just a little more progress toward these goals, . then you can be a .happier and more useful person as a result of your months and years with us . General Concepts . aricl..At:,titudes Count I am not much concerned whether you have a common core of knowledge or indeed whether you have a large fund of information about anything. In three or five or ten years, the technical training you have received here inchemistry or engineering or business or agriculture or education will seem so very trivial and unimportant compared with what you then know that you will wonder what is the matter :with your alma mater that it allowed you to graduate in such a state of .ignorance. Some of you will write letters, telling us .for God's sake to tighten up The value of education lies in general concepts and general attitudes . If we taught you a great many facts, some of them would turn out to be false and others mistaken. When I studied physics forty years ago, I was made to believe that nature abhors a vacuum and that all space not otherwise occupied was filled with ether . Today we believe that almost all the universe is a vacuum; and the ether has vanished into thin air, very thin air, indescribably thin air. In 1913 I studied the facts of geography . I could have drawn for you from memory a fairly faithful map of Europe as it existed before World War I. I could still draw a more accurate map of 1913 Europe than of today's Europe . The most important concept of geography, however, no one ever taught me. That conc.ept is change. Geography changes day by day. Long ago a philosopher, Heraclitus, said "You cannot jump in the same river twice." Rivers run t ·o the sea, mountains are worn down, earthquakes crack open the plains, volcanoes erupt, rainfall pat.terns shift, peoples use up the natural resources and move away or vanish. The one great concept about geography which I .could have understood easily at the age of thirteen, no one ever imparted to me It is easy for you to say that everyone with common sense knows that things change. Men grow old, flowers fade and die, tools wear out, "the hounds of spring are on winter's traces," showers give way to sunshine, glaciers melt, even old soldiers fade away . True, of course. But growing children also hear a great many other things . They read or are told about "eternal summer," "eternal truths," 'the everlasting hills," ancient �- 3 - laws, ages-old principles, innnemoria l time, "the hills/Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun . " Words like "innnut.able," "unperi sh ing," "immorta l," and "timeless" assail their eyes and ears ever y da y . Ca ndida tes f or office, poets, and song writers like to tell us tha t governmen ts, l ov e , and little brooks run on for ever while the cold facts of his t ory , emot i on, and geography tell us that they do n~t do any such thing . Would it no t be mor e worthwhile for a child to grasp some of these concepts like t h i s one of time and cha nge than to memorize the names of all the bones of t h e human body? More Than One Way I do not say that memor iz at i on is wrong . By no mea ns . I was made to learn the multiplicat.ion tables to 12 x 12, a nd I wi sh I had been compelled to learn them to 25 x 25. The only wa y I ca n get the a nswer to 23 x 23 .is to sit down with a pencil and figure it out. I .wish I ha d connnitted to memory · t ·h ousands of lines of poetry instead of just hundreds . I wish I knew the second verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner . " I am gla d t ha t I know certa in tables of weights and measures . I wish I knew entire the pr eamble to the Constitution, all of the Declaration of Independence, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address . Neither am I complaining a bout my tea chers . I think they did their best on little pay; and, considering the ma teria l t hey ha d to work with, they did very well. I am just saying that there is more t han one way to skin a cat. Unfortuna tely, once people develop a skill in skinning the ca t a certa in way the greater number of them do not want to e xper iment f ur t her . . . Yet all of us know after only a little reflect i on tha t a bsolute reverence for tradition creates a sta t .ic society . Now and t hen someone has to .question an axiom, challenge a n a ges-o ld belief, fly in the fa ce of tradition . Every once in a while someone comes a long with a ques tion . Ca n one reach the East by s a iling west? Is Space finite? Is Time Rel a tive ? . . . New Ways to Skin the Ca t I am connnitted to the belief tha t we owe wr grea test tha nks always to those few in our societywho ha ve somehow broken through this encrustation of tradition . This one person in t·en thous a nd who crea tes a form of government more responsible to the people, who improves a process of manufa cturing or farming or mining, who invents a new form of t r ansporta tion or refines a n old one, who finds stronger and lighter building ma terials, who brings increa sed pleasure in song or story or painting by expressing our emo t ions a nd thoughts more clearly and more fully than they have ever before been expressed - -in short, the poet, the painter, the inventor, the creator, the expert in resear ch , the explorer--these are the men who make our society dynamic instead of sta tic . They all look for new ways to skin the cat. No censure is intended of those who car ry on the work of our society under established law and tradition . The world's work must be done . These people, however, sometimes fall into the error of a ssuming that l awand tradition must be �- 4 - maintained without change . They accuse the boldest spirits in our society of blasphemy or disloyalty . This, it seems to me, is their grievous fault . ...... In the field of education we have our sha re of traditionalists. We also have a few who like to venture with new methods a nd techniques. At the present time in many of our colleges, sma ll groups of men and women are exploring in new fields. The tried an.d true method o f teaching by lectures , textboo ks, s egmented assignments, and frequent examina tions may be all right but they want to try something else . Breaking the curriculum into small fractions of science, literature, language, and s'ocial .studies , a n d car rying on all of these st,udies simultaneously may be all right but .something else may be better . • • The present method emphasizes the gathering of information. Let us try another method . Let us proceed by a series of concepts, subordinating facts to the understanding of these broad ideas. For example, instead of -studying the physical sciences, set the s-tudent the task of understanding statics and dynamics. Instead of government, let him develop the concpet of justice. Instead of taking educational psychology or school administration, let him try to find an ans:wer to the question "What am Ihere for?" .•• Thephysical sciences could concern themselves with ''Energy." To some degree, this method substitutes deduction for induction. The inductive method is a sound one, and I am by no means suggesting that we can or should try to get .along without it. Sometimes, however, we assume tha t if we gather enough facts the significance of these facts will become obvious. Idoubt if this is correct . Moreover, we sometimes assume that if one learns to employ the inductive method in one situation, he will know how 't o use it in another. This I also doubt . Honors Program But the principal departure, I hope and believe, will consist of a change in the technique of teaching . In our honors program which w_e are getting under way in S.e ptember the textbook will be discarded in favor of a shelf of books . The lecture will be supplanted by discussion in which every student will take part. At least two faculty members will sit in on every discussion. The student will bring his own knowledge to bear on the subject in hand. Then he will go out and find more information to bring back to the next discussion. No two students will necessarily read the same books. Under this system it is barely possible that the teachers will add to their present state of knowledge . At one college I visited recently, all the faculty , regardless of rank or departmental background, attend all the sessions. Philosophers and historians .and economists attend the sessions on mathematics and physics. The mathematics and physics teachers are present at the social studies seminars . Here is a handful of faculty members who in five or six years may become the best train.e d and most widely · informed in .t he nation. Imagine if you can the impact they will have on th.e ir own departments when they return there to teach departmen talized subjects. We shall begin our own honors program this fall with thirty freshmen and six faculty members . These thirty students, while they will all have excellent records and high t .e st scores, will not necessarily be the best students in the university . �- 5 - They will take other courses with other students, and we expect their college lives to be in other respects normal and conventional. Our ultimate goal is to have 120 students, thirty from each class . Likewise no one will make any sort of claim for the sup.e riority of faculty who participate in this program. All of us know full well that the teaching of specialized courses must go on . Those who want to keep on skinning the cat in the old conventional way may certainly do so . . • Our First Timid Steps We hope you tradi-tionalists will be patient and tolerant while we take our first . timid steps in this new direction. We are just hoping to find out for ourselves if the taxpayers' money is being as well invested for education as it can be . Not many months ago I seriously considered theproposition that we ought to abolish colleges .altogether. They cost so much, they pull the youilgs·ter :in so many different directions at once, they distract the public with a program of complicated activities, they invest so much money in research projects, some of which are not worth a plugged nickel. Sometimes they afford students a standard .o f living which they cannot hope afterwards to maintain. Sometimes they do little more than confuse and bewilder a student. Some youths learn nothing at college except how to play pinochle or not to draw to an inside straight. I keep in mind too the indisputable fact that one can .b egin almost anywhere and if only he has the right sort of curiosity he can educate himself without ever going to college at all. Benjamin Franklin taught himself to write without benefit of teacher. Hamlin Garland, an Iowa farm boy, saved up a little money by working on the neighbors' farms, and then went to Boston and spent a year just reading in the Boston Public Library. John Hunter taught himself anatomy and the skills of dissection before he left his Scottish farm home and went to London. As a matter of fact, you could fall down and skin your knee and get an education. All you need do is follow up the experience. When you see blood on your knee, you may ask yourself "Why does it bleed and what is bleeding?" and in seeking the answer you may find the facts about the circulation of the blood which no man knew until 1628. You may ask "Why does it hurt?" and "What is pain?" and in exploring the nervous system for the answers, you may learn some basic facts about physiology as well as psychology. You may look at the rock which caused you to stumble and skin your knee and become curious about how the rock happened to be there. In trying to find the answer, you may get at the fundamentals of geology. You may wonder why it is conunon to say "I skinned my knee" when the facts are that you "de-skinned" it, and so you learn the first lesson about language, that it is a wonderful but not a logical instrument. You may also wonder what perverse spirit or on the other hand what kindly instrument of Providence led you to take the pat.h down which you were traveling when you fell and skinned ·or "de-skinned" your knee; and so you enter the realm of speculative philosophy. Find the Answer I think you c-an now s.ee why I do not favor the abolishment of colleges. Colleges are institutions where you can learn the facts of life without stumbling over a �- 6 - rock and falling down and skinning your knee. A good college is a substitute for a skinned knee. A college ought to be a place where both faculty and students strive continuously to f ind the ans we ~s to all sorts of questions . In our honors program we hope to throw the faculty members and the students into each other's company where t hey will str uggle to find some of the answers to problems about which all a r e curious. The honors program differs from ordinary college procedure in this fundamen ta l way--that in routine procedure the instructor tries to find the answers by himself and having found them he carries his conclusions to the classroom and tells them to the students --a chunk at a time. While in the honors program , on the other hand, the f a culty and students will search for the answers in a cooperative enter prise. I am fairly sure that both methods are necessary in a successful college . . ....·. .... .. . ... ·. ~ A final word to you cats who are about to receive degrees. Keep on looking for ·answers. The world we live in suffers from a hemispheric split that threatens to destroy it. Society needs desper ately all the answers it can get. When Dr. Tenney and Mr . Lovell and I recently visited in Boston, we saw a sign in a Boston subway lettered in cha lk which read "Peace for the world by 1970 with or without people." This scrawled message illustrates graphically the perils of our time. The answers we have found so far have not sufficed . We have got to find some new ones even if we have to devise new methods to get them. That is why we have set up an honors program. We must--we must find a new way to skin the cat . "He points out that the most frequent criticism- - that graduate schools emThe following information was released phasize training in research at the October 11 from the publicity depa rt expense of the preparation of college ment of McGraw-Hill Book Company , New teachers--is based on what he calls the York, New York: 'market research argument': the assumption that most Ph.D.s go into the teach"The nation.'s graduate schools are fuling of undergraduates. However , only filling their obligations, although about 60 per cent of Ph.D.s today go so·me critics frequently charge otherwise, into academic life, as compared with about according to a book published today by 80 per cent at the turn of the century, McGraw-Hill Book Company. In Graduate and only 20 per cent end up teaching Education in the United States Bernard undergraduates in liberal arts colleges, Berelson, formerly at the University of with the remainder in universities where Chicago and now director of Columbia '· they have the opportunity to take reUniversity's Bureau of Applied Social sponsibility for graduate students for Research, analyzes the many criticisms which research training is a sina qua !!.Q!!• of the many roles played by graduate schools today. His analysis of the "Berelson also disagrees with the prophets facts that are available and the gathwho fear that the graduate schools are ering of others which have not been not producing enough Ph.D.s to staff the available lead him to refute many of colleges and universities in the decade the charges made against graduate eduahead . Although it is true that our cation. baccalaureate ranks will probably have GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE UNI TED STATES �- 7 - doubled in the 15-year period between 1955 and 1970, he points out that the production of doctorates has doubled in every ten-year period since the turn of the century. "Dr. Berelson's two-year survey, which was made under a Carnegie Corporation grant to the University of Chicago, has resulted in the most comprehensive study of graduate education made to date . He furnishes a short history of graduate education since its establishment in .this country with the founding of John Hopkins University in 1876. He then sets forth the issues that have been developed and must be debated concerning the purposes, programs, institutions, and .students . In a concluding section he gives his own conclusions and reconnnendations as to what probably will and should happen within the next 15 years . "Dr . Berelson devotes much more attention to doctoral programs than to the Master's; and does not consider law and medicine, but deals with graduate education in the arts and sciences and the other professional fields--education, business, agriculture, etc. He based his study on a reading of the available literature; on interviews with scores of people concerned; on the compilation of data; and on responses to questions addressed to graduate deans, hundreds of graduate faculty, all the presidents of four-year liberal arts colleges and teachers colleges, recipients of doc ~ torates in 1957, and representatives of industries which employ sizeable numbers of Ph.D.s. "Graduate Education in the United States is the 8th study to be published by McGraw-Hill Book Company in the Carnegie Series in American Education. •• VOTE YES NOVEMBER 8 University faculty members are devoting a great deal of time to promotion of the Universities Bond Issue . Those serving as coordinators of citizens connnittees .are attending meetings to help plan activities for promotion of the referendum. Roughly 50 members of the faculty have made speeches. By the fourteenth of October about 162 speeches had been made. Eighty-nine more are scheduled between now and November 8. The total scheduled to date is 251 speeches. The size of audience has ranged from five persons to 800 . Speakers have appeared before many kinds of groups, including labor unions, Parent-Teacher Associations, chambers of connnerce, women's clubs, church groups and - hi-g h ··'school student bodies. The greatest number of speeches given in any one day was 22. The Granite City Citizens Connnittee , organized by BRUCE THOMAS, is planning a rally for Thursday, October 27. Included in the program will be a reception for the public school teachers of Granite City, with President DELYTE W. MORRIS as the honored guest, and a dinner meeting, with President Morris as principal speaker. FROM THE DESK OF THE DEAN I think the faculty will be interested in these brief extracts from recent copies of the Intercollegiate Press Bulletin about other campuses: The results of a recent grading study at the University of Delaware reveal that "comparison of grade distributions for the past five years shows them to be still too heavily biased on the upper side of the scale . Well defined and prudently distributed grades can engender the healthy competition which extends the abilities of all participants . . . " More colleges and universities are instituting four-year honors programs for su perior students, according to a Kent State University faculty study. The survey of honors work at 75 colleges .and universities shows that nearly half of the institutions have four-year programs . • . Other trends are toward increasing reliance on course �- 8 - work, independent study, and mastery of texts and reading lists instead of term papers and theses. Auditing by undergraduates at Temple University, which had been pr·e viously banned because auditors interfered with classroom instruction and conduct in the class, is now permitted with the approval of the dean of the school in which the student is enrolled .and the instructor of the course he wishes to audit. Auditing is defined at Temple as the process by which a student sits in on class lectures but does not take examinations, nor participate in discussions, nor receive university credit for the course . --WTG be a debate on Recognition of Red Chin a " KURT GLASER and Reverend Hugh Kennedy will participate. "Report on Politics and Rh etoric, 1860 and 1960," will be the topic on October 30. Featured will be RICHARD BAKER and Professor Ford of Principia College. The November 7 program will be a "Report on the Problem of Voter Apathy.'' FORMER DIRECTOR MARRIED Car lyle Ring, first director of the SIU center in East ··st: ·'Loliis, was married August 19 to Mabel Clough James, daughter of Mr. George Clough, Bury St. Edmunds , England. The ceremony was performed at the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo: CAMPUS RECRUITERS FACULTY WOMEN'S CLUB Ralph E. Dietz of the Internal Revenue Service will be at the East St. Louis campus October 25, 9 : 00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to interview seniors interested in becoming trainees for internal revenue agent, special agent or revenue officer. He was on the Alton campus October 19. Appointments should be made with the Placement Service, according to DAVID R. VAN HORN, supervisor of student employment and placement. The Faculty Women's Club sponsored a family picnic at Kendall Hill Park October 8 . More than 200 attended. Chairman of the event was MRS. LEO COHEN . Members of her committee were MRS. KERMIT CLEMANS, MRS. EUGENE GRAVES, MRS. LAVERN KELLEY , MRS. CLELLIE OURSLER, MRS. DAVID RANDS, MRS. DONALD TAYLOR; . MRS. MARK TUCKER , and MRS. HENRY VOGES The first meeting of the club will be held Thursda y, November ~7, at the home SUMMER LECTURE SERIES of MRS. C. E. PEEBLES, R. 1, Edwardsville . MRS. DAVID VAN HORN and MRS. LAURENCE Roughly 50 persons attended the experMcANENY will be in charge of the program, imental lecture series held this summer designed to help you be creative. The on the Southwestern Campus . There were December 15 meeting is to be held at the three in the series. JOHN ROCKWELL Edwardsville Public Library and will discussed "Turkey Today,." NICHOLAS feature SIU's PRESIDENT DELYTE W. MORRIS. JOOST talked about'tluck Finn of Hannibal, Both the November and December meetings Missouri," and DIMITER WASSEN and Mrs. will convene at 1:00 p.m • • . Was sen . chose ''Modern Pilgrims" for their topic. A series of coffees was given this fall to welcome new members. MRS. WILLIAM BANAGHAN, .MRS • . C. DALE FJERSTAD and MRS. SIU bN THE AIR CHARLES PARISH were in charge of the Alton coffee which was held at the home of Mrs. The Alton radio station WOKZ features Parish. In Belleville MRS. DONALD Q. SIU on the Air every Sunday afternoon HARRIS entertained; the Collinsville party at 1:30. The October 23 program will was given by MRS. GERLAD RUNKLE. The coffee �- 9 - in Edwardsville was at the home of MRS. MYRON BISHOP with MRS. CLIFTON CORNWELL serving as chairman . . o AAUW of Alton has issued a special invitation to SIU women in that area to join the local branch. Those interested should contact Mrs. Wicks a t HOward 2-8162 or Mrs. Roglis at HOward 5-8556. All women who hold de grees from colleges and universities approved for AAUW membership are eligible. The membership chairman or the Dean of Women at your college will tell you whether your college is accepted. the IBM Department of Education at End i cott, New York. Teachers of business administra tion from 40 universities attended. EDUCATION . FRANK L. EVERSULL was in Chicago October .7-8 to attend the 104th annual meeting of the Illinois Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. As Grand Orator, he addressed the morning session on October 8. He was elected Grand Chaplain for next year. Mr . Eversull is a Thirty - third Degree Mason, the highest honor which can . he.. !;>~stowed upon a member of the Masonic Lodge. NEWS FROM THE DIVIS IONS BABETTE MARKS participated in the district workshop of the Illinois League of Girls' Athletic Associations held at Alton High School on October 1. She con ducted a session on mixer activities , in~ eluding dances and games, for the 130 high school GAA representatives and their school advisors . • . . . BUSINESS • o • MARY .M. BRADY has announced that the Southwest Area Business Education Teachers will hold their annual fall conference on the Alton campus October 29. The speaker for the day will be Dr. J. Marshall Hanna, professor of education at Dhio State University. He will discuss effective bookkeeping teaching practices, problems involved in teaching bookkeeping, and at the noon luncheon meeting will take a · look into the future of business education. Anyone interested is invited to attend. The meeting will run from 9:00 a . m. to 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium, with luncheon served at noon in the Student Union. Miss Brady was organizer of the southwest area group of business teachers and has helped to promote an annual conference each year since 1957 NORBERT V. SCHMITT attended a two-week course in data processing at • o • o CAMERON Wo MEREDITH was honored by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists at its annual meeting, held this year in San Francisco during the week of August 31. Meredith , who has served as educational adviser to the association for the pa st ten years, received a purse and a pla que commemorating his services; he was ma de the first honorary non-anesthetist life member of the association. After the convention , .he and his wife flew to Hawa ii where he visited a school of anesthesia for nurses and conducted sessions at the Institute for Nurs.e Anesthetists in Honolulu. On October 6 ROBERT H. STEINKELLNER spoke at Marshall School, Granite City , on "The Effect of Indecent Literature Upon the Youthful Mind. 11 He was chairman of a panel discussion at a conference of the Illinois Guidance and Personnel Association held October 14-15 on the campus of Northern Illinois University. The subject was , "Wi ll the Ungraded Primary School Adequately Provide for Individual Differences?" The Steinkellner family was featured in the o The role of the older woman in college is the subject of a forthcoming article by ETHEL BLACKLEDGE. Mrs. Blackledge's article, "Welcome the Older Woman to College," will appear in an early issue of the Journal of Business Education, national business periodical. • • • �- 10 HEADLEY, was included . The group ma de the big time last April in a performance with the St. Louis Symphony when t he chorus sang On August 31, LAWRENCE TALIANA attended the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony." a one-day session at the J ewis h VocationmRehea rs a ls ar e underwa y for the chorus's Service in Chicago concerning the results second a ppearance with th e Symphony next of research projects conducted under the Apr il when Ha ydn's "Creation" will be preauspices of the nationa l office of Voca- sente d . Also on the 1960-61 schedule is tional Rehabilitation . Sep tember 1 to a performance of Handel's "Messiah. " September 5, he attended the national This year Mr. Headley organized two choral American Psychological Association groups, one r ehea rses every Monday evening meetings held at the Hotels Sherman from eight to ten at the First Ba ptist and Morrison in Chicago . Church in Alton . The other pr a ctices ea ch Tuesday even i ng from eight to ten a t the SIU center in. ~~s .t ~t. Louis. Each group will give individual performances; however , . • • FINE ARTS • • . for l arge productions, the two groups will be combined . CATHERINE MILOVICH is represented by two abstract water color pa intings, . "Flight" and ''Dawn," in the October . • • HUMAN ITIES . • . exhibition of Group 15 at the City Ar t Museum, St. Louis . Her husband, Tanasko , BERTRAND BALL a nd his wife spent the is showing an abstract oil , "Adriat ic , " summer in Monterrey, Mexico. In a ddition and a batik, "Evening Bells . " Both to becoming acquainted with the people painters are charter members of Group 15--an experimental group of professional and ha ving ample opportunity to spea k the painters and sculptors . The Miloviches Spanish l a nguage, he conducted research are currently exhibiting their paintings, pursuant to the publication of an a rticle batiks, and mosaics a t the Art Mart Gal- on the novels of Andre Malraux . • . Mr. lery , 31 North Meremac , Clay ton, Mo ~ Ball reports approximately 70 students The exhibit began October 14 and will studying beginning French at th e Alton run through October 27. This i s their center . The course has been divided into first dual show in some years. Mrs . three sections . An intermediate Fr ench Milovich conducted two workshop classes course is being offered, as well a s a n in art education at Wa shington Univeradva nced cour se on the French novel of sity during the first summer term • • . t h e 18th and 19th centuries. September 30 issue of the Ea st St . Louis Evening Journal MARY BELLE SMITH is directing a project in the development of a speech and theater program at the newly a ccredited Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia. The work is being done through a Danforth Foundation grant. Miss Smith writes that during a recent building program a new a uditorium was erected, and "there are possibilities of a barn theater and a showboat." The September 28 i ssue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat carried a feature story on the Southwestern Illinois Chorophonic Society. A picture of the Chorophonic Society's director, HERROLD . NICHOLAS JOOST will spea k October 22 a t the celebration of the opening of the Pi us XII Library, St . Louis Un ivers i ty. He will be one of a seven - person pa nel discussing " Technology a nd Man . " The August issue of Modern Philology carri ed a revi ew of Richard St eele's J ournalism. by Mr. J oost . . . "A Cor ollary t o Literature" by him a ppeared in Rena scence , .XIII (Autumn 1960) . This was a detailed r eviewartic le of Henri de Lubac's The Drama of Atheist Humanism; it s main point de a lt with the par ticipation o f such Americans a s Thoreau in the evolution of the ma in intellectura l tradition of t he Western wor ld during the nineteenth cent ury . �- 11 - . • . The official journal of the German Sociological Society has published a n article by GUNTER REMMLING . The art i cle , entitled "Zur Soziol og i e .der Mach t " (Towards a Sociology of Power) , a pp ear e d in the June issue of the periodica l , which is published in Cologne A forthco~ing issue of Boston University Studies in English will ca rry an article by CHARLES PARISH entitled "The Na ture of Mr. Tristram Shandy ,- Author . " sol d . I a lso placed a one-ac t pl ay in t he McKendr ee Writer's Contest last summer , when my The Scarlet A (a story a bout Nathaniel Hawthorne) won first pr ize in t heir drama section. "Also , I just received word tha t an a rti c le of mine entitled 'Ophelia Exonerated' a p pea red in the May issue of the Shakespear e Newsletter. " I j ust got back to Kashmir from a confer ence in Delhi, wher e we went out to see the pa l a ces in t he Red Fort , where Shah Jahan used t o • . . RUTH KILCHENMANN took part in the s i t on thepeacoc;:k J;h:r::pne in his marble man Congr~s International des Languages et Litteratures Modernes in Li~ge, Belgium , sion , a nd where we saw the remnants of t he where she read a paper entitled "Goethe's seven cities of Old Delhi with old tower s and ba stions and palaces of the Moghul Uebersetzungen der Voltaire Dramen emperor s . Then we went on to Agra, where Mahomet und Tancred . " The pa per was we s aw a nother Red Fort with its pa l a ces , very favorably received "since it in plus the Taj Mahal by sunset , moonlight troduces a new aspect in the research and rainlight . The Taj itself is even of Goethe's translations . " While in more exquisite than its pictures a nd rep Europe Mrs. Kilchenmann met Mr . Jaksch, utation, but it never ~eems quite real . member of the German Bundesta g who It's a f a iry pa lace, really, much more than visited the Southwestern Illinois Cama tomb. pus last year . . . For the second consecutive year, Mrs. Kilchenma nn ha s been appointed chairman of the inter " I 'd love to show you Kashmir, too, in which national relations study group of the capita l , Srinagar, is situated in a AAUW's Alton chapter. ha untingl y beautiful valley, circled by t he Hima l a ya s . We live in a houseboa t in the . • • The editorial page of September River Jhe lum , once crossed by Alexander t he 23 St. Louis ·Post-Dispatch ca rried a Gr ea t. 11 book review by ROBERTA STEINMAN . She reviewed Richard Frede's The Interns. . . . S.C I ENCE . . . . . . A book edited by JULES ZANGER was published this fall by the Indiana La st spring HOWARD W. PFEIFER a nd Leonard University Press. The work, "The Diary Thien , senior at the East St. Louis center , in America," is a collection of the were invited to accompany a group of scientis ts journals of Captain Frederick Mar ryat. from the Missouri lbtanical Garden a nd Wa shin g ton University to Tamaulipas Sta te , Mexico • . .. . Your editor just received t he They explored a little-known a rea of the following letter from MARION TAYLOR Sierra Madre Orienta l and collected 300 dr ied who is on leave this year. She is a pl a nt specimens for the SWIC herbarium , a nd Fulbright lecturer at the University a variety of living plants for the greenhouse of Jammu and Kashmir at Srinagar, collections. The group visited the following Kashmir, India . sta tes in Mexico : :Tamaulipas, San Luis Po t osi Za ca tecas , a nd Coahuila, camping out most of "Somebody forwarded me the summer, the t ime . . . This past summer , supported 1960, issue of your NEWS BULLETIN, by research funds, Pfeifer visited the Escuel a and I read the spots off it. Thanks Agricola Pan-americana at El Zamorano, Hondura s so much for noting the two stories I in Central Amer ica. He was gone six a nd a �- 12 - half weeks, stopping in Mexico , Guatemala, San Salvador and the Republic . of Honduras. He collected 1 , 000 dried plant specimens, as well a s 50 live plants . • . At the invitation of the Director of the Escuela , Pfe i fer has in print a paper dea ling with the flora of a mount.a in peak on the centra l Honduran plateau. It will be publis hed in Ceiba, the scientific quarterly devote d to scientific developments in Lat in America . Before the first o f the year, he expects another paper to be printed in the Annals of the Missouri Bota nical Garden. The title is 11 The Aristolochiaceae of Panama,'' a nd deals with the taxonomy and distribution of the 11 dutchman's pipes 11 found in the Repub lic of Panama. All of the dozen or so species treated in the pa per will be illustrated by original line dr aw ings of the flowers and leaves . ture meetings in an adult education series dealing with the problems a nd perspectives for t he '60 's. Object of the series i s to 11 lift the overa ll intellectual awareness on the campus and put the college atmosphere into the same orbit as the earth in genera l. 11 . . . ELLIOTT RUDWICK is author of a n art i cl e , The Negro Policeman in the South , 11 which a ppeared i n The J ournal of Criminal Law , Crim:. inology and Po lice Science , Vol . 51 , No. 2 , July -August 1960 . 11 S. D. LOVELL spoke September 29 at a me et i ng of t h e Coll insvile ·Lea.gue of Women Voters. His top ic , 11 Forms of City Government. 11 . GUNTER REMMLING read a paper ent itled The Age o f Suspicion : A History of t he Sociology of Knowledge in Two Continent s 11 a t the American Sociological Convention held August 29 - 31 in New York City. He received a l ett er from Walter Cronin, Chief , Pr iva te Branch , Ex ternal Research Division , Departmen t . . . On October 29, WILLIAM SHAW will of State, requesting a copy of the paper . 11 You conduct a tour of SIU facilities a t are a ssured that the paper will be r ea d only the East St. Louis center for members of Naval Reserve Composite Company 9- 129 . within the Government and tha t your co pyr ight Professor Shaw, a lieutenant commander, pr ivileges will be respected, 11 Cronin wro te . is training officer for the company • . A Ph.D . ca ndidate for the New School for In responce to an invitation from the Social Resea rch las also asked for a copy. National Science Foundation , Shaw spent "I am prepar ing a convention report to be August 26 in Washington , D. C. , where submitted to my government (Jordan) a nd I he visited some of the NSF buildings . feel tha t your paper contains considerable information of value in conducting sociologica l studies . " . . • SOCIAL STUDIES . . . . . . Two members of the division received RICHARD GUFFY, CARMEN HARPER , MELVIN Ph . D. degrees t his summer . PHILIP VOGEL KAZECK, MARY MEGEE, J OHN SNADEN , and earned his at t he University of Nebraska , PHILIP VOGEL attended the Great Lake s EDWARD FERGUSON III from the University o f Section of the Association of American Illinois . Geographers meetings on the Carbondale campus October 14-15 . . . Mr. KAZECK spent part of his vacation this summer INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL PROGRAM in North Dakota gathering material for an article for Colliers encyclopedia. Fall term classes in SIU's Indus t rial The article, entitled 11 North Dakota, 11 Managemen t Program began their second year will be in the latest revision of in Eas t St . Lou~on September 26 . Offer ed Colliers . • . in cooperation with the Eas t Side Assoc i ated Indus t ries, the courses are designed t o mee t DONALD TAYLOR spoke at McKendree the needs of industrial people of t he Ea s t College on September 26 . He was one of St. Louis area. Classes offered mc lude : five speakers in the first of 12 leeLabor Management Relations Prob lems, Prac t i cal 11 �- 13 - Mathematics, Cost Control for Foremen, Practical Psychology for Sup ervis ors I, and the Supervisor and His Job . . . The program began i t s four t h yea r in Alton this fall. Offered in coopera tion with the Alton District Manufa c t urers' Association, the courses are designed to meet the needs of indus trial people of the Alton area . Classes offered are : Motion Analysis and Time St udy , Economics of Industry, Prac t ica l Psychology for Supervisors I, Labor Management Relations I, The Supervisor and His Job, Metallurgy I, Material Handling, Effective Speaking for Supervisors I, and Quality Control . . . Classes are also being held in Granite Ci t y . They are offered in cooperation wi t h the Eas t Side Manufacturers' Ass ociat i on and the Granite City High School . Courses offered are ~ Metal lurgy I, Labor Management Relat ions I, The Supervisor and His J ob, Effect ive Management, Effec t ive Speaki ng for Supervisors II, Economic s of Industry, Practical Psychology for Supervisor s I, and Industrial Report Wri ting . This is the fifth year SIU has offered the program in Granite City . . . The Reading Improvement , course being offered every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening from 7 ~ 30 to 8 ~ 00 is proving very popular, according to registration figures and E. R. CASSTEVENS, supervis or of t he I & T Program. The a ge level of enrollees runs from the sixth grade to persons past 60 years of age; t he occupational range is just as varied . The ·course is being taught by CAMERON MEREDITH, acting head of the educa t ion division . . . . E. R. CASSTEVENS will be in Kansas City Missouri, Oc tob er 27 to participate in a one-day c onference sponsored by the Kansas Ci t y chapter of the American Society of Training Directors. His talk will c oncern "Coaching and Counseling for Middle Management : A Working Program. 11 ... -· ~ .... .. . ... ·. ~ � 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 1960, Vol. 4, No. 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1960