https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/5e8a7e7e2be2ffcf4163d18f3ee63a45.pdf ae208f04a2614a6c9a91d4c618c5fe9d PDF Text Text FEB 2 1967 l FEBRUARY 1967 �- ~ JN E W S BUL L E T I N I SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY -- EDWARDSVILLE February, 1967 Vol. X, No. 3 Mildred Arnold, Editor Information Service, Station 3600 Edwardsville, Illinois TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION NEWS DALE BLOUNT, vice president of the st. Louis chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, was chairman of the 17th Annual Conference on Training and Development held January 31 at lvashington University. He presided at one of the sessions. Also taking part in the conference from SIU was PATRICK D. WILLIAMS, assistant director of the University's Small Business Institute. He spoke at the session concerning training problems in a small business. Blount reports that the adult education enrollments are up 34 per cent this fall over the fall of 1965 . . . . E. R. CASSTEVENS, assistant dean of the Technical and Adult Education program at Edwardsville, presented a case study to a group of about 80 safety engineers and foremen at the Sixth Annual Conference on Accident Prevention for Business and Industry which was held last November 17 at Washington University. The conference 1>Jas co-sponsored by several metropolitan St. Louis safety societies. Casstevens' topic \vas "What Really Happens Hhen a Major Accident Occurs--A Case Study." . . . ROBERT SEMPLE, coordinator of the Associate in Business Degrees Program, was in Chicago December 28-30 for the 69th Annual Convention of the North-Central BusineSs Education Association. The convention theme, "Partners in Education for Business," was evident, Semple said, in the round-table meetings, as \vell as the problem clinics by the presence and participation of representatives from governmental agencies and private industries. Semple repo':r'ts ·that there were 256 associate degree students attending classes at the Edwardsville campus complex during the Fall quarter. Of these, 187 were parttime evening students and 69 were fulltime day students. This represents an increase of 165 per cent over the enrollment of the previous quarter, when there were 89 associate degree students attending classes. Of those, 25 were full-time students and 64 were students attending part-time. Semple met \vith the 50 senior business students, the guidance counselors, and the business teachers of l'Iadison High School, January 10, to discuss the associate in business degree specializations available at SIU. FAMILIES NEEDED TO HOUSE FOREIGN STUDENTS Two families are needed in Alton to house a foreign student under the American Field Service exchange program. According to Prof. NICHOLAS JOOST, one family should have a son or daughter in the junior or the senior year at Marquette High School in Alton and the other family should have a son or daughter in the junior or the senior year at Alton High School. For more information, get in touch with Prof. Joost in Edwardsville at Ext. 3650 . BUSINESS DIVISION NEWS KENNETH DONNALLEY has been elected to membership in the St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Accountants, the world's largest accounting organization (more than 58,000 members). Other Business Division faculty who belong to the St. Louis �J - 2 - chapter are BURTON J. NISSING and JOHN MAINS, who is director of its Public Relations Committee. Mains' new address is 12645 Bay Shore Dr., Florissant, Mo. 63033. . . . MARY M. BP~DY is one of 13 business education educators who have been asked to participate in a Research Training Institute sponsored b y Delta Pi Epsilon, national business education g raduate honorary fraternity. The participants were selected from 50 applicants of business education teachers throu ghou t the country. To be he ld in Detroit March 5-9, the institute \vill emphasize techniques in carrying out research projects. Significant research problems in the area of business education will be studied and analyzed and needed research projects developed i n the Research Training Institute. . . . Last August, ROBERT E. McDANIEL, who tau gh t business at the Edwardsville campus from 195 0 to 1961, was named director of administrative services of Phi Delta Kappa, professional fraternity for men in education. McDaniel was g raduated from SIU, Carbondale, in 1957, and received his master's degree i n education there in 1958. He left the SIU staff to be chairman of the Business Education Department at the East Alton-Wood River Community High School for four yea rs, t hen went in 196 5 to t he LaSall e -Peru Junior College to teach data processi ng . He is currentl y working on his doctorate in business education at Indiana University. EDUCATION DIVISION NEl.JS BABETTE BOWMAN a nd LARRY MOEHN were in Washington, D. C., January 24-27 where they participated in the nati·o n-\vide Conference on Teachi ng Elementary School Physical Educatio n . Conferees concentrated on t he problems in teachin g elementary education majors: how to better understand a nd achieve t h e modern g oals of physical education pro g rams for young children. "The physical education curriculum at t he elementary sc ho ol level has been assuming a more vital role in the child 1 s sc ho ol experiences," Mrs. Bmvman sa y s. ·~xperiences are designed so that children ma y be helped to develop the concepts invol v ed in man 1 s interactions wit;l his human environment. Voluntary movement is a sign ificant function of man, and the physical education subject matter of e x ercise , games , sports and dance are the movement-oriented experiences which contribute to conceptual development." . . . MARY JANE LOPER's bio g raphy is included in the 1967 edition of Who's Who in -----the Mid\ves t, pub 1 ished in November. On November 18 Mrs. Loper participated in a langua ge workshop for personnel of School District 189, East St. Louis, sponsored by Project Speak, an oral lan guage pro g ram on disadvanta ge d children. She talked about evaluating langua ge pro g rams. . . . OLIN HILE~~N helped the public and non-profit private schools of- Hadison and Venice in writing a proposal for federal funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Acts for the purpose of organizing and operating an audio-visual materials center. Beginning in the winter quarter, 19G 7, Prof. Hileman \vill spend one-half time advising students majoring in elementary education. Before this assi g nment , he spent t\vo years in the General Studies advisement program, as _~vell as three ye ars in part-time advisement 0f both underg raduate a nd graduate students in secondary education. . . . ORVAL JOHNSON has been asked to be a consultant to the examination board for t he Board of Education of New York City. He will work with them in the preparation of certification examinations fo r specialized personnel. . . . RICHARD SWERDLIN's article entitled " New Teach i ng Hethod is Tested" appeared in the Deceober 15 issue of the Edwardsville Journal. The article dealt with UNIFON, a phonetic system for teaching be g inning �I - 3 - reading which is being tested in Jerseyville. Prof. Swe rdlin is a member of th e Edwardsville Open Forum's planning committee. The Forum is a non-partisan, civic organi za tion dedicat ed to the promoti on of open discussion of controversial issues. ,. , . . . ROBERT STEI NKELLNER has been appointed to the Illini Scout Council, which services Madison County. Steinkellner has returned from a Sabbatical leave which he spent visiting schools and reading clinics in East St. Louis and St. Louis. He also did substitute teaching in the public schools "in order to study children and teenage rs as th ey are today." He also started a book and completed several articles during his leave. . . . GEORGE WILKINS appeared on "This is Your Life" of Elwood P. Buchanan, band leader at Lincoln High School, East St. I Louis, for the past 33 yea rs. Mr. Buchanan is a graduate student enrolled in Prof. Wilkins' class in School Buildings. Wilkins r epresented SIU and extended the greetings of the University to th e honoree. . . . RAYMOND TROYER spoke to the junior and senior high school Protestant you th at Scott Air Force Base on November 27. His , topic was "Vocations." On Dec ember 9, MANFORD SO NSTEGARD took part in· the Northern Indiana Reg ional Counseling Works hop held at the University of Notre Dame. The workshop was sponsored by the State of Indiana Division of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Serv ices and the No rthern Indiana Chapter, Indiana Personne l and Guidance Association. Prof. Sonstegard spoke at th e 10 a.m. ses sion, was a discussant at the 11:20 a.m. session, and was presenter at the 1: 45 p.m. session. FINE ARTS DIVISION NEWS THE 100,000-SQUARE-FOOT-COHHUNICATIONS BUILDING IS NOW HOUSING THE OFFICES AND INSTRUCTION FACILITIES OF THE FINE ARTS DIVISION, DATA PROCESSING, COHPUTERS, AND THE CENTRAL TELEPHONE EXCHANGE FOR THE EDWARDSVILLE CAHPUS. �- 4 DOROTHY TULLOSS ~.;ra s on e of th e six music ed uc a t ors to act as consultants or clinicians in a se ri es of four In-S e r v ice Ho rkshops in Music Education for th e Elemen tary School Classroom and Music Tea ch ers. Held October 31 and November 7, 14, 21, th e workshop was sponsored by th e Office of the Sup e rintendent of Public Instruction of the Sta t e of Illinois. Pro f. Tulloss was consultant at the session h e ld at Mount Vernon, attended by roughly 50 classroom t eachers and music specialists. HU~~NITIES DIVISION NEWS State University Forum in the fall of 1964 has been reprinted in Abstracts of English Studies, Vol. IX, No. 3, 1966. Mrs . Taylor has been invited to read a paper next spring at the Central Renaissance Conference at Stephens College. The title of the paper she will read is "Hamlet's Grandfather." SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION NEWS For the fourth consecutive year the mathematics faculty at Ed~vardsville has been NI CHOLAS J OOST's book on The Dial has been re titled Years of Transition: The Dial, 1912-1920. I t ~.;rill be releas ed in Oc tober of this year by Barre Publishers. A family co llection of small holy cards col l ected by s ome of Prof. Joost's forebears, the Wrig l ey family of St. Louis, dating from th e 18 70's to the early 1890 's , has been acc e pted by Mrs. Frances Hurt Stadler, archivist of the Missouri Historical Society, acting for the Society. In her l etter of acceptance Mrs. Stadler wro te, "We have d e cid ed to file them as manuscripts rather than as pictures so tha t th ey can be kept together as a unit. The collec ti on is particularly interesting as a group, since it contains so many different types of design, engraving, and coloring ." . . . NORMAN LIVERGOOD was in Philadelphia December 27-29 for the Eastern Division me e t ing of the American PhilosQ.phical Association . At the meeting he interviewed prospective candidates for a position in philosophy at SIU. . . . MARION TAYLOR has signed a contract with Mouton Company , th e Hague, Holland, to print her book, ~ New Look at the Old Sources of "Hamle t , " in a forthcoming issue of a series ca ll ed "Studies in English Literature." Prof. Taylor's article on Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra entitled "'Not Know Me Yet?'" and ~.;rhich was printed in the Ball THE UNIQUE LABORATORY FURNISHINGS IN THE NEW SCIENCE BUILDING given s,upport from the National Science Foundation for a Summer Institute for High School Teachers of Mathematics. The grant @,£ $45,200 is expected to bring together roughly 40 teachers for eight weeks of int ensive study of mathemat~cs. ROBERT N. PENDERGRASS will again serve as director of the Institute, to be held from June 19 to August 11. Instructors will includ~ �I - 5 - ANDREW LINDSTRUM and PAUL PHILLIPS. Prof. Pendergrass said that in addition to the regular program of classes and seminars, the Summer Institute will include lectures by outstanding foreign and American educators. Lindstrum represented this campus December 15-17 in Kansas City >vhere he attended the meeting for the directors of Summer Institutes for High School Teachers of Mathematics. The meeting ~vas conducted by the National . Science Foundation to explain policy and procedures for the 1967 Institute. . DEBORAH TEPPER HAIMO has been_ awarded a National Aeronautic and Space Administration grant for research entitled ·~ransforms Related to Generalized Heat Equation." The grant is for three years (1966-69) and provides for one-third time during the academic year and full-time during the summer for research. November 25, Prof. Haimo presented a paper, "Maclaurin Expansions of Solutions of the Generalized Heat Equation," in Mexico City at a joint meeting of the American and Mexican Mathematical societies. December 10-11 she attended a meeting of visiting lecturers of the Mathematical Association of America in New Orleans. December 12 she talked about "Divergent Series and A Geometry Hithout a Backbone" and on December 13 gave a lecture entitled "Do Numbers Count?" Both were given at St. Teresa College in Winona, Minn. Mrs. Haimo has been appointed reviewer of research papers for Mathematical Revie\·7S. She is author of the following recentlypublished articles: "Generalized Temperature Functions," Duke Mathematical Journal; "Series Expansions of Generalized Temperature Functions inN Dimensions," Canadian Journal of Mathematics; "Expansions in Terms of Generalized Heat Polynomials and of Their Appell Transforms," Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics. Her paper-entitled "Series Representations of Generalized Temperature Functions" has been accepted for publication by the Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Hathematics. Hrs. Haimo also reviewed I six articles for Zentralblatt fur Mathematik. . . . A $4,400 grant has been received from the National Science Foundation for partial support of a "Conference on Orthogonal Expansions" to be held on the Edwardsville campus April 27-29. The grant, >vhich provides support fo a period of approximately one year, will be directed by Prof. Haimo. . . .' At the beginning of the winter quarter CLIFFORD FORE began conducting a short course at the Waste Processing Plant for men v1ho are employed as operators of sewage treatment plants in this area, "with the hope of helping them to better understand the functions of their operating problems and apply control tests to increase plant efficiency." He feels the class will be successful, and if so, classes in \vater treatment ~..rill be held. "Our goal," he said, "is to establish a technical school to train men in both these important fields. Hith health and welfare involved in the question of pollution control, we can hope for support in our efforts." Shortly after moving to Edwardsville in 1965, Fore reactivated his membership in the Khvanis Club, after having a 13-year perfect attendance, and a two-year out while overseas. During the past fe~v months instructor Fore has been showing his color slides taken while he Has in Liberia. In April he wi 11 show them to the Hethodist men and their ~..rives in Mount Vernon. (The Kiwanis in Ht. Vernon saw them last year.) . . . STEVEN SANDERS and M. A. HAKEEM were in New York January 30-February 2 for the meetings of the American Physics Society. . . . FRED ZURHEIDE attended a three-day meeting (Dec. 15-17) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., sponsored by the College Commission of Physics. Theme of the conference was the single concept film in physics. �I [ - 6 - EXTERIOR VIEH OF SCIENCE BUILDING HIUCH OPENED AT EDWARDSVILLE THIS FALL. CONTAINING A TOTAL FLOOR SPACE OF 145,000 SQUARE FEET, THE BUILDING ALSO BOASTS A PENTHOUSE FOR CGROWTH CHAHBERS AND A GREENHOUSE. SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION NEWS MELVIN E. KAZECK has completed a Climate Laboratory Manual \vhich will be used by climatology classes. In addition to the laboratory exercises, the manual contains temperature and precipitation data for 665 cities from every nation of the \vorld. It includes such interesting places as Saigon, Khartoum, Martinique, Bogota and Acapulco. "The cool January sumMelvin E. Kazeck mer mean temperature at the South Pole, 21°F, and the cold July mean temperature, 74°F, should interest the avid skier, ''·' Prof. Kazeck says. The manual was published by Printing and Art Service, Edwardsville. . HARRY KIRCHER presented a paper on Resources of the Southern Illinois Hill Country" at the meeting of the West Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, held in Des Moines October 28 2 9. The thesis of his paper \vas that "sec tions of the region afford excellent potentials for further agricultural use of irrigation based upon storage basins." Prof . Kircher flew to the meeting on a University plane, accompanied by a group of graduate students and faculty members from Edwardsville and Carbondale. Edwardsville faculty attending included H. B. B~R, DON CLE~NTS, and JAMES COLLIER. '~ater . In November, Prof. Kircher spoke to the Alton League of Women Voters on China. Entitled "Are He Chinese?", the talk pointed out that many similarities in geographic relationships, as well as differences, are found in comparing this Asiatic nation with the United States. �- 7 - • . • FRED W. VOGET has been invited to consult with the University of Missouri De partment of Anthropology with regard to its new Ph.D. program. While on the Columbia campus Prof. Voget will give a public lecture and address the graduate stud ents in seminar. Two papers by Voget, e ntitled "Progress, Science, History and Evolution in Eighte enth-and NineteenthCe ntury Anthropology" and "Forgotten Forerunne rs of Anthropology," are scheduled for publication in the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences and the Buckne ll Review, r e spectively. NEWS FROM STATE AND NATIONAL SERVICES WARREN STOOKEY, assistant to the director of alumni affairs, has been elected to the national board of Alpha Phi Ome ga service fraternity. He was one of seven elected to a six-year term on the 21member board during the biennial meeting of the fraternity held December 27-29 at the Hotel Radisson in Minneapolis. Assistant executive of the Piasa Warren Stookey Bird Council, Boy Scouts of America, until joining the SIU staff in 1961, Stookey is chairman of Section 16 of Alpha Phi Omega, comprising chapters in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. Dedicated to school and community s e rvice, the organization is made up of men who have been affiliated with the Boy Scouts. I of the IASCUS Newsletter, published four times a year. Van Horn and Hansel were in Boston in Novembe r for a conference. December 13-14 Van Horn was at Northwestern University in Evanston for the 21st annual workshop for placement directors, which covered trends in hiring recent college graduates. Mr. Van Horn's son Albert has earned his Ph.D. in Max Hansel chemistry from Stanford University. Albert received his B.A. degree from the Edwardsville campus in 1962 and his M~A. at Carbondale in 1963. He now has a post doctoral research grant at Stanford. . . • JANE SCHUSKY of Public Administration and Metropolitan Affairs and Wallace Altes were married last October 8 , -A former member of PAMA, Altes received his M.A. degree from SIU, Carbondale, and is currently a member of the St. Louis City Planning Commission. . . • SEYMOUR Z. MANN of PAMA took part December 18 in a one-hour television show, Focus on St. Louis, on Channel 11, entitled "East Side Story." December 8-10 he and PHILIP MERANTO participated in the Illinois Assembly on the State and Its Cities Hhich was held in Zion. Mann prepared a paper for the assembly on "The State, the Cities and Human Resources." NEWS FROM STUDENT SERVICES . . . DAVID VAN HORN and MAX HANSEL of Placement Services were in Chicago October 27-29 for the annual meeting of the Illinois Association for School, College , and University Staffing (IASCUS). During the conference Hansel was elected editor THOMAS W. HANSMEIER was s e lected to appear in the 1966 edition of Outstanding Young Men of America. Born in Waukon, Iowa, Dean Hansmeier received his bachelor's degree from the State College of Iowa in �r - G- 1954 and taught in the Monona (Ia.) High School follo\ving graduati o n. Later, >vhil e s e rving as assistant to th e Dean of Students a t th e State College of Iowa, he earned his M.A. in guidance and counseling. He received his doctorate from Michigan State University, Hhere he held the title of head resident adviser. In 1960 he joined the staff of Kent Thomas H. Hansrneier State University (Ohio) as assistant dean of men. He >vas named dean of men three years late r and had been appointed a s sistant executive d e an a year before corning to SIU in the fall of 1966 as associat e profes sor in th e Education Division and a s an assistant to Jack Graham, Univ e rs i t y -wid e d e an of students. In June of 1966 h e Has name d de a n of students at the Ed>vardsville campus. . . . THOMAS EVANS and HARREN BROWN at tended the All e rton Conference of MidHe st Deans Octob e r 2-3. Evans attended t h e Illinois De ans me e ting at Northern Illinois University November 6-7. Brown and ROBERT REED attended the Orientation Dir e cto rs me eting at Ohio Stat e University Nove mb e r 9-11. Reed, Brown, Hansrneier, and HILLIAM BURC KY attended a meeting of the St. Louis Ar e a Pe rsonnel Administrat ors h eld at Lindem10od College November 1. SIU LAUNCHES I NTERNATIONAL FIELD STUDIES PROGRAH To he lp mee t t he n ee d f o r broad e r instruction in int e rna tiona l e ducation, Southern Illino is Unive r s it y ' s Education Division is launchin G an expanded Internationa l Fi e ld Stud i es Pr ogra m. r Five field seminars, offering four to ei ght hours of academic credit, will be held this summer in Europe and Latin America: "Southern Europe," running from June 7 to June 2 8 ; "Latin America," June 12 to July 2; "Eastern Europe," July 12 to Aug . 2; "School Supervision," July 19 to Aug. 9, >vith an itinerary including Prague, Vienna, Yu g oslavia and Hest Germany; and "Instructional Materials," Aug. 3 to Aug. 24, to include Denrnar h:, s,,, i tzer land and Hest Germany. According to Prof. HENRY T. BOSS, director of the International Field Studies Pro g ram at the EdHardsville campus, "the Education Division seeks to rnak~ possible for teachers and administrators of Illinois and Nissouri an opportunity to combine professional study in foreign countries Hith enjo yable experiences of travel and culture. '~hile the academic portion of the field seminar >vill differ sorne\vhat," Boss said, "the student in each seminar >vill att e nd lectures b y members of national ministries of education or universities, visit selected schools and educational institutions, and hav e informal meetings Hith local educators." \ The 22-day educational tours Hill cost from $ 343 to $ 8 75, to include transportation, meals, lodging , and sightseeing charge s. In addition to teachers and administrators, persons Hith a bache lor's de g ree from a reco gnized college or university, or students \vho are seniors in such institutions, may e nroll. Those interested should contact the director of the pro g ram at SIU, Edwardsville (phone 692-2590). �:::o m ~ :z SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY/EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS I I .~ :::0 m tO c: m en -i m 0 INFORMATION SERVICE .~ I � 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 News Bulletin February 1967 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1967