https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/4b8679656861d4665aea4508b4fdb273.pdf 54794b06515bc87c7f278ab6f34d8774 PDF Text Text JUN ? '1 f: . :5 .JUNE 1965 �N E WS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY - EDWARDSVILLE June 1965 Vol. VIII, No. 5 Mildred Arnold, Editor Information Service, Ext. 271 Edwardsville, Illinois FOURTEEN FACULTY MEMBERS RECEIVE PROMOTIONS . Promotions were approved for 14 Edwardsville campus members April 23 by the SIU board of trustees, meeting in Carbondale. Elevated to full professorships were DAVID E. BEAR, HOWARD V. DAVIS and H. DENE SOUTHWOOD of the Education Division; KURT GLASER, Social Sciences Division; RAYMOND J. SPAHN and Mrs. MARION A. TAYLOR, Humanities Division; and LLOYD G. BUUZELY, Fine Arts Division. SID's new Division of State and National Public Services. Before joining the staff in 1962, he taught at Jacksonville Junior College and Berea College and served for two years as director of education and training at Uni.on .Starch & Refining Company in Granite City. CORN1:-JELL NAMED ASS !STANT DEAN OF UNIVERSITY EXTENSION Promoted from assistant professor to associate professor were RALPII W. AXTELL and IRWIN H. PARRILL, Science and Technology Division; DAVID C. LUAN, Business Division; WILLIAM C. SLATTERY, Humanities Division; and RICHARD SPEAR and ROBERT H. STEI~RELLllliR, Education Division. Miss MARY BELLE SMITH of the Fine Arts Division was promoted from instructor to assistant professor. The promotion of Mr. Davis becomes effective July 1; other appointments will go into effect September 22. SOUTHHOOD NAMED HEAD OF EDUCATION DIVISION Clifton Cornwell H. DENE SOUTHWOOD was named head of the Education Division at the May meeting of the SIU board of trustees. Southwood has served as acting head of the division during the sabbatical leave and the subsequent appointment of CAMERON MEREDITH as head of H. Dene South~:·lOod For a number of years, the Division of University Extension at Carbondale has offered a program of credit courses, on-campus institute workshop programs, and a campus conference program, all oriented to the Carbondale campus and its area. A similar program has been set up on the Ed,vardsville campus to serve this region. The program will be directed by CLIFTON CORN1.JELL, whose appointment as assistant dean of Uni- �- 2 versity Extension was confirmed at the Hay meeting of the SIU board of trustees. Cornwell has been a member of the Fine Arts Division since January of 1958. Before coming to SIU he w·as office manager and sales representative for A. S. Aloe Company of St. Louis for six years. From 1947 to 1949 he taught at the University of Hawaii and later \vas director of forensics at the University of Missouri. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946 during Horld War II and from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Har. A graduate of Northeast Missouri State College, Cornwell received his master's degree from the University of Missouri in 1942 and on June 8 of this year received his doctorate from that institution. the te ach i ng of reading in elementary schools, is now in progress at Carr ol lton. In response to requests for graduat e training in guidance and counseling in Quincy and Spr ingfield, additiona l of feri n gs are being developed which will provide s pecial c r ed it programs in those cit i e s during the summer. HOH EGYFT GOT ITS NAME by J ohn W. Allen Southern Illinoisans readily agree t hat there i s an "Egyp; '·" or as s orne woul d say, " Little Egypt.'' · All are not agreed, however, upon the northern limit of the territor y to be included. Chairman of commencement arrangements, he has also served as coordinator of the Special Speakers and Meetings Committee, as chairman of the Mass Communications Committee, and he represented the Fine Arts Division on the Committee for Educational Planning of the New Campus at Edwardsville. The ne\v office is an outgrowth of several months of planning and surveying of needs conducted by CormJell and Dean Raymond Dey, head of the University's Extension Division, whose office is in Carbondale. The Edwardsville campus facilities, both those presently available and the newlyconstructed buildings to be opened in September, will serve a rapidly expanding schedule of local and regional conferences, institutes, and workshops which are directly related to campus academic programs. In addition, the division ·will serve as a coordinating agency in ·instances when campus facilities are made available to local, regional, and state organizations, community groups, and associations for conferences and conv entions. vJith a base at Ed,vardsville, the offcampus credit course programs of the University will be extended to regions \vhich could not be served previously by the Carbondale campus. The initial extension course offering, a course in John H. Allen Some woul d i nclude t he porti on l y ing south of the Baltimore and Ohio Rai lr oad. Other s would include only the territory lying south of an east-\vest line along �- 3 - the northern borders of :fuite, Hamilton, Franklin, Perry and Randolph counties. The more enthusiastic "Egyptians" would have the northern boundary correspond to the parallel of 39 degrees north latitude, just north of Vandalia. All are agreed, however, that "Egypt" begins at the southern tip of the state and does a fade mvay along a nebulous line that crosses the state from east to west somewhere betHeen 60 and 125 miles north of Cairo. Having decided that there is an "Egypt," northern limits not definitely fixed, an explanation for the unusual name is due. Some say it was named because it had a Karnak, a Thebes and a Cairo. This, hoHever, is not the explanation. Of the three toHns named, only that of Cairo was used in Illinois before "Egypt" came, and the name of Cairo Has only on paper, there being no town at the confluence of the rivers (Mississippi and Ohio) until after the regicn definitely received its nickname. Karnak and Thebes Here not named until some years later after the name of "Egypt 11 had been given to the re~ion. Hence, this explanation will not hold. The best account of the manner in Hhich the name came to be applied to southern Illinois is in an article written by Judge A. D. Duff that first appeared in the ShawneetoHn Gazette. This story Has copied from the Gazette by the Galconda Herald in the late 1860's. Judge Duff's story is also supported by tradition and by knmvn historical facts. The explanation Judge Duff offers is undoubtedly the most reliable one. The incidents leading to the name of "Egypt," according to Judge Duff's account, began with the winter of 1830-31. This was the "winter of the deep snov1." It Has the longest and most severe winter that the residents of Illinois had knoHn. Snmv came early that "'inter, reached a depth of about three feet and remained until late in the sprin~ of 1831. Severe frosts continued until May of that year. Judge Duff says it was a 11 very backward spring." The sumr.1er 11<:ts extremely cool and killing frost came on September 10, 1831. The growin~ season was thus extremely short. The late spring of 1831 delayed the planting of corn. The early frost killed nearly all that had been planted in the northern counties. Only in the section of the state lying south of an east-Hest line approximately at the latitude of Benton in Franklin County did the crop properly mature. The farmers living north of this line were almost without exception forced to seek elsewhere for corn for their livestock and for cornmeal, then the staple breadstuff. Judge Duff, a boy living beside a main north-south high1·1ay in Bond County in the spring of 1832, told of seeing many groups of wagons· g6:l.ng south for corn and returning Hith the treasured grain. Some stopped at the Duff home. Many of these farmers Here Bible readers and often remarked that they, like the sons of Jacob, were "going to Egypt for corn." The designation of the southern counties of Illinois as "Egypt" thus came into use. By Judge Duff's account the term Has not used before the spring of 1832, but having once been given to the territory it rapidly came into general use and soon became a fixed and Hellknown name. In recent years the name of "Egypt" has occasionally been used in a somewhat derogatory 1vay. Its origin and early use carried no stigma. In fact, it was worn then with a reasonable pride. Editor's Note: Those of you Hho are interested in Illinois folklore have read Mr. Allen's column, "It Happened in Southern Illinois" which appears in area neHspapers. Mr. Allen's book, Legends and Lore of Southern Illinois,Has published · in 1963 by the Division of Area Services. A tireless searcher through the past, he is working on a second volume. John Allen has been a rail splitter, a building estimator, a foreman, superintendent of construction, breaker and trainer of horses, referee of prize fights, and sparring partner of Gene Tunney, substitute preacher, and a teacher. He joined the SIU staff in 1942 to collect a �- museum of handicrafts, implements, and home arts of early times. At retirement age in 1956 he was given an emeritus title. He is anything but retired. Besides meeting his weekly deadline for 11 It Happened in Southern Illinois," he is kept busy as a dinner speaker, and recently solved the transportation problem involved in traveling about the state on the lecture circuit by buying a camp trailer for his car. Born in a log cabin in Broughton, Mr. Allen has eaten with hobos, had tea in Hindsor Castle, and once sat by the fireside in Lady Astor's home listening to Rudyard Kipling tell stories. He has kissed the Blarney Stone, and from the top of a column at the Royal Art Gallery he watched a parade in Trafalgar Square as the Germans signed the peace treaty at Versailles. But 1vith all his travel and rubbing elbows with royalty, John Allen considers himself a provincial person, and it is southern Illinois and its people that continue to capture his interest and enthusiasm. HHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE USSR AND HHAT THE USA IS DOING ABOUT IT by Joseph M. Thorson The Russian revolution of 1917 brought communism into the picture. The main goal of the oommunist doctrine at that time was to overturn the capitalistic system and to introduce all over the Horld the Marxists society. Has this goal changed since 1917? No. I do not think so. The goal has not changed, but the strategy has. Russia is still committed to v-10rld domination by every means at its disposal. But, those means have been modified. (1) The Soviet Union feels that it can no longer conquer the world by creation of Hars like Korea-it is too risky, because it may lead eventually to Horld War III which the USSR is trying to avoid at all cost. It uill, however, encourage and help countries which would like to overturn democratic l:. - or right-uin[; dictatorial regimes and install the Socialist regime. (2) As in the past, the Soviet government is deteroined to overtake the U.S. industrially and economically, and to demonstrate that communism is better than capitalism. Therefore, it is evident that the Soviet Union is challenged by: (a) nationalism among foreign Reds (b) the rise of Peking as a rival pow:e.r, ..ai\.9. (c) internal unrest which is demonstrated by continuous demand of better standard of living and more consumer goods had to chance its strategy. l·J hat they once felt they could do in 25 years, they have stretched to 100 years or more, but their basic goal remained unchanged--that is, world domination. I might add, that the Soviet Union, like any other country of the globe, is subjected to continuous challenge from opposing internal political and social groups. Khrushchev, and after his departure Kosygin and Drezhnev, are opposed by the military faction of the USSR which is demandin13 a hard line toward the U.S. and the Free Horld, and more expenditures for military hard-.:-wre at the expense of the consumer. This group, hmvever, presents a continuous threat to the peaceful coexistence policy of its present leaders. Changes in the communist world since the death of Stalin in 1953 are important for American policy. But how important? Here, Hestern experts on the communist lvorld are in wide disagreement. There are various views. I myself, see these changes in the following light: (1) There is more continuity than change in the Soviet develop- �- 5 - (2) ment of the past ten years--there is no change in Russia's basic hostility to the Uest. give in, trade or not trade? Isolate ourselves, or adopt the "coexistence" doctrine in full? The basic institutions of the totalitarian rule have not been modified. Yet, we have to admit that Khrushchev corrected some of the gross abuses of the Stalinist period. There is no clear-cut answer to all these questions. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union challenge has to be met head-on, that is: (3) The peaceful coexistence so much advocated by the Soviet leaders is a mere Soviet tactical device in the struggle for world domination. (4) The most not~ble change since Stalin's death has been the decline in the role of ideology. This is evident in: (1) We have to recognize the fact that the heart of the capitalistic system is free competition and, therefore, we cannot run out on the competitive challenge from the Soviet leaders. (2) I feel that limited accommodation between ·East· arid West can benefit both sides equally and should be pursued. American initiatives should be framed with a view to exploiting the strains in the communist alliance. For instance, we should encourage the split of China with the Soviet Union -this is one of the most important factors that both sides can benefit on. However, we have to take care that our policy '"ould not become that of appeasement toward Russia, which could be disastrous to us. The "hard" line of President Johnson in South Vietnam should be characterized by a flexible foreign policy toward the allies and the enemies. (3) I am a strong believer in expanding trade ~vith the communist world, though not on strategic items. A rising standard of living will deter Russia from pursuing an aggressive expansionist foreign policy. (4) The U.S. should pursue the policy of e=:panding Peace Corps activities in foreign lands--this is one of the best '"eapons '"e have at our disposal. Peace Corps activities are the best deterrent against communist infiltration. The hungry, illiterate, barefoot, and homeless huQan being is leaning (a) Soviet recognition that war is not inevitable, (b) Their acceptance of neutralisQ, and (c) The recognition by economic planners that the capitalistic profit motive in industry is something to be reckoned ~ith. (5) For the first time since the Soviet Revolution social pressures are beginning to COQe into collision with policy. This is a result of the industrialization which created special interest groups like the party workers, the military, the scientists, the industrial managers, etc. The interest of thes e groups in overall is not much different from the groups in the U.S. s ociety. How much to produce and what to produce, is becoming a center of an argument and controversy. The allocation of resources (e.g. how much for butter and how much for sputniks) is the best example. The emergence of these pressure forces is one of the most iQportant internal developments which undoubtedly ~vill be felt in the economy of Russia from now on. I have crudely presented the modified goal of the USSR as I see it today. Now, how we should deal with the coQQunist world? fight, �- 6 toward any propaganda which promises him a "chan~e." For instance, SHeden practically has no communism (3.8%), because her standard of living is very high, and the people have no desire for chan~e. (5) The fight a~ainst poverty in the U.S. must be a part of an overall pro~r~ to stop communist advances into our land. Communism has the best ground to operate in the lands where there is poverty, illiteracy, corruption, social injustice and widespread discontent. The underdeveloped nations of Asia, Africa and South America are the best areas for the Marxists' propaganda. Editor's Note: Associate professor of management and economics in SIU's Business Division, Thorson is a former Polish diplomat and intelligence officer. Born in Vienna, Austria, he received a lm-1 degree from the University of Lwow, Poland, an N.A. degree from Seton Hall in New Jersey, and last year received his Ph.D. from Indiana University. BUSINESS DIVISION NEUS At the spring meetinG of the Illinois Business Education Association, HARY HARGARET BRADY was elected a director. As a member of the executive board, she was appointed chairman of the Publications Committee. One of the first publications to be issued, Prof. Brady said, <'lill be a summary of research reports in various areas of business education which Here ~iven as the primary part of the pro~ram at the spring meetin~, Hhich Has held in Peoria. Miss Brady gave a report at the meetinG on research in office machines and office practice. · · • In cooperation uith the Illinois Association of Legal Secretaries, Miss Brady and ELISE PAUlliR conducted a statewide survey of leGal secretarial practices. Mrs. Palmer gave a report of this survey at the convention of the legal secretaries held in Belleville in April. At the same meeting, Miss GAYLE SOBOLIK spoke on secretarial techniques. • • . A conference for student teachers and first, second, and third year teachers of business education <'las held May 15 in the Alton Student Union. About 30 teachers attended. H. DENE SOUTHHOOD of the Education Division gave the opening talk. Participating in the conference, in addition to the above mentioned, were GENE HOUSER, JACK COFFEY and KENNETH MARTIN. . • • Houser is serving as a member of the Research Committee for the Illinois Business Education Association. Plans are being formulated to make a state-wide survey in the area of office occupations. • • • The curr~n~ . ~s!ue of the Journal of Business Education carries an article entitled "Malee General Business the Pathway to Success" Hhich Has written by Mr. and Mrs. tvALTER L. BLACKLEDGE. The article deals with the high school student's utilization of his business training to obtain a spot in the ever-tightening employment market and using such training as a springboard to advancing to a higher position. An article by the Blackledges was used in the Phi Beta Lambda Newsletter, a publication sponsored by a department of the National Education Association. Entitled, "Today --25 Million Office Jobs; Tomorrow-7 Million More," the article was published originally in December, 1963, in the Journal of Business Education. The article concerned current statistics in the field of office employment, with extensive research toward the economic forecast of the profession. The same article <'las used for a speech at the Phi Beta Lambda state convention in Nebraska. • . • HAROLD CUTRIGHT spoke May 18 at a dinner meetinG of the MadisonBond County Banl~ers 1 Federation. Speaking on the Viet lJam situation, Cutright said the solution lies in welcoming Communist China into the United Nations and opening trade with her. However, he asserted, "the insecurity and the illusion of grandeur and the omnipotence of the Johnson administration makes it highly unlikely that this Hill be the course followed." �- 7 - Cutright was critical of administration policy as well as "its quarrel with the professors over Viet Nam." His reference was directed to widely-reported speeches and debates on the Viet Nam question on college campuses and Secretary of State Rusk's comment about "the gullibility of educated men." Unfortunately, the SIU visiting professor said, our foreign policy is in the hands of a President "w·hos e immrd compulsion is so great he must \vin at all costs, and for whom criticism, no matter in what form or how abstract, is taken as a personal reflection on his integrity and ability. At this time when history seems to be at a great turning point, our leaders think only of hoH much we love and appreciate them, and more importantly, whether \ve will vote for them come the next election." Cutright, who still operates his management consulting firm in Ne~;1 York and St. Louis, believes the Viet Nam problem can be solved, but not by bullets or bombs. "We should move to bring China into the world of nations," he said, "open trade with her, and if necessary develop a unilateral treaty with her, to produce a balance of power against the Soviet Union." There is trouble bet\veen Russia and China, he went on to say, because of the "vast difference in the heritage of the two nations. For example, in China, after several centuries Christianity has made very little headHay. But in the Soviet Union i t still has deep roots among the people after a determined effort on the part of the government to stamp it out." • ANN SCHWIER has received notice that she \vill be listed again in Hho 1 s \vho of American vlomen. The upcoming edition is the fourth for this directory of important American \Vomen. GEORGE WANG \ ·las in Jackson, Mississippi, Harch 22 as guest speaker at the Intercollegiate (Hillsaps, Nississippi, and Tougaloo) Seminar on The Peoples Republic of China. His talk was entitled "Some Observations on Communist China's Economic Development." • . • JOSEPH THORSOn has been notified by the chairman of the Editorial Review Committee Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the State University of Iovm that his article, "I:lew Economic Thought in the Soviet Bloc, 11 'l.lill be published in the Iowa Business Digest, "either in the July or the October issue. 11 The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe are undergoing visible internal economic changes which may, in a long-run, effect their political systems, Thorson says. "It is a question \vhether those changes signify a movement tmvard a free market and a profit-conscious economy. Are the changes temporary .or .. pe:rmanent? 11 In his article he attempts to provide some of the answers. "My fairly long and at times unpleasant experience \vith the Soviet people permits me to analyze their economy with a certain amount of perspective in depth. There is no doubt that the \vorld in \vhich we are living has gone through many changes in the last 25 years. The radical 'left' and radial 'right' have mellowed considerably. As a result, both sides are drawing closer to the center, sharing some of the ideas of the opposite systems. Not many political quarters are ready and willing to admit the changes in a capitalistic direction, on the one side, nor, on the other, in a socialist direction." • • . Thorson spol~e IIay 25 to the Kiwanis Club of Ed\vardsville on "Hhat is the Goal of the USSR and What the USA is Doing About It. 11 (SEE STORY ELSEWHERE IN THIS BULLETIN.) EDUCATION DIVISION mms H. BRUCE BRUBMillR delivered the commencement address at Bunl;.er Hill High School graduation on Hay 2G. The title of his address was "Horal Giants or Horal Hidgetn." Mr. Brubaker participated in an institute on the improvement of preparation programs for school administrators held Hay 9-11 at Illinois State University. The institute was sponsored by the University Council for Educational Admin- �- 8 - istration. On April 1, he spoke to the Granite City Ladies Coterie about the development at SIU. • • . JOHN D. MAINS has been named 1965-66 chairman of the Accounting Career Guidance Program, St. Louis chapter of the National Association of Accountants. Primary function of the program is acquainting high school students in the area on opportunities available in accounting as a career. Participants in the program make themselves available for talks to high school students to encourage them to take advantage of these opportunities. Mains has also been named to the Federal Tax Conference Committee, St. Louis chapter, Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants. This committee presents the annual Hid-America Tax Conference, held at St. Louis each November. • . • When the School Superintendents' Forum of Southwestern Illinois held its annual institute May 7-8 at Belleville, HERBERT F. A. SMITH and LEONARD B. WHEAT were featured speakers. Prof. Smith addressed the superintendents on "Student Teaching Programs and Problems" and later led a discussion on "The Practical Implications of Student Teaching." Prof. Wheat gave two talks, one on "Changing Emphases in Supervision of Instruction" and the other on "Modern Instruction Plans and Their Supervisory Implications." Wheat also led a forum discussion on "Types of Instruction Plans for Modern Schools. 11 . • . MYLLAN SMYERS served April 29 on a panel of judges in the selection of the outstanding young educator in the Alton-Wood River-Roxana area. The program is co-sponsored by the World Book Encyclopedia and the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce and is designed to recognize outstanding youn8 educators. · . . DAN SOPER was in Ninneapolis April 13-16 for the national meetin~ of the American Personnel and Guidance Association. · • • MARK TUCKER took part in a seminar at the national meetin~ of the Council for Exceptional Children ~,7hich was held in Portland, Oregon, on April 21. His topic was entitled 11 Medical Information for Classroom Teachers. 11 On May 11 Prof. Tucker took part in a seminar in Springfield concerned with children with minimal cerebral dysfunctioning. On May 18 he represented SIU at a meetinL of the Organization for Advancement of Handicapped which was held at the Alton State Hospital. He also represented the University May 7 at the Higher Education Coordinating Council of Metropolitan St. Louis' Education Council for Responsible Citizenship Mark Tucker which met in St. Louis. Tucker's article, 11 Teaching Reading to the Mentally Retarded Child, 11 appeared in the spring issue of the Digest of Mentally Retarded. • • • GEORGE T. WILKINS and A. Gordon Dodds, superintendent of the Edwardsville Community Unit :f/:7 schools, participated in a panel at the semi-annual conference of the Illinois Association of School Boards, Kaskaskia, on April 20. They discussed changing educational requirements and methods calling for an evaluation of administrative practices in Illinois schools. Dodds described the administrative operation in Edwardsville, stressing the role each person plays and criteria used in selecting individuals for the various assignments. He emphasized that the superintendent should not be burdened with the minutia of day-to-day operation if the board expects him to provide the educational leadership required in a quality school program. Wilkins pointed out changes that were taking place in administration procedures brought about by reorganization which had vastly increased the size of the administrative staff serving the local school districts. He said that one innovation being provided in school districts with 5,000 or more enrollment was procuring �- 9 a public relations director whose task w·as that of keeping the public informed of the implementation of the total educational program. "We now have roughly 30 names applied to assistant administrators and supervisors serving under the local superintendent," he said. His main emphasis was placed, as he termed it, "on the number one problem in Illinois--the need for a state board of education and an appointive superintendent of public instruction by the state board. The two major functions and roles of the state department are leadership and regulation--the first to help the people help themselves by providing expert professional and technical services and second, to see that the will of the state is carried out. • . Operational functions should and must be reserved to the local districts. The state board and the county superintendent's office should not engage in any operational or management functions over the public schools." Cultural Contribution" was her topic April 22 when she spoke to the members of the Teacher's Association of New Triad High School. She acted a juror for the following: Town and Country Art Exhibition, sponsored by Cooperative Extension of the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hayne County, Fairfield; Marion County, Salem; Montgomery County, Hillsboro; Fayette County, Vandalia. Mrs. Buddemeyer collected 15 outstanding examples of child art in the United States and sent them to Tokyo to be exhibited in the show of "The Art of Children all Over the World" in connection with the Congress of the International Society· for·' -Education Through Art to be held in Tokyo August 2-9. Mrs. Buddemeyer attended the last meeting of the INSEA, held in Montreal, Canada, in 1963, and is planning to attend the Tokyo congress. May 24 the busy art professor was seated as president of the Alton branch of the American Association of University Homen. FINE ARTS DIVISION NEHS JEROME BIRDMAN was guest speaker May 17 at the Collinsville High School Honor Society's initiation banquet. The title of his speech was 11 Students who Think, Playwrights who Horry, Spring, and the Need to Forge in the Smithies of Your Souls the Uncreated Conscience of Your Race." . • • In Europe LLOYD BLAKELY was sworn in this spring as consultant for the schools of the United States Dependent Education-European Area. For four days he met with music people in four separate sessions. April 29-30 he met as consultant, with a music advisory committee of four teachers, one from France, one from Italy, and two from Germany. · · . EVELYN BUDDEMEYErr spoke April 10 at the Southwest Teacher's Association on "The Importance of Beinrr Creative." The dinner meeting was helduin Carrollton. The follmV"ing evening she spoke on "What are Your Values?" at the Baptist Foundation. April 17 she talked at the Hayner Public Library on "The Masks in the Oceanic Shmv. 11 "The Individual and the Importance of Her • • • ANN CAREY has received a scholarship to take part in the Symposium: Principles of Learning and the Management of Stuttering which uill be offered during the summer session at northwestern University. WILL FREUND is among the limited number of artists whose paintings have qualified for showing in America's largest exposition of its kind, "Watercolor USA." Forty-three states will be represented at this exposition, to be held in Springfield, Nissouri. Freund's biography has been requested from ~vho' s Who, Marquis Publications, and the International Directory of Arts, Berlin, Germany. The artist ·was invited to exhibit in Temple Israel's international and national exhibition of Old Testament art, St. Louis. Freund has accepted an invitation from Trans-Nississippi Exhibition of Art to display his works this fall in a show at Davis Gallery, Stephens College. • • • During May CATHERINE MILOVICH exhibited two stitched collages, "Garden of the Gods" and "J>Iother and Child," in �- 10 - the fourth biennial rlississippi River Craft Show held at the Brooks Hemorial Art Gallery in Hemphis. There were 700 entries in this competitive exhibition and 214 were accepted. • . . ROBERT HAWKINS presented two of his speech students, Hary Dwyer and Tom Waters, in a program May 19 before members of the East St. Louis Rotary Club. The two gave a program of readings. printed three other articles by Warren on the works of this early English renaissance composer. Warren is also working on a bool: dealing with the life and works of Fayrfm:. A report of the work done in England last year on a grant from SIU and the American Philosophical Society appears in the Society's 1965 Yearbook. HUMANITIES DIVISION NEilS . • • JAMES L. ROBINSON -.;v-as principal speaker at the annual "Executive Night" banquet of the Lindberg chapter of the National Secretaries Association held April 30 at Clayton Inn. The event climaxed the St. Louis chapter's observance of National Secretaries Heek. Robinson's speech was preceded by a short film explaining the work of the requirements and procedures for recosnition as a certified professional secretary, a goal toward which all the members are working. Active as an instructor in the secretarial training program whih: at the University of Oklahoma, Robinson delivered a semiserious philosophical treatment of the subject, "The Marks of an Educated Secretary." • • • During June and July RUTH SLENCZYNSK.A will give concerts and conduct master classes at Georgia Southern University, Flint Junior Community College, the University of Rhode Island, Duke University, College of WinstonSalem, Drake University, and the New England Pianoforte Teachers' Association. Television viewers will be able to see Miss Slenczynska at 10 a.m. June 27, on Helen Hagen's program, "Montage" heard over KHOX-TV. • • • EDWIN B. WARREN has published the second volume of the Complete Works of Robert Fayrfax (ca. 1L~G4-1521). Containing the motets and two settings of the "Hagnificat" besides the lute transcription of one of the masses, the volume contains the rest of the sacred music, the first volume (1959) having included all the masses. Harren has also read proof on the third volume, which will contain the secular and incomplete works. This volume will be published later this year. During the summer he will finish an article dealing with the secular music which will appear in the 1966 Yearbook, Husica Disciplina, which has Marion Taylor James Austin Two professors in the Humanities Division have been awarded Fulbright lectureships for the coming academic year. Prof. Mi\RIOH TAYLOR will lecture at the University of Istanbul, Turkey, and Prof. JAMES C. AUSTIN at the University of Leeds, England. Both have received Fulbright awards previously. Mrs. Taylor taught in India in 1961-62 and Austin •·m s a Fulbright lecturer in the Philippines in 195 7. Hhile she is abroad, Hrs. Taylor will conduct research into sources used by Shakespeare in Constantinople and Kiev in the writing of "Hamlet." Austin, a textbook author and former consultant to Prentice-Hall, is now working on the third of three books he was commissioned to write on 19th century American humorists Artemus Ward, Petroleum Nasby, and Bill Arp. While in Europe, he will conduct studies on French attitudes tmv-ard American humorists • • • On April 9 and 10 Mrs. Taylor was in Lincoln for the Central Renaissance Conference held at the University of Nebraska. April 30 she talked to two groups of students at Central Junior High School, Alton, �- 11 - on "Life in India." On May 1 she talked at a luncheon meetinG of the Jacksonville branch of the American Association of University Homen >vhich annually honors the senior women students of MacMurray and Illinois colleges. Her topic, ''Homen of Japan," was illustrated. Mrs. Taylor is especially happy these days because her son John has been granted a Danforth scholarship for three years of graduate study. John has also been granted a Hoodrow Hilson Fellowship from Washington University. . . • NICHOLAS JOOST's review of Dame Edith Sitwell's memoirs, Taken Care Of, was one of the three feature reviews in the Chicago Tribune 1 s Books Today on May 2. On May 25 Prof. Joost was interviewed by Helen Halter on her regular morning radio program on Station lvOKZ. The two discussed the 1920's in relation to his recently-published book, Scofield Thayer and The Dial. Joost has been appointed chairman of the Program Committee for the 1965-66 season of the St. Louis Hesterners. He has been invited to give the main address at the 1965 meeting of the New England College English Association, to be held November 13 at Horcester, Mass. Reaction to the first issue of FELL has been highly favorable, editor Joost says. Typical of the comment received is this in the Johnsonian News Letter, March 1965: "He have just received the first issue of a new periodical to be called Papers on English Language and Literature. • • • Nicholas Joost is Editor, and Robert Partlow, Associate Editor. • • • Hith a handsome format and wide coverage, this is a welcome addition to the scholarly world." • • • GEORGE LINDEN's review of Laszlo Verseny's book, Heidegr;er, Being and ~. appeared in the May 22 issue of Saturday Review. On Hay 15, Linden addressed the Philosophy Club at St. Louis University. In his talk on "The Phenomenology of the Filo," he outlined a theory of the film as the coherence of thematic rhythm and arnued that the film as an art form exist~ at a lower level of abstraction than a painting or a novel. "Hence, the critical stand- ards for films should be different than those used for paintings and novels," he said. "The most fruitful way to approach films," he continued, "is not as translations but as objects in their own right and to compare films to films." His argument, he said, was based on an analysis of immediate experience as follows: 11 Thc characteristics of the motion picture experience are verifiable by anyone who reflects upon his perceptions. The impact of presence, the displacement of the body, the disjunctive relations to others and the identification of the viewpoint of the camera with the eye of the spectator are all to be discovered within. tl}e_ e)~perience itself." • • • Linden and HALTER GOEDECKE were in Chicago April 28-30 for meetings of the American Philosophical Association. • • • At the May 1 meeting of the American Association of German Teachers held in Belleville, JOSEF E. RYBERG, assisted in awarding prizes to the local winners in the 1965 state high school German contest. Ryberg supervised the Josef Ryberg Southern Illinois test center held April 3. Before coming to SIU in 1962, the assistant professor was on the foreign languages staff at Texas Homen's University. He has also taught at Vanderbilt University. Ryberg received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of North Carolina and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. • • • SONJA M. LIND read a paper on Berthold Brecht, the German playwright, at the American Association of German Teachers meeting. Title of her paper was "Berthold Brecht and his Alienation �- 12 - Effect" as shown in "The Good Woman of Szechwan" (sic). RAYMOND J. SPAHN, secretary of the Southern Illinois chapter of the AATG, also attended the meeting. On May 8 Spahn read a paper on "The Bavarian Playwright Lippl" at the convention of the Central States Modern Language Association in St. Louis. Ryberg and Mrs. Lind also attended the St. Louis meeting. • • . The May issue of International Blue Printer, the magazine of visual communications systems management, carried a story by HARLEY SACHS entitled "Before the Eye and on the Mind." The article describes unusual products and services offered by J. A. Gendron Company of Spokane, Hashington, and shows how those services and products fit a universal pattern of retailing. The article is one of a series written during Sachs' cross-Canada and United States trip made last summer for the magazine. Sachs has accepted an appointment as assistant professor at Michigan Technological Uni·versity in Houghton for the 1965-66 academic year. He will teach technical >rriting. . • • W. BRYCE VAN SYOC attended the annual conference of the National Association of Foreign Student Affairs held in Philadelphia from April 28 to May 1. During the conference he served as a discussion leader on "Overcoming the Cultural Barriers to Communication"and as a panelist on the topic, "The Present Situation of Teacher Training for Teaching English as a Foreign Language in the United States." An article by Van Syoc entitled "The Scheduling of Cultural Materials in Language Lessons" appeared in On Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, a volume published recently by the National Council of Teachers of English. · "Problems in Interpretation of Checklist Dat~' is the title of a paper read by GORDON R. HOOD before the Linguistics II section at the May 8 meeting of the Modern Languaae Association held ~n Chicago. "As \vith any other research ~nformation," the English faculty chairman said, "the use of a checklist for obtaining linguistic information introduces problems for the interpreter." Such problems in data processing linguistic information sometimes result from word sequence in the questionnaire, spelling, regional usage, isolated responses, semantic shifts, terms lost or replaced by themselves and older terms replaced by ne>v terms, he said. Wood read an original paper, "Diversity of Vocabulary as an Element in Dialect Study," during the annual meeting of the Linguistic Section, Missouri Academy of Science. The meeting was held April 24 in St. Louis. "We find," said Wood, "that ~the ..study of diversity is a most useful device in establishing the presence of dialectal change." In his paper, he contrasted the uniformities of three major dialect areas along the Atlantic seaboard with the complex linguistic patterns in the South which have been found to be expanding and changing through the use of the diversity technique. "The key to discovering their changing nature is to interpret the diversities found there." SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION NEWS Six members of the mathematical studies faculty attended the meeting of the Illinois section of the Mathematical Association of America held at Carbondale May 14-15. Attending were Messrs. KERMIT CLEMANS, ORVILLE GOERING, LYMAN HOLDEN, ANDRE~·! LINDSTRUM, CLELLIE OURSLER, and ROBERT PENDERGRASS. • • • The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers, who are planning to publish a manual of statistical methods in several volumes, have asked to include diagrams and quotations from an article, "Confidence Limits in the Case of the Geometric Distribution," by Prof. Clemans which was published in Biometril~a in 1959. • • • BILL BENNEHITZ uas invited to speak April 24 at a meeting of the Southern Section of the Illinois Council of Teachers of lfuthematics. In his talk, "How to Thin!~ Clearly Hithout �- 13 - Thining at All," he sho·ved his audience how to base the most fundamental rules of mathematical reasoninr; upon algebraic computations of a very simple kind. The methods presented \vere developed by Bennewitz and are used at SIU in the General Studies sequence GSD 112a, b, c, and in Mathematics 300. fall, 1964; 11 Leibnizian Sociality and the New Social Sciences," Chinese Culture, October, 1965; 11 The Leibnizian Reason of Matter-of-Fact, 11 Scientia, summer issue, 1965, in English and also in a French translation; and 11 Linear History and the Unity of Mankind, •• The Personalist, to appear in early 1966. • DEBORAH TEPPER RAIMO spoke April 19 to members of the faculty and graduate students at the University of Vermont on "Inversion for the Heierstrass-Hankel Convolution Transform." Her paper on this subject, written with Prof. F. M. Cholewinski of the University of North Carolina, has been accepted for publication by Journal d'Analyse Math~matigue. Another paper by Hrs. Haimo, "L2 Expansions in Terms of Generalized Heat Polynomials and of Their Appell Transforms," has been accepted for publication by The Pacific Journal of Mathematics. • • • JAMES R. KERR has been elected to a five-year term on the board of directors of the Alumni Association at North Central College. A 1953 graduate of North Central, Kerr has been at SIU since 1963. He holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Prior to coming to SIU, he was James Kerr assistant professor of government at the University of California, Santa Barbara, for a year. • • • WILLIAM SHAH spoke on "Physics, the Future and You•• at the Edwardsville campus Honors Day proeram held May 27 at the Alton Center. This marked the first combined ceremony honorinr; the achieve.ment of Edwardsville campus students. Previously separate ceremonies had been held at Alton and East St. Louis. Eightyeight students \vere recor;nized for academic achievement. On Harch 29, Prof. Shaw addressed the Hood River chapter of P.E.O., at a dinner meeting at Rusty's in Edwardsville. He presented a humorous treatment of the subject, "Desert Wild Life, 11 based on some of his extra-curricular activities while employed on missile research by the U. s. Navy in the middle of the Mohave Desert. In his talk he described some of his encounters with such desert creatures as black widow spiders, sidewinder rattlesnakes, scorpbns, and homo sapiens. SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION NEWS ,ecent articles written by DAVID B. ~ICHARDSON and accepted for publication 11 ~nclude: The Philosophies of Hartshorne nd Chardin: T\vo Sides of the Same Coin? 11 in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, In April ELLIOTT 1'1. RUmHCK addressed the Midwest American Studies meetings on the "Negro in East St. Louis." The meetinr; \vas held this year at the Alton Center. Rudwick collaborated on an article, 11 Come to the Fair? 11 published recently in Crisis Magazine. STATE AND NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICES DIVISION NEHS CAMERON MEREDITH, lUUIDEL LERNER, of Community Development Service, and DENE SOUTffivOOD of the Education Division attended a Conference on Community Education held April 30 at the Morris Library in Carbondale. Prof. Heredith served on the afternoon panel, which discussed 11 Implementing the Concept of Community Education. 11 Others participating in the program, sponsored by the College of Education, were D. Fred Totten, director �- of the graduate training program in community education at Flint, Hichigan; Russell D. Rendleman, executive director of the Educational Council of 100; Benson Poirier of the Carbondale campus and assistant dean of the Extension Division; J. Ward Barnes superintendent of schools, Eldo' rado; and Elmer J. Clark, dean of SIU I s College of Education, '..rho gave the welcoming remarks follm1ing the registration and coffee hour. • DAVID VAN HORN and HAX HANSEL of Placement Service attended the spring meeting of the Nid~;..rest College Placement Association held at Illinois Beach State Park. Theme of the meeting was "LaunchinG the Future College Graduate." Van Horn is co-chairman of registration for the fall meeting, which Hill be held in St. Louis in September. 1vARREN STOOKEY, field representative for Alumni Service and the SIU Foundation, has been electedtreasurer of the Hadison County Tuberculosis Association. President of the association for three years, Stookey is beginning his ninth consecutive year as a member of the executive board. . . . Rob ert C. Child, assistant director of the Community Development Service, 'iilas named chairman of the Community Development Division of the National University Extension Association at a meeting held April 27 at Purdue University. This marked the golden anniversary of the association. Staff members from SIU who attended were: Bailey Hilliams, James Rea, William Miller, LE~JIS WATERS, LOUIS BOBKA, and Richard Franlclin of the Community Development Institute. • · • Baker Brownell, creator of SIU 1 s Division of Area Services and its first director, died April 1 at the age of 70. The philosopher-author, 'tlho came to SIU in 1952, believed that a university and its resources were servants of the people and from this philosophy emerged the Division of Area Services. Brownell also believed that a community could benefit from a self study of resources and shortcomings and from this came the birth of ll;. - a Department of Community Development. His philosophy was in harmony with that of S IU 1 s President DELYTE W. MORRIS, \·l ho said at his inauguration in 1948, "I believe it is possible to build at SIU an institution 'tvhich -.;lill serve the needs of the people, providing at once a seat of learning and research and an agency for community service." Brownell \vas author of The Other Illinois, The Human Community, The Philosopher in Chaos, and The Colle 0 e and the Community . He served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, and was director of the three-year study of communi.ty .lif.e in Hontana, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. UNITED CHRISTIAN FOUl-illATION DIRECTOR TO SPEND SUMNER AT ICAl:lSAS CITY Rev. Russell Higfield, head of the United Christian Foundation at SIU 1 s Edwardsville campus, left early in June for Kansas City where he is directing one of the Summer Service Corps programs. His assignment runs from June 9 to August 3. He is directing a team of 12 college students with different ethnic, racial and geographical backgrour.C:s 11\vho will learn from first-hand involvement the struggle of human rights, social welfare, urban decay, family disintegration, and neighborhood chaos." Under the Summer Service Corps program, sponsored by the Board of National Missions, United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., more than 800 college students, young adults, and advisers are doing volunteer work this summer in poverty stricken communities in major cities of the nation, and in such Kell- publicized poverty areas as the Southern Appalachian migrant camps, Indian reservations, and the rural South. In Kansas City, the college-age volunteers will help churches \lith their Christian education programs and in voter registration efforts. In addition to college students, 5,000 senior high school students and advisers will also pay their oun travel and livin::; �- 15 - expenses to serve on short-term work camp teams assigned to similar areas of the country. Hith so much emphasis on negative activities of college students these days, the Rev. Mr. Higfield said he couldn't stress enough the positive image of today's youth. During the past five years, he noted, there has been a 400 per cent increase in the number of college students signing up for voluntary work under the Board of National Nissions. The increase for senior high students has been 1,000 per cent within the past four years. Mr. l.Jigfield c:aJle to Eduardsville last fall to work with the students of this campus. He has served as YMCA secretary at Georgia Institute of Technology and at the University of Nissouri. From 1952 to 1956 he was university pastor and director of youth ~vork at North Dakota State University and the First Presbyterian Church in F~r~o. He received his bachelor's degree in 1947 from Macalester College, where he was assistant chaplain before coming to this area. He earned his bachelor of divinity degree from Yale. TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION NEVJS E. R. CASSTEVENS spoke May 19 to members of the Delta Nu Alpha Transportation Fraternity on SIU's traffic management program. · • . The Fifth Annual Industrial Safety Conference was held June 2 at the Alton Center. Assisting Casstevens and DALE BLOUNT in planning the event were CLIFTON CORNHELL, assistant dean of the Division of University Extension; and Professor H. BRUCE BRUBMCER, coordinator of the General Office in Alton. Ernest J. Simon, dean of the Technical and Adult Education Division, made the \velcoming remarks. Keynote speaker •vas George A. Chandler, director of brass manufacturing at OlinMathieson Chemical Corporation, who spoke on "Safety ThrouGh Good Hanagement." ROBERT B. HAVJKINS of the Fine Arts Divi- sion served as moderator of "Foreman's Swap Shop." Hilliam Hestberg, Carbondale, professor of psychology and management, spoke during the afternoon on "Hotivation." .•• Dale F. Blount has been elected second vice president of the St. Louis chapter of the American Society for Training and Develop.nent. He will be responsible for the planning, coordinating and administering of ten proDale Blount grams for the St. Louis chapter meetings during 1965-66. He will also serve on the board of directors. Blount has been active in the program for the past five years and served last year as public relations chairman. The organization has 127 members, compr~s~ng training directors, educators and personnel officers, representing both industrial firms and educational institutions. Blount attended the National Conference of ASTD •vhich met in Cleveland during the >veel~ of Hay 3. He was one of four delegates from the St. Louis chapter. On Hay 19 he served as host at the meeting of the Industrial Relations Club of Greater St. Louis. Sp~aker at the meeting, held at the ChasePark Plaza Hotel, \vas John F. Mee, professor of management at Indiana University. SIU FACULTY HOMEN'S CLUB NEHS Past presidents of the SIU Homen's Club of Edwardsville were honored at a bridgeluncheon at Rusty 1 s on lfay 20. They \vere seated at the head table and introduced in order of their presidency. Each recounted some incident of her term in office. �- 16 1 PAST PRES !DENTS OF S IU HOMEN S CLUB Present were Mrs. HOH.ARD DAVIS (Carma), who as the first president of the club (1957-58); Hrs. MELVIN KAZECK (Shirley), 1959-60; Hrs. GEORGE ARNOLD (Mildred), 1960-61; Mrs. S. D. LOVELL (Ruth), 1961-62; and Mrs. ALFRED KUENZLI (Corinne), 1962-63. Mrs. DAVID VAN HORN (Kathryn), president in 1958-59, s unable to attend because of her teaching assignment, and Nrs. PHILIP VOGEL (Frances), president in 1963-64, who no longer lives in this area, was represented by her vice president, Mrs. PAUL SKJERSETII (Judith). The past presidents are shown in the picture from left in the order in which they served. At the extreme right is Mrs. WILLIAM SHA~.J (Ruth), ~vho is the retiring president. Mrs. GORDON WOOD (Sara) was chairman of the successful day's events. S IU WOMEN ELECT NE11 OFFICERS Standing behind the ne~V" president of the SIU Homen's Club of Edwardsville, Mrs. J. EDMUND HHITE (Betty) are her officers for 1965-66. They are Mesdames CLELLIE OURSLER (Maova), delegate-at-large; J~lliS COLLIER (Marjorie), treasurer; DANIEL BOSSE (Murella), vice president; and CALVIN PRITNER (Jacquelyn), secretary. �- 16 - s a 1 u k i ------ business affairs of the Edwardsville campus since it was established in 1957. A discerning man, Hr. Peebles recognized the qualities of Mr. Connell and prevailed upon him to come to Ed,Iardsville as purchasing agent and chief accountant. ~Jhen he came to this campus in July of 1959, Mr. Connell had ten full-time staff members and thre·e· student uorkers. Today he has a full-time staff of 29 and 12 student workers. For sometime he has been devoting all of his energies to his job as purchasin3 aeent, the accounting assignments hav ing long since been turned over to others because there ueren't enough hours--ev en in a 24-hourday--to handle the dual role. Connell continues to be res p onsible for General Stores and Central rrecciving, however. Born in Mounds, Ill i nois, the handsome, six -foot, two-inch Connell and his strikingly attractiv e \life Dess have four sons: Bill, Jr., 23; l iike, 13; Pat, 9; and Steve, l:.. She manaGes the Carroll Hood Apartments near :Jood River. Hilliam Connell ~liLLI AN VERNON COIHlliLL fi rst came to SIU in 195 4 as purchasinr; agent a t the Carbondale campus. In 1957 he le f t to a ccept a position in Herrin as contro ller of International Staple Company. At Carbondale he had ; 10rl~ ed clos e ly v7ith C. E. PEEBLES, Hho has been handling the A 1942 graduate of the University of Illinois, where he majored in accountinG and economics, Hr. Connell is a member of the American Harl~ eting Association, the National Association of Educational Buyers, the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, the Veterans of Foreign Uars, and the Elks Club. Durinr; Horld ~.Jar II he served as a first l i eutenant in the Infantry. �SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY/EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS . I"' . f INFORMATION SERVICE J � 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 June 1965 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 1965