https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/5d698927ff787684847c39b9fa1eddcc.pdf 91a9999181bad7e64b87bac196cf0392 PDF Text Text - AR 2 2 1965 MARCH1965 �NEW S BUL L E T I N SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY - EDHARDSVILLE March 1965 Vol. VIII, No. 3 Mildred Arnold, Editor Information Service, Ext. 271 Edwardsville, Illinois SIU TO AID vlAR ON POVERTY SIU has been named the operator in a $10,700,000 project to open Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky, as a theater of operations for President Johnson's war on poverty. Helping with the 18-month program will be the University of Kentucky and the General Electric Company. James Turner, professor of higher education and former director of the East St. Louis center, will direct the project which \vill bring to the deserted acres and buildings of the World War II training center in western Kentucky some 2,000 young men who have been called the "subculture of poverty." The project staff is being assembled under the supervision of SIU's academic vice president, ROBERT MacVICAR, and the camp is expected to be ready to receive its first contingent of trainees by early summer. First submitted last fall to the Office of Economic Opportunity, the University's proposal is based on the collective experience of all departments in operating a 20,000-student university. It includes logistical tables for everything necessary, from buses to bedsheets, that would enable some 400 training center staff members to receive 2,000 young men, 16 to 22 years of age, and help them change their outlook on life and learn marketable skills. Interviewing of applicants for the 400 staff positions began March 1. The staff will receive and process 166 young men each month who have signed one-year contracts with the OEO representatives in their home communities and \vho will receive $50 per month to accrue \vhile they are in train- ing and $30 per month pocket money. Trainees must have an IQ of at least 90 and no record of convictions for felonies. Classes will be small, according to MacVicar, and grouped around a table in the dayroom of the living quarters. "Each instructor \vill have three basic responsibilities: develop reading, writing, arithmetic and speech skills, enhance basic cultural education and change the values, attitudes and definitions of the students which inhibit their development." Basic training, involving three hours of classroom and three hours of work experience each day, will continue as long as it takes the student to become ready for the next stage, that of learning a skill. His work details will be varied so he will have an insight into several skills and the opportunity to demonstrate his aptitude. Fh csc II will find him spending more time learning and practicing his skill. "At the end of ten months to a year the youth will be ready for graduation," MacVicar said. "He will find a place in the large culture commonly called the 'American Society' and will have lost his identity with the 'culture of poverty. 1 He will have a skill, a job, and a new orientation to the problems he will face throughout his lifetime. "Our proposal is not visionary and impractical. He realize that attain- �- 2 - ment of the objectives of the training center will be difficult, but certainly not impossible. The methodology remains to be discovered. The process requires the development of a theory, the test of it by experiment, and the revision of the theory to fit the experimental product, just as in any other scientific enterprise. 11 The two banks of beige v ending machines will include soups, entrees, hot and cold sandwiches, salads, desserts, coffee, ice cream, pastry, cold beverages, milk, candy, and such miscellaneous items as potato chips. When the University Center is complete, these vending machines will be moved to a snack bar in the center and to other new buildings on campus. PROGRESS REPORT ON NEH CAMPUS A complex underground utilities distribution system is virtually complete and an appreciable amount of the entrance road is installe.d. b4.t .c.ompletion is delayed because of weather. In the spring, the first portion of the road system will be finished, with a parking area for 2,200 cars and general academic area grading and walk system. Planting of trees and shrubs must await the fall planting season so the initial setting on occupancy will be somewhat austere, Randall said. For reasons of economy, plants will be small and immature. July 15 is circled on the SIU Architect's Office calendar for completion of two of the Edwardsville Campus buildings. They are the John Hason Peck Classroom and Faculty Office Building and the Elijah P. Lovejoy Memorial Library. In a progress report on construction at the new campus, JOHN RANDALL, associate university architect, said that by the beginning of the fall term next September part of the Science Laboratory Building "l.vill be ready for use. The Communications Building, with its theater and broadcasting facilities, will be complete in the spring of 1966. The University Center, which will include meeting rooms, lounges, a bookstore, recreation areas, and a cafeteria, will not be ready, he said, until the fall of 1966. With an estimated 5,100 attending classes at Edwardsville next fall, it will be imperative to have on campus facilities for eating and temporary dining accommodations will be made available through a vending operation in the library basement. The ordinary vending machine would not do, Randall said, because university administrators believe student should have wholesome, well-balanced meals and that the eating climate should be pleasant, one which would allow conversational intercourse between students and faculty. A seating area for 346 people will be decorated with coach lanterns and an eight-foot, floor-to-ceiling screen with inserts of randomly-spaced color blocks to separate the dining and serv ice areas. Other projects under construction include a heating and refrigeration plant and the adjoining 88-acre lake which will serve in lieu of cooling towers for the furnishing of air conditioning to all academic facilities. A 500,000gallon water tm.;rer, a 350, 000-gallon clear water reservoir and related water supply facilities are in progress. The sewage treatment plant is nearing completion. Installation of extensive services for gas, electricity and telephone are in progress by several utility companies. Because of the emphasis on evening instruction, a significant start on general outside lighting will be ready by fall. Currently the Peck Classroom Building and the Lovejoy Memorial Library give the best picture of future campus character, Randall said. 11 The deep plum brick towers enclosing mechanical facilities and circulation are complete except for cleaning, which must await spring. Most of the quartz aggregate faced precast aggregate panels, with their variegated off-white to plum �- 3 - stones, express the functioning academic spaces and much of the glass, which is gray to reduce glare, is in place in offices, entrances and corridors. Hhile the floors, each of approximately 10,000 square feet of space for the flexible classrooms, novJ appear to be great halls, ceilingsand plastering are progressing and movable partitions will be installed this spring." The heavy reinforced concrete structural work of the Communications Building and the University Center is rising ab'ove the ground, all of the heavy concrete caissons having been completed last December. Besides the extensive underground utilities system, the most important caissons which extend about 80 feet through the poor soil are not apparent to the observer. "These piers, of two and one-half to five feet in diameter, have been constructed under very difficult circumstances and are a significant reason for the buildings not being more advanced," Randall said. Terracing will be done this spring. Hith their exposed rocl~ surfaces and extensive plantings, the terraces will have benches and will p~ovide a pleasant environmental. ·s et.t ing not only for the buildings but for informal gatherings as well. Erection of this 500,000 gallon water tower, which began in December, ~vas cause of much comment. At one point it resembled a rocket and later an over-sized golf tee (some even referred to it as a huge champagne glass). Contract for the tower went to Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. for $187,450. Tragedy marred the tower 1 s erection January 26 when a steeh;orker fell 80 feet to his death. �- 4 CREDIT UNION ELECTS OFFICERS SID's Edwardsville Campus Credit Union, now in its sixth year, elected officers on February 13: D. W. Wilton, assistant director of admissions, president; GUS PLATZ, paint foreman, vice president; JOE SMALL, associate professor in the Business Division, treasurer; and DAVID RANDS, associate professor in the Science and Technology Division, secretary. Elected to the board of directors were HILLIAM SHAW, WILLIAN PROBST, ROBERT ECKLES, JERRY BIRDMAN, GORDON WOOD, KENNETH LOWE, and WILLIAM SPINK. In September 1959, several newly-arriving staff members needed funds to tide them over until the October paychecks arrived. Legally the University could not advance money against paychecks so the Falcon Investment Club offered to lend up to $50 for 30 days at a cost of $1. As a result of this situation, some Falcon Club members decided to investigate the possibility of organizing a credit union at the Edwardsville Campus. The Falcon Club had been organized in 1958 by East St. Louis Center staff members who ~·Tanted to supplement their incomes and learn something about investments. The necessary forms were obtained and with University approval, the Credit Union was officially chartered October 28, 1959. Of the nine charter members, six still remain on the SIU staff: H. H. SMITH, JAMES TURNER (now at Carbondale), Small, FLORENCE FANNING, S. D. LOVELL and NEDRA REAMES. The other members were Robert McDaniel, Milton Byrd and Beverly Kitching. Smith was the first president and Lovell the first vice president. Small has continued to serve as treasurer. At the end of 1960 there were 64 members and assets amounted to $4,914. Today there are 257 members and total assets of $120,000. SIU FACULTY HOMEN'S CLUB NEHS Mrs. Paul Simon, wife of Illinois' Senator Paul Simon and a former Illinois representative herself, spoke at the January meeting of the SIU Faculty Homen's Club. Hostesses were Mesdames FERDINAND FIRSCHING (chairman), IVAN CLIFF, ORVAL JOHNSON, LOREN JUNG, WILLIAM COHN, ROBERT DAUGHERTY, DORRIS \::· LTCJN, ROBERT HANDY, IRWIN PARRILL, H. DENE SOUTHHOOD and PAUL TARPEY. Chairman of the February meeting, which was for husbands, was chairmaned by Mrs. NICHOLAS JOOST. Her committee comprised Mesdames ALFRED KUENZLI, DAN RAGAIN, JOHN SCHNABEL, RONALD YARBOROUGH, HARLEY SACHS, and GEORGE ARNOLD. Ralph Cook, project engineer for Olin Mathieson, was the speaker. 'An ~ ,ict:L-ve member of the Alton Little Theater for a number of years and leader of the Alton Great Books Club, Cook talked about the theater. March 18 is the date for the annual guest tea. To be held at the First Christian Church in Edwardsville, the event will be arranged by Mrs. WALTER KLEIN and her hostess committee. Mrs. ELDON MADISON will be in charge of the program. MEMORIAL LC!_U FUlJD I:~'.c'A:~ L I S llED The Dorothy Kraft Memorial and Retired Teachers Loan Fund has been established at the Edwardsville Campus for juniors and seniors preparing to teach in the elementary grades. Endowed by teachers at Niedringhaus School in Granite City and friends of the late Dorothy Kraft, the loan will be administered by SID's Scholarships and Loans Committee. Mrs. Kraft, wife of Richard Kraft of Granite City, was in her 39th year of teaching in that city when she died last May 29. A 1952 graduate of SIU, she was the first teacher to die in service at Niedringhaus School. CATHERINE GLYNN DIES After a long and serious illness, Mrs. JOHN J. GLYNN died on January 15 at St. Anthony's Hospital in Alton, which she entered in late November. For six �- 5 - years only her courage and will to live kept her with her devoted family: Prof. Glynn, head of the Business Division; her sons, John J. IV, an SIU graduate, and Thomas; two daughter s , Mary Anne and Kathleen, both SIU students; five brothers; a sister; and a grandson, John J. V. A graduate of DePaul Hospital School of Nursing in St. Louis, Mrs. Glynn served on the nursing staff of that hospital for five years following her graduation. A requiem high mass was sung for her January 18 in St. Mary's Church, Alton, after which she was taken to Carrollton for interment in St. John's Cemetery. ATTEND KERNER'S INAUGURATION Among those attending the January 11 inauguration ceremonies for Governor Otto Kerner were President and Mrs. D. W. MORRIS, Vice President JOHN RENDLEMAN and Mrs. Rendleman, GEORGE WILKINS and l1rs. Wilkins, Prof. and Mrs. CAMERON MEREDITH, Prof. and Mrs. KERMIT CLEMANS, and Mr. and Mrs. NORMAN JOHNSEN. John Page Wham, chairman of the SIU Board of Trustees, was a member of the platform party. The Merediths, Clemans and Hilldns attended the inaugural ball. NEW STAFF MEMBER DAVID WISER has been named research assistant in the Public Administration and Metropolitan Affairs Program. Hiser, who worked for the program last summer, has been attending the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. LOSES NOMINATION AT APO CONVENTION WARREN STOOKEY, alumni and SIU Foundation field representativ e , was in Denver, Colorado, December 27-30 for the national convention of Alpha Phi Omega, which was held at the Brown Palace. He served on the program committee. Chairman of Section 16, which includes APO chapters in southern Illinois and eastern Missouri, Stookey was nominated for a plac e on the national executive board. He chuckles over his defeat. . • . Stookey was in Chicago early in December for the annual District V conference of the American Alumni Council. Also attending the AAC conference was MILDRED ARNOLD, a quarter-time employee of the Alumni Office. BUSINESS DIVIS ION NEWS WALTER BLACKLEDGE attended the annual convention of the American Economic Association and Allied Sciences which met December 28~30 in the Conrad Hilton ··. . . .... .. Hotel in Chicago. . .~ . On February 1, HAROLD CUTRIGHT and JOSEPH THORSON talked to the Alton Rotary Club about "The Kremlin and Washington." Both men said the prestige of the United States in Europe is low. "However, on the economic front, there are signs that new economic thought is shaping up throughout Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union," Thorson said. " bore often now, Lenin 1 is quoted in the Soviet press: Be able if necessary to learn from the capitalists. Adopt whatever they have that is sensible and advantageous. 1 "The radical change in economic thinking of the Soviet bloc is bringing to these nations creeping 1 capitalism 1 - a trend toward a profit-motivated market economy. And there are signs that the Red-bloc nations in Eastern Europe are only too ~villing to follow suit." Cutright emphasized the importance and growth of such satellite nations as Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany and said their relations with Russia are more important than Washington realizes. Thorson was captured by the Russians in 1939, tortured by the NKVD and was later sent to Siberia. When Hitler attacked the Soviets, Thorson was released and he served as secretary to the ccnsu l general in Moscow and Kuibyshev when the Germans "were right �- Gin Stalin's backyard. I know them only too well. They were the ones, not the Germans, who killed over 10,000 Polish officers at the Katyn Forest." Cutright said he had met most of the present hierarchy of Soviet leaders and that he believed they really meant peace. "You can see why. THice in my lifetime the Germans have attacked them and cut them into little pieces." Thorson said he feels that, in the long run, political considerations will force the Russians to become an ally of the United States against China. A former Polish and British Army officer, diplomat and management consultant, Thorson is associate professor of international economics and management at SIU. Both he and Cutright, visiting professor of management at SIU and president of Glengayle Associates, New York consulting engineers, have traveled widely in Russia. . . • Cutright was principal speaker January 21 at the Granite City Jaycees annual bosses night. . • . CLARENCE VINCENT 1 s article, "Personnel Executives EJ~a;nine the College Graduate," is scheduled to be published late this year by Collegiate Ne~vs and Views, a journal published by the Southwestern Publishing Company. The article points out the vie~vs of 27 personnel executives in the St. Louis metropolitan area concerning the attributes and deficiencies of the college graduate on his first job after graduation. • • • Vincent was in Chicago during the Christmas holidays for the meetings of the American Marketing Association. · . . Vincent, DANIEL BOSSE, ROBERT ECKLES, GEORGE WANG, HMREN DeBORD, JAMES GHW and Al'i/N SCHHIER attended the annual Student Marketing Conference February 19 presented by the St. Louis Chapter of the American Marketing Association. The largest student representation at the conference was from the Edwardsville Campus of SIU. • LYMAN HOLDEN tall~ed January 7 to the East Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association in Jerseyville. His talk dealt with characteristics of the socalled new mathematics and with parental attitudes toward this innovation. EDUCATION DIVIS ION NEHS "A Perceptual Approach to Learning and Behavior" was the topic discussed by DANIEL SOPER February L, as part of a visiting lecturer series at the Logopedic Institute, Hichita, Kansas. Soper met with the faculty of the College of Education·,. 1;'r{thita State University, on February 5 to discuss "Research Implications of Perceptual Theory." . • • "A Rationale For Interviewing Parents" by HANFORD SONSTEGARD appeared in the December issue of The School Counselor. Counseling the parent, he wrote, may be characterized by four distinct steps. "First the counselor has to establish a proper relationship with the parent. Next, he has to understand the parent and his problem. After the counselor understands the problem, he must help the parent understand himself and his interaction with the child. The last step involves reorientation of the parent. 11 In his article Sonstegard gives a suggested 10-part outline to ascertain significant facts about the parentchild rP.lationships. However, he warns that rigid adherence to a form would result in a merely mechanical interview~ "devoid of the subtlety through which the counselor discovers the nature of the interpersonal relationships existing between parents and child." Even though the counselor must establish a good relationship with the parent during an interview, Sonstegard says he should not take for granted the statements made in answer to the question, "lvhat is being done about it (the behavior)?" He illustrated his point by citing the case of the mother who ~vas asl~ed what she did about her child's ter.tper tantrums. "I ignore them," the mother said. Hhen the �- 7 - interviewer asked her vJhat she meant by ignoring them, the mother replied, "I make him get up from the floor and go to his room." This, of course, could hardly be called ignoring, Sonstegard points out. The counselor would have been misled had he accepted without question the mother's first explanation." On February 16 Sonstegard spoke at the United Church of Christ in Hood River on "Cultural Change in the Guidance of Children." On February 23 he spoke at North Junior High School, Collinsville, to a group of parents >vho will be serving as counselors. The group meets once a Heek for open discussion Hith each other on mutual problems encountered and to receive counsel from each other and from Sonstegard. . . . "Education Around the Horld" was HOWARD DENE SOUTHHOOD' s topic January ll:at the Edwardsville Rotary Club. The following day he spol~e on the psychology of good workmanship at a meeting of L:-00 employees of Basler Electric Company, Highland, who VJere asked to join in a program to eliminate costly production defects. Called ZD (Zero Defects), the idea was developed in the aerospace industry and is being used by the U. S. Defense Department. The audience included observers H. D. Southwood from SIU, St. Louis Army Procurement District, Universal Match Company, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Emerson Electric Hanufacturing Company, and the International Union of Electrical Harkers. · • · On February 17 he participated in a conference on In-Service Training Programs in Self-Assessment sponsored by the Belleville Area Joint Special Education Association and the Department of Program Development for Gifted Children of the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction . • • • On January 24 OLIN HILEl1AN spoke to the ninth graders at Rock Junior High School, East St. Louis. The ninth graders were being promoted at mid-year to the tenth grade of the East St. Louis senior high schools . . . • SIU's Research Bureau at Carbondale utilized the educational background and experience of Hileman in a recent evaluation of upper-elementary grade programs of Grant and Pontiac elementary schools in St. Clair County. He also worked with the research survey team in the Vandalia schools, evaluating the junior high prog:t;"<UU _.aq,q meeting with the Citizens' Advisory Committee . • • . Hileman is a member of the Junior College Scholarship Committee recently appointed by Vice President RALPH RUFFNER. Also serving on the committee are THOMAS EVANS, ANDREW KOCHMAN and FRED LEVAN. The committee was appointed following the establishment of 50 annual tuition scholarships for outstanding graduates of Illinois junior colleges. Carbondale campus members include James Ford and Leslie Chamberlain. The committee is to consider criteria for selection of recipients and to recommend procedures for handling applications. • An article by ROBERT STEINKELLNER entitled " q 1.:::t Are The Purposes of a Formal Education?" appeared in the December issue of the Illinois Elementary Principal. In his article Steinkellner sets forth 18 points for which he feels the elementary school is morally responsible to offer experiences which will make the child m·J are of many things. "Wis do m is something the older generation cannot rightfully expect from their youn[;," he writes, "for so few of us, the aged, have won wisdom. Hisdom is something the public should not expect the child to attain during his brief attendance in the public school." The first responsibility he lists is the need to take inventory of the individual's talents and then encourage that individual to assume the responsibility to develop his talents to 11 their fullest fruition for the good of self, society, and spirit." Steinl~ellner writes about the obvious influence of the teacher and �- 0 - reminds the reader of the value of wellspent time. "Remember the 'quality' in which you spend a minute. One cannot buy a minute or sell it. A minute is priceless. It is time enough to thank a man or a woman for a kindness, to help a fellowman, or to ask God for forgiveness for wasting the hours and days of our lives. An educated man learns to value time, and he uses today. How many of us reject today, and fondly look upon the distant promise of an unassured tomorrow?" GEORGE HILKINS spoke to the Optimists Club of Granite City January lL; on "Future Shape of Education." On January 19 he addressed the superintendents and assistant superintendents from 40 counties in the southern half of Illinois on the recommendations and report of the Eighth School Problems Commission, of which he is a member. After his speech, he answered questions for an hour. The meeting was held at Augustine's Restaurant in Belleville. On February 8, Hilk ins addressed the Cahokia High School counselors and social studies teachers on the evaluation and the new implementation of Title III of the National Defense Education Act. He also discussed new proposed state and federal compensatory education legislation. In his talk he pointed out that Title III is being expanded from the three cateeories of mathematics, foreign language and science to cover five other areas: English, reading, history, geography and civics. He said that there had been a compensatory education bill introduced in the state legislature with an appropriation of 27 million dollars which 11 is almost identical to the national compensatory education legislation." • • . As representatives of the area of academic affairs for the Edwardsville Campus, H. BRUCE BRUBAKER and Mr. Hill: ins attended the national meeting of the American Association of School Administrators held in Atlantic City February 13-17. FINE ARTS DIVISION NEilS An Art Needle Creative Stitchery Horkshop will be held on this campus April 1, sponsored by the Lily Hills Company of Shelby, North Carolina. Reservations for 60 persons are available for the 9 a.m. to 12 noon session in Loomis Hall at Alton. There will be room for 40 persons at the afternoon session from 2 to 5 in room 214 at the East St. Louis center. • • . Advance notice by EVELYN BUDDEMEYER is being given through this medium about an art workshop for children, ages 7-9, to be held between June 21 c.nd · !<u:=,us t 2. Only 20 can be admitted to the ~vorkshop, Mrs. Buddemeyer said, ~vhich will be held in Loomis Hall on .Hondays and Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be a $12 fee for admission; no academic credit will be given. Those "t-1ho wish to enroll their children should write Mrs. Buddemeyer at the Alton center. Letters will be honored according to their post mark. . . . Among those attending the Music Educators National Conference at Peoria January 23 were LLOYD BLAKELY, DOROTHY TULLOSS and LEONARD VAN CAMP. • • • On February 12 three faculty members presented a recital of contemporary music at the SIU Alton auditorium. Featured were GEORGE MELLOTT, clarinetist, assisted by CLAYTON HENDERSON, pianist, and JOHN KENDALL, violinist. The recital included two sonatas for clarinet and piano, one by the late French composer, Poulenc, and another by Mellott. Henderson played the Sonata, Op. 26, by Samuel Barber, and Kendall joined the two in Charles Ives' Largo for violin, clarient, and piano. In revie~ving the performance for the Alton Evening Telegraph, JOHN ADES said "all exhibited smooth professional skill." • • • ANN CAREY was installed as treasurer of the Illinois Speech and Hearing Association at the annual meeting of the association held March 18-20 in Chicago. • • • By invitation, t~vo paintings of HILL FREUND are on exhibit at the Hilliam Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Hissouri. In the exhibit, called Artists Choice, are "Northern Reach 1 1 �- 9 and "Time of Difference." Work by F:::-e u~-:.0. has been selected for showing in a circuit exhibition to Galleries of the following: Mississippi State College for Women, Panama Art Association, Pensacola Art Center, Tuskegee Institute, Howard College, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mobile Art Association, and Eastern Shore Art Center. DALE FJERSTAD was initiated into Kappa Kappa Psi, national band fraternity, on March 6, at which time he was given an honorary life membership at a special banquet and ceremony at the University of Missouri at Rolla. On February 27 Fjerstad served as guest conductor and clinician at the Madison County Band Festival at Highland. The University Symphonic Band, which he directs, gave a concert the morning Dale Fjerstad of February 19 at Assumption High School in East St. Louis. That evening the band gave its annual winter concert in the Alton center gymnasium. ration of a new unit of the American String Teachers Association. On April 20 he will be in Calgary, Alberta, for a meeting of the Canadian Music Education Association and on April 30 will be in Baltimore, Naryland, for the Music Education Association convention, where he will be a clinician for sessions on string teaching. . • . A one-man shoH of sculpture by LARRY MARCELL received excellent reviews during its exhibition February 8 through March 4 at . the s,culptors Gallery in St. Louis. Among the 23 pieces shown were bronze, Hood, and stone sculptures. In the St. Louis Globe-Democrat a review by Cynthia Barlow said in part, "On a large scale, his portrait heads, though stylized, have Great strength and character. The smaller bronzes are representational, almost to the point of being anatomical 'studies. 1 Even so they have a good deal of grace and charm. • • • " In a review by the . . • ROBERT HAlvKINS gave a lecturedemonstration on communications in business February 26 for the Development Program for Middle Management conducted by the Technical and Adult Education Division at SIU's Edwardsville Campus . • . • JOHN KENDALL conducted the annual Ohio All-State High School Orchestra conference and concert February 5-7. The group comprised 100 music students selected from the various reGional orchestras in Ohio. This month Kendall was in Iowa City for a workshop with string students and to judge the high school music contests. He will attend the 11usic Education National Conference meetings in Dallas March 28-31 and judge the strinG auditions. April 11-12 he will present lectures in Long Beach, California, in connection with the inaugu- Larry Narcell �- 10 a former student. This experience happened to JOHN ADES last fall. The class was in eighth grade English at Hest Junior High School in Alton where former SIU student Robert Denby is currently chairman of the English de..,.partment. Ades talked on the Anglo Saxon epic, Beowulf. A similar appreciation of Ade 1 s skill John Ades as a teacher was shown by former student Marjorie Dintleman, head of volunteer services at Alton State Hospital, who arranged for Ades to give a Christmas program of readings to a group of 50 patients at the hospital library. These two experiences are examples of the way "Reaching Man 11 SIU can and is making educational connections in various ways in the Post-Dispatch's Mary King, his sculptures community brought about by good were cFscribed as lithe and lively. "Hhile student-teacher relationships . . . Marcell 1 s work is hichly sculptural, it Ades will soon complete his seventh is also delicately and sensitively described, year as music critic for the Alton with the treatment of the surfaces more reEvening Telegraph. A rough estimate lated to drawing and painting in its linear of output wordwise is 100,000--enough and tonal sensitivity." Miss King described for a novel. As a critic, he says he in detail several of the pieces and commented has never been damned publicly--only several times about the feeling of the artist privately--and he doesn't know what for his subject. "Even in the portrait head, to make of that. Recently he branched 'I Am No Prophet, 1 the nuances seem to be out into drama criticism by reviewing noted like a painter would note them. . . . a production of Hamlet by the National In all of his work, the presence of the hand Players at Monticello College • . • . and, therefore, of the act, is intimately Two essays by Ades have been accepted felt . . . . There is a classic (as in Donatello)for publication in the new SIU journal, kind of grace, coraposition, and stance to his Pell: "Charles Lamb's Judgment of work. 11 • • • Harcell was guest lecturer for Byron and Shelly" and "Temptation in the North Side Art Association February 8, Milton's Comus and Paradise Regained. 11 when his topic was "The Evolution of Form "Honest to Man, 11 an exegesis of the From the Renaissance to Modern." Book of Job with respect to the Bishop of \.Joolwich 1 s book, Honest to God, was HUMANITIES DIVISION NEHS the title of a sermon which he gave in October at the First Presbyterian Church No higher tribute could be paid a teacher in Alton. than to be asked to lecture to a class of . . . The fall issue (off the press in �- ll - Feb.) of the Hidcontinent American Studies Journal carries J l'J1ES AUS TIN's revieu of the new facsimile edition of Artemus \lard: His Book by Charles Farrar Brmvne, Hith a ~ introduction by ~obert M. Hutchins. • ROBERT GOED E CI~E is author of an article entitled "Justice Stephen Field and Natural ~ights" which lvill be published in the April issue o~ The Review of Politics . The article deals with the meaning o~ natural rights in the theory of the stoics and the Jeffersonians and in the practical jud~ments of Justice Field and Chief Justice Earl Warren in Supreme Court opinions. . . . NICHOLAS JOOST'c Sc ofield Thayer and The Dial, published this winter by the University Press, has been widely and fa vorably revie>Ied. In its January 31 edition, The New York Times dev oted a full par;e and a column runover to the book and with it a reproduction of the cover of The Dial's most famous issue, Hovember 1922, and a bust of Thayer by Gaston Lachaise, done in 1926. "Glimpses of Lif e and Art in 19th Century United States 11 was the subject of a series of four public lectures given durinc February and Harch by JOHN FRANCIS licDE~HOTT . The first lecture concerned "The Adventures of John James Audubon as Itinerant Portrait Artist." After failinc; in business, Audubon earned a precarious living for five years by sketching portraits, mostly along the lower Mississippi ~iver. The second lecture \vas entitled "Art for the Millions: The Vogue of the l-lovinr; Panorama" and had to do with the newsreel, the travelo~ue and the documentary of the century lvhich brought to American audiences "instruction and entertainment'' on such varied subjects as the gold rush trail to California, the antediluvian world, the funeral of Napoleon, a whaling voyage around the world, and a visit to the Holy Land. In a talk on ''Daniel Boone q,~d. t;.h~_, _ Artists" he traced >vhat painters and illustrators made of the frontier hero before 1860. The final lecture, delivered liarch 16, described, the Mississippi ~iver before Mark T-~;vain. "So brilliantly did Harl::. Twain picture life on the Mississippi," McDermott said, "that all the 110rld today feels that he invented the river • . . . Long before his magic books told the story travelers were recordinc in prose and picture every strange, violent, droll, elegant, vulgar, earnest, crude phase of life on the >..res tern Haters. 11 . . . MARION TAYLO~ talked about "Slanting and Sellinr; Those Stories in the Dresser Drawer'' at the Recreation Hall at Northgate Homes in Collinsville on February 15. llost group was the Silver Pens, an area writing club. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION NEHS F. H. FIRSCHING attended the Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference at Northwestern University December L, -s. On Harch 27 he will take part in a symposium on analytical chemistry sponsored by the St. Louis Society of Analysts. On the morning program, he will discuss "Coprecipitation Studies of Trivalent Rare Earths Using Double Comple=~ation and Replacement." John l-'. ilcDermo tt . • . LAURENCE HcAllE11Y Has in New York City January 27-30 for the annual combined meeting of the /~erican Physical Society and the American Association of �- 12 Physics Teachers. On February ll he spol~e at the monthly meeting of the Edwardsville Business and Professional Homen's Club. their ideals, 3) work with others, 4) be perseverant, and 5) to assume social responsibility. "The intelligent have the responsibility of guiding the world away from ignorance and the consequent bigotry and v iolence that follow hate," he said. . . . IRWIN PARRILL attended the Ei8hteenth Annual Louisiana State University Symposium on Modern Methods of Analytical Chemistry held January 25-28. The use of modern methods of analysis in the determination SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION NEHS of nanograms, billionths of a gram, of substances qualitatively and quantitatively were discussed, including activation analyThe winter issue of liodern Age published sis, mass spectrometry, radio-tracer analysis, a review of The Hyphenate in Recent thermometric titrations, gas chromatography American Politics and Diplomacy by Louis L. Gersen written by . KUilT GLASER. and molecular Hei8ht determinations. "Of general interest was the application of combinations of these methods to analyze • . • SITANSHU HOOKERJEE spoke to the water for organic substances in water polluEast St. Louis Geography Club February 3 tion surveillance systems, and in the on "A Project for National Atlas." determination of c2rcinos en s, cocarcinogens Describing the work of the International and related materials in air pollution studies.Geographical Unions Commission on National Especially interesting was the combination Atlases, he reviewed the program of work of techniques to measure small concentrations in connection with the preparation of of pesticides and herbicides. The legal National Atlases by various countries. specification of zero concentration has beHe explained some details of the work come ridiculous because the analyst can now of the National Atlas Project of India, find these substances in most soils and of which he was deputy director for waters and in all fresh water fish. 7he six years. In December Mookerjee rapid increase in nonbiodegradable organic prepared a book revieH for publication chemicals, ranging from tires to drugs, in the Journal of Geography. He and from cigarettes to food colorings, inhis family spent their Christmas vacacluding known carcinogens, presents the tion in Nemphis and lJew Orleans. present generation with one of its fastest growing civic problems where to get a breath . . . An article entitled "The Religion of 'fresh' air or a drink of 'pure' water." of the Lonely Crmvd" and written by GUNTER REMMLING appeared in the December • • . R.N. PENDERGilASS Has in Hashington issue of Kglner Zeitschrift fUr Soziologie early in January where he served on a panel und Sozialpsvchologie, which represents for evaluation of in-service institute the sociological profession in Germany. proposals of the National Science Foundation. The article discusses both the situation Proposals were submitted to the foundation of religion in the U. s. and the approach by universities and colleges throughout the of American sociologists to this institucountry. tion and its problems. · · . Pendergrass and ORVILLE GOERING attended the national meetings of the Mathematical Association of America held in Denver January 26-30. • • . ELLIOTT llUDHICK has an article, "The Negro Protest and the New York Horld 1 s Fair of 1939-L:.O," in the w·inter issue of New Politics. · · · HILLIAM SHAW Has the Honors Day speaker February 25 at Roxana High School. In his talk, which he called "Let 1 s Stay Stupid," he admonished the honor students to 1) keep their enthusiasm, 2) maintain ERNEST SCHUSKY spent the first half of the Summer Insitute on Indian Civilization (a Fulbright program) at the University of Nysore studying the cultures of ancient India. The program �- 13 - included tour s to Ban~:;alore, Hadras, Nadurai and Calcutta. The second half of the proaram in Ne>v Delhi, >vas devoted to problems b ' of modern India and was conducted by Indian professors and government officials. Field trips were made to Agra, Benares, and Chandrigarh. A concluding conference was held in Bombay . . • . Ilolt, Rinehart and Winston announced spring publication of Schusky's book, Analysis of Kinship, at the American Anthropol>gy Association meetings held in Detroit last November. The book is intended as a supplement to cultural anthropolosy texts at the advanced level. Schusl:y' s and Patrick Culbert's manual, Introducin~ Culture, is now being used in the General Studies sequence, "Culture, Society and Behavior." Schusky continues his interest and research on the American Indian. Last October he talked to the Lewis and Clark Historical Society about the e~:plorers' contributions to ethnography. Schusky has completed a report on civil rights problems of P~erican Indians co-sponsored by the Institute on Indian Studies and the National Board of Missions. The report is to be published as a monograph of the Institute. Presently, Schusky is participating in a conference with a number of other anthropologists >vho are synthesizing their vvork on Hodern Dakota Indians. The anthropologists are meeting in Harch to organize their findings and to confer with officials from the Dureau of Indian Affairs. settled in Hunich Hhere he is doing re search on authoritarianism in t he German family. The Taylor s wil l return t o the Edwardsville Campus in the fall. DEPARTl·JENT OF NURS IlJG NEHS The Department of lfursing has rec eived from St. Mary's Hospit a l of East St . Louis a 125-volume medical histori cal collection, including many books out of print for 50 years or more . The books were used by m,q::s:;i.IJ,g ..students Hhen St. Mary's operated its . oun nursing school. The oldest volume is an 1854 copy of Dunglison's Dictionary of Med i c a l Science , in its original calfskin binding and Hith a handmade thumb inde ~: . Typic a l of bool:s of that day, it contains a 32-page c atalog at the end adver tising other v o lume s available from the sane publ i sher . • . • Among those attending the American Historical Association convention in \Jashington, D. C., in December were JA1·1ES HAAS, ALLAN HcCURRY, HERBERT ROSENTHAL and STUART HEISS • • HELVIN KAZECK attended the National Council of Geographers meetings in Ninneapolis last November. Shown above Hith l1rs. MARGARET SHAY, chairman of SIU's nursing department, are Vice President ROBERT MacVICAR, \\Tho accepted the collection, and · HILLIAN GOODHAIJ and JANES KERR spent Joseph Lilli, assistant administrator the Christmas holidays in Nexico and Guatemala. at St. Nary 1 s, who made the present a tion . · DONALD TAYLOR modestly reports a victory in a bridge tournament on the high seas . He sent his trophy to be displayed in the new University Center. After touring the Mediterranean, Taylor and his family are • . • The department has qualified for federal aid under the Nurse Training Act of 1964. Hrs. ~hay said a pr e limi nary review of the SIU program by th e National League for lfursing led to �- l l:. - approval under terms of the federal act administered by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The NLN is the a aency desi gnated by the government to r~commend nursin~ pro~rarns for participation in the feder a l act. The law provides ~ rants f or construction, addition of staff, traineeships for professional nurses, and loans to student nurses. Construction funds under the federal law will not be available until July but applications for traineeships, student loans, funds f or staff additions, and grants for rneetin ~ the cost of increased enrollment can be made now. NEWS OF PLACEMENT SERVICE PHILIP ECKERT, assist ant supervisor of Placements, was Guest speaker December 28 at the Colle ge Night dinner at St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Columbia. Thirty colle ge students attended the rneetin ~ at which Eckert talked about "Success Throu ~h Belief." On February 15 he was in Sprin ~ ­ field for a meetinG called by Governor Otto Kerner on the proposed University-State Agency Council. The meeting, held at Holiday Inn East, concerned development of procedures requisite to recruitment of university graduates by state agencies, state agency internship programs, state employee in-service training programs, orientation v isitations by university students to st a te a ~e ncies and to the State Capitol, research projects in Illinois government, and procedures for organizinG the proposed council. DELINQUENCY STUDY PROJECT NEWS CHARLES MATTHEWS, director of DSP and assistant director of the Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections at SIU, delivered the >velcorning address February 16 at a two-day workshop for the nation's leading authorities on juvenile delinquency and key officials from 17 states. Held at Pere Marquette State Park, the workshop was sponsored by SIU's Delinquency Study Project in conjunction with President Johnson's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Deve lopment and Hernan Starh: 1 s California Youth Authority Committee. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEWS A four-day re gional workshop was held January 10-14 a t Littl e Grassy Lake facilities at SIU to train recreation program leaders and directors in conducting recreation pro ~ r arns for the retarded. Community Development Service presented the first day's program, "Achieving, DevelopinG, and Maintaining Community Support for Program Operations. " Participants were provided with ideas, applicable experience, and practice in relating theories of communication, motivation, participation, planning operation, and continuation to the area of community proGramming . Presenters included Robert Knittel, director; Robert Child, assistant director; MANDEL LERNER, coordinator; LOUIS BOBKA, supe.rvis·or·; · and community consultants LILA TEER and ARTHUR GRIST; and LEWIS WATERS, field representativ e. LIBRARY NEWS ELMER WAGNER, Audio-Visual Center, spoke in December at the Suburban St. Louis Audio-Visual Directors meeting . His subject was "New Developments in Colle ge A-V. " Wagner is a past president of the suburban directors. . • . MILTON MOORE is author of an article entitled "Flex owriter Versus Multilith: A Time and Cost Study" which appeared in the October issue of the California Librarian. The study was written while Moore was assistant head of the catalog section of the California State Library in Sacrernento. In his article he presents statistics "that demonstrate the superiority of the Multilith to the Flexowriter in terms of cost and time saved for reproducing catalog cards." TECHNICAL AND ADULT EDUCATION NEWS On February 20 and March 6, E. R. CASSTEVENS and DALE BLOUNT were interviewed by ROBERT HAHKINS on "Voice of the Campus 11 over WOKZ. They describ e d the programs and objectives of the Technical and Adult Education Division on the Edwardsville Campus and answered questions posed by Hmvldns on the following programs: Associate degree, industrial management, in-pl ant training , traffic management and mi s cellaneous short courses and programs. �- 15 - s a 1 u k i Profile In subsequent issues of the News Bulletin we plan to brin ~ you short bio3raphical sketches on staff members who may not have written a best seller, received some singular honor or appeared on the speakin:::; circuit but who are, nonet heless, makin g real contributions to SIU. If there is someone you would like to see featured, please let us know. We are startin~ with CHARLES BUTLER, secretary to President Morris and 3eneral manager of the central office at Edwardsville. A native of Harrisbur~, Butler went to work in Chicago for the U. S. Treasury Department after hi~h school graduation and later was associated with IBM in the Merchandise Mart. From 1944 to 1946 he was with Uncle Sam's Navy, spending some time on Guam as a yeoman 2d class. After the war he enrolled in SIU at Carbondale and durin ~ his college days was a student worker in the President's Office. After graduation in August 1950 he accepted a full-time assi gnment with President Morris. In July 1960 he carne to the Edwardsville Campus and since December of that year has been located in the President's Office on Lewis Road. An avid reader and sports fan, Mr. Butler has read enou :::;l1 books that end to end would extend for hundreds of miles, and he has traveled almost that much to see sports events. We would not hazard a :::;uess on the sports miles he has traveled via television. His other hobbies include coin and stamp collecting . He buys blocks of every new stamp and has been known to buy as much as $300 in dimes in order to look for one of a certain mint. Charles Butler Charles Butler doesn't do thin gs half-heartedly. He ~ ives full measure to his job and his hobbies; since he is a bachelor, he has time for both. And under that sometime brusque manner there is a heart of ~ old (or a silver or copper coin), as his friends will attest. �SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY/EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS f INFOR~~-T~ON SERVIC~ � 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/. 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