https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/7748ee8013bc66a9040112416e167f44.pdf 95b6f2ca4b385b0ae0032b016cc4c9d1 PDF Text Text �N E T:l S SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY -- EDHARDSVILLE March, 1966 Vol. IX, No. 4 I Mildred Arnold, Editor Information Service, Station 3600 Edwardsville, Illinois McDERHOTT HONORED BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT JOHN FRANCIS HcDERHOTT, research humanities professor at SIU, was awarded the Palmes Academiques February 22 by the French g overnment for his research and writings in connection with the settling of the French in America. The presentation was made by H. Renee Allawaert, cultural attache in the Consular General's Office, Chicago, in a ceremony held in the new Faculty Center. Both the presentation and the response by Prof. McDermott were in French. Audubon in the \·lest, compiled and edited by Prof. HcDermott:, ··wets released early this year by the University of Oklahoma Press. In his introduction to the 120page edition on the great ornithologistartist, he describes the plans leading up to John James Audubon's long-dreamedof exploration of "the Territories Southwest of the Mississippi • . . the Red River, Arkansas and Countries adjacent." His Dell-Laurel Editions, The World of Washington Irving, came off the press last fall. The February 28 edition of The National Observer ( p. 10) carried 13 column inches on McDermott's Audubon in the Hest. Still on the subject of the first humanities research professor on this campus --he was in Louisiana March 3-5 where he r ead a paper entitled "Some Recent Books about French Louisiana and Some Books to Come" at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical .1\ ssociation. On Harch 8 he was in Carbondale to address the Mississippi Valley Investigations on "The Historic Role of St. Louis in the De~ velopment of the Basin.'' FROM OUT OF THE FILES Half French himself, the SIU professor's ancestors helped settle St. Louis more than 200 years ago. It Has Prof. HcDermott who spearheaded The French in the Mississippi Valley Conference in 1964 which kicked off the bicentennial celebration of St. Louis. Eight of more than 35 books written or edited by McDermott and 61 of 150 of his published articles concern the history of French America. The following information was sent for use in the Civil Service Newsletter. He think it is worth repeating in the News Bulletin for faculty and administrative staff. It comes from a member of the Physical Plant staff, JOE BOEDEKER, Alton. "Hith the opening of a new, modern Edwardsville Campus, let us pause for a �- 2 - minute to pay resp e ct to our o ld e st campus --old Shurtleff. Follmving are a feH ex c e ~pts fr om one of: seve r a l Shurtleff College l\nnual Cata logues th a t '>ve rc found in an attic on Leverett Street during the renov ation of an old residence": Dated 1879-1880--"Shurtleff College is pleasantly situated in Upper Alton, Illinois 25 miles f rom St. Louis. The Chicago ' c: Alton, Indiana polis c: St . Louis, and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads bring th e colle ge int o easy communicati on by rail with all parts of the country, vlhile the Mississippi River also furni s hes means of access to the en tir e Mississippi Valley. The location is healthy as Hell as eligible, and the i nstitution is sufficiently near to the cities of Alton and St. Louis for conv e nience to pa tron s in those cities, while it is also so retired as to secure the quiet and freedom from temptation so essential to the stu dents. Twen ty - sev en s tu d ents a nd fo ur area residents took the tes:: , a g ainst a total o f 1 3 l as t y aar. l'1r. Kraft a nd HYROH BISHOP, acting c oo rdinator of Int ern a tiona l Servi ce s, e~pressed th ei r sinc e r e 2 ppreciation ~ or th e wa rm r ecep tion facult y memb e rs gave the thr ee Pea ce Corps volunte er s. Hr. Kraf t sa id the percentage taking th e e;:ams, in relation to the number of s eniors on campus, was one of the hi ghest in the c ountry ·. · ACCEPTED BY AACTE "This College was established in 1827, and has consequently entered upon the second half century of its existence. Hore than 3,000 students have enjoyed the benefits of its in s truction and discipline." Expenses at that time are worthy of not e . College charges per year Here $28, Hithout room, with room, $40. The rooms Here not furnished. Board in clubs (meals only) cost $1.25 to $2.00 per Heek; in boarding houses it Has $2 .50 to $2.79 per week. Woo d cost $3.00 per cord (energetic students could cut their mvn and save $3), coal Has 10 cents a bushel, washing 75 cents per dozen. College charges, including board, room, furnishing same, books, lights, f uel and washing per year (40 weeks), cost $135 to $250. PEACE CORPS INTEREST DOUBLED Interest among students at the EdHardsville campus has more than doubled that of last year, according to Tim Kraft oi the Hashington office >vho headed a threemember team recruiting h e re in January. The Edwardsville campus h a s b ee n ac cepted for me~bership in the i~e rican Association of Colleges fer Teacher Education. Election to the association Has announced during the 18th AACTE annual business meeting a t the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago February 16-19. Prof. H. DENE SOUTHHOOD (left), head of SIU' s Education Division, is shmvn receiving the membership certificate from Evan Collins, national president o f AACTE . BUSINESS AFFAIRS REORGANIZED Business Affairs, head e d by Vice President JOHN RENDLEHAN, has been divided into two divisions, fiscal and service operations. To conform Hith the alluniversity concept initiat e d a ye a r ago, the follmvin g r ea ssignments have been announced by Rendleman. �- 3 - Paul Isbell, who has been Business Affairs director for the Carbondale campus, is nmv all-university director of the Services Division. C. E. PEEBLES, who has been business affairs director for the Edwardsville campus, is now alluniversity director of fiscal affairs. Originally a member of the Business Office at Carbondale, Peebles has been at the Edwardsville campus since its inception in 1957. C. E. Peebles Service offices under Isbell at Carbondale include: Architect's Office under Willard Hart; University Center, under Clarence Dougherty; Physical Plant, under Anthony Blass; Auxiliary and Service Enterprises, under Carlton Rasche; Personnel, under Gene Turner (formerly at Edwardsville); Security Office, under Thomas Leffler; Civil Defense, Frank Bridges; and Safety, Oliver Balderson. Bill Hudgens, formerly Auxiliary Services director, is assistant to Isbell. JAMES METCALF, also assistant to Isbell, heads similar offices at Edwardsville. Mr. Peebles is responsible for the Offices of Disbursement, headed by Frank Dusek; Purchasing, viiLLIAM CONNELL; Payroll, Charles Monroe; Bursar's Office, Thomas Hatson; and Accounting, y. Jarren Buffum. llis aides at Carbondale are Samuel Rinella, Disbursements; George Toberman, Purchasing; Arthur Albon, Payroll; Thomas Clore, Bursar's Office; and Larry Korte (formerly at Edwardsville), Accounting. The housing offices at Carbondale and Edwardsville are under the joint supervision of Business Affairs and Student Affairs. Robert Gallegly, former treasurer, has been reassigned as controller. R. Dean Isbell, former business administrator at the Camp Breckinridge Job Corps Center, is Gallegly's assistant at Carbondale. Charles Bernardoni is in charge of fiscal disbursements for SIU's Research and Projects Office. NORMAN '\<JENDT, former head of Auxiliary Services at Edwardsville, is SIU auditor, assisted at Carbondale by vlilliam Surman. Also directly under Vice President Rendleman are the university architect, Charles Pulley, · wrrose ·associate at Edwardsville is JOHN RANDALL; John McDermott, labor relations director, and Rino Bianchi, the Vice President's executive assistant. This reorganization marks the second under the four vice presidents. Earlier Student and Area Services, headed by Vice President RALPH RUFFNER, was reorganized on an all-university basis. The other two vice presidents are CHARLES TENNEY, Planning and Review, and ROBERT MacVICAR, Academic Affairs. NURSING DEPARTMENT NEviS Mrs. MARGARET SHAY and Mrs. MABEL BURTON spoke in February at the fifth annual awards reception sponsored by the St. Elizabeth Hospital Auxiliary, Granite City, honoring junior and adult volunteers. Accompanying them were two of their nursing students, Dorothy Bauer of Altamont and Marcia Humm, Harrisburg. ELS PROGRAM PROVES POPULAR Everywhere you go these days you hear about ELS--that's English Language Services, Inc., if you haven't heard. SIU faculty, spouses, and area residents are taking advantage of programmed instruction in French and Spanish in a newly-installed electronic language laboratory at Edwardsville. The laboratory, operated for the University by English Languages Services, Inc., �- 4 Washington, D. C., teaches entirely by mechanical means, using a method which is said to approximate most nearly the \vay in which a child learns his native language. language has been broken down into its basic sounds which have been recorded on tape by native speakers and keyed to a workbook. The student first hears each sound in isolation, then in combinations E~ch until t hey form words and ideas. By repeated association of ideas, the method eliminates the need for memorizing grammatical principles. Students can study independently and progress at their own rate of speed. Ther e are no rigid schedules; students may study at their convenience between the hours of 9 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. weekdays and between 8 a.m. and noon on Saturdays. Some of the language students are pictured here. They are: CAMERON MEREDITH (front row), head of State and National Services; ~rrs. SEYMOUR MANN and Mrs. ROBERT ERICKSON (second row); DONAL MYER, assistant graduate dean, and Mrs. JOHN ABBOTT (third row); and SHEILA STIMSON (Mrs. Stephen), executive secretary of the Friends of the Library. Other faculty members and spouses enrolled, in addition to those pictured, are JOHN hBBOTT, Mr. and Mrs. HOWARD DAVIS, Mrs. JAMES KILBY, Mrs. DONAL MYER, Mrs. RALPH RUFFNER, Mrs. SAMUEL PEARSON, MARK TUCKER, Mr . and Mrs. J. E. ~VHITE, ROBERT ERICKSON, M. L. KUMLER, RICHARD LEE, Mr. and Mrs. LAURENCE McANENY, and Mrs. and Mrs. LE ONARD VAN CAMP. �- 5 - FACULTY CENTER OPENS Mrs. Keith Moyer (left) and Mrs. Alfr e d Pell egrino visiting at the new Faculty Center. William Slattery, chairman of the ad hoc committee in charge of organizing the new center, Grady tvilliams and William Burcky shown in living room of new club. The Faculty Center at Edwardsville opened January 27 with an open house and reception. Opportunity to become charter members of the club closed March 1 with a ''very strong response 11 and officers were elected as follows: President, DAVID HUNTLEY of the Fine Arts Division and a member of the ad hoc committee; vice president, GEORGE MACE, Social Sciences Divi sion; secretary, MARY MARGARET BRADY, Business Division; and treasurer, JOE SMALL, Business Division. The board of governors includes h1f R REN STrOKEY, Alumni Office; PATRICK RIDDLEBERGER, Social Sciences; DONAL MYER, Graduate Office; ROBERT HAWKINS, Fine Arts; REGAN CARPENTER, Education Division; WILLIAM SLATTERY, Humanities Division; ROBERT HANDY, University Center; WILLI AM COHN, Library; and ROBERT REED, Student Activities. The following committee appointments have been announc ed: House Committee-HOWARD DAVIS and RICHARD SPEAR, Education Division; THOMAS HANSMEIER, Associate Dean of Students; ROBERT DUNCAN, Humanities Division; and CHARLES BUTLER, President's Office. Finance Committee-JOE SMALL and LEO COHEN, Business Division. Membership--DONALD TAYLOR and WILLIAM BAKER, Social Sciences Division; GORDON WOOD, Humanities; and MILDRED ARNOLD, Information Service. Publicity-RICHARD LEE, Humanities Division; CHARLES COX, Photographic Services; and WALTER KEMPER, Printing and Art Service . Program- - REGAN CARPENTER, Education Division; S. D. LOVELL, General Studies Program; LAURENCE McANENY, Dean's Office; and J. E. WHITE, Science and Technology. �- 6 GRANTED LEAVES OF ABSENCE The following members of the Edwardsville campus faculty have been granted sabbatical leaves: JEROME BIRDMAN, Fine Arts Division, to study for a doctor's degree; PAUL GUENTHER, Humanities Division, to study the theater in Germany; ROBERT STEINKELLNER, Education Division, to work with reading clinics; and J. EDMUND WHITE, Science and Technology, to study in England. JOSEPH THORSON, Business Division, has been granted a leave to accept a Fulbright grant to lecture at Al-Hikoma University, Baghdad. says, "We will tour the Holland dike country, the Swedish lake country, the Norwegian Alps and fjo rd s , principal cities, all the sights (London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Goteborg, Hamburg). While a carefully organized study program, replete with many sessions with European educators, will be conducted, everyone will have a wonderful time." BUSINESS DIVISION NEHS DONALD BEDEL has received his Ph.D. in business administration..drom St. Louis University. Bedel holds an engineering degree from Notre Dame. SAVE YOUR STAMPS FOR THE BLIND NORMAN JOHNSEN, assistant to the head of State and National Services, asks that you save stamps--any kind--even tax stamps--for his mother. She works with the blind in Rockland, New York, who put the stamps to good use. For further information about the project, contact Mr. Johnsen, whose office is in Edwardsville, 692-2440. INTERESTED IN COMBINING EDUCATION WITH TRAVEL? International Field Study in Comparative Education--concentrated in the countries of England, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and West Germany--is being offered June 9-30. Participants will go jet from St. Louis to Chicago, then BOAC jet from Chicago to London and return the same way. Four quarter hours of credit can be earned, or audited, and members of the immediate family can accompany the student or auditor. Total cost, including three meals a day for 22 days, all transportation, hotels, tips, et cetera, is $873. This includes $44 for a deluxe "first class wagon-lit railway trip from Amsterdam to Stockholm designed to reduce travel time by three days." Local tuition is $26. For further information, contact HENRY T. BOSS, associate professor in the Education Division, who is in charge of the tour. Prof. Boss • • • The faculty of the business education and management departments were well represented in a textbook recently published by South-l.Jestern Publishing Company entitled Methods of Basic Business and Economic Education. The author, A. S. Daughtrey, quoted from an article by Prof. MARY MARGARET BRADY and Mrs. WALTER (Ethel) BLACKLEDGE entitled "Ten Ways to Motivate General Business Students." The author also quoted from two articles by Prof. and Mrs. Blackledge on "Use Case Studies in Consumer Economics Class" and "Eleven Ways to Interest Students in Business Law." In addition, cases based on actual experience encountered by Prof. Blackledge and his wife were quoted by Daughtrey. . • . Prof. Brady has received a letter from the editor of Business Education World accepting for a future issue an article written by her and ELISE PALMER. Quoting in part, "You (Prof. Brady) and Dr. Palmer have done a useful--and, I might add, highly readable--profile of a legal secretary. We're happy to accept it for publication." . . . RASOOL M. H. HASHIM! has been elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of the Missouri Economic Association. The election took place at the November 19-20 meetings held in Columbia. Hashimi served at the annual meeting as chairman of the session at �- 7 - which "Inside Stock Trading" was discussed. on February 5 he spoke to members of the International Relations Club at Carbondale on "Land Reform in Iraq." • • . On January 20 JOSEPH THORSON discussed President Johnson's peace offensive in Vietnam during his regular monthly appearance on WOKZ's Helen Hamer Walters Show. Thorson said he thought the offensive would not be successful but that it was an excellent strategic move on Johnson's part. The Chinese Communists will fight as long as they can, he said, to embarrass us abroad and to damage the poverty program in this country by forcing the U. S. to commit so much of its economic resources abroad. On the other hand, he believes the peace offensive strengthened our position in Asia because President Johnson's efforts let Asia and the world "know where we stand." • • • Speaking to the Sociology Club February 3 in Lovejoy Library, Thorson explained the issues and opinions of education on "Drafting of College Students and Campus Demonstrations." Thorson feels that not enough educators and administrators let students know exactly where they stand on "the most controversial issues of today--drafting and demonstrations. We ought to make it plainer that we do not consider one kind of behavior just as good as another." In mentioning the law signed August 30, 1965, stating that deliberate destruction of a draft card carries a maximum pena lty of five years in prison and a fine of $10,000 upon conviction, he reminded his audience that Lt. Gen. Hersey, head of the Selective Service system, says that of the 2,000,000 college students who are continuing their studies under student deferments, only one per cent of them have been involved in staging protest parades, burning draft cards, or other demonstrations of unwillingness to serve in the armed forces. On the subject of demonstrations, Thorson expressed his opinion that disagreement should be encouraged as part of the democratic process. "It should be maintained, encouraged, and preserved. However, those who demonstrate should bear in mind the consequences of their protests. Some restraint is desirable--lack of it may indicate a rebellious, wild, and unlawful attitude which could be used by an enemy. Hasty, irresponsible criticism is harmful, and can easily be misunderstood as a will of a majority!" Thorson pointed out that there is nothing new about students' demonstrations. What is new, he said, is the part professors are taking in these demonstrations. "This is a very unhealthy phenomenon. I question the wisdom of those professors, who, regardless of their pol~tical leanings, publicly support the ~ s.ttidents 1 cause, whatever it may be! Professors' public appearance changes the character of a demonstration; it gives much stronger stand to the demonstration and puts some label on the professor, whether he likes it or not • • • I am equally critical of professors taking part in political demonstrations and expressing their views on the foreign policies, in particular those who have little knowledge about foreign affairs. None of us, even those qualified to express their professional view, have a complete knowledge of what is going on. The newspapers are quite often misleading and they do not have first-hand and up-to-date information. Besides, it is impossible to publish a number of things because of security reasons. Thus, a professor should exercise restraint and good judgment while speaking publicly. • • . I might add that a professor should not forget that he is an educator, that he should be respected for his wisdom, guidance, knowledge, and impartiality!" EDUCATION DIVIS ION NE HS GEORGES. REUTER, JR., and GORDON BLISS attended the winter meeting of the Illinois Citizens Education Council at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus. Reuter is the one SIU member and Bliss one of the two SIU consultants to that body. • Reuter and his wife Helen are author of Democracy and Quality Education, printed �- 8 by Paddock Publications just . before Reuter joined the SIU staff ~n September. This is the second book on which the couple has collaborated. The first time they produced One Blood with Dr. A. M. Hintz of Seattle, which is currently being used by many colleges and churches to help resolve conflicts through the practice of brotherhood. Democracy and Quality Education has nine chapters, the first eight of which are built around an education principle. The ninth chapter contains 23 guidelines for educational progress. According to John M. Fewkes, past president of the American Federation of Teachers, who wrote the foreword, law citizens as well as educators will profit by reading this book. The eight principles and the 23 guidelines provide "a sound and clear way of achieving quality education by democratic means.'' U. S. Senator Wayne L. Morse of Oregon secured permission from the authors to quote more than 60 pages of the book for the hearings he conducted in regard to President Johnson's 1965 Education Bill (S.370). • • • Included in the first edition of National Register of Educational Researchers are the names of DAVID BEAR, GEORGE GOODWIN, MERRILL HARMIN, ALFRED KUENZLI, CAMERON MEREDITH, GEORGE REUTER, MANFORD SONSTEGARD, LAWRENCE TALIANA, MARK TUCKER and FRANCIS VILLEMAIN. • • • At the invitation of Clarence Samford, Mr. Reuter recently addressed the Higher Education Section at Carbondale. . • • ARTHUR JORDAN has been elected to the vestry of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in N0rmandy, Missouri. • • • In January ROBERT ENGBRETSON was in Washington at the invitation of the U. S. Office of Education, Division of Research Training and Dissemination, to attend a conference for discussion of guidelines concerning the direction of support of research in the areas of dissemination, innovation and change. • • • H. H. SMITH spoke t o 87 fac ulty members at Winston- Salem State College in Nor t h Carolina on January 12. He is shown above with the college's President Kenne t h Williams (left) and Dean Lafayette Parker. WSSC is in a transi tiona l stage of chang i ng from a t eachers' c ol lege for e l ementary s chool teachers to a fullfledge d libera l arts c ollege and Prof. Smit h , a curriculum specialist, was invited to br i ng ideas fr om hi s experience and that of SIU, which was a t eachers' college until the lat e 40' s . " I deas are wha t we need right now," Dean Parker said, r eferr i ng to Smith ' s week-long visit . SIU and WSS C are in their second year of exchange activity. On sabbatical leave , Smith and his wi f e wen t t o Florida afte r an "interesting and exhausting week." LEONARD WHEAT, president of Al pha chapter of Phi Delta Ka ppa, de l ega te to the bienn i al na t i ona l of t he honor ary society which met ber 27-31 in Norman, Ok lahoma. Delta was a meetings Decem- . DANIEL SOPER's artic le , "The Relationsh ip of Chi l d Percepti ons to Achievement and Behavior in t he Ea r ly School Years" has been published by Chronicle �- 9 Guidance Professional Service, Chronicle Guidance Publications, Inc. Co-author was Arthur vl. Combs of the University of Florida. . . . HERBERT F. A. SMITH attended the TEPS conference in St. Louis in January, and was study leader for the group concerned with professional growth. The January issue of the Illinois Education magazine carried an article by Prof. Smith entitled "Vision of a Great Society." February 18 he was a guest at the Eighth Annual Honors Luncheon for writers held. in Chicago. . . . "First, Catch a Curriculum," \vritten by REGAN CARPENTER, appeared in the January issue of the National Elementary Principal. • . . LEE TROYER received kudos in the Optigram for his help to the Granite City Optimist Club. . . . ROY STEINBROOK has been appointed to the Professional and Consultative Committee on Special Education in Madison County and as consultant in education for the Edwardsville schools. . . . By popular demand, Rex Davis of KMOX is reproducing "To My Son" by ROBERT STEINKELLNER which he presented in two parts, February 15 and February 17 on his morning radio show. Copies may be secured by writing Mr. Davis, KMOX, St. Louis. On February 21 Davis quoted from Steinkellner 1 s '.'Brotherhood of Man." Steinkellner spoke January 12 at Notre Dame Academy, Belleville, on "The Fatherhood Image--Past and Present." February 12-13 he chaperoned 15 Voice of Democracy winners of the V.F.W. contest in Springfield. On February 16, he spoke on the Techniques and Readings from the McGuffey Readers at a meeting of the Stuct ent N.E.A. . . FAY H. STARR acting coordinator ects, according to jointly by H. DENE William E. Simeone In addition, Prof. has been appointed of Research and Projan announcement issued SOUTH\VOOD and Dean of the Graduate School. Starr will continue to serve as division coordinator of Education al Research and Services, a position he has held since last September. Through January of this year more than $250,000 in research and project proposals were submitted to funding agencies by Education Division faculty members under his guidance. During · the past several months he has helped various area schools in the preparation of proposals submitted under the provisions of the Education Acts of 1965. More than one and a half million dollars of such school proposals have now been approved. Since September ·he · has also been assigned to the development of a Regional Educational Laboratory embracing southern Illinois, Missouri, central and western Kentucky, and central and western Tennessee. The Prospectus, written in collaboration with representatives from other schools, colleges, and universities, is one of 12 in the nation which has been awarded a development grant from the U. S. Office of Education. During the next three months Starr will develop the Field Service Division of the Regional Educational Laboratory as director of field service. Since joining the. SIU staff in June, 1965, Starr and his family have established a new church in Edwardsville, Church of Christ. His two sons, Haven and Cris, share teaching chores. Cris is a sophomore in SIU; Haven was graduated in January from Arkansas State College and began teaching sixth grade at Fosterburg on January 24. Daughters Priscilla and Consuela are students at Edwardsville Junior and Senior High Schoo~, respectively, and their oldest daughter, Sara, lives in Memphis. Wife Darla teaches in Collinsville. FINE ARTS DIVISION NEvJS EVELYN TRITT BUDDEMEYER gave an illustrated talk February 11 at Steinberg Auditorium, Hashington University. Her report on contemporary crafts of Japan was highlighted by slides taken in Japan last August when she was attending the International Congress of Art Educa- �- 10 - tion. The meeting at Washington University w.a s sponsored by Crafts Alliance Organization of St. Louis. . . . Three ceramic pieces by JOHN W. CANNON, JR., were selected for exhibition in the 1966 Mid States Craft Exhibition at the Evansville (Ind.) Museum of Arts and Sciences. Cannon also has work in the invitational show, Ceramic Arts-U.S.A.--1966 at Skokie. • ANN CAREY has been appointed chairman of the speech correction section of the 1966 meeting of the Illinois Council for Exceptional Children. The convention will b e held October 21-22 at the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria. Theme selected for the meeting is "Count Down Minus Three," referring to the mandatory legislation concerning special education which will become effective in 1969. CAL PRITNER is chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the Illinois Speech Association and a member of the governing board of the Secondary School Theater Conference, a division of the American Educational Theater Association. At the last meeting of the AETA he was given the chairmanship of a committee to organize and compile a bibliography of theater Cal Pritner materials for the secondary school theater teacher and for the secondary school theater student. An article by Pritner entitled "William ~varren' s Financial Arrangements with Traveling Stars-1805-1829" appeared in the November issue of Theater Survey, published by the American Society for Theater Research. · · · Filling HARRY LYLE 1 s shoes this year is EDWARD H. FIX, instructor of speech and assistant director of debate. Lyle is on a year's leav e of absence at the University of North Carolina. Fix plans to do research next summer on the oratory of John Stuart Mill and to formulate a synthesis of the use of symbology in advertising as a persuasive f o rce in communication theory. Mr. Fix a nd his wife live in Alton. . . • JOHN KENDALL spoke and gave demonstrations on the Suzuki-Kendall method of violin instruction at the 15th annual conference on music education held January 21-22 at the Univer.s i .ty of Oregon 1 s School of Music. Nearly 500 music educators and students attended the two-day conference, which featured such nationally known lecturers and demonstrators as James Pellerite, former principal flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. . . . A piece of bronze sculpture, "A Horse with Rider," by LAWRENCE MARCELL \ •las on ex[1 ibit January 1 through February 27 at the 18th Annual Ohio Ceramic and Sculpture Show sponsored by the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. The show is a national one, open to any artist in the United States. The sculpture accepted from Marcell was his only entry. . • • "Piano Music Reading at College Level" by RUTH SLENCZYNSKA appeared in the February issue of Music Journal. This month Miss Slenczynska is being heard in a CBS telecast as well as in concerts in Tennessee and Ohio. . • • Tribute was paid to LEONARD VAN CAMP in the December issue of Notes from the Voice of N.C.M.E.A. (St. Louis Archdiocesan Unit). "A physical collapse just a week before he was to conduct the NCMEA Choral ~vorkshop at Fontbonne College caused Dr. Ralph Hunter to cancel his plans to come to St. Louis on November 26. Chairman Sister Madeleine Sophie finally succeeded in engaging Dr. Leonard Van Camp, director of choral activities at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, as a substitute. As is not often the case, this replacement turned the near catastrophe into a 'happy fault.' �- 11 - "Dr. Van Camp, a youthful, dynamic, and pleasant person, soon had the 102 participants aware that he had much to offer and a readiness to give. He established an easy rapport with the students selected to work with him, and demonstrated for the teachers practical techniques and procedures. With his already rich background and his propensity for hard work, we precict that Dr. Van Camp will go far in the choral field. The workshop members were in agreement that it was one of the most beneficial vacation days they had ever spent, and Sister Madeleine Sophie remarked that it was the 'most successful thing that has ever happened to us.'" . • . An article by Van Camp entitled "Formation of A Cappella Choirs at Northwestern University, St. Olaf College and \-Jestminster Choir College" appeared in the winter volume of Journal of Research in Music Education. HUMANITIES DIVISION NEHS January 26 the University Religious Council sponsored a forum on the subject, "Is Pornography Literature?" Speakers were JOHN ADES and Douglas More (Social Sciences Division), who discussed the topic from their respective points of view. More suggested that pornography was literature since "it gets into print and is (and has been) widely read." Ades argued that literature "aspiring to that designation must do more than be erotically stimulating and that whatever goes no further than to stimulate in such a fashion may be reckoned pornography but not literature." GARRY MURPHY also participated in the discussion, which was continued with the 30 students present. . . • MICHAEL ASTOUR read a paper on "Tamar the Hierodule: An Essay in the Method of Vestigial Motifs" at the lOlst meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Nashville December 30-31. The paper will appear in the Journal of Biblical Literature. -• • . The Central College of Pella (Iowa) conducts a series of academic seminars each January. This year's sessions concerned "Doctrines of Man in the Fifth Century, B.C.," and consisted of plays, films, discussions, and addresses by distinguished visiting spe akers. ROBERT GOEDECKE spoke January 26 at the seminar on "Tragedy, Philosophy and Faith." . • . "Provencal Element of Goethe's Faust" is the title of an article by PAUL GUENTHER published in December by the Kentucky Foreign Language Quarterly. . . • On February 3 FRITZ MARTI talked to the studen-t . goveFnment and student club officers at Lindenwood College on "The Place of the Student in our Society," and led a discussion on the topic following his lecture. Marti was in Tallahassee, Florida, March 3-5 where he attended the annual meetings of the Southern Society for Philosophy and read a paper on the Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. The Schweizerspiegel, a Swiss monthly, printed his "Hetaphysik auf der Farm" in its September issue. . . . JAMES AUSTIN writes from the University of Leeds in Leeds, England, "Last week I gave a talk on American crackerbox humor to the graduate school. I had less than a week to prepare, but I think it went well enough. . . . Next week I reply to a toast 'to our American friends' at a Thanksgiving dinner at the English-Speaking Union in Leeds." . • . From Istanbul, Turkey, MARION TAYLOR writes, " I have just received word that my monograph, 'A New Look at the Old Sources of Hamlet,' has been accepted by the Mouton Company, Publishers, The Ha8u e , Holland. Also, I continue to sit on the chair as Chairman of American Studies at the University of Istanbul." PARTICIPATE IN SID'S SEVENTH ANNUAL HRITERS' CONFERENCE Edwardsville campus faculty participating in SID's Seventh Annual Hriters' Conference, >vhich featured novelist-poet Robert Penn Harren, were ROBERT DUNCAN, NICHOLAS J �- 12 - JOOST, and EDMUND HASSE. Duncan led a discussion on magazine articles and freelance writing at the first afternoon session on Saturday. At the last session that afternoon Joost led a discussion on poetry. Hasse's topic at the last session on Sunday concerned "Freelancers' Nemeses: Graphics and Gamesmanship." Co-sponsored by the St. Louis PostDispatch, Theta Sigma Phi, and the SIU Division of University Extension, the two-day conference was held at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis. In addition to the work of James L. C. Ford, conference founder and head of the SIU magazine sequence, credit should go to Prof. H. BRUCE BRUBAKER, assistant dean of extension, and his secretary, Virginia Forshaw, for their work in planning the successful conference. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION NEHS ORVILLE GOERING, DEBORAH TEPPER HAIMO, CLELLIE OURSLER, ROBERT PENDERGRASS, and GEORGE POYNOR attended the annual meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematics Association of /1merica in Chicago January 24-28. More than 3,000 mathematicians from throughout the United States and Canada were present for at least part of the program. . . . On January 18 a consultant for the National Science Foundation, Dr. Harold Way, visited the In-Service Institute for Teachers of Mathematics. In addition to visiting classes and discussing the Institute with the instructors, LYMAN HOLDEN and R. N. PENDERGRASS, Way also discussed ways for the Edwardsville campus to participate in programs supported by NSF with other faculty members in the division. · · · A paper entitled "L 2 Expansions in Terms of Generalized Heat Polynomials and of Their Appell Transforms" written by Mrs. Haimo was published in the last issue of the Pacific Journal of Hathematics. • • • Colonel DONALD Q. HARRIS, mathematics instructor sinc e 1958 but on medical leave for the past f ew years, died February 12 at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago. Funeral services we re held February 15 in Avon. After graduation from \-Jest Point Military Academy in 1923, he entered a military career which saw him advance from the rank of second lieutenant to full colonel. During Horld Har II he was in charge of the Field Artillery Training Center at Kunning, China. From 1947 to 1949 Col. Harris was Donald Harris chief of civilian components for Headquarters Fifth Army, Chicago. The years 1949 to 1954 he spent at the University of Missouri where he earned a master's degree while heading the R.O.T.C. program at the University. During the next three ye a rs he was production and personnel director and acting secretarytreasurer of Dowst Manufac'turing Co., Chicago. Coming to SIU in 1958, he taught at its East St. Louis Center and at Scott Air Force Base. He and Mrs. Harris made their home in Belleville in recent years. They have two children, Donald and Margaret. • • . AHOS NANNINI is a lecturer of higher ma thematics at the East St. Louis Center. Born in Italy, since 1963 he has been president of a state teachers college in Milan, which he calls "the most American city of Italy." Nannini was professor of mathematics and physics at the State Teachers College in Grosseto, Tuscany, from 1937 to 1952, and from 1952 to 1963 served as president of the College. Foreign language s is his hobby; he speaks, in addition to Italian, English, French, �- 13 - German, Spanish, Latin, ancient Greek, has a reading knowledge of Danish, an d . k nows . " a sma tt ~r1ng . " Norwegian, Swed1sh, of Russian, and is currently study1ng Finnish. Co-author of a two-volume tex tbook of mathematics for Italian junior high schools, he has written several articles in Italian periodicals on the subject of American, Canadian and Italian educational systems and has translated into Italian several books for Italian publishers. Father of six children, he is twice a grandfather. His second grandchild, Marcello, was born on January 2b. Nannini's family is in Italy. Lonesome for his folk, he is "deeply in love with America and her people." However, he wishes "many students had a much better background in mathematics and more questions to ask in class." SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVIS ION NE t·JS Effective January 1, the division has been approved for constituent membership in the Council on Social Work Education. Undergraduate constituent membership in the Council denotes the member institution is committed to the values in undergraduate social welfare content in liberal education, offers courses which include social welfare content, and interprets the program by a suitable statement and by indexing social welfare or social work in the catalogue of courses. LYNN IRVINE has been appointed as the division's delegate to the Council's House of Delegates, which serves as an advisory and consultative body to the board of directors and as a forum on important issues directed to its attention by the board. . • • Irvine was one of the 14 consultants who completed a nine-month survey report, "A Comprehensive Public Junior College for Southern Illinois"--a feasibility survey of Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, and Washington counties--for the six-county foundation. The survey was conducted by the School Research Service, College of Education, SIU, Carbondale. The 315-page survey report was published in December. Irvine was primarily responsible for surveying the facilities and services in the six counties. He also helped in surveying the population and educational characteristics of the six counties. The authors concluded the survey report with 25 specific recommendations. Recommendation one s tated: ''Since it has been established by this study that · there is a definite need for a two-year comprehensive public junior college in the area under consideration, and that since a study of the physical and financial resources of the area along with certain other characteristics indicates the practicability of establishing such a college near the geographical center of the territ.o ry,.. tb.ose persons and groups of persons who are charged with planning for the creation of the college should proceed with all deliberate speed to take the necessary steps in realizing this objective." . . • ROBERT PERKINS learned only recently that an article of his was printed in 1964. Listed as #2997 in Repertoire Bibliographigue de~ Philosophie, Tome 17, No. 2, March, 1965, the article was entitled "Persistent Criticisms--Misinterpretations of Loren Kierkegaard's Ethical Thought" and appeared in Memoirs del XIII Congress InternacionaL de Filosofia, Vol. 7, pp. 377-388. . . . JAMES COLLIER has been asked to contribute 16 articles for a Kannada Encyclepaedia to be published by the Office of Literary and Cultural Development, Government of Mysore State, India. Kannada (Kanarese) is one of the Dravidian language groups and areas in southern India. The articles will deal with several individual states, Canadian provinces, and other North and Central American areas • • • . On February 12 PATRICK RIDDLEBERGER appeared on "Eye on St. Louis," a program conducted by Parker t-Vhe a tley of KMOX-TV. • • . JUNE COLLINS (Mrs. ORVIS), associate professor of anthropology, has received a $3500 grant from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for research on "Language as an index of Change in Kinship Behavior." Mrs. Collins was recently elected secretary of the American Ethnological Society. �- 14 - • . . A complete set of "Slovan," a weekly publication in Bohemia from May 1850 to August 1851, has been presented :o the Lovejoy Library by the Edwardsvllle branch of the Czechslovak Society of America. In response to a project of the History Club, whose adviser is STANLEY KIMBALL, to build a Slavic and East European library, SIU has received many other copies of old Czech journals, as well as copies of works by some of the best Czech poets, novelists, and dramatists. Others wishing to make contributions to the project or know \vhere some might be available should call the library, 692-2711, or Kimball, 692-3580. Members of the History Club will pick up the material. Seated examlnlng the collection are JOHN ABBOTT, head librarian, and Frank Novak, president of the Czech National Hall. Looking on from left are Sharon Orr, History Club officer; Prof. Kimball; Harry Presley, club officer; Alois Pfeifer, Czech National Hall officer; Ed Sheridan, History Club member; and SHEILA STIMSON (Mrs. Stephen), executive secretary of the Friends of the Library. NEWS OF STUDENT SERVICES NE\-JS FROM STATE AND NATIONAL SERVICES On December 1, PHILIP ECKERT, assistant director of Student Work and Financial assistance, was guest speaker at the career day held at St. Paul of Highland High School. Nearly 150 students and parents heard him discuss "Choosing a Career and Financing an Education. 11 Eckert was recently appointed by the United Church of Christ to serve as a member on the Illinois South Conference Committee on Higher Education and Campus Hi n is tr y . DAVID VAN HORN, in charge of Placement Services, spoke February 3 to students at Roxana High School on job opportunities during and after college. Later in the month Van Horn was in Atlantic City for the meetings of the American Association of School Administrators. Also attending the Atlantic City meetings of AASA was CAMERON MEREDITH, director of State and National Services. Meredith also attended in February �- 15 meetings in Chicago of the fmerican Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. • • • SEYMOUR MANN was in New York the week of February 21-26 at the invitation of the State Department of Education Commission on Higher Education. He was a member of the four-man selection team to name the first Herbert H. Lehman fellows. Serving with him were Prof. Marver Bernstein of Princeton University, Prof. Donald Herzberg of Rutgers, and Prof. Evon Vogt, Harvard University anthropologist. The Lehman fellowships in social sciences and public and international affairs were established in honor of the former New York governor for his "long career of distinguished service to the state and nation." While in New York, Prof. Mann lectured at Harpur College on "The War on Poverty-Its Political Meaning." He is a former member of the Harpur faculty. • . . HILLIAM TUDOR, special assistant to the vice president for Student and Area Services, RALPH RUFFNER, was installed March 7 as a member of President Johnson's National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education. One of 12 public members appointed, he was installed in ceremonies in Washington, and will serve until June 30, 1968. Prof. Tudor and his wife were in Chicago February 12 for the Lincoln Academy dinner. Established by Governor Otto Kerner "to further, encourage and recognize outstanding contributions made by Illinois citizens toward the progress and betterment of human behavior," the Lincoln Academy elects one in each of 14 categories to serve as members of the various faculties to help the trustees determine and locate qualified candidates for nomination. The faculties nominate by election and the trustees vote in each category for election to membership in the academy, which presents citations annually to those who have made outstanding contributions to the state of Illinois. President DELYTE W. MORRIS is a member of the Academic Board of Trustees. The areas are: Commerce and Industry, Communications, Creative Arts and Crafts, Education, Finance, Government, Law, Performing Arts, Religion , Science, Social Service, Sports and Athletics, Technology, and Transportation. Tudor is a member of the Social Service faculty. Other SIU members include Robert Mueller, Archibald McLeod, William Herr, and Ronald Beazley, all of Carbondale. .. . - . .... . - .. ~ . �SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVER.S ITV/EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS "'· ' ... .. . ..:.. . INFORMATION SERVICE � 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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