https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/9b42c0c182e7972212612a34c2f376b6.pdf 29b5a5ae09277957837181e829b7e919 PDF Text Text NOVEMBER 1966 �, N E WS B UL L E T I N ----------SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY -- EDWARDSVILLE �N E W S B UL L E T I N SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY -- EDHARDSVILLE November , 1966 Vol. X, No. 2 Mildred Arnold, Editor Information Service, Station 3600 Edwardsville, Illinois , ARE WE FOR OR AGAINST FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION? "Are you for Federal aid or against Federal aid to education?" You may have been asked this question many times. According to GEORGE T. WILKINS, associate professor in the Education Division, we are no longer faced with the proposition. "We already have Federal aid--with marching orders!" says Wilkins. An educator for more than 43 years, Wilkins has served the people of Illinois at every level from classroom teacher in the rural schools of Union County through the offices of city superintendent of schools in Wolf Lake and Thebes and superintendent of Madison County schools to superintendent of public instruction for the State of Illinois. Wilkins has traced the course of AmerGeorge T. Wilkins ican educational philosophy from colonial days to the present, illustrating th~ degree of present-day Federal participation in education with a chart showing bills passed by the 89th Congress. The chart measures over three feet wide by four feet deep and lists 66 bills which were enacted into law and are now being impl emented at a cost the first year alone of more than $1.5 million. The idea of universal education--free public schools for all children--was an alien idea to all but a few ·of our most farsighted founding fathers, says Wilkins. Now the pendulum has swung to its other extreme, and unless educators at the local, county and state levels supply the ideas and leadership which will keep the Federal government in its proper role of "partners in education" rather than "master," then our cherished traditional concept of state control of education can no longer remain valid. Washington will quickly move in to fill the void, he warns. Wilkins cites several noteworthy attempts by early American leaders to establish a universal system of education, crediting Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson with our present-day educational philosophy. In 1749 Franklin produced an essay entitled "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania," and Thomas Jefferson in 1786 introduced a bill in the Virginia General Assembly known as the "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge." Ten years later the Virginia Assembly acted on Jefferson's bill but attached an amendment which made it ineffective, according to Wilkins. Wilkins credits Samuel W. Moulten with establishing the idea of local taxsupported school districts in Illinois. As early as 1825 the General Assembly of Illinois had given local districts the legal right to levy a local tax to support schools but repealed the law only two years later. "It was not until Moulten began his 10-year crusade in 1845 and at last secured pas- �- 2 - sage in 1855 of a permanent local school tax law that the concept of local taxsupported school districts in Illinois was firmly and permanently established." Recalling significant events in the educational picture in the U. s. from the mid-19th century to the present, Wilkins analyzes the reasons why the Federal government has been able to become so deeply and directly involved. Referring to the "explosion of knowledge" which has come about in recent years, he cites a report published by the National Education Association entitled "School for Sixties." The enormity of the problem of deciding what to teach, Wilkins says, is suggested in the NEA report by a proposition that accelerating growth in the accumulation of knowledge be plotted against a time line ranging from the birth of Christ to the present. The report states: "The first doubling of knowledge occurred in 1750, the second in 1900, the third in 1950, the fourth only 10 years later, in 1960, and the fifth will occur by 1968." evaluate the impact of Federal aid and communicate to the State and Federal governments our findings and offer leadership that will help shape and revise the present Federal programs. Through cooperation and communication, it still may be possible for us to receive Federal grants-in-aid rather than categorical assistance with 'marching orders' included!" (Editor's note: The above was taken from a speech made by Prof. Wilkins to the Egyptian Division of the . Illinois Association of School Boards last spring.) WHY SHOOT THE MOON? PROF. SHAW ANSWERS HIS OWN QUESTION "Why shoot the moon? Of course I mean, why go to the moon?" Prof. WILLIAM SHAW of the Science and Technology Division was talking to members of the Edwardsville branch of the American Association of University Women at their September meeting. "With a few digressions, I'll give first some reasons for not going, then some generally accept~d but not very good reasons for going, and finally what I believe to be excellent reasons why we must go. Emphasizing that it is this rapidly growing mass of knowledge which is making necessary better coordination of efforts of educators to deal with it at the local, county and state levels so that the entire field of education will not one day soon be centralized in Washington, Wilkins says we must re-examine our entire educational program and administrative structure in Illinois on the local level, the county level, and the state level. William Shaw "This is now being done by the task force appointed jointly by Governor Kerner and Superintendent of Public Instruction Page. We must provide a more comprehensive program that will meet the needs of all children, youth, and adults. "We must cooperate and work with the Federal and State governments. We must "Once the classic example of absurdity was to 'ask for the moon. 1 Today this is not so silly • • • • "Our moon is about 240,000 miles away. All other visible objects in the heavens are 10 to 10 billion billion times as far. The distance to the moon is only about 10 times around the earth. Astronauts do this--10 times around �- 3 - the earth--in 15 hours. • • • Our space program is the most gigantic nonmilitary enterprise ever undertaken by man. We are spending about five billion dollars each year on this. That's $13 million a day. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it? But let's get a little perspective on this by comparison with some of our other expenditures. Do you know how much we spend each day on tobacco? About 22 million dollars. On alcohol? About $30 million. On our military efforts? Over 200 million dollars each day. The space program costs each of us about seven cents a day--defense and military costs us each over one dollar per day. "This perspective may change the picture a little, but we still have good reason to ask 'Why shoot the moon?' "Some people think that we definitely should not. These range from those who are violently opposed to those who think it just isn't worth the effort and we should devote ourselves to more important things. Those most strongly opposed are some religious leaders. We've heard them on the radio and read reports in our news weeklies. They feel that we have no business 'up there.' That is God's territory. They compare our space efforts to the tower of Babel and predict dire consequences. These arguments would carry more weight had not every scientific advance since Galileo 1 s telescope been opposed for similar reasons. "Of course there are some opposed to space because it is of 'no earthly use. 1 In 1840 Senator Daniel Webster refused to vote one cent for the development of the West -- it was, to quote him, 'a howling wilderness that could never be of the slightest use to anybody. 1 "Others are opposed because they believe we should not be spending 'all that money,' or that it should be spent on something else, such as the poverty program, health research, or population control. Let me digress again a little to take these items one by one -- poverty, health and population. "When a feminine admirer poured some perf ume on Jesus Christ, the disciples protested saying the value could be better spent on the poor. Of course, you recall that Jesus didn't agree. The same argument has been used to oppose every enterprise for beautificatibn of our surroundings or for the expansion of human knowledge. Take, for instance, the St. Louis . ar.ch the Edwardsville campus. Would that money be better spent on the poor? or "Population control is indeed the biggest problem confronting the human race today. If the population growth continues at the present rate, a century from now the entire earth will be human flesh. Of course this is absurd and at least one of several things will happen before that time. These include: (1) group suicides resulting from the stress syndrome, as observed in over-crowded lemmings, whales, and rats. (2) a new potent virus or plague. (3) famine -- obviously the answer if one of these others doesn't take over. (4) war -- on a scale never known before and which could now conceivably solve the population problem for millions of years. (5) birth control. "Health research to cure cancer or the common cold is already hard put to hire enough medical doctors to conduct present programs. With the doctor population control they have imposed on their profession, private practice is much more lucrative. It might also be argued that the poverty program and health research only aggravate our most serious problem--that of population control. If more people starved and more died of disease we might not have the latter �- 4 problem. Some have suggested that going to the moon would solve the population problem. But a little calculation easily shows that this is not a good reason for going to the moon. play and which many of us enjoy. It is much better than war. Like an athletic contest, we can admire the feats of our competitor and can even congratulate him. And, unlike war, both of us can win. "The only sensible solution to the population problem is birth control, and if we do not use this answer one or more of the others will be automatically applied. But large sums of money are not required to apply this answer. The technological problems of birth control are practically solved. Those problems that remain are political and religious--and money alone won't help here. "But having people believe that this moon business is just a game to see who is first on the moon disturbs many of us. Some people think that it is just a big stunt, showing off, something that might help our prestige a little and that is all. If this were the only reason, it might be possible to persuade a fickle congress to pull back--only to be followed by a hysterical crash program the next time the Russians score some points. This blowing hot, then cold, can wreck the program or make it tremendously more expensive. "Let's study war just a little more. The causes of war are clear. One is the biological function of population control--mass murder--that it has served through the ages. But now on a large scale, war is mass suicide and is a little less attractive--except maybe in unhappy lands like China. Other, more obvious, reasons for war include conquest--that is to steal the land and wealth of another people, and to impose one group's culture, politics and religion on another. "These first three reasons for war may be briefly stated: (1) annihilation, (2) conquest, and (3) persuasion. They are not good reasons for starting a war today. The next three may be better -and now I'm getting back to my subject -~vhy Shoot the Moon? Please note that these reasons for war can also be satisfied by other means, such as the moon shot. These reasons include: (1) satisfaction of psychological needs for competition, excitement, adventure and danger; (2) to focus attention on a national goal to unify and solidify a nation; and (3) to stimulate the economy and provide productive activity in industry, education and research. "I have referred to the moon shot as a game, a contest, a race. Yes, it is this, and because of this it has been sold to Congress and the American public. I grant the validity of the idea of a game. It is the kind of game we should "Scientists working on government programs are justifiably frightened, wary and scared. The ~emory of the McCa~ thy era is still with us and the whimsiesl mass hirings and firings of engineers tn the 'SO's is well remembered by many. L~ss than th:r;~e per cent of congress today has any scientific background, and this include§ former medical doctors, dentists, d~uggists and a nurse. Eleven per cent of the signers of the Declara~ tion of Ind~pendence were scientists. "The race ~r game reason just isn't enough. Congress and the public must see that there are many much better reasons for shooting the moon. "Another regson sometimes given for shooting the moon is 'because it is there.' This phrase must have originated with some mountain climber. But it isn't gqoq enough,either. Should we go half way round the world to count the Qats in Zanzibar simply be.cause there are cats in Zanzibar? "The moon will be and already is .. -to some extent--a paying proposition. Let me tell you about a few of the pay-offs, and if you would know more I suggest this book, 'The Case for Going to the Moon 1 by Neil P. Ruzic, from which I got some of my mat,e rial �- 5 - for this talk. I shall discuss a few pay-offs to the astronomer, the physicist, the engineer, and industry, and then several to the general public. "Earthbound astronomy is limited to a few narrow bands of the spectrum by our atmosphere--an atmosphere which we think of as transparent but which is as opaque as coal in many parts of the spectrum. It also distorts, beclouds and causes images to flicker--call it twinkle if you like. Telescopes in space and on the stable airless moon will open new windows to, as yet unimagined , secrets of our universe. "Most research in physics is now done in a vacuum, and much at very low temperature. The equipment to attain even a fairly good vacuum here on earth is tremendously expensive, cumbersome, difficult to work with, and limited in volume. The vacuum on the moon is limitless and about 1000 times better than what we can attain here except by extreme measures. With this vacuum and the temperatures available, a laboratory on the moon would open up new avenues of research in solid state physics, plasma physics, super-conductivity and many branches of electronics. "Many metals and alloys can be prepared best in the absence of an atmosphere. The day will come--perhaps within our lifetimes--when many such materials will be shipped from moon to earth. "Since the moon is much smaller than earth--about one-eightieth--it cooled and solidified much quicker and its gravity is less. These are some reasons for believing that the heavy precious metals such as platinum, rhodium, gold and uranium ore are much more abundant near the surface of the moon. We will mine the moon. "But the main reason overriding all others is the technological transfer-call it by-products or fall-out, if you will--from the effort to attain that goal, the moon. All of you understand this, I know. You set out to attain a goal--a college diploma. You prize that piece of paper, but actually it is worthless in itself--as worthless as just getting a man on the moon. The real payoff is what we learn in attaining some set goal and where the momentum carries us after attaining it. "Already we are getting many by-products of the space effort. A few of these include: --better ··dry cells to operate your flash light, radio and kids' toys, andrechargeable batteries for your toothbrush and electric knife. These are the direct result of space research on packaging energy. --insecticides and plastics are much cheaper to manufacture as a result of space research. --medical instrumentation has taken tremendous strides in space research. Span you will wait for the doctor in a special chair .and he will have a complete record on your heart, blood pressure, etc., when you go into his office. --crippled people will soon have a 6legged wheel-less chair capable of climbing stairs and surmounting obstacles. "Government, business and industry, and education are beginning to reap benefits from two new techniques developed as a consequence of the complexity of the space program. One of these is called PERT -- P-E-R-T for Program Evaluation and Review Technique--a method of planning and proceeding on large scale complex enterprises. The other is reliability engineering. "I was fortunate to be selected as one to receive training in reliability engineering this summer. It is a mathematical technique for analyzing complex systems and anticipating and preventing failures. It is largely responsible for the reliability of our space missions to date. It is finding many applications in industry, �- 6 from cards to can openers. The long guarantees now possible on many products are the result of reliability engineering. II BUSINESS DIVISION NEWS JAMES GWIN has been named "Member of the Year" by the American Marketing Association for his work in connection with the Student Marketing Conference held last February. Gwin is a charter member of the Association. He has also been named a fellow of the Poultry Science Association. The presentation was made at Utah State College in August. Also a fellow in the American AssoJames Gwin ciation for the Advancement of Science, Prof. Gwin came to SIU in 1964 as a visiting professor and has since become a full professor on this campus. A Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) Ph.D., Gwin was in charge of development of new products in the Poultry Products Division of the Ralston Purina Company before joining the SIU staff. • • • Two members of the economics faculty, CHARLES DRAKE and GEORGE EURING, presented papers at the Missouri Economic Association Conference which was held at Columbia September 30 and October 1. Drake's paper was entitled "Non-insured Employment and the Business Cycle," and Euring's was called "The Caste System of India and Its Economic Implications." Drake has conducted intensive research on the behavior of employment over the post-war business cycles. He has divided total employment in the economy into two groups, that of employment covered by unemployment insurance and employment not covered. His findings indicate that the cyclical behavior of the non-insured sector of employment demonstrate a distinctively different pattern from that followed by total employment and the insured sector of employment. • • • LOUIS DRAKE spoke last August 16 to the Greenville Kiwanis Club on "Money, Inflation, and Income." He outlined his views of the principal elements in the present inflation and presented the record of the Federal reserve system in its current efforts to restrict growth of the money supply. He summarized his talk by listing a series of phases through which attitudes toward economic growth, the level of employment and production, and the value of money have passed during the past two decades. Drake also prepared a note for the Metro-East Journal outlining "causes of the present inflation and what could be done about it." JOHN MAINS has been re-elected chairman of the Greater St. Louis Accounting Career Guidance Council, comprising delegates from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Accountants, the American Accounting Association, the Financial Executives Institute and the Internal Auditors Association. The Accounting Career Guidance Council is primarily concerned with interesting promising high school students in accounting careers. • • • ELISE PALMER was chairman of the section meeting, "Meeting Tomorrow's Challenge Through the Teaching of Shorthand, 11 at the Illinois Business Education Association's Fourth Fall Conference which was held November 18-19 at the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield. ROBERT SE~PLE was a host and a member of the registration committee. MARY M. BRADY is a member of the IBEA board of directors and chairman of the publications committee. Mrs. Palmer spoke October 14 at the Annual Madison County Association of Educational Secretaries Workshop on "Six Keys to Educational Secretarial Success." Approximately 200 educational �- 7 - secretaries attended the workshop. Mrs. Palmer and Miss Brady spoke at the two SIU Civil Service Training \.Jorkshops held on the Edwardsville campus. Their topic was "Communication Skills." Mrs. Palmer d i scussed "The Art of Effective Listening" and Miss Brady the "Steps to Successful Business Letter Writing." EDUCATION DIVISION NEWS ' .I RUTH RICHARDSON served as chairman of the reading conference held at SIU November 17. More than 600 teachers, parents and others interested in the teaching of reading attended the conference, at which William Sheldon, a Syracuse University authority on reading development was principal speaker. • . • ROBERT STEINKELLNER has been appointed to the nine-man study commission to review SIU's intercollegiate athletics program. For the third time, Steinkellner has been appointed director of Americanism for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Illinois. • • • ELDON MADISON was a member of the program cotrumittee which planned the Illinois Audio-Visual Association Conference held at the Edwardsville campus October 20-22. He was chairman of the first morning session on October 21, at which DEAN H. DENE SOUTHWOOD welcomed conferees. Madison was also speaker at the closing session. ELMER WAGNER, cochairman of the program committee, also participated. • • • HENRY BOSS took part in the annual fall conference of the Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development which met in Springfield September 15-17. Boss is a member of ~he board of directors of the Illinois ASCD and chairman of the state-wide committee on curriculum leadership activities. He presided at the Saturday morning general session entitled "Sharpening the Issues in Education." Also attending the conference from the Edwardsville campus were MYLLAN SMYERS and RUTH RICHARDSON. FINE ARTS DIVISION NEWS "Cubism and the Fourth Dimension" was the title of a lecture JOHN RICHARDSON gave November 10 in the auditorium of the Lovejoy Library. A practicing artist whose etchings and engravings have been exhibited in national and international shows, Richardson has also had work published in the field of art history and criticism. His talk was based on a study that appeared in the.Eastern Arts Quarterly. • • • A one-man exhibition of stitchery and batik compositions of CATHERINE ESTELLE MILOVICH opened November 1 at the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art at Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Milovich visited the museum during the month her work was on display. A picture of the artist appeared in the November 6 (Sunday) edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. • • • "The Liberated" by WILL FREUND was juried and accepted for exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art. This exhibition is an annual national competition sponsored by the Watercolor Society of Alabama. Joel C. Reeves, dean of the Atlanta School of Art, served as juror. Paintings by Freund, as well as some of his ceramics and silver, were featured in a one-man show at the Edwardsville campus from November 4 through December 3. • • • On November 3 ROBERT HAWKINS served as a discussion leader for a workshop on freedom and responsibility sponsored by the First Unitarian Church of Alton. Held at Monticello College, the workshop was designed to explore some of the problems faced by student newspaper editors on college and university campuses in this country. • • • RUTH SLENCZYNSKA returned this fall from a six-week world concert tour which took her to Iran, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Formosa and the Philippines. A highlight of her tour, during which she gave 25 recitals and made a number of radio and television appearances, was a private performance at Malacanang Palace in Manila for Mrs. Imelda Marcos, wife of the Philippine president. Miss �- 8 - Slenczynska played eight public performances while in the Philippines, six of which were in the capital city and all of which were sold out. Two of her appearances were as soloist with the Philippine National Philharmonic Orchestra. Of her performances with the orchestra, the music critic of the Manila Times, Anthony Morli, wrote, "In more than a decade of covering music events in our city, I have never met anyone with her almost palpable charisma, an allure one strongly senses in her every performance • • • • She combines a woman's intuition and sensibility with a man's power and discipline, and together with her lively wit and ineffable charisma as a superlative performer on the piano, she emerges the superlative artist, the unassailable concert star." HUMANITIES DIVISION NEHS Prof. JAMES AUSTIN is back at the Edwardsville campus but on July 15 he wrote an interesting letter to his colleagues which one of them considerately passed along to us. Belated though it is, we think you should share it. "Our trip has been great so far (and the expense has been great, too). We had no trouble driving from Harrogate. We're now settled for a while in Sinaia, a mountain resort where the royal family used to have its summer palace (now a museum). He like the food, the wine, the people, and the comparative progressiveness of the country. "My students are Rumanian teachers of English, who mostly teach children from 10 to 18--sixth grade to twelfth. There may be some weak ones, but those who have spoken up are alert and well prepared and enjoyable. I have had to take the place of the English teacher of English lit as well as doing my own job, so I'm teaching a combination of 19-20th century English and American literature and keeping busy--nine lectures and 32 seminars in three weeks. "He'll be in Paris from August 9 to 17 and can be reached at the Centre Uni- versitaire. I expect to meet at least one French professor, Bernard Poli, who has recently done an excellent book, Mark Twain,Ecrivain de l'Ouest. Unfortunately, most of the people I would like to talk to will be in England or America in August. But I'll complete my work at the Bibliotheque and the bookstores and maybe take a trip to the Universite de Grenoble." • • • JAMES CALLANAN, ALFRED PELLEGRINO and R. J. SPAHN represented SIU on a panel discussion, "Working Relations Between High School and Colleges," at the Four-County Teachers Insitute held at Edwardsville High School October 28. • • • NICHOLAS JOOST 1 s paper, "The Dial in Transition: the End of the Browne Family's Control," appeared in the autumn issue of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. For the same journal he has reviewed Dale Kramer's Chicago Renaissance. Joost's review of Robert Ross's The Georgian Revolt appeared in the summer edition of Western Humanities Review. The trustees of the Horcester Art Museum have accepted Prof. JoOst's gift of a small Fraktur birth certificate, a drawing in the Pennsylvania German traditions of illumination. The birth ·. certificate, dated 1824, was found in a shop in St. Charles, Mo. It is related to a woodblock birth"certificate form by T. Peters of Harrisburg, Pa., "but the only example of this woodblock I have seen is dated 1840, 16 years later than the date on the drawing now in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum." Prof. Joost will represent PLL at the annual meeting of the 11odern Language Association to be held in New York December 27-28. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION NEWS Four members of the mathematical studies faculty lectured at a meeting October 28 on the Edwardsville campus of the Southwestern Illinois Section of the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics. HILLIAM BENNEHITZ spoke on "Logic as Mathematics"; LYMAN HOLDEN on "Motivating �- 9 Proof"; CLELLIE OURSLER lectured on "Constructions as a Means of Motivation"; and PAUL PHILLIPS discussed "Number Theory to Motivate Algebra." Major addresses were given by Prof. Harold Trimble of Ohio State University, who spoke on "Problems as a Means to Motivation," and Prof. Irwin Feinstein of the University of Illinois, Chicago, who discussed, ' 'Understanding and Teaching Contemporary Mathematics." R. N. PENDERGRASS planne d and chaired the conference, attended by more than 300 mathematics t e achers , The meeting was held in the new Sciene e Laboratory Building as the fir s t maj ~r event of the Science and Technology Divi sion in connect i on with the year of dedicqtion of the Edwardsville campus. DEAN KERMIT CLEMANS, in his welcome, mentioneq that plans f or other events include arrangements f or special programs on Sat u~days for area students and teachers of science and mathematics. SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION NEWS WILLIAM RAWLIN, a member of the staff of SID's Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, spoke October 26 at the Edwardsville campus on the subject, "Drugs on Campus." Rawlin has done on-the-spot research on the subject of drug abuse in many major cities in this country and in Mexico and spent last year studying the problem at Cambridge University in England. The lecture was one in a series on current general topics and controversial issues sponsored by the current events committ e e of the University Center Board. • • • ELLIOTT RUDWICK, wh o is on l e ave t h is year, is co-author of From Plantation to Ghetto, publis hed in October. Rudwick has also had two article publ i shed recently: "Negro Protest at the Chicago World's Fair, 1933-34" in the Journal of the Illinois State Hi st orical Society , Vol. ·5'9 , and "Negro Retaliator y Vi olence in the 20th Century ," whic h a ppeared in New Politics ., Vol. S. • • • JAMES KERR was one of 20 American professors who spent two months in India last summer on the Fulbright-Hays Summer Ins J;: i t ute in Indian Civilization. The prog;r a:w was an intensive introduction to Indi.a n ,c ulture and civilization by means of l?~ tlures, discussions, and travel for profe~ s Drs in the social sciences and humanit ~ es wit h either a re ~ earch or teachb,tg interest in India. The group travel.e;~ throughout the country , visiting many § ~t.es of historical and cultural inte~~ st. They discussed contemporary Jng{ a's problems and prospects with ~~merous Indian specialis·ts in univerS.Hj..es and in public ,and private life. Topi cs ranged fr qm ~he ~reatl y expanded bir th control program to the IndoPaki§ t ani war pj' Septe,htber, 1965. Upon comJi>jl ~tion of !?~ ,P·! Pg,r am, ~err spent the :f;gllowing ,month t r aveling in Thailand, ~.amtwdia, Hoq.g Kqng~ - ana'• Japan. STAT£ AND NATl~NAL PUBJ;/LC SERVICES DIVISION LOUIS B0PKA, Community Development Service~, attended a Community Services Workshop h§! ld at the University of Chicago O~t.@~~r 23-27. Attending from Carbondale were Community De.yelopment Services directob John Hawl ~y and James Rea, CDS cons1;1!!.ant. The workshop was funded under ? Title I High~r Education grant to hel;Ji> relate and seek solutions to prob~~ws of indi genous l~~ders, comm~n i!~ organizations, and public and Pl~y ate agencies. • • • Community Development Services, has received a grant undeF ~i tle I of the Higher Education Act for a project entitled "Community \Workers Training and Evaluation Proj~.ct ..'·' Purpose of the project is to gey elop and test a training model for 1 ~ 0 employees of the St. Clair County (Apti-Poverty) Community Action Agency to include: orientation of a large h~t ~rogenous group of individuals towaFd cooperation in a common endeavpr (operation of six neighborhood Edwar.~§ V.ille, �- 10 centers); application of a professional change-agent framework to sub-professionals, including operating principles, ways of defining problems, and a variety of methods and techniques; presentation of information about specific helpingvocations to enable center staff to work in these fields. Over a one-year period, the project will be conducted in three overlapping phases: 1) planning and orientation; 2) follow-up and supporting services, and 3) evaluation. Project activities will include concentrated and intermittent training sessions using several methods and techniques. SIU staff and outside resources will be used. • • • WARREN STOOKEY, Alumni Office, has been participating in a year-long evaluation of the program of the Illinois Tuberculosis Association. The final meeting of the study group will be held in Springfield on January 4, 1967. On November 12-13 Stookey chaired the Section 16 Conference of Alpha Phi Omega which was held at Southeast Missouri State College in Cape Girardeau. Section 16 includes 10 chapters of the fraternity in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Stookey will be in Chicago December 4-7 for the District V meeting of the American Alumni Council. From left are DEAN OLIVER CALDWELL of the Division of International Services; LEWIS WALTERS, Community Development Service consultant; Miss Ana Adelina Lins, technical director of the Catholic University School of Social Work at Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and her escort-interpreter, Agnes Guidicelli. Miss Lins, in this country under the International Exchange Program, said she was seeing how people live, observing their customs, habits, and behaviors, in both cities and small communities. Miss Lins visited SIU in October. NEWS FROM STUDENT SERVICES WILLIAM TUDOR, special assistant to Vice President RALPH RUFFNER, was on a field trip September 25-30 in connection with his duties as a member of President Johnson's National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education. He and 11 other members of the Council visited the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers University and the surrounding area, New Brunswick, N. J., and the University of Georgia, Athens and Atlanta. These universities are assisting the Division of Adult Education Programs of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in planning and implementing the field trip project so that the Council members could receive a "personal, firsthand review �- 11 - of projects and programs underway in urban, suburban and rural areas." Tudor received his appointment to the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education last March. • • • THOMAS ROMANIN joined the Student Activities staff September 1 as assistant director. He replaces William Feister who is working on his doctorate at the University of Iowa. Romanin comes to SIU from Kent State University where he worked in the Student Activities Office while earning his master's degree in sociology. • • • RICHARD ANTES joined the Student Mfairs Division on October 1 as assistant coordinator of housing. Antes served as director of residence halls at Eastern Illinois University from 1963 to 1965 and was director of housing at Northern Michigan University during 1965-66. He fills the vacancy created when Grady Williams left this fall to work on his doctorate at the University of Missouri. Thomas Romanin • An Indiana University Ph.D., B. J. HARTMAN joined the Counseling and Testing Center staff last June 1. He comes to SIU from Quincy College. 50 union leaders attended. In August he spoke on the same subject at a workshop on Developing New Horizons for Women which was held at SID's teaching center in East St. Louis. He also talked about the future prospects for college students. • The Associated Collegiate Press has awarded All-American honors to the 1966 yearbook (MUSE) at SID's Edwardsville campus. Editor of the award-winning book was Donna Yates, who was also named homecoming queen October 21, the same day she rec'eiv..ed the announcement of the award. John Cwan was associate editor. This marks the 44th National Yearbook Critical Service of the ACP, which gives five honor ratings according to university enrollment: fourth, third, second, first class and All-American. The Muse won in the 5,001 to 7,000 enrollment of fulltime students. Founded in the school year 1960-61, the six-year-old Muse won second class ratings during the first two years and first class awards for the subsequent three years. ACP judges emphasize excellence in editorial and pictorial content in five areas which they consider basic functions of a yearbook: memory book of students, record of the year, public relations medium, student project, and reference book. Effective use of originality, imagination and ideas distinguish them from books which receive lower ratings. Mrs. George Arnold, adviser, and the new editor, Shirley Fuller, and associate editor, Ginger Dustmann, were in Philadelphia October 20-22 for ACP conference. NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NURSING WARREN BROWN, who has been serving the University as assistant director of admissions, became assistant dean of students on October 1. His responsibility is principally concerned with the New Student Program and related activities. • • • PHILIP ECKERT, assistant director of Student Work and Financial Assistance, recently talked to area Council of Trade Unions concerning the various methods of financing a college education. Nearly Four nurses were added to the teaching faculty this fall, three with area hospital and nursing school experience. MAXINE CHAMBERS, who has served on the staff of the University of Tennessee, was named an associate professor of nursing, and the other three, assistant professors. BARBARA JEAN JENKINS, who has been on SID's staff previously, has served as instructor at Malcolm Bliss Hospital in St. Louis and with �- 12 the East St. Louis Board of Vocational Education • . MARY ANN POLLO, who has served as a staff nurse at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield, and St. Joseph's in Alton, holds a bachelor's degree from St. Louis University and a master's from Washington University. JESSIE WILSON was formerly assistant director of nursing at St. Joseph's in Alton, clinical instructor at Alton Memorial Hospital, and industrial nurse at Owens-Illinois Company. AUDIO-VISUAL SERVICES Participants .at the October 20-22 meeting of the Illinois Audio Visual Association, held on the Edwardsville campus, were told that "Educational media should NOT be selected to make the job easier for the instructor, but rather to help the students in their learning situation." The speaker was Robert Stepp, director of the Bureau of Audio Visual Education at the University of Nebraska. Attendance at the three-day conference was 40 per cent larger than any previous meeting of the organization, according to ELMER H. WAGNER, head of the SIU Audio Visual Center, who was elected for a three-year term to represent Illinois colleges and universities on the lAVA's executive board. • • • On November 14 the Gateway Chapter of the National Society for Programmed Instruction held a conference at Lovejoy Library. The conference was sponsored by the Audio Visual Center. The main presentation was a slide-lecture, "Trends in Self-Instruction," given by Wagner, who has visited more than 20 leading colleges and universities in this country during the last few months and has consulted with leading proponents of this innovation in education. FROM THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE Registrar JOHN H. SCHNABEL Men's Group at Eden United in Edwardsville on October informally on the progress addressed the Church of Christ 6. He spoke of SID's Edwardsville campus and the renovation of Washington's Capitol Building. Schna bel traced the growth of the campus from its start in 1957 to the present. He also cited the economic benefits received by surrounding communities, "most evident in the growth of personnel employed on campus and in the increase in payroll expenditure through the years." Schnabel cited instances of change in scope of educational programs and the way in which the curriculum has kept pace ''with the phenomenal rate of growth." • • • Three members of the Registrar's Office were in Chicago September 30 and October 1 to attend sessions of the Illinois Guidance and Personnel Association: Mr. Schnabel, EUGENE MAGAC, acting director of admissions, and EDWARD AFFSPRING, pre-college counselor. FACULTY CLUB ELECTS NEW OFFICERS REGAN CARPENTER of the Education Division has been elected president of the Faculty Club. He succeeds DAVID HUNTLEY, a· member of the Fine Arts Division. Other new officers of the club include ARTHUR GRIST, vice president; MORRIS CARR, treasurer; and DOROTHY TULLOSS, secretary. Grist is special assist,Regan Carpenter ant to VICE PRESIDENT RALPH RUFFNER. Carr is in charge of the General Office at Alton, and Miss Tulloss is a member of the Fine Arts Division. NORBERT SCHMITT, Business Division, is chairman of the Program Committee; CHARLES SCHWEIZER, SIU Foundation, House and Ground chairman; MILDRED ARNOLD (Mrs. G. R.), Information Service, Membership Committee chairman; PATRICK WILLIAMS, Small Business Institute, Publicity Committee chairman; and MORRIS CARR, Finance Committee chairman. Other �- 13 board members include ROBERT HAWKINS, Fine Arts Division; DONAL MYER, Graduate School; GERALD RUNKLE and WILLIAM SLATTERY, Humanities Division; WARREN STOOKEY, Alumni Office; and WILLIAM TUDOR, Vice Presidents' Office. Annual membership cost only $10. If you have not already joined, do so at once by sending your check, payable to SIU, to Morris Carr, General Office, Alton, or to Miss Tulloss in Edwardsville. A series of parties has been planned for the year which you won't want to miss. Week days the club is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday hours are 1:30 to 10 p.m. For your pleasure are a color television set, card and chess rooms, ping pong and pool tables. Cooking equipment and a refrigerator have already been purchased and soon lunches will be served daily at the club. If you would like to have a private party, just contact the program chairman, Norbert Schmitt. You and your spouse (if you have one) will find the $10 annual membership fee a small sum to pay for all the pleasure you will receive from joining your colleagues at the Faculty Club. SIU FOUNDATION PROCEDURES AVAILABLE CHARLES SCHWEIZER, assistant director of the SIU Foundation, says procedures concerning the Foundation have been distributed to faculty members. If you did not receive a copy, please get in touch with him at the President's Office in Edwardsville. , �:=o rn c: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY/EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS ~ ;a :z ;a rn c: rn V) tO ~ rn 0 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/. Title A name given to the resource News Bulletin November 1966 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 1966