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R EPO RT
CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE
MADISON A ND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES
October 3 0, 1958
Prepared by:
Harold W. See
Executive Dean
Southwestern Illinois Residence Office
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SECTIONS
1. STUDENT ENROLLMENT
2. FACULTY AND STAFF STATUS
3. SITE ACQUISITION
4. FUND CAMPAIGN REPORT
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STUDENT ENROLLMENT
Documents:
Analysis of Student Enrollment
Analysis of Student Faculty Ration for Fall
1957 and 1958 with Projections for 1959
and 1960
Enrollment Figures for the Residence Centers
for Fall Term 1957 and 1958 with Predic
tions for 1959 and 1960 (Day and Evening)
Enrollment Figures for Residence Centers for
Fall 1955 1 1956, 1957 and 195a in Special
Categories with Predictions for 1959 and
1960
Analysis of Enrollment by Major Field for
the Four Largest Fields in Fall 195 7
and 1958. In rank Order by Percentage
of Increase
Number and Percentage of Students by Sex
in Residence Centers for Fall 1957 and
1958
Analysis of Freshman Class Enrollment by
Year of Graduation from High School*
Analysis by States, Communities, and
Counties Represented in the Alton and
East St. Louis Residence Centers for
Fall 1957 and 1958
Analysis of Out-State Student Enrollment
for Fall 195 7 and 1958
Institutions from which More Than Two Stu
dents Transfered in the Fall of 1957 and
1958 ( in rank order)
Enrollments for Institutions in the Geographic
Section of the State of Illinois Served by
the Residence Centers
Campus Enrollments from Eleven Counties
that Might Be Affected Most Directly by
Residence Centers Development for
Years 1953 Through 1958
*To be included at a later date
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Freshman Class Enrollments for Eleven
Counties That Might Be Most Affected
by Residence Centers Development for
Years 1953 Through 1958.
Graduate Student Enrollment on Carbondale
Campus for Eleven That Might Be Most
Affected by Residence Center Develop
ment for Years 1953 Through 1958
Enrollment in Adult, Industrial, and Confer ence Type Programs from July 1 to
December 31 for Years 1957 and 1958
with Predictions for 1959 and 1960
Summer Session Enrollment for Years
1957 and 1958, with Predictions for
1959 and 1960
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Analysis of Student Enrollment
The residence centers enrollment fell a total of 51 students
below predictions made last December. However, in total instruc tion load, there has been a rather significant increase because
there are 200 more full-time day students than predicted.
Freshmen student enrollment has about doubled, with a much
heavier percentage of students from the current high school
graduation class enrolled this fall than was the case in 1957.
The areas of Applied Science (Technology), Business,
Education, and Science and Mathematics, show an increase
greater than the overall growth of the student population.
Despite limitation in staff and library facilities the Graduate
pro-gram continues to grow and promises to be even larger next
year.
Nursing is being carefully studied, and it is hoped that a
coordinator for the Nursing program will be found before
January. There is every reason to believe that this will be
one of our fastest growing programs when a full-fledged
curriculum has been developed.
A look into the future presents a rather staggering picture,
since the figures presented in this report are probably on the
conservative side.
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TABLE 1. ANALYSIS OF STUDENT FACULTY RATIO FOR FALL
1957 AND 1958 WITH PROJECTIONS FOR 1959 AND 1960.
Instruction
Full-Time Student
Equivalent
Staff:
Full-time Faculty
Call Staff (full-time equiv)
Carbondale Staff (fulltime equiv.)
Total
Faculty-Student Ratio
Under graduate
Graduate
Total
1957
Actual
Projected
1958
1959
1960
1,207
2,260
3,700
4,500
44
86
20
240
15
290
25
5. 5
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58.5
111
257
317
1-15
1-10
1-15
1-10
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1-21
1-20
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TABLE 2. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR TH
WITH PREDICTIONS FOR 1959 AND 1960
Center
Alton:
Day
Evening
Total
B e 11 e ville:
Day
Evening
Total
East St. Louis:
Day
Evening
Total
Grand Totals:
Day
Evening
Total
RESIDENCE CENTERS FOR FALL TERM 1957 i:.ND 1958
� Y AND EVENING).
.A.ctua l
1959
1958
1957
900
889
484
735
l,219
38
1,789
38
25
485
649
655
1,154
1,134
25
25
"Breakdown to
be determined
by program
development. 11
1, l00
1,500
1,800
2,200
2,225
2,949
3,300
25
800
1,000
l,385
1,564
l, 809
1,800
1,500
2,600
26
552
1956
1,400
1,200
26
171
381
Predicted if we
have new camnus
1960
Pr e d i ct e d
2,600
2,900
3,025
4,425
4,000
4,000
5,925
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TABLE 3. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR RESIDENCE CENTERS FOR
FALL 1955, 1956, 1957, AND 1958 IN SPECIAL CATEGORIES WITH
PREDICTIONS FOR 1959 AND 1960.
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Category
A ct u a1
1955
. 19.56
Freshman
(Day only)
Predicted
]·957
1958
1959
1960
455
823
l, 300
1,800
172
336
Graduate:
Education
Business
Other
51
72
475
l 00( l)
700
250(1)
50 ( l)
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(l) Assuming staff and library available for graduate work.
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TABLE 4. ANA LYS IS OF ENROLLMENT B Y MAJOR FIELD FOR THE
FOUR LARGEST FIELDS IN FALL 1957 AND 1958. IN RANK ORDER
By PERCENT AGE OF INCREASE.
1957
1958
Per Cent
Increase
Applied Science
107
215
101
Education
250
491
96
98
174
79
Business
295
465
51
Nursing*
25
44
76
Subject Area
Science and Mathematics
* Special interest area.
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TABLE 5. NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS BY SEX IN RESIDENCE CENTERS FOR
FALL 1957 AND 1958.
Center
Number
1957
1958
Male Female
Male Female
Perce ntage
1957
1958
Male Female
Male Female
Al ton
871
348
1,250
539
72
28
79
31
East St. Louis
340
250
740
420
57
43
63
37
1,211
598
1,990
959
66
34
67
33
Total
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TABLE 7. ANALYSIS BY STATES, COMMUNITIES, AND COUNTIES
REPRESENTED IN THE ALTON AND EAST ST. LOUIS RESIDENCE
CENTERS FOR FALL 1957 AND 1958.
Center
Number
of States
1957
1958
Number
of Counties
1957
1958
Number
Communities
1958
1957
Alton
3
3
24
26
81
93
East St. Louis
1
4
15
17
44
58
Total (dupl. elem. )
3
5
30
39
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TABLE 8. ANALYSIS OF OUT-STATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT FOR
FALL 1957 AND 1958.
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Center
Missouri
1957
Other
Total
19 58
Missouri Other
To.tal
Al ton
11
10
21
67
3
70
East St. Louis
11
2
13
32
6
38
Total
22
12
34
99
9
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�------------------TABLE 9. INSTITUTIONS FROM WHICH MORE THAN TWO STUDENTS TRANSFERED IN THE FALL
OF 1957 AND 1958 (IN RANK ORDER).
Institutions
Al t o n
1958
1957
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 111. ( 1)
Shurtleff College, Alton, Illinois ( 2)
University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill.
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill.
Illinois State Normal, Normal, Ill.
St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.
Southeastern Mo. State College, Cape Gir., Mo.
Eastern Ill. State College, Charleston, Ill.
Rolla School of Mines, Rolla, Missouri
Belleville Jr. College, Belleville, Ill.
Greenville College, Greenville, Ill.
Hannibal-LaGrange, Hannibal, Missouri
Blackburn College, Carlinville, Ill.
Arkansas A & M College, College Heights ,,;,;."tWest. Ill. State Teachers College, Macomb, Ill.
Quincy College, Quincy, Ill.
Westminster College, Quincy, Ill.
Millikin U., Decatur, Ill.
l)niversity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
St. Benedicts College, Atchinson, Kansas
West Texas State College, Canyon, Tex.
Colorado State College, Greely, Colo.
Uni versity of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas
Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.
Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.
N. E.Mo. State Teachers College, Kirksville, Mo.
Iowa State College, Cedar Falls, Ia.
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317
34
32
16
15
11
7
6
6
6
5
5
4
4
4
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
23
14
15
14
5
7
9
2
11
2
5
1
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2
3
11
1
1
1
East st. Louis
1957
1958
63
18
23
13
6
22
38
l
11
26
19
1
25
1
4
4
16
3
40
2
3
2
3
5
5
1957
Total
214
317
52
55
29
21
33
7
10
6
22
5
5
6
7
4
2
3
6
8
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1958
61
15
26
50
24
8
34
3
11
5
45
1
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2
2
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11
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(Continued)
Institutions
Murray State Teachers, Murray, Ky.
Summer College for Comm.
Temple University
Arkansas University
University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
Indiana Tech. College
Lincoln University
Olivet Nazarene College
Al t o n
1958
1957
2
2
2
1
1
East St. Louis
1957
1958
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2
1
2
2
Total
1957
1958
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
2
(l) Of this total in 1957 many of the students had previously taken work in the Belleville Residence Center.
(Z) This figure is meaningless for future comparisons since we picked up most of the Shurtleff students
at this time.
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TABLE 10 . ENROLLMENTS FOR INSTITUTIONS IN THE GEOGRAPHIC
SECTION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS SERVED BY THE RESIDENCE
CENTERS. (1)
University of College
1954
YEAR
1956
1955
1957
1958
ILLINOIS:
Belleville Township Jr. College
Blackburn
Bradley
Carthage College
Centralia Junior College
930
336
2,882
450
459
1,143
353
3,286
485
369
l,198
342
3
. ,976
475
290
1,186
341
4,267
. 516
370
1,335
345
4,421
521
440
Eastern Illinois University
Eureka College
Greenville College
Illinois College
Illinois State Normal
1,904
182
478
306
2,652
1,921
218
513
390
3,059
2,172
217
522
439
3,210
2,307
241
495
408
3,749
2,674
238
532
465
4,280
16,937
883
194
498
532
18,126
1,068
218
518
621
19,231
1,214
277
532
801
18,808
1, 209
277
697
763
19,491
1,195
320
772
733
l, 270
366
452
1,898
1,502
357
455
2,196
1,559
599
480
2,480
1,561
584
471
2,876
1,598
570
508
3,159
33,609
36,798
40,014
41,126
43,597
1,874
2,949
43,000
46,546
7,247
3,732
8,144
3,923
University of Illinois ( Urbana)
Illinois Wesleyan University
Lincoln College
MacMurray College
McKendree College
Milliken University
Parks College
The Principia
Western Illinois University
Totals (19 Institutions)
Southern Illinois University(2)
(Residence Centers)
Grand Total
(1) Temmer Reports (1958 )
(2 ) Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
Chicago Undergraduate Division (U of I)
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TABLE 11. CAMPUS ENROLLMENTS FROM ELEVEN (11) COUNTIES
THAT MIGHT BE AFFECTED MOST DIRECTLY BY RESIDENCE
CENTERS DEVELOPMENT FOR YEARS 1953 THROUGH 1958.
(FALL QUAR TE R ONLY)
County
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
20
19
29
34
27
33
Calhoun
5
11
12
13
11
10
Clinton
25
41
57
43
53
54
Greene
8
8
15
18
23
35
Jersey
6
10
9
23
24
23
55
59
74
88
78
88
200
267
363
418
399
356
Monroe
22
32
41
45
48
44
Montgomery
65
78
101.
106
108
107
239
252
319
357
361
315
54
56
71
76
54
66
699
833
1, 091
1, 221
1, 186
1, 131
1,390
1, 515
Bond
Macoupin
Madison
St. Clair
Washington
Total
Totals that Carbondale might have expected
from these counties on a straight-line projection
Net loss to Carbondale Campus
204 ( l)
334( l)
(1) Since there are a number of counties that have a decreasing population
within this group, these figures may be on the high side- -at least they
are maximum.
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TABLE 12. FRESHMA N ·cLASS ENROL LMENTS FOR ELEVEN (11)
COUNTIES THAT MIGHT BE MOST AFFECTED BY RESIDENCE
C ENTERS DEVELOPMENT FOR YEARS 1953 THROUGH 1958.
(FALL QUARTERS ONLY)
YEARS
1955
1956
1957
1958
11
11
15
4
3
4
3
25
27
17
24
21
4
4
11
8
11
21
4
7
6
17
9
3
19
20
30
40
37
35
105
139
177
194
146
113
7
17
18
19
14
14
47
35
41
44
49
31
122
112
129
124
114
84
25
23
29
25
15
22
357
396
487
502
434
362
520
540
1953
1954
Bond
9
7
15
Calhoun
3
7
Clinton
12
Greene
Jersey
County
Macoupin
Madison
Monroe
Montgomery
St. Clair
Washington
Totals
Total Freshman Students
Carbondale might have expected
from these counties on a straight
line projection
Net Loss to Carbondale Campus
86
178 ..,....,..
* Years 1953 through 1956 were adjusted for V. T. I. students now classified
as freshmen and sophomores.
** Since there are a number of counties which have a decreasing population,
the figures may be on the high side within that group.
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TABLE 13. GRADUATE STUDENT ENROLLMENT ON CARBONDALE
CAMPUS FOR ELEVEN ( 11) THAT MIGHT BE MOST AFFECTED BY
RESIDENCE CENTER DEVELOPMENT FOR YEARS 1953 THROUGH
1958. (FALL QUARTER ONLY)
Counties
1953
1954
YEAR
1958
1955
1956
Bond
1
3
Calhoun
1
1
1
0
1
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2
1
1
Clinton
. 1957
3
Greene
1
Jersey
1
Macoupin
4
1
2
1
2
4
Madison
6
9
9
8
14
15
1
1
3
6
5
4
2
Monroe
Montgomery
St. Clair
10
6
16
10
16
27
2
1
1
2
3
10
19
34
29
48
69
50
51
72
172
336
Washington
Total
Graduate Students (1 )
Enrolled in Residence
Centers for same 11
Counties listed above
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64
( l) All students in Residence Centers are in the field of Education.
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TABLE 14. ENROLLMENT IN ADULT, INDUSTRIAL, AND CONFER
ENCE TYPE PROGRAMS FROM JULY 1 TO DECEMBER 31 FOR
YEARS 1957 AND 1958, WITH PREDICTIONS FOR 1959 AND 1960.
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Type Program
Adult and Industrial
Conference
1955
21
Actual
1956
1957
518
40
1958
Predicted
1960
1959
850 1, 600
2,400
3., 000
151
1,000
1,500
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TABLE 15. SUMMER SESSION ENROLLMENT FOR YEARS 1957
AND 1958, WITH PREDICTIONS FOR 1959 AND 196L
Type Program
(Day only)
Alton
Actual
1957(l)
210
East St. Louis
Total
210
Predicted(Z)
1958
-1'959
1960
462
700
1,000
72
200
350
534
900
1,350
(l) Limited to a six (6) week session.
(2) Assumes that funds will be available for expansion of program.
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FACULTY AND STAFF STATUS
Documents:
Analysis of Staffing Sutuation
Analysis of Student-Faculty Ratios for Fall
1957 and 1958 with Projections for 1959
and -1960
Number and Percentage of Faculty Members
Holding Various Academic Degrees (highest
degree attained only)
Distribution by Academic Rank of Full-Time
Faculty and Administrative Staff
Distribution of Academic Rank of Part-Time
Staff ( Call)
Analysis of Non-Professional Staffing for
Fall 1957 and 1958 with Projections for
1959 and 1960
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Analysis of Staffing Situation
For the current year our student-faculty ratio is 1-20, but this
fails to tell the whole story. With over 35 per cent of our instruc
tion being done by Call and Carbondale staff, the actual load for the •
full-time staff is much higher. Part-time staff does not assume
committee, advising, and other service responsibilities. In addition
to this problem, we lack an adequate civil service and student work •
force.
In making a projection of needs for the next biennium, we used
a faculty-student ratio of 1-10 for graduate and 1-15 for undergraduate instruction. This means our student-faculty ratio
remains at a relatively high level, but this is to be expected in
a program basically organized for undergraduate instruction.
The hiring problem will assume tremendous proportions next year.
We will ne·ed to hire faculty and staff as follows:
1959:
154 professional staff
31 civil service
1960:
50 • professional staff
15 civil service
This only takes care of new positions and does not take into
consideration normal turn-over of staff.
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TABLE l. ANALYSIS OF STUDENT FACULTY RATIO FOR FALL
1957 AND 1958 WITH PROJECTIONS FOR 1959 AND 1960.
Instruction
Full-Time Student
Equivalent
Staff:
Full-time Faculty
Call Staff (full-time equiv)
Carbondale Staff (fulltime equiv.)
Total
Faculty-Student Ratio
Under graduate
Graduate
Total
Actual
Projected
1957
1958
1959
1960
l, 207
2,260
3,700
4,500
44
9
86
20
240
15
290
25
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1-15
1-10
1-15
1-10
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1-20
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TABLE 2.
NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF FACULTY MEMBERS
HOLDING VARIOUS ACADEMIC DEGREES (HIGH.EST DEGREE
ATTAINED ONLY).
Degree
Number
Per Cent
1957
1958
1957
1958
Doctor
20
45
57
54
Master
14
32
40
39
1
6
3
7
83
100
100
Bachelor
Total
35
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TABL E 3. DISTRIB UTION B Y ACADEMIC RANK FOR FULL TIME
FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF.
Rank
Per Cent
Number
1957
1958
1957
1958
Professor
3
3
9
4
Associate Professor
7
15
20
18
Assistant Professor
9
23
26
28
13
26
36
31
Instructor
2
Assistant Instructor
Lecturer
Total
2
3
14
·9
17
35
83
100
100
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TABLE 4. DISTRIBUTION BY ACADEMIC RANK OF PART-TIME
STAFF (CALL).
Per Cent
Number
Degree
1957
1958
1957
1958
Doctor
6
7
15
11
Master
31
45
78
68
3
14
7
21
Total
40
66
100
100
Note:
Some staff teach two classes.
Bachelor
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Documents:
Progress Report
Statistical Summary of Land under Option
Area Map with Site Location
Aerial View of Site
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Action on the securing of additional par eels of land has been
almost at a standstill. It was deemed advisable not to confuse
the issue in the communities ,of Edwardsville and Collinsville at
the time of the fund drive.
As was the original intention, five additional parcels, totalling
350 acres, contiguous with the land already under option, are
being re-appraised by Roy Wenzlick and Company and two other
certified appraisers in the state of Illinois.
The reports from the appraisers will be completed on October
31, 1958, and another attempt at negotiations with these people
will be made. In this group of five, there is no antagonism
toward the program, but rather a large difference in the appraised
price and the amount asked by the owners.
Despite the persistence of a small group of dissentient land
owners that continue to stir up trouble, it is my opinion that
when we make our final push, the opposition will disappear.
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State of Option
Appraisal
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Option Price
Cost
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Appraisal Price
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678,702.. 00
706,732..00
Pending
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245, 979.oo(1l
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For Conde1nnation
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596,409.00 (l)
946.34
630.00
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TOTALS
$1,444,477.00
1,549, 12.0.00
2., 641. 10
(1} Estimated at 10% above appraised price
Note: It appears that a maximum of 15 parcels will need to be condemned.
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FUND CAMPAIGN REPORT
Documents:
Progress Report on Fund Raising
Financial Report on Fund Raising
Brochure: "An Investment Proposal"
Supplemental Bulletin No. 1: "Reasons
for Public Subscription for Funds for
a State Institution
Supplemental Bulletin No. 2: "Why
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Progress Report on Fund Raising
The fund campaign has been slowed down in most instances.
reasons for this are as follows:
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Need for additional supporting evidence and
documents.
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Need for more formalized campaign organ
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Conflict with the schedule of the United Fund
Drive.
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Most of the major problems in organization and need for additional
supporting evidence have been overcome.
Edwardsville and Collinsville as a community have moved much
more quickly than some of the other areas because of their great
interest.
Despite certain obstacles, there seems to be good reason to believe
that by December 15, 1958, we should have very nearly reached our
goal of one and one -half million dollars.
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Pla-::e and
Date of Fund Drive
Pledged
Ouota
120,000
500,000
Alton - November 6
Granite City - Nov. 10
E. St. Louis - Nov. 12
Commercial
285,000
Alton - Nov. 5 (75,000
Belleville - Nov. 6 (60, 000)
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E. St. Louis Granite City - Nov. 10 (7 5,000)
Wood River - Nov. 3 (20,000)
Special Gifts
200,000
Alton - November 6
Granite City - Nov. 10
E. St. Louis - Nov. 12
Belleville
Labor Organization
500,000
Area-wide - October 30
315,000
Edwardsville - (Finish Nov. l 0)
(250, 000)
Collinsville - Nov. 3 (100, 000)
Miscellaneous Groups
100,000
Area-wide - November 17
Contractors
175,000
General Contractors -Nov. l
(50,000)
Plumbers - Nov. (50,000)
Electricians -Nov. (50,000)
Plasterers - Nov. (25,000
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Industrial
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Collinsville
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Student Contributions ( 3)
Total
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Place and
Date of Fund Drive
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50,000
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( 1) Held up until East St. Louis Chamber of Commerce has meeting with Governor.
(Z) The Alumni program is held up until cleared with Mr. Robert Cdaniell, Alumni Director.
(3) It is hoped that some means will be worked out wher.ein students in the Centers rnay contribute on
a formal basis. The $150,000 represents less than 3 years of student union building fund money.
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A grave crisis is facing higher education in this country-a crisis which threatens na
tional security as well as individual and corporate welfare. We are in danger of getting
caught short of trained brainpower. College and university classrooms are overcrowded, and
many schools have been forced to adopt quota systems, thereby limiting the future growth of
businesses, industries, and professions which need a continuing supply of college-trained per
sonnel.
The educational pinch is already apparent with 3,500,000 young men and women in colleges.
In 1970, according to President Eisenhower's Council on Education Beyond the High School,
more than double that number will be seeking admission. In some states, the Council reported
as many as four times the present numbers of students will be begging for the chance to get a
college education. Where these young people are refused, economic conditions and standards of
living will suffer. Hard-won advantages in business competition and community progress may
be lost. If large numbers of potential students are denied training, it will threaten our nation's
position in the technologi�al battle for co-existence.
These dangers have special significance in the Madison-St. Clair County area.
By 1970, according to the Council on Education Beyond the High School, an estimated 3.4
per cent of the total U.S. population should be enrolled in college programs. Within 40 miles
of the population center of Madison and St. Clair counties, there will be at least 850,000
residents by that time, or a potential of 29,000 college students. How many of these could be
accepted by existing institutions? Even the most optimistic guesses would fall short of the
training need.
Furthermore, young people of the Madison-St. Clair County area who are eager to attend
college have an economic handicap. East St. Louis, in St. Clair County, is 100 miles from the
here in Illinois
nearest state university; Alton, in Madison County, is 125 miles distant. E
rhaps
large numbers of students commute to state universities from their homes
work full time or part time in their own community to finance their education.
St. Clair area this is not possible-except within the physical and educationa
ern Illinois University's Residence Centers program, now rapidly a
capacities. Beyond 1960, it is probable that the Residence Centers, to
away students applying for admission.
The higher education outlook for the youth of this region is gloomy, i
University facilities are established here soon, their chances of winni
will grow slimmer year by year. Even if present colleges are va
qualified students-and this is unlikely-young people of this re0
can afford to live away from home and pay all their expenses in ad
This is a sorry situation because Madison and St. Clair counties
centration of population in the state outside Chicago. Represented here i
money, being collected to support six state universities which adequatel
the state but this one.
Provide the site on which another Southern Illinois University campus ca
dollars will come back to our area-in the form of cash dividends and in th
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Lifting the educational barrier
Enrollment of Students at Southern Illinois University Residence Centers and the Predicted Growth Pattern
with a New University Campus
Existing and projected en
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for college credit in SIU
Residence Centers.
Projected enrollment of stu
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credit with expanded facili
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The Residence Centers are operating as emergency channels for an area with low educational
levels. But they cannot long withstand the surge of students who need college training. A new
campus, with elbow room for expansion, would accommodate many thousand more young
people and give adub learning opportunities they have missed.
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Indisputable evidence of the need for a university was advanced in a 1957 report by Dr.
Alonzo F. Myers, chairman of the Department of Higher Education at New York University,
prepared under the auspices of the Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Education. During
his thorough investigations in Madison and St. Clair counties, he compiled some alarming
statistics.
Dr. Myers placed-special emphasis on the lack of facilities for training personnel required
to fill the job vacancies in local business and industry.
"These needs are so great in relation to the future industrial development and economic well
being of the area that they must not be neglected," Dr. Myers said.
He learned, for example, that _firms within the two cou"nties could employ 200 to 250 en
gineering graduates each year, 120 to 240 business aaministration majors, and 65 chemists
if they were available. But they are not. Dr. Mye_rs also found out that thousands of people
now working in business and industry must havLldd4twnal ��<10ling if they are to improve
their salary scales and become more valuable to' Uiei e ·ployers: fo the administrative field
alone, 4,000 persons need niore training which is not presently available to them. Nearly
2,000 employees in the production area and hundreds of �ther& in r;nerchandising and utilities
fields are similarly handicapped.
If a university can be established, here by il 9t:>2, pr.ogralJi!� :co.ulo e offered the first year for
nearly 9,000 full-time and part-time students seeking undergraduate or graduate degre�s. Si
multaneously, the university could enroll 4,600 in technical, ¥ocati0nal, and business courses.
By 1970, those figures could he more or less doubj,ed;l n_ad it1on, by 1970, special conferences,
short courses, and workshops could accommodate 13,000 per§on§ yearly.
To benefit from this vast reservoir, of edµcatio-;:'a opportunity a few years hence will require
only a little pump-priming on our par-t right now.
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An investment in a central un
continuing flow of graduates in
ment and other organized £o
creatively. Similarly, the area
walks of life, whether their con
laboratory, the concert hall, th
more, a university is a big bus•
dollars annually in faculty sala
and capital expansions.
A university established within
40,000 people yearly in formal i
and entertainment, campus meeti
time, 3500 students a year could
programs.
A university faculty of 1500 m
teaching in the classroom. They wi
development. They can bring their
thereby brighten the intellectual
he a living endowment for thi
ds will enable business, indust
to function more efficiently and
ucational enlightenment of peopl
ty and its scholars be in the classro
in their homes and communities.
·ng into the region it serves millio
· ures, and payments for goods, sen(
would be able to reach by 1970 som
s, and thousands of others through lectu
ps, and public service activities. By
, and 22,000 could be enrolled in de
rich our environment in many ways be
that must precede sound human and phy
resources to bear on everyday problemJ
�ei.ilture has important economic aspects as well. An
This great contribution to lear
institution of such magnitude woul �ire operating expenses of at least $40 million a year
by 1970, and the physical plant would be worth perhaps $50 million by that time.
To accumulate this wealth of human, physical and monetary resources, which would vitally
influence many conditions for growth and prosperity, this region needs only a small investment
to betoken public interest in the promise of tomorrow.
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EXPENDITURES ( 19701 *
$43,830,000.00
Educational Operational
Ex penses
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HUMAN RESOURCES ( 1970 l .,,.
3500 Students per year receiving
academic degrees in the follow
ing major areas of study:
880 in Science and Technology
120 in Nursing
900 in Education
800 in Business
( Including secretarial science)
800 in Liberal Arts
( Including pre-med, pre-law,
pre-dental and the humanities)
18,000 People served annually
through non-degree training pro
grams
4000-in-plant industrial training
4000-Business-Retail
4000-General Adult Education
6000-Service programs for civil,
cultural and professional
groups miscellaneous
Auxiliary Services
$3,000,000.00
Student Activities
$500,000.00
Income for Union Building
$330,000.00
CAPITAL INVESTMENT
TOTAL BY 1970
$77,600,000.00
Buildings$64,000,000.00
Equipment
$12,000,000.00
Real Estate
$1,600,000.00
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�Selection of a site
To insure the development of higher education facilities here in keeping with the tremendous
increase in enrollment this area will experience in the next few years, members of the South
western Council for Higher Education together with interested industrialists, approached SIU
more than six months ago with an offer to secure funds for a permanent site for a university in
the Madison-St. Clair County area. As a result of these discussions with University officials, later
submitted to the Board of Trustees, the University proceeded to secure the best outside experts
available to determine the proper location for a site, and assumed responsibility for securing
options on one or more sites and for making the final selection.
As outside consultants, Dr. Paul W. Seagers, engineer and school building consultant, Indiana
University, and Edward D. James, Indianapolis architect, were appointed to make extensive sur
veys of the two-county area. After determining the best sites available in terms of the population
growth pattern, the experts made detailed studies of the areas, taking into consideration such
important factors as drainage, water, and power facilities as well as accessibility, and they sub
mitted their final report on February 25, 1958.
Roy Wenzlich and Company was employed to make appraisals of the areas surveyed, and
Stifel Realty Company was authorized to take options on the land, based on the appraisal price
established by the Wenzlich Company.
On the basis of the recommendations made by the consultants, the Board of Trustees selected
a 2,600 acre site west of. Edwardsville in Cahokia Hills.
Cost
The cost of the proposed university site will be approximately $1,600,000.00. This cost,
and only this cost, will be borne locally. Expenditures for construction of buildings and year
to-year operation of the university will be appropriated by the. state legislature. By 1970, it is
estimated that the state will need to provide $40 million in tax funds annually for adequate
operation of the university, More than $50 million capital improvements would be needed by
that time. The site cost is, therefore, almost incidental to the educational and economic benefits
this region will realize.
Tax Benefits
Individuals and corporations contributing to the purchase price of the university site will
derive various tax advantages. In general, corporation contributions to an educational institu
tion like Southern Illinois University are tax deductible if they do not exceed five per cent of
taxable income. Unincorporated businesses may be eligible to claim deductions up to 30 per
cent of adjusted gross income. The individual can exempt his gift from federal income taxes.
And, of course, all will benefit when state tax dollars collected in this area will be reinvested
in higher education here.
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A letter from the Chairman of the Fund-Raising Committee
Less than two years ago a group of civic-minded men and women in one
of our communities organized a movement to secure additional higher edu
cational opportunities for the youth of Madison and St. Clair counties.
Within the space of a few weeks this local group developed into an area
wide organization-The Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Education
-with representatives from virtually every civic organization, governing
body, public and private school, business and industry in the region.
The Council set up committees which met with the Governor, the Illinois
State Commission for Higher Education, and the legislators of the area, as
well as with SIU's Board of Trustees. With the financial support of industry,
this group engaged Dr. Alonzo Myers, national expert on higher education,
to conduct a comprehensive study of the needs of higher education in this
area.
When the extent of the citizens' interest in higher education was further
evidenced by East St. Louis' offer of free use of its old high school building
and Alton's offer to lease the facilities of the former Shurtleff College, Uni
versity authorities, with state approval, decided to take action to provide
higher education facilities in East St. Louis and Alton.
The facilities in both Alton and East St. Louis will be near capacity duririg
the current academic year. To accommodate the avalanche of enrollment due
to descend on us in the next few years, the addition of a large central campus
for the University is essential.
With a vital interest in the cultural and economic benefits to be derived
from a major university in our midst, the citizens of this region have set
themselves the goal of acquiring the funds for this campus without delay.
The securing of this campus will constitute the crowning achievement in
the program of concerted community action in behalf of higher education
begun two short years ago-an achievement that we believe to be without
parallel in lhis state.
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Chairman
Fund-Raising Committee
Southwestern Illinois Council for
Higher Education
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This brochure has been prepared by the executive committee of the
Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Edncation as a partial explanation
of what an expanded university program would mean to the cultural and
economic future of our communities.
Robert B. Lynn, M.D., Chairman, Executive Committee, Southwestern
Illinois Council for Higher Education
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SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS COUNCIL
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Madison - St. Clair Counties Fund Drive
SUPPLEMENTAL BULLETIN No. 1
REASONS FOR PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION FOR FUNDS FOR A STATE
INSTITUTION
Why should we, as individuals and businesses, contribute to buy land to give to the
State for a state university? Don't we pay enough taxes for our state universities
to buy their own land?
There is a very good and normal procedure to be followed by State institutions to
acquire funds for land purchase. Unfortunately, for the case of locating a major
university branch in our area, or any other area as recent events have demonstrated,
the normal process of asking the State Legislature for funds carries a built-in delay
of some eight to twelve years. A request for funds for a branch of the University of
Illinois in the Chicago area was initiated in this manner some six years ago. Reliable
sources indicate that it will be another four to five years before this gets under way.
The principal delaying factor lies not in legislative appropriation of the funds, but
in approval of the site. Political and commercial factors and influences invariably
inject a competitive aspect into site selection which delays the entire effort until many
conflicting views can be resolved. Such has been the case of the Chicago campus
of the University of Illinois, and such would certainly be the case if funds were sought
from the Legislature for a major branch of Southern Illinois University. Every area
in Southern Illinois would be a potential location, and though we are convinced that
the Madison-St. Clair Counties area is far and away the most logical location for such
a branch, it could easily take ten years to reach this conclusion through the normal
State land acquisition process, and even then some other area could conceivably be
chosen.
Our need is immediate. The overwhelming acceptance and use of the two branches
of Southern Illinois University that have been located in the area, and which are
already filled to capacity, demonstrate as nothing else can the tremendous urgency
of starting construction of adequate facilities to handle the load which will comprise
some 7,500 students by 1961; 14,000 by 1966; and 21,000 by 1970. The timely
realization of the project is possible only if the site is purchased by the residents of
the area and presented to the State. With the logical site in hand, the legislative
problem is tremendously simplified. Funds for immediate construction, whether
from the State Bond Issue to be voted on in November or direct appropriation of
the next session of the Illinois Legislature, are reasonably assured.
The State has no alternative to providing construction funds once the argument over
the site has been conclusively settled through the gift of the land to the State by the
residents of the area involved.
ROBERT H, LEVIS II
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FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Madison - St. Clair Counties Fund Drive
SUPPLEMENTAL BULLETIN No. 2
WHY 2,600 ACRES?
Why should an institution of higher learning acquire a campus adequate for all
of its future needs when it is first established? Could it not add an acre at a time
as the need becomes critical?
Historically, colleges have been started on plots of land which proved to be in
adequate in size. Today scores of them, such as the University of Illinois, Southern
Illinois University and the University of California, are faced with the alternative
of turning away students or overflowing into commercial districts and residential
areas where property values have risen inordinately. Residential or commercial
property adjacent to urban universities often runs from $150,000 to $200,000 per
acre, usually exclusive of the cost of demolishing existing buildings. Ironically, in
such cases, the university itself has been the chief cause for this rise in property value.
With too small an original land site, the growing institution cheats itself in direct
ratio to its own growth.
Unfortunately, too, most instances of such land acquisition constitute but another
stop gap in a hodge-podge campus development.
Even under the most favorable market conditions, little more than 10 urban acres
could be purchased for $1,600,000, a sum that invested now in the proposed 2,600acre site would insure an adequate campus for the foreseeable future, planned from
the outset to make the most advantageous use of every topographical feature.
A campus with sufficient acreage is better able from the outset to cope with the
tremendous traffic probiem created by a large student body comprised wholly of
commuters. The traffic problem in the vicinity of urban universities has assumed
nightmare proportions in the last few years, and it becomes increasingly serious with
each year's surge in enrollments.
In too many instances, urban universities with limited land holdings are unable to
prevent the development of undesirable enterprises or unsightly construction adjacent
to academic buildings. Campuses located in metropolitan areas must constantly battle
against encroaching slums. If the battle is unsuccessful, and if there is no protective
buffer zone, these encroachments materially reduce the effectiveness of these urban
institutions of higher learning.
Most important of all, a university with an adequate campus can better provide
the facilities for outdoor education, physical fitness training, experiment stations,
research tracts, essential utilities and other undertakings so essential to a university
program. Internationally known experts recommended this site after a thorough study
of the growth patterns of all parts of the two-county area. They believe this will be
one of the few urban universities in the entire country that will not be harassed by
problems of land acquisition.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, ALTON RESIDENCE CENTER
STUDENTS STAKE IN A NEW SITE FOR SIU
Automobiles pour in from all directions to the Residence
Centers of Southern Illinois University.
From ten- or more counties around, students register their
votes for higher education in southwester!} Illinois.
With classrooms bulging, �arking becoming imPoss_ible, stu-
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dents ask themselves, "How stands
tious undertaking of our Carbondale parent?"
The apparent mushrooming of enrollments at Carbondale and
at the Residence Centers indicates that there can be nothing other
than a serious "cultural impairment" without space provided by
the new site and population growth will make this situation more
acute as time passes.
Citizens of the area have already pledged themselves to $115,180.00 of the milli0'11 and one half requested by the Fund-Raising
Committee of the Southwestern Illinois Council for Higher Educa
ti0'11.
The problem remains-What is the students stake in a new
site for S.I.U. and what can his contribution be?
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October 29, 1958
Dr. George II. Hand,
Vice-President Business Affairs,
Southern Illinois Untversity,
Carbondale, Illinois
Re:
Bank Accounts RelatiU;.,... to Site Fund.
Dear Dr. Hand.:
r. See informs me that you need
Octob�r 3o·ch, on ·the
Centers Site F'ur1d.
The bank officials have be.,_,_-=
established p nd.1n,,. ap1r v'""' ...,....."N,O.,
tributions have been ( ' )Sit
Ed ardsvill Netio
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o the Residence
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of Trustees, and con
as follows:
$27,318.00
8,770.00
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State Bank of Colli sville,
Collinsville, Illinois
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edge cards related to the ab ve mention deposits have bGen
received, accom1t cards established, and the cards ,)rganized into
a tickler file f _r the pur-pose c,i' future follow-ur1J on unpaid
pledGeS as f llo vs:
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Business Officer
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AIRPORT PROJECT
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Airport Project Analysis
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�Airport Project Analysis
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The first meeting of interested c1v1c leaders, state officials,
and Civil Aeronautics Authority officials was most satisfactory.
With a little leadership we will find that this program will move
very satisfactorily if it can be kept out of politics.
Within the next month, a preliminary proposal will be pro
vided to Mr. Arthur Adney, Director of the Aeronautics
Division for the State of Illinois, so that he may include this
airport in his budget request to the legislature.
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Pleasant ·Joday
Sunny and pleasant ay; low,
In upper 30s; high, near 60.
TEMPERATURES, WEATHER
DETAILS - Page llA.
Vol. 84-No. 141
St. Louis,
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New Area
Airports
Plans for campaigns for two
new airports in the metropolitan
St. Louis area, one in St. Louis
County and the other on the
east side, were announced ye,.
terday.
Civic and governmental lead
ers of Collinsville, Edwardsville
and Granite City will launch a
drive to expand Lakeside Airport
in Madison County into a first
class metropolitan airport to
cost from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000,
it was announced following a
meeting Tuesday night.
A campaign for a proposed
new secondary airport in St.
Louis County, at a site to be de
termined, was decided on at a
simultaneous meeting of the
Aero Club of St. Louis at Holiday
Inn, Lindbergh boulevard at
Long road.
The proposed development of
Lakeside Airport would serve
the east side and also take sorne
of the traffic load from Lambert.
St. Louis Metropolis Airport be.
cause of its closer proximity to
downtown St. Louis, it was
pointed out. Lakeside Airport is
presently a small private field
just east of Horseshoe Lake.
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No. 298
Will Study· Need
for Area Airport
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Mayor William C. Straube of Ed
wardsville, Mayor Leonard Davis
of Granite City and Mayor Albert
Delbartes of Collinsviile, Tuesday:
night agreed to wo_rk with the
Chamber of · Con;.i.merce in their
[ respective communities te estab
lish a committee for 'the puriiase
of studying the need for a pifblic
airport in the Madison count:�4 area.
The decision to establish the
committee was made at a dinner
meeting held at Sunset Hills Coun
try club where 26 persons repl'e•
senting communities in Madison
county and St. Louis plus the Civil
Aeronautics Authoriti and Illinois
Divisioq of Aeronty· 1 , met to dis
cuss the possibil\T.f.,.
· converting
Lakeside airpor,t :Mi a large pub•
lie airfield.
Edwardsville, Illinois, Wednesday, October
The meeting was called by the
Edwardsville Chamber with A. H.
Pauli, executive secretary, acting
as moderator. Pauli termed the
meeting an ·"ex.ljlloratory" session
because the Ed
ille Chamber
. -no precon
had no plan to- .t,
ceived ideas on · e subject. The
meeting was called to explore the
possibilities and potentialities of
such a project.
Representatives of the CAA and
TDA advised those attending to
consider the over-all airport needs
of the area with the best approach
being through an Airport Authority
to be named by the mayors of
cities involved in the venture and
the !County Board of Supervisors.
The · gathering was told this pro
cedure proved most successful
throughout the· country.
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· The study committee to be aplpointed by the mayors will make
a preliminary survey of the area
needs and report to· the mayors.
· If the moyors deem it advisable,
based on these preliminary studies,
an authority will be established to
make a complete study. This
study, in turn, would be forward
ed to the CAA ·for further study
and recommendations.
Various speakers at the meeting
expressed the opinion that ,now
was the time to study the needs
of the area ' as to . expanding air
port facilities. With the· ever-in
creasing ?amount of air travel, the
need for adc;litional airports is also
increasing'; the spe�rs said. It
was also �inted out that .Madison
county &as. more flat l� s
able for this use than liiiy
adjacent area. ''
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Plans for futlit.e?ml,� o 1.he
subject are · expe«"eii � be an
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nounced within • '1it
weeks, ·accor�g 'let•
loca
Chamber office� . .
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ST. CLAIR AND MADISON COUNTIES
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS - MONDAY, OCTOBE
ction A
Metropolitan
Airport
Meetjng Set
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An."exploratory" meeting on tihe
possiibilities of developing Lakeside
Airport on Highway 111 as a sec
ondary metropolitan airport has
been' schedlllled for 6:30 p, m.
Tuesday at rhe Sunset Hifrls Coun
try Club near Edwardsville.
S ponsoring the dinner meeting
are the Edwardsville, Tri-Cities,
and Col,linsville Chambers of Com
merce.
The guest list includes four
federal Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration· officials from Chicago,
Kansas City and St. Louis; repre
sentatives of Southern Illinois Uni
versity, which is planning a large
branch campus· a short distance
from the Country Cluib; mayors of
the area communities, officials of
city plan commissions in the area,
st.ate representatives, and represent
atives :of the Illinois Division of
Ae:onauti-cs.
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27, 1958
Fields Invited
Edwardsville Otamber Secre
tary Al Pauli said invitations also
have been e� to East St.
St. Louis
�vin G. Fiields
who proposed•·•._,.iu
autihority to
St. Louis Ch
President Fo
Ohamber .Secri
merer; St. CJail" ilnty
Supervisors Clta.irman
'I'oucliette, and County
G:munission Cltairman
Harness.
The Civil Aeronautics epresentatives are F.· B. Bell
district afoport �eer at
cago;
Norman Bird of Chicag
ella
my's assistant; Robert
• lark,
district ai rp ort �gineer a
City, Mo., r
nting
of Missouri;
·n E.
supervising.
tQ o
safety fur
port, with
ney, direc
Division of Aero
Besides tiauli, Tri-Cities Cham
ber Secretary Roderick E. Schoen
lank and CollinsviHe Chamber Sec
retary Robert Burroughs are par
tioipating in arrangements.
Pauli sai, d some sort of Airport
Authority may be discussed to op
erate the airport, if fesible. This
could be a Metropolitan ·Airport
Authority, which would embrace
St. Olair, Madison and St. Louis
Counties, and the City of St.✓ Lou
is.
Lakeside Airport is on State
Route 111, east of Horseshoe Lake,
v.hich is proposed as a ,state park.
Lakeside is about six ·miles north
of East St. Loui'S; aibout--five miles
east of Granite City; about 13
·miles- southwest of ¥'!Vardsville,
and about seven muei�rcsc of Col
linsville. '
Most perso'ns ·i�terest;d in set
ting up a secondary airport on t�is
,ide of the i:;iver turned to Lakeside
. after Parks Metropolitan Airport
in Centreville Townsl,i p \-Vas sold
to private sohdivid� for home
construotion.
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ST. CLAIR AND MADISON COUNTIES
EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS - MONDAY, OCTOBE
ction A
Metropolitan
Airport
Meetjng Set
•
An."exploratory" meeting on tihe
possiibilities of developing Lakeside
Airport on Highway 111 as a sec
ondary metropolitan airport has
been' schedlllled for 6:30 p, m.
Tuesday at rhe Sunset Hifrls Coun
try Club near Edwardsville.
S ponsoring the dinner meeting
are the Edwardsville, Tri-Cities,
and Col,linsville Chambers of Com
merce.
The guest list includes four
federal Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration· officials from Chicago,
Kansas City and St. Louis; repre
sentatives of Southern Illinois Uni
versity, which is planning a large
branch campus· a short distance
from the Country Cluib; mayors of
the area communities, officials of
city plan commissions in the area,
st.ate representatives, and represent
atives :of the Illinois Division of
Ae:onauti-cs.
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27, 1958
Fields Invited
Edwardsville Otamber Secre
tary Al Pauli said invitations also
have been e� to East St.
St. Louis
�vin G. Fiields
who proposed•·•._,.iu
autihority to
St. Louis Ch
President Fo
Ohamber .Secri
merer; St. CJail" ilnty
Supervisors Clta.irman
'I'oucliette, and County
G:munission Cltairman
Harness.
The Civil Aeronautics epresentatives are F.· B. Bell
district afoport �eer at
cago;
Norman Bird of Chicag
ella
my's assistant; Robert
• lark,
district ai rp ort �gineer a
City, Mo., r
nting
of Missouri;
·n E.
supervising.
tQ o
safety fur
port, with
ney, direc
Division of Aero
Besides tiauli, Tri-Cities Cham
ber Secretary Roderick E. Schoen
lank and CollinsviHe Chamber Sec
retary Robert Burroughs are par
tioipating in arrangements.
Pauli sai, d some sort of Airport
Authority may be discussed to op
erate the airport, if fesible. This
could be a Metropolitan ·Airport
Authority, which would embrace
St. Olair, Madison and St. Louis
Counties, and the City of St.✓ Lou
is.
Lakeside Airport is on State
Route 111, east of Horseshoe Lake,
v.hich is proposed as a ,state park.
Lakeside is about six ·miles north
of East St. Loui'S; aibout--five miles
east of Granite City; about 13
·miles- southwest of ¥'!Vardsville,
and about seven muei�rcsc of Col
linsville. '
Most perso'ns ·i�terest;d in set
ting up a secondary airport on t�is
,ide of the i:;iver turned to Lakeside
. after Parks Metropolitan Airport
in Centreville Townsl,i p \-Vas sold
to private sohdivid� for home
construotion.
�ALTON E·VENING
Serving the Alton Co,nmunity for More Th
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ALTON, ILL., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958.
Vol. CXXIII, No. 244
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Will Name Group
To Push Airport
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By JJl\l KULP
of Edwardsville 8taff
EDWARDSVILLE-Mayors and re1Jresentatives of chamber of
commerce groups.,att, .;Edwardsville, Collinsville and Granite City
\l,nset Hills Country Club Tuesday night,
agreed, at a meetm, ·
to form a commlit �- � preliminary planning for the possi•
bility of securing � �- metropolitan airport on the Illinois
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side of the Mississippi River.
Attending the meeting were
Civil 'Aeronautics Administration r
officials and representatives of
Southern Illinois
University,
which promised help in research.
Edwardsville Chamber of Com
merce executive SecretfrY Albert
H. Pauli, who conducted the
meeting, told the Telegraph to
day that he had left telephoned
messages with East St. Louis
Mayor Alvin G. Fields "five
times", inviting him to the meet
ir,g, but that the mayor did not
· :respond. :{lauli also said he had
been told by a representative of
ihe East St. Louis Chamber of
Commerce-which was also in
vited to the ..meeting-. that "we I
can't find anybody interested."
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Both Abney and
Sehaeffef, superVisory ins
of the st: Louis Lambert air
port, sai� they felt there was a
''very definite" need for a good
airport · in the ateJa. "Business
flying is many
es larr,r than
commer�ial fl
" Schaeffer
said, "and there .
need for
a few strategic
ated air
facilities, but not
airports. Schaeffer
could not . give. -any
sistance, but would .
]o('iition of the airport
ere intere
pie develol)
No defini
· pt'oposed airpo
on. but Matthew We\
vrne attorney, sa.id
facility'
should not be confined' to the
Edwardsv:ille, Collinsville, Gran1te City area, but should be· in
a central location close to. the
St. Clair County line to "get
mcire support." He suggested
condideration of Lakeside air
port, near Horseshoe Lake.,
,a
Though Abney meu ·
,; ery
figure
25,000 as
an air
minim
we don't
, 0 to Jl),000,e might
well not
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Arfuur 'Abney of the Illinois
Department of Aeronautics told
the group "you can depend on
help financially and otherwise;"
from the state. He said that the
state's part in financing "av�r
ages 25 per cent of the cost, with
lilje. amounts coming from local
governments and the federal
government.
"However," Abney said, "We
can't participate in acquistion of
Jand or the building of hangers.
We can match for pavements
a·nd runways w�1at you pµt into
ha���rs.''.- Abney said the local
prog'l"ai1i•' hould be ·worked out
as soon· as- possible so it can
be )ffl!ft'fift'd the the State Leg
falature--which meets in Janu
ai:y and the budgetary commis
sion and the gove111or.
Abney said that before the
state or CAA can help the ,local
group, the land on which the
proposed airport is to be devel
oped must be owned by a pub, lie body, such as an airport
f authority. The authority, he said,
has commissioner·s appointed by
mayours•of the communities -con
cP.rned and by county judges and
has the power t · levy taxes and
il_:sue general revenue bonds.
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October 30, 1958