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Vol.l, No.4
November 1, 1957
Co~piled
weekly by Information Service, Southwestern Illinois Residence Office,
Southern Illinois University, for the staff members of the Residence Centers, the
Newsletter is made possible by the cooperation of staff members who have contributed
news items.
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Dr. Carlyle Ring, Director, East St. Louis, served as lay r~I>t:e~eqtative of
the Congregational Christian Church Tuesday evening at a fellowship banquet in
Belleville to discuss the recent merger of the Evangelical and Reformed Church with
the Congregational Church. There are about 45 E & R churches in the area and eight
Congregational, and this was the first of a series of meetings planned to bring representatives of the churches together "to make acquaintances across old denomination ~!
lines," according to Ring.
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In June, 1956, Dr. and Mrs. Ring attended the general conference of the Congregational Church in Omaha, which took the first vote favoring the merger of the two
churches into the United Church of Christ. Ring was elected as a delegate to the
general synod session of the two churches in Cleveland last year, where · the merger
was consumated, but due to his coming to SIU, he was unable to attend.
Open House at the Rings
Dr. and Mrs. Ring will be at home to the staff members of the East St. Louis
Residence Center this coming Sunday afternoon from five to seven. The Rings live
at 4308 South Park Drive in Belleville.
------------------------Howard V. Davis. student affairs, Alton, will participate in a Citizens' Advisory Group on Education in Brentwood, Nissouri, Monday, November 4. Topic: "Marking
Systems". The group will consider the relative merits of various kinds of marking,
with a view to finding an over-all marking system for kinC.ergarten through grade
twelve.
Howard will talk on "Psychological and Educational Factors Related to Grades".
Sharing the platform as co-specialist with Howard will be Charles A. Lee of Washington
University, who will discuss "The History, Tradition, and Trends in Grading".
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�- 2 Staff members meet with industrial and labor leaders. ~:lve_members of the
advisory committe f
the annual workshop in Educational Ut1l1zat1on of Community
Resources met yes~er~:y with officials of Southern I~linois University to discuss
the merits of the summer workshop held for teachers 1n the Alton area.
A. A. Schweighauser, Laclede Steel Company manag~r of.industrial relations,
responsible for introducing the idea of the work~hop 1n th~s area mor~ than two
years ago, presided at the meeting held at the M1neral Spr1ngs Hotel ln Alton.
SIU's Executive Dean Harold l>J. See, coordinator of last summer's workshop,
sponsored by Southern Illinois University, urged the committee to complete before
Christmas any major planning for the next summer workshop.
· David Bear, instructor in education, SIU, and assistant director of last
summer's workshop, distributed materials compiled by the five groups participating
in this past summer's workshop, concerned with educational community resources,
farm resources, job opportunities, social service, and tax study.
In addition to the studies made in these areas, the workshop compiled the
following directories and inventories: "A Study of the Social . Agenc,ies in the
Greater Alton Area"; "Educational Community Resources - Films, Filmstrips, Pamphlets,
Displays, Speakers, and Tours"; and "A Survey of the Diversified Job Opportunities
in the Greater Alton Area." Bear announced that these materials are available to
anyone in the area through his office at SIU's Alton Residence Center.
The following members of the committee told how their schools utilized the
materials made available by the workshop: District 15 School Superintendent Glenn
0. DeAtley and Assistant Superintendent Orville 0. Brunjes, Wood River; District 13
School Superintendent Charles T. Gabbert, East Alton; District 1 School Superintendent
Latham Harris, Roxana; District 11 School Superintendent James B. Johnson and administrative assistants Macy Pruitt and Raymond Ready, Alton; and District 8 School
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Superintendent Wilbur R. Trimpe, Bethalto.
Committee members representing labor and industry were Truman Davis, Alton
Paper Workers; Robert Husmann, Laclede Steel Company training director; and J, S.
Kovic, employment and community relations supervisor, Olin Mathieson Chemical
Corporation. Other representatives of labor and industry at the meeting were
Buddie Davis, United Steel Workers of America; Robert Homer, Owens-Illinois Glass
Company training director; and Francis M. Karr, executive secretary, Greater Alton
Association of Commerce.
Also invited to the meeting were Dr. Eric R. Baber, director, SIU's Alton
Residence Center; and Chelsea Bailey, SIU's supervisor of adult and technical
education.
------------------------Dr. Frank Eversull, education, East St. Louis, told the East St. Louis Residence
Center's first indoor assembly last week about European education. Dr. Eversull,
former SIU Board of Trustees member and former principal of East Saint Louis High
School, spent the past summer visiting European schools.
He stressed the Eu:opean student's thirst for knowledge and his avid study of
lang~ages.
Eversul~ sa1d. that ~he European student realizes that a knowledge of
fore1gn languages g1.ves h1m a d1rect contact with the source:>of information not
available to the student who knows only his own language.
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Mary Wyatt, nursing, East St. Louis, Alton, and Carbondale, addressed the
E~st St · Louis Rotary Club this past Hednesday · Introduced by Rotarian Carlyle
R~ng, she told about the nurses' program started by SIU at Carbondale, Alton, and
East St. Louis.
Miss Wyatt came to SIU this Fall from Washin~ton University's .school of Nu:sing.
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supplementary program. (This is the third SIU staff member to address.the East
St. Louis Rotary Club this month. Rotary members have threatened to f~ne program
chairman-of-the-month See for advertising. - ed.)
------------------------Five 18th century arias by Allesandro Scarlatt~, three of them unheard since
the composer's death 232 years ago, will be sung by Contralto Nell Tangemann in a
recital at Southern Illinois University ~.Jednesday (Nov. 6).
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The program, which also will feature Pianist-Harpsichordist Claude Chiasson
as accompanist and soloist, will begin at 8:15p.m. in SIU's Alton Residence Center
auditorium and is free to the public. The same program will be given at the University of Chicago on November 8.
Historical research has failed to reveal any evidence that the Scarlatti arias
have been performed publicly since 1725. They were discovered in the archives of
Florence and Venice, Italy last year and have been edited by Musicologist John
Edmunds. Miss Tangemann, one of America's best-known contralto soloists, who joined
the SIU music department this year, will be recreating the arias as they were performed in the 18th century.
In addition to the Scarlatti works and two selections by Henry Purcell,
"I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly, " and the recitative and lament from "Dido
and Aeneas," Miss Tangemann will sing a group of modern compositions by Milhaud,
Norman Dello Joio, Theodore Chanler and Ned Rorem. She is most noted as a singer
of contemporary vocal music, a field in which her "musicianship, interpretative
sensibility and understanding " . have been praised.
Chiasson, Miss Tangemann's professional New York accompanist, will play three
harpsichord solos: Handel's "Chaconne inC sharp minor"; three sonatas by Domenico
Scarlatti, and "The Lonely l.Jayfarer," an early American composition.
David R. VanHorn of Park College joined the staff of Southern Illinois University this week as assistant registrar. VanHorn, who has been assistant director of
admissions at Park College in Missouri for the past three years, will be in charge
of the registrar's office at SIU's East St. Louis Residence Center.
He took his undergraduate work at Panhandle A & M College, Goodwell, Oklahoma,
and his graduate work at the University of Kansas City and Oklahoma State University,
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VanHorn, a native of Pennsylvania, is married and has two children. He saw
service with the 38th $tatistical Control Unit of the Far Eastern Air Command.
~ssociate registrar for SIU's Residence Centers is Dr. John Schnabel.
VanHorn's family will stay in Parkville until at least January, when his son,
Albert, finishes Park Hill High School. His daughter Cora Louise is in Graden
School in Parkville. His wife is the former Kathryn Kannegieser of PhUadelphia.
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�- 4 Dr. Eric R. Baber, Director, Alton , addressed the Rotary Club and the AAUW
on the same day this week in Alton.
He spoke to the Rotarians of the foresi ght and efforts of the civi c leaders
of the area in helping to establish centers of higher e~uc a tion in Al t on and East
St. Louis, and he cited these enrollment figures: SIU 1s up 30 per cent this Fall,
and -- according to available figures -- is the f a stest-growing university in the
country.
Educational experts had predicted an enrollment of 7,250 for SIU this year;
8,100 next year; and 9,000 by 1960. It is a lready past the.estimate for next year.
Enrollment now totals 8,3000 -- 6,500 in Carbondale, 1,200 1n Alton, and 600 in
East St. Louis. (Men outnumber \vomen 2 to 1.)
In size SIU ranks third in the state in full-ti me e nrollment ( a fter the University of Illinois and Northwestern), and even B.C. (before the centers) it was
the 76th largest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Professor Alonzo Myers of New York University, who predicted in an educational
survey of the area this Spring that there would be an enrollment , qf~ $.0Q.._the first
year if centers were established in Alton and East St. Louis, also predicted that
the number of freshmen each year would rise to about 2,000 in 1962 (if facilities
for accommodating this number could be made available), and to about 2,700 entering
freshmen in 1967. This would indicate an undergraduate enrollment of about 6,000
students in 1962 and about 9,000 in 1967.
Dr. Baber told the AAUW that the Alton Residence Center is offering a strong
liberal arts program for some 650 freshmen, and a basic framework of required
courses for sophomores, juniors, and seniors -- together with enough electives to
meet their requirements. He said that by ne x t Fall the center will be offering
most of the courses offered on the Carbondale campus at both the freshman and
sophomore levels, and an expanded offering at the junior and senior levels for
majors in English, math, history, government, s ociology, chemistry, physics,
biology, music, speech, economics, secretari a l science, business management,
education, physical education, and a few others.
How many students will the present campus accommodate ? Baber said that by
careful scheduling from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00p.m. the center can take care of 800-900
day students. Additional scheduling can accommodate 1,100-1,200 evening and Saturday students, making a total of 2,000 for next Fa ll. He also told both clubs
about the graduate program and the building of lib r ary and research resources.
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Faculty News Bulletin November (1) 1957, Vol. 1, No. 4