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�Capital Fund Campaign Moves Ahead;
Three Phase Program Presented
Board of Trustees
Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
US
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
Pledges totalling $364,578 have
brought the Wilkes 25th Anniversary
Development Campaign within 73%
of its $500,000 goal.
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Francis O. Case
Contents:
The $500,000 will be used for the
following purposes:
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs.
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Capital Gifts Campaign
Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Outstanding Intercollegiate Events Scheduled
4
Alumni Officers for 1958
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1. $125,000 for the improvement of
faculty salaries that are now so in
adequate as to justify the statement
that the faculty is and has been
making, each year, a major contrib
ution to the subsidation of education
at the College.
College Board of Trustees, prior to
the campaign. The remaining
$140,278 was secured by the Special
Gifts Committee between Dec. 18
and Jan. 20 in 304 pledges, with
donations averaging over $460.
At press time, 300 special gifts re
mained to be solicited. The Special
Gifts Committee, headed by Harry
Goeringer and Louis Shaffer, cochairmen, will continue their excel
lent work throughout the general
solicitation phase of the campaign,
which is scheduled to begin Jan. 30.
In setting up this last phase of the
campaign, the general solicitation of
committee, Mr. Sword will address
the general solicitation division and
Dr. Robert M. Kerr will speak to the
alumni organization, who will work
during the campaign as a special
committee under Dr. Kerr.
From January 30 on the campaign
will reach its most intensive period
for everyone in the community will
be made aware of our drive. At
each report meeting the special gifts
organization, the general solicitation
organization and the alumni organi
zation will report their success to
date. All of the figures will be
placed on a giant 36-foot scoreboard
Eugene S. Farley
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
News from the Campus Scene
6-7
Alumni Organize Geographically
8-9
Harry F. Goeringer
10-11
Sports Roundup
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph
Lester
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Class Notes
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Amendment Ballot
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Questionnaire
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Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
Ellsworth Parkhurst. Jr.
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Andrew J. Sordoni
Admiral Harold R. Stark
ON THE COVER — Registering approval of the campaign total in special
gifts are Louis Shaffer. Harry Goeringer and Dr. Eugene Farley. Mr. Shaffer
and Mr. Goeringer are the campaign co-chairmen for the special gifts phase
of the S500.0D0 capital gills campaign. With over half of the special gifts
prospects still to be reported, the smiles can readily be understood.
Julius Long Stern
2. $300,000 for a new dormitory
and dining hall that will house 100
students within the immediate future
and can be extended to accommo
date an additional 100 students in
the near future. The erection of
these dormitories and the purchase
of additional homes will permit the
College to attain what is considered
a happy balance between day and
bearding students.
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Published by Wilkes College
Aaron Weiss
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
President
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Aiumni Officers
Russ Picton, Editor
Joseph J. Savitz, President
Clayton A. Bloomburg, Vice-President
Volume 4, No. 2
January, 1958
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Dr. Herbert Oliver, Treasurer
shown following the kick-off luncheon of the Special Gifts phase of the program. From left io right
are, first row: Dr. Eugene S. Farley, Louis Shaffer, Roland Grover, Ralph Lisman, Harry F. Goeringer.
Second row: J. B. Post, Jr., Percy A. Brown, Guthrie Conyngham. Third row: Arthur Silverblatt,
Samuel Wolfe, Frank Townend.
Published quarterly as the Alumnus for the members of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, $2.00
3. $75,000 for the further develop
ment of the College in areas, which
in the opinion of the Board of Trus
tees, require early consideration.
Advance gifts of $224,300 were
subscribed by 25 members of the
3000 additional community friends,
a team of 250 workers has been
organized by William Sword and
David Davis, co-chairmen of the gen
eral solicitation division. A kickoff
dinner launching this final stage of
the drive will be held in the Crystal
Ballroom of Hotel Sterling, Thursday
evening, Jan. 30, at 6:15 P.M.
At this meeting, Dr. Eugene S.
Farley will describe the present
needs of Wilkes in relation to the
curent drive. He will re-emphasize
that priority is to be given to in
creasing faculty salaries, additional
dormitory facilities and funds for the
general development.
After the report of the special gifts
so that everyone will be made aware
of the advances of the campaign.
The campaign is scheduled to close
with a victory dinner Monday, Febru
ary 17.
BULLETIN
As of February 3 the campaign
reached a total of $420,593. Two
hundred cards remain to be reported
in special gifts. $80,000 to go.
Over 2,500 general solicitation
cards remain to be reported and in
addition 3,200 alumni will be con
tacted within the month of February.
Let's all get on the bandwagon and
help put this campaign way over
the top.
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�Two Outstanding Intercollegiate Events
Scheduled For Campus This Spring
Wilkes College, marking its 25th anniversary this year, will be the
scene of two outstanding intercollegiate events this spring.
In March, student delegations from about 50 colleges will arrive here
tor the 1958 Mid-Atlantic Model United Nations General Assembly. And in
April, more than 80 colleges will send students to participate in the Eastern
Colleges Science Conference.
place April 17, 18 and 19. The pro
gram will include the presentation of
student research papers, exhibits of
chemical companies and tours of
local industries. Social events will
include a banquet and dance to be
held on Saturday evening, the 18th.
Numerous speakers from the fields
of physics, geometry, chemistry, bi
ology and psychology will be
featured. Scheduled thus far are:
William C. H. Prentice, Dean of
Swarthmore College, and Dr. Gustav
Swanson, head of the conservation
department of Cornell University.
Hosts for the conferences of pre
ceding years were: Yale, 1954;
Temple, 1955; and Georgetown, 1956.
Tours scheduled include the Veter
ans Hospital, Stegmaier Brewery,
and Air Products, Incorporated. In
addition, other local industries are
being contacted by the Tours Com
mittee.
MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT — An award citing her distinguished
service tc understanding between people ol rhe world was presented
to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt by David Vann. President ol lhe Wilkes
Chapter ol the C.C.U.N.. which sponsored her visit and speech to
the College student body. Vann, who is also Vice-President ol the
National Organization ol C.C.U.N.. was credited by Dr. Farley with
being personally responsible for Mrs. Roosevelt's visit here.
The MGA, to be held the ’weekend
of March 28, 29 and 30, is conducted
annually on the east and west coasts
by the Collegiate Council of the
United Nations. The Wilkes CCUN
chapter, founded in 1956, follows a
distinguished list of host college
chapters, including the University of
Pennsylvania, 1955; Indiana State
Teachers College, 1956; and Prince
ton University, 1957.
David Vann, Wyoming, president
of the Wilkes chapter and vice-presi
dent of the national organization, will
be secretary-general of the assembly,
which is patterned after the UN
General Assembly, with each col
lege predesignated to represent a
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member nation ol the UN, and each
"countiy" naming delegates to four
committees for the discussion of
world problems.
In addition to the business of
furthering international understand
ing and strengthening the UN, the
5G0 visitors will be entertained social
ly with a student-faculty tea Satur
day afternoon, March 29, and a
dance that evening. While the col
lege will furnish all meals, it is hoped
that housing the students will be
volunteered by the friends and alum
ni of the college who are in the com
munity.
The twelfth annual Eastern Col
leges Science Conference will take
Barry Miller
Exhibits of various Chemical
Companies are being arranged —
Monsanto Corp, has sent requests
for mobile displays and the Cyanamid Corp, has already sent two
posters.
Executive chairman for the Con
ference is Barry Miller, a senior at
Wilkes.
The President's Page
Our Program for 1958
The year 1958 is of special significance to Wilkes College because it
marks the 25th Anniversary of its birth. In past communiques and informa
tional bulletins, all of us have been apprised of the extraordinary progress
of the college in its physical plant and in its high academic standing.
The alumni can look back with great pride on these achievements, but
it is more important that we look ahead to the task that remains undone.
Former students of Wilkes are in a strategic position to contribute to
the prestige and development of the school. By the manner in which we
achieve our goals in life, and by the obligations we assume and meet as
responsible citizens in the community, can we reflect glory on our alma mater.
The present and future fund-raising campaigns also permit us to add to the
physical and cultural development of our college.
Opportunities to partake in the growth of the school are present in our
own Alumni Association. This group functions actively and meets in many
areas; the local general alumni group meets frequently in the College
Commons and chapters meet in various cities such as Philadelphia, New
York, Binghamton, and Allentown. New graduates hasten to participate in
alumni activity and the "old grads" are coming to the realization that the
Alumni is a large and important factor in enhancing the prestige and growth
of the school
In the past years, homecoming has taken on added meaning for then,
ex-students see at first-hand the new structures and the general physical
growth and class spirit that are evident on the campus.
This year, we hope to carry on and expand the scope of alumni activity.
Plans have been and will be formulated for fewer, but more interesting
meetings; the usual graduation affair, homecoming, and many other programs
are in the process of being finalized.
If the spirit of alumni who live far away from the campus could be
captured by those nearby, our organization would be super-dynamic. Those
away from home yearn to partake in alumni activity. They show their interest
by unhesitating contributions to the campaigns and by their frequent inquiries
about Wilkes. We who have the opportunity to be active in the alumni
organization can reap gratification, renew old friendships, find many enjoya
ble hours, not only in reminiscing, but in planning for the future growth of
our school
Why not give it a try? Come out to the meetings and bring your friends
if you so desire. Attend the alumni functions throughout the year. Revisit the
campus. The development that has taken place will astound you, and fill
your hearts with pride.
Join in the expanding snowball whose momentum will carry Wilkes on
to greater heights.
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�New Officers Seated;
Program Expansion Planned
The Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation's 1958 officers were seated at
the first year's alumni meeting in the
College Commons on January 6.
Only one officer, Anita Janerich,
Secretary, was re-elected.
Taking office were Attorney Joseph
J. Savitz, President; Clayton Bloom-
and Shadrach Jones, Treasurer, for
their tireless assistance in making
the alumni affairs for the 1957 season
the most successful in the history of
the alumni association. Mr. Cappel
lini urged the alumni to continue to
lend the support that they have
shown and which is so necessary
successful graduation party and a
standing room only Homecoming
weekend to crown the year's events.
Dr. Shadrach Jones, out-going Trea
surer, indicated that the year was a
success financially with a substan
tial balance being carried over into
the 1958 term.
NEW OFFICERS — New officers were seated at the first meeting of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association in the College Commons. Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, '48, took the post of President, suc
ceeding Atty. Gifford Cappellini. Clayton Bloomburg, '49, assumed the office of Vice-President.
The newly-selccted Treasurer, Dr. Herbert Oliver, '44, succeeds Dr. Shadrach Jones, III. Mrs. Anita
Janerich, '51, continues in her post of Recording Secretary.
Seated left to right are: Clayton A. Bloomburg. Vice-President; Mrs. Anita Janerich. Secretary;
Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, President. Standing: Dr. Herbert Oliver. Jr., Treasurer; Dr. Robert M. Kerr,
General Chairman of the Alumni Campaign; Atty. Gifford Cappellini. Past-President; Russ Picton.
Executive Secretary.
burg, Vice-President; Mrs. Anita
Janerich, Secretary; and Dr. Herbert
Oliver, Treasurer. Dr. Frank Speich
er was chosen as a member at large.
Before turning over the reins of
office to Mr. Savitz, past president
Attorney Gifford Cappellini thanked
his officers, Donald Honeywell, VicePresident; Anita Janerich, Secretary;
for the success of any alumni en
deavor.
Marking the accomplishments of
the 1957 year, Mr. Caopellini indi
cated that the new high established
in alumni giving of (§5400) and a
26 per cent participation were a step
in the right direction for our associa
tion. Further achievements were a
Mr. Savitz congratulated the out
going officers for the high standards
that they had established and listed
a number of Proposed programs for
the coming year. Among the group
were — revision of the Constitution,
establishment of a reunion program
to be held each June and an intensi
fied drive to bring more and more
alumni into alumni affairs.
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�Undergraduate
Research
An unusual experiment in educa
tion undergraduate research in pure
biology, is proving successful at
Wilkes College.
When the program was initiated
in 1951, Dr. Sheldon G. Cohen, Chief
of Allergy Services of Mercy Hospi
tal, Wilkes-Barre, joined the faculty
of the college to act as consultant in
the program.
Dr. Francis J. Michelini, assistant
professor of biology, and Dr. Cohen,
as associate professor of biological
research, conducted the program in
informal weekly sessions that offer
no college credit. But through the
years, pre-medical students have
availed themselves of the opportuni
ty to become familiar with the tech
niques of scientific research by parti
cipating either in group projects, or
where ability warrants, individual
projects, under the guidance of
active research scientists whose
papers have appeared frequently in
scientific journals of the past six
years.
Scheduled to present two papers
at the 14th annual meeting of the
American Academy of Allergy in
Philadelphia February 3, 4 and 5,
Dr. Cohen utilized the assistance of
Dr. Michelini and undergraduates in
compiling one paper, and the
assistance of a Wilkes graduate
working for his doctor's thesis on the
other.
in April, his analysis of the under
graduate research program of Wilkes
College will be published by the
Bulletin of the American Institute of
Biological Sciences.
"This program is unique, to our
knowledge," Dr. Cohen declares, "in
that basic medical research is con
ducted on an undergraduate level,
supported by the Public Health
Service.
"The fact that this research is con
ducted utilizing undergraduates al
most exclusively without the advan
tages of doctors or graduate students
participating, is also unique.
"Similar programs may be con
ducted by a few wealthier institu
tions but not by subsidation of the
national health organization, as well
as by that of two commercial drug
companies."
Explaining that a limited depart
mental budget which did not allow
for the purchase of specialized equip6
CORPORATE SUPPORT OF HIGHER EDUCATION
A unique plan for aid to higher education was begun in 1954 by
General Electric Company's Educational and Charitable Fund. Since then
about 28 corporations have adopted similar plans.
Inasmuch as other corporations have generally patterned their pro
grams on the G-E model, it is appropriate to state G-E's objectives:
"It was decided to provide:
1 An incentive for regular contributions by the employees who direct
ly benefited from that (higher) education.
2. Matching contributions in recognition of the joint benefits of that
education to employer and employee.
3. Stimulation of ihe college to more active and regular solicitation of
alumni support.
4. A pattern of corporate support of higher education which might be
followed by other companies."
This is a new approach to corporate support of higher education. It
uses the device of matching dollar for dollar the gifts of alumni to their
alma maters.
Matching limits vary,
annum.
G-E's at first was $1,000; it is now $2,000 per
In 1955, G-E matched 5,234 contributions totalling $199,999.82.
average gift was $38.21.
The
In 1956, G-E matched 5,078 gifts with $182,380.37 for an average gift
of $35.92. Bulk of this money went to private schools.
This new concept can mean a great deal to Wilkes College, since a
great number of alumni are now employed by companies which have
matching gift programs.
But the alumnus must make himself aware of his company's plan and
of the appeals for support by his alma mater.
ment was overcome by improvising,
he adds that eventually tne value of
the program was recognized and re
warded when extensive research fa
cilities were incorporated in the de
sign of the college's new science
building, completed last September.
Among the research projects now
being conducted in Stark Hall at
Wilkes College is one by Dr. Michelini, with student assistants, on that
stage of growth in plants at which
tissue specialization occurs, research
fundamental to the study of cancer.
Other research projects include
studies by Dr. Charles B. Reif, chair
man of the Wilkes biology depart
ment, on allergy-producing green al
gae found in lake waters. Summer
vacationers frequently suffer allergic
reactions at periods when these
organisms flourish, but to date little
is known concerning this phenome
non.
Preparing for the role of host to the
Eastern Colleges Science Conference
in April, Wilkes students are work
ing now with added incentive on in
dividual or group projects.
Six student groups are working on
various aspects of growth of a green
algae, Euglena. This program is be
ing conducted with the support of
two industrial drug firms as a
"Teaching Program in Biology Re
search."
At this time the program is purely
voluntary with the professor in
charge and the students pursuing
their research during Saturday ses
sions. The results thus far in terms
of student interest and response may
see this type of program eventually
incorporated in the curriculum of
science students, particularly in view
of the present need to produce capa
ble scientists at a faster pace than
has been possible heretofore.
Companies listed below now have matching gift plans in
operation. If you work for any one of them, the com
pany will match dollar for dollar your gift to Wilkes.
NAME OF
COMPANY
ANNUAL
DEGREE
CLOSING DATE REQUIRED
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp.
Bank of New York
:?Whitney Blake Co.,
(Hartford, Conn.)
Bonwit Teller
Burlington Industries
Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc.
Campbell Soup Co.
Cleveland Elec. Illuminating Co.
Continental Oil Co.
Dow Chemical Co.
Draper Corp.
General Electric Co.
B. F. Goodrich Co.
W. T. Grant Co.
Gulf Oil Corp.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hill Acme Co.
MATCHING
LIMIT
None
None
No
No
12/31
1/5
8/31
6/1
12/31
9/1
No Limit
Yes
Yes
$2,500
$1,000
Yes
$100 min., $1,000 max.
No
No
$500
$500
No
$100
No
No
$1,000
No
$2,000
$500
No
$5 min., $250 max.
No
$1,000
Yes
$250
Yes
$150
Company
Officers
$1,000
No
$25 min., $500 max.
No
$500 per earned degree
Yes
$1,000
No
$500
Yes
None
12/15
12/15
11/30
None
1/15
None
None
$500
$5 min., $1,000 max.
business and industry for such sup
port."
Each year, the forty-two Presidents
and an administrative assistant from
each college visit firms in the
western, central and eastern parts
of the state in two weeks of intensi
fied coverage.
In the Foundation's five year histo
ry, the member institutions have
shared in the distribution of $945,007.
The totals for last year's efforts are
not included in this figure. The funds
are earmarked for the operating
budgets of the colleges. Most of the
funds have been used for increases
in faculty salaries — therefore into
the very heart of the college's educa
tional program.
Participating member colleges are:
Albright College, Allegheny College,
Alliance College, Beaver, Bryn Mawr
College, Bucknell University, Cedar
Crest College, Chatham College,
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Chestnut Hill College, Dickinson Col
J. M. Huber Corp.
None
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
lege, Eastern Baptist College, Eliza
12/15
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
bethtown College, Franklin and
None
Kaiser Steel Corp.
Marshall College, Gannon College,
None
Walter Kidde & Co.
Gettysburg College, Haverford Col
"Koiled Kords, Inc.
(Hartford, Conn.)
lege, Immaculata College, Juniata
Lehigh Portland Cement Co.
College, Lafayette College, LaSalle
$1,000
Yes
None
Manufacturers Trust Co.
College, Lebanon Valley College,
$25 min., $500 max.
No
None
The National Supply Co.
Lycoming College, Marywood Col
$1,000
No
12/1
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.
$1,000
No
lege, Mercyhurst College, Moravian
12/1
Pennsalt Chemicals Co.
"Reliable Electric Co. (Chicago)
College, Mount Mercy College,
$500
No
12/1
Scott Paper Co.
Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania
Smith, Kline & French
Military College, Rosemont College,
$1,000
No
12/15
Laboratories
No Limit
Seton Hill College, St. Francis Col
No
None
Tektronix, Inc.
$500
No
None
Wallingford Steel Co.
lege, St. Joseph's College, St. Vincent
$500
No
12/31
Warner Brothers Co.
College, Susquehanna University,
$500
No
None
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Thiel College, University of Scranton,
$100
No
2/15
Young & Rubicam, Inc.
Ursinus College, Washington and
Conn.
*Employee gifts matched by The Cook Foundation, Box K, Hamden,
Jefferson College, Waynesburg Col
lege, Westminster College, Wilkes
College, Wilson College.
Farley Named President of F. I. C.
Dr. Eugene S. Farley was named
president of the Pennsylvania
Foundation for Independent Colleges,
at a November conference of the
organization in Philadelphia.
The Foundation is comprised of
forty-two independent colleges in
Pennsylvania who have formed the
Foundation for statewide contact of
REUNIONS PLANNED
Wilkes College, celebrating its 25th
industry in order "to present, in gen- anniversary year, plans to originate
the quinquintennial plan for reunions
eral, the place of the independent this June.
college in the economy, culture, and
Classes ending in '3' and '8' will
progress of our state and national be contacted within the next few
life, to increase the financial means months concerning reunion plans.
available to these institutions for the If you are a member of one of these
classes, drop a line to the Alumni
betterment of their educational Secretary stating your availability
services and facilities, and, in parti and desire to work on your class
cular, to present a joint appeal to reunion program.
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�The Binghamton area will be the
responsibility of William Boyd,
whose co-workers are Philip Kenne, Edgar Plummer, Joseph Trosko,
Donald Law, John Riley, Harold Hy
men, Paul DeWitt and Robert Morris.
William Griffith will direct the
campaign in the Allentown, Bethle
hem, Easton and Reading area. His
assistants will be Bruce Williams,
Joseph Brennan, Donald Follmer,
Fred Davis, and John Merritt.
The New Jersey-New York area
group will be organized by Albert
Wallace, Eugene Snee, George
Batterson and Denah Fleischer.
CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP. ALUMNI — The above local alumni
are playing an active role in the alumni stage of the TwentyFifth Anniversary Development Campaign of the College.
Shown above at a recent organization meeting are the
Division Leaders and a number of the Captains.
Seated from left to right: Dr. Herbert Oliver, Division
Leader; Donald Honeywell. Division Leader; Atty. Joseph J.
Savitz. Alumni President; Dr. Eugene S. Farley, President; Mrs.
Anita Janerich, Captain; and Atty. Gifford Cappellini, Division
Leader. Standing: Dr. Edward Dwyer, Captain; Arthur Hoover,
Captain; George Elias, Captain; George Jacobs, Captain;
Reese Pelton, Captain; John Shoemaker, Captain; Clayton
Karambelas, Captain; Michael Barone, Captain; Russ Williams,
Division Leader; and Joseph Kanncr, Captain.
Alumni Organize Geographically;
Capital Fund Support Urged
The role of the alumni in the cur
rent 25th Anniversary Development
Campaign of Wilkes College will be
directed by Dr. Robert M. Kerr, 204
South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
As general chairman of the alumni
committee. Dr. Kerr will head an
organization of some 200 active
workers in five key areas where
Wilkes alumni chapters are operafive.
For the first time, alumni in out
lying areas will make personal con
tacts with fellow alumni in their own
region, in order to assure complete
understanding of the significance of
this capital fund drive.
Dr. Kerr, as general chairman
of the alumni drive, prepared the
following message for the Alumni
Association:
"Recently you have received
letters and brochures describing the
remarkable growth of our Wilkes
College. I'm sure that all of you
agree that it has been remarkable
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and that all can be justifiably proud
of our alma mater.
I am sure that you are equally
pleased to know that your college
is not standing still in the face of a
nation-wide movement to expand
college facilities to meet the growing
demand of our young people.
Our new science building exemplifies one way in which our
college is preparing to meet this
great challenge. A projected new
dormitory to house one hundred non
resident students will be another
necessary step forward.
Until now, the Alumni of Wilkes
College and Bucknell Junior College
have had slight opportunity and,
perhaps, ability, to make substantial
contributions to the physical expan
sion of our college. We believe that
now, with the College celebrating its
twenty-fifth anniversary, the Alumni
can organize themselves to make a
major contribution to our 25th Anni
versary Development Campaign.
The members of this community,
who have always been generous in
their support of the college, have al
ready raised more than 75% of the
3500,000 goal. It is my very strong
conviction that we Alumni should
express our thanks to those who
have contributed so much to our
college, by adding as our share a
major portion of the remaining 25%.
Let us respond to this appeal with
an open heart and open purse, that
the young people of tomorrow may
profit from our generosity, as we
have profited from that of others."
Dr. Kerr will head the WilkesBarre alumni group, which will con
sist of five divisions. Clayton Bloom
burg, Donald Honeywell, Russell
Williams, Gifford Cappellini, and
Dr. Herbert Oliver will each be re
sponsible for a division. Each divi
sion, in turn, will be composed of
five teams, each with a captain, and
five sub-organizations in charge of
a lieutenant, all for a total of 156
workers.
G. Neuwirth, Mr. James M. Neveras,
Dolores Passeri, Thomas Robbins,
Jessie Roderick, Daniel Sherman,
Vester V. Vercoe, Anthony R. Wide
man, John J. Wojnar.
Alumni will be asked to project
their giving over a 25-month period
from January, 1958, to February,
1960. Pledges rather than cash pay
ments are to be solicited, with
amounts payable as desired.
In commenting on the importance
of the alumni role in the campaign,
Russell Picton, alumni director,
stated:
Those working in the New York
area include: Henry W. Anderson,
George H. Batterson, Mrs. Herman
Baumann, Lawrence E. Cohen, Henry
J. Collins, John A. Cooney, Robert V.
Croker, Jr., Garfield Davis, William
Figart, Jr., Denah Fleisher, Murray
Hartman, Louise Hazeltine, Fred D.
Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jacobs,
William D. James.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Jones, G.
Donald Kaye, Henry A. Merolli,
David T. Minasian, Mr. and Mrs.
enneth G. Northrop, William A.
-erlmuth, Michael J. Perlmuth, Mari
lyn Peters, Forrest W. Price, Mr. and
Mrs. James G. Richardson, Charles
W. Robinson, Mrs. Florence Savitz,
ningsley N. Snyder, Andrew Sofranko, Arthur Taylor, Catherine R.
Thompson, Irene R. Tomalis, Donald
Tosh.
Dr. George McMahon will head
the Philadelphia committee. He will
be assisted by Reese Jones and
Vester Vercoe. The Philadeiphia
group will number about 30 when
organization is complete.
Those working in the Philadelphia
area are: Albert F. Casper, Alex
ander Cathro, Anita R. Gordon, Mr.
and Mrs. William Gorgas, Donald E.
Himlin, Charles Jackson, Reese D.
Jones, John C. Kirchman, Geraldine
Kolotelo, Younsu Koo, John P. Kushnerick, John A. Lupas, Dr. and Mrs.
George McMahon.
Mrs. Douglas MacNeal, Dr. and
us. Sheldon Morrison, Mrs. Joseph
every one will receive an opportuni
ty to join in the campaign through
direct mail. This campaign is in
reality a 'call to arms'. Wilkes needs
your support at this time more than
ever before. Although we have no
official goal — 3% of the 3500,000
goal — $15,000 should be our mini
mum support. If everyone joins in
we can go well beyond this figure."
Alumni totals thus far indicate a
wonderful reception of the campaign.
Total to date (Feb. 3) $2,827.00
Total no. of gifts
43
Average gift _______
$62.82
IN THE NEXT ISSUE
Dr. Robert M. Kerr
"Since our campaign will be con
ducted simultaneously with the com
munity drive, alumni contributions
will be placed on the scoreboard
along with the community organiza
tion. Thus a good showing by the
alumni will add impetus to communi
ty giving.
We must, at this time, ask each
and every alumnus to be generous
and give to this capital gift cam
paign. This is our college's twenty
fifth anniversary and the successful
completion of this drive will mark an
outstanding milestone in the history
of our college.
"It will not be possible for every
alumnus throughout the nation to be
contacted personally but each and
A special supplement on U. S.
higher education in 1958 is coming
in the April issue ol the ALUMNUS.
Alumni magazine editors and pub
lishers throughout the country
have joined in this first coopera
tive effort to tell the story of Ameri
can higher education in a dramatic
and panoramic way. In 32 pages
of pictures and text, the supple
ment will present the immense di
versity of higher education in its
variety of objectives, its problems,
its restlessness, and its new ap
proaches. The text has been
written by a group of alumni
editors who have been at work for
more than a year. One of the
country's leading photographers,
Erich Hartmann of Magnum, hets
taken the pictures. The supple
ment will appear in more than 150
alumni magazines whose com
bined circulation is 1,300,000.
NEW PHYSICS INSTRUCTOR
The Wilkes faculty ranks were
swelled at mid-semester with the ap
pointment of an additional physics
instructor.
He is Richard G. Krutchkoff, Brook
lyn, N.Y., a graduate of Columbia
University. Just awarded his master's
degree from that institution, Krutch
koff is now working toward his Ph.D.
A member of the American Physi
cal Society, he will teach first and
second year physics courses at
Wilkes.
9
�Basketball, Wrestling Highlight
College's Winter Sports Scene
U St
Coach Eddie Davis, now in his
third year as head coach at Wilkes,
has his entire starting lineup back
from last season, as weU as many
seasoned veterans from previous
years. His first season with an in
experienced squad brought an 11-15
mark; and last year he guided his
club to a 12-8 record.
Hendershot, Jerry Esterman, and Tom
Evans. Returning up-court men are
Ray Yanchus, John Mugford, John
Kuhar, Walter Angielski and John
MuhalL
The eagers broke their all-time
scoring record per game on Dec. 16,
when they defeated Lebanon Valley,
118-103. The prior high at Wilkes
category, as reported by the Basket
ball Conference: George Morgan,
23.5 average; George Gacha, 22.7;
Frank Mikolanis, 13.5; and Bernard
Radecki, 11.2.
George Gach, 5'-9" guard, returned
to the Wilkes five on Jan. 4, after his
ankle injury had healed. Gacha in
jured his ankle in a pre-Christmas
WILKES WRESTLERS — First row: Bob Morgan. Keith Williams. Jim Ward, Joe Morgan, Dave
Thomas, Walt Glogowski. Marv Antinnes, Bob Sislian. Second row: Head Coach John Reese, Bill
Smith. Bill Miller. Bon Simms. Ron Bienkowski, Andy Rushin, Mike Armstrong, Doug Kistler. Mgr.
Gil Gregory, Assistant Coach Bob Morris. Absent: Bill Michaels, Joe Dombeck, Jim Thomas.
gan, 123; Walt Glogowski, 177; and
Jim Ward, 147. Ward's record now
stands at 24 wins in a row, in dual
meets.
Other topnotch wrestlers on the
Blue and Gold include: Keith Wil
liams, 130; Joe Morgan, 147; Dave
Thomas, 157; Marv Antinnes, 167;
and Bob Sislian, unlimited. Doug
Kistler, 157, won his first meet, re
placing Dave Thomas, Jan. 8, against
Lebanon Valley.
Wilkes won over Ithaca this year,
20-8. In the 177-pound class Walt
Glogowski iced the meet by trading
takedowns and neutrals with Ray
McFarlane of Ithaca. Walt proved
to be faster and won a 12-5 decision.
The third win for Wilkes was over
Hofstra in a closely contested 14-11
win. Continuing their winning ways,
Wilkes defeated Lebanon Valley, 33-
3. This is the first year of wrestling
for Lebanon Valley. The closest
bout was in the 167-pound class;
Marv Antinnes decissioned Dave
Miller, Lebanon, 6-0. Miller was the
only undefeated wrestler on the
losers' squad. In the unlimited class,
Lebanon Valley's 315-pound Ken
Longenecker defeated Bob Sislian
(weighing 189), 8-1.
(continued on page 14)
COLONEL CAGERS — First row: John Kuhar, Ed Kemps, Tom Evans, Dick Lapkin, Ralph Hender
shot. Second row: George Gacha, Bob Turley, George Morgan, Ron Roski, Fran Mikolanis, Bernie
Radecki, Ed Bimbaum. Third row: Mgr. Ed Masonis, Ray Yanchus, Jerry Esterman, Bob Ontko, Bob
Connor, Al Rebar, John Mattey, Clem Gavenus, Coach Ed Davis. Absent: Barry Yocum, Bernie Kotch.
Starters back include George Mor was 109, established last year. This
gan, center and co-captain, highest new high of 118 is the highest posted
scorer in the Colonels' history, aver in the league.
aging 22.9 this season and 25.7 last
Wilkes lost to Hofstra, 74-61, on
year. Frank Mikolanis and Bob Tur Jan. 3, which knocked the Colonels
ley, forwards back from last year, out of the running for first place in
are also in the starting slots. Frank the Middle Atlantic Basketball Con
was second to Morgan in grabbing ference. For the Colonels, it was
rebounds last year. Other eagers in lack of backboard control and having
clude: George Gacha, guard and co two key players foul out in the
captain, record of 18.3; and Eddie second half that spelled defeat.
Bimbaum, a play-making guard.
Four of the Wilkes eagers are in
Veteran guards include: Ralph the top 20 in the individual scoring
10
practice tilt and was out of action
for three games.
The record for the Wilkes Colonels,
up to the end of January, is 7 wins
and 4 losses.
WRESTLING
The Wilkes matmen have a 5-0
record at the halfway mark this seas
on, adding to their impressive record
of the last three years 24 wins, 1 loss,
and 1 tie.
This year's team boasts three mat
men with undefeated streaks. Win
ning five in a row are: Bobby Mor-
OPEN WRESTLING TOURNAMENT WINNERS — First Place.
First row. seated, 1. to r.: Dick Wilson. Toledo U.: Dick Auble,
Cornell: Carmen Molino, Cornell; Vic DeFelice. Pitt: Larry
Fornicola, Second Army; Dick Vincent. Cornell; Dave Johnson.
Pill; Vince Kelly, Baltimore YMCA: Dave Dunlap, Cornell: Ron
Flemming, Unattached. Second Place, standing: Don Carey,
Second Army; Paul Powell. Pitt: Russ Rohrbach, Maryland;
Tom Grifa, Rutgers; Jerry Hullman, R.I.T.; Greg Ruth, Lehigh;
Ed DeWitt. Third Army; Phil Harvey, Second Army; Steve
Zervas, Michigan; J. D. Miller. W. Virginia.
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�From the Editors Note Book
. .. Here 'n There with the Alumni
1945
Dr. Edithe J. Levitt, the former
Edithe Miller, is now the Director of
Medical Education in the Philadel
phia General Hospital, in charge of
intern and resident staff of the hospi
tal. She and her husband. Dr.
Samuel M. Levitt, have two sons,
Harry 4 and David 2.
1947
Miss Dorothy Marie Raub was re
cently married to Paul J. Kenworthy.
Her twin sister, Miss Doris Raub, '46,
was her maid of honor. The couple
is residing in Columbus, Ohio, where
the bridegroom is employed as a
safety inspector for the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Dorothy is
a registered medical technologist.
1948
Mrs. Harold Rein, the former
Edythe Rudolph, is presently the
Senior Vice-President of National
Telefilm Associates. The firm has
just taken over the twentieth floor of
the new Coliseum Building.
1949
William Apfeibaum has become a
partner in Jacobson & Etzweiler
Men's and Boys' Clothing in Clear
field, Pa. He and his wife, Marilyn,
have one daughter, Diane, born on
December 15, 1955.
Dlr. Thomas GUI, a Certified Public
- .countant, has been self-employed
./..ice November 1, 1957, with offices
c 88 E. Eighth St., Wyoming, Pa. He
is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Praetorius and they have two
sons, Thomas Jr., 4, and Richard,
"
"2.
Tony Wideman is now an Instruc
tor in Business at the Community
College and Technical Institute of
Temple University.
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Johnny
Martin is now employed
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by
WRFD Radio CStation
in Worthington, Ohio. Johnny has his own pro
gram entitled Tovzn and Country
Time and the Hospitality House.
1950
Edna A. Sabol is now Mrs. Fred
erick W. Andrews and is living in
Harrisburg. Her husband is Claims
Adjustor with Allstate Insurance
Company. They were married on
April 27, 1957.
Armin Gill is Branch Manager of
the Monroe Calculating Machine Co.,
Inc. Armin started out with the
Monroe Company as Sales Repre12
m
sentative in Wilkes-Barre. In 1956
he became Assistant Branch Man
ager with Monroe at Allentown. He
has been Branch Manager in Clarks
burg, West Virginia, since July, 1957.
He and his wife, the former Betty
Moore of Kingston, have two
daughters, Linda, bom October 19,
1953, and Donna, bom May, 25, 1956.
June Williams, now Mrs. Sheldon
G. Turley, and her husband received
their Ph.D. degrees from Penn State
University last August. Sheldon at
tended Wilkes from 1946-1948. June
is working at the Dow Chemical Co.,
in Midland, Mich.
1951
Eugene G. Bradley of Harrisburg
is presently employed as a casewokr
analyst for the Council for the Blind.
On August 10, 1957, Gene was mar
ried to the former Mary Ann McKenrick of Ebensburg, Pa.
Leo Castle is the coach of football,
basketball and track in the Haddon
field High School. His wife, Claire,
and their two children, Susan, Octo
ber 19, 1956, and Joseph, September
16, 1957, reside/ in Audubon, N.J.
Dr. Peter J. Corey, who received
his M. D. from Hahnemann Medical
College in 1955 is presently working
in the U.S.N. Dispensary in Long
Beach, Calif. He and his wife, Maria
Teresa, have one daughter, Teresa
Lynn, bom March 5, 1957.
William J. Hopkins is working in
Philadelphia with the Department of
Agriculture on the Eastern Utilization
Research and Development Division.
He is married to the former Esther
Peters from Kingston, and they have
one son, William John, Jr., born
September 28, 1956.
Robert E. Nielson is now working
in Princeton, New Jersey, as a Research Technician with the R.C.A.
Labs. He is in the Physical Chemi
cal Research Department and is do
ing research on the second study of
synthesis of magnetic materials. He
and his wife, Dorothea, have two
sons, Eric Robert, August 23, 1952,
and Blaire Sander, December 24,
1956.
The Rev. and Mrs. Willard G.
Prater (Phyllis Deisher '54) have
moved from the Rectory in New Mil
ford to Hellartown, Pa., where he has
become Vicar of St. George's Episco
pal Church.
Robert P. Starr is working in Los
Angeles as a Sales Representative
for the International Business
Machines Corporation. He and his
wife, Joan, have one son, David,
born on September 12, 1957.
1952
Walter E. Elston and Miss Gloria
Dram '57, were recently married. The
Elstons are residing in Kenvil, New
Jersey, where Walt is a process
engineer with Hercules Powder Co.
Gloria is a biologist at the WamerChilcotte Pharmaceutical Laborato
ries in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Mary Jane Brogan, now Mrs.
Gerald Morris, is residing in Trenton,
Lt. Thomas M. Vojtek is stationed
at the Fleet Training Center, U. S.
Naval Base in Newport, Rhode
Island. Tom's previous assignment
was aboard the U.S.S. Fessenden.
1953
C. Bowden Faust, Jr., class of 1953,
was married on June 3U to the former
Barbara Jane Gross of Tork, Pa. Mr.
Faust is attending Temple University
Dental School.
Seymour Himelstein, class of 1953,
received his L.L.B. degree from New
York University at me 12th Com
mencement of In.Y.U. on June 6, 195/.
David B. Whitney is a junior hign
school teacher in the Long Brancn
Public Schools, Long Brancn, N. J.
William E. Caruth, class of 1953,
has recently completed a six-weeks
course of study at the Graduate
Summer School tor Teachers at Wes
leyan University.
1954
William L. Lamm, class of 1954, is
serving with the Army at Fort
Leonard Wood, Missouri. Bill, who
graduated from Drexel Institute of
Technology, was employed by Babock and Wilcox Company prior to
entering the service. He was re
cently married to the former Lois
Ann Saunders of Scranton.
Philip D. Jones, class of 1954, is
now married to the former Kay
Wharen of West Pittston. "Flip" is
employed by the Ronald Press Com
pany. The Joneses are residing in
Boston, Mass.
John Lupas is employed in the Re
search Department of Hahnemann
Medical School, Philadelphia, where
he completed two years of study be-
ii
for graduating from Wilkes in 1954.
Ralph B. Kozelle, class of 1954,
was married on August 17 to the
former Marilyn Jean Ritter. Ralph
is a fellow in the College of Mineral
Industries at Pennsylvania State
University and is a candidate for his
doctorate in fuel technology. Mr.
and Mrs. Rozelle are residing at 625
South Pugh Street, University Park,
Pa.
Thomas E. Kelly received his M.A.
degree from the State University of
Iowa on August 7, 1957.
Carl Karassik and his wife, Dolly,
are proud to announce the birth of
a son, Bennett, on September 16,
1957. He weighed 6 lbs., 2 ozs at
birth and was 1914 inches long. For
further particulars, write to the proud
parents. Carl is residing at 916 Ells
worth Street, San Francisco 24, Cal.
Tom W. Watkins was recently
married to he former Ruth L. Cain of
ru. ZXT
p/esem, Tom
rum /s
Nanticoke, Pa.
At present,
is
Episcopaenrolled at the
t’ . Reformed
~
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■
lian Seminary in Philadelphia
employed in the I.B.M. Division of
Luria Brothers Company, Inc., of
Philadelphia.
James A. Moss, who was gradu
ated from Wilkes in 1954, was mar
ried in a September wedding to the
former Hilda Maude Miller of Rock
Stream, N. Y. Jim is assistant pastor
ex ihe First Baptist Church of Summit,
N. J.
David T. Minasian, who graduated
from Wilkes in 1954, with a B.A. in
Psychology, is employed as Sales
Manager tor the firm of Clifford W.
Estes, Co., in Arlington, N. J. His
duties include directing and organ
izing sales, promotion, and adver
tising. He was married on July 16,
1955 to the former Mary Ann Salve,
Mary Ann also attended Wilkes,
1952-1953.
Alan C. Bare is employed by the
General Electric Company as editor
of Informational and Marketing Publications in Johnson City,
N. ”
Y. It is
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Alan's responsibility to create pro
motional material — brochures, ad
vertising, etc. He is married to the
former Lois Piccone and they have
a son f_-_
Eric, born in 1955.
Martin J. Meyer, who graduated
from Wilkes in 1954, had attended
the University of Miami and has
completed one year of Law School.
He is now attending Temple Uni
Uni-
versity Law School. Marlin is mar
ried to the former Joan Rosenthal of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Augustine P. Schintz is a Claims
Adjustor for the Harleyville Material
Casually Company in Haddonfield,
N. J. He is married to the former
Carolyn Quinn of Wilkes-Barre, and cently. John is a junior at Hahne
they have a son, David, born June mann Medical College in Philadel4, 1952.
hia. They are residing at 251
Lawrence Roeshot, who attended Roosevelt Street, Bristol, Pa.
Michael J. Weinberger is in the
Wilkes in 1953 and 1954, is married
to the former Rita Jacqueline Chase United States Navy. He is working
of Wilkes-Barre. Lawrence was in the Special Projects and Techni
graduated from Pennsylvania State cal Section of the navy and is staUniversity and is employed by RCA, tioned in Florida.
Camden, N.J.
John P. Kushnerick, who graduated
from Wilkes in 1956 with a B.S. in
1955
Freda Billstein, who received a Chemistry, was recently appointed
certificate from Wilkes in 1955, was as materials editor for Aircraft and
married in June to Philip Ross, Jr., Missiles Manufacturing. He was
of Drexel Hill, Pa. The Rosses are previously a materials and process
engineer at Vertol Aircraft Corpora
now living in Lansdowne, Pa.
Walter A. Chapko is teaching in tion, where he began working after
Roosevelt Junior High School, New graduating from Wilkes. While in
Brunswick, N. J. Walt is teaching college, he worked as a cadet en
English and Social Studies and is gineer in the laboratory of the Penn
sylvania rower and Light Company.
also the Assistant Football Coach.
Mrs. John Anciulewicz, the former
Dale Warmouth, a 1955 graduate
of Wilkes, is at present with the Patricia J. Petrash, is now residing in
MUitary Field Division of the Bur- Syracuse, N. Y., where her husband
roughs Corporation at Paoli, Pa. is attending New York Upstate Medi
Dale is the group leader on a Re cal Center.
Donald pacropis is employed by
search and Development Project.
Donald Kaye went on to attend the Hercules Powder Company in
the Julliard School of Music after his Kenvil, N. J. He is married to the
graduation from Wilkes in 1955. At former Shirley Mae Cordids and they
Julliard, he received a Masters of have a daughter — Donna, bom
Science degree in organ. He was eight weeks ago.
1957
also awarded the C. F. Peters Music
The former Jane Keibel and Ivan
Publishing Prize for outstanding work
in the field of organ. On September Falk were recently married in New
8, 1957, Don married the former Jean rork City. Jane and Ivan are re
Bohn of New York, a graduate of siding in Red Bank, N. J., where Ivan
N.Y.U. They are presently living in is teaching high school English. He
Lynbrook, Long Island. Donald now is also working in the familiar capa
teaches music at Brooklyn Friends city of reporter for the Asbury Park
Press.
"School.
Peter Shuma, Jr., is employed as
The marriage of Robert Chase and
a draftsman at the Bell Telephone the former Gail Laines was per
Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J. Peter, formed on July 27, 1957. Gail, a 1956
who attended Wilkes in 1955,, was graduate of Wilkes, is a member of
married in June to the former Dorothy the faculty of No. 6 Elementary
Jean Pikutis of Nanticoke, Pa.
School, Woodmere, L. I. Bob, class
1956
of 195/, before entering the Marine
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T.
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Hugh B. Hughes, class of 1956, Corps in September, was associated
was married to the former June B. in business with his father.
John Uczen, who received his A.B.
McCulloch of Wilkes-Barre on July
J
19. ]Hugh
_ is associated. with hie:
...
his in Music Education in 1957, recently
father at the Hugh B. Hughes Funeral married Sylvia Danko, formerly of
Home. They are residing at rear 14 Nanticoke. He is a member of the
West Carey Street, Plains, Pa.
Wanamassa School, Wanamassa,
Paul Beers, class of 1956, and the N. J. John and Sylvia are residing
former Joan Shoemaker, also class in Elberon, N. J.
of 1956, were married on June 29.
Robert Rahl, who attended Wilkes
Mrs. Beers is teaching in the Harris- from 1955 to 1957, was married on
burg Schools. Paul is a reporter on August 17 to the former Mary Roberta
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-ri---Whitmire of Ashley, Pa. Bob and
the Harrisburg
News.
are residing at 212 Lewis Street, Roberta are both teaching at South
Harrisburg, Pa.
Brunswick Township High School,
The former Carolyn Ann Selecky, New Brunswick, N. J.
who graduated from Wilkes with a
Joseph J. Valunas is teaching Al
B.S. in Education and John F. Glodek, gebra in the Rahway High School,
who received his B.S. in Biology from Rahway, N. J. He is residing at 435
Wilkes in 1955, were married re- Brook Street, Linden, N. J.
13
�Robert Drexinger, who graduated
from Wilkes in 1957, is now attending
Bucknell University. He was mar
ried in June to the former Louise
Kuren of Wilkes-Barre.
Natalie Barone is teaching in the
Bordentown High School, "Borden
town, N. J.
Norma Jean Davis is teaching in
Plainfield, N. J.
Gloria Dran is a chemist at Warner
& Chicott, Morrisplains, N. J.
Natalie Gripp is employed by the
Bell Laboratories in Whippany, N. J.
The former Gwen Jones, nee Mrs.
Harry W. Ennis, is teaching in
Plainfield, N. J.
Sybil B. Jones is teaching in the
Rutter Avenue School, Kingston, Pa.
Anne Kennedy is teaching music
in the Wilkes-Barre city schools.
Lena Misson is teaching in Metuchen, N. J.
Nancy Morris is teaching in North
Arlington, N. J.
Bess Proferes is teaching in Kear
ney, N. J.
Patsy Lee Reese is teaching in
Asbury Park, N. J.
Mrs. William Figart, the former
Ruth Remley, is teaching in the Belveder High School, Belvedere, N. J.
Natalie Rudusky is teaching in
Plainfield, N. J.
Barbara Ann Saxe is teaching in
the Wilkes-Barre Business College,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
M ~ r g a r e t Elizabeth Smith is
'each; ?g in the Kingston Schools,
Kingston, Pa.
'.-n Smith is teaching in Denver,
. .-Icrado.
. . sue Rita Tomalis is a secretary
Tippetts, Abbett, McCarthy, Stra.i. Engineers, New York City.
Marilyn June Williams is teaching
m New Brunswick, N. Jr.
Phyllis Anne Walsh is teaching in
Suffren, N. J.
Marie Zanowicz, now Mrs. Edward
E. Kruska, is teaching in Williams
port, Pa.
Marcia Elston is a secretary in the
Ideal Hospital, Endicott, N. Y.
Judith Gommer is a secretary for
Merck & Company, New Jersey.
Grace Major is a secretary for the
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Orlando, Florida. Grace is now
Mrs. Robert Nicholas.
Marlene Judith Mioduski is a
secretary for the Air Force, Wash
ington, D. C.
Barbara Ritter is a secretary for
the First and Second National Bank,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Theodore Simon is employed by
the United States Postal Department.
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Joseph Szostak is teaching in
OPEN TOURNAMENT
Ocean Township Schools, Asbury (continued from page 11)
Park, N. J.
Wilkes' 26th Annual Open Wres
Max Salsburg operates the Texas tling Tournament held on Dec. 27-28,
Meat Company. He is self-em- 1957, was the holiday feature for
ployed.
enthusiasts of the Valley. A total of
James Speicher is employed by 350 wrestlers were entered repre
the Bendix Corporation.
senting 43 colleges, universities,
James Stocker is employed by the TMCA's, wrestling clubs, and mili
Prudential Insurance Company in tary organizations. Of this number,
Newark, N. J.
266 actually wrestled, making this
Donald Straub is employed by tournament the largest in the world.
Sears, Roebuck & Company, Scran
Pittsburgh University took top
ton, Pa.
Carl Slutter is in the service with team honors with a total of 60 points.
This was their second consecutive
a commission.
win in the tournament. Cornell, with
Jack Tippett is employed by Price only four entries, came in a close
Waterhouse in Pittsburgh, Pa.
second with 58 points. Second Army
William Tremayne is a traveling
followed with 44 points, and Wilkes
auditor for the Prudential Life In
placed eleventh with a total of
surance Company.
twelve points.
George Tryba, Jr., is cemployed by
Outstanding wrestler of the event
the J. B. Post Company.
was
Dave Johnson of Pitt, in the 167n™™
w.
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George Weaver is in the service.
pound
class. High-point man in the
Leslie Weiner is attending the
Medical School at the University of tournament was Richard Vincent of
Cornell, with 16 points. Vincent
Cincinatti.
Harry Welsh is teaching in the represented the 157-pound class.
Wilkes' Jim Ward placed fourth in
Wilkes-Bare City Schools.
John Wagner. Jr., is teaching in the consolation finals. Ward met
and defeated wrestlers from the fol
Suffem, N. J.
Howard Webb, Jr., is teaching in lowing places: U. S. Marine Corps,
Hamilton, 4-0; Michigan, Loyd HaFreehold, N. J.
Michael Weiss is teaching in mady, 4-2; and York YMCA, Bill
Billitt, 8-2.
Plainfield, N. J.
Glenn Williams is teaching in
On the morning of Dec. 28, a wres
Pennsbury, Pa.
tling clinic was held for coaches and
John Witinski is teaching in Free wrestlers. Coaches from the various
land, Pa.
.
colleges entered, demonstrated
wresJohn Zachman is teaching in tling drills and procedures.
Washington,
N.
C
J. greatest en1 i
II. J.
One of wrestling's
Charles Abate is doing accounting thusiasts, Manuel Gorriaran of Rhode
work for his brother in his machine Island, originally from Havana,
shop in Moosic, Pa.
Cuba, was in attendance at the tourJerome Alcorn is teaching in New nament. Gorriaran donated and
Brunswick, N. J.
presented the third and fourth place
Lawrence Amdur is emploved at trophies awarded in the annual
Reuben Donnelly Company.
Open, and also the trophy awarded
Irwin Birnbaum is in the service. to the high point scorer.
Albert Broody is teaching in Odes
Individual winners by weight
sa, N. Y.
classes:
John Bucholtz is doing graduate
115—Dick Wilson, Toledo U.
work at Princeton University.
• 123—Dick Auble, Cornell
Joseph Ccmiola is employed by
139—Carmen Molino, Cornell
the American Chain and Cable
137—Vic DeFelice, Pittsburgh U.
Company.
147—Larry Fornicola, 2nd Army
Jesse Choper is attending law
157—Dick Vincent, Cornell
school at the University of Pennsyl
167—Dave Johnson, Pittsburgh U.
vania.
177—Vince Kelly, Baltimore "Y"
Lawrence Cohen is attending grad
191—Dave Dunlap, Cornell
uate school at Columbia University.
Unlimited—
John Coates is employed by the
Ron Flemming, unattached
Okonite Corporation.
The Cornell team of four wrestlers
Frank Cuscela. Jr., is employed
by went all the way in the tournament:
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the Uarco Corporation.
Dick Auble 123, Carmen Molino 130,
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191. Vincent recorded the only pin
Samuel Dilcer is employed by the in the finals, 1:57, over Greg Ruth
Hagan Corporation.
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of Lehigh.
AMENDMENT
At the first alumni meeting of the year held on January 6, 1958, at the
College Commons, Joseph J. Savitz, President of the Alumni Association, ap
pointed an amendment committee in conformance with Article X of the Consti
tution. The committee, composed of Gifford Cappellini, Chairman, Art Hoover,
Ted Krohn, and T. A. Price, recommended the following amendment to the
Constitution, which was subsequently approved by the Executive Committee
of the Alumni Council with directions to publish same in this issue of the
"Wilkes Alumnus":
"Be it resolved that Article III, Section I of the Alumni
Constitution be amended to read from:
'1.
There shall be a meeting of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association held on the first Monday of every month at
the place designated through official correspondence.
A quorum for such monthly meetings shall be 15.'
'1.
Meetings of this Association shall be held bi-monthly at
the place and time designated by the Executive Commit
tee through proper communication notwithstanding any
provisions in this Constitution inconsistent therewith.
A quorum for such meetings shall be 15.' "
— to —
You will note below that forms for a mail vote are included with the
proposed amendment. To approve this amendment, a favorable vote by
2/3 or more of those voting is required and the signed forms must be post
marked no later than midnight, thirty days after the mailing of this amendment.
AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE III
OF ALUMNI CONSTITUTION
The amendment of Section 1, Article III of the Wilkes
College Alumni Association Constitution, as recommended
by the Executive Committee
is,
is not, approved.
Signed
Date:
Please mail to Alumni Office immediately along with completed questionnaire
on back.
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�Board of Trustees
Gilbert s. McClintock Chairman
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Arnaud C. Marts. Vire-Chaiman
Charles H. Miner. Jr.. Secretary
lames P. Harris. Treasurer
On the following 32 pages
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Francis Q. Case
Contents:
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
Page
William L. Conyngham
A Special Report — American Higher Education
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A SPECIAL REPORT
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Let's Look at the Record
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Reunions — Reunions
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Class Notes
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Down the Aisle, New Arrivals, Completed Careers
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Prepared by fifteen
Eugene S. Farley
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
of tire
nation s outstanding
Harry F. Goeringer
alumni editors
Joseph J. Kccyan, M.D.
Miss Mary S. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Eltswc-rth Parkhurst, Jr.
Andrew J. Scrdcni
Admiral Harold IL Stark
ON THE COVER ...
Our cover shot for this issue is the picture story of Wilkes
College's growth. All of the buildings (25) pictured are owned by
Wilkes. Six have been added in the last two years. Stanley Wasilewski. Professor of Mathematics who constructed all of the buildings
to scale, estimates that this job took him between 6,000 and 7,000
spare hours to complete. The display is currently drawing consider
able comment from visitors to the Parade of Progress Show in the
Kingston Armory. Most often heard comment — "I didn't know that
Wilkes owned so many beautiful buildings."
Julius Long Stem
The ALUMNUS is happy to join with
one hundred and fifty-one other
alumni magazines in presenting a
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timely and authoritative look at
American colleges and universities —
Mks, Esther Weckcsser Waiker
the Institutions whose problems, needs and challenges
Aaron Weiss
Published by Wilkes College
are becoming more and more important
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
President
to every American.
Office of Executive Secretary
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Chase Hall
Alumni Officers
Russ Picton, Editor
Joseph j. Savitz, President
Clay fen a. Bloomburg, Vice-President
Volume 4, No. 3
April
1958
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Dr. Herbert Olivt
Treasurer
Published quarterly as tthe Alumnus for the members of the Wilkes College Alumni Ass°
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�WILKES COLLEGE
WI LK cs• O A n R C
PENNSYLVANIA
A SPECIAL REPORT
April 18, 1958
To Wilkes Alumni:
Within the next few years every college in the country must make
a decision whether it will expand its enrollment without limit, whether it
shall enlarge its enrollment within limits , or shall maintain the present
enrollment.
At Wilkes we have examined this situation for the past few years
and have steadily increased our enrollment; but we are now approaching
a size beyond which we fear we cannot pass without a loss to the student.
The effectiveness of our work has depended upon and will continue to
depend upon the warm relationship between students and members of the
faculty, and we fear that this relationship will be lost if we expand too
much. If possible, we hope, therefore, to limit the full-time day enroll
ment to approximately 1200 students. With this enrollment we feel that
we can satisfy the needs of our community while we increase the number
of boarding students to approximately 400.
This is, of course, our present judgment and can be revised
should conditions demand a re-evaluation of our plans.
In the months and years ahead we want the advice of our friends,
and ir is my hope that we will receive the counsel of many alumni. So
that each alumnus may become familiar with the problem that now con:rents Wilkes and all colleges of America, it is my hope that'you will
read the report on Higher Education in America, that is, herewith, sub
mitted through your Alumni Office. It is my strong feeling that every
alumnus of Vvilkes should understand the situation facing the colleges of
our country so that he may encourage a constructive attack upon the
pioblem. In addition, we will appreciate an expression of opinion from
our alumni as to the course you deem desirable for Wilkes.
I wish you happiness and success.
V er' sincerely yours,
Presil
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AMERICAN
HIGHER EDUCATION
1958
ITS PRESSING PROBLEMS AND NEEDS ARE
EXCEEDED ONLY BY ITS OPPORTUNITIES
HIS is a special report. It is published because the
time has come for colleges and universities—and
their alumni—to recognize and act upon some ex
traordinary challenges and opportunities.
Item: Three million, sixty-eight thousand young men and
women are enrolled in America’s colleges and universities
this year.—45 per cent more than were enrolled six years
ago, although the number of young people in the eighteento-twenty-one age bracket has increased only 2 per cent in
the same period. A decade hence, when colleges will feel
the effects of the unprecedented birth rates of the mid1940’s, today’s already-enormous enrollments will double.
Item: In the midst of planning to serve more students,
higher education is faced with the problem of not losing
sight of its extraordinary students. “What is going to happen
to the genius or two in this crowd?” asked a professor at
one big university this term, waving his hand at a seemingly
endless line of students waiting to fill out forms at registra-
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had its beginnings when the Puritans
founded a college to train their ministers.
Here, reflected in a modern library
window, is the chapel spire at Harvard.
tion desks. "Heaven knows, if the free world ever needed
to discover its geniuses, it needs to do so now.” President
Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California
puts it this way: "If we fail in our hold upon quality, the
cherished American dream of universal education will
degenerate into a nightmare.”
Item: A college diploma is the sine qua non for almost
any white-collar job nowadays, and nearly everybody
wants one. In the scramble, a lot of students are going
to college who cannot succeed there. At the Ohio State
University, for instance, which is required by law to
admit every Ohioan who owns a high-school diploma
and is able to complete the entrance blanks, two thousand
students flunked out last year. Nor is Ohio State's
problem unique. The resultant waste of teaching talents,
physical facilities, and money is shocking—to say
nothing of the damage to young people's self-respect.
Item: The cost of educating a student is soaring. Like
many others, Brown University is boosting its fees this
spring: Brown students henceforth will pay an annual
tuition bill of $1,250. But it costs Brown $2,300 to
provide a year’s instruction in return. The difference
between charges and actual cost, says Brown's President
Barnaby C. Keeney, "represents a kind of scholarship
from the faculty. They pay for it out of their hides.”
Item: The Educational Testing Service reports that
lack of money keeps many of America's ablest high
school students from attending college—150,000 last
year. The U. S. Office of Education found not long ago
that even at public colleges and universities, where
tuition rates are still nominal, a student needs around
$1,500 a year to get by.
Item: Non-monetary reasons are keeping many promis
ing young people from college, also. The Social Science
Research Council offers evidence that fewer than half of
the students in the upper tenth of their high-school
classes go on to college. In addition to lack of money,
a major reason for this defection is "lack of motivation."
Item: At present rates, only one in eight college
teachers can ever expect to earn more than $7,500 a
year. If colleges are to attract and hold competent
teachers, says Devereux C. Josephs, chairman of the
President's Committee on Education Beyond the High
School, faculty salaries must be increased by at least
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��vast universities, some specialize in such fields as law,
agriculture, medicine, and engineering. Some are sup
ported by taxation, some are affiliated with churches,
some are independent in both organization and finance.
Thus any generalization about American higher edu
cation will have its exceptions—including the one that
all colleges and universities desperately need more money.
(Among the 1,800. there may be one or two which
don't.) In higher education's diversity—the result of its
restlessness, its freedom, its geography, its competitive
ness—lies a good deal of its strength.
MERICAN higher education in 1958 is hardly w hat
a\ the Puritans envisioned when they founded the
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Vt country's first college to train their ministers in
1636. For nearly two and a half centuries after that, the
aim of America's colleges, most of them founded by
churches, was limited: to teach young people the rudi
ments of philosophy, theology, the classical languages,
and mathematics. Anyone who wanted a more extensive
education had to go to Europe for it.
One break from tradition came in IS'e. with the
founding of the Johns Hopkins Vniversity. Here, for the
first time, was an American institution with Eurerea:-.
standards of advanced study in the arts and sciences.
Other schools soon followed the Hopki.-.s example
Ami with the advanced standards came an e no ms.s or.
research. No longer did America-, university schom-.s
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the colleges and universities are concerned that
they not lose sight of the individuals
in the crowd. They are also worried about costsevery extra student adds to their financial defici
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simply pass along knowledge gained in Europe: they
began to make significant contributions themselves.
Another spectacular change began al about the same
time. With the growth of science, agriculture—until
then a relatively simple art—became increasingly com
plex. In the 185O’s a number of institutions were founded
to train people for it, but most of them failed to survive.
In 1862, however, in the darkest hours of the Civil
War. Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant
Act. offering each state public lands and support for
at least one college to teach agriculture and the mechanic
arts. Thus was the foundation laid for the U. S. state
university system. "Tn all the annals of republics.” said
Andrew D. White, the first president of one institution
founded under the act, Cornell University, ■’there is no
more significant utterance of confidence in national
destiny, out from the midst of national calamity.”
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M Optimistically America moved into the 1900’s,
and higher education moved with it. More and more
Americans wanted to go to college and were able to do
so. Public and private institutions were established and
expanded. Tax dollars by the millions were appropriated,
and philanthropists like Rockefeller and Carnegie and
Stanford vied to support education on a large scale.
Able teachers, now being graduated in numbers by
America’s own universities, joined their staffs.
In the universities’ graduate and professional schools,
research flourished. It reached outward to explore the
universe, the world, and the creatures that inhabit it.
Scholars examined the past, enlaiged and tended man’s
cultural heritage, and pressed their great twentieth
century search for the secrets of life and matter.
Participating in the exploration were thousands of
young Americans, poor and rich. As students they were
acquiring skills and sometimes even wisdom. And, with
their professors, they were building a uniquely American
tradition of higher education which has continued to
this day.
UR aspirations, as a nation, have never been
higher. Our need for educational excellence has
never been greater. But never have the challenges
been as sharp as they are in 1958.
Look at California, for one view of American edu
cation’s problems and opportunities—and for a view of
imaginative and daring action, as well.
Nowhere is the public appetite for higher education
more avid, the need for highly trained men and women
more clear, the pressure of population more acute. In a
recent four-year period during which the country’s
population rose 7.5 per cent, California’s rose some
17.6 per cent. Californians—with a resoluteness which
is, unfortunately, not typical of the nation as a whole—
have shown a remarkable determination to face and even
to anticipate these facts.
They have decided that the state should build fifteen
new junior colleges, thirteen new state colleges, and five
new campuses for their university. (Already the state
has 135 institutions of higher learning: sixty-three private
establishments, sixty-one public junior colleges, ten state
colleges, and the University of California with eight
campuses. Nearly 40 cents of every tax dollar goes to
support education on the state level.)
But California has recognized that providing new
facilities is only part of the solution. New philosophies
are needed, as well.
fhe students looking for classrooms, for example, vary
tremendously, one from the other, in aptitudes, aims,
and abilities. “If higher education is to meet the varied
needs of students and also the diverse requirements of
an increasingly complex society,” a California report
says, there will have to be corresponding diversity
among and within educational institutions. . . • Il
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�To accommodate more students
and to keep pace with increasing demands
for complex research work,
higher education must spend more on construction
this year than in any other year in history.
not be sufficient for California—or any other state, for
that matter—simply to provide enough places for the
students who will seek college admission in future years.
It will also have to supply, with reasonable economy
and efficiency, a wide range of educational programs.9'
Like all of the country, California and Californians
have some big decisions to make.
LEWIS H. CHRISMAN is a professor of
) I English at West Virginia Wesleyan, a Methodist
|L—->/ college near the town of Buckhannon. He ac
cepted an appointment there in 1919, when it consisted
of just five major buildings and a coeducational student
body of 150. One of the main reasons he took the appoint
ment, Dr. Chrisman said later, was that a new library
was to be built “right away.”
Thirty years laier the student body had jumped to
720. Nearly a hundred other students were taking ex
tension and evening courses. The zooming postwar birth
rate was already in the census statistics, in West Virginia
as elsewhere.
But Dr. Chrisman was still waiting for that library.
West Virginia Wesleyan had been plagued with problems.
Not a single major building had gone up in thirty-five
years. To catch up with its needs, the college would have
to spend S500,000.
For a small college to raise a half million dollars is
often as tough as for a state university to obtain perhaps
ten times as much, if not tougher. But Wesleyan’s
president, trustees, faculty, and alumni decided that if
independent colleges, including church-related ones, were
to be as significant a force in the limes ahead as they had
been in the past, they must try.
Now West Virginia Wesleyan has an eighty-thousandvolume library, three other buildings completed, a fifth
to be ready this spring, and nine more on the agenda.
A group of people reached a hard decision, and then
made it work. Dr. Chrisman's hopes have been more
than fulfilled.
So it goes, all over America. The U. S. Office of Edu
cation recently asked the colleges and universities how
much they are spending on new construction this year.
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Not long ago the vice president of a large university
was wondering aloud. "Perhaps,” he said, “we have
been thinking that by adding more schools and institutes
as more knowledge seemed necessary to the world, we
were serving the cause of learning. Many are now calling
for a reconsideration of what the whole of the university
is trying to do"
The problem is a very real one. In the course of her
200-year-plus history, the university had picked up so
many schools, institutes, colleges, projects, and “centers
that almost no one man could name them all, much less
give an accurate description of their functions. Other
institutions arc in the same quandary.
Why? One reason is suggested by the vice president s
comment. Another is the number of demands which we
as a nation have placed upon our inslitutions of higher
learning.
We call upon them to give us space-age weapons and
polio vaccine. We ask them to provide us with lumber
men and liberally educated PTA presidents, doctors and
statesmen, business executives and poets, teachers and
housewives. We expect the colleges to give us religious
training, better fertilizers, extension courses in music
appreciation, fresh ideas on city planning, classes in
square dancing, an understanding of medieval literature,
and basic research.
The nation docs need many services, and higher edu
cation has never been shy about offering to provide a
great portion of them. Now however, in the lace of a
multitude of pressures ranging from the population
surge to the doubts many people have about the quality
of American thought, there are those who are wondering
if America is not in danger of over-extending its edu
cational resources: if we haven't demanded, and if under
the banner of higher education our colleges and universi
ties haven’t taken on, loo much,
^k.MERlCA has never been as ready to pay for its
InA educational services as it has been to request
/ \ them, A single statistic underlines the point. We
spend about seven tenths of 1 per cent of our gross
national product on higher education. tNot that we
should look to the Russians to set our standards tor us
—but it is worth noting that they spend or. higher
education more than 2 per cent ofgross.)
As a result, this spring, many colleges and universities
find themselves in a tightening vise. It is not only that
prices have skyrocketed: the •«•.:' .•-•<. o' providing
education has risen, too. As knowledge has btee.de-.ec
and deepened, for example, more complicated a rd
costly equipment has become essential.
Feeling the financial squeoce most pci •.'.d.'.y are the
faculty members. I'he average salary of a college or
university teacher in \meriea today is.rnst over S.'.AW
I'he av erage sal at y of a full professor is ;:s. ov et S '.AX'
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It is a frequent occurrence on college campuses for a
graduating senior, nowadays, to be offered a starting
salary in industry that is higher than that paid to most
of the faculty men who trained him.
On humane grounds alone, the problem is shocking.
But it is not limited to a question of humaneness: there
is a serious question of national welfare, also.
“Any institution that fails through inability or de
linquency to attract and hold its share of the best
academic minds of the nation is accepting one of two
consequences," says President Cornelis W. de Kiewiet of
the University of Rochester. “The first is a sentence of
inferiority and decline, indeed an inferiority so much
greater and a decline so much more intractable that
trustees, alumni, and friends can only react in distress
when they finally see the truth. . . .
"The second... is the heavy cost of rehabilitation
once the damage has been done. In education as in busi
ness there is no economy more foolish than poor mainte
nance and upkeep. Staffs that have been poorly maintained
can be rebuilt only at far greater cost. Since even lessqualified and inferior people are going to be in short
supply, institutions content to jog along will be denied
even the solace of doing a moderate job at a moderate
cost. It is going to be disturbingly expensive to do even
a bad job."
The effects of mediocrity in college and university
teaching, if the country should permit it to come about,
could only amount to a national disaster.
1TH the endless squeezes, economies, and
crises it is experiencing, it would not be
particularly remarkable if American higher
education, this spring, were alternately reproaching its
neglecters and struggling feebly against a desperate fate.
By and large, it is doing nothing of the sort.
Instead, higher education is moving out to meet its
problems and, even more significantly, looking beyond
them. Its plans take into account that it may have twice
as many students by 1970. It recognizes that it must not.
in this struggle to accommodate quantity, lose sight of
quality or turn into a molder of “mass minds.” It is con
tinuing to search for ways to improve its present teaching.
It is charting new services to local communities, the
nation, and vast constituencies overseas. It is entering
new areas of research, so revolutionary that it must
invent new names for them.
ONSIDER the question of maintaining quality
amidst quantity. “How,” educators ask them
selves, “can you educate everyone who is ambi-
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Exceptional students must
not be overlooked,
especially in a time when
America needs to educate
every outstanding man and woman
to fullest capacity. The
students at the right are in a
philosophy of science class.
tious and has the basic qualifications, and still have time,
teachers, and money to spend on the unusual boy or
girl? Are we being true to our belief in the individual if
we put everyone into the same mold, ignoring human
differences? Besides, let’s be practical about it: doesn’t
this country need to develop every genius it has?”
There is one approach to the problem at an institution
in eastern California, Deep Springs. The best way to get
there is to go to Reno, Nevada, and then drive about five
hours through the Sierras to a place called Big Pine.
Deep Springs has four faculty members, is well endowed,
selects its students carefully, and charges no tuition or
fees. It cannot lose sight of its good students: its total
enrollment is nineteen.
At another extreme, some institutions have had to
devote their time and effort to training as many people
as possible. The student with unusual talent has had to
find it and develop it without help.
Other institutions are looking for the solution some
where in between.
The University of Kansas, for example, like many
other state universities, is legally bound to accept every
graduate of an accredited state high school who applies,
without examinations or other entrance requirements.
“Until recently," says Dean George Waggoner of Kan
sas’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, “many of us
spent a great deal of our time trying to solve the problem
of marginal students.”
In the fall of 1955, the university announced a pro
gram designed especially for the “gifted student.” Its
objective: to make sure that exceptional young men and
women would not be overlooked or under-exposed in a
time of great student population and limited faculty.
Now Kansas uses state-wide examinations to spot
these exceptional high-school boys and girls early. It
invites high-school principals to nominate candidates for
scholarships from the upper 5 per cent of their senior
classes. It brings the promising high-school students to
its Lawrence campus for further testing, screening, and
selection.
When they arrive at the university as freshmen, the
students find themselves in touch with a special faculty
committee. It has the power to waive many academic
rules for them. They are allowed to take as large a bite
of education as they can swallow, and the usual course
�Even in institutions with thousands
of students, young people with
extraordinary talents can be spotted
and developed. This teacher is leading
honors section at a big university.
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prerequisites do not apply; they may enter junior and
senior-level courses if they can handle the work. They
use the library with the same status as faculty members
and graduate students, and some serve as short-term
research associates for professors.
The force of the program has been felt beyond the
students and the faculty members who are immediately
involved. It has sent a current throughout the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences. All students on the dean’s
honor roll, for example, no longer face a strict limit in
the number of courses they may take. Departments have
strengthened their honor sections or, in some cases,
established them for the first time. The value of the
program reaches down into the high schools, too, stimu
lating teachers and attracting to the university strong
students who might otherwise be lost to Kansas.
Across the country, there has been an attack on the
problem of the bright student's boredom during his early
months in college. (Too often he can do nothing but
fidget restlessly as teachers gear their courses to students
less talented than he.) Now, significantly large numbers
are being admitted to college before they have finished
high school; experiments with new curricula and oppor
tunities for small discussion groups, fresh focus, and
independent study are found in many schools. Founda
tions, so influential in many areas of higher education
today, are giving their support.
The "quality vs. quantity” issue has other ramifica
tions. “Education’s problem of the future,” says President
Eldon L. Johnson of the University of New Hampshire,
“is the relation of mind and mass... . The challenge is
to reach numbers without mass treatment and the
creation of mass men. ... It is in this setting and this
philosophy that the state university finds its place.”
And, one might add, the independent institution as
well. For the old idea that the public school is concerned
with quantity and the private school with quality is a
false one. All of American higher education, in its diver
sity, must meet the twin needs of extraordinary persons
and a better educated, more thoughtful citizenry.
/ HAT is a better educated, more thoughtful
citizenry? And how do we get one? If AmeriV V ca’s colleges and universities thought they
had the perfect answers, a pleasant complacency might
spread across the land.
In the offices of those who are responsible for laying
out programs of education, however, there is anything
but complacency. Ever since they stopped being content
with a simple curriculum of theology, philosophy, Latin,
Greek, and math, the colleges and universities have been
searching for better ways of educating their students in
breadth as well as depth. And they are still hunting.
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Take the efforts at Amherst, as an example of what
many are doing. Since its founding Amherst has devel
oped and refined its curriculum constantly. Once it
offered a free elective system: students chose the courses
they wanted. Next it tried specialization: students selected
a major field of study in their last two years. Next, to
make sure that they got at least a taste of many different
fields, Amherst worked out a system for balancing the
elective courses that its students were permitted to select.
But by World War II, even this last refinement seemed
inadequate. Amherst began—again—a re-evaluation.
When the self-testing was over, Amherst’s students
began taking three sets of required courses in their fresh
man and sophomore years: one each in science, history,
and the humanities. The courses were designed to build
the groundwork for responsible lives: they sought
to help students form an integrated picture of civiliza
tion’s issues and processes. (But they were not “surveys”
—or what Philosophy Professor Gail Kennedy, chairman
of the faculty committee that developed the program,
calls “those superficial omnibus affairs.”)
How did the student body react? Angrily. When Pro
fessor Arnold B. Arons first gave his course in physical
science and mathematics, a wave of resentment arose. It
culminated at a mid-year dance. The music stopped, con
versations ceased, and the students observed a solemn,
two-minute silence. They called it a "Hate Arons Silence.”
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But at the end of the year they gave the professor
standing ovation. He had been rough. He had not pro
vided his students with pat answers. He had forced them
to think, and it had been a shock at first. But as they got
used to it, the students found that thinking, among all of
life's experiences, can sometimes be the most exhilarating.
O TEACH them to think: that is the problem.
It is impossible, today, for any school, under
graduate or professional, to equip its students
with all the knowledge they will need to become compe
tent engineers, doctors, farmers, or business men. On the
other hand, it can provide its students with a chance to
discover something with which, on their own, they can
live an extraordinary life: their ability to think.
HUS, in the midst of its planning for swollen
enrollments, enlarged campuses, balanced bud
gets, and faculty-procurement crises, higher edu
cation gives deep thought to the effectiveness of its
programs. When the swollen enrollments do come and
the shortage of teachers does become acute, higher
education hopes it can maintain its vitality.
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�To stretch teaching resources without sacrificing (and,
perhaps, even improving) their effectiveness, it is explor
ing such new techniques as microfilms, movies, and
television. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy,
New York, the exploration is unusually intense.
RPI calls its concerted study “Project Reward.” How
good. Project Reward asks, are movies, audio-visual aids,
closed-circuit television? How can we set up really ef
fective demonstrations in our science courses? How much
more effective, if at all, is a small class than a big one?
Which is better: lecturesor discussion groups?Says Roland
H. Trathen, associate head of Rensselaer’s department
of mechanics and a leader in the Project Reward enter
prise, when he is asked about the future, "If creative
contributions to teaching are recognized and rewarded
in the same manner as creative contributions to research,
we have nothing to fear.”
The showman in a good professor comes to the fore
when he is offered that new but dangerous tool of com
munication. television. Like many gadgets, television can
be used merely to grind out more degree-holders, or—in
the hands of imaginative, dedicated teachers—it can be
a powerful instrument for improvement.
Experiments with television are going on all over the
place. A man at the University of Oregon, this spring,
can teach a course simultaneously on his own campus
end three others in the state, thanks to an electronic link.
Pennsylvania State experimented with the medium for
three years and discovered that in some cases the TV
students did better than their counterparts who saw their
instructors in the flesh.
The dangers in assembly-line education are real. But
.-. ith new knowledge about how people actually learn—
and new devices to help them learn—interesting pos
sibilities appear.
Even so, some institutions may cling to time-worn
notions about teaching until they are torn loose by
the current of the age. Others may adulterate the quality
of their product by rushing into short-cut schemes. The
reader can hope that his college, at least, will use the
new tools wisely: with courage yet with caution. Most
of all, he can hope that it will not be forced into adopting
them in desperation, because of poverty or its inability
to hold good teachers, but from a position of confidence
and strength.
/AMERICAN higher education does not limit itself
/—\ to college campuses or the basic function of edu! \ eating the young. It has assumed responsibility
for direct, active, specific community service, also.
“Democracy’s Growing Edge," the Teacher’s College
of the University of Nebraska calls one such service
project. Its sponsors are convinced that one of the basic
functions of local schools is to improve their communi
ties, and they are working through the local boards of
education in Nebraska towns to demonstrate it.
Consider Mullen (pop. 750), in northwest Nebraska’s
sandhills area, the only town in its cattle-ranching county.
The nearest hospital is ninety miles away. Mullen needs
its own clinic; one was started six years ago, only to bog
down. Under the university’s auspices, with Mullen’s
school board coordinating the project and the Teacher’s
College furnishing a full-time associate coordinator, the
citizens w'ent to work. Mullen now has its clinical facilities.
Or consider Syracuse, in the southeast corner of the
state, a trading center for some three thousand persons.
It is concerned about its future because its young people
are migrating to neighboring Lincoln and Omaha; to
hold them, Syracuse needs new industry and recreational
facilities. Again, through the university’s program, towns
people have taken action, voting for a power con
tract that will assure sufficient electricity to attract
industry and provide opportunities for its youth.
Many other institutions currently are offering a variety
of community projects—as many as seventy-eight at one
state university this spring. Some samples:
The University of Dayton has tailored its research
program to the needs of local industry and offers training
programs for management. Ohio State has planted the
nation’s first poison plant garden to find out why some
plants are poisonous to livestock when grown in some
soils yet harmless in others. Northwestern’s study of
traffic problems has grown into a new transportation
center. The University of Southern California encourages
able high-school students to work in its scientific labora
tories in the summer. Regis College runs a series of
economics seminars for Boston professional women.
Community service takes the form of late-afternoon
and evening colleges, also, which offer courses to school
teachers and business men. Television is in the picture,
too. Thousands of New Yorkers, for example, rise before
dawn to catch New York University’s “Sunrise Semester,”
a stiff and stimulating series of courses on WCBS-TV.
In California, San Bernardino Valley College has gone
on radio. One night a week, members of more than seventyfive discussion groups gather in private homes and turn
their sets. For a half hour, they listen to a program
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
such as “Great Men and Great Issues" or “The Ways of
Mankind, a study of anthropology.
When the program is over (it is then 8:30), the living
room discussions start. People talk, argue, raise ques
tions and learn. One thousand of them are hard at it,
all over the San Bernardino Valley area.
Then, at ten o’clock, they turn on the radio again. A
panel of experts is on. Members of the discussion groups
pick up their phones and ask questions about the night’s
topic. The panel gives its answers over the air.
Says one participant, “1 learned that people who once
seemed dull, uninteresting, and pedestrian had exciting
things to say if I would keep my mouth shut and let
them say it.”
When it thinks of community services, American higher
education does not limit itself to its own back yard.
Behind the new agricultural chemistry building at the
University of the Philippines stand bare concrete columns
which support nothing. The jungle has grown up around
their bases. But you can still see the remains of buildings
which once housed one of the most distinguished agri
cultural schools in the Far East, the university’s College
of Agriculture. When Filipinos returned to the campus
after World War 11, they found virtually nothing.
The needs of the Philippines’ devastated lands for
trained men were clear and immediate. The faculty began
to put the broken pieces back together again, but it was
plain that the rebuilding would take decades.
In 1952, Cornell University’s New York State College
of Agriculture formed a partnership with them. The ob
jective: to help the Filipinos rebuild, not in a couple of
generations, but in a few years. Twelve top faculty mem
bers from Cornell have spent a year or more as regular
members of the staff. Filipinos have gone to New York
to take part in programs there.
Now, Philippine agriculture has a new lease on life—
and Filipinos say that the Cornell partnership should
receive much of the credit. Farms are at last big enough
to support their tenants. Weeds and insects are being
brought under control. Grassland yields are up. And the
college enrollment has leaped from little more than a
hundred in 1945 to more than four thousand today.
In Peru, the North Carolina College of Agriculture
and Engineering is helping to strengthen the country's
agricultural research; North Carolina State College is
ADDITION to teaching and conducting
research, America's colleges and universities
offer a wide range of community services.
At the left are hundreds of curriculum
materials available al one state university.
�None of its services can function
effectively unless higher education
remains free. Freedom to pursue
knowledge is the strongest attraction
of college and university teaching.
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helping to develop Peruvian research in textiles; and the
University of North Carolina co-operates in a program
of technical assistance in sanitary engineering. In Liberia,
Prairie View A. and M. College of Texas (the Negro
college of the Texas A. and M. system) is working with
the Booker Washington Agricultural and Industrial Insti
tute to expand vocational education. Syracuse University
is producing audio-visual aids for the Middle East, par
ticularly Iran. The University of Tennessee is providing
home-economics specialists to assist in training similar
specialists in India. The University of Oregon is working
with Nepal in establishing an educational system where
none existed before (only eleven persons in the entire
country of 8.5 million had had any professional training
in education). Harvard is providing technical advice and
assistance to Latin American countries in developing
and maintaining nutrition programs.
HUS emerges a picture of American higher edu
cation, 1958. Its diversity, its hope that it can
handle large numbers of students without losing
sight of quality in the process, its willingness to extend
its services far beyond its classrooms and even its home
towns: all these things are true of America's colleges and
universities today. They can be seen.
But not as visible, like a subsurface flaw in the earth’s
apparently solid crust, lie sente facts that may alter the
landscape considerably. Not enough young people, for
instance, are currently working their way through the
long process of preparation to become college and uni
versity teachers. Others, who had already embarked on
faculty careers, are leaving the profession. Scholars and
teachers are becoming one of the American economy's
scarcest commodities.
Salary scales, as described earlier in this article, are
largely responsible for the scarcity, but not entirely.
Three faculty members at the University of Oklahoma
sat around a table not long ago and tried to explain why
they are staying where they are. All are young. All are
brilliant men who have turned down lucrative jobs in
business or industry. All have been offered higher-paying
posts at other unitersities.
��and he still gets his applause in the spring at the end ot
an inspiring semester or at the end of a dedicated career.
But today there is a difference. It is on him that the nation
depends more than ever. On him the free world relies
just as the enslaved world does. loo.
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R. SELMAN A. VVAKSMAN of Rutgers was
not interested in a specific, useful topic. Rather,
he was fascinated by the organisms that live in
a spadeful of dirt.
A Russian emigrant, born in a thatched house in
Priluka, ninety miles from the civilization ot Kiev, he
came to the United Stales at the age of seventeen and
enrolled in Rutgers. Early in his undergraduate career he
became interested in the fundamental aspects oi Inins
systems. And. as a student of the College ot Agriculture,
he looked to the soil. For his senior project he dug a
number of trenches on the college farm and look soil
samples in order to count the different colonies oi bacteria.
But when he examined the samples under his micro
scope. Waksman saw some strange colonies, different
from either bacteria or fungi. One of his professors said
they were only “higher bacteria.*’ Another, however,
identified them as little-known organisms usually called
actinomyces.
Waksman was graduated in 1915. As a research as
sistant in soil bacteriology, he began working toward a
master's degree. But he soon began to devote more and
more lime to soil fungi and the strange actinornyo.. He
was forever testing soils, isolating cultures, transferrir.g
cultures, examining cultures, weighing, analyzing.
Studymg for his Ph.D. at the University of < aliform^
’•a made one finding that interested him parficuLariy.
Several groups of microbes appeared to live in harm'my,
■s e : ?n their fellows or olherwi /.• k
their growth In 191JS Waksman returned lo Rutgers as
a microbiologist, to continue his research and teaching.
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In 1923 one of his pupils. Rene Dubos, isolated tyrothricin and demonstrated that chemical substances from
microbes found in the soil can kill disease-producing
germs. In 1932 Waksman studied the fate of tuberculosis
bacteria in the soil. In 1937 he published three papers on
antagonistic relations among soil micro-organisms. He
needed only a nudge to make him turn all his attention
to what he was later to call "antibiotics.
The war provided that nudge. Waksman organized his
laboratory staff for the campaign. He soon decided to
focus on the organisms he had first met as an undergradu
ate almost thirty years before, the actinomyces. The first
antibiotic substance to be isolated was called actinomy
cin, but it was so toxic that it could have no clinical
application: other antibiotics turned out to be the same.
It was not until the summer of 1943 that the breakthrough
came.
One day a soil sample from a heavily manured field
was brought into the laboratory. The workers processed
it as they had processed thousands of others before. But
this culture showed remarkable antagonism to disease
producing bacteria. It was a strain—streptomyces griseus
—that Waksman had puzzled over as a student. Clinical
tests proved its effectiveness against some forms of pneu
monia, gonorrhea, dysentery, whooping cough, syphilis,
and. most spectacularly. TB.
Streptomycin went into production quickly. Along
with the many other antibiotics that came from the soil,
it was labeled a "miracle drug." Waksman received the
Nobel Prize and the heartfelt praise of millions through
out the world.
In a sense, discoveries like Dr. Waksman’s are acci
dents: they are unplanned and unprogrammed. They
emerge from scholarly activity which, judged by appear
ances or practical yardsticks, is aimless. But mankind
has had enough experience with such accidents to have
learned, by now, that "pure research”—the pursuit of
knowledge for the sake of knowledge alone—is its best
assurance that accidents will continue to happen. When
Chicago’s still-active Emeritus Professor Herman Schles
inger got curious about the chemical linkage in a rare
and explosive gas called diobrane, he took the first steps
toward the development of a new' kind of jet and rocket
fuel—accidentally. When scientists at Harvard worked
on the fractionization of blood, they were accidentally
making possible the development of a substitute for whole
blood which was so desperately needed in World War II.
But what about the University of Texas’s Humanities
Research Center, set up to integrate experiments in lin
guistics, criticism, and other fields? Or the Missouri
expedition to Cyprus which excavated an Early-Bronze-
T
Do find the most promising young
people of America and then provide them
with exceptional educational opportunities;
that is the challenge. Above, medical
school professors vote on a candidate.
�.Age site ...
’ "-----> and is planning to
at Episkopi ’three
years—
ago
go back again this year? Or the research on folk ballads
ageof ICBM’s.what
at the University of Arkansas? In an r~ is the value of this work?
If there is more to human destiny than easing our toils
or enriching our pocketbooks, then such work is im
portant. Whatever adds to man’s knowledge will inevi
tably add to his stature, as well. To make sure that higher
education can keep providing the opportunities for such
research is one of 1958 man’s best guarantees that human
life will not sink to meaninglessness.
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Alfred NORTH WHITEHEAD once said, “In
/Lj\ the conditions of modern life, the rule is absolute: the race which does not value trained
intelligence is doomed."
In recent months, the American people have begun to
re-learn the truth of Whitehead’s statement. For years
the nation has taken trained intelligence for granted—or,
worse, sometimes shown contempt for it, or denied the
conditions under which trained intelligence might flour
ish. That millions are now recognizing the mistake—and
recognizing it before it is too late—is fortunate.
Knowing how to solve the problem, however, and
knowing how to provide the means for solution, is more
difficult.
But again America is fortunate. There is, among us, a
group who not only have been ahead of the general
public in recognizing the problem but who also have the
understanding and the power, now, to solve it. That group
is the college alumni and alumnae.
'Years ago Dr. Hu Shih, the scholar who was then
Chinese ambassador to the United States, said America’s
greatest contribution to education was its revolutionary
concept of the alumnus: its concept of the former student
as an understanding, responsible partner and champion.
Today, this partner and champion of American higher
education has an opportunity for service unparalleled in
our history'. He recognizes, better than anyone, the es
sential truth in the statement to which millions, finally,
now subscribe: that upon higher education depends, in
large part, our society's physical and intellectual sur
vival. He recognizes, better than anyone else, the truth
in the statement that the race can attain even loftier goals
.ahead, by strengthening our system of higher education
in all its parts. As an alumnus—first by understanding,
and then by exercising his leadership—he holds within
his own grasp the means of doing so.
Rarely has one group in our society—indeed, every
member of the group—had the opportunity and the
ability for such high service.
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1—ducation of high quality for as
many as are qualified for it has been a
cherished American dream. Today
we arc too close to realizing that dream
not to intensify our striving for it.
�Hovf's My Class Doing?
Class of 1955 Leads in Participation;
1950 in Total Amount Contributed
EDITORIAL STAFF
WILLIAM SCHRAMM
The University ofPennsylvania
FELICIA ANTHENELLI
The University of Chicago
DAVID A. BURR
he I niversity of Oklahoma
VERNE A. STADTMAN
The I niversity of California
_ JEAN DINWOODEY
7 r.e American A.'unt’:: Council
FREDERIC A. STOTT
Phillips Academy, Andover
DAN H. FENN. JR.
Harvard Umversty
FRANK J. TATE
The Ohio State University
RANDOLPH L FORT
Emory Untversiiy
ERIK WENSBERG
Columbia University
CORBIN GWALTNEY
He Jokos r--;irr Ur.i-.ersir,
CHARLES E. WIDMAYER
Dartmouth College
L. FRANKLIN HEALD
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•. Hampshire
CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
Brown University
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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During the month of March and April, gifts to the
Capital Fund Campaign totaled S9.000, raising the
grand total subscribed to $512,384; of this additional
money $5,655 was given by the Alumni, bringing total
alumni contributions to $16,503.
Unlike our two annual alumni funds which pre
ceded this Capital Fund Drive, the campaign was
organized geographically rather than by classes.
Nevertheless, class spirit, pride and competition have
been contributing factors as evidenced by the in
creasing number of Alumni who are asking — "How's
my class doing?" So that you all may know how
your class is doing, the brief record below provides
the answers as of April 15. Frankly, we are somewhat
disappointed that more Alumni have not contributed
to this ”our most important of all drives."
Although we did not set a goal for the total
amount to be raised, the planners did believe that ct
least 33'/l of our Alumni would join in this drive of
critical importance to the development of Wilkes
College.
The seven leading classes in participation are
listed below. Last year we had eight classes above
30' i participation and eleven classes above 20'.
SEVEN LEADING CLASSES
35'.
1944
1945
31'.
1950
30'.
26'.
1955
1951
1948
1946
with 70.9' while phnaeten had ~'.r
a^rntopciton.
Mount Ho’ycke led the wmen s oalleges whn
participation while Bates College to Maine .ea the —
coeducational tosiittoicns wito 5Sto - .'-totes car. a
20' • participation in IE5S and dr in 1957. Cur gon.
is 33 C during 1958. Certainly ~cz Alumni are ns
interested in their College as those indircted nr.—e.
There is still erne tar — to he glared to. toe
“Honor Roll" of ccntztonrcrs to me
;’to rur
Campaign. along with that ci —— massmares. As
in the annual funds, there is ar —into — a—egttols
gift Why net take
7--- — hand ana tore ar
accordance to year toil!— to asst irfe dtore. These
can never be an ovess-tosrztpnrn to to. todsnetos—
college such as Wakes. Altoruto: toe cod to SMC. 2LT
has been attained, every della: will he utotoec scundly
far toe development to our GaHeje. ?erh.-.as toe
special report will indim-.te to you toe need, tor
support.
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THE RECORD OF THE CI ASSFS
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In a recent (1956: American Ahntrr.i Cocucu survey of 442 colleges, universities, and pregzmtomv
schcols, 26 achieved better toon 5C.
pctotopafian.
The leader was little 'A'cfci College, a ptovme — ea =
college in South Cardnttt with 5.752 graduates
Clans
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
19411
1941
1942
1'143
1944
1945
194(1
Donors
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7
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164.00
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1948
1343
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1351
1358
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1958
1355
1356
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�Reunion Weekend Planned
From the Editor's Note Book
. . Here 'n' There with the Alumni
Quinquennial Program Begun
Attention — all graduates of years ending in 3's
or 8's —This is the year for the first reunion program
at Wilkes College. What could be more fitting than
to invite you back to the campus scene to begin our
reunion program in this our 25th anniversary year.
We are scheduling the reunion weekend and our
Homecoming weekend for October 17-19. The reunion
committee plans to work with members of each class
to establish and coordinate programs for the weekend.
All reunioning classes will be contacted within the
month of May by the reunion General Chairman to
begin planning programs.
Our reunion program will be on a five year plan
(quinquennial) — thus, this year, the classes of 1938,
1943, 1948 and 1953 will be spotlighted. All other
classes are invited to have class reunions if they desire,
but to begin our quinquennial program, all class
members in the above mentioned classes will be con
tacted within a month by a special letter. Next year,
all classes ending in 4 and 9 will be invited back for
special reunions and so on.
Although the reunion weekend was originally
planned for the latter part of May, the weekend has
been moved to homecoming weekend because
pressure of the recently-completed capital fund cam
paign did not permit enough time to set up the pro
gram after the campaign closed.
Alumni returning for class reunions who plan to
attend their class functions such as class dinner, class
picnic, etc., will be asked to pay in advance. A more
descriptive brochure and reservation forms will be
mailed during the summer months.
Why not plan now to be with us on the weekend
of October 17-19 for your class reunion.
You will be amazed and pleased when you see
the changes that have taken place on the college
campus. I am sure you will be amazed at the changes
in many of your old classmates.
Final arrangements for the reunion of classes will
be decided upon by the individual classes but the
tentative program for the weekend will be as follows:
OCTOBER 17
briday
9:00 P.M. - 12:00 P.M.
(Warm-up Party) at O'Connell's Kingston House along with home-
coming alumni.
(Registration).
OCTOBER 18
Saturday —
9:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon
Saturday — 12:00 Noon
Saturday —
2:00 P.M.
Campus open for touring.
(Registration).
Meeting of Executive Council of Alumni Association.
Football game (Wilkes vs. Ursinus).
Reunion classes may plan
substitute program if desired, a class picnic, cocktail party, etc.
Saturday —
6:30 P.M.
Class dinners for Reunioning classes,
(Sites to be decided by
classes.)
Saturday —
9:00 P.M.
Informal Dance — Irem Temple Country Club (with Homecoming
alumni).
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1935Fiancis Antonelli, holder of a Master's
degree from Bucknell University, is now a
teacher in the West Hazleton School District.
He and his wife, Josephine, have three child
ren, Joanne, Francis, Jr., and Patricia.
1936—
Mason Baldwin recently appeared as guest
artist with the Florida West Coast Symphony
Orchestra in the performance of Prokofiev's
"Peter and the Wolf.'' Mason is a great
theatrical booster in this area; he reorganized
the Talahasee Little Theater and appeared
with the Players of Sarasota and the Palm
Tree Playhouse. He is well knov/n as "Mr.
Ace", Teller of Stories, which is a popular
children's radio and television show.
At
present, he is manager of the Sarasota Muni
cipal Auditorium.
1937—
Gordon Everett is an industrial engineer
with the Borg-Warner Corporation. His parti
cular duties are in the Tooling Design and
Application Methods development, and
Process and Equipment Layout. Their three
three children — Brian, Douglas, and Joyce
live with their parents on 4th Avenue in Nev/
York City.
1939—
Dorothy L. (Hughes) and Robert Royer, both
Wilkess grads, are livings in Summit, New
Jersey.
r. Dorothy, a busy he
housewife, and Bob,
Inc., nave
have three
with the Pfizer International, mu.,
children — Robert, James and Pamela.
1942—
Bob Rovinski is a top engineer in the Naval
Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He
is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers and the American
Nuclear Society. Bob and his wife. Helen,
have two children — Bob and Nancy.
Mrs. Herb Mitchell (Elizabeth Womelsdorf) is
another busy housewife, with her husband
and two growing children, Ann Meredith and
Elizabeth Jane, to take care of every spare
minute.
1943—
Bill Davis's family consists of his lovely
wife, Jane, and their two children — Kim and
Jaime. He is supervisor of the Cost Depart
ment in the Potter Instruments Company, Inc.
19.6—Martin Berger, who left Wilkes in 1946
and went on to George Washington Universi
ty. graduated and is now an attorney and an
accountant with the Internal Revenue Service.
He recently :married the former Miss Ethle
Genes of Reclife, Brazil, who is at present
work'ng at the Brazilian Embassy in Wash
ington, D.C.
1047—
M. Lloyd Davies is in charge of the Res\ilts
Department of the Penna. Power and Light
Company. He supervises station performance,
calculations and economy,
5, water treatment
and the maintenance_ of inst
.jstrumenls and controls. His official title is Results Engineer,
Llovd graduated from Bucknell University in
1949 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.
1948—
Dr. James F. Roberts, Wilkes Alumnus,
cently announced his return to the pi
irivate
practice of dentistry from active duty■ with
the Army.
His office is located at 4059
Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort, Pa.
1949—
Henry <Ozarko, who received his terminal
certificate* in Engineering ffrom Wilkes was
graduated in 1951
from
Pc
'
’
nenn State with a
B.S. in Aeronautical Engineerinc
ing. He is now
associated with the Departmen.
mt of the Navy
as a Project Engineer.
1950—
After graduating from Wilkes in 1950, John
Surash went on to Lehigh University to earn
his Master's Degree in Chemistry. At the
present time, he is an Instructor of Chemistry
at Lehigh and a Ph.D. Candidate in Analytical’ Chemistry.
‘ '
John’s wife, the former Marlyn Goham, pres
isented him with a Christmas
present by the name
:
of Robert on the 28th
of December, 1957. Their other children are
John Jr., 3!/z; and Carol Ann, l>/2.
Ted Wolfe, 1950 graduate of Wilkes, is
employed by the Local Union 4889, United
Steelv/orkers of America, AFL-CIO in Morris
ville, Pennsylvania as an Office Manager.
Ted and his wife, the former Lorraine Bottoms,
have one child, Robert Mark.
Catherine Smith, after receiving her A.B.
degree in Psychology, became associated
with the Police Department of Washington.
D.C. She married John J. Shants and at
present she is a Policewoman with the
Women's Bureau of the Metropolitan Police
Department of Washington, D.C. She deals
with criminal investigation, family emergen
cies, and delinquency. Catherine and John
have one daughter, Catherine Mary, born in
October, 1956.
1951—
Jane Maxwell has certainly traveled quite
a distance to follow her profession.. She is a
Group Worker at the Houchen Settlement
House in El Paso, Texas, where sshe works
with Spanish-speaking children,
Jane re
ceived her A.B. in Sociology.
Vester Vercoe, '51 grad
rad, is now with the
G. &- W. H. Corson Co., Inc., in IPlymouth
Meeting, IPennsylvania. Vester is again ver}
"ery
active ini the Philadelphia Chapter of th<
the
Alumni Association.
Glenn H. Rheinhart is another of our alumni
who is employed by Westinghouse. He is
Regional Budget and Planning Manager in
the Atlantic region of Pennsylvania. He re
sides with his wife, the former Wilma Hoff
man, and their son. Mark, in Broomall, Penn
sylvania.
1952—
Howard Phillips is teaching 8th and 9th
grade English at Brecksville High School,
Brecksville, Ohio. Besides his teaching duties,
Howard has been working on his M.A., which
he will receive from Westein Reserve in June.
1958. Ho and his wife, the former June Johns
ton, have two children — Stephen, 4 years
old, and Diane, I1.2 years old.
Carrol V. Stein is att present employed by
of Philadel__
the Curtis Circulation Company
(
phlcr. His duties involve formulating office
phia.
procedures, layout work, form design, office
equipment and evaluation. Ccinc-l
Carrol samemarried
A.deline Elvis, a Wilkes College alumna, and
they have one daughter, Linda Christine, age
5.
Bob Shemo, who received his AJB. in_Bk
ology from Wilkes and in 1957 became a
Doctor of Dental Surgery, has an office on
North Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
1953—
Sandor Yelen, ai graduate in Political
Science, received his
1
L.L.B. from Dickinson
Lav/ School in 1956. and is now an attorney
residing in Wilkes-Barre.
1954—
.. Liggett,
-iggeL. who received her B.S. in
Lucy ]J.
"’
’
from Wilkes in 1954, is
Nursing Education
sing Educanow the Assistant Director of Nursinc
>ital, Kingslion of the Nesbitt Memorial Hospi.ton, Pennsylvania.
Ralph B. Rozelle is working
ing on a Fellowship
in Fuel Technologv at the Pennsylvania
Pei
State
University. Ralph recently had an article
f
entitled, Fuel Cells, Potential Source
of Electri
cal Energy, printed in the magazine. Mineral
Industries.
Leonard J. Mather (Matublewski) is doing
graduate work in Virginia at William and
Mary College.
Katherine F. Goetzman recently changed
her last name to Peckam, but also put Lt. Jr.
Grade before her name instead of the usual
Mrs. She is stationed at the U. S. Naval
Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
1955—
Janet Eckell recently became engaged to
Kenneth W. Tuttle, Yale '57. Ken is entering
the University of Maryland Medical School.
They are planning a lovely June wedding.
Ellen Louise Wint, formerly Lt. Ellen Louise
Wint of the United States Marine Corps, is
now a civilian and is working as a case
worker for the Lucerne County Child Welfare
Service.
1956—
Stan Abrams, not stopping with his Master's
degree, is now in his second semester as a
candidate for a Ph.D. degree in Psychology.
He is also interning at Vineland State Train
ing School. He and his wife, Jacqueline, re
side in Barrington, New Jersey.
Neil Turtel recently was discharged from
the Army. He is taking graduate work at
N.Y.U. and working as an advertising as
sistant in the Princeton Knitting Mills.
1957—
The Bill Daw's (nee Nancy Schooley) are
now living in Atlanta, Georgia, where Bill is
with the Becton, Dickinson and Company
(Medical supplies).
Bill Jacobson is working Ifor the Okonite
Company as a Timo Study O1
Jbserver in North
Brunswick, New Jersey.
39
�Jaworski was graduated from Wyoming Semi
nary and received a Bachelor of Arts degree
in music from Wilkes College. She has also
been known in this area as a fine soloist. Mr.
Jaworski, a veteran of World War II, was
graduated from Michigan State University with
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Arts.
Both are teachers in the Little Falls School
System, New Jersey.
New
Arrivals
Down
tire Aisle
!
Dr. Edmund V. Niklewski, '55, of Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania, took as his bride the former
Roberta Woods of Sayre, Pennsylvania. Miss
Woods was graduated from the Williamsport
High School and Williamsport Hospital School
of Nursing. She is presently a member of
the nursing staff at Divine Providence Hospital.
Dr. Niklewski, who received his degrees from
Wilkes College and Jefferson School of Medi
cine in Philadelphia, is currently serving as
chief .resident on the staff of the Williamsport
Hospital.
Miss Helen Mae Krachenfels, class of '56,
recently became the bride of Donald L. Reed
of Havre de Grace, Maryland. Helen gradu
ated from Wilkes with an A.B. in English, and
now teaches in Edgewood High School. She
teaches both junior high school and senior
high English.
Mr. Peter Paul Back, Jr., and Miss Mollie
Beard, class of 1956, recently became husband
'and wife. Mollie graduated from Wilkes with
a B.S. in Commerce and Finance, and is now
busy with household chores. At the present
time, Pete is working
wg for Linear, Inc., Dallas,
plans to enter Wilkes in
Pennsylvania, but ph
September to study for a B.A. in Mathematics.
“Uy Nan
The recent marriage of Miss "
Sall]
irey of East
Thomas of Plymouth to Paul Can
n St. BernaHaven, Connecticut, took place in
dette's rectory at East Haven, Miss Thomas
is a graduate of V
Wilkes
T”’—- College, class of 1955,
and has a Terminal Certificate, She is now
employed as a medical secretai
secretary to a doctor
of pathology at Yale Universe
University while her
husband, Paul, is in the insurance and real
estate business. Miss Janet Eckell, a former
classmate of the bride, had the honor of being
Sally's Maid of Honor. Following the recep
tion which was held at the Carey residence,
the couple honeymooned in New York and
are now residing at 150 Cherry Hill Circle,
Branford, Connecticut.
Miss Jane W. Salwoski, who graduated
from Wilkes in 1952 with a B.A. in English
has acquired a new name. She is now Mrs.
Jane D'Angelo and is now living in Newark
Valley, New York.
February 15 was the date for the lovely
wedding of Miss Ruth I. Wilbur, class of 1955,
and Peter L. Bretz of Devon, Connecticut. Ruth
obtained her B.S. in Elementary Education
from Wilkes and was a member of the faculty
of Woodmere, Long Island, schools. The bride
groom, an alumnus of Plainfield, New Jersey,
High School and Columbia College School of
40
ig, Columbia University, is employed
Engineerinc
by United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., of
Philadelphia. After a honeymoon in Florida,
'll King Street, Stratthe couple will live at 8;
ford, Connecticut.
Miss Nancy Clement Brown and Peter Ross
.........
• ’ on ”
’
i, 1958,
Williams
were married
February
rch. The
in the Dorranceton Methodist Chun
jraduated from Wilkes with the class
bride gi
ee in Commerce
of 1956 and has a B.S. degree
and Finance. After a trip to INew York City.
the couple will reside on Wyoming Avenue
in Kingston. This happy couple's marriage
is off to a good start since the Williams' are
competitors in business; that is, Nancy is em
ployed by Lazarus Department Store and Pete
by Pomeroy's, Inc.
Miss Phyllis M. Schrader, a terminal gr<
jraduate in 1956, recently became the bride
de of
Eugene L. Mensh of Elysburg, Pennsylvc
rania,
at the Methodist Church in Burlington,
uarlington, near
Towanda. The bride is a grr
Jjraduate
of Troy
High School, of Wilkes College, and is em
ployed as a medical technologist in Geisinger
Hospital, Danville. The bridegroc
oom is a graduate of Ralpho High School, Elysburg,
E_
and
has served two years with the Unitec
’ id States
Army, 19 months of which were spent in
Germany. He is currentl]
ly employed at
Thompson Products, Danville, iwhere they are
making their future home.
Max M. Salsburg, class of 1957 and vicepresident of the Texas Meat Co., of Kingston,
Pennsylvania, took the big step and became
the husband of the former Roslyn Melletz. The
bride is a graduate of Harcum Junior College,
and trained at Albert Einstein Medical Center
for X-ray technology. After a wedding trip
to Bermuda, the newlyweds will reside at 317
South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Miss Carol Miller, who attended Wilkes from
1955 to 1957, recently k
______ the bride of
became
Willard R .Snyder on Octc
’zzi 12,
2
•tober
12, 1227.
1957. Carol,
a native of Wilkes-Barre, is now residing with
her new husband at Hollywood Road, Fort
Washington, Pennsylvania.
On Saturday, February 1, 1958, Mary Lord
Mory became the bride of......
.......Ankner. Both
Frank
Mary and Frank attended
------------ Wilkes and are now
living
____
ig on Williams Street in East <Orange.
New
Jersey. Mary
is well
M—Ms
well known
known around
around ’c<
campus
as Dr. Farley's former secretary and as a
future elementary teacher. Frank also atat
tended Pennsylvania State University and is
presently enrolled at Fairleigh-Dickinson Uni
versity at Rutherford. New Jersey. The groom
is now employed in the engineering depart
ment of Western Electric Company. Kearny
New Jersey.
The late winter wedding of Basia Mieszkowski and Gustave Jaworski took place
Saturday, February
15, 1958, in SS. Peter and
Februc
Paul s Church,
Mrs.
lurch. Plains, Pennsylvania.
1952—
;orge and Joan Cross, a son, Gregor
To Gee
>ry.
22. George is employed by
bom on February
1
the Hercules Powder Company as a Process
Control Chemist. The Cross's are residing in
Kenvil, New Jersey.
To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Croucher, a son,
born on February 10. The Crouchers are re
siding in Linden, New Jersey, where Bob is
employed by the Rosen Agency.
1956—
daughte
To Cliff and Nancy Brautigan, a daughter,
ar
bom on February 25. Cliff is a teacher and
the basketball coach in Hightstown High
School, New Jersey. The Brautigans are re
siding in Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey.
1957—
To John and Della Milliman, a daughter,
”
—
“xruary 19. She joins a
Linda,
born —
on v
Februc
John is employed
sister, Judy, bom in 1955.
19J
as the Production Dep
apartment Head for Seco
Mills, a cotton knit goo
jods firm. The Millimans
Jyn, New York.
are residing in Brookl]
Completed
Careers
ALFRED P. HUGHES, '52
.Alfred P. Hughes died in an automobile
accident in California on March 9, 1958. After
receiving a terminal certificate from Wilkes in
1952, Al went to the University of Southern
California and received his B.S. in Civil
Engineering.
Al is survived by his wife, Doris, and
daughter, Deborah Ann, who was bom in
January. 1958.
EARL D. JOHNSON. '55
Earl Douglas Johnson, who received his B.S.
in Education from Wilkes in 1955, died on
February 17 in Moses Taylor Hospital, Scran
ton, Pa., after a brief illness.
Bom at Lake Ariel, he lived in Moscow, Pa.,
most of his life. Mr. Johnson was a member
of the Moscow Methodist Church. He was on
the faculty of the John Hill School, Boontown,
New Jersey.
While at Wilkes, Earl was a member of
the Economics Club, Education Club, History
Club, and participated in Intramural Basket
ball.
Surviving are his parents, Clare and Ethel I.
Hunt Johnson, Moscow; a sister, Mrs. Robert
Lyon, Mission, Kansas; his maternal grand
mother. Mrs. Frederick Vernon, Paterson, New
Jersey; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs.
Earl M. Killiam, Lake Ariel.
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�Board of Trustees
Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman
ASgg US
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
George Elliot has been appointed Chairman of the
Evaluation Committee, and has the responsibility of
Mrs. Paul Bedford
seeing that all phases of the evaluation are completed
Frank Burnside
for the visiting accreditors.
Francis O. Case
Contents:
All the faculty and the
administration are assigned to groups to each evaluate
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
and report upon a phase of college activity.
Page
William L. Conyngham
Mr. Elliot
in his statement below enlists your support for the
alumni report.
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Self-Evaluation — A Challenge
Miss Annette Evans
Homecoming Report
Eugene S. Farley
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
Harry F. Goeringer
Class Reunions ...
The Dean's Report
Mr. George Elliot
Faculty Notes
8
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Musical Comedy to Be Presented
Joseph F. Lester
New Faculty
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The next year and one-half promises to be a
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Self Evaluation: A Challenge, An Opportunity
Faculty Seminars Planned
period of bustling activity and progressive change
Class Notes
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here at Wilkes College.
faculty members are investigating and discussing
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
one another's responsibilities and achievements;
when the library, the budget, the curriculum, the
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Julius Long Stern
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Aaron Weiss
athletic policy, and all other phases of college life
Our cover for this month, denoting the Thanksgiving season, is a
line-drawing done by Walter Glogowski. Walter is an art major at
the college and is also a Middle Atlantic States wrestling champion.
Walter's drawings of woodland scenes and wildlife are sought after
on the campus.
President
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Published by Wilkes College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Joseph J. Savitz, President
Clayton A. Bloomburg. Vice-President
Russ Picton
William Zdancewicz
Editor
Assistant Editor
are subject to rigorous examination and review.
It
will be a time to find out current student opinion as
to the strength and weaknesses of our constitution.
Volume 5, No. I
Its results,
however, are directly proportional to two things(a.) the honesty and candor of the inquiry — its rrim
October, 1958
Published quarterly ao the Alumnus for the members of tho Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, S2.00
not to defend; and (b.) the extent to which all of us
are drawn seriously into the project.
I can assure
you that each of your former teachers is entering
into this program with enthusiasm and with sinceri
It will be a time when we will call upon you, the
ty.
alumni, for help in making the Wilkes College of
enthusiasm and sincerity when your opinions and
the future a stronger and better school.
suggestions are solicited by the alumni office.
I trust that you too will demonstrate an equal
Our project is institutional self-evaluation, an
Wilkes College stands today as a testimonial
analysis of Wilkes' total educational effectiveness
to the vision, the devotion, and the cooperative
made by its own staff, its students and its alumni —
efforts of many people in the community, on the
the people best qualified to do it and to whom it
faculty, and within the student body.
means the most. Our purpose is to give each of us
ments have been many; its reputation is secure and
a clearer concept of what we want Wilkes College
wide-spread; and its potentiality for progress has
to be, to make a realistic appraisal of our past and
been well demonstrated.
present performance, to devise plans for overcoming
also with humility and a continuing sense of dedica
our difficulties and to try to stimulate a new surge
tion that we now look toward the future.
Anita Jane-rich. Secretary
Dr. Herbert Oliver, Treasurer
A real self-evaluation is a major enterprise
which can be abundantly rewarding.
must really be to understand, evaluate, and improve;
ON THE COVER...
Alumni Officers
of common effort to develop and improve our school.
The challenge is ours; it is equally yours!
It will be a time when
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Andrew J. Sordoni
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Its achieve
It is with pride, but it is
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Homecoming a Rousing Success
Maximum Crowd Attends All Events
There is no doubt that the 11th
Annual Homecoming was a com
plete success in the minds of every
one who attended. It was the best
attended, and had the fullest pro
gram of any yet conceived on our
campus. From Friday night's Homecoming displays until the end of the
Saturday night informal dance, the
alumni were completely engrossed
in a schedule of festive activities.
The football team made the week
end 100 per cent successful with an
8-0 victory over Ursinus.
Co-chairmen of the Homecoming
Program Gifford Cappellini and Don
ald Honeywell are to be commended
for their thorough planning of the
Homecoming weekend. This year,
over 400 alumni returned for Homecoming. The program has become
so successful that the problem of
our local group is where to hold the
affairs next year. We have taxed all
of the available facilities to the limit.
Homecoming decorations were again won by Gore Hall. Since the
was the third time in succession, the
trophy was retired permanently and
presented to them. The best car
decoration in the student parade
prior to the game vias won by Skip
Gladstcn, '62. The 1958 Homecom
ing Queen was Mary Jean Broody,
and the Princesses were Barbara
Federer and Mary Louise Spinelli.
Over 200 alumni attended the Fri
day night warm-up party which was
its usual success. The party was
moved to a larger room in the Kings
ton House because of the increase
in attendance. Many long-lost faces
were seen and welcomed back into
the fold. This party continues to be
the most talked about and most suc
cessful.
Dr. and Mrs. Farley graciously
offered to be hosts for a Coffee Hour
in their home on Saturday morning.
Over 50 alumni and friends attended
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and had a fine time chatting with
the Farleys and many of their class
mates. The alumni were served by
members of the Theta Delta Rho —
the Wilkes College sorority.
Members of the Executive Council
of the Alumni Association met at
12:00 noon on Saturday, October 18,
to discuss our current program and
plan for the future activities of the
association. Fourteen members were
present and helped shape our policy
for the coming year. The council
discussed the report of the Constitu
tion Committee and the Alumni Fund
Report.
Also discussed were the
Graduation Award, Alumnus Maga
zine, Chapter Activities, Past-Presi
dent Awards and the coming reevaluation of Wilkes College in 1960.
Action was taken on the Graduation
Award by passing a recommenda
tion that a S50 cash gift be given to
the outstanding graduate along with
the traditional pin that the Alumni
Association has been giving.
An overflowing crowd at our
Saturday evening informal dance
witnessed the honor given to our
Past-Presidents when they were awarded plaques in appreciation of
their services to the association. The
award read:
Presented to
in sincere appreciation of out
standing service and leadership
as President of Wilkes College
Alumni Association.
Date
_________
The awards were presented to:
Louise Rummer Berry
1947
Daniel Williams
1948-49
Donald Honeywell 1950-51-56
William Griffith
1952
Thomas E. Brislin
1953
William Luetzel
1954-55
Gifford Cappellini
1957
Shown above in front, from left to right, are: Russ
Williams, Clayton Bloomburg, Dr. Herbert Oliver, Dr.
Robert Kerr, William Dancewicz, Anita Janerich, Rayne
Devin. Second row, facing: Daniel Williams, William
Boyd, Gifford Cappellini, Russ Picton, and Joseph
Savitz.
Members of the Executive Council are shown above
at their luncheon meeting discussing the Alumni Asso
ciation's future activities. The Council consists of all
Past Presidents of the Association, chapter heads, fund
chairmen, and the current officers. The meeting was
presided over by Joseph J. Savitz, Alumni President.
CLASS REUNIONS
Perhaps the true measure of a
successful program is indicated by
individuals who take time to person
ally express their views about a pro
gram. Not once, not twice, but count
less times, members of the alumni
who returned home for Homecoming
expressed their views of "a complete
success" — "the best we've ever
had" to members of the various com
mittees. We are happy to hear these
statements for our plans are made
with your satisfaction in mind.
Forty alumni and guests attended
the first Class Reunions held by the
Alumni Association at the Irem
Temple Country Club on Saturday,
October 18.
Members
'43, '48 and
dinner in a
the Country
TEA AT FARLEYS — Dr. and Mrs. Farley are shown playing host to members of the
Alumni Association in their home during Homecoming weekend,
attended the registration on Saturday morning.
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I
of the classes of '38„
'53 met at an informal
private dining room of
Club.
Dr. and Mrs. Farley were guests
of the classes holding their reunions.
Dr. Farley entertained the group
with stories of the early trials and
tribulations of the College and
thanked them for their continued in
terest and support.
Reverend Reuben Rader, Dr.
William Myers and Attorney Joseph
J. Savitz gave brief words of wel
come to their classmates and en
joined them to plan to return again
in 1963 for their next reunions.
There was no official program.
The Executive Alumni Secretary
thanked Dr. Myers, Attorney Savitz,
and William Morgan for their aid in
setting up the program for their
classes. The rest of the evening was
spent in reminiscing and much
opening of wallets to display prized
family pictures.
Dr. Farley, dinner guest of the reunioning classes at the Irem Temple Country
Club, is caught telling one of his humorous tales of the early days of the College to
members of the classes. Over 40 alumni returned to their class reunions which were
held this year for the first time.
Shown below, at the speakers table, are: Russ Picton, Executive Alumni
Secretary; Mrs. Farley, Dr. Farley, Rayne Devin, and Joseph J. Savitz.
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�Of all our families, the student fam
ily has been, is, and always will be
the most important. Students are our
raison d'etre. In a little more than
a decade we have met and come to
know approximately four thousand
Colonels. The privilege of working
with students is unsurpassed for its
savory, succelent, interesting good
ness. Possibly, in every aspect, our
students during the past decade
have represented the full circle. In
their being and in their aspirations
they have traced the gamut of young
human endeavor. Though we have
access to few factual studies of our
students other than those related to
academic fare, it is probably safe
to say that we could identify, with
the journalistic pundits, those of our
students who are of the so-called
"Decade of Decision," the "Anti
Intellectual," the "Beat Generation,"
the "No-Nonsense Kids," etc. AU of
this is to say that our decade of stu
dents has reflected the times. Who
can say exactly that this is true? We
can but reflect and suppose that
these labels have been applicable.
Students
The Heart
of the Matter
By George Ralston, Dean of Men
The Wilkes family is civilization —
considered in all its aspects. It is
wonderful — and our family is grow
ing.
Yes, I'm still here; older, if not
wiser, vigorous enough and dutifully
grateful to extend heartfelt greetings
and best wishes to alumni every
where.
When Wilkes invited me in 1946,
there v/as little to suggest that thir
teen very exciting years were in the
effing. The time has passed as
quickly and as pleasantly as a sweet
dream. Possibly the world without,
this era at Wilkes has been one of
unimagined growth in the relation
ships that have meant a rich harvest
in experience that has made life
richer, fuller, and more useful. Those
of us who have enjoyed the work
and play at Willies for so many
years have the knowledge that love
is not merely an emotion or simply
an idea. It is a purpose and a
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George Ralston
mission. Love is not a volitional
flirtation with the thing it adores; it
marries it and produces a family.
We are still here, and we say as
did Daniel Webster, "It is. Sir, a
small college, but we love it." John
Gould, too, in his delightful essay
entitled "And One to Grow On,"
states our case very aptly as he tells
about the minister who asked all in
the congregation who wanted to go
to Heaven to rise. All but one man
rose. Then the minister asked those
who wanted to go to Hell to stand.
Nobody rose. The puzzled parson
stared down at the non-cooperator
and asked where he wanted to go.
Nowhere," came the reply. "I like
it here." And so do we. We love
it, have married it, and are producing
families.
s
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In the early days following the
war our students were eager for
"life" and education. They were in
college following the arid and aus
tere days of military effort. Their
bent was for a fast education, and
along with it they slaked their appe
tite on recreation which had been
missed. Almost without knowing It
they "lived it up," got their educa
tion, and entered the world of work
as soon as possible. They made
hurried decisions.
Then came a wave of so-called
anti-intellectualism. (With the tradi
tional dedication to high ideals of
academic achievement which has
prevailed at Wilkes, one can scarce
ly believe that this tag was promi
nent here. It is reasonable to believe
that those who wore it did not long
remain.) The depreciation of intelli
gence, the ridicule of the intellectual
was the stock in trade of the dema
gogue, and McCarthy and his ilk
permeated student bodies.
They are writing now about the
"Beat Generation," and it is possible
that we have seen it along with the
despair of anti-intellectualism. In
the individual student it is difficult
to identify, but the traits are related
and on the whole these tags may
apply, for students reflected the dis
illusion and dissension of the times.
Perhaps these slogans have come
to the fore because students have
lacked the deep inner conviction
(they have not been convinced) that
education in its broadest sense un
locks the door of our future, and that
it gives us the tools without which
"the pursuit of haopiness' becomes
a hollow chasing after triviality, a
mindless boredom relieved only by
the stimulus of sensationalism or
quenched with a tranquilizer pill.
One outstanding trait of our stu
dents in 1958 is that they are scarce
ly acting at all like college students
have been known to act. Those of
us who have been a part of the scene
over the years cannot decide to clap
cr wring our hands about the condi
tion. We cannot decide whether to
day's students are dull, oblivious to
all the potentially lethal chaos which
lurks in the maze of world politics,
economic paradoxes, and social
riddles, or that he is simply more
mature than his Predecessors, It
seems apparent, however, that a
stranae sort of cultural calm has
settled over our students. We think
this is good. Perhaps it is a "builtin" antibody for the protection of the
species, or a sort of period for direc
tion-finding before setting a course
fcr the future.
Though our present students may
seem passive as compared to those
who have gone before, we are aware that they are not smug. Rather
they are serious about the present
demands that it is necessary to be
brighter, more conscientious, and
more in earnest than was required of
students of former years. Competi
tion looms larger than ever before,
and it follows that our current stu
dents are aware of their academic
records as never before. If alumni
seem to remember a scramble for
grades when they were in college,
it is much more evident with today's
crop of undergraduates. The gentle
man "C" is not too respectable to
day. This seems to describe today's
students — they are serious. Some
one has labelled them the "NoNonsense Kids."
Over the years as students have
come and gone, we note that they
have been and will continue to be
a fine lot. It is one thing to evalu
ate what students have been like or
what they now are, but it is more
challenging to travel beyond the
horizon and promote the "what ought
to be." In this we as a faculty are
solemnly engaged. This is a chal
lenging venture which makes all
education worth the try. Our pur
pose is not to produce either products
or profits, but to improve the minds
of students. The College exists for
students, and as students change, as
we have fleetingly ventured to de
scribe, the mission of the College will
be to meet the changes and still to
press on toward the goals of ultimate
benefit to all. We shall more and
more encounter an increasingly
great need for broadly educated men
and women who have the intellectu
al ability and the moral convictions
to make vital decisions. Our stu
dents will be required to have a
command of the scientific and techno
logical concepts of our world, and
they will also need to know about
the great moral, philosophical, and
historical truth- of mankind. Stu
dents and their experience with all
these things, I submit, is our dedi
cated purpose at your alma mater.
As we go about our "day by day,"
we have fond memories of you who
were here. We wish you weU in all
the interests dear to your hearts, and
we summon your help to a joyous
but strenuous and never-ceasing
fight to strengthen your alma mater,
understand it, work for it, give to it,
and keep it constantly in your pur
poses.
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�Faculty Notes of interest
Vacationing in Europe
Mr. Elwood Disgue and Miss Syl
via Dvzorski, language professors at
Wilkes, spent the summer touring
Europe. Both planned their itinerary
to include a visit to the World's Fair
in Brussels as a highlight of the trips.
Dr. and Mrs. Stanko Vujica also
toured European countries this sum
mer. They left for Europe in the early
part of August after summer school
finished.
Visited Canada
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Bastress
spent their vacation in Nova Scotia,
Canada, this summer, visiting rela
tives.
Dr. John Doane, college physician,
and his wife,, Mrs. Gertrude Doane,
Dean of Women at Wilkes, enjoyed
a 10-day summer vacation touring
Nova Scotia, Canada.
Within the 48
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Farley
spent their summer vacation touring
the Adirondack Mountains in New
York,. They also visited with their
S. Farley, Jr., and his
son, Eugene
T
family
'y in Burlington, Vermont.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Chwalek spent
their summer vacation in South Caro
lina.
Extended Research
Dr. and Mrs. Hoh-Cheung Mui
spent the summer months at Yale
University where they did additional
work on their research project —
"Tea Drinking Habit of the people in
England."
Advanced Study
The following faculty members
took advantage of the summer
months to attend graduate schools
and obtain credits toward higher de
grees:
. .. Mr. Allen E. Bacon, Jr., Business
Administration, attended Penn
sylvania State University. He
is working toward his Masters
Degree.
... Mr. Arthur J. Hoover, Com
merce and Finance, attended
Pennsylvania State University.
He is working toward a Masters
Degree in Education.
. .. Mr. John G. Reese, Physical
Education, attended Pennsylva
nia State University. He is
working toward a Masters De
gree.
... Mr. Ronald D. Michman, Re
tailing, attended the New York
University. He is working to
ward his Doctorate in Educa
tion.
... Mr. Benjamin F. Fiester, En
glish, attended Bucknell Uni
versity. He is working toward
his Doctorate in Education.
... Mr. Robert E. Werner, Econom
ics, attended the University of
Wisconsin. He is working to
ward his Doctorate in Econom
ics.
. .. Mr. John H. Hotson, Economics,
attended U. of Pennsylvania,
where he is working for his
doctorate in economic theory.
Newly appointed members of the Wilkes Col
lege Faculty are shown above with Dr. Alfred
Bastress, dean of instruction, and Dr. Eugene Farley,
president of Wilkes.
Seated, left to right: Miss Jessie Roderick, Dr.
Farley, and Mrs. E. Russell May.
Faculty Expanded for This Year
Btairal bmedly To He tesiri Ib
On December 4, 5, 6 at Irem Tem
ple the College will present its fourth
musical comedy — the second in its
affiliation with the Wilkes-Barre Kivanis. The show is Irving Berlin's
best seller, Annie Get Your Gun.
The association b e t vz e e n the
Wilkes-Barre Kiwanis and the college
: neater is just another indication of
the warm relationship between the
College and the community.
Last year Kiwanis sponsored three
college shovzs and, as a service club
interested in the welfare of communi
ty organizations, contributed the pro
ceeds to the Boy Scouts to make
capital improvements at Camp Acahela. This year the Wyoming Val
ley Girl Scouts will benefit
Kiwanis support and generous
community response made possible
a program at the College that our
budget could not fulfill and, in addi
tion, gave opportunity to the students
to perform before large audiences.
The three shovzs were the musicol
comedy, Paint Your Wagon, in vzhich
the Wilkes Collegians strengthened
their reputation as a major contribu
tor to the activities program at the
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Alfred S. Groh
College; Witness for the Prosecution,
Agatha Christie's courtroom mystery
melodrama; and Holiday, a comedy
by Philip Barry. First-rate sets con
tributed by the Art Department as-
sured the success of all three pro
ductions.
This year Kiwanis offered to spon
sor a similar program. It was felt
that until we had the necessary fa
cilities to justify such an ambitious
season the College would prepare
cne show — a musical. Again the
production is under the supervision
of Cue and Curtain and the sets
under the direction of the Art Depart
ment. Since the musical is a college
production, the cast has been se
lected from the male chorus, the
mixed chorus, as well as from the
theater membership. In the spring
the theater will present Tiger at the
Gates.
In keeping with our policy, a pre
view performance will be attended
by area high school students. Last
year's musical drew over 1000. We
have already received a reguest
from a high school in Newark for
tickets to Annie.
The College is grateful to Kiwanis,
a civic organization, many of whose
members contribute individually to
our scholarship program and gen(conltnuGd on pago 15)
Standing: James R. Parmenter, George Gera,
Dr. Bastress, Adnah Kostenbauder, John Gaito, E.
Russell May, William R. Gasbarro, Chester E. Col
son, Calvin D. Freeman, and Francis Pinkowski.
Absent when photo was taken: James S, Paler
mo and Martin Friedmann.
Wealth of Experience Added To College
J
Miss Roderick, instructor in ele
mentary education, was graduated
from Willres College in 1956 and
later gained her Master's degree in
Education at Columbia Teachers
College.
Last year Miss Roderick taught in
the Pennsbury school system located
in Falsington, Penna. She presently
resides at 128 Dagobert St., WilkesBarre.
Mrs. Elizabeth May, Mathematics
Instructor, is the wife of E. Russell
May, who is also a new member of
the faculty. Mrs. May is a graduate
of Purdue University where she re
ceived her Bachelor of Science de
gree in Mechanical Engineering.
Mrs. May and her husband reside
cn Old River Road, Wilkes-Barre,
with their two sons, ages eight and
twelve.
E. Russell May is presently teach
ing freshman engineering and sur
veying at Wilkes. May previously
taught for Penn State Extension and
received his Master of Science in
Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University.
Before coming to Wilkes, May was
employed at the Dow Chemical
Company and was a project en
gineer for General Electric. He is
presently operating his own con
sulting engineers firm, which spe
cializes in heating, air conditioning,
and process engineering.
Chester Colson is now teaching in
the Commerce and Finance depart
ment at Wilkes and is also assistant
professor in the Art Education de
partment. Colson received his
Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Edu
cation from Columbia University.
Before coming to Wilkes, Colson
held the position of an "In Service
Teacher" in the Burlington, Vermont,
School System. He is a member of
the Philadelphia Water Society, and
has had many one-man exhibitions
throughout the United States, and he
also spent one year traveling with
an art show through Europe.
Cclson resides with his family at
230 S. River St., Wilkes-Bane.
Martin Friedmann, a violinist with
a rich background of training and
experience, is presently teaching in
the music department at Wilkes.
Prior to accepting this assignment,
Friedmann completed a year of ad
vanced violin study in Vienna with
Ricardo Odnoposoff. Friedmann be
gan his musical education in Austria.
In this country he attended the Go
shen College in Indiana; received
his bachelor's and master's degrees
from the Juilliard School of Music,
N.Y.
After his studies, teachings, and
solo recitals, Friedmann traveled to
Japan, India, Indonesia, Africa, Aus
tria, and Europe, during which time
he remained in Mussorie, India, for
one year teaching music at the
Woodstock School.
In addition to teaching at Wilkes,
Friedmann is Assistant Conductor of
the Philharmonic Orchestra in
Wilkes-Barre and also a member of
the Philharmonic Quartet.
Friedmann is married to the former
Laila Storch of Santa Rosa, Califor
nia, a graduate of the Curtis Insti
tute of Music in Philadelphia.
James S. Palermo, economics intcontinued on page 14)
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The Alumni of Wilkes College
need not be told about the broad and
lively intellectual interests of our
Faculty. Anyone who attended
classes at Wilkes and took part in
the campus life could not fail to be
impressed with the spirit of disci
plined and open-minded intellectual
inquiry, so characteristic of our Col
lege. Yet, we hardly know of some
other activities of our Faculty ex
pressing the same determination to
keep up with the intellectual currents
of the times.
Our Faculty at Wilkes has been
known for years as a capable and
dedicated team always intellectual
ly alert and ready to give their time
and energy to any program that
would provide them with an oppor
tunity to enjoy a stimulating lecture
or discussion.
Some of you may recall when
some years ago, a number of the
faculty members organized a dis
cussion group, nicknamed humorous
ly the "Groping Group" or simply:
G. G., which gradually developed
into a larger informal gathering and
which had several successful dis
cussion meetings devoted to various
philosophical and scientific topics.
The group was active throughout
one academic year and was plan
ning to continue its meetings. How
ever, some changes on the Faculty,
as well as the increasing responsi
bilities of some other members of the
group, resulted in its temporary de
mise.
Last year, on the initiative of sev
eral members of the old group, but
with a strong encouragement and
support from many new members of
the Faculty, a new and even more
promising discussion group came in
to being under a more formal label
of Wilkes College Faculty Seminar.
The new group is somewhat differ
ently conceived than the old G. G.,
but it partakes of the same spirit of
intellectual adventure, interest in the
new trends in science and in philoso
phy, and love for courteous and witty
academic discourse.
The Faculty Seminar has already
two successful meetings and is ex
pecting to have ready for September
a definite program of lectures and
discussions. The group is not for
mally organized and has only one
officer, a secretary whose duty it is
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to attend to the necessary details of
its activities. However, for each
meeting a presiding officer is elected
in advance, and a speaker, or sev
eral speakers or discussants are
chosen.
The first meeting of the Faculty
Seminar was held on April 11. Dr.
Frank J. J. Davies acted as a moder
ator and Dr. Konstantin Symmons
was the speaker. The topic for the
first meeting was appropriately
broad and af general interest inas
much as Dr. Symmons chose to dis
cuss: Some Recent Comments and
Dr. Konstantin Symmons
Observations on American Culture
and Personality.
After some remarks of methodo
logical nature, the speaker presented
an interesting survey of various theo
ries interpreting the changing char
acteristics of American culture and
cf various attempts to assay Ameri
can national character. He classi
fied these theories and approaches
under some five headings: 1. Historicsophical approaches stressing
the critical condition of the Western
Civilization in general and the
American culture in particular, earli
er view of Spengler and more recent
theories of Toynbee and, especially,
Sorokin; 2. Psychiatric approaches
diagnosing various problems of
American societv as symptoms of
various serious social ills, the
writings of such psychoanalyticallycriented authors as K. Horney, F.
Alexander, E. Fromm, L. Frank and
some others; 3. Various attempts to
describe and to interpret American
national character or personality
types, the writings of anthropologists,
sociologists and historians such as
M. Mead, C. Kluckhohn, F. Hsu, G.
Gorer, D. Riesman, D. M. Potter and
some others; 4. Some segmental
analyses of American society, such
as M. Curti's American Paradox, B.
Rosenberg and D. M. White's Mass
Culture, Sorokin's American Sexual
Revolution, and some others; 5. Some
historical analyses of American Civil
ization stressing its unique features,
such as recently published American
Civilization by M. Lerner.
The limitation of time did not per
mit the speaker to discuss system
atically more than the first two
groups of theories. However, in the
lively discussion that followed his
lecture, he was able to make addi
tional comments on some of those in
cluded in the three remaining groups,
especially on works by Riesman and
Lerner.
The meeting was attended by
about twenty Faculty members and
although no refreshments were
served, the discussion lasted well in
to the evening.
The second meeting of the Faculty
Seminar took place on May 9. Dr.
K. Symmons acted as moderator and
Dr. Samuel A. Rosenberg was the
speaker. His topic was the field of
labor-management disputes with
which he is thoroughly familiar, not
only in theory, but in practice as a
popular mediator in local industrial
disputes.
This touch of personal experience
made Dr. Rosenberg's presentation
vivid, realistic and very informal, so
that after some half an hour, the lec
ture turned into a spontaneous and
most interesting discussion of all the
aspects of labor-management rela
tions. There was a good attendance
at the meeting, even though some of
the active members were tied down
elsewhere.
The program for the future activi
ties of the group is being planned by
an informal committee consisting of
Dr. Davies, Dr. Vujica and Dr. Sym
mons.
From the Editor's Note Book
[
. . . Here 'n There with the Alumni
(Ruth Punshon) are residing in Essex
1935 —
THOMAS J. TOOLE of Wilkes- Fells, New Jersey. Nelson is the
Barre recently had an article pub Special Accounts Manager with the
lished in the June, 1958, issue of Eureka Specialty Printing Company.
"The Toastmaster". The article was They have three children, Eric, bom
entitled "Evaluation is a Two-Fold in 1951; Lindsey, bom in 1953; and
Responsibility". Tom has been a Rebecca, bom in 1956.
DR JOHN H. HAYES is a prac
member of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Toastmasters 256 for five years. He ticing physician at 315 Atlantic Ave
is employed in the Social Service nue, Audubon, New Jersey. He and
his wife, the former Agnes Bennard,
Division of Public Assistance.
have three fine sons: Michael, bom
1938 —
MRS. MARGARET BEN DOCK in 1944; John T., bom in 1948; and
TOWERS sent us her regrets when Stephen J., bom in 1955. The Hayes'
address is 315 W. Merchant Street,
she found that she would be unable
to attend her class reunion dinner Audubon, New Jersey.
1944 —
that was held for the Class of 1938
DR. ALEX KOTCH, 1118 GrinneU
during Homecoming weekend. She
Road,
Green Acres, Wilmington 3,
has been quite busy in her job as
Delaware,
is a Research Chemist for
Director of Public Relations for the
Group Hospital Service, Inc., in Wil E. I. DuPont deNemours & Company,
mington, Delaware. She recently at Wilmington, Del. Alex, after receiv
tended a business meeting in Chica ing a certificate in Chemistry from
Wilkes in 1944, transferred to Penn
go for her office, and at last notice,
she had a few more weekends State where he received his B.S. de
booked with trips to various meet gree in Chemistry in 1946, and M.S.
degree in Chemistry in 1947. He
ings.
MRS. SIDNEY SCHWARTZ, the then went on to attend the University
former Pauline Kirshner, is a house of Illinois where he earned his Ph.D.
wife and is residing at 25 Country in Chemistry in 1950. Alex is mar
Club Road, Eastchester, New York. ried to the former Anny Marie Brinkman, and they have three children:
She and her husband have a son,
Marianne, born in 1948; Axel, bom
Robert, born on December 9, 1949.
in 1954; and Robert, bom in 1957.
1939 MRS. ROBERT E. GRAHAM, the In 1950-1951, he studied under a Ful
former Helen Ruth Coats, reports a bright Fellowship in the Netherlands,
and in 1951-52 under the A. D. Little
new address to us. She is residing
at 4507 Highland Terrace, Austin 3, Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Texas, with her husband, the Rever 1946 —
end Robert E. Graham, and her three
ALPHONSE DERVINIS and his
children — Janice, Lois, and Bruce.
wife, Marion, are residing at 632 Bob
Her husband is pastor of a new White Road, Wayne, Pennsylvania,
church in Austin — St. Andrew's with their two children: Eric, bom in
Presbyterian Church.
1955; and Elise, bom in 1958. Al
phonse is a member of the Pharma
1942 —
DR. FRANK C. OSTAPOWICZ is cology Department of the Wyeth
Institute for Medical Research.
now on the staff of the United States
Naval Hospital in Quantico, Virginia,
1948 —
as chief obstetrician and gynecolo
JOHN KOTIS, who received his
gist. He formerly held the same B.A. degree in Psychology from
position at the Naval Hospital in Key Wilkes in 1948, received his M.S.W.
West, Florida. He and his wife, the (Social Work) from the University of
former Mary Louise Lavelle of Pitts Pennsylvania in 1952. He is a Mar
burgh, Pennsylvania, are the proud riage Councilor with the Marriage
----- __of seven children: Mary,
.
parents
11; Council of Philadelphia, Division of
Charlene, 9; Martin, 7; Tamara, 6; Family Study, Department of PsychiSharon, 5; David Mark, 3; and Philip. atry. John is now completing his
- " 2.
' studies at the University of Pennsyl
Gary,
vania for his Doctorate. Prior to his
1943 —
MR. AND MRS. NELSON F. JONES present employment, he was the
supervisor of Family Service of
Northern Delaware, Wilmington, Del.
He and his wife, Alice, are residing
at 4923 Pine Street, Philadelphia 43,
Pennsylvania.
JACK P. KARN (formerly Kamofsky) works for Kam Enterprises, 231
Simon Long Building, Wilkes-Barre,
Pa. Jack's previous positions include:
Theatrical Agent (Booked Entertain
ment), Committee Man (Elected), and
he also organized the Cerebral Palsy
Adult Group and directed their ac
tivities.
1949 —
MORRIS D. DE HAVEN was
awarded his degree of Master of
Science in Education at BuckneU
University, August 28, 1958.
EDWIN M. KOSIK, has submitted
his resignation as assistant- U. S.
Attorney for the Middle District, effec
tive September, 1958, and returned
to private practice of Law. He is
now associated with the firm of
Needle, Needle & Needle in Scran
ton, Pennsylvania. He was associ
ated with the same firm when he
took the Federal position November
11, 1953.
MARTIN E. BLAKE is General Man
ager of the world champions of Pro
fessional Basketball — the St. Louis
Hawks. Previous to becoming Gen
eral Manger, Marty was Business
Manager and Publicity Director for
the same organization. He is now
living at 706 Chestnut Street, St.
Louis, Missouri.
DR. MORRIS FEINSTEIN is a den
tist practicing at 4200 M. Street, Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fein
stein, who received his B.S. from
Wilkes in 1949, went on to receive
his D.D.S. from Temple University in
1954. He and his wife, the former
Rosaline Seltzer, were blessed with
a wonderful third wedding anniver
sary present — the birth of their first
son, Steven, on July 3.
1950 —
JOHN E. YOUNG has been ap
pointed district mining engineer for
U. S. Steel’s Coal Division's Frick
District. John, his wife, and two
children are residing in Hopwood,
Pennsylvania.
EDWIN L. JOHNSON, Midland
Drive, Dallas, Pennsylvania, has
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�been awarded the degree of Master
of Arts from Bucknell University.
MR. AND MRS. J. RUSSELL JONES,
(Nancy E. Yaufman), are residing at
6 Clover Drive, Hazlet, New Jersey,
with their three children: Nancy, five;
Steve, three; and Bobby, nine months.
John is employed as a Sales En
gineer for the Rockwell Manufactur
ing Company, with offices in the
Empire State Building, New York
City.
WILLIAM J. CURLEY of 2 Carole
Road, Newark, Delaware, is Sales
Manager for the Nationwide Insur
ance Company in Baltimore, Mary
land. He was formerly employed
by the E. I. DuPont daNemours Com
pany but left them recently to accept
this new position. He and his wire,
the former Nancy Kilcoyne have a
son, Chuck, five years old; and a
daughter, Lynn, two years old.
MRS. YETTA U. KAHN, the former
Yetta Ungar, is residing at 580 Mirriam Avenue, Leominster, Massachu
setts. Her husband, Herbert, is a
Comptroller for Solar Chemicals, Leo
minster, Mass. Yetta was employed
by the Internal Revenue Service as
a Returns Examiner; also as an In
ventory Clerk, and in Teen-Age
Youth Group Leadershin. Yetta and
Herbert would like to hear from alum
ni living in the Massachusetts area.
Why not write to her and let her
know you're living in the neighborliood?
" MRS. SHELDON G. TURLEY, the
former June Kingsbury Williams, is
residing at 2500 Damman Drive, Mid
land, Michigan. June is a Research
Chemist for the Dow Chemical Com
panv, Midland. Michiaan. Her duties
Include x-ray crystallographing and
computer proaramming. The Tur
leys have some other news which
you can read about in the "New Ar
rivals" Column.
SAMUEL LEROY OWENS is the
Accounting Manager for the Nation
wide Insurance Company. He super
vises accounting, collections, and
statistical functions for the Regional
Office which serves Maryland, Dela
ware and Washington, D.C. Sam is
married to the former Jean Wilcox
and they have five children: Susan,
bom in 1951; Carol, bom in 1952;
Jeff, bom in 1953; David, bom in 1955;
and James, bom in 1956.
1951 —
DR. ALBERT G. DANISHANKO
opened an office for the general prac
tice oi medicine at 505 Warren Ave
nue, Kingston, Pa., in August of this
year. After leaving Wilkes, Albert
transferred to Jefferson Medical Col12
lege. He served his junior internship
at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kings
ton, and completed his internship at
the Mercv Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.
FRANCES A. MARKOWITZ is in
England teaching American depen
dents of Air Force personnel.
MR. AND MRS. DELBERT McGU1RE have reported the following
new address to us: 73 Indian Rock
Drive, Springfield, Delaware County,
Pennsylvania. Delbert is Branch
Manager for the L. D. Caulk Com
pany, manufacturers and distributors
of dental supplies and equipment.
He manages the Philadelphia branch
of the retail division and supervises
all phases of store operation. Delbert
and his wife, the former June Persing
(CL '49), have two sons: Richard,
bom in 1952; and Thomas, bom in
1954.
1952 —
CHARLES L. THOMAS recently
received his degree for Certified
Property and Claims Underwriter
from Liberty Mutual Insurance Com
pany, New Orleans, Louisiana.
D. JANE PIEKARSKI is an Instru
mental Music Teacher for the Mont
gomery County Schools, Maryland.
She previously taught music at Col
lege Misericordia, Dallas, Pennsylva
nia, and at St. Mary's High School,
Wilkes-Barre. Jane is now residing
in Washington. D.C.
ROBERT V. McFADDEN is Asso
ciate Engineer for IBM Corporation
in Poughkeepsie, New York. He is
in charge of design and development
of computers for large-scale data
processing systems. He was also
rechnical engineer on the 702 Elec
tronic Data Processing System, on
the 705 Electronic Data Processing
System, and the 705 Med. 3 Electron
ic Data Processing System. Bob and
his wife, the former Fiona Barkel have
two children, Maureen and Michele.
HOWARD WILLIAM PHILLIPS,
who received his AB. from Wilkes in
19o2, also received his Master of Aris
degree in English from Western Re
serve University in Cleveland, Ohio,
on September 5, 1958.
ROBERT S. SANDERS is presently
doing graduate work at the American
University. He is employed as a
Program Analyst for the Department
of Defense, National Security Agen
cy. Bob was in the service for five
years and was stationed in the Far
East, Korea, Philippines, and was
commissioned a First Lieutenant. His
past employment includes Assistant
Secretary of the U. S. Army Security
7‘~ency School. He has been a
cwilian since May, 1957. Bob and
his wife, the former Shirley Smith,
of Kingston, Pa., have a son, Robert,
Jr., bom in 1954.
1953 —
DR. PAUL GRIESMER, who studied
p.e-Med at Wilkes and was gradua.ed from Jefferson Medical School
in 1954, has been named an rhsso^iaie in the Obstetrical Department
and as .Acting Chief in one of the
gynecological Services at WilkesBarre General Hospital. He will also
open offices at / Hedge Place, Kings
ton, for the practice of medicine
limited to Gynecology and Obstet
rics.
JOHN C. BATOR has been ap
pointed Principal of the Edgewood
-righ School, Edgewood, Maryland.
,oxm is now working toward his
Masters Degree at the University of
Maryland.
MRS. HAROLD B. PHILLIPS, the
rormer Nancy Boston, is residing with
ner husband and her nine-month old
son, Robert, at 43 Walker Avenue,
Closter, New Jersey. Nancy was
previously a first-grade teacher in
Bergenfield, New Jersey. She is now
taking music courses at Juilliard
School of Music and is teaching
music privately.
DENAH FLEISHER is a first-grade
teacher in Yonkers, New York. Denah, who previously worked as a
secretary here in the Alumni Office,
is residing at 1395 Lexington Avenue,
New York City. She received her
M.A. Degree in Education from Nev/
York University in October of this
year.
EDWARD I. WOLFE is Sales En
gineer and Assistant to the Vicepresident of the Illinois Water Treat
ment Companv in Rockford, Illinois.
He deals with Ion Exchange Equip
ment for Industry and Engineering
and Sales. He is married to the for
mer Suzanne Rosen and they have
three children: Richard, bom in 1954;
Jessie, born in 1956; and Kenneth,
bom in 1957. Ed received his Chemi
cal Engineering Degree from the
Newark College of Engineering in
1957.
1954 —
LEWIS B. GIULIANI has been ap
pointed principal of the Wiconisco
Township High School, Wiconisco,
1 ennsylvania. He is presently work
ing for his master's degree at Temple
University.
NANCY HANNYE has joined the
acuity of Michigan State University
as an Assistant Professor of Statistics.
She is a member of the American
I!
Mathematical Society, the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, and Phi
Kappa Phi, and Sigma Xi.
KATHERINE PECKHAM has been
discharged from the service and is
now residing at 115 West High Street,
Somerville, New Jersey.
MRS. ELIZABETH GILL, the former
Elizabeth McQuilkin, has sent us the
rollowing new address: 9 B. Thomas
Drive, Wilmington 6, Delaware. She
is a second-grade teacher in the
Greenville Elementary School, Alexis
I. DuPont Special School District, Wil
mington, Delaware.
MRS. STANLEY P. YOUNG is re
siding at 1310 Mt. Olive Avenue, St.
Louis, Missouri, with her husband.
Dr. Stanley P. Young, and her daugh
ter, Leslie, born in 1956. Dr. Young
was a former instructor in Business
Administration at Wilkes and is
presently Assistant Professor of In
dustrial Relations at St. Louis Uni
versity.
ARTHUR TAYLOR has been
elected to head up the student ex
hibits for the 1959 N.S.T.A. National
convention at Atlantic City to be
held March 31 to April 4, 1959. This
is the National Science Teachers'
Association for the 48 states. He was
elected by the National Association,
Washington, for his outstanding work
on Science Fairs. As Co-Chairman,
his job will be to screen out the best
of Science Fair Winners from five
states: New Jersey, New York, Penn
sylvania, Connecticut, and Massa
chusetts. Art is the General Science
teacher of North Plainfield High
School, North Plainfield, New Jersey.
He and his wife, Dolores, have a son,
David, born in 1956.
ANDREW SKUMANICH is a Staff
Member for the Los Alamos (New
Mexico) Scientific Laboratory. His
work includes experiments on atomic
and thermonuclear weapons. He
and his wife, the former Mary Berdy,
have two children: Andrew, Jr., bom
in 1956; and Marina, bom in July of
this -’ear.
DR. SAMUEL M. MELINE is a First
Lieutenant in the Dental Corps sta
tioned in Munich, Germany. Samuel
received a B.S. Degree from Tufts
College in June of 1954, and a D.M.D.
from Tufts Dental School in June of
1958. He and his wife, Audrey, were
just married on May 31st of this year.
1955 —
CARL SMITH has passed the CPA
examination in the District of Colum
bia. He is presently employed in
the office of Shaffer & Murzin, CPAs,
Miners National Bank Biulding,
Wilkes-Barre.
JOSEPH TROSKO has accepted a
position as instructor in Biology in
Somerville, New Jersey. He will also
serve as Assistant Coach of Football
at the High School.
JOAN C. PERASH is a Pharmacolo
gist for Sterling Winthrop Research
Institute, Rensselaer, New York. Her
work involves research on new drugs
in the field of neuropharmacology.
SHELDON M. SCHNEIDER is a
Psychiatric Social Worker for the
Harmarville Rehabilitation Center in
Harmarville, Pennsylvania. Sheldon
received his Masters in Social Work
from the University of Pittsburgh in
June of this year. He and his wife
Judith were married on September 1,
1957.
JUDITH HOPKINS is a Cataloger
at the Library of Mt. Holyoke Col
lege, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Her work involves cataloging books
and serials, chiefly in the social
sciences. Judith is now working on
her M.A. degree in History at Mt.
Holyoke.
JOSHUA J. KAUFMAN received his
L.L.B. Degree from New York Univer
sity at their 126th Commencement on
June 4, 1958.
MRS. MARY A. MOTSAVAGE, the
former Mary A. Kozak, is a house-
wife living in Philadelphia. Her hus
band, Vincent, is a Research Chem
ist for Merck, Sharpe & Dohme. She
and her husband have a daughter,
Susan, bom in May of 1958.
1956 —
DAVE PHILLIPS joined the staff of
the Standard Sentinel recently in
Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Dave be
gan reporting for the Wilkes-Barre
Record while attending Wilkes. He
is presently residing with his in-laws
at 110 North Franklin Street, WilkesBarre, Pa. He is married to the for
mer Giorgia Tomasseti, Cl. of 1956,
and they have a daughter and a son.
JESSIE RODERICK is now teaching
in the Elementary Education Depart
ment here at Wilkes. Jessie received
her B.S. Degree at Wilkes and later
gained her Master's Degree at Co
lumbia Teachers College. Last year,
Jessie taught in the Pennsbury
School System located in Falsington,
Pennsylvania.
CONSTANCE KAMARUNAS has
won the silver wings of a United Air
Lines stewardess. After four and
one-half weeks at the company's
stewardess training school in Chey
enne, Wyoming, she now serves aboard Mainliners flying in and out
of New York.
Paul J. Walsh, Manager ol Baltimore Life Insurance Company, is shown presenting
a framed photograph of Chase Hall to Dr. Farley. The photograph, taken by A. Aubrey
Bodine, nationally known photographer, is one of the "Pictures of Famous Places" —
a series of tributes to historic landmarks and institutions by Baltimore Life Insurance
Company. Additional framed copies were presented to Russ Picton. Executive Alumni
Secretary; Joseph J. Savitz, Alumni President; Dr. Eugene Farley; Admiral Harold Stark
, and Gilbert McClintock, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Gravure prints from the original photograph are available if you should desire one.
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�SAMUEL R. SHUGAR is a Section
Chief in the test team training de
partment of the Sage System at
M.LT.'s Lincoln Laboratory. In the
April, 1958, issue of "The Western
Electric Engineer", published quar
terly by Western Electric, Inc., an
article entitled "Basic Programming
for Digital Computers" was written
by Sam.
CARL F. LAHR is the Assistant
Ordnance Officer for Patrol Squadron
Fifty-six in the United States Navy.
He is married to the former Jane
Rodgers and they have a son, Carl,
bom on May 12, 1958.
HERBERT BYNDER is a Research
Assistant for the Department of So
ciology at Columbia University. He
was formerly Research Assistant for
the Bureau of Applied Social Re
search, Department Assistant for
Barnard College Sociology Depart
ment.
FACULTY EXPANDED
(continued from page 9)
structor, resides at 880 North Locust
St., Hazleton. Palermo received his
AB. degree in economics from Frank
lin and Marshall College and re
ceived his LLB degree from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Law School
last JuneGeorge Gera, Secretarial Studies
Instructor, formerly taught at the Col
lege of Business and Public Admin
istration, University of Maryland.
Gera received his B.S. degree in edu
cation from Bloomsburg State Teach
ers College and his M.A. degree in
education from Teachers College,
Columbia University.
Gera resides at 94 Main Street,
Eckley, Penna.
Detailed background was pre
sented in the last issue of the Alum
nus concerning the following instruc
tors at Wilkes College:
Francis "Pinky" Pinkowski of 201
Hall Street, Clarks Green, presently
holds the position of head football
coach as well as instructor of educa
tion courses; John Gaito, physiologi
cal and experimental psychologist,
is teaching courses in the psychology
department; Calvin D. Freeman, of
Philadelphia, is teaching courses in
chemistry and biology; James R.
Parmenter, also of Philadelphia, is
assisting in the philosophy depart
ment at the college; Adnah Kostenbauder, formerly from Plymouth, is
teaching mathematics; and William
R. Gasbarro, from Cincinnati, is
presently teaching courses in the
music department
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Down The Aisle
1950 —
DONALD KEMMERER was married
to Miss Caroline Warke of Bloom
field, New Jersey, on October 4, 1958.
Don is assistant Manager of the
Hospital Service Plan of New Jersey.
He is also a member of the Newark
Chamber of Commerce. The couple
is residing at 57 Brookdale Gardens,
Bloomfield, New Jersey.
DR. WALTER E. MYKOCHIC of
Noxen, Pennsylvania, was recently
married to Miss Miriam F. Smith of
Wilkes-Barre. They are residing in
Noxen.
1951 —
VIRGINIA JANE BOLEN was mar
ried on Saturday, August 23, to Ken
neth P. Wentz of Baldwin, Long
Island, New York. They are residing
at 725 East Broadway, Long Beach,
New York.
SHIRLEY E. SALSBURG was mar
ried on September 28th to Fred S.
Bernard of New York Ci*-'. Shirley
is the Assistant to the Advertising
Director of Seamprufe Lingerie, Inc.,
in New York City. The Bernards are
residing at 315 East 68th Street, New
York.
1952 —
GERALD SMITH was married on
September 6th to Miss Louise Terry
Letkowitz of Miami, Florida. Gerald
is a Marketing Consultant. They are
residing at 11 Menoras Avenue,
Coral Gables, Florida.
ARCHIE ALOISANTONIO was
married to Miss Carol Grace Rinehimer of West Nanticoke on Septem
ber 6, 1958. Archie is presently em
ployed as an accountant at Eber
hard-Faber Pencil Company, Moun
taintop, Pa. They are residing in
Wilkes-Barre.
1953 —
ROBERT V. CROKER was married
to Miss Faith S. Rahmer of Garden
City, Long Island, New York, on
September 29, 1958.
CLEDWYN O. ROWLANDS was
married to Miss Katrina Parish of
Florida on September 4th. They are
residing temporarily at 319 Ada Wil
son Street, Warrington, Pensacola,
Florida. Captain Rowlands is sta
tioned at Whiting Field, Milton, Fla.
LOUISE ANN KUCHARSKI was
married to Joseph Patrick Benson of
Troy, New York. Louise was em
ployed as a medical technologist at
the Mercy Hospital, Wilkes-Barre.
The Bensons are residing in Water
ford, New Jersey.
JOHN CASHMARK was married to
Miss Elizabeth Lou Turner of Hones
dale, Pa., on September 20th. John
graduated from Drexel Institute of
Technoloa'r this year. He is em
ployed bv Bendix Radio Company,
Towson, Maryland. The Cashmarks
are residing at West Gordon Street,
Bel Air, Maryland.
1954 —
HELEN ELIZABETH BROWN be
came the bride of Louis E. Zych of
Syracuse, New York, on August 9th.
They are residing at 220 Village
Drive, Syracuse.
1955 —
SHELDON H. DAVIS, JR., was
married to Miss Marion Ann Fasshauer on August 14th. They are re
siding in Detroit, Michigan. Sheldon
is a bacteriologist for the Difco Labo
ratories, Detroit.
ROBERT S. RYDZEWSKI took as
his bride the former Joanne Lanore
Nowak of Pittston, Pennsylvania. Bob
received his degree in Electrical En
gineering from Penn State University.
He is a veteran of service with the
U. S. Navy and is currently em
ployed as an engineer with the Fed
eral Pacific Electric Company, Scran
ton, Pa. The Rydzewskis are resid
ing at 1394 South Main Street, Pitts
ton, Pa.
RICHARD L. BUNN was married
to Sandra Elaine Gray of Forty Fort,
Pa., on August 16th. Dick recently
received his degree in Chemical En
gineering at Penn State University
and is an engineer at the Hunlock
Creek Power Plant of United Gas Im
provement Company. They are re
siding at R. D. 2, Hunlock Creek, Pa.
FRANCES J. HAYER became the
bride of Joseph A. Moran of Miners
Mills, Pa., on August 16th. The
couple is residing in Plainfield, New
Jersey.
RALPH ZEZZA, who is serving with
the U. S. Army in Honolulu, recently
married the former Myma Mazzola,
formerly of Massachusetts. The wed
ding took place in Honolulu. Ralph
is on a leave of absence from the
Management Training Program with
Sears, Roebuck & Comoany in Bing
hamton, New York. At the present
time, he is attached to Tripier Army
Hospital in Honolulu.
JOAN MARILYN WACHOWSKI
was recently married to Stanley F.
Michalski, Jr. The Michalskis are
residing at the Garden House Apart
ments, A-5, East College Avenue,
State College, Pennsylvania,
■
HENRY K. GOETZMAN was mar
ried to Miss Jane Ellen Roche of
Scranton, Pa., on Auugst 23rd. Henry
is presently serving with the Army in
Washington, D.C.
HELEN JUNE YOUNG became the
bride of Dr. Harold H. Johnson on
August Sth. They are residing at
812 East Third Street, Berwick, Pa.
Helen is secretary to the purchasing
agent of Thompson Products, Inc.,
Danville, Pa.
NANCY BATCHELOR was mar
ried on September 6th to Carl F.
Juris, a senior at Wilkes. Nancy is
employed by Peoples Household
Supply Company, Inc., as head
bookkeeper. They are residing at
18 West Carey Street, Plains, Pa.
BARBARA ]. BOOCK was married
io Glenn E. Hauze of Sybertsville,
Pa. Barbara is employed as a
Claims Representative with the De
partment of Health, Education and
Welfare, Wilkes-Barre. The couple
is residina in Sugarloaf, Pa.
FRED J. BOOTE was married on
September 27th to the former Sua
lamarone of Falls River, Massachu
setts. They are residing at Green
Cove Springs, Florida. Fred is sta
tioned aboard the U.S.S. Lookout
with the Navy.
1957 —
MARCIA HELEN ELSTON was
married on August 30th to John Stahl,
Class of '58. Marcia and Jack are
residing at Boston Theological Semi
nary, where Jack is a student.
PATSY LEE REESE became the
bride of Robert Burton Morris on
August 30th. Bob is now attending
Wilkes. The couple is residing at
101 Eley Street, Kingston, Pa. Patsy
is teaching at the Dallas Borough
Schools; she is certified in English,
Art and Social Studies.
MARLENE JUDITH MIODUSKI was
married to Robert J. Kanjorski of Glen
Lyon, Pa., recently. The couple is
residing at 34 Linwood Avenue, New
ton, New Jersey. Marlene is em
ployed as a medical secretary in
Newton.
PHYLLIS A. WALSH became the
bride of Harry Thomas Powell on
August 9th. Phyllis taught for one
year in the public schools of Suffren,
New Jersey. They are now residing
at 163 Charles Street, Wilkes-Barre.
1958 —
VIRGINIA E. LEONARDI, '58, was
married on September 6th to Martin
J. Novak, Class of 1957. Virginia
was a mathematics instructor at
Wilkes this past year and was
chosen "Cinderella Queen" of 1959
at Wilkes. Marty is a first lieutenant
in the Army Reserve. He is present
ly attending Penn State University.
They are at home at 125 Fairmount
Avenue, State College, Pa.
JOSEPH GREGORY was married
to Miss Norma Franks on September
8th. Joe is serving with the U. S.
Army at Fort George G. Meade. The
couple is residing in Washington,
D.C.
JOSEPH F. SHIPKOSKI was mar
ried to Celestine Conshor of Nanti
coke, recently. Joe is employed at
Air Products, Incorporated.
The
couple is residing in Nanticoke, Pa.
THOMAS O. DREISBACH was
married August 2nd to Miss Janet R.
Rennie of Pittston, Pa. They are re
siding at 40 Oakland Place, Summit,
New Jersey, where Tom is employed
by Ciba Pharmaceutical Company
in its Research Division.
NANCY LOU CASTERLIN was
married Saturday, August 20th, to
O. A. Knight, Jr., of Baltimore, Mary
land. Nancy received her B.S. De
gree in Chemistry from Penn State
University. The couple is residing
at 1425 Northgate Rd., Baltimore, Md.
ELIZABETH H. BRETZ, Class of '56,
and WILLIAM PENN LLOYD, Class
of '58, were married on July 19th.
Betsy is employed in the Dean's
Office here at the College. Bill was
employed by the Sun Oil Company
in Philadelphia. He is now in the
U. S. Marine Corps.
MARSHA MASON was married
recently to Marvin Trimas. Marvin
is attending George Washington Uni
versity Law School and is employed
by the government as a Patent Exam
iner. They are residing in Arlington,
Virginia.
SHIRLEY GINZ was married on
September 20th to Daniel R. Putt of
Saxton, Pa. They are residing in
Philadelphia, where Dan is stationed
at the Naval Hospital.
New Arrivals
1949 —
a son, Steven, born to Dr. and Mrs.
Morris Feinstein on July 3rd.
1950 —
a son, Sheldon, bom to Mr. and
Mrs. Sheldon G. Turley on Septem
ber 1st, 1958.
1951 —
a son bom to Mr. and Mrs. Ray
mond Ales, (Frances Trembath), on
September 27th. Michael weighed
in at 7 lbs., 4 ozs.
1952 —
a son, Thomas, bom to Mr. and
Mrs. George Ralston (Helen Bitler
Hawkins). Mr. Ralston is the Dean
of Men here at the College.
1953 —
a son, Douglas George, bom to
Dr. and Mrs. George McMahon (Isa
bel Ecker) on October 24th in ihe
Philadelphia Naval Hospital. This
is the first child for the McMahons.
1954 —
a daughter, Marina, born to Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Skumanich on July
3rd.
1956 —
a son born to Lt. (jg) and Mrs.
Daniel Metroka on October 12th.
Mark Alexander weighed in at 7 lbs.,
4 ozs. Dan is presently holding a
Public Relations job with the Navy
as a Public Information Officer for
the Commandant of the Eleventh
Naval District. The Metrokas re re
siding at 416*/z 32nd Street, San Die
go 4, California.
1957 —
a daughter, Rebecca, bom to Mr.
and Mrs. John S. Uczen on July 3rd.
Completed Careers
1953 —
JOSEPH A. ANDES, 26, who re
ceived his A.B. in English from
Wilkes in 1953, died recently at his
home following a heart attack. He
was principal of Washington School,
New Milford, New Jersey.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, a son of
Frank and Alethea Witzigman An
des, he attended St. Nicholas Grade
School and was a graduate of the
parish high school. He was a mem
ber of St. Nicholas Church, WilkesBarre, while here. He moved to the
New Jersey community about two
years ago.
Surviving besides his parents are
his wife, the former Doris Yourchisin,
of Wilkes-Barre Township, and two
children, Joseph, Jr., and Doris, at
home; brothers Frank, Jr., and Robert,
both of Wilkes-Barre.
MUSICAL COMEDY TO BE
(continued from page 8)
erously respond to the College's
need for funds, facilities, and friends.
Consequently, we are happy to make
available our cultural and creative
resources. More and more, people
are looking to the College with in
creasing awareness of its vital and
important contribution to the life of
the community that nourishes its
growth.
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nue to be class notes as long as you continue to send this back to us with information concerning you
and your eventful lives — without it we are lost
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WILKES
I. .
Vol. 5, No. 2
JANUARY, 1959
�Board of Trustees
Alumni Seat Officers For Second Term
Contents:
Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Frank Burnside
Francis O. Case
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
members in voting for second term. Program expansion is planned.
INSPIRATION FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW
Page 4
Mrs Gertrude A. Doane, Dean of Women, points out the advances
of the women’s program at the college, and emphasizes the im
portance of alumni assistance in years ahead.
MEASURED AND CALCULATED ADVANCES
Page 5
John Whitby, Director of Admissions and Registrar, outlines the
college's policy concerning development of a select student body
both from within the community and from those applying from
without.
THE 27TH WILKES OPEN
Pages 6 - 7
The wrestling tournament was the most successful held in the 27
years history. Over 280 wrestlers from 58 colleges and organiza
tions took part in the two-day "Rose Bowl of Wrestling" in the
college gymnasium.
THE ATOM AND OUR CIVILIZATION
Page 8
Two of three lectures concerning the atom were recently held in the
gymnasium. The problems of our atomic age and our need for
careful administration of it are brought to the fore by nationally
known speakers.
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
Andrew J. Sordoni
THAT THE YEARS MAY HAVE MEANING
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In his first of a series of briefs Dr. Farley emphasizes the importance
of enriched living from day to day through services to others. This
is the President's first brief since 1954 when the series was discon
tinued temporarily because of our pressing Development Program.
ALUMNI SURVEY
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This is a reminder of George Elliot's letter to the alumni (October
"Alumnus") concerning alumni participation in our important sur
vey which will begin in February.
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Julius Long Stem
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Aaron Weiss
President
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Alumni Officers
Joseph J. Savitz, President
Clayton A. Bloomburg, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Published by Wilkes College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Russ Picton, Editor
William Zdancewicz, Assistant Editor
Stewart Swett, Photographer
Dr. Herbert Oliver, Treasurer
Vol. 5, No. 2
January, 1959
as lh0, AluJn,nus <°r
members of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso■on. Second class mail pnvilegos authorized at Wilkes-Barre. Pa. Subscription, S2.00
The Alumni Association Election results for the year 1959 created another
first in the annals of Wilkes College — all officers were re-elected in their
respective offices. The returns this year were the best ever received and
through an overwhelming vote, alumni of Wilkes College decided to put their
faith and support behind the excellent leadership of the present Alumni officers.
Your officers for 1959, whom we feel deserve praise but little introduction
are: Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, '48, president; Clayton A. Bloomburg, '49, vicepresident; Mrs. Anita Janerich, '51, secretary; and Dr. Herbert Oliver, '52,
treasurer.
Marking the accomplishments of the 1958 year, we come across another
FIRST by the present officers of the alumni association — that being the Re
union Celebrations which were started during last year's Homecoming Week.
As many of you will recall, the classes of '38, '43, '48 and '53 met at an informal
dinner at the Irem Temple Country Club, prior to the Homecoming Dance, which
made for an enjoyable hour or two of pleasant reminiscing.
And speaking of the Homecoming Celebration, those who attended will
surely agree that it was one of the best — due mainly to the leadership and
work of the officers and their numerous committees.
Other achievements of last year's progress include the Graduation Parly
sponsored by the Alumni Association and also the Alumni Drive which raised
318,210.00 for the Development Fund. Both proved outstanding events of last
year's term.
Your president, Attorney Savitz, was appointed to the Board of Trustees as
Alumni Representative, a position he will hold for three years. This too, marks
another FIRST for the college, and the alumni.
Professionally, Savitz advanced another step when he was made a partner
in the law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins and Greenwald of Wilkes-Barre, last year.
Following graduation, he continued his studies at the University of Pennsylva
nia, and in 1952, he was admitted to the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court.
He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the U. S. and of Pennsylva
nia; the U. S. Middle District Court, U. S. Circuit Court, Eastern District, Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania, and the American Bar Association.
Continuing in the position of vice-president will be Clayton A. Bloomburg.
Following graduation from Wilkes, Bloomburg was employed with the Ameri
can Chain and Cable Corporation and during this time, he also taught Business
courses at Wilkes, both during the evening and summer sessions. Presently,
Bloomburg is office manager of Stressteel Corporation in Wilkes-Barre. He is
married and the father of two children, Shirley 9 and Stephen 4.
Secretary for 1959 will be Mrs. Anita Janerich. An enthusiast of the
literary field, Mrs. Janerich has written several short stories, poems, and essays
which have been published in nationally known magazines. Her interests be
gan while at Wilkes where she became one of the founders of the college liter
ary society. Mrs. Janerich is employed at the Department of Public Welfare in
Wilkes-Barre. She is married and the mother of two children, Dwight and
Maureen.
Dr. Herbert Oliver was re-elected Treasurer of the Alumni Association.
His dental offices are located in Kingston. Dr. Oliver is a membr of the Ameri
can Dental Association, the Third Dental District Association, and Pennsylvania
Dental Society. His community activities include Boy Scout work, vice
president-elect of the Kingston baseball club for boys and the Lettermen
Booster Club of Kingston. Dr. Oliver is married and just two months ago, he
became the father of a baby girl — Lydia Ruth.
The agenda for 1959 includes many projects and leading them off will be
the Questionnaire Survey concerning the college evaluation program of which
you have all heard. Questionnaires are expected to be mailed next month to
all alumni, and it is the wish of your officers and the college, that graduates of
Wilkes will support this project with their fullest cooperation.
Other events listed include plans for an even more elaborate homecoming celebration, expansion of the reunion program, groundwork prepara
tions for the annual alumni drive for 1960 and an expansion of Chapter activity.
Remember, the officers you chose can only serve you well if you give them
your support! Support your college through your Alumni Association!
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�Inspiration
for
and
Today and Tomorrow
Calculated Growth
by Gertrude A. Doane, Dean of Women
If it were possible to sit down with you and discuss
the joys and trials which have their genesis in this
office, it would be a very rewarding experience. Since
this is impossible, may I extend greetings and best
wishes to each one of you.
That a constant challenge presents itself in this
office you will know when I tell you that five years ago
when Dr. Farley requested me to serve as Acting Dean
of Women, there were about 85 young women enrolled
in Wilkes. Today there are 352 in Day School, and I
predict that a few years hence the young women will
not comprise a real minority group.
Some of you recall the time when there was no
dormitory space for young women, others still remem
ber Sterling Hall as the only home for girls. Today we
own five girls' dormitories — Sterling, McClintock, Cat
lin, Weckesser and Weiss Halls. In each dormitory
we are proud of the caliber of students and are indeed
happy that five fine housemothers have chosen to ac
cept these tasks rather than to be ladies of leisure.
If you have not visited our girls' dormitories, may I
urge you to do so. We maintain a justifiable pride in
these handsome buildings, and the young women enjoy
them to the fullest extent.
In compliance vzith the policy of admission at
Wilkes, it is my privilege to interview each young
woman candidate. Occasionally we receive calls from
an alumnus concerning a prospective student, and this
sometimes helps us greatly in determining admission
and again in the important task of allocating scholar
ships.
It is our honest intent to admit only those young
women who because of their high school marks, ac
ceptable scores, and desirable personalities indicate
ability to complete their chosen courses successfully.
Tests are administered by members of the staff of our
Guidance Center if a student has not taken College
Boards at her high school.
A program of activities for girls has been greatly
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augmented during the past two years. Aside from a
gcod Physical Education program and a basketball
team, bowling, swimming, water ballet and interpreta
tive dancing are being taught.
Throughout many years the Psychiatric Social
Service at Wilkes has been of inestimable value to the
Deans' Offices. It is heart warming to witness the
reclamation of a nervous, confused student after weeks
of treatment by the Psychiatric Social Worker.
Three years ago we offered a small work scholar
ship to a graduate nurse who was completing a B.S.
in Nursing Education. The scholarship required the
nurse to see any sick student and determine the need
for a physician. Now we have nursing service for
each dormitory. This service has been extremely help
ful to the housemothers and has determined the urgen
cy of a call for the College Physician.
A detailed physical examination must be presented
now by each freshman student upon registration, and
these are filed in the College Physician’s Office. The
Dean’s Offices, the Psychiatric Social Worker, and the
Physical Education Department may secure any in
formation concerning a health problem of a student
by calling the College Physician's Office.
One of our young women undergraduate students
is studying in Paris this year, another plans to travel
and study in Europe during the summer, and one of
cur finest 1959 graduates hopes to be given a scholar
ship through the International Institute of Student Edu
cation. We anticipate the return of these young women
to our campus either for a visit or to pursue their
academic work.
Meeting our Alumni from time to time and hearing
about the exciting, worthwhile experiences of each is a
joy to all of us, whether we are faculty members or
administrative personnel. We shine in reflected glory
and gain a much needed impetus to wrestle with
serious problems involving present day students. So
you see, Wilkes "marches on," ever conscious of the
fact that its greatest asset lies in its Alumni.
by John B. Whitby, Director of Admissions and Registrar
Greetings from the Admissions Office. I report to
you at a time when the nation is seriously examining
the purpose of higher education. Newspapers and
magazines have alerted the American people to the
tidal wave of students that will shortly be upon us.
In five years student body at Wilkes has increased
from 750 students to the present enrollment of 1100
despite the fact that the tidal wave of students has not
yet arrived.
A look at the future demand for higher education
will give some idea of the number of students expected
to apply for admission. The President's Committee on
higher education reports 3.8 million students enrolled
in our colleges and universities this year, 4 million
anticipated in 1960, and 8 million students expected to
seek admission in 1970.
It is evident from these statistics that Wilkes has
arrived at a point where significant and critical deci
sions about its future must be made. The problem that
will confront us in the next five years is simply whether
or not we shall remain a small liberal arts college or
whether we shall expand in relation to the availability
of students.
The celebration of our 25th anniversary last year
and the preparation for the evaluation by the Middle
States next year have given us a fine opportunity to
examine our policies and practices in order to augment
our strong points and correct weaknesses.
These studies have shown that we have made
tremendous progress since 1947. Each year the num
ber of students applying for admission is increasing;
our plant facilities are expanding; our graduates are
being accepted in leading graduate schools through
out the country; and personnel representatives of in
dustries are visiting the college and hiring our students
for responsible positions. This success can be attrib
uted to the philosophy decided upon by the faculty
and administration and approved by The Board of
Trustees. Wilkes will continue to adhere to the prin
ciple of small classes and an easy exchange of ideas
between students and faculty.
Wilkes is a community college and will remain
such. No qualified local student has ever been denied
the opportunity to study at Wilkes. Our present en
rollment is evidence that we are attracting more stu
dents from this area. The fact that we are refusing
admission to fewer local students is an indication that
we are attracting the better high school graduates. We
also find that we are retaining a higher percentage of
students, indicating that they are better prepared for
college. The close association between the college
and the high schools has had favorable results. It is
a tribute to the area high schools that of their students
a greater percentage is now attending college. In 1952
from one local high school eight students were enrolled;
in September of 1958 from the same school there were
twenty-three, this in spite of a decreasing population
in the area resulting in fewer students in the graduating
class.
We have arrived at a point where our out-oftown students represent 18% of the student body. The
acquisition of the Glen Alden building will release
present classroom buildings for additional dormitories,
making it possible to increase the number to 30%.
Although requests for admission from out-of-town
students are increasing, the college is determined to
admit students on the same selective basis. Resident
students form such an integral part of the college that
careful selection is essential. The college depends on
the alumni to interest students who with a good aca
demic background will benefit from and contribute to
the program at the college.
If the standards at the college are to be maintained
at their high level, endowment, plant facilities, and
faculty must constantly be improved. This develop
ment is made possible through the continual generosity
of the community, the trustees, and the alumni.
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��Dr. Farley: That th® Years May Have Meaning...
Man has extended his years by mastering his
environment. Unfortunately he has not always given
meaning to these added years by mastering himself.
Life cf itself is not signficant; it gains significance
only when man, aspiring toward something greater .
than himself, becomes an instrument for human bet
terment.
Tlie Atom
and
Tlie Future
To justify the extension of life which has been
given by science and technology, man must some
how enrich his life and give it greater meaning. He
must gain deeper insights into the nature of man and
society; he must nurture his spiritual and intellectual
resources so that he may be at peace with himself
and with his neighbor.
of
ur Civilization
Dr. Walter Selove
Lawrence S. Finkelstein
A series of science lectures concerning "The Atom and the Future of Our Civilization” have
been inaugurated by Wilkes College with the purpose of helping to highlight the need for greater
insight into the problems we lace as a nation and as a civilization.
The Science Clubs oi Wilkes — namely. Biology. Chemisly, and Engineering, are hosts to the
series of lectures, in co-sponsorship with leading community groups of Wyoming Valley.
As of this writing, two of the three lectures have already been presented at the college gym
nasium. The third Science Lecture is scheduled for March of this year, date undecided, and the
guest speaker will be Lyle Borst, former chairman of the department oi science and engineering,
Brookhaven National Laboratories. His topic will be "The Peaceful Uses oi the Atom."
On Thursday, November 20, Dr. Walter Selove,
former chairman of the radiation hazards committee of
the American Federation of Scientists, was guest
speaker and his topic concerned "Science and Sur
vival."
Dr. Selove is associate professor of physics at the
University of Pennsylvania and a specialist in the field
of nuclear physics. He is vice-chairman of the Federa
tion of American Scientists; consultant to the Congres
sional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy — fallout
hearings; and consultant to the National Academy of
Sciences in civil defense study.
Dr. Selove was also a participant in the "Pugwash
Conferences" held in Nova Scotia, where scientists from
about ten nations met to assess the perils to humanity
which have arisen as a result of the development of
weapons of mass destruction.
In his address, Dr. Selove reviewed the effects of a
large scale nuclear war; he examined the arguments
that can be given for and against cessation of nuclear
weapons development; and he discussed various con
crete steps that he said should be taken by all of us to
improve the chances for survival of civilization in this
new age, when science alone cannot guarantee sur
vival.
Concerning defense against nuclear attack, Dr.
Selove said, "although official news releases indicate
the contrary, we have come to a new situation in
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As years of life have been expanded, men have
found themselves unprepared to use these extra
years. They have been cut off from their jobs, their
usual activities, and their usual associates. They
find that they have outlived their usefulness and
their place in society. This is not good. Somehow
men must find a way to make these added years
both fruitful and satisfying.
To do this the individual must make the most of
his early years but this early preparation for a fruit
ful life need not be pointed toward the later years of
life. Perhaps the only way to prepare for the future
is to live each day abundantly with faith that the
work of the day, well done, prepares us for what-
The second science lecture was held on Tuesday,
January 6, and featured Lawrence S. Finkelstein, direc
tor of studies at the Carnegie Endowment for Interna
tional Peace. His topic was "The Atom and Interna
tional Relations."
Finkelstein received his A.B. degree from Columbia
College and his A.M. degree from Columbia University
in the Department of Public Law and Government. Prior
to his present position at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, Finkelstein was with the Institute of
Pacific Relations, traveling in Southeast Asia as a fellow
of the Social Science Research Council and participated
as a member of the U. S. delegation to the eleventh
Pacific Relations Conference at Lucknow, India.
The speaker forecast closing of the gaps in produc
tivity and living standards when atomic power becomes
competitive with other power sources. He said it will
widen the gaps between less developed and more de
veloped countries.
Concerning the elements of danger from new
atomic weapons, Finkelstein said, "Accidents with
these weapons pose a great danger, although this
danger is presently being greatly exaggerated. The
speed of modem weapons almost eliminates the safety
margins in reaching decisions involving responses to
threatened attack. Secondly, there is another source
of instability in the continuing arms race. Stable mu
tual deterrence depends on each side being certain that
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ever tomorrow may bring. If the early years are
empty and without meaning, it is almost inevitable
that the later years also shall be empty and without
meaning. If these early years are given to signifi
cant work, the effort to do this work will develop
the inner resources of the individual and will pre
pare him for a satisfying and more constructive
period of fulfillment in the last years of life.
Each day is a part of the warp and woof of
life, and each day lived to its fullest gives greater
meaning and significance to our tomorrows. We
cannot foresee the events that lie ahead, but we pre
pare ourselves for them by using to the full the latent
resources of the spirit and the mind that are so sel
dom recognized and even less frequently nurtured.
Let each of us give added significance to our
ever-lengthening years by doing each day something
that is of worth to our community and our people.
In so doing, we will find an answer to the meaning
of life. We will discover those intangibles that give
significance to life—a vision of something better,
faith that this vision can become a reality if we strive
intelligently and persistently to moke it so, and
courage to face obstacles and to undertake some
thing of worth for ourselves and our neighbors.
Only these intangibles—vision, faith, courage,
and perserverance—give greater significance to life,
and are they not the inevitable by-products of con
structive effort in our daily living?
SELOVE
FINKELSTEIN
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history. No nation can protect itself or its people from
destruction. In the world we must live in from now on,
it may still be possible to inflict destruction on an op
ponent, but not have protection and security for one's
self."
the other not only has atomic weapons but is able and
willing to deliver them against their objectives."
Finkelstein mentioned several reasons why the
negotiations on the cessation of nuclear weapons which
have been going on for some months in Geneva, might
lead to a positive result. "No one," he said, "can con
template further radioactive pollution with much equa
nimity. While there is great uncertainty among scien
tists as to how dangerous pollution from nuclear explo
sions is, there can be no doubt that the less radio
activity there is about, the better.
"Secondly, both sides in this negotiation are under
great political pressure, partly because of the radiation
factor, to cease tests. Thirdly, and perhaps most im
portant, there is the so-called fourth nation problem.
Certainly, none of the three atomic powers (the United
Kingdom, the USSR, and the United States) can relish
the idea of other countries producing atomic weapons
on their own. Fourthly, an agreement should not work
out satisfactorily, there is a built-in sanction — the re
sumption of tests.”
In conclusion, Finkelstein said, "It is not surprising
that, in the aftermath of recent headlines, we tend to
think of Atlas as the thing orbiting in space. Let us not
forget the other Atlas, the lonely man with the world
on his shoulders."
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Steps Outlined
Steps that Dr. Selove suggested could be taken
concerning this problem of nuclear weapons are, first
in the field of education for increased understanding
and specific contributions by scientists in experts' con
ferences; more free exchange of persons—for the U. S.
to take the lead in relieving the arms race; and, finally,
to start the turning of scientific and technological abili
ty to peaceful uses. He suggested the people press the
government and government leaders to take effective
measures to remove forever from the world the danger
of war.
Concluding his remarks, Dr. Selove said, "When
this is done, and when the ingenuity of man and of
science can be employed more fully for man's welfare,
the well-being, health, and prosperity of all people will
increase almost beyond bound.
�From the Editor's Note Book
. . Here 'n' There with the Alumni
1935 —
FRANCIS X. ANTONELLI is the Assistant
Principal of the West Hazleton School District.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He is also Vice
Principal and Guidance Counsellor of that
district. Francis is married, and he and his
wife Josephine have three children — Joanne,
bom in 1946; Francis X., Jr., bom in 1949; and
Patricia, bom in 1953. The Antonelli’s are
residing at 7 West Diamond Avenue, West
Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
1940 —
MRS. ZELDA M. LOWE, the former Zelda
Mangel, is residing at 73 Richard Road. Need
ham. Massachusetts. She and her husband
Melvin have two children: Howard, born in
1948 and Michael, bom in 1951.
1941 —
FRANK L. DONNELLY is General Engineer
and Head of the Trainer Services Branch in
the Office of Naval Research, Naval Training
Center, Pert Washington. New York. He is
married to the former Grace L. Sargent, and
they have a sen, Mark Francis, bom in Octo
ber'of 1956.
IS43 —
WILLIAM D. DAVIS is Assistant Controller
with the Petter Instruments Company, Inc., of
Long Island, New York. He is the Chief Ac
countant and the Supervisor of the General
Accounting Department. Bill and his wife
Jane are the proud parents of three lovely
girls: Kim, bom in. 1953; Jamie, bom in 1954;
her cf 2958.
MRS. STANLEY R. A1KONS, the former Ruth
Williams, is residing at 605 Muhlenberg
Avs.-'re. Wenonah, New Jersey, with her huszzz ■ ~d three children: Maryruth, bom in
l'’:~ rredsrick.. bom in 1953; and Constance,
Sz.'mcl. New B’.ccmfield.
i-zz ems'd p.-L-.ripal.
z: the schoc-L
1344 —
MRS. :.N.:Z5 C. NOLAN, the fanner Nancy
?. began, z. jezizziz in '■Vilkes-Bcxrre with her
huzhand and sen. Jay, bzm in 1251. Before
her marriage in 1957, Nancy was a secretary
far the Chamber o: Commerce in Wilkes-Barre,
.*A1 'ZE LL GEARHART, who witharevz from
Wilkes ana received his Brn. in Mechanical
Engineering from Bucknell in 2545, is Chief
Engineer with Kanarr Carpsraiicn, Klrgstsn.
Pa. He is married to the former Stella Boline,
zr.z they have three daegiriers: Jane A.nn.
ELee - Marie, ar.d Susan Rath. Jim prevla-iriy
war. emp-ayed for five years by Weafinghouse
Eiemric Carpsrcfian zz a Design Engineer,
i'.:
z-dz '/f.'in,
Ccrr.zzr.y. Cleveland, trn a Chemical Engineer,
zzz .z:
w.:b the Kanarr Carporatjon
zz z Cr.emica) Euaineer.
1945 -LE'/TNO M. BCNAV/ITZ is a pro
radioing
C.?.A. ar.d A‘ar.* Prafc-ssor of Acct
counting
z~. B-c/zling Green Ur.iverrity. Bowling Green,
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Ohio. He is also owner of the Wood County
Bank Building in Bowling Green. Irving was
formerly a partner in V. Seybold & Company,
C.P.A/s, Chicago, and Assistant Controller for
the Rowland-Bory Corporation, Chicago.
1946 —
CALVIN W. KANYUCK is residing in Glen
Lyon, Pennsylvania. He teaches science and
biology at Lake-Lehman Joint High School for
eight months of the; year and serves as Assistant Manager in charge
<
of various departments of a summerr resort
rest
for the other four
months. He withdrew from Wilkes and re
ceived his B.S. in Education from Bloomsburg
State Teachers College in January of 1952,
1948 —
MRS. WALTER M. FLINCHUM, the former
Marian E. Burkert, is residing[ at 7716 Constemtine Avenue, Springfield, Virginia. She
is employed as Co-Librarian at the Annan
dale High School.
JOHN A. COONEY is Office Managerr of
Abraham & Straus, in the Babylon Brar
inch
at♦ ""
28 Serstore. The Cooney's are residing <-'
n
pentine Lane, Levittown, New York, John and
his wife Catherine have three children: John,
bom in 1946; Robert, bom in 1950; and Ed
ward, bom in 1956.
MR. AND MRS. HAROLD D. SMITH (Pricilla
Sweeney) are residing at 2474 East State
Street Extension. Trenton 9, New Jersey.
Pricilla is a sixth-grade teacher at the Colum
bus School, Trenton. The Smith's have other
nevzs which you can read about in the "New
Arrival" column.
DR. DORIS BARTUSKA, the former Doris
Gorka, a 1949 Wilkes College graduate and
Career Girl of Wyoming Valley in 1943, real
now a Philadelphia
ized her dream and is novz
doctor. Doris is the mother of four children,
ranging in age from seven months to four
years. She is featured as a member of the
panel in an article discussing working
work'u mothers
in the current issue of the Ladies'
idies’ Home
:
Jour
nal. At present she is clinical instructor in
College P.hilamedicine at Women's Medical C
delphxa. Her husband, Anthony, is an engineer in RCA's guided missile lai
iboratory in
the Philadelphia area.
1949 —
GEORGE B. JONES, vzho received his B.A,
in Social Studies from Wilkes in 1949, is the
Assistant Manager
»r of the Actuarial Tabuluting Division of ti
the Acacia Mutual Life In
surance Company iin V/ashington, D.C, He
is married to the former LaVina Rc
Rogers, and
they have four children: Terry, 1953; Jeff,
1954; Tommy, 1956; and nevzs of ttheir latest
arrival vzill be found in the "Nev/ Arrival"
column.
1950 —
ALLAN J, CLELLAIID is an accountant for
Pear, Marv/ick, Mitchell and Company in
Nev/ark, New Jersey. Allan transferred to
Muhlenberg from v/here he graduated in 1954;
he then continued his studies and earned his
Masters Degree from Rutgers
tgers in 1958.
1958, He
and his vzife Jean live at 31
381 Chapman Street
Irnngicn,
Jersey,
JOHN N. SHOEMAKER is the ov/ner of Shoe
maker Hardvzare and Gift Shop, 312 Wyoming
Avenue, Wyoming, Pa, He and his vzife, the
former Toni M/.-negus, claus of '51, have a son
John Mixon Shoemaker, Jr„ born on September
I Oth of last year.
JOSEPH M. GABRIEL is a sales irepresentainds”. His
tive with the firm "Standard Brai
duties include selling and merchandise
ing of
food products. He and his wife Irene have
three children: Jan, born in 1953; David, born
in 1955; and Diane, born in February of 1958.
JOHN M. SIMM1NS (Simski) is residing at
179 High Street, St. Albans, Vermont. John
is the City Manager and his duties include
the administration, supervision, and manage
ment of all city affairs in St. Albans. He is
married to the former Ruth Ann Cheverette,
and they have a daughter Judith Helen, born
in October of 1958. John ]previously was the
Assistant City Manager of
)f Chico, California.
1951 —
MRS. WILLARD EVERETT, JR., the former
Jane M. Maxwell, is residing with her husband
in Quitman, Georgia. She and Willard were
married on October 18, 1958. He is a gradu
ate of the University of Georgia, from where
he received his B.S. in Agriculture. At present,
they are living on a 1,000 acre plantation
which Willard farms. Mildred formerly was
a Social Group Worker at Houchen Settle
ment House in El Paso, Texas.
MRS. RAWLIN A. FAIRBAUGH, the former
No;ma Jean Persian), was employed as an
assistant instructor at the Teachers College
ci Connecticut in 1953 and 1954. In 1955 and
1956, she was an instructor at the Ludwigs
burg American School, Germany. At present
she is a housewife and mother. Norma and
her husband "Pete" have a daughter Leslie,
bom in June of 1958.
NICHOLAS A. HEINEMAN is a junior
executive with Conway Importing Company,
Inc. of Long Island, New York. He and his
vzife, the former Barbara Thorn, are residing
a: 22 Grandview Avenue, Ardsley, New York,
with their sons Brett Douglas, born in 1957;
and Scott Phillip, born in September of 1958.
JACK R. PHETHEAN is the Guidance Direc
tor of ihe Blue Ridge Joint School, New Mil
lord, Pennsylvania.
He is married to the
former Ethel Howell, and they 1have three
daughters, Pamela, 1950; Patricia,, 1954; and
Phyuls, 1956.
CY KOVALCHIK is the principal of the
Cheverly Elementary School, Cheverly, Maryland. T
___ 1955 to_ ----From
1953, he was principal
“
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'
Cy
of the Columbia Park
Elementary
School,
lilland his wife Alice are residing at 4-F
’ ” Hillside Read, Greenbelt, Maryland.
1HOMAS D. STINE, who received his B.S.
from Wilkes in 1951, also received his M.S.
from Miami University in 1952 and his M.D.
from Jeffe.son Medical Collego in 1956. At
present, he is a Lieutenant in the Medical
Corps of the United States Naval Reserves.
jsponNORBERT OLSHEFSKI is a staff corres
dent and photographer for the Syracuse PostStandard.
His paper covers all ofI the
northern Si. Lawrence County territoi
)iy, inSt, Lawrence
Lawren co Power
eludingi coverage of the St.
and Seaway
;-avzay Projects,
Projects. He is married to the
former H(
’
lelcn
Godavzski of Belleville, Now
Jersey, and the}
laine.
ey have tvzo children: Ek
born in 1953; g
and Cocilia, born in 1957.
1952 —
BERNARD D. PRICE is tho Porsonnol Officer
for the Veterans Administration Hospital in
Nev/inglon, Connecticut. He is married to
the former Ann Barnett of Wilkes-Barre, and
they have- tv/o children; Nancy, born in 1947
1
and Bernard, Jr., born in 1954. Bernard was
previously employed as a Classification and
Wage Officer at the V.A. Center in Martins
burg, West Virginia, and also as Assistant
Personnel Officer at that institution.
MRS. JOHN H. KELLY, the former JoAnne
E. Davis, is a housewife and is residing with
her husband and son, John Jr., at 336 DoverChester Road, R. D. 2, Dover, New Jersey.
JoAnne previously was a second-grade
teacher.
CHARLES K. GLOMAN is the Entertainment
Editor for the Hazleton, Pennsylvania news
paper — "The Plain Speaker". He is married
to the former Shirley Ann Bohrer, and they
have a son Charles, born on August 3, 1958.
E. JANE A. PIEKARSKI is living at Donald
Hall, Catholic University, 3725 12th Street,
N.E., Washington 17, D.C. Jane received her
>ast October
Master of Music Degree this pc
from Catholic University of Americc
sa, Washington, D.C.
DR. EDMUND V. NIKLEWSKI is a Psysspichiatric Physician at Norristown State Hos
ived
tai, Norristown, Pennsylvania. Ed receh
his B.S. in Biology from Wilkes in 1952 and
went on to earn his M.D. from Jefferson
Medical College in 1956. He and his wife
Roberta have a daughter Carol Ann. bom in
November of 1958.
1953 —
MRS. RUTH D. DEVINE, the former Ruth D.
Lewis, is a housewife and is living in Kings
ton, Pennsylvania.
She and her husband
Melvin have a son Wayne, bom in 1955 and
a son Bruce, born in 1958. Ruth was formerly
Department
a Medical Secretary in the X-ray F
Kingston, Pa.
of the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Ki
PHILLIP D. HUSBAND reports a new ad
dress to us. He is now residing at 2 Old
Hickory Drive, Apartment 2-B, Albany,, New
EquitaYork. He has been transferred by the Ec
ble Life Assurance Society of the United £States
from the home office in New York to the
ATTORNEY SANDOR YELEN was recently
admitted to practice before the U. S. Middle
District of Pennsylvania. Sandor was dis
charged from the Army a year ago, has
served with the 2009th POW, Military Police
Unit, and presently is a member of the 322nd
Criminal Investigation Unit, U. S. Army Re
serves. He is associated in his law practice
Yelen at 550 Miners
with Attorney David
~
National Bank Building. Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
EUGENE STANLEY MASON is a Systems
.
~ jrporaand Procedure Analyst for the Radio Coi
ticn of America. He was married in 1943,
aret have two
and he and his wife Morgan
children: Dennis, born in 1944, and Pamela
6mAnn, bom in 1956. He was previously
{
nal auditor and
ployed as an accountant, interna
member of the controllers staff at Coming
Glass, Corning, New York. At present, he
is also a Public Accountant.
WILLIAM D. LEWIS announces the opening
oi his office for general practice at 167 South
Grant Street, Wilkes-Barre. He received his
medical education at Hahnemann Medical
College of Philadelphia and served his intern
ship at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
1951 —
LT. MICHAEL J. LEWIS. JR. was recently
promoted
rnioted to a lieutenant junior grade in tho
S, Naval Reserves. Mike entered active
duty
Hr ii
in. August
__ugus. of 1951 and as an ensign,
served with tho Sixth Fleet aboard the U.S.S.
Ross. Ho was released from active duty in
August of 1957.
____
Ho is married to tho former
Joan Zawakikl of Pringle, Pa, They have two
children: Michael, Jr., and Judith Ann. Mrs.
Lewis is presently a senior at Wilkes College,
majoring In Business Education.
THOMAS A. NEMCHICK is the managerr of
the Household Finance Corporation of Athei
ins.
Georgia, He started as a Branch Representa
tive in Hazleton, Pa. He vzas then transferred
to Columbus, Georgia, as assistant manager
in 1956. He became manager in 1958 and
was then transferred to manage the Athens
Branch in Athens, Georgia. Tom is married
to the former Eleanor Kanuck.
MRS. EDWARD A. BORR, the former Jane
Carpenter, is residing with her husband and
son Christopher, born in March of 1958, at
744 Del Ganado Drive, San Rafael. Califor
nia. At present Jane is a housewife, but she
previously taught the third and fifth grade
level with a student teacher in San Francisco.
Jane writes that she would love to hear from
other "Wilkes folks" living in that area.
CHARLES BLOCHBERGER is the Head Ad
visor for 430 men and the director of complete
residence hall programs at Michigan State
University. He is presently working toward
his Ed.D. Charles received his B.S. from the
University of Scranton in 1950 and his M.E.
in Guidance from the University of Maryland
in 1957. He is married to the former Ann P.
Kelly. Charles formerly vzas a core teacher
(ninth grade) at the Edgewood Jr.-Sr. High
School, Edgewood, Maryland.
1955 —
MRS. WILLIS HOMICK, the former Irene
Goliash, is a housewife and is residing at
38 Nelson Street, Auburn, New York. She
and her husband have two sons: David, bom
in 1957, and Jimmy, bom in July of 1958.
1956 —
LT. (jg.) FRED J. BOOTE is a Navigation
Officer at the U. S. Naval Station in Green
Cove Springs, Florida. He and his wife For
tuna are living at 222A Pringle Circle, Magno
lia Springs Apartments, Green Cove Springs,
Florida.
NORMAN R. PHILIPP is a Cadet Engineer
with the Public Service Electric and Gas Com
pany in Newark, New Jersey. His cadet
training is taking place at the Kearney Gen
erating Station, New Jersey.
"MICKEY” PERLMUTH is a Regional Sales
Director for Mother's Food Products, Inc. His
territory covers the area from Pittsburgh to
Los Angeles. Mickey is married to the for
mer Ruth Pressman, and they live at 72
Rochester Avenue, Long Beach, New York.
MRS. DONALD F. MERTZ. JR., the former
jper, is on the laboratory staff of the
Janet Hocj
Geisinger Memorial Hospital. Danville, Pennsylvania. She is a medical technologist for
ety of Clinical Pathologists,
the American Society
Her husband Dona.
laid is a sergeant in the
Marine Corps.
YOUNSU KOO is a research assistant at
the University of Illinois. Urbana. Illinois. He
is presently working for his Ph. D. in Struc
tural Engineering. As a research assistant,
his duties include working on a project,
"Thermal Stresses in Rotationally Symmetrical
Shell" (with relation to rocket re-entry prob
lems).
FRED COHN is in the U. S. Navy and is
working in tho Aviation Supply Office in
Philadelphia. He is married to the former
Lorraine Schwartz, and they are residing at
624 Rosalie Street, Philadelphia.
EDWARD R. DUBIN is now a senior at
Temple University. He is a Special Institute
Assistant in tho Reading Clinic, tho Depart*
ment of Psychology. Temple University. His
icsponsibilities include the setting up of tho
Annua) Reading Institute, a function of
Temple. It is a Professional Conference ot
Reading Specialists. Teachers. Psychologists.
etc. Ed is married to the former Patricia
Gable, and they have a daughter Jennifer
Carol, bom in 1957. Ed was previously em
ployed as a Neuropsychiatric Technician and
Psychiatric Worker for the Mental Hygiene
Clinic. Fort Diz, Nev/ Jersey.
WILLIAM D. JAMES. Ill, is a teacher in
Orange High School. Orange, Nev/ Jersey.
He is also a music assistant and works with
the high school chorus and the elementary
music department. Bill is married to the for
mer Edith Harvey, and they have a son
William Davis. IV, bom in September ci last
year.
1957 —
WILLIAM D. DeMAYO is a salesman for
Ayerst Laboratories of New York City. In
his work, he is to introduce to and encourage
the use of Ayerst Pharmaceuticals by the
Medical profession. He is married to the
former Virginia Pierce, and they have a son
Douglas, bom in May of 1956. The DeMayo's
are living at 864 Lindo Lane, Chico, California.
DR. CARL R. URBANSKI is an optometrist
with his office at 30 South Washington Street
Wilkes-Barre. Pa.
Carl transferred to the
_____
j ______
Pennsylvania
State College of Optometry
where he received his Doctor of Optometry
in June of 1958.
NEIL C. DADURKA. is a second lieutenant
in the U. S. Marines. He is presently under
going carrier qualifications and gunnery as
a student naval aviator in Pensacola, Florida.
While at Wilkes, Neil was senior class presi
dent and co-captain of the Wilkes wrestling
team for the 1956-57 season.
JESSE CHOPER. who received his B.S. de
gree in rmounting from Wilkes in 1957, halos
a full scholarship and a tenoning fellowship
at U. of Pa. Law School, where he teaches
two courses in arcaunting at Wharton School.
As a result of finishing second in his class
standing last year, he was selected as one
of the editors of Pennsylvania Law Review.
JOHN R. ZACHMAN is teaching eighth
grade arithmetic and ninth end tenth-grade
algebra at Bethel High SchooL John owns
his own trailer, and next summer he plans to
buy an acre of ground near the Blue Moun
tains and later beam building a home.
ROBERT M. DREXINGER is a senior a:
Bucknell. He has been elected to the Bucknell Chapter of Tau Beta Pi which is the
Richest engineering hcncrarv socierv.
MYRTLE'CRAZE'is the direricr of nurses
at Hahnemann Hospital in Scranton. Fa. As
director of nurses, she heads the School ex
Nursing, and the Hospital Nursing Service.
Myrtle previously held the position ot Pedi
atric Supervisor at the Nesbitt Memorial Hospi
tal. Kingston, and of the Director ox Nurses at
Moses Tavlor HosxritaL Scranton. Pa.
WILLIAM I. KNXEX is a li&uteamt ~
Marine Corps, stationed at Quantico. Virginia.
BUI was Platoon Commander and Student
Company Commander. He is now on the
Battalion Administrative Staft is an Inspec
tions Officer and. a Duty Officer.
JOHN S. UCZEN is a teacher c: tho Ocean
Township Central School. Oakhurst New Jer
sey. and also choirmaster and first organist
at St. Doxthea's Church. Eatontown New Jer
sey. John is married to the former Sylda
Danko, and. they have a daughter Rebecca
bom in July of 195$. From June to Septem
ber, John was music therapist at the Marlboro
State Hospital, Marlboro New• Torsev.
Jersey.
BARBARA ANN PETRO is x Medicnl TecS
nictan in the Homato’ocy
at
Temple Hospital in Philo.d.elphio. Fa IN
Barbara
passed tho tost fox National Medical
vd Technolegv in July of 1958 and is planning: tc
to wcrk
for her decree at Temple University.
11
�THE 27TH WILKES OPEN
(continued from page 7)
the way for the Elis, to share high
point trophy with Alex Skirpan of
Pitt and Daryl Kelvington of the Pitt
Frosh, no less. Skirpan eliminated
Ted Toluba, Wilkes 157-lb. entry, in
the third round in a tense bout which
found Skirpan in as much trouble as
he found himself at any time in the
tournament.
With next season's tournament
having prestige value for the nation's
wrestlers because of the 1960 Olym
pics, those responsible for the suc
cess to date are already shuddering
at the thoughts of trying to handle
such a big affair next year.
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS
First and Second Place Winners:
----- ego
Unlimited Division: Joe Farmer, Oswego
State Teachers College, pinned Jerry Wedein 10:54
meier, Winona State Teachers College, it
(overtime).
191-pound Division: Jack Stanbro, Ithaca
Grapplers, pinned Boyd Wasilko, Lock Haven
State Teachers College, in 5:48.
177-pound Division; Ed DeWitt. Sixth Army,
defeated Robert Foster, Harvard, 12-9.
167-pound Division: Douglas Blubaugh, of
Nev/ York Athletic Club, defeated Dennis Fitz
gerald, Michigan, 10-4.
157-pound Division: Alex S k i r p a n, Pitt,
pinned Larry Sinibaldi, Lock IHaven State
Teachers College, in 3:43.
147-pound Division: Robert Bubb, Pitt, defeaed Eppie Petronka, Indiana University, 5-4.
137-pound Division: Daryl Kelvington, Pitt,
pinned Fred Sentner, Fort Knox, in 6:45.
130-pound Division: Larry Lauchle, Pitt, de
feated Robert Ravitz, Penn State, 7-3.
123-pound Division: Andrew Fitch, Yale,
Powell,
vzon by default over Paul ”
” Pitt.
-pound Division: Richard Wilson. Toledo
115-po
rsity, pinned Ed Carlin, unattached, in
Univers*
7:17.
Third (winners) and Fourth (losers) places:
Unlimited Division: Henry Littlefield, New
York Athletic Club, defeated iFred Olm, Michigan, 4-2.
191-pound
191-j
Division: Tom Hall, Pitt, defeated
Robert
rt Ceccolli, unattached, 4-3.
177j
f-pound
Division: Dick Dean, Maryland,
defeat*
tied Robert Koehnen, Fort Bragg, 5-0.
-pound Division: Dick Fronczak, Michi167-j
gan,
in, defeated Charles Sherwood, West Virginia,
tia, 2-0,
1577-pound Division: D o n Carriere, Michigan, <defoatod Leroy Kennedy, Maryland, 3-0.
M7-|
7-pound Division: Cordon Muse, Franklin
and Marshall,
I
defeated Tom Grifa, Rulgeru,
on a roferoo's decision.
12
137-pound Division: William Klenort, Rut
gers, defeated Ramon West, Rochester Insti
tute, 5-2.
130-pound Division: Charles Anderson, un
attached, defeated Dick Van Auken. Mary
land. 1-0 (overtime).
■pound Division: Jim Garman, Blooms123-j
Bart Kruse, Michigan, 3-0.
burg, defeated
<
-pound Division: Gray Simons, Lock
115-1
a, defeated Aunquest Maynard, Blooms
Haven,
burg, 8-5.
Down Tlie Aisle
1954 —
married
ANITA R. GORDON was recently
recent
will be residing
to Arthur A. Allen. They v
shortly at 387 Vi? Cliveden St.,., Philadelphia.
1956 —
JAMES F. FERRIS was recently married to
Miss Mary Ellen Ross of 290 Rutter Avenue.
Kingston. Jim is a member of the faculty
of Kingston High School.
1957 —
WILLIAM KCENICH of Wilkes-Barre Town
ship was married on November 1, 1958, in
Holy Trinity Church in Wilkes-Barre to Lenore
Revit of 679 East Northampton Street, WilkesBarre Township. Bill was formerly employed
by the Pennsylvania Civil Service Commission.
He is presently serving with the U. S. Navy.
ANN E. FAUST was married in a candle
light ceremony on November 27, to Rev. Clyde
F. Kauffman. The ceremony took place in
the First Congregational Church, Minersville,
vzhich the bridegroom serves as pastor. The
bride is a member of the West Hazleton High
School faculty, organist at St. Paul's Methodist
Church, and director of the Choraliers' musical
group.
1958 —
MARILYN ANNE DAVIS vzas married on
December 20, in Fanwood, New Jersey, to
JAMES P. WARD. Marilyn
lyn is presently
teaching in the elementary schools in Scotch
Plains, New Jersey, while Jim is a mathematics teacher and wrestlingr coach in Burnet
lew Jersey.
Junior High School, Union, Ne
LEONARD V. GALLICK was married on
July 6, 1956. in Calvary Church, Frederick.
Maryland 10 Anne Marie Young of Wapwallopen. Leonard is employed by the Hospital
tem PennsylService Association of Northeastf
vania. They are residing at the■ Young resiresi
dence in Wap wallopen.
EDWARD JOHN HELTZEL was married on
October 4. 1958 to Miss Evabelle Richards of
66 North Welles Avenue. Kingston. The groom
is a teacher in the Hanover Park High School,
Hanover, New Jersey. They are presently
residing at 27 Hillside Avenue. Caldwell, New
Jersey.
ROBERT COBB SUTHERLAND of Forty Fort
was married on Saturday, November 3. io
MISS JEAN VIVIAN NORDSTROM of 165
Madison Street. Wilkes-Barre.
Bob is now
teaching at College Area High School at
Stale College. The Sutherland’s are now re
siding at 224 South Burrowes St.. State Col
lege.
JOSEF M. REESE was recently married in
St. Paul the Apostle Church. Irvine
igton to the
former Miss Carolyn Ann Carson. The groom
<
is now employed by Phoenix Hartford int Philadelphia as a staff adjuster.
Please
answer the questionnaire
that will be sent to you soon.
Don't
just put it aside.
Forget
about doing it later.
Do li low
PleaseI
New Arrivals
1943 —
a daughter, Leslee, born to Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Davis cn December 10th.
1948 —
a daughter. Melissa Alden, born to Mr. and
Mrs. Harold D. Smith (Priscilla Sweeney' on
September 3rd.
1951 —
a daughter. Lydia Ruth, bom to Dr. and
Mrs. Herbert N. Oliver on November 17th.
Dr. Oliver has just boon re-elected as Trea
surer for the Wilkes College Alumni Associa
tion.
1952 —
a daughter, Carol Ann. bom to Dr. and Mrs.
Edmund V. Niklewski on November Sth.
1953 —
a son, Darryl Zachary, born to Mi. and Mis.
William H. Fink cn January 6. Mrs. Fink is
the former Herrnhut Fried.
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ALUMNUS
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Vol. 5, No. 3
APRIL, 1959
�Board of Trustees
Gilbert 5. McClintock, Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
THE COLLEGE
TEACHER: 1959
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Frank Burnside
Francis O. Case
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Contents:
This issue of the ALUMNUS contains the report on "The College
Miss Annette Evans
Teacher" because we feel that it is important that you be informed about
Eugene S. Farley
the state of college teaching in America today.
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
In this coming decade of rapidly expanding college enrollment, the
problem of attaining and holding well-qualified faculty will be almost
insurmountable if the current problem continues to exist.
Competition for
trained men and women is becoming more and more intense, and the
supply of well-qualified faculty will not meet the demand unless steps are
taken — if not, the result will be a drop in the quality of higher education.
The ALUMNUS joins 250 other college and university magazines in
presenting this special report of interest to you and the generations to come.
Rev. Charles S. Roush
“If I were sitting here
and the whole outside world
were indifferent to what I
was doing, I would still want
to be doing just what I am.”
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
Andrew J. Sordoni
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Julius Long Stern
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Aaron Weiss
President
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Published by Wilkes College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Alumni Officers
Office of Executive Secretary
Joseph J. Savitz, President
Chase Hall
Clayton A. Bloomburg, Vice-President
Huss Picton, Editor
Anita Janerich, Secretary
William Zdancewicz, Assistant Editor
Stewart Swett, Photographer
Dr. Herbert Oliver, Treasurer
Vol. 5, No. 3
April, 1959
"“XXl*
*Iumnus lor tho members of the Wilkes College Alumni Aasosecond class raoiI pnvdeges authorized al Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, $2.00
�I’VE ALWAYS FOUND IT SOMEWHAT HARD TO
SAY JUST WHY I CHOSE TO BE A PROFESSOR.
There are many reasons, not all of them tangible
things which can be pulled out and explained. I still
hear people say, “Those who can, do; those who
can’t, teach.” But there are many teachers who can.
They are teachers because they have more than the
usual desire to communicate. They are excited enough
about something to want to tell others, have others
love it as they love it, tell people the how of some
thing, and the why.
I like to see students who will carry the intellectual
spark into the world beyond my time. And I like to
think that maybe I have something to do with this.
�THE COLLEGE
TEACHER: 1959
PEOPLE ASK ME ABOUT THE
"DRAWBACKS” IN TEACHING.
I find it difficult to be glib about this. There are major
problems to be faced. There is this business of salaries,
of status and dignity, of anti-intellectualism, of too
much to do in too little time. But these are problems,
not drawbacks. A teacher doesn’t become a teacher
in spite of them, but with an awareness that they
exist and need to be solved.
AND THERE IS THIS
MATTER OF "STATUS.”
Terms like “egghead” tend io suggest that the in
tellectual is something like a toadstool—almost phys
ically different from everyone else. America is ob
sessed with stereotypes. There is a whole spectrum of
personalities in education, all individuals. The notion
that the intellectual is somebody totally removed from
what human beings are supposed to be is absurd.
�“He may always be running just to keep
from falling behind. But the person who
is a teacher because he wants to teach,
because he is deeply interested in people
and scholarship, will pursue it as long as
he can."
—Loren C. Eiseles-
T
A he CIRCUMSTANCE is a strange one. In recent
years Americans have spent more money on the trappings of
higher education than ever before in history. More
parents than ever have set their sights on a college education
for their children. More buildings than ever
have been put up to accommodate the crowds. But in the
midst of this national preoccupation with higher
education, the indispensable element in education—the
teacher—somehow has been overlooked.
The results are unfortunate—not only for college teachers, but
for college teaching as well, and for all whose lives it touches.
If allowed to persist, present conditions could lead
to so serious a decline in the excellence of higher education
that we would require generations to recover from it.
Among educators, the problem is the subject
of current concern and debate and experiment. What is missing,
and urgently needed, is full public awareness of the
problem—and full public support of measures to deal with it.
A Aere
is a task
for the college alumnus and alumna. No one
knows the value of higher education better than
the educated. No one is better able to take action, and to
persuade others to take action, to preserve and increase its value.
Will they do it? The outlines of the problem, and some
guideposts to action, appear in the pages that follow.
WILL WE RUN OUT OF
COLLEGE TEACHERS?
No; there will always be someone to fill classroom vacancies. But
quality is almost certain to drop unless something is done quickly
•vr ‘yr THERE WILL THE TEACHERS COME FROM?
%/W The number of students enrolled in America’s
V ’ colleges and universities this year exceeds last
year’s figure by more than a quarter million. In ten years
it should pass six million—nearly double today’s en
rollment.
The number of teachers also may have to double. Some
educators say that within a decade 495,000 may be needed
—more than twice the present number.
Can we hope to meet the demand? If so, what is likely
to happen to the quality of teaching in the process?
“Great numbers of youngsters will flood into our col
leges and universities whether we are prepared or not,” a
report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching has pointed out. “These youngsters will be
taught—taught well or taught badly. And the demand for
teachers will somehow be at least partly met—if not with
well-prepared teachers then with ill-prepared, if not with
superior teachers then with inferior ones.”
T\ XT OST immediate is the problem of finding enough
I w/II qualified teachers to meet classes next fall. Col-L V JI. }ege administrators must scramble to do so.
“The staffing problems are the worst in my 30 years’
experience at hiring teaching staff,” said one college presi
dent, replying to a survey by the U.S. Office of Educa
tion’s Division of Higher Education.
“The securing and retaining of well-trained, effective
teachers is the outstanding problem confronting all col
leges today,” said another.
One logical place to start reckoning with the teacher
shortage is on the present faculties of American colleges
and universities. The shortage is hardly alleviated by the
fact that substantial numbers of men and women find it
necessary to leave college teaching each year, for largely
financial reasons. So serious is this problem—and so
relevant is it to the college alumnus and alumna—that a
separate article in this report is devoted to it.
The scarcity of funds has led most colleges and uni
versities to seek at least short-range solutions to the
teacher shortage by other means.
Difficulty in finding young new teachers to fill faculty
vacancies is turning the attention of more and more ad
ministrators to the other end of the academic line, where
tried and able teachers are about to retire. A few institu
tions have modified the upper age limits for faculty. Others
are keeping selected faculty members on the payroll past
the usual retirement age. A number of institutions are
filling their own vacancies with the cream of the men and
women retired elsewhere, and two organizations, the Asso
ciation of American Colleges and the American Associa
tion of University Professors, with the aid of a grant from
the Ford Foundation, have set up a “Retired Professors
Registry” to facilitate the process.
Old restraints and handicaps for the woman teacher are
disappearing in the colleges. Indeed, there are special
opportunities for her, as she earns her standing alongside
the man who teaches. But there is no room for com
placency here. We can no longer take it for granted that
the woman teacher will be any more available than the
man, for she exercises the privilege of her sex to change
her mind about teaching as about other matters. Says
Dean Nancy Duke Lewis of Pembroke College: “The day
has passed when we could assume that every woman who
earned her Ph.D. would go into college teaching. She
needs something positive today to attract her to the col
leges because of the welcome that awaits her talents in
business, industry, government, or the foundations. Her
freedom to choose comes at a time when undergraduate
women particularly need distinguished women scholars to
�inspire them to do their best in the classroom and labo
ratory—and certainly to encourage them to elect college
teaching as a career/'
/T^OME HARD-PRESSED ADMINISTRATORS find themselves
forced to accelerate promotions and salary increases
in order to attract and hold faculty members. Many
are being forced to settle for less qualified teachers.
In an effort to attract and keep teachers, most colleges
are providing such necessities as improved research facili
ties and secretarial help to relieve faculty members of
paperwork and administrative burdens, thus giving faculty
members more time to concentrate on teaching and
research.
In the process of revising their curricula many colleges
are eliminating courses that overlap one another or are
considered frivolous. Some are increasing the size of
lecture classes and eliminating classes they deem too small.
Finally, somewhat in desperation (but also with the
firm conviction that the technological age must, after all,
have something of value to offer even to the most basic
and fundamental exercises of education), experiments arc
being conducted with teaching by films and television.
At Penn State, where televised instruction is in its ninth
semester, TV has met with mixed reactions. Students
consider it a good technique for teaching courses with
large enrollments—and their performance in courses em
ploying television has been as good as that of students
having personal contact with their teachers. The reaction
of faculty members has been less favorable. But accept
ance appears to be growing: the number of courses offered
on television has grown steadily, and the number of faculty
members teaching via TV has grown, also.
Elsewhere, teachers are far from unanimity on the sub
ject of TV. “Must the TV technicians take over the col
leges?” asked Professor Ernest Earnest of Temple Uni
versity in an article title last fall. “Like the conventional
lecture system. TV lends itself to the sausage-stuffing con
cept of education,” Professor Earnest said. The classroom,
he argued, “is the place for testing ideas and skills, for the
interchange of ideas”—objectives difficult to attain when
one’s teacher is merely a shadow on a fluorescent screen.
The TV pioneers, however, believe the medium, used
properly, holds great promise for the future.
TT"10R the long run, the traditional sources of supply
IH for college teaching fall far short of meeting the demand. The Ph.D., for example, long regarded by
many colleges and universities as the ideal “driver s
license” for teachers, is awarded to fewer than 9.000
persons per year. Even if, as is probable, the number of
students enrolled in Ph.D. programs rises over the next
few years, it will be a long time before they have traveled
the full route to the degree.
Meanwhile, the demand for Ph.D.’s grows, as industry’,
consulting firms, and government compete for many of the
men and women who do obtain the degree. Thus, at the
very time that a great increase is occurring in the number
of undergraduates who must be taught, the supply of new
college teachers with the rank of Ph.D. is even shorter
than usual.
“During each of the past four years,” reported the
National Education Association in 1958, “the average
level of preparation of newly employed teachers has
fallen. Four years ago no less than 31.4 per cent of the
new teachers held the earned doctor’s degree. Last year
only 23.5 per cent were at this high level of preparation.”
of the causes of concern about the
Ph.D., to which educators are directing their
attention:
> The Ph.D. program,as it now exists in most graduate
schools, does not sufficiently emphasize the development
of teaching skills. As a result, many Ph.D.’s go into '
teaching with little or no idea how to teach, and make
a mess of it when they try. Many who don’t go into
teaching might have done so, had a greater emphasis been
laid upon it when they were graduate students.
erf. are some
> The Ph.D. program is indefinite in its time require
ments: they vary from school to school, from department
to department, from student to student, far more than
seems warranted. “Generally the Ph.D. takes at least
four years to get,” says a committee of the Association
of Graduate Schools. “More often it takes six or seven,
and not infrequently ten to fifteen. ... If we put our heads
to the matter, certainly we ought to be able to say to a
good student: ‘With a leeway of not more than one year,
it will take you so and so long to take the Ph.D.' ”
► “Uncertainty about the time required,” says the
Association’s Committee on Policies in Graduate Educa
tion, “leads in turn to another kind of uncertainty—
financial uncertainty. Doubt and confusion on this score
have a host of disastrous effects. Many superior men.
facing unknowns here, abandon thoughts about working
for a Ph.D. and realistically go off to law or the Like.. . /’
of the teachers in America’s colleges and universities hold the Ph.D., more
than three quarters of the newcomers to college
and university teaching, these days, don’t have one. In
the years ahead, it appears inevitable that the proportion
of Ph.D.’s to non-Ph.D.’s on America’s faculties will
diminish.
Next in line, after the doctorate, is the master’s degree.
a lthough roughly half
ZjX
�For centuries the master's was “the” degree, until, with
the growth of the Ph.D. in America, it began to be moved
into a back seat. In Great Britain its prestige is still high.
But in America the M.A. has, in some graduate schools,
deteriorated. Where rhe M.A.’s standards have been kept
high, on the other hand, able students have been able to
prepare themselves, not only adequately but well, for
college teaching.
Today the M.A. is one source of hope in the teacher
shortage. “If the M.A. were of universal dignity and
good standing,” says the report of the Committee on
Policies in Graduate Education, “. . . this ancient degree
could bring us succor in the decade ahead....
“The nub of the problem ... is to get rid of 'good’ and
‘bad’ M.A.’s and to set up generally a ‘rehabilitated’ de
gree which will have such worth in its own right that
a man entering graduate school will consider the possi
bility of working toward the M.A. as the first step to the
Ph.D....”
One problem would remain. “If you have a master’s
degree you are still a mister and if you have a Ph.D., no
matter where it is from, you are a doctor,” Dean G. Bruce
Dearing, of the University of Delaware, has said. '‘The
town looks ar you differently. Business looks at you dif
ferently. The dean may; it depends on how discriminating
he is.”
The problem won't be solved, W. R. Dennes, former
dean of the graduate school of the University of California
at Berkeley, has said, “until universities have the courage
... to select men very largely on the quality of work they
have done and soft-pedal this matter of degrees.”
A point for parents and prospective students to remem
ber—and one of which alumni and alumnae might re
mind them—is that counting the number of Ph.D.’s in a
college catalogue is not the only, or even necessarily the
best, way to judge the worth of an educational institution
or its faculty’s abilities. To base one's judgment solely on
such a count is quite a temptation, as William James noted
56 years ago in “The Ph.D. Octopus”: “The dazzled read
er of the list, the parent or student, says to himself, ‘This
must be a terribly distinguished crowd—their titles shine
like the stars in the firmament; Ph.D.’s, Sc.D.’s. and
Litt.D.’s bespangle the page as if they were sprinkled over
it from a pepper caster.’ ”
The Ph.D. will remain higher education’s most honored
earned degree. It stands for a depth of scholarship and
productive research to which the master has not yet
addressed himself so intensively. But many educational
leaders expect the doctoral programs to give more em-
phasis to teaching. At the same time the master’s degree
will be strengthened and given more prestige.
In the process the graduate schools will have taken a
long step toward solving the shortage of qualified college
teachers.
z-^ome of the changes
being made by colleges and
universities to meet the teacher shortage constitute
reasonable and overdue reforms. Other changes are
admittedly desperate—and possibly dangerous—attempts
io meet today’s needs.
The central problem is to get more young people
interested in college teaching. Here, college alumni and
alumnae have an opportunity to provide a badly needed
service to higher education and to superior young people
themselves. The problem of teacher supply is not one
with which the college administrator is able to cope alone.
President J. Seelyc Bixler, of Colby College, recently
said: “Let us cultivate a teacher-centered point of view.
There is tragedy as well as truth in the old saying that in
Europe when you meet a teacher you tip your hat, whereas
over here you tap your head. Our debt to our teachers is
very’ great, and fortunately we are beginning to realize
that we must make some attempt to balance the account.
Money and prestige are among the first requirements.
“Most important is independence. Too often we sit
back with the comfortable feeling that our teachers have
all the freedom they desire. We forget that the payoff
comes in times of stress. Are we really willing to allow
them independence of thought when a national emergency
is in the offing? Are we ready to defend them against all
pressure groups and to acknowledge their right to act as
critics of our customs, our institutions, and even our
national policy? Evidence abounds that for some of our
more vociferous compatriots this is too much. They see no
reason why such privileges should be offered or why a
teacher should not express his patriotism in the same out
worn and often irrelevant shibboleths they find so dear
and so hard to give up. Surely our educational task has
not been completed until we have persuaded them that a
teacher should be a pioneer, a leader, and at times a non
conformist with a recognized right to dissent. As Howard
Mumford Jones has observed, we can hardly allow our
selves to become a nation proud of machines that think
and suspicious of any man who tries to.”
By lending their support to programs designed to im
prove the climate for teachers at thei r own colleges, alumni
can do much to alter the conviction held by many that
teaching is tolerable only to martyrs.
WHAT PRICE
DEDICATION?
I
Most teachers teach because they love their jobs. But low pay is
forcing many to leave the profession, just when we need them most
Tuesday evening for the past three and a half
rH months, the principal activity of a 34-year-old
R -J associate professor of chemistry at a first-rate mid
western college has centered around Section 3 of the pre
vious Sunday’s New York Times. The Times, which ar
rives at his office in Tuesday afternoon’s mail delivery,
customarily devotes page after page of Section 3 to large
help-wanted ads, most of them directed at scientists and
engineers. The associate professor, a Ph.D., is job
hunting.
“There’s certainly no secret about it,” he told a recent
visitor. “At least two others in the department are look
ing, too. We’d all give a lot to be able to stay in teach
ing; that’s what we’re trained for, that’s what we like.
But we simply can’t swing it financially.”
“I’m up against it this spring,” says the chairman of
the physics department at an eastern college for women.
“Within the past two weeks two of my people, one an
associate and one an assistant professor, turned in their
resignations, effective in June. Both are leaving the field
—one for a job in industry, the other for government
work. I’ve got strings out, all over the country, but so
far I’ve found no suitable replacements. We’ve always
prided ourselves on having Ph.D.’s in these jobs, but it
looks as if that’s one resolution we’ll have to break in
1959-60.”
“We’re a long way from being able to compete with
industry when young people put teaching and industry on
the scales,” says Vice Chancellor Vem O. Knudsen of
UCLA. “Salary is the real rub, of course. Ph.D.’s in
physics here in Los Angeles are getting $8-12,000 in
ti—ivery
industry without any experience, while about all we can
offer them is $5,500. Things are not much better in the
chemistry department.”
One young Ph.D. candidate sums it up thus: “We want
to teach and we want to do basic research, but industry
offers us twice the salary we can get as teachers. We talk
it over with our wives, but it’s pretty hard to turn down
$10,000 to work for less than half that amount.”
“That woman you saw leaving my office: she’s one of
our most brilliant young teachers, and she was ready to
leave us,” said a women’s college dean recently. “I per
suaded her to postpone her decision for a couple of
months, until the results of the alumnae fund drive are in.
We’re going to use that money entirely for raising sala
ries, this year. If it goes over the top, we’ll be able to hold
some of our best people. If it falls short.. . I’m on the
phone every morning, talking to the fund chairman,
counting those dollars, and praying.”
rT"5HE dimensions of the teacher-salary problem in the
| United States and Canada are enormous. It has
J- reached a point of crisis in public institutions and in
private institutions, in richly endowed institutions as well
as in poorer ones. It exists even in Catholic colleges and
universities, where, as student populations grow, more
and more laymen must be found in order to supplement
the limited number of clerics available for teaching posts.
“In a generation,” says Seymour E. Harris, the dis
tinguished Harvard economist, “the college professor has
lost 50 per cent in economic status as compared to the
average American. His real income has declined sub
�stantially, while that of the average American has risen
by 70-80 per cent.”
Figures assembled by the American Association o
University Professors show how seriously the college
teacher's economic standing has deteriorated. Since
1939, according to the AAUP’s latest study (published in
1958), the purchasing power of lawyers rose 34 per cent,
that of dentists 54 per cent, and that of doctors 98 per
cent. But at the five state universities surveyed by the
AAUP. the purchasing power of teachers in all ranks rose
only 9 per cent. And at twenty-eight privately controlled
institutions, the purchasing power of teachers’ salaries
dropped by 8.5 per cent. While nearly everybody else in
the country was gaining ground spectacularly, teachers
were losing it.
The AAUP’s sample, it should be noted, is not repre
sentative of all colleges and universities in the United
States and Canada. The institutions it contains are, as
the AAUP says, “among the better colleges and universi
ties in the country in salary matters.” For America as a
whole, the situation is even worse.
The National Education Association, which studied
the salaries paid in the 1957-58 academic year by more
than three quarters of the nation’s degree-granting insti
tutions and by nearly two thirds of the junior colleges,
found that half of all college and university teachers
earned less than $6,015 per year. College instructors
earned a median salary of only $4.562—not much better
than the median salary of teachers in public elementary
schools, whose economic plight is well known.
The implications of such statistics are plain.
“Higher salaries,” says Robert Lekachman, professor
of economics at Barnard College, “would make teaching
a reasonable alternative for the bright young lawyer, the
bright young doctor. Any ill-paid occupation becomes
something of a refuge for the ill-trained, the lazy, and the
incompetent. If the scale of salaries isn’t improved, the
quality of teaching won’t improve; it will worsen. Unless
Americans are willing to pay more for higher education,
they will have to be satisfied with an inferior product.”
Says President Margaret Clapp of Wellesley College
which is devoting all of its fund-raising efforts to accumu
lating enough money ($15 million) to strengthen facultv
salaries: Since the war, in an effort to keep alive the
profession, discussion in America of teachers’ salaries has
necessanly centered on the minimums paid. But insofar
as money is a factor in decision, wherever minimums only
’ luC aPPeal ’S t0 lhc “"^Privileged and the
timid, able and ambitious youths are not likely to listen.”
PEOPLE IN SHORT SUPPLY:
T\ TT THAT IS THE ANSWER?
\\/ v/ It appears certain that if college teaching is io
V ' attract and hold top-grade men and women, a
drastic step must be taken: salaries must be doubled
within five to ten years.
There is nothing extravagant about such a proposal;
the ...
need. The
indeed, it may dangerously understate the
current situation is so serious that even doubling his sal
to regain his
ary would not enable the college teacher
former status in the American economy.
Professor Harris of Harvard figures it this way:
For every S100 he earned in 1930, the college faculty
member earned only S85, in terms of 1930 dollars, tn
1957. By contrast, the average American got S175 tn
1957 for every $100 he earned in 1930. Even if the pro
fessor’s salary is doubled in ten years, he will get on y 3
TEACHERS LN THE MARKETPLACE
$70 increase in buying power over 1930. By contrast, the
average American is expected to have $127 more buying
power at the end of the same period.
In this respect, Professor Harris notes, doubling faculty
salaries is a modest program. “But in another sense,” he
says, “the proposed rise seems large indeed. None of the
authorities . . . has told us where the money is coming
from.” It seems quite clear that a fundamental change in
public attitudes toward faculty salaries will be necessary
before significant progress can be made.
Ti RINDING THE money is a problem with which each
rH college must wrestle today without cease.
For some, it is a matter of convincing taxpayers
and state legislators that appropriating money for faculty
salaries is even more important than appropriating
money for campus buildings. (Curiously, buildings are
usually easier to “sell” than pay raises, despite the seem
ingly obvious fact that no one was ever educated by a pile
of bricks.)
For others, it has been a matter of fund-raising cam
paigns (“We are writing salary increases into our 1959-60
budget, even though we don’t have any idea where the
money is coming from,” says the president of a privately
supported college in the Mid-Atlantic region); of finding
additional salary money in budgets that are already
spread thin (“We’re cutting back our library’s book
budget again, to gain some funds in the salary accounts”);
of tuition increases (“This is about the only private enter
prise in the country which gladly subsidizes its customers;
maybe we’re crazy”); of promoting research contracts
(“We claim to be a privately supported university, but
what would we do without the AEC?”); and of bar
gaining.
“The tendency to bargain, on the part of both the col
leges and the teachers, is a deplorable development,” says
the dean of a university in the South. But it is a grow
ing practice. As a result, inequities have developed: the
teacher in a field in which people are in short supply or in
industrial demand—or the teacher who is adept at
“campus politics”—is likely to fare better than his col
leagues who are less favorably situated.
“Before you check with the administration on the
actual appointment of a specific individual,” says a
faculty man quoted in the recent and revealing book, The
Academic Marketplace, “you can be honest and say to
the man, 'Would you be interested in coming at this
amount?’ and he says, ‘No, but I would be interested at
this amount’ ” One result of such bargaining has been
that newly hired faculty members often make more
money than was paid to the people they replace—a happy
circumstance for the newcomers, but not likely to raise
the morale of others on the faculty.
“We have been compelled to set the beginning salary
of such personnel as physics professors at least $1,500
higher than salaries in such fields as history, art, physical
education, and English,” wrote the dean of faculty in a
state college in the Rocky Mountain area, in response to a
recent government questionnaire dealing with salary' prac
tices. “This began about 1954 and has worked until the
present year, when the differential perhaps may be in
creased even more.”
Bargaining is not new in Academe (Thorstein Veblen
referred to it in The Higher Learning, which he wrote in
�1918). but never has it been as widespread or as much a
matter of desperation as today. In colleges and universi
ties, whose members like to think of themselves as equally
dedicated to all fields of human knowledge, it may prove
to be a weakening factor of serious proportions.
Many colleges and universities have managed to make
modest across-the-board increases, designed to restore
part of the faculty’s lost purchasing power. In the 195758 academic year, 1,197 institutions, 84.5 per cent of
those answering a U.S. Office of Education survey ques
tion on the point, gave salary increases of at least 5 per
cent to their faculties as a whole. More than half of them
(248 public institutions and 329 privately supported insti
tutions) said their action was due wholly or in part to the
teacher shortage.
Others have found fringe benefits to be a partial
answer. Providing low-cost Housing is a particularly suc
cessful way of attracting and holding faculty members;
and since housing is a major item in a family budget, it
is as good as or better than a salary increase. Oglethorpe
University in Georgia, for example, a 200-student, pri
vate, liberal arts institution, long ago built houses on cam
pus land (in one of the most desirable residential areas on
the outskirts of Atlanta), which it rents to faculty mem
bers at about one-third the area’s going rate. (The cost
of a three-bedroom faculty house: S50 per month.) “It’s
our major selling point,” says Oglethorpe’s president,
Donald Agnew, “and we use it for all it’s worth.”
Dartmouth, in addition to attacking the salary problem
itself, has worked out a program of fringe benefits that
includes full payment of retirement premiums (16 per
cent of each faculty member’s annual salary'), group in
surance coverage, paying the tuition of faculty children at
any college in the country^ liberal mortgage loans, and
contributing to the improvement of local schools which
faculty members’ children attend.
Taking care of trouble spots while attempting to whittle
down the salary' problem as a whole, searching for new
funds while reapportioning existing ones, the colleges and
universities are dealing with their salary crises as best they
can, and sometimes ingeniously. But still the gap between
salary increases and the rising figures on the Bureau of
Labor Statistics’ consumer price index persists.
■JT TOW CAN THE GAP BE CLOSED?
—j|
First, stringent economies must be applied by
JL Jl educational institutions themselves. Any waste
that occurs, as well as most luxuries, is probably being
subsidized by low salaries. Some “waste” may be hidden
in educational theories so old that they are accepted
without question; if so. the theories must be re-examined
and. if found invalid, replaced with new ones. The idea
of the small class, for example, has long been honored
by administrators and faculty members alike; there is
now reason to suspect that large classes can be equally
effective in many courses—a suspicion which, if found
correct, should be translated into action by those institu
tions which are able to do so. Tuition may have to be
increased—a prospect at which many public-college, as
well as many private-college, educators shudder, but
which appears justified and fair if the increases can be
tied to a system of loans, scholarships, and tuition re
bates based on a student’s or his family’s ability to pay.
Second, massive aid must come from the public, both
in the form of taxes for increased salaries in state and
municipal institutions and in the form of direct gifts to
both public and private institutions. Anyone who gives
money to a college or university for unrestricted use or
earmarked for faculty salaries can be sure that he is mak
ing one of the best possible investments in the free world’s
future. If he is himself a college alumnus, he may con
sider it a repayment of a debt he incurred when his col
lege or university subsidized a large part of his own edu
cation (virtually nowhere does, or did, a student’s tuition
cover costs). If he is a corporation executive or director,
he may consider it a legitimate cost of doing business; the
supply of well-educated men and women (the alternative
to which is half-educated men and women) is dependent
upon it. If he is a parent, he may consider it a premium
on a policy to insure high-quality education for his chil
dren—quality which, without such aid, he can be certain
will deteriorate.
Plain talk between educators and the public is a third
necessity. The president of Barnard College, Millicent C.
McIntosh, says: “The ‘plight’ is not of the faculty, but of
the public. The faculty will take care of themselves in the
future either by leaving the teaching profession or by
never entering it. Those who care for education, those
who run institutions of learning, and those who have chil
dren—ail these will be left holding the bag.” It is hard to
believe that if Americans—and particularly college alum
ni and alumnae—had been aware of the problem, they
would have let faculty salaries fall into a sad state. Ameri
cans know the value of excellence in higher education too
well to have blithely let its basic element—excellent teach
ing—slip into its present peril. First we must rescue it;
then we must make certain that it does not fall into dis
repair again.
Some
Questions
for
Alumni
and
Alwsmae
> Is your Alma Mater having difficulty finding qualified
new teachers to fill vacancies and expand its faculty to
meet climbing enrollments?
J> Has the economic status of faculty members of your
college kept up with inflationary trends?
l> Are the physical facilities of your college, including
laboratories and libraries, good enough to attract and
hold qualified teachers?
l> Is your community one which respects the college
teacher? Is the social and educational environment of
your college’s “home town” one in which a teacher would
like to raise his family?
> Are the restrictions on time and freedom of teachers
at your college such as to discourage adventurous research,
careful preparation of instruction, and the expression of
honest conviction?
> To meet the teacher shortage, is your college forced
to resort to hiring practices that are unfair to segments of
the faculty it already has?
> Are courses of proved merit being curtailed? Are
classes becoming larger than subject matter or safeguards
of teacher-student relationships would warrant?
I
a
> Are you, as an alumnus, and your college as an insti
tution, doing everything possible to encourage talented
young people to pursue careers in college teaching?
If you are dissatisfied with the answers to these questions,
your college may need help. Contact alumni officials at
your college to learn if your concern is justified. If it is.
register your interest in helping the college authorities
find solutions through appropriate programs of organized
alumni cooperation.
�EDITORIAL STAFF
DAVIDA. BURR
The University of Oklahoma
FRANCES PROVENCE
Baylor University
DAN H. FENN. Jr.
Harvard University
ROBERT M. RHODES
Lehigh University
RANDOLPH L. FORT
Emory University
WILLIAM SCHRAMM
The University of Pennsylvania
CORBIN GWALTNEY
The Johns Hopkins University
VERNE A. STADTMAN
The University of California
L. FRANKLIN HEALD
The University of New Hampshire
FREDERIC A. STOTT, Jr.
Phillips Academy, Andover
CHARLES M. HELMKEN
St. Johns University
FRANK J. TATE
The Ohio State University
JEAN D. LINEHAN
The American Alumni Council
ERIK WENSBERG
Columbia University
ROBERT L. PAYTON
Washington University
CHARLES E. WIDMAYER
Dartmouth College
MARIAN POVERMAN
Barnard College
REBA WILCOXON
The University of Arkansas
CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
Brown University
You have received your alumni questionnaire and we trust that you have
filled it out and returned it to us. If you have not, please do so. The informa
tion we seek is needed for our re-evaluation by a Committee from the Middle
States Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges.
They are scheduled
to visit us in February, 1960. Prior to that time, we must compile all of the
alumni information for that report. It will be time consuming so won't you fill
out your questionnaire now and return it today.
When the information is compiled, we will publish an Alumni Survey-
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Report which will show a profile of our alumni. This survey can only be done
if we receive your questionnaire. A copy will be mailed to you.
Photographs: him J- Bearden
Printing: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co.
This survey was made possible in part by funds granted by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
That Corporation is not, however, the author, owner, publisher, or proprietor of this publication
and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or
views expressed therein.
The editors are indebted to Loren C. Eiseley, professor of anthropology at the University of
Pennsylvania, for his contributions to the introductory picture section of this report.
No part of this report may be reprinted
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�Board of Trustees
Gilbert S- McClintock, Chairman
Contents:
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Page
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
3
James P. Harris, Treasurer
4
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Frank Burnside
Francis O. Case
5
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
6-7
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
The third in a series of Science lectures concerning the atom and the
future of our civilization is given by Dr. Lyle Borst, Chairman of the
Department of Physics, New York University.
9
Homecoming weekend and class reunions scheduled for Oct. 23-24.
Eugene S. Farley
George W. Guckelberger
Goeringer
Harry
Gilbert S. McClintock
Chairman of the Board of
Gertrude A. Doane. Dean of Women, and Dr. John Doane, College
Physician, retire after years of service to Wilkes College and
Wyoming Valley.
Dr. J. Douglas Brown, Dean of Faculty, Princeton University, tells
graduates that ideas rather than material resources are the true
science of human progress in the most essential aspects of civilization.
8
Miss Annette Evans
Hon. John S. rme
Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, passes
away.
Dr. Alan Brown, President of Metropolitan Educational Television
Association explains the pattern of education in an open society in
Baccalaureate address.
10
Athletes given awards for outstanding achievements.
11
The status of the alumni survey is reported — sixty per cent return.
Trustees Succumbs
Joseph J. Kccycn. J«LD.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph
Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas r. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst. Jr.
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
A.lumnj Representative
Andrew J. Sordoni
Admiral Harold R. Stark
Julius Long Stern
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Aaron Weiss
President
On the Cover:
The Morris family of Forty Fort, Penna is a Wilkes Family!!
Pictured on the cover is Robert Burton Morris and his mother. Mrs. Margaret Morris
of Forty Fort. Penna., both of whom received their Bachelor of Science Degrees from
Wilkes College at commencement ceremonies this June.
The graduation of Mrs. Morris and her eldest son, Robert, completes the under
graduate study of the Morris family, four in number. Son Richard Everett and daughter
Nancy Ann were graduated from Wilkes in 1957.
Mrs. Morris, an elementary education graduate of Bloomsburg S.T.C., when known
as Bloomsburg Normal School, gained her bachelor's degree with honors by attending
n teachi
teaching the sixth
the evening school division at Wilkes. In addition she has been
presently
working toward
grade at the Dana Street School in Forty Fort, Penna. She is p
------nplete her studies by next
her master's degree at Bucknell University and expects to complete
summer.
Robert completed his requirements for a Bachelor of Science degree in commerce
and finance in January of this year and is presently employed at Wilkes as Administra
tive assistant to the President. Last Fall he was named assistant coach of wrestling
at Wilkes. He was named the outstanding graduate of his class and was elected
permanent class president.
Two of the Morris family are married to former
rmer graduates of Wilkes, namely:
Robert is married to the former Patsy L. Reese of F
Forty Fort, a 1957 graduate with a
bachelor of arts degree in art; and Nancy' Ann is married to D. Glen Phethean, who
was graduated from Wilkes in 1956 with <a bachelor of science degree in secondary
education.
I
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Published by Wilkes College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Alumni Officers
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Joseph J. Savitz, President
Clayton A. BIccmburg, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Russ Picton, Editor
William Zdancewicz, Assistant Editor
Stewart Swett, Photographer
Dr. Herbert Oliver, Treasurer
Vol. 5, No. 4
July, 1959
Published quarterly as tho Alumnus for the members of tho Wilkes C
College Alumni Abbodation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barro, Pa. Subscription, $2.00
■
Attorney Gilbert S. McClintock,
Chairman of the Wilkes College
Board of Trustees, died Thursday,
June 18, following a heart attack. The
last surviving member of one of the
most prominent Wilkes-Barre fami
lies, Atty. McClintock, 72, was well
known throughout Wyoming Valley
as a leader in education and indus
try.
Stricken with the seizure as he was
geing to the Westmoreland Club,
South Franklin Street, Attorney Mc
Clintock collapsed in the driveway
of the club and died shortly after.
He was pronounced dead on arrival
at General Hospital at 4:03 p.m. by
Dr. Graciana Du, deputy coroner.
man of the board of Wilkes College,
along with President Eugene S. Far
ley, was credited with having im
measurably aided the industrial re
development of the area.
Atty. McClintock had served as
chairman of the board of Glen Alden
Corporation, the largest producer of
anthracite, and chairman of the
beard of Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Coal Company, since 1951.
He was named a director of Glen
Alden in February, 1934. At that
time he was a director of Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, assum
ing that place in 1919 after the death
of his father. Attorney Andrew H. Mc
Clintock.
He was taken to the hospital in the
Wilkes-Barre community ambulance
by Officers Walter Pomanek, Mat
thew Samoski and Ernest Hergert.
Dr. Charles E. Myers and Dr. Harry
A. Smith had been treating Attorney
McClintock for a heart condition for
some time.
Son and grandson of two of
Luzerne County's most distinguished
lawyers, Andrew Hamilton McClin
tock and Andrew Todd McClintock,
whose forebears settled in Northum
berland County in 1795, Atty. Mc
Clintock ably followed the footsteps
of his father and grandfather both in
his profession and as a community
and civic leader.
Private funeral services were held
June 19 in the Luther M. Kniffen
Funeral Home, Wilkes-Barre. There
was no viewing.
A resident of 54 Riverside Drive,
Atty. McClintock had conducted law
offices at 34 South River Street in a
building owned by the McClintock
family more than 100 years. He also
maintained a summer residence at
Bear Lake.
Prominently identified with com
mercial, financial, cultural and phil
anthropic organizations in Wyoming
Valley, Atty. McClintock as chair
Atty. McClintock was bom in
Wilkes-Barre December 27, 1886, and
graduated from Lawrenceville, N.J.
in 1904. He received his A.B. in 1908
from Princeton University and at
tended University of Pennsylvania
Law School. He was admitted to
Luzerne County Bar in March, 1912.
Having a keen interest in the
historical background of Wyoming
Valley, Atty. McClintock compiled a
book, "Valley Views of Northeastern
Pennsylvania," which was published
in 1948 by The Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society. Proudly as
suming its rightful place alongside
the finest in historical books, it con
sists of reproductions of early prints
and paintings of the Wyoming and
ether valleys of the Susquehanna,
Lehigh, Delaware and Lackawanna
Rivers, together with a descriptive
list of the plates. The book contains
more than 100 reproductions of
paintings and was printed by Prince
ton University Press.
His historical interest in the region
was evidenced again during the
movement to restore the site of a
colony of French refugees 10 miles
south of Towanda, when he was
named one of the first directors of
French Azilum, Inc.
Atty. McClintock had a distinct
__________ x
part in the development
of WilkesBarre as a member of the City Plan
ning Commission, being its chairman
some 21 years prior to his resignation
in 1958. At that time he was reap
pointed to another five-year term as
a member of the commission.
More than aware of the higher
education needs of the community.
Atty. McClintock was one of the prin
cipal initiators in establishing Wilkes
College as a four-year institution in
1947 and as chairman of its board
of trustees had regulated its expan
sion. Under his leadership, as gen
eral chairman, the college in 1957
successfully completed a S500.000
fund campaign on the occasion of
its 25th anniversary. Better salaries
(continued on page 12^
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�Dr. and Mrs. Doane
Depart from College
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if
A .. C
Plan European Tour
After Retirement
Pictured are trustees, faculty and administration members of Wilkes College and the students of the graduating class
of 1959 with families and friends at the baccalaureate exercises held Sunday, June 7, in the college gymnasium.
Education In Open Society Called
Great Achievement of All Times
"The pattern of education in an
open society remains one of the great
cultural achievements of all time,
envied and imitated in one way or
another in almost every part of the
free world," Dr. Alan Willard Brown
told the Wilkes Class of 1959 in the
baccalaureate sermon June 7 in the
college gymnasium.
"It is a pattern in which both
public and private agencies work to
gether, in which the Federal govern
ment, that of the States, and that of
our communities all play appropriate
if constantly changing roles," Dr.
Brown continued. "But it is an open
pattern, committed to individual and
institutional freedom, flexible in its
ability to adapt to new situations,
and constantly subject to self-criti
cism and re-evaluation. It is more
democratically operated than any
other educational system and yet
recognizes the importance of leader
ship and the assignment of high
responsibility to that leadership.
Dr. Brown stated that though our
country has tried to do more with
education than any other nation, it
is not surprising that we have not
always been successful. "We have,
nonetheless, widened the social
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horizons of most of our citizens," he
added, "we have encouraged our
young people in new interests and
new skills, and we have held out a
promise, in the main justified, of a
constant self-betterment, economical
ly, culturally, and even aesthetical
ly-"
In describing an open society, the
speaker commented that the indi
vidual is free to determine his own
goals and also free to join social,
political, and economic organiza
tions of his own choosing. With his
religious freedom and civil liberties
protected by law, he can move as
he pleases and use his talents and
his economic resources as he sees
fit, subject only to whatever restric
tions are imposed by published law
in the interest of preserving the free
dom and welfare of the body politic
as a whole."
Dr. Brown mentioned that however
nearly "open" our American society
is, it is full of tensions, inadequacies,
conflicts, and paradoxes no less
deeply rooted and no less difficult
to resolve than similar character
istics we have observed in the closed
or totalitarian society. Also, that the
open society, however open, is
plagued by consequences develop
ing from its very open-ness and free
dom. "The freedoms of an open
society," he said, "include those of
freedom of judgment and freedom of
criticism; the mixed freedoms of ac
ceptance and conformity, as well as
cf ambition and ’gamesmanship’;
and the freedom to aspire to the
highest achievement and freedom io
accept the most ordinary goals of the
commonest of common man.
"The very open-ness of the open
society has been responsible for the
very high degree of relativeness in
the society's judgment of itself or its
members," he said, ". . . and this
kind of existing blandness makes for
easier social relations and a more
casual society; but it scarcely con
tributes to the critical analysis of
social movement nor to the imagina
tive understanding of the role of the
individual and the nature of his free
dom, which by definition, is the builtin touchstone of the open society,
ideally conceived."
Dr. Brown commented about ques
tions seriously concerning many ob
servers of the American scene. An
important basic question to consider,
(continued on pogo 12)
Mrs. Gertrude Allen Doane, from
Idetown and Wilkes-Barre, will retire
from her position as Dean of Women
at Wilkes College, on July 1, ac
cording to an announcement made
by Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president
cf the college.
During her five and a half years
at Wilkes, Mrs. Doane's gracious,
warm personality had endeared her
to the numerous students who have
sought her guidance and assistance
in personal and academic problems.
Mrs. Doane became Dean of Wo
men at Wilkes College in 1954. In
addition to this position she has also
served as faculty advisor to the col
lege sorority Theta Delta Rho and
the student assembly committee.
Recalling her first days at Wilkes,
Mrs. Doane commented. "I came to
assist as Dean of Women for a threemonth period, and when asked to
stay, I was very glad because I felt
the challenge of working as Dean to
be a very deal and interesting one.
"The sharing with these young
women, their joys and problems, was
not only gratifying in that I was able
to assist when and where needed;
but it also added to each new day, a
variety of great scope. Gaining the
confidence of shy women and feeling
it possible to give them encourage
ment and advice, created many mo
ments of deep satisfaction."
Plans for the immediate future for
Dr. and Mrs. Doane include a trip to
France, and then, during the winter
month, visits with their children; Dr.
John H. Doane, Jr., faculty member
at Temple Medical School, Philadel
phia; Dr. Wilton A. Doane, Thoracic
Surgeon, Santa Barbara, California;
Dr. Joseph C. Doane, Neurologist,
West Palm Beach, Florida; and Mrs.
Peter A. Milne. The Doane’s also
have eight grandchildren.
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The Doanes were guests of honor at a testimonial tea given by Wilkes
College on May 29. The affair was held at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Eugene
S. Farley, 146 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Gifts presented to the Doanes included a Bausch and Lamb Slide Projector;
a 20-cylinder film case (each cylinder capable of holding 46 slides); a projection
screen; a poem of dedication, written by Alfred S. Groh; and a memory scrapbook
prepared by the college public relations office.
Shown above at the presentation, left to right, are: Alfred S. Groh, Mrs. Nada
Vujica, Dr. and Mrs. Doane, Cathal B. O'Toole, William A. Zdancewicz, and Mrs.
Eleanor Farley.
Guests present at the Testimonial Tea included members of the Wilkes
College Board of Trustees, members of the faculty and administration; assistants
to the administration; and family and friends of the Doanes.
Mrs. Doane began her preparatory
work toward a teaching career at
Mansfield State Teachers College,
Mansfield (Pa.). Following gradua
tion from Mansfield, she did ad
vanced work at Emerson College,
Boston, and taught English at the
North Street Settlement in Boston.
Mrs. Doane remembers her first
teaching experience as one which
represented an interesting and excit
ing challenge.
After graduation from Emerson
College, she returned to her home
town, Mansfield, and accepted a
position as instructor at her alma
mater, Mansfield STC. It was during
this period that she was married to
Dr. John Doane of Mansfield.
At Mansfield, Mrs. Doane was
chairman of the speech department
and director of guidance counseling.
In addition to supervising senior
speech instruction, she also con
ducted her own speech studio where
she gave approximately fifty private
lessons~ a week.' She still
*' found time
to continue her advanced studies.
While Dr. Doane was in the United
States Army, 1942-46, the Doanes
established residences in Louisiana
and Oklahoma. Due to the shortage
of teachers during the war years,
Mrs. Doane’s professional services
were sought by the Morris Run
School of Morris Run, Pa.
Thirteen years ago the Doanes
moved to Wyoming Valley and es
tablished residences at Idetown and
Wilkes-Barre. Throughout this time,
Mrs. Doane has become one of the
many prominent figures in welfare,
social, and church circles, having
served on numerous committees of
a diversified list of organizations of
this area. She has served as a mem
ber of the State Advisory Committee
for the welfare of children in rural
areas, the Child Welfare Committee,
and the Planning Council of the Wyo
ming Valley Community Chest.
She was also a member of the
Board of Public Assistance in Luzerne
County, a member of the Executive
Board of the Northeastern Heart As
sociation, a member of the State Ad
visory Committee on Child Adop
tions and president of the Children's
Aid Society of Tioga County. Mrs.
Deane is also past president of the
Wyoming Valley Women's Club and
the Pennsylvania State Medical As
sociation’s Women's Auxiliary. She
is also very active in events spon
sored by the First Presbyterian
Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Regarding her retirement, Mrs.
Doane said, "Even though the pros
pect of leisure and travel is a happy
one. there will be many moments.
I’m sure, when both Dr. Doane and
I will wish that we might once more
share the joys of the young women
and men of Wilkes College."
5
�GRADUATION ADDRESS
Ideas: The Nuclear Source of Power;
Address Given by Princeton Dean of Faculty
A college commencement is the
most significant ritual in the aca
demic year.
It seems reasonable, therefore, that
in some part of that ritual there be a
brief discussion of what higher edu
cation is all about.
At the core of higher education is
not buildings, such as dormitories or
laboratories, nor professors or stu
dents, nor even trustees, but ideas!
Elementary and secondary educa
tion provide a student with the tools
of civilized living — reading, writing,
and arithmetic — basic knowledge of
literature, language, history, geo
graphy and science. But these are
still primarily tools or supplies in the
student's intellectual kit. They should
be well in hand and well used be
fore higher education gets under
way.
It is in higher education that the
student begins to use these tools to
form and reform the true substance
of the mind and spirit — ideas. Until
this forming and reforming is done,
the vast heritage of the ideas which
constitute our civilization are but
vague and confused images, like last
year's movie or a landscape seen
from a train at night.
Millions of people go through life
with but a modest accumulation of
simple ideas which they have ac
cepted without question, like the food
they eat or the clothes they wear.
Some of their ideas may be of
great significance in their lives, such
as basic beliefs in religion, in family
and community loyalty, and in ser
vice to mankind.
But some of their ideas, which have
not been thought through, may be
too tenuous to stand up vzhen the go
ing gets tough, or so confused by
ignorance or prejudice that they re
strict the freedom of the mind in
meeting new and difficult situations.
Most serious of all, in a troubled
and demanding world, the person
who has not reformed the ideas of
the past upon the anvil of his mind
and conscience can do little to create
new ideas so vital to human prog
ress.
The follower can take his ideas
second-hand, but the leader must use
6
the intellectual materials he has in
herited to develop ideas which fit
him. He learns how to understand
old ideas, and create and test new
ideas to meet new problems for him
self, his community, and his world.
If higher education is to be edu
cation for leadership, as we so often
assert, it must be education in the
analysis and creation of ideas —
ideas in the whole range of civilized
living — ideas not for oneself alone,
but for the benefit of mankind.
Dr. J. Douglas Brown
But why all this worry about ideas?
Life in America is comfortable and
pleasant. We have great material
resources and effective arrangements
for producing a good life — at least
for most of our people. True, a
billion people, not lucky enough to
be born here, are not so well off.
But why not send these less fortu
nate people the blueprints of our fac
tories, techniques, and gadgets and
let them produce themselves into a
good life too?
To assume that such a simple solu
tion is possible is the epitome of ma
terialism, a reduction of mankind to
the level of contented cows, an ac
ceptance of the vzorst of Karl Marx's
ideology — but with a Madison Ave
nue veneer that makes it all the more
insidious.
The vast error in such a naive and
dangerous assumption in the solution
of the problems of our world lies in
its failure to recognize the persistent
power of ideas in the forming of civi
lizations, nations and ways of life.
It is ideas that make a people great
or petty, poor or prosperous, peaceloving or dangerous, happy or bitter.
True, ideas must work through
people and physical resources, like
leaven in a loaf of bread, but ideas
are the true nuclear source of power
—- for good or ill! They are the
oldest and the newest inventions of
mankind. But they cannot be ex
ported like alarm clocks nor made
to work, if they are.
Ideas must be developed the hard
way, created and recreated, learned
and understood, in each generation
of people. To transmit ideas is the
essence of the educational process.
It is one of the most difficult of human
arts.
To make my point, may I suggest
a few examples of the ideas which
have helped make America what it
is today — far more than any physi
cal resource or marvellous gadget
that you can name.
The idea of one Gcd who is infinite
ly gccd. This is our heritage from
the Old Testament and from the in
spired writings of the Jewish people.
The idea of Christian love, and that
each individual has infinite worth.
This is our heritage from the teach
ings and life of Christ.
The idea of salvation, which was
the great dynamic force of the me
dieval world and is still the persistent
concern of Man.
The idea of justice, and that laws
were made for men, all men!
The idea of political freedom to
choose one's government.
The idea that economic freedom
will enhance the wealth of all.
The idea that there are laws of
nature that are consistent and order
ly, and can be discovered.
The ideas of the mutual advantage
of contract, cooperation, good man
ners, and sportsmanship.
The idea that beauty can be en
hanced by understanding.
These are but a few of the grand
ideas which we have inherited and
must make our own — each one of
us. From them have come thousands
of corollary ideas: in religion,, phi
losophy, the humanities, the social
sciences, and the sciences.
These great ideas have come down
to us because great leaders in history
created and enlarged upon them,
from Christ and Socrates, to Churchill
and Einstein. Hundreds of names
occur to one — in later centuries, for
example: Milton, Newton, Coke,
Blackstone, Adam Smith, Jefferson,
Madison, Darwin, Lincoln, Harvey,
Pasteur, John Marshall, Woodrow
Wilson, Schweitzer, etc.
To remind ourselves that bad ideas
have fearful consequences, one
needs but mention —■
Louis XV and the divine right of
kings
Torquemada and the Spanish In
quisition
Hitler and racial superiority
Stalin and the supremacy of the
state.
— And
witchcraft, slavery, human sacri
fice, superstition, and religious
wars — a host of blots upon the
history of the world.
Americans, from early childhood
on, live and learn within the frame
work set by the ideas passed on to
us. Education is a continuous proc
ess. But it is in higher education,
liberal education, most of all, that
one should study this great heritage
of ideas, good and bad, and make
the best his own.
Liberal education is that education
which gives one the fullest freedom
to choose those ideas which are ac
ceptable to one's intelligence and
conscience.
But one cannot choose effectively
unless one understands. One can
not understand unless one reads, ex
periments, analyses, and restates,
preferably with the aid of someone
wiser than oneself.
Education in ideas develops most
effectively out of the interaction of
mind and mind. It is the teacher and
the student, the student and the
fellow-student, reinforcing the educa
tive process.
The communication of an idea is
far more difficult than the communi
cation of a fact.
Tomorrow morning's papers will
provide a thousand facts to millions
of people. The transmission of an
idea -— clearly understood — may
take ten years. Even then it may
have a host of interpretations.
It is in not realizing this distinction
between the communication of facts
and the communication of ideas that
real danger lies.
We are now flooded with the out
pourings of facts and
facts by
mass media of stupendous coverage
and appeal. But few ideas are real
ly learned by watching television.
Would one argue the meaning of
justice, or honor, or dedication, or
beauty, or love with a television set?
Without vigorous intellectual inter
action, very little learning takes
place.
To release and sustan the power
of ideas in the American heritage we
must keep mass production in its
place, which is the making of materi
al things. We must remember that
teaching and learning is an individu
al process, an arduous process. It
is not entertainment!
Even more important, we must
learn that education in ideas is not
propaganda.
We are so much impressed by the
effectiveness of Madison Avenue in
selling soap that we think Madison
Avenue techniques can sell de
mocracy.
In a dictatorship, the State sets the
pattern of ideas. It uses propagan
da to advertize them. But it is im
portant to remember that it relies
upon fear to make the sale.
In a democracy, the people set the
pattern of ideas. These must arise
cut of their own thought and convic
tions. The government will respond
to these ideas.
* * * * *
We now have
our problem!
come to the nub of
(continued on page 12)
Shown to the left are the elected
permanent class officers and class
trustees of the 1959 graduating class
ot Wilkes College. Elections were
held on Friday, June 5, on Chase
Lawn, at the final meeting of the
senior class.
Left to right, they are: Treasurer,
Michael Goobic, Jr., 31 Center St.,
Hudson: secretary, Miss Janice Rey
nolds, 295 Ridge St.. Ashley: trustee,
Frederick Roberts, Yeager AveShavertown; president. Robert B.
Morris, 44 Myers St- Forty Fort:
trustee. C. Wayne Griffith, 388
Schuyler Ave- Kingston; vice-presi
dent, John Rodger Lewis, 224 Came
ron St- Plymouth; trustee, Robert
Pitel, 1431s Culver St- Forty Fort.
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�SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES — FINAL SPEAKER
1
THE PEACEFUL USES
I
of the
ATOM
Dr. Lyle Borst, chairman of the De
partment of Physics. New York Uni
versity, was guest speaker at the
final lecture of the Science Series
concerning "The Atom and the Fu
ture of Our Civilization," held at the
college gymnasium on March 10,
1959.
Dr. Borst received his bachelor and
master degrees in chemistry from the
University of Illinois and received his
doctorate at the University of Chica
go where he worked on nuclear re
search with the cyclotron.
He has worked on problems asso
ciated with the production of energy
from uranium, first at the University
of Chicago which became the metal
lurgical laboratory, and later he as
sisted in the design of the Oak Ridge
and Hanford Washington plants. He
co-ordinated research activities around the reactor at Oak Ridge which
was the second chain reaction es
tablished and was a 10,000 fold
scale-up from the first reactor in Chi
cago.
In 1946, Dr. Borst joined the staff of
Brookhaven National Laboratory to
supervise the reactor development at
that location. His recent physical re
search has been in the direction of
neutron problems, and he has been
interested in the application of the
results of his studies to geophysical
and geological problems.
Peaceful Uses of Atom
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president, in
troduced the guest speaker who
spoke about "The Peaceful Uses of
the Atom."
Regarding the production ot power
by uranium. Dr. Borst commented
that at the present, it seems it may be
difficult for uranium to compete with
coal during the next two decades.
"The Big Inch pipeline is a far more
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greater threat to the coal industry
than atomic power," he said. "The
present power plants in New York,
Chicago, Detroit, New England, and
the West Coast will produce power
at a substantially higher price than
coal power in the best modem plants.
Whereas coal is cheap in America,
it is three times as expensive in Great
Britain and the low countries of Spain
and Italy; and atomic power in
Europe is economically sound.
"The conversion in Europe is due
as much to the Suez incident as to
economics, and in order for Western
Europe to compete in the world, it
must have a large energy source.
In many of these countries it is not
possible to expand mining facilities.
When the fuel source can be cut off
by the caprice of a local dictator,
thereby jeopardizing the whole of
western European civilization, a new
source of energy must be found."
The speaker considered uranium to
be the new source of energy and re
lated to this point, England's con
verting to atomic power both as a
national emergency and as a method
of national survival.
Uranium — Coal
To explain why atomic power in
the United States is not economically
sound. Dr. Brest referred to the history
of civilization, making an assumption
to its being developed one billion
years ago. He commented that
probably uranium fission as a source
of heat and power would have been
discovered in pre-history and that the
civilization would have developed on
uranium power instead of fossil fuels.
Continuing the assumption, later
such cultures based on uranium
would have discovered anthracite, a
new fuel source available of remark
able properties, quite different from
these of old fashioned uranium. One
such property of coal is that it can
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be mined and burned immediately
without the requirement of 10 feet of
shielding which is needed in a ura
nium reactor.
"When we consider burning an
thracite, technical difficulties arise,"
Dr. Borst said, "since we must cany
oxygen to the fuel at a temperature
of 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, well above the temperature at which we
can use any of our industrial metals.
We must therefore, develop new ma
terials of construction for if we do not
bum the coal in exactly the right
manner, we will produce poisonous
carbon monoxide in quantities suffi
cient to kill all the people in all cities.
"We have fission products from
uranium which are poisonous, but in
this civilization the Vestal Virgins,
whose function in ancient Rome was
to preserve fire, will have the respon
sibility of safe-guarding the fission
products from century to century •—
and we know how to take care of
this problem.
"Returning to the present century,
cne can say that the problems of
burning uranium are no more diffi
cult than coal. For over 1,000 years
we have learned how to bum things
and there have been literally billions
of dollars spent during the last 200
years in learning how to burn coal.
In a decade or two, we will learn
how to burn uranium as to compete
economically with coal.
(continued on page 11)
HOMECOMING
CLASS REUNIONS
Homecoming weekend will be October 23 and 24.
Once again you are cordially invited to return to
the Wilkes College campus to visit with the faculty
and your friends and to enjoy a well-planned social
weekend.
Once again, we urge you to return for the 12th
annual homecoming and visit the campus to see the
changes that have taken place during the last few
years. If you have not returned recently, you will
be pleasantly surprised.
The homecoming weekend will begin on Friday
evening, October 23, with the judging of the homecoming displays. The student body goes "all out"
fcr this so be sure to see the decorations on Friday
evening or Saturday morning. The student council
has entered into the spirit of things and has planned
an excellent program for your entertainment.
The Friday night warm-up party will begin once
again at 9:00 P.M. This is always well attended
so if you should arrive in town a little late, drop in,
register, and visit for a while.
From 12 noon to 2 P.M. Saturday, we will have a
family picnic on the lawn in the rear of Chase Hall
for the alumni and their families. This picnic is a
new addition to homecoming so that you and your
family can visit the campus together. It is the only
family affair that we have. It will be a fine oppor
tunity for you to meet with some of your old faculty
members again and to meet the families of your
friends. We hope that you will make every effort
to attend this event.
At 2:30, the Colonels will face the Lycoming War
riors at the Kingston Stadium for a football game.
At half-time, the homecoming queen, chosen by the
student body through the Beacon, will be crowned
The classes of '39, '44, '49, and '54 will hold their
first reunion this year on the Wilkes College campus
on October 23 and 24.
Chairmen for the classes are being appointed and
additional information will be sent to the members
of the classes celebrating their reunions.
The reunion chairman urges that you make your
plans to return and visit with your classmates once
again. The classes will be sent additional informa
tion during the next few months so they will be kept
informed of the developments of their class programs.
The sites of the class activities have not been de
cided as yet, but in the near future the information
will be made known.
Once again, the reunion weekend has been tied in
with the homecoming activities for your convenience
and enjoyment.
The program has been planned with you in mind
so please make every effort to be with us and make
your class reunion — your first Wilkes College class
reunion — an outstanding success.
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Officers of the Class of 1959 of
Wilkes College are shown (right)
with Dr. Eugene S. Farley, presi
dent of Wilkes, at the presenta
tion ceremonies of the Senior
Class Gift. The Seniors' gift in
cluded a three-sided bulletin
board and pennants of colleges
and universities represented in
the Middle Atlantic Conference.
Shown in picture (right) are:
Dr. Farley; John Rodger Lewis,
Plymouth, president; Miss Janice
Reynolds, Ashley, secretary;
Richard Edwin Bailey, Ligonier,
Penna., treasurer; and Michael
Goobic, Jr., Hudson, vice-presi
dent.
The bulletin board measures 21
feet in length and is of aluminum
construction. It is equipped with
sliding glass doors and fluo
rescent lighting. It is located on
the rear lawn of Chase Hall, 184
South River Street.
are displayed in
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Franklin Street. Each pennant
measures 4 feet by 10 feet and
the two Wilkes pennants measure
5 feet by 12 feet each. A bronze
plaque will be displayed in the
gymnasium in the near future.
by Dr. Farley. It will be an outstanding pageant
for each year the ceremonies receive more and more
attention and have become one of the highlights
of the weekend.
The final event of the weekend is an informal
dance at the Irem Temple Country Club beginning
at 9:00 P.M. Music again will be supplied by Jack
Melton and his orchestra and we look forward to
having an overflow crowd again this year to cap an
outstanding weekend. A complete program will be
sent to you within the next few months listing the
complete homecoming program.
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Left to right:
Nicholas Giordano, Bernie RadeckL
Al DobrowalskL Marvin Antinnes,
Walter Glogowski
Right—
George Ralston. Michael Dydo
Cap*. Ed Mikolaitis and a veteran golf team never
did get untracked from the nightmarish opening meet
against Hofstra at Bethpage where the Dutchmen
dumped the confident Colonel golfers, M’/z-S'/z.
Their next foe was Mansfield STC, 1959 champions
of the Pa. STC conference. In a meet where the team
victor was determined on the 18th hole of the final
match, the teachers took a Q'/z-BVz win. Wilkes won
later matches against Lycoming at Irem and at
Williamsport and also finished a strong fourth at the
tough Harpur Invitational Tournament. With five of
six current starters back for another try in 1960,
things look bright on the horizon.
An undermanned diamond squad captained by
the magnificent Mike Dydo and coached by Francis
Finkowski finished close to the .500 mark despite the
fact that the pitching staff consisted of Dydo who had
never gone to the mound as a collegiate starter.
Catcher John Harvey, as strong behind the mask as
any catcher observed on the collegiate scene this
spring, outfielder Ralph Hendershot, third baseman
Bob Ontko, and surprising Jerry Lawrence at short
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our percentage has attained this high mark, but at
the same time we are a little discouraged that every
one did not see their way clear to complete the ques
tionnaire and return it to the Alumni Office.
From time to time, we are asked by the Middle
States Association to evaluate our program in the
light of our ultimate goals. During the past year,
the entire faculty has been involved in this "soul
searching" in every phase of college life. For the
most part, the critical evaluation has been com
pleted. The recommendations have been drawn up
and are now in the hands of the General Chairman,
George Elliot, who is compiling a report for the com
mittee from the Middle States Association of Secon
dary Schools and Colleges who will visit us in
February of 1960.
We know that you will be interested in the report
that we are compiling, and as soon as we have
finished the tremendous task of analyzing and draw
ing up the report, we will send a copy of the "Profile
of the Wilkes Alumnus" to you. It will be very in
formative, and we think you will be pleased when
you see the results of the activities of your fellow
alumni.
The alumni part of the program is well on its way
toward completion with sixty per cent of the total
alumni taking part in the Alumni Survey by return
ing their questionnaires. We are very pleased that
Baseball, tennis, and golf, the spring sports at
Wilkes, found the Colonels giving their rivals in the
Middle Atlantic Conference creditable opposition.
Although none of the teams came close to champion
ships in 1959, they were in all cases turning in per
formances ‘which exceeded early expectations.
The tennis squad, led by junior Ira Himmel, de
serve an accolade for the performances turned in by
the green, unschooled netmen. Among the many in
conveniences which they coped with was the lack
of home courts for both practice and meets. Never:h?'.ess, the men maintained unbelievably high
morale, found courts in other communities on which
< Lave a few practices, and gave some opponents,
notably Susquehanna, hard afternoons.
Wilkes College is constantly evaluating itself for
the purpose of self-improvement. Each year, many
changes are made in organization, curriculum, edministrative procedures and personal services.
SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES
(continued from page 8)
Left and Right
In regard to communications by
radio with other planets, Dr. Borst
stated that we would be unable to
explain how to build an earthman.
He explained how height could be
measured by use of hydrogen atoms
laid end to end, all of equal length
and that hydrogen atoms could also
be weighed. "We can tell persons
on the other planet that the earthman
has two arms, two legs, and is gen
erally symmetrical," he added, "but
we will have difficulty explaining
that the heart is on the left side, be
cause the words 'left' and 'right' are
conventions and up until recently
have had no absolute meaning."
furnished the backbone of the offense and gave Dydo
excellent support in the field.
Words can't describe the great athletic contribu
tions of Mike Dydo to Wilkes. As capable, durable
and steady on the gridiron as on the diamond, Mike
was a cinch to win the Outsanding Athlete award at
the Lettermen's spring banquet and later the Beacon's
Outstanding Athlete award. With talent not running
too deep in either sport, the gaping hole left by the
departure of the Askam Mike will not be filled in the
immediate future.
Other athletes selected by their peers as outstand
ing were Nick Giordano, who now holds all the
scoring records in soccer at Wilkes; Bernie Radecki
whose steady play will grace the Wilkes home court
for yet another season; and Walter Glogowski whose
gritty wrestling and inspirational leadership have
been instrumental in making it possible for the Reese
grapplers to compile an unparallelled record the past
two seasons; at the awards dinner Marvin Antinnes
was chosen outstanding back in football and Al Dobrowalski received the team's votes for outstanding
lineman.
The speaker mentioned that with
in the last three years, two Chinese
scientists, Yang and Lee, success
fully experimented to distinguish be
tween left and right and were
awarded the Nobel Prize for their
great efforts of the human intellect.
Their experiment consists of taking
the atom called radio-cobalt and
lowering the temperature to a very
low value and applying a magnetic
field; thereby causing the electrons
to come out at one end in the direc
tion known as the north pole. This
information can be transmitted to
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To all of our alumni, we offer our sincerest grati
tude for their fine response to our questionnaire.
May we add that your accomplishments and opin
ions are an indispensable guide in determining our
course for the future. Our evaluation is more than
just an analysis of the past; it is our master plan for
the future of Wilkes College.
persons on other planets with the
suggestion that they make a similar
experiment by which to define the
north pole of the magnet. "With this
information," the speaker said, "we
can then give the person instructions
by which he can distinguish left from
right."
In explaining contamination of the
earth from atomic fallout, Dr. Borst
said, "Any good scientific instrument
will show the present fallout, radio
active debris from atomic bombs.
Additional tests continue to increase
the amount of radioactivity in the
atmosphere and even if we discon
tinue these tests and do not have an
atomic war, the problem of contami
nation faces us in our future atomic
industries. Any country can contaminate the atmosphere of the whole
world. This technical problem does
not lend itself to the solution by national action nor by agreements of
individual nations. Inevitably all
nations of the world must come to an
agreement and find a method of
solving this problem. This will re
quire policing throughout the world,
thereby introducing totally
cial problems."
Atmosphere on Earth and Moon
Dr. Borst addressed the science
students of Wilkes College on the
afternoon of March 10, at a special
lecture concerning "The History of
the Atmosphere on the Earth and
Moon."
He explained how through making
measurements by means of radio
activity, it is possible to determine
the age of both the atmosphere and
of earth. He remarked that the moon
does have an atmosphere, contrary
to many beliefs, and that during the
last few years, it has been seen,
through radio astronomy, that the
atmosphere on the moon is as dense
as the best vacuum we can create
here on earth.
Purpose and Sponsors of Series
The Science Lectures concerning
"The Atom and the Future of Our
Civilization," were inaugurated by
_____ _____
Wilkes
College with the purpose of
helping to
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the need for
cgreater
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face as a nation and as a civilization,
Hosts to the series of lectures were
the Science Clubs of Wilkes: namely.
Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering
— in co-sponsoring with the following
community groups of Wyoming Valley: Luzerne County Civil Defense
Council, Young Men's Christian As
sociation, League of Women Voters
of Wilkes-Barre, Osterhout Library,
Young Women's Christian Associa
tion, Wyoming Valley Council of
Churches, and the Wyoming Valley
Women's Club.
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BACCALAUREATE
GRADUATES
(continued from page 3)
(continued from page 4)
(continued from page 7)
for faculty members and buildup of
an endowment fund were among its
aims.
As president of Wyoming Valley
Council, Boy Scouts of America, from
1916 to 1925, Atty. McClintock dem
onstrated his interest in the youth of
the area and helped develop suc
cessful programs. He was a member
of First Presbyterian Church, WilkesBarre, having been treasurer and
trustee from 1919 to 1950, and was
former chairman of the board of Wyo
ming Valley Community Chest and
former president of Wyoming Valley
United Fund.
He was president of Graphic Histo
ry Society of America, Hollenback
Cemetery Association, Hollenback
Coal and Land Company, Legal Aid
Society of Luzerne County, and Wyo
ming Valley Society of Arts and
Sciences.
His other affiliations included: Di
rector, Pennsylvania Citizens Asso
ciation; director and treasurer, Chil
dren's Home of Wilkes-Barre, Chil
dren's Service Center of Wyoming
Valley; trustee and treasurer, Osterhout Free Library; trustee, Bucknell
University from 1933 to 1950, WilkesBarre YMCA; former director. Com
munity Chests & Councils, Inc., Gen
eral Hospital, Georgetown Settle
ment, Crippled Children's Associa
tion of Wyoming Valley, National
Information Bureau, and Pennsylva
nia Department of Public Assistance.
Atty. McClintock also was a mem
ber of Westmoreland and Split Rock
Clubs and University Club of New
York City. He was a member of
Council, Institute of Early American
History and Culture; Council, Friends
of Princeton Library; Council, Prince
ton Department of Art and Archae
ology; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Museum of Modern Art of New York,
Pennsylvania and American Bar As
sociations, Historical Society of Penn
sylvania, New York and Connecticut
Historical Societies, New York Zoolo
gical Society, Wyoming Historical
and Geographical Society and Tioga
Point Museum.
according to the speaker, is what
must we be careful to watch in our
own culture to preserve its open
nature and protect what we consider
to be its essence and its distinction
from that of the totalitarian world?
"It is education," he said, "and the
relation of education to mass-culture
which is the chief protection of our
kind of open society."
Never before in our history has it
been more vital to our survival that
our people know and fully under
stand the ideas which have made
America great.
— Never before has it been so im
portant for our people to know and
fully understand the ideas we are
seeking to protect and nurture for
our descendants.
— Never before has it been so
critical that we raise up leaders who
can help us to re-define old ideas in
the light of new conditions and create
the new ideas necessary to meet the
complex problems of the world.
In the time of Queen Elizabeth the
Great, a valiant English army with
stood the French besiegers of Havre.
The English were superior in arms,
fortifications and men. But the Black
Plague — the fearsome menace of
medieval times — came in through
the rat holes in the walls. The English
army was decimated and soon had
to surrender.
What our country needs more than
even intercontinental missiles is the
certainty that our people know and
truly understand the ideas we claim
to cherish.
— If fully understood, these ideas
will provide the basis of creative
progress, not only in science and
technology, but in the more precious
arts of human relations and of the
fulfillment of the mind and spirit.
— If fully understood, these ideas
are the nuclear source of power —
of power to attain the good life for
all mankind.
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In commenting about Soviet edu
cation, Dr. Brown mentioned that in
the objectives of Soviet education
and in the machinery used to guide
students toward these objectives that
crucial differences may be found.
"Soviet education has as its chief
objective the training of students to
serve the State . . . and since the
State pays the bill — they will con
tinue only so long as the student
adapts himself in mind and body to
what the State expects of him and
so long as quotas set by the State
permit. This, indeed, is education
for a closed society."
"In our recognition of these facts
cf history, past and present, lies the
great challenge to the open society
and to the education which supports
end extends it. We must continue
to improve our education by deepen
ing our knowledge of man, of the
science of society, and of the art of
government. But we must recognize
more persistently and more creative
ly than ever before in our past, an
obligation to do all in our power to
help other nations and other societies
to achieve the kind of freedom each
seeks.
In conclusion, Dr. Brown reminded
the graduates, that they are inheri
tors of this, our kind of society, and
the interpreters of its future mission,
to their children and to the world.
Dr. Alan Brown, president of the
Metropolitan Educational Television
Association, was introduced by Dr.
Farley, who welcomed him to the
college.
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This is the task of liberal education
and of everyone who has benefitted
by it. This is why the American col
lege and university must do a better
job than ever before.
As tens of thousands of young men
and women graduate this June, it is,
not the end of their education, but the
commencement of their obligation io
lead their fellow-Americans in the
understanding and enhancement of
ideas, ideas which will raise the
dignity of Man!
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WILKES-BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA
FALL 1949
�alumnus
EDITORIAL
PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF WILKES COLLEGE
THOMAS J. MORAN, '49, EDITOR
A recent announcement by Herbert J. Morris, regis
trar, revealed that the 1949-50 school year finds Wilkes
College with 1,929 students enrolled in the day and
evening school. This is the largest enrollment in the
history of the institution. In plain English, the junior
college that was started back in 1933 has gotten to be
qui'e a man-sized project and present statistics indicate
that it is growing.
STAFF: JANE SALWOSKI, WILLIAM UMPHRED,
DON FOLLMER, ARTHUR BLOOM
FALL 1949
VOLUME 2
HUMBER 1
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CONTENTS
Cover
On the cover of this issue of
Alumnus is a picture of Admiral
Harold Stark, USN, (Rt), who
was recently appointed to the
board of trustees at Wilkes
College.
Standing on the left of the
former Chief of Naval Opera
tions and Commander of Euro
pean Naval Forces during the
last war, is Atty. Gilbert S.
McClintock, chairman of the
board of trustees.
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, right,
welcomed Admiral Stark and
Mr. McClintock io the WiTIroc
College campus recently for the
purpose of showing the former
resident of Chase Hall the lat
est development at the institu
tion.
During the visit to the college,
the photography staff of the
Alumnus and the school publicaaons made various shots of
the campus spots visited by the
three men.
PAGE
3
Editorial
4
A Message from the President
5
---------------- Second Annual Homecoming
6
Wilkes Sponsors Famous Concert Pianist
7
Student Teaching Program Successful
8
Campus News
9
1949-50 Social Calendar
10
Campus Candids
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That answer made sense the first 1,000 times we
heard it. Then we began to think. Isn't it true that
every colleae or university was, more or less, a com
munity project in its infancy? Of course it was. It
ius1 doesn't stand to reason that olaces like the Universi'y of Pennsylvania or Columbia University popped
up over night as institutions with student enrollments
numbering in the thousands.
Campus News
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Campus News
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Wilkes Gridders Still Winning
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For the past several years efforts have been made
to keep an active alumni association connected with
the college. In some ways, the plan hasn't been en
tirely successful. The reason for the lack of enthusiasm
seems to dwell around the same answer that is given,
when someone asks why there isn't a great deal of
the old college spirit in the student ranks. If you don't
know that answer, it sounds something like, "Well,
this is a community college and with the lack of oncamous residents, most students have interests in their
respective towns."
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The cold facts seem to reveal that Wilkes College
is no longer just a "community college". Its enroll
ment has already proven that it ranks above many of
the colleaes that are accented as good examples of the
nlaces where old grads flock to once a year to drink
in the remains of long-past, but not forgotten, memories.
Soccer Team Enjoying First Season
16
Down Memory Lane
17
New Placement Center at Wilkes
18
Keeping Up With the Grads
19
Alumni Record
Pub/isk<2fl Quarterly at
WILKES COLLEGE ALUMNI OFFICE
Chase Hall
184 South River Street,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The Wilkes student body this year has more spirit
*han has ever before been displayed on the South
River Street campus. Just walking around the campus,
which in recent vears has ceased to be miniature,
aives you the feeling that at last the college spirit is
here. There's life and the rapid growth on all fronts
proves it.
Alumni Association Plans
Meeting For Nov. 14th
The first meeting of the B. U. J. C.—Wilkes College
Alumni Association during the 1949-50 school year will
take place on Monday evening, November 14, at 7:30,
in the Lecture Hall on South River Street.
Since this will be the first meeting in a good many
months there are many important issues that must be
brought up for discussion.
A nominating committee for the 1949-50 Alumni
Association officers must be appointed.
Other items listed for discussion are: The amount
of dues that should be paid by members and when it
should be paid; the turning over to the college the funds
that have been collected by the association during the
past several years; the appointment of a committee for
the annual Christmas Dance; and discussion of how
the Alumni Association can be made more attractive.
Daniel Williams, president of the association, has
expressed a desire to see all former students attend this
meeting so that plans for the year can be made.
Student Enrollment Hits New
High at Wilkes College
A study of the enrollment statistics by Herbert J.
Morris, registrar, and Stanley Wasilewski, director of
the evening school, revealed recently that this year
finds Wilkes College with the highest combined eve
ning and day school enrollment in the history of the
institution.
There are 1,929 students attending Wilkes College.
A count of the evening school registrations dis
closed that 944 persons are attending classes during
that session of the college program. This figure is 50percent higher than the number of students enrolled
during the same semester in 1948.
The one last item needed to make Wilkes College
a model institution is a good Alumni Association. Not
just an association which exists on paper, but one that
has every member working for the success college.
In 1948, the total enrollment at Wilkes College was
1,723, with 1,062 people attending day time classes on
a regular basis, 40 enrolled as special students, and
621 attending night school.
The responsibility that was given to the people
who worked for the college when you had the privilege
of attending it, has now been passed on to its gradu
ates. You are enjoying benefits as a result of your
days spent at this college. Your cooperation and sup
port will help to make the days for present and future
students at Wilkes College among the most pleasant
and cherished of thejr lives,
The figures for the total enrollment verify a con
tinual growth in the enrollment at the college. It was
expected this yearthat because of the decrease in the
number of veterans enrolling for college courses, the
number would be greatly lowered. However, a slight
decrease suffeeed in the day school enrollment was
more than made up by the large number of persons
who enrolled for the evening classes.
�MUTED
Information About
Misplaced Grads
Located in the Public Relations Office is a master
file of former B. U. J. C. and Wilkes College students.
However, over a period of years some of the addresses
have become incorrect and important literature mailed
from the college to members of the Alumni Association
has been returned.
Second Annual B. U.J.C. - Wilkes Homecoming
Set For November 5th
Ove 2,000 members of the Bucknll University
Junior College — Wilkes College Alumni Association
have been invited to attend the Second Annual Home
coming Celebration, which will be held on Saturday,
November 5, on the South River Street campus.
Listed below are the names of the people who can
not be located. If you know any of these people or
their whereabouts, please notify this office by mail or
telephone.
The mailing address is: Alumni Office,
Chase Hall, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The
telephone number is: Wilkes-Barre 4-4652.
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Albert Gelb
John J. Lorenzini
Jack M. Walsh
Lillian W. Hebron
Joseph J. Kipp
Joseph F. Yarnot
Donald E. Evans
Donald P. McHugh
Mrs. Stanley Weiss
Helene E. Mahaffey
Emmett M. Molloy
Mrs. Thalenfield
Henry V. Lewert
Joseph M. Ravitz
Lillian Stein
Ruth D. Williams
Barbara Harding
Lillian Rosen
Richard Owen
Marian S. Sage
William H. Klopfer
Larry Fredericks
Betty Salsburgh
John Mera
Howad Baum
Beatrice Solomon
Robert E. Siegfried
Julius Brand
Edwin W. Smith
Henry H. Ward
Joseph H. Brennan
Mindell Small
Carl W. Ziegler
John Grieger
Robert Sakoski
Irma J. Bodycomb
John C. Frick
John A. Vail
Lena Van Tuyl
Leland W. Green
Richard H. Widman
Wendy E. Barkhoefer
SEND YOUR CORRECT MAILING ADDRESS TO THE ALUMNI OFFICE TODAY
Under the direction of Reese E. Pelton, executive
secretary, and Daniel Williams, president of the asso
ciation, the organization had its first large-scale home
coming last year.
This year's program, which is chocked full of activ
ity, is expected to attract a large percentage of the
alumni association members to the campus.
The November 5 program, planned by the college
alumni offcials and the members of the Wilkes College
Student Council, will open with registrations in the main
lounge of Chase Hall at 9 on Saturday morning.
Throughout the registration period, returning grads
will have an opportunity to visit members of the faculty
and administration and tour the campus.
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Four members of the Wilkes College Student Coun
cil will handle the registration. Two will have the re
turning graduates fill out information blanks and two
more will handle the sale of tickets for the events which
are scheduled for the day on campus.
A special section along the middle of the field will
be roped off for the members of hte Alumni Associa
tion.
Taking place on campus during the afternoon will
be the open house, sponsored by Theta Delta Rho
Sorority, in Weckesser Hall on Northampton Street at
4 p. m.
The evening program for the Homecoming Cele
bration will begin with the annual dinner at 6 in the
college cafeteria. A special program has been pre
pared for this event. Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president
of Wilkes College, will give the principle address. Re
marks will be heard from Daniel Williams, president
of the Alumni Association; Herbert J. Morris, registrar;
and Thomas J. Moran, executive secretary.
At 8, the Alumni Association will have a special
section on the 50-yard line at Huber Stadium in Ply
mouth to allow its members to witness Coach George
Ralston's Wilkes eleven battle Rider College.
Following the game, the annual Homecoming
Dance will be held from 10:30 to 1 in St. Stephen's
Church house on South Franklin Street.
The college cafeteria will be open only to dorm
itory students on Saturday, but lunches may be obtain
ed in establishments close to the campus.
The entire expense of the day at Wilkes College
will not exceed S3.00. Tickets for the dinner, football
ball game, and dance may be purchased during the
registration period on Saturday morning in Chase Hall.
At 2 p. m. the first major event on the homecoming
program will take place when Coach Bob Partridge's
Wilkes College soccer tem will play host to the squad
from Howard University in the area along side of the
dike in Kirby Park.
For those members who desire to attend only one
or two events, arrangements have been made to sell
tickets for each affair. Reservations for the dinner,
however, must be made in writing before Wednesday,
November 2, to the Alumni Office.
Homecoming Events
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9-12—Registration—Main Lounge, Chase Hall.
2 p. m.—Soccer Game—Kirby Park.
6 p. m.—Homecoming Dinner—Wilkes Cafeteria.
8 p. m.—Football Garni
-Huber Stadium, Plymouth.
(Wilkes College vs. Howard University)
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4 p. m.—Open House—Weckesser Hall.
(Theta Delta Rho Sorority)
10:30 to 1—Homecoming Dance (Informal)
St. Stephen's Churchhouse
�College To Jointly Sponsor
Malcuzynski, Concert Pianist
Witold Malcuzynski, internationally famous concert pianist, will appear
at Irem Temple on Monday evening, November 7, under the auspices of
Wilkes College and the Polish-American Organizations in Wyoming Valley.
Malcuzynski, a former student of Professor Turczynski at the Warsaw
Conservatory, winner of a Grand Prix at the last Intenational Chopin Competi
tion, and the most celebrated protege of Paderewski, is today holding concert
audiences spellbound all over the world. Without question, he is one of the
busiest artists in concert, and his stage personality has a tremendous and evergrowing mass appeal.
The local organizations are working in conjunction with the Kosciuszko
Foundation. AU proceeds from the concert, after expenses have been de
ducted, will be turned over to the Kosciuszko Foundation Fund for the purpose
of providing musical scholarships.
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Tickets for this affair are available at various music centers in WilkesBarre and at the music studio on the Wilkes College campus. In order to pre
sent this fine pianist to the people of Wyoming Valley, a special price of SI.65
has been set.
Witold Malcuzynski
Malcuzynski, who is famous for his interpretation of Frederic Chopin's
music will appear at a time when the whole world is celebrating the 100th
anniversary of the great composer's death.
ary schools during the present semester. Left to right. First row:
Above are the student teachers training iin the three Wilkes-Barre secondai
lall, George Petrilak, Clement Scott; Third
Kenneth Widdc
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Elva Fuller, Jane Reese, Mary Porter, Virginiat Meissner; Second row, William Griffith,
row, Lewis White, Raymond Smith, Herbert Quick, Larry Melias, John Stark.
Members of the committee are: Honorary Chairman, Dr. Eugene S.
Farley; Chairman, Dr. Joseph Kocyan; Co-Chairman, Miss Mary Koons; Sec
retary-Treasurer, Donald E. Cobleigh.
Tickets—Chaim an Mrs. Marie Mieszkowski, Mrs.
E. J. Varhely, Charles Henderson, Mrs. Charles H.
Miner, Mrs. Sherman Ryan, Mrs. Edward Nork, Mrs.
E. Makowski, Mrs. Sophie Wojcik, Mrs. Aaron Weiss,
Mrs. Reuben Levy.
Publicity and Advertising—Chairman Thomas J.
Moran, Mrs. E. Makowski, Mrs. E. J. Varhely, Joseph
Lester, Richard Stefanski, Mrs. Stephen Heller.
Scholarship Fund—Chairman Joseph Lehter, Rich
ard Stefanski.
Ushers—Miss Betty Harker.
Watch Those Newspapers...
Many times during the past two years you have
probably picked up the newspapers and read about
various development at the college.
These articles
are products of the Public Relations Department at
Wilkes College.
Publicity is valuable to a college. It is one of the
major tools for introducing the institution and its value
to the public. The outside world, which has no con
nection with Wilkes College, must obtain its news
about the institution in the nev/spapers and other pub
lications.
The public relations staff has been directing the
major portion of this publicity to newspapers in the
Wilkes-Barre area, but another very important share
of news releases is sent to nev/spapers in towns out
side the regular college area.
In order to find out just how much news about
Wilkes College is being used in nev/spapers outside
the community it is necessary to depend upon clippings which appear in publications.
Some of the larger universities and colleges em
ploy clipping services to return their publicity, but
colleges the size of Wilkes must depend upon members
of the Alumni Association and other friends of the in
stitution to keep their publicity offices informed of
progress being made in other regions.
The publicity staff at Wilkes College would greatly
appreciate it if former students living outside of WilkesBarre would clip items containing mention of Wilkes
College and mail it to the Public Relations Office in
Chase Hall. We do not want articles that appear in
the Wilkes-Barre newspapers, but items appearing in
other publications (magazines, trade magazines, fold
ers, brochures) are available.
No article is too small. Send it to us.
The Student Teachers Of The Past
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Anderson, Eugene R.—Graduate student, Bucknell University.
Baum, Norman—Employed by father.
'Bensbn, Nicholas M.—Seeking a teaching position.
Bransdori. Muriel—Graduate student, Columbia University.
Cavan, Gerard—Teacher, West Pittston High School.
Culp, John M.—Graduate student. Teachers College, Columbia
Davidoff, Mark I.—Instructor, Wilkes College.
""Davies, William S.—Isaac Long Unit Control.
Dew, Alice—Fellowship, Carnegie Tech School of Library Science.
Ermel, George F.—Lieutenant, U. S. Army in Japan.
Farris, Loretta—Clerical position.
Fischer, Claire—Seeking position.
Glowacki, Sophia Ann—Director, Children's Theatre, Wilkes-Barre.
Golightly, Miriam D.—Teacher, Boonton High School, New Jersey.
Green, Marjorie T.—Seeking a teaching position.
Gudaitis, Joseph L.—Student, Wilkes College.
Hass, Karl L.—
Henry, William J.—Department of Public Assisance.
Hudzik, John E.—Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania.
Hiznay, Joseph M.—Instructor, Main Div. International Cor. School.
Jenkins,'Thomas R.—Teacher, Womelsdorf High School.
Jones, Carolyn L.—Teacher, Lansdown High School.
Jones, David G.—Seeking a teaching position.
Jones, George B.—Teacher, Seattle, Wash., Public School.
Jones, Henry L.—-Seeking a teaching position.
Kitler, Joseph G.—Student, Wilkes College.
Knapich, Chester—Student, Wilkes College.
Kosicki, Graduate student, Bucknell University.
Kovalski, William S.—Graduate student, Bucknell University.
Manning, Thomas G.—Graduate student. University of Pennsylvania.
Maylock, Eugene—Teacher, Shickshinny High School.
Mikulewicz, Robert T.—Teacher, Lajunta High School, Colorado.
Miller, Robert J.—Graduate student, Columbia University.
Moran, Thomas J.—Director, Public Relations, Wilkes College.
Oleksy, Joseph S.-—Teacher, Wyoming High School.
Pelton, Reese E—Teacher, Dallas Township High School.
Permowicz, Edward S.—Student, Wilkes College.
Pulos, John—Teacher, University of Athens, Greece.
Rees, Shirley J.—Seeking a position.
Richards, Thomas C.—Graduate student, Columbia University.
Rosoloski, Stanley J.—Graduate student, Bucknell University.
Rudolph, Edythe—Employed, Jewish Welfare, New York.
Russell, Roberta L.—Married.
Sleicher, Laura J.—Seeking a teaching position.
Shetline, Leonard J.—Teacher, Maryland.
Spanos, James A.—Teacher, Towson High School, Maryland.
Thomas, Burton J.—Teacher, Medina High Schoola, New York.
Toplis, William M.—Teacher, Media, Pa.
Trannel, Carl J.—Graduate student, Bucknell University.
Trowell, James M.—Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania.
Watrs, Robert W.—Student, Wilkes College.
Wideman, Anthony—Teacher, Mshoppen, Pa.
Widman, Richard H.- -Teacher, Laceyville and Mehoopany H. S.
Williams, Daniel E.—Teacher, Dallas Township High School.
Williams, Rhuea V.—Teacher, Wilkes-Barre Day School.
Woolcock, Margaret J.—Teacher, Kingston Township High School.
�Wilkes Graduate Named
Career Girl of 1949
Four Appointments Made To
Wilkes College Staff
For the second time in as many years Wilkes
College contributed the winner of the Career Girl Con
test sponsored by the Parade of Progress, when Miss
Mildred Orlowski, 22, was chosen for the honor in
September.
Wilkes College faculty was further strengthened
this semester with the announcement by Dr. Eugene
S. Farley of the appointment of four new members to
the body and the return of two others, who has been
on leave of absence for graduate study.
Last year, Doris Gcrka of Nanticoke, a member
of the 1949 graduating class, became the first Wilkes
College student to receive the honor.
The History and Language Department each re
ceived one new member and the Psychology Depart
ment was increased by two. The two returning mem
bers were to the English Department.
Miss Orlowski, who is studying for her master's
degree in bacteriology at the University of Maryland,
was selected as the new career girl by Nancy Carrol,
screen actress; Helen Hess Duke, managing editor for
McCall's Magazine, and Phoebe E. Follmer, dean of
women at Dickinson College.
The new career girl was given S1.000 in cash from
the Parade of Progress; an entire street outfit; a Con
over Career Girl schooling; a 36-inch safari dyed
Mouton lamb coat; a 17-jewel yellow gold wrist watch;
a diamond solitaire gold ring; an evning gown; an allwool twoo-toned street coat, courses in ballroom and
ballet dancing, a full portrait, and a scholarship now
being arranged.
Hoh-Cheung Mui, a graduate of Columbia Univer
sity, was named assistant professor in the History Depar.mem, Mui graduated from Lingman Middle School
and Lingman University. He came to this country for
graduate work and received his M. A. from Columbia.
He recently completed his work for his doctorate at
the same institution.
Mui taught English and history in Lingman Middle
School and in Chee Hong High School, Hongkong.
He was employed in the research department of the
Department of Civil Administration for the Kwangtung
Provincial Government and represented the Bank of
China in its New York Agency.
1949-50 College Social Event Calendar
Date
Date
NOVEMBER—
JANUARY-
3— Coffee Hour—College Cafeteria—3:30
18—Final Exams Begin
4—Women's Faculty Party
28—Final Exams End
5—Homecoming—Wilkes-Rider Football Game
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30—Student Council's Winter Carnival
7—Malcuzynski Concert
12—Beacon Press Conference
FEBRUARY11—Theta Delta Rho’s Valentine Dance
—Wilkes vs. National Agricultural College
13—Theta Delta Rho's High School Tea
14—Alumni Meeting—7:30—Science Lecture Hall
15— Coffee Hour—College Cafeteria—3:30
MARCH—
16— One Act Play—Cue 'N' Curtain Club
1—Theta Delta Rho's Fashion Show
17— One Act Play—Cue 'N' Curtain Club
4—Beacon's Cabaret Party
18— One Act Play—Cue 'N' Curtain Club
17—Theta Delta Rho’s High School Tea
19— Wilkes vs. King's College
Sport Dance (following game)
24—Theta Delta Rho Tea Dance
APRIL—
6—Men's Dorm Social
14—Letterman's April Shower Dance
Five of the seven candidates selected during pre
liminary screening were from Wilkes College. Other
Wilkes students participating in the contest were:
Helen Casey, Jean Grumbling, Mary Porter, and Doro
thy Wilkes.
Mark Davidoff, who graduated from Wilkes Col
lege, and took graduate work during the past summer,
joined the Language Department as an instructor in
Spanish.
Two additions were made in the Psychology De
partment with the appointment of Joseph Kanner and
Robert Riley, both of whom graduated from Wilkes
College.
Theta. Delta Rho Again
Takes Lead On Campus
For the past three years Theta Delta Rho, Wilkes
College's only sorority, has been one of the big guns
in the sponsoring of campus affairs and the 1949-50
social calendar reveals that this same organization is
again one of the chief planning groups for campus
activity.
Under the capable guidance of its faculty adviser,
Miss Betty L. Harker, Dean of Women, the sorority has
been playing a big part in the college's program to
acquaint local high school girls with the advantages
of attending an institution of higher learning at home.
Twice during the Spring Semester, Theta Delta
Rho holds high school teas in the third floor lounge and
Assistant Professors Edward Williams and Joseph
Donnelly returned to the English Department's faculty
after working on their doctorates at Columbia Univer
sity.
girls representing almost every high school in Luzerne
County are invited to attend.
Besides the teas, the sorority sponsors many
dances and afternoon socials for both students and
faculty. The big event of the year for the sorority is
the Valentine s Dance, which is usually held at the
Irem Temple.
Marilyn Broadt is president of the sorority this year
and Mary Porter, officer during the 1948-49 school year,
is social chairman.
DECEMBER—
20—All College Punch Party
1—Cue 'N' Curtain's "Ghost Train"
2—Cue 'N' Curtain's "Ghost Train"
9—Senior Tea Dance in Weckesser Hall
13—Theta Delta Rho's Christinas Party
MAY—
5—Punch Party in Weckesser Hall
12— Mother's Day Tea—Theta Delta Rho
13— Men's Dorm Picnic
14— Men's Dorm Christmas Party
18—Theta Delta Rho's Junior-Senior Dinner
16—Letterman's Christmas Dance
26—Cinderella Ball
�FKOSEJ TTEIIISWAIL,
"FALL CAMPUS SCENE"
"JOHN FLORKIEWICZ, WILKES BACK"
"SAD-EYED JURY"
"FATHER DAUGHTER AT WILKES"
"THE END OF A SENTENCE"
"COLLECTING 1,000 NAMES"
�Two Prominent Men Named To
College Board of Trustees
During the past
month two outstand
ing men of local and
national importance
were named to the
Wilkes College Board
of Trustees bringing
the total number on
the governing body
to 24.
Admiral Harold
R. Stark (ret.), former
Chief of Naval Oper
ations and Commander of the European
Naval Forces during
the last war, and the
Honorable John S.
Fine, Judge of the
Pennsylvania Superi
Hon. John S. Fine
or Courts, vzere introduced by Gilbert S. McClintock, chairman of the board,
as new members.
Admired Stark, who was prominent as one of the
nations top naval officials during World War H, ended
Scholarships To Be Awarded
Student Publication Editors
Dr. Frank Specher,
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank P. Speicher,
353 W. Main Street,
Plymouth, Pa., and
former Bucknell Jun
ior College student,
has opened a dental
office in the Miners
National Bank Bldg.,
in Wilkes-Barre.
In an effort to encourage greater interest in jour
nalism at Wilkes College, eight scholarships valued
at SI,500 have been made available to students, who
through outstanding service on student publications,
become editors and business managers.
47 years service in 1947 and is presently residing at
Lake Carey.
Judge Fine, who was born in Newport Township
and later moved to Nanticoke, where he now resides,
graduated from Nanticoke High School. He attended
Dickinson School of Law and took post-graduate work ’
at Trini.y College and at the University of Dublin in
Ireland.
He was admitted to the Luzerne County Bar in
March 1915, and pracaced law until 1917, when he en
tered the military service.
Appointed Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County on January
3, 1927, and then serving two ten-year terms in that
office. Judge Fine was appointed to the Pennsylvania
Superior Court on June 17, 1947. He was elected for a
full ten-year term in November of that year.
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Other members of the Wilkes College Board of
Trustees are: Chairman Gilbert S. McClintock, Charles
H. Miner, J., J. B. Carr, Mrs. Charles E. Clift, Mrs. Franck
G. Darte, Dr. Samuel M. Davenport, Miss Annette
Evans, Edward Griffith, George W. Guckelberger,
James p. Harris, Mrs. Edward H. Kent, Dr. Joseph J.
Kocyan, Miss Mary R. Koons, Reuben H. Levy, Arnaud
C. Marts, Dr. P. P. Mayock, F. E. Parkhurst, Jr., Col. J.
Henry Pool, Dr. Charles S. Roush, Andrew J. Sordoni,
Julius Long Stern, Admiral Harold R. Stark, and Fred
erick J. Weckesser.
Dr. Frank Speicher
Three Wilkes College Buildings Named
After Historical Figures
Both John Wilkes and Isaac Barre, whose last
names form the title of this key city in the "coal re
gions , vzere English patriots, who carried out a con
tinual fight for freedom in the colonies and in England.
Gilbert S. McClintock, chairman of the board of
trustees, announced recently that the buildings would
be named after Zebulon Butler, Isaac Barre, and Tim
othy Pickering.
Two of the three buildings named—-located on
South River Street along the Susquehanna River—were
presented to the college by the members of the Board
of Trustees during 1945-46. The other property, the
home of the late Dr. S. P. Mengel, South Franklin
Street, was purchased by the college earlier this year.
The naming of the buildings after historical figures
in addition to the name of the college and its location
on a nationally known Revolutionary War site, calls
attention to Wyoming Valley as one of the most color
ful and best known locations of early American His
tory in the country.
The property at 154 South River Steet, which is
used for classes and faculty offices, is now known as
Isaac Barre Hall. Zebulon Butler Hall, located at 158
South River Street, is the Men's Dormitory. The newest
addi.ion to the college properties—the building at 181
South Franklin Street—was named after Timothy Pick
ering.
Foil owi n g two
years at the junior
college. Dr. Speicher
went on to receive
his degree from the
University in Lewis
burg. He took his
graduate work at the
Temple Unive r s i t y
Dental School.
He is affiliated with many fraternal organizations:
John A. Kolmer Honorary Medical Society; James
Society of Clinical Pathology; President, James R.
Cameron Honorary Society of Oral Surgery; Vicepresident, Junior American Dental Association; Presi
dent, Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity.
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Wilkes College, named after the outstanding ad
vocate and defender of American freedom, John
Wilkes, turned again to the pages of the Eighteenth
Century history to obtain titles for three buildings
located on a campus, which almost 200 years ago was
the site of the old Fort Wyoming.
B. U. J. C. Grad Opens Dental
Office In City
Civic Groups Use
Wilkes College
Among the many civic organizations who have
recently chosen Wilkes College as the site for their
meetings was the Northeastern State District of the
Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction.
Held in the Lecture Hall, which seats 240 people,
the meeting was under the direction of district chair
man, Lonard Utz, supervisor of English in Wilkes-Barre
City Schools. The session was one of nine district
meetings being conducted throughout the state for the
purpose of discussing secondary school curriculum
improvement.
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president of Wilkes, opened
the day's activities with an address on "Keeping the
Secondary School In Step With Contemporary Develop
ments."
Dr. Frederick L. Pond, Supervising Curriculum
Consultant for the Pennsylvania Department of Public
Instruction, spoke on the possible changes needed in
the secondary school curriculum and acquainted the
district representatives with the changes needed to
The scholarships will cover college journalists who
gin the top editorial and advertising positions on the
student newspaper, "The Beacon", and the college
yearbook, "The Amnicola".
According to the statement issued by Dr. Eugene
S. Farley, president, after a meeting with the adminis
trative council and the board of publications, the edit
ors of both publications will receive full tuition for the
year they are serving. These two awards are valued
at $900.
The News Editor, Feature Editor, and Business
Manager of the student newspaper will each receive
$100 scholarships. The yearbook Assistant Editor, Pic
ture Editor, and Business Manager will also each re
ceive S100 awards.
The notice from the president's office stated, "It
has been found that many outstanding students can
not participate in the work of hte Beacon and the Amni
cola because of excessive demands upon their time
and energy. These demands have been so great that
students who must earn all or a portion of their tuition
have found it impossible to contribute to these publica
tions.
"To enable all students to cooperate in the produc
tion of these school publications, a series of scholar
ships will hereafter be awarded to those who through
outstanding service become editors and business man
agers of these publications."
In order to be eligible for the award the editors
must have at least two years of experience on the pub
lication and must have rendered outstanding service.
In addition, they must maintain academic standing of
at least a C average. The assistant editors and busi
ness managers must have one year of service nd a
C average.
All awards will be made by a publication board
composed of faculty advisers of both publications,
Dean of Women Bettly L. Harker, and the editors of the
two publications.
bring the present curriculum up to date with existing
conditions.
The State Department of Public Instruction has
committees working in each of six subject fields: Eng
lish, Mathematics, Science, Geography, Social Studies,
and Modem Languages.
Following the initial assembly, which found an
over-flowing crowd of more than 300 representatives,
the groups were assigned to rooms in the various col
lege buildings for individual subject discussions.
�THE COLONEL
SPORTS PARADE
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Above are members of the first soccer team to represent Wilkes Colleg. Left to right: Kneeling, Benjamin Beers, Bruce MacKie, Keith
Rasmussen. Lester Gross. Captain Cy Kovolchick. Carl Wallison. Jerry Weiss. Ed Wheatley; Standing, Coach Bob Partridc
Partridge. Bob Hooper, Bill
Mosely. Riga Lemoncelli, George Petrilak. Charles Jackson. Bob Neilson. Jim Gatens. Donald Tosh.
Tosh, Sam Owens,
Owens. Manager Marly
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Blake.
Above arc the members of the 1919 Wilkes College football squad.
right: First row—Ed Krombel, John Feeney, John DeRemer,
George Lewis, Al Dalton, Olie Thomas, John Jones, Dick Scripp, Frank Radaszewski, Gerrard Washco,
:o, John
Johi Florkiewicz, and Walt Hendershot.
Seocn ! row—Norman Cromack. Al Molosh, Francis Pinkowski, Joseph Stevens, Paul Thomas, Dill Davis, Norm Cross, Al Nicholas, George
Elias, Leo Solomon. Sam Eiias, Hank Supinski, Gene Snee. Third row—Chet Knap’ch, Don Jones, Al Manarski, George McMahon, John Strojny,
Bill John, Dan Pinkowsk’., John Havir, Dan McHugh, Robert Hall, William Morgan, Ed Bogusko.
Colonels Face Toughest Foe On Saturday
The Wilkes College football team will take the
field on Saturday evening at Plymouth's Huber Stadium
and a record ot 13 games without having suffered a
loss will be at stake.
This Saturday's game, however, finds Coach
George Ralston's eleven facing one cf the toughest
teams—i: not the toughest—in its four-year grid history.
The opponent will be Rider College, the same team
that had a bowl bid all sewed up last year when the
little college from the heart of the Anthracite Region
sen: dovzn an eleven that walloped the ears off the lads
from the Trenton, N. J. school by a 14 to 0 margin.
Tha: astounding upset by Wilkes College will
never be forgotten because it ruined the chances Rider
College had of making a name for itself in one of the
quickest, sure-fire fashions—a bowl game.
When the out-of-state eleven takes the field against
Wilkes the stage will be set for one of the hardest-
fought contests this area can ever hope to see.
Bo h colleges have good records. Rider has lost to
only one foe—Bowling Green—and that is nothing to
be ashamed cf, while Wilkes has only one slight
smudge on its record and that is the 14-14 tie with St.
Francis.
Coach Ralston reports that his team will be in top
condi ion for the contest that the campus grid enthusi
asts call, "The game of the season."
The genial coach, who seldom makes predictions
abou; the outcome of games, broke silence this week
and s ated that this contest with Rider will be a tough
cne. The Rider club is supposed to be one of the top
small college teams of the East and it is just possible
that the power may be too much for the Colonels.
Last year the same feeling was present, however,
but the outcome of the game 14 to 0 in favor of Wilkes
surprised many of the supporters of the Jersey school.
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Soccer, The Fifth Intercollegiate Sport
After one year of intramural conditioning, "Opera
tions Soccer" stepped into the intercollegiate competi
tion and became the fifth major sport at Wilkes College
this year.
Under the coaching of Bob Partridge, member of
the History Department, who has more than a fair
amount of the booting game under his belt, Wilkes has
given a good account of itself on the field.
The parent of the modern gridiron game is not new
to the coal regions. It was one of the chief sports here
some 25 years ago, but suddenly dropped from its once
lofty perch when other sports came into being in great
er numbers in this area.
The gap between the lime soccer was in the coal
regions and the present period when it has returned
was too great to produce regional players who under
stood the fundamentals of the sport. Coach Patrridge
started from scratch with the majority of the candidates
and had some encouragement from the fact that a few
of the men out for the team had played it while at
tending schools away from here.
Although no victories have been chalked up for
the Colonels to date, the season cannot help but be
a success because the foundation for what well may
turn out to be the chief sport at Wilkes is being laid
now. The years to come should see the present sea
son's efforts paying off with wins.
The college is fortunate in having a competent
ccach. Partridge has been closely related to the game
that is so much like the pigskin sport since his high
school days. He played in the highly soccer conscious
secondary school league and later shifted his booting
interests to the University of Pennsylvania.
Besides being one of the too baseball men for four
years at that institution, Partridge was outstanding on
the soccer field. In his senior year, he was not only
elected captain of the team, but was named to the All
American team for outstanding performance.
This Saturday the Wilkes College team will play
Howard University in a special Homecoming contest
on the soccer field along the dike in Kirby Park. A
special section has been provided to alumni to attend
the game, which commences at 2 p. m.
�"down memory lane
15 YEARS AGO (FALL, 1934)
Sophomore courses have been added to Bucknell University
Junior Colleqe this year and are identical to those offered on the
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President. --TT
Homer
P. Rainey of Bucknell
campus at
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The first student to transfer from Bucknell University Junior
College will be Miss Ruth Dattner of Luzeme, who will enter as a
sophomore at Wellesley College.
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New Placement Center Aids Students and Grads
Realizing the need for
research in the employment
field for the purpose of aiding students and graduates
obtain positions, Wilkes Col
lege has opened its own
Placement Office on the third
floor of Chase Hall.
Bucknell Junior College Thespians will present their first major
production for this year on December 12 and 13. The play, a comedy
in three acts, was written in 1826 by John Poole, under the title of
“Wealthy Widow”.
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Prof. Paul Gies, director of music at BUJC, announced that re
hearsals of the large company of Wyoming Valley singers that will
take part in the Bach Festival, will begin on Thursday evening,
October 24.
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Ambrose Saricis, Jr., son of Wilkes-Barre's new fire chief, was
elected president of Bucknell Junior College Economics Club. Other
officers named were: Marjorie Richards, secretary-treasurer; Robert
Nelson, luncheon-manager; and George Jacobs, field trip manager.
The fall dance cf Bucknell Junior College was held in the audit
orium of the college last night and was attended by 150 students
and friends.
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Dr. John H. Eisenhauer, directoro of Bucknell Junior College, has
returned to this div following a short visit to Lewisburg.
Members of the Political Science Club of Bucknell Junior College
held their first luncheon meeting at the Vanity Fair last night when
Attorney Wiliam A. Valentine appeared as the principal speaker
for the occasion.
Th“ entire bu-Td;nq of the Wilkes-Barre Business College, 29-31
We=‘ w^rt^amotrn Street has been recently leased for a period of
years hr Bucknell Junior College. The Junior College has occupied
part of he buHdina- durinn the past year. In the course of the sum
mer various improvements were made.
10 YEARS AGO (FALL 1939)
ten scholarships for young men of Wilkes-Barre and the Wyo
ming Valley area who have applied for private pilot trrrirnng nndor
the proaram offered by the Civil Aeronautics Association through
Bucknell Junior College will enable the candidates to begin training
this week.
Two of the wnners of the annual scholarships given by Bucknell
Junior College to high ranking students in last year's freshman class
are Miss Ruth Lynn and Miss Ruth Guamacci, it was announced
yesterday b”- Director Eugene Farley.
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Dr. Daniel J. Gage, head
nead of the history
histc
department of the Buck
nell Junior College, will deliver his second
secant lecture of the series being
sponsored by the International Relations Group of the Wilkes-Barre
branch of the American Association of University Women this eve
ning at 8 in the Studio Theater at Chase Hall.
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A. group of BUJC students are spending their Thanksgiving vaca
tion touring the play houses of New York City, enjoying ballet per
formances. Miss Norma Sanguillano, head of the dramatics group
at the college, is in charge of the trip.
Miss Muriel Rees, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Rees, 81
Grove Street, a sophomore at BUJC, has received one of the two
dramatic scholarships, given annually by the Children's 'Theater for
dramatic excellence.
John J. Chwalek
3 YEARS AGO (FALL 1946)
Dr. Eugei
me S. Farley, director of BUJC, announced yesterday
that the local1 junior college will be represented on the gridiron this
fall for the first time in the history of the institution. He disclosed
that Georgee F. Ralston, former member of the Forty Fort High School
athletic dep
jpartment, will become the first coach of football and
director of gathletes.
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John Chwalek, member
of the Sociology Department,
has been released from some
of his teaching duties to
handle the assignment of
Director of the new center.
The office has been in operation since the early
pari of September and results to date have proven that
the new center will provide aid to many students and
graduates who otherwise would not be able to obtain
employment.
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Two cappointments to the BUJC faculty ’were announced by Dr.
Eugene S> .Farley, director. George F. Rak
Iston was named to the
newly-created post of dean of mn, while Kathryn E. Domingu
juez of
the Children's Service Center, city, was named insturcotr of
A psychology.
A considerable amount of time and effort has been
exerted by Mr. Chwalek toward the establishing of con
tacts with the many business agencies throughout the
three coun ies surrounding the college.
To date, many students and graduates have been
placed. Students who are in need of aid while attend
ing college have been placed in positions which allow
them ample time to attend classes and handle lesson
preparation.
According to the new placement director, the holi
day seasons will provide a large number of parttime
positions for students. He emphasized the importance
of the new center to local merchants and businsss men.
Previously, the employer was at loss when he wanted
additional help on either full or parttime basis because
of the lack of a central office upon which he could
place his request for help.
It is the hope of the new director that the contacts
o' the Placement Center can be enlarged so as to pro
vide employment to both students and graduates on
both a local and national basis.
Notices concerning the inauguration of the new
service being offered by Wilkes College have been
sent to all businessmen and merchants so that this in
stitution will receive first call when vacancies occur.
"Wilkes College On The Air"
Resumes Regular Programs
Wilkes Women's Group
Enjoying Best Year
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning
at 11:45 over radio station WHWL in Nanticoke, Pa.,
"Wilkes College On The Air"—a 15-minute program of
news, views, and interviews about Wyoming Valley's
only four-year co-educational institution of higher
learning goes out over the airways to thousands of
people.
The program was started last January through the
generosity of the Nanticoke station and has continued
to be beamed to friends of the college and station listen
ers ever since.
The programs are under the direction of the Public
Relations Staff of Wilkes College and enable all the
van ous scholastic and extra-curricular activities of the
ins.i.u ion to present their interests to the public over
the microphone.
There is little trouble in finding radio material for
these programs as the college has many clubs, which
are anxious to acquaint the public with the intricate
details of their organization.
"Wilkes College On The Air" has just about every
type of program possible. During the present college
radio season the most unique program was the talk
given by Dr. Charles B. Reif, head of the Biology De
partment. The faculty representative shattered the long
believed myth about Harvey's Lake having no bottom,
when he presented facts and figures to prove that the
so-called mysterical body of water went down only
90 feet in the deepest spot,
Other programs include: one-act plays, chemistry
reviews cn the latest development in modern science,
choral work, band music, sports interviews, and news.
One of the most active organizations on campus
is the Wilkes Women's Group, composed of faculty
wives and women faculty members.
Every other week the. organization sponsors a
Coffee Hour for the benefit of the students and faculty
members in the college cafeteria.
Besides the regular school year program, the
Wilkes Women's Group plans many extra social func
tions that provide the highlights of the social year at
Wilkes College.
The club was organized last year with Mrs. Rosen
berg as the first president. Its first project, which is
being continued this year, was a series of Coffee Hours.
The club has regular meetings on the second Friday
of ach month in the evening in the Chase Hall Lounge,
with a business session and a program.
Officers and committee chairmen: President, Mrs.
Harold Thatcher; Vice-president, Miss Mildred E. Hull;
Secretary, Mrs. Hugo V. Malley; Treasurer, Mrs. Robert
W. Partridge; Historian, Mrs. Stanko M. Vujica; Pub
licity, Mrs. Edward M. Williams; Program, Mrs. Samuel
A. Rosenberg; Coffee Hours, Mrs. Alfred W. Bastress;
Hostess, Mrs. Herbert J. Morris.
Program—Mrs. Samuel A. Rosenberg, chairman;
Miss Mary E. Craig, Mrs. Cromwell E. Thomas, Mrs.
Edward J. Manley, Mrs. Eugene S. Farley, Mrs. John
Howell Williams, Miss Catherine E. Bone, Miss Betty
L. Harker.
Coffee Hour—Mrs. Alfred W. Bastress, chairman;
Mrs. John A. Chwalek, Mrs. Edward N. Heltzel, Mrs.
Donald R. Kersteen, Mrs. Arthur N. Kruger, Mrs. James
J. Laggan, Mrs. Edward J. Manley, Mrs. John J. Riley.
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Dr. James M. Hepbron, one of the country's leading criminolo
gists and chairman of the Maryland State Commission on Juvenile
Delinquency, spoke to the student body of Bucknell Junior College
yesterday during the assembly program in the Presbyterian Church
House.
1 YEAR AGO (FALL 1949)
Wilkes College will inaugurate two courses in Slovak—element
ary Slovak language and Slovak culture—during the evening classes
of the fall semester, which begins September 20.
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Wyomingj Valley residents will have their first opportunity to
view the celel
?brated Gimbel Pennsylvania Art Exhibit, sponsored by
lection is opned to the general public this morning at 9 in Ashley
Wilkes College and the local Chamber of Commerce, when the colHall Annex.
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A fighting Wilkes
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College
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eleven last night ran, slipped, slid
end fell to a 26 to 0 victoryr over King's College before 2,200 raindrenched fans at Kingston Hi
figh School Stadium.
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The inauguration of a new tradition, a homecoming celebration
for Bucknell University Junior College and Wilkes College alumni,
will take place on the week-end of November 19.
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Registrations for individual instructions at Wilkes College School
of Music during the fall semester will be taken this week, according
to an announcement by Donald E. Cobleigh, head of the school.
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Wilkes College Student Council will ope..
>en its fall semester social
program with a freshman dance
tonight
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to 12, at 3-..
Sans Souci
Park pavilion, according to John J. Feeney,
Peen
social chairman.
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The flow of students entering Wilkes College for the fall sem
ester on one of the two subsidized programs has dropped Io 23 per
cent of the total number of now students admitted,
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�Alumni Record
Did We Tell You That...
HARRY CAMPBELL, who attended the Junior Col
lege in 1938-39, recently visi.ed the campus while
spending several days in this region with his sister,
Dr. Marion Eckert, resident physician at the Nesbitt
Hospital. Harry is exployed by the Glen L. Martin
Company in Baltimore, Md. . . . RALPH CONNOR,
class of 1949, is employed by the Traveler's Insurance
Company. He is selling life, health, and accident in
surance with offices in the Miners National Bank ....
DR. VINCENT A. McCROSSEN, who was an instructor
in German and World Literature at uBcknell Junior
College in 1935-36, has been appointed professor of
Romance languages at Boston College.
MURIEL RUTH BRANSDORF, class of '48, became
the bridge Jerome Mintzer of Wilkes-Barre on August
27 .... DR. HENRY G. GALLAGHER, M. D„ who at
tended the Junior College and later graduated from the
University of Scranton, has opened offices on Lake
Street in Dallas .... Two fomer Wilkes students, MISS
JUDY BARTLEBAUGH and PAUL K. RICHARDS, class
of '49, were married recently in the Forty Fort Methodist
Church .... FAITH DAVIS, former Wilkes student,
who was the granddaughter of the late Dr. S. P. Mengel,
former owner of what is now known as Timothy Picker
ing Hall, was maried to William Abbott Weaver, Jr.
. . . .MIRIAM GOLIGHTLY, who served as social editor
c: the Sunday Independent before she graduated in
1948 from Wilkes, became the bride of HERMAN
BAUMANN, JR. Mrs. Baumann is teaching in NewJersey.
REESE E. PELTON and DANNY WILLIAMS, mem
bers ol the 1948 class, are teaching in the Dallas Town
ship High School Reese has continued his musical in
terests and now has one of the finest dance orchestras
in the region .... GLORIA F. BOGUSZEWSKI, class of
'45 at the Junior College, is married to Emil J. Suda ....
MARY LOU SEROKA, former Wilkes student, recently
became the wife of John Cintala of Nanticoke
DOUGLAS MacNEAL, president of the 1948 graduating
class, recently marria KATHRYN POTTER, class of '49.
Doug is now attending the University of Pennsylvania
Dental School .... ALBERTA H. NOVICK, member of
the class of '48 and one of the first cheerleaders for the
college, became the bride of Theodore J. Killian.
Wilkes College had the distinction of sending the
first candidate in Eastern Pennsylvania to the new
Regular Army Wac Officer Candidate School in the
person of MISS ELEANOR E. KRUTE, secretary of the
1949 graduating class. Before coming to Wilkes, Miss
Krute served 23 months overseas in Cairo and Vienna
and also in Washington as a civil service employee.
REV. GEORGE DICKINSON is minister of the
Methodist Church in Avoca. Rev. Dickinson finished
at the Junior College in 1940 and received his degree
from Lewisburg in 1942 .... HARRY BLACK, class of
'49, is employed by the Nanticoke Review as business
manager .... JOSEPH KANNER, MARK DAVIDOFF,
and ROBERT RILEY, members of the 1948 class, are
now instructors at Wilkes College .... NATHANIEL
W. TREMBATH, who attended Wilkes in 1946-47, has
been appointed to the faculty of Bucknell University
as an instructor in electrical engineering.
The latest of transfers which pop up in every college
at the beginning of the school includes: ALFRED J.
CYGONOWSKI to Bloomsburg STC, ALBERT GEORGE
DANISHONKO to Temple School of Pharmacy, HAINARD GONCHAR to University of Pennsylvania, BER
NICE LEAGUS io Bucknell University, NAOMI HONS
to Bucknell University, ELVIRA THOMPSON to Blooms
burg STC lor commercial education, NORMA VON
IGNATIUS to Whittier College, WILLIAM POLTROCK
to Fenn State, HOWARD STUBBLEBINE to Temple Uni
versity Law School, JOHN ENDLER to Lehigh Univer-
I”° that we may keep our alumni records up to date and increase our service to you, please fill out this
informa.ion blank and mail back to the Alumni Office, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., immediately.
All college material, which will be of interest to you will be sent to you, following the arrival and filing
of this information sheet.
1 Name
LAST
MIKE FEZ, class of 1949, is employed by the Boy
Scouts of America in Reading, Pa
JOHN J. EVAN
is a federal bank inspector in Pittsburgh. He is a mem
ber of the 1949 class. . . .Another '49er, JACK BROBYN
is working for Bloomsburg Mills. . . .DONALD WOLFE,
'49, is working with the U. S. Army for one year ....
BOB MIKULEWICZ, class of '48, is teaching Lajuanta
High School, Colorado, after graduating from that
state's university,
MIDDLE
Maiden Name
P RESTON STURDEVANT to University of Pennsyl
vania Dental School, GEORGE MAISEL to George
Washington, ALBERT FREEMAN to University of Penn
sylvania Dental School, FRED CATLIN to Dickinson
College, MARIE. YOZVIAK to Bloomsburg STC, MARI
LYN SICKLER to Misericordia, TOM BRAIN to U. S.
Mili.ary Academy, FRANK MAYEWSKI to New Eng
land Conservatory of Music, FRANCES MARKOWITZ
to Penn State, TOYCE BURCHARD to Nursing School in
Moline, UL, ETHEL SNEE to U. C. L. A., DICK LAUX
to Bloomsburg STC, FRANK RUSINKO to Penn State,
EARL LAWTON to Muhlenberg College, JOAN WALSH
io Misericordia.
JIMMY FARRELL, class of '49, is working for Brooks
and Company, engaged in investments and trusts ....
KENNETH TAYLOR, '49, is employed in the petroleum
department of G. L. F. Corporation, Erie .... ALICE
DEW, '49, is attending Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh,
where she was granted a fellowship to the School of
Library Science, under the sponsorship of the Osterhout
Library .... RUTH D. SMITH, also from the 1949 class,
has been employed at Lackawanna Casualty Com
pany since July, 1949 .... BOB LIPMAN, class of '47,
is employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health
Sanitation in Harrisburg .... Working for the same
department in Wilkes-Barre is JOE CHILORO, class of
'47 ... . IRA D. HALL, '49, is employed by the General
Motors Acc?pt3nce"Corporation in Wilkes-Barre ....
JOHN WILSON, '49, is handling duties at the Lacka
wanna Motor Corporation in Scranton .... PAUL K.
RICHARDS, '49, is in training for n executive position
with S. S. Kresge Company in Pittston .... Burrough's
Adding Machine Company is employing JOHN B.
MERRITT, class of '49. His wife is the former JANE
KORPER, who attended Wilkes in 1946-47-48
HILLARD KOSLOWSKI is working with the sales de
barment of a trade magazine, with duties centered
throughout Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties . . . •
LESTER JONES, class of '48, is teaching at the Star
School of Business Management in Scranton
R * LPH E. HODGSON, class of '49, is working for the
FqVirtatai'eTnfd ASUHFdrice Society and operating out of
Miners Bank in Wilkes-Barre.
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ALUMNUS
Vol. 6, No. 2
JANUARY, I960
�Board of Trustees
Contents.
Admiral Harold R. Stark Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Page
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
3
Admiral Harold R. Stark feted by College as new Chairman of Board.
4
David Vann, ’58, reports on his experiences in South Africa.
5
I960 version of Alumni Officers seated.
6-7
Dean George Ralston speaks to the Freshmen.
8-9
Bertrand Russell speaks of University Education and Modem Condi-
Frank Burnside
Francis O. Case
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Dario
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
tions.
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckeiberger
10
Trustees of Wilkes College, administrative officials
and guests are shown at the speakers table at the
Dinner in the College Commons honoring Admiral
Harold R. Stark as he assumed chairmanship of the
Board.
Seated, left to right: Rev. Dr. Jule Ayers, Mrs.
Reuben H. Levy, Reuben H. Levy, Walter S. Carpen
ter, Mrs. William H. Conyngham, Admiral Stark, Dr.
Eugene S. Farley, president; Mrs. Farley, Frank Bum-
Alumni Fund seeks new and ambitious goals.
11-14 First Part of Three-Part Alumni Survey results.
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
On the Cover:
John Wilkes, after whom Wilkes College is named, is one of
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
the great names in English history.
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Wilkes constantly attacked King George III and was interred in
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
the Tower of London twice because of his views.
Andrew J. Sordoni
A firebrand in parliament,
Always a de
fender of American freedom in parliament, his battles with the
King aroused much enthusiasm in the Colonies and he was honored
Julius Long Stem
as a hero in defense of freedom by the Colonists. He became Lord
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Mayor of London and Chamberlain of London and in these posts he
Aaron Weiss
continued to lead the fight for the Colonists in America.
President
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Published by Wilkes College
Alumni Officers
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Dr. Robert Kerr, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Russ Picton, Editor
William Zdancewicz, Assistant Editor
Stewart Swett, Photographer
Russell H. Williams, Treasurer
Vol. 6, No. 2
January, I960
Publiahed qiiartorly as the Alumnus for tho members of tho Wilkes College Alumni Aocomatron. Second class marl privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, S2.00
side, Mrs. Frank Bumside, Mrs. James P. Harris.
Standing: Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, William Con
yngham, Mrs. William Conyngham, Mrs. Charles S.
Roush, Rev. Charles S. Roush, Miss Annette Evans,
Mrs. Charles E. Clift, Miss Mary R. Koons, Mrs. Aaron
Weiss, Mrs. Joseph J. Kocyan, Dr. Joseph J. Kocyan,
Dr. Samuel M. Davenport, Mrs. F. E. Parkhurst, Jr.,
F. E. Parkhurst, Jr., George Guckeiberger, Joseph F.
Lester, James P. Harris, Attorney Charles H. Miner.
ADMIRAL HAROLD R. STARK HONORED
BY COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY
Admiral Harold R. Stark, newly
elected chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Wilkes College, was
honored at a Dinner in the College
Commons, attended by more than
250 friends, trustees, and faculty. The
celebrated affair was held on Wed
nesday, January 6, 1960.
Admiral Stark expressed his ap
preciation to friends of the college
who came to pay tribute to him and,
to Wilkes which, he said, he is proud
to be able to serve. He recalled the
friendship of the late Gilbert S.
McClintock, who, he said, found the
college a babe in swaddling clothes
and left it on its feet. "Yet," he
added, "our work is hardly begun."
He spoke of Dr. Farley as providing
devoted leadership, inspiration, and
imagination in serving as president
of Wilkes College and added that
the loyalty of the faculty has been
an important factor in the develop
ment of the college.
"The support of the community,"
he said, "has made possible the sub-
stantial gains of the college. And,
through the years, cooperation be
tween the college, Chamber of Com
merce, the Industrial Fund, and busi
ness and labor, has created a favora
ble climate for the future develop
ment of our community."
In singling out his friends, Admiral
Stark said, "it seems like home," and
spoke of the gathering as a family
reunion. He said that he accepted
the position of leadership at Wilkes
College, "that I might be of more
service to this community which I
love."
Frank Bumside, vice-president of
the Boston Store, in speaking on be
half of the board of trustees, wel
comed Admiral Stark back to Wyo
ming Valley and to Wilkes. He
spoke affectionately of Admiral
Stark as the intimate of statesmen
and sovereigns who came from re
tirement to take command in time
of need. "A proven and experienced
leader answers the unanimous call of
associates, friends and the commu-
nity," Mr. Bumside said, "to lead
Wilkes College in its second quarter
century of service."
He recalled the spirit and charac
ter of Admiral Stark in perpetuating
the ideals and program of Wilkes
College, and who now leaves retire
ment to carry on in the tradition of
the late Gilbert S. McClintock, first
chairman of the board.
"A beloved leader is lost," he
said, "and a gap is created in the
ranks. A man steps in to fill the
gap, humbly and almost shyly,
though he has already earned sev
eral times over the highest honors
his nation and community can con
ceive."
This tribute to Admiral Stark ex
presses to him, the profound respect
of this community and the gratitude
of all those people who are Wilkes
College, he said. Mr. Bumside re
garded the appointment of Admiral
Stark to this position of leadership
as a motivating force "which will
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3
�NEW
OFFICERS
SEATED
South Africa:
Its Peoples and Problems
South Africa is a country, slightly
smaller than the State of Alaska,
located at the very Southern end of
the African continent. It is a country
rich in potential, laying claim to
having within its boundaries the
world's richest supplies of diamonds
and gold, huge deposits of iron, coal
and other basic minerals, and vitally
important uranium deposits. Rough
ly. there are 15 million people living
here, of which 9 million are indige
nous African Natives, called Bantu,
3 million white people called Euro
peans, just under a million Indians,
and the rest a mixture of races called
Coloreds. The white people are
subdivided into two groups called
The Afrikaaners, who are descen
dents from the original Dutch and
French Huguenot settlers, and the
English-speaking South Africans, a
term used to designate either the
descendants of the 1820 settlers, or
other 'foreigners' or 'uitlanders' as
they were originally called.
South Africa is the most developed
country South of the Sahara. It is
probably the only country in Africa
that has any real legal claim to be
called a white nation. When the
first white settlers came here in 1652,
they settled at Capetown, and moved
inland from there. They encountered
a group of people called the Hotten
tots, who have since become extinct
as a group in South Africa, and who
live on only in their embodiment in
the cclorea people. It was not until
the late iath’and early ISth centuries
that they came in contact with the
bantu who were migrating from the
Jorthem peat of Africa, mto the
Southern part and much of South
Africa's history, and problems cen
ters around the conflicts that emerged
when these two groups collided. Un
til diamonds were discovered in the
1860's, and gold in the 1870's, South
Arnica was content to maintain a
subsistence economy, shut off from
the rest of the world. The Afrikaaner
developed as a pastoral person, em
bracing Calvinistic Christianity, and
embodying it in the Dutch Reformed
Church, the largest single Church in
South Africa.
The Afrikaaner resented change,
especially that brought by the 'uit-
4
landers’ who came to develop the
Diamond and Gold industries. The
eventual result of conflict between
’uitlanders' and Boers, as the Afrikaaners are also called, was the
Boer War, fought between England
and the Boers, from 1898 to 1902. In
1910, the various colonies were con
solidated into the Union of South
Africa, and it became an indepen
dent nation within the British Com
monwealth of nations, a position that
it maintains even today, although
there is a large movement in South
Africa, dedicated to making South
Africa a Republic.
David Vann
David Vann, '58. recently returned from
a year's study at Rhodes University in
South Africa under a Rotary Scholarship.
V/e thought his letter to us might interest
you.
South Africa is confronted with
enormous problems, most of vzhich
are embodied, and can be seen
through the principle known as
Apartheid (pronounced apartate).
Apartheid is an indefinable term,
even amongst governmental special
ists. Basically it means total separa
tion of all races, in every sense of
the word, but in actuality, this is en
visioned by everyone, including the
government, as being an impossibili
ty. In present practice, it means
separate busses for Europeans, and
non-Europeans, except in a few
places. It means separate post office
doors and rooms, separate public
facilities, separate educational facili
ties, separate train coaches, and
separate entrances to train stations,
separate movie theaters, etc.
After one stays here for a while,
one is amazed by the lack of contact,
or attempts at contact between
groups. A Master-Servant relation
ship is maintained between white
and non-white, to the extent that any
movies, etc., that attempt to show
that such a relationship is not uni
versal, are promptly either not
shown, or censored to the point that
understanding of them is impossible.
In politics, only the white man is
allowed to vote, all other races are
excluded.
All forms of labor are generally
performed by the non-white, while
the supervisory positions, and ad
ministrative positions are held by
whites. All non-whites are required
to have passes, before they can
either get a job, or they can move
from place to place. These passes
are required to be on his person at
all times, and the abuse of the pass
system, though frowned upon is
widespread. Intermarriage between
white and non-white is prohibited,
and anyone even suspected of con
travening the Immorality Act, which
deals with all types of white and
non-white socialization, are strongly
condemned by their community, and
usually subjected to a prison sen
tence. There have been over 5000
violations of this law since its incep
tion in 1950, and violations are on
the increase.
In South Africa, civilization can be
seen at nearly every level of human
existence. The Raw native, in the
Reserve Areas, certain sections of
the country, comprising about 13%
of the land, that are set aside for
exclusive occupation of the Natives,
and forbidden to white men unless
they have special permission to
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On January 8 the new officers of
the Alumni Association were intro
duced at an alumni dinner at the
Host Motel. Taking office were Clay
ton Bloomburg, President; Dr. Robert
Kerr, Vice-President; Russell H. Wil
liams, Treasurer; and Anita Janerich,
Secretary; and Arthur Hoover as
member-at-large.
ng
happy to report that the "high hopes"
not only remain, but have soared.
Two years ago, my hopes included
the strengthening of our association
and making it an effective instrumen
tality in enhancing the stature and
reputation of our college. Fortunate
ly, the sturdy groundwork laid by
my predecesors, and their continued
devotion, gave us a foundation from
which to grow.
Our alumni association has gained
for itself an enviable position as an
organization worthy of its heritage.
It meets regularly with a full comple
ment of officers and executive board,
plans and executes alumni policy
and contributes to the all-important
a crowd!"
This, of course, is indicative of the
growing social popularity of the or
ganization, a long time in coming.
Is this, however, the ultimate goal?
Are we, as Wilkes alumni, content
to sit back, smug in the accomplish
ment of social acceptance alone?
Personally, I know of no graduate
who would admit to that, not even to
himself. It is my impression that
those who attended our alma mater
and worked to acquire an education
were of a hardy breed, toughened by
their personal struggle to elevate
themselves by nourishment from the
school's "tree of knowledge", so that
they would be equiooed with the
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The Wilkes College Alumni officers for 1960 are shown prior to their official seating on January 8 at
the new Host Motel. Left io right: Russell H. Williams, Treasurer; Anita Janerich, Secretary: Clayton Bloom
burg, President; Dr. Robert Kerr, Vice-President.
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1
A bronze plaque was presented to
Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, retiring
President, by Russell Picton, Execu
tive Alumni Secretary. The award
is given to the Past President in ap
preciation for services to Wilkes Col
lege and to the Alumni Association.
In receiving the award Atty. Savitz
expressed his thanks to the officers
who served with him and extended
his remarks to review the past two
years of his term.
Just two years ago this week,
I took office . .. with some trepidation
and high hopes ... as the incoming
president of Wilkes College Alumni
Association. As retiring president,
I have lost my trepidation but I'm
development of the college itself.
In the past several years, your as
sociation has taken part in annual
graduations — presenting an award
to the outstanding graduate during
graduation exercises, followed by an
alumni-sponsored cocktail-dance for
the graduates and friends. The an
nual homecoming affairs in the fall
are best remembered for their warm
conviviality, renewal of old friend
ships, sports events, annual meeting
... all topped by the increasingly
popular dinner-dances; the pleasant
problem now created by the latter
affair is how to handle the overflow
crowds . . . quite a switch from the
past worry of "how can we attract
mental resources to sustain them
selves in a world of indiscriminate
competition. That this breed of man
and woman, by nature of back
ground, environment and achieve
ment, had a strong, unwavering
sense of obligation and loyalty to
that institution which helped each
one to pull himself "by his own boot
straps" ... to elevate himself to some
stature and higher level of achieve
ment.
This loyalty manifests itself in
many ways: it results in a warm spot
in our hearts for the school; in speak
ing well of the school and in recom
mending it to others; in partaking in
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5
�IDEALS
FOR THE
SPACE AGE
by Deem George F. Ralston
What to say to you this morning
as you begin this chaUenging, ofttimes happy, sometimes heartbreakingly confusing episode in your life,
has been a puzzle for me. Very
candidly, my pUght has been Ettle
different from that of a milhon fresh
men on the campuses of our colleges
throughout our country this morning.
But there has been a predominant
compulsion to think with you this
great morning of your life about the
age in which we Eve, about the tradi
tions which have been our heritage,
and about the ways and means
through which we can undergird
ourselves to sustain our great liberal
traditions.
You who sit in this auditorium this
morning, the Class of 1963, whether
consciously or not, enter college at
the most profound time in aU of
human existence. For your genera
tion and your contemporaries, the
face of the world has changed. In
the blinding Eght and the graceful
arc of the rocket, the famihar world
of time and space known to our
fathers has dropped away. You and
I are both exhilarated and terrified
by the "onrushing revolutions in
knowledge" which are overtaking
>_s. What one philosopher has
c riled "The T. .rd Great Revolution
cf Mankind" nas been gradually
Sw. George Ralston's address to the
Ere: :..-rrr. Class so clearly outlines the
ideals '.award which we ore working that
I have wanted ?. made cvailacle to all
students and friends of the college.
As we move ahead our goals may
change hr.: '.ho great ideals that motivate
and grade us will remain constant.
Sincerely yours,
DR. EUGENE S. FARLEY
President
6
taking shape since the Second World
War. It is now upon us with all the
stunning impact of new facts and
new ideas. This "great come-and-getit day" in which you live, this day
of unlimited possibilities which opens
up before your enchanted eyes also
has its counterpart in the terrible
human problems of hate, greed, and
poverty; the struggle for power and
the threat of atomic war are still un
solved. Mankind yearns for brother
hood, yet it is divided by race, na
tion, and ideology. Paradoxically,
our world has become smaller, yet
human beings are farther apart. As
we have conquered the physical
universe, we have failed to conquer
ourselves.
Whether you know it or not, or
whether or not you accept it, your
generation has the responsibility for
deciding whether the human race is
to prosper or decline, whether our
conduct will lead to a beginning or
an end. Someone has said that this
is the "age of the quick and the
dead. You are either quick or you
are dead." The challenge that faces
you is one of danger and opportuni
ty. You can meanly lose or nobly
save mankind. Really, your chal
lenge is that of survival.
To put it very briefly. The Space
Age in which you live is nothing
less than the age of the quest for
knowledge. Physical prowess, if we
could only come to realize it, is no
longer legitimate competition for
international indulgence. Our real
quest is for the greatest possible
knowledge.
And so, as you sit here this morn
ing at a time of greatest moment for
you and mankind, what can you
search for, what should you be doing
in college to insure survival for your
selves and posterity?
In the first place try to recognize
the value of a balanced education.
With all the palaver about Soviet
achievement in science we are apt
to over-emphasize science. Certain
ly we have to do a better job in
science if we are to hold our own in
the world. The world is too much
with us to overlook this fact. The
20th Century is remarkable for its
unprecedented conquest and better
understanding of the physical world,
and the progress is continuing at a
terrific pace. Man need no longer
be a victim of external circum
stances. And with all the progress
of science to date, even science at
this moment is on the verge of all
manner of imponderables. But
science is only one aspect of the
crisis which faces you. It will not
be enough to develop techniques
that can make super-bombs and
super-missiles. It will not be enough
because there is even a more serious
problem in the control of these
weapons. Somehow you must strive
to find new techniques in human
engineering, techniques and knowl
edge to deal effectively with prob
lems created by the Space Age.
Above all we need wisdom more
than inventions. You must find
ways to understand the problems in
volved in human survival. Yes, in
the first place you will need a
balanced philosophy if you are to
sustain yourselves. We are a so
ciety which rests on an enlightened
citizenry, able to make moral, social,
and political judgments. Scientific
and technological training in them
selves cannot develop people to
make such judgments. You must
have a balance of humanities and
social sciences.
In the second place the challenge
you face calls for a respect for ex
cellence. You are called upon as
never before to live life on "Up-toe"—
to live up to the full measure of your
potential. The rate at which things
change in this age requires that you
do your utmost. The adage, "He
who hesitates is lost," was never
more true. Respect for excellence—an idea which we can cordidently
draw from our classical heritage of
freedom, this respect we must re
vive, emulate, and sustain. It is
truly the challenge bom of our free
competitive system. Today we talk
and worry about the uncommitted
people of the world and their great
potential, but what about the un
committed people here this morning
in our midst? Those of us who are
bound by no ideal, having Ettle
vision, warming no ambition,
strengthened by no discipline. You
must have the sensation of commit
ment: commitment to excellence and
devotion to quality. Surely a respect
and a striving for excellence is an
essential ingredient to sustain you
in the Space Age.
Now there is a third factor and it is
the foundation under everything. It
is the element of moral character.
The Space Age will run riot unless
there is integrity. And this boils
down to your individual philosophy
—your reason for being. Strange as
it may seem our conquest of the ex
ternal world has brought with it a
lack of moral fiber and of self-control
in man. We have neglected the
spirit of man and he has become a
mystery and probably a menace to
himself. E there is anything that
holds our experiences together and
gives balance to our lives, it is moral
integrity. Our allegiance must be
to a power that is beyond ourselves,
even when superficial appearances
are to the contrary. In an age of
unlimited power we are called upon
to fight more than a rear guard ac
tion for our present limited insights,
but to give ourselves wholly to the
fight for justice, human decency, and
welfare in the present and future.
This struggle for moral convictions,
for correct attitudes and action,
though seldom taught directly in col
lege, commences during your coUege
years. Concretely, it means that you
must tackle and understand the
responsible use of power. We have
mastered the forces of nature. We
can produce unlimited food supplies
and inexhaustible energy. Power
released from the atom can lift from
the backs of men the burdens they
have borne for centuries. We have
discovered remedies for deadly dis
eases of body and mind. By har
nessing new energies we can raise
human well-being to undreamed of
levels. The old causes of war —
hunger, poverty, and hopelessness
— need no longer apply. But there
is a threat in all of this progress if
there is no conscience. In a very
real and true sense the most im
portant crisis you are called upon to
meet is moral and spiritual The
entire story of man in his history,
the great ideas he has given birth
to, the noble dreams he has died for,
the truth he has discovered about
himself and his world, the progress
he has made in turning truth into
action, the high faith about life's
meaning and about God's activity in
history — all these worthy adven
tures can only be saved and given
meaning for good if they are based
upon conscience — accountabiEty to
a higher power. Yes, Class of '63,
our tradition is spiritual — the age
of science notwithstanding.
Dean George F. Ralston
Benjamin Franklin in a letter to
Joseph Priestly expressed our thought
here very aptly. He wrote: "O that
moral science were in a fair way of
improvement, that men would cease
to be wolves to one another, and that
human beings would at length leam
what they now improperly call
humanity."
And now as you begin college in
the Space Age might not the creed
of Albert Schweitzer in his philosophy of Reverence for Life be yours:
""The
ti,= scholar does not live r™
for ushis
science alone, even if he is useful
in the community in so doing. It
does not pennit the ar tist to exist only
for his art, even if he gives inspira
tion to many by its means. It refuses
to let the business man imagine that
he fidfills all legitimate demands in
the course of his business activities.
It demands of all that they sacrifice
a portion of their own lives for
others."
In the final analysis you must as
sume your responsibilities for solving
the problems of world peace, world
health, world justice, and world citi
zenship if we are going to survive.
This demands truth and love. It
means that no man is a stranger to
his fellowman, that man belongs to
man, that man has claims on man.
As Carl Sandburg puts it: "There is
only one man in the world and his
name is AU Men." This I submit
to you in conscience — a commitment to something bigger than our
selves. In all you are getting here
at Wilkes — get this.
As you begin this vital experience
today try to live every experience as
if a world were at stake. Develop
to the fullest your resources — inteUectual, physical, and emotional
This wiU require that you be an in
dividual — an uncommon individual.
Don't be afraid to alter your Eves
deliberately in order to Eve inteUigently. This is more than a matter
of happiness — seE-respect is in
volved. CulEvate wide-awake Eving.
This is the kind of Eving Seneca had
in mind when he advised, "As long
as you Eve, keep learning how to
Eve."
Now as I leave you to the whirl
of frosh affairs — just one parting
word. Remember, — to achieve re
quires discipline. This is a word we
shy away from today, but in a very
real sense discipline is synonomous
with the individuahty that guaran
tees liberty. In our tradition we must
have a certain kind of discipline,
seE-discipline. It is what Lord Moul
ton caUed "Obedience to the un
enforcable." It is the principle of
personal conduct — obeying the
rules of conduct which no one can
be compelled to obey. This sort of
discipline sets the moral standard
not only of individuals, but of na
tions. This is the law of cooperation
not the competition of acquisitiveness.
ness. It is the practice of each contributor
tributor to
to the
the good
good of
of all.
all. If you
follow this advice you will leam that
our liberal tradition puts the empha
sis on duties — not rights. The rights
will always follow the performance
cf duties. Remember this.
7
�UNIVERSITY
EDUCATION
AND MODERN
CONDITIONS*
by Bertrand Russell
BERTRAND RUSSELL, 3rd Earl Russell, has been described
as a philosopher who is harder to sum up in a short space
than any philosopher since Plato. Certainly he is the most
eminent English philosopher of the twentieth century; cer
tainly he is a writer of rare power and wide range, enough
to have earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950.
Upon presentation of the Nobel Prize, he was characterized
as a "champion of humanity and freedom of thought."
History, social theory, science, mathematics, logic, epis
temology, religion, education: all have been Lord Russell's
concern.
DAVID SEYMOUR, MAGNUM
Education is a vast and complex
subject involving many problems of
great difficulty. I propose, in what
follows, to deal with only one of
these problems, namely, the adap
tion of university education to
modern conditions.
Universities are an institution of
considerable antiquity. They de
veloped during the twelfth and thir
teenth centuries out of cathedral
schools where scholastic theologians
learned the art of dialectic. But, in
fact, the aims which inspired univer
sities go back to ancient times.
One may say that Plato's Academy
was the first university. Plato's Aca
demy had certain well-marked ob
jectives. It aimed at producing the
sort of people who would be suitable
to become Guardians in his ideal
Republic. The education which Plato
designed was not in his day what
would now be called "cultural." A
"cultural" education consists mainly
in the learning of Greek and Latin.
But the Greeks had no need to learn
Greek and no occasion to leam La
tin. What Plato mainly wished his
Academy to teach was, first, mathe
matics and astronomy, and, then,
philosophy. The philosophy was to
have a scientific inspiration with a
tincture of Orphic mysticism.
Something of this sort, in various
modified forms, persisted in the West
until the Fall of Rome. After some
centuries, it was taken up by the
Arabs and, from them, largely
through the Jews, transmitted back
to the West. In the West it still re
tained much of Plato's origial politi
cal purpose, since it aimed at pro
ducing an educated elite with a more
or less complete monopoly of politi
cal power. This aim persisted, virtu
ally unchanged, until the latter half
of the nineteenth century. From that
time onwards, the aim has become
increasingly modified by the intru
sion of two new elements: democracy
and science. The intrusion of demo
cracy into academic practice and
theory is much more profound than
that of science, and much more diffi
cult to combine with anything like
the aims of Plato's Academy.
Until it was seen that political de
mocracy had become inevitable,
universal education, which is now
taken for granted in all civilized
countries, was vehemently opposed,
on grounds which were broadly aris
tocratic. There had been ever since
ancient times a very sharp line be
tween the educated and the unedu-
Copyright 1959, Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., All rights reserved.
8
He has written this article for alumni publications exclusively. We hope you find it thought-provoking.
cated. The educated had had a
severe training and had learnt much,
while the uneducated could not read
or write. The educated, who had
a monopoly of political power,
dreaded the extension of schools to
the "lower classes." The President
of the Royal Society, in the year
1807, considered that it would be
disastrous if working men could read,
since he feared that they would
spend then time reading Tom Paine.
When my grandfather established an
elementary school in his parish, wellto-do neighbours were outraged, say
ing that he had destroyed the hither
to aristocratic character of the neigh
bourhood. It was political democra
cy — at least, in England — that
brought a change of opinion in this
matter. Disraeli, after securing the
vote for urban working men, fa
voured compulsory education with
the phrase, "We must educate our
masters." Education came to seem
the right of all who desired it. But
it was not easy to see how this right
was to be extended to university
education; nor, if it were, how uni
versities could continue to perform
their ancient functions.
The reasons which have induced
civilized countries to adopt universal
1
education are various. There were
enthusiasts for enlightenment who
saw no limits to the good that could
be done by instruction. Many of
these were very influential in the
early advocacy of compulsory edu
cation. Then there were practical
men who realized that a modem
State and modem processes of pro
duction and distribution cannot easi
ly be managed if a large proportion
of the population cannot read. A
third group were those who advo
cated education as a democratic
right. There was a fourth group,
more silent and less open, which saw
the possibilities of education from
the point of view of official propa
ganda. The importance of education
in this regard is very great. In the
eighteenth century, most wars were
unpopular; but, since men have been
able to read the newspapers, almost
all wars have been popular. This
is only one instance of the hold on
public opinion which Authority has
acquired through education.
Although universities were not di
rectly concerned in these educational
processes, they have been profound
ly affected by them in ways which
are, broadly speaking, inevitable,
but which are, in part, very disturb
ing to those who wish to preserve
what was good in older ideals.
It is difficult to speak in advocacy
of older ideals without using lan
guage that has a somewhat oldfashioned flavour. There is a dis
tinction, which formerly received
general recognition, between skill
and wisdom. The growing complexi
ties of technique have tended to blur
this distinction, at any rate in certain
regions.
There are kinds of skill which are
not specially respected although they
are difficult to acquire. A contor
tionist, I am told, has to begin train
ing in early childhood, and, when
proficient, he possesses a very rare
and difficult skill. But it is not felt
that this skill is socially useful, and
it is, therefore, not taught in schools
or universities. A great many skills,
however, indeed a rapidly increas
ingly number, are very vital ele
ments in the wealth and power of a
nation. Most of these skills are new
and do not command the respect of
ancient tradition. Some of them
may be considered to minister to
wisdom, but a great many certainly
do not.
But what, you will ask, do you
mean by "wisdom"? I am not pre
pared with a neat definition. But
I will do my best to convey what I
think the word is capable of mean
ing. It is a word concerned partly
with knowledge and partly with feel
ing. It should denote a certain inti
mate union of knowledge with ap
prehension of human destiny and
the purposes of life. It requires a
certain breadth, of vision, which is
hardly possible without considerable
knowledge. But it demands, also, a
breadth of feeling, a certain kind of
universality of sympathy.
I think that higher education
should do what is possible towards
promoting not only knowledge, but
wisdom. I do not think that this is
easy; and I do not think that the aim
should be too conscious, for, if it is,
it becomes stereotyped and priggish.
It should be something existing al
most unconsciously in the teacher
and conveyed almost unintentionally
to the pupil. I agree with Plato in
thinking this the greatest thing that
education can do. Unfortunately, it
is one of the things most threatened
by the intrusion of crude democratic
shibboleths into our universities.
The fanatic of democracy is apt
to say that all men are equal. There
is a sense in which this is true, but
it is not a sense which much con
cerns the educator. What can be
meant truly by the phrase "All men
are equal" is that in certain respects
they have equal rights and should
have an equal share of basic politi
cal power. Murder is a crime who
ever the victim may be, and every
body should be protected against it
by the law and the police. Any set
of men or women which has no share
in political power is pretty certain
to suffer injustices of an indefensible
sort. All men should be equal be
fore the law. It is such principles
which constitute what is valid in
democracy.
But this should not mean that we
cannot recognize differing degrees of
skill or merit in different individuals.
Every teacher knows that some
pupils are quick to leam and others
are slow. Every teacher knows that
some boys and girls are eager to
acquire knowledge, while others
have to be forced into the minimum
demanded by Authority. When a
group of young people are all taught
together in one class, regardless of
greater or less ability, the pace has
to be too quick for the stupid and too
slow for the clever. The amount of
teaching that a young person needs
depends to an enormous extent upon
his ability and his tastes. A stupid
child will only pay attention to what
has to be learnt while the teacher is
there to insist upon the subject
matter of the lesson. A really clever
young person, on the contrary, needs
opportunity and occasional guidance,
when he finds some difficulty mo
mentarily insuperable. The practice
of teaching clever and stupid pupils
together is extremely unfortunate,
especially as regards the ablest of
them. Infinite boredom settles upon
these outstanding pupils while mat
ters that they have long ago under
stood are being explained to those
who are backward.
This evil is greater the greater the
age of the student. By the time that
an able young man is at a universi
ty, what he needs is occasional ad
vice (not orders) as to what to read,
and an instructor who has time and
sympathy to listen to his difficulties.
The kind of instructor that I have in
mind should be thoroughly compe
tent in the subject in which the stu
dent is specializing, but he should be
still young enough to remember the
difficulties that are apt to be obsta
cles to the learner, and not yet ossi
fied as to be unable to discuss with
out dogmatism. Discussion is a very
essential part in the education of
the best students and requires an
absence of authority if it it to be free
and fruitful. I am thinking only of
discussion with teachers but of dis
cussion among the students them
selves. For such discussion, there
should be leisure. And, indeed,
leisure during student years is of the
highest importance. When I was an
undergraduate, I made a vow that,
when in due course I became a lec
turer. I would not think that lectures
do any good as a method of instruc
tion, but only as an occasional stim
ulus. So far as the abler students
are concerned, I still take this view.
Lectures as a means of instruction
are traditional in universities and
were no doubt useful before the in
vention of printing, but since that
time they have been out of date as
regards the abler kind of students.
It is, I am profoundly convinced,
a mistake to object on democratic
grounds to the separation of abler
from less able pupils in teaching.
In matters that the public considers
important no one dreams of such an
application of supposed democracy.
Everybody is willing to admit that
some athletes are better than others
and that movie stars deserve more
honour than ordinary mortals. That
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ALUMNI SURVEY
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Total Goal For 1960 - $270,000
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Savitz, '48,
Appointed Chairman
Attorney Joseph J. Savitz
Because of a series of seemingly unrelated events,
Wilkes College is on the threshold of oustanding
developments in 1960. As a result of these new
developments Wilkes is again turning to the com
munity and to the alumni for $270,000. The money
is to be used for campus consolidation, scholarships,
a graduate program and athletic facilities. A
brochure will be mailed to you on February 10 which
will explain the program in detail so, for now, permit
me to explain to you our part in the entire picture.
For the past quarter of a century, Wilkes College
has had the good fortune to have expanded its
campus by acquiring many of the beautiful homes
in the most beautiful part of the city. One phase
of our development, athletic facilities, has been
neglected because of other more timely needs.
This year, the College has been offered and hopes
to accept areas for athletic facilities for both men
and women that will be second to none in the small
college ranks.
Artillery Park — an attractive nuisance since the
withdrawal of the Barons — has become available
to responsible user. We have contacted the proper
authorities in Harrisburg and sought permission to
use the field on a long term lease basis. Although
nothing has been settled, we are extremely optimis
tic. This area would be used for Baseball, Football
and Soccer in intercollegiate competition and intra
mural activities.
While this was being investigated, the Athletic
Committee of the faculty suggested building a field
house on property opposite Artillery Park owned by
Glen Alden. Further inquiry revealed that four
acres of land were available for purchase. An
existing building in addition, then could be used as
the core for a fieldhouse that would contain dressing
rooms for all sports. The four acres also contain
room for playing areas for women's sports, tennis
courts, an archery range and parking facilities.
The estimated cost for these facilities is as follows:
Artillery Park:
Removal of stands, grading,
S 5,000
seeding and planting
15,000
Portable stands
S 20,000
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Glen Alden Property — four acres
Purchase
Enlarging and conditioning
existing building for team use
Grading, paving, planting and
fencing areas for courts, fields.
30,000
30,000
From February 14 - 16, Wilkes College will be
visited by a group of educators, who will study every
phase of the College to re-approve us for re-accreditment by the Middle States Association of Secondary
Schools and Colleges. This is done every ten years
so that the quality of education given by our colleges
will meet with certain standards.
One phase of the College family that will be re
viewed concerns our alumni. Their advanced educa
tion, occupations, and graduate school records from
other institutions of higher learning which they at
tended will be appraised by this group in order to
see if Wilkes College is doing a sound job both in
preparing the student for his occupation and for
advanced training.
Thanks to your enthusiastic participation in our
Alumni Survey, these facts have been accumulated,
and they present an exceptionally fine picture.
Statistics and surveys can be awfully dull reading.
(First of Three Parts)
but I think you will find this Alumni Survey interest
ing and informative. Time passes by rapidly, and it
has been amazing to our faculty, to whom this report
was submitted, that you have accomplished so much
since you left the College.
This survey, the first compiled by this office, was
in every sense successful. Your unstinting coopera
tion, the information which you gave, and the facul
ty's reception of this compiled survey was far beyond
our highest hopes and expectations. We earnestly
hope that you enjoy it, and that you feel the sense
of satisfaction that we all felt here.
This is the first of three parts. Succeeding issues
of "The Alumnus" (April and July) will carry the
remainder.
Here, in verbatim, is the first part of our "Alumni
Report" as it was presented to the faculty in Novem
ber.
Area Group IV — Subcommittee on Outcomes, Graduate
40,000
100,000
TOTAL $ 120,000
These two properties present the college with the
first opportunity it has had to acquire much needed
outdoor facilities for athletics and physical condi
tioning.
GOALS ADOPTED
As graduates, we are all aware of the need for
these facilities because we know how handicapped
our own athletic program was as students. The
members of the Executive Committee of the Alumni
Association believing that this need will appeal to
all alumni have recommended that our share in this
goal for 1960 be $20,000.
This is an ambitious goal and one that will need
the support of every alumnus. We are counting on
50 per cent participation — nearly double that which
we have had in the past.
Alumni giving serves two purposes. First, it is
an important source of revenue and indirectly pro
vides for faculty salaries, physical plant expansion
and funds for scholarships or grant-in-aids.
Second, and more important, alumni contributions
indicate to Foundations, business, industry, profes
sional people and other potential contributors, the
degree of interest and concern of alumni for their
college.
The community has aided and continues to aid
the college every year. This year we are again
turning to our friends to help us attain our goal of
$270,000. We must indicate our enthusiastic sup
port too. This year, we have a wonderful oppor
tunity to do so and we are counting on you to come
through with flying colors. During the months of
February and March, you will be called upon to do
your share — your share means a contribution —
no matter how small or large. We do not expect
large sums from anyone but we do expect and hope
for a gift from everyone.
Prior to 1955 there was no full-time Executive Alum
ni Secretary. As a result, information concerning
our alumni was not accumulated. No personal dos
sier was kept, and a large percentage of alumni
addresses were outdated. Our survey was an op
portunity to gather much-needed information con
cerning our alumni.
The Middle States Association suggested that two
test classes be chosen for an alumni survey. We
decided to poll them all — graduates and non
graduates from 1935 to February, 1959. As a result
of four years of work, we felt that our graduates’ ad
dresses were approximately 80% correct. Our sur
vey has borne this out. We now feel that our gradu
ate files are approximately 90% correct. However,
our 30-houx or non-graduate files are only 60% cor
rect.
The first period of our college's history was 19331947 as Bucknell University Junior College. We
were concerned, therefore, lest this group would not
take an active part in our survey. This would then,
in effect, make our percentage of participation very
low and our results not valid. There is, without a
doubt, good reason why this group might not answer.
First, many had been away so long that they no
longer identified themselves with the college; and
second, many had received their certificates from
B.U.J.C. and had gone on to other institutions from
which they received their degrees and felt a closer
kinship.
Despite this, we agreed to contact all alumni.
We ultimately decided that along with total con
tact we would poll the classes of 1948 and 1955 as
special test classes. This poll was tied in with Mr.
Gaito's survey concerning the educational goals of
students and the alumni's opinion as to whether
these purposes were served in their particular cases.
The class of 1948 was chosen because it was the
first class graduating as alumni of Wilkes College,
and the class of 1955 was arbitrarily chosen because
they had been "out" three years and should have
become relatively oriented in their chosen fields.
Having selected the classes to be studied, we
examined the reports on other surveys to see what
techniques would yield the highest returns. Our
findings were not very encouraging since responses
to similar questionnaires generally ranged from 25 %
to 50%. We patterned our program by adopting
what we considered the best techniques of each.
Cm general questionnaire was eight pages in length.
The class of 1948 and the class of 1955 received 12page questionnaires incorporating Mr. Gaito's sur
vey. We ran no pre-test on the questionnaire.
Since 1948, the college has graduated 1,945 stu
dents who make up 77% of the entire alumni grad
uates. This is important for it means that the pre
ponderance of young graduates will weigh the
averages. Only 607 of these were graduated in the
period from 1935 - 1947.
So that we could receive the best possible returns,
a carefully-planned timetable was established. It
ran as follows:
1. The Alumnus magazine mailed in October,
1958, contained a feature article by George
Elliot, Chairman of the Accreditation Commit
tee.
2. The January issue of the Alumnus carried an
article by the Executive Alumni Secretary con
cerning the survey.
3. February 20 — a postal card was mailed warn
ing of the impeding mailing of the question
naire.
4. March 6 — Questionnaire mailed.
5. March 30 — Postal card reminder sent.
6. The April issue of the Alumnus again men
tioned the importance of all alumni returning
their questionnaire.
7, April 14 — Letter sent to those whose ques
tionnaire not as yet received urging comple
tion of questionnaire.
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�8. April 22 — Second questionnaire sent to those
who did not return the first.
9. May 1 — Letter from George Ralston urging
completion of questionnaire and again men
tioning the Middle States Association and the
importance of our alumni survey.
10. May 20 — Dual postal cards mailed request
ing information concerning why questionnaire
was not returned. We culled our lists some
what from these replies. A few were not in
terested in Wilkes College.
11. June 1 — Final reminder letter.
12. July issue of Alumnus — last request for com
pletion of questionnaire.
zjs
*
*
We were surprised and pleased as the returns
began to come in. Twenty-two per cent responded
to our first questionnaire mailed March 6. Two re-
Total questionnaires unanswered
Graduates unanswered ______________
30-hour alumni unanswered__________
Percentages-------------- Graduates_____
30-hour alumni
6. Grand total returned (AU Alumni)
Graduates returned_________ __ _____
30-hour alumni returned _____________
Percentages Graduates
30-hour alumni
*'—Base figures
5.
minders, one on March 30 and the other on April
14, 1959, brought the returns to twenty-nine per cent
and then to thirty-two per cent.
A second questionnaire was mailed to those not
answering. Another reminder letter and a dual
postal card reminder, spaced two weeks apart,
brought the total to fifty-nine per cent. A final re
minder letter and additional telephone contact raised
our final total to a substantial sixty-two per cent.
*****
Below are listed the total number of alumni in each
graduating class and the percentage of each class
represented in the final results. The percentages
have been adjusted by eliminating those graduates
who were deceased and those who, according to our
files, have become lost. Non-graduates who are
affiliated with these classes are not included in this
table, but are included in the "Analysis of Data.'
TABLE 1
Year
Graduated
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
* 1959
Totals
Total in
Class
75
38
42
44
49
51
60
47
33
36
37
29
37
130
235
241
163
149
107
155
143
185
177
220
23
2,506
Total Lost
or Deceased
10
10
8
13
12
10
19
6
4
6
6
4
4
10
14
19
4
6
6
7
8
1
1
188
Adjusted
Total
65
28
34
31
37
41
41
41
29
30
31
25
33
120
221
222
159
143
101
148
135
184
177
219
23
2,318
Number
Returned
28
9
15
18
17
15
23
23
17
18
11
14
20
71
105
129
102
74
67
88
87
130
110
154
18
1,363
*—Includes February, 1959 graduates only
ANALYSIS OF DATA
1.
2.
3.
4.
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Total graduates contacted
Total 30-hour alumni contacted----Total Alumni contacted----------------Total alumni contacted ----------------Total questionnaires returned -----Percentage of alumni answering ....
Total graduates contacted
--------Total graduates responding ----------Percentage of graduates responding
Total 30-hour alumni contacted ..
Total 30-hour alumni responding .
Percentage responding -----.....
_
...
...
...
...
.
...
._
.
2,318
835
3,153*
3,153
1,941*
62%
2,318
1,363
59%
835
578
69%
Adjusted
Percentage
43%
32
44
58
46
37
56
56
59
60
35
56
61
59
48
58
64
52
66
59
65
71
62
70
78
1
._ 1,212
__ 955
.... 257
___ 79%
.. 21%
.... 1,941
.... 1,363
... 578 .
_ 71%
._ 29%
EXPLANATION OF ANALYSIS
1. These figures show the total number of graduates (2,318) who were con
tacted for this survey. The total was derived at by adjusting the total
number of graduates, allowing for those who have become lost and for
those who are deceased. The total 30-hour alumni with correct mailing
addresses (835) were also added.
2. Of the total number of alumni who were contacted (3,153), 62% took the
time and effort to sit down and answer the questions and return this in
formation to us.
3-4. It is interesting to note that 59% of the total graduates responded to the
survey as compared to a 69% return by the total 30-hour alumni.
5. Of the 1,212 unanswered questionnaires, 955 or 77% were not returned by
our graduates. 257 or 21% were not returned by our 30-hour alumni.
6. The comparison of the percentages shows that 71% of the 1,941 question
naires returned were sent in by graduates, while 29% were returned by
30-hour alumni.
Analysis two (2) is most important for it indicates
that 1,941 or 62% of all alumni polled returned the
questionnaire. This 62 % will be used as the base
figure (or 100%) for all data compiled in this survey.
At the onset, our total mailing list contained the
Post
names and addresses of 3,323 alumni. The ~
Class
1948
1955
Test Classes
Office, however, returned 170 of our questionnaires,
stating that the addresses were outdated. We there
fore used 3,153 as our base figure.
It is interesting to note that the two test classes
(1948 and 1955) ran very close to the overall poll:
TABLE 2
Graduates
120
135
Returns
71
87
Per Cent
59%
65%
Only seven of the twenty-five classes had less than a 5O$7< return —and two of these were over 45%.
On luly 1, we began the seemingly endless task
of analyzing the results.
Surveys such as this are often considered unrelia
ble when the returns are small. Our exceptionally
high return and the candid comments we received
with many of the questionnaires gives us reason to
believe that this survey is valid.
PART I — THE ALUMNUS AT HOME
We asked our alumni for information concerning
marital and family status. We also asked them to
list their spare time activities in conmmunity, cul-
tural, and recreational activities. We did not ask
for information which might cause some of our alum
ni to resent our requests and fail to return the form.
MARITAL STATUS OF WILKES ALUMNI
The marital status of all the alumni who responded is as follows:
Chart No. I
MARRIED
74.39%
SINGLE
WIDOWED*
SEPARATED*
DIVORCED*
D
24.83%
'—less than ’/z of 1 %
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�FAMILY STATUS
Table No. 3
Married Alumni with —
No childrenOne child
Two children---------Three children------Four children---------Five children---------Six children-----------Seven children-------
Of the 1,941 questionnaires returned, here is the
numerical breakdown concerning marital status:
1,444
Married .. .
482
Single
Divorced
6
Widowed
Separated .
5
4
430
338
408
187
74
14
5
3
Total number
of children--------- 2,132
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Note:—The totals above are not the true totals because many of our alumni are
~
married
to other alumni Thus, there is duplication in reporting. Using
these figures, 70.5% of our alumni have children.
SIZE OF FAMILIES
Chart No. 2
Percent of
Married
Grads
29.47%
27.96%
■
23.17%
12.82%
5.07%
J
c
Number
of children
1
0
.96%
2
3
4
5
.34%
.21%
6*
7*
1—less than ’/z of 1%
(Next Issue:
14
Community: Cultural and Recreational Activities; Occupations)
admiral stark
SOUTH AFRICA
(continued from page 3)
(continued from page 4)
further the cause of liberal educa
tion, the cause of the community col
lege, the cause of Wilkes College."
He quoted the role of Wilkes, as
of all liberal college, to be "the crea
tion of unity among diversity, the
subordination of special interests to
the general. This has always been
democratic society's most challeng
ing task. It is especially so in a
pure democracy, and the liberal col
lege is perhaps our closest approxi
mation to a pure democracy."
In conclusion, Mr. Bumside said,
"Here is the cause, here is the mo
tivating force to which all of us here
tonight, all of our friends of Wilkes
and liberal education everywhere
are dedicated. On behalf of our as
sociate trustees, the administration,
faculty, and all of the people that
are or will be part of Wilkes College,
it is wonderful to have you aboard,
Sir, and to welcome you to your
latest command."
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president of
Wilkes College, drawing a verbal
picture from the career of Admiral
Stark, illustrated his quiet sim
plicity, real dedication, and integrity.
"It is these personal qualities," he
said, "that inspire all of us as teach
ers, board members, and students. It
is this man, as Winston Churchill
said, whose dedicated leadership
meant so much to the free world that
now gives this same devotion to his
community and permits us to enjoy
his leadership today."
Dr. Farley referred to the serenity
which comes to all associated with
Admiral Stark, "a serenity which
comes when we do the best we can,
accept the results whatever they
may be with the knowledge that
what we have done was accom
plished to the best of our ability."
"Admiral Stark's presence as
chairman of the board of trustees
brings to the community wisdom that
comes from long experience," he
said. "Every ounce of energy we
can spare will go toward the better
ment of the community, and we turn
confidently to Admiral Stark for his
counsel, advice, and guidance."
The Wilkes "Collegians," under
the direction of William Peters, se
nior music major, entertained at the
Dinner. Invocation was offered by
Rev. Dr. Jule Ayers, First Presbyteri
an Church, Wilkes-Barre.
enter, has not seen a bit of progress
in the last five thousand years. I
visited the hut of one of these people.
It had a floor made of cow dung, its
roofs and sides consisted of matted
grass, its implements were primitive,
except for the iron pot provided by
white civilization, the inhabitants
were heathens, wearing the barest
essentials in clothing, and consisted
of one man, five wives, and numer
ous children. The man purchased
each of his five wives by paying for
them with cows.
Then there are the Location Na
tives, and the coloreds. These people
have achieved a smattering of civili
zation, but on most, it is still a thin
veneer. The Location Natives are
those who live in a special area
usually located a few miles from the
center of the white man's town, and
inhabited entirely by people of his
race. Many of them embrace a
form of Christianity, which we would
not recognize as such. Christianity
is a Sunday religion, while primitiv
ism serves them throughout the
week. They wear tattered old cloth
ing, usually discarded by the white
man, earn a pitiful wage, lower than
15 dollars per month in many cases,
save for years to purchase their
wives with money instead of cows
now, and subsist at the barest mini
mum standards of living. Non-white
unions are not allowed to organize,
and the pass system is so effective,
and governmental observation so
close, that it is virtually impossible
for them to hope for an increase in
their standard of living by engaging
in strikes, etc.
The coloreds, the educated natives,
as well as some of the Indians, are
often on an equal cultural and civil
ized plain with many of the whites.
But theyr are not allowed to benefit
1---- this. Educated people outside
from
of the white class have no oppor
tunity to use their education in many
cases. An Indian in Grahamstown
with an Oxford education runs a
small shop. They can advance in
the teaching profession, but recent
government legislation tends to show
that education in the future will be
more indoctrination than education,
and they are therefore unattracted
to it.
Many former non-whites who were
educated, were moving to Ghana,
but the government has all but
stopped this completely.
Recently the government intro
duced what has been known as the
separate Universities Bill, which
brings nearly all education, from
Primary to University, in the lands
of the government. Under its terms,
all those Universities in South Africa
(Capetown, Witwatersand and Natal)
which formerly allowed both whites
and non-whites to attend in the past,
will not be allowed to register any
new non-white students in the future.
Fort Hare, a non-white affiliate of
Rhodes University, and located about
60 miles from Rhodes, will be taken
over by the government, and only
members of the Xhosa tribe will be
allowed to register next year. With
this move has come a purge of nonsympathetic members of the staff of
Fort Hare, and a great deal of worry
from other Universities as to whether
or not they will be the next to receive
a purge.
Many white men live at an ex
tremely low standard of living, while
most enjoy an extremely high stan
dard of living. To protect the un
educated white man, the government
wishes now to introduce a job reser
vation bill which will exclude the
non-white from certain types of oc
cupations. Most leaders of industry
are against job reservation, because
the white man is not skilled enough
to fill many occupations, and there
is a constant cry throughout South
African history for more skilled labor.
To carry out its policies, the gov
ernment has proposed setting up
black states within South Africa, and
to give the black man control over
local administration. On the surface
it sounds good, but in practice it can
not work. Industries are to be de
veloped on the periphery of these
Bantu areas, as they are called, and
the Bantu are expected to return to
the Bantu areas every night after
finishing work. The fact that they
are to be located on the periphery is
significant, in that it indicates that
the Bantus are not to be allowed to
develop any necessary managerial
skills.
The future can hold tremendous
possibilities, but with present gov
ernmental policies, all of Africa,
much of Asia, and even parts of
Europe are turning against the Union.
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(continued from page 5)
alumni activities; in working on com
mittees for solicitation of funds, and
in actual monetary giving for
scholarship aid and gifts to the
school to meet its expenses and en
courage its spiritual and physical
growth.
The alumni's part in the latter as
pect has been more than noteworthy.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
^continued from page 9)
is because they have a kind of skill
which is much admired even by
these who do not possess it But in
tellectual ability, so far from being,
admired by stupid boys, is positively
and actively despised; and even
among grown-ups, the term "egg
head" is not expressive of respect.
It has been one of the humiliations
of the military authorities of om time
that the man who now a days brings
success in war is no longer a gentle
man of commanding aspect, sitting
upright upon a prancing horse, but
a wretched scientist whom every
military-minded boy would have
bullied through his youth. However,
it is not for special skill in slaughter
that I should wish to see the "egg
head" respected.
The needs of the modem world
have brought a conflict, which I
think could be avoided, between
scientific subjects and those that are
called "cultural." The latter repre
sents tradition and still have, in my
country, a certain snobbish pre-emi
nence. Cultural ignorance, beyond
a point, is despised. Scientific ig
norance, however complete, is not.
I do not think, myself, that the divi
sion between cultural and scientific
education should be nearly as defi
nite as it has tended to become. I
think that every scientific student
should have some knowledge of
history and literature, and that every
cultural student should have some
acquaintance with some of the basic
ideas of science. Some people will
say that there is not time, during the
university curriculum, to achieve
this. But I think that opinion arises
partly from unwillingness to adapt
teaching to those who are not going
to pentrate very far into the subject
in question. More specifically, what
ever cultural education is offered to
scientific students should not involve
16
a knowledge of Latin or Greek. And
I think that whatever of science is
offered to those who are not going
to specialize in any scientific subject
should deal partly with scientific
history and partly with general as
pects of scientific method. I think
it is a good thing to invite occasional
lectures from eminent men to be ad
dressed to the general body of stu
dents and not only to those who spe
cialize in the subject concerned.
There are some things which I
think ought to be possible, though at
present it is not, to take for granted
in all who are engaged in university
teaching. Such men or women must,
of course, be proficient in some spe
cial skill. But, in addition to this,
there is a general outlook which it is
their duty to put before those whom
they are instructing. They should
exemplify the value of intellect and
of the search for knowledge. They
should make it clear that what at any
time passes for knowledge may, in
fact, be erroneous. They should in
culcate an undogmatic temper, a
temper of continual search and not
of comfortable certainty. They should
try to create an awareness of the
world as a whole, and not only of
what is near in space and time.
Through the recognition of the likeli
hood of error, they should make clear
the importance of tolerance. They
should remind the student that those
whom posterity honours have very
often been unpopular in their own
day and that, on this ground, social
courage is a virtue of supreme im
portance. Above all, every educa
tor who is engaged in an attempt to
make the best of the students to
whom he speaks must regard him
self as the servant of truth and not
of this or that political or sectarian
interest. Truth is a shining goddess,
always veiled, always distant, never
wholly approachable, but worthy of
all the devotion of which the human
spirit is capable.
Although Wilkes alumni are com
paratively young, and have not yet
reached their peak of production,
their contributions to the college in
recent years have exceeded $27,000.
In the capital gifts campaign in 1958,
alumni pledges approximated over
$18,000.
It is important to note that direct
support from the Wyoming Valley
community in its campaign drives
has exceeded $600,000 in the past 5
years, but that former students are
assuming their share in greater pro
portion in each campaign.
All of this points up the substantial
role of our association has played,
and will continue to play, in the fu
ture growth of Wilkes College. In
a few short years, our association
has grown from a passive one to one
of action.
We, as alumni, have been alerted
to the needs of the college; we are
aware of the important function each
has played in supporting the col
lege's activities and growth.
We are pledged and honor-bound
to build a stronger school so that the
blazing torch of inspired education
will be made available to and bene
fit ourselves and our posterity.
The role of responsibility of alumni
is an ever-increasing one, as are the
problems of the world. Our responsi
bility stems from our right to an edu
cation, and securing one. Our op
portunity implies an obligation and
duty. As alumni with a broader per
spective, we can understand and
stand up to these problems by doing
our bit in good conscience and with
high resolve.
Your newly-elected officers are
sincere and devoted men dedicated
to great accomplishments this year;
they need and are deserving of your
support and interest to achieve their
objectives.
Let's play our role to the hilt!
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WILKES
THE
ALUMN
= j ALUMNUS
VoL 6, No. 3
APRIL,
1 960
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�Board of Trustees
Admiral Harold R. Stark Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
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Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
NEW
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Frank Burnside
Francis O. Case
Mrs. Charles E. Chit
ADMINISTRATIVE
Contents.
Page
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
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APPOINTMENT
Change in Administrative organization made.
The Alumnus/a — a special report concerning you.
Alumni Survey — second part.
Eugene S. Farley
J. Horace Strunk
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
Harry F. Geeringer
A progressive move forward has been inaugu
rated by Wilkes College. In an effort to further pro
mote the policies, purposes and goodwill of our Alma
Mater, the College has coordinated the functions of
three present administrative departments, namely,
the development office, the alumni office, and the
public relations office.
Joseph J. Kccyan, I*LD.
Miss Mary R. Koons
On the Cover:
Joseph F. Lester
You, the Alumnus/a, are urged to re-evaluate your position
Reuben H. Levy
as an alumnus of Wilkes College. We hope that this special report
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Rev, Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
Andrew J. Scrdoni
will stir fond memories for you and will further help to create an
The present change in this phase of the college
administration has occurred in part as a result of
the acceptance of new positions by the present ad
ministrators. Russell R. Picton, Jr., director of de
velopment and executive alumni secretary, recently
resigned to accept a similar position with RandolphMacon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia and
William A. Zdcmcewicz, director of public relations,
is leaving Wilkes to accept an executive position in
Industry.
awareness of the challenging role that the alumnus of today must
play in higher education. A new seriousness of purpose is growing
to a greater extent than ever before in alumni activities. You can
help your college — if you will. The special report will tell you how.
Julius Long Stern
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Aaron Weiss
Published by Wilkes College
President
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
■
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Office of Executive Secretary
Chase Hall
Alumni Officers
Russ Picton, Editor
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
William Zdancevzicz, Assistant Editor
Leonard Yoblonski, Photographer
Dr. Robert Kerr, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Eusseli H. Williams, Treasurer
Vol 6, No. 3
April, I960
Published quarterly as the Alumnus lor the members of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscriplion. S2.00
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, president, has named
J. Horace Strunk, former newspaperman, to fill the
newly-created post of Director of Development and
Public Relations. Mr. Strunk will direct the activities
of these offices, and will be charged with coordinating
their related functions.
Mr. Strunk comes to Wilkes from Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, where he was administrative assistant
in the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Bethle
hem. He was graduated from Blair Academy in
Blairstown, New Jersey in 1931 and he received his
bachelor of science degree in Government and Law
from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in
1935.
In his senior year at Lafayette College, Mr.
Strunk was the recipient of the Benjamin F. Barge
Medal This Award is given for the best presenta
tion of a political thesis. During his sophomore year
at Lafayette, he was appointed Director of Public
Relations at the institution.
Mr. Strunk is a veteran newspaperman having
served on the editorial staff of several eastern news
papers. These include the Slate Belt Times of
Bangor, Penna.; the Easton Daily Express, Easton,
Penna.; the Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg,
Penna.; and the Lancaster New Era, Lancaster,
Penna.
He is a veteran of World War II, having served
in the infantry in the European Theater. After VDay, he served in the Information and Education
Division of the Army and later was assigned as
public information officer at the American University
in Biarritz, France, where more than 5000 GI's were
given the opportunity to do college-level work.
After the war he became director of the office
of Alumni and Public Relations, at his Alma Mater,
Blair Academy in New Jersey. He also has served
as executive secretary of the Pocono Mountains
Chamber of Commerce and Vacation Bureau in
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Strunk is former editor and publisher of
Homefront a wartime magazine prepared for service
men both home and abroad. He was assisted in
this project by his wife, the former Mona Lloyd of
Bangor, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Strunk presently reside at 227
South Franklin Street in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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�OPERATION
MOONSHOOTER
THE
ALUMNA
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In 1958, Moonshooter reported on American Higher Educa
tion — 1958; it now presents a report concerning you — “The
Alumnus/a”.
The impact of these reports has great potential when you
consider the character of the audience, every member of which
is an alumnus or an alumna. This is the first time that a circula
tion of such quality and quantity to such a select group has ever
been done in the history of American publishing. Nearly 350
educational institutions, with an audience of over three million,
will take part in presenting the following special report.
“Moonshooter” was conceived several years ago by a group
of alumni magazine editors who felt that only through a coopera
tive pooling of funds and talents could alumni magazines realize
their full potential of service to their readers and their institu
tions. From this beginning, the editors organized a non-profit
organization through which to carry on the Moonshooter project.
The result — Editorial Projects for Education, Inc.
We hope you find this report enlightening and enjoyable
reading. We would appreciate any comment from you concern
ing the Moonshooter series that we have presented to you.
ALAN BEABDEN, JON BBENNEIS
RUSS PICTON
Executive Alumni Secretary
As student, as
alumna or alumnus: at
both stages, one
of the most important persons
in higher education.
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JI- to you as an alumnus or alumna. As such, you are
one of the most important persons in American education
today.
You are important to American education, and to your
alma mater, for a variety of reasons, not all of which may
be instantly apparent to you.
You are important, first, because you are the principal
product of your alma mater—the principal claim she can
make to fame. To a degree that few suspect, it is by its
alumni that an educational institution is judged. And few
yardsticks could more accurately measure an institution’s
true worth.
You are important to American education, further,
because of the support you give to it. Financial support
comes immediately to mind: the money that alumni are
giving to the schools, colleges, and universities they once
attended has reached an impressive sum, larger than that
received from any other source of gifts. It is indispensable.
But the support you give in other forms is impressive
and indispensable, also. Alumni push and guide the legis
lative programs that strengthen the nation’s publicly
supported educational institutions. They frequently act
as academic talent scouts for their alma maters, meeting
and talking with the college-bound high school students
in their communities. They are among the staunchest de
fenders of high principles in education—e.g., academic
freedom—even when such defense may not be the "popu
lar” posture. The list is long; yet every year alumni are
finding ways to extend it.
o the hundreds of colleges and universities and
secondary schools from which they came, alumni
are important in another way—one that has nothing
to do with what alumni can do for the institutions them-
selves. Unlike most other forms of human enterprise,
educational institutions are not in business for what they
themselves can get out of it. They exist so that free people,
through education, can keep civilization on the forward
move. Those who ultimately do this are their alumni.
Thus only through its alumni can a school or a college
or a university truly fulfill itself.
Chancellor Samuel B. Gould, of the University of Cali
fornia, put it this way:
“The serious truth of the matter is that you are the
distilled essence of the university, for you are its product
and the basis for its reputation. If anything lasting is to
be achieved by us as a community of scholars, it must in
most instances be reflected in you. If we are to win intellec
tual victories or make cultural advances, it must be
through your good offices and your belief in our mission.”
The italics are ours. The mission is yours and ours
together.
Alma Mater . . .
Ai an alumni-alumnae meeting in Washington,
members sing the old school song.
The purpose of this meeting was to introduce
the institution to high school
boys and girls who, with their parents,
were present as the club’s guests.
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1 is a puzzling thing. That the view is highly illogical
seems only to add to its popularity. That its ele
ments are highly contradictory seems to bother no one.
Here is the paradox:
Individually you, being an alumnus or alumna, are
among the most respected and sought-after of beings.
People expect of you (and usually get) leadership or in
telligent followership. They appoint you to positions of
trust in business and government and stake the nation’s
very survival on your school- and college-developed
abilities.
If you enter politics, your educational pedigree is freely
discussed and frequently boasted about, even in precincts
where candidates once took pains to conceal any educa
tion beyond the sixth grade. In clubs, parent-teacher
associations, churches, labor unions, you are considered
to be the brains, the backbone, the eyes, the ears, and the
neckbone—the latter to be stuck out, for alumni are ex
pected to be intellectually adventurous as well as to ex
ercise other attributes.
But put you in an alumni club, or back on campus fora
reunion or homecoming, and the popular respect—yea,
awe—turns to chuckles and ho-ho-ho. The esteemed in
dividual, when bunched with other esteemed individuals,
becomes in the popular image the subject of quips, a can
didate for the funny papers. He is now imagined to be a
person whose interests stray no farther than the degree of
baldness achieved by his classmates, or the success in
marriage and child-bearing achieved by her classmates, or
the record run up last season by the alma mater’s football
or field-hockey team. He is addicted to funny hats deco
rated with his class numerals, she to daisy chainmaking
and to recapturing the elusive delights of the junior-class
hoop-roll.
If he should encounter his old professor of physics, he is
supposedly careful to confine the conversation to remi
niscences about the time Joe or Jane Wilkins, with spec
tacular results, tried to disprove the validity of Newton’s
third law. To ask the old gentleman about the implica
tions of the latest research concerning anti-matter would
be, it is supposed, a most serious breach of the Alumni
Reunion Code.
Such a view of organized alumni activity might be dis
missed as unworthy of note, but for one disturbing fact:
among its most earnest adherents are a surprising number
of alumni and alumnae themselves.
Permit us to lay the distorted image to rest, with the aid
of the rites conducted by cartoonist Mark Kelley on the
following pages. To do so will not necessitate burying the
class banner or interring the reunion hat, nor is there a
need to disband the homecoming day parade.
The simple truth is that the serious activities of organ
ized alumni far outweigh the frivolities—in about the
same proportion as the average citizen’s, or unorganized
alumnus’s, party-going activities are outweighed by his
less festive pursuits.
Look, for example, at the activities of the organized
alumni of a large and famous state university in the Mid
west. The former students of this university are often
pictured as football-mad. And there is no denying that, to
many of them, there is no more pleasant way of spending
an autumn Saturday than witnessing a victory by the
home team.
But by far the great bulk of alumni energy on behalf of
the old school is invested elsewhere:
t> Every year the alumni association sponsors a recog
nition dinner to honor outstanding students—those with
a scholastic average of 3.5 (B+) or better. This has proved
to be a most effective way of showing students that aca
demic prowess is valued above all else by the institution
and its alumni.
t> Every year the alumni give five “distinguished teach
ing awards”—grants of $1,000 each to professors selected
by their peers for outstanding performance in the class
room.
> An advisory board of alumni prominent in various
fields meets regularly to consider the problems of the
university: the quality of the course offerings, the caliber
of the students, and a variety of other matters. They re
port directly to the university president, in confidence.
Their work has been salutary. When the university’s
school of architecture lost its accreditation, for example,
the efforts of the alumni advisers were invaluable in get
ting to the root of the trouble and recommending meas
ures by which accreditation could be regained.
> The efforts of alumni have resulted in the passage of
urgently needed, but politically endangered, appropria
tions by the state legislature.
Some 3,000 of the university’s alumni act each year as
volunteer alumni-fund solicitors, making contacts with
30,000 of the university’s former students.
Nor is this a particularly unusual list of alumni accom
plishments. The work and thought expended by the alum-
the group somehow differs from the sum of its parts
ELLIOTT ERWITT. MAGS’VM
Behind the fun
of organized alumni activity—in clubs, at reunions—lies new seriousness
nowadays, and a substantial record of service to American education.
ni of hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities in
behalf of their alma maters would make a glowing record,
if ever it could be compiled. The alumni of one institution
took it upon themselves to survey the federal income-tax
laws, as they affected parents’ ability to finance their
children’s education, and then, in a nationwide campaign,
pressed for needed reforms. In a score of cities, the
alumnae of a women’s college annually sell tens of thou
sands of tulip bulbs for their alma mater’s benefit; in
eight years they have raised $80,000, not to mention
hundreds of thousands of tulips. Other institutions’ alum
nae stage house and garden tours, organize used-book
sales, sell flocked Christmas trees, sponsor theatrical
benefits. Name a worthwhile activity and someone is
probably doing it, for faculty salaries or building funds or
student scholarships.
Drop in on a reunion or a local alumni-club meeting,
and you may well find that the superficial programs of
yore have been replaced by seminars, lectures, laboratory
demonstrations, and even week-long short-courses. Visit
the local high school during the season when the senior
students are applying for admission to college—and try
ing to find their way through dozens of college catalogues,
each describing a campus paradise—and you Mill find
alumni on hand to help the student counselors. Nor are
they high-pressure salesmen for their own alma mater and
disparagers of everybody else’s. Often they can, and do,
perform their highest service to prospective students by
advising them to apply somewhere else.
in short, belie the popular image.
And if no one else realizes this, or cares, one group
should: the alumni and alumnae themselves. Too
many of them may be shying away from a good thing be
cause they think that being an “active” alumnus means
wearing a funny hat.
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’ ’ educational institutions would be in serious
difficulty today. And the same would be true of the na
tion’s publicly supported institutions, without the sup
port of alumni in legislatures and elections ar which
appropriations or bond issues are at stake.
For the private institutions, the financial support re
ceived from individual alumni often means the difference
between an adequate or superior faculty and one that is
underpaid and understaffed; between a thriving scholar
ship program and virtually none at all; between wellequipped laboratories and obsolete, crowded ones. For
tax-supported institutions, which in growing numbers are
turning to their alumni for direct financial support, such
aid makes it possible to give scholarships, grant loans to
needy' students, build such buildings as student unions,
and carry on research for which legislative appropriations
do not provide.
To gain an idea of the scope of the support which
alumni give—and of how much that is worthwhile in
American education depends upon it—consider this sta
tistic, unearthed in a current survey of 1,144 schools,
junior colleges, colleges, and universities in the United
States and Canada: in just twelve months, alumni gave
their alma maters more than S199 million. They were the
largest single source of gifts.
Nor was this the kind of support that is given once, per
haps as the result of a high-pressure fund drive, and never
heard of again. Alumni tend to give funds regularly. In
the pastyear, they contributed $45.5 million, on an annual
gift basis, to the 1,144 institutions surveyed. To realize
that much annual income from investments in blue-chip
stocks, the institutions would have needed over 1.2 billion
more dollars in endowment funds than they actually
possessed.
A nnual alumni GIVING is not a new phenomenon on
l\ the American educational scene (Yale alumni
-4- Ja- founded the first annual college fund in 1890, and
Mount Hermon was the first independent secondary
school to do so, in 1903). But not until fairly recently did
annual giving become the main element in education’s
financial survival kit. The development was logical. Big
endowments had been affected by inflation. Big private
philanthropy, affected by the graduated income and in-
heritance taxes, was no longer able to do the job alone.
Yet, with the growth of science and technology and
democratic concepts of education, educational budgets
had to be increased to keep pace.
Twenty years before Yale’s first alumni drive, a pro
fessor in New Haven foresaw the possibilities and looked
into the minds of alumni everywhere:
“No graduate of the college,” he said, “has ever paid
in full what it cost the college to educate him. A part of the
expense was borne by the funds given by former bene
factors of the institution.
“A great many can never pay the debt. A very few can,
in their turn, become munificent benefactors. There is a
very large number, however, between these two, who can,
and would cheerfully, give according to their ability in
order that the college might hold the same relative posi
tion to future generations which it held to their own.”
The first Yale alumni drive, seventy years ago, brought
in SI 1,015. In 1959 alone, Yale’s alumni gave more than
S2 million. Not only at Yale, but at the hundreds of other
institutions which have established annual alumni funds
in the intervening years, the feeling of indebtedness and
the concern for future generations which the Yale pro
fessor foresaw have spurred alumni to greater and greater
efforts in this enterprise.
a nd money from alumni is a powerful magnet: it
ZA\ draws more. Not only have more than eighty busi44- ness corporations, led in 1954 by General Electric,
established the happy custom of matching, dollar for dol
lar, the gifts that their employees (and sometimes their
employees’ wives) give to their alma maters; alumni
giving is also a measure applied by many business men
and by philanthropic foundations in determining how
productive their organizations’ gifts to an educational in
stitution are likely to be. Thus alumni giving, as Gordon
K. Chalmers, the late president of Kenyon College, de
scribed it, is “the very rock on which all other giving must
rest. Gifts from outside the family depend largely—some
times wholly—on the degree of alumni support.”
The “degree of alumni support” is gauged not by dol
lars alone. The percentage of alumni who are regular
givers is also a key. And here the record is not as dazzling
as the dollar figures imply.
Nationwide, only one in five alumni of colleges, uni
versities, and prep schools gives to his annual alumni
received more of it from their alumni than
now education’s strongest financial rampart
fund. The actual figure last year was 20.9 per cent. Allow
ing for the inevitable few who are disenchanted with their
alma maters’ cause,* and for those who spurn all fund
solicitations, sometimes with heavy scorn,f and for those
whom legitimate reasons prevent from giving financial
aid,§ the participation figure is still low.
vr TT thy? Perhaps because the non-participants imag\/%/ ine their institutions to be adequately financed.
’ ’ (Virtually without exception, in both private and
tax-supported institutions, this is—sadly—not so.) Per
haps because they believe their small gift—a dollar, or
five, or ten—will be insignificant. (Again, most emphati
cally, not so. Multiply the 5,223,240 alumni who gave
nothing to their alma maters last year by as little as one
dollar each, and the figure still comes to thousands of
additional scholarships for deserving students or sub
stantial pay increases for thousands of teachers, who may,
at this moment, be debating whether they can afford to
continue teaching next year.)
By raising the percentage of participation in alumni
fund drives, alumni can materially improve their alma
maters’ standing. That dramatic increases in participation
can be brought about, and quickly, is demonstrated by
the case of Wofford College, a small institution in South
Carolina. Until several years ago, Wofford received
annual gifts from only 12 per cent of its 5,750 alumni.
Then Roger Milliken, a textile manufacturer and a Wof
ford trustee, issued a challenge: for every percentage
point increase over 12 per cent, he’d give SI,000. After the
alumni were finished, Mr. Milliken cheerfully turned over
a check for $62,000. Wofford’s alumni had raised their
participation in the annual fund to 74.4 per cent—a new
national record.
“It was a remarkable performance,” observed the
American Alumni Council. “Its impact on Wofford will
be felt for many years to come.”
And what Wofford’s alumni could do, your institution’s
alumni could probably do, too.
* Wrote one alumnus: “I see that Stanford is making great prog
ress. However, I am opposed to progress in any form. Therefore I
am not sending you any money.”
t A man in Memphis, Tennessee, regularly sent Baylor University
a check signed “U. R. Stuck."
§ In her fund reply envelope, a Kansas alumna once sent, without
comment, her household bills for the month.
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> Women’s colleges, as a group, have had a unique
problem in fund-raising—and they wish they knew how
to solve it.
The loyalty of their alumnae in contributing money
each year—an average of 41.2 per cent took part in 1959
—is nearly double the national average for all universi
ties, colleges, junior colleges, and privately supported
secondary schools. But the size of the typical gift is often
smaller than one might expect.
Why? The alumnae say that while husbands obviously
place a high value on the products of the women’s col
leges, many underestimate the importance of giving wom
en’s colleges the same degree of support they accord their
own alma maters. This, some guess, is a holdover from
the days when higher education for women was regarded
as a luxury, while higher education for men was consid
ered a sine qua non for business and professional careers.
As a result, again considering the average, women’s
colleges must continue to cover much of their operating
expense from tuition fees. Such fees are generally higher
than those charged by men’s or coeducational institutions,
and the women’s colleges are worried about the social and
intellectual implications of this fact. They have no desire
to be the province solely of children of tire well-to-do;
higher education for women is no longer a luxury to be
reserved to those who can pay heavy fees.
Since contributions to education appear to be one area
of family budgets still controlled largely by men, the
alumnae hope that husbands will take serious note of the
women’s colleges’ claim to a larger share of it. They may
be starting to do so: from 1958 to 1959, the average gift
to women’s colleges rose 22.4 per cent. But it still trails
the average gift to men’s colleges, private universities, and
professional schools.
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for the Public educational institutions,
a special kind of service
-tt—slUbliclv supported educational institutions owe a
|special kind of debt to their alumni. Many people
JL imagine that the public institutions have no finan
cial worries, thanks to a steady flow of tax dollars. Yet
they actually lead a perilous fiscal existence, dependent
upon annual or biennial appropriations by legislatures.
More than once, state and municipally supported institu
tions would have found themselves in serious straits if
their alumni had not assumed a role of leadership.
> A state university in New England recently was put in
academic jeopardy because the legislature defeated a bill
to provide increased salaries for faculty members. Then
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the university’s “Associate Alumni” took matters into
their hands. They brought the facts of political and aca
demic life to the attention of alumni throughout the state,
prompting them to write to their representatives in sup
port of higher faculty pay. A compromise bill was passed,
and salary increases were granted. Alumni action thus
helped ease a crisis which threatened to do serious, per
haps irreparable, damage to the university.
► In a neighboring state, the public university receives
only 38.3 per cent of its operating budget from state and
federal appropriations. Ninety-one per cent of the uni
versity s $17 million physical plant was provided by pri-
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The Beneficiaries:
Students on a state-university campus. Alumni support is proving
invaluable in maintaining high-quality education at such institutions.
vate funds. Two years ago, graduates of its college of
medicine gave $226,752 for a new medical center—the
largest amount given by the alumni of any American
medical school that year.
> Several years ago the alumni of six state-supported
institutions in a midwestern state rallied support for a
SI50 million bond issue for higher education, mental
health, and welfare—an issue that required an amend
ment to the state constitution. Of four amendments on
the ballot, it was the only one to pass.
> In another midwestern state, action by an “Alumni
Council for Higher Education,” representing eighteen
publicly supported institutions, has helped produce a S13
million increase in operating funds for 1959-61 the most
for-------the state’s system of
significant increase ever voted
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and lobbying. But the effect is often to prohibit the alumni
from conducting any organized legislative activity in be
half of publicly supported education in their states.
“This is unfair,” said a state-university’ alumni spokes
man recently, “because this kind of activity is neither
shady nor unnecessary.
“But the restrictions—most of which 1 happen to think
are nonsense—exist, nevertheless. Even so, individual
alumni can make personal contacts with legislators in
their home towns, if not at the State Capitol. Above all,
in their contacts with fellow citizens—with people who
influence public opinion—the alumni of state institutions
must support their alma maters to an intense degree. They
must make it their business to get straight information
and spread it through their circles of influence.
“Since the law forbids us to organize such support,
every alumnus has to start this work, and continue it, on
his own. This isn’t something that most people do natu
rally—but the education of their own sons and daughters
rests on their becoming aroused and doing it.”
higher education.
/T't ome alumni organizations are forbidden to engage
\\ in political activity of any kind. The intent is a good
' one: to keep the organizations out of party politics
�a matter of
A NY worthwhile institution of higher education,
ZX one college president has said, lives “in chronic
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tension with the society that supports it.” Says
The Campus and the State, a 1959 survey of academic free
dom in which that president’s words appear: “New ideas
always run the risk of offending entrenched interests
within the community. If higher education is to be suc
cessful in its creative role it must be guaranteed some pro
tection against reprisal. . .”
The peril most frequently is budgetary: the threat of
appropriations cuts, if the unpopular ideas are not aban
doned; the real or imagined threat of a loss of public—
even alumni—sympathy.
Probably the best protection against the danger of
reprisals against free institutions of learning is their
alumni: alumni who understand the meaning of freedom
and give their strong and informed support to matters of
educational principle. Sometimes such support is avail
able in abundance and offered with intelligence. Some
times—almost always because of misconception or failure
to be vigilant—it is not.
For example:
> An alumnus of one private college was a regular and
heavy donor to the annual alumni fund. He was known to
have provided handsomely for his alma mater in his will.
But when he questioned his grandson, a student at the
old school, he learned that an economics professor not
only did not condemn, but actually discussed the necessity
for, the national debt. Grandfather threatened to withdraw
all support unless the professor ceased uttering such
heresy or was fired. (The professor didn’t and wasn’t. The
college is not yet certain where it stands in the gentleman’s
will.)
C* When no students from a certain county managed to
meet the requirements for admission to a southwestern
university’s medical school, the county’s angry delegate to
the state legislature announced he was “out to get this
guy”—the vice president in charge of the university s
medical affairs, who had staunchly backed the medical
school’s admissions committee. The board of trustees ot
the university, virtually all of whom were alumni, joined
other alumni and the local chapter of the American
Ideas
Principle
Association of University Professors to rally successfully
to the v.p.’s support.
► When the president of a publicly supported institu
tion recently said he would have to limit the number of
students admitted to next fall’s freshman class if high
academic standards were not to be compromised, some
constituent-fearing legislators were wrathful. When the
issue was explained to them, alumni backed the presi
dent’s position—decisively.
> When a number of institutions Coined in December
by President Eisenhower) opposed the “disclaimer affida
vit” required of students seeking loans under the National
Defense Education Act, many citizens—including some
alumni—assailed them for their stand against “swearing
allegiance to the United States.” The fact is, the dis
claimer affidavit is not an oath of allegiance to the United
States (which the Education Act also requires, but which
the colleges have not opposed). Fortunately, alumni who
took the trouble to find out what the affidavit really was
apparently outnumbered, by a substantial majority, those
who leaped before they looked. Coincidentally or not,
most of the institutions opposing the disclaimer affidavit
received more money from their alumni during the con
troversy than ever before in their history.
as in the past, educational institutions
I worth their salt will be in the midst of controversy.
A Such is the nature of higher education: ideas are its
merchandise, and ideas new and old are frequently con
troversial. An educational institution, indeed, may be
doing its job badly if it is not involved in controversy, at
times. If an alumnus never finds himself in disagreement
with his alma mater, he has a right to question whether
his alma mater is intellectually awake or dozing.
To understand this is to understand the meaning of
academic freedom and vitality. And. with such an under
standing, an alumnus is equipped to give his highest serv
ice to higher education; to give his support to the princi
ples which make-higher education free and effectual.
If higher education is to prosper, it will need this kind
of support from its alumni—tomorrow even more than in
its gloriously stormy past.
ttn the future,
■ire the merchandise of education, and every worthwhile educational institution must provide and
guard the conditions for breeding them. To do so. they need the help and vigilance of their alumni.
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a new Challenge,
a new relationship
ROLAND READ
of the relationship between
alumni and alma mater? At the turn into the
Sixties, it is evident that a new and challenging
relationship—of unprecedented value to both the institu
tion and its alumni—is developing.
hither the course
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of 1 eeplia,' ir.ieilcctually alive for a lifetime
• iil be frz’ercd more (han ever by :t
:;r<z*in;.' alumni almo maler relationship.
> If alumni wish, their intellectual voyage can be
continued for a lifetime.
There was a time when graduation was the end. You
got your diploma, along with the right to place certain
initials after your name; your hand was clasped for an
instant by the president; and the institution’s business
was done.
If you were to keep yourself intellectually awake, the
No-Doz would have to be self-administered. If you were
to renew your acquaintance with literature or science, the
introductions would have to be self-performed.
Automotion is still the principal driving force. The
years in school and college are designed to provide the
push and then the momentum to keep you going with
your mind. “Madam, we guarantee results,” wrote a col
lege president to an inquiring mother, “—or we return
the boy.” After graduation, the guarantee is yours to
maintain, alone.
Alone, but not quite. It makes little sense, many edu
cators say, for schools and colleges not to do whatever
they can to protect their investment in their students—
which is considerable, in terms of time, talents, and
money—and not to try to make the relationship between
alumni and their alma maters a two-way flow.
As a consequence of such thinking, and of demands
issuing from the former students themselves, alumni
meetings of all types—local clubs, campus reunions—arc
taking on a new character. “There has to be a reason and
a purposefor a meeting,” notes an alumna. “Groups that
meet for purely social reasons don’t last long. Just be
cause Mary went to my college doesn’t mean I enjoy
being with her socially—but I might well enjoy working
with her in a serious intellectual project.” Male alumni
agree; there is a limit to I he con geniality that can be main
tained solely by the thin thread of reminiscences or Small
talk.
But there is no limit, among people with whom (heir
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education “stuck,” to the revitalizing effects of learning.
The chemistry professor who is in town for a chemists’
conference and is invited to address the local chapter of
the alumni association no longer feels he must talk about
nothing more weighty than the beauty of the campus
elms; his audience wants him to talk chemistry, and he is
delighted to oblige. The engineers who return to school
for their annual homecoming welcome the opportunity' to
bring themselves up to date on developments in and out
of their specialty. Housewives back on the campus for
reunions demand—and get—seminars and short-courses.
But the wave of interest in enriching the intellectual
content of alumni meetings may be only a beginning.
With more leisure at their command, alumni will have
the time (as they already have the inclination) to under
take more intensive, regular educational programs.
If alumni demand them, new concepts in adult educa
tion may emerge. Urban colleges and universities may
step up their offerings of programs designed especially for
the alumni in their communities—not only their own
alumni, but those of distant institutions. Unions and
government and industry, already experimenting with
graduate-education programs for their leaders, may find
ways of giving sabbatical leaves on a widespread basis—
and they may profit, in hard dollars-and-cents terms, from
the results of such intellectual re-charging.
Colleges and universities, already overburdened with
teaching as well as other duties, will need help if such
dreams arc to come true. But help will be found if the
demand is insistent enough.
> Alumni partnerships with their alma mater, in
meeting ever-stiffer educational challenges, will grow
even closer than they have been.
Boards of overseers, visiting committees, and other
partnerships between alumni and their institutions are
proving, at many schools, colleges, anil universities, to be
channels through which the educators can keep in touch
with the community al large and vice versa. Alumni trus
tees, elected by their fellow alumni, are found on the gov
erning boards of more and more institutions. Alumni
"without portfolio” are seeking ways to join with their
alma maters in advancing the cause of education. The
representative of a West Coast university has noted the
trend: “In selling memberships in our alumni associa
tion, we have learned that, while it’s wise to list the bene
fits of membership, what interests them most is how they
can be of service to the university.”
► Alumni can have a decisive role in maintaining
high standards of education, even as enrollments
increase at most schools and colleges.
There is a real crisis in American education: the crisis
of quality. For a variety of reasons, many institutions find
themselves unable to keep their faculties staffed with highcaliber men and women. Many lack the equipment
needed for study' and research. Many, even in this age of
high student population, are unable to attract the quality
of student they desire. Many' have been forced to dissipate
their teaching and research energies, in deference to pub
lic demand for more and more extracurricular “sendees.’'
Many, besieged by applicants for admission, have had to
yield to pressure and enroll students who are unqualified.
Each of these problems has a direct bearing upon the
quality of education in America. Each is a problem to
which alumni can constructively address themselves, indi
vidually and in organized groups.
Some can best be handled through community leader
ship: helping present the institutions' case to the public.
Some can be handled by direct participation in such ac
tivities as academic talent-scouting, in which many insti
tutions, both public and private, enlist the aid of their
alumni in meeting with college-bound high school stu
dents in their cities and towns. Some can be handled by
making more money available to the institutions—for
faculty salaries, for scholarships, for buildings and equip
ment. Some can be handled through political action.
The needs vary widely from institution to institution—
and what may help one may actually set back another.
Because of this, it is important to maintain a close liaison
with the campus when undertaking such. work. (Alumni
offices everywhere will welcome inquiries.)
When the opportunity for aid does come—as it has in
the past, and as it inevitably will in the years ahead—
alumni response will be the key to America’s educational
future, ami to all that depends upon it.
�Alumni Survey - Part II
THE
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<l>ohn masefield was addressing himself to the subject
of universities. “They give to the young in their impres
sionable years the bond of a lofty purpose shared,” he
said; “of a great corporate life whose links will not be
loosed until they die.”
The links that unite alumni with each other and with
their alma mater are difficult to define. But every alum
nus and alumna knows they exist, as surely as do the
campus’s lofty spires and the ageless dedication of edu
cated men and women to the process of keeping them
selves and their children intellectually alive.
Once one has caught the spirit of learning, of truth, of
probing into the undiscovered and unknown—the spirit
of his alma mater—one does not really lose it, for as
long as one lives. As life proceeds, the daily mechanics
of living—ofjob-holding, of family-rearing, of mortgage
paying, of lawn-cutting, of meal-cooking—sometimes
are tedious. But for them who have known the spirit of
intellectual adventure and conquest, there is the bond of
the lofty purpose shared, of the great corporate life
whose links will not be loosed until they die.
This would be the true meaning of alumni-ship, were
there such a word. It is the reasoning behind the great
service that alumni give to education. It is the reason
alma maters can call upon their alumni for responsible
support of all kinds, with confidence that the responsi
bility will be well met.
Activities and Educational Advancements
ALUMNus/a
This issue is completely devoted to you the
Alumnus. We hope that you will read it thoroughly
and decide how you — the Alumnus — can fit into
the over-all picture. You are, in the words of the
report, "one of the most important persons in Ameri
can education today."
The material on this and the preceding 15
pages was prepared in behalf of more than 350
schools, colleges, and universities in the United
States, Canada, and Mexico by the staff listed
below, who have formed editorial projects
for education, inc., through which to per
form this function, e.p.e., inc., is a non-profit
organization associated with the American
Alumni Council. The circulation of this supple
ment is 2,900,000.
DAVID A. BURR
The University of Oklahoma
GEORGE J. COOKE
Princeton University
DAN ENDSLEY
Stanford University
DAN H. FENN, JR.
Harvard Business School
RANDOLPH L. FORT
Emory University
J. ALFRED GUEST
Amherst College
L. FRANKLIN HEALD
The University of New Hampshire
CHARLES M. HELMKEN
Saint John's University
JEAN D. LINEHAN
American Alumni Council
MARALYN ORBISON
Swarthmore College
ROBERT L. PAYTON
Washington University
FRANCES PROVENCE
Baylor University
ROBERT M. RHODES
Lehigh University
WILLIAM SCHRAMM, JR.
The University of Pennsylvania
VERNE A. STADTMAN
The University of California
FREDERIC A. STOTT
Phillips Academy (Andover')
FRANK J. TATE
The Ohio State University
ERIK WENSBERG
Columbia University
CHARLES E. WIDMAYER
Dartmouth College
REBA WILCOXON
The University of Arkansas
CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
Brown University
This second part of the Alumni Survey should
have added significance to you in view of the spe
cial alumni report which preceded it. This portion
covers the Community, Cultural and Recreational
Activities of our alumni, and in addition reports on
their educational advancements.
Just as a reminder, the following information
was derived from the completed survey of 62% of
our alumni body. This is considered an outstanding
return and should mean that the information pre
sented in the following report is basically sound.
The July issue of the "Alumnus" will carry the
third and final part of the Alumni Survey.
Activities
We thought that it would be interesting to have
our alumni indicate their community, cultural and
recreational activities. As the following report indi
cates, their interests are many and varied.
Many who answered the questionnaire checked
"other" and proceeded to fill in their activities be
neath it. We have, for simplicity in reading the final
report, taken those activities and, when possible,
inserted them where we felt they could properly be
placed. For example, in one case, "other" was
checked and below it was written — "part-time
athletic director — Y.M.C.A." This we placed in
the category allowed for Y.M.C.A. or Y.W.C.A. ac
tivities.
Community Activities — select the ones to which
you give the most time.
No. Reporting
326
P.T.A., School Board
308
* Other_______________________________
293
Professional groups (law, medicine, etc.)
Solicitor for Community Chest,
Red Cross, etc. 266
Civic and service clubs
264
Lodge member (fraternal)
174
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, 4-H, etc
— 145
Y.M.C.A. or Y.W.C.A 109
Chamber of Commerce
64
Labor Organizations
38
*
Cultural Activities — In what cultural activities do
you participate now? Please check the three (only)
which you regard as most important.
CORBIN GWALTNEY
Executive Editor
HAROLD R. HARDING
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
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All rights reserved; no part of this supplement
may be reproduced without the express per
mission of the editors. Copyright © 1960 by
Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., Room
411, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washing
ton 6, D.C. editorial address: P.O. Box 5653,
Baltimore 10, Md. Printed in U.S.A.
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No. Reporting
956
Read non-fiction __________________
730
Attend plays or concerts --------------583
Listen to radio,/TV concerts ----------488
Collect and play classical recordings;
_. 403
Attend lectures or forums -------------261
Play a musical instrument
151
Paint or sketch _---- -------------------138
Visit art museums -----------------------95
Write (verse, prose) ....
90
Other . .
—-----
Recreational Activities — What activities in this field
have you engaged in, in the last year? Please
check (only) in which you regularly engage.
No. Reporting
Outdoor sports, (hiking, golf, swimming,
riding, gardening, fishing, hunting, etc.
833
655
Book reading for pleasure
Social Dancing, square dancing, informal
637
contacts with friends
578
Listening to TV and/or radio
Indoor sports (bowling, gym, pool, hand
445
ball, billiards, etc.)
359
Spectator at sports
356
Traveling for pleasure
Bridge, chess or other indoor games
311
270
Attendance at movies
110
* Other
but we suspect that
(*—Other—Did not specify,
x
many are included in activities which are listed
by name.)
The Alumnus and his Community Activities
Many of our alumni, despite busy schedules,
find time for various civic and community services.
As Chart No. 3 reveals, 60.48% belong to civic
organizations, while 17.05% belong to professional
organizations. Only 8.96% belong to social groups.
All totaled, 86.5% of our alumni have membership
in at least one type of organization.
Chart No. 3
The Organizations to Which They Belong
Kind of Organization Per cent who Participate
Civic
t
Professional
Social
O
60.48%
17.05%
8.96%
It would seem that our alumni have settled down
in their communities and are taking an active part
in civic affairs. This figure is surprising in view of
the fact that, for the most part, they are young people,
and recent graduates are inclined to be more mobile.
However, the greatest number indicated in civic
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�organization membership was P.T.A. and School
Board. This is readily understandable again when
we analyze that 75% of our alumni reporting are
married and 82.8% of that figure have children.
It would also appear that ora alumni are inter
ested in keeping within their professional groups —
but are also taldng an active part in soliciting for
various groups — an excellent indication of their
service to their community.
The Alumnus and his Cultural Activities
Chart No. 4
Cultural Activities in Which They Engage
Kind of Activity
Per cent who participate
I] 49.23%
Read non-fiction
Attend plays or concerts
37.60%
Listen to radio and/or
TV concerts
30.03%
Collect and playclassical recordings
25%
Attend lectures or forums
21%
Play musical instrument
13%
Paint or sketch
8%
Visit art museums
7%
Write (verse, prose)
5%
* Other
4%
*—did not specify
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Among the list of cultural activities, reading of
non-fiction material rates highest with our alumni.
The theater and the world of classical music, at-
tended in person or via recordings, television or
radio, are next in the line of popularity.
The Alumnus and his Recreational Activities
Chart No. 5
Kind of Activity
Outdoor sports
Per cent who participate
^■^■42.91%
33.75%
Bookreading for pleasure
Social dancing, square
dancing, informal contacts
with friends
Listening to TV
and/or radio
Indoor sports, bowling, gym,
pool, handball, billiards, etc.)
Spectator at sports
Traveling for pleasure
Bridge, chess or other
indoor games
Attendance at movies
* Other
*—did not specify
PART ONE: A Summary of All Alumni Who Con
tinued Their Education.
Of the 1,941 alumni who returned their question
naires, 912 indicated they had continued their edu
cation. The percentage is
The total (912) is divided into the following cate
gories:
I
HS
10%
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32.82%
Chart No. 6
Students now in Graduate Schools
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Engineers
16%
1935-1947 Graduates
30%
23%
18%
18%
19%
30-hour Alumni
25%
Graduates
30%
TEST CLASSES
D
16%
14%
6%
According to this survey, we have a great many
outdoor sportsmen — and women, who participate
in hiking, golf, tennis, swimming, riding, gardening,
fishing, hunting, etc. And again, along the recre
ational line, bookreading for pleasure is a popular
pastime for many alumni. Television has taken its
hold. Watching of TV rates fourth among the recre
ational activities in which they engage.
Educational Advancements
This section of the survey consists of data
showing the number of alumni who pursued theneducation at other institutions. The data will be
presented in five parts.
Per cent Analysis
of
Alumni Who Continued Their Education After
Wilkes or B. U. J. C.
1935-1947 Graduates
Alumni who received certificates from Bucknell University Junior College and who con
tinued their studies for Bachelor degrees and
for advanced degrees.
Total number 174
Of the 71 alumni from the Class of 1948
who returned their questionnaires, 46 were
awarded advanced degrees.
The percentage for this class is 65%
Of the 87 alumni from the Class of 1955
who returned their questionnaires, 28 were
awarded advanced degrees.
The percentage for this class is 32%
By combining the percentages for the two
test classes, we are able to compare their
percentage with the entire group. The com
parison shows a close relationship between
the over-all total of alumni and the test group
alumni who continued their education.
The percentage for the entire group 47%
The percentage for the "Test" group 49%
PART TWO: Analysis of Graduate Educational
Advancement
Number and Per cent of Graduates
1935-1947 and 1948-1959
Who Attended Graduate or Professional
Schools
Graduates (1948-1959)
All graduates who have obtained advanced
degrees.
Total number 266
Chart No. 7
Col. 3
CoL 2
No. of
Per cent
of Grads.
Grads.
T airing*
Continuing
Grad. Work Education
Col. 1
TABLE 5
Students
Alumni who are presently engaged in fulltime studies toward higher degrees.
Total number 92
Engineers
Alumni who received two-year certificates in
engineering and who were awarded their
Bachelor degrees at other institutions.
Total number 150
(Of this total, 25 then obtained advanced
degrees.)
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30-hour Alumni
Includes all who have attended Wilkes Col
lege and have accumulated thirty (30) or more
credit hours and who were awarded their
Bachelor degrees and/or advanced degrees
from other institutions.
Total number 230
912
(see chart)
No. of
Grads.
B. U. J. C.
'35-'47 grads.
578
Wilkes
'48-'59 grads.
1,928
Totals
2,506
* Unadjusted total
*
226
39%
439
665
23%
27%
Column 1
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' i Bucknell
Total number of graduates
from
University Junior College and Wilkes Col-
lege from 1935 through February, 1959.
Breakdown shows B.U.J.C. graduates and
Wilkes College graduates.
Column 2
Shows the number of B.U.J.C. graduates who
continued their education after receiving
certificates as well as Wilkes College gradu
ates who continued on for advanced degrees.
Column 3
Of the 578 graduates in the 1935-1947 group,
226 of those who returned their question
naires indicated that they had continued
their education.
The percentage is 39%
Of the 1,928 graduates in the 1948-1959 group,
439 of those who returned their question
naires indicated that they had continued
their education.
The percentage is 23%
Of the 2,506 graduates over the twenty-five
year period, 665 who returned their question
naires indicated that they had continued
their education.
The percentage is 27%
In analyzing our total number of graduates, it
is interesting to note that 23% or 578 graduated
from 1935-1947, and 77% or 1,928 have graduated
since 1948.
PART THREE: Degrees Held by Wilkes College
Graduates and B.U.J.C. Graduates
TABLE 6
Degrees held by B.U.J.C. and Wilkes College
graduates are distributed as follows:
a. B.A.-B.S. (1935-1947)
157
24%
b. B.S. (Engineers)
163
25%
c. M.A.-M.S.
217
33%
Ph.D.-D.E.D.
44
7%
M.D. - D.D.S. - D.O.
60
9%
L. L.B. - L.L.M.
40
6%
B.D. - S.T.B. - S.T.M.
20
3%
M.B.A.
12
2%
665
Degrees are not limited to one per graduate.
There are 119 graduates who hold two or more
degrees, or a total of 18% of all graduates hold
several degrees.
Group A. From 1935 to 1947 we gave two-year
certificates as B.U.J.C. — the group above
continued on to receive Bachelor degrees.
Group B. We have only a two-year engineering
program . . . this group has gone on to
attain their Bachelor degrees elsewhere.
Group C. This group includes those from above
who have gone on for other work and also
those who graduated from Wilkes College.
PART FOUR: Scholarship and Fellowship Aid
Of the 912 alumni who continued their
education, 138 received scholarship or fellow
ship aid.
The percentage is 15%
These grants are not limited to one per student.
There were 178 different awards distributed among
the 138 scholars in the following manner:
23
�TABLE 7
Assistantships
20
Fellowships
23
Government Aid
33
Foundations, Industries,
& Personal
41
Scholarships
61
Assistantships include only those granted by
the educational institutions that the individual at
tended.
Fellowships include only those given by the
educational institutions.
Government aid consists of Senatorial Scholar
ships, Departmental Scholarships from State govern
ments, Federal Grants, Military Grants, Depart
mental Aid from the Federal Government, and City
Government Grants.
Foundations, industry and personal include
grants by the Ford Foundation, the Kosciuszko
Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Na
tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis; fellowships
awarded by major industries in the United States;
and aid received from educational-minded philantropists.
Scholarships consist of only those awarded to
the scholar by the educational institution.
PART FIVE: Number of Graduates attending other
Colleges and Universities after Gradu
ation (1948-1958)
This section of the survey includes data showing
the number of graduates answering this question
naire who did advanced studies at other schools
from 1948-1958.
It is interesting to note that 720 graduates at
1 _ J
ixo
_____ 1_
___ 4.T_______ tended
146
schools
alter
they left Wilkes College.
The schools and the number of scholars who at
tended them are:
TABLE 8
98
Bucknell University
91
Pennsylvania State Univ.
University of Pennsylvania 44
Temple University
42
39
Columbia University
27
Rutgers University
19
Nev/ York University
14
Lehigh University
14
University of Scranton
12
Jefferson Medical College
12
University of Delaware
Syracuse University
11
University of Maryland
11
10
Geo. Washington Univ.
24
io
Hahnemann Medical Coll.
io
University of Pittsburgh
Seton Hall University
9
Dickinson School of Law
7
Boston University
6
Montclair St. Teach. College 6
Paterson St. Teach. College 5
American University
5
New School for Soc. Research 5
Trenton St. Teach. College
5
5
University of Buffalo
5
University of Illinois
Bloomsburg St. Teach. Coll.
City College of Now York
4
Elmira College
4
Cornell University
1
4
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.
Glassboro St. Teach. Coll.
1
Geisinger
Mem.
Hospital
4
Johns Hopkins University
1
Gettysburg Lutheran Sem.
4
Marywood College
1
4
Georgian Court College
Misericordia College
1
Harpur College
4
Newark St. Teach. College
1
’Imperial College
4
University of Connecticut
4
(Univ,
of
London)
1
Western Reserve University
3
Indiana St. Teach. College
1
Adelphia College
3
Juilliard School of Music
1
Catholic University
Kansas State College
3
1
Drew University
3
Kent State University
Duquesne University
3
King's
College
Georgetown University
1
La Salle College
Mass. Institute of Technology 3
1
3
Lawrence College
1
Miami University of Ohio
3
Long Beach STC
1
Middlebury College
Lutheran Theological Sem.
Polytechnic Inst, of Brooklyn 3
1
3
Mansfield St. Teach. College 1
University of Miami (Fla.)
3
Michigan College of Mining
University of Michigan
3
& Technology
1
University of Rochester
2
Moravian College
1
Canisius College
2
Muhlenberg STC
1
Carnegie Institute of Tech.
2
McGill College
1
Drexel Institute of Tech.
2
New Jersey St. Teach. Coll.
1
Duke University
2
Oregon State College
1
East Stroudsburg STC
2
Phoenix Junior College
1
Florida State University
Franklin & Marshall College 2
’Rhodes Univ. (So. Africa)
1
2
Richmond
Professional
Inst.
1
Lafayette College
2
Rider College
Loyola College
2
Northwestern University
Rochester Inst, of Technology 1
2
Ohio State University
1
Sacramento STC
Philadelphia Divinity School 2
Saint Joseph's College
1
2
Princeton University
Southeastern University
1
2
Robert Packer Hospital
State Univ. Teach. College
2
Towson St. Teach. College
(Genesee.New York)
1
2
Tulane University
Stevens Inst, of Technology 1
Union Theological Seminary 2
Stroudsburg St. Teach. Coll.
2
University of Colorado
1
Swarthmore College
2
University of Houston
1
Tri-State College
University of Kentucky
2
1
University of Bridgeport
University of Oregon
2
University of Chicago
1
Villanova College
2
University of Cincinnati
1
Wayne State University
2
1
University of Florida
Albany St. Teach. College
1
University of Iowa
Alfred University
1
1
University of Louisville
Arizona State College
1
1
’University of Madrid
Arizona State University
1
1
University of Nebraska
Bexley Hall Theological Sem. 1
’University of Paris
1
(Kenyon College)
1
University of Richmond
Bowling Green University
1
1
’University of Rome
Butler University
1
’University of Strasbourg
1
Clarkson College of Tech.
1
1
University of Tennessee
Cleveland Marshall Law Sch. 1
1
University of Virginia
Colgate-Rochester Div. School 1
1
Upsala College
Colorado A & M
1
Womens Medical Coll, of Pa. 1
Columbia College
1
Wagner College
1
Cortland St. Teach. College 1
Washington College
1
Crozer Theological Seminary 1
Wesleyan University
1
Denver University
1
West Chester St. Teach. Coll. 1
Eastman School of Music
1
1
Virginia Theological Sem.
Episcopal Theological Sem.
1
1
Yale University
of Virginia
1
*—Six graduates had the opportunity of studying in foreign
countries.
Note: The total of 720 is not an individual total.
Many alumni attended more than one school in the
process of obtaining an advanced degree or degrees.
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WILKES
ALUMNUS
Vol. 6, No. 4
JULY,
1960
�Board of Trustees
Admiral Harold R. Stark Chairman
Graduates Hear Brilliant Addresses
Contents:
Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
Of Vujica, Engstrom
Page
3
Graduates Hear Brilliant Addresses of Vujica, Engstrom.
4
Three-Phase Development Program Successful;
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
New Highs Reached in Alumni Fund.
Frank Burnside
5
New Administrative Appointments.
6
Class of 1960 Presents Gift.
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
13
Permanent Class Officers and Trustees — Class of 1960.
14
Alumni Survey — Part III.
Eugene S. Farley
John Farr
Hon. John S. Fine
George W. Guckelberger
On the Cover:
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
TRUSTEES WAITING FOR ACADEMIC PROCESSION AT WILKES;
Wilkes College trustees who joined the academic procession to the
thirteenth annual commencement in the college's gymnasium
auditorium are shown above (seated, left to right): Dr. Eugene S.
Farley, Wilkes president; Mrs. Charles E. Clift, city; Andrew J.
Sordoni, city, newly elected second vice-chairman of the board;
Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom, senior executive vice-president. Radio
Corporation of America, and principal commencement speaker;
Admiral Harold R. Stark, retired Chief of Naval Operations, and
chairman of the board. (Standing): Harry F. Goeringer, city;
Joseph F. Lester, Kingston; former Governor John S. Fine, city;
Dr. Joseph J. Kocyan, city; and Dr. Samuel M. Davenport, city.
Louis Shaffer
Andrew J. Sordoni
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Published by Wilkes College
Charles B. Waller
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Aaron Weiss
Office of Executive Secretary
President
Chase Hall
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Russ Picton, Editor
Alumni Officers
William Zdancewicz, Assistant Editor
Leonard Yoblonski, Photographer
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Dr. Robert Kerr. Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Russell H. Williams, Treasurer
Vol. 6, No. 4
by Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom
President Farley,
Members of the Faculty,
Members of the Class of 1960,
Parents and Friends . . .
by Dr. Stanko Vujica
Boyd Elected to Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
New Horizons
Can Man Change -Or Should He?
July, 1960
Published quarterly as the Alumnus for the members of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation, Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, S2.00
Dear graduates, ladies and gentle
men!
I am genuinely proud and pleased
to be invited to speak at this year's
Baccalaureate service—all the more
since this graduating class happens
to be particularly close to me. I know
most of them through many pleasant
associations in the classroom, at
various social affairs, and sports
events. And I was their class ad
visor in the senior year. In all sin
cerity, I find them one of the finest
groups of young men and women
ever to graduate from Wilkes.
Since I have been given such
splendid opportunity, may I use it
to extend my own and my col
leagues' on the faculty — for I am
sure they want to join me in this —
heartfelt congratulations and good
wishes to you class 1960 on this oc
casion which marks such an impor
tant turning point in your young life.
Wilkes is proud of you, and we hope
that you will always keep in mind
and gentle remembrance the brave
little school on the Susquehanna
which has done its best to help you
enlarge your intellectual, aesthetic
and moral horizons, and thus make
your life more interesting, more sig
nificant and more rewarding.
I wish I had some cheerful and in
spiring message for you. I wish I
could tell you what the poet Words
worth said about the more idyllic
and optimistic days of his youth:
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be
alive . . . But to be young was very
heaven." To be young, I suppose,
is always heaven. But, the melan
choly fact is that these are difficult
times. Man is profoundly troubled
today; he is not at peace with him
self, and he is not at peace with his
fellowmen. The prevailing mood is
one of anxiety and uncertainty.
It is a cruel paradox of our age
that at the time when man has
(continued on page 7)
Dr. Stanko Vujica
Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom
It is a high honor to speak to a
group of young people who are being
graduated from college. In this
particular case, the honor is supple
mented by my awareness of your
hospitality, extended to my company,
as a new neighbor in the community.
For this, too, I am grateful.
My remarks will be specifically
directed to you — the members of
this graduating class. All others
here are cordially invited to listen-in.
I have elected to talk with you
about the complex and peculiar en
vironment in which you and many
of your contemporaries are now to
take your place as educated citizens.
This environment is characterized by
a fundamental cleavage. On the
one hand are age-old conflicts which
spring from the nature of man him
self. On the other is the astonishing
power bestowed upon us in recent
years by our science and technology.
Perhaps never before in history have
we been challenged so directly by
the need for learning how to live
with what we have created.
In such an environment, a first
essential is an understanding of the
forces that guide our affairs. To an
unprecedented degree, these affairs
are dominated today in the material
sense by science and technology.
Many statistics can be cited to
demonstrate the speed with which
we have advanced materially in the
present century — and especially in
the few years since World War II.
To an economist, the advance ap
pears as a drastic rise in living stan
dards and a sharp growth in capital
investment. To the statesman, it is
reflected in terms of national strength
and shifts in the world balance of
power. To the businessman, it ap
pears as a broad expansion of his
(continued cn page 9)
3
�ALUMNI FUND — 1960
Three-Phase Development Program Successful;
New Highs Reached In Alumni Fund
Five hundred and fifty-seven alum
ni have contributed S9.561.03 as their
share to the 1960 Three-Phase De
velopment Campaign to raise the
total given to the program to
S264.193.18.
The funds raised are to be used
for assisting in establishing the grad
uate program in physics and chemis
try, scholarships, and to expand om
athletic facilities.
Although the total raised is below
the established goal of S270.000, there
is no doubt that the goal will be
reached in the near future.
New Administrative
Appointments
Dear Fellow Alumnus:
You must be proud of the eminent position Wilkes College has
attained, not only in the community of Wyoming Valley, but in the
field of liberal education. Om school has matmed to the enviable
rank of one of the outstanding "little colleges in the East.
Institutions, like plants, grow in stature and strength when properly
cultivated and nurtured.
As alumni you have been part of that somce from which the college
is nurtured. In the recent S270.000 three-phase development campaign
that started in February, the campaign goal was achieved. While
former students did not produce the bulk of the funds, their participation
was manifested by the constant flow of contributions . . . and in many
instances, new names were among the donors.
This example of spontaneous giving by alumni has a salutary
effect on others; the community and other prospects always look to see
whether or not Wilkes alumni are playing their part. For others who
were captains and workers, and who traveled at all horns to alumni
branch meetings, we more than thank you.
Yom contributions have helped resolve, substantially, the objec
tives of Wilkes. As alumni, we grow as the college grows . . . and the
school will continue to grow, as we grow.. ..
Om sincere thanks for not forgetting.
Gordon E. Roberts
Gordon E. Roberts, a 1960 graduate of Wilkes, was appointed to the college
administration as Assistant to the Director of Development and Public Relations.
Roberts began his duties at Wilkes on June 13.
Roberts received his bachelor of arts degree in English from the College
at graduation exercises last month, at which time he also received the L. J.
Van Laeys Award in recognition of outstanding work in journalism comses.
At the final meeting of his Class, Roberts was elected one of five permanent
Trustees.
Throughout his fom years at Wilkes, Roberts has been an active member
of various campus organizations and Class activities. He served as president
of the Student Government during his senior year and vice-president and
parliamentarian of that organization during his junior year. He was a member
of his class council for 3 years, acting as parliamentarian during his junior
and senior years.
He was a member of the International Relations Club; the Intercollegiate
Conference on Government and Politics, permanent chairman, 1958-59; the
History Club, and a member of the Manuscript Literary Society and the College
newspaper. The Beacon.
This year, Roberts was selected as a "Campus Personality" in the College
yearbook. The Anmicola, and he was named to the publication list of "Who s
Who In American Colleges and Universities."
Roberts is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roberts of 80 Rose Avenue,
Plains. He was graduated from Plains Memorial High School, Plains, where
he was president of his graduating class and also Salutatorian. While in high
school, he was a member of the varsity baseball team, a student council mem
ber, and a member of the Oratorical and Debating Society. Jri 1951, he repre
sented Wyoming Valley in the Pennsylvania semi-finals in Forensic competi
tion.
An active member in youth activities of his church, Roberts was president
of the Wyoming Conference Methodist Youth Fellowship, 1953-54, which en
compassed some ten thousand young people in Pennsylvania and New York.
In addition to this administrative position at the College, Roberts also serves
as Proctor of Ashley Hall, of which he now is a resident.
Sincerely yoms,
JOSEPH J. SAVITZ
Alumni Gifts Chairman
Atty. Joseph J. Scrvitz
annual campaigns by 87.00.
We are grateful for your interest
and for your endorsement of the pro
gram of Wilkes as indicated by your
generous gifts. Below, listed by
classes, are the alumni who have
contributed to this year's goals. (This
list was compiled from gifts received
up to,-and including, July 6, 1960).
1935
The total amount contributed bythe alumni is higher than any
amount given before in an annual
drive, but the number of participants
has been dissappointing. In 1958,
the alumni contributed SI8,000 to be
paid over a three-year period, and
this undoubtedly caused some of the
decline in participation because of
the number still paying on their 1958
pledges. However, there are still far
too many who have not assisted
Wilkes who could . . . and should.
This year, the average gift of S17.16
exceeded our average gift for other
No. cn Honor Boll
% oi Participation
S Contributed
Dr. Charles N. Burns
Christopher M. Edwards
Mrs. Harold J. Harris
Mrs. William Henderson
George M. Jacobs
Robert H. Melson
Harland G. Skuse
1936
No. cn Honor Roll
% of Participation
S Contributed
Dr. Charles T. Connors
Mrs. Edward M. Dwyer
Mrs. George Fenner
7 out of 71
10%
S328.60
Mrs. George M. Jazobs
Dilys M. Jones
Dr. Robert L. Mayock
Mrs. Lois D. Pearse
Michael G. Solomon
Mirko J. Tuhy
1937
No. cn Honor Roll
% of Participation
S Contributed
William H. Atherholt
Dr. Marvin Judd
Rev. Thomas F. Kline
James T. Mayock
Henry N. Peters
Donald Reese
1938
No. cn Honor Roll .
% of Participation
$ Contributed
Mrs. Harry IDower
Thomas W. 1
Melson
Richard J. Roush
Dr. Leo H. Simoson
9 out of 33
27%
$222.50
Alfonso S. Zawadsky, also a 1960 graduate of Wilkes, recently was appointed to the position of Assistant to the Registrar and Director of Admissions.
1939
6 out oi 55
11%
S 18.03
4 out of 44
9%
S65.00
No. cn Honor Roll
6 out of 55
% of Participation
11%
S Contributed
$119.50
Francis A. Baldauski
(continued on page 11)
Zawadsky received his bachelor of science degree in Secondary Education
from Wilkes at graduation exercises last month and was elected a permanent
trustee of his Class. While a student at the College, he was an active member
of the Education Club and the International Relations Club, in addition to being
a Dean's List student.
Before entering Wilkes, Zawadsky had enmassed a brilliant military
career. His 21 years of service took him to eight other states in this country —
Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, New York, California, Tennessee and
Texas — and into the European Theatre during World War II, including
England, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia.
Now a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army, Zawadsky be
gan his army career as an enlisted private with the 66th Infantry at Fort Meade,
Md. After 4 years, he became a first sergeant and later went to Officer Candi
date School, becoming a second lieutenant in May of 1942. Two years later
he was promoted to first lieutenant.
In January of 1944, he was commissioned a captain and the unit he com
manded was among the first to enter Bastogne, the Battle of the Bulge. Follow
ing a tom of duty with the occupation army in Germany and duty in the United
States, Zawadsky returned to Germany in 1948 where he participated in the
Berlin Air Life . . . and again an advance in rank, this time to major.
In his last two years of service he was senior unit advisor of the Army
Reserve Center at Hazleton, during which time he was promoted to the rank of
lieutenant colonel. Since his retirement, he has remained active in the Fourth
Armored Division Association, an organization of men who served with that
division during World War II.
Zawadsky is married to the former Clara Stravinski of Plymouth, and re
sides at 160 Oak St., Mountaintop, with his wife and two children. Sandrat 12:
�CAN MAN CHANGE
Class of 1960
Presents Gift
£KU..- .
1
A check toward the purchase of an electric athletic
scoreboard was presented to Wilkes College by the
graduating Class of 1960 at the senior dinner-dance
held in the Crystal Ballroom of Hotel Sterling.
The class gift was made in memoriam to Neil C.
Dadurka, former graduate of Wilkes College, who
earlier this year met his death in an untimely jet air
craft disaster in California.
Shown above at the presentations, left to right, are:
Miss Christine Winslow, Pittston, gift chairman; John
G. Reese, director of athletics; Dr.-Eugene S. Farley,
president of Wilkes College; George F. Ralston, dean
of men at the college; John Mulhall, West Pittston,
Senior Class president; and John Mattey. Ashley, Class
vice-president and master of ceremonies.
a
Principal speaker at the senior affair was Dr. Far
ley. In addressing the students he said, "As you leave
the college, I hope you find yourself possessed of a
greater awareness of the multiple forces that exert their
influence upon our lives and our times. It is also my
hope that you have developed the ability to study
these forces objectively and impassionately. It is my
further hope that you have developed ideas and conviciion which will form your lives and shape your
actions in the years ahead."
Remarks also were made by John Reese, class
adviser; Beryl Cole, dean of women; and Dean Ralston.
Frank Steck, class treasurer, gave invocation. Dancing
followed the dinner.
Boyd Elected to Board of Trustees
William Weir Boyd, a member of the first gradu
ating class of Wilkes, was elected the second alumni
member of the college's Board of Trustees at the annual
reorganization meeting of the board during Commence
ment Weekend.
Acting upon the recommendation of the Alumni
Nominating Committee, Mr. Boyd was placed in nomi
nation for a three-year term by the board chairman,
Admiral Harold R. Stark.
The other alumni representative on the board is
Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, who was .elected during his
term as president of the Alumni Association in 1958.
A native Wilkes-Barrean, Mr. Boyd now resides in
Vestal, New York, and is Assistant Treasurer of ClarkCleveland, Incorporated, Binghamton. Active in civic
affairs, Mr. Boyd has been recognized by his company
for outstanding service with the United Fund in Bing
hamton and was a Keyman for years and a team
captain this past year.
Mr. Boyd demonstrated a keen interest in the pro
motion of youth activities within the Vestal area, es
pecially in Little League Baseball Clubs. During the
past year, he has been instrumental in the formation
of an independent league to help accomodate the
many children interested in playing baseball in that
6
area.
Since 1956, Mr. Boyd has been a member of the
Binghamton Chamber of Commerce and has actively
participated on numerous projects of the group. He
is a member of the National Association of Accountants
and an associate member of the Institute of Internal
Auditors.
Mr. Boyd was a member of the first graduating
class of Wilkes, 1949, when the College was still affili
ated with Bucknell University as a junior college. He
is a graduate of Kingston High School and a veteran
of 48 months' service with the United States Armed
Forces during World War II.
Following his graduation from Wilkes, Mr. Boyd
joined the accounting staff of the Sordoni Construction
Company in Forty Fort. In 1951 he became an auditor
with the Arlington Hotel in Binghamton and later an
auditor with the firm of Greene and McLean, Certified
Public Accountants, also in Binghamton. It was during
this time that he had taken advanced studies in the field
of accounting at Harpus College in Endicott, New York.
Mr. Boyd is married to the former Martha Thomas
of Wilkes-Barre. The Boyds have two children, William
Jr., 12, and Thomas, nine. They presently reside at
529 Torrance Avenue in Vestal, New York.
(continued from page 3)
ascended the pinnacle of material progress
and has, both figuratively and literally,
reached for the moon, the apocalyptic litera
ture and the talk about the end of the world
have again become fashionable.
I cannot refrain from commenting on an in
teresting and perhaps highly symbolic differ
ence between the ancient religious eschatologists and doomsday experts and their
modern secular counterparts. The former be
lieved that the end of the world would come
by the will of the angry God, who they be
lieved to be the sole master of nature. The
moderns fear that it may occur by the will of
man who has truly tasted the fruit of knowl
edge and has become godlike in his mastery
of this same nature. The ancients looked for
omens by gazing at the movements of stars or
the flights of birds. We are also gazing at
the sky and find omens in the mushroom
clouds, ballistic missiles and sputniks. Again,
it is not god-made but man-made phenomena
that frighten us. To quote a poet again: "The
fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in
ourselves. . .
But I do have something to say that will
cheer you a little. I will not talk to you this
afternoon about the hydrogen bomb, the sput
niks, U-2 incident, the failure at the Summit—
and all the dreadful things that may happen
to us because of these developments.
I decided to talk about a different kind of
danger. I thought it more becoming a teacher
of philosophy to speak about ideas. Indeed,
the explosive power of ideas may be greater
than that of the nuclear weapons, and may
play a more decisive role in the great ide
ological confrontation of our day.
During the past war, Mortimer Adler, the
editor of the Great Books series, shocked the
academic world by declaring that the greatest
danger to democracy and the cause of human
freedom in the long run comes not from Hitler
and Stalin but from the kind of philosophy
which is being taught in our Colleges and
Universities.
It would probably be hard to defend this
sweeping indictment, and I have no intention
of trying. But I think I know what he had in
mind. Adler was not referring to any sys
tematic and organized school of philosophy
which is taught in departments of philosophy.
He was referring to certain science inspired
intellectual currents, trends and attitudes,
which are today gaining wider and wider
currency chiefly among the intellectuals and
academicians, and but are slowly spilling out
of the "ivory towers" of the academies and
are reaching the man in the street.
For a lack of a better term, we may call it
scientism: which I define as the increasing
tendency to think of man in merely scientific
terms and to apply exclusively scientific solu
tions to man's problems. The result of such
thinking is the adoption by man of a low
estimate of himself, of man the increasing de
humanization of man. The rationale of this
mode of thinking, in an oversimplified form,
runs something like this: Since astronomy tells
us that our earth is not the stationary center
of the universe, but rather a mediocre planet
revolving around a second-rate star, one among the billions and billions of stars, it ap
pears that there is no uniqueness and special
fiction called WALDEN TWO. Walden Two
significance to human earthly existence.
is a utopian community created by an experi
The whole human venture on this planet
mental
psychologist named Frazier, who has
may be nothing but "a tale told by an idiot
learned the techniques for controlling thought
full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
with precision, and who has conditioned his
Since the law of cause and effect prevails
subjects to be happy, obedient and incapable
throughout the enormous expanse of the uni
of antisocial behavior. Universal benevolence
verse, man cannot be an exception to that
and great tolerance of individual differences
law: his decisions and actions are wholly de
prevail — not because it is assumed, as the
termined. There is no such thing as free
founders of such utopias generally do assume,
choice. Truly, man is not captain of his own
that they are natural to all men uncorrupted
soul, but a victim of circumstance.
by society, but because an experimental
Since anthropology testifies to almost un
scientist has conditioned them to think bene
limited variations of customs and moral codes
volently and tolerantly.
—it is concluded that there are no universal
At Walden Two men behave in a fashion
standards of right and wrong. Morals are
we are accustomed to call "reasonable" not
but mores; ethics is a glorified etiquette.
because they reason but because they do not;
Since biology has shown that man has evolved
because "right responses" are automatic; be
the same way as the rest of the animal king
cause men have become like well trained
dom — man is nothing but another animal,
dogs. The important thing to note is that the
an "extremely clever, adaptable, and mis
conditioning is achieved by methods which
chievous little animal, whose capacity to
by-pass those very reasoning faculties, which
reason and make tools sets him apart from
were traditionally considered distinguishing
other animals.
marks of man and which education is sup
Since Freudian psychology indicates that
posed to cultivate and exercise.
man's actions are not so much dictated by
Now, it may be asked: What is wrong with
conscious reasoning or moral insight as by
Walden Two? Too bad it is only a fiction.
the subconscious primordial animal instincts,
If
people can be made to be happy, obedient
man is not a rational animal, but at best a
and incapable of anti-social behavior, who
rationalizing animal; he uses his reason chief
cares
how it has been accomplished. The
ly for the purpose of embellishing his basically
goal is so noble and necessary that we cannot
instinctive behavior.
Since Behavioristic
afford being too sensitive about the means.
Psychology suggests that man is a complex
For centuries men repeated, "you cannot
physiological machine governed by the rigid
change human nature", and religion and edu
mechanism of Stimulus-Response, almost limitcation have certainly not been able to do that.
lessly malleable and plastic, it follows that
If now science can do that, let us be thankful
there is hardly such a thing as an unchanging
for it. My reply to this is as follows: Parahuman nature.
-doxically the saying, "You cannot change
A newly born baby is just a bundle of
human nature, "is the best hope for mankind.
potentialities; it is up to the environment to
It implies that there is such a thing as human
mold it to be a saint or a villain, a law-abiding
nature, and that nature can be improved to a
citizen or a thief, a free man or a slave. And
point and corrupted to a point, but cannot be
the molding is done not by reasoning, by ap
drastically altered; it cannot be fundamentally
pealing to his better self, i.e., by what is
improved, but it cannot be fundamentally cor
traditionally called education, but by the
rupted either. It means, for example, that
Pavlovian method of conditioning.
Man’s desire for freedom and his spiritual
One could go on and on pointing out how
aspirations cannot be extirpated no matter
certain scientific ideas — some of which are
what techniques of propaganda and brain
true, others doubtful — have by implication
washing the dictators may use. It means that
tended to put man in his place, to cut him
tyranny and dictatorship are unnatural and
down to size, as it were. Now none can have
cannot last forever.
anything against science — it is the greatest
There is a tremendous difference between
and proudest achievement of the human mind.
the belief in the "perfectibility of man", and
But "scientism" is something entirely different.
the belief in the "conditioning of man". Man
One must express a grave concern about the
can be perfected only by an appeal to what
lowering of man's stature. What man thinks
is highest in him, by the cultivation of his
of himself is an important part of his environhumanity. One can hardly improve man by
ment. What man thinks he is determines to
first reducing him to the animal and then
a large degree what he thinks he ought to
using the techniques devised for the training
do — especially what he thinks he ought to
of animals to improve man. One cannot de
do in relation to his fellowmen.
grade and elevate man at the same time.
I am afraid that man has been cut down to
There is a world of difference between educa
a size which makes him tailor-made for vari
tion and indoctrination. It is a mere mystifica
ous totalitarianisms of our time. It is an aw
tion to claim that the reduction of human be
ful thought, but it was expressed by a sober
ings to the status of automata can ever insure
analyst of the temper of our age. Professor
human happiness. The inhabitants of Walden
Joseph Krutch. "May it not be" — he specu
Two are not happy; they are not happy be
lates — "that we have educated ourselves
cause they are not human, they are robots.
out of certain ideas necessary to our survival,
Few people realize that ignoble means vitiate
and that modem thought, like modem tech
and destroy even the noblest ends.
nology, has been busy chiefly with the pre
paration of instruments for an efficient as
As to the fictional character of Walden Two,
well as spectacular spiritual suicide calcu
wo must remember that we are living at a
lated to occur at about the same time that the
time, when a scientific fiction of today becomes
physical world is destroyed".
a scientific reality of tomorrow. Alas, Walden
A few years ago, a Harvard Professor of
Two. is not altogether fiction; it is already an
Psychology (B. F. Skinner), wrote a scientific
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�ugly reality in almost half of this planet.
Soviet Russia and its satellites, and Commu
nistic China are engaged in the ambitious
project of changing human nature. They are
experimenting in social engineering on an
enormous scale with the ultimate goal of
making people "happy, obedient and incapa
ble of anti-social behavior". The Communists
lake great pride in saying that their system is
"scientific" — all other systems being "prescientific". And in a certain perverse sense
of the word they are scientific. Just as New
ton has discovered the laws which govern the
movements of physical bodies, Marx believed
that he had discovered the laws which govern
history. By using these laws as a key and a
guide, the Marxists predict and plan the fu
ture.
There is no inherent dignity to a human be
lOnrrViln TnrrHfc**
ing. no "inalienable
rights", freedom is an
empty bourgeois luxury. Man is an animal —
an economic animal: a producer and a con
sumer. AU other aspects of human personali
ty are abstracted and disregarded, Man is
completely dehumanized.
The Communists,
characteristically, do not speak of man —
they speak of the masses. When man is thus
stripped of his humanity and reduced to an
economic abstraction, the rest follows with
inescapable logic, The good society then is
one with the best system of production and
consumption.
The Communists are convinced that a col
lectively owned and operated economy fills
the bill, and after joining power character
istically by force not by persuasion they pro
ceed with a laboratory testing of its validity
with an impersonal, scientific cold-bloodedness,
with all value judgements, such as right or
wrong, all sentiments and sentimentalities left
out. If a few million human beings must be
liquidated because they oppose the experi
ment, it is just too bad. This experiment
happens to involve men — not just rats and
rabbits. "One cannot make omelets without
. 'eaking eggs," was a favorite proverb of
S'.alin- Those who survive, the human guinea
;::cs in this experiment in human engineering,
must be kept under complete control, which,
after all, is another scientific requirement for
a successful experiment. The secret police
a.-.d the government propagandists, versed in
ihe techniques ci conditioning and brainwash
ing, are assigned the task of seeing to it that
the conditions of a controlled experiment are
maintained — till men become automatically
"hoppy, obedient and incapable of anti-social
behavior". When this beatific utopian vision
cc-mes to pass, the state itself will become
unnecessary and will wither away.
Now, I would like to ask two questions.
How do we in the scientifically oriented West
differ from Communism? What are our ob
jections to it?
In answer to the first question, let me quote
Aldous Huxley, one of the most acute ob
servers and critics of our Western world, the
author of a utopia of his own, the well-known
book The Brave New World.
"We are supposed to be waging a crusade
against the godless materialism of the Com
munists. In actual fact our prevailing vzorld
differs from theirs in degree and consistency,
not in kind ... a philosophy of physicalism
and cultural relativism, seasoned this side of
the Iron Curtain with a dash of Freud. In
Russia, to be sure, this philosophy has been
worked out more systematically and applied
with a stricter logic than in the West. We
have been saved insofar as we have been
saved by our — inconsistency. Our philoso
phy has no place for free will or for anything
which might be described as the soul. And
yet with a blessed absence of logic, we go
on behaving as though we believed in the
uniqueness, the paramount value of human
personality.
Habit and the fact that our fundamental
institutions were framed by men who were
firmly convinced of the existence of all things
that no scientist has ever observed, make it
quite easy for us to think one way while
acting in another, incompatible way. How
much longer can we continue to perform thj°
curious feat. One day some dangerously
logical demagogue may ask us why, if men
and women are merely the by-products of
physical and social processes, they should
not be treated as such. After which we may
expect the fiction of George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four turn into appaling fact".
Arnold Toynbee considers Communism a
heresy within what he calls the "post-Christian” or "ex-Christjan" Western civilization.
The Western thought had prepared the ground
and provided the underlying logic for Com
munism. It was the Western thought that has
deprived man of the power to choose, robbed
him of the ability to reason, and reduced his
profoundest convictions concerning the right
and wrong to the status of mere cultural
prejudices. The West has given the East both
its philosophy and its technology, and it is
now getting them back with vengeance and
large dividends.
Nov/ my second question. What is our
fundamental objection to Communism? From
the purely scientific point of view, devoid as
it is of value aspect, the only objection we
we may raise is a pragmatic one: Communism
will not work. A collectively owned and
operated economy will not produce abun
dance, at least not as well as the free-enter
prise system will. I hasten to point out that
this argument, though not decisive, cannot be
dismissed lightly either. It is a matter of
record that free-enterprise has in America
achieved the standard of living which is both
the highest and more widely distributed than
any other system in history. Among the
critics of our much maligned "affluent so
ciety", it has become something of a fashion
to deplore and condemn the mere convenience
of living; to talk condescendingly and disap
provingly about large houses, washing ma
chines, television sets, two-car garages and
cars too wide to be put into two-car garages.
The criticism is v/ell taken if it is directed
against the growing tendency of treating these
conveniences as if they were an end in them
selves. But "affluent society" is no mean
achievement in a vzorld half of whose people
still live on the borderline between hunger
and starvation. These material comforts are
not ends, but they are the means for almost
all other human ends. "One must live and
then philosophize", as the ancient Romans
said. It is therefore gratifying to know that
freedom, supremely valuable for its ov/n sake,
also works. Our not so hospitable recent
and entitled to shaping his life and pursuing
happiness in his own way; that the govern
ment and all other institutions are for the
sake of the individual.
Americanism is
humanism and individualism.
guest Nikita Khrushchev is saying in the
same breath two things, which I have some
difficulty in reconciling. He said: "We will
bury you," and "We will catch up with you."
It must be a strange sort of a patient, when
the undertaker tries to catch up with his
health even as he prepares his funeral.
Our way of life and the political institu
tions which express it, represent a philosophy
founded on the supreme value of the human
person. The American experiment has been
so eminently successful because of a creative
spirit emanating from the faith in a free man
and the conviction and faith that such a man
dedicated and disciplined can be trusted with
his own destiny. More than anything else it
was this philosophy and this spirit that out of
a vast teritory and wilderness created the
nation which is one of the wonders of the
world and still "the best hope of earth".
And yet we could make no more fatal
blunder than to rest our case on our material
achievements alone. Communism would be
evil even if it were economically successful.
Yes, even if it should surpass us in the per
quota production of steel, coal, electricity or
milk. These may do for a society of termites,
or a herd of sheep, but not for a society of
human personalities.
The good society is one which provides for
the well-being of the total man, which provides
the opportunity for the satisfaction of the needs
of the body and for the needs of the spirit.
In terms of real human values. Communism
signifies a reversion to barbarism. Its ma
terial and technological achievements need
not be denied or minimized.
But these
achievements cannot compensate for the deep
wounds inflicted upon man's spirit. To rob
men of their dignity, to stifle freedom of
thought, to brainwash, to regiment the minds
of men — is to deprive men of their humanity,
to turn them into robots. Communism denies
and disregards man's spiritual dimension.
This is why its equation cannot work. Even
if it fills the stomachs of its subjects, it would
still be a tragic failure, for it will starve their
souls,
The greatness of America, on the other hand,
has consisted in the fact that it has provided
its people with the high standard of material
living without sacrificing those spiritual things
which give life meaning and worth. America
is the country that produces more wheat than
it can -use without having lost sight of the
divine truth that man does not live by bread
alone.
The Founding Fathers of this "nation under
God" have built their noble experiment on a
high, exalted view of man. They were the
inheritors of a Judeo-Christian spiritual reli
gious tradition and the American dream of a
society of free men was largely a projection
of that spiritual dimension. "We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these
rights, governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed." These immortal words are
still the best definition of democracy. For
democracy, in the widest sense, means much
more than a special political form, a method
of carrying on governmental administration
by means of elected rather than self-appointed
officers; it means more than the economic
system of free enterprise. Democracy, in the
more basic sense, is a theory of man — the
view that man is not a mere animal, or a
mere economic unit, or one more cog in the
machinery of history, but a free human person,
a creature of flesh and bone, but also pos
sessing a spirit — a creature, therefore, of
infinite worth and dignity. From this high
estimate of man stems the further democratic
principle that each individual is capable of
£
If our supremacy in technology has for the
moment been opened to question, our supre
macy in the realm of the human spirit is be
yond doubt. We have a clear advantage in
human values, in spiritual insight, in political
liberty, and creative freedom. It is a formida
ble advantage, an advantage that weighs
heavily on the scales of destiny. Let us not
underrate or dissipate its force. Let us, rather,
find the moral courage to use it boldly to
rally behind it the humanity on both sides of
the Iron Curtain.
J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote recently:
"Nuclear weapons . . . now haunt our imagi
nations with an apocalyptic vision that could
well become a terrible reality; the disappear
ance of man as a species from the surface of
the earth. It is quite possible. But what is
more probable, more immediate and in my
opinion equally terrifying is the prospect that
man will survive while losing his precious
heritage, his civilization and his very humani
ty.”
The greatest problem of our age, beyond
the immediate business of biological survival,
is the problem of how to preserve man's hu
manity and to prevent the erosion of spiritual
and moral values in an age dominated by
science and technology which by their very
nature are incapable of promoting these larger
human goals, and may even be destructive of
them. As the magazine "The Nation" put it
recently: The future of the human race resides
in its humanity, not in its ability to construct
honeymoon motels on Venus. The age of
push-button living needs desperately a philo
sophy that makes living worthwhile — a life
warming philosophy, a tremendous vision, a
robust faith, a call to an heroic mission, a
challenge of a truly human message. We are
now in a paradoxical situation of being in
need of more science and better science to
protect us from what science can do to us.
And yet we know that a purely scientific
civilization, destitute of ideals and values,
would be as cruel for the soul as the prescientific civilization was for the body; it
would be a civilization in which, as Bertrand
Russell said, "though there may be pleasure,
there will be no joy." "There stands the in
exorable law that apart from some transcen
dent aim the civilized life either wallows in
pleasure or relapses slowly into a barren
repetition with waning intensity of feeling." —
(Alfred Whitehead)
A few years ago the late Secretary of State
Dulles spoke of the need for an "agonizing
re-appraisal" of our foreign policy. What we
need more urgently is an "agonizing re-appraisal" of our entire philosophy of life, and
philosophy of man. On this there is unani
mous agreement among the thoughtful men
of our generation. The famous French writer
Andre Malraux defines the task of the 20th
century as filling the vacuum left by the 19th
century's loss of faith.
Dr. Harold Urey, the leading nuclear physi
cist, in a recent article, after pointing out that
science gives man no purpose in living, no
objective that offers him a feeling of dignity,
wrote: "One of the greatest needs of this age
is a great prophet who can accept the facts
of science and at the same time give the in
spiration to fill the great spiritual void."
The well-known theologian Reinold Niebuhr
said in a recent article, "Christian humanism
must make common ground with the different
kind of secular humanism to protect the digni
ty of the person in an increasing technical
age."
One thing is certain.
Modern man must fight his way out of the
darkness and moral nihilism of the contempo
rary world — or else he will tend to drown
his spiritual terror in either the mad rush for
pleasure or the current ideological drugs, only
to find out to his sorrow and perhaps too late,
that he has been offered stone for bread.
I have detained you too long. It is time to
conclude and to pray. The only prayer I
can think of that sums up in a somewhat
weird way what I have been trying to say,
is the old Scotchman's prayer: "O Lord, give
us a good conceit of ourselves."
Thank you.
NEW HORIZONS
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market and an increased complexity in his
products.
The source of the advance is the same in
all cases, however. It can be expressed
dramatically in one unadorned statistic: 90
per cent of the scientists and engineers pro
duced by the human race in its long history
on earth are alive and at work today. This
means simply that the discoveries of scientific
research and the fruits of engineering develop
ment have suddenly started to pour forth in
a vast flood within your lifetime and mine.
Consequently, we have achieved literally with
in this generation the physical means for re
making the world as we choose, It is now
within the power of mankind to create a
golden age — or to extinguish virtually all
life on earth.
Our situation today is this: science and
technology have revolutionized our products
and our methods of production. They have
wiped away barriers of time and distance by
radio and television, and jet air transport.
They have opened to us the almost limitless
energy stored within the atom. They have
given us the means to launch artificial satel
lites which circle the globe in minutes, and
space vehicles with which man will attempt
to probe the solar system.
The world which appeared to expand
through centuries of exploration has been re
duced almost overnight to a small island. Its
farthest corners are as accessible to us as
were the adjoining states to our grandparents.
Today, we cover in less than an hour, a
distance greater than men traveled in a week
but a short time ago. We see and hear in
stantly events occurring thousands of miles
away. Technology has mastered time and
distance.
The shrinking of our planet has tended to
raise both the living standards and the as
pirations of all men. But with these positive
effects, it also has released new tides and
tensions which profoundly affect the world
environment. National, economic, and racial
inequalities, blurred in former years by
distance, have sprung into sharper focus. The
result is widespread ferment among millions
who seek self-determination and a greater
share of political and economic opportunity.
At the same time, the physical conquest of
time and distance has encouraged the re
grouping of mankind into ever larger com
munities bound together by common traditions
and values. Today, these communities are
dominated largely by two major opposing
spheres of influence whose mutual distrust
has been re-emphasized by the events of re
cent weeks. Because of science and tech
nology, each has the physical capability of
launching weapons, the general use of which,
would virtually guarantee the destruction of
civilization as we know it.
Mankind seems at the moment to be relying
for salvation upon the universal revulsion to
the prospect of atomic war — in essence, a
balance of terror. This is hardly a satisfac
tory environment in which to exist and pro
gress through the years ahead. It is. how
ever, a consequence of our having failed to
mature in wisdom and spirit so as to adjust
to the swift changes brought upon us by
science and technology. I shall return to this
thought in a few moments in considering the
attitudes with which we approach the chal
lenges of our new environment.
Let me turn now to yet another aspect of
this environment — one which offers chal
lenge in its ov/n way. The scientific prog
ress which has so altered the world around
us, also has brought accelerating change to
the conditions under which we live and work
within our own national community. A new
movement is unfolding in industry and com
merce, with potential results extending into all
phases of our society. Again, this stems from
our scientific advance, principally in the field
of electronics. I refer to the swift extension
of electronic data processing techniques,
coupled with automation. It relates in a parti
cular way to the processes of management.
It is probably inaccurate to describe this
movement as new. In a strict sense, we see
today a continuing stage in a process which
began many years ago — the Industrial
Revolution itself.
The Industrial Revolution saw burdens of
labor removed from the muscular effort of
man. The curent movement will see man re
lieved of many mental and decision, making
functions. Through the use of these instru
mentalities, the timeliness of information and
the accuracy of this information will improve,
leading to more precise control over all pro
ductive processes. The ability of persons in
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�charge to have a fuller understanding and to
make better and more effective decisions will
likewise improve. It will thus be possible to
deal fundamentally with the increasingly
complex problems and situations which con
front us. Apart from industry and commerce
these same instrumentalities will be effective
in understanding human behavior, in diag
nosis, and treatment of disease and in the
processes of research and technology.
All of this means an upgrading of the skills
needed to cope with today's and tomorrow's
situations. While more is required of him in
this sense, man will be more productive and
be better served in nearly all phases of life.
The impact of science and its results on all
walks of life point up the need for emphasis
on education and on the numbers of persons
educated. You, in fact, are moving into an
increasingly educated society. I need not
cite statistics for the increasing numbers of
persons completing secondary schools, col
leges, and universities.
These are well
known . The white collar man is outstripping
the blue collar man. Rather, it might be more
correct to say that numbers who would at an
earlier time have been scheduled for the blue
collar ranks, are moving to white collar status
by the processes of education. This is a
necessary condition of our age.
Having considered characteristics of our
time and something of how these have come
about, let me novz make brief observations
regarding certain attitudes.
A half century ago vze were in the midst of
programs of self-reliance in everyday affairs
and of growth oi materialism in religion. Man
was self-satisfied. He vzas in control of his
actions and could regulate his destiny — so
he believed. Tvzo world vzars and the current
continuing cold war have shaken these con
victions. Man has become unsure as to his
self-reliance; unsure that he can plan and
regulate his destiny. Today the threatened
use cf nuclear force shocks men to the uncertainties ahead.
With certainties less tangible, with convic•idns less sure as io what were considered as
stable values, one sets out to seek new ap
proaches, new anchor points — in short,
refuge, It is an in-built characteristic of man
•hat he requires certainty. Lacking certainty,
he becomes restless — he seeks and gropes
for another certainty, a new security. In some
it results in a constructive search for solutions.
In some results in an attitude of just wishing
that the problems would go away. In yet
others it results in despair, in giving up as
to a purposeful, constructive approach.
With all this goes a tendency to compromise
with the higher values in life. In individual
and group actions one sees a tendency to
accept compromise in behavior and morals —
to accept less than the good or the truthful
in society and entertainment. In business, in
politics and in actions of nation-to-nation,
these same compromises appear. The cost
and danger in high resolve grow from day to
day. Yet these high purposes are just as
important, just as right as when man lived
in a simpler world.
We still do draw a line, and I am sure that
vze will continue to do this. Yet vze are in
the portion of a cycle vzhere vze continually
push the line — that line vzhere we take our
stand — farther and farther avzay. Today
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we accept behavior in private and public life
which a short time ago would have disturbed
us. Today we accept acts on the part of
nations which yesterday would have brought
men to arms. There is a need today for more
tolerance. Yet we are seemingly losing our
ability to arise in righteous indignation.
I have made these observations to sound
warnings — so that you may recognize these
expressions of our times and their related ac’□p your own
tions — so that you may develoj
These cunent
fundamentals and convictions. Tl
attitudes, if continued, are certainly ones
which will sap our strength. There is great
need for statesmanship in individual and
corporate life.
Let me follow up what I have covered by
stating five propositions and at the same time
stating my convictions regarding these propo'
sitions.
I emphasize that we are living in a scien
tific age. My first proposition is that — it is
imperative that we understand our scientific
age. Now as to my position on this — I be
lieve that for the man of government, for the
man of commerce, for the man of industry,
for people everywhere, there must be a grow
ing awareness of science and what science
is producing. There must be an understanding
of our environment, our nation, our world, in
terms of what science provides.
There must be undestanding that geography
in terms of time and distance is forever gone.
We are exploding into the "space age".
For the leaders of tomorrow there must be
appreciation, knowledge and training in
science. For how can a man lead unless he
understands with some depth just what forces
motivate and move in our world of today and
tomorrow?
Not all educated persons can or should be
trained in the sciences. Yet in the future,
all must develop an appreciation and an
understanding oi science and what the re
sults of science will determine for our world.
I should like to impress this thought upon each
of you, for the truth of this will grow clearer
as time moves on.
I outlined evolving conditions of our times
which bring in turn attitudes on fundamental
behavior which tend toward softening and
compromise. My second proposition is that —
it is necessary that we check and reverse the
current trend — that we stand firm for the
fundamentals of the right — that we honor
justice and freedom for al! people and that
we be willing to pay the price for these re
solves and convictions. Now, again, as to
my position — I believe that we have a basic
need to re-appraise basic values, to establish
appropriate standards and to then stand firm.
To be lasting, I believe that one must set lofty
ideals. I believe that one must move ahead
and for that which is right. I believe that to
stand still, to compromise can end only in
retrogression and decay. I believe that goals
must be set high, for less than the best will
not stir men to action. Here you need to
take your stand, you must prepare to carry
your share of the responsibility.
I have said that our evolving situation is
complex and that this complexity increases
day-by-day. My third proposition is that we
must think deeply, profoundly and completely
about our individual and world conditions,
and from this we must schedule courses of
action. My position — I believe that more
than ever before we need clear, trained
minds; we need forward planning of the
highest order. Your best and your utmost are
needed for the future.
With the basic need for understanding our
scientific age under a rapidly evolving tech
nology, with the increasing complexity which
underlies our local and world situations, with
the need for thoughtful long range planning,
it is self-evident that there is a natural re
quirement for continual refreshing. My fourth
proposition is — that this your graduation is
truly the commencement of your life-long
continuation of the educational process. My
belief is that, more than ever before, each
educated person in our society must continue
to learn- in order that he or she may be truly
creative and constructive in the calling in
which he or she is active. There is in reality
no end — no finish line to the need for and
the purpose of learning.
I stated that man has lost the assured selfreliance of several decades ago. My fifth
proposition is that — God rules in the affairs
of men. We need to understand this and to
base our acts accordingly. Now as to my
convictions—I would put it as Joshua did over
three thousand years ago when question arose
among the people. He is recorded as saying,
”,.. but as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord".
May I make this pointed observation to you.
One is for or one is against. There is no
position of being "on-the-fence" or being
neutral as to one's beliefs concerning God and
His requirements of us.
These are some of the characteristics of the
world into which you will move after today.
Maybe you do not think well of the inheri
tance which we, the older generation, have
provided. Problems — yes, complexity —
yes, uncertainty — yes, danger — yes. But
ihen history shows that man has always
traveled an uncomfortable pathway, buffeted
between extremes of good and evil. What is
different now, however, is that the tools which
man produces are becoming more and more
powerful and concentrated. These are be
coming all-powerful when put to destructive
purposes. The increasingly powerful weapons
of destruction, the division of our world into
two camps of basically opposing concepts and
the possibility of control and action by so
few persons — these are the essential and
fundamental elements in which we move and
live.
Yet never before has the challenge been
clearer. Never before has the opportunity
for service and leadership been greater. We
are at the beginning of a golden age if we
direct all our means to the benefit of mankind.
At the same time we may be thought of as
on the verge of destruction if these same
means are directed to selfish, greedy and de
praved ends. Such are the choices. Surely
we need to develop faith, wisdom and toler
ance more nearly the equivalent of our techni
cal prowess.
This novz becomes your world — yours in
which to build based upon your training of
the past years — yours to take on new re
sponsibilities — yours to share in the suc
cesses and heartaches. In all that you do,
in all that you achieve — may you seek and
receive the Lord's blessing.
THREE-PHASE DEVELOPMENT
(continued from page 4)
Mrs. William C. Davis
John E. Guiney
William J. Johnstone
Jack P. Kam
Dr. Robert M. Kerr
1946
No. on Honor Roll ......... ...................... 4 out of 36
% of Participation............................................. 11%
S47.50
S Contributed __________ ___ .....................
_
Mrs. J. Ronald Carey
Mrs. Harry Fierverker
Mrs. Emrys P. Lewis
Doris M. Raub
1940
No. on Honor Roll ................
% of Participation ..............
S Contributed .........................
James B. Aikman
Mrs. Robert Berman
Mrs. Arthur Davies
James D. Hunt
Mrs. James D. Hunt
Donald R. Kersteen
Grace F. Matthews
Robert J. Patton
John W. VanLoon
9 out of 65
........... 14%
..... S103.00
1948
1941
No. on Honor Roll ................ „.
% of Participation _________
S Contributed ................ ...........
Dr. John A. Anthony
Benjamin Badman, Jr.
Thomas Brislin
William C. Davis
David L. Friedman
Alfred S. Groh
Raymond H. Young
1942
No. on Honor Roll __ ______
% of Participation ................
S Contributed .........................
Mary Rose Brislin
Warren A. Kistler
Dr. Peter Mayock
John M. Pisano
Mrs. Harold Rosenn
1943
No. on Honor Roll ......................
% of Participation .............. .......
S Contributed ....... .......................
Harry S. Baut, Jr.
Paul L. Davis
Mrs. Thomas Flanagan
Theodore Glowacki
Nelson F. Jones
Ruth L. Keats
Dr. William S. Myers
7 out of 51
........... 14%
...... S268.50
5 out of 64
............. 8%
...... S110.00
7 out of 46
........... 15%
..... S130.59
1944
No. on Honor Roll ......................... .. 10 out of 52
% of Participation .......................... ................. 19%
S Contributed ..... ...... ...... ............... ........... S142.50
Robert E. Barnum
Mrs. Walter L. Douglass
Loretta Farris
Mrs. Nelson F. Jones
Dr. Alex Kotch
Mrs. Creighton Lytle
Mrs. William S. Myers
William C. Robinson
Mrs. George A. Tredick, Jr.
Mrs. Robert H. Voelker
1945
No. on Honor Roll ........................
% of Participation ........................
S Contributed ................................
Atty. Gifford Cappellini
*Mrs. Jean S. Iba
Jerry J. Kryger
Emrys P. Lewis
1947
No. on Honor Roll................
6 out of 67
% of Participation................
—.............. 9%
S Contributed .......
-........... -■ S130.00
M. Lloyd Davies
Dr. Edward M. Dwyer
George J. Kuzmak
Kenneth F. Maloney
Dr. Walter E. Margie
Victor J. Swinski
4 out of 49
............. 8%
........ S85.00
27 out of 207
No. on Honor Roll ....................
................ 13%
% of Participation................ —
..........
S549.59
S Contributed .............. ..............
Frank J. Bujnowski
net Coats
Mrs. Margai
Richard H. IConklin
ey
John A. Cooney
jberstein
William S. Dot
Paul R. Doris
Mrs. Carl Dudeck
Mrs. Frank J. Evan
George F. Fry, Jr.
Joseph S. Goldberg
John G. Gooch
Michael Harris
Mrs. Florence D. Kempinski
John P. Kotis
Mrs. Jerome Mintzer
Clemens A. Pell
Reese E. Pelton
John M. Porter
Marino Ruggere
Atty. Joseph J. Savitz
Eugene L. Shaver
Joseph B. Slamon, Jr.
Sheldon G. Turley
Joseph J. Tyburski
Frederick D. Varker
Charles W. Williams
Daniel E. Williams
1949
... 42 out of 288
No. on Honor Roll
................... 15%
% of Participation
.......... S808.50
Contributed
___________
___
S
Robert Anthony
Philip Baron
Melvin Barry
Dr. Doris S. Bartuska
Clayton A. Bloomburg
Jack W. Brobyn
Gerald P. Bush, Jr.
Ralph B. Connor
Malcolm W. Dale
Dr. Carl Dudeck
Captain Samuel Elias
"Trank J. Evan
Harry Fierverker
Mrs. Walter R. Fleet, Jr.
Thomas M. Gill
Louis T. Groshel
Mrs. Robert G. Haag
Joseph Kanner
Clayton Karembelas
Dr. David Katz
Margaret R. Lawlor
Thomas R. Lewis
John W. Martin
Chester H. Miller, Sr.
Jerome Mintzer
Mrs. Sheldon L. Morrison
Dr. Sheldon L. Morrison
John A. Moss
A. J. Perkson
Mrs. John M. Porter
Allen P. Prodgers
Mrs. A. K. Rasmussen
Jay F. Rauscher
Arthur J. Rice
Edmund A. Sajeski
Clemence A. Scott
Joseph Sooby
Dr. Albert J. Stratton. Jr.
Robert G. Sweigert
Joseph Teno
Donald O. Vernall
Donald Wolfe
1950
....... . 54 out of 351
No. on Honor Roll ..
___________ _ 15%
% of Participation ..
.................. S828.50
S
Contributed ......
William H. Bergstrasser
William W. Boyd
George Brody
William J. Brown
Augustine C. Buzby
Robert S. Capin
Robert M. Chopick
Michael F. Connors
Leonard J. Czajkowski
James W. Davis
^Benjamin A. Dragon
Michael Elchak
Mrs. James Erickson
George F. Ermel
Mrs. Carl T. Evans
Mrs. Edward Eyerman, III
Dr. Don C. Follmer
Mrs. Daniel V. Gawlas
*Leon M. Gilbert
Albert E. Herbert
Dr. George E. Hudock
Mrs. Homer Huffman
Earl G. Jobes
Francis S. Koch
Francis B. Krzywicki
Edward Lidz
Mario E. Lizzi
Carl J. Malisheski
Joseph M. Marino
Dr. Walter E. Mokychic
Daniel A. Norman
C. P. Omichinski
John L. Owens
Frank Paduck
Edgar C. Plummer
Dr. William A. Plummer
Maurice Z. Price
Herbert M. Quick
A. K. Rasmussen
Clyde H. Ritter
Charles A. Salinis
Mostyn Saye
Steven Senka
Daniel Sherman
Mrs. Doris Spence
John D. Stark
John J. Surash
Joseph Swartwood
John Turchin
Mrs. Sheldon G. Turley
Anthony Urban
Robert L. Williams
Russell H. Williams
A. Ted Wolfe
1951
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation
46 out of 299
........ ........ 15%
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�S Contributed
................
Mrs. Martin W. Altman
Frank Anderson
Mrs. Frank Anderson
Dcnald E. Blankenbush
Sanford Cohen
Delbert J. Cragle
Norman E. Cromack
Norman W. Cress
James B. Davenport
William G. Dyke
Mrs. Samuel Elias
Tudor M. Ellis
Mrs. Ralph M. Goodman
John A. Good
John Gresh, Jr.
Robert W. Hall
George Heffernan, Jr.
Nicholas A. Heineman
Harry Hiscox
William Holtzman
Mrs. Leonard J. Hopkins
Walter W. Hom
Harold J. Hymen
Charles F. Jackson
Merten E. Jones
Stanley J. Kieszek
James A. Morse
Dr. Herbert N. Oliver, Jr.
Mrs. C. P. Omichinski
Joseph C. Pawlak
Mrs. Adrian M. Pearsall
"D. Joseph Pelmoter
M. Thomas Robbins
Rev. Fred B. Schultz
Andrew Skumanich
-Robert J. Smith
Mrs. John D. Stark
Robert P. Starr
Dr. Robert S. Tether
E. Olin Thomas
Mrs. E. Ol'n Thomas
James D. Trumbower
Vester V. Vercoe
Mrs. Kenneth P. Wenz
John W. Williams
Stanley T. Yunkunis
S745.50
1952
No. cn Honor Roll
32 out of 211
15%
% of Participation......... ...............
.......... S814.53
S Contributed
—
.
A. Francis Casper
Albert T. Cole
Mrs. Robert T. Croucher
Fred R. Davis
Lecn J. Decker
Mrs. Pricilla S. Drake
Daniel S. Dzury
Frank Eastman
William E. Evans, III
Carl A. Fosko
Mrs. Robert W. Hall
William G. Hart
David H. Hopkins
Albert B. Jacobs
Mrs. Anita Janerich
John Kircbman
Leonard F. Lane
Chester N. Molley
Alexander Molosh
-Robert D. Morris
John Murtha
Joseph Obeid
John Palsha
Mrs. Helen Ralston
James G. Richardson
Richad L. Soripp
Mrs. Richard L. Soripp
John E. Strojny
Mrs. C. R. Thompson
12
William J. Umphred
Dolores R. Wachowski
Carl Wallison
1953
No. on Honor Roll
— 24 out of 179
13%
% of Participation................... ......
S248.59
-........... ......
S Contributed
Paul B. Beers
Mrs. Hal Berg
Mrs. Marvin Berg
E. Ronald Brennan
Edwin Cobleigh
Robert V. Croker, Jr.
Geraldine A. Fell
Denah Fleisher
Charles A. Giunta
Homer Huffman
Mrs. Albert B. Jacobs
Mrs. Carl Karassik
Joseph Kropiewnicki
Dr. David W. Kunkle
Alan G. Levin
Mrs. George J. McMahon
Dr. George J. McMahon
Robert J. Onufer
Frank M. Radaszewski
Mrs. J. George Siles
Leo E. Solomon
David B. Whitneyjy
Mrs. Edward E. Yarasheski
Sander Yelen
1954
No. on Honor Roll
.......... -.... 41 out of 197
. ......... 21%
% of Participation ....... ........ ......
....................... S591.22
S Contributed
T. R. Adams
Mrs. Anita Allen
Mrs. Leonard Connolly
Robert T. Croucher
Edward R. Davis
George Elias
Mrs. Charles E. Hagen
Mrs. William Holtzman
Barry Iscovitz
Phillip D. Jones
Marvin Kanner
Carl Karassik
Thomas Kelly
Hillard A. Kemp
Thomas A. Kislan
William Lendener
Michael J. Lewis, Jr.
Lucy J. Liggett
Dr. John A. Lupas
Chaplain Wayne S. Madden
-Van Clifton Martin
George Mcdrak
Rev. James Moss
William. E. Paparoski
Mrs. Katherine Peckham
Harry A. Pittman
Theresa Sapp
Mrs. Abe Savitz
Mrs. Thomas Semanek
Joseph J. Sikora
Andrew Sofranko, Jr.
Raymond Tait
Arthur Taylor
George A. Thomas
Albert J. Wallace
Mrs. Carl Wallison
Mrs. Robert J. Wilson
-John J. Wojnar
Peter Wurm
Mrs. Stanley K. Young
1955
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation
40 out of 182
22%
.. SB38.40
S Contributed
Insurance
—Insurance and Gift
Dean A. Arvan
*'•’Walter Chapko
-’Casimer Ciesla
**William Crowder
Mrs. Leon J. Decker
* '' James Dull
"-Robert Dymond
Mrs. Robert Elias
’'"Howard Ennis
-Melvin W. Farkas
Ronald J. Fitzgerald
Dorothy E. Hessler
David L. Hoats
***Arthur J. Hoover
Judith Hopkins
Melvin S. Karp
*’:’John Kearney
*-John Lancio
"'"Margaret Luty
--Mrs. Richard McGuire
''"Mrs. Paul W. Merrill
’■"'Robert Metzger
--James Neveras
---Russell R. Picton
Rev. John S. Prater
'■"Michael Riley
* "David Rosser
**Austin Sherman
Carl Smith
’•’’’’Eugene Snee
""Kingsley N. Snyder
--Albert Spanich
’•"•’Lou Steck
-"Mrs. Murray Strassman
Donald J. Tosh
---Joseph J. Trcsko
-’’Howard Updyke
Captain Joseph O. Yanovitch
" * ’’Edward Y crash eski
---Ralph M. Zezza
1956
No. an Hcnor Roll
I35 out of 243
................ 15%
% vl
of Twxllcipaticn
Participation .......... —
.......... S419.00
S Contributed
Michael J. Barone
William G. Beck
Mrs. Paul B. Beers
Mis. Madge K. Benovitz
Fred J. Boate
Forrest Bromfield
Robert W. Darrow
Kern C. Dibble
Robert Elias
Sylvester J. Evan
Robert T. L. Evans
James F. Ferris
Mrs. Walter S. Fisher
Mrs. Rcnald J. Fitzgerald
Henry K. Gcetzman
Hugh B. Hughes
Sheldon D. Isaac
Reese D. Jones
Jean M. Kravitz
John P. Kushnerick
Mrs. Gerald Lind
Mrs. William P. Lloyd, III
Chester Miller, Jr.
James B. Mitchell
Mrs. Irma Molitoris
Mrs. Barbara G. Neuwirth
Jan A. Olenginski
Raymond Radaszewski
Mrs. James G. Richardson
David T. Shearer
Samuel R. Shugar
Mrs. Karl M. Thomas
Lawrence A, Turpin
Carl Van Dyke
Thomas T. Williams
1957
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation
S Contributed
Larry D. Amdur
Jesse Choper
John L. Coates
Lawrence E. Cohen
Andrew H. Evans
Raymond Falchek
Natalie Gripp
William J. Jacobson
George A. Kolesar
Roland Leonard
Gerald Lind
Mrs. Robert B. Morris
John J. Musto
Mrs. Richard J. Myers
Martin J. Novak
Mrs. Charles J. Puios
Shirley Jean Ray
Mrs. Max Rosenn
Eugene Roth
J. George Siles
Margaret E. Smith
Terry L. Smith
Nelson Stauffer
James R. Stocker
Joseph J. Szcstak
Norman Tabor
Karl M. Thomas
Matilda M. Trzcinski
Mrs. William R. Tubbs
Dr. Carl R. Urbanski
Joseph J. Valunas
J. Elaine Williams
32 out of 230
14%
.......... S465.50
1958
43 out of 277
No. cn Honor Roll
16%
% of Participation .................. ......
.......... S624.09
S Contributed
Anthony M. Bianco
Mrs. Anthony M. Bianco
John D. Blannett
Samuel T. Buckman, Jr.
William A. Cubit
Thomas O. Dreisbach
Walter S. Fisher
Stephen J. Gaydas
Carolyn J. Goeringer
Max Berk Greenwald
"John P. Heim
Mrs. Harry Hiscox
William L. James
Nancy J. Jones
Ahmad M. Kazimi
Frank J. Kogut
Edmund J. Kotula
Marian J. Laines
Merle Levey
William P. Lloyd. Ill
Samuel J. Lowe
Mrs. Edwin L. Lyons
Charles McGlynn, Jr.
Michael Margo
Mrs. Edward Moss
Leonard J. Mulcahy
Mrs. Martin J. Novak
Mary L. Onufer
Mrs. Robert Pitel
Charles J. Puios
Samuel C. Puma
Mis. Arthur R. Richards
Joseph S. Rizzo
Robert Scally
Jerome Stone
Dorothy L. Thomas
John J. Toraitis
Paul J. Tracy
James P, Ward
Mrs. James P. Ward
Mary E. West
Stanley P. Yurkowski
William A. Zdancewicz
7 Leading Classes
in Amount Pledged
1959
No. cn Honor Roll
....
41 out of 308
% of Participation........... ........
13%
S Contributed
..............
S738.31
William E. Acomley
Mary E. Anchel
Jacob B. Annillei
Helen Beizup
George H. Black
Edward J. Boltz, Jr.
Mrs. Marvin Brand
Class of 1959
James M. Cornelius
Samuel M. Davenport
Barbara M. Drasher
James L. Eidam
Gwen W. Evans
Barr Gartley
Mrs. Stephen Gaye
rdos
Arline Jennie Hill
Margaret D. Jones
Marion J. Klawonn
Albert P. Kuchinskas
Thomas J. Lally
Mrs. Thomas J. Lally
John Rodger Lewis
Mrs. Michael J. Lewis, Jr.
Edward McCafferty
Mark S. cKeown
Reginald T. Matiolli
Robert C. Morgan
Mrs. Margaret Morris
Robert B. Morris
Chester J. Nocek
Nancy J. Payne
-Robert Pitel
Arthur J. Podesta
Arthur R. Richards
Mrs. Joseph S. Rizzo
Thomas Ruggerio
Elizabeth Schwartz
Mary Lou Spinelli
R. Wayne Walters
Ann Yevich
Patricia A. Yost
Evelyn Zurenda
I960
No. of Gifts
..
S Contributed
Charles S. Butler
John M. Evans
Robert A. Florio
Ira Himmel
Allyn C. Jones
Arnold J. Popky
George T. Reynolds
Ralph E. Rittenhouse
Gordon E. Roberts
George Russett
Richard Salus
Michael Samberg
Anthony Sankus
Joanne Yurchak
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S286.03
Anonymous Gift — S3.00
Gave their Alma Mater a double assist:
their gifts resulted in Corporate Matching
Gifts.
These alumni have adopted insurance
plans beneficial to the College.
These alumni carrying insurance have
also given an additional gift.
$828.50
814.50
808.50
745.50
738.31
638.40
624.00
1950
1952
1949
1951
1959
1955
1958
7 Leading Classes
in Participation
........
27%
1955 .............
1954
....
1944
.......
1958
....... 22%
21%
19%
......16%
1943
1949
1950
1951
1952
1956
15%
15%
15%
15%
15%
15%
1940
14%
1941
14%
19^1
14%
1936
TOTAL PARTICIPATION
15.2%
Permanent Class
Officers and Trustees
CLASS of 1960
PRESIDENT
John T. Mulhall, West Pittston
VICE-PRESIDENT
John P. Mattey, Ashley
SECRETARY
Moncey Miller, Wilkes-Barre
TREASURER
Richard Salus, Wyoming
TRUSTEES
Alfonso S. Zawadsky, Mountaintop
Robert D. Washburn, New York
Frank Steck, Kingston
Paul A. Klein, Wilkes-Barre
Gordon E. Roberts, Plains
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�ALUMNI SURVEY - Part III
The final portion of the Alumni Survey is now before you. As you read perhaps it will complete a picture
of you as it has done for us here at the College.
Because of the nature of the survey, the final report was rather bulky and so we thought that breaking it
into three parts would enable you to read it and not take too much of your time at one sitting. We hope that
our reasoning was sound and that you have enjoyed reading the results of the survey piecemeal.
There is no doubt in our minds that the survey has been completely successnil for not only did we have a
large number of you participate in answering the questionnaire but also we have, for the first time, a compre
hensive analysis of our alumni and their achievements. In addition, we have received comments from you that
justify completely the Raison. D'Etre of Wilkes College. Your comments have highlighted the weaknesses as well
as the strengths of Wilkes for which we are most grateful. Corrective measures are even now being planned to
improve upon and eliminate many of our weaknesses.
But what about you — how do you appear to us? Compositely, you are relatively young as alumni of a
college go. You are industrious and vitally interested in your careers and in sound individual development and
are undoubtedly serious and working hard to make your mark. Of particular interest and inspiration to all here
at the college has been your continued development since leaving Wilkes. The large number of you who have
gone on to graduate school is particularly gratifying to us and more gratifying perhaps is the number of you
who have taken an avid interest in community affairs — culturally and socially.
Your comments indicate that you feel that you have been well trained and that Wilkes College has served
you well. From this we can only assume that you will continue to be staunch supporters of your college and will
do all that is in your power to help make it better.
As you read on, we hope you will find the survey as interesting to you as we found it interesting to all of us
here at the college.
OCCUPATIONS OF OUR ALUMNI
Below are the occupations of all alumni who re
turned their questionnaires. They have been divided
into various categories and grouped according to the
nature of the firm or business. We have placed the
alumnus in the category described by the type of in
dustry and the work involved. Thus a chemist can
be listed under any number of categories depending
upon the nature of the firm's business. For example,
if a chemist is working for a pharmaceutical house he
is placed in that category. If working for a heavy in
dustry, he is placed there. Accountants, engineers,
writers, etc., etc., are all handled the same way.
Leading the list is the Personal, Education and
Religious occupations category. The alumni grouped
into this category are teachers or anyone connected
with educational institutions plus doctors, lawyers,
dentists, ministers and alumni who have privatelyowned businesses. The majority of this category is
composed of educators.
Next on the list is the Heavy Industry category.
Included in this are engineers, draftsmen, analysts,
chemists, accountants, management and many other
positions which have been grouped according to the
nature of the firm.
Ranking third on the list is the Housewife category,
many of whom have held jobs at one time or another
but are now raising families and running households.
This in itself is a full-time job.
Many of our alumni are presently engaged in
Government work which is the next category in suc
cession. Servicemen of all ranks and branches of the
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service are included, in addition to the U. S. Treasury
Agents, lawyers, chaplains, physicians, policemen and
women or any other person associated with the govern
ment in any capacity.
The following is_ a complete account of all ocupations showing the percentage and number of alumni
working in each group:
Table 9
Personal, Education & Religious ...
Personal —
..
Small Business
-.......
Doctors
.......
Lawyers
-........
CPA's & Accountants —
Education
Elementary & Secondary
Higher -------------------------Religious
-......................
Heavy Industry .................... —
Engineers
..................
Accountants —
Chemists
........ ..........
Management Positions —
Machinists
..
Lab & Research Tech
Analysts
s
Designers
Draftsmen
-
No.
512
Per
centage
26.38%
114
33
48
14
19
373
316
57
25
283
14.58%
98
23
17
117
6
7
6
3
6
Housewife
271
13.96%
Government
Armed Forces
Vet. & State Hospital Employees
Other Branches of Govt.
City or State Employees
221
11.39%
94
27
79
21
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
Finance
-...........
Insurance ......................... —~.
Real Estate
Business Services
Business Positions
48
Clerical Employees -----10
Proprietors
...............
5
Engineers
..........
16
Directors (of various
projects & activities)
8
Accountants
-..................
8
Attending School Presently (Advanced Degrees)
Food. Furniture & Textiles
Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals
.
Chemicals
Small Business
_.
Accountants
................
Chemists
.............
Lab Technician & Analyst
Engineers
.....
—
Asst. Scientist ----------------Pharmaceuticals
........
Small Business
...............
Research
....................
Microbe Biologist
Pharmacologist
Pharmacist
Medical Technologists
Chief Technicians
Nursing Instructors
Director of Nurses
Lab Employees
Nurses
..
Medical Secretaries
Other Hospital Employees
Construction, Agriculture & Mining
Construction
Salesmen. Mgrs. & Rep
Accountants
95
4.89%
4.74%
4.64%
33
27
3
1
1
1
17
14
3
40
32
4
1
3
6
Engineers
Architect
~
1
Inspector
1
Bridge Designer ..............
1
Contractor
Agriculture
—
Mining
.
....... ........
5
Salesmen, Supt., etc
2
Engineers
Attorney
................... —
1
Accountant
Secretary of Corp
ng & Publishing
Printinc
Pi
’rinting —
5
Mgrs., Directors & Rep.
7
Reporters
2
Editors
2
Clerks ........................1
Copy Reader.....................
Publishing ................................
Reporters, Office Mgrs.
5
& Area Mgrs
Directors (of various
4
departments)
.
1
Writer
1
Sales Instructor
—
Unemployed
Trade
76
0
10
28
11
13
...... .
......... —
1.44%
17
.67%
.10% 2
3.92%
OCCUPATIONAL FIELDS AND PROFESSIONS
(Per Cent of Grads)
67
38
4
16
2
6
1
Chart 8
9
4
2
1
Personal, Education & Religious
~26%~]
Heavy Industry
"issTI
Housewife
1
Government
Transportation, Communication & Public Utilities
Transportation
.....................................—
Mgrs., Representatives,
Supervisors
Claims & Transportation, Agents
Clerical Help
—
Dispatcher
Engineers
Communication
Engineers
Accountants ............... Business (includes Mgrs., Super
visors & experts in this field) ..
Technical Aides
Radio & TV Station Mgrs.,
Broacasters, etc
Public Utilities
Telephone
Power & Light
Gas
.........
Director of Public Utilities
Railroad
Water
Hospital Services
-........................
5.56%
92
90
.
Food
............................ .
Small Business
Lab Technician & Analyst
Engineer
.
Food Chemist
Clerical Help ----------- ----Furniture
.................. .
Small Business
Clerical Help
Textiles ..................... —..................
Small Business
Engineers
....
.............
Chemist
.
Clerical Help
................
108
34
68
6
68
II To )
3.50%
12
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate
5
2
2
1
2
Attending School Presently (Advanced Degrees)
~5%~]
24
6
2
Food, Furniture & Textiles
7
2
Chemicals Sc Pharmaceuticals
Transportation, Communication Sc Public Utilftiei
~45~l
7
32
Hospital Services
12
7
4
1
3
5
Construction, Agriculture Sc Mining
Printing Sc Publishing
52
4
9
S3
2.68%
Unemployed
||
Less than 1%
�Table 10
Reasons
3.390
283
101
68
Positive
Doubtful
Negative ...
No Answer
3.812
This total is far over and above the number of
questionnaires returned (1,941), because, in many in
stances, the alumnus gave one or more answers to
this question, thereby increasing the number of an
swers in the above total. In addition, two answers
were often given for the same question — positive and
doubtful or positive and negative; i.e., qualified an
swers, which made it necessary for us to split one an
swer into two categories. As indicated above, a certain
number gave no answer at all to this question.
Chart 9
~:
Positive
88%
|
Doubtful
7% I
Negative
3% I
No Answer
2%
|
Why Do You Feel This Way?
Our replies concerning the general appraisal of
Wilkes College were by far favorable. It should be
noted that in the next three questions of this survey,
the reasons were taken directly from the answers re
ceived on the questionnaires. The alumni were not
given these reasons to check off from a list. These
are the thoughts that came into the minds of our alumni
as they freely answered the questions. We must also
remember that these replies cover the era of the gradu
ate as he remembers it. Many changes have taken
place.
Of those answering question no. 1, 88% of the
reasons given were positive, 7% were doubtful, 3%
were negative, and 2% gave no answer at all.
The following is a complete breakdown of positive
answers, listing all of the reasons given for our alum
ni's willingness to recommend a student to attend
Wilkes College:
POSITIVE REASONS
Table 11
650
385
355
286
232
147
142
107
105
96
93
91
85
77
57
53
16
—
—
—
—
—
-—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Good Education (General)
Small College
Attitude Toward Faculty
High Scholastic Standards
Student-Faculty Relationship
emparative General
Education
Preparation
Cci
*
' *
idividual Development
Ina
Curriculum
Social Adjustment
Graduate Preparation
No Reason Given
Financial Reasons
High Scholastic Standing
Pleasant Surroundings
Geographic Location
Facilities
48
42
38
33
32
31
29
28
28
27
21
14
11
10
8
5
5
4
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
Relations with Faculty
— Small Classes
— Intellectual Stimulation
— Vocational Preparation
— Dr. Farley
— Non-Educational (Not Specified)
— Extra-Curricular Activities
— Efficient Administration
— Community Oriented
— Cultural Growth
— Friendly Student Body
— Friendly College
— Commuter College
— Professional Growth
— Co-Educational College
— Guidance
— Selectivity of Students
— Non-Sectarian College
— Good Teacher Training (Education)
— Good Math Department
— Absence of Fraternities & Sororities
— Dormitory Living
— Good Training (Engineering)
— Athletic Policy
— Good Teacher Training (Biology)
— Good Physics Department
— Personal Pride
Attitude Toward Faculty
Student-Faculty Relationship
I
355
232
587
Size of College and Classes
Small College
.. 385
Small Classes ............................................................. .. 48
433
Question No. 1
DOUBTFUL ANSWERS
For the sake of simplicity, we have combined a
number of categories in the positive answers to more
clearly define the over-all alumni answer. These are
the major reasons why our alumni would recommend
Wilkes.
We have grouped under Quality of Education Re
ceived, a number of the positive reasons given by our
alumni for recommending a senior to Wilkes. This is
cur largest number of answers — and perhaps the best
answer we could have possibly received in this survey.
The second largest group of answers illustrates
the friendly relations the alumni had with the faculty
as students. They gave attitude toward faculty and
student-faculty relationships as a primary motive for
recommending a student to Wilkes. Our alumni ap
preciated the fact that they were able to experience
this close relationship and felt that their college life
was greatly enhanced and enriched by this relation
ship.
Small college and small classes are grouped in the
same manner as our third largest number of answers.
It is gratifying to note that these answers support the
policies and ideals which Wilkes College has main
tained since its inception.
For the record, the Quality of Education Received,
Relations with Faculty and Size of College and Classes
are the reasons most referred to by the alumni as to
why they would recommend a senior to Wilkes.
Quality of Education Received
Good Education (General)
.................................
High Scholastic Standards
Comparative Educational Preparation
Graduate Preparation
High Scholastic Standing
Intellectual Stimulation ..
Vocational Prej
jparation .......... Good Teacher Training
Good Math Def
apartment
Good Engineering
jring Training
Trainii
Good Teacher Trainingj (Biology)
Good Physics Departme
lent
................
650
286
147
96
85
42
38
4
3
2
1
1
1.3SS
Only 7% of the answers received were doubtful.
Many felt that they had insufficient information to
recommend a student. Some of this group undoubtedly
would give positive answers if they were made aware
of the changes and improvements that have taken
place in the last few years.
"Dependent on Course of Study" is an answer that
is not truly doubtful but rather shows thought. It is a
qualifying statement that implies that our alumni would
make the recommendation if they felt a student would
be suited to a certain program here. On the other
hand, it also may mean that they feel a certain course
of study at the college is weak.
A number of our alumni specified geographical
reasons for not recommending Wilkes. This too is
understandable for our alumni are scattered far and
wide with many institutions giving a sound education
near to them. One group of people has suggested that
we are academically too demanding and have given
that reason as their doubtful answer.
One problem which has come to the fore is the
question of transferring. (This involves engineers for
the most part). Engineers state that they must make up
work when they transfer to other institutions and feel
that the curriculum should be adjusted accordingly.
Many other doubtful reasons are listed below.
Some of the reasons we feel again could be eliminated
if the alumnus would make an effort to be better in
formed.
Table 12
45 — Insufficient Information
29 — Dependent cn Course of Study
27 — Geographical
26 — Transfer
20 — Commuter College
20 — Personal Circumstances
13 — Faculty Expression
12 — Not Well Known
10 — Curriculum
9 — Facilities
6 — No Reason Given
6 — Recommends other Institution
6 — Social Life Lacking
5 — Dormitory Life
5 — High Tuition
5 — Academically 1Too Demanding
4 — General Dislike
ce
3 — Student-Faculty Relationship
3 — Administration
3 — Maturation Impeded
3 — Counseling
3 — Lack of College Atmosphere
2 — Inadequate Teacher Training
2 — Nursing Curriculum
2 — Teaching at Other College
2
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
1
1
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Prefer Larger College
Campus Life
Lack of Guidance
Too Many ''Snap'' - Courses
Low Standards
Culturally Low
Athletic Policy
Not Pre-Med
No Fraternities
Lack of Intellectual Activities
Lack of Religious Training
Engineering Curriculum
Faculty Turnover
Question No. 1
NEGATIVE ANSWERS
Wilkes alumni are scattered all over the country.
Some also live in foreign countries. The main reason
we found for not recommending a student to Wilkes
College was geographical. The distances and the
costs involved are sound reasons for not recommending
some students to Wilkes. Undoubtedly, there are many
fine institutions nearer to them.
The majority of the negative geographical answers
were received from alumni of BUJC (1935-47). Once
again we feel that because they have been away for
a number of years and are not aware of the changes
that have taken place, some have given negative an
swers.
The second largest group is listed under "Recom
mends Other Institutions". Many gave no reason why
they expressed this answer. Those reasons specified
are listed below.
Table 13
12 — Geographical
11 — Recommends other Institution
8 — Inadequate Faculty
8 — Commuter College
6 — Transferred
5 — Lack of Campus Life
5 — Facilities
4 — Insufficient Information
4 — Personal Reasons
4 — Aacademically Too Demanding
4 — High Tuition
3 — Prefers Larger College
3 — Curriculum
2 — Working at Other Institution
2 — Prefers Sectarian College
2 — Lack of Social Development
2 — Faculty Turnover
2 — Depends On Course of Study
2 — General Dislike
1 -— Prefers Technical Training
1 — Lack of Guidance
1 — No Reason Given
1 — Not Well Known
1 — Not For Engineering
1 — Faculty Expression
1 — Lack of Extra-Curricular Activities
1 — Not Pre-Med
1 — Lack of Fraternities
1 — Lack of College Atmosphere
1 — Inadequate Lab Facilities
1 — Administration
QUESTION No. 2
We should like to have your frank comments re
garding the effectiveness of your Wilkes experiences
in preparing you for "your present occupation".
17
�2 — Bacteriology
2 — Dorm Life
Table 14
Positive
Doubtful
Negative —
No Answer
—
................
1,760
314
178
313
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2,565
This total is over and above the number of ques
tionnaires returned because in many instances, the
alumnus included two or more answers to this ques
tion, thereby increasing the number of answers to the
above total.
Chart 10
Positive
69%
Doubtful
12%
Negative
7%
— Drafting
— French
— History
— Insurance
— Internship
— Literature
— Maintenance of Credits
— Public Speaking
— Social Sciences
— Spanish
— Athletics
— Cultural
— Extra-Curricular
— Graduate Prep
— High Standards
■— Zoology
Below we have combined the positive answers
where it would simplify. These are the major reasons.
EDUCATION (NON-SPECIFIC)
No Answer
12%
High Standard
QUESTION No. 2
Graduate Preparation
POSITIVE
It is obvious from scanning the positive answers
that the alumni feel they are well trained educationally
for their occupations. Of course, as you might suspect,
the faculty are given as one of the major reasons for
this satisfaction.
Many have also indicated that in social develop
ment and personal adjustment, they owe a great deal
to Wilkes. A quick look at the list shows that almost
every phase of college life has been given as a favora
ble reason by our alumni. Here is a complete list of
their answers.
Table 15
1,655 —
145 —
62 —■
55 —
48 —
46 —
46 —
29 —
23 —
21 —
20 —
18 —
18 —
17 —
15 —
13 —
12 —
11 —
10 —
8 —
8 —
8 —
7 —
6 —
5 —
5 —
4 —
3.—
3 —
3 —
3 —
3 —
Education (General)
Education (Comparative) ....
Academically Demanding ....
Foundation
Curriculum
General Preparation
Education (General)
Faculty
Education (Comparative)
Accounting
Social Development
Math
Personal Adjustment
Liberal Arts
Chemistry
Business Courses
Psychology
Academically Demanding
Business (General)
Economics
Foundation
English
Curriculum
Biology
Pre-Dental
General Prep
Pre-Med
Sociology
Physics
Music
Spoils
Tolerance
Science
The Arts
Business Law
Counseling
Education Course
Small Classes
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL GROWTH
Social Development
Personal Adjustment
_......
BUSINESS PREPARATION
Business Courses
Business (General)
Business Law
.
1,055
62
18
15
12
8
1
1
48
46
21
18
3
Question No. 2
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
3 — Teaching Methods
3 — Technique Courses
2 — Accounting
2 — Counseling
2 — Extra-Curricular Activities
2 — Liberal Arts Work
2 — No Training Required
1 — Accounting Curriculum
1 — Chemistry
1 — Curriculum (Same Courses)
1 — Drafting Courses
1 — Dynamics Weak
1 — Education Course
1 — Failure
1 — General Discontent
1 — Inadequate
1 — Inadequate Music Program
1 — Inadequate Preparation
1 — Inadequate Program
1 — Insurance Curriculum
I — Lack of Religion Courses
1 — Lack of Technical Writing
1 — Math
1 — Physics
1 — Placement Service
1 — Ministry Curriculum
1 — Science
jgram
1 — Sports Proc
1 — Technical Training
1 — Transferred
1 — Too Late
1 — Too Soon
1 — Weak
Question No. 2
NO ANSWERS
269 (Doubtful)*
44 (Negative)*
313
Question No. 2
DOUBTFUL
Many of the doubtful answers suggest that a num
ber of our alumni are doing work for which they had
no training at Wilkes. Others mention that they at
tended only a short time and as a result received little
training.
The three answers that can be pinned down as
doubtful because of something lacking at the college
are curriculum, the teaching technique of the faculty,
and lack of technique courses.
Below is a complete resume' of doubtful answers.
Table 16
29
28
26
26
25
13
12
11
9
9
9
8
8
8
6
6
6
4
4
3
3
3
Pre-Med
Social
Social Development
Art Courses
English & American Literature Courses
General Education
Inadequate Labs
Language
Loss of Credit (Transfer)
Mechanical Drawing
Student
Surveying
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Too New
Advanced Courses
Art Courses
Certification for Other States
Curriculum (General)
Curriculum (Real Estate)
Different Field
Emphasis
Faculty Advisors
Faculty-Student Relationship
Group Leadership Classes
Inadequate Library
Journalism
iguages
Lack of Lane
lutallon & Tradition
Lack of Rept
Literature
Math
No Need
Observations
Other Position
Philosophy
Physics
Practical Business Courses
Sociology
Still Attending School
Too Late
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Attended Short Time
Unrelated
Curriculum
Technique (Faculty)
Lack of Technique Courses
Does Not Apply
Unevaluated
Accounting
Counseling
Faculty
No Comment
Early Attendance
Guidance
Transferred
English
No Assistance
No Reason
Need for Guidance
Too Soon
Campus Life
More Liberal Arts
Practical Experience
NEGATIVE
The largest number of negative answers again in
dicates that our alumni are working in positions differ
ent from that for which they were trained.
Again repetitiously, the largest combined group of
negative answers, different occupations, no relation
ship, and no assistance are not truly negative answers
regarding Wilkes training.
The negative answers that are specific are inade
quate labs, curriculum and inadequate library.
The first has been eliminated through the con
struction of Stark Hall, the latter two need some adjust
ments.
The following table lists all of the negative answers.
Table 17
46
16
15
8
8
6
6
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
Different Occupations
No Relationship
No Assistance
Attended Short Time
Inadequate Labs
Curriculum
Student
Inadequate Librar
iry
riculum
Engineering Currie
Did Not Apply
Faculty
3gram
Guidance Prc<
Inadequate Ec
education
No Comment
No Training Needed
Social
*
If the alumnus had checked doubtful for question
no. 1 and gave no answer for question no. 2, we placed
that answer under doubtful. If the alumnus had
checked negative for question no. 1, and gave no an
swer for question no. 2, we placed that answer under
doubtful. However, for simplification we combined our
total no answers. We are not certain what their real
answers would be but we do feel that they may not be
positive. They may not be all negative either.
Only 12% did not answer the question at all.
QUESTION No. 3
We would like to have your frank comments re
garding the effectiveness of your Wilkes experiences
in preparing you for a life that is richer culturally and
happier in terms of personal adjustment.
Table 18
Positive
Doubtful
Negative
No Answers .
2.401
406
137
913
3,857
This total is over and above the number of ques
tionnaires returned because in many instances, the
alumnus included two or more answers to this ques
tion, thereby increasing the number of answers in the
above total.
19
�Question No. 3
Chart 11
Positive
627»
Doubtful
lO7o
Negative
CE
No Answers
NEGATIVE
A number felt that Wilkes did not aid them cultural
ly nor did they feel that they had received enough
liberal arts. All of the Negative answers are indicated
below:
47o
247o
1
We divided the question into two parts — cultural
and personal adjustment. We then placed the answer
of the alumnus in one or both columns depending upon
what was written. The answers were broken down
into positive, negative and doubtful answers. If the
answer was positive, negative or doubtful for Cultural,
we then listed the reason for the answer — under the
cultural column. The same was done with the personal
adjustment column.
POSITIVE
Once again, the positive answers far outnumbered
the doubtful or negative answers. Our alumni felt that
they had benefited from their cultural experiences at
Wilkes. A general cultural air pervaded their college
careers, with music and the faculty indicated as play
ing an important role. Literature seemed to have had
a lasting effect. This is indicated by the amount of
reading our alumni reported in their activities. The
fist of Positive reasons are varied and encompass every
facet of the college.
A LIFE THAT IS RICHER CULTURALLY
512—Cultural (General)
11—History
141—Music
10—Economics
101—Faculty
10—Athletics
99—Literature
9—Public Speaking
84—Stimulated intellectual
9—Politics
ity
9—To Seek Truth
curiosity
il Arts
3—Education
55—Liberal
7—Languages
51—Theater
6—Business
43—Art
5—Math
36—Extra-Curricular Activities
5—Administration
26—Sociology
2—French
26—Philosophy
2—Biology
19—Entire Curriculum
1—Architecture
17—Psychology
1—Principles
16—Religion
15—Science
HAPPIER IN TERMS OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT
15—Dorm Life
475—Personal Adjustment
216—Social
93—Faculty
83—Increased Tolerance
62—Developed Independence
38-—Values
34—Small Classes
15—Intellectual Honesty
20
12—Dr. Farley
9—Counseling
6—Deans
3—Discipline
3—Administration
1—Psychology
A LIFE THAT IS RICHER CULTURALLY
6—Science Curriculum
2—Lack of Fraternities
1—Business Curriculum
1—Music
44—No Contribution
15—Liberal Arts
(Note: Nine of these fifteen
are engineering grads.)
7—Cultural (General)
HAPPIER IN TERMS OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT
2—Personal Adjustment
1—Lack of required
"thought" courses
1—Placement Department
42—No Contribution
4—Faculty
4—Counseling
4—Social
3—Transfer
Question No. 3
DOUBTFUL
Among the doubtful answers are those again that
are not really doubtful. For example, "unable to evalu
ate", "no comment", "do not understand question".
A LIFE THAT IS RICHER CULTURALLY
61—Little effect
14—Attended Short Time
49—Unable to Evaluate
3—Do Not Understand
40—No Comment
Question
35—No Reason
HAPPIER IN TERMS OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT
50—Unable to Evaluate
IS—Commuter College
46—Little Elfeat
14—Attended Short Time
41—No Comment
2—Do Not Understand
35—No Reason
Question
Question No. 3
NO ANSWER
Many gave no answer to the question. At first, we
placed them under doubtful but decided later to place
them in a category all their own. We are unable to
guess what the alumnus would have said had he had
to make a decision. As a result, we feel that they are
not truly doubtful nor negative.
Below is the breakdown:
A LIFE THAT IS RICHER CULTURALLY
458 — No Answers
HAPPIER IN TERMS OF PERSONAL ADJUSTMENT
455 — No Answers
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WILKES
VOL. 7, No. 1
ALUMNUS
OCTOBER, 1960
�Board of Trustees
TTIH1E WDLKES COLLEGE
Admiral Harold B. Stark, Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vic^Chainnan
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Andrew J. Sordoni. Second Vice-Chairman
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Charles H. Miner, Jr.. Secretary
A Message
James P. Harris. Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
William Weir Boyd
Frank Bumside
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
From Your
1Tlh)@ Covers
Alumni Representative
The front cover is a view of Kirby Hall from the River Common
It is the former residence of Fred Morgan Kirby and was given to
the college by Allan Kirby. It is the 54,000-volume college library
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
John FanHen. John S. Fine
The back cover is the interior of McClintock Hall, former
residence of the late Gilbert S. McClintock, once chairman of the
Board of Trustees. It is now a women's dormitory and is typical
of the gracious home atmosphere of dormitory life at Wilkes.
Both covers, quite suitable for decorative wall purposes, are
available as original four-color prints without the overprinting.
They can be obtained at the college bookstore or by writing the
Office of Public Relations with payment enclosed:
George W. Guckelberger
Each _____ __ _______________ 65 cents
Harry F. Geeringer
.. One dollar
Both
Joseph J. Kccyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Was Dsstu)@
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinole
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
The pages of this issue try to visualize the highlights of The
Year Ahead. They would invite the reader's interest in the events
of both campus and classroom and assure him that his participa
tion would be most welcome. Acknowledgements are due the
Misses Betty Kraft and Cynthia Hagley, PRO assistants, and Len
Yoblonski, PRO photographer, who did the difficult and extensive
photo montage work of this issue.
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Published by
Charles B. Waller
WILKES COLLEGE
Aaron Weiss
Clayton A. Bloomburg
October, 1960
Dear Alumnus:
You recently received a brochure which "spelled out" our Homecoming
weekend in October.
It would be in perfect order for you to ask yourself — why another notice
in reference to Homecoming? This letter has been prompted by the fact that
MUCH PLANNING has gone into this — just for you. Much time and effort
have been expended to assure you of a weekend that will bring back
memories for months to come.
Those who have been in attendance during recent years are high in their
praises of the well-planned weekend. I personally have had many comments
from both alumni and faculty members who were very emphatic when they
spoke of the enjoyable weekend with old friends and acquaintances.
This year should surpass anything that we have experienced before.
A number of surprises are in store for you — one of them is a first in Wyoming
Valley. The committees have thoroughly reveiwed previous Homecomings
and have exerted every effort to improve this year's. I feel I can give you
my verbal assurance that this October Homecoming will be all that you
expect it to be.
Alumni Representative
Louis Shaffer
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
President
Since all of our plans have been made with YOU in mind, won't you
please reserve October 14th and 15th. We are looking forward to spending
this weekend with you.
Office of Public Relations
J. Horace Strunk
Editor
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Sincerely yours,
Alumni Officers
Gordon Roberts, Ezeculive Secretary
Clayton A. Bloomburg. President
Alumni President
October, I960
Vol. 7, No. 1
Dr. Robert Kerr. Vice-President
CLAYTON A. BLOOMBURG
President
Wilkes College Alumni Association
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Published quarterly as The Alumnus for the members of
BusseU. H. Williams. Treasurer
Association.
Second class mail privileges authorized at
Subscription — S2.00
the Wilkes College Alumni
Wilkes-Bane, Pennsylvania-
P.S.—Why not contact a friend and ask him or her to accompany you?
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THE YEAR AHEAD . . .
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A Message
GENERAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION
Please register at either the Carousel Motel on Friday evening or at the
Commons on Saturday at noon so that friends may know that you are in town.
PARKING
ACCOMODATIONS
The college has four parking lots for your use—one on the corner of South
Franklin and South Streets—another at the rear of Gore Hall across from the
Gymnasium, the third on Wright Street which runs parallel to South Franklin,
between South and Ross Streets, and the fourth adjacent to Parrish Hall (Glen
Alden Building), South River Street.
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RESERVATIONS
The Warm-up Party desk will be manned by Millie Gittins, so while she is
smilingly taking your money, please register in our book and indicate whether
cr not you plan to be at the family picnic on Chase lawn, Saturday.
Prices:
Friday Night
Saturday Noon
Saturday
Saturday Night
Frogjirom
FRIDAY — OCTOBER 14
7:30 P. M.
9:00 P.M,
10:00 P.M.
SI.50 per person (Warm-up )
SI.00 per person (Alumni picnic)
Football Game — $1.00 per person
$3.00 per couple (Homecoming Dance)
Chairman — Atty. Thomas Brislin
HOMECOMING
CAMPUS
Under the direction of the Student Government, the students do an outstanding
job, so be sure to walk around the growing campus and to enjoy the many
displays. Each building is decorated with drawings, with crepe paper, and
with multicolored lights.
CAROUSEL MOTEL
OPEN HOUSE
You can't beat our Open-House Party for good fellowship and nostaligc
reminiscing.
"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship."
BRIEF THEATRE ALUMNI MEETING
CAROUSEL MOTEL
SATURDAY — OCTOBER 15
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
COLLEGE COMMONS
10:00 A. M.
The Executive Council of the Alumni Association will have its annual meeting
to discuss and to plan the next year's activities.
11:30 A.M.
FAMILY PICNIC
CHASE LAWN
2:00 P. M.
6:30 P.M.
9:00 P.M.
FOOTBALL
KINGSTON STADIUM
r ootball game between Wilkes College and Ursinus College . . .. *Parade
— of
-the Homecoming Queen and of her court before game-time. Mass band
interesting
performance at half time. The Student Government has planned an int"C-‘,r,fT
program for you—Wilkes Alumni.
CLASS REUNION DINNERS
_____ All
Class reunion Dinners—sites and costs to be determined by classes.,
concerned will receive additional information when final plans are ccompleted.
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HOMECOMING DANCE
IREM TEMPLE COUNTRY CLUB
Jack Melton and his orchestra—Entertainment—Informal. This dance is t e
highlight of the entire weekend. We'll be looking for you there!
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The first twenty-five years of your College have been formative years
during which the character of the college and its influence have taken shape.
Our purpose in the decade ahead is to consider ways and means of
increasing the creative and constructive influences of the College. This means
a constant evaluation of all that we are doing, and a determination of the
relative values of things that we are doing and of other things that we might
be doing.
I feel that western civilization is facing a threat which it must assess
correctly, or to which it must succumb. This crisis annot be resolved in
Washington, in the U.N. or in any other center of activity. In must be resolved
in the minds and hearts of individuals before either Washington or the U.N.
can act firmly and effectively.
The crisis is, in reality, a crisis in values and in judgment. In these
disturbing and challenging times the only thing that seems certain is change.
It, therefore, becomes the obligation of education to cultivate creative thinking,
independence of judgment and constructive action, so that man may direct
his destiny in some measure.
I would suggest that our responsibility at Wilkes is to encourage intelligent
inquiry, genuine values, and sound judgment. With these qualities Wilkes
graduates may hope to participate in the effort to guide the forces of change
into constructive channels and to check the drift which results from the loss of
intellectual, moral and social standards.
College cannot do these things for its students, but it can cultivate an
atmosphere and influence that will encourage students to assume ever greater
responsibility for their thoughts and acts.
It is my hope that the faculty and administration will challenge our
students to ever greater attainments and strengthen them for the time of crisis
in which they live.
This is the task that challenges us in the year ahead.
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. . . THE YEAR AHEAD
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF MEN
OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF WOMEN
George F. Ralston
Our concern this year, probably our greatest con
cern, will be with student values. Studies of students
indicate that students are not the same as yesterday's.
The values they hold set them off as different from
previous generations.
What are the values of today's students? System
atic social science research, which has been supported
by thoughtful observations by students themselves,
indicate four dominant and controlling behavioral atti
tudes among students:
1. Self-interestedness directed mainly toward satis
fying the desires for material well being and a
relief from boredom.
2. Group dependence which causes students to
bring personal conduct and stability into drive
with the expectations of groups to whom they
turn for a feeling of "belongingness" or look
upon as vehicles to self-advancement.
3. Social and political indifference and irresponsi
bility.
4. A self-gratifying approach to reason and morality
which renders both reason and the moral code
to an individual usefulness in the quest for
personal goals.
Are these the values which our students hold? Are
they a part of the broad cultural revolution in our whole
society? If they are, we need to be concerned!
This year, especially, we want to investigate this
area, for students are our whole concern. We must
not be indicted for abandonment of our role in the
formation of values which will undergird our students
for useful and responsible lives in the world.
Beryl Cole
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If I were to announce a slogan or create a theme for
the coming year it would state in essence my ambition
for greater unity among the women of Wilkes College.
I would like to look toward the establishment of women's
organizations which could eventually be affiliated with
national groups. The most meaningful organization at
this time would be a chapter of Associated Women
Students. This would encompass the entire women
student population and all women's organizations
which might exist. It seeks to foster a dignity of original
thought, strengthen the personal goals of young women,
and integrate the goals of their intellectual activities
and interests with their desires to succeed as wives
and mothers. Such an organization is eligible for
membership in the Intercollegiate Association of Wo
men Students.
As an exploratory procedure there will be two as
semblies for women this year, one on November 15,
and the second on March 21, 1961.
Last year I was able to hold a half-hour interview
with every freshman girl during the fall semester, and
during the spring semester I had more leisurely visits
with most of the Senior women. I found these inter
views extremely helpful and I hope the freshmen and
seniors found them equally so. I shall continue that
program this year.
I look forward, too, to meeting more of you who
were students here before I came, and I trust you will
come in for a visit whenever it is possible for you to
do so.
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Harold W. Thatcher, Chairman
The History Department, strengthened last year by
the addition of Paul Neil Hehn, a specialist in Balkan
history who will shortly receive his Ph.D. from New
York University, will propose this fall the creation at
Wilkes College of an Institute of International Studies.
This was originally the idea of Dr. Bronis Kaslas and
-was developed in its final form by him in collaboration
with all of us who are his colleagues in the department.
The Institute will be originally and primarily a new
major consisting, in addition to the usual general edu
cation courses, of all courses currently offered at the
college dealing with international affairs, foreign poli
cy, alien cultures, etc., plus new courses dealing with
Central and Eastern Europe, the Near East, Africa and
Latin America.
If adopted, it is expected that the new program will
not only prepare students for positions with the State
Department and other agencies and private companies
dealing with foreign lands but will also go far to meet
the criticism so often voiced that American college
graduates are ignorant of foreign affairs, history, ge
ography, and economics.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Eugene L. Hammer, Chairman
The Education Department continues this year with
four fulltime staff members. Most recent to join us is
Miss Frances Smith of Tuckahoe, New York, who be
gins her second year as Director of Student Teaching.
Miss Smith came to Wilkes after several years of
teaching in the public schools of New York and New
Jersey. We have been able to free her of teaching
responsibilities on campus so that she can devote her
time to placing and supervising student teachers in all
fields.
Plans are going forward for the development of
"professional semesters" which will require students
in teacher education curricula to devote an entire term
to professional study, including student teaching. This
program is in effect now for secondary school teachers
of some subjects. When completely operative the re
vised teacher education curricula will include a screen
ing of those who apply for student teaching.
�. . THE YEAR AHEAD
THE YEAR AHEAD . . .
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
John G. Detroy, Chairman
Charles B. Reif, Chairman
The Department of Music looks forward to its
greatest year of activity. With plans completed for the
Town and Gown series, the various choruses, instru
mental and vocal ensembles, and student recitals, the
calendar appears rather full. The Philharmonic
Orchestra celebrates its tenth anniversary, bringing top
soloists, and affording our outstanding students the
opportunity to perform in an orchestra of high profes
sional standing. With Gies Hall renovated, classroom
and practice facilities will certainly be much more
efficient and pleasant. We are continually adding new
equipment: This year two new pianos will be found
in Gies Hall as well as several record players for
student use. There promises to be a continuing series
of student recitals throughout the year, with all combi
nations of solo and ensemble performances scheduled.
We hope to bring several outstanding people in the
music education field to Wilkes for clinic and discussion
purposes as a service to our students and the com
munity. Several faculty recitals are on the assembly
program schedule, and I am sure that, as in the past,
they will be well received. I am happy to say that
all of the music faculty members who were with us last
year, are returning, and I am sure that each one brings
back new ideas and experiences that will benefit the
students in the department of music and the college
generally.
Judging from the success of biology majors in gen
eral, the faculty of the department feel that we should
continue to expose our majors in biology to all the
fields of knowledge as far as the curriculum in biology
permits. During the academic year just past, the new
curriculum in biology was in operation for its trial run.
Genetics was back in the curriculum after an absence
of nine years and is now given in the spring semester
of the junior year. A course in ecology was presented
for the first time last year and it now appears in the
spring semester of the senior year. A credit course in
research may be undertaken in the junior year and
completed in the senior year. A number of students
have research problems under way. During the sum
mer of 1960 nine of our biology majors worked with
members of the staff on various problems supported
by funds from eight grants. I shall try to interest the
members of the Biological Society of Wilkes College in
a project through the ice at Lake Silkworth in which I
shall need one hundred and ten people taking samples
simultaneously. In 1960-61 we shall have the largest
departmental force ever of student help serving primari
ly in conjunction with the didactic work given to the
student nurses of three local hospitals.
Several pieces of equipment have been installed
in the last few months which will be used both in
teaching and in research. Those of our all-too-busy
graduates in biology who take a few minutes to visit
us in Stark Hall are surprised at our present quarters.
We hope more of you will come.
department of chemistry
Alfred W. Bastress, Chairman
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION
a-; icimary effort of the chemistry department this
:: in the past will be to cffer students interesting
ur.d mtcllecuclly stimulating-courses in this field. No
major curriculum changes have been made but we are
constantly adjusting course content as chemical knowl
edge Increases. The question always before us is:
"Hew might chemistry be taught better?"
Our senior research program continues. With a
faculty of five we hope to eliminate all overtime teach
ing and thus enable us to initiate and enlarge faculty
research projects. Mr. Bohning who joined us last year
will work on nitrosyl compounds. Mr. Swain, our new
assistant professor of physical chemistry, will continue
work with peroxides. Mr. Salley hopes to complete an
analyucal problem. Miss Bone with one lecture sec
tion in General Chemistry has to introduce 110 student
nurses from General, Nesbitt, and Wyoming Valley
Hospitals to chemistry. Mr. Bastress will be working
wiih some thienyl ketone derivatives.
Last year we installed a Beckman U.V. spectrophoto
meter in the physical chemistry laboratory. We need
a Bechman I-R, a good Recorder and an N.M.R. spectro
photometer (S35.000) if we are to improve our course in
physical chemistry. We have no facilities for research
m radiation chemistry.
John G. Reese, Chairman
The Department of Physical Education is this year
looking forward to what should be the finest program
it has ever offered. A second instructor in physical
education has been appointed, and the additional
facilities of the YMCA have been acquired.
The plan for the new program will work in this
manner:—the classes will be divided into two groups.
For classes in the first eight weeks, one group
will report to the YMCA, where they will be given a
variety of individual activities such as swimming,
bowling, handball, paddleball, squash, gymnastics,
tennis, weight training, wrestling, etc. The other group
will report to the gymnasium for classes where
they will be given a variety of group games such as
basketball, volleyball, soccer, softball, touch football,
etc. After eight weeks the two groups will rotate.
This year the women's program under the super
vision of a new instructor. Miss Doris Berdy, will use
the Jewish Community Center for the specialized activi
ties such as swimming, bowling, and dancing. The
women will use the College gymnasium for the other
physical education curricula.
�. . THE YEAR AHEAD
THE YEAR AHEAD . . .
THE COLLEGE LIBRARY
DEPARTMENT OF NURSING EDUCATION
George F. Ermel, Acting Librarian
Ruth W. Jessee, Chairman
Reading for pleasure will be one of our themes for
the Library this year. As a result of the recent evalua
tion report, it was felt that we should incorporate a
program of this nature into our present facilities. In
the hope, therefore, that it will be used for leisure
reading, a sort of quasi-reading room, replete with
comfortable chairs, has been established in what was
formerly the typing room. Our open stacks policy en
courages browsing. Our collection is ever expanding
and we are endeavoring to add select best-sellers and
Pulitzer Prize winners as fast as they are determined.
While students in the past have been reticent about
suggesting new books, this year we hope to make an
effort to have students recommend books which they
feel should be in our library. An educated man is one
who reads when he doesn't have to.
Seme of the newer additions to the Library holdings
for this school year are such award winners as: Hawaii,
by James Mitchener; Advise and Consent, by Allen
Drury; 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, by Walter Johnson;
Mr. Citizen, by Harry S. Truman; Most Dangerous Sea,
by Arnold Lott; Sean O'Casey, by David Krause; To
ward the Understanding of Karl Marx, by Sidney Hook;
American Communism and Soviet Russia, by Theodore
Draper; Modem Debate, by our own Arthur Kruger:
The Reluctant Satellites, by Leslie Bain;Finite Difference
Equations, by Hyman Levy; Basic Principles of Nuclear
Science and Reactors, by Alan Jacobs; The Overseas
Americans, by Harlan Cleveland; The Soviet Design
for a World Order, by Elliot Goodman; Are We Good
Neighbors?, by Donals Dozer; The Year the World
Went Mad, by Allen Churchill,-Communism in India,
by Gene Overstreet; Race Relations and American Law,
by Jack Greenberg; Fallout, by John Fowler; The Rise of
American Economic Thought, by Henry Spiegel.
Last fall the freshmen students of the Nesbitt Memo
rial Hospital joined with those of the Wyoming Valley
Hospital in taking courses in anatomy and physiology,
microbiology, chemistry, psychology, and sociology at
Wilkes College. Starting this Fall (I960) the incoming
students of the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital will
participate in this program. In all, we anticipate there
will be approximately one hundred students horn the
three schools of nursing on our campus this year.
In 1959 a cooperative program, similar to that with
Lebanon Valley College, was arranged with Albright
College so that graduate nurses in the Reading area
could receive a degree from Wilkes by taking half of
our campus requirements at Albright. Extension
courses in Nursing Education were given at the Reading
Hospital last year and will be continued during the
coming year. We will also be teaching Nursing Edu
cation courses in Allentown.
Here, at home, we are happy to see more young
graduates entering on a full-time basis. There are
usually four or five dormitory students; in all, we have
more than twenty students taking a full schedule. Dur
ing the Summer of 1960 several of our graduate nurses
completed their field experience in team nursing at
Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia; in addition,
others were practice teaching in local schools of
nursing.
FMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY-RELIGION
Robert C. Riley, Chairman
Psychology this year will continue with its small
core of eleven basic ccourses,
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therewith to give
about 30 departmental majors a broad perspective of
the field as well as to prepare them for advanced work
at ths graduate level. 'We of the department shall also
be keeping watchful eyes on former students doing
graauate work, principally at Temple and Pennsylva
nia State Universities. One of these students was a
mathematics major while at Wilkes while retaining a
strong interest in psychology. She has found a profita
ble combination of the two disciplines in graduate
school. So while no revamping of the small core of
courses is contemplated, increasing emphasis is being
placed (in the advisement of students) on the necessity
of planning course work outside the department, espe
cially in mathematics, statistics and biology. One in
novation this year will bring together all students en
rolled in the introductory course into one large lecture
section which will then be broken down into smaller
quiz and discussion sections at other times of the
course week.
James R. Parmenter, Chairman
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This year finds Dr. Stanko Vujica doing research
abroad. Recipient of a Fulbright Research Scholarship,
Dr. Vujica plans to spend the academic year in Paki
stan and India, studying some of the many interesting
points of contact between Hinduism and Islam. He
and Mrs. Vujica will also travel and observe other
aspects of Near and Middle Eastern cultures, returning
to Wilkes in the Fall of 1961. Upon his return, the fruits
of this research and experience will be brought to bear
on revision of the courses in Religion. Rapidly moving
events of the post-war years have caused much of our
information on this part of the world to become rather
badly dated. Dr. Vujica's first-hand experiences will
do much to correct these outmoded conceptions.
During Dr. Vujica's absence, we are fortunate in
having the scholarly services of Rabbi Albert Fried
lander, who will teach courses in "The Great Hebrew
Prophets" and "Philosophies of History".
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THE YEAR AHEAD . . .
DEPARTMENT OF ART
Chester E. Colson, Chairman
The Department of Fine Arts and Fine Arts Educa
tion plans a complete revision of its curriculum. New
course offerings will be added to strengthen the major
in art education. Additional courses will be offered
as electives for the non-art majors. These courses will
be specifically designed to meet the cultural and
creative needs of the liberal arts student at the college.
In order to realize the aims of the proposed curriculum
revision new equipment has been added. A large
floor-model electric ceramic kiln with an automatic
cutoff was purchased last year. The department has
ordered a jewelry kiln and an electric potter's wheel.
At this time, with America and Russia struggling
for world leadership, we must produce men capable
of creative thinking. It is hoped that the art department
can contribute its share to this necessary goal.
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Thomas R. Richards, Chairman
The Mathematics Department will embark this Fall
cn a considerable change in the presentation of first
and second year mathematics.
To quote the Committee on the Undergraduate Pro
gram, "—a student who enters college meaning to take
mathematics must be ready without further preparation
to take a course in calculus and analytic geometry."
Quoting again, "Using college instructors to teach 're
medial' mathematics is indefensible,—This Fall, for
the third year, we are requiring students to start mathe
matics with analytic geometry, after having passed the
placement test, or to attend a summer session to correct
deficiency in preparation. Also this Fall, for the first
time, we shall use a single, two-volume text for the
freshman-sophomore sequence of analytic geometry,
calculus, differential equations, and infinite series. A
feature of this text is that geometric figures are not
depended on for proofs of "geometric" theorems; vector
algebra is used instead. Another feature is the out
right definition of functions as sets of ordered pairs.
Cur department subscribes to these excerpts from the
preface of the new text: "—mere acquisition of mani
pulative skills, while necessary, does not prepare any
one to make effective use of mathematics, certainly no
one at the professional level of the scientist and the
engineer. Abstract ideas and abstract thinking canno': be avoided."
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THE EVENING SCHOOL
Stanley Wasilewski, Director
The campus and classrooms of Wilkes during the
night-time hours this year—as in the past—will be as
bristling with activity as during the daytime. For the
Wilkes Evening School has become an integral part
of the whole college. As in other years, it has opened
its doors to more than 500 day-time employed matricu
lants, not to mention some 125 day students taking
courses that could not be integrated with their day
schedules.
What new cultural interests, what productive and
executive skills have been so added to the life and
economy of the community is truly something to ponder.
Also to be considered is the graduate level work being
offered through Masters programs in education by
Temple and Bucknell Universities, not to mention the
off-campus programs in nursing education afforded by
the Nursing Education Department for nurses in Scran
ton, Danville, Lebanon and Hazleton. Now also there
are contemplated Evening School programs in the
sciences.
A great and productive year is forecase for the
Evening School, which has long since come of age.
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Hugo V. Medley, Chairman
Wilkes College students in my course, "Politics and
Political Parties", won’t just read about elections this
Fall—they're going to get into the fray. The students
who enrolled in this course will lery aside their texts,
as they have done every even-numbered year since
1950, and work for the parties.
This is part of a continuing program inaugurated by
the Citizenship Clearing House. Adopting the theory
that filling of the mind with mere facts, however perti
nent, is not enough for an understanding of the Ameri
can political scene and its problems, the class, freed
of regular sessions until after the election, will be en
gaged in the business of local politics. While no
regular classes are scheduled for the group, members
do meet weekly with me and will make reports on
their activities which reports will be the bases for their
grades while they are "farmed out" to the political
parties.
The Department will again sponsor a contest to see
who can come the closest to predicting the outcome of
the November election. Prizes for the three winners of
the contest couldn't be more appropriate—books on
how to predict elections.
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THE YEAR AHEAD . .
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING
Voris B. Hall, Chairman
Physics Department
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THE CURRICULUM EVALUATION COMMITTEE
GEORGE F. ELLIOT. Chairman
The Curriculum Evaluation Committee, representing
■- new and potentially productive concept in the Wilkes
- ’.zae story, was formed three years ago with
'■ .-ors Hmnmer, Michelini, Riley and myself as
vere - -are at that time, and still are aware,
me mission of education there are no
castvers. So the -work of the Curriculum
Evalaazrn Committee-will be self-perpetuating, going
beyond the mere planning of a liberal arts curriculum
to the cultivation of a climate implicit in intellectual
inquiry, disciplined study and high personal standards;
to the creation of an atmosphere inspiring self-analysis
'character, ideas and beliefs, and a corollary respect
for
"”d the convictions of others. Indeed, the
L
. mvestigation and the wide range or respon
sibility v/.-iich have been granted to this committee by
the faculty and administration are symptomatic of a
mutual desire to strengthen further the impact of the
College upon its students and to provide an educa
tional experience comparable to the highest standards
available anywhere. These goals are, of course, not
unique, but it is our confident hope that they can and
will be made a reality here at Wilkes College.
The establishment of this committee and these
long term goals do not in any sense reflect lack of pride
in the accomplishments of Wilkes College nor any
feeling of inferiority about the quality of its program.
In fact, we received during the past school year very
affirmative confirmation of our academic status and
reputation from the Middle States Association.
The Curriculum Evaluation Committee is not autono
mous; it issues no orders; it sets no deadlines. It is
and will continue to be a service agency for the faculty
and friends of the College. It solicits, studies, co
ordinates, and presents for general faculty discussion
and consideration the suggestions of everyone con
cerning any phase of the Wilkes program. It serves
as a small working organization to do basic research,
to uncover new areas of potentiality, and to ensure
that the College is kept abreast of developments in
collegiate education. The committee is, therefore, both
a leader and a follower; its success will depend upon
how well it can help the faculty and administration to
accomplish the productive improvements necessary to
the more complete fruition of Wilkes College.
Although it is impossible at this stage to know the
precise areas that will attract the attention of the com
mittee, and although no priorities have as yet been
esablished, the present interest of the faculty seems to
lie in the general field of curricular improvement.
There has been much emphasis given to the benefits
associated with an expanded program of general edu
cation so that our students will be better prepared to
meet the many challenges and responsibilities of
modem-day living. Attention will undoubtedly be
given this year to such concepts as honors programs,
comprehensive examinations, advanced placement,
and all of the other instruments essential to motivating
individual students to perform to their highest capaci
ties. Very early in the school year the committee plans
to present to the faculty examples of what is being done
in these areas at such places as Harvard, Swarthmore,
Wesleyan, and similar institutions. With these begin
nings, it is hoped that 1960-61 will be the first of many
productive years at Wilkes College.
With the enlargement of the department staff by
one member, we in the Physics Department now find
it possible to expand our offerings in a variety of
courses. We hope to add courses in electronics, in
atomic and nuclear physics, and in electricity and
magnetism, as well as in the solid state.
Drs. Ripley and Detwiler ome to us with a back
ground of teaching experience which will add strength
to the department, and make possible the offering of
new (to Wilkes) and necessary courses.
As our ability to offer new courses has expanded,
it is hoped an increased awareness of the courses
available will result in increased enrollment and
eventual expansion of the present two years of work
at Wilkes into a full four-year major in the field of
Physics.
Engineering Department
The Engineering Department will continue to pre
pare accepted students in the elements of engineering
education. By the end of their sophomore year those
students meeting the transfer requirements of the vari
ous degree granting Engineering colleges, will there be
able to continue as juniors, and without loss of credit
hours.
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Konstantyn Symmons, Chairman
Our program, for the coming year, represents both
continuity and change. This phrase, applied recently
to the contemporary sociology itself, emphasizes two
characteristics of our discipline: its cumulative nature
and its proliferation of new interests and especially
new applications of our knowledge.
These interest, such as that in sociology of medicine,
sociology of occupations and professions, political so
ciology or sociology of small groups, are, for the most
part, too specialized to be included in an undergraduate
curriculum, but their influence on our introductory
course or such of our courses as Sociology of Urban
Life, Sociology of Industry or Social Psychology, can
readily be seen.
New research findings and new appraches led also
to considerable changes in the content and organiza
tion of our courses in Marriage and the Family, Social
Problems and Criminology.
Of the new courses two must be mentioned: a
Regional Survey of the World's Major Cultures and
Societies, and a more general theoretical analysis of
race and culture contacts and antagonisms, labelled:
Group Relations in the Modern World.
�THE YEAR AHEAD . .
. . . THE YEAR AHEAD
DEPARTMENT
of modern foreign languages
Elwood Disque, Chairman
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Frank J. J. Davies, Chairman
The Department of English this year will continue
to devote its energies to what must always be its main
objectives: to assist the students to increase their ability
to express themselves in English clearly and pleasing
ly, and, through the study of literature, to lead them to
understanding so that what they read will have mean
ing and what they say will be worth saying.
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The demand for modem languages has increased
to the extent that it is now necessary to add a new
member to the department. We consider ourselves
most fortunate in having Dr. Carla Perione, a specialist
in Spanish Language and Literature, join us this year.
Miss Perione, a native of Italy, brings a vast wealth of
the beauty and culture of a civilization which is begin
ning to acquire increasing importance in the relation
ship of the United States with the Spanish-speaking
countries.
While Miss Perione spent the summer in Italy, Miss
Dworski continued her revitalizing program in France
for this year's French courses. In the last few years
Dr. Dworski has become interested in visiting "les
caves" in Southern France and tracing the develop
ment of prehistoric man. Having traveled extensively
throughout France and having acquired much needed
regalia, she is now eager to develop a new approach
in the civilization courses. Of course we all like the
new Peugeot. A decided improvement!
pg.__Herr Disque stayed home (saving money) hoping
in the near future to do the same thing for the German
students.
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With all apologies to Mr. Webster, I have been brazen
enough to take parts of two acceptable words, prognosti
cation and logic, and combined them to coin my own
expression that will describe concisely the nature of the
article I have penned for your information and amuse
ment.
According to Webster, "prognostication means a pre
diction—a forecast—a prophecy." Also, according to
Webster, "logic means connection, as of facts or events,
in a rational way." And so, dear alumnus, combining
the prog" from prognostication with the "log" from logic,
the word "proglog" has been evolved. How, then, can
it be used in connection with sports—and more specifiically sports at Wilkos College?
Simply, this article will reveal some facts pertaining
to our athletic schedule for the current school year. Be
yond tho revoahnont of facts, the college "sports tub
numpor" will go way out on tho limb to offer some pre1 icliotm. After all, I have nothing to lose but my typowiiloi. 1 urthonnoro, even tho exports wore wrong in 48
"ini the weatherman certainly isn't a specialist in aeon
'J1' ?’ Io bo truthful, however, out dear Executive Alumni
‘’''crotary wanted thin article. So. what's in store tor the
•oloiml athlotle loanut during tho 1960-61 .-school year?
Uy way of (actual knowledge, the Colonels will
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By ARTHUR HOOVER, Spcris F-rmirity
legiate Athletic Assodatfom Specmomly these spcris
include: football and soccer in the
hcskethtm simming and wrestling in the winter- ar.i hnsehdh grh
and tennis in the spring.
John Reese, in his capacity as Director m Amlerirs
will again supervise the entire interrrilegime program
His coaching staff will he comprised, cr rmnk
and Mike Dydo in foo&ril: ?m rertis m soccer- name
Davis and Al G.-mm tn mrm.-...
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swimming: Mike Dvoa tn casera..- .-at crcc....
and Welton Fanarir. grit. Wtesmnc? Ch ws. 'm'.n
himself will again coach our mat champccns.
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note that the Colonels will eompe'.e ' efo
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�THE YEAR AHEAD . .
In addition to the regularly scheduled events, there
are numerous highlights and special events worth re
membering. Before that, however, it might well for all
alumni to pause and reflect momentarily on the enormous
sacrifice of time and energy expended by all Wilkes
coaches and athletes. When one considers the time in
volved not only in the contests themselves, but in prac
tice and travel as well, shouldn't it behoove every alum
nus to make a special effort to be on hand at some of
these athletic events to offer some moral support to the
teams as a means of acknowledging appreciation and
PRIDE in our Alma Mater.
Returning now to some of the scheduled athletic high
lights for the current school year, we must quite naturally
list as the foremost the spectacular soccer-football double
header scheduled for Saturday, October 15, of Homecoming Weekend. That morning at 10:30 a.m., the
soccermen tangle with the Lycoming Warriors at Kirby
Park and at 2 p.m. that afternoon in Kingston Stadium,
the gridmen host and rate a three touchdown favorite over
the Ursinus Bears from Collegeville, Pennsylvania.
On December 28 and 29, Wilkes will sponsor the an
nual Open Wrestling Tournament at the college gym.
Nov/ known as the "Rose Bowl of Wrestling,” this annual
event attracts hundreds of the top college wrestlers in
the country—and in recent years has taken on an inter
national flavor with grapplers from Japan and Canada.
John Reese's Middle Atlantic Wrestling Champs will
bring additional honors to the school by virtue of their
invitation to wrestle Ivy League Dartmouth during their
annual Winter Carnival in New Hampshire on February
10 and 11.
And then, on March 3 and 4, Wilkes will defend its
MAC wrestling crown (vzhich it has held now for four
consecutive years) at the annual Middle Atlantic Tourney
to be hosted by Moravian College at Bethlehem, Penn
sylvania.
In the spring, Wilkes and the Irem Temple Country
Club will host the annual Middle Atlantic Golf Tourney.
This event is scheduled for May 8.
Seems like quite an eventful year, doesn't it? But
then you might ask, "Just how will the Colonels fare in
this overall schedule?" Quite frankly, it's very difficult
to assume the role of a "yogi," but here goes. As men
tioned previously, all I stand to lose is my typewriter.
"Pinky" Finkowski's lean football years have passed.
With the return of a dozen experienced lettermen, and
despite the fact that sufficient manpovzer still plagues our
peppy coach, the team should undoubtedly turn in a
winning season. My prediction: a 6-3 record.
In soccer, I must share Jim Ferris' concern over a lack
of experienced hooters. As Jim so aptly puts it. We'll be
re-building this year." Even so, I look for an even wonloss record this season.
Moving to the winter sports program and basketball,
I can't help but voice a highly optimistic view for Eddie
Davis' charges. Despite the loss, via the graduation
route, of the team's two leading scorers, George Gacha
and Bemie Radecki who averged 18.5 and 16.2 points
per game respectively, Eddie has some hard-working and
determined eagers moving up. My prediction: a winning
season and a playoff berth in the Northern Division of
the Middle Atlantic Conference.
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When we look at wrestling the obvious question is,
"Will Reese and his grapplers do it again?" Or "Can the
vacated 130-lb., 137-lb., 147-lb., 167-lb., and heavyweight
classes be filled effectively?" Or "Can team captain and
national champ Marv Antinnes turn in another undefeated
season?" As usual. Coach Reese will take a pessimistic
view and retort that it seems as if we're at the end of our
successful string. There can be much justification at
tached to his view because MAC wrestling is definitely
at a high-caliber peak. This view is supported by the
tremendous efforts and competition offered by such
schools as Bucknell, Lycoming, Hofstra, and Moravian—
just to name a few. However, if producing another
championship team should cause John Reese to lose his
curly hair. I'll stick with the Colonels to come through
with another undefeated season and the MAC champion
ship.
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With swimming in the winter program and baseball
and tennis in the spring program, I request the right to
withhold any prediction because in all three sports new
coaches (Havira, swimming; Dydo, baseball; Hoover,
tennis) will be working with these teams and it's just not
fair to pre-determine team performance under a new
mentor. But, I think it's safe to predict an overall com
bined winning record for the three sports.
Finally, our thoughts are turned to one of our newest
intercollegiate sports and coaches—golf and Welton
"supply and demand" Farrar. Here again, lack of ex
perience and depth, will prove key factors in voicing a
dim view of the season's prospects. But, Coach Farrar's
persistence coupled with some "die-hard" linksmen should
give the Colonels a much desired winning golf season.
And so, dear alums, that's the sports picture and
activity that we can look forward to during the current
academic year—can vze also look forward to greeting
you at some of these events?
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The board of trustees of Wilkes Col
lege has been enhanced by the addition
of Judge Frank Pinola of Kingston, At
torneys Charles B. Waller and Louis
Shaffer of Wilkes-Barre, Attorney John
B. Farr of Tunkhannock and William
Weir Boyd of Vestal, N. Y.
The board, headed by Admiral Har
old R. Stark, USN, retired, a native of
Wilkes-Barre, now residing in Washing
ton, is unusually well balanced. Unques
tionably, the calibre of the trustees has
been a major factor in the progress the
institution has made since it was con
verted into an independent college.
Four of the members are individuals
who are widely known in the region
for their professional and civic activities.
Mr. Boyd is an alumnus, the second to
receive recognition.
With the continued expansion of
Wilkes, it is essential for the board of
trustees to keep pace, so the college will
have the benefit of a variety of seasoned
counsel.
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WJMNUS
Vol. VII, No. 2
JANUARY,
19 6 1
�Research Center, Institute and LMC
Functioning Under Ford Foundation Grant
Board of Trustees
Admiral Harold R. Stark. Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vice-Chairman
Contents:
Andrew J. Sordoni, Second Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr.. Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Page
Research Center, Institute and LMC Functioning
Under Ford Foundation Grant---------------------------------
3
Mrs. Paul Bedford
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
Frank Bumside
Wilkes took a giant stride forward
recently when the Ford Foundation
granted $150,000 to the college for
the support of three projects — the
Area Research Center, Labor-Man
agement-Citizens Committee, and the
Institute of Municipal Government.
All three maintain offices in Parrish
Hall.
Michelini, Cohen Present Papers on Allergy Problems
4
Reflections of a Fulbrighter--------------------
5
Six New Names Appear on Faculty Roster
6
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
Both the Institute of Municipal
6
Government and the Labor-Manage
ment-Citizens Committee appeared
upon the campus and community
scene several years ago, but the
Center began to function only since
December 1, 1960, when Herman L.
Otto, former Research Director of the
Central Division, Pennsylvania Econ
omy League, officially took over as
Executive Director. These three or
ganizations have become an integral
part of a three-pronged research and
redevelopment drive to bolster the
economy of the Greater Wilkes-Barre
area.
New Institute Proposed by Dr. Thatcher
William L. Conyngham
Sports Shorts
_____________________________________
7
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Radio and Television Playing Important Part in PR Program
8
Miss Annette Evans
Alumni Association Seats New Officers
Eugene S. Farley
With Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
John Farr
Alumni Notes, New Arrivals, Deaths, Down the Aisle
Mrs. Franck G. Daite
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10-15
Hen. John S. Fine
Harry F. Geeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
On The Cover:
In one of the most severe winters of an half century—
with temperatures dropping slightly below zero in the immedi
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
ate college vicinity and nose-diving to thirty below in the more
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
remote outskirts—the buildings of the college stand out in
Rev. Charles S. Roush
snowy bas relief. Len Yoblonski, college photographer, brings
Joseph J. Savitz
into focus Chase Hall in winter attire.
Alumni Representative
Area Research Center
For many years, social agencies,
Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
Commerce, Wyoming Valley United
Fund, the Industrial Fund and other
civic organizations have recognized
the need for a research center keep
ing abreast of the times with up-tothe-minute statistical reports and sur
veys which can be made available
to such organizations requiring this
information.
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weakesser Walker
Charles B. Waller
Published by
Aaron Weiss
WILKES COLLEGE
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
President
Alumni and Public Relations Office
Dr. Eugene S. Farley
Chase Hall
Gordon E. Roberts, Alumni Secretary
Livingston Clewell, Public Relations Director
Alumni Officers
Gordon Roberts, Executive Secretary
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Vol. 7, No. 2
January, 1961
Russell H. Williams, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Published quarterly as The Alumnus for the members of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association.
Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasurer
Subscription — S2.00
I
The purposes of the Center are:
(1) to coordinate the many studies of
community problems and trends so
that the results will always be avail
able to interested parties; (2) to as
sure continuity of studies so that
long-time trends may be known and
their significance on the local and
national scene may be understood;
(3) to make special studies for public
and private groups, including muni
cipalities, Greater Wilkes-Barre In
dustrial Fund, corporations, labor or
ganizations, the Economy League,
school boards, and so forth; (4) to
cooperate with the Luzerne County
Planning Commission and that of the
City of Wilkes-Barre, and many other
groups too numerous to mention.
The paid staff will provide profes
sional direction, and secretarial and
Three oilices in Parrish Hall are partially maintained from a recent grant oi
S150.000 by the Ford Foundation. They are the Area Research Center, LaborManagement-Citizens Committee, and Institute of Municipal Government. Above, in
the office of the President, directors and administrators of the three offices meet with
Dr. Farley. Left to right: Rr. Hugo V. Mailey, Director, Institute oi Municipal Govemlanagement-Citizens Committee; Dr. Farment: Dr. Samuel Rosenberg, Director, Labor-Mc
ley, Herman L. Otto, administrative head of the Center; Philip R. Tuhy, Instructional
Assistant, Institute of Municipal Government.
research assistance, and its studies
will be conducted in cooperation with
the County and City development
agencies.
Although funds for the Ford
Foundation will support the Center
for five years, because of its impor
tance and impact upon the communi
ty, it is hoped that the Center will
eventually attract sufficient public
and industrial support to make the
office self-supporting within six years
at the most.
Herman Otto, Director
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Her
man L. Otto, Director of the Center,
was educated in Pennsylvania State
University where he was graduated
in 1942 with a B.A. degree in Com
merce and Finance. In the Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh areas, from 1947
to 1955, he administered single coun
ty programs for the Pennsylvania
Economy League. Since 1955, he
has been directing the development
and administration of appliedI research programs aimed at im]iproved
—
governmental management in the
metropolitan areas of Central Pennsylvania.
Mr. Otto, a veteran of World War
II, served in the European Theater of
Operations from 1943 to 1946. He
was recalled to active duty for two
years during the Korean War as a
member of Pennsylvania's 28th Divi
sion. He was released from active
duty in 1952 with the rank of Major.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto with their four
children reside in Dallas Township.
Institute of Municipal Government
Founded in 1951, the Institute of
Municipal Government also derives
support from the Ford Foundation for
three years. The Institute was estab
lished to serve in an advisory capa
city to local government officials so
that they may be fully acquainted
with the practices in government that
have been tried and proven in other
3
�communities. Over the years, some
three hundred officials from seventyfive per cent of the municipalities of
Luzerne County have come to recog
nize that sound economical govern
ment is an essential element in the
economic rebirth of the area and
have continued their participation in
the work of the Institute.
Recent experience, however, sug
gested that the effectiveness of the
work could be increased were it pos
sible to give greater assistance to
public officials in adopting the poli
cies and techniques with which they
have become acquainted through
the monthly meetings of the Institute.
Today, thanks to the Ford Founda
tion, the Institute (1) maintains a
service center that will cooperate
with local officials including super
visors, township commissioners, bor
ough councilmen, township and bor
ough secretaries, school directors,
zoning and planning officials, town
ship and borough auditors, police,
health, magistrates and other offi
cials; (2) publish the Luzerne County
Newsletter for circulation to all pub
lic officials within Luzerne County;
(3) maintain a center for conferences,
lectures and discussions relating to
major questions in the improvement
of city, borough and township gov
ernment; (4) maintain an advisory
and consulting service for local unit’of government and for associations
and officials actively concerned with
the work of such units; (5) maintain
a carefully selected collection of
contemporary printed materials re
lating modem local administrative
techniques and general information
in the field of local government ad
ministration; (6) complete studies and
preliminary phases of research in
the field of local government in North
eastern Pennsylvania; (7) expand the
activities into new phases of citizen
ship and adult training which will
alert the individual to governmental
problems.
Philip R. Tuhy
To expand the work of the Insti
tute, Philip R. Tuhy, former Senior
Planner of the Luzerne Planning Com
mission, was appointed Instructional
Assistant
A native of Wilkes-Barre — the
son of Reverend and the late Mrs.
Stephen Tuhy, the new appointee
v/as graduated from Coughlin High
School, received his B.A. Degree in
Political Science from Valparaiso
University and Master Degree in
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Governmental Administration at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Before joining the Luzerne County
Planning Commission, Mr. Tuhy was
Assistant Borough Manager at Down
ingtown, Pennsylvania, where he
conducted a research program for
that community.
From July, 1954 to June, 1956 he
served in the U. S. Army. A member
of St. Matthew's Slovak Evangelical
Lutheran Church, he is recording
secretary of the Church Council.
L.-M.-C. Committee
Like the Institute of Municipal
Government, the Labor-ManagementCitizens Committee had already been
established and was functioning be
fore the College received the Ford
Foundation Grant. Too, it had been
accepted by the community. With
Ford Foundation participation, it is
now possible for further improvement
and effectiveness. This will be ac
complished by adding to the LMC
staff a trained consultant who will
seek the full cooperation of both labor
and management in the area.
Dr. Samuel Rosenberg
Since its inception, the Labor-Man
agement-Citizens Committee under
executive directorship of Dr. Samuel
Rosenberg has become one of the
most effective tools in the communi
ty's industrial development program.
Prior to the Ford Foundation grant,
it was supported by funds furnished
by the Greater Wilkes-Barre Cham
ber of Commerce through the latter's
industrial divisions. It was and still
is, however, completely autonomous
in its operation.
Not only has the Committee been
responsible for establishing a rapport
between management and labor and
has resolved disputes before they led
to bitterness and unnecessary loss to
both sides, it has also received many
inquiries from state governments and
industrialists of the nation requesting
information relative to its structure
and operation. This augurs well for
both community and college.
When the Committee v/as organ
ized, it v/as the original intention that
each labor group and each industry
be invited to consider its services
whenever a strike threatened or a
misunderstanding developed. Un
fortunately, heretofore, time and per
sonnel have not been adequate and
there are still groups v/ho are un
aware of the services available to
them, The obvious result is that
strikes which might have been
avoided have taken place before the
Committee has been invited to parti
cipate. With an additional, full-time"
consultant, this situation can and will
be corrected.
Advisory Council
Future plans call for special pro
grams and institutes for the mutual
benefit of labor, management and
the community.
To further integrate the work of the
college with that of the community,
late in December Dr. Farley an
nounced at a luncheon meeting in
Hotel Sterling an Advisory Council
for Office of Community Services.
The council, comprising public offi
cials, business and professional men
active on the community front, will
develop and coordinate plans for the
Office of Area Research, the Institute
of Municipal Government, and the
Labor-Management-Citizens Commit
tee.
Those named to the Wilkes College
Advisory Council are; Judge Bernard
Brominski, Frank Bumside, Guthrie
Conyngham, Alfred Darte, Frank
Earnest, Dr. Eugene S. Farley, Con
gressman Daniel Flood, Ray Hodg
son, Attorney Andrew Hourigan,
James Kenny, Attorney Jarrett Jen
nings, Horace Kramer, Allen Larsen,
Dr. Hugo Mailey, Senator Martin
Murray, Herman Otto, Dr. Samuel
Rosenberg, Attorney Louise Shaffer,
Patrick Shovlin, Attorney Arthur Silverblatt. Rev. Edgar Singer, Mayor
Frank Slattery, Harold Tippett, Philip
Tuhy, and Samuel Wolfe.
Michelini, Cohen Present
Papers On Allergy
Problems
Dr. Francis J. Michelini and Dr.
Sheldon G. Cohen, both associate
professors of the Department of Bi
ology, recently presented papers be
fore the American Academy of Al
lergy meeting in Washington, D.C.
The meeting was held in the Statler
Hilton Hotel February 6, 7, 8.
Dr. Michelini reported on "Histo
chemical Studies on the Ragweed
Pollen Grain in Evaluation of Ex
tracting Procedures".
Dr. Cohen's paper discussed "re
actions of tissue sensitization".
Both professors are authors of a
number of articles published by sev
eral medical journals. Dr. Michelini
joined the faculty in 1955; Dr. Cohen,
in 1957.
Reflections of a Fulbrighter
Editor's Note: As our readers already know. Dr. Stanko M. Vujica,
Head of the Philosophy and Religion Department, is spending a
year as a Fulbright research scholar in Pakistan and India where
he is studying the various oriental religions. We asked Dr.
Vujica for a brief message on his impressions.
From childhood on I have asso
ciated the Orient with things bizarre,
colorful, picturesque and exotic — a
world of queer fascination. Now that
I have seen it and lived in it, this
image of my imagination has given
way to a more sober vision. Asia,
at least the part of it I have visited
thus far, lacks sensual beauty; her
austere and dark charms lie deep
below what meets the eye. More
over, a lover of the picturesque finds
his pleasure disturbed by the dis
cordent note of the ever-present evi
dence of human misery.
One of the most famous excava
tion sites in the world is Mojenjodaro, the "city of the Dead", deep in
the desert of Sindh in West Pakistan.
It was probably the oldest city in
the world, pre-dating by several
centuries the arrival of the Aryan
hordes in the Indus Valey. The Mo
jenjodaro civilization has a good
bath and drainage system in citi
zens' homes. The use of cotton for
textile existed two or three thousand
years before Europe learned of it.
The two human statuettes from Harappa, the sister city of Mojenjodaro
in the Punjab, were not matched till
the classic age of Greece.
During the last tour months in
Pakistan, I have often wondered why
it is that at this very spot man had
a better drainage five to six thousand
years ago than he has now? Why
is the standard of living on the PakIndian subcontinent so low? Why
so much squalor and poverty? Many
factors have contributed. The climate
of the subcontinent is enervating; for
a larger portion of the year, in order
to survive, man must avoid any
strenuous activity. Negativistic and
world denying outlook incalculated
by such religions as Buddhism and
Hinduism may have accentuated the
tendency towards withdrawal and
passivity. Mr. Nehru in his book
"The Discovery of India" places the
greatest blame on the British rule.
He points out that the British policy
of closing its market to Indian
products eliminated the need for
Indian craftsmen and artisans and
they drifted to the already overpopulated land. India became pro-
gressively ruralized. In every pro
gressive country there has been,
during the past century, a shift of
population from agriculture to indus
try. In India this process was re
versed. This, Nehru feels, is the
fundamental cause of the appalling
poverty of India. Whatever the
reasons, two developments occured"
in the West but failed to materialize
in Asia — the industrial revolution
and the growth of modem science.
This accounts for the backwardness
of Asia. Asia was not without
wealth, but it was chiefly in land
and jewelry — this could not be
taken away by invaders and plun
derers. Asia needs a long period of
political security if its wealth in gold
and minerals is to come out of hiding
and move into the factories.
But there is one more aspect of
this whole program. In almost every
conversation I have had on this mat
ter with my oriental friends the argu
ment is put forward the essence of
which runs something like this. Asia
is a home of the two oldest living
civilizations — the Chinese and the
Indian. Although they are centuries
older than the so-called Western
Civilization, they are still strong and
thriving while it is the Western
scholars themselves who are now
predicting the approaching end of
their society. How then can the
young, inexperienced and untried
West lecture Asia on the art of good
living? Surely the people of Asia
lack gadgets and conveniences and
now that modem technology has
made them available on a large
scale, they will soon get them. But
Asia has not succumbed to the ma
terialistic fallacy which equates hap
piness with physical comfort. As
one Pakistani put it to me, "The say
ing of Jesus, an Asiatic Himself, that
one must seek first the kingdom of
God and its righteousness, was
understood and followed in Asia
while the West failed even to under
stand its meaning." When it comes
to spiritual treasures, inner resources
and peace of mind, the East is richer
than the West. Communism, the
greatest curse of our age, is but a
logical extension of the materialistic
orientation of the West, and is one
of the many doubtful gifts that the
East has received from the West.
Thus runs their reasoning.
It would, of course, require a whole
book to even begin to deal with this
whole complex problem of the "spiri
tual East" versus the "materialistic
West". The search for the right
balance between the demands of
the body and those of the spirit has
been the perennial goal of all philo
sophies and religions; this search will
go on. In my own judgment the
spiritual or any other greatness can
not be founded on lack of freedom
and opportunity, or on starvation and
misery. In their preoccupation with
the things of the mind the sages of
Asia lost themselves in a sea of
speculation unconnected with the
day to day problems of life and the
needs of men and women. Be it as
it may, however, such criticisms are
largely beside the point. The im
portant thing is the awareness that
East and West represent two different
attitudes to life, two different ap
proaches to the ultimate value —
truly two mental universes.
The problem is not how to elimi
nate these differences, but how to
live with them. In a culturally
pluralistic world cultural coexistence
is a necessity. There are many hope
ful signs in both the East and the
West that we are moving towards
ever greater understanding of this
fact.
A Pakistan judge, who had spent
a few months in Swarthmore, Penn
sylvania, as guest of the Friends,
likes to quote an old Quaker lady,
who, he felt, told him the wisest thing
he heard in the States. "We used to
expect you," she told him, "to be
come converts to our religion and
cur way of life. Now we expect
something even more difficult; we
want you to understand and perhaps
even like our way of life although
you have not been converted to it.
You see, we are all seekers after
truth now."
An increased awareness of how
profoundly one man can differ from
another, and a renewed determina
tion to respect the opinions of those
who most differ from me is probably
the greatest personal insight I have
gained during my stay in the Orient.
Stanko M. Vujica
Lahore, January 1, 1961
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�pjew Jersey. Pete, a seasoned performer and
stage manager, lives at 240 West Lindsley
Road, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and is a
member of the faculty of Peterson, New Jersey
schools.
SIX NEW NAMES APPEAR
ON FACULTY ROSTER
Dr. Daniel Detweiler
Dr. Dcniel Detweiler has been
named professor of Physics at Wilkes
and will be in charge of the planning
of the graduate program and the ex
tension of the Stark Hall facilities.
Dr. De'weiler is a native of Wood
bury, Pennsylvania. A graduate of
Mercer: burg Academy, he matricu
lated at Swarthmore College from
which hs received the Bachelor of
Aris in Physics in 1949, followed by
a Master of Science in Physics at
hale in 1959. He received from Yale
also the Doctorate of Philosophy in
195?. During his studies at Yale, he
was a pre-doctorate fellow in Physics
under .he sponsorship of the Atomic
energy Ucmmission.
Frcm 1953 to 1954, Dr. Detweiler
served as project leader in the SemiConduc'o: research project of the
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. In
1954 he was named Associate Pro
fessor c. Physics in the College of
Ceramics al the State University of
New York ar Alfred. At present. Dr.
Detweiler carried a S15.000 annual
research grant as principal scientist
the basic research program span
s'red by the Office of Scientific Re
search ci :he Air Research and Developmenl command. United States
orcs. he expects to continue
;rk at Wilkes.
married to the former Anne
of Marlboro, New York. They
c. e three children: Lynn, 8, Paul, 6,
Susan. 4.
Dr. Julien A. Ripley, Jr.
Dz. Juliin A. Ripley, Jr. was named
Azsccia.e Professor of Physics. Dr.
Ripley comes io Wilkes from Abadan
Insiilute ol Technology, Abadan,
Iran., where he was professor and
chairman of the department of
Physics and Mathematics. Dr. Rip
ley is a native of Nev/ York state, a
graduate of St. Paul's School and
Yale University where he was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa and as associate
in Sigma XL He received his Master
of Arts degree frem Harvard Univer
sity and the Doctor of Philosophy
degree from the University of Penn
sylvania, He also did graduate work
at George Washington University as
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well as Columbia University and the
Oakland Institute of Nuclear Re
search. Before going to Abadan In
stitute where, in addition to being
chairman of the department of Phys
ics and Mathematics, he was chair
man of the curriculum committee.
Dr. Ripley served as associate pro
fessor of Physics at Dickinson Col
lege where he was also a member of
the curriculum and policy committee.
He is a grandson of Alexander
Graham Bell and a nephew of the
Gilburt Grosvenors of die National
Geographic Magazine.
Dr. William L. Edgerton
Dr. William L. Edgerton was re
cently named Professor in the English
Department. Dr. Edgerton received
his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Before coming to Wilkes, Dr. Edger
ton was associate professor of En
glish at Norwich University, North
field, Vermont. The new professor
of English has held a Research-grantin-aid at Norwich University in 1954,
and at Duke University in 1956. Dr.
Edgerton is a member of the Modem
Language Association, Renaissance
Society of America and the American
Association of University Professors.
Published articles:
“The Apostasy of Nicholas Udall"
"Shakespeare and the Needle's
Eye"
"Nicholas Udall in the Indexes of
Prohibited Books"
“The Calendar Year in SixteenthCentury Printing"
Howard A. Swain
Howard A. Swain, Jr. has been
named Assistant Professor of Physi
cal Chemistry at Wilkes. He is a
graduate of Grove City College and
is presently working toward a doc
torate in Physical Chemistry which
will be conferred this year by the
University of Pennsylvania.
Mr.
Swain, for the last three years, has
served as an instructor in Physical
Chemistry and general chemistry at
the University of Pennsylvania.
He is married and has two children.
Mrs. Daniel Tapper (Nancy Lee Hannye) has
been appointed assistant professor of mathe
matics in the College of Arts and Sciences,
Ithaca College.
A dean's list student at
Wilkes, Mrs. Tapper is the holder of the
Mathematics Achievement Award and the
Mrs. James McKane Scholastic Award, given
in recognition of her high academic achieve
ments. She and her husband reside at 1406
Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, New York.
Dr. Carla Pierone
Dr. Carla Pierone, who joined the
foreign language department as a
French and Spanish instructor, has
had a varied background in Euro
pean education. Dr. Pierone studied
at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the Uni
versity of Madrid, and received the
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Ro
mance Languages from the Univer
sity of Turin, in Northern Italy.
Leonard J. Mather is employed as a psych
ologist at the Child Guidance Clinic at Miami,
Florida. In the evenings he is in private
practice at the Granada Psychiatric Clinic as
a psychological consultant and play therapist.
Younsu Koo
Younsu Koo has been named an
instructor in the Engineering depart
ment. Younsu Koo received his en
gineering certificate from Wilkes in
1956. B.S. in Civil Engineering from
Swarthmore College in 1958; and
M.S. in Civil Engineering from the
University of Illinois in 1960.
Before coming to Wilkes, Younsu
Koo served as a research assistant
at the University of Illinois, College
of Engineering.
jointed group
Charles A. Zezza has bee appoii
manager in Albany, New York, L>r
foi Connect!will
cut General Life Insurance Company. He
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.^ministration
direct the planning, sale, and admini;
___ r insurance and retirement
/Ianspicfor
of group
all types of business and industrial firms.
Dr. Sandy A. Furey has been granted a
license to practice medicine and surgery after
passing the State Board Examinations ad
ministered in July. He has opened offices at
600 Main Street, Moosic. At Wilkes, Sandy
was editor of the Manuscript for two years,
and was named to "Who's Who in American
Colleges and Universities." He is married
to the former Elaine Witiak. and has a son,
Sandy, III.
Dr. Harold W. Thatcher, Chairman
of the Department of History, has pro
posed to the President the creation
at the College of an Institute of Inter
national Studies. The idea has al
ready received the approval of other
members of the History Department.
When final action is taken on the
proposal, The Alumnus will bring
you the detailed story.
The Institute as conceived will be
a new major, consisting of all courses
offered by the College dealing with
international affairs, foreign policy,
alien cultures — to mention a few —
plus new courses dealing with Latin
America, Central and Eastern Europe,
the Near East and Africa. All these,
of course, in addition to the usual
general-education courses.
Amazing as it may seem, the pro
posed Institute may be put into ef
fect at no additional expense.
Allen Feld is pursuing courses which will
lead to a Master of Social Work degree from
the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Milwaukee has promoted Alex
ander Y. Cathro to the position of head of the
District Agency in the Philadelphia area. Mrs.
Cathro is the former Carolyn Ruth Walling.
Neil J. McHugh of 126 Ridge Avenue, Plainfield, New Jersey, a mathematics teacher at
Scotch Plains - Fanwood High School, has ac
cepted a National Science Foundation Scholar
ship to Montclair State College for a Summer
Institute for secondary school mathematics
teachers.
1956
The speaker
;
for the Anthracite Conference
of The> Association for Bank Audit, Control
and Operation was Reese D. Jones. Reese is
affiliated as an account administrator for
Studley, Shopert and Company, Inc., a firm of
investment counsellors located in Boston and
Philadelphia.
1955
Arthur J. Hoover recentbj
recently received his
jgn from Pennsylvania
Master of Education degree
State University. Art is presently a member
:ulty.
of the Wilkes fact
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New Institute Proposed
By Dr. Thatcher
This much may be told, however.
Originally, the idea was conceived
by Dr. Bronis Kaslas and discussed
in detail with Dr. Thatcher. Its final
form will represent the collaboration
of these two faculty members.
the Oak Lane Country Day School and faculty
representative to the Parent Association.
Russell R. Pic’on, former Executive Alumni
Secretary and Director of Development at
Wilkes, is now Director of Development at
J in LynchRandolph-Macon Women's College
burg, Virginia. Russ is residing at 2461 Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, with his wife and
two sons.
J
Dr. John Blaker has been appointed to the
President's Advisory Committee for 1959-1960
at Fairleigh-Dickinson University. The Com
mittee serves to advise the President on any
matters concerning faculty and university wel
fare. Dr. Blaker is an Assistant Professor of
Physics at the University.
Patricia A. Fox is teaching Guidance in the
Dallas School District, Dallas, Pennsylvania.
Pat will receive her Master's degree
>e in elementary school guidance from Colui
imbia.
Morris Hollander has received word that he
has passed the Pennsylvania CPA examina
tion. Morris is associated with Laventhol,
Krekstein and Company, certified public ac
countants, Wilkes-Barre.
MARVIN C. REES has been selected from
more than 25 applicants as tho Adult Delegate
to accompany tho Philadelphia delegation to
a European CISV camp> this comint
coming summer.
Mr. Roes is Director of Physical Education at
Mrs. Paul Beers, the former Joan Shoemaker,
has been appointed guidance counsellor at
the Lower Dauphin Joint High School, Hum
melstown, Pennsylvania. Her husband, Paul
Beers, is a reporter for the Harrisburg Evening
News.
in Gilbert, Arizona. He had begun work on
his Master's degree in New York State and
hopes to continue his studies at Arizona State
University. He and his wife, Carol Ann Gard
ner, have three children.
1957
John J. Bucholtz will enter the political
science department at Mount Holyoke College.
He has been an assistant in instruction in the
department of politics at Princeton University.
Johanna Broske, director of nursing service
and education at Pottstown hospital, has been
awarded a masters degree in education from
the University of Scranton.
Marilyn Williams is a biology teacher at
New Brunswick Senior High School, New Jer
sey. She had been selected to attend and
participate in a national biology curriculum
conference at Boulder, Colorado, sponsored by
the National Science Foundation, and will be
part of a group planning a new biology pro
gram for high school students.
Marvin Z. Kurlancheek has been elected to
the James A. Gibson Anatomical Society for
outstanding work at the Medical School of
the University of Buffalo, New York. Mem
bership in the society is limited to twelve outstanding medical students selected annually
from the student body by members of the
school faculty.
A new faculty member at Belleville, New
Jersey, schools is Mrs. Bess Efstathion (Bess
Proferes).
George H. Batterson, Jr. has been promoted
to promotion and advertising manager by
UARCO, Inc., manufacturer of business forms.
He is married to Laurelle-Ann Sorenson.
Richard Manganella has been appointed by
the New Brunswick. New Jersey, Board of
Education to teach sixth grade at Bayard
School.
Robert Darrow, Delhaas High School lan
guage teacher, recently addressed the weekly
luncheon session of the Levittown-Fairless Hills
Rotary Club. He spoke of post-war changes
in West Germany. He teaches German and
English at Delhaas.
Jack P. Tippett has been notified that he
successfully passed the 1959 CT.A. examina
tions. He is employed with the firm of Price
Waterhouse Company, at its Pittsburgh office.
jgree of Doctor
Robert J. Doon received the degree
of Medicine from the University of' Pennsylva~
iladelphia this
nia School of Medicine in Phil
‘•"—''hip at the
summer. He is serving his internshi
Dr. W. H. Groves Latter Day Saints; Hospital
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Richard Jones is a member of the faculty
of North Hunterdon Regional High School,
New Jersey. Mrs. Jones (Naomi Kivler) is on
the faculty at Franklin Township Schools.
Lawrence Turpin has come up with a gadget
he claims will banish forever not the drip,
drip, drip of the leaky faucet, but the noise
it makes. His invention was patented in 1950.
Larry is now an assembly foreman at the
Jersey Dye 6 Casting Corp., in Irvington. New
Jersey.
ofessional service
Charles B. Neely is a pro!
joratories, a divirepresentative of Pfizer Labo
ly, Inc. He and
sion of Charles Pfizer & Company
my, have
e a auuyiuei,
daughter, num
Nina Anne
his wife, Gem
Norwood, PennsylI
and live at 214‘ Love Lane,
vania.
Paul L. Shiffer has accepted a posi
sition as
Band Director with the Gilbert Public Schools
John J. Federovich, Jr. has received a bache
lor of science degree in chemical engineering
at the mid-year commencement of Pennsylva
nia State University. He is employed by Air
Products, Inc., Allentown.
ictice law
Eugene Roth was admitted to prac
before Luzerne County courts recently
ly on motion of Atty. Joseph J. Savitz, Class5 of 1948,
the young attorney's preceptor. He is associated with the law firm of Roseau, Jenkins
and Greenwald, Wilkes-Barre.
Chief Justice Earl Warren of the United
State Supreme
?me Court has chosen Jesse Choper
Che
to be his law
iw clerk. Prior to his appointment by
Chief Justice Warren, Jesse had accepted a
teaching position at University of Minnesota
Law School, which granted him a leave of
absence so that he may fulfill his new duties
in Washington.
Joseph J. Szostak is music director of the
Ocean Township School, Oakhurst, New Jer
sey. and is the director of the chorus and band
at that school.
Lewis Rinehimer has assumed the position
of Controller for the Levinson Brothers stores
in Pennsylvania. Before establishing offices
in Warren, he was employed as an auditor
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�for Price Waterhouse & Company, of Pitts
burgh, for four years.
1958
Donald Domxalski has been app
tpointed to
snsolidated
the faculty of the Andover Coi
School, Andover, New Jersey. Don will teach
seventh and eighth grades (Social Studies).
He assumed his duties on December 1st. He
is presently doing graduate work at Seton
Hall University, East Orange, New Jersey.
Ronald A. Olson has been accepted for the
study of medicine at Hahnemann Medical Col
lege and Hospital of Philadelphia. Ron under
took graduate studies in microbiology at Syra
cuse University where he was awarded a
teaching assistantship and was a member of
Pi Sigma Bacteriology and Botany Honorary
Society.
Albert F. Kaiser received his Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering from
Michigan College of Mining and Technology.
John W. Pieplow received his Bachelor of
Science degree in Automotive Engineering
from Tri-State College, Angola, Indiana.
1959
Michael Goobic, associated with Johnson and
Johnson Company, is a part-time faculty mem
ber at Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
George Black is teachingf fourth and fifth
grades in the Haycock Schc
tool, Quakertown,
Pennsylvania.
David Williams is teaching mathematics and
general science at Neptune High School, New
Jersey.
Tames S. Hennighan is teaching eighth grade
English and social studies at Carl Sandburg
High School, Neshaminy, Pennsylvania. He
previously taught in Greene Centre, New York.
W. Evans has been awarded a WoodWilscn Fellowship for one year's study
any university of her■ choice in the United
G z
She had been in France on a Fulbright Fellowship grant, teaching school,
i.'j./e at Wilkes, Gwen attained a 4.00 aver
age, the highest possible.
r
j.
Mrs. Vincent Drapiewski (Barbara Ann Cuis studying medicine at The Womens
Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Pursuing courses which will lead to a
Master of Social Work degree at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania School of Social Work
is Leonard Majikas.
John F. Schade is a second year student at
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia.
Patricia Ann Yost has been awarded a
Graduate Fellowship by the National Science
Foundation for the academic year 1960-1961.
She is a student at Pennsylvania State Uni
versity under an assistantship grant and is
studying experimental psychology, minoring
in mathematics.
James L. Eidam is serving as instructor
librarian at Wilkes. He is presently taking
courses toward his master's degree in Library
Science at Columbia University.
rass received his bachelor
Stanley J. Wintergrc
of science degree in engineering-physics from
Pennsylvania State University,
University. He is present
Fcimsylvania
ly attenc"
fading ~
Rensselaer "
Polytechnic Institute,
New York, where he is working toward
Troy, Is
his doc
octorate in atomic and nuclear physics.
He is employed by General —
Electric Corporation, Schenectady, New York as a nuclear
physicist.
Georglanna Scbolka has been appointed to
the music faculty of Mountain View Joint
School in Montrose, Pennsylvania.
Beside
teaching music, Georgianna will teach a sec
tion of junior high school English.
Arthur W. Evans, Robert J. Petroski. Kenneth
A* Thomas, Jr., and Stefan J. Hellersperk are
attending Bucknell University where they are
pursuing courses in engineering.
Thomas Hurley has accepted a teaching
position at Neptune City, New Jersey schools.
Ensign Robert V. Stevens was graduated
from Officer Candidate School, U. S. Naval
Base, Newport, Rhode Island.
Roger A. Cease was appointed to teach
mathematics and science by the Bordentown
High School, New Jersey, School Board.
The 1960 Phillip Salsburg Memorial Scholar
ship has been awarded to Jerome R. Gardner.
Under the terms of the grant he is to work
in an area Lackawanna United Fund agency
for two years after completing his training.
training
He will begin graduate study at the Un
Uni
versity of Pennsylvania School of social Work.
Richard J. Myers has been appointed as
assistant manager of the Wyoming Valley
Motor Club. Dick is married to Lois Tremayne,
Class of 1957, and lives in Kingston.
Ray
tymond Yanchus has been appointed assistant
nt football coach at Jonathan Dayton Re-
Alfonso Zawadski
at Wilkes College.
is
assistant
Registrar
Robert Kuchinski will teach social business
studies in the New Brunswick High School,
New Jersey.
Janet L. Cornell is teaching vocal music in
the Chazy, New York, High School.
Doris Gademan has accepted a position
with the United States Public Health Service
and is currently located at Anchorage, Alaska.
Mary Ellen Zweibel and Patricia Fushek are
teaching at The Pennsbury Schools, Pennsyl
vania.
Richard J. Salus is employed by Peat, Maurick, and Mitchell, accounting erm in Philadel
phia.
Frank I. Edwards is Band Director at West
Pittston High School, Pennsylvania. He is
married to the former Barbara Bachman. Barb
is teaching at The Pennsbury Schools.
John F. Marriott is on the faculty of Lyman
Hall High School in Wallingford, Conn. He is
teaching general science and social studies.
a sen born to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Slamon of Wilkes-Barre on Actober 24, 1959.
a daughter, Cynthia Leigh, to Dr. and
Mrs. Shadrach H. Jones, III, of Montoursville,
on September 28.
New Jersey on November 4, 1960.
1951 —
a son, bom to Mr. and Mrs. Merton
Jones, on October 10, 1959.
12
1957 —
a son, George Francis, to Mr. and Mrs.
1939 —
29, 1959.
Dr. Alphonse S. Warakomski of Wades
boro, North Carolina, formerly of Nanticoke,
Pennsylvania died in June. 1960.
Rita T. Zekas was recently married to Peter
J. Sielicki of Wilkes-Bane in St. Mary's Lithuanian Church, Kingston.
1951
John M. Fink of Wilkes-Barre was married
on October 24, 1959 to Louise Williams. John
is an auditor with Charles S. Rockey and
Company, Wilkes-Barre.
rerville was marBernard R. Swetts of Swoye
ried recently to Joan Marie Bochnik of Ply—. ...
mouth. Bernard served in the„ U.
S. ...my
Army iand
is presently engaged
[ed in microbiological in
L,r the Colgate-Palmolive
vestigative work for
Company, Jersey City, New Jersey.
1952
Michael Vincent DeNoia of Hazleton was
married on June 25 to Theresa LaBraico. They
are residing at 129 East Diamond Avenue,
Hazleton.
Anno Marie Tamulis of Edwardsville was
married recently to Frank J. Schuler of WilkesBarre in St. Mary’s Church, Kingston. Anne
Marie is employed in the Nanticoke State
Hospital.
1953
William A. Bonn of Wilkes-Barre was mar
ried recently to Dorothy
Dorothy Jean Steever. Bill is
i
, by
taj, p
ro^ucts Company, Wilkesemployed
by g
Star
Proc*
Barre.
Elwood Wintie, Jr. was married on March 5
to Eleanor D. Marley in Forty Fort. The couple
is residing in. West Pittston.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George
Gacha on June 11, 1960.
1954
Dr* William G. Saba was married oh June 12
to Carol Ann Hazeme. Dr. Saba completed
his doctoral studies in physical chemistry at
the University of Pittsburgh on June 11.
a son, William, to Mr. and Mrs. William
Schlingman of Wyoming, Pennsylvania on
October 11, 1959.
1955
Roland Featherman was married on Septem
ber 10 to Eileen Hoban. Roland is employed
at Danville State Hospital.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
C. Evans, July 27, 1960.
Rose
----- Brown was
was married on
__ June 25 to
Edward Goldner. The couple is residing at
906 Lockhead Avenue, Flint, Michigan.
1960 —
Stanley P. Henning of Orchard Park,
New York died in October, 1959.
1954 —
Vincent A. Slavitsko, on February 17,
1960, died at his home in Ashley, Pennsyl
vania.
1957 —
Neil Dadurka. former Forty Forst, Penn
sylvania resident, died on May 5, 1960 in
California.
Donald F. Straub, formerly of Kingston, died
in York, Pennsylvania on October 21, 1959.
DOWN THE AISLE
Dr. Ralph Barry Jordan was married on
October 8 to Marcia Ann Truscott. Barry
maintains an office at 685 North Washington
Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Frank Ankner (Mary Mory) of Pennsauken,
a son, Daniel Amnon, to Dr, and Mrs,
Samuel M. Meline of Allston, Massachusetts
on April 9, 1960,
William E. Stryjak died on December
13, 1960 in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania.
1950
Dr. Rudolph S. Bottei of South Bend, Indiana
was married on August 13 to Rita Uznanski
of Chicago. The couple is residing in South
Bend.
1952 —
a daughter, Lauri, to Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley Perlick of Rockville, Maryland in June.
Thorwald E. Lewis of Huntington Mills,
Pennsylvania died at his home on October
Frank L. Sabach is a member of the faculty
and assistant football coach at Dwight Morrow
High School, Englewood, New Jersey.
1949 —
1954 —
1936 —
Emmanuel J. Ziobro has been selected by
year
the State Banking Department for a two-y<
training program to qualify him as a bo
tank
examiner.
NEW ARRIVALS
1950 —
1935 —
1949
'erville was married
Jerome Markoch of Swoyt
recently to Elizabeth Bojarcik. Jerome is emof Babcock
ployed by the engineering firm
f:
ssissippi.
and
Wilcox, West Point, Miss
CH
1960
Stephen Poleski was appointed to the facul
ty of The Eisenhower School, Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, as a high school art teacher.
DEATHS
gional High School in New Jersey. Besides
his coaching duties, Ray will teach social
studies at the high school.
Neal J. McHugh was married on August 27
to Ann Marie Fallon. Neal is a member of
the faculty of Scotch Plains - Fanwood High
School, Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
Michael J. Weiss was recently married to
Ann Shirley Dotter in Wilkes-Barre. Michael
is a faculty member at Maxson Junior High
School, Plainfield, New Jersey.
Joseph Trosko, Jr. was married on September
10 to Janet Davies. The couple is residing
Glenn P. Williams of Wilkes-Barre was mar
ried on July 2 to Janet Knox. Glenn is on the
teaching stab at Pennsbury Schools, Fallsing
ton.
1956
George H. Batterson, Jr. was married to
Laurelle-Ann Sorenson on February 27, 1960.
He is employed as a promotion and adver
tising manager by UARCO, Inc., manufacturer
of business forms.
Merlyn J. Dixon was married on October 24,
1959 to Mary Anne Linton of Kingston in St.
Nicholas Church, Wilkes-Barre.
Sarah L. Harvey of Kingston and Peter R.
Maslosla, Class of 1957, were married on
.. 1959 in Dzccklyn,
N.Y. Pete is
October 17,
Brookl]
red as a food chemist in the Quaker
employed
vision of A & P, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Maid Divi
Joan Perash was married on November 26,
1959 to Gerald Fitzgerald, III. Joan is em
ployed as a medical writer at the SterlingWinthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, N.Y.
Carol A. Spector was married recently to
Joseph Steuer. The couple is residing at 20
Woodcliff Avenue, Apartment Five H, North
Bergen, N. J.
Wilbur J. Smiles was married to Jayne L.
Alexander on July 16. The couple is residing
at 295 Oak Street, Beaver, Pennsylvania.
R. WARREN WILLIAMS was married on
July 9 to Sue Ann Greenland in Pittston. The
couple is residing at 203 Delaware Avenue,
West Pittston.
Paul Zavada was married recently to
Catherine Cunningham. Paul is employed as
an accountant by Joseph H. Williams, certi
fied public accountant, Wilkes-Barre.
1957
Norma Jean Davis of Wilkes-Barre was mar
ried on May 27 to William Ball. Norma has
been teaching at Hubbard High School in
Plainfield, New Jersey.
Jacob M. Dvomicky was married within the
last year to Veronica Silinski. The couple is
residing at 148 Ocean Drive, Salisbury. Mary
land.
Lois J. Tremayne and Richard J. Myers,
Class of 1960, were married on January 1, 1959
in Wilkes-Barre. Lois is presently on the
faculty of Nesbitt Memorial Hospital School of
Nursing and Dick is employed by American
Automobile Association in Wilkes-Barre.
Joseph E. Podlesny was married to Dolores A.
Tenshaw on August 20. Joseph is chief cost
accountant for Highway Trailer Company.
Valmont Industrial Park, Hazleton.
Vincent P. Herron, Jr. of Wilkes-Barre was
married on November 19 to Sally Gribbon.
The couple is residing in Youngstown, Ohio.
1958
John Wanko was married to Carole C. Just
iy, 1959 in Kingston. John
on Thanksgiving Da]
is attending Supply SSchool in Athens, Georgia.
Ickert was married on August 20
Lee W. Ec*
to Nancy Wilkens in Shavertown. Lee is
associated •with the Bell Telephone Company,
Harrisburg.
ray was married on February
Anthony J. Core
Tony is employed
27 to Mary Ann DeAntona.
L
by Western Electric, Laureldale, Pa.
Maryann Powell was married to J. David
Valaik on August 13 in St. Therese's Church,
Wilkes-Barre. The couple is residing at 587
Allenhurst Road, Buffalo, N.Y.
David Earl Vann was married on September
10 to Margaret Ruth Rupell of Trenton. Dave
studied at Rhodes University in the Union of
South Africa on a Rotarian Scholarship. He
is presently affiliated with the Radio Corpora
tion of America in Somerville, New Jersey.
The couple is residing at 31 North Seven
teenth Street, Allentown.
[ary Lou Chickson was married on DecemMe
ber 126, 1959 to Michael J. Buglio. The couple
is residing in Maryland.
Marilyn Frances Carl was married within
the past year to John F. O'Connell of Kings
ton. The couple is residing in Kingston.
Judith Ann Tabasco was married recently
in Camden, Delaware to Jack R. Maurer of
Harrisburg. He is a student at the University
of Pennsylvania. Judy also graduated from
the Harrisburg Hospital School of Medical
Technology.
George R. Kucik was married to Lorraine
j
M. Sincavage on June 25. At present,
George
is a senior at the Villanova University
Ui
School
of Law.
Janet Jones of Kingston was married on July
16 to Alastair Crawford. Janet is a music
teacher in Bergenfield, N.J., schools.
Daniel Falkowitc was married on July 10
to Sharon Freed of Wilkes-Barre. Dan is an
accountant for Laventhol Krekstein & Com
pany. Wilkes-Barre.
Victor R. Martuza was married on July 16
to Jean Davalli. Victor is on the teaching
staff at Sevema Park High School, Maryland.
13
�at 18 West Carey Street, Plains, Pa.
Beatrice Hoyle Young was married _on
The
November 13. 1959 to James Dean,
couple is residing in Akron, Ohio.
'r was married on
Carolyn Joan Goeringer
Raymond of Medina,
July 16 to Robert Harlow Rc
iding at 528 David
N.Y. The couple is reside
Avenue, Medina, N.Y.
William J. Powell was married recently to
Leona Super. Bill is an accountant for Ly
brand, Ross Brothers and Montgomery, certi
fied public accountants. New York City.
Joseph Pipan was married to Marie Theresa
Zonka on August 6. Joe is employed at the
Naval Aviation Supply Office, Philadelphia.
Sylvia Maura and David B. Lucchino, Class
of 1956, were married recently in Hazleton.
Sylvia is employed as a medical secretary in
Philadelphia and David is serving an intern
ship al Misericordia Hospital, Philadelphia.
William B. Duffy was married to Jeanne
Ellen Aheam on April 23 in St. Boniface R.C.
Church. Sea Cliff. New York. Bill recently
graduated from Officer Candidate School.
Kathleen Modica was married recently to
Sammy Buchanan in Chesterfield, S.C. on
September 20.
Kathleen is employed by
American Cyanamid Company.
Hillard R. Hoffman was married cn Septem
ber 3 to Ruth Ann Carlson. The couple re
sides at Graduate Circle, University Park.
Tribn Coursen was married to Yvonne Nadwodney cn October 8. John is employed by
the American Car and Foundry, Berwick.
1959
Lynne M. Herskovitz and Bruce WarshaL
Class of 1958, were married on June 19. Lynne
is teaching in New Haven, Connecticut and
Bruce is attending Yale University Law School
and Yale University Graduate School of Eco
nomics.
Marguerite Ann Salvatore was married
within the past year to John A. Lenk. The
couple resides in South Plainfield. New Jersey.
Grace ViPond was married on June 17 to
Robert Reisser. Grace is a member of the
of South Plainfield High School, South
Plainfield, N.J.
Arthur Rogovin was married to Sandra
Ser after cn September 19 in New York City.
Arthur is employed by West, Heimer, Fine,
Berger and Company, New York City.
Thr.mar. J, Lally and Joan P. Rishkofski were
married September 5 in St. Boniface Church,
Wilkes-Barre. Joan is a mathematics teacher
in Meridan City schools and Tom is employed
by the Aetna Life Insurance Company in Hart
ford, Connecticut
Richard E. Edwards was married cn October
17, 1959 to Barbara Cullis Evans. Dick is
employed in the Philadelphia office of the
Household Finance Corporation.
George J. Sura was married to Agnes Boyan
Jordan on June 4 in Garden City, Long Island.
George is on the faculty of the Central Islip
Schools.
"Walter Horchheimer was married to Claire
E. Sims on February
lary 27. Walter is employed
by the Robbins Door <and Sash Company,
"Wilkes-Barre.
Beverly Gates and Morgan P. Thomas v/ere
married April 30. Beverly is an assistant
buyer at Strawbridge and Clothier, Philadel-
14
in is a controller trainee for
phia and Morgai
Sears, Roebuck tand Company. Philadelphia.
Audrey Bartlett was married to Donald C.
Robbins on November 14, 1959. The couple
is residing at 1479 Wyoming Avenue, Forty
Fort, Pennsylvania.
Myron J. Suseck was married during the
past year to Sandra A. Kostak. Myron is
employed as an industrial engineer with the
Okonite Cable Company. New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
Sylvia Ann Cusick was recently married to
Andrew P. Yesul in Dallas. Sylvia is a mem
ber of the faculty of Binghamton Central High
School.
alumni association seats
at 1732 Market Street, Harrisburg.
(continued from page 9)
Andrew Rushin was married on July 22 to
Arlene Mungetski.
Andy is stationedi at
Quantico, Virginia.
Paul A. Klein was married on June 25 to
Annette Zeto of Wilkes-Barre. Paul is on the
faculty of Kingston High School.
Janice Krumsky was married recently to
John T. Boettger. The couple is residing in
Montclair, New Jersey.
Peter McLaughlL*
McLaughlin was married on June 11
to Love Ann Alexanderwicz. The couple is
residing in Wilkes-Barre.
Jean Kaswinkel was married on April 30 to
Robert W. Thomas. The couple is residing
at 100 Stafford Avenue, Scranton.
Joan Taylor Llewellyn and Samuel T. Buck
man, Class of 1958, were recently married in
Wilkes-Barre. The couple is residing in the
Wilkes-Barre area.
Edward Mikolaitis was married recently to
Maryann Fedorchak. Ed is a member of the
tinching staff at Schwenkeville High School,
Pennsylvania.
Adeline C. Chopak and Gerald A. Dohl were
recently married. Adeline is a member of
the faculty of Edison Township, New Jersey,
High School.
Thomas
to Carol
couple is
Elizabeth,
Muratt was married on October 8
Warakomski of Nanticoke.
The
residing at 410 West End Avenue,
New Jersey.
John T. Mulhall was married on August 27
to Eugenia Felice. The couple is residing in
the Tanglewood Lane Apartments, King of
Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Michael Lozman was married on June 26
to Sharon Parnett. Michael is now studying
ree at New York University
for a master's degret
jy the Metropolitan Life In
and is employed by
in New York.
surance Company iu
Jean E. Shofranko -was recently nmarried to
Joseph P. Olexy. Jr. of Plymouth,u Jean is
ilty of Meyers
presently a member of the faculty
High School. The couple is residing at 70
South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Leon C. Voshefski was married recently to
Barbara Anne Ostroski. Leon is affiliated
with the Benjamin Foster Company, Philadel
phia.
Ronald W. Simms was married recently to
Rhea Politis of Kingston. The couple
couple is re
siding in Wilkes-Barre.
Robert J. Thomas v/as recently married to
Nancy J. Atherholt. Bob is now a ministerial
student at Fuller Theological Seminary. Pasa
dena, California.
John Harvey v/as recently married to Marie
Negosh. The couple is residing at Belle Haven,
Virginia.
Morgan R. Davis v/as recently married to
Marlene M. Baron. Morgan is employed by
the United States Post Office in Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania.
Alvin H. Funke was married on October 22
to Janice Upton. Alvin is associated with
Herman Funke & Sons.
1960
Jerome A. Roth was recently
recenth married to
Valerie I. Carter. The couple is
i residing at
vxzii1
430 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre.
Carol Ann Pelczar v/as married recently to
Thomas G. Herstek of Wilkes-Barre Township.
The couple is residing in Wilkes-Barre.
Ralph Dale Wagner v/as married on June 11
to Vema Lee Wagner in Dallas. The couple
is residing at R.D. 1, Harveys Lake.
Judith R. Ruggere and George R. Schall,
Class of 1959, v/ere married October 17, 1959.
George is presently employed by the Boston
Store, Inc.
Judith Weiss v/as married on June 12 to
Irving Moskow.
Moncey Jeanne Miller and Glenn Dale
Carey, Class of 1956, were married recently.
Glenn is an engineer with Western Electric on
special assignment at Moses Lake, Washing
ton.
Emmanuel Ziobro v/as married to Dorothy
Milewski on June 18, The couple is residing
i
Carol Jean Emanski and John Sapiego were
married recently in Kingston.
Carol is a
research assistant at the Colgate-Palmolive
Laboratories in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
and John is a chemist at the Hercules Powder
Company, Parlin, New Jersey.
Raye L. Thomas and Richard D. Wileman
v/ere married recently in Wyoming. Dick is
presently associated with Pennsylvania Millers
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Barbara Ellen Bachman and Frank Edwards
were married on December 31. Barbara is
teaching in the Pennsbury School System,
Fallsington, and Frank is teaching in West
Pittston High School.
John G. Gavazzi and Bemadine C. Zapotowski were recently married in Wilkes-Barre.
Bemardine is employed at Center County
Hospital, Bellefonte, and John is studying for
his Master of Arts degree in psychology on an
assistantship at Pennsylvania State University.
Beverly Ann Dodson was recently married
to Matthew F. Racioppa. The couple resides
' ‘ Highway, Baltimore.
at 4607 Ritchie
Darwin A. Ball was married recently to
Mary Elaine Reynar in Carbondale, Darwin
is employed as a junior executive trainee at
Capitol Records, Scranton.
Nicholas Chirico was married on August 27
to Shirley Baldwin. The couple resides at 857
Alter Street, Hazleton.
Helen E. Schainuck and Bernard Rubin#
Class of 1957, were married on August 21.
Helen is teaching at Highland School, Whea
ton, Maryland, and Bernard is an internal
revenue agent with the U.S. Treasury Depart
ment, Washington, D.C.
Dav/n Katherine Ben
rgsman was married
October 15 to Jay L. ;Smith. The couple
sides in Berwick.
on
re
two semesters of science, under the
expanded program, courses will be
included to graduate the professional
physicist. Under this new program,
Wilkes has accepted the responsibili
ty of offering a Master's Degree in
both chemistry and physics.
1935
John Henry Bone
Cyril Freed
Jean Osbourne Mackeeby
Emmet Milton Molley
Victor Anthony Navikas
Isaac Ripple Schumaker, Jr.
Edson Joseph Shannon
Clarence John Sweeney
Albert Duncan Thomas
1936
William Francis Boyle
John Solon Galson
Mrs. John T. Lavin
(Catherine Marie Kilgallon)
James Aloysius Ramsey
Edwin William Smith
Lazarus Heller Weiss
1937
Dr. Joseph Robert Boyle
Donald Peter McHugh
Andrew Peter O'Malley
Philip M. Seymour
i
1
i
1938
John Daniel Gambold
Rev. Robert Elliott Grover
Vera Faith Grushetsky
Margaret Louise Hartman
Jack Leather
Charles Fredrick Millard
Lilly Morgan
1939
Mrs. George F. Bertech
(Julia Marcia Place)
Harry L. Campbell
William Francis Dowdell
John Joseph Emanski
Marvin William Fischer
Jerome Bernard Greenwald
Mrs. Peter J. Haggerty, Jr.
(Mary Rita Donnelly)
Katherine Ann Lewis
Abraham Mandlovitz
Weat Carl Mattis
Philip J. McCabe, Jr.
John Reese Thomas
Mrs. Vernon H. Wyatt
(Lillian G. Celmer)
Robert E. Zuber
1940
Mrs. William J. Jones
(Irene Dorothy Betz)
Mrs. Herbert Lott
(Anneliese Clara Greenstein)
Paul Paddock
Eugene L. Rogei
>rs
James Benjamin1 Roski
Charles F. E. Templeton
Paul Hooper Trebilcox
1941
Mrs. Clive 1. Dill
(Muriel Emily Rees)
Under the 10-year plan, soon to be
made public, an expanded building
program has already reached the
blueprint stage. Indicative of the
rate of growth of the College, is the
fact that practically-new Stark
Science Hall can no longer accomo
date the press of students.
Other reports at the meeting in
cluded those from Dr. Eugene S. Far
ley, Wilkes President; Attorney Jo
seph J. Savitz, alumni representative
on the board of trustees of the Col
lege; Mrs. Anita Janerich, secretary;
Russell Williams, vice-president; and
Leonard Mulcahy, treasurer.
WANTED
We believe the following "Missing persons" are in
habitants of the United States and that they must have
at least one friend or relative who might have an
inkling of their whereabouts.
CAUTION
These Wilkes College <graduates are ROBBING themselves of becoming active members> of the Wilkes College Alumni Association.
Like KIDNAP victims the]
-y have disappeared
>eared without a trace.
trace, It's
MURDER to try to locate• them, so won't iyou please help — come
forward and help us to bring our Ahum
ini mailing list up-to-date.
INFORMATION NEEDED —
Correct name — or married name — if not listed correctly.
Present address — or last known address — or name
and address of person who might supply this information.
If you know the whereabouts of any of these alumni,
PLEASE notify your Alumni Office NOW!
Dr. Paul James Dowdell
John Peter Finn
Fred Warren Girton
Mrs. Richard H. Hope
(Ruth Elizabeth Lynn)
Stanley Raymond Kresses
Mrs. R. D. Lowum
(Carolyn Jane Nagro)
Carl F. O. Miller
James Christopher O'Malley
Murray Benjamin Pincus
Dean Elston Robinson
Vincent Albert Segar
John Paul Shannon
Mrs. Ann Walsh
((Ann Longf Kolb)
Harvey Martii
in Wruble
Albert ZcJakiewicz
1942
William Dapkus
Gerald Joseph Green
Stephen Jackson Whiteman
1943
Grayce Samuel Bailey
Dr. Harry Katz
Victor Albert Patoski
1944
Jean M. Donohue
Jerome P. Facher
Clem Myron Kashmar
Helen Morris
Annette E. Pincus
1945
Mrs. John Adams
(Mary Lavada Stubbs)
Alphonse Dervinis
Elva Lorraine Rogers
1946
Peter Paul Halecki
Edward Albert Myers
Mrs. Lewis Tomlinson
(Caryl Lois Galow)
1947
Robert Edgar Benning
Alex Lomascolo
1948
Attorney Norman Baum
Charles Edward Hailstone
Leonard Edward Kovalski
Mrs. Alphonso Passeri
(Shirley Louise Phillips)
Jack Wambold
Frank Erwin Wheeler
James Joseph Whiteley
1949
Henry
ry Warren Anderson
Paulu J<
John Bamoskie
Teresa Mar™ary Bianco
Pascal Josepl
seph Danilowicz
Mrs. Richard1 M. Davis
(Ruth D. Smith)
Edward Goldsmith
Philip G. Hoffman
Seymour George Maisel
Michael Martinoff
Thomas John Rebarchak
Irene Marie Smith
James Alexander Spanos
John George Verbyla
Dr. Stephen H. Wolf
1950
Robert Paul Beck
Joseph Michael Bendock
John Michael Cain
Samuel M. Chambliss
Joseph John Chaponis
Frederick Murray Fisher
Henry Gerhart Frank
Carl Morgan Gibson
Robert M. Gorgas
Theodore Gribb
Julius Edward Kuhn
William John Miller
Cameron Moffat
George Petrilak
Leon Stanley Pollard
Harold Arthur Schmidt
Thomas T. Smith
Henry Francis Strozeski
Russell Albert Wolff
1951
Sally Ruth Mittleman
Daniel David Phillips
John Michael Russell
James Ray Tinsley
1952
John Daniel Bma
Jean Louise Bush
Edward George Donner
Joseph Fattorini, Jr.
Eleanor Theresa Gorney
Edward MacKeverican
Henry A. Merolli
James R. McKillen
Robert Howard Nash
Thaddeus C. Putkowski
Mrs. Eugene Zak
(Elizabeth Ann Jarolim)
1953
Edward William Casey
Harry Branch Davis
Fran cis Anthony Kapes
Arthur Z. Smulyan
Thaddeus R. Stopkoski
John Theloudis
1954
Spiros Harry Columbus
Robert Cross
Bart Joseph Davison
Edward James Finn
Margaret Mary Hopko
John Malamas
Rodian Russia
1955
Mrs. Beatrice Dean
(Beatrice Louise Hoyle Young)
Annie Phyllis Findley
Anne Mel Harton
Margaret Ann Luty
John Morris
Angelo R. Pappa
Marilyn Ann Peters
Robert Richard Reynolds
1956
Eli A. Kopcho.
Leonard J. Lesko
Victoria Justine Zavatski
Bernard Robert Zoboski
1957
Leslie Philip Weiner
1958
Miriam Weinberg
1960
Andrew S. Benoska
Earle V. Charles, Jr.
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Telephone....
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Curriculum.
Year.
Semester Hours.
3—Transferred to.
Graduated.
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Source...
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Date.
5—Present Employment and Duties.
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<p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. Our holdings may be missing editions for certain years due to having no physical copy within the collection. </p>
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SPRING
APRIL, 1961
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�Board of Trustee:
IN THIS ISSUE
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chain
CAMPUS PERISCOPE — Cynthia Hagley ’62
A recap of many of the activities on the campus during the winter months.
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vice-Cha
2
Andrew J. Sordoni, Second Vice
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
1961 APPEAL STRIVES FOR $100,000
3
The commitment of the College to the Radio Corporation of America, together
with our annual scholarship fund, presents a challenge to all of us.
James P. Harris, Treasurer
4
YOUR EMPLOYER MAY MATCH YOUR GIFT
Many corporations are matching the gifts of their emjiployees to their respective
colleges. Scan this list carefully; maybe you are eligible
Mrs. Paul Bedford
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CHEMISTRY
AND PHYSICS ANNOUNCED
5
This giant stride forward makes ever more pressing the College’s need for funds.
Frank Bumside
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
NEW ATHLETIC FACILITIES
6
Artillery Park, the former home of the Wilkes-Barre Barons Ball Club, takes on a
new look as the College makes it ready for sports.
William L. Conyngham
THE COLLEGE STUDENT
A special rotogravure section complete in this issue.
about the “new college student”.
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
7
Crammed with information
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
23
PICTURE PLAY
Activities around the campus caught by the camera eye.
John Fan-
WITH THE CLASSES
24
A resume of what your classmates are doing . . . births, marriages and deaths.
Hon. John S. Fine
FORMER CUE ’N’ CURTAIN MEMBERS
FORM NEW ORGANIZATION
A production is now in the works for May 13 . . . The Kum Bak Show.
26
Joseph J. Kocyan, MD.
THE SPORTS SCHEDULES
29
Harry F. Goerlnger
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
WILKES
c
F
L E
ALUMNUS
w
On The Cover..
A photographic reproduction of the mural recently
hung in the gymnasium •— a mural created by
Cathal O’Toole, former head of the art department.
It is a memorial gift of the class of 1958 and depicts
the transition of the College from 1933 to the
present. Members of the faculty and the admini
stration may be identified through a magnifying
glass. Len Yoblonski took the photograph.
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THE STAFF
EDITOR
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kathleen O’Donnell
SPORTS
Arthur J. Hoover ’55
ALUMNI NOTES
Felicia Perlick ’63
PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonard Yoblonski ’63
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Cynthia Hagely ’62
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly by the Public
Relations Department, Livingston Clcwell. Director.
1
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representativi
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Wi
Charles B. Waller
Aaron Weiss
President
Eugene S. Parle;
Alumni Office
Gordon Roberts, Executive S
Clayton A. Bloomburg, Presi
Russell H. Williams, Vice-I
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasure:
�Board o£ Trustees
IN THIS ISSUE
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chairman
CAMPUS PERISCOPE — Cynthia Hagley ’62
A recap of many of the activities on the campus during the winter months.
2
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vice-Chairman
Andrew J. Sordoni, Second Vice-Chairman
1961 APPEAL STRIVES FOR $100,000
3
The commitment of the College to the Radio Corporation of America, together
with our annual scholarship fund, presents a challenge to all of us.
YOUR EMPLOYER MAY MATCH YOUR GIFT
4
Many corporations are matching the gifts of their
2ir employees to their respective
colleges. Scan this list carefully; maybe you are tL
eligible.
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CHEMISTRY
AND PHYSICS ANNOUNCED
5
This giant stride forward makes ever more pressing the College’s need for funds.
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
Frank Burnside
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
NEW ATHLETIC FACILITIES
6
Artillery Park, the former home of the Wilkes-Barre Barons Ball Club, takes on a
new look as the College makes it ready for sports.
William L. Conyngham
THE COLLEGE STUDENT
A special rotogravure section complete in this issue.
about the “new college student”.
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
7
Crammed with information
PICTURE PLAY
Activities around the campus caught by the camera eye.
23
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
John Farr
WITH THE CLASSES
24
A resume of what your classmates are doing . . . births, marriages and deaths.
Hon. John S. Fine
FORMER CUE ’N’ CURTAIN MEMBERS
FORM NEW ORGANIZATION
A production is now in the works for May 13 . . . The Kum Bak Show.
26
Joseph J. Kocyan, MID.
THE SPORTS SCHEDULES
29
Harry F. Goerlnger
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Charles B. Waller
,1'
Aaron Weiss
On The Cover..
President
Eugene S. Farley
A photographic reproduction of the mural recently
hung in the gymnasium — a mural created by
Cathal O'Toole, former head of the art department.
It is a memorial gift of the class of 1958 and depicts
the transition of the College from 1933 to the
present. Members of the faculty and the admini
stration may be identified through a magnifying
glass. Len Yoblonski took the photograph.
THE STAFF
EDITOR
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kathleen O’Donnell
SPORTS
Arthur J. Hoover ’55
ALUMNI NOTES
Felicia Perlick ’63
PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonard Yoblonski ’63
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Cynthia Hagely ’62
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly by the Public
Relations Department, Livingston Glewell, Director.
Alumni Officers
Gordon Roberts, Executive Secretary
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Russell H. Williams, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasurer
�CAMPUS PERISCOPE
by Cynthia Hayley ’62
During the past several months, the College has been
bustling with a wide variety of activities. The nature
of these happenings run the gauntlet from projects in
volving community response to projects which concern
only the people of Wilkes and their friends. It is the
purpose of this column to try to inform you of as many
of these activities as we can which would be of special
interest to you. the alumni.
The music department of the College has been in active
form presenting to both the College and community a
number of varied musical programs. During February
they presented the Temple University Band, the Oberlin
College Wind Ensemble, and played host to the All
State Region II Orchestra Festival. This last event was
composed of approximately 125 high school students
from eastern Pennsylvania. They climaxed a busy week
end of practicing and social events with a concert in
Item Temple.
Another musical event recently held on campus was the
appearance of Dave Brubeck and his concert jazz quartet.
This concert, held in the early part of April, was received
by a capacity audience at the gymnasium. The sophomore
class sponsored this performance in a continuation of a
program to bring nationally-known entertainers to the
valley.
The Northeastern Regional Intercollegiate Conference
on Government Model State Legislature convened on
campus March 12. They were the guests of the College
chapter of the I.C.G. whose permanent chairman is Miss
Elizabeth Hoeschele. senior. The Northeast Regional
Director of the I.C.G. is a Wilkes junior, Michael Bianco.
This conference was held in preparation for the State
Convention of the I.C.G. in Harrisburg this month. More
than fifteen colleges and universities sent representatives
to Wilkes for this meeting.
Several faculty members have been attending conferences
and conventions in their major field of interest. Dr.
Daniel P. Detweiler and Dr. Julien A. Ripley, who joined
the physics department faculty at the beginning of this
school year, attended the annual meeting of the American
Physical Society in New York City. Mr. Richard B.
Chapline, member of the college music faculty, lent his
vocal talent to the Modern Language Conference held in
Philadelphia. He sang solo and participated in several
duets and trios in a program of obscure dramatic music
from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The old question of sports participation between King’s
and Wilkes has come up again with its annual regularity.
1
This time the interest has been heightened by the fact
that Scranton University has dropped football, with the
result of both schools losing a primary foe on the grid
iron field. Since King's has stopped the policy of giving
scholarships based on athletic prowess alone, the main
reason for not meeting them on the gridiron field seems
to be the possibility of near-riot behavior on the part of
students from both colleges. A sports editorial in the
Beacon threw a great deal of light on the subject and
stated in closing: "It is highly unlikely that King’s and
Wilkes will compete against each other . . . until there
is very strong evidence that the spectators will behave
in a manner typical of educated people who appreciate
the skills involved and who are not interested in using
the occasion to release their hostilities.”
Another new facet of College life was added recently
by the formation of Associated Women Students. This
organization will provide self-government for all the
women of Wflkes, along with offering them many ex
periences in leadership and organization so essential to
community living. A.W.S. is part of an intercollegiate
body that represents most of the colleges and universi
ties in the nation where women are educated.
The "Best-Dressed Coed on Campus" was chosen again
this year with a new inovation. She, Miss Eleanore
Nielson, sophomore, competed with nine other coeds in
a fasion show sponsored by the Beacon. The public was
invited to see the girls modeling three outfits from their
own personal wardrobe while a panel of judges, consist
ing of local department store buyers and two professional
models, picked the girl to be entered in Glamour maga
zine’s' national contest.
This new year found the Economics Club participating
in a community-wide drive to "save your vision” through
its annual "Eyeglasses for the Needy" campaign. Baskets
all over campus and on Public Square were overflowing
with contributions of spectacles before the campaign
was over.
An unusual side to this year's activities was a trip made
to Dartmouth College. A bus load of students journeyed
to New Hampshire to support our wrestling team in this
Ivy-League competition match. The match was held
during Dartmouth's Winter Carnival weekend, anc^
Wilkes won by shutting out the Dartmouth team. The
students enjoyed that match and the other winter sports
and fun offered at this nationally known festival. They
were back in time for classes on Monday despite the
winter’s worst snow storm.
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S PERISCOPE
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•veral months, the College has been
de variety of activities. The nature
s run the gauntlet from projects in
response to projects which concern
Wilkes and their friends. It is the
imn to try to inform you of as many
is we can which would be of special
result of both schools losing a primary foe on'the
“on fie!d. Since King's has stopped the policy J? g£
scholarships based on athletic prowess alone the mareason for not meeting them on the gridiron field sterns
to be the possibility of near-riot behavior on the part of
students from both colleges. A sports editorial in the
Beacon threw a great deal of light on the subject and
stated in closing; "It is highly unlikely that King's and
Wilkes w'ill compete against each other . . . until there
is very strong evidence that the spectators will behave
in a manner typical of educated people who appreciate
the skills involved and W'ho are not interested in using
the occasion to release their hostilities."
i alumni.
ent of the College has been in active
both the College and community a
musical programs. During February
Temple University Band, the Oberlin
emble, and played host to the AI1rhestra Festival. This last event was
iximately 125 high school students
dvania. They climaxed a busy week
end social events with a concert in
Another new facet of College life was added recently
by the formation of Associated Women Students. This
organization will provide self-government for all the
women of Wilkes, along with offering them manyt experiences in leadership and organization so essential to
community living. A.W\S. is part of an intercollegiate
body that represents most of the colleges and universi
ties in the nation where women are educated.
ent recently held on campus was the
Brubeck and his concert jazz quartet.
i the early part of April, was received
ice at the gymnasium. The sophomore
s performance in a continuation of a
nationally-known entertainers to the
The "Best-Dressed Coed on Campus- ' was chosen again
She, Miss Eleanore
this year with a new inovation. — -...........nine
other coeds in
Nielson, sophomore, competed with
a fasion show sponsored by the Beacon.
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i outfits from their
invited to see the girls modeling three
: a panel of judges, consist
own personal wardrobe whilebuyers and two professional
ing of local department store 1
be entered in Glamour magamodels, picked the girl to
zine’s’ national contest.
Club participating
the Economics
to "save your vision" through
This new year found live
in a community-wide drive
for the Needy" campaign. Baskets
its annual "Eyeglasses A.
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all over campus and on Public Square
before the campaign
with contributions of spectacles L—:
Regional Intercollegiate Conference
odel State Legislature convened on
They were the guests of the College
j. whose permanent chairman is Miss
e. senior. The Northeast Regional
3. is a Wilkes junior. Michael Bianco,
as held in preparation for the State
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i their major field of interest. Dr.
■ and Dr. Julien A. Ripley, who joined
nent faculty at the beginning of this
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a New’ York City. Mr. Richard B.
of the college music faculty, lent his
Modern Language Conference held in
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2
1961 APPEAL STRIVES FOR
$100,000 TO MEET COMMITMENTS
, t we have undertaken tasks that were too great for us. We have
"In
the past these tasks because resources were always offered when our
accomplished
needs were pressing. We have again accepted commitments for the years
ahead that appear too great for us. We have faith that our resources will
grow in the future, as in the past, so that we may contrive to meet our
commitments.''
In conclusion, the editorial suggests, "This is not to
imply that the college will be in a position to rest on its
laurels; far from that, it will have to press forward with
all the vigor and skill at its command to harvest the crop
These words from President Farley's annual report of
1960, coming as they do on the eve of the annual appeal
for funds for the College, highlight the importance of
meeting our goal ■— a goal which must be met each and
every year until the College reaches what industry pre
fers to call the "break-even point". And indeed one
wonders if a college ever reaches this Utopian plateau!
Certainly, it appears questionable when one considers
those colleges 100 or more years old which even now'
have launched capital gifts campaigns with goals set in
the millions of dollars. For unlike man, W'ho attains full
stature during his lifetime, the college ever strives to
reach goals that stretch higher and higher with the
sown in the 1950’s".
In essence, the editorial tosses out two gauntlets — the
first before the community; the other before the College.
It suggests the community hitch its wagon to the star of
the College, then with the same breath, adjures the
College to lengthen its stride. Complimentary as is the
editorial, it is equally challenging, and insofar as the
community is concerned, the area has already met this
challenge by subscribing $1,500,000 to the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund appeal in the most success
ful campaign the Fund has conducted since its inception.
Thus the die is cast.
passage of time.
When Wilkes College was founded in 1933 as a branch
of Bucknell University, no one could foresee its develop
ment nor predict its relations developing between the
College and the community. These prospects then lay
hidden in the future and awaited the unfolding of plans
It is cast too for the Wilkes Alumni. The goal set for
the annual Campaign which is being launched in May
is $100,000. $70,000 of this amount is earmarked for
scholarships; $30,000 for the Chemistry and Physics
Graduate Program to which the College is committed.
May 3 is the date set for the kick-off dinner in Hotel
and events.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
No one in 1933 could pull aside the curtain of Time and
predict in 1961 an editorial from the Times LeaderEvening News that would read as follows: "................
The community could have no better example than the
institution is furnishing by its foresight and courage.
What Wilkes College is able to achieve, so can WilkesBarre with comparable effort and optimism”.
Sterling.
Alumni and friends of the College will be invited to
respond to the campaign so that Wilkes may continue
to serve many of the ablest and most promising students
(Continued on Page 27)
3
�your employer MAY
match your gift
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CHEMISI
AND PHYSICS ANNOUNCED
Across the face of the nation, more than one hundred companies this year
are participating in a matching gift program whereby the company
contributes a sum to a college or university matching the amount
contributed by the alumnus. Perhaps the company with whom you are
now affiliated is in this category. Why not find out.
plTIrmaJy known as tScORPO^TE ALUMNUS
PROGRAM - has provided valuable incentive for alumni
wanting to help their alma mater. Other major firms
quickly picked up the idea, helping alumni support to
reach a new high.
As originally conceived by General Electric, the program
has four objectives:
- - - To provide an incentive for regular contributions
by the employee who benefited from his education (AT
WILKES COLLEGE.)
- - - To recognize the joint benefits of that education
to employer and employee;
- - - To stimulate more active alumni support and
participation, and
- - - To set a pattern of corporate support of higher
education that could be followed by other companies.
All of these objectives have proved to be realistic, accord
ing to a study conducted by the American Alumni Council.
Each company with a MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM
has worked out its own restrictions and special pro
visions. All, however, have the same basic objective:
to help the cause of education.
Ask about the matching gift program at your company.
You may be able to give your alma mater a double assist
in this year's Annual Campaign which is scheduled
for the month of May. Herewith is a list of those comronrom'? have established MATCHING GIFT
MATCHING GIFT PROGRAMS
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation
American and Foreign Power Company
American Brake Shoe Company
American Home Products
Atlas Powder Company
Atlas Rigging and Supply Company
Bank of New York
7
Whitney Blake Company
Bonwit Teller
Burlington Industries
Godfrey L. Cabot Inc.
Campbell Soup Company
Canadi; General Electric Co, Ltd.
Canadian
Carter Products, Inc.
Cerro DePasco Corporation
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.
Columbian Carbon Company
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.
Connecticut Light and Power Company
Continental Oil Company
Corning Glassworks
Deering, Milliken & Company
Diamond Alkali Company
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Corning Corporation
Draper Corporation
Wilbur E. Driver Company
Eastern Car and Construction Co.
Ebasco Services, Inc.
Electric Bond & Share Co.
Fafnir Bearing Company
Ford Motor Company
General Atronics Corporation
E. & J. Gallo Winery
General Electric Company
General Foods Corporation
General Public Utilities
Gibbs 8 Hill, Inc.
Ginn and Company
Glidden Company
B. F. Goodrich Company
W. T. Grant Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Harris-Intertype Corporation
Hercules Powder Company
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hill Acme Company
Hooker Chemical Corporation
J. M. Huber Corporation
Hughes Aircraft Company
International Business Machines Corp.
Jefferson Mills Inc.
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Kaiser Steel Corporation
Walter D. Kidde 8 Company
Walter Kidde Constructors
Kidder, Peabody & Company
(Continued
on Page 27)
In past issues the "Alumnus" has brought the alumni information con
the development of graduate facilities at Wilkes leading to the IV
of Science degree in Chemistry and Physics. Because this graduate d
was then in the planning stage, it was impossible to elaborate up<
the details of the program.
However, such details have now been worked out, and it is our pie
to bring you up-to-date concerning this important development at Wil
College.
Because of increasing need for advanced education in
the sciences, Wilkes College is offering a program of
graduate study leading to the Master of Science degree.
The program is designed so that engineers and scientists
employed in the area may continue their studies without
interrupting their employment. To permit this combina
tion of work and study, classes ordinarily will meet for
two 1
hour evening sessions each week.
It is expected that the average part-time student will
pursue one course per semester. It will be possible, how
ever, for students with more time to take a heavier
schedule.
It is not planned to offer the full program in any one
year, as most of the students will be unable to give full
time to their studies. The offerings will be so arranged,
however, that the student may plan for continuous
progress in his course.
The College reserves the right to cancel at the time of
registration any course with a registration of less than
ten students.
ADMISSIONS
Persons holding the bachelor's degree in chemistry,
physics, mathematics, or engineering are eligible to apply.
Application must be made on forms that can be obtained
from the Office of Admissions. They must be supported
by letters of evaluation from the applicant's under
graduate college, either as a departmental evaluation or
from two individual members. In addition, a letter of
evaluation from the applicant's supervisor must be sub
mitted in the case of employed applicants. Official tran
scripts of all undergraduate and graduate studies
previously completed should be submitted to the Director
of Admissions directly by the registrar of the institution
which granted the baccalaureate degree. This will only
be done upon request of the applicant.
An Admissions Committee will consider each application
and their decision will be based upon the information
submitted. As a general rule, it is expected that students
will have achieved a B average or better in their major
fields during their undergraduate years, and will show
evidence of intellectual and tenipermental fitness for
graduate study.
It is recommended that applican
Record Examination so that theii
mitted to the College in support c
an applicant fails to satisfy the r<
erage in his major field, the Grad
tion is mandatory.
Since the major field of graduate
same as the student's undergradua
that certain students may be defit
their fields of interest. In such i
may be granted provisional admiss
either by satisfactorily completing
without credit or by passing ex
department concerned, that his
adequate.
Persons who do not possess a bat
who wish to undertake graduati
coming candidates for a degree mt
by demonstrating that they are qu;
Seniors at Wilkes College may be
certain graduate courses with the
man of their undergraduate depart
mittee on Graduate Studies. Ci
will ordinarily be at the undergr
students requiring not more than
graduate credits to complete the
may be allowed up to six hours of
to registration they have been
studies.
ACADEMIC REQUH
Before the end of his second seme
each student shall select a major
direction he wishes to pursue his
After acceptance by the advisor,
point two other members of the Gi
with him as the student’s adviso
Before beginning his third semest
the student, in consultation with 1
shall submit to the Committee 01
outline of his graduate program. t<
dissertation title.
(Coi
�.mployer may
graduate program in chemistry
and physics announced
your gift
ie face of the nation, more than one hundred companies this year
participating in a matching gift program whereby the company
tributes a sum to a college or university matching the amount
ontributed by the alumnus. Perhaps the company with whom you are
listed is in this category. Why not find out.
■
Carter Products, Inc.
Cerro DePasco Corporation
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank New York Trust Co.
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.
Columbian Carbon Company
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.
Connecticut Light and Power Company
Continental Oil Company
Corning Glassworks
Deering, Milliken & Company
Diamond Alkali Company
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Corning Corporation
Draper Corporation
Wilbur E. Driver Company
Eastern Car and Construction Co.
Ebasco Services, Inc.
Electric Bond & Share Co.
Fafnir Bearing Company
Ford Motor Company
General Atronics Corporation
E. & J. Gallo Winery
General Electric Company
General Foods Corporation
General Public Utilities
Gibbs S Hill, Inc.
Ginn and Company
Glidden Company
B. F. Goodrich Company
W. T. Grant Company
Gulf Oil Corporation
Harris-Intertype Corporation
Hercules Powder Company
Hewlett-Packard Company
Hill Acme Company
Hooker Chemical Corporation
J. M. Huber Corporation
Hughes Aircraft Company
International Business Machines Corp.
Jefferson Mills Inc.
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Kaiser Steel Corporation
Walter D. Kidde & Company
Walter Kidde Constructors
Kidder, Peabody & Company
(Continued on Page 27)
al Electric Company in 1954, the
as the CORPORATE ALUMNUS
vided valuable incentive for alumni
alma mater. Other major firms
> idea, helping alumni support to
d by General Electric, the program
incentive for regular contributions
benefited from his education (AT
•)
e joint benefits of that education
loyee:
acre active alumni support and
n of corporate support of higher
be followed by other companies.
have proved to be realistic, accordid by the American Alumni Council.
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In past issues the ‘'Alumnus" has brought the alumni information concerning
the development of graduate facilities at Wilkes leading to the Master
of Science degree in Chemistry and Physics. Because this graduate division
was then in the planning stage, it was impossible to elaborate upon
the details of the program.
However, such details have now b een worked out, and it is our pleasure
to bring you up-to-date concerning this important development at Wilkes
College.
It is recommended that applicants take the Graduate
Record Examination so that their scores may be sub
mitted to the College in support of their application. If
an applicant fails to satisfy the requirement of a B av
erage in his major field, the Graduate Record Examina
tion is mandatory.
Because of increasing need for advanced education in
the sciences, Wilkes College is offering a program of
graduate study leading to the Master of Science degree.
The program is designed so that engineers and scientists
employed in the area may continue their studies without
interrupting their employment. To permit this combina
tion of work and study, classes ordinarily will meet for
two 1 x/z hour evening sessions each week.
Since the major field of graduate study may not be the
same as the student’s undergraduate major, it is possible
that certain students may be deficient in preparation in
their fields of interest. In such an event, an applicant
may be granted provisional admission until he has shown,
either by satisfactorily completing undergraduate courses
without credit or by passing examinations set by the
department concerned, that his basic preparation is
adequate.
It is expected that the average part-time student will
pursue one course per semester. It will be possible, how
ever, for students with more time to take a heavier
schedule.
It is not planned to offer the full program in any one
year, as most of the students will be unable to give full
time to their studies. The offerings will be so arranged,
however, that the student may plan for continuous
progress in his course.
Persons who do not possess a baccalaureate degree, but
who wish to undertake graduate courses without be
coming candidates for a degree may be admitted to study
by demonstrating that they are qualified for such studies.
The College reserves the right to cancel at the time of
registration any course with a registration of less than
ten students.
Seniors at Wilkes College may be permitted to enroll in
certain graduate courses with the approval of the chair
man of their undergraduate departments and of the Com
mittee on Graduate Studies. Credit for such courses
will ordinarily be at the undergraduate level, although
students requiring not more than six additional under
graduate credits to complete the baccalaureate degree
may be allowed up to six hours of graduate credit if prior
to registration they have been accepted for graduate
studies.
ADMISSIONS
Persons holding the bachelor’s degree in chemistry,
physics, mathematics, or engineering are eligible to apply.
Application must be made on forms that can be obtained
from the Office of Admissions. They must be supported
by letters of evaluation from the applicant’s under
graduate college, either as a departmental evaluation or
from two individual members. In addition, a letter of
evaluation from the applicant's supervisor must be sub
mitted in the case of employed applicants. Official tran
scripts of all undergraduate and graduate studies
previously completed should be submitted to the Director
of Admissions directly by the registrar of the institution
which granted the baccalaureate degree. This will only
be done upon request of the applicant.
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Before the end of his second semester of graduate study,
each student shall select a major advisor under whose
direction he wishes to pursue his dissertation research.
After acceptance by the advisor, the advisor shall ap
point two other members of the Graduate faculty to serve
with him as the student's advisory committee.
An Admissions Committee will consider each application
and their decision will be based upon the information
submitted. As a general rule, it is expected that students
will have achieved a B average or better in their major
fields during their undergraduate years, and will show
evidence of intellectual and tempermental fitness for
graduate study.
Before beginning his third semester of graduate studies,
the student, in consultation with his advisory committee,
shall submit to the Committee on Graduate Studies an
outline of his graduate program, together with a tentative
dissertation title.
(Continued on Page 27)
5
�NEW ATHLETIC FACILITIES TAKE SHAPE
Artillery Park, Kingston, once the home
of the Wilkes-Barre Barons Baseball
Club, is undergoing a face-lifting in
preparation for baseball, soccer and
football games of the Colonels. The old
grandstand and bleachers have already
been removed and students of the
College are getting the grounds ready
for summer and fall sports.
ARTILLERY PARK TAKES ON NEW LOOK
This spring Wilkes College will have come a long way
in that the new athletic facilities, almost ready for use,
will be opened for the students of the College. Un
doubtedly many alumni can perhaps remember enjoying
a cup of coffee in the Commons and wondering just when
Wilkes would have its own football field. Well ■— time
has passed and because of the loyal support of aumni
and friends, Wilkes not only has a football field, but six
new ‘‘all weather” tennis courts, a girls' hockey field, an
archery range, new field houses and room for parking
quite a few automobiles.
The question may come to your mind ■— how did the
College acquire these facilities, where are they located
and of what help were her alumni?
Artillery Park has been an unused and ‘‘attractive nuis
ance" since the withdrawal of the Barons. To provide
“caretaker service" and to increase the attractiveness of
the area without cost to the 109th Field Artillery Bat
talion, some responsible user was needed. The College
offered a long-time lease in order to provide “caretaker
service" and to acquire an area large enough for both
inter-collegiate and intra-mural football, soccer, and
baseball. Under the terms of this agreement the College
will maintain the property and will have the privilege of
using it except in a period of national emergency. It will
also make the field available to the 109th for special oc
casions and for physical conditioning of its men. In the
summers the College plans to make the area available,
SUSAN GREENBURG
Times have
Have America's college
insofar as is practicable, to the Community through the
Recreation Association. Thus, the agreement will be
advantageous to the College, to the 109th, and to the
Community.
Last year’s Three-Phase Campaign provided funds for
the development of these facilities and also for the pur
chase of four acres of former Glen Alden property op
posite Artillery Park on Northampton Street. The land
acquired from Glen Alden will provide space for the 6
“all weather" tennis courts, the archery range, the girls
hockey field, and ample room for utility and parking
areas.
Wilkes graduates can be proud of these new facilities.
knowing that they have helped, through the Three-Phase
Campaign, to acquire them.
Of further interest to our alumni is the fact that Attorney
Joseph J. Savitz, a Wilkes alumnus, handled negotiations
with the State Attorney General’s Department along with
Dr. Eugene S. Farley, President; and Admiral Harold RStark, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Thus, Wilkes College moves forward on all fronts
assisted by the continued loyalty of its graduates and its
many friends. We have every reason to be proud, don t
you think so?
Why not drop us a line and give us your impression of
these new developments. We would like to hear from
YOU!
THE
COLLEGE
STUDENT,
they say, is a young person who wil
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posite Artillery Park on Northampton Street. The land
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Stark. Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Thus, Wilkes College moves forward on all ^r°n.
assisted by the continued loyalty of its graduates an
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you think so?
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these new developments. We would like to hear from
YOU!
6
THE
COLLEGE
STUDENT,
they say, is a young person who will . . .
�PHOTOS: HERB WEITMAN
... use a car to get to a library two blocks away,
knowing full well that the parking lot is three blocks
on the other side.
. . . move heaven, earth, and the dean’s office to
enroll in a class already filled; then drop the course.
. . . complain bitterly about the quality of food
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served in the college dining halls—while putting down
a third portion.
. . . declaim for four solid years that the girls at
his institution or at the nearby college for women are
unquestionably the least attractive females on the face
of the earth; then marry one of them.
'TT'v.UT there is a serious side. Today’s students, many
professors say, are more accomplished than the
average of their predecessors. Perhaps this is
because there is greater competition for college en
trance, nowadays, and fewer doubtful candidates get
in. Whatever the reason, the trend is important.
For civilization depends upon the transmission of
knowledge to wave upon wave of young people—and
on the way in which they receive it, master it, employ
it. add to it. If the transmission process fails, we go
back to the beginning and start over again. We are
never more than a generation away from total ignor
ance.
Because for a time it provides the world’s leaders,
each generation has the power to change the course of
history. The current wave is thus exactly as important
as the one before it and the one that will come after
it. Each is crucial in its own time.
will the present student generation do?
What are its hopes, its dreams, its principles?
Will it build on our past, or reject it? Is it,
as is so often claimed, a generation of timid organiza
tion people, born to be commanded? A patient band of
revolutionaries, waiting for a breach? Or something
in between?
hat
No one—not even the students themselves—can
be sure, of course. One can only search for clues, as
we do in the fourteen pages that follow. Here we look
at, and listen to, college students of 1961—the people
whom higher education is all about.
Scott Thompson
Barbara Nolan
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Robert Thompson
Roy Muir
Ruth Tars
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Galen Unger
Parker Palmer
Martha Freeman
Dean Windgassen
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Robert Schloredt
Arthur Wortman
What are
today’s students
like I
To help
find out, we
invite you to join
Patricia Burgamy
0LZ
Kenneth Weaver
David Gilmour
fourteen young men and women pictured
above come from fourteen colleges and universi
ties, big and little, located in all parts of the
United States. Some of their alma maters are private,
some are state or city-supported, some are related to a
church. The students’ studies range widely—from science
and social studies to agriculture and engineering. Outside
the classroom, their interests are similarly varied. Some
are athletes (one is All-American quarterback), some are
active in student government, others stick to their books.
To help prepare this report, we invited all fourteen,
as articulate representatives of virtually every type of
campus in America, to meet for a weekend of searching
discussion. The topic: themselves. The objective: to ob
he
tain some clues as to how the college student of the
Sixties ticks.
The resulting talk—recorded by a stenographer and
presented in essence on the following pages—is a reveal
ing portrait of young people. Most revealing—and in a
way most heartening—is the lack of unanimity which the
students displayed on virtually every topic they discussed.
As the seminar neared its close, someone asked the
group what conclusions they would reach about them
selves. There was silence. Then one student spoke:
"We’re all different,” he said.
He was right. That was the only proper conclusion.
Labelers, and perhaps libelers, of this generation
might take note.
A senitnnr \ofstudentsfr°m const to const
�student is a wonderful thing.
Z ^tudent years are exciting years. They are exciting for the participants, many of whom are on
their own for the first time in their lives—and
exciting for the onlooking adult.
But for both generations, these are frequently
painful years, as well. The students’ competence,
which is considerable, gets them in dutch with their
elders as often as do their youthful blunders. That
young people ignore the adults’ soundest, most heart
felt warnings is bad enough; that they so often get
away with it sometimes seems unforgivable.
Being both intelligent and well schooled, as well
as unfettered by the inhibitions instilled by experience,
they readily identify the errors of their elders—and
they are not inclined to be lenient, of course. (The
one unforgivable sin is the one you yourself have
never committed.) But, lacking experience, they are
apt to commit many of the same mistakes. The wise
adult understands this: that only in this way will they
gain experience and learn tolerance—neither of which
can be conferred.
“They say the student is an animal in transition. You have to
wait until you get your degree, they say; then you
turn the big corner and there you are. But being a student
is a vocation, just like being a lawyer or an editor
or a business man. This is what we are and where we are.”
“The college campus is an open market of ideas. I can walk
around the campus, say what I please, and be a truly free person.
This is our world for now. Let's face it
we'll never live in a more stimulating environment. Being a
student is a wonderful and magnificent and fiee thing.
�66
You goto college to learn, of course. $ut learning comes in many ways.
55
"I'd like to bring up something I think is a fault in
our colleges: the great emphasis on grades."
"I think grades interfere with the real learning process.
I've talked with people who made an A on an exam
—but next day they couldn't remember half the material.
They just memorized to get a good grade."
"You go to college to learn, of course. But learning
comes in many ways—not just from classrooms
and books, but from personal relations with people: holding
office in student government, and that sort of thing."
"It's a favorite academic cliche, that not all learning
comes from books. I think it's dangerous. I believe
the greatest part of learning does come
from books—just plain books."
ERICH HARTMANN, MAGNUM
SUsAN GREKNBLRC
r\ student’s LIFE, contrary to the memories that alumni
and alumnae may have of "carefree” days, is often described by its partakers as "the mill.” "You just get
in the old mill,” said one student panelist, "and your head
spins, and you’re trying to get ready for this test and that
test, and you are going along so fast that you don’t have time
to find yourself.”
The mill, for the student, grinds night and day—in class
rooms, in libraries, in dining halls, in dormitories, and in
scores of enterprises, organized and unorganized, classed
vaguely as "extracurricular activities.” Which of the activities
—or what combination of activities—contributes most to a
student’s education? Each student must concoct the recipe for
himself. "You have to get used to living in the mill and finding
yourself,” said another panelist. "You’ll always be in the mill
—all through your life.”
�“It’s important to know you
can do a good job at something.
" ~rr t’s hard to conceive of this unless you’ve been
I through it . . . but the one thing that’s done the
"The more you do, the more
you seem to get done.
You organize your time better.”
most for me in college is baseball. I’d always been
the guy with potential who never came through. The
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coach worked on me; I got my control and really
started going places. The confidence I gained carried
over into my studies. I say extracurricular activities
are worthwhile. It’s important to know you can do a
good job at something, tvhatever it is.”
> "No! Maybe I’m too idealistic. But I think college
is a place for the pursuit of knowledge. If we’re here
for knowledge, that’s what we should concentrate on.”
t> "In your studies you can goof off for a while and
still catch up. But in athletics, the results come right
on the spot. There’s no catching up, after the play is
over. This carries over into your school work. I think
almost everyone on our football team improved his
grades last fall.”
t> "This is true for girls, too. The more you have to
do, the more you seem to get done, You organize your
time better.”
> "I can’t see learning for any other purpose than to
better yourself and the world. Learning for itself is of
no value, except as a hobby—and I don’t think we’re
in school to join book clubs.”
SUSAN GREENBUHG
> "For some people, learning is an end in itself. It can
be more than a hobby. I don’t think we can afford to
be too snobbish about what should and what shouldn’t
be an end in itself, and what can or what can’t be a
creative channel for different people.”
"In athletics, the results come
right on the spot. There’s
no catching up, after the play.”
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�“It seems to me you’re saying that
ollege
honor works only when it’s easy.
Tin from a school with an honor system that works.
But is the reason it works maybe because of the tremendous
penalty that's connected with cheating, stealing,
or lying? It's expulsion—and what goes along with that
is that you can't get into another good school or
even get a good job. It's about as bad a punishm ent
as this country can give out, in my opinion.
Does the honor system instill honor—or justfear?”
is where many students meet the first great
test of their personal integrity. There, where one’s
progress is measured at least partly by examinations
"At our school the honor system works even though the
penalties aren't that stiff. It's part of
the tradition. Most of the girls feel they're given
the responsibility to be honorable, and they accept it.”
and grades, the stress put upon one’s sense of honor is
heavy. For some, honor gains strength in the process. For
others, the temptation to cheat is irresistible, and honor
breaks under the strain.
Some institutions proctor all tests and examinations.
An instructor, eagle-eyed, sits in the room. Others have
honor systems, placing upon the students themselves the
-My-
k‘&^y
responsibility to maintain integrity in the student com
munity and to report all violators.
"On our campus you can leave your books anywhere
and they’ll be there tvhen you come back. You can even
leave a tall, cold milkshake—Tve done it—and when you
come back two hours later, it will still be there.
It wont be cold, but it will be there.
You learn a respectfor honor, a respect that will carry
over into otherfields for the rest ofyour life.”
How well either system works varies greatly. "When
you come right down to it,” said one member of our student
panel, "honor must be inculcated in the years before college
—in the home.”
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"I’d say the minority who are top students don't cheat,
because they're after knowledge. And the great
majority in the middle don’t cheat, because
they're afraid to. But the poor students, who cheat to
get by . . . The funny thing is, they're not afraid at all.
I guess theyfigure they've nothing to lose.”
"Nobody is just honest or dishonest. T m sure
everyone here has been guilty of some sort of dishonest
act in his lifetime. But everyone here would
also say he's primarily honest. I know if I were
really in the dutch I'd cheat. I admit it
and I don't necessarily consider myself
dishonest because I would.”
"It seems to me you're saying that honor works
only when it's easy.”
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
’’Maybe you need a B in a test,
or you don’t get into
medical school. And the guy ahead
ofyou raises the average by
cheating. That makes a real problem.”
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"Absolute honor is 150,000 miles out, at least.
And we're down here, walking this earth with all our
faults. You can look up at those clouds ofhonor
up there and say, 'They’re pretty, but
I can't reach them.’ Or you can shoot for the clouds.
I think that's the approach I want to take.
1 don't think I can attain absolute honor,
but I can try—and Td like
to leave this world with that on my batting record.”
�6€Ifs not how we feel about issues— but whether we feel at all.
E are being criticized by other people all
the time, and they’re stamping down on us.
'You’re not doing anything,’ they say. I’ve
noticed an attitude among students: Okay, just keep
criticizing. But we’re going to come back and react.
In some ways we’re going to be a little rebellious.
We’re going to show you what we can really do.”
Today’s college students are perhaps the most
thoroughly analyzed generation in our history. And
they are acutely aware of what is being written about
them. The word that rasps their nerves most sorely is
"apathy.” This is a generation, say many critics, that
play's it cool. It may be casually interested in many
things, but it is excited by none.
Is the criticism deserved? Some college students
and their professors think it is. Others blame the times
—times without deprivation, times w’hose burning
issues are too colossal, too impersonal, too remote—
and say that the apparent student lassitude is simply
society’s lassitude in microcosm.
The quotation that heads this column is from one
of the members of our student panel. At the right is
"Our student legislature fought most of the year
about taking stands. The majority
rationalized, saying it wasn't our place; what good
would it do? They were afraid people would
check the college in future years and if they took
an unpopular stand they wouldn't get security
clearance or wouldn’t get a job.
I thought this was awful. But I see indications of
awakening of interest. It isn’t how we feel
about issues, but whether we feel at all.”
"Tm sure it’s practically the same everywhere.
We have 5,500full-time students, but onlyfifteen
or twenty of us went on the sit-downs.”
"I think there is a great deal of student opinion
about public issues. It isn’t always rational,
and maybe we don’t talk about it, but I think most of
us have definite feelings about most things.”
"Toe felt the apathy at my school. The university
is a sort of isolated little world. Students
don’t feel the big issues really concern them. The
civil rights issue is close to home,
but you’d have to chase a student down to get him
to give his honest opinion.”
" We’re quick to criticize, slow to act.”
what some of the others think.
"Do you think that just because students in America
don’t cause revolutions and riots and take
active stands, this means . .
"I’m not callingfor revolution. I’m calling
for interest, and I don't care what side the student
takes, as long as he takes a side.”
"But even when we went down to Woolworth’s
carrying a picket sign, what were some of the motives
behind it? Was it just to get a day away from classes?”
"Z attended a discussion where Negro students
presented their views. I have never seen a group of
more dynamic or dedicated or informed students.”
"But they had a personal reason.”
'That's just it. The only thing I can think of,
where students took a stand on our campus,
was when it was decided that it wasn’t proper
to have a brewery sponsor the basketball team on
television. This caused a lot of student discussion,
but it’s the only instance I can remember.”
"Why is there this unwillingness to take stands?”
"I think one big reason is that it’s easier not to.
It’s much easierfor a person just to go along.”
"Tve sensed the feeling that unless it really bums
within you, unless there is something where you
can see just what you have done, you might as well just
let the world roll on as it is rolling along.
After all, people are going to act in the same old way,
no matter what we try to do. Society is going to
eventually come out in the same way, no matter
what I, as an individual, try to do.”
"A lot of us hang back, saying, 'Well, why have an idea
now? It’ll probably be different when Tm45.’ ”
"And you ask yourself, Can I take time awayfrom
my studies? You ask yourself, Which
is more important? Which is more urgent to me?”
"Another reason is fear of repercussions—fear
of offending people. I went on some sit-downs and I
didn’t sit uneasy just because the manager of
the store gave me a dirty scowl—but because my friends,
my grandparents, were looking at me
with an uneasy scowl.”
�"Perhaps 'waiting' is the attitude of our
age—in every generation."
"Then there comes the obvious question,
With all this waiting, what are we waitingfor?
Are we waitingfor some disaster that will
malce us do something? Or are we tvaitingfor some
'national purpose’ to come along,
so we can jump on its bandwagon? So we are at
a train station; what’s coming?"
HERB WEITMAN
6 We need a purpose other than
security and an $18,000 job.”
' T GuESS one
t^le things that bother us is that
'
there is no great issue we feel we can personally
-th come to grips with.”
the Thirties—let’s say they had a purpose. Perhaps
we'll get one, someday.”
"They had to have a purpose. They were starving,
The panel was discussing student purposes. "We
need a purpose,” one member said. "I mean a purpose
other than a search for security, or getting that §18,000-
almost.”
"They were dying of starvation and we are dying
of overweight. And yet we still should have a purpose
— a real purpose, with some point to it other than self
ish mediocrity. We do have a burning issue—just plain
survival. You’d think that would be enough to make
us react. We’re not helpless. Let’s do something.”
a-year job and being content for the rest of your life.”
"Isn’t that the typical college student’s idea of
his purpose?”
"Yes, but that’s not a purpose. The generation of
�PICTURE PLAY
Have students changed?
—Some professors’ opinions
runs. They don’t understand the complexity of things;
everything looks black or white to them. They say,
'This is what ought to be done. Let’s do it!’ ”
"If their parents could listen in on their chil
dren’s bull sessions, I think they’d make an interest
ing discovery,” said another faculty member. "The
kids are talking and worrying about the same things
their fathers and mothers used to talk and worry about
when they were in college. The times have certainly
changed, but the basic agony—the bittersweet agony
of discovering its own truths, which every generation
has to go through—is the same as it’s always been.
"Don’t worry about it. Don’t try to spare the
kids these pains, or tell them they’ll see things differ
ently when they’re older. Let them work it out. This
is the way we become educated—and maybe even
civilized.”
'Td add only one thing,” said a professor emeri
tus who estimates he has known 12,000 students over
the years. "It never occurred to me to worry about
students as a group or a class or a generation. I have
worried about them as individuals. They’re all differ
ent. By the way: when you learn that, you’ve made a
pretty profound discovery.”
' rtXH, yes, indeed,” a professor said recently, "I’d
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I say students have changed greatly in the last
ten years and—academically, at least—for
the better. In fact, there’s been such a change lately
that we may have to revise our sophomore language
course. What was new to students at that level three
years ago is now old hat to most of them.
"But I have to say something negative, too,” the
professor went on. "I find students more neurotic,
more insecure, than ever before. Most of them seem
to have no goal. They’re intellectually stimulated, but
they don’t know where they’re going. I blame the
world situation—the insecurity of everything today.”
"I can’t agree with people who see big changes
in students,” said another professor, at another school.
"It seems to me they run about the same, year after
year. We have the bright, hard-working ones, as we
have always had, and we have the ones who are just
coasting along, who don’t know why they’re in school
—just as we’ve always had.”
"They’re certainly an odd mixture at that age—a
combination of conservative and romantic,” a third
professor said. "They want the world to run in their
way, without having any idea how the world actually
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in which scores of schools, colleges, and universities arc taking part. It was prepared
under the direction of the group listed below, who form EDITORIAL PROJECTS ron EnuCA■nON, a non-profit organisation associated with the American Alumni Council. All rights reserved; no part of this supplement may be reproduced without
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DAVID A. BURR
The University of Oldahoi
J. ALFRED GUEST
L. FRANKLIN HEALD
Amherst College
The University of New Hampshire
DAN ENDSLEY
Stanford
University
Stanford University
CHARLES M. HELHKEN
St. John's University
MARALYN ORBISON
ROBERT L. PAYTON
Swarthmore College
Washington University
VERNE A. STADTMAN
FREDERIC A. STOTT
The University of California
Phillips Academy {Andover)
DAN II. FENN, JR.
Harvard Business School
W
aldo C.
c. m
joiinston
WALDO
M.. JOHNSTON
Yale University
University
Yale
RANDOLPH L. FORT
Emory University
JEAN D. LINEHAN
American Alumni Council
FRANCES PROVENCE
ROBERT M. RHODES
Baylor University
The University of Pennsylvania
FRANK J. TATE
ERIK; WENSBERG
The Ohio State University
Columbia University
CHARLES E. WIDMAYER
REBA WILCOXON
ELIZABETH B. WOOD
Dartmouth College
The University of Arkansas
Sweet Briar College
CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
CORBIN GWALTNEY
Brown University
Executive Editor
The Eye of the camera captures
Students and Alumni.
Above - The Dave Brubeck Quar
take an intermission. Below - Februc
brought a trip to the Dartmouth Win
Carnival to thirty undergraduates.
Allentown Chapter of the Alumni mi
for dinner. 2. Wilkes-Barre Chap;
of the Alumni step up activity. 3. Ele
nor Nielson may very well become o
of the ten best-dressed co-eds of t
nation. 4. Early spring rains don't :
terfere with classes.
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tudents changed?
-Someprofessors' opinions
runs. They don’t understand the complexity of things;
everything looks black or white to them. They say,
'This is what ought to be done. Let’s do it!’ ”
"If their parents could listen in on their chil
dren’s bull sessions, I think they’d make an interest
ing discovery,” said another faculty member. "The
kids are talking and worrying about the same things
their fathers and mothers used to talk and worry about
when they' were in college. The times have certainly
changed, but the basic agony—the bittersweet agony
of discovering its own truths, which every generation
has to go through—is the same as it’s always been.
"Don’t worry about it. Don’t try to spare the
kids these pains, or tell them they’ll see things differ
ently when they’re older. Let them work it out. This
is the way we become educated—and maybe even
civilized.”
"I’d add only one thing,” said a professor emeri
tus who estimates he has known 12,000 students over
the years. "It never occurred to me to worry about
students as a group or a class or a generation. I have
worried about them as individuals. They’re all differ
ent. By the way: when you learn that, you’ve made a
pretty profound discovery.”
. professor said recently, "I’d
re changed greatly in the last
-academically, at least—for
’s been such a change lately
rise our sophomore language
> students at that level three
: to most of them.
iomething negative, too,” the
ind students more neurotic,
r before. Most of them seem
intellectually stimulated, but
they’re going. I blame the
ecurity of everything today.”
people who see big changes
r professor, at another school,
in about the same, year after
it, hard-working ones, as we
s have the ones who are just
t know why they’re in school
id.”
in odd mixture at that age—a
itive and romantic,” a third
int the world to run in their
' idea how the world actually
The mater*al on
and
preceding 15 pages is the product of a cooperative endeavor
in which scores of schools, colleges, and universities are taking part. It was prepared
under the direction of the group listed below, who form editorial projects for educaassociated with the American Alumni Council. All rights reserved; no part of this supplement may be reproduced without
ors. Copyright © 1961 by Editorial Projects for Education, Inc., 1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
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Student
DAVID A. BURR
DAN ENDSLEY
DAN H. FENN, JR.
The University of Oklahoma
Stanford University
Harvard Business School
L. FRANKLIN HEALD
diversity of New Hampshire
i
imia
RANDOLPH L. FORT
Emory’ University
CHARLES M. HELMKEN
WALDO C. M. JOHNSTON
JEAN D. LINEHAN
St. John s University
Yale University
American Alumni Council
ROBERT L. PAYTON
FRANCES PROVENCE
Washington University
Baylor University
ROBERT M. RHODES
The University of Pennsylvania
FREDERIC A. STOTT
FRANK J. TATE
ERIK WENSBERG
Phillips Academy {Andover}
The Ohio State University
Columbia University
REBA WILCOXON
ELIZABETH B. WOOD
CHESLEY
CHESLEY WORTHINGTON
WORTHINGTON
CORBIN GWALTNEY
The University of Arkansas
Stveet Briar College
Brown University
Executive Editor
The Eye of the camera captures
Students and Alumni.
Above - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
take an intermission. Below - February
brought a trip to the Dartmouth Winter
Carnival to thirty undergraduates.
1.
Allentown Chapter of the Alumni meet
for dinner. 2. Wilkes-Barre Chapter
of the Alumni step up activity. 3. Elea
nor Nielson may very well become one
of the ten best-dressed co-eds of the
nation. 4. Early spring rains don’t in
terfere with classes.
�WITH THE CLASSES
’37
WALTER E. THOMAS has been
appointed the new ”Y” secre
tary at the Boonton, New Jersey
Y.M.C.A. He was formerly general
secretary of the Franklin, Pennsyl
vania Y.M.C.A. The Thomas family
includes his wife and four children:
three daughters, Melba Louise, a
graduate of Franklin High School,
Dorothy, a high school senior, and
Lois Ann, in the seventh grade; and
one son, a student at Springfield
College, Massachusetts.
’42
FORREST W. PRICE was ap
pointed vice president and general
manager of the Seth Thomas Divi
sion of General Time Corporation.
Forrest will make his headquarters
in the Seth Thomas office at New
York.
’43
WILLIAM D. DAVIS is presently
chief accountant for the Cameraon
Machine Company in Dover, New
Jersey. Bill lives in Stanhope, New
Jersey with his wife and three
children.
’44
At the February District meeting of
District 1 Wyoming Valley Coun
cil, Boy Scouts of America, DR.
FRANK P. SPEICHER was elected
chairman of the District Committee.
Dr. Speicher has also been serving
as Council Training chairman.
DR. ALEX KOTCH is Associate
Program Director for chemistry
with the National Science Founda
tion in Washington, D. C. The
Foundation administers grants to
universities and colleges for basic
research in chemistry.
’48
HAROLD D. SMITH is teaching
sixth grade at Columbus School,
Trenton. New Jersey, and is editor
of the Tea Leaves, a Trenton Ed
ucation Association publication. Hal
and his wife, PRISCILLA ALDEN,
Class of 1950, live in Trenton with
their two daughters.
’53
JOSEPH W. CHILORO of Chicago
has received notification from the
Department of Registration and Ed
ucation that he has passed his ex
amination and is authorized to
practice as a registered professional
engineer in Illinois.
’49
JACK D. HORTMAN is an elec
tronic scientist in the Research and
Development Office of the Naval
Research Laboratory in Washing
ton, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hortman
are residing in Clinton, Maryland
with their two children.
DONALD W. PERKINS was
named chairman for the Somerville,
New Jersey Area Chapter of the
American Red Cross. Don is assistant sales manager for John A. Roeb
ling Sons of Trenton.
EDWARD E. GORSKI of WilkesBarre has been appointed Supply
Commodity Management Assistant
at the Naval Supply Depot in
Philadelphia.
’50
AUGUSTUS C. BUZBY is Sales
Engineer for the Blaw Knox Com
pany, makers of steel castings, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Buzby and daughter are resi
dents of Pittsburgh.
RICHARD F. MIEDRICH recently
received his CPA certificate from
the State Board of Examiners,
following the successful passing of
the examinations. Richard is em
ployed by the Administrative Audits
Division of the Bureau of Employ
ment Security, Harrisburg, and also
does tax and accounting work in
Hershey, Pennsylvania.
’51
Now engaged in the general prac
tice of law is JOHN B. GUERRA.
John’s new office is at 405 Leader
Building, Cleveland 15, Ohio.
ROBERT R. WEEKS is employed
by The New Jersey Zinc Company
in their New York offices as Insur-
24
ance Administrator. JJohn
' is residing in Somerville, New Jei
his wife and three children.
DR. JOSEPH D. LUBIN has
succussfully passed the medical
examinations qualifying him to
practice
medicine in Pennsylvania,
He is
presently resident physician iat the
University of Pennsylvania
Hospital in Philadelphia where
v’___ he is
specializing in anesthesiology.
EDWARD C. SWISLOSKI was
appointed plant supervisor of Pro
duction Planning at the Wellsboro
plant of Corning Glass Works.
52
C. FRANK EASTMAN was honor
ed recently by Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company for being
the second highest agent in produc
tion in the United States for 1960
with a record surpassed by only one
other agent in the 115th year Com
pany history.
CARL A. FOSKO recently passed
the written examination and quali
fied to practice before the Internal
Revenue Service. He is presently
a tax consultant and maintains an
office at 215 Kingston Corners
Building, Kingston.
Robert c. McFadden has
been promoted to development
engineer in Tape Device Engineer
ing at the IBM Poughkeepsie Pro
duct Development Laboratory. Bob
lives at 18 Liss Road. Wappingers
Falls, New York with his wife and
three children.
JOSEPH J. STUCCIO is
DR.
specializing in urol>logy at the Temple
University Hospital in Philadelphia.
-O E WILLIAMS is an
RICHARD
- with the Scranton division
engineer
V
Pennsylvania
Gas and Water
of the F
P— Mr. and Mrs. Williams
Company,’ Clark Summit, Pennsylreside in
with their two sons.
vania
HELLER (Denah
SerH^a first-grade teacher
at
_f in Glen Burnie,
the Glendale School
and Mrs. Heller
Maryland. Mr. aare presently residing in Baltimore.
’54
THOMAS A. NEMCHICK is man
ager of the Household Finance
Corporation in Athens, Georgia
where he also resides.
DR. SAMUEL M. MELINE is now
pursuing his Master's Degree in
Orthodontic’s at Tufts DentaljGradDr. and Mrs. Meline
uate School. L
and son are residing in Allston,
Massachusetts.
’55
ROLAND FEATHERMAN is the
Psychiatric Casework Supervisor at
the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Unit at
Danville State Hospital. Since re
ceiving his Master's Degree from
Pittsburgh University, Roland has
been a caseworker for the Pitts
burgh State TB Hospital and the
Alcoholic Unit at Danville State.
He married recently and is a resi
dent of Danville, Pennsylvania.
ROBERT H. BURGER is a junior
electrical engineer at the Saginaw
Steering Gear Division of General
Motors, Saginaw, Michigan.
RICHARD B. KENT is Senior
Medical Officer and head of the
Medical Department aboard the
U.S.S. Yosemite, a United States
Navy Destroyer. Dr. and Mrs.
Kent, the former LORRAINE D.
IACOMETTI, Class of 1956, re
side in Newport, Rhode Island with
their two children.
dr.
’56
khchael j.
Symphony and a member of the
Scranton Symphony. Jan® ls ,
rently a member of the music fa ulty
of the Kingston School District.
weinberger
is
2° Paitner of the Armand Metal
Pecialties, a metal spinning and
manufacturing concern in New York
City. Michael lives in Forest Hills,
New York with his wife and
daughter.
districts i
is a canc
Pennsylv;
JAMES W. COLEMAN is a business teacher at Morris Hills Re
gional High School, Rockaway,
New Jersey. Jim and his family
reside at 468 Route 26, Kenvil,
New Jersey.
SAMUE1
with the
Agassia i
Sam and
T. LLE\
are resid
STANLEY ABRAMS received his
master’s degree in psychology from
Temple University in 1958 and his
Doctorate in Psychology from
Temple University in February,
1961.
He is presently teaching
psychology at Temple and is re
ceiving a National Institute of
Mental Health grant for research on
juvenile delinquency.
JOSEPH P. POPPLE is a member
of the Defense Department estab
lishment at the Pentagon, Washing
ton, D. C., participating as a mem
ber of the Army Management Intern
Program.
While at Wilkes, Joe
was president of the Junior Class
and vice-president of the Senior
Class.
’57
WILLIAM M. PARISH is pres
ently management trainee for Deer
ing, Millegan, Inc. in Spartanburg,
South Carolina. Bill recently re
ceived his Master of Business Ad
ministration degree from the Uni
versity of South Carolina.
MRS. WALTER E. ELSTON
(Gloria Dran), who graduated from
Wilkes with an A. B. in Biology,
is residing in Kenvil, New Jersey
with her husband Walter (Class of
1953) and their son Thomas F. Els
ton, born in May, 1960.
’58
A report on financial aspects of a
union or merged district for Sunburx
Area schools has been prepared by
a team of two graduate students at
Pennsylvania State University, one
of whom is HILLARD R- HO
MAN. He and his associate pre
pared a survey covering the finan
cial aspects of merging four school
25
willia:
Kingston
the Gem
Space Ve
delphia.
RICHAR
the Natii
New Jen
had pre’
with the
of Banki
HARRIE
head nu
ministrati
phia.
STANLI
alytical i
Whitney
Middleto
makes hi
’59
R. WA
gaged a
elementa:
Jersey,
appeared
Curtain
MRS. M
complete)
degree o
ucation :
ploma ii
Universil
EDWAT
research
Steel Co
is also <
Lehigh I
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’53
ten
resey
lal
yllily
en:
a
>ol,
md
md
cld
ap■ral
ivion.
:ers
few
itly
aon
few
lew
ree
JOSEPH W. CHILORO of Chicago
has received notification from the
Department of Registration and Ed
ucation that he has passed his ex
amination and is authorized to
practice as a registered professional
engineer in Illinois.
’49
JACK D. HORTMAN is an elec
tronic scientist in the Research and
Development Office of the Naval
Research Laboratory in Washing
ton, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Hortman
are residing in Clinton, Maryland
with their two children,
DONALD W. PERKINS was
named chairman for the Somerville,
New Jersey Area Chapter of the
American Red Cross. Don is assist
ant sales manager for John A. Roeb
ling Sons of Trenton.
EDWARD E. GORSKI of WilkesBarre has been appointed Supply
Commodity Management Assistant
at the Naval Supply Depot in
Philadelphia.
’50
I of
un)R.
ted
tee.
ing
iate
try
daPhe
to
isic
ing
□ol,
itor
EdHal
’N,
vith
AUGUSTUS C. BUZBY is Sales
Engineer for the Blaw Knox Com
pany, makers of steel castings, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Buzby and daughter are resi
dents of Pittsburgh.
RICHARD F. MIEDRICH recently
received his CPA certificate from
the State Board of Examiners,
following the successful passing of
the examinations. Richard is em
ployed by the Administrative Audits
Division of the Bureau of Employ
ment Security, Harrisburg, and also
does tax and accounting work in
Hershey, Pennsylvania.
’51
Now engaged in the general prac
tice of law is JOHN B. GUERRA.
John’s new office is at 405 Leader
Building, Cleveland 15, Ohio.
ROBERT R. WEEKS is employed
by The New Jersey Zinc Company
in their New York offices as Insur-
24
ance Administrator. John is resid.
mg m Somerville, New Jersey with
his wife and three children.
DR. JOSEPH D. LUBIN
has suc~
cussfully passed the medical
J examinations qualifying him to
practice
medicine in Pennsylvania.
ls
He is
presently resident physician at the
University of Pennsylvania Hos
pital in Philadelphia where he is
specializing in anesthesiology.
EDWARD C. SWISLOSKI was
appointed plant supervisor of Pro
duction Planning at the Wellsboro
plant of Corning Glass Works.
’52
C. FRANK EASTMAN was honor
ed recently by Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Company for being
the second highest agent in produc
tion in the United States for 1960
with a record surpassed by only one
other agent in the 115th year Com
pany history.
CARL A. FOSKO recently passed
the written examination and quali
fied to practice before the Internal
Revenue Service. He is presently
a tax consultant and maintains an
office at 215 Kingston Corners
Building, Kingston.
Robert c. McFadden has
been promoted to development
engineer in Tape Device Engineer
ing at the IBM Poughkeepsie Pro
duct Development Laboratory. Bob
lives at 18 Liss Road, Wappingers
Falls, New York with his wife and
three children.
DR. JOSEPH J. STUCCIO is
specializing in urology at the Temple
University Hospital in Philadelphia.
JANE A. PIEKARSKI is presently
first flutist with the Wilkes-Barre
Symphony and a member of the
Scranton Symphony. Jane is cur
rently a member of the music faculty
of the Kingston School District.
;D E. WILLIAMS is an
RICHARD
the Scranton division
engineer with
vnF "the Pennsylvania Gas and Water
Company. Mr. and Mrs. Williams
reside in Clark Summit, Pennsyl
vania with their two sons.
MRS. DENAH HELLER (Denah
Fleisher) is a first grade teacher at
the Glendale School in Glen Burnie,
Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Heller
are presently residing in Baltimore.
’54
THOMAS A. NEMCHICK is man
ager of the Household Finance
Corporation in Athens, Georgia
where he also resides.
DR. SAMUEL M. MELINE is now
pursuing his Master’s Degree in
Orthodontic’s at Tufts Dental Grad
uate School. Dr. and Mrs. Meline
and son are residing in Allston.
Massachusetts.
’55
ROLAND FEATHERMAN is the
Psychiatric Casework Supervisor at
the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Unit at
Danville State Hospital. Since re
ceiving his Master’s Degree from
Pittsburgh University, Roland has
been a caseworker for the Pitts
burgh State TB Hospital and the
Alcoholic Unit at Danville State.
He married recently and is a resi
dent of Danville, Pennsylvania.
ROBERT H. BURGER is a junior
electrical engineer at the Saginaw
Steering Gear Division of General
Motors, Saginaw, Michigan.
DR. RICHARD B. KENT is Senior
Medical Officer and head of the
Medical Department aboard the
U.S.S. Yosemite, a United States
Navy Destroyer. Dr. and „Mrs.
Kent, the former LORRAINE D.
GIACOMETTI, Class of 1956, _
reside in Newport, Rhode Island with
their two children.
’56
MICHAEL J. WEINBERGER is
"‘Partner of the Armand Metal
fPec.alties, a metal spinning and
manufacturing concern in New York
City. Michael lives in Forest Hills,
New York with his wife and
daughter.
JAMES W. COLEMAN is a busi
ness teacher at Morris Hills Re
gional High School, Rockaway,
New Jersey. Jim and his family
reside at 468 Route 26, Kenvil,
New Jersey.
STANLEY ABRAMS received his
master's degree in psychology from
Temple University in 1958 and his
Doctorate in Psychology from
Temple University in February,
1961.
He is presently teaching
psychology at Temple and is re
ceiving a National Institute of
Mental Health grant for research on
juvenile delinquency.
JOSEPH P. POPPLE is a member
of the Defense Department estab
lishment at the Pentagon, Washing
ton, D. C., participating as a mem
ber of the Army Management Intern
Program.
While at Wilkes, Joe
was president of the Junior Class
and vice-president of the Senior
Class.
’57
WILLIAM M. FARISH is pres
ently management trainee for Deer
ing, Millegan, Inc. in Spartanburg,
South Carolina. Bill recently re
ceived his Master of Business Ad
ministration degree from the Uni
versity of South Carolina.
MRS. WALTER E. ELSTON
(Gloria Dran), who graduated from
Wilkes with an A. B. in Biology,
is residing in Kenvil, New Jersey
with her husband Walter (Class of
1953) and their son Thomas F. Els
ton, born in May, 1960.
’58
A reportt on financial aspects of a
union or merged district for Sunbury
Area schools has been prepared by
a team of two graduate students at
Pennsylvania State University, one
of whom is HILLARD R. HOFF
MAN. He and his associate pre
pared a survey covering the finan
cial aspects of merging four school
25
districts in the Sunbury area. He
is a candidate for his doctorate at
Pennsylvania State University.
SAMUEL T. BUCKMAN, JR. is
with the U. S. Coast Guard Carrier
Agassia in Cape May, New Jersey.
Sam and his wife, the former JOAN
T. LLEWELLYN, Class of 1960,
are residents of Cape May.
WILLIAM A. LITTLETON of
Kingston is Production Manager for
the General Electric Missile and
Space Vehicle Department in Phila
delphia.
RICHARD W. BROWN has joined
the National Bank of Ocean City,
New Jersey as a bank auditor. He
had previously been an examiner
with the Pennsylvania Department
of Banking.
HARRIETTS RUTH DAVIS is
head nurse at the Veterans Ad
ministration Hospital in Philadel
phia.
STANLEY J. NOVAK is an analytical engineer at the Pratt and
Whitney Aircraft Corporation in
Middletown, Connecticut, Stanley
makes his home in Windsor, Conn.
’59
R. WAYNE WALTERS is en
gaged as music instructor in the
elementary schools at Mantua, New
Jersey. While at Wilkes, Wayne
appeared in lead roles of the Cue n
Curtain productions.
MRS. MARGARET MORRIS has
completed the requirements for the
" •
> in
degree of blaster of' Science
i>. ed.—
ucation and was aawarded her diploma in January from Bucknell
University.
edward
McCafferty is a
research engineer for the Bethlehem
Steel Company in Bethlehem. Ed
is also a part-time student at the
Lehigh University Graduate School.
(Continued on Page 28)
�John Nuveen <5 Company
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corpora
Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation
Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Pitney Bowes. Inc.
Ralston Purina Company
Reliable Electric Company
Riegel Textile Corporation
Schering Corporation
Scott Paper Company
Seton Leather Company
Sharon Steel Corporation
Simmons Company
Simonds Saw & Steel Company
Singer Manufacturing Company
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories
Sperry & Hutchinson Corporation
Stevens Candy Kitchens, Inc.
W. H. Sweney S Company
Tektronix Inc.
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.
Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby
United Clay Mines Corporation
Wallingford Steel Company
Warner Brothers Company
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Williams & Company
Worcester Pressed Steel Company
Young & Rubicam, Inc.
— 5)
FORMER CUE ‘N’ CURTAIN MEMBERS FORM THEATER
ALUMNI WITH PRODUCTION SLATED FOR MAY 13
(Continued from Page
graduate
will be
program
two options in respect to
allowed
be an original research program
The student v...
the dissertation.
may survey and evaluation of the
dissertation, Itcritical
or it may H
be a’ -cialized subject. In the first instance,
; is allowed for the research. No credit
literature- of
o- a sped
credit of six hou;irs i~
second option.
is allowed, for
I— the i
in laboratories on a full-time basis
employed
lifted to conduct their dissertation research
Students
y be permitted to
employment___
if mutually satisfactory
maytheir place of
of employment
be made between the student, the
at t- jements can
can be
and the College. In such cases, a qualified
arrang'
laboratory.
of the staff of the employer shall be named by
the Committee on
rhrCommittee
on'’Graduate studies to serve as an ex--student’s advisory committee. He
officio member of the
be appointed an adj'unct professor of the
shall also
and shall supervise the day-to-day progress of
college, —
the student's research.
'.Ils are honors, pass and fail. An
Grades for graduate credits
outstanding performance. Any
honor grade represents
than one failing grade shall be
student receiving more
ineligible to receive a degree or to continue as a regular
graduate student.
A total of 30 credits with a grade of passing or honors
is required for the Master's Degree. These required
credits must be obtained within six calendar years pre
ceding the granting of the degree.
Theater Alumni will present its first Kum Bak show
Saturday evening. May 13, in Chase Theater. Former
members of the College Theatre will enact roles they
performed as undergraduates. William Crowder super
vises the production.
For some time many former Cue 'N' Curtain members
and faculty at Wilkes College have discussed the possi
bility of a Theater Alumni. In May 1960. under the
guidance of Mr. Alfred Groh, a member of the English
Department at Wilkes, the Wilkes College Theater
Alumni was born. The first slate of officers included
Bert Stein. President; Peter Margo, Vice President;
Marion Laines, Secretary; and Ed Bolinski, Treasurer.
The duties of Theater Alumni Secretary are presently
being handled by Mary Frances Swigert and the
Treasurer is Steve Cooney.
The program, “Recollections in Three Acts", follows:
Act I: Drama. “Treachery" from The Changeling by
Thomas Middleton; Stephen Cooney and Sue Vaughn.
"Address to the Archbishop" from Shaw's Saint Joan;
Mary Frances Swigert. “Renunciation Scene” from Dr.
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe: Peter Margo. "To be
Desired” from The Astonished Heart by Noel Coward;
Ann Azat Hayes and Carroll V. Stein.
On Friday, October 14 a large group of Wilkes College
Theater Alumni met to discuss the aims and future activi
ties of the organization. The purpose of the Theater
Alumni, through their interest and activities, is to
strengthen the resolve of Wilkes College to build a Fine
Arts building with complete theater facilities; and eventu
ally. to include dramatics in the college curriculum. The
group will stimulate undergraduate interest in the theater
by presenting the "Margo Addie Award” to the actor or
actress giving the best performance at the annual spring
Theater Alumni Reunion.
Act II: Comedy. “If Men Played Cards as Women
Do” by George S. Kaufman; Jerry Lind, Paul Thomas,
John Williams and Edward Wallison.
Act. Ill: Music. “But Not for Me" from Girl Crazy
by George Gershwin; Howard Ennis. "Lullaby" from
Bloomer Girl by Harold Arlen; Helen Ralston and Linda
Stein. “Wand'rin' Star" from Paint Your Wagon by
Lerner and Loewe; Stanley Yurkowski. "There's no
Business Like Show Business” from Annie Get Your
Gun by Irving Berlin; the entire cast. "I Got Rhythm
from Girl Crazy, Basia Mieszkowski Jaworski.
That's the “Wilkes College Theater Alumni Story” brief
ly to date. Bert Stein stated that the Theater Alumni
“intends to add more successful chapters to the life of
Wilkes College because we realize the great promise an
organized alumni gives to the future of the campus
theater: and we remember how important the Wilkes
Theater was to us as students.”
This first attempt by Theater Alumni, it is hoped, will
encourage more enthusiastic campus support for the pro
posed Arts Building. Proceeds will go towards this end.
Tickets priced at $2.20 have been sent Theatre Alumni
members; they may also be obtained by writing Cue N'
Curtain, but no tickets will be sold at the door.
KUM BAK SHOW
Alfred Groh. Director of Dramatics, has announced the
26
As a general rule, not more than six graduate credits
may be accepted for transfer from another institution.
Special exceptions to this rule may occasionally be made
by the Committee on Graduate Studies.
(Continued from Page 3)
1961 APPEAL STRIVES I
$100,000 TO MEET CON
ADMISSION TO CANDIDACY
In each major field, certain courses are prescribed. A
student shall automatically be considered as a candidate
for the degree when he has successfully completed the
required courses and has submitted the outline of his
graduate program and dissertation title.
and provide financial assistance to
who might otherwise be deprived
offered by the College.
RCA COMMITM1
To meet the commitments made by
Corporation of America, it will be
Stark Hall within the next three yea
facilities for graduate work in ch
the program of which is announc
issue of The Alumnus. Whether i
ments are met successfully depends i
the response by the Alumni. Obr
grows greater with the years, depi
growth in numbers of the Alumni, a
individual success quotient.
(Continued from Page 4)
YOUR EMPLOYER MAY
MATCH YOUR GIFT
Koiled Kords, Inc.
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
McCormick & Company
McGraw Hill Publishing Company
Manufacturers Trust Company
Marine Midland Trust Company
Maytag Company
Medusa Portland Cement Company
Merck S Company, Inc.
Metal and Thermit Corporation
Morgan Engineering Company
National Distillers Products Corp.
National Lead Company
National Supply Company
New York Trap Rock Company
Northrop Corporation
Norton Company
In other words, the College cannol
sponse from the graduate of 1960
Alumnus of 1940. But the College
consideration from each and every
Wrapping it up in celophane. let s
The most si
100 percent returns.
Alumni pledges is not HOW MUC
but HOW MANY are participati
making a pledge because you feel
pledge!
Let's make
27
100 percent participati
�' CURTAIN MEMBERS FORM THEATER
PRODUCTION SLATED FOR MAY 13
Xadua^program
Url'-ty
wj]] be allowed two options in respect to
The stu en
jt may be an original research program
the disser a
critical survey and evaluation of the
or it ma^ a Specia]ized subject. In the first instance,
'"^Tt oTsix hours is allowed for the research. No credit
fallowed for the second option.
, ts employed in laboratories on a full-time basis
a be permitted to conduct their dissertation research
™a^heir place of employment if mutually satisfactory
arrangements can be made between the student, the
laboratory, and the College. In such cases, a qualified
member of the staff of the employer shall be named by
the Committee on Graduate studies to serve as an exofficio member of the student’s advisory committee. He
shall also be appointed an adjunct professor of the
college, and shall supervise the day-to-day progress of
the student's research.
Grades for graduate credits are honors, pass and fail. An
honor grade represents outstanding performance. Any
student receiving more than one failing grade shall be
ineligible to receive a degree or to continue as a regular
graduate student.
s N Curtain members
sve discussed the possiMay 1960. under the
member of the English
filkes College Theater
ate of officers included
largo. Vice President:
Ed Bolinski. Treasurer.
Secretary are presently
nces Swigert and the
jroup of Wilkes College
e aims and future activipurpose of the Theater
t and activities, is to
; College to build a Fine
ter facilities; and eventucollege curriculum. The
ate interest in the theater
: Award to the actor or
nee at the annual spring
ater Alumni Story" brief
hat the Theater Alumni
I chapters to the life of
lize
_
—~ the great
promise an
i future of the campus
v important the Wilkes
SHOW
atics. has announced the
I
Theater Alumni will present its first Kum Bak show
Saturday evening. May 13. in Chase Theater. Former
members of the College Theatre will enact roles they
performed as undergraduates. William Crowder super
vises the production.
. ne program.. "Recollections in Three Acts”, follows:
Act L Drama.
Treachery” from The Changeling by
dlettm: Stephen Cooney and Sue Vaughn,
Addie» iothe
__ _____
Archbishop” from Shaw's Saint Joan;
-J3"' Frances Svigert. "Renunciation Scene” from Dr.
Facrms by Christopher Marlowe: Peter Margo. "To be
Des.rec from The Astonished Heart by Noel Coward;
Ann Azat Hayes and Carroll V. Stein.
Act II: Comedy. "If Men Played Cards
Do” by George S. Kaufman: Jerry L. ’. ~ as Women
Lind, Paul Thomas,
John Williams and Edward Wallison.
Act. Ill: Music. "But Not for Me" from Girl Crazy
by George Gershwin: Howard Ennis. “Lullaby" from
Bloomer Girl by Harold Arlen; Helen Ralston and Linda
Stein. "Wandrin' Star" from Paint Your Wagon by
Lerner and Loewe; Stanley Yurkowski. "There's no
Business Like Show Business" from Annie Get Your
Gun by Irving Berlin; the entire cast. "I Got Rhythm”
from Girl Crazy. Basia Mieszkowski Jaworski.
This first attempt by Theater Alumni, it is hoped, will
encourage more enthusiastic campus support for the pro
posed Arts Building. Proceeds will go towards this end.
Tickets priced at $2.20 have been sent Theatre Alumni
members; they may also be obtained by writing Cue 'N'
Curtain, but no tickets will be sold at the door.
A total of 30 credits with a grade of passing or honors
is required for the Master’s Degree. TL
— required
These
credits must be obtained within six calendarr years preceding the granting of the degree.
As a general rule, not more than six graduate credits
may be accepted for transfer from another institution.
Special exceptions to this rule may occasionally be made
by the Committee on Graduate Studies.
ADMISSION TO CANDIDACY
In each major field, certain courses are prescribed. A
student shall automatically be considered as a candidate
for the degree when he has successfully completed the
required courses and has submitted the outline of his
graduate program and dissertation title.
(Continued from Page 4)
your employer may
match your gift
Koiled Kords, Inc.
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
cC°riT1ick & Company
cGraw Hill Publishing Company
Manufacturers Trust Company
Marine Midland Trust Company
Maytag Company
Medusa Portland Cement Co:
>mpany
Merck & Company. Inc.
Metal and Thermit Corporation
N2an,E"9ineerin9 Company
N^-.hrOLCorPorati°n
John Nuveen & Company
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation
Petro-Tex Chemical Corporation
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Pitney Bowes. Inc.
Ralston Purina Company
Reliable Electric Company
Riegel Textile Corporation
Schering Corporation
Scott Paper Company
Seton Leather Company
Sharon Steel Corporation
Simmons Company
Simonds Saw & Steel Company
Singer Manufacturing Company
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories
Sperry & Hutchinson Corporation
Stevens Candy Kitchens, Inc.
W. H. Sweney & Company
Tektronix Inc.
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.
Towers, Perrin, Forster G Crosby, Inc.
United Clay Mines Corporation
Wallingford Steel Company
Warner Brothers Company
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Williams 6 Company
Worcester Pressed Steel Co;>mpany
Young & Rubicam, Inc.
(Continued from Page 3)
1961 APPEAL STRIVES FOR
$100,000 TO MEET COMMITMENTS
and provide financial assistance to many able students
who might otherwise be deprived of the opportunities
offered by the College.
RCA COMMITMENT
To meet the commitments made by the College to Radio
Corporation of America, it will be necessary to extend
Stark Hall within the next three years. This will provide
facilities for graduate work in chemistry and physics,
the program of which is announced elsewhere in this
issue of The Alumnus. Whether or not these commit
ments are met successfully depends in great measure upon
the response by the Alumni. Obviously, this response
grows greater with the years, depending first upon the
growth in numbers of the Alumni, and secondly upon the
individual success quotient.
In other words, the College cannot expect the same re
sponse from the graduate of 1960 as she can from her
Alumnus of 1940. But the College does feel worthy of
consideration from each and every one of her Alumni.
Wrapping it up in celophane, let's hope for and receive
100 percent returns. The most significant thing about
Alumni pledges is not HOW MUCH money is pledged,
but HOW MANY are participating. Do not hesitate
making a pledge because you feel it is not enough. Just
pledge!
�(Continued trona Page 28)
(Continued trom Page 25)
JOHN THOMAS is office manager
and accountant with the Scranton
Casket Company, Scranton.
Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas and son reside in
Moscow, Pennsylvania.
Art Supervisor and teacher at the
Nescopeck Area Jointure in Nes
copeck,
Pennsylvania, is MRS.
JAMES J. NAGLE, the former
Janice Reynolds.
ALBERT J, VALENIA is an Eng
lish teacher at A. L. Johnson Re
gional High School, Clark, New
Jersey. He is also doing graduate
work at Montclair State College.
GERMAINE ASTOLFI is an in
structor of biology at Phillipsburg
High School, Phillipsburg, New
Jersey.
MRS. SYLVIA A. YESUL (Sylvia
Ann Cusick) is a teacher in the
Business Education Department of
Binghamton Central High School,
Binghamton, New York.
CARROLL R. DAVENPORT is
Director of Music at the Guilford
Central School.
School,
Guilford, New
York.
’60
CARL HAVIRA is serving as
athletic director at the WilkesBarre Catholic Youth Center. Carl
is also swimming coach here at
Wilkes.
WILLIAM G. MAXWELL is a
teacher of biology and science at
the Dundee Central School, Dun
dee, New York.
LOUIS D. DAVIS, JR. is Assistant
to the President of the L. D. Davis
Company, Inc., manufacturer of glue
products in Bristol.
ARNOLD J. POPKY is a test engi
neer for Burroughs Corporation at
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
MARTHA HADSEL has
been promoted from a staff
to suburban copy reader on
Desk of the Wilkes-Barre
LOU - ELLA
recently
reporter
the City
Record.
MERINGOLA
of
Elmhurst, New York is a legal sec-
retary for the Stanley Warner
Corporation in New York City.
RONALD W. SIMMS of Kingston
is Sales Manager for Petroleum
Service Company, Wilkes-Barre.
UNG-PYO KOH is a graduate stu
dent at the American University,
Washington, D. C. studying for his
Master of Arts degree in Economics.
Mr. and Mrs. Koh are residing in
Falls Church, Virginia with their
two daughters.
Down The Aisle
’50
MARTIN E. BLAKE was married
on January 14 to Marcia Ruth
Whitworth in St. Louis, Missouri.
The couple is residing at 30 Plaza
Square, St. Louis.
’53
DENAH FLEISHER was married
to Ralph M. Heller on January 7th
in Wilkes-Barre. The couple is re
siding at 3707 West Cold Spring
Lane, Baltimore, Maryland.
’57
BERNARD KEMSEL was married
recently to Rose Marie Shek. Bern
ard is employed as an agent for the
Internal Revenue Service.
LAWRENCE D. AMDUR was
married on February 26th to Sandra
Rose Levin of Berwick. The couple
is residing in Washington, D. C.
’59
PAUL JANOSKI was married to
Kathryn Russin in Pittston, Penn
sylvania. Paul is an accountant at
the Kearfott Company, Little Falls,
Nev/ Jersey.
SHELIA ANN WILLIAMS was
married on December 28 to Walter
B. Kramer, Jr. Shelia is a member
of the faculty of Kingston School
District. The couple is residing at
76 North Welles Ave., Kingston.
28
MICHAEL D. MELCHOIR and
Helene M. Szymaszek were married
recently. Michael is employed by
the General Electric Company, Sales
and Distribution Division, New
York City.
’60
MARY ELLEN ZWEIBEL was
married on February 4 to Melvin
J. Mills. The couple is residing in
Bristol, Pennsylvania.
This Bright New World
’41
a son, Jason, to Mr. and Mrs. Barton
L. Berry (Louise K. Rummer) of
California, on August 31.
’53
a son, Darrell Butler, to Mr. and
Mrs. Richard E. Williams of Clark
Summit, Pennsylvania, on January 8.
This Bright New World
’58a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Birnbaum, 22 Maffet Street, Wilkes-
Barre, on February 19.
a daughter, Carol Marie, to Mr. and
Mrs. Willis Hornick (Irene Goliash)
of Auburn, New York, on November 15.
a son, David, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Zavada of 722 Hazle Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre, in September.
a daughter on January 17 to Mr.
and Mrs. Reese D. Jones, 4227 Re
gent Street. Philadelphia.
two planes collided over New York City.
1
engineer for Sperry-Gyroscope Company, St
Division, Great Neck, Long Island.
a son, James Eric, to Mr. and Mrs.
George Schall of Wilkes-Barre on
March 6. Mrs. Schall is the former
Judith Ruggere, Class of 1960.
Charle
Massapequa, New York, is survived by his
sons, Charles, Jr., Glenn, and Ronald.
a son, Scott Alan, to Mr. and Mrs.
Carroll Davenport of Oxford, New
Class of 1950
York, on January 30.
This office learned of the death of WILLL
a son. Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Valenia of Clark, New Jersey,
MAN of West Chester, Pennsylvania in Fi
are no details.
on November 30.
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Lally of 149 Poplar Street. WilkesBarre on March 25. Mrs. Lally is
the former Joan P, Rishkofski, also
of the Class of 1959.
1961 SPRING SPORTS SCHEDULE
BASEBALL
DATE
Tuesday,
Saturday,
Thursday,
Monde
Monday,
Wednesday,
Saturday,
Wednesds
Wednesday
Saturday,
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
Tuesday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Monday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
TENNIS
4
8
13
17
19
22
26
29
OPPONENT_________
Muhlenberg .
Dickinson (DH)
Moravian
Ursinus
Stevens
Upsala
Susquehanna
Lebanon Valley (DH)
PLACE
Home
Home
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away
TIME
3:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
2
4
6
8
11
13
18
20
Scranton
East Stroudsburg
Susquehanna
Gettysburg
Albright
Alumni
Scranton
Lycoming (DH)
Home
Away
Away
Away
Home
3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Away
Away
DATE______________
Wednesday, April 12
Friday,
April 14
Tuesday,
April 18
Saturday,
April 22
Wednesday, April 26
April 29
Saturday,
OPPONENT
Scranton
Rider
Lycoming
Dickinson
Susquehanna
Lebanon Valley
Saturday,
Tuesday,
Saturday,
Monday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Susquehanna
Ursinus
Albright
Moravian
Lycoming
Scranton
3:30 p.m.
11:00 a.m.
May
Maj7
May
May
May
May
6
9
13
15
18
20
GOLF
’56
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs, John
O'Connell (Marilyn Carle) of Dal
las on February 21.
CHARLES M. CLOTHIER was killed on De
Indiana.
a daughter, Catherine Ann, to Mr.
and Mrs. George J. Elias, 105 Carey
Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, in February.
a daughter, Randee Beth, to Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Allen (Anita Gor
don) of Philadelphia on December
20.
Class of 1949
a daughter on November 24 to En
sign and Mrs. George S. Morris of
Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane
’54
a daughter, Catherine Jane, to Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond D. Tait, 10801
Kelvin Street, Philadelphia, on Feb
ruary 7.
In Memoriam
’59
DATE
Tuesday,
Thursday,
Tuesday,
Friday,
April
April
April
April
18
20
25
28
Tuesday,
Friday,
Monday,
Thursday,
May
May
May
May
2
5
8
11
Saturday,
Thursday,
May 13
May 18
OPPONENT
Susquehanna
Moravian
Lycoming
Scranton
TIME
PLACE
2:00 p.m.
Home
2:00 p.m.
Away
2:00 p.m.
Home
3:00 p.m.
Away
Home
Mansfield
Scranton
Home
MAC Tournament
Lycoming and Susquehanna
at Lycoming
Away
Harpur Tournament
Away
East Stroudsburg
The staff of the Alumna
a conscientious effort tc
an alumni magazine u'C
College. Whether we aci
goal remains pretty mi
hands. The Editorial Sta|
. . . news . . . and mor;
you mail it to The Alu
Hall?
2:00 p.m.
9:30 a.m.
2:00 p.m.
29
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5;
ce manager
le Scranton
nton.
Mr.
□n reside in
cher at the
re in Nes
is MRS.
the former
is an Engohnson Re
mark, New
retary for the Stanley Warner
Corporation in New York City.
RONALD W. SIMMS of Kingston
is Sales Manager for Petroleum
Service Company, Wilkes-Barre.
UNG-PYO KOH is a graduate stu
dent at the American University,
Washington, D. C. studying for his
Master of Arts degree in Economics.
Mr. and Mrs. Koh are residing in
Falls Church, Virginia with their
two daughters.
ag graduate
College.
'I is an in
Phillipsburg
burg, New
5UL (Sylvia
clier in the
ipartment of
ligh School,
■NPORT is
the Guilford
I ford.
New
serving as
he Wilkescenter. Carl
ich here at
VELL is a
I science at
chool, Dun-
is Assistant
L. D. Davis
turer of glue
; a test engirporation at
Base, Calif.
has
taff
: on
arre
recently
reporter
the City
Record.
NGOLA of
a legal sec-
Down The Aisle
’50
MARTIN E. BLAKE was married
on January 14 to Marcia Ruth
Whitworth in St. Louis, Missouri.
The couple is residing at 30 Plaza
Square, St. Louis.
’53
DENAH FLEISHER was married
to Ralph M. Heller on January 7th
in Wilkes-Barre. The couple is re
siding at 3707 West Cold Spring
Lane, Baltimore, Maryland.
MICHAEL D. MELCHOIR and
Helene M. Szymaszek were married
recently. Michael is employed by
the General Electric Company, Sales
and Distribution Division, New
York City.
’60
MARY ELLEN ZWEIBEL was
married on February 4 to Melvin
J. Mills. The couple is residing in
Bristol, Pennsylvania.
This Bright New World
’41
a son, Jason, to Mr. and Mrs. Barton
L. Berry (Louise K. Rummer) of
California, on August 31.
’53
a son, Darrell Butler, to Mr. and
Mrs. Richard E. Williams of Clark
Summit, Pennsylvania, on January 8.
BERNARD KEMSEL was married
recently to Rose Marie Shek. Bern
ard is employed as an agent for the
Internal Revenue Service.
LAWRENCE D. AMDUR was
married on February 26th to Sandra
Rose Levin of Berwick. The couple
is residing in Washington, D. C.
PAUL JANOSKI was married to
Kathryn Russin in Pittston, Penn
sylvania. Paul is an accountant at
the Kearfott Company, Little Falls,
ruary 7.
a daughter, Randee Beth, to Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Allen (Anita Gor
don) of Philadelphia on December
20.
a daughter, Carol Marie, to Mr. and
Mrs. Willis Hornick (Irene Goliash)
of Auburn, New York, on Novem
28
a daughter on November 24 to En
sign and Mrs. George S. Morris of
Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane
Class of 1949
Indiana.
engineer for Sperry-Gyroscope Company, Service Armanent
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John
O’Connell (Marilyn Carle) of Dal
las on February 21.
a son, David, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Zavada of 722 Hazle Avenue,
Wilkes-Barre, in September.
a daughter on January 17 to Mr.
and Mrs. Reese D. Jones, 4227 Re
gent Street. Philadelphia.
CHARLES M. CLOTHIER was killed on December 16 when
two planes collided over New York City.
Division, Great Neck, Long Island.
a son, James Eric, to Mr. and Mrs.
George Schall of Wilkes-Barre on
March 6. Mrs. Schall is the former
Judith Ruggere, Class of 1960.
He was a senior
Charles, a resident of
Massapequa, New York, is survived by his wife and three
sons, Charles, Jr., Glenn, and Ronald.
a son, Scott Alan, to Mr. and Mrs.
Carroll Davenport of Oxford, New
York, on January 30.
Class of 1950
This office learned of the death of WILLIAM J. KAUFF
MAN of West Chester, Pennsylvania in February.
a son, Michael, to Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Valenia of Clark, New Jersey,
on November 30.
There
are no details.
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Lally of 149 Poplar Street, WilkesBarre on March 25. Mrs. Lally is
the former Joan P. Rishkofski, also
of the Class of 1959.
1961 SPRING SPORTS SCHEDULE
BASEBALL
DATE
Tuesday,
Salurday,
Thursday,
Monday,
Wednesdc
lay,
Saturday,
Wednesday
Saturday,
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
April
Tuesday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Monday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
4
8
13
17
19
22
26
29
2
4
6
8
11
13
18
20
TENNIS
OPPONENT_________
Muhlenberg .
Dickinson (DH)
Moravian
Ursinus
Steven
Stevens
la
Upsala
Susque
lehanna
aon Valley (DH)
Lebam
PLACE
Home
Home
Away
Home
Away
Away
Home
Away
TIME
3:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m.
Scranton
East Stroudsburg
Susquehanna
Gettysburg
Albright
Alumni
Scranton
Lycoming (PH)
Home
Away
Away
Away
Home
3:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
2:30 p.m.
Away
Away
DATE______________
Wednesday, April 12
April 14
Friday,
April 18
Tuesday,
April 22
Saturday,
Wednesday, April 26
April 29
Saturday,
Saturday,
Tuesday,
Saturday,
Monday,
Thursday,
Saturday,
3:30 p.m.
11:00 a.m.
May
May
May
May
May
May
6
9
13
15
18
20
OPPONENT
Scranton
Rider
Lycoming
Dickinson
Susquehanna
Lebanon Valley
Susquehanna
Ursinus
Albright
Moravian
Lycoming
Scranton
PLACE___ TIME_
Home
2:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m.
Away
3:00 p.m.
Away
Home
2:00 pun.
3:00 p.m.
Home
Away
1:00 p.m.
Away
Away
Home
Home
Home
Away
GOLF
’56
New Jersey.
SHELIA ANN WILLIAMS was
married on December 28 to Walter
B. Kramer, Jr. Shelia is a member
of the faculty of Kingston School
District. The couple is residing at
76 North Welles Ave., Kingston.
In Memoriam
’59
a daughter, Catherine Ann, to Mr.
and Mrs. George J. Elias, 105 Carey
Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, in February.
ber 15.
’59
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Birnbaum, 22 Maffet Street, WilkesBarre, on February 19.
’54
a daughter, Catherine Jane, to Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond D. Tait, 10801
Kelvin Street, Philadelphia, on Feb
’57
This Bright New World
’58
DATE
Tuesday,
Thursday,
Tuesday,
Friday,
April
April
April
April
18
20
25
28
Tuesday,
Friday,
Monday,
Thursday,
May
May
May
May
2
5
8
11
Saturday,
Thursday,
May 13
May 18
OPPONENT
Susquehanna
Moravian
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Board of Tr
Admiral Harold R. Stark,
Arnaud C. Marls, First Vi
IN THIS ISSUE
Andrew J. Sordoni, Seconi
Charles H. Miner, Jr, Sec
2
CAMPUS PERISCOPE — Betty Kraft '62
A recap of campus activities
James P. Harris, Treasurer
Mrs. Paul Bedford
COMMENCEMENT 1961 PLAYS TO CAPACITY HOUSE
3
Robert Riley Delivers Baccalaureate; Dr. Haupert, Commencement Address
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Represent
Frank Bumside
WITH THE CLASSES
5
Felicia Perlick '63
ANNUAL APPEAL TO EXCEED GOAL — Gordon Roberts '60
6
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conynghc
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
EDGERTON TO ENGLAND
14
DR. STANKO VUJICA REPORTS ON PAKISTAN
16
KANARR GRANT RESEARCH PROJECT
17
And other news and pictures of informative nature
Samuel M. Davenport,
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
John Farr
Hon. John S. Fine
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.E
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr,
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Represent
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weckesser
Charles B. Waller
Aaron Weiss
On The Cover
With great success, The Art Club initiated an out
door Art Fair the first part of May. The area to
the rear of Conyngham Hall suddenly came to
life as hundreds of art-lovers visited the one-day
exhibit. Next _year, it is hoped
__r__ the fair ___
will -be
extended for two days. Howard Herring made the
photograph.
THE STAFF
EDITOR
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kathleen O’Donnell
SPORTS
Arthur J. Hoover *55
ALUMNI NOTES
Felicia Perlick *63
PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonard Yoblonski ’63
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Cynthia Hagely *62
Presiden
Eugene S. Fa
Alumni Offi
Gordon Roberts, Executive
Clayton A. Bloomburg, Pn
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly for the
Wilkes College Alumni Association by the Public Relations
Department, Livingston Clewell, Director. Second class mailing
privileges have been authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Subscription—$2.00.
1
Russell H. Williams, Vice
Anita Janerich, Secretary7
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasur
�Board o£ Trustees
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chairman
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vice-Chairman
IN THIS ISSUE
Andrew J. Sordoni, Second Vice-Chairman
Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary
CAMPUS PERISCOPE
2
Betty Kraft ’62
James P. Harris, Treasurer
A recap of campus activities
Mrs. Paul Bedford
COMMENCEMENT 1961 PLAYS TO CAPACITY HOUSE
3
Robert Riley Delivers Baccalaureate; Dr. Haupert, Commencement Address
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
Frank Burnside
WITH THE CLASSES — Felicia Perlick '63
5
ANNUAL APPEAL TO EXCEED GOAL - Gordon Roberts ’60
6
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
EDGERTON TO ENGLAND
14
DR. STANKO VUJICA REPORTS ON PAKISTAN
16
KANARR GRANT RESEARCH PROJECT
17
And other news and pictures of informative nature
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
John Farr
Hon. John S. Fine
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savltz
Alumni Representative
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weekesscr Walker
Charles B. Waller
Aaron Weiss
On The Cover
With great success, The Art Club initiated an out
door Art Fair the first part of May. The area to
the rear of Conyngham Hall suddenly came to
life as hundreds of art-lovers visited the one-day
exhibit. Next year, it is hoped the fair will be
extended for two days. Howard Herring made the
photograph.
THE STAFF
EDITOR
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Kathleen O’Donnell
SPORTS
Arthur J. Hoover ’55
ALUMNI NOTES
Felicia Perlick ’63
PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonard Yoblonski ’63
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Cynthia Hagely ’62
President
Eugene S. Farley
Alumni Officers
Gordon Roberts, Executive Secretary
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly for the
Wilkes College Alumni Association by the Public Relations
Department, Livingston Clewell, Director. Second class mailing
privileges have been authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Subscription—$2.00.
1
Russell H. Williams, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasurer
�CAMPUS PERISCOPE
by Bstiy Kraft ‘62
harmonic. After a meeting with student leaders and d
partment heads, they were feted at a tea sponsored k
Theta Delta Rho. The weekend was climaxed
on Sunday by a concert featuring the Wilkes Band.
I'
L
The Spring semester found the campus buzzing with
renewed activity.
The Lettermen again sponsored the April Shower s Ball
where Nancy Tinklepaugh, junior art major, was crown
ed "Queen of Spring."
COMMENCEMENT 1961
PLAYS TO 1,300 CAPACITY HOI
HAUPERT AND RILEY SPEAK
Nilo Hovey, nationally known music clinician, conducted
two clinics on campus this Spring. Wilkes Band served
as a demonstration unit as Hovey illustrated "Five Ways
to a Better Band." For his second clinic, he used six
high school clarinetists to show how to improve that
section of a high school band.
Despite weather predictions to the contrary, the fourteenth anr
and Commencement ceremonies climaxed an active and succes
under sunny skies and with temperatures that were easy to tai
750 heard Professor Robert C. Riley, Chairman of the i
Department, deliver the Baccalaureate Sunday, June 4. Dr. Ra-j
President of Moravian College, Bethlehem, followed on Mor
Commencement address to approximately 1,300 graduates,
friends of the College who received both messages in the gymi
enthusiastic acceptance.
f
Played host arth^-A^ ” CUrtai" and the Art Club
morning the f elhme
“
Ba“’" SatUrdaY
Farley and attend 4
WeIcomed on ca®Pus by Dr.
attended a concert by the Wilkes-Barre Phil-
mght U
upP^
Students and valley residents alike were caught
an atmosphere of Washington Square, Greenwic
outdoor art
lage, as Wilkes Art Club presented its Spring
ground’s’ of Conyngham Hall
exhibition on the annex g
’ • s created ny
Paintings, sculpture and other art workings
addition, slides on
club members were on display. In o------■ ■--*3 in
the history of art were
,
were shown and demonstra
•
The club is
were given.
sculpture, pottery and so forth
it
‘annual affair, extending anplanning to make this an
page 18)
other day.
(Continued on
It might be well to note that this is the first time in the
history of the College when a Wilkes graduate ever
occupied the Commencement platform for the Baccalaure
ate. "Self-Actualization" was the theme of the message,
and to those of you who are unacquainted with pscychological jargon, it means "the coming to fruition, or the
realization of one’s potentialities."
EDUCATIO
"It might be that in a;
you expected somethin
incomprehensible than
thing with your talenl
degree you leave here
is complete, to that de
be a failure to the de
or to vote; to a degrs
television set and spt
outgun Wyatt Earp;
attitude that the affair
are in a sorry state. B
it-?"
Bob Riley told the graduates that Commencement was
not the end of education, but the beginning. "You have
been given a framework upon which to begin your ed
ucation. I hope no one here considers himself an
educated person. This is an ideal you can approach,
but never quite reach. But it is a major responsibility of
yours to further the release and development of whatever
talents you individually possess.
3
�iRISCOPE
Nilo Hovey, nationally known music clinician, conducted
two clinics on campus this Spring. Wilkes Band served
as a demonstration unit as Hovey illustrated "Five Ways
to a Better Band.” For his second clinic, he used six
high school clarinetists to show how to improve that
section of a high school band.
the campus buzzing with
:d the April Shower’s Ball
iior art major, was crown-
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COMMENCEMENT 1961
PLAYS TO 1,300 CAPACITY HOUSE.
HAUPERT AND RILEY SPEAK
Despite weather predictions to the contrary, the fourteenth annual Baccalaureate
and Commencement ceremonies climaxed an active and successful college year
under sunny skies and with temperatures that were easy to take.
Approximately
750 heard Professor Robert C. Riley, Chairman of the Psychology
Department, deliver the Baccalaureate Sunday, June 4.
Dr. Raymond S. Haupert,
President of Moravian College, Bethlehem, followed on Monday with the
Commencement address to approximately 1,300 graduates, their families and
friends of the College who received both messages in the gymnasium with
enthusiastic acceptance.
Students and valley residents alike
an <atmosphere of Washington Square, Greenwich Vilage, as Wilkes Art Club presented its Spring outdoor art
ex ibition on the annex grounds of Conyngham Hall.
Paintings, sculpture and other art workings created by
club members were on display. In addition, slides on
the history of art were shown and demonstrations in
sculpture, pottery and so forth were given. The club is
planning to make this an annual affair, extending it another day.
(Continued on page 18)
given an opportunity to
life when the I.D.C.
:end with upperclassmen
The weekend began on
brtain and the Art Club
1 Models Ball.” Saturday
Icomed on campus by Dr.
>y the Wilkes-Barre Philjus
2
It might be well to note that this is the first time in the
history of the College when a Wilkes graduate ever
occupied the Commencement platform for the Baccalaure
ate. “Self-Actualization" was the theme of the message,
and to those of you who are unacquainted with pscychological jargon, it means "the coming to fruition, or the
realization of one’s potentialities.”
EDUCATION JUST BEGINNING
“It might be that in anticipation of the road ahead that
you expected something more inspirational or even more
incomprehensible than the cliche to get out and do some
thing with your talents. But, I am saying that to the
degree you leave here with the idea that your education
is complete, to that degree you are a failure. You will
be a failure to the degree you neglect to read a book,
or to vote; to a degree that you sit stupefied before a
television set and speculate whether Matt Dillon can
outgun Wyatt Earp: and to the degree you adapt the
attitude that the affairs of the world or your community
are in a sorry state. But. 'What can one person do about
it'?"
Bob Riley told the graduates that Commencement was
not the end of education, but the beginning. “You have
been given a framework upon which to begin your ed
ucation. I hope no one here considers himself an
educated person. This is an ideal you can approach,
but never quite reach. But it is a major responsibility of
yours to further the release and development of whatever
talents you individually possess.
(Continued on page 4)
3
�some of these self-imposed limitations that I wish
to
speak today.”
(Continued from page 3)
Throughout much of his address, Professor Riley touched
another psychological term—homeostasis—which is
upon
defined as the restoration of balance. Its principle means
that a man will work for food and drink and maintain
a chemical balance within his body. ' But what then.
WITH THE CLASSES . .
The Moravian College president stated that
are
victims of handicaps we have not learned to i
recognize
for what they are. He enumerated them as (1) the" fact
that too much has been given us and too much done for
us, (2) that our standard of values is too materialistic1
What is left for a man once he has been able to satisfy
these basic and vital biological needs? Is he to sit about
in his steady, balanced, pleasurable state contemplating
and (3) that we fail to realize that our greatest asset is a
strong, wholesome faith in God.
his navel?”
"A sound faith in God does a number of things for a
human being that nothing else can do. It gives him the
clearest possible definition of the difference between
right and wrong. It gives him the strength and courage
to do what he knows is right.
Here, the psychology head said, there is a need for self
actualization. A need to move beyond the pleasurable
state of homeostasis and to face the problem of extend
ing and developing personality, to further the release of
personal resources as yet untapped. According to the
speaker, this is not a new idea. Actually, the Hindus
taught it in claiming that most men have four desires:
pleasure, desire for success, duty to fulfill obligations,
and finally, a search for understanding.
"Faith in God gives him driving power to live his life
with zest and high purpose based on the strong convic
tion that God has created him for a purpose and is in
terested in helping him to fulfill that purpose.”
Contrasting higher education in Europe with that in
America, Dr. Haupert informed his audience that one
significant fact emerges: the high percentage of the
American young people who are earning all or part of
their college expenses. This percentage may be as high
as 75 percent.
"I hope this labored point is becoming clear. It is that
the achievement of a balanced steady state might not be
the goal you should strive for. The satisfaction of our
basic needs should only release us for what Cannon calls,
‘the priceless unessentials of life’. And it will be these
priceless unessentials which will bring us to the actualiza
tion of ourselves, and which will bring us, according to
our means, the achievement and creativity we desire.”
AMERICAN YOUTH IS SOUND
"This alone, along with other facts that may be cited,
points clearly in the direction of the soundness of Ameri
can youth. Furthermore, I have often observed that those
who voice doubts in American young people are not the
ones who are in close association with our young men
and young women.
TROUBLE IS CHRONIC
Referring to Laos, Cuba, Viet Nam, and Montgomery,
Alabama, Professor Riley said, “I do not wish to belittle
or minimize the tensions of our times. I tell you I am
deeply concerned about developments in the world about
me. I am worried about our racial problems and the
impact these might have on the emergent nations of
Africa. Savage, bestial, and unprovoked assaults by
teen-age gang members, which make it unsafe to walk
in many public parks make me anxious indeed . . . But
trouble is not spasmodic; trouble is chronic. Trouble
is not an unfair and capricious interruption in the normal
processes of life. Trouble is life.
“For some strange reason . . . many an American mother
and father seem to have told each other, ‘We do not
want our children to go through what we had to go
through’, not realizing that the difficult struggles of their
earlier years developed their backbone and their char
acter to a point of real strength. As a result of this type
of thinking, many young people have been deprived o
the kind of obstacles which create character and back
bone and strength to be a real contender in the contests
of life.
1 All) this is why I can now say that commencement is
not an end to your education; you are to be congratulated
tor your self-actualization to this point, for the very
v.-ord ‘commencement’ means a beginning.”
The Church, the various professions, education, bus:
ness and industry, government — all of them need t e
leadership represented by the kind of tough human beings
who were willing to sail the Atlantic to found new homes
in the Western World, or who had the courage to ac
the risks of the Oregon Trail. Almost everything ''°ror
living or dying for is the by-product of brave sou s
whom security could never be the primary factor.
(Photographs of the various Commencement activities will
STRONG FAITH IN GOD
the Commencement address. Dr, Haupert
an anecdote to illustrate that there probably has
civilization which has been ar; generous in
to p,. youth afJ j(J America today. "In fact,
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y/hich limit our ability to utilize avail■ ■■■■
ar- factor!) that lie within ourselves
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,MT ’hinking, our habits. It is about
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he found on pages 10 and 11.)
4
‘51
‘35
I
ANTHONY W. YODIS has been
promoted from the position of Senior
Research Chemical Engineer to
Technical Supervisor in charge of
Inorganic Laboratory Research at
the General Chemical Research
Laboratory, Allied Chemical Com
pany at Morristown, New Jersey.
Tony, his wife Florence, and son
Bill reside at 25 Fieldstone, Whippany, New Jersey.
‘40
REV. CHARLES R. STEINHAUER was ordained a Lutheran
minister in Philadelphia recently,
He has been assigned a pastor of
Hobbie Parish, consisting of St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church, Pond Hill;
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,
Wapwallopen; St. James Lutheran
Church, Hobbie, and Emmanuel
Lutheran Church, Dorrance. He
began his duties June 1.
‘45
DR. CHARLES NICHOLSON is a
resident physician in Dermatology
at the Graduate Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania. He re
ceived his medical degree from
Jefferson Medical College in 1959.
‘48
OSEA GALLETTA is employed as
a sales engineer for the General
Electric Company in Florissant,
Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Galletta
and their children reside at 2325
Palomino Lane, Florissant, Missouri.
MRS. ALPHONSO J. PASSERI
(Shirley Phillips) resides at 152
Reynolds Drive, Meridan, Connecti
cut with her husband and three
children. Shirley's husband is an
engineer for the Pratt Whitney di
vision of United Aircraft in Middle
town, Connecticut.
‘49
DR. DORIS BARTUSKA, her hus
band, and five daughters have re-
turned to Philadelphia where Doris
has resumed her duties at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsyl
vania as instructor in Endocrinology
and the Dean’s assistant.
REV. MICHAEL MOKRIS was
ordained on April 23 to the Holy
Priesthood of the Byzantine Rite of
the Catholic Church in Munhall,
Pennsylvania. The following Sun
day, Rev. Mokris celebrated his
first Mass in St. Nicholas Byzantine
Catholic Church, Swoyerville.
‘50
JOHN D. STARK, presently an
assistant professor of history at
Temple University, Philadelphia, re
ceived a PhD degree in history at
Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina.
While attending Duke, he was a
member of the faculty of the history
department and holder of the Ottis
Green Fellowship.
Mrs. Stark is the former MARI
ANNA TOMASSETTI, Class of
'51.
DR. KENNETH R. WIDDALL
has been appointed dean of adminis
trative affairs at West Chester State
College.
The new appointment, which be
came effective July 1, was approved
by the College Board of Trustees,
the State Department of Public In
struction, and Governor David L.
Lawrence. It is part of a reorganiza
tion program which is designed to
serve as a model for all 14 state
colleges and is one of four posts in
stituted to assist the presidents of
the colleges.
Dr. Widdall is presently manager
of operations at the Teachers’ Col
lege, Columbia University, a posi
tion he has held since February,
1959.
Dr. and Mrs. Widdall, the former
Margaret E. Anthony, also of the
Class of '50, and their three children
will reside in Roslyn section of West
Chester.
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;, Professor Riley touched
i^-homeostasis—which is
ance. Its principle means
and drink and maintain
body. “But what then?
The Moravian College president stated that we
victims of handicaps we have not learned to recoq 316
for what they are. He enumerated them as (1) the f
that too much has been given us and too much done fC
us, (2) that our standard of values is too materialisti°r
and (3) that we fail to realize that our greatest asset is"'’
strong, wholesome faith in God.
. has been able to satisfy
needs? Is he to sit about
cable state contemplating
"A sound faith in God does a inumber of things for a
human being that nothing else can do. It gives him
im the
clearest possible definition of the difference between
right and wrong. It gives him the strength and courage
to do what he knows is right.
there is a need for selfbeyond the pleasurable
> the problem of extendto further the release of
pped. According to the
i. Actually, the Hindus
men have four desires:
ity to fulfill obligations,
standing.
“Faith in God gives him driving power to live his life
with zest and high purpose based on the strong convic
tion that God has created him for a purpose and is in
terested in helping him to fulfill that purpose."
Contrasting higher education in Europe with that in
America, Dr. Haupert informed his audience that one
significant fact emerges: the high percentage of the
American young people who are earning all or part of
their college expenses. This percentage may be as high
as 75 percent.
icoming clear. It is that
steady state might not be
The satisfaction of our
is for what Cannon calls,
e’. And it will be these
bring us to the actualizaill bring us, according to
id creativity we desire."
AMERICAN YOUTH IS SOUND
"This alone, along with other facts that may be cited,
points clearly in the direction of the soundness of Ameri
can youth. Furthermore, I have often observed that those
who voice doubts in American young people are not the
ones who are in close association with our young men
and young women.
2HRONIC
Nam, and Montgomery,
"I do not wish to belittle
r times. I tell you I am
iments in the world about
racial problems and the
the emergent nations of
unprovoked assaults by
make it unsafe to walk
anxious indeed . . . But
ble is chronic. Trouble
nterruption in the normal
fe.
"For some strange reason . . . many an American mother
and father seem to have told each other, 'We do not
want our children to go through what we had to go
through', not realizing that the difficult struggles of their
earlier years developed their backbone and their char
acter to a point of real strength. As a result of this type
of thinking, many young people have been deprived o
the kind of obstacles which create character and back
bone and strength to be a real contender in the contests
jy that commencement is
iu are to be congratulated
this point, for the very
beginning.”
of life.
"The Church, the various professions, education, UW
ness and industry, government -— all of them nee t
leadership represented by the kind of tough human beings
who were willing to sail the Atlantic to found new om
in the Western World, or who had the courage to ac
the risks of the Oregon Trail. Almost everything Y°£or
living or dying for is the by-product of brave sou s
whom security could never be the primary factor.
(Photographs of the various Commencement activities will
[ IN GOD
t address. Dr. Haupert
that there probably has
has been as generous in
America today. "In fact,
ir ability to utilize avail
hat lie within ourselves
■ our habits. It is about
be found on pages 10 and 11J
4
WITH THE CLASSES . .
‘51
‘35
ANTHONY W. YODIS has been
promoted from the position of Senior
Research Chemical Engineer to
Technical Supervisor in charge of
Inorganic Laboratory Research at
the General Chemical Research
Laboratory, Allied Chemical Com
pany at Morristown, New Jersey.
Tony, his wife Florence, and son
Bill reside at 25 Fieldstone, Whippany. New Jersey.
‘40
REV. CHARLES R. STEINHAUER was ordained a Lutheran
minister in Philadelphia recently.
He has been assigned a pastor of
Hobbie Parish, consisting of St.
Mark's Lutheran Church, Pond Hill:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,
Wapwallopen; St. James Lutheran
Church, Hobbie, and Emmanuel
Lutheran Church, Dorrance. He
began his duties June 1.
‘45
DR. CHARLES NICHOLSON is a
resident physician in Dermatology
at the Graduate Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania. He re
ceived his medical degree from
Jefferson Medical College in 1959.
‘48
OSEA GALLETTA is employed as
a sales engineer for the General
Electric Company in Florissant,
Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Galletta
and their children reside at 2325
Palomino Lane, Florissant, Missouri.
MRS. ALPHONSO J. PASSERI
(Shirley Phillips) resides at 152
Reynolds Drive, Meridan, Connecti
cut with her husband and three
children. Shirley’s husband is an
engineer for the Pratt Whitney di
vision of United Aircraft in Middle
town, Connecticut.
‘49
DR. DORIS BARTUSKA, her hus
band, and five daughters have re-
turned to Philadelphia where Doris
has resumed her duties at the Wo
man's Medical College of Pennsyl
vania as instructor in Endocrinology
and the Dean’s assistant.
REV. MICHAEL MOKRIS was
ordained on April 23 to the Holy
Priesthood of the Byzantine Rite of
the Catholic Church in Munhall,
Pennsylvania. The following Sun
day, Rev. Mokris celebrated his
first Mass in St. Nicholas Byzantine
Catholic Church, Swoyerville.
‘50
JOHN D. STARK, presently an
assistant professor of history at
Temple University, Philadelphia, received a PhD degree in history at
Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina.
While attending Duke, he was a
member of the faculty of the history
department and holder of the Ottis
Green Fellowship.
Mrs. Stark is the former MARI
ANNA TOMASSETTI, Class of
'51.
DR. KENNETH R. WIDDALL
has been appointed dean of adminis
trative affairs at West Chester State
College.
The new appointment, which be
came effective July 1, was approved
by the College Board of Trustees,
the State Department of Public In
struction, and Governor David L.
Lawrence. It is part of a reorganiza
tion program which is designed to
serve as a model for all 14 state
colleges and is one of four posts in
stituted to assist the presidents of
the colleges.
Dr. Widdall is presently manager
of operations at the Teachers’ Col
lege, Columbia University, a posi
tion he has held since February,
1959.
Dr. and Mrs. Widdall, the former
Margaret E. Anthony, also of the
Class of '50, and their three children
will reside in Roslyn section of West
Chester,
5
REV. ARTHUR W. BLOOM be
gan his new assignment as pastor
of the Ossining Heights Methodist
Church on May 28. Rev. Bloom and
his family make their home in Os
sining Heights, New York.
While at Wilkes, Rev. Bloom was
elected to Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Colleges and
Universities.
‘52
The president of the "Williamstown,
New Jersey school board an
nounced the appointment of AL
BERT JACOBS, vice principal of
V/illiamstown High School, to the
post of principal.
The new principal began teaching
at Millville High School and moved
to Livingston High School where he
taught English. He began his work
at Williamstown in September 1960
as vice principal of the high school.
Albert and his wife, the former
MARILYN M. BROADT, Class of
'53, live at 916 Cornwall Terrace,
Whitman Square, Blackwood, New
Jersey.
LOUIS POLOMBO left June 18
from New York International Air
port on a trip around the world as a
technical representative for fabric
and finishes department of E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company.
His trip will include Japan, the
Philippines, and countries in the Far
East. He will return by way of
Europe in October. Louis is the
first man in duPont history to make
a complete trip around the world.
Louis makes his home in Wilming
ton, Delaware with his wife and
twins, James and Joann, now six
years old.
LEON J. DECKER, JR. received his
Master of Science degree in chem
istry from the University of Dela
ware on June 11. Leon, his wife,
the former MADELYN J. MALINOSKI, Class of ’55, and children,
reside at 642 Jennifer Street, Aber
deen, Maryland.
(Continued on page 8)
�will be inaugurated at the C
for an alumni-senior confere
(Continued from page 6)
have contributed $5,038.00. The balance has been raised
by friends of Wilkes here in the community.
Sincere and strong support of our College has been in
dicated by many of our alumni. Many others will un
doubtedly respond to this campaign during the month
It is our hope to enlist the suf
various fields to meet with the
two-hour session. The objec
to discuss with seniors, and v
some of the initial problems
counters as he takes his place i
or graduate school world. U
questions seniors will ask, an
perience of our alumni who
situations we hope to be of re;
Wilkes alumni. Additional in
will reach you shortly. Have
would enjoy hearing from yc
of July.
Your support of Wilkes, your participation in this alumni
campaign, is so very important. Friends of the College
are favorably impressed when it is obvious that we, the
alumni, the products of our College, are also behind the
efforts to strengthen and to further develop Wilkes
College.
If you have not yet participated in the '61 Alumni Cam
paign, won't you give some thought to this matter im
mediately, and let us hear from you soon.
The sustained interest and growing support by the alumni of Wilkes College
throughout this past year and particularly during the current alumni campaign
have been deeply gratifying and appreciated by our College.
Similarly this editorial is meant to recapitulate some of the activities of our 3,800
member alumni body and to project some of the dynamic plans which we are
developing for the next year.
ANNUAL APPEAL WILL PROBABLY
EXCEED $100,000 . .
A RECAP OF ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
HOMECOMING 1961
CAMPAIGN FACTS
Gordon E. Roberts, Executive Alumni Secretary
Last year some 450 alumni returned to Wilkes for the
13th Annual Homecoming festivities. The response to
this annual event has been so overwhelming that plans
for this year's Homecoming must, of necessity, include
larger facilities. These plans are near completion and soon
you will be brought up to date. Homecoming this year
is scheduled for October 20-21, so why not make plans
now or at least reserve these dates for a memorable
weekend at Wilkes.
Our current alumni campaign which will continue
throughout the month of July has been very encouraging.
There are, however, some important facets of this cam
am sure
sure.
paign which I would like to discuss with you. II am
you will appreciate a factual and direct discussion o
these problems.
As you know, the goal for our 1961 annual appeal is
$100,000. These funds are to be used as follows: scholar
ships to assist promising students ■— $70,000; and t e
further development of the graduate program in p YS1
and chemistry — $30,000.
At the present time $97,621.00 has been reached, We
:ks if
anticipate surpassing the goal in the next few wee
several things can be done.
Alumni
Of the $97,621.00 reached so far, 277 Wilkes
Alumni chapter meetings have been held in Wilmington,
Philadelphia, Allentown, and Wilkes-Barre. Newark,
Binghamton, New York City, Harrisburg, and Washing
ton, D. C. Chapters will be meeting in the near future.
Wilkes alumni are active! When you receive word of a
chapter meeting in your area, plan to attend. You will
be pleasantly surprised to see old friends, some of whom
you probably never realized lived in your chapter area.
Give it a try—you won’t be disappointed!
(Continued on P=?e 7)
6
PUBLIC RE]
Finally, always remember tha
its best public relations mediu
In a message to alumni, Cham
University of California put 1
distilled essence of the college
to be achieved ... it must be
If Wilkes is to win intellectual
advances, it must be through
through their belief in the mi.
As alumni our relation with
Direct contact with the world
tained through it. And throug
an intimate relationship with
the world which it is meant t
1961 MEMORIAL GIFT
I am sure you will note with interest and pride the recent
memorial gift of $1,329.00 to the College by our most
recent alumni, the Cass of 1961. These funds were desig
nated by this year’s senior class for equipping the training
rooms at the new athletic field. The training equipment
is mobile and can be used either at the gymnasium or
at the athletic park.
The 1961 class gift was a great boost to the current effort
among Wilkes alumni to help our Alma Mater during the
current annual campaign.
ALUMNI CONFERENCE
In March of 1962 a new program of interest to alumni
When the Colonels move into their new quarters at West
Side Artillery Park, former home of the Wilkes-Barre
Barons Baseball Club, they will find their new field
house completely equipped with modern training aids.
And they'll have the Class of '61 to thank for it. The
class made the official presentation just before Com
mencement with Pete Back doing the honors as chairman
of the committee. Others present included Dr. Farley,
Gil Davis, class president; Dean George Ralston, and
John Reese, Director of Athletics.
4
The equipment includes a diathermy machine, three
rubbing tables, two heat lamps, two cyclo-massages,
knee and arm correctors and two cabinets.
The photograph of the prese
John Reese, Dean Ralston. D
The new athletic facilities include tennis courts, an
archery range, parking area, all of which are located
on property recently acquired from the Glen Alden Coal
Company. The former Wilkes-Barre Barons baseball
diamond has been converted into a combination diamond,
gridiron and area for soccer and field hockey (ALUM
NUS, April).
Len Yoblonski has captured a bird’s-eye view of the
athletic plant, above. In the background is the Susque
hanna River and Market Street Bridge.
In the fore
ground you see (1) the field house, also identified in a
separate photograph; (2) parking area, (3) Glen Alden
pump house. (4) archery range, (5) tennis courts, (6)
area for field hockey, (7) baseball diamond, football
gridiron and area used for soccer.
7
�s
will be inaugurated at the College, This program calls
for an alumni-senior conference.
It is our hope to enlist the support of Wilkes alumni from
various fields to meet with the senior class for an informal
two-hour session. The objective of this program will be
to discuss with seniors, and we might add, future alumni,
some of the initial problems that a college graduate en
counters as he takes his place in the business, professional,
or graduate school world. Undoubtedly, there are many
questions seniors will ask, and through the practical ex
perience of our alumni who have encountered similar
situations we hope to be of real assistance to these future
Wilkes alumni. Additional information about these plans
will reach you shortly. Have you any suggestions? We
would enjoy hearing from you!
(Continued from page 6)
have contributed $5,038.00. The balance has been raised
by friends of V/ilkes here in the community.
Sincere and strong support of our College has been in
dicated by many of our alumni. Many others will un
doubtedly respond to this campaign during the month
of July.
Your support of Wilkes, your participation in this alumni
campaign, is so very important. Friends of the College
are favorably impressed when it is obvious that we, the
alumni, the products of our College, are also behind the
efforts to strengthen and to further develop Wilkes
College.
If you have not yet participated in the '61 Alumni Cam
paign, won’t you give some thought to this matter im
mediately, and let us hear from you soon.
id interest and growing support by the alumni of Wilkes College
t this past year and particularly during the current alumni campaign
been deeply gratifying and appreciated by our College.
s editorial is meant to recapitulate some of the activities of our 3,800
lumni body and to project some of the dynamic plans which we are
oping for the next year.
APPEAL WILL PROBABLY
5100,000 . .
OF ALUMNI ACTIVITIES
□MING 1961
ALUMNI CONFERENCE
In March of 1962 a new program of interest to alumni
CAMPAIGN FACTS
Gordon E. Roberts, Executive Alumni Secretary
Our current alumni campaign which will continue
--- r encouraging.
throughout the month of July has been very
facets
There are, however, some important L------ of this cam.1 am sure
paign which I would like to discuss with yoa*
"and direct discussion of
you will appreciate a factual a..- -----these problems.
’ —-^al
As you know, the goal for our 1961 annual aPP^
follows: scholar$100,000. These funds are to be used as
and lbe
~
ships to assist promising students — 570,
>70, 000:■
, \jcs
mi returned to Wilkes for the
g festivities. The response to
tn so overwhelming that plans
ing must, of necessity, include
as are near completion and soon
> date. Homecoming this year
20-21, so why not make plans
these dates for a memorable
have been held in Wilmington,
and Wilkes-Barre. Newark,
-ity, Harrisburg, and Washingbe meeting in the near future.
When you receive word of a
area, plan to attend. You will
see old friends, some of whom
led lived in your chapter area.
; be disappointed!
__ j____ i_____
nroQram
in p r
further development
ofnroJtiaf?
the graduate
program
and chemistry ■— $30,000.
•
-'''ached* We
At the present time $97,621.00 has been rea week5 'f
the next few
anticipate surpassing the goal in i.— —
several things can be done.
Alumni
Of the $97,621.00 reached so
far, 277 Wilk«
(Continued on P~3e
6
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Finally, always remember that Wilkes looks upon us as
its best public relations medium, for we are its product.
In a message to alumni, Chancellor Samuel Gould of the
University of California put it this way: "You are the
distilled essence of the college ... If anything lasting is
to be achieved ... it must be reflected in you.”
If Wilkes is to win intellectual victories or make cultural
advances, it must be through the lives of its alumni and
through their belief in the mission of the College.
As alumni our relation with our College is reciprocal.
Direct contact with the world of learning can be main
tained through it. And through us, V/ilkes can maintain
an intimate relationship with the world beyond college,
the world which it is meant to serve and to help build.
1961 MEMORIAL GIFT
I am sure you will note with interest and pride the recent
memorial gift of $1,329.00 to the College by our most
recent alumni, the Cass of 1961. These funds were desig
nated by this year’s senior class for equipping the training
rooms at the new athletic field. The training equipment
is mobile and can be used either at the gymnasium or
at the athletic park.
The 1961 class gift was a great boost to the current effort
among Wilkes alumni to help our Alma Mater during the
current annual campaign.
7)
When the Colonels move into their new quarters at V/est
Side Artillery Park, former home of the Wilkes-Barre
Barons Baseball Club, they will find their new field
house completely equipped with modern training aids.
And they’ll have the Class of '61 to thank for it. The
class made the official presentation just before Com
mencement with Pete Back doing the honors as chairman
of the committee. Others present included Dr. Farley,
Gil Davis, class president; Dean George Ralston, and
John Reese, Director of Athletics.
The equipment includes a diathermy machine, three
rubbing tables, two heat lamps, two cyclo-massages,
knee and arm correctors and two cabinets.
The photograph of the presentation shows Gil Davis.
John Reese, Dean Ralston, Dr. Farley and Pete Back.
The new athletic facilities include tennis courts, an
archery range, parking area, all of which are located
on property recently acquired from the Glen Alden Coal
Company. The former Wilkes-Barre Barons baseball
diamond has been converted into a combination diamond,
gridiron and area for soccer and field hockey (ALUM
NUS, April).
Len Yoblonski has captured a bird's-eye view of the
athletic plant, above. In the background is the Susque
hanna River and Market Street Bridge. In the fore
ground you see (1) the field house, also identified in a
separate photograph; (2) parking area, (3) Glen Alden
pump house, (4) archery range, (5) tennis courts, (6)'
area for field hockey, (7) baseball diamond, football
gridiron and area used for soccer.
7
�(Continued from page 5)
C. FRANK EASTMAN, 33 East
Poplar Street, West Nanticoke, who
is a representative of Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company in
Wilkes-Barre, is listed in the 1961
Roster of the Million Dollar Round
Table of the National Association
of Life Underwriters. Every mem
ber of the 1961 Round Table must
have sold at least a million dollars
of life insurance in 1960 or must
have attained Life membership by
having sold a million yearly for
three years in succession. Fewer
than one percent of the world's life
insurance agents are Round Table
members.
‘53
FRED WILLIAMS, Camp Hill,
Pennsylvania, a science teacher at
the Wormleysburg and Rossmoyne
elementary schools, has been grant
ed a $1,000 National Science Foun
dation scholarship to study chem
istry and physics for eight weeks at
Northern Illinois University.
REV. EARL E. KOHL, minister of
the Tabernacle Baptist Church,
Wilkes-Barre, was elected president
of the Wyoming Valley Council of
Churches at the annual meeting re
cently. He has served in his present
pastorate for seven years.
‘54
ALFRED M. CAMP, faculty mem
ber of the Dallas, Pennsylvania
Schools and principal of the Eve
ning Extension School, won his
second Master's degree. His first
degree, in Administration, was ob
tained from Bucknell University,
which certified him as a guidance
counselor. This second degree was
received in psychology from the
University of Scranton.
Alfred is bank director at Dallas
Junior High School, organist and
choir director at Prince of Peace
Church, and teacher of general
music.
He holds certificates in a number of
fields, including music, administra
tion, secondary and supervising
principal, guidance, and social
studies.
MRS. GEORGE M. GILL, JR.
(Elizabeth McQuilkin) resides at
9-B Thomas Drive, Monroe Park,
Wilmington, Delaware with her
husband and two children, Betsy
and Christopher.
LEONARD J. MATHER is em
ployed as a psychologist for the
Dade County Schools, Florida, and
also as a psychological consultant,
Granada Psychiatric Clinic. Leon
ard, his wife Ann, and daughter
Adrienne Simone make their home
at 19540 N. W. 37 Avenue, OpaLocka, Florida.
REV. JAMES A. MOSS recently
received his Sacred Master of The
ology degree at commencement ex
ercises at Union Theological Sem
inary, New York, and has accepted
an assignment at the Pennfield Bap
tist Church, Sairport, New York.
‘55
DAVID LEE HOATS is now work
ing on a government psychological
grant at Bordentown, New Jersey.
ROBERT L. SABATINO, 46 Oak
Street, Wilkes-Barre has been ap
pointed to teach English and social
studies in the Wilkes-Barre City
Schools.
‘56
JAMES F. FERRIS of 117 West
Vaughn Street, Kingston, Pennsyl
vania recevied his Master of Science
degree in education from Bucknell
University on June 4.
THOMAS R. PRICE is in his sec
ond semester studying for a Master
of Arts degree in English at Penn
State University.
EDWARD R. DUBIN is a reading
consultant for the Diagnostic Divi
sion, The Reading Clinic in the De
partment of Psychology at Temple
University, Philadelphia. He is also
a reading consultant in Levittown,
Pennsylvania.
ALLAN B. ROSENBERG is the
Employment Manager of Bam
berger’s Department Store in Pa-
8
ramus, New Jersey. Allan and Mrs
Rosenberg, the former SHERRv
WASSERSTROM, Class of -53
reside at 81 Lindsley Place. g ’
Orange, New Jersey.
'57
JEROME STEIN received his M D
degree on June 13 from State Uni
versity of New York College of
Medicine, New York City. “ Dr.
Stein will be serving his internship
at The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.
One of 30 U. S. Army dental in
ternships has been awarded to DR.
TERRY L. SMITH, who recently
received his Doctor of Dental Surg
ery degree from the School of Den
tistry, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Smith will be stationed at Womach Army Hospital in Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
JOHANNA THERESA BROSKE,
316 North Main Street, WilkesBarre received a Master of Science
degree in educational psychology
from the University of Scranton on
June 4.
LES WEINER is now a third year
medical student at the University of
Cincinnati, Ohio.
J. GEORGE SILES has been ac
cepted as one of 60 participants in
the French Foreign Language Ele
mentary Schools Program this sum
mer from June 22 to August 11. At
the completion of the course, George
will receive 7 graduate credits to
wards his doctoral degree at Rutgers
University. He has also received
a government stipend under the
NDEA for the summer language
program which is being conducted
at Delaware University.
George is a member of the faculty
of the Farmingdale Long Island
Public Schools where he teaches
sixth grade French.
Mr. and Mrs. Siles (ARLINE
THOMAS, Class of ’53) make their
home at 413 Griscom Drive, Woo bury, New Jersey with their daugh
(Continued from page 8)
Figuring in a history-making phase
of the 137th commencement of Jeffer
son Medical College was ARTHUR
N. MEYER. Jefferson this year
became the first American medical
college to reach the total of 20,000
in M.D. degrees granted and Arthur
received that historic degree.
‘58
LEONARD J. MULCAHY was
elected the 24th president of the
Greater Wilkes-Barre Junior Cham
ber of Commerce at the organiza
tions board meeting recently. Len
was honored by the chapter in April,
1960 as the "Outstanding Jaycee of
the Year.” He is an accountant with
the firm of Charles S. Rockey and
Company, certified public account
ants in Wilkes-Barre.
Len is presently serving as treasurer
of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation.
WILLIAM A. ZDANCEWICZ of
Edwardsville was designated "Out
standing Jaycee of the Year” at the
April meeting of the Wilkes-Barre
Jaycees. The award was given in
recognition of his contribution to the
numerous activities conducted by
the Greater Wilkes-Barre Jaycees
through last year, serving in the
position of director of public rela
tions and state director.
Bill served as publicity director of
Wilkes College prior to accepting
a similar position with the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com
merce.
Also, at a recent meeting he was
elected secretary of the Jaycees,
serving with Len Mulcahy.
GEORGE R. RICHARDS, JR. re
ceived the Degree of Bachelor of
Sacred Theology from the Divinty
School of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia. While at the
school, George served as secretary
treasurer of the student organiza
tion.
‘59
ter Keera.
(Continued on page 9)
SAMUEL M. DAVENPORT,
teacher of English at the Lehman
building of Lake-Lehman, Pennsyl
vania Joint Schools will take part
this summer in the Whittier College
Study Tour of fifty concentrated
days of visitation of many lands,
starting from Idlewild Airport June
21 to August 9, when the Tour of
ficially ends in Switzerland.
The goal is to become better inform
ed on social, economic, and political
situations in the various countries;
to see first hand the forces of the
East and the West, and to ascertain
conflicts of ideologies.
Meetings
with local people will be stressed,
through the media of formal and in
formal discussions, hikes, social oc
casions, and just plain talk and liv
ing together.
WARREN W. SCHMID, a teach
er at H. Wilson Thorpe Junior High,
in Richmond, Virginia, received
his Masters Degree in administra
tion from the College of William
and Mary in June.
DAVID E. WASSERSTROM, who
will be entering his senior year at
Dickinson School of Law in the fall,
has been informed by the dean that
he is the recipient of the Edward N.
Polisher Federal Estate and Gift
Taxation Award, given for the high
est grade in the course in Federal
estate and gift taxation. He also re
ceived the American Jurisprudence
Prize for excellence in taxation, pre
sented by the Publishers of the An
notated Reports System.
He is presently serving his law prac
tice clerkship with his preceptor,
Attorney Charles L. Casper.
EUGENE C. CONSER of 530
Schuyler Avenue, Kingston, receiv
ed the Bachelor of Science degree
in electrical engineering from Penn
sylvania State University at the
commencement program at the Uni
versity.
Gene has accepted a position with
Westinghouse Corporation at Pitts
burgh.
ROBERT B. PAYNE is teaching
English in the Wilkes-Barre City
School District.
MARION J. CHRISTOPHER is a
graduate student in Bacteriology at
Syracuse University. She is present-
9
ly doing research for 1
thesis.
CARL F. JURIS is an i
Analyst at Olmstead Air
in Middletown, Pennsyh
and his wife, the forme
BATCHELOR, Class ol
at 220 Bridge Street, Ne
land, Pennsylvania.
‘60
BERNARD J. JOHNS o
received his Master of .
from Bucknell Universi
WILLIAM D. PETERS
instructor in the Union,
County Regional High I
trict, and is presently tea
Jonathan Dayton Regi
School in Springfield, L
GEORGE GACHA wa
head coach in the Toms
Jersey High School, fo
resignation of the prese
ROGER A. CEASE
awarded a National Sci
dation stipend for advam
physics. He will attend
session of Rutgers Unix
June 26 to August 11.
course has been set up b^
cal Science Study Corr
addition to the work
physics the course will
basic concepts of rel;
quantum theory and the
of these concepts to ato:
clear physics.
Upon completion of th
hours credit on the 9r£
will be awarded.
ALAN BALCOMB ha
lected to teach in the new
school in South Bruns
Jersey. Mr. and Mr
(BARBARA B. THOP
of ’57) make their home
Lane, Red Cedar Sec
town, Pennsylvania.
DARIO D. PETRINI,
Street, Wilkes-Barre w;
to teach English and si
in the Wilkes-Barre C
(Continued o
�13 East
ke, who
necticut
pany in
he 1961
■ Round
ociation
y mem>le must
dollars
jr must
ship by
irly for
Fewer
■Id's life
1 Table
ip Hill,
acher at
ssmoyne
n grant:e Founy chemweeks at
inister of
Church,
president
ouncil of
:eting reis present
MRS. GEORGE M. GILL, JR.
(Elizabeth McQuilkin) resides at
9-B Thomas Drive, Monroe Park,
Wilmington. Delaware with her
husband and two children, Betsy
and Christopher.
LEONARD J. MATHER is em
ployed as a psychologist for the
Dade County Schools, Florida, and
also as a psychological consultant,
Granada Psychiatric Clinic. Leon
ard, his wife Ann, and daughter
Adrienne Simone make their home
at 19540 N. W. 37 Avenue, OpaLocka, Florida.
REV. JAMES A. MOSS recently
received his Sacred Master of Theology degree at commencement ex
ercises at Union Theological Sem
inary, New York, and has accepted
an assignment at the Pennfield Bap
tist Church, Sairport, New York.
‘55
DAVID LEE HOATS is now work
ing on a government psychological
grant at Bordentown, New Jersey.
ROBERT L. SABATINO, 46 Oak
Street, Wilkes-Barre has been ap
pointed to teach English and social
studies in the Wilkes-Barre City
Schools.
‘56
Ity memasylvania
the Evewon his
His first
was obniversity,
guidance
gree was
from the
it Dallas
nist and
af Peace
general
umber of
Iministrapervising
1 social
JAMES F. FERRIS of 117 West
Vaughn Street, Kingston, Pennsyl
vania recevied his Master of Science
degree in education from Bucknell
University on June 4.
THOMAS R. PRICE is in his second semester studying for a Master
of Arts degree in English at Penn
State University.
EDWARD R. DUBIN is a reading
consultant for the Diagnostic Divi
sion, The Reading Clinic in the De
partment of Psychology at Temple
University, Philadelphia. He is also
a reading consultant in Levittown,
Pennsylvania.
ALLAN B. ROSENBERG is the
Employment Manager of Bam
berger's Department Store in Pa-
8
ramus, New Jersey. Allan and Mrs
Rosenberg, the former C---SHERRV
WASSERSTROM, Class o7
’58.
reside at 81 Lindsley Place, East
Orange, New Jersey.
‘57
JEROME STEIN received his M.D.
degree on June 13 from State Uni
versity of New York College of
Medicine, New York City. “ Dr.
Stein will be serving his internship
at The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.
One of 30 U. S. Army dental in
ternships has been awarded to DR.
TERRY L. SMITH, who recently
received his Doctor of Dental Surg
ery degree from the School of Den
tistry, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Smith will be stationed at Womach Army Hospital in Fort Bragg,
North Carolina.
JOHANNA THERESA BROSKE,
316 North Main Street, WilkesBarre received a Master of Science
degree in educational psychology
from the University of Scranton on
June 4.
LES WEINER is now a third year
medical student at the University of
Cincinnati, Ohio.
J. GEORGE SILES has been ac
cepted as one of 60 participants in
the French Foreign Language Ele
mentary Schools Program this sum
mer from June 22 to August li At
the completion of the course, George
will receive 7 graduate credits to
wards his doctoral degree at Rutgers
University. He has also received
a government stipend under the
NDEA for the summer language
program which is being conducted
at Delaware University.
George is a member of the facultv
of the Farmingdale Long Islan
Public Schools where he teaches
sixth grade French.
Mr. and Mrs. Siles (ARLINE
THOMAS. Class of ’53) make their
home at 413 Griscom Drive, Wood
bury. New Jersey with their daug
ter Keera.
(Continued on page 9)
(Continued from page 8)
Figuring in a history-making phase
of the 137th commencement of Jeffer
son Medical College was ARTHUR
N. MEYER. Jefferson this year
became the first American medical
college to reach the total of 20,000
in M.D. degrees granted and Arthur
received that historic degree.
‘58
LEONARD J. MULCAHY was
elected the 24th president of the
Greater Wilkes-Barre Junior Cham
ber of Commerce at the organiza
tions board meeting recently. Len
was honored by the chapter in April,
1960 as the “Outstanding Jaycee of
the Year.” He is an accountant with
the firm of Charles S. Rockey and
Company, certified public account
ants in Wilkes-Barre.
Len is presently serving as treasurer
of the Wilkes College Alumni Asso
ciation.
WILLIAM A. ZDANCEWICZ of
Edwardsville was designated "Out
standing Jaycee of the Year” at the
April meeting of the Wilkes-Barre
Jaycees. The award was given in
recognition of his contribution to the
numerous activities conducted by
the Greater Wilkes-Barre Jaycees
through last year, serving in the
position of director of public rela
tions and state director.
Bill served as publicity director of
Wilkes College prior to accepting
a similar position with the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Com
merce.
Also, at a recent meeting he was
elected secretary of the Jaycees,
serving with Len Mulcahy.
GEORGE R. RICHARDS, JR. re
ceived the Degree of Bachelor of
Sacred Theology from the Divinty
School of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, Philadelphia. While at the
school, George served as secretary
treasurer of the student organiza
tion.
‘59
SAMUEL M. DAVENPORT,
teacher of English at the Lehman
building of Lake-Lehman, Pennsyl
vania Joint Schools will take part
this summer in the Whittier College
Study Tour of fifty concentrated
days of visitation of many lands,
starting from Idlewild Airport June
21 to August 9, when the Tour of
ficially ends in Switzerland.
The goal is to become better inform
ed on social, economic, and political
situations in the various countries;
to see first hand the forces of the
East and the West, and to ascertain
conflicts of ideologies.
Meetings
with local people will be stressed,
through the media of formal and in
formal discussions, hikes, social oc
casions, and just plain talk and liv
ing together.
WARREN W. SCHMID, a teach
er at H. Wilson Thorpe Junior High,
in Richmond, Virginia, received
his Masters Degree in administra
tion from the College of William
and Mary in June.
DAVID E. WASSERSTROM, who
will be entering his senior year at
Dickinson School of Law in the fall,
has been informed by the dean that
he is the recipient of the Edward N.
Polisher Federal Estate and Gift
Taxation Award, given for the high
est grade in the course in Federal
estate and gift taxation. He also re
ceived the American Jurisprudence
Prize for excellence in taxation, pre
sented by the Publishers of the An
notated Reports System.
He is presently serving his law prac
tice clerkship with his preceptor.
Attorney Charles L. Casper.
EUGENE C. CONSER of 530
Schuyler Avenue, Kingston, receiv
ed the Bachelor of Science degree
in electrical engineering from Penn
sylvania State University at the
commencement program at the Uni
versity.
Gene has accepted a position with
Westinghouse Corporation at Pitts
burgh.
ROBERT B. PAYNE is teaching
English in the Wilkes-Barre City
School District.
MARION J. CHRISTOPHER is a
graduate student in Bacteriology at
Syracuse University. She is present-
9
ly doing research for her masters
thesis.
CARL F. JURIS is an Auditor and
Analyst at Olmstead Air Force Base
in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Carl
and his wife, the former NANCY
BATCHELOR, Class of '56, reside
at 220 Bridge Street, New Cumber
land, Pennsylvania.
‘60
BERNARD J. JOHNS of Nanticoke
received his Master of Arts degree
from Bucknell University in June.
WILLIAM D. PETERS is a vocal
instructor in the Union, New Jersey
County Regional High School Dis
trict, and is presently teaching in the
Jonathan Dayton Regional High
School in Springfield, New Jersey.
GEORGE GACHA was appointed
head coach in the Toms River, New
Jersey High School, following the
resignation of the present coach.
ROGER A. CEASE has been
awarded a National Science Foun
dation stipend for advanced study of
physics. He will attend the summer
session of Rutgers University from
June 26 to August 11. The physics
course has been set up by the Physi
cal Science Study Committee. In
addition to the work of PSSC
physics the course will cover the
basic concepts of relativity and
quantum theory and the application
of these concepts to atomic and nu
clear physics.
Upon completioni of the course, 7
hours credit on <the graduate level
will be awarded.
ALAN BALCOMB has been se
lected to teach in the new elementary
school in South Brunswick, New
Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Balcomb
(BARBARA B. THOMAS, Class
of ’57) make their home at 27 Ruby
Lane, Red Cedar Section, Levit
town, Pennsylvania.
DARIO D. PETRINI, 71 Linden
Street, Wilkes-Barre was appointed
to teach English and social studies
in the Wilkes-Barre City Schools.
(Continued on page 12)
�THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL
COMMENCEMENT actually moved
into focus Wednesday, May 30, with
the class outing at Rummage Grove
Roller skating, a variety of sports
lunch and the proverbial amber for
those who desired it acted as a magnet
to draw a large turnout. The follow
ing evening the Class of '61 filled the
Crystal Ballroom of Hotel Sterling for
dinner and dancing followed to the
music of Herbie Green. Friday was
filled with Commencement rehearsal
Following the tradition established
some years ago, the class posed for
the official photograph on the lawn to
the rear of Kirby Hall. (Incidentally,
these pictures may be obtained bv writ
ing Millie Gittins in care of The Book
store).
On Saturday, Dr. and Mrs. Farley en-
4
Left side, reading down: Senior luncheon on Chas
permanent class officers; the class is served a
luncheon; inside the Farley barn at Beaumont: the
lead off for Commencement. Extreme left, at the
dance in Hotel Sterling. Extreme right, the A
staff dedicates the publication to Mrs. Farley.
Above, reading down; Bill Davis and Bill Ra
honor students; families and friends gather on
lawn for the Baccalaureate reception: the grade
Commencement exercises.
11
�THE FOURTEENTH A N N U A T
COMMENCEMENT actually moved
into focus Wednesday, May 30, with
the class outing at Rummage Grove
Roller skating, a variety of sports
lunch and the proverbial amber for
those who desired it acted as a magnet
to draw a large turnout. The follow
ing evening the Class of '61 filled the
Crystal Ballroom of Hotel Sterling for
dinner and dancing followed to the
music of Herbie Green. Friday was
was
filled with Commencement rehearsal.
Following the tradition established
some years ago, the class posed for
the official photograph on the lawn to
the rear of Kirby Hall. (Incidentally,
these pictures may be obtained by writ
ing Millie Gittins in care of The Book
store).
On Saturday, Dr. and Mrs. Farley en
tertained the Class at their farm in
Beaumont.
Inclement weather was
predicted and, unlike most weather pred;ctions. it held true to form. It rained!
The downpour, however, didn't damp
en the fun, inasmuch as the group fled
to the comfortable barn.
Sunday. Professor Bob Riley delivered
a stimulating Baccalaureate and, of
course, Monday officially marked
Commencement with Dr. Haupert on
the podium. Both addresses are report
ed in this issue of the ALUMNUS.
/
Left side, reading down: Senior luncheon on Chase lawn;
permanent class officers; the class is served a buffet
luncheon; inside the Farley barn at Beaumont: the faculty
lead off for Commencement. Extreme left, at the Senior
dance in Hotel Sterling. Extreme right, the Amnicola
staff dedicates the publication to Mrs. Farley.
Above, reading down; Bill Davis and Bill Raub, top
honor students; families and friends gather on Chase
lawn for the Baccalaureate reception: the graduates at
Commencement exercises.
11
�(Continued izozn page 12)
(Continued izozn page 9)
‘60
MARY J. HOMAN is a personnel
assistant and head of employee ac
tivities for the California Federal
Savings and Loan Association in
Los Angeles, California.
LOUIS E. MARCUS is manager
of the Ladies Ready - to - Wear
Shoppe at Berg’s in Scranton.
‘61
WALTER PLACEK has accepted
a teaching position at Whitney
Point Central High School, Whit
ney Point, New York, and will as
sume his duties in September.
RAYMOND J. PIRINO has been
accepted at Temple University
School of Dentistry. He will begin
his studies in the Fall.
He did undergraduate work on bi
ology research under Dr. Charles
Reif through a grant from the Na
tional Science Foundation and will
continue that work during this sum
mer.
PAUL BANKOVICH has been
named a swimming instructor for the
YWCA summer program. He holds
a Red Cross lifesaving and instruc
tor’s certificate. In the fall, he will
join the faculty of Triton Regional
High School, Runnemede, New
Jersey.
PETER BACK is employed by
Douglas Aircraft, Missile and Space
Division, Santa Monica, California.
Pete and his wife, the former MOL
LIE BEARD, Class of '56, now live
in Santa Monica.
GILBERT DAVIS has accepted a
teaching position at the Union Coun
ty Regional High School, Spring
field, New Jersey.
WILLIAM MORRIS is in the Fi
nancial Training Program with the
Link Division of General Precision,
Incorporated, Binghamton, New
York.
GIL HO BAI is a quality control
mathematician with Boeing Aircraft
Company, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
MARVIN ANTINNES will teach
English at Meyers High School,
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
MARIE PRUSAKOWSKI is em
ployed by the Philco Corporation,
Philadelphia.
HENRY GREENER is in the sales
promotion department of Colgate
Palmolive Corp., Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
WILLIAM VAN FOSSEN is an
accountant with Haskin & Sells,
New York City.
NANCY CARROLL will teach in
the Bridgewater,
New Jersey
schools.
DAVID LEAR has accepted a posi
tion with Merck Chemical Division,
Rahway, New Jersey.
JAMES SKESAVAGE is an ac
countant with Haskin S Sells, New
York, New York.
JOHN RINKO is employed in the
General Accounting Office, Wash
ington, D. C.
WALTER FOLEK is an accountant
with Personal Products, Johnson &
Johnson, Milltown, New Jersey.
JOSEPH HEWITT is a member
of the faculty of the Madison Town
ship School, Old Bridge, New Jersey.
RALPH HUTCHINSON is em
ployed in the Internal Revenue Of
fice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
MAURICE JAMES has accepted an
accounting position with Peat, Mar
wick, & Mitchell, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania.
DARYL McKENZIE will be work
ing in the Trust Accounting Depart
ment of the Hartford National Bank,
Hartford, Connecticut.
PHILIP AMICO is presently em
ployed by Hughes Corporation, Lu
zerne, Pennsylvania.
JOHN LEHET is an accountant
with Arthur Anderson and Com
pany, New York.
RAYMOND LITMAN has accept
ed a position with Sears and Roe
buck, Company in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania.
JAMES NEDDOFF will be teach
ing in September in the Union Coun
ty High School, Berkley Heights,
New Jersey.
12
This Bright New World
‘42
a son to Mr. and Mrs. William L.
Mattern, 132 Charles Street, WilkesBarre, on April 30. Mrs. Mattern is
the former Jean Ann Grabowski,
Class of '45.
‘47
a daughter to Attorney and Mrs.
Elmer Harris, 564 Meadowland
Avenue, Kingston, on June 12.
‘49
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Maylock. Mrs. Maylock is the for
mer Sophie A. Glowacki, Class of
’45.
‘51
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Merton
Jones, 191 Carverton Road, Trucks
ville, on June 14.
‘54
a son, Christopher, to Dr. and Mrs.
George M. Gill, Jr. (Elizabeth McQuilkin), of Wilmington, Delaware.
‘56
‘57
a daughter, Patricia Anne, to Mr.
and Mrs. Les Weiner of Cincinnati,
Ohio, on April 15.
‘58
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Falkowitz, 354 South Franklin
Street, Wilkes-Barre, on May 3.
‘59
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Amico,
149J4 Tompkins Street, Pittston, on
April 8.
Down The Aisle
‘49
RONALD E. SAVAGE was marri
ed recently to Miss Ruth D. Daniels
in Wilkes-Barre. The couple will
reside at Fairview Park, Mountaintop.
‘54
a son, Carl Gregory, to Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Juris, 220 Bridge Street,
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Juris is the former Nancy
Batchelor, Class of '56.
RALPH E. BOLINSKI and Dorothy
Yonick were married recently in
Plymouth. The couple is residing
in East Orange, New Jersey, where
Ralph is an accountant.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Morris, 30 Walnut Street, Forty
Fort, on April 29. Mrs. Morris is
the former Patsy Lee Reese, Class
of '57. Bob is Administrative Assistant to the President here at
Wilkes.
RALPH H. WHAITE, JR. was
married on April 22 to Miss Rita
Branton in Victoria, Texas. Ralph
is district manager of Guardian Fi
nance Corporation at Victoria,
where the couple also resides.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Simms, 46 West Hoyt Street, Kings
ton, on April 4.
a son, John, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Mulhall, Tanglewood Lane Apart
ments, King of Prussia, Pennsyl
vania. John is the permanent class
president of the Class of '60.
‘61
a daughter, Lysbeth Mary, to Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Olexy, Jr. of Plym
outh, on May 7. Mrs. Olexy is
the former Jean Shofranko, Class of
'60.
a son, Christopher Scott, to Mr. and
Mrs. Matthew Quay of 45 Church
Street, Flemington, New Jersey, on
April 20,
(Continued on page 13)
CHRISTINE ANNE
of West Pittston w;
May 20 to John B. Ki:
husband is associated
American Oil Compai
LYNNE H. BOYLE
on June 17 in the Dorr
odist Church, Kingst
S. Austin. Lynne is
kindergarten teacher
pled Children's Associ
Health Center.
‘61
PAUL J. TRACY and Sandra Sue
Allen of Philadelphia were married
on March 18 in Havre de Grace,
Maryland. Paul and Sandra make
their home at 515 Bourbon Street,
Havre de Grace, Maryland.
NANCY JANE JONES became the
bride of Richard H. Morgan, Jr. on
May 6 in Shavertown. Nancy is
employed by the American Insur
ance Company in Wilkes-Barre.
SANDRA UNGAR v.
June 11 to Benjamin
has accepted a posit!
tary teacher in the De
sey public schools.
RUTH YOUNGER was married on
June 17 to William R. Davidson in
Woodbury, New Jersey. Ruth is a
member of the faculty of Woodbury
High School, Woodbury, New
Jersey.
ALFRED J. PELLO,
M. Montante were m;
ton on June 17. Free
a position with Price
Certified Public Acc
in their New York C
IN
a son, Phillip Mark, to Mr. and Mrs.
Allan B. Rosenberg, 81 Lindsley
Place, East Orange, New Jersey, on
April 25. Mrs. Rosenberg is the
former Sherry Wasserstrom, Class
of '58.
FRANK T. STECK ■
cently to Miss Note
in Wilkes-Barre. F
ecutive trainee with f
buck, Washington,
couple will reside
Road, N. W., Washi
JOSEPH P. HIZNA
J. Opsitos were marri
in St. John’s Church,
is a management trail
Grant in Hazleton, an
secretary to the Dire*
opment here at Will
Marie now make tl
West Northampton S
Barre.
‘58
‘60
‘60
MEMORIAM
He was born in Wales and lived in Mount Carmel and
Clarks Summit before moving to Forty Fort 43 years ago.
He was a graduate of Mount Carmel school and Buckncll
University where he received an engineering degree; and
from Rochester University where he received a ministerial
degree.
and a supply minister at Stella Presbyterian Church.
Fort, from 1920 to 1922.
He taught at Clark Summit schools and Forty For
School. From 1946 to 1960 he was on the faculty of ’
where he taught engineering.
He was a member of Lackawanna Presbytery and
Fort Fire Company. He taught the Weisley Bible C
Forty Fort Presbyterian Church many years. He w
of the founders of the Forty Fort State Bank.
He was a civil mining engineer 20 years and served as a
minister at Wesleyville Presbyterian Church for three years
Surviving are his wife, former Catherine M. Athet
Clarks Summit; son, Atherton, and four grandchildre
REV. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, 81, of 60 Oak Street, Forty
Fort, Pennsylvania, who taught engineering at Wilkes, died
at his home on June 15 after a brief illness.
13
�(Continued from page 12)
WILLIAM MORRIS is in the Fi
nancial Training Program with the
Link Division of General Precision,
Incorporated,
Binghamton,
New
personnel
ployee acia Federal
iciation in
s manager
to - Wear
nton.
York.
GIL HO BAI is a quality control
mathematician with Boeing Aircraft
Company, Philadelphia, Pennsyl
vania.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
MARIE PRUSAKOWSKI is em
ployed by the Philco Corporation,
Philadelphia.
HENRY GREENER is in the sales
promotion department of Colgate
Palmolive Corp., Philadelphia, Penn
WILLIAM VAN FOSSEN is an
accountant with Haskin & Sells,
New York City.
MARVIN ANTINNES will teach
English at Meyers High School,
'57
a daughter, Patricia Anne, to Mr.
and Mrs. Les Weiner of Cincinnati,
Ohio, on April 15.
‘58
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Falkowitz,
354
South
Franklin
Street, Wilkes-Barre, on May 3.
‘59
sylvania.
s accepted
Whitney
>ol, Whitid will asnber.
has been
University
will begin
ork on bir. Charles
m the Nan and will
J this sum-
has been
:tor for the
He holds
id instrucill, he will
i Regional
de. New
NANCY CARROLL will teach in
the
Bridgewater,
New
Jersey
This Bright New World
schools.
‘42
DAVID LEAR has accepted a posi
tion with Merck Chemical Division,
Rahway, New Jersey.
JAMES SKESAVAGE is an ac
countant with Haskin & Sells, New
York, New York.
JOHN RINKO is employed in the
General Accounting Office, Wash
ington, D. C.
WALTER FOLEK is an accountant
with Personal Products, Johnson &
Johnson, Milltown, New Jersey.
JOSEPH HEWITT is a member
of the faculty of the Madison Town
ship School, Old Bridge, New Jersey.
RALPH HUTCHINSON is em
ployed in the Internal Revenue Of
fice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Joyed by
and Space
California,
ler MOL, now live
accounting position with Peat, Mar
wick, & Mitchell, Pittsburgh, Penn
sylvania.
ccepted a
ion CounI, Spring-
DARYL McKENZIE will be work
ing in the Trust Accounting Depart
ment of the Hartford National Bank,
Hartford, Connecticut.
ently em
ation, Lu-
is acceptand Roe
arrisburg,
MAURICE JAMES has accepted an
JOHN LEHET is an accountant
with Arthur Anderson and Com
pany, New York.
JAMES NEDDOFF will be teach
ing in September in the Union Coun
ty High School. Berkley Heights,
New Jersey.
12
a son to Mr. and Mrs. William L.
Mattern, 132 Charles Street, WilkesBarre, on April 30. Mrs. Mattern is
the former Jean Ann Grabowski,
Class of '45.
‘47
a daughter to Attorney and Mrs.
Elmer Harris, 564 Meadowland
Avenue, Kingston, on June 12.
Down The Aisle
‘49
RONALD E. SAVAGE was marri
ed recently to Miss Ruth D. Daniels
in Wilkes-Barre. The couple will
reside at Fairview Park, Mountaintop.
‘54
a son, Carl Gregory, to Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Juris, 220 Bridge Street,
New Cumberland,
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Juris is the former Nancy
Batchelor, Class of '56.
RALPH E. BOLINSKI and Dorothy
Yonick were married recently in
Plymouth. The couple is residing
in East Orange, New Jersey, where
Ralph is an accountant.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Morris, 30 Walnut Street, Forty
Fort, on April 29. Mrs. Morris is
the former Patsy Lee Reese, Class
of '57. Bob is Administrative As
sistant to the President here at
Wilkes.
RALPH H. WHAITE, JR. was
married on April 22 to Miss Rita
Branton in Victoria, Texas. Ralph
is district manager of Guardian Fi
nance Corporation at Victoria,
where the couple also resides.
‘58
‘60
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Simms, 46 West Hoyt Street, Kings
ton, on April 4.
‘49
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Maylock. Mrs. Maylock is the for
mer Sophie A. Glowacki, Class of
a son, John, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Mulhall, Tanglewood Lane Apart
ments, King of Prussia, Pennsyl
vania. John is the permanent class
president of the Class of '60.
'45.
‘51
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Merton
Jones, 191 Carverton Road, Trucks
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Amico,
149J/j Tompkins Street, Pittston, on
April 8.
‘61
ville, on June 14.
a daughter, Lysbeth Mary, to Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Olexy, Jr. of Plym
outh, on May 7. Mrs. Olexy is
the former Jean Shofranko, Class of
'60.
‘54
a son, Christopher, to Dr. and Mrs.
George M. Gill, Jr. (Elizabeth Me-
PAUL J. TRACY and Sandra Sue
Allen of Philadelphia were married
on March 18 in Havre de Grace,
Maryland. Paul and Sandra make
their home at 515 Bourbon Street,
Havre de Grace, Maryland.
‘60
FRANK T. STECK was married re
cently to Miss Noreen A. Merrick
in Wilkes-Barre. Frank is an ex
ecutive trainee with Sears and Roe
buck, Washington, D. C.
The
couple will reside at 1933 Park
Road, N. W., Washington 10, D.C.
CHRISTINE ANNE BRUNACCI
of West Pittston was married on
May 20 to John B. Kizis. Christine’s
husband is associated with the Pan
American Oil Company, New York.
LYNNE H. BOYLE was married
on June 17 in the Dorranceton Meth
odist Church, Kingston to Charles
S. Austin. Lynne is employed as a
kindergarten teacher for the Crip
pled Children's Association at Kirby
Health Center.
‘61
JOSEPH P. HIZNAY and Marie
J. Opsitos were married on June 10
in St. John's Church, Luzerne. Joe
is a management trainee for W\ T.
Grant in Hazleton, and Marie is the
secretary to the Director of Devel
opment here at Wilkes.
Joe and
Marie now make their home on
West Northampton Street, Wilkes-
Barre.
NANCY JANE JONES became the
bride of Richard H. Morgan, Jr. on
May 6 in Shavertown. Nancy is
employed by the American Insur
ance Company in Wilkes-Barre.
SANDRA UNGAR was married on
June 11 to Benjamin Levy. Sandra
has accepted a position as elemen
tary teacher in the Dover, New Jer
sey public schools.
RUTH YOUNGER was married on
June 17 to William R. Davidson in
Woodbury, New Jersey. Ruth is a
member of the faculty of Woodbury
High School,
Woodbury, New
ALFRED J. PELLO, JR. and Marie
M. Montante were married in Pitts
ton on June 17. Fred has accepted
a position with Price Waterhouse,
Certified Public Accounting Firm,
in their New York City office.
J ersey.
Quilkin), of Wilmington, Delaware.
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IN
‘56
a son, Phillip Mark, to Mr. and Mrs.
Allan B. Rosenberg, 81 Lindsley
MEMORIAM
and a supply minister at Stella Presbyterian Church, Forty
Fort, from 1920 to 1922.
REV. JOHN J. WILLIAMS, 81, of 60 Oak Street. Forty
Fort, Pennsylvania, who taught engineering at Wilkes, died
at his home on June 15 after a brief illness.
Place, East Orange, New Jersey, on
April 25.
Mrs. Rosenberg is the
former Sherry Wasserstrom, Class
He taught at Clark Summit schools and Forty Fort High
School. From 1946 to 1960 he was on the faculty of Wilkes
where he taught engineering.
He was born in Wales and lived in Mount Carmel and
Clarks Summit before moving to Forty Fort 43 years ago.
He was a graduate of Mount Carmel school and Bucknell
University where he received an engineering degree; and
from Rochester University where he received a ministerial
degree.
of '58.
a son, Christopher Scott, to Mr. and
Mrs. Matthew Quay of 45 Church
He was a member of Lackawanna Presbytery and Forty
Fort Fire Company. He taught the Weisley Bible Class at
Forty Fort Presbyterian Church many years. He was one
of the founders of the Forty Fort State Bank.
Surviving are his wife, former Catherine M. Atherton of
Clarks Summit: son. Atherton, and four grandchildren.
He was a civil mining engineer 20 years and served as a
minister at Wesleyville Presbyterian Church for three years
Street, Flemington, New Jersey, on
April 20.
2Z
(Continued on page 13)
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�has acted in the capacity of sales manager for several
Lstrial enterprises operating on a national level, and
at one time was associated with Battle VanTyne and
Fowler, attorneys at law, New York City.
EDGERTON TO ENGLAND
Prior to joining the Wilkes Faculty, Dr. Edgerton was
assistant professor at Norwich University. At the time
he came to Wilkes-Barre, he was chairman of the English
department in the Vermont university.
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By
time ALUMNUS reaches vou. Dr. William
Edgerton.
Department of English. will be
Edgerton. Chairman.
C.
well into research in England.
This year — and we : ipecifv the time, because research
and Dr. Edgerton are close friends — the English head
plans to complete his book\ on the life of Nicholas Udall.
thZ author of’Roister Doister", the first English comedy.
Before coining to Wilkes College, Dr. Frank J. J. Davies
was dean of Eastern Military Academy. He was grad
uated from Yale University in 1929 with a BA degree
subsequently earning both MA and PhD degrees.
In addition to making Udall a little less vague and con
troversial than he has appeared in the past. Dr. Edgerton
hopes to be able to explain the actual circumstances of
time and place surrounding the composition and first
production of “Roister Doister".
Coming to Wilkes College from Bucknell University,
where he graduated with a BS degree in 1919, Prof. Hall
assumed chairmanship of the physics department. He
also received an MS degree at Bucknell and an AM
degree at Columbia University. He was an instructor
at both Bucknell and Columbia.
Other publications by Dr. Edgerton include: "The
Apostasy of Nicholas Udall." Notes and Queries. (Lon
don), CXCV, 1950; "Shakespeare and the Needle’s
Eye’," Modern Language Notes. LXVI. 1951: "Nicholas
Udall and the Indexes of Prohibited Books." Journal of
English and Germania Philology. LV. 1956: "The Cal
endar Year in Sixteenth-Century Printing." Journal of
English and Germanic Phiiciogy. —X. I960.
Departmental changes embrace Processor Vcris 3. Hall,
chairman, physics depamment; Dr. Frank ’. J. Davies,
chairman. English depammenr Dr. Daniel Dew.-iler. and
Dr. William L. Edgerton.
1933, will
chairman
direct the
beginning
Dr. Davies will continue with the English department
with Dr. Edgerton as new chairman. Dr. Davies joined
Wilkes faculty in July, 1947.
Dr. Detwiler, a native of Woodbury, resides with his
wife, the former Ann Meckes of Marlboro, New York,
and their three children in Dallas. A graduate of Wood
bury High School and Mercersburg Academy, the new
physics department head received his AB degree at
Swarthmore College and MS and PhD at Yale Uni
versity.
MR. HARVEY J. BRESLER
Dr. Farley has announced the appointment of Harvey JBresler to serve as Director of College Development. Mr.
Bresler assumed his duties April 15.
Dr. Detwiler has written eight papers for scientific pub-
The new director of College Development is a native of
New York and received degrees of AB and LLB at
Columbia University. He continued graduate work in
economics at Columbia University with New York Uni
versity serving as a graduate study base for courses in
marketing.
ications and is preparing four others. He is listed in
American Men of Science and Who's Who in the East.
Dr. Edgerton was born in Chestertown, New York and
resides with Mrs. Edgerton and their son at 150 South
',reet' Graduating from Elkin-. Park, (Pa.) High
School, he received his AB degree at University of Penn-
in X\'\im9'
ln *951, his PhD.
Mr. Bresler is married to the former Blix Ruskay of New
York City. They have three children.
Ten honorary awards went to eight members of the
1961 graduating class with William John Davis inching
out his nearest competitor to win the distinction of being
the outstanding graduate of the year. William Fine
Raub and Judith Warnick Gavenas took the two Dean’s
Raub
also made Phi Beta Kappa and Mrs. GaCups. 1...
>
venas was presented with the Chemistry Award.
Bill is the son of William J. and the late Mrs. Davis,
Forty Fort.
Judy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Dr. Farley has announced two senior members of "W ilkes
College faculty will continue them nrttressnrial responsi
bilities in their respective deparunents in lien of retire
ment. They will, however, relincuish their administrative
duties as chairmen cf their respective departments.
Professor Hall, who mined Wilkes faemty in
serve with Dr. Detwiler who assures net only
ship of the physics department, cut who will
Graduate Division of me C.-'Leze z.irh classes
in September. 196;.
of World War II, Mr. Bresler served overseas
A veteran
economics officer in military government.
as
He is the author of many articles and book reviews which
have appeared, and still appear, in various magazines
trade papers, The New York Times, New York Herald
Tribune and Commonweal.
Mr. Bresler came to Wilkes College directly from W. B.
Donner Advertising Agency. New York, where he was
Vice President and Director of Marketing. Previously he
hiS MA de9rce there aud
1.4
William Warnick: Bill Raub is the son of b
George Raub, Alden Station.
Other recipients of honorary citations includ
Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Pr
the award in the Humanities and Soci
Christopher Herbert Loesch, son of Mr
Christopher Loesch, Honesdale—the Dobs<
Accounting; Robert Sallavanti, son of M
Armando Sallavanti, Old Forge—the Medal
ing; Sebastian Thomas Amico, son of M
Sebastian Amico, Pittston—the award of
vania Institute of Certified Public Accoi
Arlene Rose Gallia, daughter of Anthony C
ton—the Biological Research Award.
On the lawn to the rear of Kirby Hall, ju
traditional procession to Commencement,
winners took time out for photographs. B
right; Bill Davis, Arlene Gallia, Christoj
Sarah Ellen Price, Judy Gavenas and Bill I
tian Amico and Bob Sallavanti were not 01
the photograph was taken.
�TON TO ENGLAND
Prior to joining the Wilkes Faculty, Dr. Edgerton was
assistant professor at Norwich University. At the time
he came to Wilkes-Barre, he was chairman of the English
department in the Vermont university.
IMNUS reaches you, Dr. William
in. Department of English, will be
i England.
we specify the time, because research
are close friends — the English head
is book on the life of Nicholas Udall,
ter Doister”, the first English comedy.
Before coming to Wilkes College, Dr. Frank J. J. Davies
was dean of Eastern Military Academy. He was grad
uated from Yale University in 1929 with a BA degree,
subsequently earning both MA and PhD degrees.
ng Udall a little less vague and conas appeared in the past. Dr. Edgerton
> explain the actual circumstances of
mounding the composition and first
ister Doister”.
Coming to Wilkes College from Bucknell University,
where he graduated with a BS degree in 1919, Prof. Hall
assumed chairmanship of the physics department. He
also received an MS degree at Bucknell and an AM
degree at Columbia University, He was an instructor
at both Bucknell and Columbia.
by Dr. Edgerton include: "The
as Udall," Notes and Queries, (Lon0; "Shakespeare and the 'Needle's
guage Notes. LXVI. 1951: "Nicholas
xes of Prohibited Books,” Journal of
nia Philology, LV, 1956; "The Cal:eenth-Century Printing.” Journal of
nic Philology, LIX, 1960.
Other recipients of honorary citations include Sara Ellen
Price, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Price, Alden—
the award in the Humanities and Social Sciences;
Christopher Herbert Loesch, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Christopher Loesch, Honesdale—the Dobson Medal in
Accounting; Robert Sallavanti, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Armando Sallavanti, Old Forge.—the Medal in Engineer
ing; Sebastian Thomas Amico, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Sebastian Amico, Pittston.—the award of the Pennsyl
vania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and
Arlene Rose Gallia, daughter of Anthony Gallia, Kings
ton—the Biological Research Award.
A veteran of World War II. Mr. Bresler served overseas
as economics officer in military government.
He is the author of many articles and book reviews which
have appeared, and still appear, in various magazines,
trade papers, The New York Times. New York Herald
Tribune and Commonweal.
Mr. Bresler is married to the former Blix Ruskay of New
York City. They have three children.
Ten honorary awards went to eight members of the
1961 graduating class with William John Davis inching
out his nearest competitor to win the distinction of being
the outstanding graduate of the year. William Fine
Raub and Judith Warnick Gavenas took the two Dean's
Cups. Raub also made Phi Beta Kappa and Mrs. Ga
venas was presented with the Chemistry Award.
On the lawn to the rear of Kirby Hall, just before the
traditional procession to Commencement, the award
winners took time out for photographs. Below, left to
right: Bill Davis, Arlene Gallia, Christopher Loesch,
Sarah Ellen Price. Judy Gavenas and Bill Raub. Sebas
tian Amico and Bob Sallavanti were not on hand when
the photograph was taken.
Bill is the son of William J. and the late Mrs. Davis,
Judy is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Forty Fort.
unced two senior members of Wilkes
continue their professorial responsiiective departments in lieu of retirewever, relinquish their administrative
of their respective departments.
f
es embrace Professor Voris B. Hall,
lepartment; Dr. Frank J. J. Davies,
epartment; Dr. Daniel Detwiler, and
jetton.
joined Wilkes faculty in
iler who assumes not only
department, but who will
f the College with classes
William Warnick; Bill Raub is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Raub, Alden Station.
has acted in the capacity of sales manager for several
industrial enterprises operating on a national level, and
at one time was associated with Battle, VanTyne and
Fowler, attorneys at law, New York City.
1933. will
chairman
direct the
beginning
A'
tinue with the English department
s new chairman. Dr. Davies joined
ily, 1947.
ve of Woodbury, resides with his
i Meckes of Marlboro, New York,
en in Dallas. A graduate of Woodid Mercersburg Academy, the new
head received his AB degree at
and MS and PhD at Yale Uni-
MR. HARVEY J. BRESLER
4
Dr. Farley has announced the appointment of Harvey J.
Bresler to serve as Director of College Development. Mr.
Bresler assumed his duties April 15.
tten eight papers for scientific pub
ring four others. He is listed in
ence and Who's Who in the East.
The new director of College Development is a native of
Nev/ Fork and received degrees of AB and LLB at
Columbia University. He continued graduate work in
economics at Columbia University with New York Uni
versity serving as a graduate study base for courses in
marketing.
rn in Chestertown, New York and
gerton and their son at 150 South
ting from Elkins Park, (Pa.J High
I AB degree at University of Pennearned his MA degree there and
Mr. Bresler came to Wilkes College directly from W. B.
Donner Advertising Agency, New York, where he was
/ice President and Director of Marketing. Previously he
14
15
�DR. STANKO AND NADA VUJICA REPORT
ON SEVEN MONTH VISIT TO PAKISTAN
Fresh from and refreshed by ten months of traveling on the highways and
by-ways of the world, Dr. and Mrs. Stanko Vujica returned to the campus in
time for Summer Session. Mrs. Vujica is Chief Librarian; her husband, the
chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. They returned from
Pakistan, India.
In Lahore, West Pakistan, Dr. Vujica was attached to
Punjab University. Here he began his research in the
Department of Religous Studies. He also lectured at
various other colleges to graduate students.
The Vujicas left Wilkes-Barre August 12, 1960, under
sponsorship of a Fulbright Scholarship for research. They
flew by jet to Portugal where they visited some of the
Mediterranean countries, then continued to India where
research work occupied seven months.
In January, 1961, Pakistan President, Ayub Khan, opened
the Paskistani Philosophical Congress and Dr. Vujica
was one of the principal speakers. He had been ap
pointed a delegate of the United States and greeted the
Congress accordingly. Many countries, including Rus
sia, France, Germany and India, were represented, and
the Wilkes College faculty member found himself in
volved in a cold war, philosophical battle with the Soviet
delegate. The American ambassador in Karachi con
gratulated him on the way he defended our democratic
way of life.
Throughout India, Dr. Vujica appeared as guest lecturer
at the University of Punjab and the University of Dacca.
Both American and Pakistan journals have published his
articles; and there are more to come.
In the Vujica's Wilkes-Barre home, the head of the De
partment of Philosophy and Religion, told ALUMNUS
it was his interest in man's religions that drew him to
Pakistan, for here, in the heart of Asia where all re
ligions originated, was a fertile field for his search.
With India the cradle of religion, Hinduism presented
itself to the world travelers when they visited the modern
Birla Temple in Delhi. They witnessed too the burning
ghats on the riverbank of the Ganges in Benares, the
holy city; and spent many days visiting many of the
1,500 temples of Bhubaneswar which are dedicated to
fertility and love.
MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES VISITED
From Portugal the couple moved into Spain, Italy and
Greece before continuing to the Near East. Turkey,
Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, which are predominantly
Muslim countries, were part of their itinerary. Here,
Nasserism appeared to be popular among Arab students
with whom the Wilkes educator held long discussions
concerning political and religious problems.
In Nepal and in northern India, Dr. Vujica saw Buddhism
at work, a religion which has all but disappeared in India,
yet is popular among Tibetan refugees. Here, Dr.
Vujica was granted an interview with the China Lama,
a representative of the renowned Dalai-Lama, and earned
friendship with Muslims, Hindus, Parsis and Sikhs.
In Lebanon, Mrs. Vujica "fell in love with” the beautiful
campus of the American University at Beiruth. The
university library, built recently, made a deep impression
upon her as she browsed through the book racks.
Much to their regret, the couple was unable to cross
over to Israel due to the vagaries of the Middle East
situation. So, on to Pakistan!
RETURN VIA PACIFIC
The Vujica s return trip by the way of the Pacific routed
them through the colorful and fascinating countries of
Southeast Asia. They arrived in Burma just as the threeday festival of the New Year was in full swing. The
elaborate Buddhist temples of Rangoon and Bangkok
left a lasting impression on the American visitors; also
the recently discovered ruins of Angkor Wat in Cam
bodia.
In sheer size and grandeur, there is nothing
like it in the world”, they both agreed.
Pakistan is an Islamic state of some 90 million people.
It was separated from India after World War II. Islam,
of course, is no new religion to the Vujicas as both were
born in Bosnia, a province of Yogoslavia where onefourth of the population is Muslim. As they walked the
dusty streets, the call to prayer chanted five times a day
by the muezzin from the minarets recalled vividly their
childhood days in Sarajevo—'as did the open markets
and veiled women.
(Continued on page 17)
16
(Continued from page 16)
in the religious ceremonies.
In Hong Kong as Dr. Vujica continued searching for
contact with Confucian and Thaoist scholars, Mrs. Vujica
joined the American tourists on a shopping spree.
From Japan the travelers hopped
lands, the link between Asia and 7.
raphy and culture. Here they wei
aloha welcome and enjoyed the I
these enchanting Pacific Islands,
home again!
During two delightful weeks in Japan, the Vujicas cen
tered their attention on the various Japanese religious
centers of Kyoto and Nara and their inumerable Shinto
and Buddhist shrines. One highlight of the Vujica sab
batical occurred in Tokyo when the couple were guests
of the highest Shinto priests. They were actively in
troduced to Shinto religious lore when they participated
When they touched the mainland <
faculty members purchased a car a
mainder of the trip on American h
Vujicas covered almost six thousai
KANARR GRANT MAKES POSSIBLE RE!
ON TUMOR REGRESSION IN MICE
Nauss, an air conditioner for main
at a level at which the mice will rem
lizers for instrument and equipmen
power supply unit which will deli1
current. Dr. Daniel Detwiler was <
ters concerning the electrical equipr
chases were made.
Throughout summer months, Stark Science Hall is the
scene of a biophysical study of tumor regression induced
in mice by an electrical current. The research, initiated
in December, 1960, is being conducted by Dr. Francis
J. Michelini, Chairman, Department of Biology, assisted
by student investigators Marshall E, Brooks, Bernard
H. Cohen and Thomas M. Saba. The research is made
possible under a grant by Mr. George Kanarr, Presi
dent, Kanarr Corporation, Kingston.
The transplanting technique was d
Nauss in March. This was done
tumor growing in a host mouse. T
purchased from the Jackson Meme
Bar Harbor, Maine. Subsequent
that mice of a particular strain hav<
order to get optimal and consisten
heterogeneous strain of laboratory
the preliminary experiments in whi
technique was perfected, but it wa
growth after the transplant was nol
stant rates in these unknown mice,
have inbred strains of homogeneous
the experiments to be conducted tl
special mice and the tumor hosts ar
actual treatment should begin short!
Before the study began, considerable library research
in the areas of tumor growth and transplanting had been
accomplished. Various items of equipment have been
acquired or constructed, two major techniques of tumor
transplantation have been demonstrated by Dr. Thomas
J. Nauss and successfully performed by the researchers,
and trial runs of the electrical apparatus have been made.
Among the equipment constructed is housing for addi
tional mice, various restraining devices, panels for mount
ing restrainers and the current control panel which per
mits simultaneous treatment of 27 mice, and electrodes
and accessory electrical apparatus necessary for the ex
periment.
The current control panel used at Johns Hopkins by Dr.
Humphrey was leased to V/ilkes College for a period
of one year for use in this series of experiments. This
acilitates accurate voltage and amperage control during
treatment. A sample restrainer was also sent to us by
the Johns Hopkins laboratory, but after careful study
new restrainers were designed which have proved far
more effective in controlling the movements of the mice
an in permitting more precise electrode contact with
t e tumor area. Twenty-seven of these new restrainers
were constructed by Plastic Arts Co., Wilkes-Barre, for
these experiments.
The transplanting involves sacrifici
with diethylether and then shaving tl
the skin around the tumor is incise
removed and placed in a solution of
acceptor mouse is shaved at the ba
tumor is sliced and then loaded in
hollow needle. The trocar was ins
area and pushed up into the region <
trocar inserts the tumor tissue subci
not injure any vital areas of the mot
implant of the tumor is intentionallv
site of the injection as possible. Th
Additional equipment acquired and being utilized in
chides: a variety of surgical instruments donated by Dr.
(Cont
17
�ANKO AND NADA VUJICA REPORT
VEN MONTH VISIT TO PAKISTAN
” | on the highways and
i from and refreshed by ten months of traveling
by-ways of the world, Dr. and Mrs. Stanko Vujica returned to the campus in
for Summer Session. Mrs. Vujica is Chief Librarian; her husband, the
drman of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. They returned from
(Continued from page 16)
in the religious ceremonies.
In Hong Kong as Dr. Vujica continued searching for
contact with Confucian and Thaoist scholars, Mrs. Vujica
joined the American tourists on a shopping spree.
From Japan the travelers hopped to the Hawaiian Is
lands, the link between Asia and America in both geog
raphy and culture. Here they were accorded a typical
aloha welcome and enjoyed the relaxed hospitality of
these enchanting Pacific Islands. Actually, they were
home again!
During two delightful weeks in Japan, the Vujicas cen
tered their attention on the various Japanese religious
centers of Kyoto and Nara and their inumerable Shinto
and Buddhist shrines. One highlight of the Vujica sab
batical occurred in Tokyo when the couple were guests
of the highest Shinto priests. They were actively in
troduced to Shinto religious lore when they participated
W’hen they touched the mainland at San Francisco, the
faculty members purchased a car and continued the re
mainder of the trip on American highways. In all, the
Vujicas covered almost six thousand miles.
Pakistan, India.
Wilkes-Barre August 12, 1960, under
?ulbright Scholarship for research. They
irtugal where they visited some of the
untries, then continued to India where
cupied seven months.
, Dr. Vujica appeared as guest lecturer
of Punjab and the University of Dacca,
id Pakistan journals have published his
: are more to come.
/ilkes-Barre home, the head of the De>sophy and Religion, told ALUMNUS
>t in man’s religions that drew him to
e, in the heart of Asia where all re, was a fertile field for his search.
In Lahore, West Pakistan, Dr. Vujica was attached to
Punjab University. Here he began his research in the
Department of Religous Studies. He also lectured at
various other colleges to graduate students.
KANARR GRANT MAKES POSSIBLE RESEARCH
ON TUMOR REGRESSION IN MICE
In January, 1961, Pakistan President, Ayub Khan, opened
the Paskistani Philosophical Congress and Dr. Vujica
was one of the principal speakers. He had been ap
pointed a delegate of the United States and greeted the
Congress accordingly. Many countries, including Rus
sia, France, Germany and India, were represented, and
the Wilkes College faculty member found himself in
volved in a cold war, philosophical battle with the Soviet
delegate. The American ambassador in Karachi con
gratulated him on the way he defended our democratic
way of life.
Throughout summer months. Stark Science Hall is the
scene of a biophysical study of tumor regression induced
in mice by an electrical current. The research, initiated
in December, 1960, is being conducted by Dr. Francis
J. Michelini, Chairman, Department of Biology, assisted
by student investigators Marshall E. Brooks, Bernard
H. Cohen and Thomas M. Saba. The research is made
possible under a grant by Mr. George Kanarr, Presi
dent, Kanarr Corporation, Kingston.
With India the cradle of religion, Hinduism presented
itself to the world travelers when they visited the modern
Birla Temple in Delhi. They witnessed too the burning
ghats on the riverbank of the Ganges in Benares, the
holy city; and spent many days visiting many of the
1,500 temples of Bhubaneswar which are dedicated to
fertility and love.
VNEAN COUNTRIES VISITED
le couple moved into Spain, Italy and
mtinuing to the Near East. Turkey,
id Lebanon, which are predominantly
, were part of their itinerary. Here,
ed to be popular among Arab students
vVilkes educator held long discussions
:al and religious problems.
In Nepal and in northern India, Dr. Vujica saw Buddhism
at work, a religion which has all but disappeared in India,
yet is popular among Tibetan refugees. Here, Dr.
Vujica was granted an interview with the China Lama,
a representative of the renowned Dalai-Lama, and earned
friendship with Muslims, Hindus, Parsis and Sikhs.
Vujica "fell in love with" the beautiful
American University at Beiruth. The
built recently, made a deep impression
browsed through the book racks.
:gret, the couple was unable to cross
e to the vagaries of the Middle East
to Pakistan!
RETURN VIA PACIFIC
The Vujica’s return trip by the way of the Pacific routed
them through the colorful and fascinating countries of
Southeast Asia. They arrived in Burma just as the threeday festival of the New Year was in full swing. The
elaborate Buddhist temples of Rangoon and Bangkok
left a lasting impression on the American visitors; also
the recently discovered ruins of Angkor Wat in Cam
bodia.
In sheer size and grandeur, there is nothing
like it in the world", they both agreed.
lamic state of some 90 million people,
rom India after World War II. Islam,
:w religion to the Vujicas as both were
i province of Yogoslavia where onedation is Muslim. As they walked the
call to prayer chanted five times a day
■om the minarets recalled vividly their
i Sarajevo—as did the open markets
(Continued on page 17)
16
Nauss, an air conditioner for maintaining temperatures
at a level at which the mice will remain active, two steri
lizers for instrument and equipment sterilization, and a
power supply unit which will deliver low power D.C.
current. Dr. Daniel Detwiler was consulted on all mat
ters concerning the electrical equipment before any pur
chases were made.
The transplanting technique was demonstrated by Dr.
Nauss in March. This was done using sarcoma 180
tumor growing in a host mouse. The tumor mice were
purchased from the Jackson Memorial Laboratories in
Bar Harbor, Maine. Subsequent experiments showed
that mice of a particular strain have to be purchased in
order to get optimal and consistent tumor growth. A
heterogeneous strain of laboratory mouse was used in
the preliminary experiments in which the transplanting
technique was perfected, but it was found that tumor
growth after the transplant was not maintained at con
stant rates in these unknown mice. It is necessary to
have inbred strains of homogeneous genetic makeup for
the experiments to be conducted this summer. These
special mice and the tumor hosts are now on order and
actual treatment should begin shortly.
Before the study began, considerable library research
in the areas of tumor growth and transplanting had been
accomplished. Various items of equipment have been
acquired or constructed, two major techniques of tumor
transplantation have been demonstrated by Dr. Thomas
J. Nauss and successfully performed by the researchers,
and trial runs of the electrical apparatus have been made.
Among the equipment constructed is housing for addi
tional mice, various restraining devices, panels for mount
ing restrainers and the current control panel which per
mits simultaneous treatment of 27 mice, and electrodes
and accessory electrical apparatus necessary for the ex
periment.
The current control panel used at Johns Hopkins by Dr.
Humphrey was leased to Wilkes College for a period
of one year for use in this series of experiments. This
facilitates accurate voltage and amperage control during
treatment. A sample restrainer was also sent to us by
the Johns Hopkins laboratory, but after careful study
new restrainers were designed which have proved far
more effective in controlling the movements of the mice
and in permitting more precise electrode contact with
the tumor area. Twenty-seven of these new restrainers
were constructed by Plastic Arts Co., Wilkes-Barre, for
these experiments.
The transplanting involves sacrificing the host animal
with diethylether and then shaving the tumor area. Then
the skin around the tumor is incised, and the tumor is
removed and placed in a solution of normal saline. The
acceptor mouse is shaved at the base of the tail. The
tumor is sliced and then loaded into a trocar, a long
hollow needle. The trocar was inserted in the shaved
area and pushed up into the region of the scapula. This
trocar inserts the tumor tissue subcutaneously and does
not injure any vital areas of the mouse. The site of the
implant of the tumor is intentionally kept as far from the
site of the injection as possible. This is to minimize the
Additional equipment acquired and being utilized in
eludes: a variety of surgical instruments donated by Dr.
(Continued on page 20)
17
�CAMPUS PERISCOPE (Continued from page 2)
T heory to
much to expect,
is the ;o.-'<.-. ; • •
April found Wilkes Symphonic Band entertaining at
Temple University in conjunction with an exchange pro
gram established with that institution. This marks the
first such musical exchange between the two institutions.
■
.
■
V
As the Class of
■i.
■
•
College a
during the four .ee— he
History to date piece;
being the greatest
form of the Cc'.tei..
football ar.d retCr.o.
On the Fourth Floor of Stark Hall, Radio Station
K3NOM keeps in touch with many other colleges on the
eastern seaboard. Contact is also made with "ham”
stations throughout the United States. Here. Kenneth
Krupinski and Bill Shukis are in conversation with.Nova
Scotia.
Cue n’ Curtain’s busy schedule reached its height in May
when it presented the "Duchess of Malfi”, an Elizabethan
tragedy, and the newly-formed Theatre Alumni Associa
tion presented its first production "Recollections in Three
Acts” in which former Cue 'n' Curtain members played
excerpts from college productions of undergraduate days.
If you were to ask anyone on the campus if "K3NO M"
meant anything to them, the chances are, you'd draw a
blank. Yet. the Wilkes College radio station, located
on the fourth floor of Stark Hall, answering to these call
letters, has been in operation since May of 1959. This
is when it was founded, with subsequent licensing by
the Federal Communications Commission in January of
1960.
"Travel in Style” was the title of this years campus
fashion show. T.D.R. and the Lettermen's Club com
bined forces to demonstrate what the best dressed college
students should wear.
Two Wilkes coeds have been selected as official
Mademoiselle campus representatives. Misses Maryann
Wilson and Nancy Tinkelpaugh have made appearances
in the Boston Store and travelled to New York with
the store buyers as representatives of the well-known
fashion magazine.
The Association of Women Students welcomed Mrs.
John Doane, Dean of V/omen, back on campus with a
tea held in McClintock Hall.
Amidst an Island of Paradise setting, Martha Menegus
was selected from eleven senior coeds to be crowned
Cinderella 1961. "Marty" is one of the few female
students to graduate with a major in accounting.
For the second year in succession Marvin Antinnes has
copped the title of "Athlete of the Year.” Marv is also
the first Colonel athlete to gain national recognition;—-in
March 1960 he entered and won the 177 class in the small
college NAIA competition.
Since then, members of the Wilkes Radio Club have
been in contact with “ham" stations in Nova Scotia,
Florida. Colorado, Texas. Oklahoma, the New England
states. Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin.
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and others too numer
ous to mention. Anyway, it gives you an idea of
K 3 N O M’s range.
The station is also in constant contact with stations on
the campuses of Lehigh, Fordham, New York University
and Carnegie Tech. All this with borrowed equipment
which includes a 60 watt transmitter, capable of trans
mitting up to 1,000 watts; a twenty-five foot antenna,
erected on the roof of Stark Hall, and two receivers.
And speaking of equipment, the Radio Club can use some
t ey can call their own. If you know of any that would
like a p
-----permanent
home, here is what is needed: relays,
telegraph
,
- keys.
■ microphones, miscellaneous wire and
earphones.
The Radio Club
comprises 12 active members, eleven of
whom are licensed. Dr. Daniel Detwiler is faculty ad-
The Forty Fort natsve
home where the
nt:
and medals. He is the first Ct
Athlete of the Year .Avar z. ■
Award, presented tv the Bee
Award which came to i. :v :
this enviable recognitic-. act
wrestling championships, one .ship, antj nvo runner-up trophie
Tourney.
The trophy shown in the cer.te:
awarded the stellar performer i
new record in intercollegiate v
The son of Mrs. Viola Antinr.e;
of Meyers High School in Sept
he will augment his faculty du:
�visor of the group and on his own time, teaches Radio
Theory to advanced amateur licensees. Perhaps it is too
much to expect, but it is entirely possible that K 3 N O M
is the forerunner of Wilkes College television.
April found Wilkes Symphonic Band entertaining at
Temple University in conjunction with an exchange pro
gram established with that institution. This marks the
first such musical exchange between the two institutions.
ISCOPE (Continued from page 2)
As the Class of 61 moved into the ranks of Wilkes
alumni, Marvin A. Antinnes of Forty Fort left with the
College a phenomenal record in intercollegiate athletics
during the four years he trod the paths of the campus.
History to date places him in the enviable position of
being the greatest athlete to don the blue and gold uni
form of the Colonels. Specifically, Marv excelled in
football and wrestling.
The Forty Fort native is shown in his Yeager Avenue
home where the livingroom mantle displays his trophies
and medals. He is the first Colonel athlete to win the
Athlete of the Year Award; the Outstanding Athlete
Award, presented by the Beacon, and the Gallagher
Award which came to him two years in succession. To
this enviable recognition, add medals for four MAC
wrestling championships, one NAIA wrestling championsh;p, and two runner-up trophies from the Wilkes Open
Tourney.
On the Fourth Floor of Stark Hall, Radio Station
K3NOM keeps in touch with many other colleges on the
eastern seaboard. Contact is also made with "ham
stations throughout the United States. Here, Kenneth
Krupinski and Bill Shukis are in conversation with.Nova
Scotia.
s busy schedule reached its height in May
:d the "Duchess of Malfi”, an Elizabethan
» newly-formed Theatre Alumni Associa:s first production "Recollections in Three
former Cue 'n' Curtain members played
illege productions of undergraduate days.
The trophy shown in the center of the photograph was
awarded the stellar performer last March for setting a
new record in intercollegiate wrestling competition.
The son of Mrs. Viola Antinnes, Marv joins the faculty
of Meyers High School in September. Quite naturally,
he will augment his faculty duties by coaching.
If you were to ask anyone on the campus if "K 3 N O M”
meant anything to them, the chances are, you’d draw a
blank. Yet. the Wilkes College radio station, located
on the fourth floor of Stark Hall, answering to these call
letters, has been in operation since May of 1959. This
is when it was founded, with subsequent licensing by
the Federal Communications Commission in January of
1960.
"Travel in Style" was the title of this year s campus
fashion show. T.D.R. and the Lettermen s Club com
bined forces to demonstrate what the best dressed college
students should wear.
Two Wilkes coeds have been selected as official
Mademoiselle campus representatives. Misses Maryann
Wilson and Nancy Tinkelpaugh have made appearances
in the Boston Store and travelled to New York with
the store buyers as representatives of the well-known
fashion magazine.
The Association of Women Students welcomed Mrs.
John Doane, Dean of Women, back on campus with a
tea held in McClintock Hall.
For the second year in succession Marvin Antinnes has
copped the title of "Athlete of the Year.” Marv is also
' i—in
the first Colonel athlete to gain ______
national;___
recognition'
in the small
March 1960 he entered and won the
t..- 177
... class
_ ________
college NAIA competition.
d of Paradise setting, Martha Menegus
am eleven senior coeds to be crowned
“Marty" is one of the few female
luate with a major in accounting.
18
Since then, members of the Wilkes Radio Club have
been in contact with “ham" stations in Nova Scotia,
Florida, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, the New England
states, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and others too numer
ous to mention. Anyway, it gives you an idea of
K3NOM’s range.
The station is also in constant contact with stations on
the campuses of Lehigh, Fordham, New York University
and Carnegie Tech. All this with borrowed equipment
which includes a 60 watt transmitter, capable of trans
mitting up to 1,000 watts; a twenty-five foot antenna,
erected on the roof of Stark Hall, and two receivers.
And speaking of equipment, the Radio Club can use some
t ey can call their own. If you know of any that would
1 e a permanent home, here is what is needed: relays,
te e9raPh keys, microphones. miscellaneous wire and
earphones.
he Radio Club comprises 12 active members, eleven of
whom are licensed. Dr. Daniel Detwiler is faculty ad-
19
�accelerated. The mice will be subjected to six volts at
two milliamps for a total of two hours a day. The con
trols will not get any electrical current but will be sub
jected to all other experimental conditions, restraint,
electrode positioning, and so forth.
(Continued from page 18)
effect of any wound healing activity on the newly im
planted tumor. After the trocar is inserted, a solid steel
rod,—a cannula—is pushed through the trocar and forces
the tumor cells into the mouse. The trocar and the can
nula are then removed. The areas are then swabbed
with zepharin chloride, and throughout the entire opera
tion sterile conditions are maintained.
The groups in which tumor induction, or increased
growth, will be attempted will differ from the group in
which regression is being attempted only with respect
to the placing of the positive and negative electrodes
relative to the tumor mass. Treatment is tentatively
scheduled to last ten days after which time all animals
will be sacrificed and quantitative and histological studies
of the tumors will be made. In later experiments current
and voltage will be varied, as well as treatment time and
growth period. If time and results permit, these experi
ments may also be performed with various other tumors
to determine whether similar results, assuming the initial
experiments are successful, can be obtained with various
types of tumors.
Upon receipt of the mice, a series of experiments will
begin. Throughout the summer four or five series will
be run, each consisting of 27 mice. When the mice are
received and allowed a period of time to acclimate, trans
plants of the sarcom 180 will be made. After a 72 hour
growth period, the mice will be checked for tumor takes
and then randomly divided into three groups of nine
mice each. These three groups will constitute (1) the
controls, (2) the group in which the tumors will be in
hibited, and (3) the group in which the tumors will be
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October 20-21
Friday - October
20
7:30 p. m.
Dormitory Displays
9:00 p. m.
Open House
9:45 p. m.
Executive Alumni Council Meeting
Saturday - October
Campus
Crystal Ballroom
Hotel Sterling
Adams Room
Hotel Sterling
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2:00 p. m.
Football
Wilkes vs. Lycoming
6:30 p. m.
Class Reunion Dinners
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9:00 p. m.
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AUTUMN
OCTOBER, 1961
�IN THIS ISSUE
Board
Admiral Harold R.
2
Arnaud C. Marts, I
ALUMNI CONSTITUTION REVISED
3
Andrew J. Sordoni,
COMMUNITY TO HONOR DR. FARLEY
4
OUTLINE OF GEOLOGY OF WYOMING VALLEY
5
AMONG PAKISTANI PHILOSOPHERS
6
ON RESEARCH AND IMAGES
7
WITH THE CLASSES
9
ALUMNI CHAPTERS
Charles H. Miner,
James P. Harris, Tr
Mrs. Paul Bed:
William Weir
Alumni Rf
Frank Bumsidi
Mrs. Charles I
William L. Cc
FALL SPORTS SHORTS
10
1961 ALUMNI CAMPAIGN
11
Samuel M. Da'
THEATER ALUMNI RAISES THE CURTAIN
14
Miss Annette 1
WILKES ALUMNUS APPOINTED DEAN
15
SWEET MEMORIES OF AN OLD TIMER
19
Mrs. Franck G
Eugene S. Farl
John FanHon. John S. I
Harry F. Goer
Joseph J. Kocy
Miss Mary R.
Joseph F. Lesti
Reuben H. Le’
Thomas F. M<
F. Ellsworth I
Hon. Frank L
Rev. Charles f
Joseph J. Savil
Alumni 1
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther "V
Charles B. W
Aaron Weiss
THE STAFF
On The Cover
Officers of the Lettermen’s Club are pictured with
their advisor, Dean of Men, George Ralston, near
the south entrance of Chase Hall. L to R Donald
Eller, Dean Ralston, Rick Rees, Yorath Evans,
George Tensa, Erwin Guetig, and Brooke Yeager.
p
EDITOR
ASSISTANT EDITOR
SPORTS
ALUMNI NOTES
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
Kathleen O’Donnell
Arthur J. Hoover ’55
Felicia Perlick ’63
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Euge
Alun
Gordon E. Rober
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly for the
Wilkes College Aumni Association by the Wikes College
Alumni Office. Second class mailing privileges have been
authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Subscription—$2.00.
Clayton A. Bloor
Russell H. Willi
Anita Janerich, S
Leonard Mulcahy
1
�IN THIS ISSUE
Board of Trustees
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chairman
ALUMNI CHAPTERS
2
Arnaud C. Marts, First Vice-Chairman
ALUMNI CONSTITUTION REVISED
3
Andrew J. Sordoni, Second Vice-Chairman
COMMUNITY TO HONOR DR. FARLEY
4
Charles FL Miner, Jr., Secretary
James P. Harris, Treasurer
OUTLINE OF GEOLOGY OF WYOMING VALLEY
5
AMONG PAKISTANI PHILOSOPHERS
6
ON RESEARCH AND IMAGES
7
WITH THE CLASSES
9
Mrs. Paul Bedford
FALL SPORTS SHORTS
10
1961 ALUMNI CAMPAIGN
11
THEATER ALUMNI RAISES THE CURTAIN
14
WILKES ALUMNUS APPOINTED DEAN
15
William Weir Boyd
Alumni Representative
Frank Burnside
Mrs. Charles E. Clift
William L. Conyngham
Mrs. Franck G. Darte
Samuel M. Davenport, M.D.
Miss Annette Evans
Eugene S. Farley
John Fan-
19
SWEET MEMORIES OF AN OLD TIMER
Hon. John S. Fine
Harry F. Goeringer
Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D.
Miss Mary R. Koons
Joseph F. Lester
Reuben H. Levy
Thomas F. Morgan, Jr.
F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr.
Hon. Frank L. Pinola
Rev. Charles S. Roush
Joseph J. Savitz
Alumni Representative
Louis Shaffer
Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker
Charles B. Waller
Aaron Weiss
THE STAFF
On The Cover
Officers of the Lettermen’s Club are pictured with
their advisor, Dean of Men, George Ralston, near
the south entrance of Chase Hall. L to R Donald
Eller, Dean Ralston, Rick Rees, Yorath Evans,
George Tensa, Erwin Guetig, and Brooke Yeager.
President
EDITOR
ASSISTANT EDITOR
SPORTS
ALUMNI NOTES
EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS
Gordon E. Roberts ’60
Kathleen O’Donnell
Arthur J. Hoover ’55
Felicia Perlick *63
Elizabeth Kraft ’62
Eugene S. Farley
Alumni Officers
Gordon E. Roberts, Executive Secretary
Wilkes College ALUMNUS is published quarterly for the
Wilkes College Aumni Association by the Wikes College
Alumni Office. Second class mailing privileges have been
authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Subscription—$2.00.
Clayton A. Bloomburg, President
Russell FI. Williams, Vice-President
Anita Janerich, Secretary
Leonard Mulcahy, Treasurer
1
�$5
HARRISBURG CHAPTER
1st row (I to r)
Raymond hitman, Ann Littman, Norma Linthi
cum, and George Watson
2nd row (1 to r)
Joan Beers, Paul Beers, Kay O’Donnell, ond Mil
dred Gittens.
3rd row (1 to r)
Ira Roden, Dorothy Roden, Richard Miedrich, Eu
gen Bradley, Doris Rauh, John Mask, and Gordon
E. Roberts.
ALUMNI
CONSTITUTION
REVISED
Alumni Chapters Meet
The Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Wil
kes-Barre Chapters of the Alumni As
sociation met recently to plan their
activities for the Fall and Winter
months, and to co-ordinate their acti
vities with the general program of the
Alumni Association.
First row (left to right):
Cathy Brominski, Mildred Gittens,
Jean Mulhall, Milly Butler, George
Ralston, Jane Rescorla, Mary A. Mattey, Mrs. Sylvia M. Lucchino and
Gayle Jacobson.
A constitution revision committee composed of Attorney Joseph J.
Savitz, ’48, Chairman; Leonard Mulcahy, 58, Attorney Harry
Hiscox, ’51, and Attorney Eugene Roth, 57, recently completed
revising the alumni constitution.
At a recent meeting of the Association, the revised constitution
was unanimously approved for adoption at the Annual Meeting
during Homecoming.
Alumni are asked to carefully read the revised constitution which
will be submitted for adoption during Homecoming.
R®
Article III
Article I
Second row (left to right)
Kay O’Donnell, Betsy Lloyd, Joseph
A. Margallis, Jr., Philip B. White,
William P. Lloyd, Roger A. Cease,
Ralph E. Rittenhouse, Frank Shepard,
Faith Edwards, Elizabeth Schwartz
and Susan Meister.
Meetings
Name and Purpose
1.
1.
This organization shall be called the Wilkes
College Alumni Association.
2.
Third row (left to right)
Robert F. Arney, Reese D. Jones, Dav
id B. Lucchino, Gerald J. Killian,
John T. Mulhall, Charles Butler, Gor
don Roberts and Bert Stein.
The purpose of this Association shall be to stim
ulate interest in the welfare of Wilkes College
and foster good fellowship among its graduates
quorum is 15.
2.
The President of the As
to call a special meetinc
3.
Chapters of the Associ;
Wyoming Valley, shall
designated by their me
4.
The Annual Meeting of
held during the Home
specific time and place
ficial correspondence.
5.
Procedure at any meet
shall be governed by th
"Robert’s Rules of Ord
and friends.
Article II
Membership
1.
Every person who has completed at least thirty
(30) semester hours at Wilkes College and has
terminated academic relations with the latter
institution is eligible for full membership.
2.
Every person who has completed at least thirty
(30) semester hours while Wilkes College was
known as Bucknell University Junior College is
accorded full membership.
3.
Irlt lo right: Dolores Cackotvskl, Mrs. Harry Hiscox,
Janerich, association secretary; Attorney Joseph J. Snvllz,
i vs
Willhn
le Roth, Mrs. Anicll. Second row':
Mech... -......................... ,............ I row:
Peter K. Williams, Younsu Koo,
4.
The Wilkes College 2s
meet at least bi-monthly
designated through offic
Article IV
Alumni Chapters
Members of each senior class at AVilkes College
are eligible for membership in the Wilkes
College Alumni Association upon graduation.
1.
Members of the Faculty, the Board of Trustees,
and the recipients of honorary degrees are exofficio members of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association.
Whenever ten (10) oi
Association meet beyon
ing distance of Wyomin
privilege to request the
retary of the Associatic
as a chapter.
3
�HARRISBURG CHAPTER
1st low U to r)
R.nniond l.itman. Ann Littman, Norma
Linthi
euni, and George Watson
2nd row (1 to r)
lean Beers. Paul Beers, Kay O’Donnell,
ond Mildnxl Gillens.
$id row U to r)
ha Roden, Dorothy Roden, Richard t.Miedrich, Eugen Bradley, Doris Raub. John Mask,•» and Gordon
E. Roberts.
ALUMNI
CONSTITUTION
REVISED
A. constitution revision committee composed of Attorney Joseph J.
Savitz,
» i H
’48, Chairman;
Leonard Mulcahy,
’58, Attorney Harry
Hiscox, ’51, and Attorney Eugene Roth, ’57, recently completed
revising the alumni constitution.
At a recent meeting of the Association, the revised constitution
was unanimously approved for adoption at the Annual Meeting
during Homecoming.
Alumni are asked to can•efully read the revised constitution which
will be submitted for adoption during Homecoming.
Article III
Article I
Meetings
Name and Purpose
1.
1.
This organization shall be called the Wilkes
College Alumni Association.
The purpose of this Association shall be to stim
ulate interest in the welfare of Wilkes College
and foster good fellowship among its graduates
quorum is 15.
2.
The President of the Association has the power
to call a special meeting when he desires.
3.
Chapters of the Association, located outside of
AVyoming Valley, shall meet at a time and place
and friends.
Article II
designated by their membership.
Membership
4.
Every person who has completed at least thirty
(30) semester hours at Wilkes College and has
terminated academic relations with the latter
institution is eligible for full membership.
'< ■V.:
'liltin'., Kathleen O’Donnell. Second row;
/ P.nkov/'.H, Je'/Je Roderick, Raymond Mech' '■
Bzccutive Alumni Secretary. Third row!
' ' t'f,:.
Kr'yunrwf.ki, Peter R. Williams, Younsu Koo,
Procedure at any meeting of this Association
shall be governed by the rules as laid down in
“Robert's Rules of Order."
Article IV
Alumni Chapters
Members of each senior class at Wilkes College
are eligible for membership in the Wilkes
College Alumni Association upon graduation.
' •
The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be
held during the Homecoming Weekend at a
specific time and place designated through of
ficial correspondence.
5.
Every person who has completed at least thirty
(30) semester hours while Wilkes College was
known as Bucknell University Junior College is
accorded full membership.
. ’ /
z
The Wilkes College Alumni Association will
meet at least bi-monthly at the time and place
designated through official correspondence. A
1.
Members of the Faculty, the Board of Trustees,
and the recipients of honorary degrees are exofficio members of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association.
3
Whenever ten (10) or more members of the
Association meet beyond a reasonable commut
ing distance of Wyoming Valley, it shall be their
privilege to request the Executive Alumni Sec
retary of the Association for official recognition
as a chapter.
�2.
nate the chairman of each s*
’■
sending
commit^.
These standing committees shall be
appointed
in
January and shall serve for one year.
(a) Program Committee
It is the function of this committee to 1
and promote social programs for eachP "
nual alumni meeting, and to coop^aJ"'
the planning and promotion of other so "l
events sponsored by the Association.
(b) Constitution Committee
It is the function of the committee to co sider and draft amendments to the C n
stitution,
n"
comply with the proChapterss are required to
of
the
Constitution.
visions g.
Article V
Officers and Elections
The Officers of this Association shall be a presi
1.
dent, vice-president, treasurer, recording secre
tary and executive alumni secretary. The alumni
secretary of Wilkes College shall be the execu
tive alumni secretary of the Association. The
officers of the Association, except the executive
alumni secretary, shall be elected for a term of
one year, commencing January 1 of the follow
ing year. No officer of the Association, except
the executive alumni secretary, shall serve in
the office for more than two successive years.
2. The treasurer is required to deposit all funds
of the Association in a depository designated by
the College Administration.
3. Vacancies in office, except the office of executive
alumni secretary, shall be filled by the Executive
Committee.
4. At the first Fall meeting of the Association, the
president, with the consent of the executive
committee, shall appoint a nominating commit
tee of five (5) members to select candidates for
the elective offices.
5. Election of officers shall be held at the Annual
Meeting of the Association following further
nominations from the floor.
6. The president and executive alumni secretary
of the Association are ex-officio members of all
committees.
(b)
2.
Membership Committee
It is the function of this committee to pro
mote greater interest in the Association
and to co-ordinate alumni and under
graduate activities.
Additional Committees
The Executive Committee may establish additional committees.
Article VIII
1.
Amendments
This Constitution may be amended at the An
nual Meeting of the Association by a two-thirds
(z'j) vote °f the members present and voting.
Proposed amendments shall be published prior
to the Annual Meeting.
Community, College and Alumni
To Honor Dr. Farley
Article VI
Executive Committee
On Saturday evening, November 11 in the Wilkes
Gymnasium, Dr. Eugene S. Farley, President of Wilkes
since 1936, will be honored at a testimonial dinner to
be given by friends, faculty, and alumni.
1. The Executive Committee of the Wilkes College
Alumni Association is hereby constituted to per
form general executive functions as well as the
specific duties herein set forth.
2. The Executive Committee shall be composed of
(a) The Officers of the Wilkes College Alumni
Association.
(b) The respective chairmen of the various
standing committees of the Association,
(c) One representative from each Chapter of
the Association.
3. The Executive Committee shall meet at such
times and places as the Committee shall de
termine.
4. A Quorum of five (5) shall be necessary to
transact business.
This testimonial brings sharply into focus the command
ing stature of a man who has worked unselfishly and
unstintingly for the College and the Community.
Dr. Farley came to Wilkes-Barre twenty-five years ago
to assume the presidency of Wilkes. What he has ac
complished both at the College and in the Community is
there for all to see: <evidence of the cooperative efforts
between College and Community in rebuilding the
economy of the area and in strengthening and extending
the program of education and research at the College.
Wilkes Alumni have benefited from this relationship,
and, in consequence, have done outstanding work in
graduate schools and have contributed constructive
leadership in their own communities.
To date hundreds of citizens of the Community have
made reservations for the forthcoming testimonial for
Dr. Farley.
Article VII
1.
AN OUTLINE OF
THE GEOLOGY
OF WYOMING VALLEY
Standing Committees
There shall be at least three (3) standing com
mittees, hereinafter named, of three (3) or more
members each, to be appointed by the President
of the Association with the consent of the officers
of the Association. The President shall desig-
All Alumni are advised that reservations at ?5.00 Per
person can be made either through the alumni office or
at the Annual Homecoming on October 20-21. Attorney
Joseph J. Savitz ’48, is Alumni Chairman for this event.
We hope you will make your reservations now!
4
Miss Judy Terry, who spent the 1961
summer session at Wilkes College an
worked with Dr. Charles Reif on some
geology problems, graciously consented
her work
to outline for us some of
G*---— in the
field of geology.
_ ”_J at; the University of
Miss Terry studied
Sydney in Australia
,—---- and is presently a
senior geology major at Barnard College,
Columbia University.
The Wyoming Valley, a classical area too often neglected by professional as well
as amateur geologists, affords many interesting examples of rock and depositional
features which are products of thousands of years of history in this region.
These folds of anthracite are not seen at the surface
because of later modifications in the Valley. An ancienl
stream once followed a course similar to the present one
of the Susquehanna in the rocks overlying the coal beds
As the climate became colder and great ice sheets mover
over the northern United States, glaciers and turbulen
meltwater streams loaded with sediments scoured ant
plucked at the pre-existing channel. The last Pleistocem
ice sheet, the Wisconsin, is believed to have been severa
thousand feet thick; it entered the Valley at an angle
as seen from the parallel striations an dscratches o
Wilkes-Barre Mountain, but after melting it probabl
changed direction and moved downstream, overdeepen
ing the old stream channel and cutting potholes later t
be filled with clay and gravel. Other evidence of th:
glacial phase of Valley history is the rolling terrai
called "knob and kettle” topography at the Fox Hi
Country Club in West Wyoming, the terraces ne;
Nanticoke, and various unsorted drift deposits now use
as supplies of sand and gravel. Even more interestir
are the potholes, the largest excavated one being tl
Archbald pothole, thirty-eight feet deep and varying
diameter from twenty-four to forty-two feet at the su
face. Meltwater streams, swirling pebbles, and sand a
believed to have drilled out the roughly circular holloSmaller examples of potholes are seen off the abandon
route 115 above the V.A. Hospital.
The canoe-shaped trough, reaching from Shickshinny
in Luzerne County to Forest City in Susquehanna Coun
ty, is known as a synclinal basin in the Northern An
thracite field. It is a finger of the folded Valley and
Ridge geomorphic province to the southwest (one of
twenty-five divisions of the United States, based on
rock types, topography, and glacial history), as contrast
ed with the high flat plateau of the Poconos to the east.
The accompanying cross section through Wilkes-Barre
indicates how the folded rocks form the Valley depres
sion. On either side of the Susquehanna flood plain, the
low-lying river-built valley floor, are mountains which
rim the Valley except where cut by the river at West
Pittston and Shickshinny. The outer mountain consists
of the buff-colored Pocono sandstone, a granular material
deposited in Carboniferous time about two million years
ago. Overlying this is the soft, red, sandy Mauch Chunk
shale, easily eroded to make a little valley between
Penobscot and Wilkes-Barre mountains. On top of this
is the hard quartzitic Pottsville conglomerate of Penn
sylvanian time, and above it are shales interbedded with
rich coal seams, the results of great folding, compressing
forces acting on soft organic material from the first
forests and swamps. The partly decayed vegetative
contents of these swamps were chemically changed and
pushed into deep synclines during a world-wide move
ment of tremendous importance in geological history,
the Appalachian Revolution at the close of the Paleozoic
era. Carbohydrates manufactured by plants using solar
energy thousands of years ago were converted to hydro
carbons in the form of anthracite; today this provides
heat and energy for domestic fuel and industry. The
theory of the botanical origin of coal is borne out by
leaf, stem, and tree trunk fossils found in carbonaceous
shales in the mines and around Nanticoke.
The final stage in this brief history of the region is t
deposition by the Susquehanna and its tributaries
alluvial material to build up a flood plain. This depo
tion continues today, although restricted somewhat
dikes in Forty Fort, Kingston, and Wilkes-Barre.
(Continued on page 1
5
�nate the chairman of each sfanding committee.
These standing committees shall be
January
yearP°lnte<^ *n
January and
and shall
shall serve
serve for
for one
one year.
I to comply with the proution.
(a)
s
.ssociation shall be a presiireasurer, recording secrejmni secretary. The alumni
College shall be the execuof the Association. The
ation, except the executive
11 be elected for a term of
g January 1 of the followof the Association, except
secretary, shall serve in
han two successive years,
uired to deposit all funds
a depository designated by
iration.
xcept the office of executive
11 be filled by the Executive
ting of the Association, the
consent of the executive
mint a nominating commit>ers to select candidates for
shall be held at the Annual
.sociation following further
le floor.
executive alumni secretary
ire ex-officio members of all
:e
mittee of the Wilkes College
is hereby constituted to perive functions as well as the
in set forth.
imittee shall be composed of
if the Wilkes College Alumni
re chairmen of the various
mittees of the Association,
tative from each Chapter of
n.
mmittee shall meet at such
as the Committee shall de-
(5) shall be necessary to
es
east three (3) standing comnamed, of three (3) or more
e appointed by the President
I'ith the consent of the officers
The President shall desig-
(b)
Program Committee
It is the function of this committee to ]
and promote social programs for eachP a”
nual alumni meeting, and to cooperate3"”
the planning and promotion of other socM
events sponsored by the Association. C'a
Constitution Committee
It is the function of the committee to con
sider and draft amendments to the Co
stitution.
Miss Judy Terry, who spent the 1961
summer session at Wilkes College and
AN OUTLINE OF
THE GEOLOGY
OF WYOMING VALLEY
(b)
2.
Membership Committee
It is the function of this committee to pro
mote greater interest in the Association
and to co-ordinate alumni and under
graduate activities.
Additional Committees
The Executive Committee may establish additional committees.
Article VIII
1.
Amendments
This Constitution may be amended at the An
nual Meeting of the Association by a two-thirds
(%) vote °f the members present and voting.
Proposed amendments shall be published prior
to the Annual Meeting.
Community, College and Alumni
To Honor Dr. Farley
On Saturday evening, November 11 in the Wilkes
Gymnasium, Dr. Eugene S. Farley, President of Wilkes
since 1936, will be honored at a testimonial dinner to
be given by friends, faculty, and alumni.
This testimonial brings sharply into focus the command
ing stature of a man who has worked unselfishly and
unstintingly for the College and the Community.
Dr. Farley came to kVilkes-Barre twenty-five years ago
to assume the presidency of Wilkes. What he has ac
complished both at the College and in the Community is
there for all to see: evidence of the cooperative efforts
between College and Community in rebuilding the
economy of the area and in strengthening and extending
the program of education and research at the College.
Wilkes Alumni have benefited from this relationship;
and, in consequence, have done outstanding work in
graduate schools and have contributed constructive
leadership in their own communities.
To date hundreds of citizens of the Community have
ma e reservations for the forthcoming testimonial for
Dr. Farley.
All Alumni are advised that reservations at $5.00 par
person can be made either through the alumni office or
at the Annual Homecoming on October 20-21. Attorney
Joseph J. Savitz 48, is Alumni Chairman for this event.
e ope you will make your reservations now!
worked with Dr. Charles Reif on some
geology problems, graciously consented
to outline for us some of her work in the
field of geology.
Miss Terry studied at the University of
Sydney in Australia and is presently a
senior geology major at Barnard College,
Columbia University.
The Wyoming Valley, a classical area too often neglected by professional as well
as amateur geologists, affords many interesting examples of rock and depositional
features which are products of thousands of years of history in this region.
The canoe-shaped trough, reaching from Shickshinny
in Luzerne County to Forest City in Susquehanna Coun
ty, is known as a synclinal basin in the Northern An
thracite field. It is a finger of the folded Valley and
Ridge geomorphic province to the southwest (one of
twenty-five divisions of the United States, based on
rock types, topography, and glacial history), as contrast
ed with the high flat plateau of the Poconos to the east.
The accompanying cross section through Wilkes-Barre
indicates how the folded rocks form the Valley depres
sion. On either side of the Susquehanna flood plain, the
low-lying river-built valley floor, are mountains which
rim the Valley except where cut by the river at West
Pittston and Shickshinny. The outer mountain consists
of the buff-colored Pocono sandstone, a granular material
deposited in Carboniferous time about two million years
ago. Overlying this is the soft, red, sandy Mauch Chunk
shale, easily eroded to make a little valley between
Penobscot and Wilkes-Barre mountains. On top of this
is the hard quartzitic Pottsville conglomerate of Penn
sylvanian time, and above it are shales interbedded with
rich coal seams, the results of great folding, compressing
forces acting on soft organic material from the first
forests and swamps. The partly decayed vegetative
contents of these swamps were chemically changed and
pushed into deep synclines during a world-wide move
ment of tremendous importance in geological history,
the Appalachian Revolution at the close of the Paleozoic
era. Carbohydrates manufactured by plants using solar
energy thousands of years ago were converted to hydro
carbons in the form of anthracite; today this provides
heat and energy for domestic fuel and industry. The
These folds of anthracite are not seen at the surface
because of later modifications in the Valley. An ancient
stream once followed a course similar to the present one
of the Susquehanna in the rocks overlying the coal beds.
As the climate became colder and great ice sheets moved
over the northern United States, glaciers and turbulent
meltwater streams loaded with sediments scoured and
plucked at the pre-existing channel. The last Pleistocene
ice sheet, the Wisconsin, is believed to have been several
thousand feet thick; it entered the Valley at an angle,
as seen from the parallel striations an dscratches on
Wilkes-Barre Mountain, but after melting it probably
changed direction and moved downstream, overdeepen
ing the old stream channel and cutting potholes later to
be filled with clay and gravel. Other evidence of this
glacial phase of Valley history is the rolling terrain
called "knob and kettle” topography at the Fox Hill
Country Club in West Wyoming, the terraces near
Nanticoke, and various unsorted drift deposits now used
as supplies of sand and gravel. Even more interesting
are the potholes, the largest excavated one being the
Archbald pothole, thirty-eight feet deep and varying in
diameter from twenty-four to forty-two feet at the sur
face. Meltwater streams, swirling pebbles, and sand are
believed to have drilled out the roughly circular hollow.
Smaller examples of potholes are seen off the abandoned
route 115 above the V.A. Hospital.
The final stage in this brief history of the region is the
deposition by the Susquehanna and its tributaries of
alluvial material to build up a flood plain. This deposi
tion continues today, although restricted somewhat by
�AMONG
PAKISTANI
PHILOSOPHERS
Herman L. Otto
Director
Community Research Center
Wilkes College
Pictured above are Dr. Dev and Dr. Vujica stand
ing in front of the residence of Dr. Dev in Dacca,
East Pakistan.
_____
/ born and educated in Europe and having
As an American teacher of philosophy
Asia studying Comparative Religion on a Fulbright research
spent a year in i
ilarship grant, I am naturally tempted to draw comparisons between
scholarship
grant, I
and cultures. Europe, America, Asia — modern technology has made them
continents a“one world”, but are the peoples who live in them one in thoughts,
the peoples who live in them one
feelings, and aspirations?
but by the poor quality of her
libraries and museums,
plumbing.
important,
The reactions of superficial visitors are not
in scholarly
however. What is important is that even
sharply contrast the
circles there is the
to may perhaps be for■ ■ —tendency
- • Kipling
■'East” and the "West”. T.'
■ i shall
frivolous remarks that the "twain
given for his L.
that his
understand is th
never meet.” What is harder to “experts” elevated to
crude remark has been by many
believe
If one were to
not
only
the status of a scientific axiom.
' are i
these experts, the 'East' and the V/est
■ though'
the
basic
different in cultural patterns, but in t—
of the two
,cr/ "logic"
and
processes. Furthermore, the very
"These people think
runs in different directions,
sometimes told.
feel differently," we are
n heartt and
mind, the human
The truth is that the human
sky aImd
- >n
the human soul are the same under every im-
“A journey through Asia," an American tourist on a
trip around the world told me in Calcutta, “is a prelude
to the trip to the moon. Everything is so different and
so terrible." The anthropologists have coined a phrase
to describe such a reaction. They call it “culture shock.
I think that the phrase is misleading, for what this tourist
was really shocked at was not the culture of Asia. First
of all, in his hurried schedule, flying from one city to
another, he hardly got a glimpse of Asia's culture. Had
he had the time and opportunity to be exposed to it he
would have found it fascinating and he would have
been pleased, not shocked.
What does shock the average Western visitor is not
Asian culture but its low standard of living. It is very
easy for an American to confuse culture with economics.
He experiences the same kind of shock On a visit to
Mexico, Spain. Southern Italy or Eastern Europe. Even
the Frenchmen often resent the American propensity to
judge France not by the high quality of her monuments,
every climate.
6
undeniably PlaYs a”
Environment i------20)
(Continued on Pa^e
One of the functions of the Community Research Center at Wilkes College is to co
ordinate efforts of local organizations concerned with the economic rehabilitation
of the Wyoming Valley area. The success or failure of the work of these
organizations can be determined largely by the favorable or unfavorable impres
sions which people outside the area have about conditions here.
One such unfavorable “image” which came to the attention of the Community
Research Center last February was a word portrait of Wilkes-Barre as a
crime-ridden area.
A New York columnist writing under a Wilkes-Barre
dateline told a story that would lead the reader to believe
that Wilkes-Barre is the heart of gangster-land of our
country, that it is unsafe to allow children outside the
home after dark, that most elements of our society are
deeply involved in crime, and that this is an accepted
way of life in Greater Wilkes-Barre. The title of the
article was "Crime Rides High in the Wild Northeast.”
This prompted your Community Research Center at
Wilkes College to look into the matter of crime facts
and figures.
The Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Metropolitan Area
third lowest crime rate among the 182 metropolii
of the United States.
The Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Metropolitan Area
lowest crime rate among the twelve metropolitan
Pennsylvania.
This enviable position is bassed upon the nt
criminal offenses of all defined types per 100,01
lation.
It was soon determined that the most reliable uniform
crime statistics are maintained by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in a cooperative program with local police
departments throughout the country. Summary statistics
are released annually by the Bureau in a publication
entitled "Uniform Crime Reports."
In each of the seven defined categories of crin
make up total offenses, the Wilkes-Barre-Hazle
is in the lowest quartile among the 182 metropolit
The results of this report received wide publicitwere sent to the New York newspapers, and wei
in the Congressional Record by Congressma:
This, however, is far from sufficient in getting tf
"image” of our area over to people outside th
ming Valley. For this reason, the College d
inform fully its alumni concerning the import
elusions of this report.
These reports were begun thirty years ago. They have
been constantly refined and improved. They are check
ed by FBI officers throughout the country. They are
recognized as the most reliable comparable crime statis
tics maintained in our country. An analysis of the rate
of crime in terms of total offenses, and in terms of each
of the seven categories of crime, for 182 major city areas
in the United States showed some rather startling and
happy results for Wilkes-Barre.
Wilkes alumni can take pride in the fact that t
munity Research Center is helping to project a
and positive "image" of the Wyoming Valley.
7
�ON RESEARCH
AND
IMAGES
Herman L. Otto
Director
Community Research Center
Wilkes College
S
One of the functions of the Community Research Center at Wilkes College is to co
ordinate efforts of local organizations concerned with the economic rehabilitation
of the Wyoming Valley area. The success or failure of the work of these
organizations can be determined largely by the favorable or unfavorable impres
sions which people outside the area have about conditions here.
One such unfavorable “image” which came to the attention of the Community
Research Center last February was a word portrait of Wilkes-Barre as a
Pictured above are Dr. Dev and Dr. Vujica stand
ing in front of the residence of Dr. Dev in Dacca,
East Pakistan.
crime-ridden area.
er of philosophy born and educated in Europe and having
i studying Comparative Religion on a Fulbright research
it, I am naturally tempted to draw comparisons between
s. Europe, America, Asia — modern technology has made them
thoughts.
1", but are the peoples who live in them one in thoughts,
dons?
libraries and museums, but by the poor quality of her
plumbing.
The reactions of superficial visitors are not important,
however. What is important is that even in scholarly
■ -~t the
circles there is the tendency to sharply contrast
East" and the "West". Kipling may perhaps be for
■ i shall
given for his frivolous remarks that the twain
his
never meet." What is harder to understand is; that
t..
crude remark has been by many "experts elevatedI to
the status of a scientific axiom. If one were to□ believe
bs-'‘
these experts, the 'East' and the ‘West’ are 1not only
different in cultural patterns, but in the basic: thought
processes. Furthermore, the very "logic” <of' the two
think and
runs in different directions. ‘‘These people
feel differently," we are sometimes told.
The truth is that the human mind, the human heartt and
and
the human soul are the same under every sky *•
— >n
every climate. Environment undeniably plays an 'rn~
rican tourist on a
cutta. "is a prelude
is so different and
ve coined a phrase
1 it "culture shock."
or what this tourist
Iture of Asia. First
g from one city to
Asia's culture. Had
be exposed to it he
rd he would have
stern visitor is not
f living. It is very
ure with economics,
hock on a visit to
;tern Europe. Even
irican propensity to
' of her monuments.
(Continued on paQe
6
20)
A New York columnist writing under a Wilkes-Barre
dateline told a story that would lead the reader to believe
that Wilkes-Barre is the heart of gangster-land of our
country, that it is unsafe to allow children outside the
home after dark, that most elements of our society are
deeply involved in crime, and that this is an accepted
way of life in Greater Wilkes-Barre. The title of the
article was "Crime Rides High in the Wild Northeast.”
This prompted your Community Research Center at
Wilkes College to look into the matter of crime facts
and figures.
The Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Metropolitan Area has the
third lowest crime rate among the 182 metropolitan areas
of the United States.
The Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Metropolitan Area has the
lowest crime rate among the twelve metropolitan areas of
Pennsylvania.
This enviable position is bassed upon the number of
criminal offenses of all defined types per 100,000 popu
lation.
It was soon determined that the most reliable uniform
crime statistics are maintained by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in a cooperative program with local police
departments throughout the country. Summary statistics
are released annually by the Bureau in a publication
entitled "Uniform Crime Reports.”
In each of the seven defined categories of crime which
make up total offenses, the Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Area
is in the lowest quartile among the 182 metropolitan areas.
The results of this report received wide publicity locally,
were sent to the New York newspapers, and were placed
in the Congressional Record by Congressman Flood.
This, however, is far from sufficient in getting the proper
"image" of our area over to people outside the Wyo
ming Valley. For this reason, the College desires to
inform fully its alumni concerning the important con
clusions of this report.
These reports were begun thirty years ago. They have
been constantly refined and improved. They are check
ed by FBI officers throughout the country. They are
recognized as the most reliable comparable crime statis
tics maintained in our country. An analysis of the rate
of crime in terms of total offenses, and in terms of each
of the seven categories of crime, for 182 major city areas
in the United States showed some rather startling and
happy results for Wilkes-Barre.
Wilkes alumni can take pride in the fact that the Com
munity Research Center is helping to project a truthful
and positive "image" of the Wyoming Valley.
7
�Compared with 51 Standard Metropolitan Areas
RELATIVE CRIME RATES
WILKES-BARRE-HAZLETON STANDARD
in
WITH THE CLASSES
Northeastern United States
METROPOLITAN AREA
3rd lowest in total offenses
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with
some 7,000 law enforcement agencies throughout the
country maintains a system of Uniform Crime Reports.
These reports, begun thirty years ago, have been con
stantly refined and improved. They are recognized as
tied for lowest in murder and non-negligent manslaughter
18th lowest in forcible rape
MASON W. BALDWIN of Sarasota, Florida was producer and di
rector of the 1961 preliminary pro
grams of the Miss Florida Pageant
on June 22 and 23. He is also man
ager of the Municipal Auditorium
in Sarasota.
lowest in robbery
10th lowest in aggravated assault
the most complete, uniform and reliable crime statistics
3rd lowest in burglary
available on a nationwide basis.
7th lowest in larceny of $50 or over
The purpose of this brief analysis is to compare the rate
of incidence of crime in the Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Area
with other standard metropolitan areas of the United
States, of 14 Northeastern States and with Pennsylvania.
Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton's relative position as to the rate
6th lowest in auto theft
Compared with 12 Standard Metropolitan Areas in
Pennsylvania
lowest in total offenses
lowest in murder and non-negligent manslaughter
Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton ’s Rate of Incidence of Crime
Compared with 182 Metropolitan Areas of United States
4th lowest in forcible rape
3rd lowest in total offenses
4th lowest in aggravated assault
tie for lowest in murder and non-negligent manslaughter
lowest in burglary
43rd lowest in forcible rape
5th lowest in larceny of $50 or over
2nd lowest in robbery
3rd lowest in auto theft
lowest in robbery
’49
16th lowest in aggravated assault
4th lowest in burglary
All data in this report are extracted from Uniform Crime
9th lowest in larceny
Reports - 1959 issued by the Federal Bureau of Investi
6th lowest in auto theft
gation on September 16, 1960.
Mrs. Murray Rothman (LAURA J.
SCHLEICHER), her husband and
four children are residents of 23
Grassy Lane, Milford, Connecticut.
Laura and her husband own and
operate South Hills in Canaan, New
York, a camp for the severely re
tarded child to young adult.
’50
FOR THE STANDARD METROPOLITAN AREAS OF PENNSYLVANIA
Crime Rate Per 100,000 Population by Crime Classification
Population
1960
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
490,723
136,026
246,459
342,039
Altoona
Erie
Harrisburg
Johnstown
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Reading
Scranton
Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton
York
UNITED STATES
279,603
272,899
4,289,194
2,395,249
273,012
232,702
345,952
236,723
177,709,512
Source: Uniform Crime Reports - 1959
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Released September 16, 1960
Murder 6 nonnegligent
Forcible Robmanslaughter Rape
bery
Total
Offenses
344.4
346.3
2.0
1.5
0.8
2.0
2.5
1.5
3.7
2.7
2.2
629.3
440.3
348.7
321.7
927.4
828.1
413.5
453.4
0.4
296.6
0.3
1.7
457.1
896.0
4.8
2.0
3.7
3.2
2.3
2.5
3.3
17.6
7.4
2.2
4.7
3.2
3.0
8.3
Aggra
vated
Assault
8.8
8.2
8.1
10.3
16.2
20.2
11.1
9.2
57.1
43.8
30.8
15.2
5.0
20.2
7.3
9.0
2.6
25.3
40.3
120.2
34.4
4.8
6.4
7.8
21.5
67.3
Burg
lary
Larceny
of $50
S over
99.8
51.8
80.9
140.8
99.1
69.9
71.5
68.0
39.6
142.3
197.3
179.4
337.6
231.6
74.4
62.5
188.1
179.2
401.4
380.2
211.7
196.8
153.8
240.4
385.9
Auto
Theft
68.9
185.1
165.5
103.3
90.2
74.6
87.0
227.0
194.2
82.0
145.7
54.3
78.2
162.3
COMMUNITY RESEARCH CENTER
WILKES COLLEGE
WILKES-BARRE, PENNA.
HERMAN OTTO, Director
8
tell Street, Easton for the practice
of dentistry. For the past four years
Dr. Byorick has been practicing
dentistry in Philadelphia. Dr. and
Mrs. Byorick and daughter are liv
ing at the Cattell Street address.
JOSEPH B. SCHLEICHER has re
ceived the Doctor of Philosophy de
gree from Kansas State University.
His dissertation was "The Immu
nological Detection of Insect Infes
tation in Wheat and Physical
Characterization of the Extracted
Insect Proteins.”
Mrs. Fred Bernard
(SHIRLEY
SALSBURG) is the managing edi
tor of Modern Romances magazine,
published by the Dell Publishing
Company, New York. Shirley and
her husband reside at 315 East 68th
Street, New York City.
’52
CRIME RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION - 1959
Standard
Metropolitan Area
Pennsylvania
DR. STANLEY R. BYORICK re
cently opened an office at 321 Cat-
’51
’48
RAYMOND B. SMITH recently
received the Master of Science de
gree in Education from Southern
Illinois University. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith (BEVERLY J. BROADT,
’47) live at 412 South Washington
Street, Jerseyville, Illinois.
of incidence of crime per 100,000 population speaks very
favorably for itself.
’36
DR. GEORGE E. HUDOCK has
been appointed senior resident clini
cal pathologist at Harrisburg Hos
pital. He interned and did residence
work in pathologic anatomy at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Dr.
Hudock will reside with his wife
and daughter at 2737 Green Street,
Harrisburg.
JOHN B. SCUREMAN has been
appointed district manager for Ger
ber Products Company in the Pitts
burgh sales district.
In his new
position, Mr. Scureman will be re
sponsible for Gerber Baby Food
sales in Western Pennsylvania and
the West Virginia area.
The Fourth
headquarters
Naval District with
in Philadelphia an
nounces
that
Lt.
Commander
GEORGE F. ERMEL has been ap
pointed the commanding officer of
Mobilization Team Division 4-8.
George, a resident of Kingston,
works in the College library.
JOHN J. PALSHA of Neptune City,
New Jersey is the new administra
tive principal at Lakehurst Elemen
tary School.
John was assistant
principal in the Bradley Beach sys
tem where he taught for nine years.
He holds BA and MS degrees, and
specialized in
mathematics
and
science.
DR. JOSEPH J. STUCCIO receiv
ed an MS in urology at the 75th
Annual Commencement of Temple
University in Philadelphia.
Dr.
Stuccio received an MD from
Hahnemann Medical College in
1956. He interned at Abington Me
morial Hospital in Abington, Penn
sylvania and also had one year of
general surgical residency at the
same institution. For the past three
years he has been a urology resi
dent at Temple University Hospital.
On July 1, he began the practice of
medicine, specializing in urology, at
293 South Franklin Street, WilkesBarre.
9
PAUL J. DELN
Master of Scienc
ical Engineering
sity of Rochester
’53
DR. IRVIN S. S
structor of microl
tor of the Diagn
Laboratory at the
cine, State Univer
City, Iowa. He n
Street, Iowa City
two daughters.
KENNETH J. A
Radcliffe Boulev;
New York is the r
ufacturing researc
IBM in Endicott,
EUGENE S. MA
system analyst in
System and Equif
of the Phelps- Di
in New York City
PAUL B. BEERS
for the Patriot
Harrisburg, was |
two prizes by t
Newspaper Publis
Mrs. Beers, the
SHOEMAKER, C
six weeks this sun
University under a
Fellowship for I
selors. Joan is th
selor in the Lowe
School.
ELLEN J. HOPPI
Crossing, Pennsyh
ceived a Master <
gree in Counselin
from Temple Univ
’54
LEON A. LEVII
pointed administra
the chief of the A
Exchange in Wies
Leon has been as:
Air Force Exchan;
ber of last year v
in New York City
(Continu
�Compared with 51 Standard Metropolitan Areas in
iIE RATES
-HAZLETON STANDARD
Northeastern United States
WITH THE CLASSES
AREA
3rd lowest in total offenses
u of Investigation in cooperation with
tied for lowest in murder and non-negligent manslaughter
18th lowest in forcible rape
•nforcement agencies throughout the
a system of Uniform Crime Reports,
un thirty years ago, have been conl improved. They are recognized as
lowest in robbery
10th lowest in aggravated assault
uniform and reliable crime statistics
3rd lowest in burglary
ionwide basis.
7th lowest in larceny of $50 or over
; brief analysis is to compare the rate
le in the Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton Area
d metropolitan areas of the United
6th lowest in auto theft
Compared with 12 Standard Metropolitan Areas in
eastern States and with Pennsylvania,
eton's relative position as to the rate
te per 100,000 population speaks very
Pennsylvania
lowest in murder and non-negligent manslaughter
4th lowest in forcible rape
Eton's Rate of Incidence of Crime
! Metropolitan Areas of United States
lowest in robbery
4th lowest in aggravated assault
offenses
lowest in burglary
irder and non-negligent manslaughter
3rd lowest in auto theft
ravated assault
All data in this report are extracted from Uniform Crime
lary
Reports - 1959 issued by the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation on September 16, I960.
left
’50
DARD METROPOLITAN AREAS OF PENNSYLVANIA
Crime Rate Per 100,000 Population by Crime Classification
n-Easton
ton
Total
Oileases
490,723
136,026
246,459
342,039
279,603
272,899
4,289,194
2,395,249
273,012
232,702
345,952
236,723
177,709,512
344.4
me Reports - 1959
7cstigation
6,1960
Murder & nonnegligent
Forcible Rob
manslaughter Rape
bery
2.0
1.5
0.8
2.0
2.5
1.5
3.7
2.7
2.2
0.4
0.3
1.7
4.8
346.3
629.3
440.3
348.7
321.7
927.4
828.1
413.5
453.4
296.6
457.1
896.0
2.0
3.7
3.2
2.3
2.5
3.3
17.6
7.4
2.2
4.7
3.2
3.0
8.3
8.8
8.1
16.2
20.2
11.1
9.2
57.1
43.8
7.3
9.0
2.6
25.3
40.3
Aggra
vated
Assault
8.2
10.3
30.8
15.2
5.0
20.2
120.2
34.4
4.8
6.4
7.8
21.5
67.3
Burg
lary
197.3
179.4
337.6
231.6
188.1
179.2
401.4
380.2
211.7
196.8
153.8
240.4
385.9
Larceny
of $50
& over
Auto
Theft
74.4
62.5
99.8
99.1
71.5
68.9
185.1
165.5
103.3
90.2
74.6
87.0
227.0
51.8
80.9
140.8
69.9
68.0
39.6
142.3
194.2
82.0
145.7
54.3
78.2
162.3
COMMUNITY RESEARCH CENTER
WILKES COLLEGE
WILKES-BARRE, PENNA.
8
Mrs. Murray Rothman (LAURA J.
SCHLEICHER), her husband and
four children are residents of 23
Grassy Lane, Milford, Connecticut.
Laura and her husband own and
operate South Hills in Canaan, Nev/
York, a camp for the severely re
tarded child to young adult.
DR. STANLEY R. BYORICK re
cently opened an office at 321 Cattell Street, Easton for the practice
of dentistry. For the past four years
Dr. Byorick has been practicing
dentistry in Philadelphia. Dr. and
Mrs. Byorick and daughter are liv
ing at the Cattell Street address.
’51
JOSEPH B. SCHLEICHER has re
ceived the Doctor of Philosophy de
gree from Kansas State University.
His dissertation was “The Immu
nological Detection of Insect Infes
tation in Wheat and Physical
Characterization of the Extracted
Insect Proteins."
Mrs. Fred Bernard (SHIRLEY
SALSBURG) is the managing edi
tor of Modern Romances magazine,
published by the Dell Publishing
Company, New York. Shirley and
her husband reside at 315 East 68th
Street, New York City.
’52
CRIME RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION - 1959
Population
1960
’48
’49
5th lowest in larceny of $50 or over
Die rape
MASON W. BALDWIN of Sara
sota, Florida was producer and di
rector of the 1961 preliminary pro
grams of the Miss Florida Pageant
on June 22 and 23. He is also man
ager of the Municipal Auditorium
in Sarasota.
RAYMOND B. SMITH recently
received the Master of Science de
gree in Education from Southern
Illinois University. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith (BEVERLY J. BROADT,
’47) live at 412 South Washington
Street, Jerseyville, Illinois.
lowest in total offenses
f.
’36
HERMAN OTTO, Director
DR. GEORGE E. HUDOCK has
been appointed senior resident clini
cal pathologist at Harrisburg Hos
pital. He interned and did residence
work in pathologic anatomy at
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Dr.
Hudock will reside with his wife
and daughter at 2737 Green Street,
Harrisburg.
JOHN B. SCUREMAN has been
appointed district manager for Ger
ber Products Company in the Pitts
burgh sales district.
In his new
position, Mr. Scureman will be re
sponsible for Gerber Baby Food
sales in Western Pennsylvania and
the West Virginia area.
The Fourth Naval District with
headquarters in Philadelphia an
nounces
that
Lt.
Commander
GEORGE F. ERMEL has been ap
pointed the commanding officer of
Mobilization Team Division 4-8.
George, a resident of Kingston,
works in the College library.
JOHN J. PALSHA of Neptune City,
New Jersey is the new administra
tive principal at Lakehurst Elemen
tary School.
John was assistant
principal in the Bradley Beach sys
tem where he taught for nine years.
He holds BA and MS degrees, and
specialized
in
mathematics and
science.
DR. JOSEPH J. STUCCIO receiv
ed an MS in urology at the 75th
Annual Commencement of Temple
University in Philadelphia.
Dr.
Stuccio received an MD from
Hahnemann Medical College in
1956. He
r interned at Abington
" „ ■ ' Memorial Hospital in Abington, Penn
sylvania and also had one year of
general surgical residency at the
same institution. For the past three
years he has been a urology resi
dent at Temple University Hospital.
On July 1, he began the practice of
medicine, specializing in urology, at
293 South Franklin Street, WilkesBarre.
9
PAUL J. DELMORE received the
Master of Science degree in Chem
ical Engineering from the Univer
sity of Rochester in June.
DR. IRVIN S. SNYDER is an in
structor of microbiology and Direc
tor of the Diagnostic Bacteriology
Laboratory at the College of Medi
cine, State University of Iowa, Iowa
City, Iowa. He resides at 700 Streb
Street, Iowa City with his wife and
two daughters.
KENNETH J. VARKER of 4601
Radcliffe Boulevard, Binghamton,
New York is the manager of a man
ufacturing research department for
IBM in Endicott, New York.
EUGENE S. MASON is an office
system analyst in the Survey-Office
System and Equipment department
of the Phelps- Dodge Corporation
in New York City.
PAUL B. BEERS, a news reporter
for the Patriot Evenings News,
Harrisburg, was recently awarded
two prizes by the Pennsylvania
Newspaper Publishers Association.
Mrs. Beers, the former JOAN
SHOEMAKER, Class of ’56, spent
six weeks this summer at Syracuse
University under a General Electric
Fellowship for Guidance Coun
selors. Joan is the guidance coun
selor in the Lower Dauphin High
School.
ELLEN J. HOPPE of Washington
Crossing, Pennsylvania recently re
ceived a Master of Education de
gree in Counseling and Guidance
from Temple University.
54
LEON A. LEVIN has been ap
pointed administrative assistant to
the chief of the Air Force Europe
Exchange in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Leon has been associated with the
Air Force Exchange since Novem
ber of last year with headquarters
in New York City.
(Continued on page 16)
�1961 ANNUAL ALUMNI CAMPAIGN
Four hundred
and
nineteen
alt
$9,317.20 as their share in the 1
for scholarships and the Gradual
John Gardner skirts right
Wilkes halfback
hal
J.ng four Moravian players.
end eludinj
, gets
"
Colonel
___ quarterback,
quart,
“Ted” Travis-Bey,
against onrushing Moravian
set to pass agaii
defense.
. Quarterback
yardage.
Ted
The total amount contributed b
encouraging, but the percentage ol
disappointing. In last year's 1960
ment Program, five hundred and 1
tributed $9,561.03. As you can
tributed has remained very dost
but we have had a drop in parti
Bey picks up additional
FALL SPORT SHOTS
I
The average gift this year is $22
Just one year ago I went out on a limb as far as I could
possibly go—and with the exception of my prediction for
of former outstanding gridder, Marv Antinnes, who will
work primarily with the backfield.
With all these
another MAC wrestling championship, I was as wrong
as Gallup was in 1948. And so, dear Alums, I have
encouraging innovations, plus thirteen seasoned lettermen and some promising freshmen, the winless days of
old may be transformed into winning ways.
commissioned Bill Jervis and his cooperative crew to
bury my star-gazing equipment somewhere beneath the
bed of the Susquehanna River, In fact. I have failed
so miserably as a predictor that I won't even stress the
point that the prospects for the Wilkes footballers this
The soccermen of Jim Ferris face a 10-game schedule
with home contests against Susquehanna, Rider, Hofstra,
Muhlenberg, and East Stroudsburg. Road contests will
pit the hooters against Wagner. Lafayette, Gettysburg,
Lycoming, and Stevens.
Ten returning lettermen are
expected to bolster the team's hopes for a winning season.
Again, as in the past, your attendance at any of the fall
athletic events is eagerly anticipated. Remember, too,
that your new Alumni Association Membership Cards
entitle you to free admission at all home athletic events
except Homecoming.
season are very optimistic.
Compared with last season’s nine-game schedule, the
Colonel gridders will currently play seven games open
ing with Moravian at home on September 30. Other
home games will be played on October 21 and November
4. The homecoming contest with Lycoming on October
21 will be part of a soccer-football double header. Coach
Jim Ferris' hooters entertain the Hofstra Flying Dutch
men at 10 a.m. and the Colonels and Warriors will tangle
at 2 p.m. The home finale with the Red Devils of Dickin
son on November 4 will mark the final football game
between the two schools.
WILKES COLLEGE FALL SPORTS SCHEDULE
1961 FOOTBALL
Date
Road trips for the Colonels will take them to P.M.C. in
Chester on October 7; Ursinus in Collegeville on October
14; Haverford in Haverford on November 11; and Sus
quehanna in Selinsgrove on Saturday night, November
18. All home games in football and soccer, by the way,
will be played on the new athletic field—formerly Artil
lery Park.
Sat., Sept.
30
Sat., Oct.
7
Opponent
Place
Time
P.M.C.
Away
1:30p.m.
Moravian
Home
2:00p.m.
Away
2:00p.m.
Sat., Oct.
14
Ursinus
Sat., Oct.
21
Lycoming (H'coming) Home 2:00 p.m.
Sat., Nov.
4
Dickinson
Home
Sat., Nov.
11
Haverford
Away
1:30p.m.
Sat., Nov.
18
Susquehanna
Away
8:00p.m.
2:00p.m.
All Home Events—Wilkes College Athletic Field
In addition to the new playing field and modern club
house. the football team will benefit from the experience
ALUMNI SEEK PUBLIC OFFICES
Two Wilkes College Alumni are running for high public
offices in the forthcoming Luzerne County elections.
REMEMBER . .
Homecoming Weekend
You must be proud of the eminent position Wilkes Col
lege has attained, not only in the community of Wyo
ming Valley, but in the field of liberal education. Our
College has matured to the enviable position of one of
the outstanding "small colleges" in the East.
Institutions, like plants, grow in strength when properly
cultivated and nurtured.
— 1936 —
No. on Honor Roll
As alumni you have been part of that source from which
the College is nurtured. In the recent $100,000 develop
% of Participation __ ...
$ Contributed......
ment campaign that started in May, the campaign goal
was achieved. WKile former students did not produce the
bulk of the funds, their participation was manifested by
the constant flow of contributions . . . and in many classes
Mrs. Edward M. 1
Mrs. George M. J;
Mrs. Coray H. Mi
Mrs. Norman R. 1
Mirko J. Tuhy
new names were among the donors.
This fine example of spontaneous giving by alumni has
a salutary effect on others: the community and other
prospects always look to see whether or not Wilkes
alumni are playing their part.
For others who were
— 1937 —
No. on Honor Roll
r,c of Participation
$ Contributed
Judson Evans
Dr. Marvin Judd
James T. Mayock
captains and workers, and for those who traveled at
all hours to alumni chapter meetings, we more
more than
thank you.
Your contributions have helped resolve, substantially,
the immediate objectives of Wilkes. As alumni, we grow
as the College grows . . . and our College will continue
County Comptroller on the Democratic ticket.
Our sincere thanks for not forgetting.
Both candidates are active in the Wilkes College Alumni
Association.
— 1935 —
No. on Honor Roll _____
% of Participation
____
$ Contributed
Dr. Charles N. Bu
Mrs. Marion C. I
George M. Jacobs
Mrs. Jerome D. M
Robert H. Melson
Dear Fellow Alumnus:
to grow, as we grow ....
lican ticket.
10
Attorney Gifford Cappellini
Alumni Gifts Chairman
1961 Campaign
Elmo Clemente, Certified Public Accountant, member
of the class of '42, is seeking election to the office of
Attorney Gifford Cappellini, member of the class of 45,
is running for the -office of Prothonotary on the Repub
October 20-21
$5.08 over last year’s average gift
We are grateful to the following
of the program of Wilkes as indie;
gifts. Below, listed by classes are
contributed to this year's alumni
was compiled from gifts received
September 30. 1961.)
— 1939 —
No. on Honor Roll
cc of Participation
$ Contributed
Francis A. Baldau
Mrs. George F. B
Mrs. William C. I
Jack P. Karn
Dr. Robert M. Ke
Dr. Earl J. Rhoad
Sincerely yours.
Gifford Cappellini
Alumni Gifts Chairman
11
�1961 ANNUAL ALUMNI CAMPAIGN
a
£
Four hundred
and
nineteen
alumni have contributed
$9,317.20 as their share in the 1961 Annual Campaign
for scholarships and the Graduate Program.
____ j
John Gardner skirts right
Moravian players.
play
tarter back,
Bey, Colonel qua
“Ted" Travis-Bej
,ing Mora
set to pass against onrushii
defense.
, Quarterback
yardage.
Ted
The total amount contributed by the alumni is very
encouraging, but the percentage of participation has been
disappointing. In last year's 1960 Three-Phase Develop
ment Program, five hundred and fifty-seven alumni con
tributed $9,561.03. As you can see, the amount con
tributed has remained very close to last year’s total,
Bey picks up additional
SPORT SHOTS
but we have had a drop in participation.
go I went out on a limb as far as I could
d with the exception of my prediction for
of former outstanding gridder, Marv Antinnes, who will
work primarily with the backfield.
With all these
wrestling championship. I was as wrong
in 1948. And so. dear Alums, I have
encouraging innovations, plus thirteen seasoned lettermen and some promising freshmen, the winless days of
old may be transformed into winning ways.
Sill Jervis and his cooperative crew to
azing equipment somewhere beneath the
quehanna River. In fact, I have failed
a predictor that 1 won’t even stress the
prospects for the Wilkes footballers this
The average gift this year is $22.24 — an increase of
$5.08 over last year’s average gift.
The soccermen of Jim Ferris face a 10-game schedule
with home contests against Susquehanna, Rider, Hofstra,
Muhlenberg, and East Stroudsburg. Road contests will
pit the booters against Wagner. Lafayette, Gettysburg,
Lycoming, and Stevens. Ten returning lettermen are
expected to bolster the team's hopes for a winning season.
Again, as in the past, your attendance at any of the fall
athletic events is eagerly anticipated. Remember, too,
that your new Alumni Association Membership Cards
entitle you to free admission at all home athletic events
■ optimistic.
last season's nine-game schedule, the
s will currently play seven games openvian at home on September 30. Other
1 be played on October 21 and November
>ming contest with Lycoming on October
jf a soccer-football double header. Coach
ters entertain the Hofstra Flying Dutchind the Colonels and Warriors will tangle
lome finale with the Red Devils of Dickinher 4 will mark the final football game
o schools.
We are grateful to the following for your endorsement
of the program of Wilkes as indicated by your generous
gifts. Below, listed by classes are the alumni who have
contributed to this year’s alumni campaign.
(This list
was compiled from gifts received up to, and including.
September 30. 1961.)
Attorney Gifford Cappellini
Alumni Gifts Chairman
1961 Campaign
— 1935 —
No. on Honor Roll
5 out of 63
% of Participation .........
7.9%
$ Contributed
.... $185.00
Dr. Charles N. Burns
Mrs. Marion C. Harris
George M. Jacobs
Mrs. Jerome D. McGlynn
Robert H. Melson
Dear Fellow Alumnus;
You must be proud of the eminent position Wilkes Col
lege has attained, not only in the community of Wyo
ming Valley, but in the field of liberal education. Our
College has matured to the enviable position of one of
the outstanding "small colleges” in the East.
except Homecoming.
Institutions, like plants, grow in strength when properly
cultivated and nurtured.
WILKES COLLEGE FALL SPORTS SCHEDULE
1961 FOOTBALL
Date
Sat., Sept.
the Colonels will take them to P.M.C. in
)ber 7: Ursinus in Collegeville on October
n Haverford on November 11: and Sus.■linsgrove on Saturday night, November
lames in football and soccer, by the way.
>n the new athletic field—formerly Artil-
30
Time
Opponent
Place
P.M.C.
Away 1:30 p.m.
Sat., Oct.
7
Moravian
Home 2:00 p.m.
Sat., Oct.
14
Ursinus
Away 2:00 p.m.
Sat., Oct.
21
Lycoming (H’comiting) Home 2:00 p.m.
Sat., Nov.
4
Dickinson
Home 2:00 p.m.
Sat., Nov.
11
Haverford
Away 1:30 p.m.
Sat., Nov.
18
Susquehanna
Away 8:00 p.m.
All Home Events—Wilkes College Athletic Field
the new playing field and modern clubtall team will benefit from the experience
ALUMNI SEEK PUBLIC OFFICES
Two Wilkes College Alumni are running for high public
offices in the forthcoming Luzerne County elections.
BER . .
Elmo Clemente, Certified Public Accountant, member
of the class of '42, is seeking election to the office of
County Comptroller on the Democratic ticket.
ccoming Week-end
Attorney Gifford Cappellini, member of the class off '45,
is running for the office of Prothonotary on the
t.._ Repub- ,
lican ticket.
October 20-21
Both candidates are active in the Wilkes College Alumni
— 1936 —
As alumni you have been part of that source from which
the College is nurtured. In the recent $100,000 develop
ment campaign that started in May, the campaign goal
was achieved. While former students did not produce the
bulk of the funds, their participation was manifested by
the constant flow of contributions . . . and in many classes
new names were among the donors.
I
No. on Honor Roll
5 out of 26
% of Participation
19.2%
$ Contributed
.............. $90.00
Mrs. Edward M. Dwyer
Mrs. George M. Jacobs
Mrs. Coray H. Miller
Mrs. Norman R. Pearse
Mirko J. Tuhy
This fine example of spontaneous giving by alumni has
a salutary effect on others; the community and other
prospects always look to see whether or not Wilkes
alumni are playing their part.
For others who were
captains and workers, and for those who traveled at
all hours to alumni chapter meetings, we more than
thank you.
— 1937 No. on Honor Roll
3 out of 59
_____ 5.1%
% of Participation ..
$ Contributed
..... $55.00
Judson Evans
Dr. Marvin Judd
James T. Mayock
Your contributions have helped resolve, substantially,
the immediate objectives of Wilkes. As alumni, we grow
as the College grows . . . and our College will continue
to grow, as we grow ....
— 1939 —
No. on Honor Roll
6 out of 57
% of Participation............... . 10.5%
$ Contributed
$168.00
Francis A. Baldauski
Mrs. George F. Bertsch
Mrs. William C. Davis
Jack P. Karn
Dr. Robert M. Kerr
Dr. Earl J. Rhoades
Our sincere thanks for not forgetting.
Sincerely yours,
Gifford Cappellini
Alumni Gifts Chairman
Association.
10
11
�— 1940 —
No. on Honor Roll............ 2 out of 61
% of Participation ..............
3.3%
$ Contributed .........
— $20.00
Mary Brislin
Donald R. Kersteen
— 1941 ~
No. on Honor Roll____ . 6 out of 57
% of Participation .................. 10.5%
$ Contributed ..... ..................... $161.00
Dr. John A. Anthony
Ben Badman
Thomas Brislin
David L. Friedman
Alfred Groh
Raymond H. Young
— 1942 —
3 out of 68
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation ........... ... 4.4%
$ Contributed ...................... ...... $30.00
"Warren A. Kistler
Mrs. Aaron S. Lisses
Dr. Peter Mayock
— 1943 —
No. on Honor Roll
6 out of 50
___ 12%
% of Participation .........
$ Contributed ...... ........... ....... $88.50
Mrs. Paul F. DeWitt
Mrs. Thomas Flanagan
Theodore Glowacki
Nelson F. Jones
Ruth L. Keats
Dr. William S. Myers
— 1946 —
4 out of 35
No. on Honor Roll........
.. 11.4%
% of Participation .....
$ Contributed ................. .. $42.50
Mrs. J. Ronald Carey
Mrs. Harry Fierverker
William D. Hannigan
"Albert N. Miller
- 1947 —
No. on Honor Roll .........
4 out of 76
% of Participation . . ......... 5.5%
$ Contributed ...... .. $90.00
“M. Lloyd Davies
Dr. Edward M. Dwyer
Attorney Elmer Harris
Kenneth F. Maloney
— 1948 —
No. on Honor Roll ... .... 13 out of 205
% of Participation .. ......... 6.3%
$ Contributed ............... ... $210.50
Herman Baumann, Jr.
Mrs. Herman Baumann, Jr.
"Mrs. Frank J. Evan
J. Glenn Gooch
William J. Harvey
Lester G. Jones
Seymour Mark
Mrs. Jerome Mintzer
Attorney Joseph J. Savitz
Eugene L. Shaver
Joseph B. Slamon, Jr.
Dr. Sheldon G. Turley
Frederick D. Varker
— 1944 —
No. on Honor Roll .......... . 8 out of 52
% of Participation . .... . . . 15.4%
$ Contributed .................. .
$149.00
Robert E. Barnum
Loretta Farris
Mrs. Walter Douglass
Mrs. Nelson F. Jones
Dr. Alex Kotch
Mrs. William S. Myers
L. Robert Spencer
Daniel Williams
— 1945 —
No. on Honor Roll ____ 3 out of 51
% of Participation ...........
5.9%
$ Contributed ..........
$72.50
Attorney Gifford S. Cappellini
Mrs. William D. Hannigan
"Mrs. Jean S. Iba
— 1949 —
No. on Honor Roll
27 out of 277
% of Participation ..................... 9.7%
$ Contributed
.................. $2,796.50
Eugene R. Anderson
Robert Anthony
Philip Baron
John W. Burak
Gerald Bush, Jr.
Malcolm W. Dale
Paul F. DeWitt
"Frank J. Evan
Harry Fierverker
Thomas M. Gill
Irvin J. Gladnick
Louis T. Groshel
Mrs. Robert G. Haag
Donald Honeywell
Joseph H. Kanner
12
Dr. David Katz
Jack M. Kloeber
Chester H. Miller, Sr.
Jerome Mintzer
Allen P. Prodgers
Mrs. Arne K. Rasmussen
Arthur J. Rice, Jr.
Edmund A. Sajeski
Clemence A. Scott
Joseph Sooby
Albert J. Stratton
Leonard J. Swicklick *
* - $2,400 was received from Eastman
Kodak Company in the name of Leon
ard Swicklick, a Kodak employee,
under that company's Aid to Educa
tion Program.
— 1950 -
No. on Honor Roll
34 out of 354
% of Participation
.......... .
9.6%
$ Contributed .
.... . . .. $502.00
William H. Bergstrasser
William J. Brown
Augustine C. Buzby
Robert S. Capin
Robert M. Chopick
Leonard J. Czajkowski
Richard M. Edwards
Mrs. James B. Erickson
Mrs. Edward Eyerman, III
Dr. Don C. Follmer
Mrs. Homer Huffman
Donald E. Kemmerer
Philip E. Kennedy
Francis S. Koch
Edward H. Lidz
Mario E. Lizzi
Carl J. Malisheski
Alfred Markim
Dr. Walter E. Mokychic
Chester P. Omichinski
Francis Pinkowski
"Dr. William A. Plummer
Arne K. Rasmussen
Clyde H. Ritter
Daniel Sherman
John N. Shoemaker
John D. Stark
John Surash
"Mrs. Sheldon G. Turley
Henry S. VanKoski
Kenneth Widdall
Mrs. Kenneth Widdall
Russell H. Williams
John E. Young
— 1951 —
No. on Honor Roll .
.27 out of 286
% of Participation ........
9.4%
$ Contributed ......
-- $470.00
Mrs. Martin Altman
Elmo Begliomini
Donald E. Blankenbush
Sanford Cohen
Dr. Peter J. Coray
Norman E. Cromack
Norman W. Cross
Melvin H. Feltz
Mrs. Willard Furman
Mrs. Ralph Goldman
John A. Good
Harold W. Graboske
John Gresh, Jr.
Robert W\ Hall
Nicholas A. Heineman
Attorney Harry Hiscox
"William Holtzman
Charles F. Jackson
Dr. Herbert N. Oliver, Jr.
Mrs. Chester P. Omichinski
D. Joseph Pelmoter
Attorney William A. Perlmuth
M. Thomas Robbins
Rev. Fred B. Schultz, Jr.
Mrs. John N. Shoemaker
Andrew Skumanich
Mrs. John D. Stark
- 1952 No. on Honor Roll
.... 18 out of 213
% of Participation
..
8.5%
$ Contributed ........................... $675.00
Archie Antonio
Albert T. Cole
Leon J. Decker
Mrs. Priscilla S. Drake
Frank Eastman
Carl A. Fosko
Mrs. Robert W. Hall
William G. Hart
Mrs. L. Anita Janerich
John Kirchman
Chester N. Molley
"Robert D. Morris
Gerald M. Ostroskie
Mrs. George F. Ralston
James G. Richardson
Mrs. William Thompson *
William J. Umphred
Carl A. Wallison
* - $345.00 was received from the First
National City Bank of New York in
Mrs. Thompson's name under that
bank’s Aid to Education Program.
— 1953 —
No. on Honor Roll ...... 19 out of 177
% of Participation
................ 10.7%
$ Contributed
.... .............. $300.50
‘"Elizabeth Badman
Paul Beers
Mrs. Hal Berg
Mrs. Marvin Berg
Robert V. Croker, Jr.
"‘Preston Eckmeder
Charles A. Giunta
Murray R. Hartman
Mrs. Denah Heller
Homer Huffman
Mrs. Carl Karassik
Theodore Krohn
Dr. David Kunkle
Alan G. Levin
""Dr. George McMahon
""Mrs. George McMahon
‘"William Morgan
"Kenneth Varker
David B. Whitney
- 1954 -
No. on Honor Roll
29 out of 194
% of Participation
... 14.9%
.... $442.50
$ Contributed ......
Thomas R. Adams
Mrs. Arthur A. Allen
Mrs. Margaret E. Connolly
Lionel I. Dannick
Mrs. Charles E. Hagen
Richard H. Hawk
Mrs. William Holtzman
Barry Iscovitz
Marvin Kanner
Carl Karassik
Thomas Kelly
Hillard A. Kemp, Jr.
John G. Konsavage
Mrs. Michael J. Lewis
Lucy J. Liggett
Chaplain Wayne S. Madden
Leonard J. Mather
Joseph J. Mosier
Mrs. Katherine F. Peckham
David G. Phillips
E. James Phillips
Theresa Sapp
Mrs. Abe Savitz
Arthur G. Taylor
George A. Thomas
Albert J. Wallace
Mrs. Carl A. Wallison
Peter Wurm
Mrs. Stanley P. Young
13
- 1955 —
.... 41
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation
$ Contributed ........
Dr. Dean A. Arvai
Robert Burger
"‘Walter Chapko
‘‘‘Casimer Ciesla
‘"William Crowder
Mrs. Leon J. Deck<
‘"James Dull
"‘Robert Dymond
"‘Harry W. Ennis
"‘Howard Ennis
"‘Melvin Farkas
Dr. Sandy A, Pure
Mrs. Sandy A. Fu:
Dorothy E. Hessle:
David L. Hoats
Morris Hollander
""Arthur Hoover
Judith Hopkins
Joshua J. Kaufman
"‘John Kearney
Dr. Richard B. Kei
‘"John Lancio
‘"Margaret Luty
"‘Mrs. Richard McC
"‘Mrs. Doris Merril
‘"Robert Metzger
‘"James Neveras
‘"Russell R. Picton
"‘Michael Riley
‘"David Rosser
‘"Austin Sherman
Carl Smith
"‘Eugene Snee
"‘Kingsley N. Snydi
‘"Albert Spanich
"‘Louis Steck
‘"Mrs. Esther Stras
‘"Joseph Trosko
‘"Howard Updyke
"‘Edward Yarashes;
‘"Ralph Zezza
- 1956 No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation .
$ Contributed
William G. Beck
Mrs. Paul Beers
Jerome M. Blaske
Glenn D. Carey
Mrs. Robert B. (
Howard E. Gros;
Reese D. Jones
(Continued or
�2 out of 61
........ 3.3%
$20.00
een
6 out of 57
______ 10.5%
_____ $161.00
thony
lan
mg
3 out of 68
. ...... 4.4%
... $30.00
let
isses
de
6 out of 50
......... 12%
...... $88.50
:Witt
anagan
cki
Jyers
—. 8 out of 52
-. 15.4%
$149.00
i
ttglass
[ones
Myers
... 3 out of 51
--------- 5.9%
....... $72.50
S. Cappellini
dannigan
— 1946 —
4 out of 35
No. on Honor Roll .......
% of Participation ........ ...... 11.4%
$ Contributed ................. ....... $42.50
Mrs. J. Ronald Carey
Mrs. Harry Fierverker
William D. Hannigan
"Albert N. Miller
— 1947 4 out of 76
No. on Honor Roll.......
% of Participation ...... .... . 5.5%
$ Contributed .................. ....... $90.00
"M. Lloyd Davies
Dr. Edward M. Dwyer
Attorney Elmer Harris
Kenneth F. Maloney
- 1948 No. on Honor Roll ___ 13 out of 205
% of Participation ...... ____ 6.3%
$ Contributed ..................___ $210.50
Herman Baumann, Jr.
Mrs. Herman Baumann, Jr.
"Mrs. Frank J. Evan
J. Glenn Gooch
William J. Harvey
Lester G. Jones
Seymour Mark
Mrs. Jerome Mintzer
Attorney Joseph J. Savitz
Eugene L. Shaver
Joseph B. Slamon, Jr.
Dr. Sheldon G. Turley
Frederick D. Varker
- 1949 —
No. on Honor Roll .
27 out of 277
% of Participation.................... 9.7%
$ Contributed ..... ............. . .... $2,796.50
Eugene R. Anderson
Robert Anthony
Philip Baron
John W. Burak
Gerald Bush, Jr.
Malcolm W. Dale
Paul F. DeWitt
"Frank J. Evan
Harry Fierverker
Thomas M. Gill
Irvin J. Gladnick
Louis T. Groshel
Mrs. Robert G. Haag
Donald Honeywell
Joseph H. Kanner
12
Dr. David Katz
Jack M. Kloeber
Chester H. Miller, Sr.
Jerome Mintzer
Allen P. Prodgers
Mrs. Arne K. Rasmussei:n
Arthur J. Rice, Jr.
Edmund A. Sajeski
Clemence A. Scott
Joseph Sooby
Albert J. Stratton
Leonard J. Swicklick *
* - $2,400 was received from Eastman
Kodak Company in the name of Leon
ard Swicklick, a Kodak employee,
under that company’s Aid to Educa
tion Program.
— 1950 —
No. on Honor Roll
. 34 out of 354
% of Participation
............ 9.6%
$ Contributed . ..
.......
$502.00
William H. Bergstrasser
William J. Brown
Augustine C. Buzby
Robert S. Capin
Robert M. Chopick
Leonard J. Czajkowski
Richard M. Edwards
Mrs. James B. Erickson
Mrs. Edward Eyerman, III
Dr. Don C. Follmer
Mrs. Homer Huffman
Donald E. Kemmerer
Philip E. Kennedy
Francis S. Koch
Edward H. Lidz
Mario E. Lizzi
Carl J. Malisheski
Alfred Markim
Dr. Walter E. Mokychic
Chester P. Omichinski
Francis Pinkowski
"Dr. William A. Plummer
Arne K. Rasmussen
Clyde H. Ritter
Daniel Sherman
John N. Shoemaker
John D. Stark
John Surash
"Mrs. Sheldon G. Turley
Henry S. VanKoski
Kenneth Widdall
Mrs. Kenneth Widdall
Russell H. Williams
John E, Young
— 1951 —
No. on Honor Roll .. ... . 27 out of 286
% of Participation -----...----- 9.4%
$ Contributed ................
$470.00
Mrs. Martin Altman
Elmo Begliomini
Donald E. Blankenbush
Sanford Cohen
Dr. Peter J. Coray
Norman E. Cromack
Norman W. Cross
Melvin H. Feltz
Mrs. Willard Furman
Mrs. Ralph Goldman
John A. Good
Harold W. Graboske
John Gresh, Jr.
Robert W. Hall
Nicholas A. Heineman
Attorney Harry Hiscox
"William Holtzman
Charles F. Jackson
Dr. Herbert N. Oliver, Jr.
Mrs. Chester P. Omichinski
D. Joseph Pelmoter
Attorney William A. Pcrlmuth
M. Thomas Robbins
Rev. Fred B. Schultz, Jr.
Mrs. John N. Shoemaker
Andrew Skumanich
Mrs. John D. Stark
- 1952 No. on Honor Roll
18 out of 213
% of Participation
. 8.5%
$ Contributed .
$675.00
Archie Antonio
Albert T. Cole
Leon J. Decker
Mrs. Priscilla S. Drake
Frank Eastman
Carl A. Fosko
Mrs. Robert W. Hall
William G. Hart
Mrs. L. Anita Janerich
John Kirchman
Chester N. Molley
"Robert D. Morris
Gerald M. Ostroskie
Mrs. George F. Ralston
James G. Richardson
Mrs. William Thompson *
William J. Umphred
Carl A. Wallison
* - $345.00 was received from the First
National City Bank of New York in
Mrs. Thompson's name under that
bank s Aid to Education Program.
- 1953 No. on Honor Roll........ 19 out of 177
% of Participation .......... ... 10.7%
$ Contributed ....................... ... $300.50
‘"Elizabeth Badman
Paul Beers
Mrs. Hal Berg
Mrs. Marvin Berg
Robert V. Croker, Jr.
‘"Preston Eckmeder
Charles A. Giunta
Murray R. Hartman
Mrs. Denah Heller
Homer Huffman
Mrs. Carl Karassik
Theodore Krohn
Dr. David Kunkle
Alan G. Levin
""Dr. George McMahon
""Mrs. George McMahon
"‘William Morgan
"Kenneth Varker
David B. Whitney
— 1954 —
No. on Honor Roll
29 out of 194
% of Participation
... 14.9%
. . $442.50
$ Contributed
Thomas R. Adams
Mrs. Arthur A. Allen
Mrs. Margaret E. Connolly
Lionel I. Dannick
Mrs. Charles E. Hagi[en
Richard H. Hawk
Mrs. William Holtzman
Barry Iscovitz
Marvin Kanner
Carl Karassik
Thomas Kelly
Hillard A. Kemp, Jr.
John G. Konsavage
Mrs. Michael J. Lewis
Lucy J. Liggett
Chaplain Wayne S. Madden
Leonard J. Mather
Joseph J. Mosier
Mrs. Katherine F. Peckham
David G. Phillips
E. James Phillips
Theresa Sapp
Mrs. Abe Savitz
Arthur G. Taylor
George A. Thomas
Albert J. Wallace
Mrs. Carl A. Wallison
Peter Wurm
Mrs. Stanley P. Young
13
— 1955 —
No. on Honor Roll ........ 41 out of 176
% of Participation ..........
23.3%
$ Contributed .............
$570.80
Dr. Dean A. Arvan
Robert Burger
‘"Walter Chapko
"‘Casimer Ciesla
"‘William Crowder
Mrs. Leon J. Decker
"‘James Dull
‘"Robert Dymond
‘"Harry W. Ennis
‘"Howard Ennis
‘"Melvin Farkas
Dr. Sandy A. Furey
Mrs. Sandy A. Furey
Dorothy E. Hessler
David L. Hoats
Morris Hollander
""Arthur Hoover
Judith Hopkins
Joshua J. Kaufman
"‘John Kearney
Dr. Richard B. Kent
‘"John Lancio
"‘Margaret Luty
"‘Mrs. Richard McGuire
"‘Mrs. Doris Merrill
‘"Robert Metzger
‘"James Neveras
"‘Russell R. Picton
‘"Michael Riley
"‘David Rosser
‘"Austin Sherman
Carl Smith
‘"Eugene Snee
‘"Kingsley N. Snyder
‘"Albert Spanich
‘"Louis Steck
‘"Mrs. Esther Strassman
‘"Joseph Trosko
‘"Howard Updyke
‘"Edward Yarasheski
‘"Ralph Zezza
- 1956 No. on Honor Roll
28 out of 233
% of Participation . ..
......... 12.2%
$ Contributed .......
$294.50
William G. Beck
Mrs. Paul Beers
Jerome M. Blasko
Glenn D. Carey
Mrs. Robert B. Chase
Howard E. Gross
Reese D. Jones
(Continued on page 21)
�(Continued from page 5)
The pre-glacial channel, which is now covered, is known
as the "Buried Valley," reaching from West Nanticoke
to West Pittston, a distance of fifteen miles. It is of
considerable importance to mining operations, in which
deep potholes are a hazard, and to the problem of sub
sidence. Many bore holes have been drilled to deter
mine the location of the ancient channel, to avoid cutting
into it and starting underground landslides of loose fill.
The problem of surface subsidence is related to the be
havior of ground water flowing through pore spaces in
the rocks and between sand grains. When this water
rises in loose sand and gravel, such as that filling the
buried valley, it creates patches of quicksand which may
affect the surface terrain.
a?
THEATER ALUMNI
RAISES THE CURTAIN
Theater alumni officers are shown with Mr. Alfred Groh,
at a recent meeting in Levittown, Pennsylvania. L. to R.
Seated, Jane Obitz Lind, Secretary; Paul Thomas, Presi
dent. Second row, standing,
ing. Steve Cooney, Vice-Presi
dent; Alfred Groh, Director of Dramatics at Wilkes; and
Bert Stein, past president of the Theater alumni.
official code of objectives relating to future Theater
Alumni activity. Paul Thomas, President, has suggested
that an exchange of ideas between active Wilkes theater
members and the Alumni would strengthen the purposes
and ideas of both. All Theater Alumni are urged to
attend the meeting at Chase Theater, October 21 at
noon, when Dr. Farley will outline the College's plans
for the theater.
This past May the Wilkes College Theater Alumni
marked its first birthday with the production. "Recollec
tions In Three Acts.” in which former Cue and Curtain
members returned to Chase Theater to do scenes from
previous dramas, comedies, and musicals. This pro
duction served to increase the enthusiasm the members
have shown in strengthening the association. Past Presi
dent Bert Stein states, "Our's is a progressive organiza
tion. and our work on the campus in such activities is
but a prologue to what we hope eventually to do. Our
thoughts are constantly on the future fulfillment of our
goals.”
Alumni who wish to receive information concerning the
Wilkes College Theater Alumni are requested to fill out
the following form and mail it to Alfred S. Groh, Chase
Theater, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
During the summer, the nominating committee met to
make the necessary arrangements for the election of
new officers. Election results were: Paul Thomas, '51,
President; Bert Stein, '52, Vice-President; Steve Cooney,
'60. Treasurer; and Jane Obitz Lind. '56. Secretary.
These officers will preside over the Theater Alumni
meeting Homecoming weekend. At a final meeting of
the Executive Planning Committee on August 12 at Bert
and Addie Stein's home, plans for the coming year were
formulated. They will be submitted to the Alumni mem
bers for approval.
Name
Mr.
Mrs.
Miss
Class
(Please print name in full)
Street
City
Briefly, the calendar of events for the 1961-1962 season
to be presented at Homecoming will include participation
m the Cue and Curtain Awards Ceremony and the pre
sentation of a second "Kum-Bak” show. At the special
meeting of Theater Alumni, members will discuss an
Zone
State
I wish to receive Theater Alumni information.
I will
Attend October 21 Meeting
1 will not
14
Dr. Kenneth R. Widdall
Dean of Administrative
Affairs
West Chester College
A short field trip from Northampton Street in WilkesBarre up Giants' Despair through Laurel Run and re
turning via route 115 offers an opportunity to see many
of the previously mentioned features. On the way up
the hill above Georgetown to either side of the road
there are patches of ground out of which smoke rises
intermittently: this is a result of fires started in the coal
seams many years ago, and the burning will continue
until the entire vein is consumed.
Wilkes Alumnus Appointed
On July 1, Dr. Kenneth R. Widdall, an <
Wilkes College, class of 1950, was appoints
Administrative Affairs at West Chester Col
Chester, Pennsylvania.
One of Dr. Widdall's immediate projects
continuation of West Chester’s lang-rang c
for the 1961-70 period.
From Prospect Rock, near the top, a clear day affords
a spectacular panoramic view from West Pittston to
Shickshinny. This rock is an outcrop of the resistant
Pottsville conglomerate which forms the mountain di
rectly across, appearing level, at about 2000 , except
where notches indicate the presence of streams cutting
through the ridge. This even surface, seen in many
parts of Pennsylvania, represents the Schooley peneplain
surface, "peneplain” meaning “almost a level plain" and
Schooley being the name given to that surface which
was formerly the height of the whole area. The Sus
quehanna River first flowed on this, winding along on a
course unhampered by ridges until it gradually cut its
present gorge through the rim mountains at West Pitts
ton, Nanticoke, and Shickshinny. It is therefore an
example of superposed stream, having been superimposed
upon the mountains and valleys when they were buried
beneath sediments which have since been eroded away.
This explains why the river, flowing southeast from New
York State, cuts through the hardest rocks in the area
instead of flowing around them on a path of less re
sistance.
Dr. Widdall, who was born in Avoca. Penna
from West Pittston High School. He recei’
degree in biology from Wilkes College, an I
in educational administration from Bucknell
and his Ed. D. from Teachers College. Co
versity. He also attended the Pennsylvani;
versity. Temple University, and Lehigh I
Dr. Widdall’s latest position was Manager o
at Teachers College. Columbia University
he held since February, 1959. Before that
search assistant at Teachers College Insti
ministrative Research. Dr. Widdall and hi
garet Elizabeth, Wilkes '50. are the pare
children. The Widdalls are now residing i
section of V/est Chester.
hole, these are probably the result of scoui
water streams carrying abrasive material i
and hollowing out the creekbed en route
stream at the bottom.
From time to time this field trip, with an
a coal mine, is conducted by geologist in cc
the Wyoming Valley Historical and Geolc
whose museum and library is located in
on Franklin Street behind the Osterhout Lil
interested in these field trips may wish
Society for additional information.
Continuing this short field expedition, the road up the
hill comes to Laurel Run. situated in a little valley be
tween the Wilkes-Barre and Penobscot ridges. This
little depression was caused by erosion of the weak, red
Mauch Chunk shale. The road eventually runs into
route 115, and a left turn here down a few miles brings
one to the abandoned route 115 on the left, now over
grown and somewhat obscured. Walking down this
road about a third of a mile, one comes out at a little
creek on the left, the site of six or seven glacial tubs. In
addition to being a scenic spot, ideal for nature walks
and picnics, this is a good and accessible example of
stream sculpture. As in the case of the Archbald pot-
This discussion has endeavored to explai
features and related problems of the W
area. It is hoped that further field and
be undertaken to learn more about the ori
of the buried valley and the many other
tures not touched upon in this article.
15
�(Continued from page 5)
The pre-glacial channel, which is now covered, is known
as the "Buried Valley." reaching from West Nanticoke
to West Pittston, a distance of fifteen miles. It is of
considerable importance to mining operations, in which
deep potholes are a hazard, and to the problem of sub
sidence. Many bore holes have been drilled to deter
mine the location of the ancient channel, to avoid cutting
into it and starting underground landslides of loose fill.
The problem of surface subsidence is related to the be
havior of ground water flowing through pore spaces in
the rocks and between sand grains. When this water
rises in loose sand and gravel, such as that filling the
buried valley, it creates patches of quicksand which may
Dr. Kenneth R. Widdall
Dean of Administrative
Affairs
West Chester College
affect the surface terrain.
I ALUMNI
’HE CURTAIN
Vilkes College Theater Alumni
with the production, “Recolleci which former Cue and Curtain
tase Theater to do scenes from
dies, and musicals.
This proise the enthusiasm the members
rang the association. Past PresiOur’s is a progressive organizathe campus in such activities is
we hope eventually to do. Our
on the future fulfillment of our
Theater alumni officers are shown with Mr. Alfred Groh,
at a recent meeting in Levittown, Pennsylvania. L. to R.
Seated, Jane Obitz Lind, Secretary; Paul Thomas, Presi
dent. Second row, standing, Steve Cooney, Vice-Presi
dent; Alfred Groh, Director of Dramatics at Wilkes; and
Bert Stein, past president of the Theater alumni.
Alumni who wish to receive information concerning the
Wilkes College Theater Alumni are requested to fill out
the following form and mail it to Alfred S. Groh, Chase
Theater, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Name
ide over the Theater Alumni
zekend. At a final meeting of
-ommittee on August 12 at Bert
plans for the coming year were
t submitted to the Alumni mem-
Mr.
Mrs.
Miss
Class
1 J
Zone ....
State
J wish to receive Theater Alumni information.
□ 1 will
Attend October 21 Meeting
fJ
I will not
From Prospect Rock, near the top. a clear day affords
a spectacular panoramic view from West Pittston to
Shickshinny. This rock is an outcrop of the resistant
Pottsville conglomerate which forms the mountain di
rectly across, appearing level, at about 2000’, except
where notches indicate the presence of streams cutting
through the ridge.
This even surface, seen in many
parts of Pennsylvania, represents the Schooley peneplain
surface, "peneplain" meaning "almost a level plain" and
Schooley being the name given to that surface which
was formerly the height of the whole area. The Sus
quehanna River first flowed on this, winding along on a
course unhampered by ridges until it gradually cut its
present gorge through the rim mountains at West Pitts
ton, Nanticoke, and Shickshinny.
It is therefore an
example of superposed stream, having been superimposed
upon the mountains and valleys when they were buried
beneath sediments which have since been eroded away.
This explains why the river, flowing southeast from New
York State, cuts through the hardest rocks in the area
Dr. Widdall, who was born in Avoca, Penna., graduated
from West Pittston High School. He received an A.B.
degree in biology from Wilkes College, an M.A. degree
in educational administration from Bucknell University,
and his Ed. D. from Teachers College, Columbia Uni
versity. He also attended the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, Temple University, and Lehigh University.
Dr. Widdall’s latest position was Manager of Operations
at Teachers College, Columbia University, a position
he held since February, 1959. Before that, he was re
search assistant at Teachers College Institute of Ad
ministrative Research. Dr. Widdall and his wife. Mar
garet Elizabeth, Wilkes '50. are the parents of three
children. The Widdalls are now residing in the Roslyn
section of West Chester.
hole, these are probably the result of scouring by melt
water streams carrying abrasive material in suspension,
and hollowing out the creekbed en route to the master
instead of flowing around them on a path of less re
sistance.
stream at the bottom.
From time to time this field trip, with an added stop at
a coal mine, is conducted by geologist in connection with
the Wyoming Valley Historical and Geological Society,
whose museum and library is located in Wilkes-Barre
on Franklin Street behind the Osterhout Library. Readers
interested in these field trips may wish to contact the
route 115, and a left turn here down a few miles brings
one to the abandoned route 115 on the left, now over
grown and somewhat obscured.
Walking down this
road about a third of a mile, one comes out at a little
creek on the left, the site of six or seven glacial tubs. In
addition to being a scenic spot, ideal for nature walks
and picnics, this is a good and accessible example of
stream sculpture.
14
One of Dr. Widdall’s immediate projects will be the
continuation of West Chester's lang-rang campus plan
for the 1961-70 period.
tween the WTkes-Barre and Penobscot ridges.
This
little depression was caused by erosion of the weak, red
Mauch Chunk shale.
The road eventually runs into
Street
City
On July 1, Dr. Kenneth R. Widdall, an alumnus of
Wilkes College, class of 1950, was appointed Dean of
Administrative Affairs at West Chester College. West
Chester. Pennsylvania.
Continuing this short field expedition, the road up the
hill comes to Laurel Run, situated in a little valley be
(Please print name in full)
vents for the 1961-1962 season
oming will include participation
\ wards Ceremony and the preum-Bak" show. At the special
rani, members will discuss an
Wilkes Alumnus Appointed Dean
turning via route 115 offers an opportunity to see many
of the previously mentioned features. On the way up
the hill above Georgetown to either side of the road
there are patches of ground out of which smoke rises
intermittently: this is a result of fires started in the coal
seams many years ago. and the burning will continue
until the entire vein is consumed.
official code of objectives relating to future Theater
Alumni activity. Paul Thomas, President, has suggested
that an exchange of ideas between active Wilkes theater
members and the Alumni would strengthen the purposes
and ideas of both. All Theater Alumni are urged to
attend the meeting at Chase Theater, October 21 at
noon, when Dr. Farley will outline the College’s plans
for the theater.
: nominating committee met to
■angements for the election of
esults were: Paul Thomas. '51.
. Vice-President: Steve Cooney,
le Obitz Lind. '56. Secretary,
A short field trip from Northampton Street in WilkesBarre up Giants’ Despair through Laurel Run and re
Society for additional information.
This discussion has endeavored to explain some of the
features and related problems of the Wyoming Valley
area. It is hoped that further field and map study will
be undertaken to learn more about the origin and history
of the buried valley and the many other interesting fea
As in the case of the Archbald pot-
tures not touched upon in this article.
15
�(Continued iiom page 9)
RALPH B. ROZELLE received his
Doctor of Philosophy degree in
chemistry from Alfred University,
Alfred, New York on July 11. The
title of his thesis was "Catalysis of
Fuel Cell Electrode Reactions." He
is married and has two sons, Peter
L., and Ralph B„ Jr.
CAPT. HENRY J. GLOWACKI
is a base operations officer with the
United States Air Force in Elmen
dorf AFB, Alaska.
ARTHUR G. TAYLOR is a science
teacher in the North Plainfield High
School, Plainfield, New Jersey.
THOMAS E. KELLEY of Berke
ley, California is presently working
on his PhD. degree in Romance
Literature at the University of Cali
fornia. He has received a Wood
row Wilson Fellowship for the aca
demic year, 1961-1962.
ALBERT J. WALLACE of Mont
clair, New Jersey received his MA
in science from Montclair State
College on June 8, 1961. He is a
science teacher at Mt. Hebron Jr.
High School,
Montclair, New
Jersey.
DR. WILLIAM G. SABA was
awarded a doctor of philosophy de
gree in June by the University of
Pittsburgh. His thesis was entitled
"A Study on the Heat Capacity
and Related Thermo-D y n a m i c
Properties of Tantalum-Hydride and
Dysprosium-C o b a 1t.”
Omitting
work on a master’s degree, Dr. Saba
earned his doctorate after five and
one half years of study and research.
Dr. Saba lives in Glen Burnie,
Maryland with his wife and daugh
ter, Tamara Rose. He is employed
by the National Bureau of Standards
in Washington, D. C.
LIONEL DANNICK of Cazenovia,
New York is the director of Test
ing and Measurements and instruc
tor of Social Science at Cazenovia
Junior College. He has full charge
of the testing program and teaching
of Sociology and Psychology.
’55
Mrs. William M. Morse, Jr. (PA
TRICIA M. McNELIS) resides at
111 West Broad Street, Hazleton,
Pennsylvania with her husband and
son, William L. Morse, III.
GAYLE C. JONES has been ap
pointed art instructor at Bloomsburg
State College.
Gayle joined the
faculty of the art department at the
beginning of the fall semester. She
was previously art instructor at
Lewisburg Joint Elementary School,
Lower Merion School District and
Princeton Township School District,
Princeton, New Jersey.
THOMAS R. PRICE received an
MA degree in English from Penn
State University in August. He
has accepted a position as instructor
in English at the Highacres campus,
Hazleton Extension, Pennsylvania
State University.
Mrs. Sidney Haifetz (LEAH J.
NEUBURGER) is a housewife and
secretary of the congregation Mekor Chaim in Philadelphia. She lives
at 3614 Essex Lane, Philadelphia,
with her husband and two children.
On July 2, REV. CHARLES J.
ADAMEK became the new rector
of the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church in Scranton. Before he be
gan his duties in Scranton, he serv
ed as rector of the Memorial Church
of St. John and also of the Church
of the Faith in Mahanoy City, Penn
sylvania.
ROBERT DARROW had been
awarded a national defense scholar
ship to study advanced German
language and literature this sum
mer at Southern Illinois University,
Cairo, Illinois. He is working to
ward a master’s degree in German.
He teaches German at the Delhaas
High School, Levittown, Pennsyl
vania.
CHESTER J. BELSKY of 6605
Lawnton Avenue, Philadelphia is a
Research Project Engineer for the
S.K.F. Industries, Philadelphia.
’57
ANTHONY KUTZ of 71 Railroad
Street, Glen Lyon received the Doc
tor of Dental Surgery degree from
Temple University in June.
Mrs. Edward Kruska, the former
MARIE A. ZANOWICZ, lives at
640 East Main Street, Schuylkill
Haven, Pennsylvania with her hus
band and two children, Karen and
Edward.
16
JACOB M. DVORNICKY, a for
mer business and general math
teacher at Pittsville High School
Maryland assumed new responsi
bilities as general business teacher
at the Elmira City School District
He and his wife reside at 580 Maple
Avenue, Elmira, New York
’58
Mrs. Marvin Trimas, the former
MARSHA M. MASON, resides
with her husband and son, Eric, at
3504 South Wakefield, Arlington,
Virginia. Her husband is a patent
attorney. He recently passed the
Virginia Bar Exam.
EDMUND H. NOVICKI, JR. of
Wilkes-Barre graduated recently
from the first officer candidate
school conducted by the Pennsyl
vania National Guard in ceremonies
at Indiantown Gap. He is married
and has two children, Patricia Ann
and Edmund, Jr.
JOSEPH F. TODRYK. a sixth
grade teacher in Beaumont School,
"Wyoming County, Pennsylvania,
was recently hailed by a Hollywood
music publishing company as a
"fine, new songwriter discovery."
He recently wrote a song, "Teach
Me to Forget,” which is to be dis
played on the market in the near
future.
RONALD C. RESCIGNO of 27
Chestnut Street, Islip, Long Island,
is a teacher and coach at East Islip
High School, Long Island.
’59
JOHN MAYLOCK, a medical stu
dent at Jefferson Medical College
was awarded a fellowship for the
summer months for research by the
Lederle Company. He has also been
awarded a full scholarship for this
year in the field of Health Research
by the United States Department of
Health. John is treasurer of Theta
Kappa Psi and a member of its
board of directors.
GEORGE D. PARSONS of Lewis
burg, Pennsylvania recently receiv
ed a BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Bucknell Uni
versity. He has accepted an as
sistantship in the mechanical engine
ering department at Bucknell while
studying for a masters degree in
Mechanical Engineering.
JAMES L. EIDAM, formerly cir
culation and reference librarian at
Wilkes, accepted a position teach
ing English in the Plainfield Jr. High
School, Plainfield, New Jersey.
Mrs. Janice Nagle (JANICE
REYNOLDS) of Nescopeck will
be an instructor of art at the Ber
wick Arts and Crafts Center. She
will teach both pastel and oil work
at the Center.
Mrs. James VanBlarcom (MARI
ANNE C. LEVENOSKIE) teaches
art and history at the Fair Lawn
Senior High School, Fair Lawn,
New Jersey.
WILLIAM D. MORRIS of Garden
Grove, California is Head of Op
erations and Assistant Treasurer and
Comptroller at Monrovia Mutual
Savings and Loan Association.
WILLIAM E. ACORNLEY of
Wilkes-Barre is a Senior Account
ant for Weiss, Baer and Kauffman,
Public Accountants, Scranton.
C. WAYNE GRIFFITH of Union,
New Jersey is District Sales Engine
er for AMP Inc., in Englewood,
Nev.' Jersey.
’60
J. DAVID ROEBUCK is an assist
ant buyer at Gimbel’s Department
Store, Philadelphia. Dave lives at
527 Rock Glen Drive, ’Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania.
KENNETH N. EVANS is a field
engineer 1st Class for Speery Gyro
scope Company, Syosset, Long Is
land. Ken resides at 60 Leslie Ave
nue, Conklin, New York.
ROBERT KUCHINSKI is a teach
er of social business studies at New
Brunswick High School.
During
the summer. Bob was enrolled in
the Summer Institute on Asian Cul
tures at Rutgers University. The
Institute is supported by scholar
ships from the Asia Foundation and
the Japan and Asia Societies.
THOMAS M. WALSH has been
named the recipient of a scholarship
from the American Foundation for
the Blind. Tom, who is planning a
career as a guidance counselor,
plans to pursue his studies at Penn
State. The foundation scholarships
are a z/a.' • • . . ; ■ ■. ■, ■
college stud;-;/-.
United State';
are legally blind
Th.-,
mntA* were r.'.ade *.t, ■:.■■■
12 state'; and Puerto
WILLIAM G. MAXWELL
teaching biology in
D.
tra! School, Dundee,
- ■ York.
KATHRYN J. McDANIELS
been certified as a medical
ogist by the American Scc’e;-/ of
Clinical Pathologists, I ’.■.r.-.-.z.
diana. Kathy was recent?/ eho-er.
the "Outstanding Student" in her
graduating class in the School of
Medical Technology at Gefsir.ger
Medical Center. Danville. Per.r.s- '.vania.
MARY FRANCES SWIGERT is
on the faculty of Forty Fort High
School. At Forty Fort, she also
assists w’ith the Y-Teens, an organi
zation affiliated with the YV. CA
in Wilkes-Barre.
54 I
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a d
’61
LAWRENCE V. PEGG. JR. of
671 Cypress Avenue, Johnstown.
Pennsylvania is Assistant District
Scout Executive in Johr.stawtt.
Larry attended the 232 National
Training School for Scout Execu
tives at Schiff Scout Reservation.
Mendham, New Jersey, during the
months of April and May. He be
gan his duties with the Boy Scouts
on April 1.
JOHN F. WOZNIAK. Brookline
Manor Apartments. Reading. Penn
sylvania is a Revenue Officer for
the Federal Government. Mrs.
W’ozniak is the former GRACE
SCHNEIDER. Class of *60.
THOMAS FEENEY is a member
of the faculty at Madison Jr. High
School, Syracuse, New York.
ARTHUR J. REHN has been
named music instructor at Mountain
View Joint High School. Kingsley.
Pennsylvania. He will be in charge
of all junior high school musical
activities.
ROBERT MARR. Hunlock Creek.
Pennsylvania is teaching mathe
matics in the Junior-Senior High at
Mountain View Joint School, Kings
ley, Pennsylvania.
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full charge
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Hazleton,
sband and
III.
GAYLE C. JONES has been ap
pointed art instructor at Bloomsburg
State College.
Gayle joined the
faculty of the art department at the
beginning of the fall semester. She
was previously art instructor at
Lewisburg Joint Elementary School,
Lower Merion School District and
Princeton Township School District,
Princeton. New Jersey.
THOMAS R. PRICE received an
MA degree in English from Penn
State University in August. He
has accepted a position as instructor
in English at the Highacres campus,
Hazleton Extension. Pennsylvania
State University.
Mrs. Sidney Haifetz (LEAH J.
NEUBURGER) is a housewife and
secretary of the congregation Mekor Chaim in Philadelphia. She lives
at 3614 Essex Lane, Philadelphia,
with her husband and two children.
On July 2, REV. CHARLES J.
ADAMEK became the new rector
of the Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church in Scranton. Before he be
gan his duties in Scranton, he serv
ed as rector of the Memorial Church
of St. John and also of the Church
of the Faith in Mahanoy City, Penn
sylvania.
ROBERT DARROW had been
awarded a national defense scholar
ship to study advanced German
language and literature this sum
mer at Southern Illinois University,
Cairo, Illinois. He is working to
ward a master’s degree in German.
He teaches German at the Delhaas
High School, Levittown, Pennsyl
vania.
CHESTER J. BELSKY of 6605
Lawnton Avenue, Philadelphia is a
Research Project Engineer for the
S.K.F. Industries, Philadelphia.
’57
A.NTHONY KUTZ of 71 Railroad
Street, Glen Lyon received the Doc
tor of Dental Surgery degree from
Temple University in June.
Mrs. Edward Kruska, the former
MARIE A. ZANOWICZ. lives at
640 East Main Street, Schuylkill
Haven, Pennsylvania with her hus
band and two children, Karen and
Edward.
16
JACOB M. DVORNICKY, a for.
mer business and general math
teacher at Pittsville High School,
Maryland assumed new responsi
bilities as general business teacher
at the Elmira City School District.
He and his wife reside at 580 Maple
Avenue, Elmira, New York
’58
Mrs. Marvin Trimas, the former
MARSHA M. MASON, resides
with her husband and son, Eric, at
3504 South Wakefield. Arlington,
Virginia. Her husband is a patent
attorney. He recently passed the
Virginia Bar Exam.
EDMUND H. NOVICKI, JR. of
Wilkes-Barre graduated recently
from the first officer candidate
school conducted by the Pennsyl
vania National Guard in ceremonies
at Indiantown Gap. He is married
and has two children, Patricia Ann
and Edmund, Jr.
JOSEPH F. TODRYK, a sixth
grade teacher in Beaumont School,
Wyoming County, Pennsylvania,
was recently hailed by a Hollywood
music publishing company as a
"fine, new songwriter discovery."
He recently wrote a song, “Teach
Me to Forget,” which is to be dis
played on the market in the near
future.
RONALD C. RESCIGNO of 27
Chestnut Street, Islip, Long Island,
is a teacher and coach at East Islip
High School, Long Island.
’59
JOHN MAYLOCK, a medical stu
dent at Jefferson Medical College
was awarded a fellowship for the
summer months for research by the
Lederle Company. Fie has also been
awarded a full scholarship for this
year in the field of Health Research
by the United States Department of
Health. John is treasurer of Theta
Kappa Psi and a member of its
board of directors.
GEORGE D. PARSONS of Lewis
burg, Pennsylvania recently receiv
ed a BS degree in Mechanical
Engineering from Bucknell Uni
versity. He has accepted an as
sistantship in the mechanical engine
ering department at Bucknell while
studying for a masters degree in
Mechanical Engineering.
JAMES L. EIDAM, formerly cir
culation and reference librarian at
Wilkes, accepted a position teach
ing English in the Plainfield Jr. High
School, Plainfield, New Jersey.
Mrs. Janice Nagle (JANICE
REYNOLDS) of Nescopeck will
be an instructor of art at the Ber
wick Arts and Crafts Center. She
will teach both pastel and oil work
at the Center.
Mrs. James VanBlarcom (MARI
ANNE C. LEVENOSKIE) teaches
art and history at the Fair Lawn
Senior High School, Fair Lawn,
New Jersey.
WILLIAM D. MORRIS of Garden
Grove, California is Head of Op
erations and Assistant Treasurer and
Comptroller at Monrovia Mutual
Savings and Loan Association.
WILLIAM E. ACORNLEY of
Wilkes-Barre is a Senior Account
ant for Weiss, Baer and Kauffman,
Public Accountants, Scranton.
C. WAYNE GRIFFITH of Union,
New Jersey is District Sales Engine
er for AMP Inc., in Englewood,
New Jersey.
’60
J. DAVID ROEBUCK is an assist
ant buyer at Gimbel’s Department
Store, Philadelphia. Dave lives at
527 Rock Glen Drive, Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania.
KENNETH N. EVANS is a field
engineer 1st Class for Speery Gyro
scope Company, Syosset, Long Is
land. Ken resides at 60 Leslie Ave
nue, Conklin, New York.
ROBERT KUCHINSKI is a teach
er of social business studies at New
Brunswick High School.
During
the summer. Bob was enrolled in
the Summer Institute on Asian Cul
tures at Rutgers University. The
Institute is supported by scholar
ships from the Asia Foundation and
the Japan and Asia Societies.
THOMAS M. WALSH has been
named the recipient of a scholarship
from the American Foundation for
the Blind. Tom, who is planning a
career as a guidance counselor,
plans to pursue his studies at Penn
State. The foundation scholarships
are awarded annually to promising
college students throughout the
United States and its territories who
are legally blind. This year 20
awards were made to students in
12 states and Puerto Rico.
WILLIAM G. MAXWELL is
teaching biology in the Dundee Cen
tral School, Dundee, New York.
KATHRYN J. McDANIELS has
been certified as a medical technol
ogist by the American Society of
Clinical Pathologists, Muncie, In
diana. Kathy was recently chosen
the “Outstanding Student” in her
graduating class in the School of
Medical Technology at Geisinger
Medical Center, Danville, Pennsyl
vania.
MARY FRANCES SWIGERT is
on the faculty of Forty Fort High
School. At Forty Fort, she also
assists with the Y-Teens, an organi
zation affiliated with the YWCA
in Wilkes-Barre.
’61
LAWRENCE V. PEGG, JR. of
671 Cypress Avenue. Johnstown,
Pennsylvania is Assistant District
Scout Executive in Johnstown.
Larry attended the 232 National
Training School for Scout Execu
tives at Schiff Scout Reservation,
Mendham, New Jersey, during the
months of April and May. He be
gan his duties with the Boy Scouts
on April 1.
JOHN F. WOZNIAK. Brookline
Manor Apartments, Reading, Penn
sylvania is a Revenue Officer for
the Federal Government.
Mrs.
Wozniak is the former GRACE
SCHNEIDER. Class of '60.
THOMAS FEENEY is a member
of the faculty at Madison Jr. High
School, Syracuse, New York.
ARTHUR J. REHN has been
named music instructor at Mountain
View Joint High School, Kingsley,
Pennsylvania. He will be in charge
of all junior high school musical
activities.
ROBERT MARR, Hunlock Creek,
Pennsylvania is teaching mathe
matics in the Junior-Senior High at
Mountain View Joint School, Kings
ley, Pennsylvania.
17
ROBERT A. PINGEL is a 2nd
Lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force,
stationed at Harlingen AFB, Texas.
FRANCIS E. BATTLE, JR. is an
Art Specialist in Westfield Public
Schools, Westfield, New Jersey. He
resides at 72 Southgate Road, Mur
ray Hill, New Jersey with his wife
and son David.
RAYMOND J. PIRINO is a dental
student at Temple University School
of Dentistry in Philadelphia. Ray,
his wife and son, Richard, live at
54 Herman Street, Philadelphia.
LEE D. WILLIAMS is a member
of the faculty at Abington Town
ship School District, Abington,
Pennsylvania.
This Bright New World —
’49
a daughter, Theresa, to Mr. and
Mrs. Leonard Yellalonis of Rose
dale, Maryland, on August 3. Mrs.
Yellalonis is the former LILLIAN
CLARK.
a son, Jeffrey, to Mr. and Mrs. Mur
ray Rothman on April 30. Mrs.
Rothman is the former LAURA J.
SCHLEICHER.
a son, William Morgan, to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Gorgas of Clarks Sum
mit, Pennsylvania, on August 17,
’54
twins, David and Deborah, to Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur G. Taylor of North
Plainfield, New Jersey, on April 14.
a daughter, Susan, to Mr. and Mrs.
Albert J. Wallace of Montclair,
New Jersey, on May 6.
a son, Stephen H„ to Capt. and
Mrs. Henry J. Glowacki, Elmendorf
A.F.B., Alaska, on March 25.
a son, Jeffrey Brian, to Mr. and
Mrs. Lionel I. Dannick of Caze
novia, New York, on February 3.
’56
a son, Merlyn, Jr., to Mr. and Mrs.
Merlyn Dixon, 119 First Avenue,
Kingston, on July 29.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Popple, 205 Pine Spring Road, Falls
Church, Virginia, on July 30. Mrs.
Popple is the former JUDY GOMMER, Class of ’57.
�’57
„a ___
son. William J., to Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Rubin of 8504 - 16th Street.
Silver Springs, Maryland, on July
22.
Mrs. Rubin is the former
HELEN SCHAINUCK, Class of
‘60.
a daughter, Deborah Ann, to Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Evans of Eliza
beth, New Jersey on May 24.
a son. Edward, to Mr. and Mrs.
Edward
Kruska of Schuylkill
Haven, Pennsylvania, on June 26.
Mrs. Kruska is the former MARIE
A. ZANOWICZ.
’58
a daughter to Lt. and Mrs. Samuel
T. Buckman, Jr., of 1055 Idaho
Avenue, Cape May, New Jersey, on
August 18. Mrs. Buckman is the
former JOAN TAYLOR LLEWELLYN. Class of '60.
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Scavone, 115 Loomis Street, Nan
ticoke, Pennsylvania on June 28.
Mrs. Scavone is the former ROSA
LIE ANN DUGAN.
a son. Eric, to Mr. and Mrs. Jerome
C. Luft. 240 Rock Street, Easton,
on July 19. Mrs. Luft is the former
MARIANNE BURDA, also of the
Class of '58.
a son. Eric, to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald
Rescigno of Long Island, on March
31.
’59
a daughter, Bari Lynn, to Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Rogovin of Ridgefield,
New Jersey, on June 25.
I
a daughter. Susan, to Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Morris of Garden
Grove, California on February 22.
’60
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wile
man, 135 Meadowcrest. Trucksville.
Pennsylvania, on August 21. Mrs.
Wileman is the former RAYE
THOMAS.
’61
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rad
nor, 4 Fairlane North, Mountaintop.
Pennsylvania, on August 1.
Down The Aisle —
’50
DANIEL E. NORMAN was mar
ried on June 25 to Marion Jane
George in Wilkes-Barre. Dan is a
certified public accountant and was
formerly employed by the Internal
Revenue Service. He is presently
a tax specialist with Price Water
house and Company of Washing
ton, D.C.
’55
ALBERT J. LISS was married in
Scranton to Olga Mudry on July
29. Albert is a faculty member of
West Leyden, New York Central
School.
’60
PATRICIA ANN HEMENWAY
of Trucksville was married to Rob
ert E. Harrison on July 29. Pat is
presently teaching in Mantua, New
Jersey.
PAUL J. LEVIN of Wilkes-Barre
and Anna Theresa Kruczek were
married recently in Wilkes-Barre.
Pau] is employed as a tabulation
RALPH
HENDERSHOT
was
married recently to Marcia Dubinski
in Plymouth. Ralph is a faculty
member of the Sayre Area Joint
High School, Sayre, Pennsylvania.
’61
LAWRENCE PEGG. JR. was
married on August 12 to Lois E.
Marsh. The couple is residing in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
JUDITH ALINIKOFF and Dr.
Harold S. Weltman were married
on August 13 in Wilkes-Barre. The
couple is living at 292 South Frank
lin Street. Wilkes-Barre.
MAURICE D. JAMES and GALE
C. HUGHES were married on July
22 in Kingston. Maurice has taken
a position in the Pittsburgh office
of Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell, ac
counting firm. Gale is teaching ele
mentary school in Peters Township
Schools, Cannonsburg. The couple
is residing at 340 Knoedler Road,
Pittsburgh 36.
NORMA K. WENTZ of Nanti
coke was married recently to Stan
ley Stavetski in Nanticoke. The
couple is residing at 219 Bathgate
Avenue, Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Norma is employed by American
Cyanamid Company in Bound
Brook.
TRUDY MURPHEY was married
recently to Richard P. Sokolnicki.
Trudy is a member of the faculty of
the Gouverneur Elementary School.
Gouverneur, New York where the
couple lives.
3n ^lemortam
She received her master's degree at Drexel Uni
versity, Philadelphia in June of 1959. She then
became affiliated with the Osterhout Library and
served as an assistant in the reference depart
ment.
She was an active member of the Wilkes College
Alumni Association, serving on many committees.
She is survived by three brothers, Joseph P.»
Wilkes-Barre; Attorney Thomas E., WilkesBarre; and James J., Portland, Orc. Joseph and
Thomas Brislin are also graduates of Wilkes
College.
MISS MARY ROSE BRISLIN, Class of 1940,
died at her apartment at 209 Barney Street,
Wilkes-Barre on August 8.
Miss Brislin attended Wilkes-Barre City Schools
and was graduated from Meyers High School.
She entered B.U.J.C. in 1936 and while here,
was an active member of the Beacon staff. She
taught many years in Lehman Township Schools
and later in the Wilkes-Barre City Schools. She
also served as a secretary for the Linear Cor
poration, Fernbrook.
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processing department
awaiting cataloguing
of the adjoining batl
the card catalogue we
hall. The reference
backdate-periodical rc
one or two rooms on t
were in there too. (
5,000 volumes, and o>
out books. The loyal
were Joe Kramer, Rol
F. Ermel. To my de
interested in books th
lands close to our stu
man and French. D:
with Milton and Sht
everything published
The onrush of Work
tive for us to expand
more than 56.000 v<
rapid that at times 1
cracks of our overb
head. He has been d<
this summer we had t<
additional shelving ht
graduate-program sei
loan in Stark Hall, 1
completely. The libi
sisted of two member
part-time students (i:
give us a chance to
world as a potential
project planner at Olmstead Air
Base. Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Shown majestically covered with ivy is Kirby
Hall, the College Library
Sweet Memories of an Old Timer
Even at the risk of revealing my age, I must admit that
I remember our College Library when it was in diapers.
It was June 1947 and little Bucknell University Junior
College officially became a self-sufficient four-year liberal
arts college ready to face the world of grownups. A
modest ceremony on the lawn behind Chase Hall marked
the end of its infancy.
The Library occupied only a small portion of vinecovered Kirby Hall. The third floor was the residence
of Dr. Farley and his family. If I remember correctly,
they also had a German shepherd dog, Mickey. The
spacious room between the second and third floors was
the classroom of the Music Department. Often I could
hear the late "Pop'' Gies plant the seeds of musical ap
preciation in his sonorious German accent, and play
records of Bach's fugues. On the first floor we had
classrooms, used mostly by the Economics and English
Departments. At the main entrance, today’s circulation
office, stood a concert grand piano. Afternoons when I
was filing cards on the second floor, I could hear an
English teacher, both a poet and beatnik at heart, play
Debussy. In the back between the first and second floors
were the offices of Dr. Mary Craig and Mr. Constantine
Sy monole wicz (alias Dr. Konstantin Symmons of today).
The Kirby’s old chaffeur, Duggan, who had an apart
ment above the stables (today part of the Commons
facing South Street) used to come in and reminisce about
the celebrities who were invited to dine with the Kirbys
in the mural-covered and mahagony-wainscoted dining
room (for the last several years our overcrowded Refer
ence Room).
The ornate grandfather clock in the
vestibule was faithfully chiming the hours.
And what about the Library?
The Northeast room on the second floor (we now shelve
the end of the alphabet in it) was the workroom which
housed the librarian's office, the cataloguing and the
When I left for Pak
face the big world of
library with the evei
hind for the wide h<
I was already critica
rooms, of the turn-ov.
and of the everyday
Then with the speed i
developed countries
hungry children. M
tears came to my eye
dingy rooms of univ
member particularly
helped out a few time
of Library Science de
of this old. unventilt
qualified American li
science. The card cards, in pencil, or ir
the timely mood of tl
open-shelf privileges.
After an absence of 1
painful impressions o
hungry for food anc
rooms and reading I
at the old campus ar
covered building whi
fourteen years.
19
�J., to Mr. and Mrs.
f S504 - 16th Street.
Maryland, on July
>in is the former
JNUCK, Class of
Dorah Ann, to Mr.
r Evans of Elizay on May 24.
to Mr. and Mrs.
:a of Schuylkill
vania, on June 26.
the former MARIE
Z.
and Mrs. Samuel
of 1055 Idaho
ay, New Jersey, on
s. Buckman is the
TAYLOR LLEis of ’60.
r. and Mrs. Patrick
>omis Street, Nan’ania on June 28.
the former ROSAIAN.
r. and Mrs. Jerome
>ck Street, Easton,
. Luft is the former
JRDA, also of the
r. and Mrs. Ronald
j Island, on March
Lynn, to Mr. and
[ovin of Ridgefield,
June 25.
a daughter. Susan, to Mr. and Mrs.
William D. Morris of Garden
Grove, California on February 22.
’60
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wile
man. 135 Meadowcrest. Trucksville,
Pennsylvania, on August z.1. Mrs.
Wileman is the former RAYE
THOMAS.
’61
a son to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rad
nor, 4 Fairlane North, Mountaintop,
Pennsylvania, on August 1.
Down The Aisle —
’50
DANIEL E. NORMAN was mar
ried on June 25 to Marion Jane
George in Wilkes-Barre. Dan is a
certified public accountant and was
formerly employed by the Internal
Revenue Service. He is presently
a tax specialist with Price Water
house and Company of ’Washing
ton, D.C.
’55
ALBERT J. LISS was married in
Scranton to Olga Mudry on July
29. Albert is a faculty member of
West Leyden, New York Central
School.
’60
PATRICIA ANN HEMENWAY
of Trucksville was married to Rob
ert E. Harrison on July 29. Pat is
presently teaching in Mantua, New
Jersey.
PAUL J. LEVIN of Wilkes-Barre
and Anna Theresa Kruczek were
married recently in Wilkes-Barre.
Paul is employed as a tabulation
RALPH
HENDERSHOT
was
was
married recently to Marcia Dubinski
in Plymouth. Ralph is a faculty
member of the Sayre Area Joint
High School, Sayre, Pennsylvania
’61
LAWRENCE PEGG. JR. was
married on August 12 to Lois E.
Marsh. The couple is residing
Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
JUDITH ALINIKOFF and Dr.
Harold S. Weltman were married
on August 13 in Wilkes-Barre. The
couple is living at 292 South Frank
lin Street. Wilkes-Barre.
MAURICE D. JAMES and GALE
C. HUGHES were married on July
22 in Kingston. Maurice has taken
a position in the Pittsburgh office
of Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell, ac
counting firm. Gale is teaching ele
mentary school in Peters Township
Schools, Cannonsburg. The couple
is residing at 340 Knoedler Road,
Pittsburgh 36.
NORMA K. WENTZ of Nanti
coke was married recently to Stan
ley Stavetski in Nanticoke. The
couple is residing at 219 Bathgate
Avenue, Bound Brook. New Jersey,
Norma is employed by American
Cyanamid Company in Bound
Brook.
TRUDY MURPHEY was married
recently to Richard P. Sokolnicki.
Trudy is a member of the faculty of
the Gouverneur Elementary School,
Gouverneur, New York where the
couple lives.
3n ^lemoriam
She received her master's degree at Drexel Uni
versity, Philadelphia in June of 1959. She then
became affiliated with the Osterhout Library and
served as an assistant in the reference depart
ment.
She was an active member of the Wilkes College
Alumni Association, serving on many committees.
She is survived by three brothers, Joseph P-.
Wilkes-Barre; Attorney Thomas E., WilkesBarre; and James J., Portland, Ore. Joseph and
Thomas Brislin are also graduates of Wilkes
College.
RY ROSE BRISLIN, Class of 1940,
ir apartment at 209 Barney Street,
rre on August 8.
n attended Wilkes-Barre City Schools
raduated from Meyers High School,
d B.U.J.C. in 1936 and while here,
ive member of the Beacon staff. She
y years in Lehman Township Schools
i the Wilkes-Barre City Schools. She
I as a secretary for the Linear Cor’ernbrook.
18
proo-ttHing department, as well as the typists. The books
awaiting cataloguing were stored in the large, oval tub
of th.- adjoining bathroom. The circulation desk and
the card catalogue were in one corner of the second floor
hall. The reference room was in the today’s locked
backdate-periodical rooms, and the rest of the books in
one or two rooms on the second floor. The reading tables
were in there too. Our collection comprised less than
5,000 volumes, and only a few students came in to take
out books. 1 he loyal student patrons whom I remember
were Joe Kramer. Robert Miller. Joe Savitz, and George
F. Ermel. J o my delight, Herr Elwood Disque, always
interested in books that would bring the culture of other
lands close to our students, was ordering works in Ger
man and French. Dr. Mary Craig, very much in love
with Milton and Shakespeare, added to our collection
everything published on these two poets.
The onrush of World War II veterans made it impera
tive for us to expand rather rapidly, and today we have
more than 56,000 volumes. The expansion seems so
rapid that at times Mr. Jervis comes in. looks at the
cracks of our overburdened ceilings, and shakes his
head. He has been doing it for the last ten years. Finally
this summer we had to take out one reading table because
additional shelving had to take preference. Some of our
graduate-program scientific periodicals are on temporary
loan in Stark Hall, because we have run out of space
completely. The library staff of those early days con
sisted of two members: today we employ six. and twenty
part-time students (including movie projectionists) who
give us a chance to present to our students the library
world as a potential career.
project planner at Olmstead Air
Base, Middletown, Pennsylvania.
ijestically covered with ivy is Kirhy
Shown majestically
Kirby
Hall, the College Library
Sweet Memories of an Old Timer
Even at the risk of revealing my age, I must admit that
I remember our College Library when it was in diapers.
It was June 1947 and little Bucknell University Junior
College officially became a self-sufficient four-year liberal
arts college ready to face the world of grownups. A
modest ceremony on the lawn behind Chase Hall marked
the end of its infancy.
The Library occupied only a small portion of vinecovered Kirby Hall. The third floor was the residence
of Dr. Farley and his family. If I remember correctly,
they also had a German shepherd dog, Mickey. The
spacious room between the second and third floors was
the classroom of the Music Department. Often I could
hear the late “Pop" Gies plant the seeds of musical ap
preciation in his sonorious German accent, and play
records of Bach’s fugues. On the first floor we had
classrooms, used mostly by the Economics and English
Departments. At the main entrance, today’s circulation
office, stood a concert grand piano. Afternoons when I
was filing cards on the second floor, I could hear an
English teacher, both a poet and beatnik at heart, play
Debussy. In the back between the first and second floors
were the offices of Dr. Mary Craig and Mr. Constantine
Symonolewicz (alias Dr. Konstantin Symmons of today).
The Kirby s old chaffeur, Duggan, who had an apart
ment above the stables (today part of the Commons
facing South Street) used to come in and reminisce about
the celebrities who were invited to dine with the Kirbys
in the mural-covered and mahagony-wainscoted dining
room (for the last several years our overcrowded Refer
ence Room). The ornate grandfather clock in the
vestibule was faithfully chiming the hours.
And what about the Library?
The Northeast room on
the second floor (wc now shelve
the end of the alphabet
in it) was the workroom which
housed the librarian’s
office, the cataloguing and the
When I left for Pakistan last August, I was anxious to
face the big world of excitement. The small, overcrowded
library with the everyday problems was gladly left be
hind for the wide horizons of the far-away continents.
I was already critical of the noise in the small reading
rooms, of the turn-over on the staff, of the missing books,
and of the everyday' routines of office life.
Then with the speed of a jet I was thrust upon the under
developed countries with beggars, dusty roads, and
hungry children. My librarian's heart cried out and
tears came to my eyes when I tried to read in the dark,
dingy' rooms of university’ and college libraries. I re
member particularly’ one university library where I
helped out a few times. Only one librarian with a Master
of Library Science degree supervised the entire operation
of this old. unventilated building, and two and a half
qualified American librarians taught courses in library
science. The card catalogue consisted of home-made
cards, in pencil, or in various colored inks, according to
the timely mood of the cataloguer. The readers had no
open-shelf privileges.
After an absence of ten months, with so many vivid and
painful impressions of low standards of living, of people
hungry for food and books, of dark, uninviting class
rooms and reading rooms. I was so happy to be back
at the old campus and throw my arms around the vinecovered building which has been my library for the last
fourteen years.
NADA K. VUJICA
19
�ful philosophical personalities I have ever met — and
philosophers are not lacking in color and idiosyncracies.
AMONG PAKISTANI PHILOSOPHERS
{Continued iiom page 6)
portant role in the molding of human beings and, in con
sequence, the differences between peoples and cultures
are great. But compared with what men and women the
world over have in common, the differences in color, race,
religion, and customs sink into insignificance. An ed
ucated Pakistani and an educated American have much
more in common than has an educated American with an
uneducated American or an educated Pakistani with an
illiterate villager.
Prof. Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev of Dacca University
is a man whose outward appearance and simplicity re
mind one of Socrates. Visualize him wearing the Greek
toga instead of the Indian dhoti, and you have Socrates
walking in our midst. The moment, however one hears
him talk or reads his "Idealism: a New Defence and a
New Application," "the Oriental” in him vanishes, and a
new personality emerges; a man of wide and deep
knowledge, equally versed in the modern Western phil
osophical currents as he is in the Pak-Indian thought,
a man of incisive mind and delightful wit. In his rich
conversational style, he succeeds in bringing philosophy
from its lofty ivory tower pedestal down to earth. He
has the happy faculty of making highflung metaphysical
puzzles appear simple and as living as today’s headlines.
Even if he were not deeply steeped in the Indian tradi
tion, his philosophy, I think, would be Idealism, the view
that the spirit not only matters, but matters most. It fits
his "tender-minded” temperament and his humanitarian
bent. But Dr. Dev is no "respecter of persons,” no man
to follow blindly outworn formulas. He bravely sets
out to reinterpret the Advaita Idealism so as to place it
in the contemporary context. His is an up-to-date
Idealism, freshly sought out and presented, defended by
new evidence and offered in a new application.
Never was I more aware of this simple truth than when
I came into contact with the people of my own profes
sion — the Pakistani philosophers. I was the American
representative and one of the speakers at the Pakistan
Philosophical Congress in Karachi. This provided me
a splendid chance to meet a great number of my philo
sophical colleagues from both West and East Pakistan.
In their company I felt perfectly "at home,” — indeed
no less than I am at annual meetings of the American
Philosophical Association. Their problems were my own
problems and their philosophical language was my own.
The many outstanding Pakistani philosophers whose in
tellectual fellowship and personal friendship I have been
privileged to enjoy will forgive me If I single out for
mention only a few. Prof. M. M. Sharif, Director of the
Islamic Institute in Lahore, is the heart and soul of the
Pakistani Philosophical Congress, whose founder and
President he is. This patriarch of the Pakistani philoso
phers has the contagious enthusiasm of youth. I have
met very few gentlemen with more charm and personal
magnetism than Prof. Sharif. He was no stranger to
me. I had read his articles in "Contemporary Indian
Philosophy,” in which he states his philosophical position
as one of the prominent thinkers of pre-Partition India.
He also has the distinction of being the General President
of the Indian Philosophical Congress. He is a profound
metaphysician and has made original contributions in
the field of aesthetics and philosophy of education.
In the good old Hegelian tradition Dr. Dev also ventures
a novel synthesis. He believes that intellect and intuition,
matter and spirit, science and religion, instead of being
sharply dychotomised and locked up in a sort of a in
tellectual cold-war battle, form an organic unity.
The endeavor to find room for intuition and religious
values in this rationalistic age characterizes the thinking
of all philosophers on the Pak-Indian subcontinent. If
they are successful, they will make a significant contri
bution to contemporary thought. The West, it seems,
has largely given up intuition as a source of knowledge.
The result is an uneasy truce between reason and faith
and a seemingly inexorable drift towards ever-widening
secularisation of life.
His right hand at the Institute of Islamic Culture, Mr.
B. A. Dar, is a man of considerable learning and a bril
liant writer. His lucid exposition of Iqbal’s philosophy
and the “Religion Thought of Sayyed Ahmad Khan”
have contributed tremendously to my understanding of
these two leading Muslim thinkers.
Idealism in the past has too frequently tended to under
mine and belittle material values and to create excessive
other-worldliness. Dr. Dev is painfully aware of this,
and he has undertaken the truly Herculean task of eras
ing that “blot" from the otherwise shining face of
Idealism. Dr. Dev tries hard to formulate a philosophy
which takes into account the needs of the spirit and the
body, and which offers an intellectual justification for
man s natural craving to enjoy in abundance his daily
bread without forgetting that “man does not live by
bread alone.”
Another Pakistani philosopher for whose views I have
great respect although disagreeing with them thoroughly,
is Prof. C. A. Qadir of the Government College in
Lahore. He is a follower of Logical Positivism, a modern
school of philosophy which right now enjoys great vogue
in the West. Aside from any merits or demerits of this
school of thought, I was pleasantly surprised to find
that in far-off Pakistan it has found enthusiastic sup
porters. Pakistani thinkers are determined not just to
sit on the laurels of the past achievements, quoting and
expounding Iqbal, but are right up in the forefront of
the contemporary philosophical battles.
The greatness and glory of Eastern philosophy have
always been its insistence on the primacy of the spiritual
over the material. By tradition and temperament the
philosophers of the East are best suited for the role of
proponents of these values in our materialistic age. May
they play that role well. If they do, the East’s finest
hour” may yet come.
In East Pakistan lives and teaches one of the most colour
20
{Continued tzom page 13)
Mrs. Carl F. Juris
Mrs. Richard B. Kent
Younsu Koo
Mrs. William P. Lloyd
Donald D. McFadden
Chester Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Irma Molitoris
Benjamin Omilian
Pearl Onacko
D. Glenn Phethean
Mrs. David G. Phillips
Raymond J. Radaszewski
Mrs. James G. Richardson
Jessie Roderick
Mrs. Kenneth Schaefer
David T. Shearer
Samuel R. Shugar
Gilbert Tough
Lawrence Turpin
Thomas T. 'Williams
Mrs. William I. J. Williams
— 1957 —
No. on Honor Roll ... .... 28 out of 226
% of Participation ....... .... ......... 12.4%
$ Contributed ............... — ......... $371.90
James H. Alcorn
Robert B. Chase
Jesse Choper
Lawrence E. Cohen
George W. Davis
"‘Mrs. Harry W. Ennis
Raymond Falchek
William M. Farish
Mrs. C. Wayne Griffith
William J. Jacobson
Mrs. Clyde Kauffman
George A. Kolesar
Thomas J. Lane
Mrs. Robert B. Morris
Mrs. D. Glenn Phethean
Mrs. John Rentschler
Barbara A. Ritter
Mrs. Max Rosenn
Attorney Eugene Roth
J. George Siles
Carl G. Slutter
Margaret E. Smith
Dr. Terry L. Smith
Jerome Stein
William H. Tremayne
Mrs. "William R. Tubbs
John Uczen
Dr. Carl R. Urbanski
- 1958 —
No. of Honor Roll . .
20 out of 269
% of Participation ................... 7.4%
$ Contributed __
....
... $297.00
Lt. j.g. Samuel T. Buckman
Harriette R. Davis
Francis Gallia
Max B. Greenwald
Joseph M. Halcisak
Carol Hallas
“John P. Heim
Mrs. Harry Hiscox
Carl P. KarmilowiCZ
Ahmad M. Kazimi
Joseph Leibman
William P. Lloyd
Samuel J. Lowe
"Mrs. Robert J. Pitel
William J. Powell
Marilyn Russ
“Ronald D. Tremayne
Salvatore Valenti
William I. J. Williams
William A. Zdancewic:
— 1959 —
No. on Honor Roll------ 29 ot
% of Participation ......
....
Contributed
$
William E. Acornley
Edward J. Boltz, Jr.
Charles S. Butler
James M. Cornelius
Samuel M. Davenport,
Frank Gazda
Jules Greenberg
C. Wayne Griffith
Carl F. Juris
Thomas J. Lally
Mrs. Thomas J. Lally
Mrs. John Lenk
J. Rodger Lewis
Michael Lewis
Steve Lovett
Edward McCafferty
Robert C. Morgan
Mrs. Margaret Morri:
Robert B. Morris
Chester J. Nocek
“Robert Pitel
John Rentschler
Thomas P. Ruggiero
John M. Saba
Paul Schecter
Elizabeth K. Schwartz
Mary Louise Spinelli
Reginald Trzeskowski
Patricia A. Yost
— 1960 —
31 oi
No. on Honor Roll
% of Participation
$ Contributed - ....
Mrs. Charles Austin
Anthony Bianco
Mrs. Anthony Bianco
Margaret L. Brown
Mrs. Samuel T. Buck
Mrs. Glenn D. Carey
Faith Edwards
Frank I. Edwards
�ful philosophical personalities I have ever met — and
philosophers are not lacking in color and idiosyncracies.
ISTANI PHILOSOPHERS
n page 6)
he molding of human beings and, in conifferences between peoples and cultures
zompared with what men and women the
in common, the differences in color, race,
stems sink into insignificance. An edand an educated American have much
than has an educated American with an
rican or an educated Pakistani with an
Prof. Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev of Dacca University
is a man whose outward appearance and simplicity re
mind one of Socrates. Visualize him wearing the Greek
toga instead of the Indian dhoti, and you have Socrates
walking in our midst. The moment, however one hears
him talk or reads his "Idealism: a New Defence and a
New Application,” “the Oriental” in him vanishes, and a
new personality emerges; a man of wide and deep
knowledge, equally versed in the modern Western phil
osophical currents as he is in the Pak-Indian thought,
a man of incisive mind and delightful wit. In his rich
conversational style, he succeeds in bringing philosophy
from its lofty ivory tower pedestal down to earth. He
has the happy faculty of making highflung metaphysical
puzzles appear simple and as living as today's headlines.
Even if he were not deeply steeped in the Indian tradi
tion, his philosophy, I think, would be Idealism, the view
that the spirit not only matters, but matters most. It fits
his “tender-minded” temperament and his humanitarian
bent. But Dr. Dev is no “respecter of persons," no man
to follow blindly outworn formulas. He bravely sets
out to reinterpret the Advaita Idealism so as to place it
in the contemporary context. His is an up-to-date
Idealism, freshly sought out and presented, defended by
new evidence and offered in a new application.
re aware of this simple truth than when
:act with the people of my own profestani philosophers. I was the American
id one of the speakers at the Pakistan
ingress in Karachi. This provided me
:e to meet a great number of my philoles from both West and East Pakistan.
y I felt perfectly "at home,” — indeed
.m at annual meetings of the American
sociation. Their problems were my own
eir philosophical language was my own.
inding Pakistani philosophers whose in
hip and personal friendship I have been
joy will forgive me If I single out for
ew. Prof. M. M. Sharif, Director of the
in Lahore, is the heart and soul of the
ophical Congress, whose founder and
This patriarch of the Pakistani philosomtagious enthusiasm of youth. I have
mtlemen with more charm and personal
Prof. Sharif. He was no stranger to
1 his articles in "Contemporary Indian
vhich he states his philosophical position
ominent thinkers of pre-Partition India,
listinction of being the General President
ilosophical Congress. He is a profound
rd has made original contributions in
etics and philosophy of education.
In the good old Hegelian tradition Dr. Dev also ventures
a novel synthesis. He believes that intellect and intuition,
matter and spirit, science and religion, instead of being
sharply dychotomised and locked up in a sort of a in
tellectual cold-war battle, form an organic unity.
The endeavor to find room for intuition and religious
values in this rationalistic age characterizes the thinking
of all philosophers on the Pak-Indian subcontinent. If
they are successful, they will make a significant contri
bution to contemporary thought. The West, it seems,
has largely given up intuition as a source of knowledge.
The result is an uneasy truce between reason and faith
and a seemingly inexorable drift towards ever-widening
secularisation of life.
it the Institute of Islamic Culture, Mr.
nan of considerable learning and a bril5 lucid exposition of Iqbal’s philosophy
>n Thought of Sayyed Ahmad Khan”
tremendously to my understanding of
j Muslim thinkers.
Idealism in the past has too frequently tended to under
mine and belittle material values and to create excessive
other-worldliness. Dr. Dev is painfully aware of this,
and he has undertaken the truly Herculean task of eras
ing that "blot" from the otherwise shining face of
Idealism. Dr. Dev tries hard to formulate a philosophy
which takes into account the needs of the spirit and the
body, and which offers an intellectual justification for
man s natural craving to enjoy in abundance his daily
bread without forgetting that “man does not live by
bread alone.”
li philosopher for whose views I have
ough disagreeing with them thoroughly,
Qadir of the Government College in
Follower of Logical Positivism, a modern
>hy which right now enjoys great vogue
;ide from any merits or demerits of this
it, I was pleasantly surprised to find
akistan it has found enthusiastic supni thinkers are determined not just to
of the past achievements, quoting and
, but are right up in the forefront of
r philosophical battles.
The greatness and glory of Eastern philosophy have
always been its insistence on the primacy of the spiritual
over the material. By tradition and temperament the
philosophers of the East are best suited for the role of
proponents of these values in our materialistic age. May
they play that role well. If they do, the East's "finest
hour" may yet come.
ives and teaches one of the most colour-
20
(Continued from page 13)
Mrs. Carl F. Juris
Mrs. Richard B. Kent
Younsu Koo
Mrs. William P. Lloyd
Donald D. McFadden
Chester Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Irma Molitoris
Benjamin Omilian
Pearl Onacko
D. Glenn Phethean
Mrs. David G. Phillips
Raymond J. Radaszewski
Mrs. James G. Richardson
Jessie Roderick
Mrs. Kenneth Schaefer
David T. Shearer
Samuel R. Shugar
Gilbert Tough
Lawrence Turpin
Thomas T. Williams
Mrs. William I. J. Williams
— 1957 —
No. on Honor Roll
28 out of 226
% of Participation
12.4%
$ Contributed
............... $371.90
James H. Alcorn
Robert B. Chase
Jesse Choper
Lawrence E. Cohen
George W. Davis
‘“Mrs. Harry W. Ennis
Raymond Falchek
William M. Farish
Mrs. C. Wayne Griffith
William J. Jacobson
Mrs. Clyde Kauffman
George A. Kolesar
Thomas J. Lane
Mrs. Robert B. Morris
Mrs. D. Glenn Phethean
Mrs. John Rentschler
Barbara A. Ritter
Mrs. Max Rosenn
Attorney Eugene Roth
J. George Siles
Carl G. Slutter
Margaret E. Smith
Dr. Terry L. Smith
Jerome Stein
William H. Tremayne
Mrs. William R. Tubbs
John Uczen
Dr. Carl R. Urbanski
- 1958 No. of Honor Roll
. 20 out of 269
% of Participation
7.4%
$ Contributed .
$297.00
Lt. j.g. Samuel T. Buckman
Harriette R. Davis
Francis Gallia
Max B. Greenwald
Joseph M. Halcisak
Carol Hallas
“John P. Heim
Mrs. Harry Hiscox
Carl P. Karmilowicz
Ahmad M. Kazimi
Joseph Leibman
William P. Lloyd
Samuel J. Lowe
“Mrs. Robert J. Pitel
William J. Powell
Marilyn Russ
“Ronald D. Tremayne
Salvatore Valenti
William I. J. 'Williams
William A. Zdancewicz
— 1959 —
29 out of 301
No. on Honor Roll
9.6%
% of Participation
$327.50
$ Contributed ........
William E. Acornley
Edward J. Boltz, Jr.
Charles S. Butler
James M. Cornelius
Samuel M. Davenport, III
Frank Gazda
Jules Greenberg
C. Wayne Griffith
Carl F. Juris
Thomas J. Lally
Mrs. Thomas J. Lally
Mrs. John Lenk
J. Rodger Lewis
Michael Lewis
Steve Lovett
Edward McCafferty
Robert C. Morgan
Mrs. Margaret Morris
Robert B. Morris
Chester J. Nocek
“Robert Pitel
John Rentschler
Thomas P. Ruggiero
John M. Saba
Paul Schecter
Elizabeth K. Schwartz
Mary Louise Spinelli
Reginald Trzeskowski
Patricia A. Yost
- 1960 No. on Honor Roll
31 out of 271
11.4%
% of Participation
$566.50
$ Contributed ___
Mrs. Charles Austin
Anthony Bianco
Mrs. Anthony Bianco
Margaret L. Brown
Mrs. Samuel T. Buckman
Mrs. Glenn D. Carey
Faith Edwards
Frank I. Edwards
Mrs. Frank I. Edwards
Robert A. Florio
Martha Hadsel
Aaron G. Hastie
Richard Kithen
Patricia A. Krull
Charles J. Kuschke, II
Daniel A. Lewis
Virginia A. Lyons
Lou-Ella Meringola
Cledith A. Miller, Jr.
Mrs. Melvin J. Mills
John T. Mulhall
George W. Murdock
Arnold J. Popky
Gordon E. Roberts
Ronald Simms
Robert Verespy
Robert D. Washburn
Joanne Yurchak
Alfonso Zawadski
— 1961 —
The class of 1961 was not actively
solicited in this year’s Annual Cam
paign. The following, however, are
credited with gifts to this campaign—•
“‘Nancy L. Bonham
***Robert L. Chew
‘“Ottie Hill Chwalek
****William J. Davis
‘“Judith A. Dwyer
’"‘Ellen S. Faber
‘“Clement W. Gavenas
Elizabeth Hoeschele
Charles L. Isely
‘“Hana M. Janjigian
‘“Jay P. Keller
‘“Edward N. Kemps
‘“Jocelyn Mae King
‘“James B. Morgan
Mrs. Ellen Pfifferling
“‘Walter A. Placek
‘“John O. Turner
“‘Norma K. Wentz
“‘Sally A. Williams
Class of 1961 - $ contributed - $265.00
INTERESTED FRIENDS
(Non-alumni)
Wilkes College Economics Club
“Floyd S. Harding
$ Contributed ...........................
$75.00
“ —Gave Wilkes College a
double assist; their gifts re
sulted in Corporate Match
ing Gifts.
—These alumni have adopt
ed insurance plans beneficial
to the College.
■—These alumni carrying in
surance have also given an
additional gift.
�Dear Alummis/a:
Although public minded citizens have created and
supported Wilkes College, the future of the
College must depend upon our Alumni.
Your success is the only true measure of our
success, and the strength of the College will ulti
mately depend upon your loyal interest and support.
Today and in the future, there are four means by
which you can help strengthen Wilkes —
1. Your counsel can help us to develop the strong
college that I am sure you desire.
2. Your influence can help us to attract outstand
ing students who will assure the continuing
development of intellectual interests.
3. Your personal loyalty can encourage and
sustain the faculty.
4. Your annual contributions can provide the
means of our continued development, and these
same contributions will motivate other
friends to continue their support.
As I face the last years of my long association
with you, I am challenged, and sometimes disturbed,
by the magnitude of the task that lies ahead; but
simultaneously, I am encouraged and sustained by the
encouragement that comes from loyal and devoted
friends in our Alumni, our Faculty, our Trustees and
our Community.
With your help, we can attain the intellectual,
spiritual, and material goals that have been set
for the coming decade.
For your warm friendship and loyal support, I am
most grateful.
Sincerely yours,
President
pmncco in wilkcs-o.wne. pennx
•> Uewellyn o m<k.\ne inc.
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Title
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Wilkes Alumni Magazine, 1947-present
Subject
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Alumni Relations
Description
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<p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. The magazine went through various names including <em>Wilkes Alumnus</em>, <em>Wilkes Quarterly,</em> <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, and the current title, <em>Wilkes Magazine</em>. Some editions for the <em>Wilkes Universe</em>, will have multiple issues within the file record. Our holdings may be missing editions for certain years due to having no physical copy within the collection. </p>
Creator
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Wilkes University
Source
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Wilkes University
Publisher
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Wilkes University
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1947-present
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
Wilkes Alumnus October 1961
Subject
The topic of the resource
Alumni Relations
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Marketing and Communications
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
October 1961
Format
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PDF
Type
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Magazine