71 15 4133 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/82309e667e44768b1ba304e3291c1b06.pdf d76f84037e2ed2c391f24f59823b2d65 PDF Text Text 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 9 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 4 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 5 �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 6 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 1 .^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 ’ 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 11 �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. 15 �THE CLASS NEWS that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will contin­ ue 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. 1—Name. LAST MIDDLE FIRST Maiden Name Street. Town. State. Telephone.... 2~Wilkes Degree. Withdrew. Curriculum. Year. Semester Hours. 3—Transferred to. Graduated. 4—Other Degrees. Source... Class Affiliation. Date. 5—Present Employment and Duties. 6—Business Address.. Firm. 7—Married Single Spouse (Name)... Children (Names - Birthdates). 8—Positions Held (Titles) Title. � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus January 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 January 1961 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/7bac66c7cead46a03c65a3a1aec6616a.pdf b74d205d23718034b199eab084b250fe PDF Text Text 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 AF* Andrew J. Sordoni. Second Vice-Chairman MS 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? �. . THE YEAR AHEAD THE YEAR AHEAD . . . Uth ANNUAL HOMECOMING Oetobeir 14 = 15, 196® ***** 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. ticecbits From The President 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. x 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! '55 CLASS REUNIONS — ”35 — '40 — '45 — '50 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. II �THE YEAR AHEAD . . . . . . 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 ■ 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, ------- ;. .'striving ‘ ’ 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 I 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". �. . THE YEAR AHEAD 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." �27 News Analyst, speaking on a subject "resent an analytical talk on ‘ion's capital. �. . THE YEAR AHEAD > 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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" ■- “ £j ■ ?-• \ >4' Z I»Zp4e I7Ukes 'ilkes a. »«h ,z» M BAND -—May 7 May 7 //\ 'oncdrt funtry-s jeadi] works of■ unusual ----- 1 cpmpared �. . . THE YEAR AHEAD THE YEAR AHEAD . . DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING Voris B. Hall, Chairman Physics Department t 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. I 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. ^K©<GL@G as presented to Wilkes CoL = me pczsmmty that economic e classroom may be accompanied ---^—whether certain hypoma-’ be -rcmd: or naa Through a program of nmg to bring the "community and am mtc harmony for the enlightenment of oppammrty han been presented m the farm m grant by me hard Foundation to Wilkes : will enanle me college to iimplement its m.-CCe *----”—e can e Idea mat a healthy, dynamic college e her. .cere me economic climate 1" saur.d. .ma ker area of improvement has already mani.mea —oelf In he p-c err. of H-mam ?ela*lo.m within o.r .zm'_edm .e oammr.-.b.y and me mate. Improved bcmor-l-lamagemem re.a-larm are a reality laeca me of a.I.:.'-.:’-. ............. —- — -O '..v::.:.': ‘earn v/rlcr. opera'.e co a .rr. 7-e • - a for a r.:.'s, .■ ■ -y. 'y:aiy.-y.-. • ■: ,-y. .a . ■. ■ ".-a ■:.<> v. 'y.:- ■: yyy '::y. a .'o.-.a-; •: pre UD 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 Hi" M it a1.,"''1''1 ’T''!'?, a:r a member ot I,,'" yl||l|H" Atlantic Staton Collegiate Athlotle Cooleemee " onul (lollorilalu Athlotle Annoeiation, National A-.-so " 1111 luleii'ollegltdc Athletics, and the Kauteui tel 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.-... na,— ... swimming: Mike Dvoa tn casera..- .-at crcc.... and Welton Fanarir. grit. Wtesmnc? Ch ws. 'm'.n himself will again coach our mat champccns. r.c efee could do such a tw.-.-.cndm-.s fob' In looking ever the schedule tar the yem we note that the Colonels will eompe'.e ' efo ■ f - ■- contests. Forty-five ot the oo .o^ s ... hoxuc, w'ulo the* ■’■’A' played on the t... read A oomririo breakdown >• scerts shows: Hr.-.-.e Total Contests Sport Football 9 Sow Basketball Wosthne. Swimmv.m F-asrixtil Temvh Galt $ $ $ S J $ �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. (II Is 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. vtte'1' studv Study Reaeve ‘° 1 Be Pushed I © l?'-' -- ------------ Ew® Tnfc EfeeSed 2 Ad/enL°la' Fflrr' Wa,lor M Shaffer Added To College Board I, ?'chtiOT'a^n°™«^nteortUei? °>Vr,CXSthT‘ President u 1955 “ . SCHMIDT'S PRINTCRY grant of x0 an announcement by Wilkes’pcsearch Center government- S/^UtDro j Wilkes' New Trustees 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? is® life ® tea m D. A“°ci‘>tion h0»« ’X .sr‘^,,,.0' Bft, 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. �� 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus October 1960 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 1960 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/348932e51e1552e6cf7864fbde5b6ab4.pdf 1f28830f1f83251e17bb641cc33e180f PDF Text Text 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 7 �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 (continued from page 3) 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 9 �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 10 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% 11 �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 14 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 13 �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 14 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 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus July 1960 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 July 1960 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/99049a15b3d408967a7eb0472f2df1e9.pdf 03bfce5aad63ea7928df341e2f0b93a2 PDF Text Text WILKES THE ALUMN = j ALUMNUS VoL 6, No. 3 APRIL, 1 960 ! �Board of Trustees Admiral Harold R. Stark Chairman Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman I 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 3 5 21 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. 3 �OPERATION MOONSHOOTER THE ALUMNA I 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. a special report �and a declaration of dependence r ■ inis is a salute, an acknowledgment of a partnerI ship, and a declaration of dependence. It is directed 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. toeALUMNus/a �Alumnus + alumnus- alumni-or does it? Many people cling to the odd notion that in this case I r || the popular view of you, an alumnus or alumna, 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. he achievements, �The popular view MEM Mi-L, ta<f? £Aa.r//e. ? O/df CAar/te ? TO PLACE THE FACE yovi Aave- r/'se-n- aA&i/s yovtCteactenvC. ftetlclrAc], f TO FIND MEM HALL A/e Aesr et. &3OTHEJZ <3^ / TO IMPRESS THE OLD PROF /"fe A ! /q c/o f&fypftuha -fijp A/s OLP St'AtocX-/" ' U 1^5 TO CONTRIBUTE MATERIALLY TO BE A “POOR LITTLE SHEEP” AGAIN �Money! Last year, educational institutions from any other source of gifts. Alumni support is 'VT TT TITHOUT the DOLLARS that their alumni contrib\\/\\/ ute each year, America’s privately supported ’ ’ 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. I memo: from to Wives Husbands > 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. �12 30 - I L J J i £B r * Wf STNINSTt^ Ff HOWSHIP d4 ? Mr 3 SBH/ J J :■ j «■ i' i ■ ■V 1 j’ < -i 1 ■ i .. H ___________ ERICH HARTMANN, MAGNUM 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 i F 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- v 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 --- — 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 A. 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. �Ahead 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 1 lie Art 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 J 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 alumniship J <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 * 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. ! * 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 21 �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 I 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% i 32.82% Chart No. 6 Students now in Graduate Schools _| 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.) 22 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 ' ' 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. � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus April 1960 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 April 1960 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/93c3a1efca07f59621fb56da5195bc2c.pdf c2a0ae085d94560bbe4f2d45e1a7f763 PDF Text Text WILKES I O H N- W I L KE S, Escf ZLate ‘Member of Parliament lor Aylesbury; 'VoorliceiL Jji<Liilliel'P:u3cin*,vimZEt|g»liui(L-wceJi’ns2^1esbiu.’v? 'acccrdi/itj- ic 1.^6'/. | | ‘~i}<7c/cycc;‘C7i /ii' CZcfc /id' ^\ir/c7/tc7i6-, 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 (continued on page 15) 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 (continued on page 15) 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 R s ■ »* Al 1 j F, i1 _ 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. I 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 (continued on page 16) 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 (continued on page 15) 9 �,;.r HU % i Special Campaign Goals 50% Participation and $20,000; jh M ALUMNI SURVEY Alumni Fund -I J & Total Goal For 1960 - $270,000 { 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 10 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. 11 �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. 12 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 % 13 �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 --------j g41 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. 15 �NEW OFFICERS SEATED (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! � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 January 1960 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 January 1960 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/68132795b58a3d3294bf1d77d3ce2523.pdf 6a97b6fffbe36c83c6b37135d49a485c PDF Text Text -------------- € yiLKI COI I BX 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 (i 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 12 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 I 13 Campus News 14 Wilkes Gridders Still Winning 15 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." 1 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. V 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. I f 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 // 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) & e**^**^*e*,H? // / 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. "f 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 C 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 I 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 J T 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. 4 f 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. i 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 ,<:!!! Ki 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 I 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. t 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 . . . . . , ~ _______ T> •»—I________ _r —,011 stated President. --TT Homer P. Rainey of Bucknell campus at c..Lewisburg, ------------- 3.-----------------------University. » w« 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. // 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”. »w« 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. » W€ 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. »w« 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. 3> W e 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. » W< 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. 5 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. »w« 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. »w« 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. » w « 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. »w« A fighting Wilkes 1 College - - -. 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. »w« 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. » w« 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. » w v. Wilkes College Student Council will ope.. >en its fall semester social program with a freshman dance tonight ------ ----from Z ‘.w 912, to 12, at 3-.. Sans Souci Park pavilion, according to John J. Feeney, Peen social chairman. » v/ v. 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, f �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. FIRST Street ... Town State Telephone 2 Entered Wilkes College (B. U. J. C.) Withdrew Graduated 3 Transferred To Graduated t 4 Semester Hours at Wilkes (B. U. J. C.) Degree _. Major t 5 Present Employment and Duties 6 Business Address 7 Do you know of any people who attended Wilkes or BUJC and are not receiving the regular literature of the Association?. (a) List: �E flj «r-» =3 • -P (f) O -'i- u aa> >-»<D •'-<> — CC ? • -z» W 31 <0 O ri Schmidt’s Printcry Wilkes-Barre, Pa. � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus Fall 1959 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 Fall 1959 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/83d0354e8c3725c4969e6cf756f1c122.pdf fd8822be2b753aacd052d214a65f8828 PDF Text Text �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^ 3 �Dr. and Mrs. Doane Depart from College ij if,c c ’ 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 4 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. 1 rrssf I 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. 7 �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 8 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 ■ ■ s! 7 Dr. Lyle Borst 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. s w A 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 The pennants pc □liege gymnasium, South the coL, 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. Li s L s 1?1 H vy T v 1 as3 A w w I E V T It ' I ! j s.'"- I «O V IIH* i s 1 I ' I; ■ — A Lw M L * KW1 ' . :X B ) 8 r ii - i Uba B p® . . . �Alumni Survey Status L.. Abov 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 10 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 I 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 *- highlight the need for cgreater ----- u. insight into the problems we 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. 11 �tpuXi ’A McCLINTOCK 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. 12 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. * * * * ijc 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! � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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>. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus July 1959 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 July 1959 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/ff40ab3f52dc798e00ab44ac1314496f.pdf 9b9a6ce6d9aac0c540573bef2fd6a2ad PDF Text Text WILKES !___________________________ J % ' :■ S if 1 1 T7=<] ALUMNUS I______________ 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 without express permission of the editors. PRINTED JN U.S.A. �� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus April 1959 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 April 1959 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/acff6e97eae867f61e5e6f0ea4ebcbf0.pdf 7cce61bb668ad608322bed1e528e19da PDF Text Text 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 Page 9 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 Page 12 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! 3 �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 4 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. 5 ��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 (continued on page 9) 8 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 (continued on page 9) 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 (continued from page 8) (continued from page 8) 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." 9 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, 10 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 “ —’ “ ’ ' 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. � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 January 1959 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 January 1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/b57cf4583bb2e381e6eaebcd8a9e8290.pdf 0c3659efe7f55309e4fd2e55db34220d PDF Text Text �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 8 9 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 11 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 10 Its achieve­ It is with pride, but it is 3 �! * ■> j > > \ w ,- L 1 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 4 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. “ J 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. ?I •' U s'R Iv I ' 4 �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 6 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 1 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. 7 �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 8 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) 9 �WflltBS (Wfep tatty &IMMH tamrf 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 10 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 11 �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. 13 �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 14 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. 15 �The class news that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will conti­ 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 1—Name LAST MIDDLE FIRST Maiden Name Street State Town Telephone 2—Wilkes Degree Class Affiliation Semester Hours Withdrew 3—Transferred to Graduated 4—Other Degrees .. Source Date Title 6—Business Address Firm 5—Present Employment and Duties 7—Married Year Curriculum Single Spouse (Name) Children (Names - Birthdates) 8—Positions Held (Titles) � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <p>An archive of Wilkes University Magazine, from 1947-present. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus October 1958 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 1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/07ff35371acd4419e42038a3aa226ca9.pdf 623d0e8cd838b2c75de421713492ecc2 PDF Text Text rjoHo L �Board of Trustees Gilbert s. McClintock Chairman US 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 3 A SPECIAL REPORT Mrs. Franck G. Darte Samuel M. Davenport, M.D. Miss Annette Evans Let's Look at the Record 33 Reunions — Reunions 34 Class Notes 35 Down the Aisle, New Arrivals, Completed Careers 36 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 I 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° ciation. Second class mail "“,I privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barro. Pa. Subscriplion, - • 3 �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 ESF :mkb 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- I �Higher education in America 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 I' ��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 U 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 �I In the flood of vast numbers of students 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 HARVARD UNlVEttanv :■ 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.” I I I i I OW there was no stopping American higher educal‘on s growth, or the growth of its diversity. 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 H will �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. �■l £.,•4 11 k» F WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ■ i "< ■ - 1 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY II mostisserious shortage that higher education laces in its teaching staffs. Many are underpaid, he I and not enough young people are entering the field. Here, left to right, are a Nobel Prizewinning chemist, a Bible historian, a heart surgeon, a physicist, and a poet. I : per of them replied. In calendar 1958, they _-e ;-erd -.g billion. P.rcus S37 million worth of construction • per..- . barked ;n twenty-two projects j; I ■’•ake Forest and Goucher and y C s.ieces. i2 others.have left their old campuses -. ones. Stanford is undergoing b-ll't.rz -.ir.ce its founding. Every - r.'gr.er educa'lor.. the bulldozer, advance agent >. ..-k;r.g to veep up with America’s insati- I I • GG FPOJF/.T5, ho'.e.cr, are only the -■.■t ■ of r.igier education's to th'; time’.. And in many r-.; pan of the volution to io. - o G’r deeper 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' �13 1\ H I 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- ■ ■ 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. v 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. A 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.” �I i 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. I BAYLOR UNIVERSITY II �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. i 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. ■■ I ■> II i ! ■ 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. �fl I 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. i 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. F 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 - -f 5'ujszurv •. Hampshire CHESLEY WORTHINGTON Brown University j ACKNOWLEDGMENTS r '■ ' ' -h- Ty,peter. r.g: - . ' -. 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. Tam THE RECORD OF THE CI ASSFS . 77s«sernj.G corporation, «:.'.A<Z>, MJL.-.OIS AS OF APRIL 15 1958 '. . -.A >?= .■.. z',z-,<zo, I'.oiana ' ' v • ■no'./j. : :.r <.ni.I-. i .. 26 r. 26''. 26*'. 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 8 2 6 7 7 14'. 8‘< 16'. 23', It?. 8 6 i7r; 17', 9 5 8 8 fl ar, 19'. '26'> 86', Amount $ 18100 30.00 l 585 00 0? 343.00 164.00 840,00 290.00 21-..S0 U” so 816 50 J1 ‘50 Class 184' 1948 1343 > 1351 1358 995. to 1958 1355 1356 '.95 Total Awoun. '. XX ' A" to AX.V 1941-to 4' IA 95...V :Xto' X X �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). 38 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. � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 April 1958 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 April 1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4ec5aaf41729aedc10e2faaaf31c7d4d.pdf 429ea7681cca16536e0a5c4533a924b3 PDF Text Text �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. Page 3 Capital Gifts Campaign Franck G. Darte Samuel M. Davenport, M.D. Miss Annette Evans Outstanding Intercollegiate Events Scheduled 4 Alumni Officers for 1958 5 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 ...... Class Notes 12-14 Amendment Ballot 15 Questionnaire 16 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. 3 �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 4 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. ft. PatZ/z I I i �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. s �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, 8'31 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. 7 �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 8 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. 11 �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. —— —— — — *AXTulSZt Johnny Martin is now employed . —— X ' T1 J ti > IJ __ —1 — 14 ..It . — — ** 1X7^. ... 11— Z s-r 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 ~ —........ and is ■ 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 ..................... "" ” 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 E_,L T. __ __ _1 1552, 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 ----- Evening V.—— at ----- They -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. 14 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. ------=_ 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: , „ . the Uarco Corporation. Dick Auble 123, Carmen Molino 130, Jchn i— Doran r. is : attending •• i:-~ lav/ school Djck Vincent 157, and Dave Dunlap at Villanova University. 191. Vincent recorded the only pin Samuel Dilcer is employed by the in the finals, 1:57, over Greg Ruth Hagan Corporation. A 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. 15 �The class news that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will conti­ 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 axe lost. 1—Name LAST FIRST MIDDLE Maiden Name Street State Town Telephone 2—Wilkes Degree Curriculum Semester Hours Withdrew Class Affiliation 3—Transferred to Graduated 4—Other Degrees Source 6—Business Address . . Firm 5—Present Employment and Duties 7—Married Year Single M Spouse (Name) Children (Names - Birthdates) 8—Positions Held (Titles) Date Title � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 January 1958 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 January 1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/732e30841ba1b3085cf5a830bf36c3c2.pdf abb2af646bb9797f8f0ba757f9232ea4 PDF Text Text �FOR SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION Board of Trustees Admiral Ben Moreell, Wm. L. Laurence, Guest Speakers on Dedication Day Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary James P. Harris, Treasurer Mrs. Paul Bedford Francis O. Case Contents: Mrs. Charles E. Clift William L. Conyngham Mrs. Page 3 Dedication Day Franck G. Darte Samuel M. Davenport, M.D. Miss Annette Evans Operation Spearhead 4 Class Memorial Fund 5 Eugene S. Farley Hon. John G. Fine George W. Guckelberger Harold R. Stark Hall 6-7 New Faculty . 8-9 Harry F. Goeringer New PRO Director 9 Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D. Miss Mary R. Koons Joseph F. Lester Alumni Notes 10-11 Questionnaire 12 Reuben H. Levy Thomas Morgan. Jr. F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr. Rev. Charles S. Roush Andrew J. Sordoni ON THE COVER — Pictured look'ng at the po jortra’t of Admiral Harold R. Stark shortly after the dedication ceremony for the e SI,050 000 Ha-old R. Stark Hall are, from left io right: Admiral Harold R. Stark, Dr. ” Euc igene Farley, and Admiral Ben Moreell. The portrait of Admiral Stark was graciously given to Wilkes College by Andrew J. Sordcni and hangs in the foyer of the new building. Admiral Harold R. Stark Julius Long Stern Mrs. Esther W&ckesser Walker Published by Wilkes College Aaron Weiss Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania President Dr. Eugene S. Farley Office of Executive Secretary Chase Hall Alumni Officers Russ Picton, Editor Gifford Cappeilini, President Donald Honeywell, Vice-President Volume 4, No. 1 October, 1957 Mrs. Anita Janerich, Secretary Dr. Shadrach H. Jones, Treasurer Published quarterly as tho Alumnus lor the members ol the Wilkes College Alumni Asso­ ciation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre. Pa. Subscription, S2.00 Over 850 guests joined in Wilkes College's dedication of the ultra­ modern $1,050,000, Harold R. Stark Hall on Friday, September 27. The ceremony which began at 4:30 P.M. with an academic proces­ sion of trustees, guests, administra­ tion, faculty and alumni marched to a selection by the Wilkes College brass ensemble, led by Robert Mo­ ran. Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman of the Board of Trustees gave the welcoming address. Dr. Eugene S. Farley introduced the main speaker, Admiral Ben Moreell, USN retired, organizer of the Navy Sea Bees and former subordinate of Admiral Harold R. Stark, retired, who was Chief of Naval Operations during World War II. Admiral Moreell, now chairman of the Board of Jones and Loughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, paid high tribute to his friend, Admiral Stark. Admiral Moreell, taking Science, Industry and Education for his theme, declared in part: "Our pur­ pose today is to dedicate a Hall ol Science to the service of an institu­ tion of higher learning. Science and Liberal Arts education alike have important contributions to make io the well-rounded life. Together with religion, they comprise the major cultural forces in our society. — All cultural activities are dependent in large degree for their well being and growth on the productivity of Amer­ ican industry. Our economic ac­ tivity supplies the means for all our ends. . . . An intimate liaison be­ tween these three—science, industry and education—is essential if we are to achieve that measure of social progress without which we cannot survive as free people." In his introductory remarks, paying tribute to Admiral Moreell and Admiral Stark, Dr. Farley praised Admiral Moreell's "high level of efficiency" in the Civil En­ gineering Corps of the Navy and spoke warmly of his friendship for Admiral Stark. "All of us," he declared, "who have enjoyed the good fortune of knowing Admiral Harold Stark re- Admiral Ben Moreell joice in this opportunity to perpetu­ ate his name in the community in which he was bom. He has served his nation with distinction ... by his integrity, loyalty and vision, he has inspired a warm devotion in those who have been associated with him. We, at Wilkes, are fortunate that... in his retirement, he seeks to serve our community through his services to Wilkes." Referring to the anonymous donors whose SI,050,000 gift made Stark Hall a reality. Dr. Farley said, "as we dedicate this building to the service of future generations, we give our heartfelt thanks to that small group of modest men who by their faith and generosity have changed one more dream for Wilkes into a reality. . . . Our inability io give them recognition at this mo­ ment in no way reduces our sense of gratitude, and we hope that they may sense the depth of our appre­ ciation." At the conclusion of the program. Within a short time, a brochure containing the complete speeches and pictures of the dedication ceremony will bo sent to you. William L. Laurence Dr. Farley announced the receipt of congratulatory messages from Sir Winston S. Churchill and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Sir Winston's message said: "It is most fitting that the new building of Wilkes College should be named after Admiral Stark, who has rendered such signal services to his own country and the Free World." The telegram from President Eisen­ hower follows: To all assembled on the campus of Wilkes College to dedicate Harold R. Stark Hall, I send greetings: "As a child of WilkesBarre, a man of learning and a dis­ tinguished patriot. Admiral Harold R. Stark gives a great name to your new Science Building. I am sure your students will be inspired to new heights of scholarship and service as they enter into the use of Stark Hall." A standing ovation was given Admiral Stark by the audience as he approached the podium to give thanks to the donors for their mar­ velous gift to be named in his honor. At the conclusion of the ceremo­ nies, open house was held for the audience to see the new science building. All were amazed at the modem design and outstanding (continued on page 11) 3 �OPERATION SPEARHEAD Alumni Urged to Support 25th Anniversary Program We wish all alumni had the op­ portunity to be with us over the weekend of October 25th, during Homecoming. Your hearts would have been warmed; the spirited, friendly atmosphere engendered by graduates and former students meeting in good fellowship was sight to behold. The Friday night party brewed storm of boisterous greeting, enter­ taining an overflow crowd into the wee hours of Saturday morning — and somewhat affected the atten­ dance at the 10:00 a.m. briefing the next day. Nevertheless, the inter­ ested group heard a heartening re­ port by the president of the College midst coffee and donuts and lively discussion. However, the capacity crowd that swelled the Saturday night dance at the Irem Temple Club, after an exciting football game, topped the weekend activities. Guys and dolls from all over Permsylvania, Nev/ York, and adjacent states, arrived for the coup de grace of the homecoming weekend. Dancing and "Jicr, sincrincf and friendly hellos, made it readily evident that here ■vac a happy crowd — glad to be liome to renew old and new acquuintances. mention this to tell you that ""fcmeconung" at Wilkes has caught on — that it is indicative of a con­ tagious spirit among old and new alumni, and students. Those of the senior class in attendance were proud to count themselves among the future alumni of a grand little school — with a great big potential. Nov/ we are engaged in some­ thing more tangible. It is impera­ tive that we first acquire the spirit before seeking the material. Our job now is to create and re­ create, build and re-build, give and re-give ■— for good and sufficient reason. Wilkes College has embarked on a course of grov/th. During the 1958 celebration of the 25th year of the existence of our school, a TwentyFifth Anniversary campaign will be inaugurated seeking capital gifts which are so vital to the continued development of the College. Needed 4 Joseph J. Scrvitz at once, besides new buildings, dorms, and an enlarged physical plant. are monetary contributions to help raise faculty salaries. All schools are faced with the same problem. Skilled and welltrained faculty are at a premium. Yes, this is a "buyers' market" for faculty members. To maintain its enviable standards, Wilkes must be in a position to bid competitively; all of us know that a high scholastic reputation is very dependent on fine, scholarly instruction supplied by top personnel. Generally, the spectre of rising costs coupled with the contemplated increase of college students from 3 million this fall to 6 million in a decade — and then to 12 million by 1977, forces all institutions of higher learning into farsighted planning. It means increased financing to meet the growing demands of expanding facilities and faculties. This almost insurmountable prob­ lem has the concern of the White House; recently the President has established a special committee to examine the dire situation, and variour organizations such as The Ameri­ can Council for Education and The Council for Financial Aid to Educa­ tion, Inc. are conducting extensive campaigns to familiarize the nation with these difficulties. The organi­ zations are considering the lack of facilities and of trained faculty, and the amount of financial aid needed to resolve or alleviate these prob­ lems. Most colleges, similar to Wilkes, are planning to expand their facili­ ties, their faculty, and their endow­ ment to meet these needs. Our Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Develop­ ment Program, first stated in 1955, stressed the need for funds for facul­ ty salaries, a science building, a fine arts building, dormitories and annual funds for scholarship aid. Some of these goals have been attained. Funds have been given for improve­ ment of faculty salaries although it is still far below that which it should be. A new $1,050,000 Harold R. Stark Hall has recently been dedi­ cated and thanks to community support, our annual campaign for scholarship aid has been highly successful. But, as you can see, we still have a long way to go. Plans are now on the drawing board for the Fine Arts Building and Assembly Hall and possibly a dormitory. Of prima­ ry importance always are faculty salaries, and until they are on an equal basis with other colleges simi­ lar to Wilkes, the Board of Trustees will continue to consider this of prime importance. A college is only as sound as its faculty, and cer­ tainly, Wilkes College has been built on a tradition of sound scholarly instruction. Within the next few months, the College is planning a capital gifts campaign that will help raise faculty salaries and will oossibly result in the plans for the new buildings being crystalized as part of our campus. This will be a grass roots cam­ paign that will entail giving by our trustees, our administration, our faculty, our alumni, and thousands of people in the community. Ground­ work is now being laid for this cam(continued on page 11) CHAPTER HEADS — At a meeting on Saturday, September 28, the above group made plans for the coming year concerning chapter activities. Con­ templation of a capital gift campaign within the next few months emphasized the need for active geo­ graphical groups within the alumni association. The chapter heads and their chapter areas, from left to right: Standing, Donald Honeywell, Vice-President of the Association: Edward Wheatley, Wilmington, Delaware: Robert Croker, New York - Long Island: Dr. George McMahon, Philadelphia: Russell Picton, Executive Secretary; William Griffith, Allentown Bethlehem. Sitting: Dr. Shadrach Jones, Treasurer of the Association: Anita Janerich, Secretary of the Association: Denah Fleisher. New York-Long Island: William Boyd, Binghamton. Class Memorial Funds During the past two years, over $2500 has been given or pledged to the improvement and develop­ ment of Wilkes College by members of the student body and recent grad­ uates. The aqencv which is responsible for this valuable aid has been the Class Memorial Fund Plan—a plan conceived in their sophomore year by this year's graduating class and adopted by every class since that time, beginning with the class of 1956. The plan was introduced by Dave Vann, a senior this year. Graduating classes since time im­ memorial have given class gifts to their colleges as a means of perpetu­ ating the memory of their classes. Many times because of insufficient funds, the gift was of no consequence or of little value to the college. Usually, in order to make up for this lack of funds, each member of the senior class was assessed just when it could be least afforded—in the senior year. In addition, the gift was often destroyed because of the physical changes on the college campus. After considering these problems, the class memorial plan was origi­ nated so that the graduates could give something worthwhile with the minimum of difficulty. By class direction, the funds are to be raised from an assessment of SI.00 per semester for each student. Upon the request of the classes adopting the plan. Dr. Farley directed the comp­ troller to add S1.00 to each student's tuition which would enable the classes to have the funds collected and recorded for them without any bookkeeping problem on their part. The funds then would be used as the classes decide in their senior year. It has proved to be highly suc­ cessful with only a minimum of (continued on page 11) 5 �i (A) Lecture Room -a "~ (B) Frontal View (D) (C) Foyer 2nd Floor Corridor (E) Greenhouse (F) Laboratory �A WEALTH OF BACKGROUND in the mathematics department this vear. Dr. Robert Chapman, another re­ cent appointment to the English de­ partment, is a native of West Vir­ ginia. Dr. Chapman attended the University of Michigan from where he received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees. He also received his "Diplome de Civilisation Francaise". He had previouslv taught at the Universitv of Michigan, Cornell Uni­ versity and Oswego State Teachers College in New York. Dr. Chapman and his wife, Sara, have three children: Douglas, Mark, Geoffrey. I Li STAFF ADDITIONS — Pictured above are nine of the new instructors added to the faculty this year. Seated, left to right, are: Ronald D. Michman, Mrs. Harold Brown, Virginia Leonardi, and Robert Bhaerman. Standing: Kenneth ... n. Chiang, Robert L. Chapman, John H. Hotson, Bernard J. Zawisa, and Russell Miller. -- Cooulty AddedytoCollege Staff Increasing enrollment has resulted in the addition of a number of faculty members to the Wilkes College teaching staff. Wilkes Colege's en­ rollment is now near the eleven hundred mark—an increase of over three hundred students in the last three years. Offering many diversi­ fied interests, the new faculty mem­ bers add a background of experience and skills to the faculty that will benefit the students both academi­ cally and socially. Because of the current increase in college enrollments and the rise ex­ pected in the next few years through­ out the nation, many colleges have had to increase their faculty by as much as twenty per cent with far greater numbers needed in the next decade. Competition for faculty is 8 keen and Wilkes College has been fortunate in acquiring these fine new faculty members. One new addition to the English department is Mrs. Harold Brown. Mrs. Brown is a Kinaston resident, attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College and Columbia University and previously taught at WilkesBarre Day School. Her husband, Harold, is an English instructor at Wyoming Seminary. They are also the parents of two sets of twin dauahters. Mrs. Brown's outside ac­ tivities include membership in the West Side Women's Club and the League of Women Voters. Mr. Russell Miller, a member of the Mathematics department is a graduate of Columbia University where he also did graduate work. A proctor in the boys' dormitory. Mr. Miller served with the United States Army before coming to Wilkes. A new staff member of the Eco­ nomics department is Dr. You-keng Chiang. Dr. Chiang received his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. He formerly taught at the University of Chungking and the University of Massachusetts. Another addition to the Economics department is Mr. Allen Bacon. Mr. Bacon is a local resident and re­ ceived his B.S. from Temple Univer­ sity. Before coming to Wilkes, he worked in industry in various posi­ tions. Miss Virginia Leonardi, a senior mathematics student, is an instructor Mr. Bernard Zawisa, a graduate of Wesleyan, is a new addition to the art and education department. He received his undergraduate de­ gree in English with a minor in fine arts. He did graduate work at the University of Iowa where he earned his masters in fine arts. Mr. Zawisa, an abstract artist, has exhibited his work at such galleries as the con- temporary Arts Gallery in New York, the Addison Gallery of American Art and the 1956 Boston Arts Festival. His painting entered in the Connecti­ cut Water Color Show this spring, won first prize. He had previously taught in Middletown, Connecticut, public schools before coming here. He is now a faculty resident in Ashley Hall. Mr. John Hotson, a member of the Economics department, received his master's degree in Economic Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Wilkes, he was a graduate research assistant at the University of Nebraska. Mr. Philip Rizzo, English instructor, also received his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rizzo, who taught at Ohio Uni­ versity and at Centenary Junior Col­ lege, Hackettstown, New Jersey, is an accomplished violinist and has had three short stories published. Mr. Ronald Michman, received ex- perience in merchandising, which he teaches here, by working in various department stores in New York City. He earned his master's degree in business education at New York Uni­ versity. One Wilkes alumnus, Mr. Robert Bhaerman, is included among the sixteen new instructors added to the faculty roster this semester. Mr. Bhaerman, a Forty Fort native, re­ ceived his B.S. in Elementary Educa­ tion in 1954. While at Wilkes, he participated in the Future Teachers of America, the Education, and the Psychology-Sociology Clubs. After his graduation, he attended Pennsylvania State University from where he received his Masters in Education. Presently, he is working on his Doctorate in Education from Rutgers University. Before coming to Wilkes, he taught in Bloomfield, New Jersey, on the elementary level. He is now residing on Fort Street in Forty Fort. New Public Relations Director "Can you please tell me where tonight's football game will be played?" "Will you recommend a speaker for our next meeting of the Jones School PTA?" "We have a shipment of two crates of baseball shoes, or 2000 in­ vitations, or one million aspirins ..." Call Wilkes College with some­ thing like this on your mind, and chances are the switchboard opera­ tor will plug in Public Relations. Well — maybe not for the last item, but there's merit in the idea. Take it from Mrs. Edna Stevens, who is answering the P.R.O. phone these days. Mrs. Stevens, one-time reporter and assistant society editor of the Scranton Tribune, and women s section makeup editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., can be seen darting about campus these days with pencil and notebook in hand, or hurrying up Franklin Street with picture and cutline for the next edition of the newspaper. A graduate of Pembroke College Mrs. Edna Stevens in Brown University, Providence, R.I., Mrs. Stevens has held numerous publicity writing assignments, in­ cluding a recent stint in former Governor John S. Fine's campaign for a Luzerne County judgship. She spent her summer vacation, from June to September, at Wilkes, after a hasty initiation to her duties at commencement time. After a quiet day answering the phone and beating newspaper dead­ lines, Mrs. Stevens goes home to three little girls and WBRE-TV's an­ nouncer Don Stevens. Then comes a quiet evening of feeding, separating, bathing and bedding down a 2, 4, and 7 year old assortment of young Stevenses, but she manages to reach the third floor of Chase Hall every morning prompt­ ly at 10 after 9, or thereabouts, bar­ ring minor domestic disasters. To occupy her leisure time, Mrs. Stevens is brushing up on her short­ hand, painting Sam Gittens' portrait, and whipping up a few school dresses for her oldest offspring. So if you need a dress shortened, or a portrait painted, or you want to dictate "I can go there in an hour," call Public Relations. Sorry — that line is busy. 9 �From the Editor's Note Book . . . Here 'n There with the Alumni 1935 Mrs. John Jackson, the former Sarah Elizabeth Weller, taught for five years in the Kingston Borough Schools, Kingston, Pa. She also worked for one year for an engin­ eering firm on Wall Street in New York City. Sarah is now a house­ wife in Wexford, Pa. She and her husband have two children—Keith Alan, born in 1946; and Lawrence Eugene, born in 1950. 1936 Mason Baldwin is now residing in Sarasota, Florida. This past summer was his second year as Staging Director of the 'Miss Florida' Pageant. 1937 Monroe Freed, class of 1937, is employed as a salesman for the Main Pants and Lumber-Jackets, Inc., in West Pittston, Pa. He is married to the former Celia Kluger, and they have two children — Alan, bom in 1955; and Ellen, bom in 1956. 1940 Leon F. Wazeter is Sales Manager and Secretary-Treasurer of Davis & Wazeter, Inc. of Wilkes-Barre. He and i:is wife, Edith, have two children — Gerald, bom in 1953; and luriiih. bom in 1954. ■ . Ro s.t C. Van Riper, nee snne Wilkie, was previously Lc •/ red as a Senior Engineering .taut in the structures section of J . ss-V.'richi Corporation, in Caldt: : 11. N. J. She and her husband have a son, Robert C. Van Riper, Jr., born on July 30, 1957. 1944 Dr. Alex Kotch, class of 1944, is a research chemist at E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, Wilmington, Del. He and his wife, Ann Marie, have three children — Marianne, age 9; Axel, age 3; and Robert, 4 months. Alex was recently elected to position of Chairman-elect of the Wilmington Organic Chemists Club for 1957-1958. Mrs. John Westplate, the former M. Elizabeth Kreitzburg, who attended Wilkes during 1944 and 1945, is residing in Kenosha, Wis. She and her husband have four children — Ronald, Janice, Myron, and Joanne. 1948 Henry J. Rydzewski, class of 1948, is employed by the Electrical Re10 search Section of the Philadelphia Electric Company as an engineer. John Connor is a Civil Engineer of structures for the D. & H. Railroad in Albany, N. Y. John is married io the former Phyllis C. Martin, and they have three children — Robert, born in 1953; David, bom in 1954; and Nancy, bom in 1956. 1949 Mrs. Eleanor Beets, the former Nora Krute, is residing in Sparks, Nevada. She and her husoand. Messy, have one daughter — Krisune uouise, bom in February, 1957. Shirley Jean Rees Fleet receivea her MEd in biological science from Pennsylvania State University. The former Laura Jean Schleicher, now Mrs. Laura Rothman, is a parttime teacher at Milford Night Scnool, Milford, Conn. Laura and her hus­ band, Murray, have two children — Nathaniel, born in 1955; and Steven, bom in June, 195/. Gerald P. Bush, Jr., is the Super­ visory Auditor in the General Ac­ counting Office, Civil Accounting and Auditing Division of the Federal Government His duties require him to supervise comprehensive audits of government agencies, to write audit programs, and to report to the agency head and to congress. He is married to the former Betty Jean Torrance, and they have two children — William, born in 1950; and Gerald P., Ill, bom in 1954. William Luetzel was recently mar­ ried to the former Alice Alberti of Schenectady, N. Y. Bill, who at­ tended Wilkes between 1946 and 1949, was graduated from the Uni­ versity of Scranton and is employed as a research technician in the General Electric Research Labora­ tory in Schenectady, N. Y. 1950 Thomas J. Jordan, graduate of Wilkes in 1950, and also a graduate of the University of Maryland, is studying for his doctorate in educa­ tion at the University ofMaryland and is associated with the Pupil Personnel Department of Baltimore County Public Schools. Tom was married this summer to the former Virginia Ann Dargis, an alumna o! College Misericordia and formerly of Pittston, Pa. Joseph Radko, v/ho v/as graduated from Wilkes in 1950, is an attorney, engaged in private practice and as­ sociated with the federal govern­ ment. He was recently married to the former Anne Marie Roche ot Scranton, Pa. dem Walters was recently mar­ ried to the former Teresa Marie Jeff­ rey, who also attended Wilkes. He is unit control and merchandise man­ ager at Sears, Roebuck & Company. Passaic, NJ. Mrs. Walters is a graduate of Kings County Hospital School of Anesthesiology, Brooklyn, N. Y. Al Gorski is employed as Plant Manager of American Cyanamid's new Alum Plant in Cloquet, Minn. June Williams Turley received her Ph.D. in agricultural and biological chemistry from Pennsylvania Btate University. Joseph G. Kitler, who graduated from Wilkes in 1950, with a B.A. in Liberal Arts, also received his M.A. from Bucknell University in 1951. At present, Joe is a teacher of English and Social Studies in Glastonbury High School, Glastonbury, Conn. Lois De Graw Huffman, a 1950 graduate of Wilkes, and her hus­ band, Homer, who attended Wilkes in 1949 and 1950, are residing in Butler, N. J., where Homer is asso­ ciated with the Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., of New York. They have one daughter — Shari, bom in May of 1956 in San Jose, California, where the Huffmans lived for a year and a half. 1951 James Trumbower, who attended Wilkes in 1951, was married on July 13 to the former Dorothy Ellen Dale of Whippany, N. J. Jim is a member of the faculty of Hackettstown, (N. J.), High School. Reverend Fred B. Schultz, Pastor of St. John's Church, Salem, N. J., is married to the former Marion Evans, and they have three children — Gwyneth, age 5; Nancy, age 4; and David, age 2. Daniel M. Ungvarsky, class of '51, is a Stress Analysis Engineer in the Missile and Ordinance Systems De­ partment of General Electric in Phila­ delphia, Pa. He is married to the former Dolores Makuch of WilkesBarre. They have a son — Ronald, bcm in 1955. Donald C. Stalbird has recently completed a six-weeks course of study at the Graduate School for Teachers at Wesleyan University. William Lewis Evans, II, received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Pennsyl­ vania State University. John B. Guerra has recently gradu­ ated from the Cleveland-Marshall Law School with a L.L.B. He is a member of the Delta Theta Phi, a legal fratemitv. At present, John is employed by the Central National Bank of Cleveland as a Senior Trust Auditor. He is married to the former Mary A. Dziadosz of Wilkes-Barre, and they have a daughter, Machele. 1952 Earl C. Crispell, Jr. of Noxen, is now a medical student at Hahne­ mann Hospital, Philadelphia. He graduated from Wilkes in 1952 with a B.S. in Biology. In June of 1957, Earl was married to the former Rose Mary Gerace of Berwick, Pa. National recognition in his field of business was accorded C. Frank Eastman recently through publi­ cation of an article by him in the leading trade journal in the field of life insurance. Mr. Eastman, WilkesBarre representative of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, wrote under the title, "How I Up­ graded my Prospecting." According to Mr. Eastman, his article was written as a result of an inquiry of the publisher of his home office in Hartford, Conn. James C. Richardson, class of '52, is the Assistant Manager of Sears, Roebuck & Company in Staten Island, New York. He is married to the former Jeanette Perrins. Louis Polombo and his wife, the former Rose Marie Annabell of Plains, Pa., are the proud parents of twins, a boy and a girl, bom in July of 1955. He is employed as a Sales Correspondent with DuPont in Wil­ mington, Del. ADM. MOREELL, LAURENCE (continued from page 3) facilities that were contained in the building. Students in each class­ room, laboratory and lecture hall ex­ plained what various features were and the type of work done in each specific room. The afternoon was momentous and long to be remembered in the history of Wilkes College. A brilliant climax to the day's ceremonies was delivered by Willia ceremonies was delivered by William H. Laurence, science editor of the New York Times, in his afterdinner address Friday evening to a group of 250 community leaders assembled to honor Admiral Harold R. Stark. Speaking without notes, Mr. Laurence gave an enlightened evaluation ot tne future possibilities of atomic and hydrogen energy as forces ot good, rte predicted that as a result, the greatest source ot human conflict—tne maldistribution of energies—would forever be re­ moved. He stated further that "the destructive forces of the atom and hydrogen now available to man have orougnt a state ot deterrance and made war inconceivable," he predicted that even the threat or war will be eliminated and "a free world of science will have freed man io accept freedom." He continued, "the dynamic creative energy lying dormant in man is greater man me energy of the atom. . . . once you give man the opportunity to develop tne creative powers inside of him, the forces of good will triumph for­ ever over the torces of evil." ALUMNI URGED TO SUPPORT (continued from page 4) paign by our own Russell Picton, working with Mr. John Koch, a director ot the firm of Ward, Dreshman and Reinhardt, professional iund raising consultants. Within a few months, all of you will be urged to join in this huge campaign mat will perhaps make the years 195/ and 1958 tne most important in die history of Wilkes College. Our roll as a community college is to enable our young people in Ulis geographical area to attain a sound college education, it is the thinking of the college leaders that Wilkes College will remain at a fixed enrollment oi twelve hundred day students per year. Perhaps at some later date, pressures of population may cause us to change mat figure. Where do we, alumni of Wilkes, come in? A capital gifts campaign involves CLASS MEMORIAL FUNDS a substantial goal. Every possible (continued from page 5) source of revenue must be explored. financial strain on the individual student. A report of the class me­ It means going cut to the community, to industry, to business in general, morial fund follows: and soliciting funds for wnat we CLASS MEMORIAL FUNDS consider a worthy and noble Class of 1956 ____ $ 407.80 purpose. 591.00 Someone has to lead the way — 998.80 there must be a Spearhead to 596.57 Class of 1957 achieve our objective. Thai Spear­ 350.00 Class of 1958 head is the Alumni! Class of 1959 565.00 Y’ou and I, whose hearts are inter­ Class of 1960 woven with the growth of our alma mater — we who have secured TOTAL _______________ $2,510.31 The Class of 1956 also contributed knowledge from this institution that a Trophy Case in addition to the has led us into the professions, the Memorial Fund and an Alumni busmess and industrial world, and into the v/orld of appreciation of the Fund. The Class of 195/ gave a arts and sciences — we who have globe as a gift to the college, in been the primary beneficiaries of the addition to the Fund. Each year the Memorial Fund good, of the understanding, of the Report is publicized in the Beacon fruits of learning — we, the alumni, and in the Alumnus, Alumni maga­ must spearhead the drive. All of us will be called upon to zine, so that everyone is informed give of our resources and to aid in of their class achievement. the maintenance and sustenance o' The class funds of 1958 and 195S are not yet completed and are still the college lile at Wilkes . . . life growing. The class of 1960 will that should be made nobler and begin the fund this year as voted richer because of our interest and contribution; a life that will offer io upon by the class last spring. As indicated by the class of 1956 the students following in our pain report, annual alumni contributions a bit more. will be added to the class totals Each of us knows that his giving each year so that at any time, the is not charity. He knows that which graduating classes can see how enhances the school and its reputamuch they have given to the col­ tioir in the end also enhances the lege through their memorial funds alumnus. To look back with the and purposes for which it was used. knowledge that one has built some­ The Class Memorial Fund is a new thing creative is to look forward to idea in class and alumni giving de­ a happier life, a richer world. signed to be of service to the college We are the Spearhead — we must in years to ccme. lead the way! 11 �The class news that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will conti­ 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. 1—Name MIDDLE FIRST LAST Maiden Name Street Town State Telephone 2—Wilkes Degree Curriculum Withdrew Semester Hours ... 3—Transferred to Graduated . .. 4—Other Degrees Source 6—Business Address 5—Present Employment and Duties Single Spouse (Name) . Children (Names - Birthdates) 8—Positions Held (Titles) Class Affiliation Date . Title Firm 7—Married Year ... � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Alumnus October 1957 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 1957 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/25e8b0fdd3746cd0240468958c3bb418.pdf 770cbbcf972963f3ccf3c799812457f3 PDF Text Text �A SIGNIFICANT ADVANCEMENT Board of Trustees Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary James P. Harris, Treasurer Mrs. Paul Bedford Francis O. Case Contents: Mrs. Charles E. Clift William L. Conyngham Mrs. Franck G. Darts Page Dedication Program Planned Hanson and Johnston Give Addresses 4-5 Samuel M. Davenport, M.D. Miss Annette Evans Eugene S. Farley Faculty Members Added Homecoming Announced Hon. John S. Fine Annual Fund Report George W. Guckelberger Harry F. Goeringer Reunions Planned Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D. Foundation Gives Aid ... . Miss Mary R. Koons Joseph F. Lester Reuben H. Levy Class Notes HAROLD R. STARK HALL — This frontal view of the nearly completed new building looking from South River Street toward South Franklin Street, indicates the simplicity and the beauty of its structure. The Ford Foundation Grant Thomas F. Morgan, Jr. F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr. Rev. Charles S. Roush Andrew J. Sordoni Admiral Harold R. Stark ON THE COVEH - - The new Harold R. Stark Hall as stipulated by the anonymous donor oi the building, will be named alter Admiral Harold R. Stark, former chief of naval operations. Admiral Stark has long been a staunch supporter of the college and in fact, gave to Wilkes its first building -Chase Hall, now the administration building. Julius Long Stern Mrs. Esther Weckesser Walker Published by Wilkes College Aaron Weiss Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania President Office of Executive Secretary Chase Hall Dr. Eugene S. Farley Alumni Officers Russ Picton, Editor Gifford Cappellini, President Donald Honeywell, Vice-President Volume 3, No. 4 July, 1957 Mrs. Anita Janerich, Secretary Dr. Shadrach H. Jones, Treasurer Publtshcd quarterly as tho Alumnus for the members of the Wifkes College Alumni Assoaation. Second class mail privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, $2.00 Biology, Chemistry and Physics Departments will move into their new quarters in time for the beginning of this school year. Dedication of the building is set for September 27, 1957. Dedication of Harold R. Stark Hall To Begin 25th Anniversary Celebration Dr. Eugene S. Farley has named Friday, September 27 as Dedication Day at Wilkes. The new ultra­ modern science building named in honor of Adm. Harold R. Stark will be dedicated in ceremonies begin­ ning at 4:30 p.m. on the lawn behind Stark Hall or, in event of rain, in the Wilkes Gymnasium. It is anticipated that the dedicatory address will be given by an eminent Navy friend of Adm. Stark, who will be present for the services. Tours of the building will be con­ ducted before and after the dedica­ tion. A processional of faculty and trustees will begin the program. A message from Dr. Farley and selec- tions by the Wilkes Collegians are also on the program agenda. Sing­ ing of the alma mater will complete the program. Dedication Day will be the first in a series of events looking forward to and celebrating Wilkes' 25th anni­ versary in 1958. A faculty commit­ tee of 12, headed by Russell Picton, Executive Alumni Secretary and Wilkes Development Director, and John Chwalek, Placement Director, are in charge of arrangements. Assisting the co-chairmen are: Mrs. Gertrude Doane, George Rals­ ton, John Whitby, Dr. Charles B. Reif, Dr. Samuel Rosenberg, Cathal O'­ Toole, Alfred Groh, Robert Moran, Miss Mildred Gittins, Mrs. Edna Stevens and William Jervis. Dr. Reif will direct the tours, as­ sisted by the following faculty: Dr. Alfred W. Bastress, Voids B. Hall, Dr. Sheldon G. Cohen, Miss Catherine H. Bone, Edward N. Heltzel, Francis J. Salley, Dr. Francis J. Michelini, Cromwell E. Thomas, Mrs. Edith S. Namisniak and Miss Bernice Leagus. Dr. Rosenberg will be faculty host to trustees and guests. In addition to the committee of faculty members, a 25th anniversary committee of trustees and another community group of friends of the college are being organized to for(continued on page 15) 3 �THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Addresses Given by Dr. Harold Hanson, Eric Johnston at Graduation Exercises The ranks of the alumni associa­ tion were swelled by 143 members as a result of the 10th annual com­ mencement exercises held on June 2 and 3. Graduates, friends and relatives heard two fine addresses by Dr. Howard Hanson and Mr. Eric Johnson. The baccalaureate speaker. Dr. Howard Hanson, is ihe Director of Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Hanson addressed the graduating class of Wilkes College on the world's current need for "a religion of living, breathing reality." At the baccalaureate services held in the Wilkes Gymnasium, Dr. Han­ son was honored by the Wilkes Col­ lege band, under the direction of Robert E. Moran, which played Dr. Hanson's "Chorale and Alleluia." Dr. Hanson was justifiably pleased with the band's interpretation of his music and paid his compliments to Mr. Moran. Taking his text from Biblical ac­ counts of Christ's temptations in the wilderness. Dr. Hanson declared: "Regardless of the importance of ‘he social gospel, of codes of ethics. Lie most important of man's relation­ ships is his relationship with his Maker. I urge this priority upon you today, because in these challenging days it is necessary for each of us to make his own decision. . . Some­ day we must stand up and be counted and that day may even now, be upon us. Speaking forcefully. Dr. Hanson stated that "Milk and water Christi­ anity. or milk and water Judaism, is no good today, if indeed it ever was. We can respect the integrity of a convinced atheist - even though we may doubt his intelligence. We can have no respect for a self-styled fol­ lower of the Christian or the Jewish religion who dees not accept the priority of those basic command­ ments upon which the two faiths were founded. . ." Noting the former fashion of bacca­ laureate speakers who laid the blame for the world's ill upon the shoulders of his own generation, and challenged "youth on its pure white charger" to the rescue, Dr. Hanson 4 Dr. Howard Hanson recalled his visit to Rome during Mussolini's rise to power, and his stay in Germany when Hitler's Nazis marched through the streets of Berlin. "And who were those marching men? Were they the old, or the middle-aged? No! They were, for Eric Johnston the most part, young men... caught in the fever of a new cause, enthusi­ astic but misguided, idealistic but serving false gods, which they did not themselves understand. . ." He continued, "Without a personal religious conviction it is possible for man to hide his selfishness under the cloak of an ethical social code. His sponsorship of progressive causes may well be motivated not by love of his fellow man, but rather by his own desire for selfish gain, political advancement or the acquisition of power for himself or his group. Dr. Hanson exclaimed, "The genu­ ine motivation of a social gospel must spring from the deep, personal conviction of the individual man who has arrived at that philosophy through a development within him­ self of a deep concern for the welfare of his fellow-man. The words of Christ are eternally true. The in­ escapable corollary to the social gospel is to have genuine meaning. "We need today young men and women of vision and faith, as well as of determination and courage. For courage and determination with­ out vision can produce ruthless power without soul.. . What we need above all is a deep, inner conviction, a personal religion which guides our action and our thinking. If we are to become a great people we must become a religious people. In conclusion, Dr. Hanson stated, "It does not, I believe, make too much difference what your religion is, whether you are Protestant, Catho­ lic or Jew, as long as you stand fast by the noblest traditions of your faith. For religion is more than ethics. It is... a burning zeal not merely to do that which is ethically right and just to all men, but to live together as brothers, as sons of one omni­ scient and omnipotent Father. "Never before in the history of mankind has man lived in a time of such frightening power. Never be­ fore has he so desperately needed the philosophy, the religion of brotherly love, of human understand­ ing and divine compassion. To your generation comes the gigantic chal­ lenge of making our religion a living, breathing reality." Erie Johnston, president of Motion Picture Association of America, speaking before the graduates on June 4, amused the assembly with an anecdote-studded address, "Don't Slam the Door on Alma Mater." Announcing his intention to depart from the two traditional commence­ ment themes — "The World Is Your Oyster speech or "You're at the Crossroads speech", Johnston chose to "think out loud" with his audience on his varied experiences and con­ clusions attained in the world of busi­ ness and foreign diplomacy. Debunking two prime fetishes in the field of education, the fetish of the specialist and the fetish of the mass mind, Johnston declared: "Gen­ eral education is imperative today as it never has been before. There must be an orchestration of all spe­ cialists into a harmonious whole. It takes more than a few oboe players and flutists to make a democracy. Illustrating the fetish of the mass mind with instances of polling and research on the common man, rather than the uncommon man, Johnston pointed out the concern of advertising specialists on the relative merits of red or green wrappers of soap. "One fact tends to be overlooked," ob­ served Johnston. "The real principle involved is the soap." Speaking by coincidence On the 50th anniversary of the first picture made in Hollywood ("The Count of Monte Cristo"), Johnston touched up­ on the tremendous influence Ameri­ can pictures have effected in the most farflung regions of the globe. He said: "A farmer on a donkey in Indonesia seeing an American farmer on a tractor will carry that picture in his mind long after the film he saw is forgotten. "Workers in Russia seeing Ameri­ can workmen leave the plant driving their own automobiles may be told by their officials that this is American propaganda, but I have heard them questioning as they leave the thea­ ter, the differences between commu­ nism and democracy that permit a working man to own his own car. "Those things which are as commonplace to us as the air we breathe have not failed to leave their imprint on the inquiring minds of our fellow men on all comers of the earth, regardless of their enironment or ideology. Hollywood has been this country's envoy of democracy." Johnston cited three outstanding concepts which motion pictures have portrayed: Man as an individual, man free and intended to be free, and man capable of remolding and re- OUTSTANDING GRADUATES — Palsy Loe Reese and Leslie Weiner are shown receiving the Alumni Association's Annual Outstanding Graduates Award from Alumni President Atty. Gifford Cappellini. at graduation exercises. Miss Reese received a B.A. Degree in Art, Mr. Weiner a B.A. in Biology. making his environment with his own hands and his own brain. Branching into the subject of inter­ national relations, Johnston said: "War must not be allowed as an instrument of foreign policy. The President of the United States has said it is unallowable for this country unless attacked. "And how is this seemingly im­ possible goal to be achieved? Only by a vastly better system of com­ munication. All the peoples of the world must be reached, they must be instilled with the understanding of one another. In the years to come this will be simplified by scientific progress. But hand in hand with scientific progress must go the effort to portray the doctrine of the brother­ hood of man. Although he did not quote Presi­ dent Eisenhower directly. Johnston revealed that from his conversations with the President it was his convic­ tion that Eisenhower would prefer to go down in history not as the great victor of the European theater of World War II, but as the founder of world peace. Special awards to the outstanding graduates of the year went to Patsy Lee Reese and Leslie Weiner. These awards, usually given by the Alumni Association to one graduate consi­ dered by a special faculty committee to have made the strongest contribu­ tion to the life of the college, were presented by Attorney Gifford S. Cappellini, president of the Wilkes College Alumni Association. The Dobson Medal in Accounting was conferred by Dr. Samuel Rosen­ berg, head of Wilkes Commerce and Finance Department, upon Jesse Choper. Dr. Rosenberg also pre­ sented the award of Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Account­ ants to Jack Philip Tippett. The Medal in engineering, pre­ sented by Voris B. Hall, head of the Engineering Department at Wilkes, went to Phyllis Bridget Charnecki. Earl Richard Bahl received honor­ able mention. The Chemistry award, an out­ standing recent book in the field, was presented to Frank Edward Lutinski by Catherine Bone, assistant profes­ sor of chemistry. (continued on page 11) 5 �COLLEGE ENRICHED New Faculty Members Add Varied Backgrounds to College Staff There will be a number of new faces among the faculty this year. Joining the English Department will be Dr. Robert L. Chapman, a graduate of the University of Michi­ gan and former instructor at Cornell University and State Teachers Col­ lege, Oswego, N. Y. Dr. Chapman holds a French Diploma from the University of Paris in addition to his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan. He has travelled in France, Germa­ ny, England, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, and has pub­ lished several scholarly articles in the Michigan Literary News. He has also served as faculty advisor to college dramatics societies and par­ ticipated in art exhibition work and college publicity programs. business experience totalling five years as production controller with the Budd Co., Philadelphia, and as service and sales representative of Group Welfare Insurance plans of Sun Life Association. Mr. Rizzo, who is an accomplished performer on violin and viola, has held membership in singing as well as orchestral groups, and has had three short stories published. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phila­ delphia Anthropological Society, the ington, D. C., on the economic growth of China. He was also re­ search associate in economic re­ search for the Central Bank of China. John Hargrove Hotson, who holds a master's degree in Economic Theory from the University of Penn­ sylvania, and was a graduate re­ search assistant at the University of Nebraska, will also teach economics at Wilkes this year. Mr. Hotson re­ ceived his Bachelor's degree in eco­ nomics from Colorado College, Colo­ rado Springs, in 1952. Cathal O'Toole will have a new assistant in the Art Department in Bernard J. Zawisa. The young artist has distinguished himself in various exhibitions in New York, Boston, Hartford and the Middle West, and has won several awards in oil and water color painting. His work has been included in the American Fed­ eration of Arts, the Young Talent Exhibition in 1953 and '54, and the Boston Arts Festival Travelling show in 1956-'57. A second addition to the English faculty will be Philip Rizzo, a Uni­ versity o f Pennsylvania graduate holding a master's degree also from that institution. Mr. Rizzo, who ex­ pects to complete requirements for his Ph. D. in 1958, has a total of six years teaching experience at Ohio University and Centenary Junior College, Hackettstown, N. J., and Mr. Zawisa, a veteran of World War II, has taught art in Saltsburg, Pa., and Hartford Conn., where he has been engaged in graduate work f Bernard J. Zawisa American Association of University Professors, Philomathen Society and the Mayfair Chamber Group. I Two instructors will also join the Economics Department. Dr. Youkeng Chiang, who received his doctorate from the University of Chi­ cago in 1952, comes to Wilkes from the University of Massachusetts, Am­ herst, where he was an assistant professor in economics. ■■ A Dr. Chiang's experience includes three years as an instructor at the University of Chunking, four years in business as economic analyst for the Zurich-American Insurance Co. and as research consultant in Wash­ X i II J r’ ‘ I 0& ■; i Robert L. Chapman 6 Ronald D. Michman in education at the University of Connecticut. He holds his master's degree in fine arts from the Universi­ ty of Iowa, having graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Edna Craig, who holds a bachelors and master's degree in business education from the Uni­ versity of Pennsylvania, will teach secretarial studies. She has pre­ viously instructed at Bergen Junior College, Tea neck, N. J„ Wesley Junior College, and Skidmore and supervised business training at Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. Two interesting features of her back­ ground are her employment as secretary to Ethel I. duPont deNemours and Lillian Smith, author, in Clayton, Ga. Mathematics students will have the benefit of an internationally dis­ tinguished professor who comes to Wilkes from UNESCO and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Dr. Narbutt, who fled Poland with other members of the Polish Air Force in 1939, worked with the Polish Government in Exile in London in setting up a Department of Electrical Engineering in what was later christened The Polish University Col­ lege, London, in 1947. Dr. Narbutt, who received his doc­ torate in engineering from the Uni­ versity of London in 1944, is a grad­ uate of the University of Technology of Warsaw, Poland and holds also a Polish State degree in electrical engineering and a diploma of asso­ ciateship in pure mathematics from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. He has served additionally as senior lecturer at Battersea Polytech­ nic College, London, a consultant to the Polish Government in Exile and British industrial concerns in London during the war, and since 1943, as Professor of Electrical Engineering in Kharagpur. Dr. Narbutt has made original contributions on (1) invariant proper­ ties of the Laplace Transform under certain groups of transformations; (2) a new design method of twoterminal networks whose impedance function is a given function of fre­ quency; (3) a new numerical method for determining the Laplace trans­ form of a function which is given a tabular form, and he is currently developing an analogue computer for synthesis of closed loop transfer functions. Dr. Narbutt, incidentally, is versed in Polish, French, German, Russian & Im Mrs. Edna C. Craig A member of Psi Chi Omega, the Eastern Business Teachers Associa­ tion he was winner of a Master's Award Full Tuition Scholarship granted by N.Y.U. School of Educa­ tion. Robert D. Bhaermctn Robert Bhaerman, '54 graduate of Wilkes, will assist Dr. Eugene Ham­ mer in the education department this Fall. Bob received his Master's from Rutgers and is working for his Ph. D. at Rutgers. He has been teaching for the past few years at Bloomfield, New Jersey. Homecoming Weekend Planned Homecoming celebration will take place during the weekend of October 25, it was decided by members of the Alumni Council. This year, the Committee is planning a fine pro­ gram because of our 25th Anniversa­ ry celebration which will run from September, 1957, to September, 1958. This early date was planned again as a result of last year's successful program. We feel that by selecting an early fall date, making the prob­ lem of bad weather practically negli­ gible and enabling you who usually return to Wyoming Valley for Thanksgiving to have a month be­ and English . . . not to mention mathematics. The business and finance depart­ ment will offer merchandising courses this year instructed by Ronald David Michman, who holds a master's degree in business edu­ cation from New York University. Mr. Michman, who has had practical work experience in three well-known New York City department stores, has taught a general business course at N.Y.U. and merchandising and salesmanship courses in the New York City Schools. tween trips, we are considering an important factor in the success of the program. We hope that this advance notice will give you enough time to make your plans to be at the college during that weekend. We would like you to help us celebrate our anniversary year during homecoming. The final program will be sent io you prior to homecoming, but here is a tentative schedule of the week­ end activities. Friday, October 25: 8:00 p.m.—Warm-up Party. Saturday, October 26: 9:00 a.m.—Coffee Hour. 10:00 a.m.—Tour of campus and of Stark Hall. 12:00 noon—Alumni Council Meeting. 2:00 p.m.—Football game, Wilkes - Lycoming. 8:00 pun.—Anniversary Dance. Because of the number of new buildings and changes that are tak­ ing place, we hope that you will be present for the coffee hour and the tour following. We are certain that you will be amazed at the college's development and growth. 7 �ALUMNI SUPPORT GROWS Alumni Fund Tops 56 Mark; New High in Participation The final results of the second An­ nual Fund indicate that a new high in alumni participation has been at­ tained as a result of extensive con­ tact by our hard-working class man­ agers, since 26% of those contacted have contributed to the Alumni Fund. The total amount contributed was S5,231.17 from 497 alumni, indicating that an average gift of S10.50 was received. If you recall, the 1956 campaign ended with 365 contributing for 20% participation and a total amount of S3.709.79, with an average gift of 310.16. These figures indicate that 132 new alumni have joined with us during the past year, and we have gamed 51,521.38 over last year's total. Indicative of the type of support that the college needs is the growth in the number of contributors who have taken advantage of their com­ panies' matching gift plans and have thus doubled their contributions to the college and have gained for the college recognition within the firms. To the General Alumni From the Fund Chairman The 1957 "Annual Alumni-Giving Campaign" is at an end. Fortunate­ ly, however, the enthusiasm and loyalty manifested by alumni-giving the past several weeks is not at an end. In a few short weeks there was raised by annual gifts, amongst the alumni only, a sum in excess of S5,000.00 resulting from participation by 26% of former students. In this second year of planned fund raising, the Sophomore jinx was broken; alumni of the college have indicated they want to help, and will help the college to grow. The feeling is present that 'As our school grows, so grow we!' In addition, a portion of the fund was received as a result of insurance plans that members of the earlier classes have taken out and which are now paying dividends to the college. "The 1958 campaign, which will be held during the 25th Anniversa­ ry year, is perhaps the most im­ portant campaign of all to the col­ lege. As alumni, once again we will be asked to join in the college development program and to give substantially toward its growth, along with friends in the commu­ nity. Next year the college will conduct a capital gift campaign for between one-half million and one million dollars, so you can see our continued support is greatly needed." Attorney Gifford Cappellini, Alum­ ni President, in reviewing the results of the 1957 campaign and the past year's activities, expressed this message to the members of the Alumni Association. "It is with pride and satisfaction that I express to you the sincere appreciation of the alumni officers for your participation in our alumni drive. "The success of the drive was possible only because of your co­ operation and the tireless dedi­ cated efforts of the class managers. "We are moving forward as a unified, dynamic, and maturing alumni association, and I am con­ fident our stature will grow as we cooperate and participate in the affairs of our alumni association. 8 It is readily evident that former students share a keen interest and desire in enhancing the reputation of Wilkes and in raising its educational standards. This has been proven by tangible evidence as well as by ready acceptance to work on the school's behalf. There is a sudden realization that we are today stems from some of our roots nurtured at the fountain of our alma mater. To those who have contributed to­ wards the sustenance of that foun­ tain; to those alumni who have parti­ cipated so generously in our alumni drive; to all of those who have and will strongly support Wilkes, we of the fund-raising committee extend our sincere appreciation and thanks for your generous contributions. The following final statistics show the leading classes in participation and lists all of the contributors by classes and the total amount given by each class. CODE; * "'Insurance and a gift Atty. Joseph J. Savitz Fund Chairman "'Insurance fMatching gift xClass Managers CLASS of 1935 No. on Honor Roll .................. 10 out of 59 % of Participation . ........... ----------- 17% S Contributed .................. . ------ S131.00 Julius Altman Francis X. Antonelli xDr. Charles N. Bums Mrs. Harold J. Harris Edward G. Hartman Mrs. William Henderson Mrs. John Jackson xGeorge M. Jacobs Robert H. Melson xAmbrose Saricks CLASS of 1936 No. on Honor Roll % of Participation ....................... S Contributed ....................... fxRalph Ford John P. Hurley- 3 out of 25 12% ........ S60.00 Mrs. N. R. Pearse CLASS of 1937 No. on Honor Roll 8 out of 37 % of Participation ........................... . 22% S Contributed S167.00 Mrs. Gordon Dietterick, Jr. Melvin N. Kammen Marie A. Kopicki Henry N. Peters xMrs. John W. Rees Elizabeth Schlingmann xWalter E. Thomas Norman Tractenberg CLASS of 1938 No. on Honor Roll ....... 7 out of 31 % of Participation............................. 23% S Contributed -........................... ...... S120.00 Dr. Albert F. Cooper Mrs. Harry ~ Dower Thomas W. Melson William R. Mor >rgan xReverend Reul uben W. Rader R. J. Roush Ernest Weisberger CLASS of 1939 No. on Honor Roll 10 out of 43 ............... 23% % of Participation ...... S Contributed .. ....... S95.00 Mrs. Mar irgaret Moore Bryson Mrs. Will .lliam C. Davis Mrs. Marion Martin Frantz John E. Guiney, Jr. Dudley S. James xDr. Robert M. Kerr Mrs. Dorothy S. Nutt Dr. Earl J. Rhoades Robert D. Royer Mrs. Robert D. Royer CLASS of 1940 No. on Honor Roll 7 out of 44 % of Participation ............................. 16% S Contributed ................. ..................... $104.50 James B. Aikman John Charles Bush Mrs. Arthur M. Davies xMrs. Henry G. Frank Jack P. Karn xDonald R. Kersteen xMrs. Emory S. Quinn CLASS oi 1941 .. 5 out of 36 No. on Honor Roll 14% % of Participation ............................. 5 Contributed _......... ......... S100.00 Dr. John A. Anthony Atty. Thomas ' E. Brislin Stephc len M. Charney xAlfrfred S. Groh Mrs. C. B. Reif CLASS of 1942 No. on Honor Roll ................ 13 out of 43 30% % of Participation ............................ . ........ S100.00 S Contributed Atty. Morris Altman xRichard C. Bantie Dr. Richard E. Crompton Alfred Eisenpreis Theodore Glowacki Warren A. Kistler Dr. Peter Mayock Mrs. Herbert F. Mitchell Mary J. Pohala Forrest W. Price xMrs. Harold Rosenn Robert Rovinski Aaron Weiss Mrs. Jean Withey Carey Mrs. Gloria Fierverker Mrs. Alberta Killian Mrs. Emryss P. Lewis, Jr. Doris M. Rc laub xRobert E. Wentz CLASS of 1943 No. on Honor Roll . 8 out of 26 %■ -I of F-.lcipation Participation ....... . 31% S Contributed .. ......... ........ S63.00 Albert J. Fladd Mrs. Mary Hutchko Flanagan John P. Heim Nelson F. Jones Mrs. Eva Levy xGeorge Rifendifer Peter W. Seras xMrs. Sol Spears CLASS of 1944 16 out of 31 No. on Honor Roll 52 % % of Participation............ ........ S102.00 S Contributed — Robert E. Barnum Mrs. Beatrice O’Donnell Barrett Mrs. T. Howard Dicker Harry M. Hochreiter, Jr. Mrs. Ruth Punshon Jones xMrs. Joseph A. Keating 7 Leading Classes in Percentage of Participation 1944 1945 1955 1943 1942 1951 1956 Mrs. Andre Kerr Dr. Alex Kotch Mrs. Creighton Lytle Mrs. Beverly G. Myers xMrs. Janet Post Phillips William C. Robinson xMrs. Robert H. Voelker Mrs. Bryn W. Waters Arthur C. Williams Daniel E. Williams 52% 45% 34% 31% 30% 30% 30% CLASS of 1947 No. on Honor Roll ........ % of Participation .......................... S Contributed ............................. Harris R. Boyce xM. Lloyd Davies Dr. E. M. Dwyer Dr. Newton N. Goldberg xMrs. Louise D. Phipps Robert Talarsky Dominick G. Yanchunas 7 out of 29 24% S80.00 ____ CLASS of 1948 29 out of 113 No. on Honor Roll ....... ____ 25% % of Participation ................... s Contributed _____ S320.50 xAtty. Norman Baum xMrs. Herman Baumann, Jr. Mrs. Eric M. Beissinger xHenry J. Collins Robert C. Collins xRichard H. Conklin xjohn A. Cooney Mrs. Carolyn Jones Dinstel William S. Doberstein Mrs. Carl Dudeck George Fry, Jr. John G. Gooch xMyer Harris William J. Harvey Ed Hendler Albert Herbert Lester G. Jones Henry R. Kunicki xDr. Douglas M. MacNeal Mrs. Muriel B. Mintzer Arnold H. Nachlis xMildred Orlowski Capt. Joseph J. Romanick, Jr. Marino Ruggere Atty. Joseph J. Savitz Eugene Shaver Joseph B. Slamon, Jr. Frederick D. Varker Rosemary Zukoski CLASS of 1949 No. on Honor Roll 45 out of 214 % of Participation ______________ 21% Contributed ----------------------------------s S475.50 Eugene R. Anderson Robert Anthony Melvin Barry xClayton A. Bloomburg Gerald P. Bush, Jr. Dr. Carl Dudeck Capt. Sam Elias CLASS of 1945 Frank J. Evan No. on Honor Roll . 14 out of 31 Harry Fierverker .... 45% %■ of *Participation wucipation................................. ......................... Mrs. Shirley Rees Fleet S120.00 Contributed ........................ Thomas M. Gill Mrs. Florence Jones Bower Mrs. Marjorie Tyler Green xAtty. Gifford Cappellini Edward D. Gurdak Mrs. Evelyn Eisenstadt Karl L. Haas Mrs. Ruth Fischman Margaret Hobbs xMrs. William D. Hannigan Ralph F. Hodgson Atty. Elmer J. Harris xDonald Honeywell Mrs. Louise Schooley Hazeltine Joseph H. Kanner xMrs. Jean Steele Iba Clayton Karambelas xRobert Lehet Dr. David Katz Emrys P. Lewis, Jr. Jack M. Kloeber Dr. William I. Rozanski xWilUam S. Kosicki Mrs. Gloria B. Suda Edwin M. Kosik xHarvey Trachtenberg Harold J. Lawrence, Jr. Raymond J. Woynoski Thomas R. Lewis CLASS of 1946 xMrs. Douglas M. MacNeal 6 out oi 22 No. on Honor Roll .............. Mr, John W. Martin % of Participation ........................ 27% John B. Merritt ......... S42.50 $ Contributed ....................... — Jerome B. Mintzer 9 �Tom Moran Nelson E. Nelson Stanley Novitsky xMrs. Evelyn Rasmussen Arthur J. Rice, Jr. Robert C. Riley Edmund A. Sajeski Alice Dew Schappert Jacob R. Seitchek, Jr. Andrew Skumanich Joseph Sooby, Jr. John A. Sott Albert J. Stratton, Jr. Gordon R. Stryker Donald G. Vernall Donald Wolfe CLASS of 1950 No. on Honor Roll ............ ......... .. 59 out of 208 . ....... 28 % % of Participation ....................... S506.50 S Contributed Robert W. Angelo William H. Bergstrasser xWilliam W. Boyd xRobert S. Capin xStuart D. Colman Daniel E. Doris, Jr. Michael T. Elchak George F. Ermel Mrs. Edward Eyennan III John J. Faneck xCarl G. Fiene xDonald C. Follmer Mrs. Arlene Pletcher Garfield 7 Leading Classes in Number of Participants 1956 61 Contributors 1949 1954 _________ 44 1950 ________ ________ 45 59 1955 46 1952 29 1951 _______ 48 Armin J. Gill xWilliam 3. Griffith Donald Kemmerer fPhilip E. Kennedy Theodore R. Killian Raymond S. Kinback Joseph Kitier xFrancis B. Krzywicki F. Prentice Lacy George A. Lewis Edward Lidz Carl J. Malisheski Victor Minetola Dr. Walter E. Mokychic xSamuel L. Owens Frank Paduck Mrs. Elva Fuller Parker Dolores Passeri Lawrence B. Pelesh Stanley A. Perlick xFrancis Pinkowski Edgar C. Plummer William A. Plummer Maurice Price Herbert Quick Joseph Badko Thomas C. Richards Mrs. William Sabanski Charles A. Salinis Steven Senko Daniel Sherman John N. Shoemaker Arthur A. Spengler John D. Stark 10 Mrs. John D. Stark Allen J. Strassman John Turchin Henry S. Vankoski Hazel J. Wallis Mrs. Charlotte Davis Wentz Beverly H. Wheatley Kenneth Widall Mrs. Margaret A. Widall Russell Williams, Jr. John E. Young Joseph A. Zawodniak CLASS of 1951 No. on Honor Roll .................. 48 out of 159 % of Participation ............................. 30% S Contributed .................................... S438.50 Raymond H. Ales xMrs. Raymond H. Ales Mrs. Marion Altman xFrank W. Anderson John P. Badman Joseph G. Bendoraitis xDonald E, Blankenbush Reverend Arthur W. Bloom Virginia A. Bolen Sanford Cohen Delbert J. Cragle Norman E. Cromack Norman M. Cross xRobert R. Eltus John M. Fink Charles D. Flack Gytelle Freed Joseph I. Gerko Robert W. Hall Nicholas G. Heineman Donald E. Himlin Walter J. Hom xHarold J. Hymen Charles J. Jackson xMrs. Anita Janerich xArthur A. Johnson xAtty. Merton E. Jones William C. Kashatus Stanley J. Kieszek xAtty. Charles R. Knapp Reno J. Menichelli Mrs. Terrance A. Moskoluk Kenneth G. Northrop Mrs. Kenneth G. Northrop xWilliam A. Perlmuth xMrs. Marita Sheridan Riley Mrs. John N. Shoemaker yRobert J. Smith Robert P. Starr Dr. Joseph D. Stephens John E. Strojny xE. Olin Thomas J. Paul Thomas Mrs. J. Paul Thomas James D. Trumbower Vester V. Vercoe, Jr. Helen M. Williams Stanley T. Yunkunis CLASS of 1952 No, on Honor Roll . % of Participation ............. S Contributed xLouis J. Bonanni 29 out of 145 20% .......... S229.50 xAlbert F. Casper Albert T. Cole Paul J. Delmore Mrs. Priscilla Swartwood Drake xC. Frank Eastman Carl Fosko Mrs. Edward Grogan Mrs. Robert Hall William G. Hart William C. Johns xDr. Shadrach H. Jones III Leonard F. Lane Henry A. Merolli Alexander Molosh vRobert Morris xMrs. Albert P. Nicholas Dr. Herbert N. Oliver, Jr. Mrs. George F. Ralston James G. Richardson William V. Sabanski Robert S. Sanders Richard Scripp Mrs. Richard Scripp Robert J. Shemo xRoberta E. Siwa William J. Umphred Edward F. Wheatley Marilyn J. Wilkes CLASS of 1953 No. on Honor Roll 22 out of 99 % of Participation.... ...................... 22% S Contributed . ...................... ........ S324.03 E. Ronald Brennan William Caruth xRobert V. Croker, Jr. xDenah Fleisher Martin J. Frey Doris I. Gates Ensign Norman F; Gates xDolores Grabko xRobert F. Haring xMrs. Anne V. Kish xTheodore L. Krohn xAlan G. Levin George W. Liggett ""George J. McMahon ""xMrs. Isabel E. McMahon xWilliam Morgan 7 Leading Classes in Total Amount Contributed 1955 1956 1950 1949 1951 1954 1953 S649.50 591.00 506.50 475.50 438.50 408.67 324.00 xLeonard J. Matublewski xDavid T. Minasian xGeorge Modrak Joseph J. Mosier James Moss William E. Pap-”iparoski lips, Jr. E. James Phillips, William G. Saba Marilyn H. Semanek Andrew Sofranko, Jr, xMilton Stein June E. Stevens xRaymond Tait Arthur Gordon Taylor George A, Thomas Stephen M. Toporcer xAlbert J. Wallace Peter Wurm Mrs. Eleanor Young xCharles Zezza CLASS of 1955 46 out of 135 No. on Honor Roll % of Participation — ________ 34% S Contributed _____ S649.50 Arthur R. Boote *:'xWalter A. Chapko xEdward Cologie ""xWilliam Crowder xjohn D. Curtis xVirginia E. Denn ’•’James Dull "Robert Dymond "Howard Ennis "Melvin Farkas Alan Feld "Pat Fitzgerald Sandy Furey Mrs. Sandy Furei jy Mrs. Norman F. (Gates xlrv Gelb Leona Goldberg Mrs. Ann Lodge Haskell Dorothy E. Hessle ler David L. Hoats **xArthur J. Hoover GRADUATION EXERCISES Thomas O'Boyle xMrs. Lucille R. Pierce xFrank Radaszewski Dr. Stephen C. Thomas David B. Whitney J. Gordon Young CLASS of 1954 No. on Honor Roll 44 out of 150 % of Participation ........... ........ .... 29% S Contributed ........................... .......... S408.67 xLeonard F. Bartlo xRobert D. Bhaerman Robert J. Doran xBarbara Z. Evans Girard P. Gaughan Katherine F. Goetzman xAnita Gordon Edward Grogan Mrs. Charles Hagen Nancy Lee Hannye Richard H. Hawk xRobert E. Heltzel Robert D. Howells Philip D. Jones Leo R. Kane Marvin Kanner Pvt, Karl Karassik xHillard A. Kemp, Jr. John G. Konsavage Lucy J. Liggett John A. Lupas Wayne S, Madden Peter Margo Van Clifton Martin (continued from page 5) The graduates receiving degrees at commencement were: Bachelor of Arts — Herbert Bynder, John Joseph Bucholtz, Joseph John Chmiola, Norma Jean Davis, John Henry Doran, Gloria Marian Dran, Bettijane Long Eisenpreis, Andrew Horace Evans, Sr. David Michael Fischi, Willard Rhys Hughes, Thomas Narcis Kaska, Irwin S. Kaye, William Kcenich, John Sebas­ tian Klimchak, Frederick Jacob Krohle, Marvin Zeft Kurlancheek, Ki Hwan Lee, Robert William McGurrin, Ross Louis M a n t i o n e, Robert Francis Masonis, Frank Joseph Meneguzzo, Arthur Nathaniel Meyer, Richard Mur­ ray, John Joseph Musto, Shirley Jean Ray. Patsy Lee Reese, Donald William Reynolds, George Edward Schlager, John Joseph Schultz, J. George Silewski, Theodore Simon, Jerome Stein, Neil A. Turtel, George William Weaver, Leslie Philip Weiner. Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) — Samuel Beigleman Dilcer, Jr., Natalie Gripp, Frank Edward Lutinski, James Edward Mark, Peter Paul Masloski. Bachelor of Science (Commerce & Finance)— Jesse Herbert Choper, Lawrence David Amdur, Irwin N. Birnbaum, Nasser Bonhuer, Anthony Thomas Burgas, Robert Byron Chase, Jr., Charles Richard Abate, John Lloyd Coates, Lawrence Ellis Cohen, Frank Paul Cuscela, Jr., Neil Charles Dadurka, George William Davis, William John Daw III, Jacob Michael Dvornicky, Raymond Joseph Falchek, William Marker Farish, George Kenneth Gnall, Sey- Judith Hopkins ''John Kearney ''John Lancio 'Margaret Luty *xMrs. Doris Merrill *’'Robert J. Metzger ■'James Neveras Albert P. Nicholas ""xRussell R. Picton ''Michael Riley "David Rosser xMrs. Sylvia Savitz "Austin Sherman *"xKingsley N. Snyder "Albert Spanich Donald Stark "Louis Steck "Mrs. Esther Strassman ":,:xJoseph Trosko, Jr. "Howard Updyke William W. Walp Dale Warmouth Ellen Louise Wint * "Edward Yarasheski "Ralph Zezza CLASS of 1956 No. on Honor Roll........... „......... 61 out of 201 % of Participation......... .............. 30% S Contributed „...................... _____ S591.00 xClaire A. Ambrose xMrs. Patricia Petrash Anciulewicz xMichael J. Barone xGeorge H. Batterson, Jr. xMrs. Joan Shoemaker Beers Mrs. Madge Benovitz xDonald S. Berns xNancy C. Brown xGlenn D. Carey xMrs. Marie Collins Robert W. Darrow xWilliam S. Davis Louis De Falco Kern C. Dibble Merlyn J. Dixon Eleanor Dymond xSylvester J. Evan mour Holtzman, William John Jacobson, Donald William Jaikes, Jane Ellen Keibel (Mrs. Ivan Falk), Bernard Edward Kemsel, Bernard Ed­ ward Kolesar, Roland Richardson Leonard, Joseph Aloysius Loftus, Joseph Dominick Mi­ celi, John Henry Milliman, Donald Joseph Mooney, Richard Everett Morris, Paul William Ord, Walter Phillips, Joseph Edward Podlesny, Barbara Ann Tanski Rentschler, Lewis Elmer Rinehimer, William John Rinken H, Charles Walter Robinson, Eugene Roth, Bernard Rubin, Max Meyer Salsburg, Carl George Slutter, James Howard Speicher, James Ronald Stocker, Donald Francis Straub, Irene Rita Tomalis, Jack Philip Tippett, William H. Tremayne, George Leonard Tryba, Jr., Marvin Leonard Zatcoff. Bachelor of Science (Education) — James Henry Alcorn, Natalie Carole Barone, Albert Anthony Broody, Ann Elizabeth Faust, William Milton Figart. Jr., Edgar Allen Gower, Richard Francis Heltzel. Audrey Cragle Jablonski, Gwen Elizabeth Jones, Sybil B. Jones, Anne Patricia Kennedy, Albert H. Kislin, Frank Ed­ ward Kopicki, Mary Ferko Kossuth, Melvin Earle McNew, Lena Marie Misson, Nancy Ann Morris, Robert John Pauley, Bess Proferes, Ruth Ann Remley, Natalie Ann RuDusky, Barbara Ann Audrey Saxe, Nancy Ruth Schooley (Mrs. William Daw HI), Margaret Elizabeth Smith, Joseph John Szostak, John Stanley Uczen, Joseph John Valunas, John Merritt Wagner, Jr., Phyllis Anne Walsh, Marion Payne Wilson, Howard Benjamin Webb, Jr., Michael John Weiss, Harry Francis Welsh, Glenn P. Williams, Marilyn June xlvan H. Falk James F. Ferris Edgar A. Gartley III xHoward E. Gross xRalph S. Harrison xSally Harvey Hugh B. Hughes, Ir. Sheldon H. Isaac xReese D. Jones Constance A. Kamarunas xGeraldine Kolotelo Younsu Koo xHelen M. Krachenfels Gail J. Laines Ensign Daniel Metroka Basia A. Mieszkowski xChester H. Miller, Jr. Joseph S. Modla xMrs. Andrew Molitoris xMrs. Barbara Grow NeuwirtL Oscar G. Nichols Pearl Onacko xMichael J. Perlmuth Carl J. Potoski xThomas R. Price Matthew K. Quay Mrs. James G. Richardson xjessie Roderick Helen M. Rutledge xFrank J. Salvatini xTony Scarantino xSamuel R. Shugar Helen L. Stoeckel Patricia R. Stout John E. Suffren xBemice Ann Thomas Lawrence A. Turpin xMonica Utrias xCarl Van Dyke Kenneth J. Varker Michael Weinberger Sarah A. Wermuth Reverend Ralph E. Whitmer Bruce Williams INTERESTED FRIEND Arthur M. Davies Williams, John Joseph Witinski. Irene Rita Yastremski, John Robert Zachmann, Marie Antoinette Zanowicz. Bachelor of Science (Nursing Education) — Johanna Theresa Broske, Myrtle Arline Craze, Beverly Falkinburg Hildebrand, Emma Jean Knapper, Cyril J. Speicher, Lois Jean Tremayne, Matilda Marie Trzcinski, Leona Patri­ cia Volack, Helen Marie Rutledge. Engineering — Earl Richard Bahl. Gill Ho Bai, Robert Barovich, Paul David Cera, Phyllis Bridget Chamecki, Robert Martin Drexinger, Leonard John Driedzic, Hugh Owen Evans, John Joseph Federovich, Herman Herbert Felssner III, John Paul Fladd, Bincent Paul Herron, Nicholas Ruy Keller III, Theodore Albert Ko­ walski, Thomas Joseph Lane, Martin Joseph Novak, Andrew Joseph Olesky, Thomas Grego­ ry Podolak, Raymond George Saba, Frank Michael Scutch, Nicholas Andrew Siecko, Joseph Daniel Sincavage, Lawrence George Stadulis, Nelson Raymond Stauffer, James Richard Stephens, Peter Bernard Strojny, Nor­ man Victor Tabor, William Anthony Wolfe, Walter Wilkes Zorcoe. TERMINAL DIVISION Biology -- Anthony Walter Kutz, Barbara Ann Petro, Patricia Gayle Ringen ’— mbach, JoAnn Marlene Saluk, Jean Ann Schrader, 4or, Terry Lee Smith, Antonia Ann Stefan, Frai rances Ann Yeager. Commerce & Finance — Marcia Helen Els­ ton, Judith Ann Gommer, Grace MaxineMajor (Mrs. Robt. Nicholas), Marlene Judith Mioduski, Barbara Ann Ritter, Joan Elaine Williams. n �A HELPING HAND Foundation for Independent Colleges In Penna. Shares Industrial Aid A check for the amount of S8.401.55 was sent to Wilkes College recently by the Foundation for Independent Colleges of Pennsylvania, Inc. The check is Wilkes' share of the funds raised by thirty-eight Pennsylvania college presidents who worked on behalf of the foundation during last fall's subscription period. The funds raised from this cam­ paign are divided on a formula basis so that all colleges share equally. The foundation was formed for the purpose of making an annual appeal to businesses and industries in the state. Each year, teams of college presidents and development di­ rectors of the 38 member colleges visit firms throughout the Western, Central, and Eastern part of the state, seeking financial support for the in­ dependent colleges. These firms are re-acquainted with the fact that re­ cent studies have shown that threefourths of the business executives have been trained in small, indepen­ dent colleges throughout the nation, and that their support may help io guarantee and continue the supply of this type of personnel. They are also told of the great number of col­ lege students that are expected by 1960 and of the need for more facili­ ties to handle them. One of the strong points in the dis­ cussions with business and industry is that the facilities must be avail­ able to handle this new flood of stu­ dents, or the firms may be faced with federal intervention in the future by means of heavier taxes in order to meet these needs. Since businesses and industries are based upon a free enterprise sys­ tem, as are all independent colleges, it is hoped that the desire io preserve this type of educational system will lead to a generous response from them. The danger of federal support is that it may lead to, and in turn, bring federal controls to the college campus. Most firms are in accord wiih .he problems of higher education and fully understand the difficulties facing them. Therefore, the problem has been not whether to give, but how to give, so that all colleges may share. The Pennsylvania Foundation for Independent Colleges has been one answer to this question and has been receiving growing support. This type of foundation has grown nation­ wide, for there are now thirty-seven states with foundations that have been formed for the same purpose. So that you may become ac­ quainted with the firms lending their support to higher education through the Pennsylvania Foundation for In­ dependent Colleges, we are publish­ ing the names below. Contributors to Foundation IN-STATE Franklin Researchi Co.......................... Philadelphia H. Freeman and Sons. Jons, Inc. ... . Philadelphia EASTERN: Aero Service Corporation ladelphia ry Co. lllentoi -■.ilentovm Portland Cement 1 Co-pcnv .. George K. Garrett Co. ^Co.. Inc. Philadetahta rance Compt - Philadelphia t----: Co., Inc. Lmer Company Philadelphia Gei tnce Corp ■.?E^^'cc Dpa»? PhKSS ChemicalPaint Ccmnany Ambler Gej ~o.. Inc. ... Zo. .inndation ... Philadelphia JCtS Corp. . y Philadelphia Carpet Mills, Inc John J. Nesbitt, Inc. W. V. Pangborne and Co., Inc. . Paper Manufacturers Co Parodi Cigar Co. ot New York . Scranton Patterson, Graham, Esq Penn Fruit Co., Inc. Penn Fruit Co., Inc. . Pennstate Cigar Corp Pep Boys Philadelphia Dressed Beef Co. ... Allentown Phoenix Clothes, Inc. Pincus, Nathan ... Philadelphia Hetherington Inc. Sharon hT" Planters Nut and Chocolate Co. Precision Grinding Wheel Co. SlS Precision Plastics Co The JcSepht rtion Proctor and Schwartz, Inc. ?°FdHoPa°hl Publicker Industries, Inc Quaker City Industries, Inc. . Allentown Royal Manufacturing Co., Inc. . c~ ~ Royal Pants Manufacturing Co. W. B. Saunders Co. Christian Schmidt Foundation ThrSe SKF Industries, Inc. Smith Kline 6 French Foundation ,. Memond "* " Foundation, Inc. Allentown Sonsitaly Bank and Trust Co. ... ttW^Irona,: . L Jenkintown Standard Pressed Steel Co. Steel Heddle Manufacturing Co. ^p Faction " F. J. Stokes Corp. Synthane Corp. /ne ^eJ°nd, Foundation ... N Conshohocken Tasty Baking Co. tr ICo'-^ G Coatesville Terminal Warehouse Co L McAleer and Co,, Inc, Philadelphia L. G. L. and Florence S. Thoi(mas Foundation and C.°Philadelphia (C. H. Wheeler Mfg. Co.) IncPhiladelphia F. V/. Tunnell 6 Co.. Inc. John McSham Chanties, Inc. Philadelphia E. W. Twitchell, Inc. The Maneely Fund The United Gas Improvement Co. (Wheatland Tube Co.) Philadelphia United States Gauge Division The Masland Duraleathcr Co. Philadelphia (American Machine 6 Metals, Oscar Mayer and Co. . Philadelphia Universal Dental Co.............................. Melrath Supply & Gasket Co., Inc. . Philadelphia Upper Darby National Bank Merck Sharp & Dohme Philadelphia Warner Company Metropolitan Edison Company Reading Waterman Products Co., Meyers, George J., Jr. Reading Wclsbach Corp ------------ Manufacturing --------------- --- ? Co. Nannette . Philadelphia Wertz, Augustus « S., Esq. Beading H. N. N. Nash Nash and and Co. Co. . . . . H. .......... . Philadelphia Whiting Patterson Co . r...~ NationalDecalcomania DecalcomaniaCorp. Corp. . National . Philadelphia Wilkening Manufacturing Co Philadelphia National Publishing Publishing Co. Co. National Co. . Philadelphia E. A, Wright Co........................................ Philadelphia National Refractories Refractories Dr Division WESTERN (Meico Refractories Co.) Philadelphia Aetna-Standard Engineering Co. Pittsburgh Nazareth Cement nc-nt Co, Ajax Iron Works ...................................... Corry Nazareth Hugh Nelson-Columbia ■Columbia (continued on page 15) : :: «$£ jS * Philadelphia ladelphia Company .(AG^cra.mn . s^oSsr- Downtagtown Philadelphia Downtagtown 7 BMd£g . ■ ............. W. Aik : Burpee Company . K/Sfiion Company Boyertown Philadelphia 7.. Philadelphia Allentown . Bryn Mawr ‘ Philadelphia Consolidated Dressed Beef Co., Inc., Philadelphia Contributors' Charitable Fund . . Philadelphia G. 6 W. H. Corson, Inc. . .. Plymouth louth Meeting Plymoi Cress Bros. Meat Packers, Inc Philadelphia Ciown Paper Board Co., Inc Philadelphia Crucible Steel Casting Company . . .. Lansdowne Curtis Publishing Company . . . Philadelphia Curtis 1000, Inc Clifton Clifton Heights Heights H. Daroff a Sons, Inc . .. Philadelphia . Phoenixville A. P. deSanno 6 Son, Inc Edgcomb Steel Company Philadelphia Electric Storage Battery Company . Philadelphia Empire Steel Castings Co., Inc. . .. Reading Esslinger’s, Inc. ... Philadelphia Eureka Specialty Printing Companyr ... Scranton Faith Shoe Co., Inc. Wilkes-Barre Fanning-Schuett Engineering Co. . Philadelphia Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. Philadelphia Fire Association of Philadelphia Philadelphia The Firestone Tiro <5 Rubber Co. . .. Pottstonw The Food Fair Stores, Inc. . .... ... . Philadelphia Ford and Kendig Co. . . Philadelphia «$£ 12 isSgi g-ssr-'-" 111 B fsEB ■ .... FSSfi ....... From the Editor's Note Book . . . Here 'n' There with the Alumni 1938 Thomas W. Melson, class of 1938, has been self-employed as a public accountant since 1944. He is mar­ ried to the former Amy Meinhardt. They have two children, Richard and Christine. 1939 Jack Gurney, '39, received his B.A. from George Washington University in Washington, D. C. From 1940 to 1945, he was with the Federal Bu­ reau of Investigation in Washington. From 1945 to 1955, he worked in the Foreign Service, Department of State as a Vice-Consul and Attache at U.S. Embassies in Prague, Checho­ slovakia; Ottawa, Canada; New Delhi, India; and Bogota, Colombia. Jack is presently engaged in Public Relations in Dallas, Texas. He is married and has one son, age three. 1945 Emrys P. Lewis, Jr., who received his B. S. in Engineering from Wilkes in 1945, is employed by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylva­ nia as a District Traffic Superinten­ dent in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He is married to the former Jean Lampert, and they have two children, Pamela Jean and Rhys. 1948 Harry Scott, Jr., who received his B. S. in Commerce and Finance from Wilkes in 1948, is now employed as a teacher in Williamsport Senior High School. For ten years, previous to entering the teaching profession, he was employed as the Assistant Office Manager of the Woodlawn Dairy Company of Wilkes-Barre. He and his wife, Florence, have two sons, Richard and Robert. Mrs. Frances Abribat, the former Frances Marie Wilki, after leaving Wilkes-Barre, worked as a Lab Tech­ nician at Abington Hospital. She is now a housewife and has two chil­ dren: Mark John, bom on August 12, 1955; and Carl Thomas, bom on March 28, 1957. Eugene L. Shaver, class of 1948, is now employed by the Westing­ house Corporation as a Design Engi­ neer on Fire Control Instruments. Previously, he was employed as a Production Foreman at the Coming Glass Works and as Plant Engineer ior Sprout, Waldron, and Company, Muncy, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Frances, have three children: Patricia, bom in 1953; Mark, bom in 1954; and Kevin, bom in 1956. 1949 George F. Brodbeck, who received his bachelor of Science in Commerce and Finance from Wilkes in 1949, is now employed as a Systems Analyst for the Thermoid Company in Tren­ ton, New Jersey. He is married to the former Helen Healey, and they have two children: George Hayn, bom in 1951; and Howard David, bom in 1953. Previous to his present employment George worked as the Office Manager at the Duplan Corpo­ ration, Kingston, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Calvin E. Rakes, the former Roberta Louise Russell, has a daugh­ ter, Carmen Louise, bom in 1952. Her husband, Lt. Calvin E. Rakes, is a lieutenant in the United States Navy. He is being transferred to the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the capacity of Main Propulsion Assis­ tant. Roberta and her daughter will reside in Wilkes-Barre while her husband is in the Mediterranean. They were formerly living in Bremer­ ton, Washington. Hillard Kozlowski is teaching seventh and eighth grade arithmetic in Houston, Texas. He has three children: Linda, nine years old; Philip, seven years old; and Karen, two years old. He is working as a Marine Engineer in the Summer. Garfield Davis is a Time Study Analyst for the Walter Kidde Com­ pany in Belville, New Jersey. He is married to the former Sophia Labrosky of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and they have a son, David, born in 1956. Previous to his present employment, he was a Time Study Analyst for the Diehl Manufacturing Company, Summerville, New Jersey, and a Methods Analyst for Dumont T. V. in East Paterson, New Jersey. Mary T. Romanick. the former Mary Sleva, married Captain Joseph J. Romanick in August of 1956. Her husband is an Aeronautical Engi­ neer at Robbins Air Force Base, Ga. 1950 Dr. William Allen Plummer, who received his B. S. in Chemistry from Wilkes in 1951, was married on April 20 to the former Marion Elizabeth Campbell of Dansville, New York. He is a senior chemist in the Re­ search and Development Division of the Corning Glass Works, Coming, New York. He is a member of the Sigma Xi and Phi Lambda Upsilon, both honorary fraternities. Mrs. Barbara C. Hann, the former Barbara Close, is married to E. A. Hann, who is an insurance adjustor for the General Adjusting Bureau in Castleton, New York. They have a son, Wells, bom on November 20, 1945. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Widall, '50, are living in York, Pennsylvania. Since June 1, Ken has been Registrar at York Junior College. He is also research assistant for C.S.S., Institute of Administrative Research, Teach­ ers College, Columbia University. They have two children, Kenny and Scotty. Ken previously spent one year as a teacher and coach at Media High School and four years as teacher and coach at Boyertown. Robert M. Chopick, '50, received his master's degree in education in June from Rutgers University. Teach­ ing now in Masaquan High School, Masaquan, New Jersey, Robert is married to the former Florence Mroz, Parsons, Pa. Home address: 8 Eighth Street, Sea Girt, New Jersey. 1951 Joseph B. Schleicher, who received his B. S. in Biology at Wilkes, has his M. S. in Bacteriology and is working for his Ph. D. in Bacteriology. He hopes to finish in February of 1958. He is now employed at the Kansas State College as a Graduate Research Assistant. Reverend Fred B. Schultz, ’51, is the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Salem, New Jersey. On July 27, 1957, he was elected the Department Chaplain of the Ameri­ can Legion for the State of New Jer­ sey. He is active in the Rotary and is on the Board of the Y.M.C.A. Dr. Richard Raiber, who received his A. B. in Pre-Med in 1951 at Wilkes, also received his M. D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1956. He is now a resident physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Delaware Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. He is married to the for­ mer Wynne Harrity. Joseph F. Moran, '51, was married on May 31, 1957, to the former Nancy Judge of Milford, Connecticut. He 13 �was in charge of the bookkeeping department of the Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre before entering the service in 1951. He was com­ missioned as a radar observer a year later. He then spent twenty-four months in the Pacific Theater before returning and going through pilot training. He currently is a pilot with the 341st Air Refueling Squadron, stationed at Dow Air Force Base, Bangor, Maine, but undergoing spe­ cial training in Newfoundland. Jean M. Lawler is now Mrs. Terry Moskulak. She and her husband have one daughter, Marcia, born on July 1, 1956. The Moskulaks are re­ siding in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 1952 William E. Evans, HL was married on April 7 of this year to the former Cynthia Linton. He graduated from Hahnemann Medical College last June. Mrs. Michael Solomon, the former Mabel Faye Richards, is living in Wilkes-Barre and has one son, Michael Richard, bom on April 30, 1956. Robert M. Evans is employed as a Zone Manager for Procter and Gamble in St. Louis, Missouri. He is married to the former Helen Scherff, a graduate of Wilkes, class of 1953. They have a daughter, Lynn Ellen, bom on January 28, 1957, and they are residing at 739 Evans Ave­ nue, Kirkwood 22, Missouri. John J. Palsha, '52, will be assistant principal of Bradley Beach Grammar School, Bradley Beach, Nevz Jersey, come September. A family man vzith three youngsters novz, John is mar­ ried to a Wilkes-Bane girl, the former Clara Cunningham, and living at 28 Green Street, Neptune City, New Jer­ sey. He was one of the three Wilkes alumni to receive education masters degrees this June. Dr. Robert J. Shemo is on the radi­ ology staff of Temple University Dental School. Dr. Shemo, vzho vzas a member of the John A. Kolmer Honorary Medical Society at Temple, was graduated from the Temple Uni­ versity Dental School in June. His present address: 3345 Park Avenue, Philadelphi a40. Penna. 1953 Theodore Krohn is an Attorney and he has his office in the Brooks Building, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylva­ nia. He is married to the former Elaine Giltman. Constance P. Smith was married last March to Frank L. Andrevzs of Oyster Bay, Nevz York. She is a 14 Car-1 J. Potosld is now in the Armed Research Assistant at J. M. Mathes, Forces and is stationed at Fort Lewis Inc., Advertising. Her husband is a Washington. faculty member at the West Woods School of Oyster Bay. They are re­ Tony Scarantino is employed as the Manager of the Loan Department siding in New York City. „ of the Miners National Bank, WilkesDr. Richard Bush is in the Navy now . . .sorry, we <can't say where. , Barre, Pennsylvania. He is responsL ’ ' - ’ degree J-——; * ble for commercial loans and mortHe also received his dental -' gage activities. Tony is married to from Temple University this June.• Dr. Stephen Thomas is interning the former Shirley Readier, and they -have a son, James, 10 months old. at Presbyterian Hospital, Philadel ­ Stanley Abrams has received his phia, after receiving his dental de­ M. A. in Clinical Psychology and gree from Temple. will begin work on his Ph. D. in Dr. David Kunkle was graduated September. He is presently working from Temple University Dental as a Graduate Assistant in Temple School in June and was commis­ University Psychological Clinic. sioned a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. 1957 He is stationed at Patuxent Air Base, Robert M. Drexinger was married Maryland. on June 4 to the former Louise R. 1954 Kuren of Wilkes-Barre. Bob plans Marilyn Semanek. the former Mari­ to enter Bucknell University next lyn Peeler, is living in Somerdale, summer. He and his wife will re­ New Jersey. She is married io side in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. M/Sgt. Thomas J. Semanek, and they J. George Silewski was married on have a son, Thomas. Previously, she July 6 to the former Katheryn Frances was a first grade teacher in the Third Cunningham of Wilkes-Barre. Avenue School, Kingston, Pennsylva­ Richard F. Heltzel was married on nia; and a first grade teacher in the June 22 to the former Sue Ann Lacek McGraw School, Camden, New Jer­ of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. sey. Raymond J. Falchek was married Alexander Cathro, after graduating to the former Rosalie Jablonski of from Wilkes, received his commission Kingston, Pennsylvania. They arc in the Navy and went into Combat residing in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. Information School in Glenview, Illi­ Ray is employed by the Bendix Avia­ nois. His next duty was Airborne tion Corporation, Montrose, Pennsyl­ Early Warning Squadron Two at vania. Rosalie works in the Finance N.A.S., Patuxent River, Maryland. Office here at the College. Alex was fortunate in that he was enabled to visit Europe three times, and parts of Africa and Turkey in the Middle East. He and his wife, Carol, have a son, Sandy. William P. Mergo is an auditor for Price, Waterhouse & Company, New York City. He and his wife, Pauline, are living in Garfield, New Jersey. 1951 Fall Sports Schedule 1955 Robert M. Ichter was married on May 25 to the former Margaret Joyce Devers of Wilkes-Barre. He served with the U. S. Navy and is now em­ ployed by the Johns-Manville Corpo­ ration, Somerville, Nevz Jersey, as an industrial engineer. Pat Fitzgerald received her Master of Science degree in Social Work from the School of Social Work, Boston University. She is novz living in Wilkes-Barre and is employed by the Child's Center on South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre. Roland Featherman is novz living in Pittsburgh. He is employed at the Pittsburgh Tubercular Hospital there. Roland has received his Masters de­ gree in Social Studies from Universi­ ty of Pittsburgh. FOOTBALL Sept. 21 — Hofstra Sept. 28 — Lebanon Valley .............. Oct. 4 — Ithaca Oct. 19 — Ursinus Oct. 26— Lycoming Nov. 2— Juniata . Nov. 9— Diclcinson Nov. 16— Scranton Nov. 23— Moravian Away . Home Away Away "Home Away Home Away Home SOCCER Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov, Nov. 5 — Elizabethtown ............. ...... Away ........... Away 9 — Rider ................... •. ............ Home 24 — Phila.Textile 26 - Hofstra ......................... ‘Home 30 - East Stroudsburg Away 2 - • Gettysburg ........ 9 — Lycoming . Homecoming Away ............ Homo dedication laboratory equipment — these are but a few of the highlights to impress the unscientific^ Pittsburgh Plymouth Oil Co _...... St. Mary’s Pure Carbon Co.. Inc Oil City Quaker State Oil Refining Corp. Erie Reed Manufacturing Co. . Pittsburgh Republic Oil Refining Co Mercer Rcznor Manufacturing Co Greensburg Although the facade of the strucRobertshaw-Fulton Controls Co. Pittsburgh H. H. Robertson Co ture is obscured now by dormitories Coraopolis Rockwell Soring and Axle Co. Pittsburgh Rockwell Manufacturing Co. Although substantial gains have to the front and the double block inSt. Marys St. Marys Sewer Pipe Co Pittsburgh been made in scholarship awards, Shenango Furnace Co. eluding the DeSilva residence, now Erie Skinner Engine Co faculty salaries, acquisition of addi­ St. Marys owned by the college, to the rear, Soeer Carbon Co. St. Marys Stackpole Carbon Co tional land, and increased perma­ college anticipates that eventu­ Beaver Falls Standard Steel Specialty Co. . Pittsburgh Steel Citv Electric Co. . nent endowment, these points must ally Stark Hall will be seen unobPittsburgh Swindell-Dressler Corp Homer City Syntron Co. be regarded as continuous goals, structed from River and Franklin Butler Teller Co and cannot be checked off as com­ Streets. But even in its present sur­ Washington Tvoart Valley Glass Co. Pittsburah United States Steel Corp pleted. With the site of the proposed roundings it is an awe-inspiring Bridgeville Universal-Cvclops Steel Corp. . Latrobe Vanadium-Alloys Steel Co Fine Arts Building - Assembly Hall sight, and one that inspection will ...... Latrobe Vulcan Mold & Iron Co.............. Washington serve to broaden your full appreciain possession, our leading goal still Washington Steel Corp. Greensburg West Penn Power Co. lion. remaining to be realized is the con­ sociation Pittsburgh Western Penna. Brewers' Assoc Pittsburgh Westinahouse Air Brake Co. struction of the building. Oil Citv Wolf’s Head Oil Refining Co.., Inc ‘ As Alumni, you shall receive invi­ Pittsburgh Wyckoff Steel Co. ............ .. Bradford Ziono Manufacturing Co. . Architects Lacy, Atherton & Davis tations to the dedication early in CENTRAL Harrisburg AMP Incorporated . September. are now engaged in revising blue­ Lancaster Armstrona Cork Co prints for the imposing modern struc­ York The T. E. Baker Co. .......... Shippensburg We hope to see you on Dedication The Beistle Co. . ture at the end of the park on South .. Adamstown George W. Bollman & Co., Inc. Day! Lancaster Business Press. Inc River, South and West River Streets. York Campbell Chain Co. --------------------Caoper-Harman Slocum, Inc. A capital gift campaign will be held .... Harrisburg {Pennsylvania Fanner) Carlisle from January to April to acquire the Carlisle Corporation CONTRIBUTORS Jersey Shore Central Cable Corp necessary funds for all or part of the ... Harrisburg Dauphin Deposit Trust Co. (continued from page 12) Lancaster Dodge Cork Co.. Inc. . building, depending upon whether . . Mt. Holly Springs The Alcoa Foundation The Eaton-Dikeman Co. .... Ephrata {Aluminum Co. of America) Eby Shoe Corp. . Pittsburgh or not a substantial gift is given. rance Co.. Lancaster Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp Educators Mutual Life Insura: Pittsburgh ...boro Wellsboro First National Bank of Wellsbc AHis-Chaimers Manufacturing Co. Pittsburgh Stark Hall, made possible by an . . Millville American Sterilizer Co Girton Manufacuring Co. Erie Spring Grove Bird Well Surveys P. H. Glatfelter Co. Bradtord.... anonymous gift of over a million Harrisburg Blair Strip Steel Co Hershev Creamery Co. New Castle York Bradford Motor Works. Inc. Home Furniture Co. Bradlord dollars, will enhance Wilkes' na­ Williamsport Bradtord Supply Co E. Keeler Co. Lancaster tional stature as a research center, Brockway Glass Co.. Inc .... ""Brockway Lancaster Lancaster Malleable Mai Casting:js Co. Lancaster Press. P" Canonsburg Pottery Co Lancaster Inc. ............................. Lancaster .... Canonsburg since all departments throughout the Lebanon lebanon Steel Stfcei Foundry ”Foundation lobanon * Copperweld Steel Co. ............... ...... Pittsburgh The Littlestown Littlestc— Hardware Pittsburgh The 3-story building have been designed ^ravo corp. ....... Littlestown 5 Four <5 Foundrv Co.. Inc 2 -ir x j i Dresser Manufacturing Division . Harrisburg Bradlord L Horace McFarland Co to encourage ana provide ior student (Dresser industries, inc.)........ Carlisle PittsDurgh C. H. Masland & Sons - • ’• ’ Edgewater Steel Co ... and faculty research. Pittsburgh Mercersburg Tannery Division Eichleay Corp Mercersburg ‘wengart & Co.) .... Pittsburgh (Doewengart Eljer Co Lebanon i Mills. Mills. Inc. Inc.^............ North East Mils™ The Electric Materials Co. Alumni will find many points of Shippensburg Pittsburgh CaH A. Naugle. Esq. Equitable Gas Company Erie New New Holland Holland Machine •Co. Erie Bolt 6 Nut Co interest in the building. A pendulum ion) .. New (The Sperry ,._'rry Corp. Foundatic Foe .... Holland Erie Brewing Co. Lancaster Pennsylvania ria Malleable Iron Corp ...... designed by Voris B. Hall will give 1ZZZZZ Erie J Mary Press -----Morris and Press Foundation ------------- Erie praphic illustration of the movement Foundry co™. ....... .... — ) Hummelstown & Uniform Co.) (Press Dress ” " " ” Erie . ..... Lancaster Reese Padlock tdlock Co. — .......... Erie Resistor Corp — -------------- Erie of the earth. It will be hung from a York .. Schmidt & Aultj?aper Ault Paper Co. Fisher Foundation .... York S. Morgan Smith Co. .. fixed point on the third-floor ceiling Pittsburgh (Fisher Sc.entilic Co.) ........ Lebanon a.nting Co Sowers Printing Cc....... . Washington Findlay Clay Products Co in a well adjoining the south stair­ Standard1 Register Co., Butler Franklin Glass Corp ..................... York Atlantic Division Girard Manufacturing Co. way. It will be on display just in­ nc...... — New Freedom Charles G. Summers Co., Inc Girara Gunnison Brothers, Inc Titan Metal Manufacturing Co. ... ____ Bellefonte Warren Hammond Iron Works side the southwest entrance. Harrisburg The United Telephone Co. of Pa. . Pittsburgh Hanley Co. Berwick Wise Potato Chip Co . Pittsburgh Hiawatha Oil 6 Gas Co The botany greenhouse on the ....... ...... Chambersburg Homestead Valve Manufacturing Co. . Coraopolis • T. B. Wood's Sons Co York Division of Latrobe Imperial Lighting Products Co roof, made possible by a grant of York Division of Borg-Warner Corp. . .. .... York The Isaly Dairy Co. of Pittsburgh ... . Pittsburgh .... York York Narrow Fabrics Co..................... ..... .. Pittsburgh the National Science Foundation, William G. Johnston Co .... York The York National Bank and Trust Co. Joy Manufacturing Co — .. Pittsburgh will also interest science enthusiasts. Latrobe Kennametal. Inc Allied Stores Foundation, Inc New York. N.Y. Latrobe vvvcxxi to iv examine •. - the —Latrobe Steel Co Engineers will want American Oil Co New York, N.Y. . Pittsburgh , < i i j • Lava Crucibles Refractories Co. The Aemrican Tobacco Co., Inc., New York, N.Y. .. Pittsburgh elaborate current control boards in timbach Company Norman Bassett Foundation Erie the physics classrooms, or the sysKMMMjn?taciuHnqCck (Demco Library Supplies) Madison, Wis. Erie Container Corp, of America Chicago, Ill. Greensburg tern for piping distilled water into all LYnch. Jhom«. DeLuxe Check Printers Found St. Paul, Minn. Pittsburgh Erie Railroad Co. Cleveland, Ohio Latrobe ----------McFeely-Rogers Foundation lion ----.. ---classrqoms. General American Pittsburgh James H. Matthews & Co., Inc. Transportation Co. Chicago, Hl. Pittsburgh Miller Printing Machinery Co. The General Foods Fund, Inc. .. New York, N.Y. And there are many features to ........ Pittsburgh Mine Satety Appliances Co The General Tire & Rubber Co Akron, Ohio Natco Corp. . ................. Pittsburgh capture the fancy of the distaff side, International Harvester Foundation, Chicago, Hl. National Forge <S Ordnance Co ................ Irvine S. S. Kresge Co Detroit, Mich. Pittsburgh more concerned with interior decora­ National Supply Co. ......... The William T. Morris zr.icz, Pittsburgh National Union Insurance Companies, Foundation, Inc New York, N.Y. tion or housekeeping than physiolo­ ........ Pittsburgh Neville Chemical Co. The National Biscuit Co. Found., New York, N.Yr. Erie Nosco Plastics. Inc. gy, embryology, zoology and bac­ National Dairy Products Corp. New York, N.Y. ... Johnstown Pennsylvania Electric Co. i Otis Elevator Co ....... New York, N.Y. .. a, w Cv>. .. Pittsburgh Peoples First Natl. Bank <S Trust Co. teriology labs. Pastel walls and tile Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Toledo, Ohio :o............................ Pittsburghi Peoples Natural Gas Co i Charles S. Raison Foundation, Inc. Iron Works Pittsburgh floors, sound-proofed white ceilings, p? ( °J Pittsburgh Bridge and Ywono . (Transoaram Co., Inc.) New York. N.Yr. ~ ... . Pittsburghi Pittsburgh-Des Moines " Steel’ Co. i Ray-O-Vac Co Madison. Wis. stainless-steel sinks and table lops, ............ Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Forgings (Co Joseph T. Ryerson Son Glass Foundation .... ... Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Plate Gias custom-made work tables and stor­ Foundation, Inc Chicago, Ill. Pittsburgh Press Co. . . ....................... Pittsburgh The Stouffer Corp Cleveland, Ohio Pittsburgh Screw * olt Corp ............. Pittsburgh age units (designed by faculty mem­ The Svlvania Foundation (Sylvania Pittsburgh P.ttsburgh Testing Laboratory . Electric Products. Inc.) New Y'ork, N.Y. bers themselves for utmost utility), Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Tube Co. . .... ■ Union Carbide .T „ The Pittsburgh A West Virginia sink disposals, a portable dish­ and Carbon Corp New York. N.Y. Pittsburgh Railway Co. Union Tank Car Co Chicago. HI. ......................... Erie H. Platt Co. (continued from page 3) ard anniversary plans. A student banning committee is to be formed P September, also. washer for vials, tubes and various 15 �The class news that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will conti­ 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. 1—Name LAST I MIDDLE FIRST Maiden Name Street Town State . .. Telephone 2—Wilkes Degree Class Affiliation Semester Hours 3—Transferred to Graduated 4—Other Degrees Source 6—Business Address . Title Firm 5—Present Employment and Duties 7—Married Year Curriculum Withdrew ... Single Spouse (Name) Children (Names - Birthdates) 8—Positions Held (Titles) .. Date � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 July 1957 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 July 1957 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/bd79f0f164400aa729953eb3f37c766f.pdf 5fb14f3243b85ff8377e98a8256e1155 PDF Text Text �Board of Trustees Annual Fund Drive Has Auspicious Beginning; Key Group Hears Values of Alumni Participation Gilbert S. McClintock, Chairman Arnaud C. Marts, Vice-Chairman Charles H. Miner, Jr., Secretary James P. Harris, Treasurer Mrs. Paul Bedford Francis O. Case Contents: Mrs. Charles E. Clilt William L- Conyngham Mrs. Franck G. Darts Alumni Fund Kick-off Samuel M. Davenport, M.D. Miss Annette Evans Scholarship Campaign Goes Over Top Eugene S. Farley President Farley Discusses Alumni Activity Hon. John S. Fine George W. Guckelberger Harry Plans Released lor Arts Building Gc e ringer Joseph J. Kocyan, M.D. Sports Roundup Miss Mary R. Koons Joseph F. Lester Class Notes 10-11 Reuben H. Levy 12 Thomas F. Morgan. Jr. F. Ellsworth Parkhurst, Jr. ON THE COVER — Our lovely cover girls are shown Rev. Charles S. Roush enjoying the warm spring weather on the campus dur­ ing a break from office routine. The campus blossomed forth in all of its splendor seemingly overnight and these lovely ladies enjoy its beauty. They are, left to right. Barbara Stokoviak, Janet Davies, Marie Opsitos, Kay O'Donnell. Andrew J. Sordoni Admiral Harold R. Stark Julius Long Stern Mrs, Esther Weckesser Walker Published by Wilkes College Aaron Weiss Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania President Office of Executive Secretary Dr. Eugene S. Farley Chase Hall Alumni Officers Huss Picton, Editor lack Curtis, Associate Editor Gifford Cappellmi, President Donald Honeywell, Vice-President Mrs. Anita Janexich. Secretary Dr. Shadrach H. Jones, Treasurer Volume 3, No. 3 April, 1957 Published quarterly as fthe- Alumnus for the rmembers of the WUkes College Alumni Amiociation. Second class mail ••-,1 privileges authorized at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Subscription, S2.00 paign, discusses the program with the class managers at the kick-off dinner at the college Commons. The group also heard an address by Dr. Eugene S. Farley/ president, who discussed the future plans of ihe college. Nearly 50 class managers heard Dr. Euegne S, Farley, president of Wilkes College, speak at the class managers kick-off dinner for the Alumni Fund Campaign March 30 in the college Commons. In his talk, Dr. Farley illustrated with colored slides the architectural plans for the beautiful new Fine Arts Building and Assembly Hall and mentioned that it is hoped that the new building will be a part of our campus by the anniversary year, 1958. (See Centerfold). He also, as indicated by his remarks elsewhere cn this page, made many favorable remarks about alumni interest in the college's development program. The dinner was arranged so that as many class managers as possible could attend and receive verbal in­ structions and background informa­ tion concerning the campaign from the campaign director. Since it would be impractical to hold a number of dinners in various areas due to the geographical sepa­ ration of class managers, letters, were sent to all managers within traveling distance of the college, in­ viting them to return to the college if possible. Forty-five were able to attend. Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, General Chairman of the Alumni Campaign, discussed the role that the Alumni are playing in the development of Wilkes College, mentioning some of the other institutions of higher learn­ ing that have had successful alumni programs which have become the major source of support for their in­ stitutions. He further stated "that the work of the class managers is not onlv for raising funds but also means bv which graduates can be­ come acauainted with the problems of the college, become more active and continually be a source of en­ thusiasm and support for the col­ lege's program." At the end of the program, the Executive Secretary discussed the mechanics of the campaign and stated that this year, the campaign had 175 class managers working. He also added that between the March 30 kick-off dinner and June 30. each alumnus would be contacted on at least three occasions bv their class managers in order to be kept aware of the development of the fund and asked for their support. Following the kick-off dinner, the remainder of the class managers' kits were mailed. At the writing of this article, the Alumni Fund had reached S2.100 in 24 days. A great deal more participation is needed if we are to top last year's mark of 24,000. Currentlv, we are ahead of last year's attainment, during this period of the campaign, by several hundred dollars. The Executive Alumni Secretary has received numerous letters from alumni who are interested in the fact that we have been promised an Alumni Home and who have been inspired bv the thought that the Alumni Association is becoming an important part of the college and that ph plans for its future are being con­ sidered. 3 �Your college has made great gains since the Board of Trustees an­ nounced its Twenty-Fifth Anniversarv Development Program, but we hope that these gains are merely the prelude to continued development. With the full support of its alumni and of its many friends, Wilkes will continue to grow and its services to its students and its community will expand with the spiritual and ma­ terial resources of the college. We have no illusion that bricks and mortar, and endowment will create the type of man or woman that the world needs, but we do believe that bricks and mortar, and endowment are the tools required by the dedi­ cated men and women who teach at Wilkes. Given adequate support, they can accomplish the results that we all desire; without support even their great devotion will be of little use. Friends of the college have given 9 ~ L'WL EXPERT ADVICE — Nearly two hundred captains, workers, and guests heard E. L. Palmer, vice-president in charge of public relations of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, discuss the need for scholarship aid al the kick-off dinner of the scholarship campaign at Hotel Sterling on March 11. Scholarship Campaign for ?60,000 Over Top; Support of Community Gets High Praise The Wilkes College campaign for president in charge of public rela­ $30,000 in scholarship funds to aid tions of the Pennsylvania Power and needy but able students vzent over Light Company, discuss his firm's the top when over $60,000 was sub­ cost of education" scholarship plan scribed by friends in the community. at the kick-off luncheon for the cam­ The campaign reached its goal paign on March 11 in the Crystal under the guidance of F. E. Parkhurst, Ballroom of the Hotel Sterling. chairman of the campaign and a In referring to the need for "cost of member of the board of trustees. education" scholarships, Mr. Palmer Under his leadership, and the direc­ first highlighted the financial diffi­ tion of the fund by Douglas Falconer, culties of all institutions of higher campaign advisor, the drive reached learning. He then went on to dis­ its goal in two short weeks. The cuss his company's policy toward short duration of the campaign was helping to overcome the problem a fine indication of the spontaneous through the grant of a scholarship support the community gave the pro­ and a matching gift of the same gram. amount to the college the recipient It appears that the idea of annual ■will attend to help nay the "real" giving to Wilkes College for scholar­ cost of an individual's education. ship aid has become a permanent It has been proven that tuition in­ part of the philanthropic interests of come does not pay for the full cost an increasing number of people in of education, but that an additional cur community. amount is added by the college, Nearly 200 workers and industrial from endowment, to meet the over­ leaders heard E. L. Palmer, vice- head expenses. 4 This year, the c a m p a i g n for scholarship funds sought support from more corporations in the WilkesBarre area than ever before. In the drive, firms were presented a cost of education scholarship plan similar to that of the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Our plan had two basic features designed to interest our local corpo­ rations. (1) It was decided that a cost of education scholarship would amount to $325, and of that amount $275 would be for a one-half tui­ tion scholarshio and the remaining $50 would be given as a grant to the college. This $50 grant would help to overcome the deficit be­ tween the student's tuition and the real cost of the education of an in­ dividual. Research has indicated that at Wilkes College it costs the college $100 per student, over and above Dr. Eugene S. Farley are also conscious that every faculty member is making some sacrifice to teach at Wilkes, and, in so doing, is making a great contribution to the college. The help of friends and faculty have made your college and we now believe it only reasonable to look to the alumni for whatever support they can give. As others have contributed to your education, so, we hope, will you contribute to the education of on-coming students. It is this chain of concern and help­ fulness that builds men and colleges. We hope that you will become an­ other strong link in this chain of growth. We anticipate that you will gain satisfaction from the help that you give to a new generation of students, as those, who preceded you, have gained satisfaction from the help that made your education possible. In the great game of life, you can never repay all who have helped you along the way, but you President Points Out Value of Strong Alumni, Heartened by Surge of Graduate Interest aver $2,000,000 during the last fifteen months, and many of these same friends will continue to give in the future. It is their continued interest and generosity that has made possi­ ble the growth of the college and it is their gifts that have subsidized the education of all who have attended the college. Because of their great concern for the college, many of them are now wondering what the alumni will do to assure the continued de­ velopment of Wilkes. They recog­ nize that our success increases our obligations and they are conscious that more support will be required to Scholarship Campaign (continued from page 4) tuition income each year. This deficit poses a real problem to all colleges and universities, since funds to overcome it must neces­ sarily be drawn from endowment. Unless additional funds are given by scholarship grantors to meet this need, the portion of endow­ ment income cannot be used for other important purposes of de­ velopment. (2) In order that the corporation assure the maintenance and im­ provement of standards already es­ tablished by the faculty and students. Only during the past year or so have we turned to our alumni for assistance in the work that still lies before us. As we turn to you, we are very conscious that every stu­ dent who ever attended Wilkes has been helped by gifts which covered the differences between the cost of education and the tuition paid by the student—as it has been in the past so will it be in the future. All future students require the same as­ sistance that was offered to you. We can justify their faith in you by ex­ tending the same help to those who follow you. Your college has grown in stature and will continue to grow. Its repu­ tation is determined by the success of its graduates for it is their achieve­ ment that reveals the character of the college. Its future depends upon the interest that you feel and the sup­ port that you offer for no other group can better know the meaning of Wilkes. We turn to you for whatever help you can give, and we anticipate that in giving you will gain a mea­ sure of satisfaction and of happiness. receive recognition for their gifts, the firms were given the oppor­ tunity of giving a scholarship to a student in its corporate name or in the name of any individual con­ nected with the firm. Further, the names of those firms that gave cost of education scholarships would be published in the college bulletin. This year, the cost of education plan has borne fruit, for fifty indivi­ duals and firms have agreed to grant a scholarship of this kind. This support from corporations is important to the future of independent colleges like Wilkes, for the college r e c ei v e s no aid from the state. Rather, it must obtain its financial resources from independent sources, such as alumni, friends, foundations and corporations. Each year, the college plans to interest more and more firms in this new program so that it can become a major source of income to the college. During the campaign, a number of prospects and workers asked the General Chairman of the campaign (continued on page 11) s �Plans Revealed For Next Giant Stride In Wilkes College Development Shown above is a view of the oroposed Fine Arts Building and As­ sembly Hall which was drawn by the firm of Lacy, Atherton and Davis, Architects. As you can see, it is a beautiful modem building constructed of brick and glass and will be constructed on the plot of land given to the col- 6 lege by the Wyoming Valley Society for Arts and Sciences. The land is located at the end of the park bounded by South River, South and West River Streets. The structure will nm east and west and will face in the direction of the Market Street bridge. The building will house an audi- torium or assembly hall which will seat 1,575 people and in addition, will have studios and galleries for Art, studios for music instruction, and a recital hall that will seat approxi­ mately 200 people. The estimated cost for this building is $1,500,000. The addition of this building to the campus will enable the college to solve one of its most serious problems for, as most of you know, our assemblies have been held in the various locations near the college. Our enrollment has be­ come such that the assemblies now held in the gymnasium are com­ pletely inadequate and are not con­ ducive to the atmosphere that as- semblv programs merit. In addi­ tion, our Art and Music departments need more facilities for their expand­ ing programs. The college hopes to receive a gift for either the entire building or a portion of it. If we receive a gift for a part of the building, then the college will project a Capital Gift Campaign in the community for a matching amount, if necessary. The plans are so designed that the build­ ing can be constructed in stages as the funds become available. It is hoped that it will be con­ structed or begun by the college's 25th anniversary year, 1958. 7 �SPORTS ROUND-UP Ward Named Outstanding Athlete, Six Other Colonels Receive Awards by T. R. Price, '56 Picton and John Curtis. have written elsewhere If the past year, as *Russ --------------------------in this issue of the Alumnus, has been one of achievement for the college and its friends, it has also been that for the young men whose pictures you see here on the pages of our April sports round-up. High man on the honor totem pole this year was wrestler Jim Ward, of Wilkes-Barre, (see cut, story, on facing page) who, besides being named outstanding grappler, also emerged as winner of the Howard W. Davis Trophy, indicative of his selection as the most outstanding athlete on the entire Colonel sport scene. George Morgan flung the name of the college high on the nation's list of those who won top honors in basketball this past season, for according to National Collegiate Athletic Association statistics, he was fourth in the U. S. for small colleges in the percentage of field goals, and ninth in NCAA figures for points scored per game. Small wonder that last month's annual athletic award banquet saw him receiving the Most Valuable Basketball Player award for 1956-1957. Tops among the awards taken by the footballers was the Joseph Gallagher Award, which went to Kingston's Bob Masonis, a testimonial any athlete would be not only glad but proud to own, for the trophy given in honor of the late Colonel gridder is given for something beyond mere points won or yards gained—it is given for sportsmanship. Sharing honors with Masonis from the football team were Bill Farish, Huntingdon, Pa., and Ron Rescigno, Cambria Heights, N. Y„ who not only led the Colonels all season as co-captains, but who were voted respectively the Most Outstanding Lineman and Back for 1956. Achievement? The honor roll goes on. There's the Reggie Burr award; it goes to the man who's been the best soccer player, and Tony Bianco, a Mew Canaan, Conn., lad, took that trophy this year. Baseball? Well, John Milliman graduated in February, so we might say that the Most Outstanding Player award for that sport went to one of your fellow Alumni, although it had to be presented to the Genoa, N. Y., native in absentia at the award dinner. « Yes, this has been a notable year for achievement in many fields at t? the college, but the story, like the college, wouldn't be complete, wouldn't makes CONFERENCE KING-PINS — The Wilkes mat team which won the Middle Atlantic Wrestling Championship included, first row, left to right: Keith Williams, Don Reynolds, Jim Ward, and Terry Smith. Second row. Coach John Reese, Dave Thomas, Walt GlogowskL Bob Morris, Neil Dadurka, and Manager Gil Gregory. Reynolds and Ward hold championship trophy. Wrestlers Gain M.A.S.C.A.C. Honor Bob Masonis Bill Farish The Wilkes wrestling team this past season proved that they're serious threats in any man's league, for they capped an undefeated season by capturing the Middle Atlantic States Colleges Athletic Conference championships at Gettysburg in March. After winning 10, giving but a by decision, won his final bout by single tie and going all the way default. without a loss to mar the record, the The record-breaking mat season matmen took on the rest of the con­ saw real difficulty only once—when ference to emerge victorious through Millersville edaed out a 13-13 tie on, a magnificent exhibition of teamplay of all dates, March 13. that kept on driving even though the But that was the only rough spot Colonels took no individual titles at on the shiny new record that saw the tourney. Coach John Reese's spirited crew And to make the season an even whip East Stroudsburg STC, 19-15; happier one, 130-pounder Jim Ward Swarthmore, 27-5; Brooklyn P o 1 ybroke all previous Wilkes individual technical, 26-8; Hofstra, 24-6; Ithaca, grappling records with an unde­ 21-11; Lafayette, 27-3; C.C.N.Y., 25-3; feated 41 points. Ward took seven Lycomina, 38-0; Fairleigh-Dickinson, of his 11 victories by pins, three more 20-13; and Muhlenberg, 29-5. 9 �From the Editor's Note Book . . . Here 'n' There with the Alumni 1936 Mr. Robert Renville is employed by the Booz, Allen, and Hamilton management consulting firm. He is now at work in Manila where he has been since 1955 but he and his family are planning to return this year after taking a tour of the Orient. Bob married a classmate of '38, June Grim, and they have three children, Carol 13, Martha 10, and Bcbby 5. 1939 Miss Marguerite Krashkevich, who graduated in 1939, has recently been promoted to Special Representative for American Airlines and was transferred from Syracuse, N.Y., to Washington, D.C. 1945 Mrs. Jean Iba, the former Jean Steele, taught school for four years before her marriage to Mark Iba. She and Mark have three children, Glenn Alan, Marilyn Joy, and -Carl Nolan. The To as are residing in Hershey, Pa. 1943 Lester Jones is working at Bloomsburg Mills, Inc., as a Time Study Engineer. He and his wife, Margaret, and their three children, Lester, Sandra, and Jeffrey, are living in Bloomsburg, Pa. Frank E. Wheeler, class of '43, ismployed as a member of man­ agement in the field of office sys­ tems and automation fcr General Electric in CincinaitL Ohio. James D. Trombcwer, who at­ tended Wilkes from 1947 to 1948, is engaged to Miss Dorothy Ellen Dale, a teacher in the Hanover Township schools. Mr. Trombower is a member of Delia Tau Delta fraternity, and is on the faculty of Hackettstown High School. He has his B.A. degree in English. 1949 Walter Greenwald is now working on Research and Development of Rocket Engines for Rocketdyne — a Division of North American Aviation, Inc., in California. After two years of Mechanical Engineering at Wilkes, he transferred to Penn State where he received his B.S. in Me­ chanical Engineering. 10 Dr. Charles J. Volpe, Wilkes gradu­ ate of '49, received his M.D. from the University of Rome. While in Rome he met and married Maria Vittaria. He is a resident physician in Drexel Hill, Penna., and at present is serv­ ing his internship at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. 1950 Joseph Bendock is employed as a salesman and lives in Levittown, Pa. He married Lois Hocken, a Registered Nurse of Nanticoke, Penna, ’They ’’’ ’have four ' ’ ”’ children, three girls and one boy. Mr. Edward J. Munley, Jr., was recently married to Miss Rose Mary Brice of Abington, Pennsyl­ vania, formerly of Wilkes-Barre. He attended Wilkes College from 1949 io 1950, and is now engaged in the wholesale food business in Scranton. Thomas J. Jordan is a Guidance Councilor at Bel Air, Maryland. He is a 1950 graduate of Wilkes. Herbert M. Quick received his B.A. in French - Education from Wilkes in 1950, and his M.A. from Middlebury in 1956. He served in the U. S. Army for two years, and taught at Thurmont High School, Maryland, for three years. Mr. Quick is now employed as a resi­ dent master, teacher of English, director of American students and studies at a private Swiss school, by the Chailly - sur - Lausanne, Switzerland. 1951 Jeanne Van Newenhizen, formerly Jeanne Claypool, is now residing in Easton, Pa., where she is a busy housewife and mother. She and her husband, John, have a son, John, Jr., and a daughter, Jill Ann. Richard Todd is working as Chief in the Computation Section in Charge of Large Computer Installa­ tion for the Vitro Corporation ol America at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Dick married Jeanne Batt and they have two children, Arlene Ruth end Barbara Ann. Kenneth Northrop is now em­ ployed as a Sales Representative for the Lyons and Carnahan Educa- tional Publishers in North Jersey and New York State. He and his wife, Joyce, have two children, Robyn, age 3, and Allyson, age 1. Marylyn Wilkes is working as Secretary to the Assistant Controller cf Johnson & Johnson in New Bruns­ wick, New Jersey. 1952 John Strojny, a Business Ad­ ministration graduate of 1952, is now Assistant Manager for Sears, Roebuck and Company in Potts­ town, Pa. He and his wife, Blanche, have two children. John Robert and Linda Carol. Carlie Jane Evans, the former Carlie Jane Thomas, is living in California where her husband. Thomas, is an Engineer in the Todd Shipyards. Carlie was for­ merly employed as a Service Rep­ resentative for Bell Telephone Company. Robert Evans and his wife, the former Helen Scherff, recently had their first baby — a girl named Lynn Ellen. Robert is Zone Man­ ager for the Food Department of Procter & Gamble in Mamaroneck. New York. Stephen Krupinski is presently em­ ployed as a Salesman for the Bur­ roughs Adding Machine Conmpay in Wilkes-Barre, Penna. Steve mar­ ried the former Connie Petroski, and they have a little bov, Gary Stephen. Joseph Deschak, who graduated from Wilkes in 1952, is the vice­ principal of the Elementary School in Bel Air, Maryland. Priscilla Drake, the former Priscilla Swartwood, graduate of 1952, is now busily engaged as a housewife. Her husband, Dalton, is an Engineer at DuPont. William E. Evans III, who gradu­ ated from Wilkes in '52, is now in his senior year at Hahnemann Medi­ cal College. He was recently mar­ ried to Miss Cynthia Linton of Merion, Pennsylvania. 1953 The marriage of Miss Constance P. Smith and Mr. Frank L. Andrews took place on March 23, 1957, in Fort Pierce, Florida. Connie was a graduate of the clss of '53. Her husband is a faculty member at East Woods School, Oyster Bay, Long Island. 1954 Alan Bare is now Assistant Edi­ tor in the Publications Division of General Electric in Johnson City, New York, after being discharged from the Army in September, 1956. He and his wife, Lois, have a son, Eric Alan. Lee Dannick, a Liberal Arts graduate in 1954, is currently en­ gaged in teaching two introducto­ ry sociology courses at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He also received his Masters Degree from Bowling Green University. Arthur Taylor, who is residing in North Plainfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Dolores Mary, and son, David Arthur, is employed by the North Plainfield High School as a ninth grade Science Instructor. Private William L. Lamm of Scran­ ton is to be married August 10th, at 10 A.M., in St. Vincent de Paul Church, Scranton. Pvt. Lamm, an alumnus of Wilkes College, and Drexel Institute of Technology, Phila­ delphia, was employed bv Babcock & Wilcox before entering the service. He is oresently serving with the Army at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Leonard Matublewski, a '54 gradu­ ate with his B.A. degree in Psycholo­ gy, is now a Case Worker for the Scholarship Campaign (continued from page 5) what the alumni and students were doing to help the college. At one of the report meetings, Dr. Farley announced that one of the gifts which the campaign received for $700, was pledged by three of the student groups on campus—the Lettermen's Club, the Student Council, and the Theta Delta Rho Sorority. He also announced that the Freshman Class had agreed to accept the Class Memorial Plan (ALUMNUS, April, 1956), making it the fifth class to do so. Attorney Joseph J. Savitz, Chair­ man of the Alumni Fund and a worker in the Scholarship Campaign, spoke a few words at the final re­ port meeting emphasizing what the alumni are doing through the Alumni Fund, and what our plans for the future are concerning the college's development. Luzerne County Institutional District. From the time of graduation in '54 to '56, he was employed as an Intelli­ gence Analyst with the Psychology Warfare Unit - Security Corps. 1955 Freda Margaret Billstein, a graduate of '55, is presently em­ ployed by the Sun Oil Company of Philadelphia. She is engaged to Philip R. Ross, Jr., and is plan­ ning to be married in the early faU. Harold A. Groff who took the Engineering course at Wilkes, will graduate from Bucknell University in June, 1957. Janet Eckell, who completed the Medical Secretarial course in '55, is now attending the University of Connecticut. She is employed as a part-time secretary to the Board of Governors at the University. Melvin Farkas is employed as a Pay Specialist with the 14th Finance Disbursing Section in Nurnburg, Germany, by the U. S. Army. P.F.C. Farkas received his B.S. in Com­ merce and Finance in 1955. Dale Warmouth, a '55 graduate with his A.B. degree in English is now employed as a Senior Technical Writer, and Project Assistant in Re­ search and Development by the Burroughs Corporation, Military Field Service Division. Robert Ichter, a 1955 graduate, has accepted a position as Industrial Engineer with Johns-Manville Com­ pany. 1956 Private First Class Merlyn Jon Dixon, is presently employed as a Draftsman at NATO Headquarters, Fountainbleau, France, by the United States Army. He received his A.B. in Philosophy and Religion in August, 1956. Robert Lee Evans who received his B.A. in French from Wilkes in '56 is now an Assistant in the American language as a grantee of the French Government. He conducts classes in American con­ versation for French students on the secondary level. Joseph A. Ungvarsky, a 19 5 6 graduate with a B.S. degree in Com­ merce and Finance has had two outstandina positions since graduation. He was formerly employed as a Cost Accountant for the General Electric Co., Aircraft Products Division, John­ son City, New York. At present, he is employed as an Internal Revenue Agent, Field Audit Division, Balti­ more District, for the U. S. Treasury Department Internal Revenue Ser­ vice. The recent marriage of Ensiqn Daniel Metroka to Audrey Ann Sollinger of San Diego, California, took place on April 14, 1957, in the Holy Snirit Roman Catholic Church, San Diego. Ensign Metroka graduated from Wilkes in '56 with a degree in retail merchandising. Helen Kranchenfels, a '56 gradu­ ate, is now teachina at Bel Air, Maryland. Monthly Meetings To Feature Speakers The Wilkes-Barre Chapter of the Wilkes College Alumni Association recently reinaugurated a guest speaker program for its monthly meetings held in the Commons. Al­ though this program is not new with the Alumni Association, it has been revitalized by the interest shown by Alumni in our area and has become an added attraction of the meetings. The series, called "Education After College", is a plan whereby the Alumni will hear lectures by mem­ bers of the faculty and administra­ tion concerning topics and issues which cover a cross-section of cur­ rent, future, and historical subjects. Thus far, the chapter has had two excellent lectures. The first, con­ cerning hypnosis, was given by Prof. Robert Riley, head of the Psychology Department of the College; and the second by Dr. Francis Michelini, of the Biclogy Department, concerning "Research at Wilkes." Plans call for the expansion of this program, so that our various chapters, scat­ tered throughout the country, can have an opportunity to hear these lecturers. Members of the faculty and ad­ ministration have agreed to speak at meetings being held by chapters of the Alumni Association. They have been impressed by the interest that has been shown by our local or­ ganization and also look forward io meeting with some of their old stu­ dents at these meetings. If your group would be interested in having a speaker at your next meeting, please contact the Execu­ tive Alumni Secretary, and the meet­ ing will be arranged. 11 �KEEP IT UP!’ The class news that you have been reading has come from this questionnaire. There will conti­ 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. 1—Name LAST MIDDLE FIRST Maiden Name Street State Town Telephone Class Affiliation Semester Hours Withdrew 3—Transferred to Graduated 4—Other Degrees Source Date Title 6—Business Address Firm 5—Present Employment and Duties 7—Married Year Curriculum 2—Wilkes Degree Single Spouse (Name) Children (Names - Birthdates) 8—Positions Held (Titles) � 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 Alumni Magazine, 1947-present Subject The topic of the resource Alumni Relations Description An account of the resource <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 An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wilkes University Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wilkes University Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available 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 April 1957 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 April 1957 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Magazine