Eastern Alumnus Vol. 1 No. 3 (December 1947)

j President Lone Pledges Action for Alumni

GREETINGS, EASTERN alumni! I accept the Best Wishes
honor of serving you as president of the
Ray Lane
Alumni Association with humility. I feel that it President Alumni Association
might well have been an honor accorded an older
member of the clan, but I promise to do all with- . . . for a new year
in my power to add to the prestige of our alma
mater and thereby to serve the association.

I feel that we are on the verge of an era of
greater activity. I regard the publication of the
Eastern Alumnus as a move in the right direction
and I solicit your support of the magazine with
subscriptions and items of news interest. I look
forward with anticipation to the meetings of
county alumni groups which Mr. Elam proposes
to call during January and February.

Because you will receive this issue during the
holiday season, may I take this opportunity of ex-
tending to you the best wishes of the New Year.
May it be a pleasant and profitable year for you
and for Eastern.

Most sincerely yours,

RAY LANE

Prexies Beam After Homecoming Luncheon

Presidents galore meet at homecoming luncheon. L. to r.- Jj
Retiring Association President Don eal, Mrs. Neal, new President Lane, Mrs. Buzzard, and President R. G. B
zard of the college.

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The Eastern Alumnus

Published in June, September, December and March by Eastern Illinois
State College, Charleston, Illinois

VOLUME 1 DECEMBER, 1947 NUMBER 3

SOME 50~ persons have now sub- Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter, at the post office at Char-
scribed to the Eastern Alumnus. leston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress August 24, 1912.

That is a fine record. JACK MUTHERSBOUGH ---------------------------- Editor
STANLEY ELAM ------------------------- Consulting Editor
However, we think it is a reason- AL CACHERAT ------------------------ Circulation Manager
able goal to try for 1000 suscriptions.
We have been handicapped by the CONTENTS
fact that addresseil of former stu-
duents are not available. Will YOU *President Lane's Message to the Alumni ________________ Page 2
help us by passing your copy of the
magazine along to a former student An Antarctic Adventure, by Lt. Robert L. Nichols ____ Pages 4, 5
who may wish to subscribe? Radio Celebrates First Birthday, by S. F. Koester ________Page 6

Thanks!

DO NOT wait for your class corres-
pondent to ask for news. Just ad-

dress items to:
Editor, Eastern Alumnus
Eastern Illinois State College
Charleston, Illinois

A NUMBER of individuals have sug- Temporary Buildings Dot the Campus ________________Page 7
gested the importance, in view of Homecoming 1947 in Retrospect ______________________Page 8
Review of Eastern's Football Season ___________________Page 9
the imminence of Eastern's Golden Dr. Widger Heads Honor Committee __________________ Page 9
Anniversary celebration, of complet- Letters to the Editor ________________________________Page 10
ing a series of oil paintings of the
college presidents, so ably started by Keeping in Touch with the Classes __ Pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Robert Marshall Root. His painting Homecoming Registration ____________________Pages 17, 18 19
of President Livingston C. Lord now Campus Leader Addresses ________________________Pages 20, 21
Miscellaneous Notes About Easterners _______ ,.. ________ Page 21
ngs conspicuously in Eastern's Basketball Season Opens with Two Wins ______________ Page 22
nt hall. The next of the series Letter From Dr. Charles H. Coleman __________________Page 22
ould be a painting of Dr. E. H. Armers and Waldrips Contribute to Illinois Coaching ____Page 23
aylor, who served briefly after Mr. Editors Seek Poem by Mrs. Mac Cook __________________ Page 23
rd's death.

In our opinion this is a project of
e proportions that a strong Alumni
sociation can undertake. Are we
ong enough, as alumni and as an
ociation, to do it? Let's hear from
se who feel that Eastern contri-
ted something to their lives-and
nt to pay a little of it back. Let us
"Id a college in which the tradition

the great men who fostered its
wth is not forgotten.

STERN'S CAF'ETERIA is to open College officials and contractors turn the first earth in a project to re-
January 5; the temporary library vamp the entire Eastern campus within two years. Over $360,000 will be
· open a few weeks later; the con- spent to develop a new athletic area and re-landscape for post-war building

ts for developing a fine new comiyitments. Handling the shovels are President Buzztrd, Ayiletic Director
letic area and re-landscaping the La,9tz, Women's Physical Education Head Florence McAfee, and Chance
pus have been let; and, finally, Hill, landscape architect. The scene is Lincoln Field just west of the trailer

library building contract has village. The date is December 15, 1947. )-c..._!'- 1
n awarded. As shown in the cover
ure, ground has already been
ken for the athletic area develop-
nt. It is expected that very short-
the same sort of ceremony will be
'ed out in connection with the
rary construction.
Things are happening on the East-

campus!

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An
Antarctic
1 Adventure

Originally a member of the Class of '43
at Eastern, Lt. Nichols entered the navy in
1940. In the past seven years he has partici-
pated in the major naval battles of the
Pacific war, witnessed the Bikini bomb tests,
and accompanied Byrd on his latest Antarctic
explorations. His is a story duplicated or sur-
passed by few war-weary EI Gl's. Lt. Nichols
is now working in naval research laboratories
in Washington, D. C.

By Lt. Robert L. Nichols atom bomb tests at Bikini on the first of Septe
ber, 1946, was married the same week, and aft
IF SOMEONE had told me while I was a student a brief honeymoon in New York and Montr
at Eastern that I would some day take part in reported for duty with the task force. The mont
of October and November were indeed busy on
an expedition to the South Pole, I would scarcely as there were hundreds of small details to
have believed him. Along with the prolonged taken care of. Once we were in the Antarctic ·
misery it caused for millions of people, World War would be impossible to obtain additional suppli
II, by disrupting the routine lives of so many that had been omitted. There would be no m
of us, did provide an education through travel service and our only communication with th
that would be a financial impossibility in normal rest of the world would be by radio.
times.
The MT. OLYMPUS sailed from Norfol
Since joining the naval reserve while a sopho- Va., on the second of December, 1946. It was
more at Eastern in the fall of 1940 and reporting bleak, cold morning. Only the loved ones of t
for active duty in June, 1941, I have traveled crew and a few newsreel photographers were o
several hundred thousand miles, have seen most the dock to see us off. Sailing south throug
of the United States, have visited a number of the West Indies via the Windward Passage,
foreign countries, have taken part in most of reached Panama on December 9 and negotiat
the important naval campaigns occurring in the the canal that same day. After a brief stopover
last year of the war, have seen two atomic bombs Balboa on the Pacific side, we departed Pana
detonated, and have · taken part in the 1946-47
Byrd expedition. on December 11 and headed south on the longe
leg of our journey.
Because it would take several thousand words
to describe adequately my experiences on PRO- Seasons in the Antarctic are the opposite
JECT HIGHJUMP, the navy name for the ex- those in the northern hemisphere, and as
pedition, I will describe some of the highlights sailed south the days became longer with t
of the trip. approach of summer. Further south the days
came cooler and we passed through the stor
As airborne electronics officer for the task weather and rough seas of the roaring forti
force, I was a member of the staff and was to furious fifties, and screaming sixties of latitud
sail on the USS MOUNT OLYMPUS, flagship as they are known.
for Task Force 68. On any expedition one of the
biggest jobs is the planning and procurement Antarctica, as large as the United Stat
of supplies and equipment. I returned from the and Mexico combined, lies almost entirely with"
the Antarctic Circle. It is approximately six m·

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some of them many miles in length.
On the last day of the year a

rendezvous was made at Scott Is-
land, lying just inside the Antarctic
Circle. It is nothing but a bleak rock
sticking out of the water, surround-
ed by hundreds of blue-white icebergs.
The five ships which composed the
central group of the expedition were
to sail southward along the 180th
meridian into the Ross Sea. That
afternoon, three of my men and I
transferred to the USS YANCEY,
one of the two cargo ships which was
to precede the MT. OLYMPUS. That
evening we entered the Ice Pack, a
belt of ice hundreds of miles wide
which eternally surrounds the con-
tinent. Ice conditions were the worst
they had been in 106 years. A path
was broken through solid ice by the
Coast Guard breaker NORTHWIND,
but the steel cargo vessels had to
move at a maddeningly slow speed to
avoid damaging their thin hulls.
That first night I watched the new
year come in, in broad daylight. The
days were very long now with only

.

Top left-Lt. Bob Nichols pats pet
penguin at Antarctic camp.

Above, center-The USS YANCEY
discharges precious cargo.

Right-"Antarctic Adventure" route.

lion square miles in area. Less than sailed through a large school of a few minutes of darkness, and these
one-sixth of it has ever beer. seen were to disappear shortly.
by man. Expeditions to this eternally whales. The iceberg was not a novel-
white continent are not new. Many ty for long, as they .became more and On January 18, after some narrow
countries claim portions of the con- more numerous, soon to be counted escapes from serious damage, we en-
tinent and the United States has sent by the hundreds. They were blue- tered the Bay of Whales, the site
a total of four major expeditions white in color and enormous in size, of the three previous Byrd expedition
so:ith under the leadership of Richard
E. Byrd. In 1929, during his first An- (Continued on page 19)
tarctic expedition, Admiral (then
Commander) Byrd flew over the
South Pole. Although the first to fly
over the pole, he was not the first to
reach it. A Norwegian named Roald
Amundson was the first, and his
party made the journey by dog team,
a feat which is still regarded as one
of the most difficult ever accomplish-
e:i.

On the day following Christmas we
ighted our first iceberg and also

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1Radio Celebrates First Birthday

) .J J ly christening the station. The first all-student
L to r.- Al Reed; Mard' Patton; Dr. E. R. Moses, i;rogram the following Monday was "Speech
Theater,'' directed and produced .by George Ross
faculty adviser; Allan Corbin, student radio director;
Stan Koest e · and Earl Wil~on. The candle stands for one and Johnny Paul.

year of service. Paul was the first director of the station.
He took the studio through the early teething
By S. F. Koester, '50 days of last winter. During the late spring and
summer, Tom Rothchild took over the reins with
WITH A flip of a switch on the amplifier and a a firm and sure hand, always improving the stu-
point of a finger, Earl Wilson put the Tues- dent programs, aiming at better timing, better
acting, better production. Allan Corbin is the
day, December 2, program on the air. It was the present director, beginning work the fall quarter.
219th program to go out from the tower studios His personal charm and low pleasant voice have
on the fourth floor of Old Main, over the telephone carried many a show over the rough spots un-
wires to Mattoon, and out to radios in a 60 mile avoidably encountered.
radius from the 250 watt transmitter of Station
WLBH, Mattoon, Illinois. The tower studios ·can boast of two full t ime
engineers. Dynamic little Frankie Allen, "the one
December 2, 1947, was the first anniversary man station," was the first to hold the title. Be-
of radio at Eastern Illinois State college, a date sides playing the drum in his own band, Frankie
often spent as much as ten hours a day behind
some day to rank along with November 5, 1915, the control board of the station. WLBH hired him
the day when the first issue of the News appeared. away with a job as control room engineer in Mat-
Phenomenal progress has been made during the toon.
ensueing twelve months, but the future glows
brightly with hopes for an even better station, Earl Wilson now twists the dials and pulls
more programs, better programs. the plugs, in addition to doubling as staff an-
nouncer. On Sundays he announces four programs
The individual guidance and personal drive from Mattoon. The assistance of six student en-
of Dr. Elbert R. Moses, Jr., has been largely re- gineers is necessary to run the station that used
sponsible for the amazing development of the to be managed with no engineer at all! Al Reed
tower studios. "If we need it, we'll get it" has has recently been added to the staff as a techni-
been his motto, and the studio has collected all cian.
the equipment necessary to operate as a full
fledged station. Dr. Moses hasn't let his staff The present program schedule runs as fol-
down yet. Repeatedly they have asked for expen- lows: Monday, "Music Appreciation;" Tuesday,
sive equipment, and repeatedly it has been pro- "Social Science Forum;" Wednesday, "Children's
cured. Hour;" Thursday, "Radio Workshop;" Friday,
"Meet Your High Schools."
On December 2, 1946, when Eastern first
went on the air, the studio consisted of one up- Radio class gives students an opportunity to
right microphone and a "breadboard" amplifier. improve voice control and delivery while em-
Today it even includes a pilot tuner for picking up phasizing a maximum of actual broadcast work.
frequency modulation broadcasts from Spring- Each student directs, produces, and announces
field and other FM stations. his own program at least once a quarter. This is
the "Radio Workshop."
A dedicatory program broadcast Friday, No-
vember 29, was the original production. Ray One of the most popular programs is the
Livesay, general manager of WLBH; Dr. Robert "Children's Hour" under the direction of Dr.
G. Buzzard, president of the college; Dr. Rudolph Byran Heise. A program of child psychology from
D. Anfinson, then veterans' adviser, now dean of the cradle through adolescence, the weekly talks
men; and Dean Elizabeth K. Lawson discussed by Dr. Heise are welcomed into many homes in
policy and program plans with Dr. Moses, official- the surrounding area. Begun this summer, the
"Children's Hour" was continued until the end of
the fall quarter.

One of the first series of programs to make a
hit with audiences was a six production series on
the United Nations written by Don Musselman.
One of these was presented over the college sta-
tion at Indiana State Teachers college.

Though embarrassing at the time, accidents
take on a humorous aspect with age. Once early
last spring a music appreciation program was
underway. Since the studio had no turntables

(Continued on page 23)

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./

Te mporary Buildings Dot the Campus

"BREAKFAST WILL be served in the new cafe- ./Thi s long, long building (150 feet) will house East-
teria the morning of January 5," President ern's books until the Mary J. Booth library is completed.

Robert G. Buzzard told the students of Eastern
before they went home on their Christmas vaca-
tion. The building has been under construction
for months and has been completed for some time.
Transformers could not be obtained, however,
and their final procurement, delivery, and in-
stallation early this month assured the students
a place to eat early in 1948.

Attached to the south end of the cafeteria is
the new student recreation building which will
open about the same time that the cafeteria does.
It will be placed under the supervision of the stu-
dent council and will replace the old lounge that
was taken over by the library a year .ago last
fall. Both buildings are east of the new gym.

Other new buildings on campus are also
completed or nearing completion. The addition to
the power plant that was under construction dur-

I Five hundred students will eat their first campus All of these improvements will be constructed
on Lincoln field.
meal here early in J a nuary, 1948.
Also included in the contract will be the fol-
ing most of the summer has been completed and lowing women's athletic facilities to be construct-
is now in use. The temporary library building ed in the southwest corner of what is now Sch-
located back of the power plant is completed ex- ahrer field: five tennis courts, four badminton
cept for the plumbing and heating facilities. courts, two basketball courts, and two volleyball
These may take a month to install, thus making courts. All of these courts will also be hard-sur-
the opening of this building due sometime in faced. Along with these improvements will come
early January. Tentative plans call for the col- an entirely new pattern of drives and parking
lege to take a day off when the building is com- areas for the campus.
plete and move the books from Old Main to their
new home. Work has not yet begun on the new per-
manent library building, but spring should see
A ground breaking ceremony December 15 this massive structure start to take form. An
marked the start of work on new athletic fields extensive formal garden will be laid out south
and campus development for which a $360,000 of the new library after .its completion, and an
contract was let in November. The contract calls outdoor theater will be built to the southeast.
for the construction of a new football field on Lin-
co:n field, two practice football fields, an oval J
running track, a hundred yard straightaway, a
baseball diamond with bleachers, twelve hard- A recreation hall adjoins the Cafeteria to the south.
surfaced tennis courts, four hard-surfaced vol- "It's for loafing only," says President Buzzard.
leyball courts, three hard-surfaced badminton
courts, and a newly designed nine hole golf course.

P AGE SE VEN

J Homecoming 1947 in Retrospect

RAY LANE was elected to the presidency of . j.

Eastern's Alumni Association, as homecoming Panthers were at their best, beating Normal 13-6.
grads unanimously approved the list of candi- Chi Rho won the coveted first place in house
dates forwarded by the nominating committee.
Other officers elected were Beulah Brown of decorations. Chi Rho is a newly organized local
Vandalia, vice-president, and James Hanks, Char- fraternity with headquarters at Sixth and Lin-
leston, secretary-treasurer. coln. The exhibit depicted the afternoon Panther
victory with a member of Eastern's squad poised
Ray, class of '39, is superintendent of schools over the inert form of a Redbird player. Second
at Toledo, Illinois, where he musters one of the prize was given to Delta Sigma Epsilon, and third
largest bands in Illinois for a small school sys- prize went to Sigma Sigma Sigma.
tem. Before moving to Toledo he had marked up
an excellent music record at Greenup. There were over twenty bands and twenty
floats in the parade. First prize was given to Phi
While he was majoring in music on Eastern's Sigma Epsilon for an elaborate float hailing
campus Ray led his own dance band. Now he is "Queens of Tomorrow." Second place went to
working on his master's degree at the University Delta Sigma Epsilon, and third to Kappa Sigma
of Illinois when he can get away from school work. Kappa, Eastern's newest national fraternity.

President Buzzard, main speaker at the busi- Six "Queens of Yesteryear" rode with the
ness meeting, spoke of the advances in Eastern's parade and were much in evidence. They were
physical plant for the present and future record Martha Tym Johnson, '46, Jeanne Volkman, '45,
enrollments. He promised that the next banquet Thelma Whiteleather, '44, Marge Thomas 'Heath,
for homecoming alumni will be held in the new '42, Martha June Jack, '38, and Jewell Emmerich
cafeteria, and spoke hopefully of the completion Baughman, '41.
of the fine Mary J. Booth Library by the end
of Eastern's golden anniversary year-1948-49. Arlene Swearingen was crowned queen of
He thought it possible that the dedication 1947 by the News editor Robert Black in a color-
ceremonies for the library will be a part of ful ceremony at the traditional Saturday night
Founde'r's Day celebrations. Miss Booth, retired dance. The Sigma Sigma Sigma lovely is a senior
librarian for whom the new library will be named, fro::11 Mattoon, and is majoring in elementary
was a guest at the alumni banquet. education. Her atte-ndants were June Bubeck, sen-
ior; Harriet Smith, junior; Betty Kirkman,
Don Neal, retired alumni president, did an sophomore ; and Alice Hanks, freshman.
excellent job as master of ceremonies, intro-
ducing guests and speakers. Over two thousand alumni, students, and
guests were present at the dance that featured
Stan Elam reported that the Eastern Alum- the sweet music of Henry Brandon's orchestra.
nus now has five hundred subscribers and that
s11bscriptions are coming in constantly. He added
that an alumni directory and a history of the
school are being prepared, and urged all alumni
to attend the occasions marking Eastern's Gol-
den Anniversary next year.

Stan also said that a goal of 25 Eastern
State clubs has been set with first meetings in
January.

From all points of view, Homecoming was
a huge success. The Homecoming play, "Dear
Ruth," was presented both Thursday and Friday
nights, starring Mary Patton and John Tolch in
a light, humorous comedy. Attendance was very
good in spite of the fact that due to a strange
coincidence the screen version of the same play
was booked at Charleston's Will Rogers theater
the same nights.

The upperclassmen easily overpowered a
light-weight freshman crew in the tug-of-war,
and the bonfire Friday night was more heavily
attended than any previous ones that this report-
er has witnessed.

The Homecoming gridiron classic-well,
there's probably nothing more to add, other than
that our Panthers, new and old, agreed that the

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j. 1Jr. Widger Heads

Homecoming ·Game Honor Committee

Saves Grid Season "OUR PURPOSE is to recognize outstanding ser-
vice on the part of alumni of Eastern," states

By Bill bowney, '50 Dr. H . DeF. Widger, chairman of the Eastern
Honor Award committee elect-

THE PANTHER eleven downed the Normal Red- ed at Alumni Day, 1947. "The

birds 13 to 6 in Eastern's homceoming classic, committee will welcome sug-

scoring their first triumph over the Normal crew gestions from all alumni who

in 13 years. This victory absorbed the blow of a wish to place in consideration

rather unsuccessful grid season, in which the the names of eminent graduates

Panther grid grapplers won but two of their eight of the institution. Address your

contests, and finished third in IIAC standings. letters to me in care of the col-

Coach Maynard "Pat" O'Brien's boys climax- lege. Please give enough back-
ed the season by soundly trouncing the Western Dr. Widger ground concerning the indivi-
squad 19 to 0 in the season finale. In this 1947
curtain-drawing pigskin parlay, the Panthers duals named that the committee may conduct fur-
broke away from the 13 point jinx that had ther inquiries without difficulty."
hovered over them since the last game of the
1946 season. According to Dr. Widger, the committee will
meet early in January to develop methods of in-
The 52-man squad boasted 23 returned let- quiry and to decide what form the honor will take.
termen, and was capably captained by stalwart Among details to consider are the time for the
Neal Hudson. Hudson, 180 pound junior from first award, which may await the climax of
Olney, displayed his talents on the gridiron with the Golden Anniversary celebration in 1949, and
incomparable stamina, playing practically the en- the type of medal to be struck or scroll to be
tire 60 minutes of every game until he suffered drawn up for actual presentation.
a leg injury in the Southern contest and was
forced to sit out the season closer with Western! Dr. Widger emphasized his own position that
the award should be limited to very few recipients,
Earl Benoche, a consistently fine halfback and that only achievement of the very highest
from Bradley, Illinois, was voted most valuable to rank should be considered in granting the honor.
the Panthers by his teammates. They voted Don
Davisson, stellar senior guard, as honorary cap- The five man committee as first established
tain for the 1947 season. was composed of Dr. Widger, chairman; Dr. E. H.
Taylor; Dr. Kevin Guinagh; Arthur Lumbrick
The shifty running of Bolf Lencioni, fresh- and Don Neal. Because of Dr. Guinagh's absence
man halfback from Geneva, and the pile-driving as a visiting professor this year at Antioch col-
ground gaining of Bob Smith, another frosh lege, Dr. Harold M. Cavins will serve on the com-
halfback, highlighted the Panther offense for mittee in his stead. Alumni association president
the season. The two were the Panther's leading Ray Lane appointed Miss Mary Linder, '15, fol-
lowing the death of Mr. Lumbrick last summer.

ground gainers of the season, although, strangely

enough neither of them saw a great amount of Bob Babb and Earl Benoche accounted for

action. Smith came to Eastern through the influ- most of the booting while Chuck Gross and

nce of Jim Stahl, '39, who coaches at Downers LeeRoy LaRose alternated the kickoff duties.

rove. Wes Hilligoss, who booted conversions early in

Earl Benoche, Don Johnson, and Jack Robert- the season and couldn't break the 13 point jinx,

n bore the brunt of Eastern's offense from the finally gave way to Chuck Gross, whose toe was

alfback spots while John Wargo and Mick Lile no more efficient.

ere worthy and reliable substitues for these Eastern's chief asset during the season, with

sitions. Chuck Gross and Virgil Sweet alter- the exception of Northern and Southern games,

ted in the line-bucking fullback spot, and Bob was a staunch and stubborn defense. Excluding

bb and Chuck Boyle took care of the huddle the exceptions, the Panthers held the opposition

mmands from the quarterback post. These two to 69 points, while rolling up 84 counters.

en also did most of the pitching, but Eastern's . Donald "Cocky" Davisson and Howard "Slug"

rial attack proved to be comparatively in- Barnes made a lot of trouble for Eastern opposi-

ficient until the final game, with a surplus of tion from tije guard berths, and burly LeeRoy

terceptions swallowed up by the opposition. LaRose plugged up a big gap very efficiently at

Russ Ghere and Neal Hudson were on the re- tackle. Bob Sink, Tom Carlyle, Don Waltrip, Ger-

iving end of the majority of the aerials, and ald Baker, Len Bujnowski, Bill Snapp, and Roman

th turned in brilliant seasons, defensively as Dongu all took part in forming a powerful for-

ell as offensively. Jim Boone, Frank Pitol, Lou ward wall.

ds, Joe Kruzich, and John Sowinski offered com- Lou Stivers, 210 pound sophomore from

tent replacements for the end posts, although Olney, played a superb season at center and was

to! finally found a regular berth at tackle. (Continued on page 22)

PAGE NINE

Roscoe J Rounds up ClosI s of- 1910;

Snapp

Other Alumni Pen Letters to Alumni Editor

The following letter is the only one received there 37 years ago. I promise myself every year

by Ruth Carman, Class of 1910 correspondent. that I will go back at the next homecoming or

It mentions many members of the class. Roscoe alumni day, depending on whether it is fall or

Snapp, the author, is described by Miss Carman spring, but someway or other I never do. Let's
plan for a big reunion in 1950. But I'll have to
as "the most brilliant member of our class."

"Can it be possible that some members of our come before then to plan it with you. Who be-
class of 1910 have been so negligent that they sides you and Ruth Long, 'Esther McCrory, and
have failed to respond to the questionnaires sent Bruce Rardin are still living in and around Char-

to them from time to time, asking for information leston? Oh yes, Alia Glassco McNutt. Let's get
going!!"
on their whereabouts? Apparently we need an
old fashioned reunion to gather all of us together Yours sincerely,

again and regain some of the enthusiasm for dear ROSCOE SNAPP

old Charleston that we once had. 310 Michigan Avenue

"Harry Bigler is living right here in Urbana. Urbana, Illinois

He has been here for the past 15 years, running a
nice little coal business. His address is 610 Ohio MRS. LETTA KELLEY O'BRIEN, '30, writes the
editors from 116 Beverly Boulevard, Hobart,
Street, Urbana, Illinois. He is very prominent in
civic affairs as well as in church work. He has 1Indiana.

two children, a boy and a girl. Both are married "I am wondering if any other people from

and live here in Urbana. EISC have entered the field of social work. I am

"Harry Gwens teaches zoology in the Joliet a social case worker for the Lake County Depart-

high school. He has been there, I believe, ever ment of Public Welfare, whose main office is in

since he was discharged from service after World Gary. My particular job is that of foster home

War I, some 28 years ago. I have seen him only selector for the agency.

once during that period, but have talked about We are proud of our group. It consists of

him with numerous boys and girls who have around 150 case workers and supervisors and
graduated from Joliet high. All have spoken very about 75 clerical workers. It includes a well-staff-
highly of him. It is possible that he is head of the ed mental hygiene clinic. We are particularly
biology department, but I am not sure.
proud of the fact that over half our cases are

"I am sorry that I cannot tell you anything cases in which no public assistance is requested-

about Ivan King. Possibly he is still a doctor with rather, cases where we are equipped to offer ser-

the Veterans Administration. He was so employed vice to persons in the community in working

for several years following World War I. You through problems in child care, family relations,

probably can obtain his address through the and foster home placement. It is very interesting

Alumni ·Association of the University of Chicago. work and not too different from teaching. I feel

"I suspect that Dr. Taylor has already told that my training at Eastern has stood me in good
you more about us than you need for your re- stead in this job as well as in my teaching posi-
cord. As you know, I was away from the Univer- tions.

sity of Illinois on military leave from January, "My sister, Miss Zelma Kelley, who has her

1942, to October, 1946; consequently I have not degree from Eastern in 1944, is teaching first

accomplished much here recently. My official title grade in the Hobart City schools. She is one o

is professor of animal science and I am in charge two first grade teachers in her building. She for-

of the beef cattle work, both teaching and re- merly taught in Danville, Illinois."

search, of the college of agriculture. I have writ-

ten a textbook, "Beef Cattle, Their Feeding and John C. DeWolve, '04, writes the followin

Management in the Corn Belt States," which is from his law offices at 77 West Washingto
used by nearly all the agricultural colleges of the Street, Chicago 2, Illinois.
country; probably because it is the only book on
the subject of college grade. "Please convey to the family of Arthur Lum
brick my sincere regrets for his passing. Arth
"I have the best wife in the world and the two and Louis Anderson were my closest friends whe
best children-Kathryn, 24, who is married to a I attended EISC from September, 1900, to Augus
young doctor now interning at St. Luke's hospital, 1904.
Chicago, and Kenneth, 21, who is a junior in
e:ectrical engineering here in the university. "I enjoyed reading your initial EASTER
ALUMNUS. With kindest regards and best wish

"I feel very much ashamed that I have paid for your personal success and that of yo

so few visits to Charleston since my graduation EASTERN ALUMNUS ..."

PAGE TEN

Keeping •In Touch Class of 1914
Mrs. Clarence T. Gates
Class of 1901 MYRTLE CRUZAN-GEYER, '07,
has taught for a number of years, 708 Johnson
Mildred White Charleston, Illinois
and is still teaching in Chicago uni- WILLARD P. BOYLE, '14, super-
920 s. llth versity. She is also "literary con- intendent of schools at Tomahawk,
sultant and collaborator, Writer's Wisconsin, passed away at Sacred
Charleston, Illinois Bureau" according to her stationery. Heart Hospital after a very brief
Dr. Geyer is a university professor. illness. He is survived by his wife,
Class of 1902 They have one grown daughter. Lola Chenoweth Boyle, also a mem-
ber of '14, and four sons.
Mahala Jane White Mrs. Mabel Bruner Hagan, '07, has Thomas Thompson, '14, was killed
reared three fine sons alone, but has in an automobile accident October
920 s. llth gone on teaching, too. She has been 19 in California. His wife, Hazel
head of the commercial department of Wilson Thompson, '12, was seriously
Charleston, Illinois the University high school in Urbana, injured and was in the hospital at
having charge of practice teachers Tulare, California, when this was
Class of 1903 from the University. For a number written. '
of years she has been leading semi-
l\lrs. J. A. Riggins nars in the University College of Class of 1915
RFD 3, Box 144 Education, commerce department. Mary Linder
Phoenix, Arizona The oldest son is Major Richard C.
Hagan, now in Germany, connected 904 Sixth
Class of 1904 with the Judge Advocate's division Charleston, Illinois
conducting the Neurenberg trials. The FAYE BRIDGES ASHBROOK, '15
John C. Dewolve second son, Wallace, is connected is now the Home Service Secretary
217 S. Cuyler Avenue with the Kentucky state department of the Red Cross for McLean county
Oak Park, Illinois of geology. Philip, ex-GI, is a student and says it is the most interesting
(Letter, page 10) at the University of Illinois. All three work she has ever attempted.
attended the E. I. training school. Mary Peters Cleaver, class of '15,
Class of 1905 writes from her home on Route
Class of 1908 2, Forest Hills, Anderson, Indiana,
Cecil E. Stark that it is pretty hard to tell what
923 Forest Avenue Leonard Davis has happened in the years since
River Forest, Illinois R. R. Eastern on one sheet of paper, es-
Charleston, Illinois pecially when you have two fine
Class of 1906 daughters that you like to brag
Class of 1909 about. She went to Anderson after
Charles W. Fender her marriage in 1918 and has lived
1927 El Dorado Avenue Mrs. Russell Shriver there ever since. Mr. Carl D. Cleaver,
Berkeley 7, Calif. 412 Van Buren the better half, is factory manager
Charleston, Illinois
FLORENCE LONG CARMEN, '06, Dean and Mrs. Hobart Heller greet
is now living at 1275 Winston Class of 1910 Mrs. Al Borah, the former Gwen
Oliver, who teaches at Evansville, Ind.
Road, Cleveland 21, Ohio. After Ruth Carman
graduating she taught for seven E.I.S.C.
years, the last three in Duluth, Charleston, Illinois
moved to Cleveland, where her hus- (See letter, page 10)
band teaching in the high school
there. After their marriage they Class of 1911
moved to Cleveland where her hus-
band has taught since 1918. Last Mrs. William Oscar Rogers
Box 612
summer they took a '65 day auto trip Pasco, Washington

through the west. LEWIS LINDER, '11, paid the stu-
dents of Eastern a very fine com-
Minnie Lucille Evans Rosenberry,
'06, has been connected with the Gar- pliment in his letter to his class
ney school district (nine miles east of correspondent. "I live here in Char-
Los Angeles) for the past 22 years leston and have had the opportunity
as teacher, principal, and superin- to watch Eastern enlarge its cam-
tendent. Her husband, a graduate pus, put up fine new buildings, and
of Normal, is principal of a Los expand in enrollment and faculty.
Angeles Junior high school. Their Probably my greatest inspiration is
home is at 4437 Gainsborough in Los to see the enthusiasm and determina-
Angeles. tion of each succeeding class at
Eastern as it enrolls, develops,
Laura Foots, '06, has been teach- graduates, and starts on its way."
ing ever since her graduation from
Eastern. She is now teaching En- Class of 1912
glish in the Broadway Edison Techni-
cal school in Seattle, Washington. William E. Gossett
Previously she has taught in Ander- 1435 llth
son, Indiana, and Great Falls, Mon- Charleston, Illinois
tana.
Class of 1913
Ellen Dwyer, '06, has been a teach- Vernon H. Kern
er of Spanish in an Evanston high
school for 28 years. She lives at 1142 212 Hardy Lane
Maple in Evanston. Waterloo, Illinois

Class of 1907
Marguerite Bainbridge

1028 Ninth
Charleston, Illinois

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of guide lamp division of the General Rex McMorris, Cook County East- pany and has been with them since rs.
Motors corporation in Anderson. ern State club president, chats with that time. He and Mrs. Armstrong -Gussie M ~
Miss Emma 17einhardt. have two boys and a girl. Elba invites
Lewis Hanford Tiffany, '15, is now any of his classmates who come his hing at
chairman of the botany department Street, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 15 way to stop for a chat. high sch
at Northwestern university. He went months ago after her husband left received ·
to Northwestern after spending 17 Cook's Publishing Co. in Elgin. She L ulu Wickha m McCart an , '20, has and her 1\1
years at Ohio State university. While has two children, Betty, aged six; and a daughter who is a junior at the Colorado.
at Northwestern he has published Billy, a year or so younger. University of Arizona and a son who
"Algae, the Grass of Many Waters" will enter Arizona State college next E
and helped to write a textbook on Josephine Byers Doner, '19, lives fall. She has been teaching the past
botany. He is a member of the at 477 E. Sanford Avenue, Auburn, five years to help out in the teacher ry success
board of governors of the Chicago Alabama. Her husband is head of shortage. Her home is 820 Eighth bnormal Y•
Academy of Sciences. He is honorary the mathematics department at Ala- Street, Douglas, Arizona. unior high
associate in cryptogamic botany for bama Polytechnic Institute. She has
the Chicago Natural History museum, two children, Joyce and Tommy. Robert J . A llen, '20, was recent- president
and holds a life membership in the ly elevated to full professorship eacher 's Or
Chicago Academy of Sciences. He Alma Elizabeth Dreiner Bryden, at Williams college in Williamstown,
is currently writing a book on algae '19, died in St. Louis the summer of Massachusetts. After attending E ast· (
of Illinois. 1944. She is survived by her husband ern , Mr. Allen was graduated from
and one daughter, Mary, who is now t he University of Illinois, and later arold H. W
Katharine Hudson Balch, '15, eight years old. took h is M. A. and P h . D . degrees P. 0 . Box
writes from her Burlingame, Cali- fro m Harvard university. He came New Orlei
fornia, home on 1160 Vancouver ave- Edward Earl Hood, '19, teaches to W illiams in 1937 after servin g as CHARLOTT :
nue that she enjoyed her first trip physical education in Evansville, In- an instructor of English at Harvard. taught in
to Illinois in three years this past diana. His wife was formerly a nurse. He has written "The Clubs of Au- tern fo r t h e
July. Her son, Alfred, is a junior at He has one daughter. Articles by Mr. gustan London" and is the author of 18 head of t.
Stanford, while her husband, Walter, Hood appear in Indiana magazines numerous articles and reviews deal-
does agricultural technologist work from time to time. ing with the literary life of eighteen· summer, exc
for the Shell Chemical corporation. th century England. he has tak1
Class of 1920 cience stud
Amy Ward W ilson, '15, has lived Class of 1921 "ngton, D.
on a farm near Butler, Illinois, with Mrs. Paul A. M..oody points in th1
her husband Sumner Wilson for the 4615 Oakwood Avenue Vernon E. Barnes
last 31 years. She has three daugh- Downers Grove, Illinois Rushville, Indiana company, w
ters and three granddaughters. A ua ry, 1947.
forthcoming trip to California is on MAX CARMAN, '20, had earned his Class of 1922 to become
the agenda for the Wilsons. three degrees by 1925. Up to that t he U niven
Cyril D. Reed sion in Rae
Flor~nce Doty, '15, who is now time no student at the University of 1243 Holt ville, Wisco
teaching first grade in Dayton, In- Illinois had received a doctor's de- Pomona, Calif. have three <
diana, writes of a recent demonstra- gree at so young an age. Max is head
tion class that she conducted be- of the mathematics department at HESTER CAIRNS JOHNSON, '22, Annie I
fore elementary teachers from seven Murray State Teachers college, Mur- is living at the present time at taught in t
Indiana counties. She also wrote of ray, Kentucky. His wife was formerly Atchinson ,
her son, who is married and attend- Keitha Mcintosh. Sandoval, Illinois, but has hopes of The last s1
ing Boulder university. moving soon with her husband and a teaching
Elba Armstrong, '20, writes from Kansas uni
Sophia Reed, '15, is now head of Trenton, Michigan, that after gradua- YOUR EDITOR must use this means spent two s
the home economics department at tion he tried several different jobs of distributing his orchids and mak- versity. On
Western State College of Education. including teaching, railroading and Marshall V
She recently helped plan the new "even insurance". In 1926 he became ing his apologies. To those who con- children.
building that will house the home ec associated with Detroit Edison corn- tributed generously of their time in
department in the near future. securing the fine information con-
cerning their classmates, our most
Class of 1916 sincere thanks. To those who con-
tributed generously but whose copy
Mrs. Ruby P. Johnson had to be condensed or saved for an-
Box 134 other issue, our most sincere apol-
Villa Pai·k, Illinois ogies.

Class of 1917 And to those who did not contri-
bute, our earnest request for some
Ceale Marie Drakeford information-even if it must be your
R.R. 3 resignation!
Toledo, Illinois
four children to the Rocky Mountain
Class of 1918 area, preferably Montana. She at-
Mary Crowe tended the University of Colorado.

2525 Florida Drive Irene Champion Amos, '22,
Ft. Wayne, Indiana living at 1247 Trevanion Ave.,
Pittsburgh, Penn. After five years
Class of 1919 of teaching, she became a housewife
Edith Crowe and is especially proud of her two
sons, Ed and Bill. Mr. Amos has his
2525 Florida Drive Ph. D. from the University of Illi-
Ft. Wayne, Indiana nois and was on the faculty at the

HARRIETTE L. FOREMAN SER-
VISS, '19, moved to 254 Spring

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University of Pittsburgh for fifteen Hammond, Indiana. She has her mas- ceived her B. S. degree in 1930 from
years. ter's degree from the University of the University of Illinois. She mar-
Illinois. ried George B. Gregg, also a graduate
Gussie Mae Braithwaite, '22, is of the University of Illinois, in 1933.
teaching at the Centennial Jun- Leila Armstrong, '24, is director of The couple have one son and one
ior high school at Decatur, Illinois. elementary education at La Porte, daughter. They have lived in Cin- ·
She received her B. of Ed. from East- Indiana. Since graduating at Eastern cinnati for six years.
ern and her M.A. from the University she has taught at the University of
of Colorado. Delaware, University of Arkansas, Alonzo Goldsmith, '24, has spent
Illinois State Normal university, and 21 years as teacher and superinten-
Pauline Bowman Johnson, '22, State Teachers college, Terre Haute, dent in the public schools of Idaho
now claims a colonial house with Indiana. She has written for educa- and Illinois. He is now employed by
green shutters located at 1720 W. tional periodicals and published one the Ohio Oil company as superin-
Bancroft Street, Toledo, Ohio, as book in 1942. She received her M.A. tendent of training for that corpor-
home. She has her B. S. from the degree at Columbia university in 1933 ation. His work consists largely in
University of Illinois in 1931. Her and has since done further graduate organization and supervision of the
daughter, Linda, is ten years old and work. instruction of various kinds of oil
is attending the Toledo Museum of company salesman. He married Ona
Art. Edna Waggoner Curry, '24, taught Bean in 1916. A daughter, Reba
in the first grade in Champaign for was graduated from Eastern in 1940.
Mary Boyer, '22, of 640 E. 15th four years. In 1928 she married Mr. After a brief teaching and newspaper
treet, Oakland, California, has been Harvey. She and her husband are editing ·· career, "' she '- passed away in
very successful in her work with growing oranges near San Ber- 1943. The Goldsmiths have two other
ubnormal youngsters in one of the nardino, California. children, both son s.
Junior high schools of Oakland. She
18 president of the Atypical Class Carl Green, '24, reci:iived his Pl:. D. Loretta Orndorff Matheny, '24, was
Teacher's Organization of that area. degree in political science at the society reporter and personal editor
University of Illinois in 1930. He has of the Mattoon Journal-Gazette be-
Class of 1923 served two terms in the Illinois House fore her marriage in 1933 to Frank
of Representatives from the 48th Matheny of Mattoon. He is employed
Baroid H. Whittemore senatorial district. He is a veteran of by the International Color Printing
P. 0. Box 1122 World War I and has taught 15 years company of Peoria, where they have
New Orleans, La. in Illinois public schools. lived since 1927. They have no chil-
dren.
CHARLOTTE E. SPURLIN, '23, has Elsie Sloan, '24, reports that she is
taught in the Centralia school sys- "still in circulation" and that she is Miss Oma Askren, '24, has been liv-
still teaching English in Edwards- ing in Waco, Texas, for the past 18
tem for the past 21 years, where she ville high school. She is dean of girls years. She is a primary teacher in the
s head of the Centralia high school at the institution. She has her mas- Waco city schools. She received a B.
social science department, and teach- t er's degree from Washington univer- S. degree from North Texas State
es radio broadcasting in the Centra- sity and has studied personnel work college in 1939.
a Township junior college. Each at Northwestern university. Miss
ummer, except during the war years, Sloan had a good visit with Dean Class of 1925
she has taken a group of her social Elizabeth Lawson of Eastern early in
December. Mrs. Ozeta Goodman Cowan
ience students on a tour of Wash- 325 Third Avenue
gton, D. C., and other historical Helen Strockbine Gregg, '24, re- Joliet, Illinois
ints in the east.
J VIRGINIA ROSE ALEXANDER
Class of 1924 BREWER, '25, married Hollie B.
Write Jay "Gabby" Logue at East
rs. Madeline Rominger Fender Peoria high school for the name of Brewer in 1926. They have three chil-
Charleston, Illinois his haberdasher. dren and own a hospital pharmacy.
Mrs. Brewer got her pharmacist's
AROLD KERR, '24, taught in certificate in 1931 and works as phar-
Edgerton, Wisconsin, high school macist-bookkeeper. Their business ad-
m 1924 to 1943, when he resigned dress is 1337 E. 2nd St., Casper,
take a position in the engineering Wyoming.
partment of the Highway Trailer
mpany, where he stayed until Jan- Lois Craig, '25, has been a house-
wife most of the twenty-two years,
' 1947. At that time he resigned she has been married to Orval Funk-
become instructor in drawing at houser. However, while her husband,
e University of Wisconsin Exten- Lt. Col. Funkhouser, was in the
on in Racine. He married a Janes- Southwest Pacific attached to Gen-
le, Wisconsin, girl and they now eral MacArthur's Headquarters,
ve three children. Lois lived in Charleson and taught
for one year. Mr. and Mrs. Funk-
nnie Laurie Cummings, '24, houser and their daughter Nancy,
ught in the elementary grades at who is nine years of age, live in
Amboy, Illinois.
hinson, Kansas, for nine years.
e last seven years she has been Mabel Baker, '25, received her B.
teaching principal. She attended S. degree with honors in English
from the University of Illinois, and
sas university two summers and taught for several years in Urbana.
nt two summers at Columbia uni- She is married to Dr. David Weigand,
ity. On June 2, 1933, she married who is senior physicist for Armour
rshall Van Liew. They have two
dren .

Tinsie M. Welsh, '24, has taught in
nsas, Illinois, and in Indiana. For

past 11 years she has been in

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research foundation. Mr. and Mrs. VRicky carries the crown for Queen the industrial arts and vocational edu-
Wiegand and their three children, Arlene. Son of senior Jean Manuell, cation department at the United
Marjorie, twelve years of age; David, it's Ricky's second ceremony. Township high school in East Moline,
enght years of age; and Roger, four Illinois, where he has been teaching
years of age, live at 223 N. Bierman, moved and moved and moved, but that for the last 18 years, He is married
Villa Park, Illinois. has let me realize what a large nation and has two children, Carol, 11, and
we live in," Mr. Johnson concluded. Gordon, eight years old. Mr. Josser-
Mabel Harden, '25, has made Char- He is married and has a son 14 years and received his master's degree in
leston her home since graduation. old. education from Colorado State Col-
Her husband, Carl Ryan, and she
own and operate the Ryan Shoe Wayne Cooper, '26, writes in what lege of A. and M. in the summe1 ot
Store, located on the west side of the he calls a history of his short com-
square. They have one son, Don, who ings and long goings: "In 1935, we 1940.
is seventeen years of age. (the boss is Gertrude Moseley of the
Class of 1929) moved to Louisville, Mrs. Daisy Bell Grant Grafton, '26,
Jo Frances Tiffin, '25, taught En- Kentucky, so that I could impart some writes that her first 20 years away
glish and music in the Community of my knowledge to the kids here. By from Eastern have been none too
high school at Hillsboro, Illinois, for 1942, I despaired of such lofty ideals eventful, but who can tell about the
two years after graduation, then and resigned to go to Curtiss-Wright next 20 ? She is married, lives in
married Dr. Charles Chase of that here in Louisville. During the war I Lerna, and is the mother of two girls.
city. They have two children, Charles, was superintendent of inspection for A travel lover, her trips over the last
Jr., fourteen years of age; and Jo them and worked on airplanes. In 12 months took her to Maine, Florida,
Lucille, five years of age. Jo F'rances, 1945 they closed their plant here, and California, and the state of Washing-
whose lovely songs many remember I went with War Assets. There I ton.
at E. I., still sings at musical affairs did little but help confuse the public
in this community, and is often ac- so that surplus property would re- Mrs. Lorene Wampler Weaver, '26,
companied at the piano by her son. main unsold. Last September I again changed her last name on May 29
The Chases reside at 714 Locust St. went with the Louisville board of of this year. Her husband is director
She is also active in P. T. A. work. education and am now teaching metal- of health and safety with the Radio
work. We are quite old now, having Corporation of America in the
Bernadine Abel Daly, '25, taught two pretty grown up boys. One is a Bloomington, Indiana, plant. For the
Latin and English in the township junior in high school and the other past 18 years Mrs. Weaver had taught
high school at Neoga, Illinois, after is in the eighth grade." The Coopers in the Tuscola grade school. She wa&
graduation. Later she attended the reside at 231 Produce Avenue in a member of the Douglas County
University of Illinois and received Louisville. Eastern State club.
her master's degree in 1935. In 1937
she and her husband, Lloyd W. Daly, L. L. Josserand, '26, is now head of Ralph B. Casey, '26, was principal
went to Europe for study. They did of the Altamont Community high
topographical work in the neighbor- school from 1934 to 1944. In the lat-
hood of Thermopylae, and later join- ter year he took over the principal'&
ed the John Hopkins Archaeoloical desk at Oakland high school. He re-
expedition in Macedonia. On their ceived his master's in 1933 and ha&
return to this country, Mr. Daly join- done graduate work at the Univer·
ed the faculty of the University of sity of Kansas, the University of
Oklahoma, at Norman, where they Illinois, and the University of Wash·
lived until September 1947, when he ington. He married Augusta Mae
joined the staff of the University of Hopper in 1928 and they have three
P ennsylvania. They have two daugh- children, Jack, 16; Patty, 14; and
ters, Caryl, seventeen years of age, Charles, 10.
who is a freshman in the School of
Music, University of Michigan, and Reva Holsapple, '26, received her
Sara, eleven years of age. For three master of arts from Columbia during
years during the war Mrs. Daly had summer school last year, and ha&
an administrative post with the U. taken a new job as English teacher in
S. Navy. The Dalys reside at 310 the Oak Park, Illinois, junior high
Morton Avenue, Ridley Park, Penn- school.
sylvania.
Ernest R. Bails, '26, has been
Class of 1926 teaching in Denver, Colorado, for
the past ten years and says that he
Everett L. Green will probably teach another 15 be-
3703 Western Avenue cause of the 65 year old retirement
Mattoon, Illinois law in Colorado. He married Rachel
Lee and they have three children and
PAUL H. JOHNSON, '26, write& four grandchildren. The Bails still
from the valley of the Rio Grande write Herman Cooper, "Baldy" Haw-
kins, Ruby Lee, Redith Goodson, and
about 24 miles from Santa Fe- Sumner and Amy Wilson, all former
Espanola, New Mexico-to be exact. Eastern friends. The Bails' addres&
It's what he terms a mushroom town. is 737 Emerson Street, Denver, Colo-
He teaches general science, biology, rado.
and chemistry. Located near an atom-
ic research plant, Mr. Johnson states Theodore Cavins, '26, writes "I am
that both the town and schools have now teaching part time in the English
become greatly overgrown. "In the department of Lake Forest college
21 years since I left Eastern we have and devoting the rest of my time to
Camp Mishawaka as director and
part owner. The camp was established

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39 years ago and now has a family by the U. S. government. Mrs. of the family gets off to the fourth
of about 120 boys and 40 staff mem- Jahant, who is the daughter of Dr. grade every morning.
bers. Verne Barnes of the class of S. E. Thomas, retired head of the
1925 or thereabouts has been on our social department at Eastern, has Class of 1933
staff for the last four or five years lived in Nicaragua, California, and
and Bob King, director of the East- many other far-from-Charleston Robert E. Wiseman
ern band about three years ago, has places with her Marine Corps hus- 8013 N. W. 6th Avenue
also been with us the last two sum- band. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas visited Miami 38, Florida
mers. Mrs. Cavins was the former her and her family (there is a ten
Nina Arnold, fifth grade critic year old daughter, Judith Emily) Class of 1934
teacher at the training school at during the month of November, 1947.
Charleston some years ago. Our two Louise Stillions
children are David Allen, age 13; and Class of 1930 Laupahoehoe School
Ellen, age 9. The 'Allen' in David's Territory of Hawaii
name is in honor of Fiske Allen, Louise Trager
emeritus professor of math and head 424 Diversey GILBERT A. ROSE, '34, received
of the training school at Eastern." Chicago 14, Illinois
his ma,ster's degree in fine and
W. Harry Phipps, '26, is raising Class of 1931 industrial arts from Teachers col-
dairy cattle on his farm near Lin- lege, Columbia university, in 1946.
coln Log Cabin state park and watch- Donald Dorris He has taught graduate classes in
ing his two children labor through 1204 W. Vine woodwork there during the summers
Eastern's training school. Mr. Phipps Taylorville, Illinois of 1945 and 1946. He is teaching at
found teaching only second best when Wilson, N. C., mailing address Box
he completed five years of it after MARGARET VIVIAN MENEES, '31, 743 .
graduation, and returned to the farm. was married to Ralph F. Fischer,
He married the former Hilda Diel, Louise K. Stillions, .,34, wrote the
who was in school at the same time . Gardner, Illinois, in April, 1945. Mr. following in her letter accepting the
he was. F'ischer is an engineer for the Wilm- position of class correspondent:
ington Coal Mining corporation,
Vern Baker, '26, is now living in Braidwood, Illinois. "I am finding my work here very
Western Springs, Illinois, where he is interesting. The fourth grade which
personnel director of the United Mrs. Fischer teaches second grade I am teaching is made up of four
Autographic Register company. He and does departmental work in grade Portuguese and 27 Japanese children.
received his Ph. B. and M. A. degrees three of the Gardner grade school. Their pidgin English is often diffi-
from the University of Chicago and They reside in Gardner. cult to understand and sometimes
did an additional year of work at very amusing. They are easy to work
Harvard. Before entering industry, Class of 1932 with and very appreciative.
Mr. Baker was superintendent of
schools at Arlington Heights, Illinois. Mrs. Lida Siegel Gumm "This part of the island is very
R. R. 7, Paris, Illinois lovely. I spend much time sightsee-
Class of 1927 ing."
BETTY BROOM BOWMAN, '32, is
Otho Green helping husband Loren run the Louise gets her mail addressed to
3614 Fairview Avenue Laupahoehoe, Hawaii.
Downers Grove, Illinois Broom drug store in Greenup, Illi-
nois. Besides being "soda jerk" and Class of 1935
OTHO E. GREEN, '27, is traveling general assisant, she keeps house Harold D. Cottingham
between Chicago and Kansas City and sees that the youngest member
2509 12th
every week working for the railway Moline, Illinois
mail service. After working as a
bookkeeper, farming, and owning
half interest in an auto repair shop,
he began working for the mail ser-
vice in 1940. He served in the army
and was married when he returned
from service in 1943.

Class of 1928

Mary Margaret Toole
314 S. Fayette
Saginaw, Michigan

Class of 1929 _ GI students at Campus City did Buren McClure, who entered Eastern
in 1935 and will finish in 1948, is
Dorothy Tripp something about old HCL this fall. student manager.
360 N. Ivy They organized a co-oper~ve store.
Monrovia, Calif.

JULIA THOMAS JAHANT, '29, is
now teaching irregular students

half-days in a private school in
Lanikai, Oahu, T . H. Her husband,
Capt. George A. Jahant, USMC Ret.,
is head of the Veterans Administra-
tion for the Hawaiian Islands, where
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Class of 1936 Minnesota, Duluth Branch, Duluth, LENA HEIM, '41, is not at Case
Tom Chamberlin Minnesota. Illinois, as stated in the Septem

628 Woodland Avenue Class of 1938 Alumnus. After leaving Mansfiel
Duluth 5, Minnesota Ohio, she went to Jacksonville, I
ALEXADNER SUMMERS, '36, is a Mrs. Elizabeth Widger Bayles nois, as supervising principal of t
president twice as the result of re- 1615 12th Lafayette Elementary school.
cent elections. He leads the Mattoon Charleston, Illinois
Country club and the Mattoon His- Class of 1942
torical society. The latter group hopes MARTHA JANE COX DUNN, '38,
to sponsor a history scholarship at is now trying to keep up with her Ed Weir
Eastern, recognizing the excellence Oakwood High School
of the social science staff there. 15-month old son, James Stafford. Muncie, Illinois
She and her husband, Merrill, are now
Class of 1937 living in Sparland, where he teaches Class of 1943
William Abernathy and coaches.
Mrs. Martha Moore Mason
Stonington, Illinois Class of 1939 829 Seventh
GENE F. LEDERER, '37, is now Charleston, Illinois
Gerald Lloyd Kincaid
working for the Massachusetts Mu- R. R. 4, Box 80 HERSCHEL L. COLLINS, '43,
tual Insurance company in the Chi- Mason, Michigan working at the National Green
cago area. Gene had been teaching
mathematics in the Harris high GERALD L. KINCAID, '39, joined house company in Pana, Illinois, mak
school of Chicago, since his return the department of written and ing prefabricated greenhouse
from service. While teaching sum- Herschel spcializes in cost accounting
mer school this year, he completed spoken english at Michigan State col- His wife was the former Margueri
lege in East Lansing in the spring of J oley. They have a year-old daughter
j Four years of war didn't impair 1946. He and his wife, formerly Mar-
Don "Cocky" Davisson's effectiveness garet Bennett, class of 1940, and Class of 1944
on the gridiron. He was elected their son Michael live about four
honorary Captain of the 1947 team. miles from the campus on Route 4, Jean Henderson
Box 80, Mason, Michigan. He sent Shelbyville, Illinois
his master's degree at Northwestern this information because, he says, he
university. His address is: 739 Addi- didn't get addresses of classmates in Class of 1945
son, Chicago 13, Illinois, or he may time to gather news as class corres-
be contacted at 325 S. Sycamore pondent. "Send the items in," he Mrs. Mary Grossman Mail
Street, Centralia, Illinois-. pleads. 1917 W. Ninth
Anderson, Indiana
Allen Pattison, '37, is working Class of 1940
for Montgomery Ward and com- MARY ELEANOR GROSSMAN,
pany in Pontiac, Illinois. He was Bob Fick '45, became Mrs. Robert Mail Sat.
working for the company before en- High School
tering the army. He may be contacted Carmi, Illinois urday, November 1, in the First
at 319 West Lincoln Street, Pontiac, Christian Church in Robinson. Mrs.
Illinois. H. FLOYD DAVIS, '40, wrote from Mail has been acting as assisant
his Hagerman, New Mexico, home superintendent of schools of Craw·
Ruby Stallings, '37, is Mrs. Thomas ford county since her graduation from
Chamberlin. Tom is class corres- on November 9 that his basketball Eastern. Mr. Mail, also a native of
pondent for the Class of 1936. team had just won their first game Robinson, is employed by the Delco-
The Chamberlins have two children, of the year, 32 to 22. They had to Reamy corporation of Anderson, In·
Tommy, age five, and Susan Irene, travel 124 miles and climb to an diana. The newlyweds are making
soon to be one. They may be contact- elevation of 7500 feet to play the their home at 1917 West 9th Street
ed by writing to Director of Geog- game. He also gave a vivid description in Anderson. (Item by courtesy ye
raphy Department, University of of the caravans passing through that Ed. Mary E. is still buying furniture.)
section of the country on their way
to the mountains for the ten day deer Class of 1946
season.
Jim Roberts
Ernest William Thompson, class of Aledo Times Record
1940, of 318 Graceland Avenue, Des Aledo, Illinois
Plaines, Illinois, is teaching indus-
trial arts at Des Plaines junior high Helen Harrington, '46, was elected
school. He is also vice-president of president of the Douglas county
the Lake Shore Division of I. E. A. teachers' association in the regular
fall meeting of that group. She also
Naomi Feller, '40, a home econom- holds office in the Douglas county
ics major, was married on September Eastern State club.
21, to Neil Lugsch. Previous to her
marriage she had taught in the Maho- Class of 1947
met high school. Last year she was
home adviser for the Farm Security Jim Hanks
Administration with headquarters at 948 Sixth
Shelbyville. They will live at Platts- Charleston, Illinois
mouth, Nebraska, where Mr. Lugsch
is emp!oyed. LYLE KNOTT, '47, assistant coach
at Oakland, started off his coach-
Class of 1941
Frank Tate ing career with a bang. He had an
excellent grid team and one player,
c/ o English Department Glenn Temples, was the leading
University of Oregon scorer in the Okaw Valley as well as
Eugene, Oregon standing high among the state's point
makers.

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of printing at East Alton, Wood Ralph Irvin, '47, who is coaching Homecoming
River high school, is the proud father junior high at Beloit, Winconsin, men-
of a five month old girl. tions the fact that his football team Registration
won the city championship.
Charles Edward Sullivan, '47, as- -A-
sistant coach at Carlinville high, is Verna Lowry, '47, head of the
teaching in the same school with his home ec department in Fremont, Abernathy, William R., Stonington,
wife-sort of a family affair. Michigan, divulges that she is plan- Ill.; Adams, Mary Elizabeth, Rural
ning a name changing ceremony on Route 4, Robinson, Ill.; Allard, Reu-
John Loyd Carson, '47, principal of December 20. He's Felix Juska, ag- ben Merle, Noble, Ill.; Ault, E ~ther
Godfrey grade school, saw several riculture teacher in Fremont. Mary, Casey, Ill.; Ault, Osa H., Lake
Eastern grads at his October insti- City, Ill. ; Austin, Eloise, Pana, Ill.
tute, including John Pier of Venice William Towler, '47, who is teach-
and Dick Hutton, now at Edwards- ing in Mackinaw, mentions a cer- -B-
ville. tain temporary "loss of sight" at
homecoming. Baird, Philip Gail, 108 W. Elm, Ol-
Doris Cihak, '47, physical educa- ney, Ill.; Baker, Martha Jean, 1520
tion teacher at Woodrow Wilson jun- "Vilma Scha hrer, '47, is now a mem- Fourth, Madison, Ill.; Barker, Eula
ior high school, recently saw Eastern ber of Wasson's advertising depart- Ellen, Fairfield, Ill. ; Barnes, Edith
friends Alice L. Sheets and Helen ment in Indianapolis, Indiana. She Levitt, Strasburg, Ill.; Barnes, Paul
Grote. is one of four artists employed by the LeRoy, Strasburg, Ill. ; Bauman.
company and recently had a four Jewell Emmerich, 319 Lafayette,
Gertie Leigh, '47, strikes a plain- page spread in one of the Indian- Newton, Ill.; Beaty, Lois Van Vleet,
tive note by admitting "I miss all the apolis papers. While at Eastern she Atwood, Ill.; Beck, Zona Rfiodes,
old gang at Eastern." She is business was a member of Kappa Pi and was 853 W. North, St. Elmo, Ill.. ; Bell,
education teacher at Ramsey. president of the group for one year. Lillian Mida, 825 S. llth St., Char-
leston, Ill.; Biggs, Ninetta Mary,
Ida Mae Kibler, '47, with two Beryl B. LeCount, '47, taught in the 1621 1h Lafayette Ave., Mattoon, Ill.;
daughters and 80 girls in her home Illinois Training School for Boys, St. Blair, Julia Powell, 106 E. Carroll,
ec department at Obl_ong, mentions Charles, Illinois, last summer. There Faris, Ill.; Blair, Wendell A., 106
the fact that she's busy. he saw the other side of the Illinois East Carroll, Paris, Ill.; · Bland, Mir-
public school program, the product iam Joan, Western Ave., Mattoon,
Bertha Mathias, '47, happy over of poor environment and mediocre, if Ill. ; Bogardus, Agnes Kathryn Gray,
her job at Strasburg, is "falling more not poor, education, culminating in Belvidere, Ill.; Bokenkamp, Rober~
in love with teaching every day." She juven!le deliquency. Beryl writes, William, 308 E. Green St., Cham-
admits that she especially enjoys her !'It did not present a very nice pic- paign, Ill.; Borah, Gwendolyn Oliver,
"boys' homemaking class." ture but provided interesting and val- lluO Bellemeade Ave., Evansville 13,
uable work and experience." Ind. ; Bower, Freda B., Petersburg,
Rex Provines, '47, boasts that his Ill.; Bradley, E. E. Birdzell, Toledo,
family will be at least three in De- Beth Vail, '47, has an assistantship Ill.; Bressler, Margaret E. Davis, 902
cember, and sings the praises of at Denver university. Teaching basic
Michigan. He is in Fremont. communications and working on a First St., Charleston, Ill.; Briggs,
master's in psychology, Beth is one of George S., 411 Center St., Edwards-
Dick Fisher, '47, coach as Stockton, over 20 members of the class of '47 ville, Ill.; Brookhart, Ruth A., Onarga,
tttored a football team that won the doing graduate work.
U. S. Grant conference championship Ill.; Brown, Osmond Vivian, 830
Church St., Bridgeport, Ill.; Bunting,
is fall. Virgil W., Goldengate, Ill.; Burnett,
Nellie, Tuscola, Ill.; Bush, Anna Fay
It's a wet homecoming for the frosh! They lost t ug-of-war. Herron, Oblong, Ill.

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Cammon, Legion Lee, 805 Knox-
ville Ave., Peoria, Ill. ; Candle, Harold
E., 2320 Yale, St. Louis, Mo.; Carson,
John Loyd, Godfrey, Ill.; Challacombe,
Mary Jack, Medora, Ill.; Challacombe,
Wayne B., Medora, Ill.; Clapp, Rosa-
lie Hughes, 703 S. Austin, Paris, Ill. ;
Clark, Helen Patricia Bows, 221 So.
Mill, Olney, Ill.; Claypool, Audrey
Marilyn Olson, 212 N. Ash St., St.
Elmo, Ill.; Closson, Ralph Eugene,
Charleston, Ill.; Cole, Betty Lou, 1409
S. 17th St., Mattoon, Ill.; Coleman,
Charles H., Jr., 4655 N. Magnolia,
Chicago 40, Ill.; Coleman, Clarence
Mills, Willow Hill, Ill. ; Collins, Es-
ther Marguerite Joley, 407 E. 5th
S.t., Pana, Ill.; Collins, Thelma, 9281h
N. Edward, Greenup, Ill.; Conner,
Mildred Maudline, Brocton, Ill.; Coo-
ley, Luella Day, Campus City, Char-
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Ill.; Cooper, Ruth Neal, Windsor, Ill.; John St., Champaign, Ill.; Hardy, -Mc-
Gordis, Charles Robert, 552 Robert Flora A., 603 E. Main, Staunton, Ill.;
St., Creve Coeur, Ill.; Crail, Marlene Harmon, Hanford M., St. Anne, Ill.; McCammon, Elva Weger, 160
Barger, 1028 9th St., Charleston, Ill.; Harms, Billie Frances Romack, 1424 37th St., Terre Haute, Ind.; McCI
Cramer, Ernest F., 34 Glendale Road, E. Locust, Vincennes, Ind.; Harms, Mary Bear, Champaign, Ill.; McCo
Rantoul, Ill.; Cramer, Frances Ray K., 1424 Locust, Vincennes, Ind.; Charles L., 805 Knoxville A
Magers, 34 Glendale Road, Rantoul, Harms, Walser Eugene, Bone Gap, Peoria, Ill.; McCoy, Clara L. Bar
Ill.; Crawford, Geneva Maxine Pink- Ill.; Harris, Lloyd Russell, Clay City, Hutsonville, 111.; McDonald, K.
staff, Rural Route 2, Vincennes, Ind.; Ill.; Hart, David Loris, 136 W. Poplar, 823 W. North, Decatur, Ill.; McF
Cron, Helen Fay Carver, 625% Xenia Albion, Ill.; Hart, Dorothy Timmons, Jin, Rosemary, Hillsboro, Ill.; Mc
Avenue, Dayton 10, Ohio; Culver, Mil- 136 W. Poplar, Albion, Ill.; Hayton, tosh, Frank J., 6805 Merrill, Chica
dred Olmstead, Box 323, St. Elmo, Bernard Q., Martinsville, Ill.; Helton, Ill.; McKnight, Robert H., 706
Ill.; Culver, Miles 0., Box 323, St. Betty Mae, Brocton, Ill.; Henderson, Iowa, Urbana, Ill.
Elmo, Ill.; Culberson, Harley D., Rebecca Jean, 2212 N. Long, Shelby-
Stonington, Ill.; Curry, Barbara Win- ville, Ill.; Herrington, Harriett P. -M-
kleblack, 906 Frye Ave., Peoria, Ill.; Tell, Areola, Ill.; Holson, Marian
Curtis, Edith Anna, Albion, Ill. Elizabeth, St. Francisville, Ill.; Hop- Madden, Alice Estella,
per, Estel A., 409 S. Cll.fton, Park Ill.; Martin, Zola Louise
-D- Ridge, Ill.; Hulton, James Bernice, Brocton, Ill.; Marvin, James Low
206 E. Scott, Tuscola, Ill.; Humes, Oblong, Ill.; Marvin, Mary Grant, 0
Davis, Ruth Lenore, West Union, Iva Rae F., 211 E. Washington, Casey, long, Ill.; Mead, Donald, Mattoo
Ill.; Day, Edward Taylor, 504 E. John, Ill.; Humes, William Russell, 211 Ill.; Meurlot, Andrew Edward, 41
Champaign, Ill.; Dearnbarger, Chris- E. Washington, Casey, UL W. Eldorado, Decatur, Ill.; Meurl
tine Nellie, Charleston, Ill.; Demp- Eloise S. 417 Eldorado, Decatur, I
ster, John H., 209 So. Main, Bridge- -!- Mirus, Esther C. Lumbrick, Pawn
port, Ill.; Dickerson, John Nelson, 15 Ill.; Mirus, Robert Lee, Pawnee, I
Vine St., Pana, Ill.; Dickerson, Roy Ingram, Marjorie, 1428 Third St., Morris, Walton 0., 5536 Universi
P., West Union, Ill.; Dolan, Virginia Charleston, Ill. Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mowr
Grace, Apt. 306, 1129 N. Alabama, Zada, 446 So. .lst St., Princeton, II
Indianapolis 2, Ind.; Driscoll, James -J- Musgrove, Roberta Dale Waite
H., Charleston, Ill. J ack, Martha June, 1452 N. Ed- Star Route, Robinson, Ill.; Mye
ward, Decatur 15, Ill.; Johnson, Mar- Earl Burdick, 1004 Gale Ave., Peor'
-E- vin E., 1305 W. Stoughton, Urbana, Ill.; Myers, Robert Nathan, Stonin
Ill.; Jones, Donald Edward, 322 N. ton, Ill.
Edgar, Harris L., 3330 Olive St., Walnut, Litchfield, Ill.; Jones, Hulah
St. Louis, Mo.; Elam, Lloyd T., Wes- Florence, Hume, Ill.; Justice, Ralph -N-
tervelt, Ill.; Elder, Margery May, E., Stanford, Ill.
1046 College, Decatur, Ill.; Endsley, Newlin, Elizabeth Louise
Carroll L., Shelbyville, Ill.; Etnire, -K- Hutsonville, Ill.; Norman,
Robert L., 903 Harrison, Charleston, Kuhn, Windsor, Ill.
Ill. Kanatzar, C. Leplie, 605 W. State
St., Jacksonville, 111.; Kauper, Fran- -0-
-F- ces Myra, 347 W. North, Decatur, Ill.; 0 'Brien, Letta Kelley,116 Bever!
Kelley, Zelma W., 116 Beverly Blvd., Blvd., Hobart, Ind.; Olmstead, Edi
Ferchow, Alvin F., Robinson, Ill.; Hobart, Ind.; Keran, Leland A., 846 4443 Olive, Apt. B, St. Louis, Mo
F'inley, Roberta Jane, Rural Route E. Penn St., Hoopeston, Ill.; Keran, Osborn, Forrest E., Rural Route
1, Bridgeport, Ill.; Fitzsimmons, Lois Ruth Lippincott, 846 E. Penn, Hoopes- Pana, Ill.; Owen, Jeanne Gosse
Florine, 414 Harrison, Charleston, ton, Ill.; Kern, R. Elizabeth, Kansas, 1506 S. Race St., Urbana, Ill.; Owe
Ill.; Flake, Golden A., 806 S. Reisner, Ill.; Kersch, Jack, 3729 N. Kenmore, William A., Hq. Tech. Div. Air Tn
Indianapolis, Ind.; Foil, Margaret Chicago, Ill.; Kersch, Dorothy Tom- Command, Scott Field, Ill.
E. Hubbard, Pana, Ill.; Foreman, linson, 3729 N. Kenmore, Chicago,
Stella Shroder, 1508 S. Second St., Ill.; Kessler, Mary Elizabeth Inman, -P-
Charl'eston, Ill.; Frame, D. Glen, Shumway, Ill.; Knott, Lyle L., Box 71,
_______,; Fromme!, Marjorie Oakland, Ill.; Kull, Harry Milton, Jr., Paden, Leona M., 425 W. Nort
Crescent City, Ill.; Kunze, Helen E., Decatur, Ill.; Pankey, Burl Wood, S
Spaugh, 234 Jackson St., Charleston, 110 Herbert, Edwardsville, Ill. Elmo, Ill.; Phillips, Ross W., Effing.
Ill. ham, Ill.; Phipps, Hugh Clinton, Ma
-L- teno, Ill.; Phipps, James H., Skoki
-G- Ill.; Phipps, Virginia Schroeder
Lambird, Mary Catharine Prather, Skokie, Ill.; Poynter, 0. J., Pale
Galbreath, Inez D., Newton, Ill.; Newton, Ill.; Lamky, Alice Kathryn tine, Ill.; Pray, Perle C., Rural Rou
George, Barbara Ann, Metcalf, Ill.; Ogden, Isabel, Ill.; Lane, Wilmeth 1, Pana, Ill.; Preston, Ruth Ophelia,
Gieseking, Naomi Ruth Ramsey, Al- F'rances Pinkstaff, 201 East Harri- 801 S. 5th St., Mattoon, Ill.; Provines,
tamont, Ill.; Goodman, Grace W. Gor- son, Palestine, Ill.; Leathers, Betty Marshall E., Olney, Ill.; Pulliam, Har·
don, 1614 Jackson St., Charleston, Jane, Hartsburg, Ill.; Leathers, vey W., Newton, Ill.; Pulliam, War·
Ill.; Glenn, Bill F., Fairfield, Ill.; Lavada M., St. Francisville, Ill.; Le- ren Smith, Louisville, Ill.
Gregory, Thomas E., Box 16, Cowden, Count, Beryl Brooks, Forest City,
Ill.; Grider, Osa Ethel Crowdson, 213 Ill.: Lederer, Gene F., 739 Addison, -R-
N .Washington, Sullivan, Ill.; Groves, Chicago, Ill.; Leeds, Lottie Leach,
Anna Belle, Kansas, Ill.; Gruenewald, 408 East Pine, Robinson, Ill.; Leigh, Reasor, Ruth Ellen, 16 W. Harrison,
Wendell LeRoy, Apt. 30-C Campus Lillian Gertrude, Ramsey, Ill.; Levitt, Charleston, Ill.; Reasor, Walter H,
City, Charleston, Ill.; Guthridge, Lu- Marcia Jean, 5959 N. Kenmore, Chi- Jr., Charleston, 111.; Reat, Betty
cile Kate, Hindsboro, Ill. cago, Ill.; Linder, James G., George- Heise, 350 Harrison, Charleston, Ill.;
town, Ill.; Linder, Marjorie Critch- Redden, Carl Eugene, 46 Carroll St,
-H- field, Georgetown, Ill.; Logue, Jay L., Hammond, Ind.; Redden, Crystal F,
210 N. Glen Oak, Peoria, Ill. 46 Carroll St., Hammond, Ind.; Red·
Hall, Harry Glen, Toledo, Ill.;
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·ng, Alfred A., 1713 E. Convern Ave., Antarctic Adventure structed crude furniture of empty
Springfield, Ill.; Reiss, Theresa M., packing cases. American ingenuity
1524 Second, Charleston, Ill.; Rey- (Continued from page 5) made the camp as home-like as possi-
ble.
lds, Bill Bee, 2605 Prairie Ave., camps, and began unloading. Setting
attoon, Ill.; Reynolds, Mary Vinson, up a base on the ice involves a great Our mess consisted of three tents
05 Prairie Ave., Mattoon, Ill.; deal of work and the Antarctic sum- placed end to end. Four hot meals a
ice, Florence Alma, Auburn, Ill.; mer is very short. During the first day were provided, as it was neces-
·ce, James E., 1748 E. 85th St., few days roads were built, bridges sary to work two 12-hour shifts. It
icago, Ill.; Rice, Marjarie Elizabeth constructed, and a tent camp erected. was daylight continuously now, with
lackburn, Blue Mound, Ill.; Rice, To provide a party of 200 men and the sun revolving in a circle around
a half dozen airplanes on the ice, the horizon.
ille Millard, Blue Mound, Ill.; many tons of equipment, food, gaso-
ichardson, Rachael Grace, 722 W. line, etc. were necessary. These had My airborne electronics shop was
arrison, Charleston, Ill.; Richmond, to be unloaded over the sides of the located in one end of a Quonset hut
orge S., Fillmore, Ill.; Robbins, ships onto the ice and hauled by that was erected for the purpose.
arold Sampson, 1218 Monroe, Char- tractor over the newly constructed This shop was the warmest spot on
ton, Ill.; Roberts, James Hayden, roads to our camp at Little America, the continent, with its oil burner in
·mes Record, Aledo, Ill.; Robinson, about two miles distant. During the either end. I had 18 men and they
rs. Roy B., Westfield, Ill.; Rodda, first days of unloading many men were among the busiest on the ice, as
elma Jessie Hughes, 630 So. Cen- worked as long as 36 hours without we had a great deal of work to ac-
rest. complish before the R4D (DC-3) air-
1 St., Gilman, Ill. planes were to arrive. Immediat;;ily
The tent camp which was to be our upon reaching the Bay of Whales we
-S- home for the next five weeks con- unloaded portable radio equipment in
sisted of canvas tents 16 by 16 feet order to provide communications with
Sallee, Hollis Raymond, Hammond, with wooden floors and small oil- the ships while they were unloading.
; ·schack, Frank F'., Box 2, Clay burning stoves in the middle. We At the Quonset site antennas were
•ty, Ill.; Seaman, Kathryn Dively, slept in down-filled sleeping bags erected, power supplies set up, test
13 S. Prairie, Champaign, Ill.; Sea- placed on army cots. There were equipment unpacked, and work-
n, Robert Franklin, 313 So. Prairie about five of us to a tent and we con- benches were constructed.
, Champaign, Ill.; Seitzinger, L. E.,
t Rock, Ill.; Shafer, Gerald field, Paul V., Beecher City, Ill.; Wal- On January 30 the six planes ar-
rge, Downs, Ill.; Sheeks, Joan, drip, Earl William, Greenup, Ill.; rived after a 600 mile flight. They
1 Sixth St., Charleston, Ill.; Shriver, Walker, Kathryn Espy, Palestine, Ill.; had taken off from the aircraft car-
race Irene, 540 Roosevelt, Greve Waltrip, Pauline Ashwater, Mattoon, rier USS PHILLIPPINE SEA. Ad-
ur, Ill.; Sims, John R., Mattoon, Ill.; Ward, Inez, Newton, Ill.; Weaver, miral Byrd was aboard the first to
; Skadden, Dorothy L., Buffalo Alice Maxine, Seward, Ill.; Weaver, land.
rt, Ill.; Sparks, Earl C., 1602 Charles Earl, Seward, Ill.; Weaver,
mth St., Charleston, Ill.; Sparks, Lena Ida, 57 Summit, Park Ridge, During the next few weeks many
oise Dickerson, 1602 Ninth, Char- Ill.; Weaver, Mary Leone, 22 Polk successful flights were made and
ton, Ill.; Springer, Jessie Evelyn, St., Charleston, Ill.; White, Marjorie thousands of square miles of new
7 N. Kansas St., Edwardsville, Ill.; Marie, Brownstown, Ill.; White- territory discovered. We had some
nhope, J. P., 21 Grant St., Char- leather, Thelma Elouise, 1230 E. excellent weather during this period,
ton, Ill.; Stillions, Margaret, 513 Clark, Warsaw, Ind.; Williams, Helen with a brilliant sun overhead. No
. 21st St., Mattoon, Ill.; Suddarth, Rosemary, 1500 Wabash Ave., Mat- other sun is like the Antarctic sun.
toon, Ill.; Williams, Herbert Eugene, We wore sunglasses at all times,
y Edman, 1020 S. Second St., J 500 Wabash, Mattoon, Ill.; Williams, even the overcast days, to protect our
rleston, Ill.; Suddarth, Ray Wm., Lois Jean, 1432 Sixth St., Charleston, eyes from the glare. Our surround-
Ill.; Williamson, Fern L., Tuscola, ings were monotonous, with rolling
S. Second, Charlestsm, Ill.; Sun- Ill.; Wilson, Ellyn, Woodlawn Court, hills of white in all directions.
an, Norma King; 702 Tenth, Bloomington, Ind.; Wilson, Llewellyn Mirages were common and sometimes
rleston, Ill.; Swann, Lucile Helen M., Piasa, Ill.; Wilson, Ralph David, mountains appeared on the horizon
Hey, 3707 McDonald, St. Louis 16, Woodlawn Court, Bloomington, Ind.; only to disappear a few hours later.
Wise, Dorothy Hensen, 717 Univer- Our tame little friends, the penguins,
-T- sity Ave., Bloomington, Ind.; Wise, were frequently around criticizing us
Morris William, Dept. of Geography, with their loud squawks. The only
Taylor, Edna Lorine, Quarters 51, Indiana University, Bloomington, other forms of life on the continent
Hospital, Ft. Thomas, Kentucky; Ind.; Wiseman, Ruth M., Kansas, Ill.; are seals and large white birds. All
!or, Oral N., VA Hospital, Ft. Wright, Mary Grissom, 5553 Race- were quite tame, as they have no live
mas, Kentucky; Thompson, Edwin, view Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio; Wright,
er Hill, Ill.; Tippett, Glenn H., Nolan Ernest, 230 Eureka St., Clin- enemies.
edo, Ill.; Totten, Sherman, PO ton, Ind.; Wright, Paul E., 5553 Race-
14, Waverly, Ill.; Tueth, Mary B. view Rd., Cincinnati, Ohio; Wright, Temperatures during the Antarc-
aughey, Lovington, Ill. Robert August, Casey, Ill.; Wyeth, tic summer are not extreme. Twenty-
James H., 215 Sangamon, Rantoul, five below was the coldest we en-
-U- JU. countered. One becomes acclimated
quickly. We were adequately clothed,
Naomi, 1014 E. Elm St., -Y- with our hands and feet well pro-
tected. On the warm days when the
-V- Young, Ella Mae, 402 Hickory St., thermometer was 5 or 10 above zero
Marshall, Ill.; Young, Howard W., it was not uncommon to see some of
Van Voorhis, Elizabeth Moss, 1007 402 Hickory St., Marshall, Ill. the more hardy in their shirtsleeves.
·son, Charleston, Ill.; Volk, Flor-
Springer, 209 W. Buffalo St., We did experience one severe bliz-
I Ill. zard. The Antractic blizzard comes

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agner, Louise Inman, 6235 W.
sevelt Rd., Berwyn, Ill.; Wake-

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Your Campus Margaret Rademaker Ferris John W. Lewis
53 Archer 1690 Metropolitan Ave.
Leader Addresses Marshall, Illinois New York 62, N. Y.

0. F. Anderhalter Frances Burgner Fisher Marguerite Little
526 Bates Street 310 North James Street 709 West Nevada
St. Louis, Mo. Champaign, Ill. Urbana, Illinois

Ferrel Atkins Bill Glenn Betty Markel Magill
Department of Mathematics 404 West Center Street 1379 St. Paul
University of Ky. Fairfield, Illinois Apt. 201
Lexington, Ky. Denver 6, Colo.
Albert F. Goldsmith
Charles 0. Austin Robinson, Illinois Jane Moore Mason
Principal, High School Scott Field, Ill.
Clarion, Iowa Paul "Red" Graham
1317 South 17th Street Martha Moore Mason
Fern Tait Bietsch Mattoon, Illinois 8291h 7th Street
1254 Burton Charleston, Ill.
Highland Park, Illinois Betty Allen Gresham
Auburn, Ill. Albert McHenry
Gwendolyn Oliver Borah R.R. 2
1100 Bellemeade Ave. Betty Jane Ewing Halberg Brocton, Ill.
Evansville, Ind. 814 South 23rd Street
Springfield, Illinois Bob Mirus
Florence Wood Buck Pawnee, Illinois
1023 Grant Street Bessie Townsend Hanks
Danville, Ill. 948 6th . Robert Dale Moore
Charleston, Illinois Benson, Ill.
Ruth Clapp Cavins
4308 Churchill Road Jim Hanks Walt Morris
Louisville, Ky. c/ o Charleston High School 5536 University Ave.
Charleston, Illinois Indianapolis, Indiana
Don Cavins
4308 Churchill Road Clemens Hanneken Evelyn Carruthers Murphy
Louisville, Ky. 405 East Green St. 914 Elder Lane
Champaign, Ill. Des Moines, Iowa
Thomas Chamberlin
University of Minnesota Extension Claude Hayes Wayne Neal
Duluth, Minnesota Haven House Oswego, Ill.
Northwestern University
Joan Coon Evanston, Ill. Mary Jo Searby Ochs
Brocton, Illinois Newton, Illinois
Harold Lee Hayes
Glenn R. Cooper 28 North Governor Betty King Patterson
871 West Olive St. Iowa City, Iowa 875 11th St.
Decatur, Ill. Charleson, Illinois
Homer D. Hendricks
Dario Covi 14223 4th Ave. N. E. Madeline Sluder Perfetti
Box 157 Seattle 55, Wash. Apt. 18-A Campus City
Livingston, Illinois Charleston, Ill.
Lee Podesta Hickman
Joe Curry 534 Fairview Ave. John Oscar Pier
Windsor, Ill. Galion, Ohio 125 Abbott St.
Venice, Illinois
Juanita Brown Fairchild William R. Humes
184 Cammel Court 211 East Washington Violet Podesta
Ames, Iowa Casey, Illinois 2032 Belmont Road
Washington, D. C.
Elbert A. Fairchild Martha June Jack .
220 North Michigan Ave. 1452 N. Edward Harvey William Pulliam
Saginaw, Michigan Decatur 15, Illinois Newton, Illinois

Antarctic Adventure Bette Lou Bails Johnson Hugh L. Reat
209 Stewart 710 Lake Shore Drive
· (Continued from page 19) Carmi, Ill. Chicago, Illinois

without warning and may last for Mary Jane Kelly Kayes James Rice
days. During these storms it is im- 940 4th Street 1748 E. 85th St.
possible to see more than five or six Charleston, Ill. Chicago, Illinois
feet and it is extremely easy to get
lost. We planted sm:;.ill trail flags be- Joseph A. Kelly John W. Ritchie
tween our living quarters and the Maxwell Field, Alabama 220 South Franklin
shop to prevent any casualties. Salem, Illinois
Lucille Ahhee Kelly
On February 23 all hands evacuated 1206 Madison Ave. Martha Holiday Rosenbaum
Little America and embarked on the Edwardsville, Ill. c / o Lt. Col. Bert Rosenbaum
USS BURTON ISLAND, the ice- Bergstrom Field
breaker that was to remove us to Vincent Kelly Austin, Texas
safety o:itside the Ice Pack, where we 11 Vance Circle
rejoined the MT. OLYMPUS. By the Lexington, N. C. Theodora Rae Ruhmann
time we left, the Bay of Whales had 107 South Prairie
already frozen over to a depth of Joan King Kennard Champaign, Illinois
several feet and winter was setting 706 Lincoln
in fast. Charleston, Ill. Darrell Ryan
House No. 19
Upon reaching the MOUNT OLYM- Max King South Side Country Club
PUS without mishap, we began the Areola, Ill. Decatur, Illinois
long trip home, stopping by New
Zealand for an interesting week. Ervin G. Kirchhofer Orval Spurlin
201 East Summer St. Amboy, Illinois
Hillsboro, Illinois
Jim Stahl
Gene F. Lederer Dowers Grove High School
739 Addison Dowers Grove, Illinois
Chicago 13, Illinois

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Martha June Stanberry Miscellaneous
703 Springfield
Champaign, Illinois Notes About

Ross K. Stephenson Easterners
2606 Erskine Blvd.
South Bend, Indiana Earl Benoche, sophomore halfback Mrs. Ruth A. Gray, a former stu-
from Kankakee, was voted most val- dent, died of pneumonia at her home
Evalyn Schooley Summers uable on this fall's Panther eleven. in Harrisburg, Illinois, Thursday,
505 Wabash Ave. August 14. Mrs. Gray was prominent
Mattoon, Illinois A·lumna Gladdens in church and club work in her com-
munity and was a past regent of her
Alexander A. Summers Editor's Heart DAR chapter. Mrs. Gray came to
505 Wabash Ave. Harrisburg in 1922 from Allendale.
Mattoon, Illinois THE FOLLOWING gladdened the Mr. Gray, who survives his wife, is
editor's heart. Thank you, Mrs. president of the First National Bank
Glenn E. Sunderman of Harrisburg.
Byron, Illinois Annette Bloomquist Tramm, 647
South Outer Drive, Wilmington, Miss· Lella Enders, a former stu-
Dale Trulock Illinois, Class of '35. dent, is now teaching home economics
at Hamilton Community high school
6710 East 5th St. "My folks just forwarded your in Hamilton, Illinois. She has form-
Tulsa, Oklahoma second issue and I want to tell you erly taught at Hindsboro, New Berlin,
Elizabeth "Tibbie" Van Meter how much I enjoyed it right now be- and Altamont.
Greenville, Illinois fore my good intentions get waylaid
Dale Vaughn as they did on the first issue . . . . Geraldine Hitt, is now teaching
Reynolds High School Your magazine is sure packed with home economics and women's physi-
Winston-Salem, N. C. names-the way is should be. I must cal education at Newman high school.
John W. Voight admit I got more pleasure out of this She started her first year at Newman
1800 Otie Street than from all the ones that have come this fall after six years experience in
Lincoln, Nebraska from Iowa State college put together. the high schools of Kansas and Ill.
Louis K. Voris ... Right now I'm engaged full time
Neoga, Illinois in being a mother-to Tom Robert Robert L. McCumber served with
Ed Weir Tramm, age fourteen months. His the navy almost three years. He is
Fithian, Illinois father and I met at Iowa State col- now teaching in the AAF Technical
Irene McWilliams Welch lege where I got a B.S. in home Training school at Biloxi, Mississippi.
Pawnee, Illinois economics and art in 1939 (I finished He is living at 634 Second Street,
Dale Williams EI's two year course in 1935) . . . . Gulfport, Mississippi.
305 East John Street My heartiest congratulations on your
Champaign, Illinois publication. It meets a need that has Mrs. Ethel Gillespie, who received
Roy K. Wilson long been neglected." her teacher training at Eastern, has
4233 South 35th Street returned to the Gallagher School of
Arlington, Virginia Lois V. Johnson, critic teacher in Business in Kankakee after a year's
Robert C. Zimmerman Eastern's training school from 1942 to absence. She spent the last school
1414 Hinman Ave. 1945, was recently named assistant year teaching in Redmon high school.
Evanston, Illinois professor of elementary education at Her previous years at Gallagher were
Joseph S. Zupsich Michigan State college. Miss Johnson 1943-45.
1500 Carolina Drive completed her doctor of education de-
Urbana, Illinois gree at the University of Illinois. Robert A. Carrell, after four years
Mary Eleanor Grossman Mail of military service, is at home for the
1917 West Ninth Street Shelby S. Shake, instructor at East- present at R. R. 1, Charleston.
Anderson, Indiana ern from 1938 to 1941, is now assist-
Eugene L. Price ant professor of industrial arts at. Jess R. Beard, who attended East-
711 Davenport Southern Illinois University. He went ern for two years before the war, has
Iowa City, Iowa to Southern in 1944. His address is taken a position in the Champaign
Kathryn Walker Robertson 803 W. Cherry Street, Carbondale, elementary schools. Mr. Beard took
2539 Wilmington Avenue Illinois. his degree at the University of Illi-
Salt Lake City, Utah nois after his return from service and
Stanley W. Gibson Herschel A. Jones completed work on his master's from
Amboy, Illinois 2718 Hamilton Road the same institution this summer.
John D. Worland Columbus, Georgia
780 Arden Avenue Mildred Asherman, a former stu-
Berea, Ohio dent at Eastern, is now teaching in
Ella Mae Jackson Young the primary grades at the Washing-
402 Hickory Street ton school in Peru, Illinois. She has
Marshall, Illinois been teaching first grade in Loving-
Delmar Nordquist ton and returning to Charleston for
Art Department summer school work.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa Clarence M. White, formerly a
Marvin J. Mizeur member of the Eastern staff, is now
1218 Exposition Blvd. residing at 469 Grand Avenue, Au-
Los Angeles, California rora, Illinois. He is head of the draft-
Legion Lee Cammon ing department, night school super-
805 Knoxville Avenue visor, and also teaches mechanical
Peoria, Illinois drawing and driver education in the
Florence Cottingham Clapp Aurora high school.
838 Main Avenue
Greenwood, R. I.

PAqE TWENTY-ONE

J Basketball Opens trouble coming around from a knee injur.y su~
tained late in the football season. Jack Miller is
still available at the first string center spot. Jim

Sullivan is finishing up his career this year by re-

With Two Victories placing Miller at center and playing some at for-
ward. Elmo Hilderbrand, Clay City sharp-shoot-
er, is back, and Jack Haworth, Shelbyville guard,

rounds out the lettermen.

EASTERN OPENED the 1947-48 basketball Coach Healey has lured in some fine fr~sh­
season with a lopsided 81 to 47 conquest of
men prospects, as his initial squad of 200 pomts
Indiana Central, and followed it with a 62 to 57
victory over Shurtleff college. Chunky Bob Olson, out. Two boys from the state championship Paris
junior forward from St. Elmo, led the Panthers to
the first victory with 20 points. Olson, who led squad are almost sure-fire college prospects. Don
the team scoring last year with over 350 points,
scored his 20 in the opener while playing not Gdolwovner~nteheofstmheallsetrarotfintghegutwarod, has been holding
quite half of the game. spots. This situa-

Lee Markwell, a Casey product, accounted tion may change, however, when Hudson returns

to form. John Wilson, the other Paris product, has

been playing second string forward \ Another of

the big factors in producing a winning Panther
for 15 counters in the first 10 minutes of the five this year will be the performance of Ray
Sofhuthrtelegfaf mgea,mae~dbtuhtecloooclaeld off in the later part
squad had to fight to DeMoulin. Ray played with the University of
Illinois during the war and has been starting at
stave off a late drive by the Oilers. The third guard with Glover.
game saw the Panthers tame Millikin's Big Blue
on the Eastern floor 55-49. Indiana State's power- Everything points to another banner year
ful Sycamores handed the locals their first loss, for Eastern basketball, but with teams like Milli-
58-55, after Eastern led most of the game. kin, Indiana State, and Carbondale on the sche-
dule, any team is bound to lose a few.
Coach William A. Healey has five other let-

termen back besides Olson and Markwell from the

squad that went to the national tourney in Kan- Asks for Help

JColemansas City last season. Neal Hudson, most valuable

player in the conference last season, is having In Prep a ri n g EI's History

Grid Season Resume THE PREPARATION of the fifty-year anniver-
sary history of the college is well underway
(Continued from page 9)
by the faculty of the social science department.
backed up by Bob White and Jim Sexson. Material on the past years of the school is urgent-
ly requested from former students. Perhaps you
It was Eastern's B eleven, the Panther Cubs, have o!d letters or papers relating to school events.
romped through six games for an undefeated Perhaps you would be willing to write an account
who claimed part of the grid spotlight, as they of interesting incidents. Dig these bits of school
and untied season. The B squad amassed a total history out, whether they are in the trunk, in the
of 151 points while alloting their opponents a attic, or in the back of your head, and send them
mere 31. The decisive factors in the successful to Dr. C. H. Coleman, Department of the Social
season for the Cubs can be easily traced to the Sciences, Eastern State College, Charleston, Illi-
running of Dick Perry, Bill Crum, Larry Mizener, nois. If you wish to have them returned, so mark
and Paul Burrus, along with the accurate pitch- them, with your name and address. They'll be
ing of Bill Sargent, and quick kicking of John safeguarded and returned when the writing job
Lopinski. In the inpregnable forward wall were has been completed.
Morris Tschannen, Wayne Beach, Robert Taylor,
Bill Grissom, Jack Horsley, and Robert White. Eastern has made many contributions to
American education in the fifty years since it
Coach Rex Darling's Cubs displayed a lot of opened its doors. Dr. Coleman and his fellow-
fight and will to win.; th,ere is no doubt that a workers propose to make those contributions a
number of the boys will be seen battling for part of the record, for all to see and appreciate.
berths on the varsity eleven in 1948. But this school history is not to be solely a record
of educational progress. It should reflect the joys
The schedule and scores: and the trials of students and teachers over a
Eastern ________ 13 Eastern Kentucky 14 half-century. It should reflect something of the
Eastern ________ 13 Ball State _______ 21 spirit of those who have left their imprint on the
Eastern ________ 13 Millikin _________ 14 school. It should include sighs, chuckles, and an
Eastern ________ 13 Normal _________ 6 occasional hearty laugh. But your help is re-
Eastern ________ 13 Indiana State ____ 14 quired. You helped to make the school what it is.
Eastern ________ 13 Southern _. ______ 33 Won't you share your memories with the writers
Eastern ________ 6 Northern _______ 26 of the school history? Thanks, we knew you
Eastern _________ 19 Western ________ 0 would.

103 128

P A GE TWENTY-TWO

v

Tower Studio Celebrates Armer and Waldrip Trios

First Year of Broadcasting Active in Illinois Coaching

(Continued from page 6) LAST SUMMER the Carmi Democrat-Tribune
then, the records were played in Mattoon while featured the Armer brothers of Mattoon, all
the narrator spoke from the tower. In the middle
of the show, Dr. Moses tripped over the connec- three of whom are high school coaches in Illinois
tion to the radio, jerking it loose. The narrator and all of w h o m attended Eastern. They are
then had no way of knowing what, if anything, Vaughn, Eugene Jr., and Max. "Big Brother"
was going on in Mattoon! The station was off Vaughn started the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
the air for approximately five minutes until re- B. Armer of Mattoon on the coachfog trail. He is
now at Carmi high. Eugene is athletic director
pairs were made. and head basketball coach at Urbana high school.
Max, the baby brother, is now assistant football
A Memorial Day program had its humorous and basketball coach at LaGrange high school and
side too. Desperately short of personnel, Dr. Moses head track coach at LaGrange junior high.
made a half hour tape recording with Stanley
Koester, script writer for the station. Unused to Brother trios seem typical of Eastern's coach-
to the operation of the new records, they broke the ing alumni, for the Waldrips of Greenup consti-
tape after working four hours to make the trans- tute another such group. "Big Brother" in this
cription. Early the next morning they were at it case is Mac, who coached the county champs at
again, finishing in three hours. Climax of the New Holland, Illinois, last year. Brother John
day came in the middle of the program when a (Bud), although older, didn't graduate until 1939,
telephone operator unwittingly cut them off in three years after Mac, and has coached at Ogden,
the middle of the show. Illinois, ever since. Bill, the baby, made a spec-
tacular basketball record at Eastern, leading the
Original creation of the station is the cartoon IIAC in scoring his sophomore year. Upon gradua-
character, Mortar C. Board, better known as tion in 1940 he taught in the junior high school at
Morty. Frankie Allen was instrumental in the Greenup while brother Mac coached and taught
birth of the beaming youngster. He was drawn in the high school. The war came along and in
this summer by the art department, and sup- 1946 Bill came back from service as head coach at
posedly represents the average student. Painted the Waldrip brothers' alma mater, Greenup high.
on large posters, he beams down on the lower
hall and stairways. Amusing descriptions of pro- Poem by Mrs. Mac Cook
grams are posted daily beneath Morty's grinning
countenance. On Millikin Game Sought

Though the tower studio must still broad- WHO WILL furnish us with a copy of the poem
cast through the facilities of Mattoon, equip- written by Mrs. Mac Cook in which a famous
ment equals that of almost any station broad-
casting daily. An electronic tape recorder is used Eastern-Millikin football game was immortalized?
to record programs in various schools or in other It seems that the Decatur Herald-Review, ex-
campus buildings. Each program is recorded on plaining an unexpected loss by the vaunted Big
Sound Scriber disks. The programs go out through Blue, spoke of being "man-handled" by Roscoe
an amplifier on the console table. "Rocky" Hampton of the Panthers. They did not
mention that Rocky weighed only 135 pounds,
Heart of the station is the control panel, where but Mrs. Cook did in the ballad she wrote for the
the engineer pulls and inserts plugs, sometimes Herald. Mr. Hampton has for many years been a
at a furious rate. Important to any musical pro- coach at Evanston high school. He can be reached
gram are the dial turntables where records are at 925 Dempster St., Evanston, Ill. We do not
spun daily. know Mrs. Cook's address.

Most expensive and complicated piece of DON'T WAIT. Subscribe to your Eastern Alum-
equipment is the Fairchild recorder for cutting nus now. See back page for new rates.
large discs. It compares favorably with recording
apparatus used in any station in the country. grams instead of one. An injlependent station may
develop soon on the campus. Later, perhaps, fre-
The most recent piece of equipment to be quency modulation, and someday even television.
added is an FM pilot tuner for picking up fre- Radio at Eastern is a growing concern. The "Let's
quency modulation broadcasts from Springfield Go To College" program is only the lusty wailing
and other nearby FM stations. of a robust and rapidly growing infant that some-
day will be one of the best radio stations on a
With the fine record of the past year behind Midwestern campus.
him, Dr. Moses looks forward confidently. A new
studio is on the agenda, a studio with a control
room and lots of sound proofing to keep out
sounds continually originating in the music de-
artment on the third floor and going out over
the air.

Plans are underway to broadcast several pro-

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