Eastern Alumnus Vol. 4 No. 1 (Summer 1950)

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CHARLESTON,

The Eastern Alumnus

Published in June, September, December and March by Eastern Illinois

State College, Charleston, Illinois

VOLUME 4 SUMMER QUARTER, 1950 NUMBER 1

Entered May 14, 1947., as second class matter, at the post office at Char-
leston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August 24, 1912. Yearly
subscription rate $.1.50; twb years $2.25; three years $3.00. Renewals, $1.00
per year.

Committee Hears Experts STANLEY ELAM Editoi

Eastern's Alumni Association com-

mittee appointed to study the ad-

ministration of the teachers colleges

of Illinois met on May 12 and heard

discussions by Dr. Orville Alexander, There is a great big lump in Miss Mary Josephine Booth'
professor of social science at South- throat as she views her portrait, which will hang permanently i
ern Illinois university and Dr. Rich-
ard Browne of Illinois State Normal the beautiful library named in her honor. Miss Booth, who w
university. Both men have had inti- librarian at Eastern for 41 years, received the honorary Doct
mate contact with the problem and of Literature degree from Beloit college a few days after she w
have served on numerous govern- honored so signally at Eastern's library dedication program. Th
mental study boards and committees.
Both were very emphatic in their portrait was painted by Mrs. Sophia Talbot of Mattoon, who di
the Alumni Association portrait of Dr. E. H. Taylor.

support of the Illinois Joint Alumni
Council program of separation of

President Buzzard Re-Studiesthe Teachers College Board from the

code departments at Springfield. Permanent Building Needs
Favors Independent Board

At the close of the meeting the 13- Will Recommend Six Million 5. A training school building for
member committee adopted a reso- Dollar Budget to Board; Resi- nursery school, kindergarten,
lution in support of the Joint Coun- dence Halls, Vocational Educa- grade elementary school, and th
cil recommendations (printed in the tion Building Top List. year junior high, together with co
Spring ALUMNUS, 1950) and di- plete educational clinics, includ'
rected Maurice Foreman, who was Eastern's budget for permanent
elected permanent chairman, to con- improvements, which President R. G. site. ---------------- --- $2,325
vey this recommendation to Dr. John Buzzard will lay before the advisory 6. Additional boilers, tunnels, a
Dale Russell, chairman of the U. S. committee for Eastern and the bud-
Office of Education Department of bet committee of the Teachers Col- utility connections. ---- --- $250,
Higher Education and director of a lege Board this summer, includes six Total cost ___ _ $6,395,
survey of higher education in Illinois major items to cost approximately
being conducted at the request of $6,395,000. President Buzzard has re- The above projected budget leav
Governor Adlai Stevenson. studied the needs of the college and a number of needed permanent i
will present them as follows: provements for the years ahead.
Mr. Foreman and Stanley Elam, outlined by President Buzzard, th
director of alumni services, attended 1. A residence hall for 300 women, are:
a meeting of the Joint Council with including dining facilities. (This
Dr. Russell in Chicago on the follow- might be a self-liquidating pro- 1. An auditorium seating 3,
ing weekend and presented the reso- persons. ____ __ - --- - - - - -- $1,500,
lution. Dr. Russell expressed his ap- ject.) ---- -------------- $1,000,000
preciation, stating that he was glad 2. A vocational education and ser- 2. Wings to the auditorium build"
to have this type of group action, for the departments of music, spe
which shows that his proposed recom- vice building to house the depart-
mendation of a separation of the ments of home economics, industrial and art. ---------------- $1,000
the teachers colleges from code de- arts, and business education. The
partment influence is a matter of service wing would provide a garage, 3. Re-modeling of Pemberton H
more than local concern.
shops, and storage room needed by the with .removal of the old gymna
Dr. Russell's report to Governor maintenance department. $1,500,000 and the addition of a south wing
Stevenson will be made in July and include a college infirmary and t
The EASTERN ALUMNUS hopes to 3. A women's health education floors of efficiency apartments
carry a summary of his findings and building, including a swimming pool, single faculty. ---- - - - --- $750,
conclusions in the September issue. to be located adjacent to the women's
4. Addition to Health Educa
residence hall. - ----- -- $1,225,000 Building of a swimming pool
4. A plant house and insect labora-
men. ----- - - - - --------- -- $250,
tory, including site. _____ _ $95,000 5. Re-modeling and fire-proof'

of present Training School Bu

ing. - - ------------- ----- - $150,

PA GE TWO

Record Closs of 318 Graduates June 4

ahala Foote, Paul Koester Win es two sermons each Sunday at
churches near Charleston.
op Commencement Awards
For the first time, there was no
Three hundred twelve seniors re- student leader and won national re- speaker at the Eastern commence-
ived the B. S. in Ed. degree at the cognition for her success in debate ment exercises. The size of the class
and oratory. The graduate scholar- was such that the conferring of de-
mencement exercises held Sun- ship went to but five Illinoisans, of grees and presentation of diplomas
y, June 4. It was the largest class 22 nominated. No more such grad- occupied more than two hours.
er to graduate from Eastern. Six uate scholarships are to be granted
nior college diplomas were award- by the University. Home Economics Honor
to sophomores taking general or Fraternity Is Installed
-professional work. Mr. Koester was chosen for the
Jahala Joan Foote of Charleston Lord Scholarship by an alumni com- Alpha Theta chapter of Kappa
eived the University of Illinois mittee composed of Lewis S. Linder, Omicron Phi, national honor society
duate scholarship and Paul Wil- chairman; Leah T. Todd; and Gor- in home economics, was installed at
·am Koester of Palestine won the don Cook. Their decision was based Eastern in May. Twenty home ec-
·ngston C. Lord Scholarship for on recommendations made by depart- onomics majors were initiated. Of-
91;standing promise as a teacher. ment heads at Eastern. ficers for the coming year are Sue
{loth Miss Foote and Mr. Koester Niemeyer, Mattoon, president; Nan-
'1:e speech majors. Mr. Koester, also a high honor cy Inyart, Charleston, vice-president;
Miss Foote is one of three high student, is carrying an extra course Roberta Corley, Shelbyville, secre-
honor graduates. She was an active each quarter in order to finish school tary; and Maralyn Davis, Beecher
in three years. In addition, he preach- City, treasurer. Miss Marie Poole is
faculty sponsor.

PAGE THREE

Booth Meets Booth Library Summer Enrollment

Holds ·up Well

The ribbon (in Dr. Buzzard's hands) has just been cut and Miss Booth Fifth Year Program Next
leads the way into Eastern's imposing new library building. L. to r.-Presi- Summer Expected to Make U~
dent R. G. Buzzard, Dr. Justin Windsor, retired head of the University of for Declining GI Enrollmen~
Illinois Library, Dr. Roscoe Schaupp, present head of the Mary J. Booth Loss of In-Service Students
Library, and Miss Booth.
By June 13, summer enrollme~
Eastern Student Gets an announcement by President R. G.
Buzzard at the 1950 commencement. reached 789 persons for the eiga•
First Journa Iism Pratt is an editor with the Eastern weeks term, according to Miss
State News. The award came as a Blanche Thomas, registrar. This is
Fraternity Citation result of his organization of the East- only 30 fewer than last year.
ern Elinois High School Press asso-
George Pratt, a junior at Eastern, .ciation during the past year. Pratt The drop is largely due to two
has been awarded the first achieve- is president of the Illinois College factors, according to Dr. Bryalf
ment citation to be granted by Pi Press association. Heise, summer session directoj
Delta Epsilon, national honorary
fraternity in journalism, according to Pratt will be one of the editors of First, veteran students are gradual
the Eastern News next year. ing and their- enrollment droppeti
from over 330 to about 220. Secont

the number of in-service studentl
seeking to keep up emergency certi-
ficates is rapidly decreasing.

The number of rural schools em-
ploying teachers without the degree
has been cut to a fraction of the
former .number. In Coles county, for
example, there were once 128 schoo
districts, most of them rural. No
there are three. In i943 there we
106 rural teachers. Now there a
13. The total number of elemen
teachers has not increased, despi
an increase in students. In fact, t

number of elementary teachers
Coles county dropped from 207
1942-43 to 180 in 1949-50.

The addition of a fifth year
work at Eastern next year will bri
back a number of four year gradu
who want to take the Master's de
and tend to make the summer se

sion enrollment number more
than it would otherwise be.

Architect's Sketch of New Residence Hulls

This is the architect's idea of the finished appearance of the two new residence halls scheduled for er ectiot

campus at Eastern in the next year. Bids for their construction were let at the June meeting of the Teachers Coll

Board. They will house 165 men and 165 women. Each is complete with dining room. A portion of Trailervi"J9
being cleared this summer for. site preparati~:n;
. .

PAGE FOUR

Booth Library Features Memorial Rooms

the picture at the right, Mrs. 'Franklyn Would Have Approved'
· e Andrews poses with Dr. Glenn
leymour in the Franklyn L. An-
s Memorial Listening Room in
new library on Dedication Day.
. Andrews, who now teaches
}ish at Decatur high school, felt
t "the room is just as Franklyn
d have liked it." Several thou-
d dollars are being spent by a
mittee composed of Dr. Seymour

Dr. Leo J. Dvorak, music de-
ent head, in purchasing a fine
ary of recorded music. Behind
• Seymour is the Andrews record
ection purchased by a group of
friends for the college several

Bryan Heise, director of extension
of the summer session at East-

, was re-elected secretary-treas-
r of the Teachers College Asso-
tion of Extension and Field Ser-
es Directors at their twenty·fifth
ional conference in May.

Dedicate Art Gallery to Paul Sargent Associate Eastern

State Clubs Pick

Executive Council

Group Will Meet at Home-
coming Time Next Fall.

Miss Mildred Whiting, Eastern art department head, and Sam Sargent, Seven county Eastern State Club
other to Paul, stand before one of the paintings exhibited in the Paul T. officers were elected on Alumni Day
rgent Memorial Art Gallery in the new library on Dedication Day. The to the Associated Eastern State Clubs
Council, which will meet for the first
gent exhibit which opened the gallery was composed of some of the best time in several years at Homecom-
orks of the former student and teacher at Eastern, collected by the Eastern ing next November 3 or 4. Voting
inois Artists Guild, of which Sam· is president. were club officers who attended
Alumni Day-Library Dedication cere-
monies.

The Council will be composed of
Wilma Nuttall, secretary-treasurer
of the Crawford county club; Clyde
mills, president of the Effingham
county club; Maurice Wilson, presi-
dent of the Fayette county club;
Marjorie Schuch, secretary-treasurer
of the Jasper co-qnty club; Martha
June Jack, president of the Macon
county club; Elsie Sloan, vice-
president of the Madison county club;
and .two ex-officio members: Norma
Metter, a member of the campus
club; and Stanley Elam, secretary-
editor.

PAGE FIVE

The Score 9 to 0, Favor of Lantz's Varsity

Here they are, those valiant but aging alumni who fell 9-0 to the Eastern varsity on Alumni Day. L to r., rear-111
Manager Ivan "We Had a Perfect Record" Kennard, Little Campus King; Catcher Dave "We Just Couldn't Hit111
Hart, Albion coach; Shortstop Oliver "It Was Mighty Muddy" Anderhalter, research director at St. Louis universit•
Outfielder Don "I Hadn't Seen a Bat since 1946" Davisson, Bethany coach; and Kenny "They wuz Lucky" Knop,
Alhambra. Front--Pitcher Wendell "We've Seen Better Days" Brown, Maine Township high (Des Plaines) coach;
Pitcher Okey "My Cincinnati Reds Uniform Held 'Em for Five Innings" Honefenger, Pana farmer; Dave "I Trainel
Too Hard" Kessinger, Nokomis businessman; Pitcher-First-Baseman Merve "We'll Try Again" Baker, Dupo coach;
Outfielder Hugh "Shucks, Durnit" Phipps, Manteno coach; Second-Sacker Leon "They Wore Us Down" Slovikoskl
Eastern post-graduate; Outfielder Red "I Haven't Improved" Flaugher, Oakland coach; and Pitcher Carroll "No
Alibis" Endsley, Shelbyville coach.

Ivan (Ike) Kennard, purveyor of Tennis Team Has Better-
cokes for Eastern students, is him- 'Than-Average Season
self a student once more this sum-
mer. He thinks that the alumni-var- Rex Darling's tennis team captured
sity baseball game played on Alumni six matches while dropping only:
Day should become a regular feature four during the regular campai
of the celebration. It attracted sev- but Illinois Normal swept most o
eral hundred spectators this year. the conference honors, winning a
of the singles and all but one doubl
set.

Fledgling Golfers Fail in
Conference Meet

The Eastern golf team, organize
by Dr. Glenn H. Seymour of the s
cial science department, entered th
conference meet without the benefi
of a single match during the spri
Their inexperience was fatal,
they finished last in the meet.

PAGE SIX

rock Achievements Highlight Spring Sports

I Baseball Team Shatter Records, Trample Tradition

elinquishes Title This group of athletes, all but one of whom are first year men at
Eastern, have already broken long-established records in their Specialties.
Underclass Trackmen Lend L. to r.-Jack Sims, mile; Howard Siegel, 100 and 220; Jack Howell, broad
ength, Balance; Take Third jump; Ted Ellis, high jump; Glenn Curtis, 880; Jim Johnson, 440; and Cliff
Expanded IIAC Nugent, 440. The last four hold the new mile relay record. Siegel and
Howell are sophomores, Siegel being a transfer student.
By Bob Wheeler
Football Prospects Good; Coach
~lthough Eastern did not come up
"th any conference champions in O'Brien Sees Improved Line 1n '50
e 1950 spring sports, the track,
three while losing five in IIAC com- Eighth Game Still Unsched-
eball, and tennis teams generally petition. uled ; Homecoming Batt le Nov.
erformed exceedingly well. 4 Against Sout hern
Don Brumleve, with a 3-2 won-lost
The track team under the direction record, was the only pitcher with a There is already a fairly constant
f Coach Maynard (Pat) O'Brien better than .500 percentage. Jules rumble of summer thunder from the
as converted from a group of in- DeBouck (2-2), Ray DeMoulin (1-1), expanded IIAC horizon as the seven
and Lyle Button (1-1) picked up the teams build for the fall football sea-
erienced freshmen and sopho- other Eastern victories. son.
ores into a well balanced squad
at won five of seven meets and On the hitting side of the ledger From Western, home of the 1949
laced third in the newly formed Jack Whitson once again reigned champs, we hear that "if you think
erstate Intercollegiate Athletic supreme with his .444 batting aver- last year's backfield was smooth, you
age. Aaron Gray (.370), J. D. An- should have seen it this spring."
erence meet. derson (.368), and Virgil Sweet
(.301) were the only other players to Southern looks for their largely
The thinclads dropped their first show much power or consistency with freshman team of 1949 to be much
ack encounter to a strong Washing- the willow. improved, and SIU is wooing a big
n university team. From that meet name coach--even Clark Shaughnes-
on, however, the Panthers walked Whitson, Anderson, and DeBouck sy was interested.
ver five straight opponents. They received first team all-conference
won dual meet victories from South- positions, and Sweet was given the Northern, 40-14 victor over East-
nod for a second team berth. ern last year, should be just as strong
•rn, Normal, Indiana State, and or stronger. Normal, hard-luck team
Of the 1950 varsity, DeMoulin, of 1949, will try doubly hard for the
anute Field; and captured a tri- Sweet, and Crum are graduating. title. And Michigan Normal of
angular win from Millikin and Ball
State. In the last regular meet of (Continued on next page)
the year the Easterners dropped a
close encounter to Western at Ma- PAGE SEVEN

eomb.
The conference meet proved to be

a /Walk-away for one of the two
lecent Michigan entries to the IIAC.
Michigan Normal of Ypsilanti,
known as one of the most powerful
of Midwest colleges athletically, scor-
ed 79 points, which didn't leave too
1111any to be divided among the other
six schools. Nevertheless, Eastern
tushed Northern right down to the
wh-e before settling for third place
llrith 30 points. Western was fourth.

As a permanent record of their
9J:iievements , the 1950 trackmen left
no less than eight new marks in the
Eastern Illinois State college record
book.

The baseball team under Coach
Charles P. Lantz, who began his
9J.r ty-ninth season as the Eastern
lliaseball tutor, fared less well than
did the track squad. The Eastern
nine won seven games and lost nine
in composite season play, . and won

Railsback Leaves After Quarter Century At Eastern

To Be Head of Physics Department at University (Continued from preceding page)

Of Illinois, Navy Pier Branch; Replaced by Lefler Ypsilanti, one of the newcomel'lll
threatens to be a dominant force in
President Buzzard Announces New Physics Head football as in track.
Other Changes, New Positions
Despite the thunder, Coach May~
Dr. Ora L. Railsback, head of the Dr. Glenn Q. Lefler nard (Pat) O'Brien, Eastern's hard..
driving mentor, indicates consider4
physics department and teacher of back's. Dr. Lefler is also a member able optimism about his team and the
of Sigma Xi. schedule, still short one game.
physics since 1925, will leave Char-
Several other changes and addi- "Our line will be better (it bettei
leston this summer to become head tions to the faculty were announced be), and the return of Bob Smitk
of the department of physics at the early in June by President R. G. will add some of the weight and
University of Illinois, Navy Pier Buzzard. power we need in the backfield."
Branch.
Dr. Richard T. Hartley, associate O'Brien outlined the prospects as
Dr. Railsback's decision to leave professor of zoology who has been follows:
after a quarter of a century at East- at Eastern since 1944, resigned this
ern was influenced by the fact that spring to accept a position on the At .fullback both Tuck Wagner
the University of Illinois, although faculty of the State Teachers col- and Jerry Curtis will again be avail-
state supported in the same manner lege, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, effective able. (Sweet was lost by graduatioJt)
as Eastern, is able to maintain a June 9. Dr. Max Ferguson, now a Tom Hartley, who was ineligible last
higher salary schedule. Other out- member of the Iowa State college year because he enrolled at Grinn
standing Eastern teachers who have faculty, will be his successor. college in Iowa before deciding to
migrated to the University in recent remain at Eastern, doesn't want to
years are Dr. Stanley Robinson of Thomas A. Stombaugh will take miss a second season and will re-
the business education department Dr. Bartley's class work during the main in Charleston while his fath
and Tom Richardson of the music de- summer. Mr. Stombaugh will leave Richard Hartley, teaches at
partment. the faculty in September to complete Crosse, Wis. Hartley was an All
requirements for the doctorate at Eastern Illinois League fullba
Dr. Railsback, whose major hobby Cornell. Verne B. Kniskern will with Eastern State high.
is music, is the inventor of the succeed Stombaugh. He is to receive
chromatic stroboscope, a device which At right half O'Brien has La
can be used to tune a piano to per- (Continued on next page) Mizener and J. D. Anderson, bot
fect pitch. He is an active member good runners, and Bill Hardin,
of several professional scientific so- good defensive halfback. At left ha
cities; of Sigma Pi, national honor- Don Henderson and Gail Abney a
ary society; and of Phi Delta Kappa, likely to be over-shadowed by t
honorary and professional frater- hefty Bob Smith, who is in summ
nity for men in education. He served school to regain his eligibility. Di
in both World Wars, receiving his Davis can work at either side in th
release from the Air Corps as a backfield.
captain in 1945.
If there is any weakness in
The Railsback children include line, it may be at end. Dick Ada
Norman, who received the B. S. in and Ed Gire are hold-overs at l
Ed. degree at Eastern this year; end and Joe Patridge, John Sowin
Marion, a junior; and Janet, a sopho- and Dennis Gregory will probab
more. Mrs. Railsback is the former fight it out for the right end assi
Florence Veeck. ment. Ed VanWinkle of Tuscola '
another contender.
Dr. Glenn Q. Lefler, present as-
sociate professor of physics, will be The tackle problem which we
promoted to head of the department unsolved all last season may not re
this fall. Dr. Lefler came to Eastern it ugly h~ad in 1950. At least th
in 1946 from Kent State university, fine prospects turned up in spri
where he taught for ten years. All of training and mighty Frank Pi
his college training was received at all-conference in 1948, will again
Indiana university, as was Dr. Rails-
(Continued on page 11)

PAGE EIGHT

e doctorate at the University of It's a Plane . . It's a Bird .. No, It's the Robot Guardl
ichigan in August.
Dr. R. D. Anfinson, dean of men Rex Darling explains the virtves of his Robot Guard to Don Glover,
d director of veterans services, "most valuable" member of Eastern's greatest basketball team.

·n take a leave of absence next Champ Meets Champ Practice Device Wins
Darling National Note
ar to study personnel problems
t lhanford university. Dr. Louis G. It was champ meeting champ when Rex V. Darling of the Eastern
hmidt, director of student activi- Eastern Cage Coach Bill Healey State physical education staff h;::s
es during the past year, will serve (right) weJcomed Stan Changnon of received nation-Wide publicity as a
Mt. Vernon as a banquet speaker at result of his invention of the "Robot
!Jcting dean of men and perform Eastern last March. In fact, it was Guard."
her duties handled by Anfinson. two-time champ meeting two-time
Dr. Glenn S. Duncan will join the champ. Hoping to correct the mistakes of
mmer school staff as assistant basketball and football players by
ofessor of industrial arts, taking Healey and Changnon hold the means of a mechanical device which
er the half-time position held for distinction of being the only Illinois would simulate game-like conditions
veral years by Robert Thrall, '27, coaches ever to bring their charges during practice sessions, he came up
2. Dr. Duncan will then remain on through two successive tournaments with a novel brain-child.
11 time beginning in September. to state titles. The Mt. Vernon Rams
e comes to Eastern from the grad- did it in high school circles in 1949 The "Robot Guard" consists of a
te school at the University of and 1950. The Eastern Panthers did flexible arm and hand which is at-
issouri. tached to a player by means of a
llP/illiam D. Miner, who will receive belt around the waist. Body move-
e doctorate at Indiana university ments cause the hand to wave in the
~ugust, will succeed Dr. Morrison wearer's face in much the same man-
harp as assistant professor of ner as the hand of an opposing guard
cial science in September. in basketball or an on-rushing line-
Miss Kathryn Clare Sneesby will man in football.
ucceed Miss Barbara Jones as social
'rector of Pemberton Hall in Sep- Darling has his invention patented
mber. Miss Jones resigned to be and expects to have it in production
soon.
ried in late summer. Like Miss
•mes, Miss Sneesby holds the Mas- He is head tennis coach, and assists
r's degree from Syracuse. in basketball and football at Eastern.

Three additional positions have it the same years in Illinois college
Ileen added to the 1950-51 staff. Dr. playoffs in the NAIB.
Silliam Eller will become assistant
professor and director of a new
•medial Reading Clinic. He is a
graduate of the State Teachers col-
lege at Platteville, Wisconsin, and
will receive the doctorate from the
State University of Iowa in Au-
gust.

Harland Allan Riebe will be add-
ed to the staff in health education
with the rank of assistant professor.
Mr. Riebe is an Iowa State Teachers
llollege graduate and exepects to re-
ceive the doctorate from the Uni-
versity of Colorado in Augl,lst.

Miss Jesse Franklin Jeter will be
Jdded as an assistant professor in
llementary education. She is a grad-
uate of Washington university of
St. Louis and will receive the doc-
torate at the State University of
Iowa.

Catherine Grant, a student at
Sastern during 1932-34, has taken a
job with the Textile Workers Union
as a labor organizer in Little Rock,
l.rkansas.

P AGE NINE

Grad Crusades Against Progressive Educators

Editor's Note-;..National attention has come to Cyril Mr. Reed's views do not necessarily represent those
Reed's efforts to combat what he calls "a vicious program of the ALUMNUS nor of Eastern Illinois State college.
of progressive education." Time magazine carried a story Dr. Ralph Evans, '32, head of the education department at
on his Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Fresno State college, California, has consented to reply
Public Schools in the February 20, 1950, issue. to the following article in the fall ALUM.NUS.

By Cyril Reed, '22, '29 dent of the U. S. A goodly numbel1
of students listed Hamilton as being
Our Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Public historically important because of his
Schools has organized to combat a vicious program called "Pro- watches!

gressive Education," which is neither progressive nor educational. As a result of the recent featur4
The "Progressive" or "General" education classes are supposed article in "Time" magazine on Febru-4
to teach about everything, including history, geography, and in ary 20th, our Committee for the
Improvement of the Denver Puulitl
some cases, English, arithmetic and U. S. government. But instead, Schools has been getting many let-
they spend days and days teaching sex education, how often the ters from all over the country statil
ing that they have a similar problem
son should have the family car, how large a weekly allowance he and asking our cooperation in com-
should have, and many other subjects which we believe are family bating it. One worried father froDI
problems. We parents are having to teach the fundamental sub- Minneapolis, Minnesota, called lon11
distance the other evening and stat<o
jects at home or let the children take ed the determination of his groug
to bring back the fundamentals intd
the consequences. Fortunately, or un- Progressive Teaching? Bah! the city schools, if they have to go
as far as the U. S. Commissioner of
fortunately, many of the colleges Education.

and universities are reducing their Some of its advocates openly state
that one of the purposes of progre•
standards so drastically that a col- sive education is "To mold an en-
tire population into a desirable pat-
lege diploma has been greatly weak- tern of group behavior." Where have
we heard a similar statement during
ened. Many institutions are g1vmg the last twenty years ? We want
Americanism returned to the schooJI:
zero courses before students are American history,_ American geog
phy, and American government. W
prepared to do standard university believe that for a democracy to su~
vive in this threatening world, the
work. Do we want our future doctors, people must be well informed on the
advantages of the greatest dema..
lawyers; engineers, dentists and cracy in the history of the world.

teachers less well prepared than Surely the last twenty years
American educational history
those of twenty years ago? be finally written in our annals
time as being one big tragic experi
This program came out of Co- ment conducted by the progressi
of Columbia university. We in Den
lumbia university during the last ver had an excellent chance to s
them in action here at a recent c
two decades and the few advocates riculum convention. From the de
sions reached in some of the
have done an excellent job of in- panels, we do not approve of
leadership educationally or patrio
doctrinating eity superintendents of cally either. We believe that t
time has arrived for a concerted a
schools, many of the college teachers Cyril Reed tack from all over the country again
this fallacious form of educati
and particularly those of the de- I will be glad to exchange infor
tion with similar groups if they w
partments of education. ficiency in the early education of contact me at 2395 South Broadw
Denver, Colorado.
Space will not permit detailed re- the men involved.

ference to the many fallacies of pro- · In a survey conducted by the New

gressive education. Most of us par~ York Times in 1943, college fresh-

ents have seen the deficiencies of this men throughout the nation revealed

costly experiment. The military for- a striking ignorance of even the

ces discovered glaring weaknesses elementary aspects of U. S. history.

during the war. A navy-sponsored Seven thousand students in thirty-

test was given to 4200 entering fresh- six colleges and universities in all

men at twenty-seven of the leading sections of the country were ex-

universities and colleges of the amined. A large majority of these

United States. Sixty-eight per cent college freshmen could not identify

of the men taking the examinations such names as Abraham Lincoln,

were unable to pass the arithmetic Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson,

test. Sixty-two per cent failed the or Theodore Roosevelt. Of those

whole test. The majority of failures questioned, 1,705 or twenty-five per

were not merely border-line, but cent did not know that Mr. Lincoln

were far below passing grade. In order was president of the U. S. during
to enroll the necessary numbe~ of the Civil War. Twenty-five students

men in the training schools, it was listed George Washington as having

found necessary at one of the train- been president during that highly
ing stations to lower the standards important period. Thirty-five per

in fifty .per cent of the admissions. cent listed Alexander Hamilton as

This necessity is attributed to a de- being principally famous as Presi-

PAGE TEN

ony Forty-Niners (Continued from page eight) qualifications as Hank Lopinski did
last year. Paul Foreman, a sopho-
t Grad Assistantships eligible. The newcomers are Ray more, is bound to see a lot of action
Snyder, brother to Joe, an all-IIAC also.
lastern's graduates are realizing center back in the 1930s; Pete Ed·
ore and more the value of advanced inger; and Jerry Ferguson. Snyder The present schedule is as follows:
played freshman ball at the Univer- Sept. 23-Ball State Teachers col-
dy, and until graduate work is sity of Michigan during the war. Ed- lege (here)
ered on the local campus, begin- inger played tackle, guard, and cen-
ng in the summer of 1951, they ter with a powerful St. Louis univer- Sept. 30-Quincy college (there)
sity team before tr~nsferring last Oct. 7-(open date)
·n get it at other institutions. year. Ferguson was outstanding at Oct. 14-Illinois State Normal uni-
guard and tackle for one of the versity (there)
In recent years many have secured teams that Bill Tate led to promin- Oct. 21-(open date)
stantships while doing further ence at Mattoon a few years ago. He Oct. 28-Indiana State Teachers
dy. Among this group are the played freshman football at North- college (there)
western. Nov. 4-Southern Illinois univer-
llowing members of the Class of sity (Homecoming)
49: Returning lettermen at tackle are Nov. 11-Western Illinois State
In botany, Everette Cooley took John Horsley, Gene Scruggs, and college (there)
11&ssistantship at the University of Dwayne Roe. Nov. 18--Northern Illinois State
Teachers college (here)
nessee. Charles Mullen has one The right guard position is wide
the University of Illinois. open since Mike Howard dropped out Sig Taus Join Interfrat Confo
In chemistry, Clement Greene and of school. Prospects are Don Richard-
illiam Campbell both have Uni- son, an SIU transfer, and Paul Gil- Sigma Tau Gamma, second oldest
rsity of Illinois assistantships. pin of the B squad. The left guard fraternity on the Eastern campus;
Jacob D. Pottgen Jr., holds a spot is well handled by Ed Buchanan was admitted to the National Inter-
aduate assistantship in English at and Wayne Schweinberger. Ed Smit- fraternity conference in May, ac-
e University of Illinois. ley, Bob Roland, and John Chancel- cording to an announcement by the
jpeography graduates Lloyd Steen lor are other good candidates. executive committee in New York
d Carl Trueblood have assistant- City.
ips at Indiana university and Syra- O'Brien will have two experienced
se, respectively. quarterbacks in Bill Sargent and Ed Mrs. Vera Edwards Ray, a former
Sam Peticolas, an industrial arts Soergel. Both are good passers, par- student, is a housewife at Westville,
ajor, holds an assistantship at ticularly Soergel, and both are good Ill. Son Larry is now five years old.
lahoma A. and M. students of the game, but neither
combines punting with his other
department is
esented by Dale Potts, a graduate Pqy Respects to Eastern's First President
istant at the University of Mary-
nd.
Charles E. Anderson and Arthur
Glad were assistants at the Univer-
ity of Illinois last year in physical
ca t i o n.
~oology graduates Jack Sensintaf-
ar and D. Lyle Goleman took as-
lttantships at Kansas State uni-
ersity and Iowa State, respectively.

DR. MOSES RECORDS

,OEMS FOR CHILDREN

Dr. Elbert Moses Jr., professor of Miss Mary Josephine Booth and President R. G. Buzzard decorate the
peech at Eastern, has pioneered a graves of Eastern's famed first president, Livingston C. Lord, and Mrs.
new educational field with recordings Lord on Memorial Day. Mr. Lord died in 1933. Mrs. Lord died in 1924.
of poems for children, produced by
a company which he has organized
i'rith the assistance of two Mattoon
9oiessional men.
Intended for use in the primary
rrades, the poems were read by Dr.
and Mrs. Moses and recorded with
high fidelity on vinylite. The records
are now being distributed by a num-
ber of companies, including Wattland
Brother s of Springfield and the Illi-
~ois Supply Company of Decatur.

PAGE ELEVEN

Keeping in Touch • • •

Class of 1901 Class of 1908 hormones at the Boyce Thompsol
Institute in Yonkers, N. Y. His Yon-
I. Victor Iles, '01, retired July 1, M. Augusta McKittrick (Mrs. Ed- kers address is 18 Greystone Place.
1949, after more than 40 years of mund C. Glenn), '08, asks, "What has
college teaching. He is emeritus pro- happened to members of the Class Class of 1911
fessor of government at Kansas of 1908? I see little mention of
State college and lives at 325 N. 17th them." She is living at 616 Belleview Vernie Allen Jones, '11, has re-
St., Manhattan, Kansas. Ave., LaJunta, Colorado. Replies are tired from teaching and is now liv·
welcome. Send them to The Alumnus ing on his farm near Newton, Ill.
Class of 1903 or Mrs. Glenn.
Cynthia Ann McKittrick (Mrs.
Zula Zong Persons (Mrs. Harry E. Nelle Wiman (Mrs. Victor I William Oscar Rogers), '11, has a
Callahan), '03, writes that her hus- Brown), '08, is teaching sixth .grade new grandson, Bruce Eugene Kison,
band died on January 9, 1946. Her in the East Maine school, Des Plaines, born February 18, 1950. The Rogenl
son Harry, is a partner in the Co- Ill. address is Box 612, Pasco, Washind
lonial Funeral Home in Danville, Ill. ton.
Class of 1909
Class of 1905 Mrs. W. Oscar Rogers, '11, has ask.!
Torney P. Ivy, '09, who works for ed to be relieved as correspondent for
Gertrude Tilford Shoot (Mrs. Har- the Peabody Coal Co., wrote soon af- the Class of 1911. She was hospital
old H. Blair), '05, writes that her ter the coal shut-down at Eastern, ized for some time and was away
husband died May 6, 1949. She lives "Plenty of coal now. Good news for from home for months convalesci~
at 2185 S. W. Tenth St., Miami 35, Eastern, the warmest spot in all our Mrs. Rogers lives at Pasco, Wash·
Florida. hearts." Mr. Ivy lives at 6630 New- ington (Box 612).
gard Ave., Chicago.
Class of 1907 Class of 1912
Effie Lillian Feagan (Mrs. Harvey
Ernest C. Bradford, '07, writes Rechnitzer), '09, moved to Charles- Fern Guy Wright (Mrs. Fran
that he enjoyed the Alumni Register. ton on May 1. Her address is 1125 C. Hardwick), '12, states that h
"Brought back fond memories of old Sixth Street. husband died on December 31, 1949
times by looking over familiar names, Mrs. Hardwick is now a departm
what they have done or are doing." Class of 1910 head at J. C. Penny Co. in Spoka
Mr. Bradford is vice-president of the Washington. Her Spokane addre
John D. Lucas Printing Company in Percy White Zimmerman, '10, has is E. 24 Neia Ave.
Baltimore, Md. been in his present position since
1927. He is doing research in plant Hazel Elizabeth Willson

The concensus of op1mon among some 20 members of the Class of 1910, holding a fortieth anniversar y reuni
last May 27 on Alumni Day, was that "EI Has Changed." (Capitals those of the class members.)

They are pictured above after a luncheon in the new student lounge. Miss Ruth Carmen, '10, member
foreign languages department at Eastern, was hostess and secretary for the r eunion.

L. to r.- Roscoe Snapp, Mrs. Katherine Dwyer Boles, Mrs. Mabel Coffey, Harry E. Bigler, Mrs. Edith
Robinson, Frances Wiley, Ruth Long, Ruth Carman, Jessie Huffman, Mrs. Mary McDonald Rominger, Mauri
Rominger, Mrs. Amy Woodson Glatfelter, Mrs. Evalena Heeb Johnson, Bruce Rardin, Mrs. Cora Rankin Hasshei
Mrs. Alia Glassco McNutt, Charles Tarble, Mrs. Grace Milholland Riche, Arthur Riche, Mrs. Mildred Riche Clemi
shaw, Mary E. Fellows.

PAGE TWELV E

0 mas Thompson), '12, has moved A. Runyon), '15, writes that her hus- liary of the El Paso Bar Association
in El Paso, Texas, where her hus-
ck to Illinois. She is working in . band passed away February 21, 1950. band is an attorney. She is also a
life member of the Texas Western
a-eal estate and home loan office Nora is owner of a grocery store in College Auxiliary.

Mattoon and lives at 313 S. 17th Decatur and lives at 1250 S. Jasper

, Mattoon, Ill. Street.

E:mma Newell (Mrs. Oliver Ernest Maude Marie Walz (Mrs. C. G. Mary Stewart Lyle, '17, professor
ton), '12, has just completed the Flammer), '15, has moved recently of home economics education at Iowa
ty-five year history of Pi Kappa from Los Angeles to Fullerton, Calif. State college, has published a new
ma, national sorority, which will Her address there is 706 E. Chap- book, Homemaking for Adults.
~blished this summer. Mrs. Sea~ man St.
Rhoda Elizabeth Kerr (Mrs.
n is supervisor of student teaching Sophia Pearl Reed, '15, head of the Henry W. Friedrich), '17, is working
r the College of Education, Wayne Department of Home Economics at in the telephone sales department,
iversity, Detroit. Western Michigan College of Educa- Sears Roebuck and Company, in
tion in Kalamazoo, says, "I had the Fond du Lac, Wis. She commutes
t'rank Atkinson Lindhorst, '12, is fun of moving our home ec depart- daily from home in Lomira, Wis.,
ector of the Christian Community ment into new, up-to-date quarters while her husband commutes to Mil-
last September." waukee.
inistration, College of the Paci-
' Stockton, Calif. He writes, "I Class of 1916 Class of 1918
'11 have a warm spot in my heart
r EISTC. Always glad to hear from Gertrude Ethel Bolcum, '16, died Roscoe (Rocky) Hampton, '18, is
e school. My daughter, Frances, suddenly at her home in St. Charles, basketball coach at Evanston Town-
s a fine boy, 2% years old. My Ill., May 15. Miss Bolcum had her ship high school, helps with the base-
er daughter, Peggy, was married own tutoring school there for many ball coaching and teaches physical
years. She taught at the McDonald education. His favorite hobby is
ember 20, 1949, to Lt. Arthur school near Wasco, Ill., then at Dun- hunting quail with Dr. C. P. Lantz
Clert and is living in Arlington, dee junior high and at the Gary, Ind., of the Eastern faculty. He also fishes
school and St. Anne's (private) school, in his spare time. His son, Kent, a
Class of 1913 then at the Boys Latin school in Chi- graduate of Michigan university,
<:ago and the Faulkner School for practices law in Charleston.
Kimball (Mrs. Edwin A. Girls in that city. She taught at two
alin), '13, of Rose Hill, Ill., now other Chicago schools, Lakeview high Regina Laughlin (Mrs. J. J. Sch-
s one grandchild. Both of her school and St. Anne's Private school, neider), 18, will observe her twenty-
ildren are married. before developing her tutoring ser- fifth anniversary this month. She
vice. She was always interested in lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. One son,
James Wright Shoemaker, '13, child welfare work and made im- Joe, is a junior in high school Her
ager of the research and buying portant contributions in the field. older son, Bill, was killed while serv-
artment at Schwabacher and Co. ing as an air force gunner in World
Eldon Franklin Keith, '16, has War II. Mrs. Schneider is active in
San Francisco, writes, "My article taken his sons into partnership and the P.T.A. and in the Adult Educa-
n long haul trucking will appear in now operates his ranch under the · tion Council of Cincinnati.
e July issue of 'the Analyst's name of E. F . Keith and Soris. The
Keith ranch is near Kaycee, Wyom- Beatrice Bannin, '18, now Sister
ournal,' published by the New ing. Mary Marcian, is a teacher at the
ork Society of Security Analysts. Schiarman high school at Danville,
Thelma Grace Fitch (Mrs. Walter Ill.
is is the first article from the Collins), '16, is teaching the inter-
mediate grades in the Hazel Dell Kathryn May Reeder (Mrs. Elmer
acific Coast· ever published in the school, a part of Casey unit district. Roscoe Nelson), '18, is teaching at
the Bourbon school in the Arthur
Journal.' · · .·- Class of 1917 Community unit. Her husband died
in 1938.
Class of _1914 Otto Schmalzle, '17, principal of
George Washington Senior high Elizabeth Lorraine Jones (Mrs.
Mary Virginia Robinson (Mrs. school in San Francisco, is on the Elizabeth Reat), '18, is attending
erne R. McDougle), '14, writes that executive board of the California Central Washington College of Edu-
er daughter gets her M. A. in Eng- State Principals association. He has cation in the summers and teaching
sh at the University of Illinois in written several articles for educa- grade four in Seattle, Wash. Her
une and ·Will spend the summer in tional magazines recently. Seattle address is 228 S. W. 186th
urope. Street.
Ercie Belle Tyhurst (Mrs. Ernest
Helen Irene Moffett (Mrs. Isaac Cummins), '17, is keeping house for Zela Catherine Winkleblack (Mrs.
yers), '14, of R. R. 1, Ashmore, Ill., herself and her 15 year old son and G. Atwell Brewer), '18, has moved
•tes that her daughter, Vera Ruth managing her 125 acre farm at Wil- from Sorento to Greenville, Ill. As
yers, is graduating with the Clas;; low Hill, Ill. She is now a grand- a minister's wife, she is engaged in
f 1950 at Eastern. Vera is teaching mother. Her oldest son is managing evangelistic work. The Brewers' ad-
n the Springfield, Ill., elementary a store in Chicago. dress is 802 S. Third Street.
hools.
Julianne More (Mrs. R. A. Morton), Dot Haworth (Mrs. Gordon E.
Helen Fern Daringer, '14, is au- '17, is director of the Women's Auxi- Gammel), '18, is the mother of Mrs.
thor of "Debbie of the Green Gate," Frederick Donald Luallen, formerly
ltihich was an "honor" book in the
New York Herald-Tribune's Spring
Festival of Books.

Class of 1915
Nora Virginia Spencer (Mrs. Carl

PAGE THIRTEEN

Eastern Potentates, Cook County Style Class of 1921

Chicago Eastern State Club officers, who are already planning an at- Mary ·Belle Porter, '21, has remaz4
tractive program for the 1951 meeting, are Lena Weaver, left, secretary- ried, becoming Mrs. Albert P. HaU
treasurer; Lee Dulgar, president; and June Richey, vice-president on August 20, 1949. A social serviet
worker, Mrs. Hall lives at 528 GilbeJ:t
a secertary in the Placement Office zero a few nights. "Lots of work, Avenue, Terre Taute, Indiana. Mr.
at Eastern. Mr. Luallen plans to re- lots of sickness, flu, T.B., etc." Hall is a podiatrist.
turn to his studies at Eastern this
fall while his wife works at Mattoon. Class of 1920 Jesse Florence Moore (Mn..
Mrs. Gammel's son, Edward, is a Maurice C. Crews), '21, is quite prou41
medical student at DePauw. Another Faye Adams (Mrs. John R. Mc- of her son, John, who is an honor
daughter is married to Russell Ellars Vey), '20, has a new grandson, Laur- student at Grinnell college, Grinnell,
of Decatur. Mrs. Gammel is employ- ence Robert Bentley, born February la.
ed by the Decatur Monument Com- 24, 1950. Faye is living in Los An-
pany. geles and her daughter lives in Sun Verne Hart Barnes, '21, died sud..
Valley, Calif. denly at Collinsville at the end of
Class of 1919 May. He had been teaching indu!MI
Kathryn More (Mrs. Herbert Sears trial arts and serving as guidancl
Sophia Malcolm, '19, who has been Potter), '20, will receive the M.A. director at Collinsville high school
teaching grades three and four in degree in August from Texas West- since 1947. His widow, the former
the Washington school in Mattoon, is ern. She is teaching primary grades Ruby Frances Grafton, is also a
retiring with the close of the 1949- in the El Paso, Texas, public schools. member of the Eastern Class of
50 school year. She has returned to 1921. Mr. Barnes also taught at
her home in Westfield, where she Faye Sharp McAlister (Mrs. Har- Scottland, El Paso, and Oblong dur.
will live with her sister, Lucy. old Dillman), '20, died last March 20 ing his teaching career. A son, Bur~
in Chicago. At the time of her death ton, was graduated from Eastenl
Flossie Mae Read (Mrs. Fred E. she was an assistant medical record State high school last year and is
Lacey.), '19, is teaching in the elemen- librarian at the Illinois Research enrolled at the University of Michi~
tary school in Newton, Ill. Their ad- Hospital in Chicago. Prior to that gan, where he plays in the univer·
dress is 614 W. Jourdan St. time she had taught in Tuscola and sity band.
Keyesport. She attended DePauw
Margaret Marie McGill, '19, direct- university and night school at North- Richard D. Kepner, '21, nationally
or of nurses in the U. S. Indian Ser- western university, receiving the B. known psychiatrist and owner-dir•
vice at White Earth, Minn., writes S. degree from Northwestern in or of a psychiatric clinic in Honolu
that they have had a very cold winter 1945. T. H., visited at Eastern this spri
there. It was between 30 and 50 below on his return from attending a seri
of conventicins in the States.
PAGE FOUR T E E N
Dr. Kepner presented a paper a
the annual meeting of the Americ
Academy of Neurology, Cincinn
0., entitled "Periodic Paralysis
sociated with Hyperthyroidism''
April.

Class of 1922

Lillian Myers (Mrs. Stephen
Turner), '22, 822 North Chica
Pontiac, Illinois, is the new corr
pondent for the Class of 1922, fo
lowing the resignation of Cyril
Reed, whose work with the Citize
Committee for the Improvement f
the Denver Public Schools is taki
all of his spare moments.

Calidonia Kathryn Weber
Milton M. Brubaker), '22, first gr
teacher in Springfield, attend
I.S.N.U. last summer.

Cecil Marie Long (Mrs. Russell
Anderson), '22, has a new hobby

ceramics. She lives at 1639 Ha
Drive, Cleveland 6, Ohio.

Perry Gardner Rawland, '22, is
leave from his duties as profess~
industrial arts education at
State Teachers college, St. Clo
Minn., and is doing graduate work
the University of Minnesota.

Class of 1923 has been doing sales promotion work V. Tolle), '27, calls attention to the
for J. C. Penny stores for two years. February 20 issue of Time Magazine,
'na Webb, '23, is teaching geog- page 72, in which Cyril Reed of Den-
by in Benton, Ill. Her Benton ad- Nellie Zehner (Mrs. Charles W. ver, an Eastern alumnus, is mention-
s is 539 Smith Street. Clabaugh), '25, is acting principal ed.
at Champaign Senior high school.
Vona Rebecca O'Hair (Mrs. J. Her address is 306 W. Green St., Florence Condo Miller (Mrs. Gun-
Stotts), '23, is teaching in the Champaign, Ill. nard Nelson), '27, is working on a
erican school in Buenos Aires; master's degree at the University of
e she has lived for the past Iris Mae Johnson (Mrs. Bryce L. Kansas City. She teaches first grade
ht years. Her address is Calle Gillis), '25, has been teaching in Dan- in Overland Park, Kansas, where her
cal 655, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ville since the death of her husband. husband is employed as a chemist.
Her son, Edward, is now a student at
A. Eastern. Ada Maye Austin (Mrs. Ivan C.
Ekiss), '27, writes that her daughte:»,
Juanita Pierce (Mrs. Lucile Maude Wilson (Mrs: John Adelyn, is an interior decorator in
kson M. Merwin), '23, is a part G. Trumbull), '25, is directing a Decatur. Ada lives at 220 W. Leaf-
e bookkeeper in the office of her choir in Maywood, Ill. She has a son, land, Decatur.
band's building materials supply who is an electrical engineering stu-
dent at the University of Illinois. Reba Pearl Nay (Mrs. Lenna J.
. The Merwins lives at 707 St. Lawyer), '27, sends word that her
ir, Apt. J., Grosse Pointe 30, Class of 1926 husband died on January 16, 1950.
higan. Mrs. Lawyer received the B. S. in
ade A. Steel, '23, is assistant Lillian Steck Fox, '26, is now Mrs. Ed. degree from Eastern this year.
Fred C. Cressler. Her first husband, She is living on R. R. l, Charleston,
intendent of the Leyden high Ira Himebaugh, died in 1942. Mrs. Ill., and teaches grades one and two
ool at Franklin Park, Ill. He Cressler is living in a citrus grove, at Dundas, Ill.
ds the M. S. from the University R. R. 2, Box 249A, Clearwater, Fla.
tllinois and is doing advanced Henry Abraham Rowland, '27, '40,
dy in curriculum planning at Den- Millard Jackson, '26, '33, died on received the M. A. degree from In-
March 18, 1949. He was buried at Ob- diana university in 1949. He is draft-
'1niversity. long, Ill. ing instructor at Emmerson high
school, Gary Ind., and night school
Class of 1924 Anna Elizabeth Parr (Mrs. Conrad principal.'
C. Hogue), '26, is doing substitute
tlartha Lucile Macleod, '24, is an teaching in Oak Park, Ill., now that Edwin Milton Leamon, '27, is ad-
manager for the educational her two children are grown. A son, ministrative assistant to the super-
David, is attending Wilmington col- intendent of schools in Alton, Ill.
'sion of Field Enterprises, Inc., lege in Ohio and a daughter, Jane, He is in charge of construction of
orld Book Encyclopedia branch. will enter Albion college, Michigan, three new school buildings which are
e lives at 2432 Delmar Ave., Gran- in September. being built at a cost of 1lh million
dollars.
City, Ill. Margaret Arilda Lilly (Mrs. Jesse
W. Dow Smith, '24, manager of the A. Gilmer), '26, expects to receive Southwest Bound
Id office of the National Rifle A·s- her degree from Eastern this sum-
iation in Elkhart, Indiana, recent- mer. Her eldest daughter, Marilyn, Don and Dories Musselman, photo-
"Wrote the training program for is a junior at Eastern. One daughter, graphed at the Chicago Eastern
e New York State Conservation Joan, is attending a business college StB:te Club meeting, expect to be in
and another, Mona, is a sophomore New Mexico next year. Don is finiah-
Class of 1925 at Mattoon high school. ing his work for the M. A. in English
at the University of Chicago this
Corine Leonhard (Mrs. Robert H. Otis Kruzan, '26, died last No- year. The Musselmans have a young
rtram Ellis), '25, writes that her vember 18. He had been ill for sev- son, Eric.
n, Bruce, will graduate from Har- eral months. Mr. Kruzan taught in-
rd in pre-medicine in June, 1951. dustrial arts at Franklin junior high
er address is No. 6 Signal Hill school in Rock Island for four years.
vd., East St. Louis, Ill. He had also taught in the John Deere
Frances Louise Shoemaker (Mrs. and Calvin Coolidge junior high
red Neiland), '25, writes that she schools in Moline and Urbana.
d Mr. Neiland have bought their
st house after being "cliff dwell- Class of 1927
s" for many years. Their suburban Hildred Florissa Kuhle, '27, ful-
dress is 401 S. Emerson St., Mt. filled a life long wish last summer.
ospect, Ill. She had an extended trip to Europe,
Harold Glen Stuart Emery, '25, visiting England, Belgium, Holland,
ho teaches English and social Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and
dies at West Gate school in West France. She sailed on the Queen
aim Beach, Fla., is president of the Mary and returned On the Queen
eh County Classroom Teachers Elizabeth. She writes, "I enjoyed
ociation. every minute of it. Wish I could go
Mabel Evalyn Whitacre (Mrs. Del- again. It makes life much more in-
rt L. Miller), '25, is teaching kin- teresting. So many thing one has
rgarten in Michigan City, Ind., read about come to life."
here Delbert, '22, '28, is a coach Alice Elizabeth Kelly (Mrs. Harold
nd physical education teacher. She

PAGE FIFTEEN

That Chummy Madison County Bunch Class of 1930

Incoming and outgoing officers of the spirited Madison county Eastern Vera Mae Miller (Mrs. Clyde T.
State Club in Edwardsville: Mrs. Richard Hutton and Truman May, past McCormick), '30, writes from Nor-
secretary-treasurer and president respectively; and Mrs. Fayma Bence mal, where her husband is a profe.
sor of mathematics at I.S.N.U., that
Green and Joe Walton, current president and secretary-treasurer respectively. they have three sons, Norman lJ..
New Vice-President Elsie Sloan was camera shy or had another engagement. Wayne 8, and Lyle 2.

Class of 1928 and Richard, 5. Mr. Bell is manager Howard Nolan Sims, '30, of Paris
of the A & P food store in Charleston. Ill., agent for the Massachusetts Mu-
Ruth Clothilde Boyd (Mrs. Clar- tual Life Insurance Company, now
ence V. Cook), '28, is still teaching Dorothy Josephine Shafer (Mrs. has three children. The youngest is
at the Lowell school in Mattoon. She Lewis T. Lanphier), '28, has a daugh- a son two y·ears old.
paints pictures in her spare time, ter, Sue, who plans to enter Eastern
and has traveled extensively. this !all. Dorothy is teaching lan- Class of 1931
gauge arts at .Lowell Junior high
Thelma Jane. Dennis (Mrs. Donald school, Mattoon, Ill. Lettie Evelyn Frazee (Mrs. Harry
Eliot Bacon), '28, has a fourth child, Reinfurth), '31, is teaching seco
Barbara Jane, born last summer. The Class of 1929 grade in Union Mills, Ind. She baa
Bacons are Il-Ow· farming a 100 acre a daughter, Roselyn Sue, age seve
farm on Richton Road, R. R. 1, Marsdon Union Grubb, '29, moved
Crete, Ill. into a new home at 21443 Stratford Dorothy Louise M.cComb (Mrs. Lee>
Ave., on February 1, 1950. He is Paul Otey), '31, is teaching in the
Anna LaVerne Ogden, '28, has principal of the Rocky River, Ohio, Robinson elementary schools. He
been teaching in the Clara Barton high school. The high school moves husband is a field technician wi
school in Alton ever since she was into a new one and three-quarter mil- the Southern Illinois Breeding ass
graduated from Eastern. Her Alton lion dollar building in September. ciation. The Oteys have a son, Keit
address is 2624 Sanford Ave. in second grade.
Franklin Marion Turrell, '29, as-
Mildred Louise Rau (Mrs. James sociate plant physiologist at the Elsie Doretta Waterford (Mrs. Jo
B. Conner), '28, is planning on teach- University of California Citrus Ex- C. Ghast), '31, is a housewife an
ing again, now that her son will en- periment Station, Riverside, has seamstress in Mattoon, Ill. She ha
ter the first grade in the fall. Mil- been made a member of the Regional two children, Karen 13, and Kent 9.
dred lives at Tower Hill, Ill. Advisory Committee on Radiological
Safety for the Southern Section of William Charles Magner, '31,
Lillian Mida Tevault (Mrs. Donald the University of California. gone into the retail clothing busine
H. Bell), '28, has two sons, John_, 11, He is now operating a childre
clothing store, the Jean and J'
PAGE SIXTEEN Togs, in Morris, Ill.

Ivory Paul Rennels, '31, now
a weather broadcast on weekda
over radio station WNAX at 11:
a.m. He is meteorologist in char
U. S. Weather Bureau, Sioux Ci
Iowa, and lives in Sergeant BI
Iowa.

Harold Hiddlesworth, '31,
taken a sports writing and prom
tion position with the Detroit F
Press. Middlesworth was with

Daily Oklahoman at Oklahoma c·

for many years.
Grace Estelle Laingor, '31,

tended a workshop on human re
tions at New York universitt1
1948 on a scholarship. She is tea
ing in East Chicago, Indiana.

Thompson Shields, '28, '31,
been named principal of the Pax
Ill., high school for next Y
Shields taught industrial art~
Paxton at the time of his appoi
ment to the principalship.

J. Leroy Baker, '31, is a candi
for re-election as Cumberland co
superintendent of schools.

Class of 1932

Velma· John Etta Rodebaugh
Chester J. Waltrip), '32, spent se
weeks at Daytona Beach, Flo ·

is spring during the spring train- Grace Thurman (Mrs. Edison . is 3920 W. 147th Place, Midlothian,

of the Columbus baseball team. Paine), '33, has been teaching in the Ill.
r. Waltrip is a trainer for the
grade school at Henning since Jan- Neva Lenora Quick, '34, became
m. The Waltrips have a daughter,
uary, 1949. Rev. and Mrs. Paine live Mrs. Herman Stelter on April 15,
rolyn, who "likes to travel with
in Potomac, Ill. 1949. Mr. Stelter is a grocer in
ddy's baseball team."
Lena Agnes Pontius, '33, was mar- Buchanan, Michigan, living at 307%

•lizabeth Catherine Broom (Mrs. ried on March 18, 1950. She is now Fulton St.

C. Bowman), '32, has been doing Mrs. Homer L. Reedy and has three Sylvia Chloe Shipman (Mrs. John

bstitute teaching for Cumberland step-sons, ages 6, 8, and 10. Lena is M. Hatteberg), '34, has a son, John

nit No. 77, Toledo, Ill. ' living at 503 S. Broadway, Shelby- Arthur, born October 14, 1949.

llayton Noble Slifer, '32, '38, ville, Ill., and working as a payroll Everett Harold Harrison, '34, pur-
cational woodwork teacher at Eff-
ham high school, is listed in clerk for the Oliver Corporation. chased a home at 1101 Deerfield
ho's Who in American Education."
11.llden Cutshall, 32, has been grant- Bernice Evaline Kruse (Mrs. Har- Road, Deerfield, Ill., last September.

a Sabattical leave for 1950-51 old M. Schroeder), '33, now has three He is employed as a research statis-
m the Navy Pier branch of the
niversity of Illinois. sons. Lowell is 11, Dale 8,,and Harold tician at the A. C. Nielsen Company
More recent information from Mr.
tshall states that he will spend Ray 3. She lives at R. R. 2, Tolono, in Chicago.
e next school year in the Philip-
es on Sabattical leave from the Ill. Lilly Myrtle Morgan (Mrs. John
iversity. He holds a Fulbright
ard for geographic research and Eleanor Jane Lahey, '33, received Edgar Kelly), '34, writes that she

University of the Philippines has the B. Ed. degree from the University and Mr. Kelly are building a new
n designated as his host univer-
y. Mrs. Cutshall and the Cutshall of Illinois in 1947. She is teaching permanent home at 559 Roanoke St.,
· dren will accompany him. They
·1 on July 13 from San Francisco business education at Mattoon high Dunedin, Florida. Her eldest daugh-
the S. S. President Wilson.
Ruth Corley, '32, will become a school. · ter plans to enter Eastern in the
unselor of freshman girls at Lyons
John Edgar Foster, '33; has taught fall of 1951.
ship high school in addition to
duties as an English teacher. in Vermilion county ever since leav- Pauline McDonald (Mrs. Robert
e lives at 1004 W. Cossitt, La-
ange, Ill. ing Eastern. He is now at Rankin. Moore), '34, is now a housewife and
Harry F. Sockler, '35, who coach-
for some years at Sapulpa, Okla., Class of 1934 substitute teacher at Danville, Ill.
!elsewhere in the Southwest af-
leaving the Robinson, Ill., high Lillian Kirk (Mrs. Alan Schlosser), Class of 1935
ool, has accepted an assistant
tball coaching position at Western '34, of Robinson, Ill., is kept busy as Iva May McCrillis (Mrs. William
ois State college, Macomb. Sock- a homemaker now. She has a three- J. Jones), '35, is teaching grade one
.,layed quarterback on Eastern year old boy, Donald. Lillian taught in Willow Hill, where Mr. Jones is
ms in the middle 1930s. school for twelve years in Crawford teaching physical education. Their
Edna Ruth Bingaman (Mrs. Ray- county before her marriage. daughter, Vicki, is in the second
nd Locke), '32, has a son, Brent
ymond, born May 19, 1949. The Louise K. Stillions, '34, writes that grade.
kes live in Macon, Ill.
she and Clarice Cunningham, '38, Mildred Marie Brown Kedley (Mrs.
Class of 1933 were delighted to have Miss Rose Samuel W. Byuarm) '35, is doing
Zeller visit them in Hawaii in Janu- psychiatric social work at the Elgin
rothy Leggitt, '33, a teacher and ary. "We tried to show her as much State Hospital but plans on going
selor in Clayton, Mo., writes that of the island as possible with such a back to teaching in September. She
had several magazine articles short stay. It was fun catching up lives at 703 Orange St., Elgin, Ill.
lished recently in School Review, on all the news of Eastern." Miss
ool Activities, and other school Zeller, a member of the Eastern Herbert C. VanDeventer, '35, is
zines. She lives at 5316 Pershing geography department staff, was on working on a Ph. D. degree at the
., St. Louis 12, Mo. leave to visit and study geography State University of Iowa and is
race Irene Teel (Mrs. Arthur departments of other colleges during teaching social science at Drake uni-
·ver), '33, is teaching first grade the past year. versity, Des Moines. He has a second
e Wilson school in Pekin. She son, Charles Day, born January 16,
s that the Wilson school, which Hazel Ida Whitesel (Mrs. Mervin 1949.
opened in September, 1949, is E. Volle), '34, has been teaching in
W "deluxe" school. "Please come the San Jose, Calif., schools since Rose Lea Verbeau (Mrs. Sidney L.
visit. Visitors always welcome!" April, 1949, and "enjoys it immense- Herman), '35, has a new son, Fredric
Lanie, born in May, 194'9. The Her-
ly." mans live in Sherman Oaks, Calif.,
Evelyn Carolyn Wente (Mrs. Dale where Mr. Herman has his own busi-
ness.
A. Tanner), '34, has two children,
Karen Marie, and Gerald Edward. Lorraine Ellen Wax (Mrs. Orlie
The Tanners live at 108 E. Green St., F. Miller), '35, quit teaching this
Champaign, Ill. spring after 17 years. She is devoting
full time to keeping house for her
Havillah Ezra Reckling, '34, mar- husband on their farm near Sidell,
ried Miss Katherine Aubrey of El Ill.
Paso, Ill., last December 29. He is
industrial arts instructor in the El

Paso high school. Harry Ackman Rice, '35, is oper-

Elizabeth Mahaney (Mrs. Howard ating his own insurance agency in
J. Nagle), '34, now has two sons. The Lawrenceville. He is married and has

second, Rex Stuart, was born Decem- two sons, ages 6 and 3.

ber 16, 1949. Their present address Forrest Erlene Weber (Mrs. Hom-

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Barnes and Admirers Harry D. Lovelass, '36, has be
promoted from associate professor
Our guess is that it's a cock and bull story that Murvil Barnes, secretary- professor in education at Illino
treasurer-elect for the Macon County Eastern State Club, is telling Martha State Normal university, where
June Jack, president, and Pauline Pachciarz, vice-president. Macon has one is now principal of the Universi
of the largest and most active of the 16 county Eastern State Clubs. high school. His wife is the form
Mescal Jenkins, '34.
er Dee Hendricks), '35, has moved structor in mathematics at the Uni-
from Seattle to Williamston, Michi- versity of Houston. His address is Basil Osborn, '36, was married
gan, where her husband is principal 2926 Pine Gully Blvd., Houston, Mlle. Lucienne Raimond of Lie
of schools. Their Williamston address Texas. He is sponsor of a Young BJlgium, on March 14, 1947. Mr. 0
is 831 Williams St. Republican Club at the university born is now teaching English an
and reports "good progress" despite serving as assistant coach at Oblo
Marian Wozencraft, '35, has a the fact that he is in Southern Demo- high school.
graduate assistantship at the Uni- cratic territory.
versity of Illinois. She is working on Carl Everett Shaw, '36, is work
a master's degree in elementary edu- Roy Kenneth Wilson, '36, will teach ing on the Ph. D. degree in vocation
cation, which she will receive in Au- a course in school public relations at guidance and education at Purdu
gust, 1950. Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar university and teaching there
Falls, this summer. Roy is assistant time.
Gerald Allen Royer, '35, director of director of press and radio relations
publications and public relations at for the N.E.A. in Washington, D. C. Daniel Morton Morgan, '36, no
George Rogers Clark high school in partner in a grocery store at Blan
Hammond, Ind., will teach in the Lyle L. Stirewalt, '36, is teaching insville, Ill., has a third <laugh
journalism clinic at Indiana univer- in Tumascacori, Arizona. He receiv- Margo, born September 14, 1949.
sity this summer.
ed the M. s: degree from the Uni- Myrl Doriece Munson (Mrs. Ge
Charles Leplie Kanatzar, '35, head aid Trimble), '36, has three chil
of the biology department at Mac- versity of Illinois in 1949. now. The youngest, Tommy, is 2
Murray college, has a new daughter, Evelyn Irene Wolfe (Mrs. Glain The Trimbles live at 511 S. Drap
Phyllis Rae, born January 4, 1950. St., Champaign, Ill.
His other daughter, Constance Jean, W. Lingafelter), '36, has a second
is three years old. daughter, born March 28, 1950. Her Virginia Louise Sechrest
address is Box 256, Hutsonville, Ill. Virgil Sprague), '36, now has s
Glenn Dale Walker, '35, western children-four girls and two bo
sales manager for the McKay Com- Harry Ellis Shannon, '36, is a rail- She is living at 305 S. Gardena A
pany, is moving to Kansas City, Kan- way postal clerk. He lives at 534 nue, East Peoria, Ill.
sas, from Charleston. His Kansas ad- Enright Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio,
dress will be 8430 W. 86th Street, and has one son, Ronald, 1lh years Marietta Jane Orndorff (Mrs. Jo
Overland Park. of age. L. Murphy), '36, has ·a son, Jam
Logan, born August 23, 1949. S
Edith Farrell (Mrs. Alvin Spries), Louis Leonard Josserand, '36, has lives at 1819 N. University Av
moved from East Moline, Ill., to Peoria, Ill.
s'3c5h'ootelaicnheDsanfivrisllte,gIrlald. eHaust btahned TAilltvo.mn Bloomington, where he is director of
industrial education in the public Thomas Wilbert Cummins, '36,
teaches special education at the schools. T'heir Bloomington address ceived the degree of Master of Th
Washington school in Danville. A is 2004 E. Oakland Avenue. logy from the Iliff School of Th
daughter, Bonnie Anne, is 11 years logy in Denver on June 15.
old. Wilma Lorene Nuttall, '36, who is
teaching at Robinson high school, Alexander Summers, '36, delive
Class of 1936 is a charter member of the Alpha the commencement address at Ea
Upsilon chapter of Delta Kappa ern State high school on June 5.
Dean Orley Gray, '36, is an in- Gamma, organized April 2, 1949.
Class of 1937
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Virginia Elizabeth Cayez
Edgar F. Wood), '37, has a son,
gar Alan, born April 4, 1950. .
Wood is an employee at the Boel
Aircraft plant in Wichita, Kans

Dorothy Rose Felkel (Mrs. L
A. Wiley), '37, has a new baby, G
ory, born July 10, 1949. Her f'
son, Charles, is three years old.
Wileys live at 43 Herman str
Crete, Ill.

Grace Virginia Scheibal
Richard C. Parker), '37, resu
teaching this year after five ye
She taught grades 5 and 6 at Ma
ville Ill. Her son, Ricky, is th
yea;s old. The Parker address is
R. 4, Edwardsville, Ill.

Mildred Maurer, '37,

ingfield, Ill., after having lived Class of 1938 the Farm Bureau Board.

r two years in Neenah, Wisconsin. Robert Gossett Rennels, '38, as- aWendell LeRoy Gruenwald, '38,
be is doing substitute teaching. Her sistant professor of forestry at the
University of Illinois, has a son, has accepted position as an assist-
ingfield address is 725 Keys Ave- ant professor of social science at
Ball State college, Muncie, Ind. He
e. Donald Edward, born June 17, 1949. receives his doctor's degree from
Norma Katherine Shores (Mrs. · Bob's address is Court K 61 C, Sta- Syracuse university this month and
rancis M. Whitaker), '37, of 412 will take up his new duties in Mun~
. Twelfth St., Lawton, Oklahoma, dium Terrace, Champaign, Ill. cie in September.
nds greetings from the "wide open Melvin Ruth Condon (Mrs. Lowell
aces." James Sherrick, '38, set up in law
~etty Ermine Duff (Mrs. Donald G. Hall), '38, has a baby daughter, practiee in Villa Grove recently.
:Penny), '37, is a den mother for Carol Anita, born April 26, 1949.
e Olney Cub Scouts. The Halls live at Muncie, Ill. George Cassius Richardson, '38, is
the newly elected president of Area
James Harold Jones, '37, who Thelma Fern Price (Mrs. John M. Business Education Association Thir-
ches math at Sullivan high school, Carlson), '38, is teaching first grade teen in Illinois. The group is com-
s a new daughter, Kathy Dawn, in Pasadena, California. During the posed of high school teachers of
rn May 18, 1949. 1949-50 school year she was a mem- business subjects in the southeastern
ber of the Board of Directors of the area of the state. Othe:r officers are
Pasadena Education Association and Ed Sluder, '46, vice-president, and
Mary Ashby, '43, secretary-treasurer.
Necia Viola Adams (Mrs. George social chairman of the group. She Marjorie Schuch, '41, is retiring
president.
,Adams), '37, is teaching music in taught at the summer workshop of
Neva Lucille Marx (Mrs. Omer
•ndergarten which has 75 pupils. the Pasadena City Schools. Morgan), '38, has moved from Cham-
paign, Ill., to Maryland, where her
orge is a draftsman for an oil Clyde William Mills, '38, superin- husband is empoyled with the plant
pathology department at the Uni-
inery in Baytown, Texas, where tendent of schools in Altamont, Ill. versity of Maryland. The Morgans
live only 12 miles from the District
y live. is president of the Lions Club there. of Columbia and have inquired about
an Eastern State Club in that area.
kartha Elizabeth Valbert (Mrs. He is also president of the Effing- Their address is 4320 Rowalt Dr.,
Apt. 101, College Park, Md.
1 Ikemire), '37, has a son, An- ham County Eastern State Club.
Maxine Giffin (Mrs. Harry Green,
w Ross, born April 1, 1949. Mr. Joseph Anthony Kelly, '38, has a Jr.), '38, is the mother of a son, Al-
lison Harry, born last December.
mire is executive assistant to the son, Joe A. Jr., born April 2, 1949.
Class of 1939
e-president of Sinclair Oil Com- Joe is a staff planning officer in the
Glenn Edward Sunderman, '39,
ny. air force headquarters in Washing- high school principal at Byron, Ill.,
sent word this spring that he will
l'lorence Mae Reel (Mrs. James ton, and lives at 534 Argyle Drive, be married this June.

oyd Spencer), '37, writes to in- Falls Church, Va. Rosemary Morgan (Mrs. Robert
F. Gwin), '39, has moved from Dan-
m the Alumni Office that she has Harold ·Edgar Younger, '38, is ville to Grand Ridge, Ill. Their son,
John Thomas, was born September
n married six years. principal of the high school in Bar- 27, 1949, in the Streator, Ill., hospi-
tal.
Leona Pauline Marshall (Mrs. Ross dolph, Ill., a laboratory school for
Veda Maxine York (Mrs. Allen E.
Cox), '37, has a daughter, Marsha Western Illinois State college. Parrish), '39, has a new baby girl,
Doris Anne, born January 19, 1960.
e, born July 18, 1949. Leona lives Audrey Helen Hall (Mrs. George They live on R. R. 4, Paris, Ill.

2051 N. Bosart Ave., Indianapolis W. Adair), '38, is living in Ludwigs- Dale Corwin Smith, '39, director of
athletics and head basketball coach
Indiana. burg, Germany, where her husband, at Mooseheart, Ill., has been rehired
with a good increase in salary.
Bertha Isabell Hall (Mrs. Wayne an army major, is stationed.
Genevieve Leseman Crouse, '23,
onald), 37, ·is teaching grades Dorothy Ellen Michael (Mrs. '39, a supervisor of home economics
education for the eastern area of
and six at the Rose Center school Charles D. Mattis), '38, writes that Illinois, writes, "My work brings
me in contact with a number of coun-
IJhelbyville Unit Four. She has her third son, Martin Edward, was ty superintendents, superintendents,
high school principals, and teachers
ehildren, Wilson 7, and Ethel 2. born December 4, 1949, on his par- who are Eastern alumni."

yne is a farmer and carpenter. ents' eighth wedding anniversary. Dorothy Jean Timmons (Mrs.

ir address is Lakewooa, Ill. They live on R. R. 1, Danville, Ill. PAGE NINETEEN

Pearl Oriole Reynolds (Mrs. T. Helen Elizabeth McDonald (Mrs.

l Tilley), '27, is a student at East- James T. Thompson), '38, of R. R. 1,

Washington College of Educa- Windsor, Ill., has four children.

where her husband is an as- Joyce is 8, Jimmy 6, Carole 3, and

nt professor of education. A Gary 2.

year graduate of Eastern, Pearl Wilfrid Dudley Kelley, '38, is as-

tc>rking toward her B. A. degree sistant professor of geography at the

9'lucation. University of New Mexico, where he

rgaret Ellen Stephenson (Mrs. recently installed a division of geog-

ius Richardson), '37, is teaching raphy. ·

e economics at Palestine high Stanley Elam, '38, will start work

1. Her husband is distributive toward the Ed. D degree at the Uni-

tion coordinator at Robinson versity of Illinois this summer. He

h school. will return to his work as director

lice Evelyn Reynolds (Mrs. Rus- of public relations and alumni ser-

Alfred Zimmerman), '37, is vices at Eastern in August.

ing piano again and enjoying it George William Miller, '38, a farm-

much. Her husband, an army er on R. R. 2, Toledo, Ill., is on the

nant, is to be sent to Alaska advisory council for an agriculture

class at Neoga and is a member of

'A Book and Thou' with a farm implement company.
found it necessary to leave his wo
The auditorium on the basement floor of the Mary J. Booth Library, one in selling sports goods because of t
of the most splendidly appointed rooms in the whole magnificent building, is illness of his wife, the former Agn
rapidly becoming a popular wedding chapel. The above scene shows Charles Worland.
Clark, '49, and Barbara Heise, '50, being wed on the stage of the auditorium
last June 5. A week later Carolyn Petty, a Charleston senior, became the bride Margery Eileen Taylor (Mrs. La
of C. J. Doane, also a senior. She was "Sweetheart of Sigma Pi" this spring. rence Garrett), '39, has moved
Doane is a member of the Eastern cage team. Mrs. Clark is the daughter of 3030 Normal, Fresno, Calif.
Dr. Bryan Heise, extension and summer school director at Eastern. Garretts have three children, Ja
Shirley and Susan.
David L. Hart), '39, reports the birth and seed dealer in Maroa.
of "a future EISC student," David Mary Earline Milligan (Mrs. s·
Lee, born September 17, 1949. She Alice Naomi McCloy' (Mrs. Orlan-
also has a daughter, Diana, age 3. do Lawrence), '39, writes t{lat she M. Cool), '39, has a daughter, bo
Dorothy lives in Albion, where her has three sons and one daughter. Her Apri1 26, 1949. They live at 516 E
husband is a coach. youngest son, Jon Robert, was born Seventh Street, Mt. Carmel, Ill.
April 30, 1949. Alice lives on R. R.
Laura Augusta Grothe, '39, a first 2, Assumption, Ill. Joseph Lazaretti, '39, coordina
grade teacher in Arlington Heights, of diversified occupations in Norfo
Ill., attended the N. E. A. convention Chlorene E. Shick (Mrs. Clifford Va., was elected secretary of t
in Boston last summer as a delegate C. Roan), '39, will accompany her Tidewater Industrial Education Cl
of the Lake Shore Division of the husband to Hawaii to study the for the 1949-50 school year.
I. E. A. Oriental fruit fly. Their three year
old son will go with the Roans. Their Violet Louise Podesto (Mrs. Ri
Cecil Edgar Smith, '39, is in his home has been at Champaign, Ill. ard William Meyer), '39, is a pers
third year as superintendent of the nel assistant in the United Natio
Community Unit District at Chris- Eva Eleanor Thompson (Mrs. Al- Food and Agriculture Organiza
man, Ill. He is chairman of the Ed- bert L. Hunsicker), '39, expects to She received the M.A. degree
gar County Education Association, move to Galesburg, Ill., on July 1. guidance from the UniversitY'
president of the Edgar County East- Her husband, who receives the Pb. Wisconsin in 1947.
ern State Club, and a member of the D. degree in June, 1950, will be c11ief
finance committee of the Eastern psychologist at Galesburg State Re- Jim Stahl, '39, for four years
Division of the LE.A. search Hospital. The Hunsickers sistant football and head track
have a new son, James Philip, born at the Downers Grove, Ill.,
Margaret Palmer Lake (Mrs. D. January 24, 1950. school, has been named head co
W. Phares), '39, writes that she en- in both sports, succeeding Juli
joyed the Alumni Directory very Paul Harmon Spence, '39, received Taylo. Taylo will devote all of
much. She has added an adult edu- the M. S. degree from Indiana State time to the duties of director of a
cation course in crafts to her sched- Teachers college in August, 1949. letics. Stahl received the M. A.
ule as sixth grade teacher. Her ad- He is superintendent of schools at gree at the University of Illinois t
dress is 146 N. English Ave., Spring- Westfield, Ill. spring.
field, Ill.
Mary Florien Lively (Mrs. A. J. Floyd Pruett, '39, is a partner in
Dorothy Mae Jack (Mrs. Earl Eu- Ryan, Jr. ), '39, now has two sons, metallic plating company in Sal
gene Rau), '39, has two children, Pat and Mike. They are living in Oregon. Floyd is concentratinjl
Judith Ann, 3%, and Jack Christian, Beecher City, Ill. the administration of the comp
1%. Her husband, Earl, is a farmer but also does much of the repai
Louis K. (Judy) Voris, '39, is back work on old pieces of metal.
at Neoga; Ill., where he is employed
Class of 1940

Lutie Beatrice Sharp, '40,
finished her seventeenth year as
teacher in the Edgerton-St. Jos
system in Ohio. She is teaching g
five. Her address is Edgerton, 0

Frederick Carlyle Snedeker,
is now living in Jackson, Mississ"
He is in the masonry cont ract"
business. His J ackson address is
Eastview.

Dorothy Katherine McQueen (
John M. Schettler), '40, and
husband started a new depart
in agriculture and home econo
for the Roberts, Ill., unit school.

Margaret Elizabeth Bennett (
Gerald L. Kincaid), '40, wr ites f
Okemos, Michigan, that she and
aid have a second son, Steven,
Dec. 21, 1949. Their address is R
Route 1, Box 587. Gera ld tea

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glish at Michigan State college. Mary Elizabeth Walter (Mrs. Heinz address is 7909 Oakwood Street,
Marvin M. Kincaid, '40, is the R. Weisheit), '40, has a daughter, Ralston, Nebraska.
ud father of a 71h pound baby Claire Susan, born October 12, 1949.
y born April 19. His name is Her husband, a physician, is employ- Class of 1941
eph Allan and his parents plan ed at the Federal Correctional Insti- Ruth Frances Weidner (Mrs. Keith
tution, Milan, Michigan. P. Alexander), '41, sends word ~f the
~gister him at Eastern in the
ss of '72. Pete is teaching print Ruth Maxine Reynolds (Mrs. Ed- birth of John Lee in December, 1949.
op at Washington high school in gar Schmidt), '25, '40, has been on a
st Chicago. His wife is the former years' leave of absence from teaching The Alexanders live at 211 Frari'klin
ry Dora Bancroft of Greenup. in the Hinsdale, Ill., schools. She Ave., Edwardsville, Ill.
Dorothy Truax (Mrs. Lewis E. spent six months touring through
Cown), '40, is helping to care for fifteen western states and Mexico. Mona Rose Grismer (Mrs. Charles
M. Davis), '41, is living in Spring-
niece and is taking a brush-up Thelma Ione Moon (Mrs. Herman field, Ill., where Mr. Davis is a sales-
rse in business. She is living at Monts), '40, has returned to work as man. They have a baby girl, Charlotte
a visitor for the Illinois Public Aid Rose, born July 26, 1949.
E. Springfield Ave., Champaign, Commission. They have moved to
1703 Seventh Street, Charleston, Ill. Clovis Toby Scott, '41, athletic di-
Baroid Dale Mieure, '40, head of rector and basketball coach at St.
tional education in Marion, Ill., Emily Elizabeth Waggoner (Mrs. Anne high school, reports that his
John W. Smith), '40, has been accept- basketball team has won a confer-
11 receive his master's degree ed by the Teachers College, Columbia ence championship three years
m Southern Illinois university this university, as a ca.ndidate for the straight. St. Anne is in the Kankakee
Ed. D. degree. The Smiths live in Valley conference, composed of all
r. Harrisburg, Ill., where Emily is di- the high schools in Kankakee county
tharles H. Ridey, '40, industrial rector of health and physical educa- except Kankakee high school.
tion for girls and John works for the
teacher and coach at Gi;ayslake, Pure Oil Company. Mary Lee Cox (Mrs. Ernest R.
, is working toward the M. S. Miller), '41, returned from Tokyo,
Gerald Gale Mieure, '40, has been Japan, in June, 1949. Her husband is
ee at the University of Illinois. made commanding officer of Com- now stationed at Tinker Air Force
a\nne Margaret Worland (Mrs. pany H of the Illinois National Guard. Base, Oklahoma City, Okla. Their
hn P. Harmon), '40, has a new Coach and industrial arts instructor address is 216 E. Myrtle Drive, Mid-
at Paris, Ill., Gerald has been attend- west City, Okla.
ghter, Shelia Mary, born June 30, ing summer school at Indiana State
9. Mr. Harmon is a sports editor as a graduate student. Leone Ruth Liggett (Mrs. Robert
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the L. Acton), '41, writes that she has
Doris Tillman Wilson, '401 is prin- a new son, Robert Wayne, born May
live at 1723 Grande Ave., cipal of the elementary school in Buf- 15, 1950. The Actons live at Collison,
falo, Ill. He married Musetta L. Gad- Ill.
Eileen Wittnam (Mrs. dis of Neoga. The Wilsons have three
'40, has a baby girl born Margaret E. Davis (Mrs. Joe M.
tober 31, 1949. Mr. and Mrs. daughters. Bressler), '41, has a second daughter,
ms live at 216 E. South . Street, Ernest William Thompson, '40, Ruth Marie, born April 5, 1950. Her
komis, Ill. other daughter is three years old. Mr.
Guy Dale Vaughn, '40, has a new ·was recently appointed principal of Bressler leaves his coaching duties
, Richard Sidney, born March 22, the Central school, Des Plaines, Ill., at Charleston high school to become
60. Dale teachers printing at the for the 1950:51 school year. He pre- principal of the East Unity junior
ynolds high school in Winston- viously taught industrial arts at Des high, Sidney, Ill., next year. He re-
em, N. C. Plaines Junior high school. ceived the M. A. at the University of
Loren Earl Jenne, '40, is county Illinois in 1948.
surer of Moultrie county, Ill. He M.argaret Nolene Long (Mrs. Joe
es with his family (two children, D. Ward), '40, is · teaching second Maurice Rex Taylor, '41, coach at
es five and three), at 1123 E. Jack- grade in the Douglas school in Dan- Noble Ill., high school, writes that his
St., Sullivan. ville, Ill. teams have won three straight con-
Paul Taylor Stine, '40, an electronic ference basketball tournaments and
ntist in Washington, D. C., re- Herschel Allen Jones, '40, now has two conference championships.
tly made four three-week trips to two children. Alan Lee is two years
· ornia in connection with his old, and David Earl is one. Herschel Ruth Moreen Williams (Mrs.
rk. His Washington address is 5JOO is teaching industrial arts in Co- James A. Howard), '41, has twin
line Drive S. E., Washington 20. daughters, Judith Ann and Janet Sue,
.John Oscar Pier, '40, has a son, lumbus, Ohio. born September 22, 1949. Their ad-
n Ronald, born October 1, 1949. dress is Box 90, Alvin, Ill.
n is an industrial arts teacher in Ernest Thompson, '40, has been
Venice, Ill., high school. Mrs. named principal of the Central school Marjorie Mae West (Mrs. Allen
is the former Helen Wickiser. in Des Plaines, Ill., for the coming David Lodge), '41, has a daughter,
year. He had been a member of the Ruth Ann, born August 17, 1949.
'4o,,A.rlin Rennels, Jr., a .iiiiot for faculty of the junior high school in Marjorie lives in Robinson, where
that city. Allen is a sales engineer.
stal Air Lines, married a United
lines stewardess in May, 1949. Darrell Ryan, '40, is now with Eleanor Maudeline Wade (Mrs.
Y are expecting an heir in Jury. Black's Hardware. in Danville, hav- Albert B. Cutright), '41, is no longer
ing left the Decatur headquarters of teaching. She has a baby daughter,
bert Osborne Thomas, '40, plant the company over a year ago. Kay Lynne, born October 30, 1949.
·ologist in Fayetteville, Ark., Mr. Cutright is a farmer near Green-
a new daughter, Suzan Elizabeth. Gladys Naomi Feller, '40, married up.
Neil Lugsch in 1947. Their present
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Acting Dean of Men the past year. His address is 1265 and their children, Barbara and Bill,
Clayton Street, Denver, Colo. Jr.; Gerald and Lorraine (Groff)
Dr. Louis G. Schmidt, above, will Shafer with 'little Jerry' and daugh-
act as dean of men and director of Owen Harlan, '41, is the father o"f
veterans' services next year while a son, Ronald Keith, born April 12, ter Ann; Henry and Maxine Radlod
Dr. R. D. Anfinson is on leave to 1950. Owen, now an assistant profes- Meyer _vvith their two girls and a
study at Stanford university. Dr. sor of industrial arts at the New
Schmidt, a former naval officer and York State College for Teachers at boy; and Ed and Jean (Jones) Weir
member of the Fort Dodge, la., junior Buffalo, is living at 164 Grandview with. their three boys and a girl."
college staff, was director of student Avenue, Buffalo 23, New York. He
activities at Eastern during the past has completed the course work for Mr. Rice is completing an M. A.
year. the Ed. D. degree at the University in math. Sons Alan and Paul are 6
of Missouri and is now writing his and 3 years of age.
Edna Irene Taylor (Mrs. Robert thesis.
L. Tallman), '41, is teaching home- Keith and Ruth (Weidner) Alex.
making at the Parkersburg, W. Va., Audrey Irene Quick (Mrs. James ander, '42, are parents of John Lee,
high school. She has two children, R. Davidson), '41, has another new born December 31, 1949. Daughql
two and three years old. address. She now lives at 336 Ham- Sue is now six.
mes, Kankakee, Illinois.
Frank William Tate, '41, writes Margaret Jean (Weingand) Cross,
that he recently visited Porter Hill, Ben Harrison Richardson, '41, en-
'41, and Mrs. Hill, the former Alyce tomologist· in Winter Haven, Texas, '42, and her husband; Al, live at
Behrend, '41, in their new home in has a baby daughter, Pamela Flor- 612% S. Wright Street in Cham-
Millbrae, Calif. F'rank reports that ence, born October 21, 1949. paign. He is writing a thesis for his
Porter is now manager of the West- Ph. D. in German.
ern office in San Francisco of the Joe Dee Ward, '41, received the M.
First National Stores, the fourth S. degree from the University of Ill. Ed Sluder, '42, is teaching com-
largest grocery chain in the U. S. last summer, 1949. He is teaching merce at Findlay again. Mrs. Sludeil
social science and industrial arts, is the former Hazel Isley. The Slud.I
Jennie Eleanor Garner (Mrs. Ralph coaching track, and assisting the
E. Smith), '41, has a son, Paul Ed- football coach at the Danville, Ill., ers' twin sons have a brother, bord
win, born March 12, 1949. Jennie and high school.
her family live at 406 S. Randolph in November.
St., Garrett, Ind. William Wilson Thomas, '41, as- Lillian Cora Michael (Mrs. Ly)
sistant professor of potany at Kan-
Ephriam Hayes Kennard, '41, has sas State college, will be on leave Howe), '42, has a daughter, Judith
a new daughter, Sally. He is teach- beginning in September to continue Louise, born June 16, 1949. Th
ing and coaching in the junior high graduate study. Howes live in Mancelona,
school in Cerro Gordo, Ill. where Lyle is a trucker.
Mary Lee Cox (Mrs. Ernest R.
Mary Lou Marsh (Mrs. Howard A. Miller), '41, 216 E. Myrtle Drive, Alice June Walcher (Mrs. Cla
Brown), '41, has a baby boy, Rich- Midwest City, Okla., returned from ence C. Pool), '42, has a daugh
ard Allen, born March 22, 1950. The Tokyo, Japan, in June, 1949. Her born October 12, 1949. Alice and he
Browns' address is R. R. 5, Olney, husband is now stationed at the air husband live on a farm near Pip
Ill. force base in Oklahoma City, Okla. City, Ill.

Ira Edward Onken, '41, received Frances L. Burgener (Mrs. Verl D. Wayne Crawford Saxton, '42,
the M. A. degree from Denver univer- Fisher), '41, has a new daughter, dairy owner at Kansas, sends wo
sity in August, 1949, and taught in Peggy Kay, born August 26, 1949. that the "name of someone who
the Junior high school in Denver Mr. Fisher is a jeweler in Tolono, Ill. always know his address" is "Co
lector of Internal Revenue, U. S. A.
P AGE TWENTY· TWO Dave Hart, '41, head basketball Not br agging, Wayne?
coach at Albion, had a basketball rec-
ord to be proud of this year. His Ila Mae Birch (Mrs. Howard Diec
team won the Little Ten conference mann), '42, has a baby boy, G
with a 12-0 record, won the Little
Ten tournament, and finished the Stephen, born March 11, 1950.
season with a 17-3 record. Dave has Dieckmanns live at 8019 McGee Av
a son, David Lee, born September 17, St. Louis 23, Mo.
1949. Mrs. Hart is the former Doro-
thy J. Timmons, '39. The Harts live Mary Frances Gaumer (Mrs.
at 136 W. Poplar Street, Albion. H. F'ogel), '42, has two sons, a

Class of 1942 one and three. She is a housewife a
lives at 240 30th St., Oakland, Ca
From a letter to Irene Allison
from Mr. and Mrs. Orville Rice, '42, Gara Luella Wallace (Mrs. Pa
now of J-23-B, Stadium Terrace, E. Wells), '42, is a housew~
Champaign, Ill.: Montrose, Ill., where her husb
runs a cleaning establishment. Th
"We could hardly feel more at have one son, David Paul, 2 Y
home on the Eastern campus than we old.
do here at. Stadium Terrace in Cham-
paign. Within the distance of a city Louise Doak (Mrs. C. W. Turne
block you'll find the Bill Winnetts '42, lives in Washington, D. C., wh
"Bill" is associated with a law fi
as a patent attorney.

Eleanor Enid Erickson (Mrs. C
Dude), '42, has just moved to th
new home, The Dude Ranch, R. R.
P eotone, Ill. Eleanor has a seco
child, a boy, William, born Decern
8, 1949, The Dudes raise horses,

and chickens. kie, Ill., and Mrs. Phipps, the former Bettie Marie Witts, '43, is return-
paul William Jones, '42, has a Virginia Schroeder, have a baby girl, ing to Decatur in June and hopes to
Suzanne, born December 3, 1949. He teach there next year. She has been
position as applications engineer asks alumni in the Chicago area to employed as a secretary for Sears,
th the SheII Oil Company in Wood look them up. They're "in the phone Roebuck and Company in Chicago.
ver, Ill. He is living at R. R. 1, book." Her Decatur address is 3835 E. Cerro
:xana Terrace, East Alton, Ill. Gordo St., Decatur, Ill.
llnth Gruber Donnelly, '42, a teach- Jim also states that he is play-
at the Chicago Home for Girls, ing baseball with Ft. Wayne, Ind., Dario Alesandro Covi, '43, is
this summer. The Ft. Wayne team studying at the Florence university
nded the Fourth Annual State- was last year's national champion. in Italy.
ide Institute of Children's Institu- Jim's high school baseball team went
ns in Chicago in March. Ruth's to the district finals, beating Maine Mary Elizabeth McCarty (Mrs.
Township high (where Wendell Steve Ambadjes), '43, has a second
ress is 1900 W. Polk Street, Chi- Brown, '40, is coach), a state final- son, Billy, born in December, 1948.
ist last year, and Northbrook before Her address is 1255 Boynton Avenue,
o. being edged by Crystal Lake. Bronx 59, New York.
Verle Lillian Mesnard (Mrs. Don-
John Wilbur Voigt, '42, received Elizabeth Louise Podesta ( Mrs.
F. Stiff), '42, writes that her the Pb. D. degree in February. He F. J. Hickman), '43, is "loving the
band is one of the "Pals of the has accepted a position as assistant sunny South and enjoying every
irie" now heard on WLBH, Mat- professor of botany at Southern Illi- minute of our very active life at
n, daily. Verle lives at 1108 Jack- nois university, starting September, Gunter." The Hickmans' address is
n St., Charleston, Ill. 1950. He wrote an article, "Monolith MOQ 131C, Gunter A.F.B., Montgom-
Janet Ann Winas (Mrs. Jack V. Method of Root-Sampling in Studies ery, Alabama.
ry), '42, has a baby daughter, on Succession and Degeneration,"
cki Ann, born January 5, 1950. published in 8-0tanica Gazette, April, Rasho Harris Winget, Jr., '43, a
net lives on Rural Route 1, Chris~ 1950. research chemist for the Carbide and
n, Ill. Carbon Chemical Company in Oak
llargaret Jean Weingand (Mrs. Blanche Alma Veeck, '42, language Ridge, Tenn., was transferred from
an ).\i. Cress), '42, is working as a arts teacher in Evansville, Ind., re- the K-25 plant to the X-10 plant on
retary at the Illinois Children's ceived her master's degree at In- February 1. His second son was
me and Aid Society in Champaign, diana university in October, 1949. born on December 15, 1949.
ere her husband is a student and She was initiated into Pi Lambda
t time teacher at the University Theta at Indiana university last Lloyd Henson, '43, was named su-
Illinois. July. Her present address is 415 W. perintendent of the Lakeview com-
.Alfred Redding, '42, received the Walnut St., Boonville, Ind. munity unit district this spring. His
ster of Education degree from the home is at 2216 East Decatur Street,
niversity of Missouri in August, Freda Reese Reynolds, a former Decatur.
49. He teaches printing at Spring- student, taught fifth grade at Fair-
ld high school. mount, Ill., during the past year af- Sam Arbuckle, '43, is a candidate
Bazel Charlene Isley (Mrs. Ed- ter being out of teaching for six
rd Sluder), '42, expects to receive years. Wins Highest Citation
e master's degree from the Urii-
sity of Illinois in homemaking Betty Markel (Mrs. Robert _Ma.- William A. Owen, '39, is awarded
cation in August, 1950. She has gill), '42, is the mother of a one the Decoration for Exceptional Civi-
new baby, Phillip Michael, born year old daughter, Susan, born in lian Service, the highest award
st November. Denver, where Robert is a station given to civilians by the Air Force,
Harold Merle Seip, '42, chemistry agent for Continental Airlines. The by Major General Robert W. Har-
ache1· at Danville high school, serv- Magills live at 1379 St. Paul, Den- per, commanding General of the Air
as adviser with a group of Ex- ver 6, Colorado. Training Command. Owen is in the
orer Scouts at Philmont National personnel section of the Command at
Class of 1943 Scott Field, Belleville, Ill.
New Mexico last
mer. Elizabeth Jane Lionberger (Mrs. Pi-OE TWE NTY-THREE
~adge Ellen Kirkham (Mrs. C. W. Allen S. Monts), '43, is living in
ell), '42, has a son, Glenn, born Muncie, Ill., where Allen, '48, is
ember 22, 1949. The Fells are teaching industrial arts at Oakwood
:ring near Kansas, Ill. Township high school. They have a
daughter, Linda Sue, born August
Harry Edward Prather, '42, social 22, 1949.
'ence teacher and coach at Tower
ill, Ill., now has two children, Pa- Ida Louise Teagarden (Mrs. Wm.
"cia Jean 4, and Cheryl Lynn 2. F. McConnell), '43, has . a son, Tim-
llobert Dale Moore, '42, coach at othy Scott, born September 2, 1949.
nson, Ill., has set an enviable rec- She writes that she "has met Thelma
Stoner Phipps, Bob Phipps, Armilda
as a basketball coach. This year Hudson Bielejec, and Madge Moore
team won 27 and lost 2. In four Cassity here in Albuquerque." Her
rs his teams have won 81 per address is 1316 N. Princeton, Albu-
nt of t~e games. querque, N. M.
,ames Harrison Phipps, '42, coach
.Niles Township high school, Sko-

Vermilion County Scenery? arthritic. hands.
Theodorsa Rae Ruhmann (Mrs. Ed
Alvin Spries, left, and Leo Bryant, officers of the Vermilion County
Eastern State Club, promise a gooel program for Danvilleland Easternites ward T. Day), '45, has a baby gir
next year. Jan Michelle, born January 12, 1950
The Days live at 814 E. Crawfo
for re-election as superintendent of vember 19, 1949. The Morses live in Paris, Ill. Ed teaches industrial a
at Paris high school.
schools in Edgar county. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Retha Elizabeth Sumner ( MrsJ
Class of 1944 Class of 1945 John Schuder), '45, has a seco
child, Charles Wayne, born April 30
Louise Elizabeth Leedy (Mrs. Willa Mae Strotman (Mrs. James 1949. She lives in West Lafayet
Ind., where her husband is on th
Richard H. Bidle), '44, has a young Albert Stroud), '45, has a daughter, staff at P1udue university.

daughter, Susan, born January 22, Susan Kay, born January 30, 1950. Marilyn Joan King (Mrs.
Kennard), '45, now has three childr
1949. Dick, also a member of the James is Vermilion county supervis- Steve, 4, Marlys, 2, and MichaeJ4
"Ike" is now owner of the Lit
Class of '44, is a chemist. They live or for the Farm Home Administra- Campus, a favorite haunt of Easte
students.
at 2110 W. 69th Place, Chicago 36, tion. The Strouds live at 1632 N. Ver-
Charles O'Neal, '45, has
Ill. milion, Danville, Ill. transferred from Delaware to
Illinois-St. Louis territory of
Emily Marie Steinbrecher (Mrs. Betty June Jenkins (Mrs. Clark Coca-Cola Company. He is now
ing in Mattoon. O'Neal had been
Anthony Codispoti), '44, has a new N. Jenkins), '45, of Shipman, Ill., Delaware for three years worki
for Cola-Cola as a chemist.
son, Paul, born August 27, 1949. She now has two sons. The second, Stan-
Clemens B. Hanneken, '45, is
lives in Los Angeles, Calif., at 7829 ley Clark, was born August 13, 1949. graduate student in math at
University of Illinois. His Urb
McConnell Avenue. Ferrel Atkins, '45, will JOin the address is 807 Nevada.

Norma King (Mrs. William Sun- faculty of Bowling Green State uni- Loraine B. Pabst, '45, received
Babcock Fellowship in history f
derman), '44, has a baby daughter, versity in Ohio in September as as- the University of Illinois for 1949-

Amanda Jane, born January 24, 1950, · sistant professor of mathematics. Class of 1946

on the birthday of her son, Tony. His wife, Ruth, will also teach there, Harriet Woods Stelzer (Mrs.
Stelzer), '46, writes that her old
Norma Rose Finkbiner (Mrs. as instructor in sociology. Ferrel has son, Kenneth, is graduating f
high school and will attend Mu
James A. Miller), '44, has one child, a master's degree from the Univer- State college in Kentucky this
on an athletic scholarship. Ha
Jo Anne, 11h years old. Norma is a sity of Illinois and a doctor's degree teaches social studies at Mt. Ca
high school.
housewife, living on R. R. 1, India- from the University of Kentucky. He
Elizabeth Ann VanMeter
nola, Ill. and his wife are directing a camp for Vernon C. Cox), '46, has a
daughter, Cynthia Ann, born
Elizabeth Clara Morse, '44, fourth crippled children in the San Ber- tember 9, 1949. The Coxes live
Tremont, Ill., and Vernon is P
grade teacher at the Washington nardino mountains in California this engineer of the Corn Products R
ing Company in Pekin.
school in Decatur, hopes to com- summer.
James Hayden Roberts, '46, is
plete work for a master's degree at Esther Elaine Finley (Mrs. Don- portedly busy in Aledo, lll., whe
is editor of the Times Record. U
the University of Illinois in August, ald F. Stengel), '45, taught home- secretary of the Kiwanis Club,
rector of the Junior Chamber of C
1950. making in F'orreston half time for merce, and Chairman of the Me
County Chapter of the Ame
Wilfred George Rauch, '4.4, teach- a year and full time this past year. Cancer Society.

er at the Galloway school, Ingraham, She lives near Mount Morris, Ill., Class of 1947

Ill., has a baby daughter, Rebecca where her husband is a farmer. W. Dale Williams, '47, will
Dorothy Markell of Hannibaij
Susanne, born September 17, 1949. Virginia Rose Kannmacher, '45, has where Mr. Williams teaches at
Lucy Marian Warford (Mrs. Lloyd a greeting card and magazine sub- nibal-LaGrange college, next Jui
scription business in Martinsville,
E. Mann), '44, has a new baby, James Ill. She also does tex tile printing to Stanley Eugene Young, '47, is
Alan, born March 30, 1950. She lives order. She writes that she is in· the
in Oblong, Ill., and her husband works process of making herself a pafr of
in Robinson.

Dorothy Jean Rominger (Mrs. white kid gloves, an occupation which

Earl Charles Morse), '44, has a sec- she has found fascinating as well as

ond daughter, Susan Jean, born No- a problem in fitting to conform to her

PAGE TWEN TY-FOUR

anual arts therapist at the V. A. for the Ph. D. degree in 1951. Dur- Illinois Council for the Social Stud-
pita! in Swannanoa, North Caro- ing the past year he acted as an in- ies. He teaches at the Champaign
. He teaches printing and draft- structor in the speech and hearing junior high school.
to the patients there. clinic at Purdue university.
Wendell Albert Lathrop, '47, guid- George Clementson, '47, is the new
e director at Lawrenceville, Ill., Billy Max Seaman, '47, received pastor of the First Presbyterian
h school, attended the 1949 sum- the M. A. from Wayne university in church at Grayv)lle, Ill. He expects
r session at the University of June, 1949. He worked during that to finish his theological studies at
summer for Mandeville and King, Louisville, Ky., within two years.
1sconsin. Inc., in Rochester, New York, and
•ussell Lee Ogden, '47, is $pend- during the 1949-50 school year as George William Roberts, a two
industrial arts teacher at Peotone,
his second summer attending Ill., high school. year graduate fnS' 1947, is now a
duate school at Colorado State
lege of Education at Greeley, Ralph David Wilson, '47, an as- senior at the College of Pharmacy,
sociate professor of business educa- University of Illinois, Chicago. He
Jo. tion at MacMurray college, is leaving was recently elected president of the
Lyle Lester Knott, '47, a graduate MacMurray for further graduate Chi chapter, Kappa Psi, national
dent at the University of Mis- study at Indiana university. pharmaceutical fraternity.
ri, will receive his master's degree
Mae Beth Vail, '47, is taking a Class of 1948
June. leave of absence from Ball State
Donald Edward Jones, '47, receiv- Teachers college in order to study Roy Malcolm Miller, '48, a grad-
the M. S. in Ed. degree from the for the doctorate. She has secured uate assistant in physical science at
an instructorship in early childhood Michigan State college, East Lans-
versity of Illinois in February, education at Syracuse university. ing, writes, "I see Gerald Kincaid on
. He is teaching in the Litch- campus often, as he is on the staff
ld, Ill., high school. Willis Calvert Rardin, '47, was here in English."
aerbert Edward Walsh, '47, will married last June to Marjorie Gaddis
eive the M. A. degree from Colo- of Libertyville, Ill. He is teaching in Derrill Clifford M.cMorris, '48,
o State College of Education this the public schools of Libertyville. writes from Crescent City, Ill., where
he is coaching and teaching, that his
mer. Herb is teaching at the East Thomas Stonewall Young, '47, baseball team had an undefeated sea-
ton-Wood River commu~ity high coach and commerce teacher at Arm- son and won the conference champ-
strong, Ill., now has two sons. The ionship.
ool. youngest, Terry, was born in June,
llerschel James McPherson, '47, is 1949. Betty Faye Wellman, '48, con-
feed and seed dealer in Marshall, tracted rheumatic fever last January.
. He is married to Roberta J. Fin- Donald Edward McKinney, '47, She is now almost fully recovered.
writes that he has a son, Richard Lee, Her address is 1518 Wabash Court,
' '40, and has a son, Lawrence born June 26, 1949. Don is a coffee Mattoon, Ill.
en, born March 6, 1950. salesman in Decatur.
llussell Marion Pierson, '47, ex- Stanley Frederick Koester, '48, is
ts to receive the M. S. in physics John Lewis, '47, who has been now a reporter for the Times News
June, 1950. He has been a grad- coaching at Grayville, Ill., since in Twin Falls, Idaho. He married
te teaching assistant at Purdue graduation, will attend the Univer- Frances Doak, a former Easternite,
iversity. sity of Mexico at Albuquerque next last year. He writes, "It is very scen-
Hildred Belle Mills, '47, is doing year. He has resigned at Grayville. ic out here."
'tic teaching at Fredonia State
Mary Jane Richards (Mrs. Leland Wanda Ruth Longbons, '48, vocal-
hers college, Fredonia, New Watson), '47, has a third child, Wal- ist for Capitol Mortuary in Denver,
ork. This summer she is doing ter Clement, born December 18, 1949. Colo., recently became engaged to
Her other two children, ages one Edd Keen of Amarilla, Texas. Her
onstration work at Buffalo State and two, are girls. Denver address is 1222 Pennsylvania.
chers college, Buffalo, New York.
Wallace Mellor Wilson, '47, has a Mrs. Watson has kept in touch with William Paul Stewart, '48, a grad-
n, Paul Wallace, born January 29, Dr. Thurber Madison and Miss M. uate student at the Colorado State
49. Wallace is an inspector at the Irene Johnson, formerly of the East- College of Education in Greeley, has
neral Electric Plant and lives in ern music department. Dr. Madison a baby boy, one year old.
tville, Ill., at 126 Moore Street. is at Indiana university and Miss
William Leona! Winnett, '47, re- Johnson is at Kansas State, where Warren Keith Jackson, '48, has
"ved the M. S. degree in February, she teaches and gives frequent piano purchased a home at 6040 Birchwood
50, at the . University of Illinois. recitals. Avenue, Indianapolis 20, Ind. He is
is teaching at the University h,igh teaching woodworking at Broad Rip-
ool, Urbana, Ill. James Hanks, '47, is the new as- ple high school.
Vera Louise Scherer (Mrs. How- sistant superintendent of schools at
R. Shaw), '47, has a daughter, Carmi, Ill. Hanks has been principal Charles Royal Barth, '48, is teach-
da Lou, who was one year old of the Longview high school in ing industrial arts in the Lawrence-
April 14. The Shaws liv~ on Rural Champaign county for the past two ville high school. He has a daughter,
ute 2, Olney, Ill., where Mr. Shaw years'. Urban B. Jefferies, Charles- Barbara Ann, born March 30, 1949.
a farm feeding advisor. ton school superintendent for many
John Eugene Paul, '47, has been years, is the new Carmi superintend- Kathleen Rachel Bell (Mrs. Pey-
arded a research fellowship by ent. ton W. Holaday), '48, has a new
due Research Foundation for daughter, Nancy Kaye, horn March
50-51. He will complete his work Harold Maris, '47, is president of 10; 1950. They live in Hoopeston, Ill.,
the East Central Division of the where Peyton is teaching.

Rosa Edna Jarboe, '48, business
education teacher in Grayville, plans

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'Days of Auld Lange Syne' trainer also.
James W. Arend, '49, has
Real old-timers reminisced at the April meeting of the Chicago Eastern
State Club. These are Miss Emily C. Reid, left, Class of 1913, and John C. teaching at the University of Illino
DeWolfe, '04, with Mrs. DeWolfe. Miss Reid, who was once a member of the Albert H. Brandt, '49, has
Players and the W'Apper staff, now teaches English at Proviso Township
high school, Maywood. Mr. DeWolfe is a prominent Chicago lawyer who working toward the M. A. at
attended the University of Chicago after finishing his work at Eastern. Colorado State College of Ed
tion, Greeley.
to attend summer school in Colo- uate of MacMurray college and
rado this summer. teaches music at the South Jackson- Dean Brown, '49, is employ~
ville grade school. the Oakland (Ill.) National bank~
Jean Highley Manuell, '48, has a
daughter, Jacqueline Marie, born Elizabeth Ruth Baughman, '48, is William Campbell, '49, writes t
January 17, 1950. Jean is principal now employed as a reference libra- he is taking the M. A. in chemis
of the Arlington school in Lawrence- rian for the Chicago Historical So- with an education minor at the U
ville, Ill. His wife is the former ciety. Her Chicago address is Mc- versity of Illinois.
Emily Ellis, '42. Cormick YWCA, 1001 N. Dearborn
M;ary Clawson, '49, will remaitll
Ellen Mae Hanks Wilcoxen (Mrs. Ray Metter, '48, will spend this the Michael Reese hospital in C
William Wilcoxen), '48, is teaching summer making detailed maps of an cago in medical technology
home economics in Oakland, Ill. Her area in the state of Utah near March, 1951.
husband, Bill, will graduate from Ephraim as part of his work in
Eastern this summer. geology at Ohio State university, Harold Cunningham, '49, is
Columbus, where he holds an as- ployed with the International
George Robert Miller, '48, is teach- sistantship. vester Company, parts departm
ing industrial arts at the Newman in Kankakee.
Ill., community high school. He has Ralph W. Widener, '48, was elected
two daughters, Peggy 3, and Sherry 1. faculty sponsor of Alpha Phi Omega, George Fogleman, '49, takes the
Scout service fraternity, on campus A. degree in June from the. UniVI
Jack J. Watts, "48, head of the in- of the University of Mississippi at sity of Illinois.
dustrial arts department at Roanoke University, Miss., last February.
Rapids Senior high school in North Widener is an instructor in speech Arthur Glad, '49, writes that
Carolina, is attending Penn State at the university. He was chairman of expects to receive the M. A. in P.
college during summer sessions. the first Intramural Speech Festival in June at the University of Illin
at the U. of M., held in February. "I am on an assistantship and
Shirley Jean Middlesworth, '48, Widener was a charter member of been carrying four units of
English teacher and adviser for the APO at Eastern and was an honor so have been pretty busy."
school newspaper at Amboy high student in speech.
school, sends word that the high D. Lyle Goleman, '49, has a t
school paper received a second place Class of 1949 ing fellowship in the departme4
rating in the annual Columbia Scho- zoology and entomology at lo
lastic Press Association contest. Shirley Jones State college, Ames.
High School
Charles E. Moore, '48, directed the Morton, Illinois Marie Gressel, '49, plans to at
Longview, Ill., high school band to a Colorado State college this sum
first division rating in the IHSA Charles E. Anderson, '49, will suc- and has been assigned an assis
district contest this spring. ceed Wilson Day, '42, as head coach ship. Marie teaches at Paris, Ill.
at the Rement, Ill., high school. An-
Don W. Kirchhofer, '48, and Miss derson has been studying toward the Eugene Jeanguenat, '49, writes,
Frances Lane were married June 11 M. A. at the University of Illinois present I'm teaching shorthancl
at Jacksonville, Ill., where Mr. during the past year on an assistant- typewriting at the Andrews Sc
Kirchhofer teaches science and· math ship. He was an assistant athletic for Girls, Willoughby, 0., a pri
at the David Prince junior high school. It is a practical school to
school. Mrs. Kirchhofer is a grad- der girls self-supporting. They
work successfully. on the job for
months before they receive
diplomas." Eugene plans to comp
five hours at Ohio State unive
this summer for the M. A. and f'
his thesis. He joined Delta Pi
Ion at OSU.

Donald E. Johns, '49, taugh.
year in the Chicago schools and VI
ed on the M. A. in physics at
Paul university.

James E. Jones, '49, was atten
the Officer Candidate school,
land Air Force Base, San An
Texas, in January.

Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. Maron~
spent the year in graduate wor
Mexico City college, Mexico.
expected to complete the M. S.
education and Mrs. Marontoi

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er Dorothy Cooley, in art his- and take extension courses next win- George Marion Reat, '49, has
. Both will teach next year at ter. finished his graduate work at the
University of Colorado and graduated
~reek, Colorado. The Marontos Joseph Kruzich, '49, writes that he in June with the M. Ed. degree.
Jne parents in January. will remain in Virden next year. He
rgaret Marron, '49, did not is teaching industrial arts and serv- James 'Villiarn Holaday, '49,
h during the past year, having ing as assistant coach. taught in the elementary schools of
t the winter in Florida with Sullivan, Ill., during the 1949-50
rly parents. She toured the coast Margaret Jean Leonard, '49, writes school year and has entered the Uni-
the Keys in February. She will that her husband is training to be a versity of Illinois to work on the M.
h next year at Arlington Heights, store credit manager. Jean is doing S. degree in elementary education.
bookkeeping and general office work
nnette Mitchell, '49, married in a retail store in Albuquerque, N. Millard Martin, '49, is employed
'n L. Duzan last September 18. M.., where the Leonards live at 300 as a sales clerk in Olney, Ill. He has
;r>uzan farms two miles . north of Greenwich Road. a son born July 5, 1949.
as, Ill. Says Jeannette, "My
band is a wonderful student of Dean 0. Tillman, '49, was married Louis Stivers Jr., '49, is a proud
e economics." to Miss Carolyn Elizabeth Sunkel of papa. He has a son, Michael, born
Kansas City, Mo., on May 7 in Paris, December 2, 1949. Lou has been head
rge Moritz, '49, is completing Ill. Dean teaches social science and coach at the Oakland, Ill., Community
M. A. in art education at the serves as assistant coach at Spring- high school, but will be at Carlinville,
ersity of Wisconsin. He is the field high school. Ill., high school as athletic director
d father of twin girls born last next year.
tember. Carolyn Leah Hill (Mrs. William E.
arles C. M,ullen, '49, has been an Fennel, III), '49, writes that she and David Winnett, '49, and Mrs. Win-
stant in the department of bot- her husband plan to be near Ann nett, the former Jacqueline Adams,
at the University of Illinois Arbor, Mich., next year. Caro\Yn are parents of a one year old son,
'ng the past year, working to- worked as an administrative assist- David Adams. Mr. Winnett is em-
ant and secretary at Stephens col- ployed with John Dune Farm Imple-
the M. A. lege this year. ment Sales and Service Company of
yman Munsell, '49, entered the Toledo, Ill.
ersity of Illinois in February to Hope Brown Nelson, '34, '49, is
k toward the M. S. teaching second grade in Glenmont Elenore Moberley, '49, who teaches
School, Montgomery county, Mary- in the high school at Windsor, Ill.,
'49, has been land. Her school is just about forty- is taking post-graduate work at
University of five minutes from downtown Wash- Eastern this summer to qualify as a
ois. ington, D. C. She reports that Mont- librarian. Miss Moberley was editor
ornas Potter, Jr., '4_9, studied at gomery county has one of the finest of the Eastern State News in 1948-
~eorge Washington School of school systems in the country. She 49. Other former News editors tak-
in Washington, D. C;, during the has two children, a son, 7, and a ing post-graduate courses are Hal
year. daughter, 8. Hubbard, ~49, and Harry Read, '50.

nald Pyle, '49, attended the Uni- Richard Eldon Perry, '49, has a George McAdarn Moritz, '49, a
ity of Illinois during the past baby daughter, Susan Jo, born June graduate student at the University
16, 1949. Dick is a speech correctioii- of Wisconsip, will finish his work
Barbara Rennels Scott, '49, ist in Crawford county, Ill. there in August.
second grade at Bement dur-
the first part of the past year John Robert McCullough, '49, has Olin George Kreuter, '49, who is
e her husband attended law a new son, Robert John, born this working on a master's degree at the
1 at the University of Illinois. spring. He and Mrs. McCullough live University of Illinois, plans to con-
started work toward the M. A. at 3509 Grayson Lane, Austin, Texas. tinue in school there and work to-
~ucation during the second s~ wards the Pb. D. His address is Sta-
ter at Urbana. Virginia Rose Walker, '49, be- dium Terrace, F39 A-1, Champaign,
came Mrs. Ralph E. Watkins on De- Ill.
ank J. Roytek, '49, now owns cember 24, 1949. She is teaching at
Dixie Cream Do-Nut Shop in Indianola high school and living near Mr. and Mrs. Jack .Sensintaffar,
ville, Ill. He was married to Ridgefarm, Ill., where her husband '49, are parents of a daughter born
llis Rita Welsh of Mattoon on farms. June 5 at Lawrence, Kansas, where
Jack is working toward his master's
uth St. John Thomas, '49, taught Stephen Lorenzo Ketchie, '49, degree in zoology at the University
nd grade at the Franklin Park principal of Mt. Pulaski community of Kansas.
entary school near Chicago consolidated grade school, writes
e husband Dick attended the that his district has plans for build- Carl Cohoon, '49, teacher of dis-
ill School of Journalism, North- ing an addition to the present school tributive education at Charleston
tern. p~ant, to include kindergarten, class- high school last year, will teach the
rooms, industrial arts shop, gym, same subject at the Lincoln, Ill., high
bert Vickers, '49, taught .grade auditorium, office, garage, cafeteria, school next year.
high school industrial arts clas- etc.
in Venice, Ill. after December 1, Samuel Darrell Crisp, ''.19, is a
. He plans to supervise recrea- Robert Martin Inyart, '49, has a graduate student in the college of
groups in St. Louis this summer new son, Michael Joseph, born March education at the University of Illi-
6, 1950. nois and does substitute teaching in
Champaign and Urbana. His address
Willard Herrick St. John, '49, is 211 W. High Street, Urbana.
coach at Longview high school, has
one daughter, Claudia. PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

'Aye, Aye, M'am,' Say Champaign Brass economics in Beecher City.
Albert H. Fullerton taught co
New officers of the Champaign County Eastern State Club, which met at
the Illini Union Building in April, are 1 to r., Florence Aye, Bill Winnett, merce in Norris City, Ill., after
and James Hanks. Hanks recently left Champaign county to become as- completed his work at Eastern
ststant superintendent of the big Carmi, Ill., school system. Miss Aye the end of the winter quarter.
is an elementary principal at Champaign and Mr. Winnett teaches at the will teach at the Melvin, Ill., hi
University high school. school next year.

Wilma Jean Ashby, '49, became position at Princeton, Ill., with the Russell Furr will teach indus
the bride of Ben Hall of Macomb on Pioneer Hybrid Corn Company. arts and physical education in Fi
June 18. Hall, a former Eastern stu- lay,
dent, is employed in the sales depart- George Thomas Clark will attend
ment of the Purina-Ralston Company graduate school at the University of Clara Rose Gentry will be in Wi
of Macomb, Ill. Jean taught music in Michigan for advanced work in bot- sor next year teaching social scie
Robinson last year. any. and girls' physical education.

Robert Mcintyre, '49, has spent the Ruth Cline will teach home econom- Russell Ghere is moving his fa
past year at Tulane university, New ics in Oakland next year. She and ily to Bridgeport, where he will te
Orleans, where he has held an as- Jack Robertson, '50, expect to be typing and coach football.
sistantship in zoology. In addition to · married in August. Jack will be
teaching, he was . in charge of · a speech correctionist in Oakland. Raymond Griffin finished out
zoological laboratory. year teaching industrial arts in
Jean E. Coon will teach first grade catur.
Class of 1950 in Springfield.
Nelson Grote will teach indus
Members of the Class of 1950 join- Ernest L. Copp has secured a posi- arts next year in
ed the Eastern alumni~ ranks this tion teaching industrial arts and so- wife Wilma, '50,
month. Many of them have already cial science in the junior high school grade there.
secured teaching positions for the at Humboldt.
coming year. Barbara Heise became Mrs.
Lovell L. Cox will be art teacher les Clark on June 5. The cerem
Robert P. Alexander will coach and supervisor in Lawrenceville. was held in the auditorium in the
and teach physical education in the Mary J. Booth library. Barbara
upper grades in Mascoutah. Jack Crews will direct the band teach speech correction in Deca
and vocal music in Newton next and Charles, '49, will continu-'
Earl W. Benoche has secured a year. teach commerce in Moweaqua,
position for next year teaching phy-
sical education and social science and Bill Crum will be head football Gerald D. Holley will serve
coaching in the Manteno high school, coach and teach math at the Villa coach and physics and math tea
replacing Hugh Phipps, '43. Grove high school. in the high school at WellingtoJt

Mary Jo Boles will teach grade and Robert Douthit has accepted a Doris Siegel Hudson will
high school music at Redman. position to teach music and art in business education at Redmon.
Potomac, Ill.
Harrison Brown will serve as ele- Mary Louise Humes has secur
mentary supervisor for the Arthur Vernon V. Drake has received an position teaching Spanish, Latin,
schools; assistantship in the business educa- English at Drummer Townshilll
tion department at Indiana univer- school in Gibson City.
Virginia Bullard will be a speech sity, Bloomington, Ind.
correctionist at Hillsboro. Dale Eugene Jenne
Ralph Leon Elliott will teach in- Racine, Wisconsin.
Anna Butler expects to teach Eng- dustrial arts in Mattoon next year.
lish and Spanish in the high school Michael Kass will teach
at Metcalf. David Firebaugh will be principal seven and eight and act as coach
of the Ludlow, Ill., grade school and principal of the grade school in 1
Paul R. Byers will spend next year t each the three upper g rades. view.
t eaching commerce in Louisville high
school. Frank Floski will attend a medical Mary Beth Smith Kersey will
laboratory and x-ray school in St. third grade in Mattoon.
Thomas E. Carlyle has secur ed a Louis. He will serve as an x-ray
technician. Donald W. Kimpling will teac
strumental music at Gr eenvill•
Della Mae Foss will t each home
Opal P. King will teach
seven and eight and be princip
the grade school in Cooksvillt?t

Betty Kirkham will teach
merce in the Carmi high school

Freda Kirts will teach secon4
in Mattoon.

Roy Klay will be coachintl
teaching physical education in
junior high school at Mt. Aubu

Mary E. Knollenberg will te
the primary grades in Pana.

Fred H. Kolkhorst will teach
ness education in Allerton. His
Imogene Engel Kolkhorst, '48,
continue to t each in Oakland~

PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT

kVail L. Lathrop is spending the James Rominger will teach general in the high school.
biology at the University of New
mer attending Harvard univer- Mexico in Albuquerque. Martin Tredway will be speech
correctionist in Rossville.
on a scholarship which he re- Dean Ruyle will be speech cor-
rectionist in Shelbyville. Dorothy Jean Troesch, another
ved as a result of his participa- speech correctionist, will be in Shel-
Marjorie Sexson will work in byville.
n in the Principia College Public speech correction in Mattoon.
Leona B. Ulm will teach second
airs Conference. He will teach Nellie May Shepard has accepted grade in Moweaqua.
a position teaching commerce in
ial science next year in Beecher Sidell. Coralie Wetherell will teach first
grade in Shelbyville.
y. Robert Simpson will be speech cor-
rectionist in Greenville. Ray A. Weber has accepted a
Chester Leathers has a graduate graduate assistantship at Indiana
Patricia Jean Smith will teach university, Bloomington, Ind., in the
tantship in botany at the Uni- art, physical education, and home geography department.
economics in Oakland.
sity of Michigan for next year. Anna Mary Weiler will teach home
Charlene Spencer will teach third economics in Wayne City.
i;Joan Levitt wili teach home eco- grade and art in Bridgeport.
Wilhelmina Jean Wetterow will
ics in Clay City. Sarah Sporleder will teach second teach art in the upper grades in
grade in Shelbyville. Bridgeport.
uy H. Mahan will be a speech cor-
William Swearingen will teach typ- Fred L. Wilson will coach football
'onist in Olney. ing and bookkeeping at Mattoon and teach industrial arts in Arthur.
high school.
bollie Davidson Martin (Mrs. Le- Maurice E. Wilson will teach in-
Virgil Sweet will be coach in 'Cov- dustrial arts and physical education
d) will teach music and girls' phy- ington, Ind., where he will also teach in grades six, seven, eight, and ten
social science. at Chaddock School for Boys in
1 education in Oakland. Her hus- Quincy, Ill.
Jack Tenison will teach English
d is a student at Eastern. and speech in Hoopeston. Maylo Koontz, a former student,
is teaching her first year at Wheeler,
tanley Martin taught in the Tri- Shirley Thornton is in Fairfield, Ill., in the primary grades.
where she taught business education
high school at Buffalo, Ill., af-

he completed his work at Eastern

lecember. He taught science and

sical education.

llelma Mathias will teach home ec-

omics at Herrick high school.

ean McMillan has accepted a

uate assistantship in physics at

n State college.

Vera Ruth Meyer finished out the

ool year teaching in the element-

schools in Springfield.

!Marion Michael is employed as a Monica/ Gets Taste of TV, Production End

vate secretary at the Winthrop

oe Company in St. Louis.

Ruth Evelyn Middleton is employ-

in Charleston. ·

tharles Moon will be principal of

grade school and teach fifth

de in Farmer City.

Ji:ugene Charles Neunaber plans on

ing graduate study next year.

llichard Olmstead is teaching ac-

nting in a St. Louis secretarial

ool.

Bans Olsen, Jr., will teach seven-

trade in Harvard, Ill.

•arrison Read, Jr., will teach so-

l science at the Marshall, Ill., high

ool next year. He is engaged to

rry Miss Mildred Schramm this

mer.

larilyn Jean Reed became Mrs.

gh Hutson this month. They are

'ng on a farm south of Charles-

Ruth Rice will teach home econom- Urban Lowell'Monical, '37, is director of student teaching in industrial
in Kansas, Ill. arts at Millersville State Teachers college, Pa., where the industrial arts
department is considered one of the best in the state. Above, center, Monica!
ac,bert Richardson will teach com- is demonstrating one of the activities of students in the junior high school
rce in the high school. and some which he directs.
Urses in the junior high school at
lfax. PAGE TWENTY-NINE
ale E. Robinson has secured a
'tion in the departmental seventh

eighth grades in Edwardsville.

Dr; Brown Explains Need must have the approval of the
nance Department before it can
For Autonomous TC Board made. The Normal School Board
by unanimous vote decide that c
(Re-printed from the December, 1949, tain purchases or repairs or impro\'
ments shall be made. Such action
Education Today, joint teachers Dr. Browne, who has been on the Normal School Board may
college .magazine) the faculty of ISNU since 1928, completely nullified by the action
one or both of these department!lll
By Richard G. Browne cautions that the views express- have therefore reached the conclus
that these five teacher training i
Head, Department of Social Science ed here are his own and not nec- stitutions will never be able to
Illinois State Normal University essarily those of the University. complish for Illinois what they sho
However, the author's opinions accomplish without the removal
Newly Elected President Joint Alum- are based on long teachers col- these restraints and limitations;i
ni Council for Eastern, Normal, lege experience. His father am of the opinion that the Nor
Northern, Southern, and Western taught at Southern Illinois Uni- School Board should be made as f
The 67th General Assembly, which versity during 1903-1932. A sis- and autonomous as the Board
will meet in 1951, may be asked to ter taught at Western Illinois Trustees in charge of the State U
grant administrative autonomy to State College for 12 years while versity, that the appropriatio
the Illinois teachers colleges by re- another sister was head librarian should be made to the board and t
moving them from the Civil Admin- at Southern. action of the board in the expendi
istrative Code and the Department of this money should be final."

of Registration and Education. Such President Felmley of ISNU
previously reached the same cone!
action, for which precedent was es- sion and wrote vigorous protest.t
tablished in 1949 when the new sep- local school authorities. the chairman of the board conce
ing it. In the fall of 1917 he wro
arate board for Southern Illinois Difficulties with this system devel- "It seems to me that all the ha
ships that this new system is br"
University was granted such auto- oped very early. ing us are due to non-recogniti4
differences . . . The normal sch
nomy, would actually, if taken, be In 1922, State Superintendent have been tacked on to an ad
based on difficulties which were Francis G; Blair pointed out that istrative machine that fits charita
foreseen as early as 1917 when· the while he felt the unification of the and penal institutions of the state
present system was established. five boards into a single board had
And again: "The plan for purch
A Single Teachers College Board been desirable, the loss of autonomy ing is complicated, needlessly c
Under a Code Department, 1917-1949 in putting the new board under a plicated for us where so many s
code department was bad. His five- purchases are necessary. If we
When the General Assembly enact- year experience as a member of the low the regular routine, in pure
ed the Civil Administrative Code in board under this plan led him to say: ing an article, there are involvel
1917, the University of Illinois was sheets of paper, nine postage sta
a transmission through the m
able to maintain its autonomy (de- "It was decided to put this Normal five messenger trips in the S
Capitol, and the attendant cle
spite the recommendations of the School Board in the Department of expense."

Efficiency and Economy Committee Registration and Education. The dis- System Works in Spite of, Not
Because of, Organizational Plan
and its staff of U. of I. political scien- cussion which went forward respect-
Gradually, the system was
tists). The teachers colleges, how- ing the interests of these five insti- to work, never without friction!
frequent misunderstanding. B
ever, were not able to remain auto- tutions and the absolute necessity of ness managers were installed in
five schools, generally over the
nomous but were made, albeit with keeping them free from political in- tests of the respective presiden.
1933, a coordinator for the board
great misgivings, a part of the De- fluence, led to what seemed to be a employed with an office in Sp ·
field and a close working rela
partment of Registration and Educa- very general agreement that the ship with the Department of R
tration and Education. In many
tion. A single board was appointed Normal School Board, while placed the t eachers colleges seemed to P
per. Their appropriations for op
by the Governor which replaced the in one of these nine departments, was tion rose substantially as their
rollment increa sed. A modern sa
five separate boards previously exist- to be autonomous and free. It was

ing. The director of the Department to possess all the powers that had

of Registration and Education be- been possessed by the five original

came chairman of this board and the boards. I for one believed that the ar-

state superintendent of public in- rangement made guaranteed to these

struction, its secretary. All pur- five normal schools as much freedom

chases, requisitions, warrants, and as they had previously possessed. A

other business items were routed few years under the new arrange-

through departmental channels and ment made it very clear that that

became part of the mass of State was not the fact. The appropriations

House paper work. Nonacademic em- are not made to the Normal School

ployees became subject to State Board, which is the first limitation

Civil Service regulations. Salaries be- of power. All purchases of materials,

came limited by classification max- all buildings and repairs in the nor-

ima and an enormous variety of ad- . mal schools, must have the approval

ministrative decisions were made by of the Department of Public Works.

"Springfield" rather than by the Every purchase of whatever kind

PAGE THIRTY

edule was adopted including pro- ern Illinois University succeeded in and stencils for student examinations
'ons for sick-leave and sabbatical securing a separate board, provision know that supplies often do not ar-
ve. A retirement system, includ- was made for removing that college rive on schedule. In October, 1949,
from the Civil Administrative Code the author is requisitioning supplies
a disability plan, was enacted. and the director of the Department for the first quarter of 1950, supplies
·ding appropriations, however, of Registration and Education is not which may arrive in April or May.
e inadequate and the "rotation a member of Southern's new }?oard. Furthermore, the Administrative
Code requires some fancy juggling
" for new buildings was poorly So that today we find Illinois' six
ted to the needs of particular

ools. state-supported institutions of high- of classification titles for personnel.

rnendations of Peters' er education operating under three Even then many of the salaries are

mission, 1945 boards, one for the University of inappropriate. It is not possible, for

e 63rd General Assembly estab- Illinois which has always been auto- colleges operating under the code, to
ed a commission headed by Sena- nomous, the new one for Southern raise salaries to secure or retain dis-
J'eters, to survey higher educa- which is now autonomous, and the tinguished teachers whose rank can-
Teachers College Board for the other not be changed for academic reasons.
1 facilities in Illinois. Its report, four schools still under the require-
ed in 1945, was severely critical ments of a code department. Danger of Political Influence
the operation of the Teachers Col- Penetrating Faculty
The controversy o v e r autonomy
Board. The commission wished for the teachers colleges resolves to Political influences have not pene-
~nite the Teachers College Board differences over a few issues. The trated the teachers college faculties
chief of these might be classified as but this cannot always be said with
the Board of Trustees of the (1) financial control, (2) "red-tape," respect to the non-academic person-
'versity of Illinois into a single (3) political control, and (4) funda- nel. Some board chairmen have them-
te Board of Higher Education of mental philosophy. selves been closely identified with
lfaembers, appointed by the Gov- politics and have not been able or
or, for 12-year terms. The com- Teachers College Board Can't Spend willing to keep the teachers colleges
Money Appropriated to It free from partisanship and the spoils
ion further stated that if a
le board of control were not

ted and if the Teachers College The issue of financial control usu- system. There have been occasions, it

rd were continued, its operation ally raises this question: Should de- is believed, when partisan politics

uld be improved. Among a num- cisions as to expenditure of money came dangerously close to touching

of recommendations to improve legally appropriated to operate the faculty and administrative appoint-

fµnctioning of the board were teachers colleges be made by the ments.

'ollowing: Tachers College Board or by the di- Autonomy Is Granted U. of I. Why
rectors of the code departments and Not to Teachers Colleges?
a) The Teachers College Board the Governor? Those who favor the
uld carry out its duties as out- greatest possible centralization, with Then there is the basic question-
d in the code, and should follow its opportunities for efficiency and Is the management and conduct of a
~rinciples of board relationships economy, will favor the latter. Re- college or university sufficiently
cent decisions to reduce state spend- comparable to that of other state
responsibilities of board mem- ing to about 90 percent of appropria- services as to require similar methods
which were stated in its own tions apply only to the teachers col- of control ? College faculties like to
rt of 1939-40. leges and the code departments, not think of themselves as members of
to the University of Illinois which "a community of scholars." It is be-
b) The advantage of mutual un- has autonomy. If centralized control lieved dangerous to the welfare of
tanding between the Teachers is desirable it should extend to all higher education if faculty persons
ege Board, the state administra- state agencies. Most teachers college are given the status of employees.
' and the chief state school offi- officers, however, believe that the Teaching is a profession, certainly
inake it desirable to continue the Teachers College Board should have college teaching. The majority of its
tor of registration and education genuine financial control and be members have seven or more years
the state superintendent of pub- allowed to spend legally appropriated of college training and have the ex-
~struction as ex-officio members funds without further restriction. perience, the specialized knowledge,
the board. However, their rela- and the devotion to education which,
ship to the board should be ad- Red Tape Snarls System; Faculty if it is to be most effective, must
ry; they should not be voting Forced to Buy Own Supplies operate in a climate of freedom. The
hers.
c) The voting members should

t their officers from the voting Are there significant advantages relationship between the Teachers

bership. to the routing of teachers college pro- College Board, the administrative of-

d) The teachers college presi- cedures through the various state ficers of each college, and the re-

ts should, within regulations of departments as required by the code ? spective faculties is an intricate one

ral policy by the Teachers Col- Should the supervising architect's of- at best but governed by fairly well

Board, enjoy a larger measure fice play such a large role in ·building established academic practice. The

11.reedom in the administration of plans and the state purchasing office general belief among the teachers

Institutions in their charge. in buying? Anyone familiar with colleges is that these practices should

e above recommendations did requisitioning supplies through state have a maximum of autonomy. The

:result in new legislation but channels knows the usual delays. State of Illinois grants this autonomy

d meetings came to be more fre- Faculty members at ISNU who have to the University of Illinois. Why

t. However, in 1949, when South- bought their own mimeograph paper not to the teachers colleges ?

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