Eastern Alumnus Vol. 25 No. 4 (Spring 1972)

The Eastern Alumnus

STERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY • SPRING 1972

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Mattoon Contents

•e-President Cornerstones of African culture ----------------- 2
Questions answered by black leaders -------------- 4
Dale Downs, '56 EIU Afro-American Cultural Center -------------- 8
Charleston (1972) Why black literature? -------------------------- 12
Why black history? ---------------------------- 17
l e ereta ry-Treasu rer Why Afro-American studies? -------------------- 19
Rededication of University Union ---------------- 20
Mrs. Nancy Jamnik, '54 Subject combinations for teaching --------------- 21
Joliet Alumni active this spring ----------------------- 26
University Union addition approved -------------- 30
lxecutive Committee Alumni News Notes ---------------------------- 31

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PAGE ONE

By Francis Kaikumba or head wife and in most cases the role in the daily life of Africans. The
husband consults her first before most predominant religion is Anim·
Africa is the second largest land marrying another wife. ism. The word Paganism is often
mass on our planet. But up to this used in a derogatory manner by some
point it remains the dark continent In most African societies, the man authors. Despite the increasing num-
to many people. rm sure that most ber of converts to Islam and Christ·
Americans know more about the pays a dowry for his wife. But in iauity, the number of animists re-
moon than about this immense and most cases this money is refunded mains about equal to that of Christ·
important land. whenever the wife divorces him. As fans and Muslims combined.
such divorce is not very common in
An interesting feature about Africa tribal societies, the parents of the Animism is the oldest form of re-
is that there is a rich variety of ligion and varies from society to so-
everything-flora, fauna, people and wife do all they can to discourage ciety. It is a body of beliefs which
custolllS., It is thus not easy for me divorce because a refund of the are often associated with natunlll
to typify anything about Africa. In forces (wind, rain, sun) . In its
view of this fact I shall therefore dowry is not a table joke. Basically truest form, this body of beliefs is as
train the spotlight on a few of the there are three types of marriages. complex and well organized as those
underlying factors in African tradi- The above account is the traditional of the so-called "civilized societi4
tional life. marriage rite. There are also the of the world.
I!'lamic and Christian types. The
Most Africans follow an agricul- former follows the Islamic tradition Generally, the African animilll
tural way of life. Their economy has and is contracted in a mosque. It
a similar pattern, varied by local allows the practice of polygamy. The worships a supreme being or creatot
customs, across the entire continent. latter simulates that of Westem through the intercession of ancesto~
Crops are grown wherever possible civilization. He prays to his ancestors asking th~
and herding is practiced in the grass- to petition the supreme being on his
lands and the less arid areas of the Strong family obligations extend
deserts. The native form of agricul- beyond the immediate family to behalf. Lesser gods who reprei
ture is subsistence, characterised by other relatives, such as brothers and natural forces are also an import
the use of the hand and hoe. A sisters of one's mother or father, means of communicating with
piece of land may be tilled succes- whose children are normally regard- supreme being.
sively for some years and, upon ed more as "brothers" and "sisters"
diminishing yields, it is abandoned than as cousins. Beyond the obliga- This worship is frequently acco~
and a new area is sought. Such a tions due to the extended family panied by the making of magic
system has been often called shifting (unlike the nuclear family) are those spells. The latter practices are often
cultivation. wed to a whole line of more distant
blood relatives and to the commun- carried out by "native doctors." Suc:Ji
The African family is closely knit. ity in which people live.
In tribal Africa it has l~>ng been the doctors are specialists in certain
custom for a man to have more than Where there is individual property magical cults; for example, there ~
one wife only if he can support a and ownership of livestock, there is witch doctors, snake doctors, buff-.
large family. This is polygamy. His also a great deal of communal work doctors and juju doctor (medici141
wives either live in the same house such as housebuilding, the clearing man).
or near each other, sometimes all of land, weeding of gardens and
wives in the same room. One of my other farm jobs. Purely social events Among the ancient lbos (of East•
uncles has four wives and his house are as community-oriented work. On em Nigera) it was strongly
has only three bedrooms. One of the important feast days, such as harvest that men who grew disench
rooms is for his children, another time, the entire community turns out about the atrocities of this wor
for his wives, and the third for him to celebrate. While this way of life often proclaimed their desires to g
and any of the wives whose tum it leaves little room for individual de-
is to sleep with him. The first wife velopment, it does foster mutual re- inside some fixed objects where th8l
of the husband is styled the chief spect and consideration among mem-
bers of a community and gives them hoped to be able to make sure
PAGE TWO a strong sense of security.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Religion itself plays an important
I Mr. Kaikumba, a 26-year-old gr,
uate student in zoology .at East
iv from Sierra Leone, Africa.

..ving peace and quiet when such magic, its big medicine, surpasses in While in America, for example,
a person died. After having informed supernatural power all others. These comparatively few people could even
bis forefathers beforehand of his mapical forces have to be conserved have named their paternal great-
wish, he received permission to re- ana. fostered so that they may con- grandparent (at least without hav-
turn to earth and take up his abode tinually protect people against
demons and all supernatural perils. fug researched the topic), in many
in the object he selected for himself Poro has very rigid laws. Boys are to
luring his lifetime. be brought up believing in Poro's African communities it is common
power and the adult men live ac- for an individual to be able to re-
Trees were often chosen and it cording to its laws. Solidarity is cite the names of his ancestors for
was an Ibo custom that he who strongfy maintained. upward of five generlitions, recount-
~Jested such a tree, merely by ing where each lived and died, in
liJreaking a branch, offended the spirit A Poro member is sure to have which wars he may have fought,
11>d thus fodeited his life. In other help from fellow brothers wherever what land he may have acquired,
~eties, hillsides, rivers, and forests he goes. Boys are trained in various and which women he married and
fields - hunting, fishing, fighting, where. Frequently the claim to chief-
were ideal abodes of spirits. dancing and the diplomacy - to con- t:mcy is conducted with reference to
Secret societies play a major role trol their many wives. Often the memorzed narratives transmitt~d
Poro society intervenes in tribal dis- verbally from generation to genera-
Jn tribal Africa, but their importance putes. tion. Such a custom still prevails in
bas been greatly undermined by the
~sive effects of Westernization In A characteristic feature of many my country.
older days if an African did not be- tribal African societies is what I may
long to one such society he would call the continuous application of In conclusion I want to inform the
be considered lacking. He would the past to the matters of everyday i·<:ader that the above account no
never have any standing or be trust- life. The living generation regards longer holds true in all the societies
ed by his fellows; he would be out itself as essentially the link between in contemporary Africa. Wherever
of fWerything. No one would help the dead ancestors and those yet un- Western culture has touched, drastic
born. changes have set. Africa has thus
biJrl if he got into difficulties. Nor lost most of her culture for good or
for bad.
iwould anyone want or dare to take
as wife a girl who did not belong lo BERBER BEDOJ1~B
a secret society.
BERBER
Secret societies are very diverse
BEDOUIN ARAB EG YYI'IAN
ICfOSS the African Continent, yet
TUAREG
mtY all function as agencies of
NUBA DANA K I L
llWization. To mention a few, I DOGON AMHARA
aball refer to those in Sierra Leone,
a small but pleasant enough place NUER
on the west coast of Africa.
PYGMY
There is a secret society for KIKUYU
women. This is the Bunda society.
While it functions as a secret asso- MASAI
eiation for women where they settle LUBA
disputes or discuss important com-
munity affairs, it also serves as a BUSHMAN
training camp for girls who have
reached puberty. Girls are camped
fn the ..Bunda-bush" for varying

.lengths of time and are taught the
art of fishing, cooking, handcraft,
lllidwifery and the tact to win the
love of their husbands. Most ill-
tnfonned Western writers call the
~da a circumcision society.

Boys between six and twelve r,ears
ill age used to have the "Betei ' so-

which was purely a circumci-
111 llPciety before the advent of the
~ doctor and his hospital.
e1 boys (as the initials were call-
) were also taught some boyhood

, son~s, and dances.
'!:e men s society is the Poro. It

e most powerful of all the old
IOcieties extending over the

try· Poro's accumulation of

PAGE THREE

Martha Palmer Tony Jackson EDITOR'S NOTE: In a tape-r4
Miss Black EIU AAA corded session recently at the EIU
Afro-American Center, black leadetj
Questions u:ere asked questions about black cul..

ture and views of blacks. Two of the

participants-Tony Jackson, co- prerio
dent of the EIU Afro-Ame....

Association, and Martha Pa!':i

s•Miss Black EIU for 1972-cons

to having their responses reprint•
Fallowing are segments of the
sion as compiled by Alumnus Editor

Dwight Connelly and approve4 'l?!J
Miss Palmer and Mr. Jackson. Th8
session was arranged by Bob Perry,

director of the Center.

You should know the answers to, but

probably don't if you're white, such as

What is soul food? PALMER: One reason pork is said any degree. He totally rejects his
to be bad is because of what the own black people at any level to any
JACKSON: Soul food is a social Bible says about pork. Then we al- degree. When you talk about a blue-
food. It is a dominant food for a so have a whole lot of people who eyed soul brother, you're tal~
particular social group, and eventual- arc Muslims. about some cat who relates to the
ly becomes a delicacy to them. For black community through a cultwtl
example, in the case of chitlings, JACKSON: Pork, if it's not thor- link. Usually the term soul brothel
which are hog intestines, the chit- oughly cooked, can produce diseases. refers to a black person, but if the
Ungs were fed to the slaves. After Pork generally influences your blood cat is white it refers to him having
slavery, black people had developed pressure, and black people usually some ties with the black culture. He
a taste for chitlings, and chitlings be- always have high blood pressure be- relates to the soul of black people.
came a delicacy. We have chitlings cause in the past they have eaten so
on New Year's. For the most part much pork because it was cheap. It's Why do some blacks
black people eat the same things that not so much like that today, though. not stand for the U.S.
white people eat. Some black peo-
ple feel, though, that what you eat What is a soul National Anthem?
is what you are. For one thing,
pork is not good for you, so eating brother? PALMER: As has already bml
chitlings would not be considered
good for you by some black people. JACKSON: We've got to define pointed out in letters to the Ea•
Overall, the idea of soul food-chit- soul. "Soul food." "Soul brother." News, you can go to the part abo~
liugs, chicken, greens, corn bread-is "Soul man." "A whole lot of soul up "land of the free" and I think that
about the same thing that white so- here." It's nothing more than a answers your question. Blacks ha:;
ciety eats, but it is prepared differ- cultural slang word. A soul brother been through so much and are s
ently. It has a Southern tang, and is someone who participates in an not free. Why should we be tak_inll
probably some type of cultural prep- awareness of himself, who accepts pmt in the national anthem? It Just'
aration that we get from Africa. It his cultural heritage-either a very seems that it doesn't relate to rne.
has the characteristic of a lot of sea- indefinite Pan-African heritage or
soning. Always hot. Very rich. I the regular Afro-American cultural JACKSON: Let's put it thiS wa'f
believe this is because the food heritage. A person you wouldn't call If an American newsman would ~o
slaves got was so bad that they had a soul brother would be a person to Russia and see a group of p~op e
to season it. who does not participate in a cul- not standing for the Russian national
tural awareness with his people in
anthem, he would probably writ4

PAGE FOUR

Lift Every Voice and Sing learned in the past. The song was
sung a lot in black schools, especially
(Black National Anthem) where there was a black teacher. In
the South, you probably sang the
Lift every voice and sing U.S. national anthem, Dixie, and
'till earth and Heaven ring tl1en the black national anthem. Now
Ring with the harmony we are beginning to see that the
Of liberty. U.S. national anthem is not keeping
vp with our expectations, and that
Let our re101cmg rise Dixie never did.
High as the listening skies
Let it resound PALMER: I agree a lot with what
Loud as the roaring seas. Tony said. The black national
anthem brings pride in being black.
Sing a song
Full of the strength that the dark past has taught us Is the Black Flag a
Sing a song
Full of the hope that the present has taught us. substitute for the

Facing the rising sun Stars and Stripes?
Of our new day begun
Let us march on JACKSON: The black flag-the
'till victory is won. red, black, and green flag-is tied
in with the overall black concept,
that these people were protesting lieve in something blindly, and then and you want something to represent
say you have a love for the system. this concept. Black people have
something which the anthem or the You can't say that whatever the symbols of unity, just as other
United States does, it is right, any groups do. Right here on campus
government stands for. These people more than whatever I do is right. the Greek groups have their flags,
would be considered heroes by and no one questions whether they
•ericans. If somebody from the What about the are substituting their flags for the
U.S.S.R. came over here and looked national flag. And Chicago has a
at black people, they would look at Black National flag, but no one says it is replacing
it the same way. In either case, the the national flag. You can't say the
people refusing to stand might not Anthem? black flag takes the place of the
American flag, because throughout
lClislike their governments. They just JACKSON: The black national h1story it was blacks who raised the
anthem started out pretty much as American flag. Slavery was the basis
want their governments to achieve folklore, rather than as something of the economics of this system at
originally set down to music. The one time. Black people died in wars.
a enough standard that they song developed, and eventually got Crispus Attucks was a black man,
can I proud of their governments. written down, and the music got and he was the first person to die in
lr'or ck people, the U. S. govern- written down. The origin can't really the American Revolution. George
ment is not representing what a gov- be traced, although you might say Washington has been quoted as say-
ernment should represent. It is fail- a certain author write it down. It ing that if the black people had not
ing. It is getting an "F." By voicing probably evolved through the black helped in the Revolutionary War, he
your !opinion, you are not being anti- church. The dominant theme in the doubts if he could have won. The
.American or unpatriotic. You're song is pride-this in a people who black flag is not as widely accepted
were told for a very long time that among blacks as is the black national
really showing the reverse of that. they didn't have any pride. The song anthem, possibly because it has not
says you should have hope for the been around as long. To me, the
You re saying you believe in the future and love for what you have colors are symbolic. The green stands
for truthfulness, green grass. The
true !teachings of this country, and black stands for black people. The
th~t you're sitting down to make red stands for bloodshed, tribulation,
this country do what it is supposed struggle - the same thing the red
stands for in the U.S. national flag.
lo be doing. The whole system of
Why do blacks come
democracy is built on the system of
the right to protest if you think the to Eastern?
ft\'emment is wrong. You can't be-
PALMER: To get an education,
(Continued on page 6)

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(Continued from page 5)

but I wouldn't come here if I had
it to do over. It's just the atmos-
phere.

JACKSON: Why shouldn't blacks

mr.come here? I came here because
wife was already here. I wouldn t

personally choose to come here if

there was a black school that was

capable of giving me the type of

education I wanted. If white people

considered us a part of the popula-

tion, they wouldn't ask us why we

come to Eastern, but they don't con-

sider us that way so they want to

know why we come to Eastern. We

come to Eastern because we don't

have a university of our own. If we

did have a black university, I would

go there-I don't know about anyone

else. And I would send my children

there, not because I believe in any

kind of segregation, but I would

want them to be in an environment in human values. To me He was a anything bad about them. Num. .
that they would enjoy. Like me, I
live in married housing, and the scientist - the greatest scientist. one, the Black Panthers have never
other night I came home and found The greatest doctor. The greatest shot anyone, but the Black Pant~
four or five garbage cans dumped
in front of my front door. It was philosopher. The greatest person to have been shot. The Black Panth.
either one or two of my white neigh- ever have seH control. Also, to me,
bors. This is the same tactics as the He was a black person. Because of have never murdered anyone. b
Ku Klux Klan. The people down what I have read in the Bible, I they have been murdered on a
here may go to the university, but
they don't have any education. They believe He was black like me. I massive scale. The Black Panth•
don't know what people are all
about, or what the world is all about. would say that young black people have never kidnaped anyone, b
Ii they know anything about the generally have strong religious back- they have been kidnaped by CIA.
world, it's only that it is red, white, grounds. As they move out of the FBI, everybody who could carry a
and blue. And they don't even family structure, they kind of lose badge. 1£ you really look at w
know what that means. That's the the overt appearance of the religious the Black Panthers are doing, y
ironic thing. They go to school and background, but it is still there.
they take U. S. history and they Religion has always played an im- will see that everything they ha
memorize the Constitution and they portant part in the evolution of black
don't have any idea of what it is. people. This can be seen in the fact done so far, the United States g
They don't understand what it that most of our leaders have been
means, what it stands for. religious people. Martin Luther ernment has adopted. They start

PALMER: I never realized white .King, Adam Clayton Powell, Jesse a breakfast for children prog1
people were so ignorant until I came Jackson, and I could go on an on. which the government adopted on a
I would say that religion plays a massive scale. They started free
greater role in black society than in
white society. medical clinics for black people.J .and

here. Then they try to say we blacks the government expanded ~eral
are ignorant, and that's what makes What do blacks think medical facilities. The Black Panth4

me so mad. started a laboratory service for re-

about the Black search in sickle cell anemia, whi<t
is something that the gove
How important is the Panthers?
and anybody in the White
church to young JACKSON: Any organization had never heard the word bef
blacks? which shows some love and appre- And because they started it, ~
ciation for their people has some lTnited States government pick
up. When you think about
JACKSON: For me, Jesus Christ worth. Anytime you do things as
plays an important part in my life. positive as the Black Panthers have things they have done good, yo
To me, He represents the ultimate done, I don't see how you can say
really have to think about if the

doing anything bad. The Pan

were killed in Chicago. The Pan

had registered guns in their ap
ment, and they were old enough

have guns, yet only one was f .
once. All they found were po
bullets going into the apartmen~

PAGE SIX

l>anthers were killed for resist- is pretty much playing out. At the to be there and relate to you. And
81Test or whatever you want to individual level, people can com- that's what I want to accomplish -
it. I wouldn't want to say I am municate a little more than they having blacks tutoring black people.
Jutely for Black Panthers, be- could before. Racism today is felt
most at the institutional level. JACKSON: To me, the problem
some of the things they are is not just because we have mostly
I'm not for, such as their belief PALMER: I have to agree with white tutors. The problem is that
'1building America and making you. Like the advisors. There are you can't make a system work ab-
erica stand for its ideology, and cne or two advisors over there who solutely when you have so many
· g the people really be served will take time to help you, but the systems around it which are detri-
the govenunent, rather than serv- ones I talked to just write a bunch mental. Like you can utilize a tutor,
the government. This statement of stuff down:'you need this' or 'you but that doesn't necessarily mean it
t Jennedy said, 'Don't ask what need that.' They could just do away will help you in class. I feel better
with those advisors. Anybody can about having black tutors, because
country can do for you, but write material down on paper. I feel I can communicate better with
t you can do for your country.' them. That's the only real difference.
a.Debody had really looked at JACKSON: The grading system White tutors are not bad or good -
~tement, you would see that and advising system may be detri- it's just the ability to relate.
t statement is contrary to the mental to both whites and blacks,
but whites have the means of get- Why is there a Miss
'tution and the Declaration of ting feedback into the s1.stem to get
dence. I'm not saying that it changed. Blacks don t have any- Black EIU?
thing to say about whether they
edy was not a beautiful person should be treated this way, but PALMER: Well, there has never
elf, or the things he did were white people do. Who do we have to been a black Homecoming queen at
good, but I'm saying that that fight our battles? We can go to Dean Eastern, and I feel there has got to
~tement is not a correct state- Johnson, and he's a good character, be a difference in races. Either white
t. The correct statement is that but he can't do everything. Change people are not used to what black
ovemment should serve the comes because of white pressure, not people put forth, or they just don't
because of black pressure. White want to see. It just seems like black
, which is the statement in our students are so acquainted with the girls don't ever win.
'tution. And this is exactly power they have that they don't
at the Black Panthers are saying. even recognize it. They look at the JACKSON: The Miss Black EIU
like to travel a different way. I little bit that we achieve and thev pageant is designed to stimulte and
think we have power, but they al- 1ecognize black culture, and to
pie should get together and ready have so much power that they recognize women who have black
-sufficient so they will not don't have anywhere to move to. cultural characteristics. It can't
ve to rely on the government. When all the black people finally really be compared to a white beauty
1hen blacks get to this point, then get together for one little thing, pageant, because it's a cultural
llhev can stand up and demand re- white people say 'look at all that event. Miss Black EIU is looked at
1~ from other people. I'm a cul- power,' but they can't see all the from the black perspective. If she
eiftl nationalist. This means I be- power they have, because they have was on a white stage, she would
~ pretty much in separation, and always had it. have to be looked at from a white
~ tJilding a black nation. Until we perspective. It's only natural. If ll
liave llomething to offer, no one is How is the tutoring white girl entered the Miss Black
going to integrate us into anything. EIU pageant, she would have to be
program at the Afro- judged from a black perspective.
ff we're not needed, we're expend- We have the pageant so we can look
American Center at ourselves and appreciate our own
Ihle. beauty. If a white girl entered the
going? Miss Black EIU contest and exhibit-
:11.LMER: Whatever the Black ed superior black beauty and super-
JACKSON: There's a problem ior black culutral traits, I wouldn't
hithers do, it will always look bad with it. There's a problem with the see why she wouldn't win. Anything
design of the system. It doesn't have we do is open to white students. The
lo a lot of white people. But I think any creativity to it. This is my own Afro-American Association is open to
~ have opened the eyes of a lot personal view. What you need is white students. The Afro-American
black tutors. Center is open to white students.
«If 'black people. But we just say that our primary
PALMER: One of the things I objective is to understand and to
Has racism changed wanted to accomplish was a tutoring delve into blackness and black a-
service with black tutors - you kind wareness, and they have to be ready
In recent years? of feel funny when you have white to do that.
people standing over you, like they
•CKSON: Individual racism does had a stick. You want your people
:Dot exist in a form now that is

damaging to black people as it
~ ~fore. In the past, individual

was so great that they would
this brother for looking at a
. e girl, but at the same time

lftaise their son if he went out and

~ a black girl. That type of racism

PAGE SEVEN

The Afro-American Cultural Cen-

;ustter, located on Seventh Street

cast of Old Main, is one of several
pl'ivate residences purchased by the

University in recent years for cam-

pus expansion.

EIU Afro-American Center bridges

A place of identity for blacks. A language itself can be brought ~mt. first concern, naturally, was for
place of information for non-blacks. Also, the same experiences can be blacks. They felt very uncomfortabl
discussed. We can sit down and talk in the strange surroundings of East·
This is the function of Eastern's about experiences we have had and em and Charleston. If you come
Afro-American Cultural Center, ac- laugh about them, because we have
cording to Bob Perry, director of the overcome some of them." from an urban setting, you're goinll
to find the rural setting very diffe~
center. Perry says that the Center is not ent. And if you come from a blaclll
"The center was, first of all, estab- only a meeting place, but a physical neighborhood, you're going to find
resource for blacks and whites who a white community very strange and
lished in the minds of the students," need materials and information re- different. You're thrown into this,
he explains, "because they felt they garding black culture. "Although and you're expected to functi~
needed a place they could call home. blacks have experienced their own
The idea of this center was to be culture, they sometimes need specific Black students sometimes have troU•
like a community-a black commun- information for term papers and the hies with their studies because the_i
ity for black students or for anyone like. The Center tries to make such have problems adjusting to every~
efse who wants to visit a black com- thfugs as books, articles, and record- life here."
munity." ed speeches available. For example,
if we go to a convention or other He also notes that "we have white4
Perry says that a black community type of meeting, we try to record here who may never have had con•
is different from a white community speeches so that those persons who tact with blacks. Here at the Cent..
in a cultural sense. ''The main thing were not able to attend can still hear we try to make facilities available to
that exists with any group of people them."
is communication," he says. "Here at all people. We try to make whitj
the center, blacks can communicate Perry emphasizes that the Center
with each other in much the same is not exclusively for blacks. "The aware. We sponsor programs an.
way as in their home communities.
There is the sense of dialect. The trips, such as to Black Expo in C~
cago, and we invite whites to parU·
cipate. Some do. But whites who

PAGE EIGHT

some who would seem to almost have contact, they have read books which

to be concerned who have never were mostly about whites, and you
come."
look at television and it is all about

He says that "the only time white whites. As a result of getting infor-
students come to the Center is when mation this way, blades may tend to
think that all whites have it made, or
they come with a black friend or live a certain way, and then they may
when they are looking for specific be surprised to find that a white
information. We have had groups, roommate is untidy or doesn't bathe
su~h as classes on disadvantaged as often as on TV. But whites seem
dnldren, make use of the facilities to have a different stereotype of
of the Center to talk with blacks and blacks-things that just degrade us.
You know, the stereotype that be-
to learn firsthand from them, and cause he's black he's ignorant, be-
occasionally a white student will cause he's black he should be feared,
that white women should fear black
come in and set up a formal inter- males, and that a black woman is
view with a black student for a class less than a white woman and there-
fore a white man doesn't need to
or something. We try to answer all hold back because of morals.''
ques.tions. Sometimes I wonder if

some of the questions are the result
of naiveness or ignorance or what,

but we try to be very understanding.

We also bring community groups in- But Perry maintains that whites

to the Center. We've had the Char- who want to learn about blacks can

leston ministers in, and we're going find friendly blacks to talk with. "Of

to try to get a ladies club in. course, if you walk up to a black on

Asked what kind of reception campus or on the street and ask him
\vhites would get at the Center if a very stupid question, and he isn't
they "just popped in," Perry quips, feeling good, he may turn_ you off
"They will get a good reception if and walk away. The Center here is
they dont ring the doorbell." He ex- the best place for whites to be sure
plains, "Some will knock, they'll ring ot getting a good reception. We feel

the bell, and come in hesitantly. But (Continued on next page)

once they're in here, we just try to

make them feel at home like every-

gap one else. Black students are aware

dont really need to participate are that they are feared, and we're out

the ones who do. The ones who are t'J destroy that fear. We try to indi-

DOt aware seem to never participate. cate that we're to be enjoyed just
I think a lot of whites who don't
take part in programs of the Center like anyone else, but most of all, we
Ille the excuse of fear. A humber of
people fear that which they don't are to be learned about.''
bow about; therefore, they avoid
ft. But you will constantly fear some- Perry acknowledges that black stu-
thfn~ if you never learn about it, and
that s what the Center is here for." dents may sometimes appear to be un-

Everyone is welcome at the Cen- friendly. ''This is especially true for
tei:~ points out. "Number one,
ft IS lJniversty facility. It's financed first-quarter freshmen. Usually the
Ly · University. Therefore, it's just
only whites that the majority of these
ldte d Main or the student union.
black students have had contact with
QAnyone can come here, and anyone
USe the Center's facilities. We've are the merchant, the landlord, and

'fromsome instructors check out books the policeman. The landlord and the

our library, we've had requests merchant have taken his money. The
arious things from the Lab
white policeman represents author-
I. and we've had a few white
ity from the system to control him
··---·-ts come in. A few administrat-
and prevent him from moving freely
have come in, but there are
-and a lot of times this does not

mean in a law-breaking direction. So

he comes into this new environment,

and has never really been around

whites, just as whites haven't been

ruound him. He has just as much to

learn about them as they do about This symbol of Afro-Americans at
him. I'd say, though, that whites

have more false notions about blacks EIU decorates a wall in the base-
than we do about them. Although ment of the Center. The original de-

blacks may not have had personal sign is by Dr. B. T. Ridgeway.

PAGE NINE

One of the more populal' physical resources of the Center is the upstairs (Continued from preceding page)

library, which features paperbacks about blacks. Both black and white stu- a responsibility here to educate. We
dents use the books for course-related and recreational purposes. know whites, because we've been
fe<l white America all our lives, but
The living room of the Center features Afro-American art and a "home" they don't know us. We've got the
up on them, but we're still willing
atmosphere for blacks. to learn."

Asked how likely it is that a
"black view" will be presented by
whatever black students happen to
be at the Center at any given time,
Perry replied, "Everybody has his
own personal feelings. My vie\911
may be different than those of other
blacks. So what I try to do is coiled
every philosophy and try to put it
all together to give the best answer
I can. H it's on a very deep or social
thing, or a very controversial issue

where I may leave the wrong ft1

pression, I make sure that it is kn~
that these are my personal views.
:My job is to deal with all black stu-
dents, trying to meet their needlll
and desires. I deal with the very

quiet and the very outspokj I
have those who like this, and t ose
who like that. All of us may want
the same thing, but we have differ·
ent ways of going about it. One per·
son may want to advance the cause
of blacks by talking with approp
people, another person may want
march. Another person may want to
take over-bum, destroy. H you walk
ir.to the Center and there are five

blacks present, you are likely to hear
five different views."

Perry acknowledges that blacks
communicate differently with other
blacks than with whites. "I guess it's

sort of a visual thing. I guess it's a
feeling of closeness that you really
can't explain to whites, but you just
know that yau have one thing in
common: you're both black, and you
can be destroyed. That we both are
trying to achieve equality, you kno-
You get this feeling of togethe
where as with a white you may
t.hat because he's white he's ha a
better overall chance than you have.
This carries over from the sub~
scious to the conscious, and bac ·
You can speak personally and meo-
tally with a white and the lan~ag~
itself as a communications te~
que is the only thing that woulc
really differ. You can become ~lose
to a white person-any person-~ts a
matter of communication technltl
He isn't familiar with the way Y

PAGE TEN

but this can be overcome to

'e extent."

Jn addition to providing a place
~unication, the Center offers

•0us other facilities. Perry notes
t the Center has textbooks suit-

Je for the elementary school level
eh may be checked out by chil-

or used by teachers. 'When I

i.ttending elementary school,"

Perry, "all the books I read

written mainly for and about

;)bites. The books we have purchas-
~ for the Center are about black

d white children playing together.

JA history books in elementary school,

• never really read about oursel-
Wfl. At the Center we have books
which tell about blacks in history,
IOJDe of them written at the elemen-
tary level. Sometimes I think some
college students should read our ele-
mentary history book."

One of the more important pro- One of the projects of the Afro-American Center this past year, and one
which could well be an annual activity, was the scheduling of a bus trip to
gr&!DS of the Afro-American Center, Black Expo in Chicago. Both blacks and whites participated in this trip.

liand one which is still farthest from The Echoes, a black singing group at EIU, is one of the cultural feat-
tential, is the tutoring program. ures of the Center. The Echoes have performed at numerous churches m
gned to aid black students who the state, with "God's Trombones" being one of their more popular produc-
aving academic difficulties, the tions.

._mg program makes use of vol-

'9er5-both black and white-who

work with students to aid them in

meeting the academic demands of

!astern. 'We try to work with in-

*'1ctors to find out which black stu-

dflJlts are having problems," Perry

explains. "In turn, it is our responsi-

bility to go to that student and tell

hhn he's having problems and that

~ng help is available." Perry
says that "money and time to really

Work on it" are the two factors which

bep the tutoring program from be-

ing as extensive and as successful as

it ahould be. He also said that some
~ents were not as cooperative

aslie feels they should be in allow-

ing lfaduate assistants to do volun-

bler tutoring as part of their duties.

J?espite the problems in operating
the fype of program envisioned,

Perry feels that the present limited

program is relatively successful. He
~tains, however, that programs

designed to provide academic assist-

lllce to blacks should receive top
Plfority
in the future. "Too many
~ fail to graduate," he cou-
""Kles.

PAGE ELEVEN

English 255, 452

Why block literature?

By Dr. Roger Whitlow ment member voted against approv- the finest of modem American auth-
ing English 452, a "studies" course ors, a man, incidentally, with very
Since Spring Quarter, 1970, when which may be taken more than one little ''black" ancestry, still be con·
the first Afro-American, or black time for credit because the topic is sidered ''black"?
American, literature course was in- different each time the course is of-
troduced at Eastern, more than two fered: The topic for Summer Quar- For the purposes of the courset
hundred students have completed at ter, 1971, was "Contemporary Black at Eastern, the following distincti•
least one of the two courses now of~ Fiction"; the topic for Spring Quar-
fered in this re-discovered academic ter, 1972 is "Major Figures of the are made: The courses provide I
discipline. Harlem Renaissance";. and the topics
for Spring Quarter, 1973, and Sum- study of black American literaU.-
Because English 255 (Black Lit- mer Quarter 1973, will be, respec-
erature-open to all undergraduates) tively, "Origin and Development of and, therefore, exclude those Africal
and English 452 (Studies in Black Black Folklore" and "Black Drama.") and West Indian authors who do not
Literature-open to juniors, seniors,
and graduate students) have become What qualifies as at some time during their careen!
two of the most sought-after courses consider the United States their
offered by the English Department, black literature?
an assessment of the courses and the place of residence. Further, at least
discipline itself seems to be in order The answer to the question, "What to date, the authors treated in the
-an assessment which should begin qualifies as 'black literature'?" has courses are themselves "black" in
with the following questions: been the subject of almost endless the sense that, regardless of the
literary, as well as social, debate dur- percentage of their African herita•
What qualifies as "black litera- ing the last five years. they identify themselves as membet
ture"? Should black literature be of America's black minority popula-
taught separately from conventional The two answers most frequently tion.
American literature courses? Is advanced are: 1) Black literature is
black literature a legitimate academ- that body of imaginative writing, I might note that in making these
ic discipline? Who are the students pedagogically called belles-lettres, distinctions I have not chosen an·
who take courses in black literature? produced by individuals who are, to swer Number 1, above, over answell
And what appears to be the future some degree, of African heritage; Number 2; it is simply a matter of
of black literature? and 2) Black literature is that body
of imaginative writing which, re- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The first three questions are clear- gardless of the racial origins of its
ly the most commonly posed, as I authors, deals with the experiences Dr. Roger Whitlow, an assist4
learned three years ago when I pro- of individuals of African heritage.
posed the first course in black litera- ant professor of English at East•
ture to my colleagues in the English These answers, of course, raise a
Department, many of whom had ini- number of new questions-such as, em, teaches courses in Americil
tial reservations about the proposal, What are the limits of the "degree" literature, black American lite~
but all but two of whom, in a depart- of African ancestry? One-half? One-
ment of fifty, after hearing the an- sixteenth? One-sixty-fourth? Would ture, and honors English. He has
swers to those questions, voted to Jean Toomer, for example, one of
approve the course. recently completed a book, BlacM

(One year later only one depart- American Literature: A Critical

History Of The Ma;or Periodl
Movements, Themes, Works,- -Ana

Authors, to be published later athniS~
year by Barnes & Noble, Inc.,

is currently compiling an anth..,.

ogy in black literature. Whitlc4
is chairman of the Faculty Sena~

PAGE TWELVE

Information available when the accompanying article was written indicates that students who take black litera-
ture cvurses have the following characteristics: 84 percent are white, 16 percent are black; academically superior to
EIU students in general; and a mixture of Greeks, activists, and others.

my wishing to deal with literature firmed bl my experience with the mainstream of American culture it-
not usually treated in conventional self-has developed its own tradi-
6merican literature courses, and "separate black literature courses tions, periods, and movements,
those white authors, like O'Neill, at Eastern. which only rarely correspond to
Faulkner, and Sherw'ood Anderson, (and, far more often, run counter to)
who deal with the experiences of First, contrary to the mistaken the traditions, periods, and move-
bJack Americans, are authors with notions of many, including many ments of American literature general-
whose works most students are al- specialists in American literature, ly.
leady familiar. there are not simply "a few" good
works of black literature which could And so, it is hardly more appro-
Should black be conveniently woven into their priate to assume that, by thrusting
literature be a piece of black writing into an Am-
taught separately? chronologically or generically appro- erican literature couse, one will fully
priate places in courses in American grasp the influences and traditions
The second and third questions literature. There are, in fact, well out of which that writing sprang,
originally posed, "Should black lit- than to make the same kind of naive
erature be taught separately from over a thousand full-length pieces of literary assumption while inserting a
•ventional American llterature literature which have been written French or Russian work into that
courses?" and "Is black literature a by black Americans over the last two same course in American literature.
legitimate academic discipline?" and a quarter centuries (and the oral
must be treated together inasmuch folk tradition of story-telling can be Is black literature
~e same key issues are raised by traced back to 1619, the year before
the Plymouth landing) . a legitimate
My answer to both questions, not discipline?
ingly, is a firm "yes." Having, Like all bodies of writing, some of
the pieces of black literature are We come now to the question of
student, studied important black poorly written; many would, by most the ''legitimacy" of black literature
s within the framework of critical standards, be termed medi- as a separate academic discipline-
zaieral American literature courses, ocre; but a significant number of a discipline, in a sense, pulled off
the pieces are excellent literature from what appears to be the "moth-
l am convinced that that is the produced by obviously gifted auth- er" discipline, the general body of
ors.
1'rong approach-a conviction con- (Continued on page 14)
Also like all bodies of writing,
black literature--1largely because it
is reflective of a cultural experience
which has been consistently separat-
ed, by law and prejudice, from the

PAGE THIRTEEN

Recommended reading (Continued from page 13)

in black literature American writing.
The previous explanation of
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
wide differences which exist betw
Bontemps, Arna, ed. GREAT SLAVE NARRATIVES. Boston: the traditions, etc. of the two
Beacon, 1969. should allay much of the con

Brown, Claude. MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND. about the "legitimacy" of black Jit.
New York: Macmillan, 1965.
erature. Hopefully, any rem ·
Douglas, Frederick. LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
Boston: DeWoHe, Fiske, 1892. doubt will be put to rest with m
willing acknowledgment-and
DuBois, W. E. B. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W. E. B. DUBOIS. I would assume, of most scholars
New York: International Pubs., 1967. that nearly any form of catego
tion within an area of human kn
Malcolm X (with Alex Haley). THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ledge is artificial; one could, I sup-
MALCOLM X. New York: Grove Press, 1964. pose, construct cogent argum4
against even the division of ''hu~
Redding, J. Saunders. ON BEING NEGRO IN AMERICA. knowledge" itseH into areas.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
But, being, among other thind
Wright, Richard. BLACK BOY. New York and London: Harper, 1945. a practical creature, man learnel

FICTION centuries ago that, since he coult
never know the totality of ''hulllll
Baldwin, James. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN. New York: knowledge," and that, indeed, thenf
was not even a workable way to ap-
Knopf, 1953. proach such a monstrous task, lie
Bontemps, Arna. BLACK THUNDER. New York: Macmillan, 1936. must break this "knowledge" into
Chesnutt, Charles W. THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH AND OTHER
graspable units-hence such tradi-
STORIES OF THE COLOR LINE. Boston: Houghton Miffin tional disciplines as litera~
mathematics, science, etc.
1899. '
As the centuries passed and the
Demby, William. BEETLECREEK. New York: Rinehart, 1950. accumulated knowledge in even a
Ellison, Ralph. INVISIBLE MAN. New York: Random House, 1952.
Hunter, Kristin. THE LANDLORD. New York: Scribner's, 1966. single discipline such as literat•
Hurston, Zora Neale. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD. grew beyond the absorption.. capacity

Philadelphia and London: Lippincott, 1937. ot individual men, sub-divisions were
Johnson, James Weldon. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-
designated, within one or a few of
COLORED MAN. Boston: Sherman, French, 1912. which a single man might still be-
Kelley, William M. A DIFFERENT DRUMMER. Garden City, N. J.:
come authoritative; hence, withilll
Doubleday, 1962.
Larsen, Nella. QUICKSAND. New York and London: Knopf, 1928. the field of literature such categ
Marshall, Paule. BROWN GIRL, BROWNSTONES. New York:
-artificial perhaps, but practical
Random, 1959. the purposes of learning and teac
Petry, Ann. THE STREET. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. ing with competence - as, for ex·
Pharr, Robert D. BOOK OF NUMBERS. Garden City, N. J.: ample, by nationality, Greek litera·

Doubleday, 1968. ture, Russian literature, Ameri4
Toomer, Jean. CANE. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. literature; by genre, fiction, poetry,

West, Dorothy. THE LIVING IS EASY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin , drama; by ideology, Marxist literail
1948.
ture, existential literature; by JJei9I
Williams, John A. THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM. Boston:
Little, Brown, 1967. medieval literature, nineteenth •
tury literature; and, of course, do~
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON, New York: Harper, 1940. of combinations, twentieth centuJI

Wright, Sarah E. THIS CHILD'S GONNA LIVE. New York: French existential literature, nine:I

Seymour Lawrence, 1969. teenth century German novel, etc.

DRAMA But it did not stop even there.

Baldwin, James. BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE. New York: Sub-divisions of the sub-divi4
Dial, 1964. have been added. Subsumed under •
category like twentieth centurY
Davis, Ossie. PURLIE VICTORIOUS. New York: French, 1961. American fiction may be such topiel
Hansberry, Lorraine. A RAISIN IN THE SUN. New York: as the novel of World War II, or the
short story of the American South-
Random, 1959
Jones, LeRoi. DUTCHMAN AND THE SLAVE. New York: and, despite the complexity of such:
categorization, it is necessary in ot·
Morrow, 1964.
der that man can firmly grasp
PAGE FOURTEEN crder with confidence even a small
unit of that staggering body of ideal

"human knowledge." Recommended reading
~d one of these units, as '1egiti-
in black literature
,, an area of study as any of
FOLKLORE
previously mentioned, and for Bontemps, Ama and Langston Hughes, eds. THE BOOK OF NEGRO

same reasons-chiefly, the "com- FOLKLORE: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1958.
'ty" of its components, as de-
Brewer, J. Mason. AMERICAN NEGRO FOLKLORE. Chicago: Quad-
. ed by various forms of meas-
rangle, 1968.
t-is black literature. Dorson, Richard M. AMERICAN NEGRO FOLKLORE. Bloomington:

The question, "Who are the stu- Indiana Univ. Press, 1958.
POETRY
ts llrho take courses in black lit-
Brooks, Gwendolyn. THE WORLD OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS.
IWlllhlrer' can be answered on both... New York: Harper, 1971.

l(JCial and an intellectual level. Cullen, Countee. ON THESE I STAND. New York: Harper, 1947.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. COMPLETE POEMS. New York: Dodd,
The erroneous impressions of
Mead, 1913.
individuals about this entire Fabio, Sarah Webster. A MIRROR: A SOUL. San Francisco:

of study, incidentally, are es- Richardson, 1969.
Hughes, Langston. SELECTED POEMS. New York: Knopf, 1965.
~ pa;ally revealed in their queries Jones, LeRoi. PREFACE TO A TWENTY VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE.

!jbout the students who are interest- New York: Corinth, 1961.
McKay, Claude. SELECTED POEMS. New York: Bookman
ed in the field-about whether the
Associates, 1953.
odents are mostly blacks, or whites,
ANTHOLOGIES
or '1eftists," or bright, or not so Brasmer, William and and Dominick Consolo. BLACK DRAMA: AN

bright. ANTHOLOGY. Columbus, OHIO: Merrill, 1970.
Chapman, Abraham. BLACK VOICES. New York. New American
Racially, of the 200-plus students
Library, 1968.
who have studied in black literature Davis, Arthur P. and Saunders Redding. CAVALCADE: NEGRO

courses at Eastern, 84 per cent have AMERICAN WRITING FROM 1760 TO THE PRESENT.
Boston. Houghton Miffin, 1971.
been white and 16 per cent (approx- Emanuel, James A. and Theodore Gross. DARK SYMPHONY: NEGRO
LITERATURE ON AMERICA. New York: Free Press, 1968.
imately five times the 3.3 per cent James, Charles L. FROM THE ROOTS: SHORT STORIES BY
BLACK AMERICANS. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970.
of Ea.stem's black enrollment) have Miller, Ruth. BLACK AMERICAN LITERATURE. Beverly Hills:
1>een black. Glencoe Press, 1971.
Robinson, William H. EARLY BLACK AMERICAN POETS:
AJso, and somewhat disappointing, Dubuque, la.: Wm. C. Brown, 1969.

DO cloubt, to those looking for socio- LITERARY CRITICISM AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
~ ..patterns," there is the fact Abramson, Doris E. NEGRO PLAYWRIGHTS IN THE AMERICAN

that, at least in appearance, like THEATRE 1925-1959. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1969.
most other university classes, the Bone, Robert A. THE NEGRO NOVEL IN AMERICA. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1958.
composition of the classes includes Bronz, Stephen H. ROOTS OF NEGRO RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
THE 1920's. Roslyn Heights., L. I., N. Y.: Libra, 1964.
CIDlpus "Greeks," black activists, Gayle, Addison, ed. BLACK EXPRESSION: ESSAYS BY AND
ABOUT AMERICANS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS. New York.
•*lights," '1eftists," and many Weybright and Talley, 1969.
~rs who simply defy categoriza- Hill, Herbert, ed. ANGER AND BEYOND: THE NEGRO WRITER
IN THE UNITED STATES. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
tion. In short, it is very difficult to Littlejohn, David. BLACK ON WHITE, A CRITICAL SURVEY OF
WRITING BY AMERICAN NEGROES. New York,
draw firm social conclusions about Grossman, 1966.
Margolies, Edward, NATIVE SONS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF 20TH
the i.tudents enrolled. CENTURY NEGRO AMERICAN AUTHORS.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968.
Some very firm conclusions, how-
PAGE FIFTEEN
er, can be drawn about the intel-

kctual fiber of those students who

have, to date, enrolled in the study

of black literature. The course

~grgahdesqualaolnitey reveal the exceptionally
of academic pedorm-

lnce. Of all students who have en-

~2, ~-Eein~ghltishpe2r55cenatndeaErnnegdlisha
:grad "A' ; 45 per cent earned a

ltlde of "B"; 6 per cent earned a

Ihde of "C"; and I per cent earned
a '8de of "F'-for a startling grade

~t average of 3.4, as contrasted

"!"q,g the university average of 2.5

(Continued on page 16)

Dr. Whitlow utilizes lecture-discussion for his classes in black literature. by electronic audio-visual forms.
A believer in the true "open classroom," he welcomes into his classrooms
everyone who would like to learn, whether registered for the class or not. for, while "tube" presentations ~
indeed inform their viewers, and can
(Continued from page 15) had been better (indeed, every black even satisfy some aesthetic needs,
literature class to date has contained the "tube" cannot produce the aes-
(and, very importantly, as contrast- students from the University Honors thetic · response which grows ou~
ed with the 2.6 average in the cour- Program, and the Honors students both hearing and seeing langua
ses that I teach other than Honors enrolled in individual classes have the solitary word symbol as we
English and black literature) . reached nearly 40 per cent) . the carefully combined groups of
word symbols-used with precisicl
There are several ways to account Those students who have infleXi- and beauty on the printed page. •
for this high level of performance, ble notions on issues of literature or
but clearly the most observable lies American culture, on the other hand, Enough, then, about the "fu~
in the kind of academic "attitude" who ''know" that blacks could not
that is found among virtually all of write anything that would relate to, of written forms themselves. What
those who have enrolled in the cour- or be of interest to, them, in addi-
ses, knowing, as they do, of the tion to being, for the most part, aca- about the future of black literature
heavy reading load facing them-an demically mediocre, very seldom en- as an academic discipline? First, it
openness of mind, a willingness to roll in the study of black literature. is, I think, clear to most of those in-
challenge ideas and values and to dividuals who know of the depth and
have theirs challenged, a genuine What is the future of scope of the black American writing
desire to experience through litera-
ture a multiplicity of emotional and black literature? produced in the last 200-plus ze&11
intellectual responses perhaps never that the discipline is not a 'fad,~
before realized. As to the "future" of black litera- that it will not be forgotten as soon
ture, it appears to me that, in most as the "black power movement" is
And it is this very desire to con- ways, the future of the discipline o\·er.
front ideas and resolve extremely will not be appreciably different
complex literary and cultural prob- from that of written expression gen- Black literature, though belat4
lems which is the mark of a sound erally. And Marshall McLuhan and discovered by many, has giv~ to
student, a student who has usually the "media" people notwithstanding, the world of letters such gifted tal-
performed well in other classes, or written literature will not be replaced ents as those of Claude McKay, · ean
would have, if the learning climate Toomer, Countee Cullen, Lang4

Hughes, Nella Larsen, Arna Bctl

temps, Zora Neale Hurston, Richail
Wright, Ann Petry, William Dern~
Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Broolct
James Baldwin, Dorothy West, Lor·
raine Hansberry, William Melvil
Kelley, LeRoi Jones, Sarah E.
'\'right, and many more whose
works are now being treated,i in
books and learned journals, by ,AJ])lo
erica's finest literary critics, indivl
duals who recognize the wealth of
contribution to Western letters so
long overlooked, and who are det~
mined that such glaring oversights

shall not occur again.

And, most decidedly, such ovet-1
sights-and the cultural blindsP41

which they reflect-must never~ 68'

allowed to occur again. For black
American authors speak from pel"'

spectives which must be heard and

understood. They speak, amonl
other things, of an exploration into
the human character which reveals
what men, and even nations, do to
t11emselves when they perpetuate
dehumanizing acts of bigotry against
other men and nations; an explor~·
tion, moreover, which, on the posl·
tive side, explains to men and n~·
tions what they, divorced from theit
own self-serving pettiness, may yet

have the capacity to become.

PAGE SIXTEEN

Racist past dictates need

Why block history?

By Dr. Arlen L. Fowl.er The distortion of the black man's Few Americans are informed that
The continuing crisis in race rela- past and contributions did not stop it was the Twenty-fourth and Twen-
with the ending of slavery. The fail- ty-fifth !infantry regiments that car-
tions has been the number one social ure of Reconstruction to place the ried the brunt of the fighting in
pro~lem to confront the American black man into the main stream of Philippine insurrections. In World
i.>ctety in this century. American life was in large measure War I over 400,000 black men wore
due to the inability of white Ameri- the American uniform and one third
It was not until the famous Brown cans to overcome their corrupted of all army units in France at the
0 • The Board of .Education, Topeka, image of black people. end of the war were black; in World
Jansas school desegregation case of War II thousands of black men and
1954 that the United States govern- Historians continued to ignore women fought in every theater of
01ent began to move in any signifi- black history, and in the post~Civil war that Americans served.
cant manner to come to grips with War era they even became the apolo-
the problem of racism in this coun- gists for slavery. As late as the 1940's This and volumes more of similar
try. Racism has been for most citi- a major college history textbook information in the areas of social,
zens of this country as "American as stated without qualification that the economic, scientific, literary and cul-
majority of slaves were well fed, well tural contributions of Afro-Americans
apple pie." cared for and very happy under the is not known because of the racism
Black Americans have been victi- "peculiar institution." that has infected our history and the
institutions of our society. By elimi-
IDized for hundreds of years by Sound black history is the essen- nating the ignorance and distorted
white Americans' distorted, demean- tial corrective to the misinformation, concepts concerning black Ameri-
falsehoods, and distortions written cans we can begin to deal intelligent-
ed, and contemptuous view of peo- about black people. The role and ly and realistically with the social
ple of African descent. The black contributions of black Americans to problems that face our nation.
man since the beginning of our na- the growth and development of the
United States is an unknown quan- Afro-Americans have long under-
tional existence ha8 been depicted tity for most white Americans. stood this premise and have tried to
in literature, song, and history as a infuse into American history the
race of childlike, servile, humble, Few Americans are aware that significant contributions of black
ignorant · people there were black militia men in the people. History, when properly
French and Indian Wars; that over taught, is a powerful force for con-
The pseudo-scientific authors of 5,000 black men fought in the Revo- structive social change. Unfortunate-
lutionary War; that two battalions of ly, American society, with the con-
the nineteenth widely proclaimed black soldiers were among General scious or unconscious assistance of
the •inherent inferiority of the black Andrew Jackson's defenders of New the public school system, has abo~­
nee" and repeatedly alluded to the Orleans; or that black men helped ed this possibility because of its
lack of any contributions made to Texas fight for its independence
against Mexico. racism.
l\'ilization by black people. They
Wearly inferred that the black man Many white Americans are aston- On the one hand, the American
9tously had no history worth men- ished to discover that nearly 200,000 public school system has accepted
black Americans fought in the Union the important assumption that each
mimg because he had not develop- Army during the Civil War with society should deliberately attempt
ed his full human capacities. approximately 40,000 losing their to transmit its culture from one gen-
lives in that conflict. The Indian eration to the other. On the other
This distortion of the black man's Wars of the last half of the nine- hand, however, there was the as-
past was not without a reason. De- teenth century found four regiments sumption that public schools were
h'berlfte perversion of black history of black troops fighting on the expected to assist in changing and
frontier. The exploits of the Ninth and improving the culture. In the mat-
was liUed to support the institution Tenth Cavalry are some of the most ter of race relations, it is evident
exciting and decisive of the Western that the schools abdicated their re-
of slavery and to dehumanize the campaigns. The two black cavalry sponsibility. It is not surprising that
bla~ man to justify the role white regiments along with the two black the advocates of Afro-American hist-
llociety had selected for him as the infantry regiments fought with dis- ory have been preoccupied with the
'hewer of wood and the drawer of tinction in the Spanish-American second of these objectives, while not
War.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Continued on page 18)
Dr. Fowl.er, an associate professor
PAGE SEVENTEEN
of ltistory at EIU, ;o!ned the faculty

In J969. He holds the BA fr~ Okla-

laonia State, the BD from Princeton

IJ.':logical Seminary, and the Ph.
·from Washington State. He is the

:!~ of the book, "The Black In-

,_..,!I in the West, 1869-1891."

Dr. Arlen Fowler's classes in black history are WtJaUy so large that they must meet in Coleman Hall Audit

torium.

(Continued from page 17 concepts of black Americans are vious that any policy of aparth.,.. ii
still distorted and twisted by racism. totally antithetical to the practiol of
rejecting the first. democracy.
What they have objected to have The teaching of Black history here
at Eastern is predicated upon the The summer of 1969 found black
been the sins 0£ omission, the distor- assumption that history should en- history being taught for the first
hance the student's commitment to
tions, the falsehoods the stereotypes, the democratic processes of our na- time at Eastern. Since that time in-
and the cultural ignorance which tion. Therefore, to illuminate the
has helped to perpetuate an essen- black experience in this country to terest and enrollment in the course
tially racist society. Racism is, after the student is to expose him to the has continued to grow. Black history
all, something a child is taught; it is failure of the democratic processes
not inherited. when prejudice and bigotry are al- is taught in two sequential coursell
lowed to permeate public policy. Afro-American History 381 coved
Many decades before the black
revolution of the 1960's and the cries Showing the student the cancer of the black past from Africa until 1903,
of black power, articulate and com- racism on our body politic is not to
mitted Afro-American voices plead- make him think less of our democra- while Afro-American History 391
ed for the benefits of exploring in a tic structure, but, rather, to make it details the black experience frmD
scholarly manner the black experi- patently clear that the rhetoric of
ence in Africa and America. democracy (which pleads for the 1903 to the present.
equality of all citizens) and the
Over fifty years ago Professor blindness of democratic justice is By far the most popular of the twO
Carter G. Woodson founded the
Association for the Study of Negro pure hypocrisy unless public policy courses is the later one because of
Life and History. The purposes and is immuned to racism or prejudice its obvious relevance to present day
objectives of that organization and in any form. conditions. Both Afro-American hist•
its founder were not radically differ- ory courses are included in the core
ent from present day proponents of Certainly by following the black
black history. Professor Woodson experience in American national curriculum of the Afro-Arne~
realized that sound scholarship could development the student clearly un- Studies degree program.
erode the distortions, the stereo- derstands the principle which black
types and falsehoods which had so intellectuals pointed out so clearly Student enthusiasm and res~
adversely affected human relation- at the turn of the century; that the
ships between blacks and whites in destiny of American democracy is to these and similar courses is i verf
a society dedicated to the principle bound up in the rights of all its citi-
that all men are created equal. zens. There can be no democratic so- encouraging sign for educa~
ciety so long as any group or groups Given the opportunity to pe~
The academic respectability of of people are denied their full parti- minority histories to be infused ~to
black · history is today a mute ·point cipation in its processes. A serious our curriculum, American educati~
in academia, doubt residing only in study of black history makes it ob-
the minds of those whose intellectual will take a giant step forward JJl
making the United States a more

truly democratic society.
The task, as arduous as it may be,

is not only to explore the past and

present, but to consciously ai~
molding a future where allAme~

may enjoy the comforts of a hum8'
society premised on the respect!

the humanity of the individual

PAGE EIGHTEEN

ern offers major, minor, BA, BS

Why Afro-American Studies?

By Dr. B. T. Ridgeway, Chairman Dr. B. T. Ridgeway to the degree that they will have the
Afro-American Studies Committee c.-ommitment and ability to eliminate
and visibility on the total curriculum. the gap between belief and action.
rerhaps the questions most fre- To be most effective, such courses
:qllf!D~Y asked concerning Afro- must be moulded into a major pro- When one reflects upon the num-
jmaerican Studies Programs are: "Is gram having status and emphasis bers of Blacks in the world, the
equal to other majors in the univer- diversity of their cultures, the
lt ~ssary to have a distinct Afro- sity. breadth of their contributions to the
civilizations that now exist and
Alllerican Studies Program in the A further consideration in the or- those of the past, it is evident that
ganization of discreet Black Studies there is indeed enough content of
university?"; "Is there enough con- units concerns the moral obligation academic importance to justify a
liellt t<) justify a major program?"; of institutions of higher learning major program of study in our uni-
•Are ,Afro-American Studies pro- to provide a philosophical base and versities.
guidance for correcting existing so-
grams to be a lasting and stable com- cial injustices. Black Studies may Consider the impact of Black cul-
focus, more sharply than any other ture in America alone. We accept as
panent of college curricula?"; "Can kind of program, upon the need for almost commonplace music, art and
cme with a major in Afro-American viable democratic institutions which design that has been influenced by,
Studies obtain a job after college?". w~ll ~ake society less racist, le~s dis- or had its genesis in, the Black ex-
cnmmatory, and more responsive to perience. Any way one chooses to
The answer to all of the above the needs of all people. look at it, Blacks are major factors
~ons is an unqualified YES. in shaping political, economic and
Afro-American Studies Programs sociological patterns in America.
U p o n casual consideration, it may bring into bold relief the gulf
that exists between what Americans For these reasons, and others, Black
would seem that the culture, history, say they believe (as embodied in the Studies curricula are going to be a
md ,aciology of Black Americans U.S. Constitution and their Judeo- part of the university for now and
would be items of major importance Christian ethics) , and the facts of for sometime to come; not just be-
in those college courses treating their day to day activity. Hopefully, cause the number of Black stu-
1Uch aspects of Americans in gen- Black Studies will influence students dents in college is rapidly growing,
ttal. Further, it would seem that but also because growing numbers
courses dealing with the history and of students, of various backgrounds,
politics of Africa would stress the have become sensitized to the op-
big and substantial social evolution pressive racial aspects of our society
of native people that occurred before ~nd desire to bring about change.
6nization of the continent. Such
Afro-American Studies majors, in
lhould be the case; but a close ex- addition to being well suited for
eination of the facts in the matter urban political positions, are being
reveal nothing of the sort. hired by industries and public ser-
vice institutions as personnel coun-
With few exceptions, American selors, program coordinators, and ad-
ministrators. The background of in-
9b>ry has been presented to count- formation and attitudes obtained in
a Black Studies Program fit one for
• millions of students, in hundreds entrance into Law School and other
of ~lleges, for decades, as if Black professional programs.
Americans and Black Africans did
not exist, or at best, contributed Majors may continue their parti-
cular interest as graduate students
muig of value to the main flow in History, English, Sociology, or
an;ilization. In order to correct Economics. A Black Studies major
tbis~uality, and correct it in the will enhance any vocation or profes-
lho possible time, it is neces- sion with a thorough understanding
of the central themes of the Black
sary o stress and punctuate the hist- Experience.

ory and culture of Blacks in courses
and programs specifically designed
for the function.

1._~ranted, the addition of a course
llel'e and there in the college curri-
culum, emphasizing Black aware-

ness, does add to the understanding

and lecognition of the contributions
of ~lackS. However, unless integrat-
ed lllto an organized program, such
COUrses have only a slight impact

PAGE NINETEEN

Union named for Martin Luther King, Jr.

The University Union building at in honor of former EIU staff mem-
Eastern has been ·named the Martin bers.
Luther King, Jr., University Union
following approval by the Board of The Faculty Senate reaffirmed its
Governors of State Colleges and Uni- recommendation and, under Board
versities. rules, the recommendation then went
directly to the Board. In the mean.
The naming o( the union in honor time, Dr. Gilbert Fite had assumeit
of Dr. King had been approved by the duties of president at Eastern.
the EIU Student Senate, the Build- President Fite said that he would,
ings and Grounds Committee of the
Faculty Senate, and the full Faculty in view of the circumstances, make
Senate. no recommendation one way or the
other, preferring to have the Board
Former President Quincy Doudna reach its decision strictly on the
did not approve the recommenda- merits of the question.
tion, however, citing a tradition at
Eastern of naming buildings (1) for The Board then approvfil(l the rec-
their function, (2) in honor of dis- ommendation of the Facutly Senata
tinguished citizens of Illinois, or (3) and Student Senate to name the
union in honor of Dr. King.

A 'significant event'

Rededication of Union praised

By Jimmie Franklin Dr. Jimmie Franklin side world." It could be that this
Associate Professor of History small yet important step could en-
The recent rededication of the Uni- courage that kind of sober reflectioJI
versity Union in honor of Dr. Martin may have food to eat, clothes to that serious introspection from stu-
Luther King, Jr., constituted a signi- wear, and shoes on their feet. dents and faculty which could foster
ficant event in the history of Eastern. meaningful orderly social changcl
The historic importance resides not This was King's quest, a quest
in the controversy provoked by the deeply rooted in his love for all man- Indeed, that may be too much fol
proposal to name this edifice for that kind.
great black American who fought to a young man from Mississippi who
free this country of a racist men- What Eastern did a few weeks has seen the possibilities for dem<>ol
tality, but because the rededication ago, then, was in no way totally di- ciatic change thwarted by indiffet41
brought to this campus a certain vorced from occurrences in the "out- ence, political cowardace, selfishnetl
consciousness, a consciousness of a and unforgivable bigotry to hope for.
yet unfulfilled task in human rela- nut despair is easily justified by the
tions. weak. The ultimate product of cyni·
cism is spiritaul death, and nothng
Hopefully, the symbolic step East- is more injurious to the plight of
ern took will challenge students and mankind and civilization than a lack
faculty to work untiringly to con- of hope. To accept the philosopbill
struct democratic institutions respon- assertion that we live in hop~ •
sive to the needs of those persons die in despair is in effect to a~
who have been victims of callous a defeatist posture which frustrat4
racism, and to move toward a society the realization of the good life for
free of unhumanitarian cruelties; the many.
toward the development of a social-
ly healthy national community free So, the Martin Luther King, Jr.
from despicable social ills; toward a University Union is a reality. Let ~
society where men may be reason- imbue ourselves with the faith that 1t
ably psychologically and economical-
ly secure, where poverty does not will serve, figuratively, as a guididl
rob 30 million black and white Am-
ericans of their souls; toward a so- "North Star" which will lead 4
ciety where little innocent children
closer to a new day in human rela..

tions, that real day of Jubilee whed
America has truly live up to that
long denied promise: FREEDO'
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

PAGE TWENTY

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Mater-

ials concerning the activities of
Eastern bachel.or degree graduates

who were teaching in public
-.;hools in 1969-70 were prepared
by Eastern's Placement Office

fl}ith the assistance of Eastern's

tomputer Services and the llli-

no'8 Office of the Superintendent

of Public Instruction.

-70 figures indicate patterns

Teaching combinations vary

One of the more interesting as- Bookkeeping, Econ, Bus. I Typing, Cons. Econ. 1
Bookkeeping, Soc. Studies I
»ects of planning a teaching career Bookkeeping, Geom, Math. 1 Typing, Home Ee 1
Bookkeeping, Typing 3
i'lvolves the choice of not only the 1 Typing, NL I
Bookkeeping, Typ, Bus, Math. 28
major subject areas to be pursued, Bookkeeping, Typ. NL 17 Bus, PE 1
but the minor or secondary teach- Bus. Math. & Bookeeping
Bus. Math. & Typing 1 Bus. Ed, Cons. Econ. 44
'1g areas as well. Bus. Math. & Bkg. Bus. 1
Bus. Math. & Home Ee 1 Bus. Ed. 4
The importance of the non-major Bus. Ed. & NL 1
Cons. Econ. & Math 2 Bus. Ed. Dr. Ed. 2
lltt9Jiing areas is underlined by the Shorthand (only) 4
diversity in teaching combina- Sthd, Bkg, Soc. Studies 3 DRIVER EDUCATION 1
tions requested when schools con- Sthd, Bus. Eng., Bus. I 1
Sthd, Typ, English 1 Driver Ed 1
tact the EIU Placement Office. Sthd. Bus. 2 Driver Ed, Geog. 1
Sthd. Bus. Cons. Econ. 1 Driver Ed, Hist. 2
Whether this diversity will continue 2 Driver Ed, Hist, Econ.
as ~alified teaching personnel be- Sthd. Typ, PE I Driver Ed, Biology, Phys. Sci. 53
Sthd, PE I Driver Ed, Biology 1
come more numerous is difficult to Bus. Eng. l Driver Ed, PE, Phys. Sci. 1
Bus. Eng. & Eng. 2 Driver Ed, Geom, Algebra 1
~rtain. Bus. Eng, Bus. Math, Typ. I Driver Ed, Bus. Ed. 1
1 Driver Ed, Vocal Inst. Music 2
The teaching areas of EIU bache- Bus. Eng. & Bkg. 1 Driver Ed, PE, Hist. 1
Bus. Eng. & Bkg, Typ. 2 Driver Ed, PE 1
lor degree graduates employed in Bus. Eng, Bkg, Cons. Econ. 1 Driver Ed, PE, Typing 1
1
Dlinois public schools in 1969-70 are Bus. Eng, Sthd, Typ. 1
listed by broad subject areas, with Bkg, PE, Bus. 1
Bkg, Sthd. 3
the combinations of teaching areas Rkg, Bus. 1
Bkg, Bus, Typing 1
listed under the broad subject area: Bkg, Bus. Sthd.
Bkg, PE
ART 56 Typing, English 2 Driver Ed, PE, Cons. Ed.
Art (only) l Typing, Civics 1 Driver Ed, PE, Drafting
Art & English I Typing, Econ, PE 2 Driver Ed, Typing
Art, English, Speech Typing, Gen. Sc.
Art & Speech 1 Typing, Bus. Eng. 1 Driver Ed, Econ
Art & Social Studies l Typing, Bus. Eng, Bus.
Art & Biology l Typing, Bkg, Dr. Ed. 2 Driver Ed, Gen. Sci.
Art & PE Typing, Sthd, Hist.
Art & NL (not listed) 3 Typing, Sthd, Bus. 1 Driver Ed, Phys. Sci.
Typing, Bus.
BUSINESS EDUCATION 2 I Driver Ed, Trig.
!Business
1 13 Driver Ed, PE, Math.
Typing, PE, Dr. Ed. 1
Typing 10 10 Driver Ed, PE, NL
14
Typing & Shorthand 1 11 Driver ·Ed, Drafting
Typing & Algebra 1
Typing & Latin 1 1 Driver Ed, NL
Typing & Dr. Ed. 6
20 1 Driver Ed, PE, Shop
EBoOkkeeping, Typing, Bus. 1
kkeeping, Typing, Shorthand 1 1 Driver Ed, Shop
kkeeping
kkeeping, Bus, Psychology 1 ENGLISH 130
1 2
1 English
1 English, Reading I
1 English, Rdg, Speech:
1 English, Reading, Drama 2
19 English, Speech 18

29 (Continued on next page)

PAGE TWENTY-ONE

New wings are bei~ added on the north and south ends of the Physical Science Buildin~ more than doublinl
available space. Lab fa · ities will be g;eatly increased fQI' physics, chemistry, and geograp y-y:;ology. The psy-

chology Department will move into t building this fall when the $3,810,000 project is comp ed.

(Continued from preceding page) FOREIGN LANGUAGE INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION

English, Speech, Drama 4 French 9 Shop (only) 45
English, Speech, English 1 French & Engl.
English, Speech, Art French & Reading 9 Shop & NL 2
English, Journalism 1 French & German
English, Dramatics 5 French, Latin, English 1 Shop & Graphic Arts 1
English, other Eng. 2 French, Latin, other Eng.
English, Civics 4 French, Spanish 1 Shop & Drafting 10
English, History 1
English, Econ. 1 German & Eng. 1 Shop & Physics 1
English, Other SS 1 German
English, other SS, Geog. 3 German & other SS 2 Shop & PE 1
English, Gen. Sci. 1
English, French 2 Latin 3 Shop, PE, Dr. Ed. 1
English, German 9 Latin & Algebra
English, Latin 1 Latin & Engl. 1 Shop & Dr. Ed. 1
English, Spanish 9 Latin & Chem. Eng.
English, Bus. Eng. 5 Latin & Other Math, Algebra 13 Shop, Drafting, Woodworking 16
English, Art 2 Latin & Genium
English, PE 1 Latin & Spanish 1 Shop, Draftin, Electricity 11
English, Dramatics, Civics 3 Latin & Typing
English, Civics, Hist. 1 Spanish & English 3 Shop, Woodworking 11
English, other SS, Hist. Spanish (only) 1 Shop, Woodworking, Drafting
English, Chem, Latin l Spanish & Speech 9 Shop and Metalworkshop 1
I Spanish & History 1
Other Eng. & En8ilish, other SS Spanish & Econ. & Other SS
Other Eng. & 0 er SS I Spanish, other SS 1 Drafting, Geom, Metal Working 1
Other Eng. & French, Latin Other Foreign Lang.
Other Eng. & Typing, Shd. 1 1 Drafting & PE & Dr. Ed. 1
1 HOME ECONOMICS
English, Trig. 1 1 Drafting & Dr. Ed. 1
English, other Math, Hist. I Home Ee
English, French, Latin Home Ee & Typing 4 Drafting & Shop & Metal Wk. 1
English, Typing 1 Home Ee & English
English, Voc. Music I Home Ee & Gen. Sci. 1 Drafting & Shop & Graphic Arts 1
Eng, Speech, PE 2 Home Ee & other Phys. Sci.
English, Home Ee 1 Home Ee & Bus. Math 5 Drafting (only) 9
1 Home Ee & PE
1 21 Drafting & Dr. Ed., Metalworking 1
1
1 Drafting & Woodworking 6

I Drafting & Woodworking, 1
6
1 Metalwor~
I Drafting & W working

1 Drafting & Woodworking, 11

Metalworking

Drafting, Woodworking, 2
96 Graphic Arts 2
1 Drafting, Woowworking, NL

I "\iVoodworking, Cons. Ed, Bus. 1
I Math
4
1 Wdwkg, Shop, Metalworking
1 Woodworking (only) 12
1
4 Wdwkg, Drafting, Elect.

PAGE TWENTY-TWO

woodworking, Metalworking 4 Algebra, other Math, Phys. 1 Chemistry, other Phys. Sci. 9
Algebra, other Math, Latin 1
)fetalworking, Shop, Elect. 2 Algebra, Latin 1 Chemistry & Algebra 3
Algebra, Typing 1
Jdetalworking, Woodworking, Algebra, PE 1 Chemistry & Algebra, Physics 1

Elect. 4 Chemistry, Alg, Geom. 2

~orking, Woodworking, NL 1 Chemistry, other Math 2

orking (only) 6 MUSIC Chemistry, other Math,

MATH Vocal (only) other Phys. S. 1
Vocal, English
(;eom, Drafting, Mtlwkg. 1 Vocal, PE 34 Chemistry & NL 2
Vocal, Inst. 1
c;eom, other Math. 6 hist. 2 Chemistry, Alg. Geom. 1
Inst. & Vocal, Dr. Ed.
4 28 Chemistry, Alg, other Math 1
35
Geometry Physics (only) 2
1
Geom, other Phys. Sci. 1 I'hysics, Gen. Sci, Trig 1

Geom, Biology 1 Physics, other Phys. Sci. 4

c;eom, Physics 2 NATURAL SCIENCE Physics, Algebra 6

Geom, Trig. 1 General Science Physics, Algebra, other Phys. Sci. 3

Trig, Hist. 1 General Science, English 19 Physics, Trig, other Math 1
Gen. Science, Hist, Geography 2
Trig, Gen. Sci., Physics 1 Gen. Science, PE, Civics 1 Physics, other Math, Phys. Sci. 1
Gen. Science, PE, Biology 1
'frig, Physics, other Math 1 Physics & Geography 2 Physics, Geom, Algebra 6
Gen. Sci. & Home Ee. 1
Trig. (only) 2 Gen. Sci. & Typing 1 Physics, Alg, other Math 1
1
1'rig, English 1 Physics, Geometry 2

Other Math, Phys, Phys. Sci. 1 ~sics, Gen. Shop 1

Other Math, & Physics 1 er Phys. Science (only) 10

Gen. Sci, & other Math 3 Other Phys. Sci. & Dr. Ed. 1

Gen. Sci. & Other Phys. Gen. Sci. & Biology 11 Other Phys. Sci. & Geom. 1
Gen. Sci. & Biology & Chem. 4
Sci, Math 1 Other Phys. Sci. & Biology & Phys. 1

Other Math, Biology, Gen. Sci. 1 Gen. Sci., Biol., Other Phys. Sc. 2 Other Phys. Sci., & Dr. Ed. & PE 1

Other Math, Chem, Gen. Sci. 1 Gen. Sci., Chem, Phys. 2 Other Phys. Sci. & other Math 1
Gen. Sci., other Phys. Sci. 4
Other Math, Chem. 2 Gen. Sci., other Phys. Sci., PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Other Math, Chem, other Phys. S 1 other Math

Other Math, Chem, Physics 2 2 PE 181
PE & Dr. Ed. 53
ebra, Chem, Gen. Science 1 Gen. Science, other Math 2 PE & English 3
PE & Hist. & Geog. 4
gebra, Chem. 3 Gen., Sci., PE 4 PE & Hist. & Econ.
PE & History 1
gebra, Chem, Phys. 1 General Science, PE, NL 1 PE & Hist. & Other SS 7
PE, History, Dr. Ed. 1
gebra, Geom, Chem. 2 General Science, PE, Dr. Ed. 1 PE & Other SS 2
Gen. Sci., Cons. Econ. 1 PE &Gen. Science
gebra, Physics 6 Gen. Sci., & Algebra 1 PE & Gen. Science, & NL 1
PE, Gen. Sci, Dr. Ed. 4
·ebra, Phys, other Phys. Sci. 3 PE & Biology 1
PE, other Phys. Sci., Dr. Ed.
ebra (only) 14 Gen. Sci. & Dr. Ed. 1 PE & Algebra 1
PE & other Math 8
gebra, Gen. Sci. 1 Biology (only) 30 PE & Bookkeeping 1
PE & Typing & Econ. 1
gebra, Chem, Geom. 1 Biology & History 1 PE & Art 4
PE & Voc. Music 1
ebra, Chem, other Math 1 Biology & other SS 1 PE & Speech, & English 1
PE & Gen. Science, Civics 3
ebra, other Phys. Sci, Biology & Gen. Sci, other Math 1 PE & Gen. Sci., & Biology 2
PE, Bkg, other Bus. 1
other Math 1 Biology & Chem. 7 PE, Typing, Shorthand 1
PE & Shorthand 2
Algebra, Geometry 17 Biology & Chem, Physics 1 PE & other Bus.
Biology & Physics 2 PE & Dr. Ed., Typing 1
Geom, Bkg, 1 PE & Dr. Ed., Cons. Ed. 1
1
Geom, other Math, Bkg. 1 Biology, other Phys. Sci. 19 PE & Dr. Ed. & Draftinatt 3
PE &Dr. Ed. other M 1
'!'rig, Dr. Ed. 1 Biology, other Phys. Sci. & Dr. Ed. 2 PE & Dr. Ed. & NL 1
1
Trig, Physics 1 Biology & PE 8 PE & Gen. Shl 1
(Continu on next page)
!'rig, other Math 1 Biology & Dr. Ed. 4 1
1
Other Math 26 Biology & NL 1

Other Math, Eng., Hist. 1 Biology & Geom. 1

Other Math, Biology, Alg. 1 Biology & Alg, & other Math. 1

Other Math, Other Phys. Sci. 1 Biology & Art 1

Ofher Math, PE 5 P1:hsics & Trig. 1
0 er Phys. Sci. & Home Ee. 1
Other Math, Cons. Econ. 1

Other Math, PE, Dr. Ed. 1 Chemistry (only) 18

Other Math, PE, NL 1 Chemistry, Eng., Latin 1

Algebra, Geom, Phys. 6 Chemistry, Gen. Sci., other Ph.S. 1

Algebra, Geom, Trig. 17 Chemistry, Gen. Sci. Algebra 1
~ebra, Geom, other Math 24
Chemistry, Gen. Sci, other Math 1

Algebra, Geom, Dr. Ed. l Chemistry, Physics, other Math 2

Algebra, Trig. 5 Chemistry & Physics 9

Algebra, Trig, other Math 2 Chemistry & Physics, other

Algebra, other Math 21 Phys. Sci. 9

PAGE TWENTY-THREE

(Continued from preceding page) Econ, Hist, Cons. Econ. 1 I
Econ. & other SS 4
PE & Gen. Shop & Dr. Ed. 1 Econ. & other SS & NL Earn masters
FE & Home Ee. 4 Econ, Cons. Econ, other SS
Econ, other SS, Spanish 1 Eastern graduates working in IlJi.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Econ, Typing, PE
Psychology (only) 1 nois public school districts have
Geography & Ind. Arts Fsychology & Civics 1 earned master's degrees as followsj
Psychology, Bkg, other Bus.
Geography (only) 1 Psych. & Journ. 1 Illinois State Normal 24
other SS & Art 3 EIU 684
Geography & other SS 6 other SS (only)
other SS & other Eng. 1 Northern Illinois 44
Geography & History 3 other SS & Hist. & Eng.
other SS & PE 1 Western Illinois 2
Geography & History & PE 11 other SS & Biolo~ Northeastern Illinois 2
other SS & Spanis 1 Bradley 12
History, Econ, Civics 4 other SS & Bkg. 1 DePaul
Civics & Typing 3
History (only) 1 17 Illinois College 1
SPEECH
History & English 50 1 Illinois Wesleyan 2
Speech
History & Speech 1 Speech & English 1 Loyola 2
Speech & Eng. & Reading
Civics (only) 2 Speech & Eng., Drama 1 McKendree 1
Spech, Eng. other Eng. 1 Millikin 15
Civics & Speech, & Drama 3 Speech, Eng, Art 1 National College
Speech & Dramatics 1 Northwestern 1
Civics & English 1 Speech, Drama, Civics Rockford 17
Speech, other English 1 Roosevelt
Civics & PE & Gen. Sci. 1 Speech & History 1
Speech & Spanish 3
Econ. & English 1 Speech & Art
Speech, Eng., PE SIU (Carbondale) 17
Civics, Geog., Hist. 1
JOURNALISM U of Chicago 1
Civics & Econ, Psych. 4
Journalism & Eng. 10 U of Illinois (Champaign) 599
Geog. other SS, Hist. 1 Journalism & Psych.
18 Vandercook 1
Geography & Physics 1 READING
1 SIU (Edwardsville) 12
Geography & Dr. Ed. 1 Reading (only)
Reading, Speech, Eng. 5 Chicago State 2
History & other SS 1 Reading & French
Reading, Cons. Ed. 1 lJ of Illinois (Chicago) 6
History & Civics I
AGRICULTURE 1
History & Civics & English 6
History, Civics, Geography Agriculture (only) 3 Total 1452
Other SS & English 1
Other SS, Geog, English 2 NOT LISTED (NL) 1 Alabama 2
Other SS, Engl, other Eng. 3 Arizona
Hist, Civics, other SS 1 NL & History 1 Arkansas 1
Geog, Hist, Econ. I NL & other Math, PE 2 Colorado
Geog, Hist, other SS I NL, other Bus., Bus. Math I Florida 3
Hist, Geog, Gen. Sci. 3 NL & Driver Ed. 1 Georgia
Hist, Geog, PE 1 NL & Gn. Shop I 21
History & Econ. 1 NL & Drafting & Elect.
Hist. Econ, other SS 3 NL & Woodworking Indiana 2
Hist, Econ, PE 7 NL & Mtalworking
History & Psych. 2 Iowa 1
History & NL 1
History & Other SS 2 5 Kansas 60
History & other SS & Econ. 1 1 Kentucky 4
History, other SS, Dr. Ed. 20
History, other SS, Cons. Ed. 2 Massachusetts 2
History & Trig. 1
History & Typing 1 Michigan 6
History & PE 1
History, PE, other SS 1 Minnesota 2
Hist, PE, Dr. Ed. 7 6 Mississippi 4
Hist, & Driver Ed. 1 1 Missouri 1
Hist. & Dr. Ed. & Econ. 2 1 Nebraska 4
History & Spanish 4 1 New Hampshire 14
History, Typing, Shd. 1
Economics (only) 1 New Mexico 2
Economics & Dr. Ed. 1
Econ, Geog, Civics 1 New York 1
1 1
1 2 Oklahoma 4
Ohio 1
3
Oregon 1
1
Pennsylvania 1
1
1 Rhode Island 12
2
1 South Dakota 1

1 Tennessee -2

2 Texas Total 160

1 Washington

1 Wisconsin

1

1

PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

If

Eastern Grads in Illinois Public Schools

Eastern graduates employed in Illinois public school districts made up a diver-
sified group in 1969-70, as the following table indicates. The average "position
title" paid $10,777.

Position Title Ado Yrs Avg Avg
Male Female Master's Cert Doc Ex Age Sal.

Supt ESR 7 0 7 0 0 32 62 $13,535
6 6 12 0 0 24 55 10,416
Asst Supt ESR

Dist Supt 79 1 63 8 l 19 46 15,299

Admin Asst 10 0 8 0 1 10 37 13,798

Asst Supt 16 0 14 2 0 17 44 16,060

Bus Mgr 11 0 9 1 0 11 40 16,425

Elem Prin 89 8 84 3 1 18 44 12,720

Asst Elem Prin 4 2 4 0 0 17 43 10,679

JHS Prin 17 3 14 1 0 18 46 12,761

Asst JHS Prin 5 0 4 l 0 10 38 12,805

HS Prin 36 0 34 2 0 14 42 14,301

Asst HS Prin 16 1 16 0 0 12 39 14,337

JHS Dean 1 0 1 0 0 8 36 10,213

HS Dean 7 2 8 0 0 17 45 12,655

Supervisor 15 4 18 0 0 16 43 13,491

Consultant 7 2 5 0 1 10 37 12,381

Coordinator 19 2 16 0 0 16 42 12,755
9,031
Spee Ed Tchr 17 39 21 0 0 9 39
7,938
Elem Tchr 214 1059 181 1 0 9 36
8,296
JHS Teacher 279 229 101 l 0 7 33
3 0 0 5 30 7,659
Art Tchr K-8 8 12
8,980
HS Teacher 1050 619 574 3 0 7 34
86 29 101 1 0 10 38 10,691
Guid Couns 5 55 16 0 0 9 38 8,474

Sch Lib 3 0 0 7 32 11,423

AV Director 3 0 7,487

Speech Corr 11 39 10 0 0 6 33 12,750
2 0 l 12 42
Sch Psych 2 1 8,169
Elem Music Tchr 21 41 20 0 0 8 34
9 0 0 9 35 9,364
JHS Music Tchr 13 5 12 0 0 5 30 7,359
K-12 Music Tchr 24 12 3 l 0 2 28 7,325
K-8 PE Tchr 20 35
2 0 0 4 32 10,220
Soc Worker 20 0 0 0 1 26 6,300
Sch Nurse 01 3 0 0 16 41 8,089
Rem Reading 1 10
0 1 0 0 0 3 32 7,430
Inst TV 4 8 0 0 0 13 47 8,699
Adult Ed

Certificate types Vocational 4 Life Special 2

Junior College (9-14) 3 Life Junior College 3

~faduates employed byJub- Spee. - Exe. Children 9 Ltd. Supervisory (K-14) 24

%E: districts in Illinois ho 26 Special (11-12) 9 All-Grade Supervisory (K-14) 248
of certificates, with the hi~h Provisional Elem. (K-9) 72 Ltd. Elem. Sup. (Kl9) 38
Provisional H.S. (6-12)
by ool (6-12) certificate being he d Provisional Special 28 Ltd. H.S. Sup. (6-12) 27
Provisional Vocational (K-14)
nearly half the graduates. Temp. Prov. (K-9) 5 Life Gen. Sup... (K-14) 15
Temp. Prov. (6-12)
~e breakdown follows: Life Elementary 2 Life Sup. (K-14) 2
Life High School
8~Paicrewnttcaheroynol(K-(6-9-P1)r2i)mary 1078 2 Temp. TMH (K-14) 46
10
6 Administration (K-14) - -17
2069
21
24 Total 4242
(K-14) 478

~ PAGE TWENTY·FIVE

l

EIU alumni
active in
spring meetings

E I U alumni have been active President Gilbert Fite chats with Mr. and Mrs. David Pike at the MOIJ.
this spring, taking part in area meet- 20 al.umni leadership conference. Mrs. Pike (Lori Hicks, '71) is a memM
ings, in sessions with a special con-
sultant on development, and in a of the Alumni Association Executive Committee.
spring alumni leadership meeting.
Among the alumni leaders on hand for the May 20 meeting were Ogdsllil
President Gilbert C. Fite has play- Brainat"d (left foreground) and Dr. Chenault Kelly (right foreground).
ed a prominent role in each of these
activities, emphasizing his interest in
alumni.

As the featured speaker at alumni
gatherings in Springfield and near
Edwardsville, Dr. Fite noted that the
wiiversity is facing financial prob-
lems, but that he is determined to
go beyond maintaining the status
quo, and to make Eastern "a truly
great regional university."

He explained that the university
can not have the types of programs
it should have if it relies only on
appropriated funds. "We must seri-
ously consider some type of develop-
ment program," he concluded.

In cooperation with the university,
the Alumni Association in early May
brought to campus Michael Radock,
one of the nation's leading authori-
ties on development programs and
educational fund-raising, in an effort
to shed light on what would be re-
quired of the university and of
alumni in establishing and operating
a development program. Radock met
with university personnel and
Alumni Association officers over a
three-day period.

In a related program, a number o{
alumni leaders met on campus May
20 to discuss the types of university
programs alumni would be likely to
support financially, as well as the
types of alumni programs the uni-
versity could provide.

PAGE TWENTY-SIX

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hesler (left and center) compare viewpoints on
tlumni support of development pro;ects with Ogden Brainard during the
•mni leadership conference.

Mike David (left), Elmer Jamnik (center), and Jim Johnson took part in Homecoming
'-ions of the alumni leadership conference. Johnson is a member of the
this year is
Alumni Association Executive Committee.
Octoberl

PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

President Fite, at right, was on hand to present the championship awards as Eastern captured first place in the

1972 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Gymnastics Championships hekl March 24 and 25 at Lantt

Gymnasium. The Panther gymnasts outscored Northwestern Louisiana State University 149.75 to 142.45 to win
first place and break Northwestem's six-year hokl on the top prize. Eastern coach John Schaefer, far 'left, was namet.I

NAl.A Gymnastics Coach of the Year.

More than 100 alumni in law schools

Eastern pre-law students successful

Students who have taken pre-law reviewed annually by this group and that law school deans emphasd
Hollister in consultation with EIU
studies at Eastern are finding open administrators. the extreme importance of lib.

doors at major university law schools. Twice each year the Law School arts courses, as opposed to vocatiosl
Admission Test is administered at al-oriented areas.
Since 1968, when Dr. Charles Eastern. Hollister emphasizes that
Hollister assumed the position of these tests are not entrance examina- The Political Science Departm•
pre-law advisor, approximately 100 tions for law schools, nor are they
Eastern graduates have entered law general intelligence tests. They are offers the following courses whic'li
schools. An Eastern graduate is cur- designed, rather, to help determine a
rently enrolled in the Yale Univer- student's aptitude for the formal are of special interest to pre-legal
sity Law School, and former East- study of law.
ern students are also enrolled in law students:
schools at such universities as North- Although political science and his- Introduction to the Legal Syst~
western University, University of tory majors made up the dominant
Iowa, University of Texas, Baylor number of Eastern's students who foternational Law, The Supre~
University, and the University of took the last test, other majors in-
Illinois. cluded accounting, management, Court and the Federal System, Thci
marketing, speech, mathematics, in-
Hollister is aided in the pre-law dustrial arts, and chemistry. Supreme Court and Civil Righ~
advisory capacity by the Advisory
Council of Practicing Attorneys, Hollister said there was no formal The Judicial Process, and Contellllll
made up of Charleston and Mattoon curriculum for pre-legal studies, but porary Constitutional Developm~'
lawyers. The pre-legal program is
Hollister has been instrumental ill

bringing law school deans to the

campus for lectures and consultati~
The advisor also makes available to

interested students catalogues froJD
law schools and a list of readings th~
various law schools feel will be
value to the prospective law studen~

PAGE TWEfllTY·EIGHT

Driver education An extension of the Fine Arts Center will add 26,905 sq. ft. to the
program to have existing building's 41,500 sq. ft. when comp'leted for Winter Quarter, 1972-
new facility
73. The addition, which will feature a 600-seat recital hall and a series of
music teaching studios, will be used by the Music Department, which will

give up space in the present structure.

A new multiple car driving range driving simulators, and the bitumin- driving to the real world of traffic
near Lincoln Field Stadium will en- ous driving course, measurll}g ap- congestion as it exists today."
proximately 190 by 440 feet, will be
able Eastern to offer a wide range of marked to duplicate various situa- The range will permit in-service
tions encountered in on-street driv- teachers to keep abreast of the most
181'Vices in the specialized driver ing. Another feature will be a skid effective methods of utilizing curri-
education field, according to Dr. pad measuring approximately 50 by culum innovations, teaching aids and
Harland A. Riebe. professor of 100 feet which will be used for test- equipment, encourage them to up-
ing and teaching stopping techni- grade their teaching competency
health education and director of the ques. and provide information about
program. equipment they might recommend
Riebe said the range will allow for use in their own schools. Special
l:onstruction of the facility, which the University to offer a fully coor- courses for both pre-service and in-
will include a driver training course dinated driver education program in service teachers are planned.
just west of the stadium and an of- a sequential pattern beginning with
classroom work and progressing The range will also provide an
lfce and classroom under the foot- through simulation to laboratory opportunity to de-velop programs for
work on the course and finally to training handicapped drivers, motor-
ball stands, began about March I on-street practice. cyclists, ambulance personnel, police
Mth completion scheduled by June and school bus drivers.
He said relatively few schools
30. The $67,000 project is funded by have been able to offer such a coor- Alumni request
dinated program, which is now nec-
the Office of the State Superintend- essary to give prospective teachers Coleman history
training with equipment and facili-
ent of Public Instruction. ties now used at school driving ran- The Alumni Services office has
ges, notably in the Chicago area. had requests from alumni for copies
Plans for the project were approv- of Dr. Charles Coleman's book,
Riebe said, 'The multiple car "Eastern Illinois State College: Fifty
ed by the Board of Governors of range is part of a model program Years of Public Service," published
that will provide leadership in pro- in 1950 and now out of print.
State ~lleges and University at its grammed learning experiences em-
phasizing perception skills, judg- Alumni knowing of available cop-
llleetut& in November. ment and personal decision necessary ies of the book are asked to contact
to provide a successful transition for the Alumni Services office.
Riebe said the facility will make student drivers from controlled area
pcllsI'ble new courses for prospective

driver training teachers and in-ser-
Yice teachers based on the state's

ll8W driver education curriculum.
ative use of the range by area

schools, and expanded adult
lid...._ education programs are also
r-uoed.

The classroom will include 12

PAGE TWENTY-NINE

Higher Board okays The new addition to the Marlin Luther King, Jr., University Union will
doubling size of
University Union be constructed in the area between the present union building and thl
Concrete Block House to the east. Part or all the Concrete Block House will
be torn down to make room for the addition, which will be connected to thl

present building by a walkway over the drive east of the present structure.

The Illinois Board of Higher Edu- 1971-72 Facts

cation has approved plans for an ad- Enrollment (fall quarter) 8790 (men 4120; women 4670)
Number of Black Students 255 (3% of enrollment)
dition to Eastern's University Union. Number of International Students 115 (B!a% of enrollment)
Number of Faculty 660
Dr. Martin Schaefer. vice pl'.esi- Number of Civil Service Personnel 570
Size of Campus 316 acres
dent for Development and Staffing. Number of Major Buildings 35
Number of Social Sororities 7
said the next step will be prepara- Percentage of Women who belong
10%
tion of working plans. to Sororities 11
Number of Social Fraternities
The proposed facility. to be fi- Percentage of Men who belong 15%
nanced by student fees through sale 12
of revenue borids. will nearly double to Fraternities 4205
the Union capacity. The separate Total Number of Residence Halls
addition will be constructed east of Total Capacity of Residence Halls
the present building and will be con-
nected by a walkover. President of Alumni Association - Mrs. Dorothy Greathouse, Mattoon
President of EIU Foundation - Glen Hesler, Mattoon
Estimated cost of the project. in- 1970-71 Payroll, Including Student Help - $13,315,044
cluding construction. furnishings, site
development and utility service lines,
i~ $4;198,000. Bonds will be retired
through a $3.25 per quarter increase
in student fees.

PAGE THIRTY

Alumni News Notes

1910 - 1919 Gladys A. (Clapp) Temples, '28, ed by the General Electric Co in the
and husband have two sons and 6 Space Systems Prods Dept, College
)label (Nay) Coffey, '10, lives in grandchildren. They live in Oakland, Park, and resides in Washington,
Oelcland, IL. Mr. Coffey (Ellis), JL, where Mr. Temples farms. D.C.
who attended Eastern, died last
1930 - 1939 Opal Pauline (Norton) Kingsbury,
August. '35, has retired from teaching after
Thelma Edna Harrison, '30, 18 years. She and Mr. Kingsbury
Susie (Archer-) Fleming, '11, died teaches lst grade in Lema, IL. were married in June, 1971, and live
Jut July and was buried at Hum- in Windsor, WI. She had been a
Jeanneete W. (Lawrence) Edwards, widow for 20 years, during which
boldt. IL. '31, and husband are both retired time she earned the bachelor's from
and enjoying fishing near Hot the U of Wisconsin. Mr. Kingsbury
Mary WiUcockson, '16, retired Springs, AR. is a retired engineer with Lennox
Furnace.
from State U of Ohio, Miami in 1960 Dorothy (McNary) Struthers, '31,
and husband spend their summers June R. (Hughes) Malloy, '36, is
because of illness and lives in the i11 Humboldt, IL, and their winters in her llth year of teaching Sp Ed
Bethel Nursing Home, Oshkosh, WI. in Phoenix, AZ. She writes, "I have in Wauwatosa, WI. She has four
been doing considerable writing c-hildren, two of whom are married.
1920 - 1929 since my retirement (in 1960) . I Mr. Malloy died a year ago.
have poetry published in many lead-
1loyd E. Wilson, '20, died July ing poetry magazines, and several Claudia (lsenburg) Miley, '36,
national and international antholo- lives in Milwaukee, WI. She teaches
Ii. 1971. He had been a teacher for gies." She is president of the Mat- lsl grade in Wauwatosa, WI. She
toon Branch of the National League and her husband, the Rev. Raymer
42 years in the Evanston, IL, HS. of Pen Women, and was on the or- Miley, have two children.
Virginia (Shield) Essex, '23, retired ganizing committee for the new Illi-
nois State Poetry Society last fall. Walter Treece, '31, is employed
from eaching in June, 1970, after She is listed in International Who's by the General Electric Co, Even-
\\"ho in Poetry, and will be listed in dale, OH.
14 years. She is a widow and lives in Two Thousand Women of Achieve-
Bowling Green, OH. ment, 1972. "Besides this we are Harriet (Foltz) Riley, '37, and hus-
busy with Bible teaching and mis- band, now retired, have moved back
Nellie (Shull) Rodgers, '23, '25, sions work, both in Humboldt and to Oregon. She writes that they live
'61, after 10 years teaching in Mat- Phoenix. During the summer my hus- on the Rogue River near Grants'
toon, IL, and 13 years in Lema, IL, band and I find gardening in Hum- Pass, in "beautiful country with com-
boldt a profitable and pleasureable paratively clean air and little traffic."
u retired and living in Lema. Mr. sideline. I have little patience with
still-ablebodied retirees who are Thomas 0. Petty, •37 and Laudy
lodgers (George), who graduated bored with nothing to do." (Ingle) Petty, '65, live in Oakland,
&ooi Eastern High School in 1928, IL.
died in 1970. Their three daughters Mildred (Handley) Riddle, '33
all hold degrees from EIU, as do all (MS '43), is in her 13th year teach- Russell S. Sricer, '37, is employed
ing lst grade in Mobile, AL. Mr. by the Genera Electric Co, Danville,
three tons-in-law. Riddle is a baker. They have two IL.
sons.
Anna Louise Weathers, '24, is re- Cloyd Woodrow Paskin, '31, is
tired and living in Milwaukee, WI. Frances Opal (Quigle) Carpenter, asst prof of history and sociology at
'33, lives in Bement, IL. She has re- Troy State U, Troy, AL. He traveled
Jacob Geffs, '26, is a lawyer in tired from teaching. to the orient in 1971, and in 1969
went to the USSR.
Clinton, WI. He was formerly pro- Annette (Blomquist) Tramm, '35,
fessor of law at the U of Missouri is working in Child Care Services at Frances (Kennard) Brooks, '39,
and the U of Alabama. Kankakee, IL, Area Career Center. and husband, reside in Greenwich,
CT. They have 5 children. She re-
Ralph B. Casey, '26 (MS '34), af- Evelyn Hallowell, '35, is employ- ceived the MS from Pratt Institute
in 1970.
~ retiring in 1964, has been work-
ing in the IL Retired Teacher Assoc. Alice (Ogden) Lamkey, •39 (MS
He lives in Oakland, IL. '70), is teaching home ec at Oak-

Hanna S. Kinney, '26, '59, retired PAGE THIRTY-ONE
fn 1964 after teaching 29 years in

elem schools in Coles and Douglas

~ties. She and her husband, Her-
"""• reside in Oakland, IL. Since
1964, she has done substitute teach-
ing.

Alta Elizabeth (Covalt) Davis, '27,

leaches first grade in Humboldt, IL.

1940 -1949 Kaiser, '58, named Sangamon State VP

land, IL, HS. She was the 1971-72 Dr. John Keiser, '58, who taught unionism.
Coles County Teacher of the Year. history at Eastern for five years, has
She has three children, including been named vice president for aca· Prior to teaching at Eastern, he
Kathy; who graduated from EIU in d£;mic affairs at Sangamon State
1967. University, Springfield, II. He moved taught at Northwestern and West~
to Sangamon State last fall, and has minster College of Missouri.
Donald E. Davis, '38, and Dorothy served as director of the summer
(Richey) Davis, '38, live in Auburn, Keiser was a five-letter athlete at

AL. Mr. Davis is still teaching at quarter. Eastern, and was voted most valua-
ble football player in 1958.

He says his major goal in his new
Auburn U, and holds the alumni Keiser graduated from Eastern post will be to 'maintain the spon-
professorship for distinguished ser- with honors before earning the MA taniety of the last exciting year, but

vice. and PhD degrees from Northwestern at the same time to introduce as

V emiece (Yeagel) Krukewitt, '38, University. His major interest an<l much efficiency of operations as

is living in Homer, IL, where she training are in Illinois history and possible."

teaches first grade. labor history. He is the author of a Mrs. Keiser is the former Nancy

Mary (Fa"ar) Ward, '38, and hus- number of studies and articles on Peterka, '59. They have three sons.

bsnd live in Whitewater, WI, and

have 4 children. Ralph Irvin, '47, lives in Beloit, 1950 - 1959
WI, and is counselor at Aldrich HS.
Opal M. (Lundy) Harry, '38, and Laura (Fausett) Harris, '50, 1s m
husband, Art, a graduate of Western Earl S. Funston, '47, is employed
Military Academy in Alton, IL, live by the General Electric Co in the her 12th year of teaching. She and
on a farm near Humboldt, IL. Space Systems Prods Dept, Even-
dnle, OH. Mr. Harris reside in Kankakee, IL,
Frank W. Tate, '41, is senior lect- and have a son 12 years old. Mr.
urer in psychology at the U of Wis- Mary Jane (Richards) Watson, '47, Harris is a supervisory accountaal
consin, Marinette, WI. and husband reside in Ashmore, IL. \\<orking as a civilian employee for
Mr. Watson is a rural mail carrier. the Army.
Eloise (Rhodes) Barger, '41, (MS They have seven children and cele-
'54) , is chairman of the English brated their 25th wedding anniver- Robert G. Ray, '50, is employ411
Dept at Charleston JHS. She is so- sary in December. Their eldest dau-
cial studies team leader, Coles Coun- ghter's husband is a senior at EIU. by the General Electric Co in tll
ty Alpha Delta Kappa corresponding
secretary, and consultant for the Illi- Kenneth L. Taylor, '48, lives in Appl Control Prods Dept, Morrisoil
nois Gifted Program. Atwood, IL, where he is principal of IL.
the Hammond Grade School. He
Irving W. Burtt, '43, and Sally and Mrs. Taylor have two children Russel H. Heckel, '52, is a histoii
(Bainbridge) Burtt, '44, who live in including Gregg, who is a senior at instructor at Los Angeles Pierce Col
Saginaw, Ml, report that "both of us EIU. lege, Woodland Hills, CA.
are in the business of education."
They have two children. William Carter, '48, is chancellor Lee (Henn) Peterson, '52, hus-
of the U of Wisconsin, Whitewater. band, and three daughters live in
Dorothy (Smith) Doty, '45, teaches Momence, IL. She is substitute teachl
3rd grade in Bement, IL. She receiv- Louise Ellen (McCumber) Haw- ing this year and Mr. Peterson works
ed the MS Ed from Millikan U in thorne, '49, teaches first grade at with Commonwealth Edison Co in
1969. Mr. Doty is a rural mail car- Jefferson School, Ottawa, IL, where Kankakee, IL.
rier. They have one daughter, a shE. and her husband live with their
junior at U of I. three sons. They are building a house James G. Kehias, '52, is employ.
in a new wooded subdivision, Oak- by the General Electric Co, Bloo•
Bartley Jay Greenwood, Jr., '45, ton Acres. She notes that Mr. Haw- ington, IL.
a retired army colonel, is teaching thorne converts busses into family
at Wedgewood Middle school, Pen- motor coaches for clients. Glen J. Radloff, '52, is employ.
sacola, FL. in the Photo Lamp Dept of Genetti
Electric, Mattoon, IL.

Betty (Harrison) Yaw, '53, is liY·
ing in Ashmore, IL. She and Mr.
Yaw, a field supv for Unibuilt Stroc-

Loraine B. Pabst, '45, is prof of John Tolch, '49, is a professor in lures, Reasor Corp, Charleston, IL,

history and chairman of the Social communication arts (theatre) and have one son.

Science Div at Athens College, chairman of the Faculty Advising Mildred (Myers) Perington, '54,
Athens, AL. She also has been ap- Service at the U of Wisconsin. and husband reside in Des Moines,
pointed to the sesquicentennial com- IA. Mildred is a volunteer aide in
mittee, as the college prepares to D. Lyle Goleman, '49, is chairman the elem school system and Mr.
celebrate its 150th year. of the Dept of Entomology at Ohio
State U, Columbus, OH. Dr. and Perington is manager of local salelllof

Wilbert W. Kirchhoff, '47, is prin- Mrs. Goleman have three children. office of B. G. Peterson Co

cipal of the McLenegan Elem School Norma Jean Carter, '49, teaches Omaha, NB. They have three boys.

in Beloit, WI, where he and Mrs. 2nd grade at the Atwood-Hammond James Alexander, Jr., •54 (MS
Kirchhoff, an administrative assist- Grade Schoo~ and lives in Windsor, '58), and wife, Karen, live in Eau

ant at Whitewater U, reside. IL. Claire WI. He is asst prof of geo~

PAGE THIRTY-TWO

Latin American Studies Pro- Donald L. Kitchen, '60, who was William E. Curry, '59, is employed
an instructor at the U. S. Naval Test by the General Electric Co, Hunts-
, They have two children. Pilot School and a section head at ville, AL.
A. Alumbaugh, '55, is em- Weapons System Test at the Naval
by the General Electric Co, Air Test Center in Patuxent River, William E. Curry, '59, wife, and
MD, died last June 14, 1971. Prior
, CA. to his death, Mr. Kitchen was select- two dau&::rs live in Huntsville,
lnton) Taylor, '55, and ed to appear in the 1971 edition of AL. Wi · is employed by Gen-
"Outstanding Young Men of Am- eral Electric - Aerospace Manage-
Richard (who attended erica." He was doing graduate work ment.
1) live in Oakland, IL. Jane at George Washington University at
_.,etary at Miller Grain Co and the time of his death. At Eastern, Willem Lambrechtse, '59, works
Mr. Kitchen was named to "Who's for General Electric and lives in
is a grain farmer and breed- 'Who Among Students in American Waterford, N. Y.
Universities and Colleges," was a
of Angus cattle. They have 3 chil- member of Chi Nu society fraternity, James L. Ruckman, '59, and wife
and was a frequent medal winner reside in Huntington Park, CA,
all active in 4-H. in IIAC gymnastics. He is survived where he manages the Top Notch
~ K. Turner, '56, is asst supt by his wife, Paula, and 2 daughters. restaurant.
~el at Bradley-Bourbonnais
a private pilot. Gene A. Greek, '59, and family
and is working on his PhD at reside in Atwood, IL. Gene is the
• Mrs. Turner is a librarian at Mary Ann (Bridges) Dunscomb, business office manager at Decatur,
'57, is the owner/publisher of the IL, Memorial Hospital.
In School in Kankakee Dist. Atwood Herald and Tri-County
Gilbert Cochran, '56, is employed Shopper in Atkood, Ill. Mr. Duns- 1960 - 1969
comb died in 1970.
the General Electric Co, Sche- Dwight Huddlestun, '60, and Alta
Nancy L. (Woods) Wertz, '57, and (Wiyatt) Huddlestun, MS '61, reside
dy, N.Y. husband live in Sylmar, CA. They in Magnolia, AR. Mr. Huddlestun is
IWrh Shelley, '56, is executive have a son. associate professor of geography at
Southern State College and is also
o Data Associates, Inc, Empire John T. Saatkamp, '58, is inanager listed in the last edition of American
of Amstar Corp. He, his wife, and Men of Science and Dictionary of
ter, Dallas, TX. two children live in Brookfield, WI. International Biography. They have
Bobert E. Miller, '56, lives in a son, now a freshman at Southern
William R. Cole, '59, and Ethel State College.
n •mdale, WI. He is general supt of (Goetz) Cole, '64, live in Manteno,
dries for Bucyrus-Erie in South IL. William teaches building trades Charley M. White, '60; and Olive
at Lincoln-Ways HS, New Lenox, (Vanatta) White, '59, live at Stevens
Mflwaukee, WI. He and Mrs. Miller IL, and Ethel is chairman of the Point, WI, where Dr. White is em-
~ve two children. girl's PE Dept at Bradley-Bourbon- ployed at the University of WI. They
nais HS, Bradley, IL. have two children.
)largery (Malkson) Ploetz, '56,
ises 7th &: 8th grade study Janice K. (Vulgamott) Lonnon, '60,
t Electra Quinney School in and family live in Cerro Gordo, IL.
Mr. Lonnon is a farmer and is an
llmkauna, WI. Mr. Ploetz teaches educational consultant.

Ith grade social studies there also. Charles R. Tuggle, '60, and Bonita
Frank M. Lipousky, '56, is in his (Smith) Tuggle, '51, live in Morrison,
IL, where Bonta teaches girl's PE
llth year of teaching 7th & 8th and Charles works in special ed.
They have two sons.
ll'lde science at Encinal School,
ifenlo Park, CA. His science stu- Norman E. Kerans, '60 (Sp Ed
'70), and Mari/.yn Kerans, '58, live
dents the California record of most in Oakland, IL. Norman is Unit supt
awards won in science achievements of Oakland Com Unit #5 schools.
at the 7th &: 8th grade levels. He They have two children.
writes, "I am still single and own
12 acres of beautiful redwood coun- Charles L. Conner, '61, wife, and
~ in scenic Woodside, where I 6 children live in Atwood, IL. He is
bUilt my own home." state co-ordinator of Supportive Ser-
vices of the Adult Education Unit,
Barbara (Buckalew) Baker, '56, re- Office Supt Public Instruction.
sides in Brookfield, WI, with her
William F. Martens, '61, is em-
husband and four children. ployed by the General Electric Co in
the Audio Electr Prods Dept, Deca-
l Robert T. Gudauskas, '56, is a tw·, IL.
in the Dept of Botany and
Donald L. Grisby, '62 (MS '63),
biology at Auburn U. He re- and wife, Gwendolyn (Steffy) Gris-
in Auburn, AL.

Maroin Gene Newport, '57, is
IJhairman of the Dept of Business

Admin, School of Business, at the U

?£ fJabama, Birmingham. He has

JUSt completed his second book,

Elements of Modern Management,

to be published soon.

Robert C. Stump, '57, is owner of
a private rehabilitation center in
Tomah, WI. He and his wife, Bar-

bara, have 5 children. Robert is also

PAGE THIRTY·THREE

by, '61 (MS '67), live in Eau Claire, Claibourne 1. Dungy, '62, who kee, IL, where they reside.
WI. Don, who is working on the was president of Eastem's student
PhD at Bowling Green State U, is body in 1961-62, has been appointed Luanne (Kuzlik) Thiel, '64, is mar.
asst director of Forensics at the U asst prof of pediatrics at the U of ried to an FBI agent. They have two
of Wisconsin. They have two daugh- Colorado School of Medicine. Dr.
ers. Dungy earned the MD degree in sons and reside in Clinton, CT.
1967 from the U of Illinois School of
William J. Hill, Jr., '62, and wife, Medicine, Chicago, and a Master of Darrel W. Myers, '64, is emplo>'I
Carole L. (Reuther) Hill, '64, live in Public Health from Johns Hopkins in the Audio Electr Prods Dept of
Tucson, AZ, where Mr. Hill is the last spring. His intemship was at the
director of Public Services in the li of Utah Medical Center in 1967- the General Electric Co, Decatur, IL.
library of Pima College. They have 68, and his specialty residency in
a son 2¥.a years old, who "loves the pediatrics at Stanford in 1968-70. William K. Carter, '64, and Roaa..
weather here." While at Stanford, Dr. Dungy spent lie Carter, 65, live in Hanover Park,
four months as a research fellow in IL. Mr. Carter is an account exec for
Nellie T. Phillips, '62, lives in Lagos, Nigeria. Lew Sanders Advertising in Chi~
Bement, IL, and is retired. IL, and Rosalie teaches part-tim41 ID
George is completing residency for the adult education program in Pala-
Lewis T. Sparks, '63, teaches im- the EdD in Education at the U of tine, IL. They have a son two years
migrant and transient children in the Illinois. old.
central city area of Milwaukee, WI.
He and his wife have 5 children. Paula J. (Watkins) Reinhard, '63 William L. Myers, '64 (MS '66),
(MS '67), and Robert L. Reinhard, and Sharon (Kure) Myers, '64, res~
Richard L. Gunn, '63 (MD '67), '67, announce the birth of a son, in Whitewater, WI. They have one
and Sharon Sue Gunn, '62 (MS '68), Jarod Michael, born Nov. 11. Robert daughter. Mr. Myers is workin
are living in Lawrence, KS. is in his fifth year as history instruct- · his PhD part-time at the U of
or at Pembroke Academy. Mrs. Rein- consin, and they are building a new
Philip J. Amholt, '63 (MS '67), hard taught art at the academy this house.
and Karen (Bartel) Amholt, '64 (MS past year. They reside in Concord,
'68), live in Milwaukee, WI, where NH. Maria (Bamey) Glasgow, '64, ii

Philip is asst prof of biology at Con- Doris Keller, '63, husband, and teaching kindergarten and living: in
cordia College. two children live in Momence, IL.
Kankakee, IL. They have two daugh-
Gary C. Swikle, '63, and Barbara David B. Piper, '64, is supt of the ters, including 9-month-old Sherri.
Swikle, '63, live in Champaign, IL. marketing dept at the Columbus,
Gary is a regional psychologist for OH, casualty and surety div office Helen P. Heam, '65, lives in Oak·
the Div. of Vocational Rehabilitation. oi Aetna Life & Casualty. land, IL and teaches 4th gradti at
Barbara is the director for the Week- Lake Crest in Oakland. Mrs. Heam
day Nursery School, Champaign Maria (Bamey) Glasgow, '64, is began at EIU in 1939 and graduated
United Methodist Church. They have. married and they have two girls, in- 26 years later.
two children. cluding 9-month-old Sherri. Maria
is teaching Kindergarten in Kanka- Ronald J. Pastori, '65, and Beo,,..
Michael E. Reynolds, '63, (MS Iv Pastori, MS '66, live in Kankak&
'64), and Arlene (Douglas) Reynold.'I, iL. Ronald is an elem princi~ in
'63, announce the birth of their sec-
ond son, Kurt, last November. They Bourbonnais. Beverly is a 3rd grade
live in Decatur where Mike teaches
art as Johns Hill Middle school. Mrs. teacher in Bradley.
Reynolds has retired from teaching.
George William Steigel~ '65
Gale Crouse, '63, is working on her (MS '66), and Ellen Annette St~t
PhD in French at the U of Wiscon-
man, '65, have built a new home
sin.
Robert S. Davis, '63, is the execu- Crivitz, WI. George is a HS guid-

tive director of the Wausau Area ance counselor in Crivitz. They ha
Regional Planning Commission in three children.
Wausau, WI, and also planning di-
rector for eleven municipalities. Edward F. McGraw 11, '65, and

James Hodge, '63, and Rita Jean Annie F. (Dunka) McGraw, '61,_ ~
(Trost) Hodge, ex '66, live in Gurnee,
IL. Mr. Hodge is a math instructor at 0side in Peoria. IL. Edward rece1
Lake County Jr College in Lake
Forrest. IL. They have two children his MA in Elem Ed from Bradle:I
and Rita occasionally substitute in 1971 and teaches social studiei iD
teaches. Peoria, IL.

George T. Freese, '63, and fam- James E. Masey, '66, lives in
ily live in Cerro Gordo, IL, where catur, IL, where he opened a
George is principal of Cerro Gordo
HS and also asst supt for personnel estate office in 1970. Known
of Cerro Gordo Com Unit #100. Brown and Masey, the office haS
staff of 14.

John Eugene Faires, '66 (MS '«?'7)

and Janice Fay (Brooks) Faire1, 64

reside in Allardt, TN. John is p
of Allradt United Presb

Church and Janice gives piano .
soins and is conducting a communl
chorus of high school youth.

have two children.
Carl Christensen, '66, wife, aJ

PAGE THIRTY.fOUR

l)r. Swope, alumni on people to people tour the General Electric Co, St. Louis,
MO, and he resides in Florissant,
Dr Mary Ruth Swope, dean of the who teaches high school in Decatur.
The delegation, made up of home MO.
~I of Home Economics, led a Steve Gibbs, '61, is asst dir of ad-
!Dember delegation - including economists, teachers, graduate stu-
a}umni - on a People to People dents, and persons in related fields, missions at Mount Ida Jr College,
Newton Centre, MA. Previously, he
·on to Emope last summer. visited England, Germany, France, was chairman of the English Dept
The alumni accompanying Miss Switzerland, and Italy to observe at the Flagler College, St. Augustine,
and share information with Euro- FL. He holds the MA in English
5w0pe were Mrs. Carol Nol.and, '70, pean counterparts on child rearing from the U of Florida.

,tJ Eastern; Mrs. James Hurley (the practices and family life styles. John E. Cash, '61, and Jeraldine
Jonner Ruby Carter, '44) of Decatur, Members of the mission paid their L. (Straka) Cash, '61, reside in Oak-
own expenses. land, IL. John received his MA in
ho teaches high school at Illiopolis; painting from the U of Hawaii in
May, 1971. He also taught drawing
~Miss Lamae Ann Wachholz, '69, at Bishop Museum in Honolulu and

two children live in Forsyth, IL. Carl the PhD in physics in August. at the U of Hawaii.
James Thomas Haley, '66, and Minnie J. Gudauskas, '61, is em-
f,elehes at Eisenhower HS, Decatur,
Ann Margaret (Elowsoii) Haley, '66, ployed in the Bement, IL, school
n,.George B. McNeely, III, '66, and system. She received her MS in Li-
live in Madison, WI, where James brary Science from the U of Illinois
Carolyn McNee'ly (who attended is enrolled in the U of Wisconsin
Law school after four years in the in August, 1971.
1965-66) live in Wheaton,. IL. Mr. Air Force. They have a daughter,
born last November. Dan Lutz, '61 (MS '71). and
McNeely is a plant superintendent Mary (Hand) Lutz, '68 (MS '71),
for the Sundstrand Casting Corp in Harold Clem, '66, and Nadine live in Ashmore, IL. Dan is principal
Chicago. They have two children. (Beccue) Clem ,'65, live in Mo- of the Kansas, IL, schools and Mary
mence, IL, with a son born last is a substitute teacher.
Richard Hood, '66, and Linda S. April. Harold teaches history at Mo-
.,oll) Hood, '65, live in Lincoln, mence JHS. Elizabeth (Smith) Covington, '61,
I,. Richard is asst football coach at earned an ASCP registry in medical
Uncoln and Linda teaches first grade Liale S. Sellers, '66, is employed technology in 1968 and was a micro-
at Mt. Pulaski. by the General Electric Co in the biologist at Armour Pharmaceutical
Audio Electr Prods Dept, Decatur, in Bradley, IL, for 21h years. She
John A. Nudo, '66, and Carol IL. and Mr. Covington have a daughter-,.
(Walee) Nudo (who attended 1963- Deanna Jo, born last May, and re-
16) live in Joliet, IL. John received Gerald W. Hout, '66, is VP of side in St. Anne, IL.
)di MA in Economics from DePaul Baron-Hout Oil Co and his wife,
'U in June of 1971, and is now in Marlene Dalsanto (who attended James L. Ficek, 'ffl (MS '71), is
EIU three years) live in Kankakee, an instructor and head basketball
law school in Chicago and teaching IL. coach at Kankakee, IL, Community
College. He and Mrs. Ficek live near
economics and bus at Aurora College Kenneth F. Knight, '66, is in the St. Anne, IL, and have two children.
Quality Control Dept of American
ad .Joliet Jr College. They have a Brass Co's Metal Hose Div, Water- Francis J. Dumas, '87, is rrsonnel
IDll bOrn August 7, 1971. bury, CT. He is completing work for administraator for Genera Motors
a master's in Bus Ed Adm. Parts Div, Cadillac Parts, Detroit,
Gordon F. Case, '66, teaches busi- MI.
aea education in Appleton, WI. He Beverly A. Sublette, '66 (MS '70).
is a resident hall director at Ball Carole L. (Freidinger) Heuser,
also is active in the theatrical pro- State U, Muncie, IN. Mr. Sublette '67, is married to Dr. Kenneth Heu-
has a doctoral fellowship in English ser and resides in Plymouth, NH.
ductions for the public high schools. at Ball State. Dr. Heuser is asst prof of ed at Ply-
Edward K. Marlow, '66, and mouth State College. A daughter,
Wayne L. Granger, '66, and Claire Christa Ann, was born in September.
Nancy (Danner) Marlow, '69, an- (Steinhauser) Granger (who attend-
ed in 1964-65) live in Bourbonnais, Marilyn Leonhart, '61, lives in
llOUnce the birth of a daughter, IL. Wayne is an industrial engineer Middleton, WI, and is the adminis-
Michele, in October. Edward is a for Texize Chemicals, Kankakee, IL. trative secretary for the Dept of
They have two children. Agronomy at the U of Wisconsin.
PhD stdent at U of I. Nancy teaches
Norman Kerans, '66 (Spee '70). Ronald L. Longtin, '61, is employ-
P.nglish and bookkeeping at Atwood, is supt of schools at Oakland, IL. He ed by the General Electric Co, Mem-
and Mrs. Kerans have two sons.
~HS. phis, TN.
Terance Johnson, '66, received a
Rowan W. Colwell, '66, and Can- BA in Ed from the U of Montana E. Mark Allen, '61 (MS '72), and
dice (Goodart) Colwell, '68, have a last August, graduating with high Doris Elayne (Cope) Allen, '68, re-
J9&r old son (Richard) and reside honors. Mrs. Johnson is the former side in Waverl)', IL. They have two
In Beloit, WI, where Rowan is a Pamela Shiry, '61. children, including Ryan Matthew,
born Jan. 17. Mark is teaching in
')'Item programmer at Beloit Com- Joe W. Daily, '61, is employed by
puter Cinter. Mrs. Colwell is a sub- PAGE THIRTY-FIVE
ltitute teacher.

John R. Hopkiru, '66, and Kath-

!d'-East<Leibach) Hopkins (who attend-
em for 3 years) live in Ames.

IA. where John is an NDEA Fellow

Iowa State U, majoring in solid

llate physics. He expects to receive

Waverly and Mrs. Allen reports: Most EIU Family? band announce the birth of a Adauul.
"Believe me, I'm putting my home ghter, Sarah Christine, born in_
ec to ~ood use taking care of my If there is ever a contest to se-
family.' lect the "most EIU" family, the ust, 1971. They reside in OaklaJ4
Kloker family will have to be
Jane (Lippincott) Wendel, '61, among the leading candidates. IL.
and Mr. Lippincott liv~ in Missoula,
MT. Jane teaches 4th grade and Mr. The mother is Mrs. Lois M. Nancy (Owens) Krueger, '68, and
Lippincott is working on his PhD in Davison Kloker, who received
chemistry at the U of Montana. the bachel.or's degree from East- husband live in Albany. WI, wherl
ern in 1965 and the master's de-
Jerry L. Smith, '67, lives in De- Mr. Krueger owns a constru4
land, IL. Since graduation he has gree from EIU in 1968. She has business. They have one son, and are
served in the Army and is presently
working as an internal revenue agent taught advanced anatomy and expecting a second child in August.
for the IRS in Champaign, IL. physio'logy and biology at Paris,
Il., High School since 1965. Carole S. Coartney, '68 (MS '69),
Jerry_ D. Newlin, '61, and Wanda
June (Lutz) Newlin, '62, live in At- Her husband, Paul, is working is a guidance counselor (K-12) for
wood, IL, where Jerry teaches indus- on a master's degree in entomol-
trial arts. They have one son. ogy at Eastern. He is a veteri- Kansas, IL, schools.
narian.
Dennis C. Williams, '67, and Terry S. Kerlin, '68, and Mrs.
Sherry (Julian) Williams (who at· A ma"ied daughter, Mrs. Mar-
tended in 1966) , live in Indianapolis, vyl Jane Kloker Allred, is a 1968 lnsti.Kerlin live in St. Charles, MO,
IN, where Dennis is a CPA with graduate of Eastern, while her
Ernst & Ernst. They have two chil- husband, Robert, is a 1967 EIU Terry is a computer progr~
dren, including one-year-old Alissa, grad. He is currently working on instructor at Control Data
and Sherry is a homemaker. a master's degree at Indiana State. in St. Louis, MO. They have two

J. Michael Jones, '61, lives in De- Another ilaughter, Suzzanne, children.
catur, AL, where he is a senior cost completed the bachel.or's degree
accountant for Monsanto Co's Tex- at Eastern in 1970, and is cur- Paul B. Hunt, '68, lives in Mt.
tiles Div. rently working on the master's
degree in botany at EIU. Vernon, IL. He and Mrs. Hunt have.
Wilma Frances Lux, Specialist
'67, is listed in Who's Who in Am- Another daughter, Mrs. Linda two sons. He is employed by
erican Women, 1972-73 ed Marquis. Sue Kloker Cliristian, graduated
from Eastern in August. State of IL Div of Unemplo
John W. Matheny, '61, is employ-
ed by the General Electric Co, Wor- Another daughter, Mrs. Man1 Compensation Special Investig
thngton, IL, in the Speciality Mails Lou Kloker Dodson ,(an identical
Bus Dept. twin sister to Linda ~ue), is a sen- Section as a special investiga
ior at Eastern in elementary edu-
Barbara Ann (Featherly) Evans, cation. Her husband, David, is a deputy.
'67, and husband, a Capt in the junior at EIU.
Army, live in Killeen, TX. They have Jon Heckel, '68, and Alb
a daughter 2 years old. Still another daughter, Rebecca
Jean, a high school junior, is look- (Voigt) Heckel (who attended 1961..
Robert E. Sivulich, '61, and Ina- ing forward to attending Eastern.
Ruth (Silver) Sivulich, live in Grif- 68) live in Carbondale, IL. Jon
fith, IN. Bob is a teacher-coach at How's that for an EIU family?
Bishop Noll Institute. They have one works for Reception & Diagn

Services, Dept of Corrections.

is attending the Rehabilitation

stitute at Southern Illinois U. Their.

first child, Gregory> was born Au

24,_ 1971.

son. Larry Huber, MS '68, is princi

David W. Evers, '61, is employ- is asst princpal and guidance coun- of the Westville, IL, Jr HS. He
ed by the General Electric Co in the selor at Reed-Custer HS, Braidwood, Mrs. Huber have three sons.
Lamp Div Financial OPN, Cleve- IL, where Judy formerly taught
land, OH. biology. Carl Ray Hall, '68, and Kat

Rodger L. Burris, '61, is employ- Mary Ellen (Stevens) Herrmann, (Fling) Hall, live in Decatur,
ed by the General Electric Co, Dan- '68, is teaching home ec at Aldrich where she is a speech therapist. C
ville, IL. Campus HS, Beloit, WI, where Mr.
Herrmann teaches math. They are is an intem in school psycho!
George Cutright, '67, is employ- both working on master's degrees the Macon Co Special Ed
ed by the General Electric Co, during the summer at the U of Wis- Dept and Kathy is working
Cleveland, OH. consin. MS at IL State in deaf educatioil

Michael G. Craig, '61, is employ- L. Douglas Hartman, '68, is food Stanley L. Vamess, '68, is a tr ·
ed by the General Electric Co in the service dist sales mgr at the Chicago, for Detroit and Northern Sa ·
Photo Lamp Dept, Mattoon, IL. IL, plant sales center of Oscar Mayer
& Co. and Loan Assn, to be branch mgr
Keith G. Peterson, '61 (MS '68),
and Judy (Ohle) Peterson, '68, an- Kay (Elliott) C'lapps, '68, and bus- Romeo, MI, in May of 1972. He
nounce the birth of their first child,
Amy, born September 3, 1971. Keith Mrs. Vamess reside in Fraser, ML

Gary Duane Wright, '68

Cynthia (Kopp) Wright, '69,
in Oak Park, IL, where she tea
home arts in grades 4 throu
Gary is interning as a school
chologist in Franklin Park, IL.

James R. Pate, '68, and Mary
(Mauck) Pate, '68, live in Brigh

MI. James just completed servi
the Army and is park officer for

State of Michigan. Mary is a libr
at Hartland JHS and working on
master·s in library science at the

PAGE THIRTY-SIX

·gsan. White, '68, is employed in Ed in behavioral sciences to pre- She also coaches girls ping pong and
pare for a career in law enforcement. track.
Photo Lamp Dept of the Gen- Mrs. Taylor works in the business
. Co, Mattoon, IL. office at EIU. Sharon (Merten) White, '69, and
husband, Gary, live in Alexandria,
(Gibbs) Cummings, Roger M. Conart, Jr, '69, is com- VA. Mr. White, a U of I grad, is a
pleting training in the Nuclear Power civil engineer with the Fed High-
111d and, Larry, live in School at the Nuclear Reactor Test way Admin. They are in a training
Site, Idaho Falls, ID. He is nuclear program now that moves them all
AL. Linda is a remedial read- engineer with Westinghouse. He and around. They will soon be moving
and 1.aath teacher in Selma and his wife and new son (Darren) re- to Oklahoma.
side in Idaho Falls.
is a Lt. in the Air Force, 1970 - 1971
g to be a pilot. They are ex- Sueann (Freese) Best, '69, and
g their first child in July. husband live in Green Bay, WI. Mr. Patricia Forkner, '70, is the dean
Best is a civil engineer-administrator, of women at Hartford Academy of
p eonlca M. McCarthy. '68, teaches at Soil Testing Service. They have a Business, Westhartford, CT.
at Long Beach, CA. She l 0-month-old, daughter, Tina Ann
ed fifth year at Long Beach and Sueann is "enjoying being a Brenda (Freeman) Houk, '70, is a
housewife and mother for the time substitute teacher and lives in Oak-
College. being." land, IL. She and Mr. Houk have a
son eight months old.
lock G. Magruder, '68, and fam- Billijeanne (Haroey) Belobraydic,
'69, and husband, Edward (who at- Donna (Mauretto) Rickelman, '70,
ding one-year-old Stephanie tended EIU 1966-69) live in Chula teaches 7th & 8th grade English at
Vista, CA. Mr. Belobraydic is sta- Thomas Jefferson in Decatur, IL.
, Jive in St. Anne, IL. tioned on the destroyer USS Robison
at San Diego. They have a five- Robert Sullender, '70, and Sue
Fred Albert, '69, is employed by month-old son. Sullender, '70, live in Deland, IL.
General Electric Co in the Photo Robert teaches HS math and coaches
Michael D. FDN'ester, '69, lives in Jr H at Deland-Weldon. Sue teaches
Dept in Mattoon, IL. San Francisco, CA. He is an account 3rd grade in Bement.
executive at KNEW radio. He re-
Gerald E. Kublank, '69, is teach- ports: "Ski Heavenly Valley and Brian Piersma, '70 (MS '71), and
Squaw Valley. Still single." Judy (Copeland) Piersma, '70, re-
aconomics, business, and PE at side in Waverly, IL, where Judy is
G. Gail. Gesell, '69, completed re- teaching first grade. Brian is a mar-
K.utber HS North, Chicago, IL. He quirements for the MS in the fall of keting representative at Town &
1971 at Kansas State, and is now an Country Bank in Springfield;
coaches varsity track. environmental technologist and head
of Pesticide Control for the Georgia Alan L. Merry, '70, married De-
David L. Horsman, '69, and Caro- State Solid Waste Mgt Div. Gail re- borah K. Romack in December. Alan
sides in Avondale Estates, GA. works for the Castle International
(Adams) Horsman (who attend- Surname Society in Champaign, IL.
Dee W. Lambert, '69, and Diane
1968-69) live in Honolulu, HI, (Black) Lambert, '69 (MS '70), live Barbara (Graves) Hanson (MS
in Kankakee, IL. Dee teaches math '70), is teaching 6th grade in Janes-
David is a sgt. in the Air at St. Anne, IL, HS and Diane ville, IL, for the second year.
teaches 2nd grade at Manteno, IL.
Michael Hite, '70, and Nancy Hite,
Fred L. Schafer, '69, is employed
by the General Electric Co in the '70, live in Decatur, IL. Mr. Hite is
Ballast Bus Dept, Danville, IL. an accountant at Revere Copper &
Brass Co, Clinton, IL. Nancy teaches
James Keith Hilliker, '69, and lst grade in Decatur.
wife, Patricia (Cullen) Hilliker, '69,
live in Normal, IL. James is working Judith L. (Boudreau) Wahelm,
on his MS in Sociology at IL State '70, and husband, Robert, announce
the birth of their first child, Amy,
t:. Patricia is a social worker for the born in May, 1971. Robert teaches
8th grade and after a year of teach-
IL Dept of Children & Family Ser- ing, Judith is at home. They reside
vices in McLean County, IL. in Kankalcee, IL.

Frederick J. Burgett, '69, has been Thomas L. Blickensderfer, '70, and
commissioned a 2nd Lt in the Army Patty A. (Frye) Blickensderfer, (who
infantry at Ft. Benning, GA. attended 1967-79) live in Beeville,
TX. Mr. Blickensderfer, who just
Gary Rippon, '69, is employed by completed his basic training and has
the General Electric Co in the Ballast been promoted to lst Lt in the US
Bus Dept, Danville, IL. Marine Corps, is assigned to Chase
Field Naval Air Station for advanced
Barbara Ann (Gwin) Johnson, '69, training.
teaches 7th & 8th grade art at King
Upper Grade Center, Kankakee, IL.

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Don Decker, '11, and wife, Indian boy." The proud parents were for the IL Cons Telephone Co, Mat-
showing photos of Ceron at the toon, IL.
Christy (Bower). '11, stopped by the April 29 meeting of alumni at the
Edwardsville Holiday Inn, as some Phillip G. Powers, '10, is a secona.
alumni office recently to show off readers will recall. Don is teaching
art to elementary students this year. ary teacher in social sciences in
Arriltheir new son, Ceron Irving, who Their address is 207 Countryside, Macon and Piatt counties as a sub.
was born 9. Named after Fairview Heights, IL. 62208.
stitute. He lives in Cerro Gordo, U...
Apache Chie Geronimo, Ceron is. Green, '10, reside in Crofton, CT. Oscar Lowell Cutf'il!ht, '10, is em-
Mark is a pharmacutical researcher
in Christy's words, "strictly his for Pfizer Inc. Joan is a textile and ployed by the General Electric Co in
sewing instructor at a knit fabric the Photo Lamp Dept, Mattoon, IL
father's son. Very much a little shop.
Diane L. (Dupuis) Gilles, '10,
Connie M. Benge, '10, teaches Duane M. Hoevet, '10, lives in married Donald Gilles in July, 1971,
business and health ed at Mazon, Grant Park, IL. He is cost account- and honeymooned in Hawaii. They
IL, HS. ing supv with the Hospital Products live in Kankakee, IL, where Don is
Div of Kendall Co, Chicago, IL. a pharmacist.
Peter Bradley Latvaitis, '10, is
assistant curator of fishes at the John Mark J. Jefferson, '10, is employ- Greg A. Taylor, '10, and Arlen.
G. Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, IL. ed by the General Electric Co, (Tammen) Taylor, '11, live in Char.
Bloomington, IL.
Donald E. Kirkland, '10, lives in leston, IL. They were to be marriel
LaPlace, IL, following two years in Joseph A. Ciaccio, '10, and wife,
the Army, including 16 months at Mary (Williams) Ciaccio (who at- Feb. 12. Greg works at Ike's Littll
tended EIU 1967-69) live in Mil- Campus, and Arlene is teaching fifth
Okinawa. ford, IL. He teaches social studies grade in Casey.
Patti Roberts, '10, is teaching and coaches at the HS. They have
two children, including 10-month- Malcolm Wadland, '70, is asst Pet
home ec at Downers Grove, IL, old Jennifer. sonnel mgr at Trailmobile, CharW
ton, IL, and working on his master's
South HS. She is also taking grad- Sandt/~ '70, is in her second in Business Admin at EIU.
uate courses in Home Ee at North- year of te · g Bus at Rich East
ern IL U. HS, Park Forest, IL. John M. Baum, '70 (MS '71), is
in the Air Force as a medical lab
Don Pritchard, '10, and Sara (Cor- Tom D. Magruder, '10, and Joyce specialist, assigned to the AF ha.
rell) Pritchard, '69, live in Cerro (Adams) Magruder, '68, live in Oak- pital at Carswell AFB, TX.
Gordo IL, where Sara is art super- land, IL. Tom teaches JHS science
visor and instructor at the HS. Don and coaches basketball, baseball, and Wayne Benson, '70, and Jeannl
football at Newman, IL. Joyce (Pranske) Benson, '10, live in CisslUI
is drama director and A/V director teaches girl's PE in Kansas, IL, and Park, IL. Wayne teaches music in
at Argenta HS. They spent 30 days is workirig on a master's in health Rankin, IL, and Jeanne teacW
in Europe last summer and report: ed. Tho/ have a son, 2 years old.
"Now bankru tl" Ga"ison L. Smith, '70, is sta
Carolyn F. Roach, '10 is working ed at Offutt AFB, NB, as a se
Joan Wor;:J/all, '10 (MS '71), Lt assigned to flying the ~C-1
teaches 4th grade in Flossmoor, IL. Stratolifter weather reconn
aircraft with SAC. He was aw
David J. Mamer, '10, and Gloria his silver wings at Laredo AFB,
J. Mamer, '10, live in La Grange, IL.
Gloria teaches English at Pershing
School, Berwyn, IL, and David is
employed by Continental IL Bank.

Mark Green, '10, and Joan (Wood)

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1Dusic (K-12) in Cisma Park. Paul F. Noerenberg, '71, complet- sumer Products Div of AO Smith
l Furlan, '70, is teaching at ing basic training in the Army at Corp. Judith teaches reading and
e College in Angola, IN. He Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, in January. English at St. Martins' JHS.
bead soccer coach. He holds Mrs. Noerenberg is residing in
's from Indiana U. Homer, IL. Andre A. Hunter, '11, is in grad
Huff, '70, and Judith (Sand.. school at Atlanta U, Atlanta, GA,
Mary Rose Faber, '71, is a learn- studying politcal science.
~ Huff, '70 live in Greenville, ing disabilities teacher at the Green-
where James teaches 7th grade vile, IL, elem school. Elizabeth Jane Duivent. '71, is
teaching math at Bradley, IL, HS.
ge arts and 8th grade history. Kristine K. Patton, '71, teaches She s also teaching a review math
girl's PE in Momence, IL, JHS. course at Kankakee, IL, Community
IJso coaches. College.
Michael Lee Klipp, '71, and Tana
Alan Hendrix, '70, married (Arseneau) Klipp, '71, live in Man- Patricia A. Brown, '71, teaches
L. Barnstable in December. teno, IL. Michael is currently fulfill- PE at Urbana HS.
teaches JHS math in Clinton, ing his active duty requirement with
the National Guard at Fort Jackson, Marion Lowell McGregor, '71,
A. Bossert, '71, is in the SC. He plans to return to EIU to teaches drafting at Bradley-Bour-
1tationed at Ft. Polk, LA. finish the master's in September. bonnais, IL, HS.
' H. Nicklaus, '71, is a re- Mrs. Klipp is substitute teaching in
asst in the Dept of Wildli.fe Kankakee, IL. James A. Isley, '71, and Kathleen
M. (Cerny) Isley, '70, live in La
at the U of Wisconsin. He Michael Eugene Gentry, '71, and Grange Park, IL. Jim teaches bus
ching the Bobwhite Quail ed at Maine Twp HS in Park Ridge
Mallard Duck wife, Mary K. Gentry (who attend- and Kathy teaches JHS in Berwyn;
llchard L. Fay, '71, was married
June, 1971, and they live in Be- ed EIU 1967-70) live in Louisville, Elizabeth J. Butler, '71, did sub-
t, IL. He teaches social science IL, where he teaches at North Clay stitute teaching in Manteno, IL, until
Areola HS. HS. last December. In January, 1972,
Doris Stephans, '71, teaches 5th she was scheduled to join VISTA.
'8!1e at Manteno, IL. Carol Anita Hall, '71, teaches 7th
B.obert L. Shaver, '71, is asst to & 8th grades at Kaneland JHS and James L. Britton, '71, and Judy
VP of Neptune World Wide lives in DeKalb, IL. (bates) Britton, '68, live in Charles-
Oving and lives in Elk Grove Vil- ton, IL. Jim teaches business and is
Edward A. Lagacy, '71, teaches asst football coach at Oblong, IL,
!lage, IL. industrial arts at Grant Park, IL, HS. Judy teaches 2nd grade at
HS. Stewardson-Strasburg schools. They
Denise LaFine, '71, is teaching have two children.
Gregory E. Weller, '71, is in the
u..tltmnediate EMH in Tinley Park, Army. He recently finished training Gail L. Truitt, '71, and Linda
in administrative and personnel Truitt, '71, live in Lubbock, TX,
Benny L. Pieper, '70, is in the management at Ft Polk, LA Mrs. where Gail is attending Texas Tech
Weller is residing in Charleston, IL. School of Law and Linda is working
Air Force in Alexandria, VA. A per- for the university in the Food Ser-
Peter R. Serve, '71, and Judith A. vice. They write, "We ho:ee to return
IOnnel specialist, he was named Out- Mizeur, '71, were married last Aug- to Illinois and EIU soon. •
~~g First Term Airman of the ust and live in Kankakee, IL. Peter
'(uacter in his unit. is supv of Sales Admin in the Con- James D. Shouse, '71, plans to
continue work on his medical tech-

nology degree at Decatur Memorial
Hospital.

Judith Ann Britton, '71, teaches
home ec at Appleton, WI, HS.

Brian J. Hadden, '71, is teaching
6th grade at Paddock School, Pala-
tine, IL.

David L. Budde, '71, resides in
Joliet, IL. He is asst area mgr for
Consolidated Foods - Fuller Brush
Co.

Rick N. Eskew, '71, and Nancy
(I<'reeman) Eskew, '70, live in Ash-
more, IL. Rick is a planner-buyer in
the purchasing dept of Trailmobile
in Charleston. Nancy does substitute
teaching. They have a daughter 21h
years old.

Mary Pat Taylor, '71, is a nutri-
tion consultant with The Milk Found-
ation, Inc, in Rockford, IL.

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Evert M. Levitt, '71, teaches in- Rita Gallahue, '71, was chosen to Alumnus Editor
dustrial arts in Wenona, IL, where represent Illinois at the Cherry Blos- Connelly Resigns
he and Mrs. Levitt reside. som Festival in Washington, D. C.,
April 4-8. A former Miss Parkland Dwight Connelly, '61, assistant
Richard P. Rodgers, '71, is a College, she has been teaching at the director of Alumni Services an
teacher and coach at Urbana, IL, Wauconda High School. editor of the Alumnus Magazin~ h
resigned to take a position as te
JHS. Cheryl Marie (Appleton) Tutcher, et and newspaper advisor at Quin
La"y L. Hinton, '71, is counselor '71, will be substitute teaching this IL, High School.
year in Overbrook, KS. She and her
and Asst basketball coach at Lewis husband have one child. Connelly, who holds the MS ·
& Clark Com College, Godfrey, IL. Journalism from Ohio Universi~
His wife, Carol (Workman), '66, Vilaivan Vitayaviro, '71, is princi- who is working on a Specialist"4 De-
pal at Wat Ruak School, which has gree at Eastern, came to EIU as 1111
teaches part-time at Lewis & Clark. 908 students and 32 staff members. instructor in journalism before jo·
They have a son, two years old. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand. ing the Alumni staff in 1969.

James A. Isley, '71, and Kathleen Richard A. Weber, '71, is a Peace "Naturally, I am reluctant to lea
M. Gerry, '70, were married Aug. Corps volunteer serving in Spanish Eastern," he said. "I have man
7. Kathy is teaching math her second Town, Jamacia, at St. Catherine Jr friends here, have worked with so
year at Emerson Jr. High and Jim Secondary School as industrial arts really top people in the Alumni
is teaching Bus Ed at Park Ridge, teacher and head of the department. vices and University Relations o ·
IL, Maine East HS. His duties include the training of and have had many enjoyab~
Jamacia IA teachers. ciations with alumni of all agelt
Joanne Jordan, MS '71, is librarian However, the opportunity to
at Effingham, IL, HS. Helen M. Wood, '71, teaches 5th with students in expanding the jo
grade at Homer, IL. She and Mr. alism program at Quincy, coup
Tom Keller, MS '71 is audio-visual Wood reside in Brocton, IL. with monetary considerations, is ·
Dir at Gillespie, IL. possible to turn down."
James William Wood, '71, and
Judith (Robinson) Laker, '71, now Carey Lynn Watts, '71, were mar- Connelly says he plans to re
teaches at Westville, IL, HS. ried June 27 in Mattoon, IL. Mr. as active as po8sible in alumni aff
Wood teaches math and physics at through participation in the worlil
Priscilla Lawwill, '71, is teaching Bath, IL, HS. the Alumni Association.
and organizing art for Sr-Jr highs at
Bismarck, IL. She received the Best La"y Keith Whitney, '71, has Donald L. Diggs, Jr., '71, is a
of Show Award for her acrylic paint- been awarded a $500 scholarship by ond lieutenant in the Air Force,
in~ "Village in Despair" at "Exhibit the Illinois club of the Wisconsin tioned at Keesler AFB, MS, att
71 ' in Danville, judged by Chicago School of Banking. Mr. Whitney re- ing an administrative manag
Tribune art critic Daniel Wells. ceived many honors as an under- course.
graduate at EIU and as a graduating
Frank J. Muccianti, '71, and Paul- senior had the highest grade point
average. He resides in Kinmundy,
ette Viverito, '70, were married in IL.
August of 1970 and now reside in
Wheeling, IL. She is substitute
teaching and tutoring.

Ruth Julie Mwangangi, '69 (MS
'71), is working on her PhD in Ed
at Ohio State U, Columbus, OH.

Gary Nixon, '71, has taken a posi-
tion at the Morris, IL, Grundy Area
Vocational Center as an auto mech-

anics instructor.

Robert Reed, MS '71, is a design-

er at Parkland College, Champaign,
IL.

Bob Sampson, 71, is working for
the Mattoon (IL) Journal-Gazette
as sports and general assignment re-

porter. Mrs. Sampson, the former
Pam McClenahan, who attended
EJU in 1967-69, was teaching fifth

grade at St. Anthony GS, Effingham.
They live in Mattoon.

Kathy Shannon, '71, resides in Or-
lando, FL, and works at Walt Dis-
ney World at a watercraft hostess.

Karen Smith, '71, teaches in the
Carlin, IL, school district.

Harold Tiahrt II, '71, participated
in the Air Force ROTC program at
Otis, AFB, MA, last summer.

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