Eastern Alumnus Vol. 1 No. 2 (September 1947)

lntroducing--Your County Officers Dr. Lawrence
A. R i n g e nberg
Cook county's 100 Eastern State Club members picked (right) won the
headship of the
J Harold Snyder (left) as vice-prexy, Wilma Brumleve Hen- mathematics de-
partment t h i s
derson (Mrs. Joe) as secretary-treasurer, and Rex Mc- fall, a position
Morris as president at a memorable meeting last spring. h e 1 d o p e n for
three years fol-
lowing the retire-
ment of Dr. E. H.
Taylor, honored
member of East-
ern's first facul-
ty. Dr. Ringen-
berg comes from
the University of
Maryland, holds
t h e doctorate
from Ohio State.

Alumni Day Brings Good

Program But Few Grads

Sixty Vermilion Easternites elected Elisabeth Lumbrick THE EDITOR sincerely regrets that it is impos-
~ Cunningham (left) vice-president; Grace Guthrie (now sible to summarize the excellent addresses

Mrs. Bill Hodge) secretary; and Russell Harris president. made at Alumni Day, May 24, by Don Neal, presi-
dent of the association; by President Buzzard; and
by Glenn Bennett, whose informal discussion of
the UNO and his experiences in a position of re-
sponsibility within the organization was a high-
light of the day. We will use just the final para-
graph of Mr. Neal's brief welcome:

"The manner in which Eastern has met the
challenge of need for expanded facilities and cur-
ricula has been a source of pride with all of us.
The stepped-up program of public relations has
placed Eastern in her rightful role as the educa-
tional center for this part of Illinois. We com-
mend you, Dr. Buzzard, and the school as a whole
for the energy and forethought already apparent.
We are confident of the continuance of our college
as a leader, and we pledge our support in the
changes that the school deems necessary and ad-
visable."

About 100 alumni returned for the festivities.

Shelby's officers are Naomi Feller, secretary; Carroll torate in French and Spanish, has been a member
Endsley, vice-president; and Cecil Smith, president..
of the Eastern staff since 1930. Miss Iknayan
Teacher, Student Meet in Paris
studied here two years with the class of 1938, fin-
OUR PARIS correspondent informs us of one ishing her A. B. and M. A. at the University of
of those pleasant proofs that the world is Chicago. She left her work at Monticello College,
Godfrey, Ill., last July to study at the Sorbonne,
small. The Sorbonne was the scene, and the inci- expecting to return home next summer. Good
dent was a meeting of former teacher and pupil,
Miss Elizabeth Michael and Miss Marguerite Ikna- friends, the pair toured France together this fall.
yan. Miss Michael, now on leave to finish her doc- Miss Michael, incidentally, has just been noti-

fied that again she h a s won the Delta Kappa
Gamma scholarship of $1000 to continue her work

through the University of Laval at Quebec. She
first received the award last year and spent a
year of study and teaching there.

PAGE TWO

The Eastern Alumnus

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

VOLUME 1 SEPTEMBER, 1947 NUMBER 2

Application for entry as second-class matter is pending.
Subscription price, $1.00 for four issues

FROM JIM Roberts, '46, comes the JACK MUTHERSBOUGH ---------------------------- Editor
excellent suggestion that class STANLEY ELAM ---------------------r--- Consulting Editor

news for The Eastern Alumnus be CONTENTS

assembled by representatives of the *Introducing-More County Eastern State Club Officers __ Page 2

classes themselves. Because we know Council President Welcomes Old Grads
Ruel Hall Pens Saga of EI-Normal Grid Tilts ________ __ __Page 4
that such news is the heart of an Roberts Horses Around ... With Alumnus Editors ________Page 6
alumni publication, we have under- Homecoming Tradition, a drawing by Covi ______________Page 7
taken to carry out Jim's idea. Letters Eastern Enters New Era, by President R. G. Buzzard ______ Page 8
have been a!ldressed to 48 persons Your 'Alumnus' Draws Many Letters ____________________Page 9
asking them to shoulder the huge but Fork in the Road, a Personal Report on Visual Education
satisfying task of collecting this ma-
terial. It will be added to news that by Stanley Mcintosh ________________ ____ _______Page 10
the editor assembles for each issue. Keeping in Touch with the Classes ________ Pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Cupid Finds Range Among Grads ______________________Page 16
Although in many cases we have Eastern Baseball Mentor Scores Again ____________ ____Page 17
not yet received acceptances of our Class of '47 Scatters ___________ __ ____ ___ __ ____________Page 19
requests, we print names and addres- The Editor Finds Campus Leaders Today Still
ses of our nominations as class sec-
retaries in the "Keeping in Touch" 'The Craziest People' _______________________ Pages 20, 21
section of this issue. If you have in- A Page from the Diary of a Southwestern Tourist ______ Page 22
teresting bits of news, please jot First Post-War Tour Covers 7,500 Miles ________________Page 23
them down and mail to the secretar- Eastern Takes a Day Off, to Dedicate Veterans' Housing __Page 24
ies, who will prepare class reports. EI Actor Wins Big Role
Moscona Heads Entertainment Course __________________Page 25
This issue of the Alumnus is being Arthur Lumbrick, Class of '03, Dies ________________ __ __ Page 26
sent to 1250 alumni, a large percent- Alumnus With United Airlines Sees No Saucers _________ Page 27
age of whom are subscribers. Because Homecoming Program ________________________________Page 28
of the heavy cost of publication as
well as because of our convictions ~~. 1947. ()~ 24, 25
that the magazine should be support-
ed by the alumni themselves, there Pictured on the cover are Homecoming Queens of the years 1937-46, all
will be no further mailings to all of whom have been invited to return for honor on October 25. The young lady
alumni. An effort will be made to marked with ? may be Dorothy Lamour; the News won't divulge the identity
see that samples go to all for whom of the real 1947 queen.
we have current addresses at least
once during the year, regardless of
their expression of interest. In this
way the entire Eastern clan will be
reminded of the opportunity to buy
and insure the magazine's continuance.

The alumni office will welcome let-
ters from persons interested in class
luncheons on Alumni Day, 1948. It is
not too early to start planning these
affairs now. Facilities will be much
more satisfactory, with the comple-
tion of the school cafeteria, and it is
hoped that individuals will take the
initiative in planning five, ten, fif-
teen, twenty, and twenty-five year
anniversary celebrations and reun-
ions. The groundwork can be laid in
'48 for especially inclusive reunions
in 1949, when Eastern will celebrate
her first fifty years of service. The
Alumni office is ready to handle all
correspondence and invitations neces-
sary for Alumni Day reunions. The
date for this day has not been defin-
itely set, but it is expected that it
will be in early June, on the same
day as Commencement.

PAGE THREE

J Council President Eastern one of the leading institutions of its type
Welcomes Old Grods
in the country. Those of you who can look back
IT IS my privi-
through the years realize that the success and
lege to repre-
growth of Eastern has been almost phenomenal,
sent the stu-
due to the faith, hope, and hard work of those who
dent body of
through the years have had its future uppermost
Eastern I I I i - in their minds and hearts. We are confident that
with your continued help Eastern will maintain
nois State its position and advance to even greater heights.
Your efforts have given us a heritage of 'which
college in ex- we are justly proud and which we will always
stand ready to defend.
tending to you
The year 1947 is certainly an important mile-
a hearty wel- stone in Eastern's progress. The number of stu-
dents enrolled far exceeds any previous record
come to the and an expanded curriculum offers this throng a
more varied selection of study than has ever be-
1 9 4 7 Home- fore been offered. The construction that you see
all about the campus is testimony enough that
coming. Eastern's physical needs are being cared for as
quickly as shortages of materials and labor will
The I a r g e permit.

number of No one would question today the old maxim
"In union there is strength." Its truth is obvious.
graduated, for- Students both past and present are united by a
spirit often identified as "School Ties." This spir-
mer students, it, derived from mutual experiences and combined
efforts, gives us the strength to help our school
and fa c u It y advance and be a constant source of pride to its
sons and daughters.
who return
Speaking once more for the student body, let
each year me again welcome you to Homecoming, 1947. We
will do everything in our power to make your visit
proves the a- this year an enjoyable one.

biding interest BILL FITZGERALD

you have in the President of the Student Council

college. Your

assistance and

cooperation

Bill Fitzgerald have been ex-
Student Council President tremely impor-
tant, not only

in making each

homecoming a successful one, but a Is o making

Hall Pens Saga of El-Normal Tilts

This year Eastern's homecoming football op- (EI's to me!).
ponent is once again an old rival, Illinois Normal "I played on the teams of 1923, '24, '27, and '28.
University, who hasn't fallen before the Panther
The teams of 1923 and '24 recall the names of
attack in the last 13 contests, although a couple Mac Gilbert, Andy Taylor, 'Stick' Brown, 'Sky
were tie games. Hook' Josserand, 'Ole' Funkhouser, Hesler, Hank
Osborne, Warner, Dunn, Edwards, and others. I
Even in the otherwise successful season of remember particularly the Normal game in 1924,
1940, Normal handed the Panthers a 30-12 set- won by Charleston 15-0, due mainly to the drop.
kicking expertness of Andy Taylor, now a farmer
back. It was the only Joss of the year. The all- near Hindsboro, Illinois. Andy was perhaps the
time record with Normal, beginning with relations last great drop-kicker to attend Eastern, at least
to my memory.
on the gridiron in 1907, is: Eastern 11 victories;
Normal, 14. There have been five tie contests. "The thing which amuses me about the Nor-
mal-Eastern games is that back in those days we
The following letter comes from Ruel Hall, all thought of Normal as a warm-up. If you could-
now county superintendent of schools for Kanka- n't beat Normal, you couldn't beat anyone! My,
how times have changed!!
kee county. Ruel represents the period in history
when Eastern had a jinx on Normal that lasted "Normal out-foxed us in the 1923 game. We
from 1923 through 1931, or eight straight con- had, on paper, a better team and felt sure to win
tests. Ruel was quarterback and halfback with this one. When we arrived at Normal for thei1
rnme of Eastern's greatest football teams in the homecoming it was pouring rain and continued
hey-day of Lantzdom.
(Continued on page 5)
"I've been asked to try to recall a few of the
high points of the football series with Normal
when the victories usually went Eastern's way

PAGE .FOCR

Part of the Panthers

,/ :-;--- Lou Stivers, VI e s Hilligoss, and here, November lst, Northern, there,
These 23 lettermen form the back- Jack Robertson. Back row, Coach November 8th, Southern, there, No-
bone of this fall's team which faces Maynard O'Brien, Bob Babb, Jim vember 15th, Western, here, Novem-
N or m a 1 in the Homecoming bat- Sexson, Jerry Bell, Jim Foster, Jack ber 22nd.
tle October 25th. Front row, left to Miller, Neal Hudson, Vern Ingrum,
right, Earl Benoche, Cal Colwell, Bill Snapp, and LeeRoy LaRose. The calibre of O'Brien's 100 man
squad was shown on Sept. 27, when
Don Waltrip, Howard Barnes, Don The complete schedule follows: a favored Eastern Kentucky team
J o h n s o n, Len Bujnowski. Second Millikin, there, October llth, Normal, was lucky to eke out a 14-13 victory
row, Don Jackson, Chuck Gross, Don here, October 25th, Indiana State, before 700 Boy and Girl Scouts.
Davisson, Bob Sink, Tom Carlyle,

RUEL HALL TELLS GRID SAGA myself ejected from the game after playing the
grand total of four minutes and 25 seconds. With
(Continued from preceding page) me sitting on the bench, the Panthers went on to
win much more easily than if I had stayed in the
to do so throughout the game. The first half end- game.

ed at 0-0, with identification of players possible "Eastern seems to be quite 'Ives-minded' at
present and I think the following incident might
only by watching on which side of the scrimmage be interesting to those of you who know Burl.

line they lined up ! "In the fall of 1927 we were playing Indiana
State Teachers at Terre Haute and had definitely
"Then, during the half, Normal put on mud been superior in statistics throughout the game,
but in the concluding moments of the fourth quar-
cleats, the first we had ever seen, and proceeded ter we found ourselves trailing 7-6 with the ball
in our possession on the Indiana State 10 or 12
to push us all over the lot, finally winning 13-0. yard line. After a couple of futile attempts to
gain, we ended up with the ball on the 15 yard
"Our 1927 homecoming game was won from line making 'headway backward' fast.

Normal 6 to 0. This game was even more lop-sided "On the third plunge, additional yards were
lost, and as the referee unpiled the teams an ex-
than the score suggests, as it was played inside cruciating cry 0£ pain came from the bottom of
the pile. There was Ives, blood dripping from
Normal's 40 yard line, again on a muddy field, but teeth-marks on his forearm. He jumped up vio-
lently and raved about the cruel treatment dished
by this time we had smartened up and wore mud out by the Indiana lineman playing opposite him.
The referee paid little attention to him and pushed
cleats too. ,/ him aside, trying to start the next play.

"Those of us (members of the group that "At that time I was acting captain and Ives
came running up to me, angrily waving the arm
we!comed Burl who attended the homecom- and pointing to the blood and yelling, "He bit me
right there, the dirty so-and-so, he bit me right
ing last fa know that the Little 19 Champions of there!"

1928 won 19 to 0. I personally saw very little ser- (Continued on page 25)

vice in that game, due to the following incident.

(Now don't let any of the Kankakee county schoo1

children read this !)

"Pete Fenoglio, our outstanding quarterback,

was an excellent passer and a good sportsman. It

seemed that Normal believed that if they could

top Fenoglio they could win the game. This they

roceeded to try to do by what we thought was

nnecessary roughness. I became incensed and

ecided that Pete needed a little more protection

ban he was getting from the referees. On physi-

lly trying to do this in defense of Pete, I found

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THESE GUYS Stan Elam and Jack At least a pair of form~r studes same old bench in front of the Litt!
Muthersbough make a great team are advisers for yearbooks that wound Campus teIJing of a particularly roug
their way through here ... Slash "Fat flight a few months ago that almos
... a team in fact that is worse than Man's Race" Sunderman, who is at made a believer out of him. Max Tur·
'Murder, Inc.' A month or six weeks Byron . . . and Anna Louise Manuell ner erst-while pilot and pianist ..
ago comes a letter in the mails from . . . keeper of "The Flame" at Casey has his doctorate and a spot on th
Elam suggesting a little contribution high school. faculty at Southern. Russ Farnsworth
for the next issue of the Alumni Mag. is still hitting the ivories once in
A deadline along about November one And then there was the "Porthole" while at a Mattoon nitery ... Wher
is suggested. from good old TC with its bevy of "Crackers" Norton is also seen oc
faculty faces that once guided most casionally behind his drums ... Har
All that is okay ... so I acquiesce of us through strained sessions of old Hall is head coach at Newma
with little or no protest ... and then practice teaching ... and also Char- high school ... and Ross and Jani
comes Muthersbough with the clinch- leston City high school ... with at Stevenson . . . back in South Ben
er. Yesterday he casually inquires via least Joan Sheeks-speech instructor . .. have another daughter.
the Pony Express as to when my let- -as a former Easternite.
ter will be in ... since it is past the The Eastern Chapter at Urbana
September deadline. Drop dead, Jack- I SEE BY THE PAPERS ... Champaign is assuming behemot
son! here coach Rolla Reiling has left his proportions ... if you don't remem
post at Grayville to be athletic direc- ber what happened to the blonde wh
I guess my subject is supposed to tor at McPherson, Kas., Junior Col- used to sit next to you in sociology
be the Class of '46, but since there lege ... and Johnny Lewis, ex-grid, ... just go up and sit on a corner a
are several of them that I have not basketball and track star, has signed the university . . . where you're sur
yet managed to get postcards to . . . to take his post. Andy Sullivan and to see her.
why I guess I'll just kind of ramble Johnny Powers are handling sports at
Areola high school ... while Joe Bres- "Red" Graham is a wheeler an
sleT is Charleston city high coach. dealer in the Mattoon auto biz ...
and in his spare time sings hey bo
Chuck McCord-all-time hardwood a re bop . . . and also pulls the Mat
star-is coach of the Peoria Caterpil-

Roberts Horses Around

... With Alumnus Editor

Jim Roberts and friend lar Dieselettes, girls' softball team toon White Sox to fourth place in th
which was rated third in the nation
. like a senior who doesn't have his during the summer. They won the Illinois State League. Last and no
assignment for tests and measure- Mid-west district tourney at Niles,
ments. Michigan, over Labor Day weekend least ... He's a school board member
and then moved on to the National fi-
Speaking of seniors ... reminds me nals in Cleveland a week or ten days Ivan Kennard . . . managing the Ko·
that in the process of printing sev- later. Op for Walt Warmoth . . . is stil
eral yearbooks for various high holding his head over the damage tha
school senior classes we. noticed sev- McCord's room-mate is Legion Lee "Ace" Irvin's pilotless Plymouth di
eral former Easterners listed among Cammon, former assistant coach of to his fairly frisky Ford.
the faculty rosters. Brad Squires in the high scoring Industry eleven of
the Roxana Book . . . Alice Louisa last year. From now on . . . "Ace" will pu
Sheets at Elkhart . . . Jay L. "Gab- the emergency brake on when park
by" Logue at East Peoria ... Alvin "Rabbit" Smith is a frequent ing on a hill ... near Beloit, wher
F. Von Behren-principal at Nokomis character in Jack Ryan's Chicago he coaches.
... and John Bingaman at Mt. Zion. Daily News "Round-up" ... and
Merve "Snag" Baker is bun:ing up Buren "Doc" Robbins ... forme
In the book from Robinson . . . the world down St. Louis way at Du- "dray-ma" director . . . was wed i
there was a regular chapter of for- po ... this coTner owes "Snag" a vote a Decatur ceremony in Septembe
mer Easterners ... Mary Ellen Grote of gratitude though ... while on ihe . . . He is now head of the speech de
... Lowell Burkett ... Albert Mar- sports staff of the St. Louis Star partment at Union college, Schenec
tin . . . George RichaTdson and Wil- Times three or four year'i ago . . . tady, New York ... and among th
ma Nuttall. At Kansas there were we pointed out to exp~rts that the groom's men were Lee Watson ..
Mrs. Ruth Shawver Deverick and little town with the funny r>ame had now blazing a trail in stage lightin
Madeline Sluder Perfetti, the lattet a hot-rod coach . . . so just to back at the University of Iowa . . . an
a former Warbler editor. me up ... "Snag" produce'3 the high- yours truly ... carrying a candle ..
est scoring football player of the en-
tire metropolitan area that year. Things we've often wondered abou
Thanks, "Snag," remind me to huy . . . do J en e Bails and Hort Harring
you a nickle cigar at Homecoming. ton still play bridge ... and does Ti
by Van Meter still vote for Dewe,
Paul "Hank" Henry ... who used to . . . what did Don Tingley do wit
gallivant around the Eastern P"ridiro1r his can of red paint ... and how wi
in company with Baker and Bill Glenn "Doc" Rothschild make out now tha
and Ray Suddarth et al ... now drift> he will no longer have to go to th
passenger fliP,"hts through the South- Little Campus to dig his students ou
ern air for Eastern Air Lines. Last from under the back booths and mare
saw him when he was sitting on the them back to TC study hall?

Close you mouth, brother ... that'
the end.

PAGE SIX

Homecoming Trad·1t·ion

by Dart.o Co,/vi, '41

PAGE SEVEN

Bainbridges Vie With Eastern Enters New Ero /
Lumbricks For Title,

'Eastern 's Royalty' by President R. G. Buzzard

IN THE first issue of The Alum- THE THIRD era in the history of your college began on July 21,
nus an article appeared 1947, when Governor Dwight H. Green approved House Bill

which cited t h e Arthur Lum- 809, changing the official name from Eastern Illinois State Teach-
brick family of Shelbyville, Illi- ers College to Eastern Illinois State
nois, as "Eastern's Royalty." College. Founded May 22, 1895, by an
Nearly all of the members of the act of the General Assembly, the insti-
big Lumbrick family have at- tution opened as the Eastern Illinois
State Normal School on September 12,
tended Eastern. Mr. Lumbrick 1899. Believing that the area should
was a member of the first four- be progressively served, its policy-mak-
year class and Mrs. Lumbrick ers took a similar action on June 3,
was also a graduate. 1921, and. the institution became the
Eastern Illinois State Teachers College,
As the editors hoped it would, offering four years of teacher-train-
a letter soon came which, while ing so that graduates were eligible for
it refutes nothing said about the high school teaching.
Lumbricks, adds a great deal to
the saga of Eastern families. In From the opening day of the Normal
fact, it put into the field an-
other royal family a n d we're School in 1899 until 1921 the institution

glad we don't have to crown a served as a local high school and local Dr. Robert G. Buzzard
king. college. Persons were admitted direct-

The following is an excerpt ly from the eighth grade and given a four or five year course be-
fore the normal school diploma was earned. With the advance to
from the letter, written by Mrs. a teachers' college in 1921, a campus high school was established
Marguerite H. Bainbridge of and high school graduation was required for college entrance.

Charleston. Through the years since 1921 Eastern has served both as a
"The Bainbridges have no
teacher-training institution and as a college from which it was pos-
wish to compete with the record
of the Lumbricks, but think they sible to secure basic training for other work than teaching. Approx-
hold a record of s o r t s them-
selves. So far as we know, we imately one-fourth of the degree earning graduates have not gone
are the only family where both
parents are Eastern graduates into teaching, although they have completed the necessary training.
with all the children attending
Eastern from f i r s t grade Many students transfer to other colleges before graduation. The con-
through college. This gives us
72 years of experience with the tacts the college has made with high school seniors during the last
school:
ten years, and the conferences we have had with educators and lay-
"Four years for each parent,
totaling eight years ; sixteen men of the area, have substantiated the findings of the surveys of

(Continued on page 18) higher education reported to the General Assemblies of 1943 and

1945. These surveys found evidence to warrant recommending that

the teacher-training institutions expand to include general college

work.

When the committees from the Senate and the House of Rep-

uth 0 . A. --BOUBK BILL MO. IOI ''" resentatives visited the college last May, the decision was made to
introduce a bill asking that the name of the college be changed to
make the institution a state college, presuming that the governing
board would authorize the establishment of a four-year general

A BILL curriculum with the awarding of the bachelor of arts or bachelor
of science degree, with no recommendation for teaching. In fact,
courses in education and practice teaching were to have no place
in the general college curriculum. On May 27 Representatives
Westbrook, Robinson, Powell, Harris, Smith, Grebe, Lewis, Fra-

zier and Lollar introduced the planned House Bill 809, and support-
ed it to the governor's approval on July 21.

Now the Teachers College Board has the task of approving the

addition of the four-year general college curriculum. Such action

8oe!i... I T1w f'-ten lUo- Stai.T-w,.•c.n-,loealOduCloon.... will recognize that Eastern is to assume openly the dual role of

c.a.e.··.2 -. m....., .-ii .._fur 11ot "-• .. u.. ··~ 1m- Su.ta teacher-training and general college. It will indicate that Eastern is

3 •nd. ......, 11..1 ,......, •h•U Mnolllhen,t110,p•w1"""""°wt..,r.nJ<hlt.... to serve all the youth of its area who desire college training. Particu-

' ....4 ,..._. M-.. p,....;..aJ MIMced i. tbo F"""""' Ill•-· Sut• Tndo-..' t..i larly, it should attract to the campus many of the bright and capable

The historic bill which changes youths who have not yet determined the course of training for their
Eastern from a state teachers college
to a state college. life work, yet must secure college background at low cost. Many of

this group will find contacts at Eastern that will turn their interests

(Continued on page 9)

PAGE ETGHT

-'.Architect's sketch above shows how East ern's two mil-
lion dollar library will look when complet ed. Bids have
been opened following r eappropri a tions a nd n ew appropr i-
ations by the 65th Gener al Assembly. At right the archi-
tect pictures the m emorial window for student war dead.

Your 'Alumnus' Draws Many Letters

Letters to the editor of your Eastern Alum- been married eight years and have a son, two
nus have come in a bit too fast for him to reply
(he got a D in typing), but perhaps the authors years old ...
won't mind seeing a few newsy portions printed
herewith: "Our good friend Fred Hash is married to

Georgia Rogers says, "Send my copy of the Ruby Culver of Stewardson. He is teaching
Alumnus to 607 Greenup Street, Covington, Ky., grades 7 and 8 at Humboldt and coaching the
where I am teaching in the Week Day School of grade team. They live at 628 So. 14th St. in Mat-
Religion since receiving my A. B. in education toon.
from MacMurray college." Mrs. Dorothy Armes
Skadden told Georgia about the new mag. "The former Helen Jane Bandy last taught
in Sullivan and is now married to Verle Dallahan
George Wm. Miller says, "I am now living on of that city. They are the parents of a seven
my own farm and am married to a former student. months old son, James.
She was the former Irene E. Miller of Paris, Illi-
nois, and certificated in 1938, as did I. We have "Dorothy Fields last taught in t h e Toledo
grades, but now is Mrs. Millard T. Moses of that
EASTERN ENTERS NEW ERA city. The Moses have two children."

(Continued from preceding page) Mr. Miller wants to hear from Gaile Potter,
Mary White, Walser Harms, and the Mieure
to a career of teaching. Teacher-training will al- twins.
ways be the major interest at Eastern.
"Quite by accident," says Mrs. Noherta Rad-
Thus the college enters into the third era of loff Renshaw of Strasburg, Ill., "I received a copy
its history, when it will function as a state college. of the Alumnus. That was one fortunate acci-
Already the enrollment indicates that this broad- d~nt. I was finishing a term of teaching in the
ening of scope was overdue. The next quarter of high school here, when the magazine intended for
a century should witness a continuance of the another teacher was placed in my box ... I quite
quality of service that has characterized the past shamelessly read her mail. I think your little
forty-eight years, and witness a closer affiliation magazine is a wonderful step in the direction of
with the higher education needs of eastern Illi- a better Alumni organization.
nois.
"Earl, my husband, is a merchant here in
Strasburg, and I am planning to go back to full-
time teaching in Neoga next year. My sister and
her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer, both

(Continued on page 18)

PAGE NINE

Fork In the Road

by Stanley Mcintosh, '35 Stan Mcintosh
(right), now in
GRADUATION DAY at Eastern in 1935 present- t h e educational
ed a fork in the road of my destiny. Several services branch
of the so-called
hours before commencement, I had a call from the Hayes Office, has
president's office that a man from Evanston was penned some per-
in town to interview me for a teaching position. sonal history for
Evanston was the only place where I had made this issue of The
a serious application. Not having had a reply by Alumnus. At the
the eve of my technical certifictaion to teach, I same time, he has
had prepared myself to try for a William Blake written a signifi-
scholarship at the University of Illinois, leading cant report on a
toward a Ph. D. (William Blake, in case the iden- vital educational
tification slips your mind, was a zany poet whose topic,-visual ed-
articulated writing and art work helped establish ucation.
a bridge between the eras of Classicism and Ro-
manticism. Old William Blake was an early ex- fined, how locomotives use steam, how electricity
ponent of visual education in a special way.) works, the technical processes which provide us
with flour, milk, bread, meat, iron, coal and auto-
But the interview to teach in Evanston mobiles. We saw the life in foreign countries,-
Germany, Mexico, Canada, South America.
turned out so well that I forsook Blake and the
road to research in the "past." I soon landed in We discussed all these experiences a great
the Evanston grade school system for what deal, but in slovenly English. I bought a public
amounted to research in the "future." address system for simulated radio programs to
emphasize the importance of good verbal expres-
I can confess at this time that what I would sion. We became so efficient in verbalizing that
do the second semester was still an uncertainty, it was soon necessary to crack the whip on writ-
but my assignment for the first semester was ten expression,-spelling through radio script, re-
teacher of English and general science, in charge ports, stories, opinions, business letters, outlines,
of an eighth grade mid-year graduating class poems, club budgets, etc.
home room. There was no teaching vacancy in
the system beyond the first semester. Theoreti- I used an opaque projector to show everybody
at the same time examples of good form in written
cally, the situation did not bother me because Wil- work and to analyze common errors and bad form.
iam Blake was still an appealing subject. Practi-
cally, the situation was of great concern because I was so deeply immersed in this baptism of
an employment ;record of only one semester would teaching, instructional negotiations and arrange-
not enhance my professional standing anywhere. ments, notices, reports, conferences, committees,
Another factor which soon appeared evident was assemblies, and miscellaneous chores ad infinitum,
that I was one of the few men teachers in the sys- that achievement tests and graduation ritual came
tem, and that it was most unusual to hire any peo- upon me almost before I knew it.
ple who had not had previous teaching experience.
During graduation, I felt a kinship and pride
A major factor which really stumped me was in my home room group and in the other hundred
that this group of students was scheduled for or so students from my departmental classes. If
graduation four months hence and soon demon- this were teaching, it was hectic but good. I was
strated that it lacked the academic preparation to "sold on the idea," and before I tied a rope around
do so. I did not know then that this is a commonly the personal folders which contained the achieve-
expressed opinion of many teachers in all grades, ment tests to be forwarded to the high school, I
except the kindergarten. had the thrill of reflecting upon some of the great
gains made in the education of a number of stu-
So, quick like a Kickapoo Indian looking for dents whom initially I felt I would have to shut
Amoweenah Lake, I looked for ways to sugar the my eyes to promote.
pedagogical pills of the course of study. I climbed
the spiked iron fences of Calvary Cemetery with As I look back, I can credit that situation
groups of naturalists as a result of being locked with a lot of values that perhaps did not really
in after hours, following a search for frog eggs exist, but I won't. I could easily say that a great
in the lagoons. I escorted young astronomers interest in the school program was instilled by the
through, to, and from observatories and the Adler use of audio-visual materials and techniques.
Planetarium. I spent weekends at the Museum of Through this interest many students b o t h
Science and Industry absorbing, with some of my thought and proved that they could accomplish a
measure of success beyond a point which their
charges, a few of the scientific aspects of man past performances indicated. I thought I had dis-
covered something, a priori, is it were, but I
and his universe. Our home room inherited gold-
fish, an alligator, guinea pigs, white mice, turtles, (Continued on page 27)
and tadpoles.

I borrowed and rented motion pictures and a
projector. We saw how plants grow, and how veg-
etation and animals live in the sea, how oil is re-

PAGE TEN

Keeping In Touch • • • Bruce H. Corzine, moving spirit of
the association for many years, pre-
Class· of 1903 Your Class Correspondents ceded him in death by five years.

SHERMAN LITTLER, '03, was one CLASS CORRESPONDENTS for The Class of 1914
of the exhibitors at an education HELEN FERN Daringer, '14, pub-
Eastern Alumnus, who may be
conference and exhibit held on the lished her third book this spring.
campus this summer. Mr. Littler, a writing you a note sometime within "Adopted J ane" was reviewed in the
member of the first four year gradu- the next year, are listed herewith. Chicago Tribune on May 18 by Polly
ating class at Eastern, can recall the They solicit word from you, so they Goodwin. Miss Goodwin had this to
first day of school and the first as- won't have to write. say about the book, which rates at the
sembly of Mr. Lord with the initial top of current children's lists, "Loved
faculty. 1901-Mildred White, 920 S. llth children in happy families will take
St., Charleston, Ill.; 1902-Mahala to their hearts the young orphan hero-
Sixty-seven years old, Mr. Littler Jane White, 920 S. llth St., Charles- ine of this fine story ... Home should
made his first trip abroad this sum- ton, Ill.; 1903-Mrs. J. A. Riggins, seem even dearer after they've sym-
mer. His son, who is an accountant Phoenix, Ariz., RFD 3, Box 144; 1904 pathetically shared her eager hopes
for a firm in England, invited his -John C. DeWolve, 217 S. Cuyler and search for one of her own."
father and mother to tour the con- Ave., Oak Park, Ill.; 1905-Cecil E.
tinent with him on his vacation. The Stark, 923 Forest Ave., River Forest, Miss Daringer, who taught at East-
Littlers returned in time to open the Ill.; 1906-Charles W. Fender, 1927 ern between 1918 and 1925, is now
Pesotum school where Mr. Littler is El Dorado Ave., Berkeley 7, Calif.; teaching at the Lincoln school at Co-
principal. 1907-Marguerite Bainbridge, 1028 lumbia university.
Ninth St., Charleston, Ill.; 1908-
Class of 1906 Leonard Davis, Rural Route, Charles- Class of 1923
FLORENCE LONG CARMAN, '06, ton, Ill.; 1909-Mrs. Russell Shrin- MRS. GERTRUDE KARNES LUCK-
er, 412 Van Buren, Charleston, Ill.;
writes that during the past 41 1910-Ruth Carman, E.I.S.C., Char- OW of 9756 S. Hamilton Ave., Chi-
years she has lost track of every leston, Ill. cago 43, says, "I am always disap-
member of her class. Write her at pointed not to see more news concern-
1275 So. Euclid, Cleveland 21, Ohio. 1911-Mrs. Wm. Oscar Rogers, Box ing the Class of 1923. Then it occured
Mr. Long is a mechanical drawing in- 612, Pasco, Wash.; 1912-Wm. E. to me that part of it is probably my
structor in Col!inwood High School Gossett, llth St., Charleston, Ill.; fault in not giving information con-
at Cleveland. Their three children are 1913-Vernon H. Kern, 212 Hardy cerning alumni I know, and so here
all college graduates, all married. The Lane, Waterloo, Ill.; 1914-Mrs. Clar- goes:
son is an electrical engineer with the ence T. Gates, 708 Johnson St., Char-
Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, leston, Ill. ; 1915-Mary Linder, 904 " G e r t r u d e R a n d a 11 is doing
Colorado. Sixth St., Charleston, Ill.; 1916-Mrs. an excellent job as teacher in the
Ruby P. Johnson, Box 134, Villa Park, Oak Park public schools. Flora Beck-
·Class of 1907 Ill.; 1917- Ceale Marie Drakeford, er is teaching in Chicago. Florence
EARL W. BOWYER, '07, died at his Toledo, III., R. R. 3; 1918-Mary Pearson is principal of one of Dan-
Crowe, 2525 Florida Drive, Ft. ville's grade schools. Olive Mapes
home in New Philadelphia, Ohio, Wayne, Ind.; 1919-Edith Crowe, Bussart is living in Wheaton, Ill.
Saturday, May 24. Death came to the 2525 Florida Drive, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Marie Stewart Johnson is living in
60 year old former teacher after a 1920-Mrs. Paul A. Moody, 4615 Oak- Marshall, where she has something
heart attack. Mr. Bowyer was born wood Ave., Downers Grove, Ill. to do with the payment of pensions
on a farm near Bement, Illinois, on to the blind. Mona Ferguson Luckow
June 7, 1887. He graduated from the 1921-Vernon E. Barnes, Rushville, is living in Chicago, where she gives
local high school, from Eastern, and Ind.; 1922-Cyril D. Reed, 1243 Holt lectures and shows pictures on Mex-
returned to Piatt county, where he Pomona, Calif.; 1923-Harold H. ico.
taught for many years. His wife, Whittemore, P. 0. Box 1122, New
mother, two daughters, a sister and Orleans, La.; 1924-Mrs. Madeline "As for myself, my principal work
two brothers survive him. Rominger Fender, Charleston, Ill.; outside of caring for my family is
1925-0zeta Goodman Cowan, 325 in the field of religious education. I
Class of 1909 Third Ave., Joliet, Ill.; 1926-Everett am director of kindergarten work for
HARLAN W. CORZINE, formerly of Lawrence Green, 3703 Western Ave., the Rock River Conference of the
Mattoon, III.; 1927-0tho Green, 3614
Charleston, a four year graduate Fairview Ave., R. R. 1, Downers tingham, 2509 12th St., Moline, III.;
in 1909, died at his home in Brook- Grove, Ill.; 1928-M.ary Margaret 1936-Tom Chamberlin, 628 Wood-
line, Mass., April 2'4, 1947. Mr. Cor- Toole, 314 S. Fayette, Saginaw, land Ave., Duluth 5, Minn.; 1937-
zine's first position was as principal Mich.; 1929-Dorothy Tripp, 360 N. Wm. R. Abernathy, Stonington, Ill.
at Metropolis, III., in the high school. Ivy, Monrovia, Calif.; 1930-Louise 1938-Mrs. Dale Bayles, 1615 Twelfth
He then took a B. S. in engineering Trager, 424 Diversey, Chicago 14, St., Charleston, III.; 1939-Gerald
at the University of Illinois, taught Ill. Lloyd Kincaid, Rt. 4, Box 80, Mason,
manual training and physics at Dun- Mich.; 1940-Bob Fick, High School,
dee, directed manual training at the 1931-Donald Keith Dorris, 1204 Carmi, Ill.
State Normal, Minot, N. D., was W. Vine, Taylorville, Ill.; 1932-Mrs.
drafting instructor at Lakewood high L. C. Bowman, Greenup, Ill.; 1933- 1941-Frank Tate, c/o Dept. of Eng-
school, Cleveland, 0., and became an Robert E. Wiseman, 8013 N. W. 6th lish, U. of Wash., Eugene, Oregon;
electrical engineer in Cleveland. From Ave., Miami 38, Florida; 1934-Louise 1942-Ed Weir, Oakwood T. H. S.,
there he went to Salem, Mass., then Stillions, Laupahoehoe School, Terri- Muncie, Ill.; 1943-Martha Moore
to Boston and was there as sales man- tory of Hawaii; 1935-Harold D. Cot- (Mrs. James L. Mason), 829 Seventh
ager for the W. W. Grainger Com- St., Charleston, III.; 1944- Jean Hen-
pany at the time of his death. Mr. derson, Shelbyville, Ill.; 1945-Mary
Corzine was a member of the Cor- E. Grossman, Asst. Co. Supt. Schools,
zine family which has done so much Robinson, Ill.; 1946-Jim Roberts,
for Eastern's Alumni Association. Aledo Times, Aledo, Ill.; 1947-Jim
Hanks, c/o High School, Charleston
Ill.

PAGE ELEVEK

Methodist Church. Besides this work, Carbondale Prof Now assistant principal of the Clay City
I find time to teach part time in a Community high school, Illinois, and
private nursery school and to do vol- he also teaches vocational agriculture
unteer service in Wesley Memorial and general shop.
Hospital."
Charles A. Burnes, '34, now holds
Class of 1929
a position as trainer in the personnel
MR. AND MRS. MAURICE SULLI-
VAN, (she is the former Edith division, Western Auto Supply Com-

Mary Hovius, '29) moved from Bar pany. His headquarters are in Kansas
Harbor, Me., in August to Santa Fe,
N. M., where he continues his work City, Missouri. His home address is
in the federal park service. The Sul-
livans have three children, Maureen, 4433 Gladstone Blvd.
Patricia, and Michael. The address is
720 Acequia Madre, S. F. Harold Marker, '34, has established

Chesney Voigt, a former student, his own machine shop in Charleston
was killed in a plane accident at
Somerset, Pa., August 24. He was a since leaving the military service.
naval lieutenant commander and was
on a business flight. Mr. Voight's Ral1>h L. Wickiser, '34, who now
sister, Genelle, '29, is Mrs. Harry
Jackson, of Winona, Minn. Mr. Jack- heads the fine arts department at
son, '31, taught at Eastern before ac-
cepting the headship of the depart- Louisiana State university, recently
ment at Winona State Teachers col-
lege. had a very nice display of his litho-

Class of 1930 graphic work in The Lamp. This pub-

CHARLES C. FRYE, '30, principal lication is published monthly by the
of the LaVergne School, Berwyn,
Standard Oil company for its employ-
Ill., will finish the doctorate degree
at Northwestern soon. Mrs. F'rye ees and stockholders.
is the former Dorothy Ann Hovious,
'27. The lithographs were all studies

Class of 1931 of roads and the modes of travel that

PAUL PENNINGTON, '31, and Mrs. they carry. The cover, "Truckers
Pennington (the former Helen
Meet at Night," depicted two of the
Rhodes) learned from his mother in
Charleston that the Prairie State Max Turner, '40 night monsters playing their lights
Field Studies buses would pass
through Yosemite National Park in Associate Professor Political Science on one another as they approached
California. Being a naturalist in sum: each other on the highway. The oth-
mer employ at the park, Paul and
his wife made sure that the studies ers, which were done in great detail
group was properly welcomed. They
personally guided the tour during its and with the most skillful blending
three day stay there. Dr. C. H. Cole-
man, tour historian, taught Paul Class of 1932 of colors, showed a winter scene
American history, we learned when along a Pennsylvania turnpike.
the latter stopped by the office in JOHN POWERS, '32, is now working
August. Mr. Pennington will teach in as assistant coach to Andy Sullivan, Roads are one of Mr. Wickiser's fa.
the Richmond, Calif., schools this vorite subjects and long motor trip3
year. He is the author of numerous '46, at Areola high school. This is with no special destination are habit-
articles on his specialty, nature study, the first year at Areola for both ual with him.
and will receive his M. A. degree coaches. Powers is teaching manual
from Stanford University shortly. arts while Sullivan instructs in biol- Mr. Wickiser is one of the few
ogy. American artists now working in lith-
C. J. Little, '31, 1 e ft Paris high ographic stone. His home was ori·
school this fall after 16 years as a Class of 1933 ginally at Greenup, Ill.
chemistry instructor there to become
principal of the Newman grade school. HAROLD G. LEFFLER, who attend- Paul Birthesel, '34, has opened a
Mr. Little had served as business man- ed Eastern from 1929 to 1933, is new Ford agency in Plainfield, Illi-
ager of the Paris high school athletic nois. Birthesel is a veteran of four
association and was instrumental in now studying law at Duke university. years in multi-engine aircraft, is mar·
the revival of the Paris relays. He A lieutenant commander when dis- ried, and is the father of a four year
also had been in direct charge of the charged from service last year, Mr. old daughter.
holiday basketball tournaments held Leffler commanded a Navy V-12 unit
in Paris every year. Mr. Little is the at Wabash college during the war, Class of 1935
father of Marguerite Little, '43, who besides overseas service at Guam and
is now a member of the research fac- Saipan. ERNEST C. KEIGLEY, '35, has left
ulty at the University of Illinois and
who wrote of her work in the first Raymond W. Phipps, '33, is living the Mendota schools to accept the
edition of the Alumnus.
at 12 Vine Street, East Hartford, Con- principalship of the Sandham grade
necticut. He is at present supervisor school in Wyoming, Illinois. In addi·
tion to his duties as principal, Keig-
of student teaching in the school ot ley will coach the basketball and
track teams of the consolidated
education, New York University. school.
Walter G. Bertschinger, '33, served
Burton W. Clark, '35, served 28
as an officer in the navy. He is now months in the air corps, with eight
senior construction examiner with the months' service in the Philippines. He
Federal Housing Administration for was discharged in May, 1946, with
Mississippi and is located at 781 Gil- the rank of captain. His present ad.
lespie, Jackson, Mississippi. dress is 935 Gardenia Drive, Hous-
ton 8, Texas.
Raymond R. Hall, '33, is now editor
and publisher of the Windsor, Illinois, Herbert V. Van Deventer, '35, has
Gazette. During the war he was an been named as instructor of social
instructor of airplane mechanics for science at Drake university. He holds
the army air forces at Chanute, Kees- a master's degree from the Univer-
ler, and Gulfport air fields. sity of Illinois. He was previously at
Medora, Illinois.
Class of 1934
Class of 1936
ROBERT E. MATTIX, '34, has ex-
changed his position as principal of

the Tuscola junior high school for a

similar job at Zion, Illinois. MELVIN ALEXANDER, '36, was o

Loren H. Petty, '34, served in the the same program with Haro!

medical corps of the army. He is now Stassen at a church convention in De

P AGE TWELVE

Moines, la., last July. Melvin said he Returns To Eastern Kankakee high school. He received
spoke seven minutes, while Harold his masters degree at Columbia uni-
spoke only 45. ./Leroy Gruenewald, '38 versity in the summer session of 1946.
Mr. Gruenewald comes to Eastern Before entering service he had taught
Willard C. Duey, '36 is back at State high school as a critic in social at Bradley high and Kankakee.
525 E. Pine St., Apt. 14, Springfield, science. Other alumni teachers this
after a period spent in military ser- fall are James Giffin, '46, M. A., Ind- Oscar Anderson, '38, after three
vice. iana U., business education; and Carl years of service in the medical corps
Shull, '39, M.A., U. of Missouri, art. of the army, including 14 months in
Mary Inman Kessler, '36, is teach- England, is at home in Cobden, Illi-
ing music in the Stewardson high Robert Cox, '37, wartime officer in nois. He is working in the bank in
school this year. the engineers, is back at Washington that city.
high school in Indianapolis. He took
Marion K. Mathas, '36, served as work at Butler university this sum- Frank Broyles, '38, served in the
an officer in the navy for over two mer. His address is 2051 Bosart Av- air forces and is at present teaching
years. He is now teaching genera} enue, Indianapolis, Indiana. aircraft mechanics at Chanute Field,
shop, Indianapolis schools 66 and 47. Illinois. His address is Box 476, Fish-
Walton 0. Morris, '37, is working er, Illinois.
His address is 3039 Ruckle Street, in the pattern-making department of
Indianapolis 5, Indiana. the International Harvester plant at Charles Meyer, '38, has been lo-
Indianapolis, Ind. He and Mrs. Bon- cated at Hobart, Indiana. We have
Alex Summers, '36, has been elected nie Morris (married December, 1945} just been informer however, that next
secretary-treasurer of the recently are proud parents of ten months old year he will be at Smyra Beach, Flor-
formed Mattoon Historical society. Michael Morris. Brother-in-law Lu- ida, teaching industrial arts in the
This organization will write the his- cien Cox, '35, also is an IH pattern- high school.
tory of that city for its centennial maker.
celebration in 1955. Mrs. Helen Pege- Charles Poston, '38, is t eaching fi-
low, resident member of the Teach- Lowell Monica!, '37, has taken a nance classes at Marietta College,
ers College Board, has been very ac- position in the industrial arts depart- 0., this year. Charles was in service
tive in helping to form the society. ment of the Millersville State Teach- two years, holding a navy commission.
_ers College at Millersville, Pa. He Married to the former Wilma Reidell,
Tom Chamberlin, '36, has resigned taught for six years in the Greenhills he is the father of Charles, 3, and
as head of the geography department High School, Greenhills, Ohio. Bob, 2.
at DeKalb to accept the directorship
of the geography department at the William R. Abernathy, '37, has as- Donald E. Davis, '38, and Ben H.
University of Minnesota's Duluth sumed his new responsibilities as prin- Richardson, '41, received graduate de-
branch. cipal of the Stonington Community grees at Ohio State university at the
high school. Mr. Abernathy has six spring commencement exercises. Da-
Mrs. Chamberlin is the former Ruby years of teaching experience and went vis, who has been teaching in the bot-
Stallings, '37. The Chamberlins have to Stonington from Urbana high any department at Ohio, received his
a daughter, Susan Irene, who has yet school. He completed work on his doctor of philosophy while Richardson
to celebrate her first birthday. Son masters degree at the University of gained the master of science degree.
Tommy is now five. Illinois this summer.
Dale Trulock, '38, and Frank Tate,
Class of 1937 Class of 1938 '41, paid the campus a visit in late
A. DALE HAVERSTOCK, '38, is now June. Trulock is now dean of the
HAROLD COTTINGHAM, '37, com- Spartan Aeronautical Engineering
pleted work toward his Ph. D. in in the construction business in Ro- School of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He mar-
anoke Rapids, North Carolina. ried Carol Pulliam, a former Eastern
education at Indiana university this student, and now has a daughter, Lin-
summer. He is now the only member Earl Jones, '38, is now the assist- da, age two. Tate is now teaching at
of the Moline school staff having a ant principal and assistant coach at the University of Oregon at Eugene,
doctorate. Harold's title is "director Oregon.
of guidance and research" in the Mo-
line public schools. Class of 1939

Leo H. Berns, '37, is now superin- FORREST FRITZ, '39, after serving
tendent of schools at Hume, Illinois. over two years in the navy, has re-
In addition, he will coach the Hume
athletic teams and teach science and turned to teaching and is located at
social science. the Piper City, Illinois, high school.
where he teaches woodworking and
Ed1ison Mosely, '37, has been named mechanical drawing and is athletic
a member of a "research committee" director.
studying the "Sweet Sixteen" bas-
ketball tournament plan in Illinois Dale G. Vaughn, '39, was with the
with a view to revision along the lines navy for three years. He is attend-
of tournaments in other states. Mos- ing summer school at Ohio State un- -
ely coaches at Fulton, Illinois. iversity and is now teaching voca-
tional printing at Reynolds high
Mr. and Mrs. Dale (Ike) Wingler, school, Winston-Salem, North Caro-
'37, are the parents of a seven year lina.
old who was received last July by
Governor Green in Illinois. Young Wiilliam Owen, '39, is civilian per-
Eddie was lifted to the governor's sonnel officer, HQTD Military Train-
desk by Green himself and showed ing Command, Scott Field, Illinois.
off his "shootin' irons." Representa-
tive Ed Fellis of Hillsboro is the fath- Fred Bohn, '37, is now superintend-
er of Mrs. Wingler, formerly Peggy ent of schools in Kings, Illinois.
Fellis, and was no doubt exercising
congressional privilege for his grand- Robert Hallowell, '39, has left the
son. diplomatic service to continue his
studies in Switzerland.
Lyle 0. Nave, '37, is teaching in
the Indianapolis publis schools. His Roy Van Note, '39, suffered a ser-
address is 4941 S. Wolcott Street, In- ious injury in an auto accident early
dianapolis, Indiana. this year but was able to return to

PAGE THIRTEEN

his duties as librarian with Franklin Eastern High Head John Eaton, '42, has taken over
and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa., four sections of commercial corres·
in the spring. He enjoyed a New York Archie Ayers pondence in the school of business at
excursion with his parents over Labor Takes over from Dr. D. A. Rothschild Indiana university.
Day.
Hutsonville, Illinois, and receives his Alfred A. Redding, '42, served four
Class of 1940 mail at Box 15. years in the army air corps. He is now
living at 1223 North 15th Street,
RUSSELL S. BARDEN, '40, was dis- Emil Spezia, '41, taught for the Springfield, Illinoi s, and will teach
charged from the air corps as a AAF at Yale university's engineering printing in the high school there next
officers' school prior to entering the year.
major in March, 1946. He was mar- service. He served with the 14th AAF
ried in June and has built a new and is now doing civilian teaching at John W. Voight, '42, is now a grad-
house for his family in Charlotte, Chanute Field, Illinois, serving as uate assistant at the University of
North Carolina. At the present time phase chief for Curtiss electric pro- Nebraska and expects to get his mas-
he is with building .and maintenance pellers and controls. He resides with ter's in January of 1948. Mr. Voight's
for the Mecklenburg County schools. his wife and son (born March 18) field is botany.
His address is Route 3, Nation's Ford at 430 South State, Westville, Illinois.
Road. John W. Dickerson, '42, received
Joe Bressler, '41, is the new head his master of music degree from In·
Barrett Racster, '40, spent three football coach at Charleston high diana university last June. He spent
years in the navy and is now at school. the summer studying band instrument
home at 319 Union Street, Millers- repair with the C. G. Conn company
l:;urg, Pennsylvania. Wendell "Jitterbug" Brown, '41, is in Elkhart, Indiana and has returned
now serving as assistant baseball to teaching this fall as bandmaster
Mildred Adkins Hutchens, '40, is coach and commerce instructor at at Pana high.
still at Marnhall high school. She has Maine high school in Des Plaines. The
been serving as adviser to the stu- former Eastern athlete and baseball Daniel J. James, '42, is now teach·
dent council in addition to regular pitcher completed work on his mas- ing business subjects at Flint Junior
teaching duties. ters degree at Western this summer. college, Flint, i•.lichigan. He complet-
ed his master's degree at the Univer-
George Schwartz, a former student, Lena I. Heim, two year graduate in sity of Illinois this year.
has taken over his new duties as prin- '28 and a member of the class of '41,
cipal of the Chenoa, Illinois, grade has been named principal of Lafayette Marjorie Ingram, '42, is now teach-
school. His wife, Mrs. Edna Schwartz, elementary school in Casey. She ing English and speech at Shelbyvill~
'40, is working ·under him as one of comes to Casey, her former home, high school. Miss Ingram has been at
from Mansfield, Ohio, where she has Newton high for the last several
the teachers in the school. Both Mr. been teacher, supervisor, and princi- year.
and Mrs. Schwartz formerly held po- pal for 13 years. Besides her under-
sitions in the Marshall school sys- graduate work at Eastern, she has had Paul M. Fellers, '42, is now doing
tern. training in elementary education at graduate work at Indiana university.
Columbia university. He taught at Oakland last year.
Harry Wood, '40, was a visitor on
the campus this summer. He is now a Class of 1942 Ruth A. Brookhart, '42, spent the
lieutenant commander in the regula1· RICHARD P. Frommel, '42, is at summer in school in Greely, Colorado.
navy and is studying courses in aero- She is now teaching at Onargo.
nautical engineering at the Naval home at 1051 7th Street in Charles-
Training School, Annapolis. He was ton. He is working in the Frommel Mrs. Letha Storckman Kiefer, '42,
decorated bv Vice Admiral Tower for hardware store. is now teaching departmental music
heroic service in the Coral Sea bat- in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades
tle during the war. Herschel Collins, '42, served in the of the Leal grade school in Urbana.
air corps for over three years. He Besides her degree from Eastern, she
Garland Bryan, '40, of Annapolis, now lives at 407 East Fifth, Pana, holds a bachelor of music degree from
Illinois, is a lieutenant commander in Illinois. Cincinnati college.
the navy and reported for sea duty
on May 22, 1947. He expects to re- Virginia Asehermann, '42, is teach-
main in service. Mrs. Bryan is the ing social science at Rochelle high
former Virgi111ia Bubeck, '41. school this year. Previously she had
taught in the high schools of Wind·
Nina Haverstock, two-year graduate sor and Mansfield.
in '40, was named youth assistant for
Shelby county last spring. In her new Delmar Nordquist, '42, was award-
position she will lead 4-H and rural ed his master of fine arts degree at
youth groups. She also heads agri- the end of the summer session at the
culture and home economics clubs. University of Iowa. He has accepted
a position with the same institution
Max Turner, '40, is teaching politi- for this year.
science at SIU at Carbondale. He re-
ceived his doctorate in that field at Ed. M. Resch, '42, who married
the spring graduation exercises at the Nettie Hill, '44, in March of last
University of Iowa. He taught at year, has been studying law at the
Western State College in Kalamazoo, University of Michigan. Their address
Michigan, during the summer. is 1547 Sudbury, Willow Run.

Class of 1941 Dean Arnold, '42, :received his mas-
ter's ·degree . horn Stanford university
CHARLES CRITES, '41, Box 45, Oak- this summer. His thesis was written
wood, Ill., is teaching shop in the on "Background of Russo-American
Occupation of Korea." Arnold has
high school of that city. studied Russian, Chinese, and Japan-
Owen Harlan, '41, who taught in- ese and plans to take a governmental
or commercial position in Korea after
dustrial arts here during the war, is an intensive study of the Korean Ian-
now working on his doctor's degree
at the University of Missouri.

Paul A. C. Maas, '41, received his
master's degree at the University o:f
Illinois this summer. He now lives in

PAGE FOURTEEN

guage at the University of California /
this fall.
Death of Otis W. Caldwell Thins
Marion Ryan, '42, is now an ac-

countant for International Harvester Ranks of Eastern's First Faculty
in Aurora, Illinois. His mail comes

to 588 South Union Street.

Class of 1943 WITH THE death of Dr. Otis W.
Caldwell the dwindling ranks of
DALE W. JOHNSON, '43, formerly Nation's Loss
the skipper of LSM-17 in the Pa- the original Eastern faculty, assem-
Dr. Otis W. Caldwell bled by Mr. Lord in 1899, lost anoth-
cific, is now a sales manager for the er of its greatest members.
and football coaching position at Mc-
Coleman Lamp Co., with territory in- Pherson Junior college in McPherson, Dr. Caldwell died at his home in
cluding parts of Connecticut, Massa- Kansas. Reiling entered the Grayville New Milford, Connecticut, on July
chusetts, and Rhode Island. His ad- schools in 1941 and was athletic di- 4.
rector at the time of his resignation.
dress according to our files, is 10 The three varsity cage squads that Dr. Caldwell was professor of bi-
he has coached ran up a total of 62 ology at .,Eastern from 1899 to 1907.
Spring St., Portland, Conn. wins against 28 losses and were un- He left Charleston to take over the
defeated in 1944-45. headship of science teaching in the
Marjorie Freebairn, '43, is now school of education at the University
Earl Sparks, '46, has been serving of Chicago. He held the deanship at
teaching home economics at Casey as principal at Lerna, Illinois, since Chicago until 1916, when he went to
his graduation. His home address is Columbia university to assume the di-
high school. · 1602 Ninth Street, Charleston, Illi- rectorship of the famed Lincoln
nois. school. He held this position until
Robert W. Bokenkamp, '43, served he joined the faculty emeritus of
in the navy. He is now teaching at Wanda June Swinford, 46, is now Columbia in 1935.
Champaign Senior high school. His teaching home economics at Neoga
high school. She made the shift to After his retirement Dr. Caldwell
current address is 308 E. Green Neoga this year from Potomac high was genera] secretary of the Amer-
school. ican Association for the Advancement
Street, Champaign, Illinois. of Science. He also served as an ed-
Dr. Lloyd F. Sunderman, head of itor for the Boyce-Thompson Insti-
Class of 1944 Eastern's music department in the tute for Plant Research for a num-
middle 1930's, has moved to Indian- ber of years.
CLEMENS HANNEKEN, '44, has ac- apolis to assume his new duties as
cepted an assistantship in the math- director of the Jordan Conservatory When he was honored by a special
of Music. Dr. Sunderman accepted the section of the 1935 Warbler, he was
ematics department at the University new post after 10 years of service as chairman of a federal commission in-
of Illinois. He goes to Champaign chairman of the music department at vestigating the place of science in
Oswego State teachers college in New education. He wrote extensively, and
from Tuscola, where he has been prin- York. Author of many articles on nearly everyone who studied high
cipal of one of the grade schools. public school music, Dr. Sunderman school science within the last twenty
While at Eastern he was president of is consultant on elementary and sec- years, particularly in the field of bi-
Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has ondary education for the East Music ology, will remember Otis W. Cald-
Educators conference, and associate welJ as one of the authors of his
been president of the Douglas county editor of the magazine, Education. textbooks.
Eastern State Club during the past
year. Mrs. Kathryn Klein Shields, one of
Eastern's former students, was re-
Mr. and Mrs. John Walters are the cently named by the Danville Com-
parents of a daughter, Margaret mercial News as the "Woman of the
Irene, born in mid-March of this year. Week." Mrs. Shields has conducted a
Mrs. Walters, the former Melvina Jo kindergarten in her home for the past
Refine, was graduated here in '46. 18 years, and the article describing
John, '44, is teaching voice in the her work in the community paid her
grade and high schools of Jennings, high praise for her informal social
near St. Louis, Mo. services. She is immediate past pres-
ident of the Danville Story League,
Class of 1945 a national organization whose purpose
is to tell stories to shut-ins. The art-
WILLA FRANCES Lane, '45, taught icle went on to tell of the many extra
two classes in marketing last sum- things she finds time to do for people,
and of her interesting work with the
mer in the department of commerce children. To quote the article directly,
and business administration at the "The young love her as their first
U. of I. Formerly of Potomac, Miss teacher. The old love her for many
Lane won the graduate scholarship reasons. Surely Danville is a better
offered at Eastern and took her mas- place because of this charming wo-
man."
ter of science degree in business or-
ganization and operation at the Uni- Ruth Wilkin Frazier, former critic
versity of Illinois in 1946. At Eastern teacher at Eastern. has been emplov-
ed to teach English at Paris high
Miss Lane was president of Kappa school this year.
Delta Pi, honor society in education,
and a member of Pi Omega Pi, honor
society in business education. She

taught at Mt. Carmel high school dur-
ing the past year.

Class of 1946

LT. AND Mrs. Ray Ochs became the
parents of a son, Richard Glenn, on

June 8 at Browns, Illinois. Mrs. Ochs
is the former Mary Jo Searby, '46,
who served as president of the Stu-

dent Council her senior year in school.
Lt. Ochs expected to receive overseas
orders shortly after the birth of his
son.

Rolla Reiling, '46, has resig-ned his
former position at Grayville high

school to accept the head basketball

PAGE FIFTEEN

Cupid Finds Range Among Grads
.j
the past two years and is teaching there t ta,gnari
'Bonnie' Bishop, '45, Weds this fall. The couple are at home at Garre

Blind couple take vows in unique ceremony nois.

MISS LAVON "Bonnie" Bishop, '45, became Bertha Ridgely, '43, was married to Russel
the bride of Vernon A. Campbell of Spring- L. Polzin August 15 in Saginaw, Michigan. Th

field on June 1, in one of the most colorful and bride has been teaching in Saginaw for the pas
unique marriages ever solemnized in Charleston. four years. The .Polzins are now residing in Sag
The Reverend Irvine Blair received the vows of inaw after a honeymoon in Wisconsin and north
the couple at the First Presbyterian church. ern Michigan.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are almost totally Janet Ann Winans, '42, and Jack Henry wer
blind. The former Miss Bishop lost her sight married in Owensboro, Kentucky, August 5. Mrs
about 12 years ago in a delicate brain operation.
Her husband suffered a similar fate about five Henry has been the fourth grade teacher in Chris
years ago in an automobile accident. man, Illinois, for several years. After spendin
a few d a y s in Owensboro, the couple visite
The couple are now at home in Springfield friends in Colorado and returned to their home i
after a honeymoon in the West. Mr. Campbell is Chrisman, Illinois.
the proprietor of a large news stand in the Federal
building at the state capitol. Opal Davis married Rudolph Polechek of Chi
cago July 19 in Chicago's South Shore Communit
Anna May Marble, '42, was married in her church. The bride i s a former Edgar count
parents' home near Sullivan on August 24 to Mr. teacher and has been working in Chicago. Th
Wayne Brummett of Humboldt. Since her gradu- couple is at home in Chicago after a honeymoo
ation Mrs. Brummett has taught at Lincoln high in a northern summer resort.
school. The newlyweds are at home on a farm
near Humboldt. Mrs. Brummett is teaching at Crystal Funkhouser, '34, and Carl Redden,
Humboldt high school this year.
a former student, were married July 28 in Aurora
Marian Elizabeth Gossett, '45, married Wil- Mrs. Redden has been teaching in the Bento
liam Checkley Miller, who was a senior at Eastern Harbor, Michigan, schools and Mr. Redden is a
when he entered service in 1943, on August 25, employee of t h e Standard Oil company. Th
in Bethesda, Maryl~nq. After the ceremony the
couple left on a trip through the New England couple are at home in Hammond, Indiana, after
states. They are now residing at 805 tenth street,
Charleston, while Mr. Miller completes his work t w o weeks honeymoon through Canada. Mrs.
at Eastern. Redden attended the Cook county Eastern Stat
club meeting held last spring.
Sam Yost, '47, was married to Miss Erlene
Calvert on August 17 in Newton, Illinois, the home Luella Wallace, a former student, was mar-
of both bride and groom. The double ring cere- ried to Paul Wells in Mattoon on August 10. The
mony was held on the lawn of the bride's home bride has been teaching for the past five years
with only close friends of the families present. and has resumed her teaching duties at Greenup,
Mr. and Mrs. Yost left for their new home in where the couple will make their home after the
Tampa, Florida, following the reception. wedding trip.

Eloise Boyd, '45, and Spenser Black were Sylvia Shipman, '34, was united in wedloc
married August 3 in Sullivan, the home of the with John M. Hatteberg on August 10 near Hard
bride. She has taught at Atwood high school for inville, Illinois. Mrs. Hatteberg is t h e forme
home ec teacher at Oblong high school, where she
has been employed for the last four years. The
newlyweds are at home now on a farm near Elli-
ott, Illinois, after a short wedding trip to Michi-
gan.

Maynette Jarboe, former student at Eastern,
was married to Ralph Alcorn July 22 at the home

of the bride in Grayville, Illinois. The couple are
making their home in Grayville after a short wed-
ding trip to St. Louis.

Maxine Campbell, a former student at East-
ern was married to Virgil Davis of Decatur, Aug-
ust 24 at Areola. The groom has his own insur-
ance and real estate business in Decatur and
in Lincoln.

ca~e.Wthyvee_bttreidJeonoefs,Afuogrumset rVE. aHsatellrqnuissttudinenRt enboe-,
Ilhno1s, August 6. The bride taught for the last

three years in Lee Center, Illinois. The couple re-

(Continued, column two, page 17)

PAGE SIX'l'EEK

Veteran Baseball

Mentor Scores Again

SUCCESS ONCE more visited Eastern's silver- Charlie Lantz brings home a winner.
haired dean of the faculty, Charles P. Lantz,
(,,.-
as he tutored his baseball team to the conference
championship last spring. In his 36th year at (Continued from preceding page)
Eastern, the veteran athletic director put together
a combination of seven freshmen and two sopho- turned to Dixon after a two weeks wedding trip.
mores to win six of eight conference games.
Emily Greer, who attended Eastern before
Led by Art Glad and Leo Slovikoski, the Pan- studying at the University of Illinois and with
ther nine split their two games with Northern and United Air Lines, was married in Decatur Septem-
Western while subduing Normal and Southern ber 27 to Ernest Gatten, Jr., of Richmond, Vir-
twice each. Glad, who played first base, was cho- ginia. The newlyweds will make their home in
sen most valuable by his teammates and was sec- Chicago, where the groom attends a college of
ond in the voting for the Charles P. Lantz trophy, optometry.
designating the most valuable player in the con-
Lieutenant Frank Fromme, '32, took Vivian
ference. Seidler Theiman for his bride August 2 at his sta-
tion in Great Lakes, Illinois. The couple will live
Probably the strong point of the team was in Chicago where the groom continues his duties
the pitching staff. Led by Kenny Grubb, who in radar, sonar and radio for the navy.
signed a professional contract this summer, the
pitchers consistently stiffled the enemy while Vera Mae Fritschle, it former student, be-
the local batsmen ran up convincing totals. Ted came the bride of Stanley W. Walters August 10
Novak, Milt Shonebaum, Wes Hilligoss, Ty Frank- in Olney. The bride has b e en teaching in the
lin, and "Red" Flaugher rounded out the staff that schools of Richland county for the past few years.
gave Coach Lantz ample pitching strength. Re- The couple are now at home in a new apartment
ceiving these moundsmen were Bob Alexander and in Effingham, where the groom recently opened
Jack Haworth. The infield found Glen Piland at :m ice cream shop.
third, Gerald Holley at short, and Slovikoski and
Glad filling the other two posts. Seymour, Be- Warren F. Rubin, a former student, took
noche, and either Haworth or Alexander formed Maxine Kelly for his bride August 24 in Decatur.
a very potent outfield. The groom is attending Sparks business college
at Shelbyville, Illinois, and is simultaneously
The fact that nearly this entire team may be learning the fundamentals of his father's dairy.
on hand when Coach Lantz passes out gear again
next spring is giving the ageing veteran of many
IIAC campaigns ple::vsant n i g h t s of hopeful

dreaming.
The other spring sports fared not so well as

did the diamond squad. The track team had a very
successful dual season and finished third in the
conference meet. LeeRoy "Gunboat" LaRose
broke the conference shot put record for the sec-
ond successive year and shared the season's point
gathering honors with Neal Hudson. Neal was
a bit short of the high jumping form that gained
him the jump crown the year before, but his broad
jumping and pole vaulting were improved. John-
ny Lewis, Bill Monier, John Barr, Dick Spillers,
"Skeet" Sullivan, Bob Babb, Lyle Knott, Bob Dro-
let, Ernie Waren, and Don Johnson were other

ames t h at appeared in the scoring columns
hroughout the season.

After a shaky start the tennis team finally
pulled a second out of the conference meet. Roger
Sorensen, Ace Irvin, Bill Carter, and Steve Mor-
gan were the top four men. All but Sorensen won
t least one match at the IIAC meet.

The golfers had a rather hectic season. Jack
Sensintaffer, Allan Monts, Jim Welch, and Marv

tern were the first four shooters who seemed to
ever get over the hump to victory.

PAGE SEVE NTEEN

Alumni Write Ed orchidaceae when I get back."
From Harry Fitzhugh, principal at Franklin
(Continued from page 9)
Community High: "Was glad to learn we are hav-
former EI students, are partners in our business. ing The Eastern Alumnus. I read with great int-
They have two little girls." erest the initial number ..."

Says R. E. Wiseman, '33, of 8013 NW 6th From Ruth L. and Leland Keran, "We great-
Ave., Miami 38, Fla.: "I've just read the copy of ly enjoyed the copy of The Eastern Alumnus sent
the Alumnus sent me and feel that it will fill a
need in the lives of all alumni ... I expect there to us and are looking forward to future copies."
are enough of us here to form a club if we could Ruth Squires Weston writes, "Thanks a mi!·
get together. I ran into Virena Bennett one day.
Bill Bails is with the same company I am and I lion for the magazine from dear old EI ... I grad-
believe Dale Armstrong is with Eastern Airlines.
I called on him but never found him home. I've uated from EI June 1, 1923, the two year course.
seen Scott Angus once too. He's coaching at That fall I began teaching in Granite City-and
Miami Senior high and has a team that would that first teaching assignment has lasted 24 years
give EI a fair battle. . .. My advanced schooling has been at Washing.
ton U. in St. Louis ... In 1944 I was married to
" ... If any of the fellows in the early thirties J. Robert Weston and we have established our
ask about me, I'm instructing pilots for P a n home here. Still I continue teaching ... All my
American Airways in maintenance work. It hurts memories of EI are pleasant ones. My residence
to see the low wages paid public school teachers
and I'm glad to see the movement to raise these at Pemberton Hall recalls many good times ..."
wages .. . I married in Texas nine years ago and Dorothy Ruth Fuller Sweet (Mrs. Frank)
have two daughters.
writes, "I thoroughly enjoyed every page ... It
"More interesting than my work is my hobby,
raising orchids. It is most fascinating and pro- has been a long time since I was on the campus
fitable. I wonder if the homecoming Queen would and new names and faces appear every year. But
wear one of my blooms? If you like the idea, let those changes don't dull one's interest. It seems
us correspond more about it. If the science club
is still in existence I'd like to tell them about the to me Eastern ha 8 progressed greatly in these
past ten years and each step forward is of inter-
est to me." Mrs. Sweet has a son who was three in
August.

Mrs. D. J. Drennan writes from 1213 Alice
St., Mode~ta, Calif., "I taught in Mattoon, Ill., for
15 years. Then I came to Modesta while my hus-
band was in the army, and taught two years here

At present I am tutoring a boy in his own

(Continued on page 23)

Boinbridges Vie For Title and took part in Farm Bureau,
Chamber of Commerce, and Na-
(Continued from page 9) friends, '44, taught in Warrens- tional Realtor's Association ac-
burg, Illinois, and Webberville, tivities, as well as in the Shel-
years for each of four daughters, Michigan, where she now lives byville Country club.
totaling 64 years. A grand total as Mrs. Irving W. Burtt.
of 72 years." Arthur Lumbrick, a friend of
Two sons-in-law, V. L. Stovall education and a distinguished
Here are the facts and figures and I. W. Burtt, also received citizen, wfl live long in the
that bear out what Mrs. Bain- undergraduate degrees at East- memory of Eastern.
bridge says: ern.
Miscellany ...
Mr. Bainbridge was graduated From September, '16, to June,
in '06 from the four year course '44, there was always a Bain- Juanita Albers, a student at East
then offered. Mrs. Bainbridge bridge in school at Eastern,- ern for to years, has been named ed
was graduated in '07 from the sometimes five of them! itorial assistant in charge of radi
two y e a r course offered high at the college of home economics,
school graduates, and received ARTHUR LUMBRICK DIES Cornell college, Ithica, N. Y. She ha
her degree in '31. been dining room supervisor at th
(Continued from page 26) Illini Union in Champaign before sh
Grace Bainbridge, now Mrs. assumed her new duties.
B. B. Clark of Allendale, Illinois, program in Shelby county until
was graduated in '33. 1940, when he resigned to devote Lester F. Heckert, former studen
full time to a growing insurance at Eastern before taking his degr
Janet Bainbridge, '38, is now and real estate business. at the University of Illinois, is no
teaching in Baldwin high school, assistant superintendent of schools o
Birmingham, Michigan. Always active in civic af- Shelby county. Mr. Heckert ha
fairs, Mr. Lumbrick helped or- taught in rnral and high schools i
Emily Ruth, '42, is now Mrs. ganize t h e Shelby-Moultrie Illinois and compiled and impressiv
Vernon L. Stovall, living at Ev- Board oi Realtors, served as service record as a lieutenant corn
anston, having taught in Deca- i::resident of the Kiwanis club, mander in the navy.
tur, Illinois, and Saginaw, Mich-
igan. William Stanley Claybaugh is i
the soft water service business a
Sara Louise, "Sally" to her West Bend, Wisconsin.

PAGE: E:TGHTE I!: :->

,/ school; Charles David Long, junior high school,
Hammond, Indiana; Osa Verna Lowry, Fremont
Closs of '47 Scatters high school, Michigan; Harold Franklin Maris,
Champa1gn junior high school; Bertha Eileen Ma-
APPROXIMATELY 97 of last year's graduating thias, Strasburg high school; Mavis Alta Matson,
class of 137 have secured teaching positions, Deland high school; Donald Edward McKinney,
Mt. Pulaski high school; Herschel James McPher-
according to the placement office, and are now on, Rocky Mount high school, North Carolina;
well started in their first year as degree teachers. Mildred Belle Mills, grades at Hinsdale.
Many are married and not teaching. Some 17 are
graduate students. A list of the graduates now Frank Robert Morse, Oakland high school;
teaching follows : Russell Lee Ogden, Kansas high school; Wayne
Bolin Parke, Humboldt high school; Oa Jet Poyn-
Mary Elizabeth Adams, grade school in Rob- ter, Palestine high school; Rex Wilber Provines,
inson; Paul LeRoy Barnes, Strasburg high school; Fremont high school, Michigan; Willis Calvert
James Wilber Bell, Girard h i g h school; Freda Rardin, Libertyville junior high ; Hollis Raymond
Bertha Bower, Petersburg high school; Forrest Sallee, principal of Hammond grade school.
Arthur Boyer, Abingdon high school; Sandra
Schmidt Burgner, Greenup high school. Harold Louis Schultz, Sidell high school; Ei-
leen Pauline Schutte, Byron high school; Billy
Naida Rae Bush, Ridgefarm high school; Ar- Max Seaman, Garden City high school, Michigan;
dis Baily Cacherat, Hindsboro high school and Gerald George Shafer, Downs high school; Don-
grade school; John Loyd Carson, principal of God- ald LeRoy Shawver, Charleston high school; Rob-
frey grade school; Gerald Monroe Chesnut, Mon- ert Lynn Sheets, Yale high school, Michigan; Car-
roe Center high school; Doris Eileen Cihak, Wood- olyn Jean Shores, Gilman high school.
row Wilson junior high in Decatur.
Edward Emerson Sluder, Findlay high
George Francis Clementson, Longmont high school; Eloise Dickerson Sparks, Charleston high
school, Longmont, Coiorado; Ralph Eugene Clos- school; Francis Ruth Stevens, A u b u r n high
son, Lema high school; Richard Roman Connolley, school; Edward Charles Sullivan, Carlinville high
Burlington h i g h school; Ralph Cox, grades in school; Sherman Totten, Waverly high school;
Shelbyville; Miles Orlin Culver, St. E I m o high William Henry Towler, Mackinaw grade school;
school; Esther Nadine Cunningham, grades in Arthur Edward Vallicelli, Bath-Lynchburg high
Palestine. school; Herbert Edward Walsh, Wood River high
school ; Lily Ann Walters, Pana high school; Le-
Frances Virginia Lacey Davis, grades in ona Elizabeth Wente, Stonington h i g h school;
Casey; Christine Nellie Dearnbarger, grades in Joseph Charles Whitacre, Mayo junior high, Paris;
Charleston; Harold Oliver Deverick, Froebe! high Marjorie Marie White, Brownstown high school.
school in Gary, Indiana; Mary Margaret Diel,
Auburn high school; Violet Belle Drees, Beecher William Leona! Winnett, Hume high school;
City high school; Margery May Elder, Decatur Morris William Wise, assistant in geography, Ind-
grade schools. iana university, Bloomington, Indiana; Ruth Ma-
rie Wiseman, Kansas high school, Dale DeVere
Clifford Emerson Evans, g r a d e s in Cerro Workman, Harris schools, Chicago; Bertha
Gordo; Harold 'Eugene Fildes, Roanoke Rapids Myers Wright, Muncie hig hschool, Indiana; Sam-
high school, North Carolina; Tharl Richard Fish- uel Edwin Yost, junior high school, Tampa, Flor-
er, Stockton high school; Marian Elizabeth Fitz- ida; Thomas Stonewall oung, Ashmore high
gibbons, grades in Libertyville; Troit Donovan school; Maryann Zwinak, grade school in Elgin.
Freeland, McLeansboro high school; Earl Sheldon
Funston, Litchfield high school, Michigan; Rob- Among graduates taking advanced training
ert Rex Goble, Catlin high school. are Claude Hayes, at Northwestern; Marvin John-
son, Cloyce Hunt, Joseph Beck, Dennis Gephart,
Thomas Edward Gregory, Allerton high Jacques Scott, Dale Williams, Ed Wilson, Russell
school; Ruth Mary Gruen, Hume high school; Pierson, Eleanor Stroud Rochat, Donald Tingley,
James Leroy Hanks, Charleston high school; Ber- Robert Waddell, all at the University of Illinois;
nard Quentin Hayton, Martinsville high school; Eugene Price, University of Iowa; Edward Ren-
Freda Rubydean Heady, Ridgefarm grade and nels, Harvard; Beth Vail, University of Denver;
high schools; Lois Irene Nuttall Howerton, Char- and Ralph Wilson, Indiana University.
leston grade schools; Richard Knox Hutton, Ed-
wardsville junior high school; John Lewis Ires, Angelo Isola is now in Italy, an associate in
Roosevelt junior high school in Decatur. an export trade company.

Lewis Jasper Jenkins, Onarga high school; Alumni Secretary Leaves Illinois
Martha Jean Tym Johnson, Charleston junior
high school; Donald Edward Jones, Litchfield high DOROTHY TRIPP, secretary of the Alumni As-
school; Ida Mae Kibler, Oblong high school; Wil- sociation during 1946-47 and a member of
bert William Kirchoff, grades in Beloit, Wiscon-
sin; Lyle Lester Knott, Oakland high school. the graduating class of 1930, has accepted a posi-
tion as teacher of art in the junior high school at
Mildred Kathryn Kraner, grades in Daven- Monrovia, California. If she reads this, it may be
port, Iowa; Harry Milton Kull, Crecent City high Dorothy's first notice that she is correspondent
school; Wendell Albert Lathrop, Lawrenceville for the Class of '30.
high school; Beryl Brooks Lecount, Forest City
high school ; Lillian Gertrude Leigh, Ramsey high
school; John H e r s c h e I Lewis, Grayville high

PAGE NINETEEN

The Editor Finds Campus Leaders

By Jack uthersbough Six years ago campus leader Ed Weir had just one

It's always interesting to watch the sobering youngster to assist while he pounded out the News. Now,
effect that time has on people you know or have
known. But after sending out questionnaires to a social science teacher at Oakwood, Ill., he has three
the "Campus Leaders" of the last ten years, we
have only this to say: They are just as crazy as such assistants. It's typical of campus leaders.
they could have been as undergrads among the
"Walls and Towers." Joe Curry, '37, former Fidelis president, got back
about as often as anyone. He sandwiched in seven
"Campus Leaders" have been chosen for a homecomings with 39 months in the AAF during
number of years for a special section in the War- the seven years following his graduation. He's
bler. Our questions had to do with vital statistics now back on the coaching job at Windsor.
and exposed the record of loyalty to the alma
mater compiled by these people since graduation. John W. Lewis, '37, is a candidate for the
As the first answers began to come back from "most interesting occupation" title among "Cam·
what we thought was a very ordinary question- pus Leaders." He is a special agent for the Fed·
naire, we chuckled and thought that these were eral Bureau of Investigation. John also listed
exceptions. But the longer they came the more about as varied a group of former positions as
hilarious they were. Finally 100 of the 120 had was sent in. Since '37 he has been an "airplane
replied and each reply has its own reader interest. driver," a mail carrier, an auto mechanic, a statis·
tician, a highway supervisor, and a dactylograph·
For instance, Lucille Ahhee Kelly, '39, after er. (For the two year graduates: a dactylograph·
assuring us that she had complete command of er is a finger-print specialist.) He listed July 4,
her current position as housewife and also her 1940, as his wedding day and inferred that some
husband's basketball team, used the back of the people celebrate independence while he has his an
form for the following epistle: "Every night I niversaries. A visit from Stan, Elizabeth, and
utter a prayer-Dear Lord, please help E.I. to Bobby Elam and a phone call from Jimmy Ted·
understand that I now live in my own home at rick, '39, were John's special honors since gradu-
1206 Madison Ave., Edwardsville, Ill., and not at ation.
my mother's. I tried ever so hard but they just
don't understand ... " She signed the letter "The Many of our correspondents paid compliments
Slap-Happy Kellys." We are inefficient, but this to the school and its instructors, but we though
change has been made. the best of all was simply stated by Mary E. Gross
man, '45, who said, "If time could go back, I'd like
Another Kelly is also having address trouble. to be a freshman at Eastern again."
Mary Jane Kelly Kayes wrote "It is difficult for
us to give an address, as my husband is a sales- Elbert "Mus" Fairchild, '42, who is no
man; I travel with him; our home is in any city drawing his checks from radio station WSAM in
in any state we happen to be in. Since his return Saginaw, Michigan, sent an inquiry about som
from Germany we have lived in every state east of his old friends and wanted to know, "Is Sa
of the Mississippi, and are now starting west ..." Taylor back in school and if not, why not?" "Mus'
It was interesting to note that Mary Jane filled is now commercial manager for WSAM and is on
the "current position" blank with "wife" and not of Eastern's many graduates who have foun
"housewife." jobs and honors in Saginaw. "Mus," and all yo
other Sam-fans, we invite you to write Harold S
Jim Stahl, '39, had an outstanding track team Taylor, 1504 E. 16th St., Long Beach, Calif., an
at Downers Grove in this, his first year at the
school. Jim also handles the DG football squad.

It seems that Max King, '39, and Judy Voris,
'39, were the easiest people to "honor." One of the
questions was, "Special h o n o r s won?" Max
thought his army discharge was about the finest
thing he had seen in some time, and Judy listed
"a home to live in" along with his Bronze Star,
Presidential Citation, and presidency of the Neoga
Chamber of Commerce. Max is now in Areola with
a partnership in a harvester store, while Judy
(formally known as L. K. Voris, Jr.) lists him-
self as a factory manager. We have it on good
authority that he and Agnes and their one year
old son will soon have a Kansas City address. Judy
plans to go into business with a brother there.

Everyone tried to get back to the campus
whenever possible, and especially at homecoming.

PAGE TWENTY

Today Still 'The Craziest People'

congratulate him on the B. S. in Ed. he got this tha teaches in Decatur during the off-season.
year.
Betty Markell Magill, '42, who is now a lib-
The average "Campus Leader" believes in rarian at the University of Colorado, sends the
marriage. At least 75 per cent of them have fallen following message back to her sorority sisters.
victim to this ancient custom and a large major- "I belong to the Denver Alumnae Chapter of Sig-
ityof these are members of the "Expanding Fam- ma Sigma Sigma and surely wish that some of my
ily Group." Joe Kelly, '38, claims no part of the Alpha Psi chapter wer e here too. I'll be looking
"EFG," however, and says the only thing he has for a lot of news of the class of '42 in the next
that looks like a child is a brindle colored great Alumnus. We'd be glad ot see any of you Eastern-
Dane dog named Bonn, ten months old and very ers if you are in Denver.'"
stupid. Joe is still with the army air forces at
Maxwell Field, Alabama, and is currently being Another successful coach, Ross Stephenson,
addressed as Colonel Kelly. '43, spent the summer in Charleston, commuting
every day to his graduate classes at the Univer-
Two of the more beautiful of our group once sity of Illinois. Ross was assistant coach of the
served in those nearly forgotten organizations, strong Chicago Heights team of a year ago. Next
the WACS and WAVES. Juanita Brown Fairchild fall will find him fielding an outfit for Central
has dropped in rank from first lieutenant to High of South Bend, Indiana.
housewife, while Violet Podesta, once a lieutenant
in the navy, is now lending her talents to the Ed Weir, '42, spent the summer as the assist-
United Nations. Violet's official moniker is "Per- ant to the Illinois state historian, Jay Monaghan.
sonnel Assistant at the Food and Agriculture De- Ed, who now has three sons, returned to Oakwood
partment of the UN" and the address is 2032 Bel- high school this fall, where he teaches social
mont Road, Washington, D. C. science, English and biology.

Claude Hayes, '47, who postponed acquiring Two of Eastern's Campus Leaders of '43 were
his sheepskin because of devotion to his favorite married in January and will return to Charleston
uncle, answered from Northwestern, where he is next year to teach at Charleston high. Jim Hanks
working toward the master's degree. With a note and Bessie Townsend are the two who tied the
of accomplishment in his report, Claude mentioned knot. Jim was delayed by the army and didn't
that he was taking a course there with his former graduate until the end of last year's winter quar-
speech correction teacher at Eastern, Miss Grace ter. He was president of the Class of '47 and
Williams. She was a member of the English de- taught at Kinmundy high school last spring.
partment at the University of Puerto Rico during
the preceding school year. The last character on whom we shall com-
ment is the former editor of this publication, Eu-
Glen Cooper, '37, and Don Cavins, '37, both gent Leon Price, '47. Eugene was also delayed in
former News business managers, have been joined his academic career by active military duty. Since
in the journalistic ranks by Jim Roberts, '46, who graduation he has been traveling between Mattoon
is now the city editor of the Aledo Times Record. and New York city trying to keep from working.
A feature article on his class by Jim appears He goes to Iowa State university to study crea-
on page six in this issue. Don writes that his tive writing this fall. Gene did take time on the
work on the News prompted his decision to take train to scratch a few answers. To the question
his present job with the advertising department on current position he merely penned "at liberty,"
of the Louisville Courier Journal. Glen's story and to the one on graduate degrees he answered,
gained an air of mystery when he revealed that "Goodness no, I've been far to busy in my gar-
during the war he was a member of the famed den.'' He failed to answer one question and in-
"Cloak and Dagger Boys," sometimes known as quired if he lost points because of it-and so on.
the OSS. Glen was the editor of a county news- Gene signed himself "all my love, ELP." And
paper at Sullivan, Illinois, for many years and we'll sign off too, thanking all the former "Cam-
held down the Moultrie county judgeship as a pus Leaders" for their cooperation in our survey,
sideline. Then he operated a coal supply company and wishing them luck as leaders of Eastern's
briefly, but the newspaper business lured him alumni.
back into the fold and he is now finance editor
of the Decatur Herald-Review. A list of current addresses of former campus
leaders will be printed in the December issue.
Martha June Jack, '40, answered from her
summer job at Feather River Inn near Blairsden, One of Eastern's most prominent professors
Cal., where she was plying her skill as a wait- is taking a leave of absence in 1947-48 to return
ress. This is the third summer that Martha has to the campus from which he came sixteen years
waited on the tourist trade, having spent previous ago. Dr. Kevin Guinagh will absent himself for
vacations in South Haven, Michigan, and Cody, a year to return to Antioch college in Ohio. Dr.
Wyoming. She says that she's rapidly becoming Guinagh has long been head of the foreign lan-
a professional and that it's a wonderful life. Mar- guages department here and is Eastern's most
versatile author. He returns next fall.

PAGE TWENTY-ONE

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PAGE: T'VENTY-TVVO

First Post-War Tour

Covers 7500 Miles

TIRED, TRAVEL-WEARY, but with many happy How coaches spend their summer months. If Andy
· experiences behind them, the first post-war
Prairie State Ficld_Studie~ trip returned to the Sullivan, standing in the center with the dazed look, could
campus on July 25 from their 45 day jaunt. Dr.
Elton M. Scott and Dr. Charles H. Coleman, lead- talk, from here, that is, he might tell you an inside line
ers of the 7,500 mile trip, expressed satisfaction
with the outcome and are now planning their next on what he and Walt Warmoth said to their mutual
year's expedition into the U. S. Northeast.
friend, Merve "Snag" Baker (with hose), regarding the
Many interesting incidents occurred on the
tour, such as the meeting with Eastern's noted probabilities of airline hostesses marrying their passen-
former student, Burl Ives. The camp truck stop-
ped at a filling station near Glendale Nev., and as gers. At any rate, "Snag," soon after this photo was taken,
the party alighted, cook Verna Lowry, '47,
noticed an Illinois plate on a rather handsome car. wed Becky Woolford ... petite T. W. A. hostess. He took
Almost before they knew it, the driver had seen
Eastern's name on the side of the truck and no chances on the statistics, Walt will tell you.
was extending a hand of welcome. Burl asked
about all his old teachers at Eastern and asked (The youngster in the three cornered breeches is
to be remembered to all his friends bere. Snag's nephew David (?) Snorf, while Daddy Burl Snorf

Many of the group turned collectors while on is at Andy's right. Burl is married to the former Marge
the tour and probably the most complete and ex-
tensive of the collections was assembled by Keith Baker.)
Howell. His interest in insects led him to accumu-
late hundreds of specimens from the 12 states have a chance to keep in closer touch with East-
covered on the trip. The course required that each ern. Thanks!"
of the 45 students turn in notebooks and projects
on what he had seen and done. These were quite Mrs. Sidney L. Herman (the former Rose Lea
varied and elaborate. What might have made a Verbeau, '35) writes from Van Nuys, Calif., "I
notebook page is shown herewith. Pages such as had the most tremendous 'lift' this morning when
this one will hold vivid memories for the tourists I received The Eastern Alumnus ... I have often
for years to come. been homesick for the good times I had at EL"

'ALUMNUS' DRAWS LETTERS George Cain, also in California, where he is
manager of the traffic department of a manufac-
(Continued from page 18) turing concern in Los Angeles, found through
contact with the alumni office that he lives a few
home who reached the fourth grade without abil- blocks from Sam Taylor, an old friend. George
ity to read the most simple words, or without re- ("Sugar" to most of Eastern) thinks there should
cognizing the letters of the alphabet. If I were be an Eastern State Club in California. The files
in Charleston, I'd like to consult with the skilled here show that the state is only second to New
professors there as to helps for cases such as he York as an attraction to grads. Write George at
presents . .. Best wishes for your new venture." 10922 South Spinning, Los Angeles 44.

Martha Reeder Russ writes congratulations Mrs. John N. Gunning (Olive L. Davis, '43)
from Mundelein, Ill., where she is head of the pri- wants to hear from any other Easternites who
mary department of both grade schools. Mrs. have ended up at Lincoln, Nebraska, where she
Russ has a daughter of four . lives at 1515 So. 2lst. Her thumbnail sketch
since leaving Eastern: "I have been here and there
Charles 0. Austin, a captain in the army, re- and covered a lot of country since leaving East-
turned to the Clarion, la., high school as principal ern. I was married and spent about a year in Co-
after his release from service. Clarion is a city lumbus, 0. I then went to Honolulu as a secretary
of over 8,000 and the school employs 22 teachers. for the Navy Department and spent three years
Charlie writes, "I even laid Life aside to read the in the personnel office of the Navy there. My hus-
alumni magazine first. This should definitely be band and I returned to Columbus, where he com-
a plug because Life is selling more copies . . . I pleted his work for the degree in optometry. He
know by comparing it ('The Alumnus) with the is now in practice here. We have an 18 months
Iowa State Teachers College bulletin that you have o~d boy to keep me busy."
something." Don't compare our fledgling sheet
with the Iowan, Charlie. We won't be that good Mary Emily Goodwin: "I have thoroughly en-
till next year. joyed the first copy of the Eastern Alumnus.

Maxine Giffin Green: " ... I am delighted to

PAGE TWENTY-THREE

Eastern Takes Day Off

EASTERN TOOK an afternoon off last July 23 for

the formal business of dedicating housing for 250

veteran students on the campus and had time left

over to select a reigning beauty and indulge in

lots of tomfoolery. The occasion took on added

zest because of the news from Springfield that

Governor Green had just signed the bill changing
t he name of the college.

Mrs. Barbara To~ch was the chosen beauty
and was ceremoniously crowned "Miss Friendly
City" as the climax of a campaign sponsored by
the city merchants and various campus organiza-
tions. She quite appropriately lives in "Campus
City," the name voted for the newly dedicated
apartments and freshly painted trailers.

Colonel Paul Armstrong, director of selective
ser vice in Illinois and one of the authors of the
"GI Bill of Rights," made the principal address
of the afternoon in an assembly held before the
outdoor program b e g a n. Col. Armstrong ex-
pressed amazement at the size and convenience of

Queen Barbara Tolch. When veterans' housing was dedi-
cated, this GI wife won 'Miss Friendly City' title.

ried to victory when son Henry nosed out LeeRoy
"Gunner" LaRose by one gulp in a pie-eating con-
test. Henry was rewarded' with a very fancy cig-

argette lighter but does not contemplate taking
up the smoking habit to put it in use.

As a sort of icing on the whole occasion, John
Roberts and his straight man, Allen Corbin, tick-
led the funny bones of the large crowds. John,
dressed in skirt, kitchen-mop hair, and all the
trimmings, entered the beauty contest and was
wooed along the way by clown Corbin.

July 23 was not only a significant day in in-
stituLonal history, but one thoroughly enjoyed
by hundreds of friends of the college.

A baker's dozen of Charleston beauties if you count
petite ( ? ) John Roberts (lying down front.)

the new apartments. He also felt that the change J Henry B .i;:zard, second son of the president, demolishes
of name for the college could result in more effec- a cho colate pie to win pie-eating contest.
tive service to Eastern Illinois and might in the
long run give the schools of Illinois more teachers.
John D. Lange, assistant regional director of the
Federal Public Housing Authority, spoke of the
FPHA's part in building homes for GI students.

The cool jobs of the day were held by Dick
Fisher, '47, who was dumped in a tank of water
at frequent intervals when customers scored buils-
eyes at a ball throwing concession, and the mud
football players, who actually complained of lack
of mud and water. These hardy souls batt!ed to
a muddy and scoreless tie in a game so lurid it
attracted a Life magazine photographer to t h e
scene.

President Buzzard saw the family colors car-

PAGE TWENTY-FOlJH

El Actor Wins Big Role

A PROMISING YOUNG actor who started his ca-

reer at Eastern wrote recently that he didn't Known as Billy
have time to do an article for the Alumnus, but ../Phipps while at
there was a good deal of information on the one
Eastern a f e w
battered and torn sheet that he did send us.
We pass on to the Eastern clan some news years ago, the
about Billy Phipps Crouch, who studied at East- young man at the

ern in the early 1940's. right has sky -

That tattered sheet that Bill scribbled on was rocketed upward

a part of the script for "Crossfire," supposedly in the dizzy whirl

one of the best shows Hollywood has produced of Hollywood and

lately. Bill has the part of a "simple country boy" Broadway.
in this show. He mentioned that the world pre-

miere was to be held in New York the same night

he wrote the letter, July 22, 1947.

But he seemed far more interested in another

premiere. The first showing of "Galileo"was then

eight days off, July 30. Bill plays Andrea in this

production. Andrea is the favorite pupil of the

great teacher a n d scientist, Galdleo. Charles

Laughton plays the principal role, with Bill play- RUEL HALL TELLS GRID SAGA
ing a strong second fiddle to the veteran trouper.

It was Laughton who "discovered" Bill some (Continued from page 5)
18 months ago in an actor's lab where the latter
had the lead in "Men in White." Bill was picked . "By t~at ~ime most of the team was laugh-
at that time for the part in "Galileo" and has been mg at Ives antics and, of course, he was quite dis-
working on it ever since. He says that the last gusted with us. Next thing we knew Burl was
few weeks' work on the production were very ard, d?wn in front of the coaches' bench pleading for
but t hat Laughton was extremely cooperative and either Coach Lantz's or divine help-we never
helpful to every one in the cast. quite found out which.

After a four weeks' showing in Hollywood, "Well, the story is that the referee had felt
"Galileo" moved to New York for a late fall open- that Ives had bitten himself in order to get a 15
ing. Bill says he will try to visit his alrna mater yard penalty, and would have nothing to do with
on the eastward swing and maybe drop us a line him. The penalty would have put the ball on about
with some information in it when he has time. the five yard line, with five yards to go for a
touchdown, and first down.

v "Sadly enough, the story ends with Indiana
winning 7 to 6. To this day, Ives swears he didn't
MOSCONA HEADS ENT COURSE

NICOLA MOSCONA, bass-baritone, will appear bite himself on the arm. I have never been con-
as the first artist on Eastern's enter inm.ent
vinced, tho_ugh, that he was not making a final
course-November 5. The Greek-born singing star ~ffort to wm that ball game by self-inflicted pun-
made his professional debut in the national opera
IShment to draw a penalty against the other team.
house in Athens in 1931. He was awarded a schol-
arship and studied in Milan. His American debut "It was certainly fun to play halfback with

came in 1937, when he played Ramfis in Aida for what was undoubtedly the greatest line Eastern

the Metropolitan opera company. He has sung in has ever had. There were individual stars like
Carnegie Hall and has performed as a soloist for
Arturo Toscanini on 12 different occasions. He Ashmore, Sims, Routledge, Stone aInvdes~fGfeinbssiovn~
will present his Eastern concert in the new gym and Smith. They made defensive'

of the Health Education building at 8 :15. Admis- play a real pleasure for a gang of pony backs such
ion will be $1.50 and applications f o r tickets
as Fenoglio, Powers, Kinsel, Creamer, Parr and
hould be sent to Dr. Glenn H. Seymour, care of
he college. myself-only Parr was not the pony but rather the
Belgian type !
On December 1 the second of the winter ser-
es will spotlight the Indianapolis Symphony orch- "I think that all of us during that period were

tra. Fabian Sevitsky, conductor, will lead the very fortunate to play under and have as a friend

amous musicians, who toured 11 states last sea- and councelor one of the finest sportsmen in col-
n. Tickets for this performance will be $2.40 to
he general public and can also be obtained from lege athletics. I refer of course to Coach Charles
. Seymour.
P. Lantz, whose example, even more than his pre-

cept, made a lasting impression for the better.

"Here's to Eastern-may she some day again

look at Normal an one of the easy spots on the

schedule. The best of luck, Panthers!

The other numbers on the course will be "A Cordially yours,

ight in Old Vienna" and Daniel Ericourt, pianist. RUEL HALL"

PAGE 'l'WENTY-FTVE

Arthur Lumbrick, Class of '03, Dies

EASTERN'S FAMILY mourns as well as in those communities Arthur Lumbrick

the passing of one of its finest where he spent his life. Blue Banner dairy in Danville,
Born October 11, 1882, near which h e operated until 1928,
representatives in the person of when he entered the National
Arthur Lumbrick, '03, president Charleston, he attended the Col- Park Service and Farm Security
Administration. Going to Shel·
of the first four year class to be lege of Agriculture at the Uni- byville in 1936, he served as ad·
versity of Illinois after leaving ministrator of the farm security
graduated from Eastern Illinois Eastern and took the M. A. de-
State Normal School and presi- (Continued on page 18)
gree in 1908. Shortly after, he
dent of the first Shelby County married Myrtle Huston of Deca-
tur, also a graduate of Eastern.
Eastern State Club. Mr. Lum- Mrs. Lumbrick survives him, as
brick died Monday, August 18,
following a short illness. Death well as six daughters, Mrs. Ken-

was attributed to coronary neth Wilson, Decatur; Mrs. Vir-
gil Cunningham, Danville; Mrs.
thrombosis. Roger Stopa, Shelbyville; Miss
In the first edition of the
Martha Lumbrick, Chicago; Mrs.
Alumnus the Lumbrick family
Robert Mirus, Pawnee; and Mrs.
was presented as Eastern's "roy- Robert Drobisch, Decatur; and
alty." Every member of t h e a son, Robert, at Shelbyville. A
family except a son, Robert, has brother, Clarence, and a sister,
Mrs. Mary E. Baughman, live at
attended at Charleston. Last
spring, because of his n e v e r - Charleston. Another sister, Mrs.
lagging interest in the welfare Stella Cottingham, 1iv e s at
of the college and its graduates,
Northwood, la. There are ten
Arthur Lumbrick was accorded grandchildren.
the distinction of membership
Mr. Lumbrick taught at the
on the first committee to select University of Illinois until 1912,
distinguished alumni of Eastern t h e n became manager of the
for honor at Alumni Day next Epps farms in Edgar County. In
spring. His place will be very
1918 he became farm adviser in
difficult to fill, for Mr. Lum- Vermilion county, serving until
brick's characteristic cheerful-
ness, humor, energy, acumen, 1923. At that time he entered
and integrity made him a lead-
private business as owner of the
ing citizen in the Eastern clan

Class of 1922 smiles big for Silver Anniversary portrait on Alumni Day.

PAGE TWE NTY-SIX

Alum With United Airlines Sees No Saucers

Almost everyone who has been in an airplane holiday runs and the least desirable routes. There

within the last few months has seen-or talked to is more to it than the time you put in the air, too.

someone who has seen-a flying saucer. There- "Each month we fly a maximum of 85 hours.

fore the Alumnus brings you an article on flying However, there are also correspondence courses

saucers. Arlin Rennels, '40, seemed to be just the to complete, link trainer time to get in each month,

man to ask about such things, as he is now flying various courses to prepare for and attend, etc."

DC3's for United Air Lines. Since he has been with United, using Chicago

When his reply came, it seemed that Arlin as a base, Arlin has flown to Denver, Cheyenne,

had heard of the strange missles, but had never Boston, New York, and Washington. He says that
seen one. He let the cat out of the bag a few para- "aviation seems to have attracted several other
graphs later, however, when he confessed to
throwing some paper plates out of his plane win- Eastern Alumni and within the ranks of UAL. I
dow just a few days before the affair started have seen Betty Denny, Emily Greer, McKittrick,

and Helen Thomas Mellin (Mrs. Warren R.)"

everyone gazing skyward last summer.

Arlin had several nice things to say about his / CORRECTION
bosses at United and gave a thumb-nail sketch of
On page 25 it is stated that Nicola Moscona will ap-
what it's like to be a commercial flyer. "Natur- pear on the Eastern Entertainment Course November 5.
ally," says he, "seniority h a s a lot to do with This is in error. Moscona is scheduled for a March concert.

where and when you fly. The newer pilots get the Daniel Ericourt, pianist, will play on November 6.

FORK IN THE ROAD pictures because we believe in audio-visual edu-
cation as complementing, or as applied to, the
(Continued from page 10) whole scheme of general education. We don't spon-
sor the thought of audio-visual education as a cult
learned that research in the field of audio-visual in itself.
education was already substantial enough to veri-
fy my experience and to sustain my enthusiasm. Through many channels of endeavor, the fa-
cilities and resources of the member companies
For instance, someone had found out that of the Association are being made available to
around 90 per cent of learning comes from the educational agencies and institutions. Some of
medium of the eyes; and way back in 1658, John the better known activities are:
Amos Comenius, in his ORBIS PICTUS, illus-
trated that he may have guessed that to be the 1. Distribution of some 600 selected 16mm.
films for classroom use by the Associa-
se. By 1936, research people had already proved tion's non-profit corporation, Teaching
a significant degree the effectiveness of audio- Film Custodianf'?, Inc.
'sual materials in line with certain values listed
follows: 2. Cooperation with schools, colleges, pub-
lic libraries and other educational organi-
1. Presenting concrete factual information zations in the planning of the use of mo-
2. Developing greater performance of tion pictures in accomplishing education-
al objectives.
learning
3. Developing ability to think 3. Research projects at Yale University in
4. Developing habits and skills the production of instructional films.
5. Developing interest of learner
6. Bridging inequalities of pupil experience 4. Research projects at the University of
7. Influencing attitudes and behavior Nebraska and in the State of Nebraska
involving film utilization in the class-
Needless to say, these research studies im- rooms of rural schools.
ed me then as they do now. I decided that I
uld do what I could to make use of audio-vis- 5. An adult education project on the use of
materials in every teaching situation where the motion picture in adult education,
ppeared they might do a better job than other under the sponsorship of the American
terials. I found myself working much harder Association for Adult Education.
if I were just to assign pages day by day,
follow a set routine. But I discovered my stu- These represent only a few of the many areas
and problems in education for which our Depart-
ts were working harder too. ment renders assistance on a nation-wide scale.
Much progress is being made in the field of audio-
Much time has passed since 1936, and prac- visual education, especially in grade schools.
and research in general education during the
and since have further validated many of the The idea of the acceptance of the values of
es of audio-visual materials of instruction audio-visual materials has itself passed a fork in
h I have listed here. the road.
In the Educational Services Department of
Educators are no longer satisfied to try to
otion Picture Association, we deal with many solve problems of the present with teaching ma-
ems of education indirectly related to motion terials and techniques of the past,-i.e., some
educators. What about you?

PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

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Homecoming Welcome Hornet
Reservations Blank

Alumni Secretary HOMECOMING TIMETABLE
Eastern Illinois State College
Charleston, Illinois Thursday, October 23
8 :00 p. m.-Homecoming Play, "Dear Ruth,"
Dear Sir:
Health Education Building,
Please hold in my name at the Homecoming Admission 74c, tax included.
Headquarters Registration desk, Health Educa-
tion Building hall, the following tickets for which Friday, October 24
money order (or check) is enclosed. 3 :30 p. m.-Tug-of-War, Lincoln Field.
6 :30 p. m.-Bonfire, Pep Session, and Firework
HOMECOMING PLAY
Lincoln Field.
Friday, October 24, 8 :15 p. m. 8 :15 p. m.-Second Showing, "Dear Ruth."
11 :00 p. m.-Midnight Show, Will Rogers Theatet
____ tickets@ $0.74 each

HOMECOMERS' LUNCHEON Saturday, October 25
Saturday, October 25, 12 noon
____ tickets @ $1.50 each 10 :00 a. m.-Homecoming Parade, Seventh Stree
Square, Sixth Street.
HOMECOMING DANCE
Saturday, October 25, 8 p. m. 11 :30 a. m.-Massed Band Rehearsal, Schahrer
____ tickets @ $1.25 each Field.
____ balcony tickets @ 40c
12 :00 noon-ALUMNI LUNCHEON, Women's
EASTERN ALUMNUS SUBSCRIPTION Gym, Health Education Building.
____ one year@ $1.00 Admission $1.50.
(to begin with December 1 issue)
12 :45 p. m.-ALUMNI BUSINESS MEETING,
Total$- - - - Women's Gym.

Name 1 :15 p. m.-Band Festival, Schahrer Field.

Address 2 :00 p. m.-Eastern vs. Normal, Schahrer Fie!
City and State _____________ Between Halves-Eastern and
Normal Bands. Admission $1.00,
including tax.
After the Game-Band Mixer,
Health Education Building.

4 :30 to 7 :30-Various Organization Teas, Buff
Suppers, etc.

8 :00 to 12-Homecoming Dance, Auditorium,
Health Education Building. Single
Admission, approx. $1.25,
Balcony 40c, tax included.

9 :00 p. m.-Coronation of Homecoming Queen
Introduction of "Queens of Yester
year." Auditorium, Health Educa
tion Building. Prizes for Parade,
House Decorations Awarded.

PAGE TWENTY-E IGHT