Eastern Alumnus Vol. 6 No. 2 (September 1952)

ptember
1952

The Eastern Alumnus

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

VOLUME 6 SEPTEMBER, 1952 NUMBER 2

Association Prexy Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter, at the post office at
Welcomes You Back Charleston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August 24,
1912. Yearly subscription rate $1.50; two years $2.25; three years $3.00.
Renewals, $1.00 per year.

STAN ELAM ------------------------------------------- Editor
K. E. HESLER ________.:___________________________ Assistant Editor

Once again it's Homecoming

time for Eastern and time again
for old friends to meet. This year's

Homecoming schedule sounds just Dwight Bapt1st receives the first M. S. in Education to be awarded
at Eastern. Dean H. F. Heller is shown placing the blue and gray Master's
as enjoyable as those in the past, hood on Baptist's shoulders at commencement exercises on July 31. Don
with the play, "Charley's Aunt'' on Luallen was the only other M. S. degree recipient. Over 100 p,rsons
Friday night, the grid opponent are now enrolled in the fifth year program at Eastern.

for Saturday afternoon's game Fall Enrollment 1151; Freshman
Southern (beaten nine times last

year), and dancing to Tony Pastor's
orchestra Saturday night after the
coronation of the 1952 Homecom-
ing Queen.

Some of you who haven't been

Class Up 20 Per Cent Over Last Yearback for two or three years might
need a guide to find your way over

our ever-expanding campus, with As of September 20, total fall among freshmen to enter the four
the Booth Library, home manage- enrollment of full time college stu- year elementary education curri-
ment houses, and the Lincoln- dents stood at l 151 , an increase of culum. Sixty-five freshmen chose
Douglas Residence Halls as the nearly 50 over last year. The larg- this field, including 22 persons
latest additions. And you should est increase was registered in the who ranked in the upper ten per
hear the plans for the future!
freshman class, which jumped cent of their high school graduat~

Your Alumni Association has from 390 in 1951 to 470 this year. ing classes. Other popular majors

plans for the future also. A pro- The college experienced the were business education with 61,
posal is being offered to bring the beginnings of another influx of men's physical education with 39,
constitution up-to-date and to issue veteran students. Thirty-one Kor- and home economics and music•
a news letter to all graduated ean vets had registered as of Sep- with 28 apiece. Music scored the
alumni, approximately 4,000 of tember 20. The opportunities in greatest gain over last year, more
them. state schools of Illinois are parti-
cularly attractive to military vet- than doubling the number choosil
Do plan to come back this year erans. Under the new GI bill, they it as a major. The two year gener
and stop in the Women's Gym af- are eligible to receive cash pay- and pre-professional curricula co
ter the game for the Alumni Asso- ments of from $11 0 to $ 160 per tinue to attract many . students.
ciation meeting and coffee hour. month. Since Illinois residents may This year nearly one-third of the
use the Illinois Military Scholar- freshman class showed interest in
Cordially, ship to pay tuition and fees if they these curricula.
go to state-supported schools, this
Bette Johnson sum is available for any other ex- *Charles R. (Chuck) Tedford, a
President, Eastern pense.
Alumni Associat:on former student, was appointed dis-
The draft and attractive positions trict manager for the State Farm
* in business and industry have ac- Insurance Companies in the Sprin9t
field-Quincy area as of July l. Hi~
Burl Ives, former Eastern stu-
dent, is now .on a personal appear-
ance tour which will take him from counted for most of the small drop office is at l 06 N. Fourth St.,
east to west around the world. He ' in upperclass enrollments. There Springfield.

was in Australia in August, follow- were about 30 transfers from other A Navy veteran, Tedford finish-

ing a concert series in Honolulu. schools to Eastern. ed his work at Lincoln College of

Mrs. Ives is with him. There is an encouraging trend Law in Springfield.

PAGE TWO

Homecoming
Highlights

*

1. Homecoming Play, "Char-
ley's Aunt," 8 p.m. Thurs-
day and Friday, Oct. 23
and 24.

2. Alumni luncheon, 11 :30-
12:30 p.m. Saturday.

4. F o o t b a I I Game, Eastern
vs. Southern, 2 p.m.

5. Alumni Association Meet-
i n g a n d Coffee Hour,

Women's Gym, s·p.m.

6. Tony Pastor Concert, 7:30-
8:30 p.m., Health Educa-
tion Building.

7. Coronation Dance, Pastor
Playing, 9-12.

*

Eastern Gridiron Chips Look More Gray

Thon Blue To Sportswriter Ken Hesler

O'Brien Has Seasoned optimism had emerged and may and Paul Foreman, a capable un-
grow as Coach Maynard "Pat" derstudy for Ed Soergel in 1951,
Line but Offense M a y O'Brien carries out the rebuilding who is in line for the quarterback
of the offensive backfield. job this fall.
Sputter for Lack of Big,
Expedenced Backs. Despite the advantages the Pan- Gone from the backfield by
thers will have because of a sea- graduation are J. D. Anderson, Col-
By Kenneth Hesler, '51 soned line, they will encounter linsville; Don Henderson, Newman;
llAC Sport Publicity Director many a headache in attempting to Joe Patridge, Arcola; and Ed Soer-
reconstruct an offensive backfield gel, Glenview. Jerry Osmoe will
The gridiron chips may appear that has been riddled by gradua- be ineligible, and ends Dick Davis
more gray than blue for the Eastern tion, losses to the armed forces and and Dennis Gregory were taken by
~anthers as they began the final ineligibilities. Only returning let- graduation and the armed forces,
week of practice before tackling termen to take over the backfield respectively.
the Big Blue of James Millikin attack duties are Dave Cohrs, 150
fniversity; but an air of quiet pound senior from Mooseheart, Returning to make up what may

(Continued on· next page)

PAGE THREE

(Continued from preceding page) This may become a familiar sight to Panther fans. Senior Quarteit
back Paul Foreman and Halfback Dave Cohrs were the only regulatl
be one of Eastern's most formida- offensive backs to return from last year's squad.
ble lines are Dwayne Roe, 1951 all-
llAC tackle from Danville; Don Cal- a feuding opponent from many ground. Western also lost strengl
vin, Arnold Franke, and Lee Vich-
weg of Mt. Olive; Ronnie Landers years past. The Salukis, who didn't in the backfield; but none of trl
of Sullivan; Don Magsamen of Tus-
cola; and Bill Myers of Charleston. win a single game last year, have conference elevens has been de-

Back also to ramrod the Panth- turned over a clean slate this sea- 1uded into believing that the top
ers is Coach O'Brien. O'Brien com-
pleted his course work. toward the son by hiring a new head coach, two in 1951 will be easy pickin!I
Ed. D. at the University of Illinois
last year while Rex V. Darling Bill O'Brien, and attempting to in 1952.
capably took over the duties of
head coach. Darling's talents won't build a dark horse squad from jun- Eastern, Michigan Normal, and
be available to O'Brien this sea- ior varsity and freshman person- Illinois Normal will have to be
son, however, for the youthful nel. Only six lettermen returned to given an outside chance. Easterrt
mentor suffered a mild attack of the Carbondale fold this fall for will have to develop a potent at-
polio in mid-September and will grid practice, and two-thirds of the tack and Normal will have to add
be unable to get in little, if any, Salukis' candidates for starting posi- some seasoning to an inexperl
active coaching duty. tions are freshmen. Eastern aided enced line; but should they be able
a rainy day in dampening South-
To assist O'Brien in football dur- ern's Homecoming spirit last year to get by early conference gami
ing the illness of Darling, the col- by drubbing the downtrodden there is a good possibility t
lege has employed Dr. John Nanov- Salukis 47-19. they might finish strong. Michig
sky of Youngstown, Ohio, as a Normal is somewhat of an un-
substitute assistant football coach
for the fall quarter. Dr. Nanovsky An early view of 1952 confer- . known quantity even though the~
has the B. S. Degree from Miami ence expectations must give the have a complete squad returnirj
University; the M. E. from the Uni- top llAC spot to either Central this year. The Hurons have not
versity of Pittsburgh; and the doc- Michigan, Northern, or Western. been able to finish on the winni'1
torate from Indiana University. He Central Michigan took the third side of the ledger since comint
has coached at the North Jackson, spot last year, and has 28 letter- into the llAC in 1950; and thel
Ohio, High School, at the Rayen men returning from the squad that success in 1952 will be determinelll
and Chaney High Schools in dumped Eastern 59-27 at Mt. by how much the squad improvt
Youngstown, Ohio, and assisted Pleasant. The Chippewas will give over last season. They might pro-
at Oxford, Ohio. He has been as- the conference plenty of trouble vide a conference surprise.
sistant freshman coach at Indiana
University for the last three years. despite the loss of their ace quar- Southern has little to look for~

Masterminding the B- Squad terback, Andy MacDonald. North- ward to on the basis of an obj~
again this season will be Dr. Wil-
liam Harland Groves, who came to ern will be without the unbeatable five appraisal. Surprising develo
Eastern in 1951.
combination of Bob Heimerdinger ment of freshman personnel an
Sixty-eight men reported ,for the
first day of practice on September and Fran Cahill. They pitched and "the breaks" might get them out
8. Included among those reporting
were 34 freshmen, 19 lettermen caught for enough yardage to carry of the cellar; but such optimist
and 15 members of last year's jun-
ior varsity. the Huskies to an undefeated year ponderings are evident in the

Scheduled for a nine-game card d es pi t e a conference season squads of all seven · colleges and
this fall, Coach O'Brien's Panthers
will open with a home game gain of only 770 yards on the universities.
against Millikin University of De-
catur on September 27. The squad
will meet its first Interstate Inter-
collegiate Athletic Conference op-
ponent on October 11, when it
journeys to Ypsilanti, Mich., for a
game with Michigan Normal Col-
lege. The Panthers finished fourth
in the llAC in 1951.

At Homecoming this year, the
Blue and Gray will meet the Salu-
kis of Southern Illinois University,

PAGE FOUR

[ross Country Panther Stars Make So Blue the Catfish
(or)
Hopes Get Boost Good In Minors
Evolution on the Ambraw
From Frosh Star Two ex-Panther baseball stars
have made good in the minor lea- In 1913 Dr. T. L. Hankinson, then
C h u c k Matheney, gues this season. They are J. D. head of the Eastern zoology de-
Anderson, now with the Terre partment, made a study of fish life
State High School Mile Haute Phillies, and Kenny Grubb in rivers, streams, and lakes of the
with the Paris Lakers. J. D., one of
Champ from Paris, En- Eastern's most outstanding out- Charleston area. This summer, Dr.
fielders of the post-war sports era, Walter M. Scruggs, '28, began a
ters Eastern. has helped Terre Haute to a Three- similar study with the help of ad-
Eye League baseball crown and vanced zoology students. When
lastern's cross country and track Grubb was a key pitcher for a completed, Scruggs' survey will
(lopes were given a considerable team that led the MOV League un- show changes in fish life over a 40-
boost when Charles "Chuck" Ma- ti I the last day of the season. year period.
leney, who won both the -state Grubb won one of the playoff
cross country championship and games Paris played against the Already one important change
•le-run title for Paris last year, en- Decatur Commies but his team lost has been noted. In 1914 Dr. Char-
rolled as a freshman. three games out of five. Grubb led les P. Lantz, the newly hired coach
Eastern's mound staff to an llAC at Eastern, caught a blue catfish
Cross country Coach Clifton championship in 1950. He is teach- and brought it to Hankinson for
White said the arrival of Matheney ing at Neoga this fall. identification. Recognizing it as a
and the return of three harrier let- rarity in Illinois streams at the
lermen will give Eastern an oppor- Andy, at least, expects to make time, Hankinson waited until the
lmity to better its 1951 record of a career of professional baseball, hungry coach wasn't looking and
liird in the state meet and fourth the military permitting. The Three- plunged the fish into formalde·
in the Interstate Intercollegiate Ath- Eye League is Class B and sends hyde. It may still be seen in the
letic Conference. quite a few players up to the ma- zoology museum.
jor leagues. Anderson joined the
latheney won the state cross Phillies after a period of Marine Scruggs' study shows that the
l>untry championship and rang up training on July 31, taking over
the second best time in the nation for an ailing regular. He was an blue catfish is now quite abundant
INhen he ran the two-mile course immediate success both at bat and
in 10:21 :04. He took second in the afield but with the regular's re- locally. ·
state meet in 1950. As a trackman, turn became a utility outfielder
he was the state's champ miler and his batting average slipped to The state conservation depart-
with a time of 4:31 :07. .219. He has been offered a con- ment has granted Scruggs permis-
tract for next year. sion to use any method he finds
leturning lettermen on Coach best for collecting specimens. He
INhite's squad are Jack Sims, three- is now perfecting an electric shock
letter junior from St. Elmo; Jack method for stunning fish (see pict-
ferris, two-letter junior from Mar- ure), whereupon they can be sein-
llhall; and sophomores Leon Francis ed out of the water and counted.
and John Newgent, both of .Paris.
lrancis won his first letter in 1951. It's tega I-- For Scientists

Other reporting freshmen har-
riers are Richard Burch and Fred
Gore of Danville; James Mitchell,
•wton; Dwayne Nichols, Macon;
Uames Edmundson, Brownstown,
and Albert Luthe, Findlay.

Eastern will open its cross coun-
try schedule against Southern llli•
nois University of Carbondale on
lctober 3. The balance of the slate
l>llows:

Oct. 8-Northern 11 linois, here

Oct. 18-lllinois Normal, Normal

Oct. 23-Southern 111 inois, here Jim Cole (right) an advanced zoology student, wields a battery-
Nov. 1- Western Illinois, there ~per~ted device for stunning specimens for the Scruggs study of fish
Nov. 8-llAC meet at Macomb life 1n the Charleston area (see accompanying story). L to r.-John
Nov. 15-State Meet at Bradley
Peterka, Dr. Scruggs,- Richard Hudnut, and Cole.

PAGE FIVE

College Secures Twenty New Athletic Director

Stoff Members For 1952-53

Twenty new staff members associate professor of education
were introduced to the Eastern and principal of Eastern State High

faculty by President Buzzard be- . School. . Dr. Harris has accepted a

fore the start of Freshman Week position at the University of North

September 8. Several filled new Dakota. Dr. Campbell's work was

positions and a number are sub- done at Northwestern State Col-
stituting for permanent staff now lege, Mo., and the University of
on leave. Four take positions left Missouri, where he was acting di-
by retiring faculty members. The rector of admissions last year. He
Eastern teaching and administra- has ten years of teaching and ad-
tive staff now numbers 150 full- ministrative experience in Missouri
time members. public schools.

A college physician was hired Dr. William Joseph Crane re-

later, to begin work Oct. l. places Dr. Louis G. Schmidt as as- Dr. John W. Masley

Earl Phipps Bloom substitutes as sistant professor of education and roll College, Waukesha, Wis. He
holds the B. S. degree from Car1
assistant professor of speech for E. director of student activities. Dr. roll College, and the A. M. front
Glendon Gabbard, who is on sab- Schmidt has accepted a position Northwestern University.
with Indiana University. Dr. Crane
batical leave for doctoral study at holds the B. A. from the University Dr. Juana deLaban replaces Miss
the University of Iowa for two Mary K. Babcock in women's phyt
sical education with the dance as
years. Mr. Bloom holds the A.B. and of Wisconsin, the M. A. from the her special field. Miss Babcocl
A.M. from the University of Illinois Univer'sity of Colorado, and the who traveled in Europe this sum1
and has been a part-time graduate Ph. D. from Yale University. He mer, plans to do additional stu<I
assistant at the University since has been a counsellor at Central this year. Dr. deLaban has studi.
in Munich, Berlin, and Budap1
taking his A. M. in 1948. He will State Teachers College, Stevens She holds the M. F. A. and Ph.
have charge of college dramatics. Point, Wis. from Yale University and has
taught in Queens College, Arnolf
Dr. Albert W. Brown of LaFarge- Miss Doris Mae Downs, a 1952 College of Physical Educati~
City College of New York, the Uni1
ville, N. Y., replaces Miss Lena B. graduate at Eastern, will replace versify · of Michigan, and Adelpl
College.
Ellington as assistant professor and Miss Victoria Brust as dietician at
supervisory teacher of social stud- Pemberton Hall. She will hold Uni- Miss L. Vanlou Patton takes a
(Continued on next page)
ies in Eastern State High School. versity Civil Service rating and

Miss Ellington retired last spring rank as a faculty assistant.

after 32 years at Eastern. Dr. Brown Donald Arthur Kluge takes a

holds the A. B. and Ph. D. from new position as an instructor in
Syracuse University.
biology and as social director of

Dr. Ernest Herbert Campbell re- new Douglas Hall. Mr. Kluge has
places Dr. Raymond P. Harris as been director of admissions at Car-

Dramatics, Social Science, Activities, The Dance

Earl P. Bloom Brown Dr. William J, Crane D1·. Juana delaban

PAGE SIX

New Elementary School Faculty Members

Maurice H. Stump John A. Stevens Miss Virginia Tate Wallace K. Hollander

llmtinued from preceding page) State College. She has been a in arts and crafts in the college.
teacher and business woman and Mrs. Barclay will live in Detroit,
l l position as social director of for six years was assistant ground Mich., where her husband is em-
In Hall with the rank of as- safety engineer for United Air ployed as an engineer, and will
~stant professor. Miss Patton at- Lines in Chicago and Denver. teach part-time in the Wayne Uni-
lended Ohio University - for two versity extension division. Mr.
years and holds the A. B. from Wallace K. Hollander will serve Trank holds the degrees of B. F. A.,
Ohio Wesleyan University and the as substitute instructor and fifth University of Nebraska, B. F. A.,
M. S. from Indiana University, grade supervisory teacher during Washington University, and M. A.,
r,,here she has studied and served the leave of absence of Miss Flor- State University of .Iowa. During
as a counsellor since 1948. ence R.eid, who will lecture in the the past year he has studied at the
education department of Central University of Michoacan, Morelia,
Miss Maryann Ehrhardt replaces College, Pella, la. Mr. Hollander Mexico.
Miss Kathryn Sneesby as social di- is a graduate of Southeast Missouri
rector of Pemberton Hal I .with the State College and holds the M. Ed. Eugene ·Clarence Wallin will
rank of assistant professor. Miss from the University of Missouri. serve as substitute instructor in art
for Carl E. Shull, who is on sabbati-
t esby has taken a position with John Aldrich Stevens replaces
of the government schools in Miss Edith Levake as instructor and (Continued on next page)
eighth grade supervisory teacher.
t upied Germany. Miss Ehrhardt Miss Levake retired this year after High School Head
ds the A. B. from Western Col- 28 years at Eastern. Mr. Stevens
lege for Women, Oxford, 0., and holds the B. S. in Ed. from Northern Dr. Ernest H. .Campbell
the M. S. from Indiana University, Illinois State Teachers College and
ft..here she has been doing grad- the A. M. from Teachers College,
uate study and counselling since Columbia.
1950.
Maurice H. Stump replaces Mrs.
Dr. John W. Masley replaces Dr. Leah Stevens Castle as instructor
tharles P. Lantz as professor and and seventh grade supervisory
head of the Department of Physi- teacher. Mrs. Castle retired this
cal Education for Men. Dr. Lantz year a.ft~r 32 years at Eastern. Mr.
retired after 41 years at Eastern. Stump holds the A. B. and A. M.
Dr. Masley is a graduate of North- from Colorado State College of
ern Illinois State· Teachers College Education. He has been teaching
and holds the A. M. from the Uni- in the Lamar, Colorado, Junior
Jersity of California and the Ed. D. College.
from Penn State College, where
he has been in charge of the grad- Miss .Virginia Tate replaces Miss
uate program in physical educa- Josephine Logan as instructor and
tion. first grade supervisory teacher.
Miss Tate holds the B. S. in Ed. and
Miss Carole E. Peterson assumes M. Ed. from the University of Mis-
the new position as director of souri. She has been teaching in the
food service for Lincoln and Doug- Champaign public schools.
las Halls. She holds the B. S. de- . Lynn E. Trank replaces Mrs.
.Doris Lemke Barclay as instructor
pe in economics from Toledo

ll'liversity and the B. .S. in institu-
tional management from Iowa

PAGE SEVEN

They're Artists AlI (Continued from preceding page)

cal leave to study at Ohio State
University. Mr. Wallin holds the
A. B. from Beloit College and the
A. M. from the State University of
Iowa. He has taught at Eureka Col-
lege and Illinois Wesleyan Univert
sity.

Miss Elizabeth Wilson will fill a
new position which combines the
foods teaching previously done

by Mrs. Ruth Gaertner and Miss

Miss Jean Krut:za Lynn E. Trank Eugene C. Wallin Victoria Brust, with the new dut)1

as director of one of the recentll

completed units of the home man·
agement house. Miss Wilson hol~~

the B. S. in home economics fro111
Northeast Missouri State Teachert

New Dorm Directors College and the M. S. from Virginil

Polytechnic Institute. She has
taught in various Missouri and llli·

nois .high schools, spending the last
five years at Hannibal, Mo., Hig~

School.

Mrs. Marie Fowler will subst~

tute in high school and elemental

home economics this year for Mrs.
Wade Barrick, the former Margaret

Priest, who has left teaching. Mrs.
Fowler is the wife of Ewell Fowlet

of the industrial arts staff. She

holds the B. S. from West Texas
State College and the M. S. from

Donald A. Kluge Miss Maryann Ehrhardt Miss Vanlou Patton Iowa State.

Home Economists Miss Jean Krutza is substitutirl

in high school art for Calvin Coun.

tryman, who is on leave for doc•

toral study. '

Dr. John 0. Nelson is the new
college ' physician, replacing Dr.

Charles Maxwell, who res ignedt
accept a position in the Chica

office of the state health dep
ment's civil defense organizatio

Dr. Nelson holds the B.S. and

M. D. degrees from the Universl
of Illinois. He is closing his gene
practice in Olney to begin his

duties at Eastern on October 1.

Board ApprovesMiss Doris Downs Miss Carole E. Peterson Miss Elizabeth Wilson

Walter Cook, New rector of teacher training and Training School
Minnesota Dean, placement at Eastern from 1931-
Speaks At Eastern 38. Dr. Cook was recently appoint- At the September 22 meeting of
ed dean of the University of Min- the Teachers College Board a proi
Principal speaker as Eastern's nesota College of Education. He posal to construct a training school
faculty assembled for the fall ses- went to Minnesota while the late building for 400 students was ap-
sion was Dr. Walter W. Cook, di- Lotus D. Coffman, also a former proved for Eastern. The next issue
Eastern faculty member, was still of the Alumnus will carry part~
PAGE EIGHT its president. cul ars.

I The Author

Sow

The1952

Olympics

Charles Eugene Anderson, '49, spent two memorable
months abroad last summer, the high point of which was a
period at the 1952 Olympic Games. At the editor's request,
he has written an account of his experiences, here condensed
for the ALUMNUS.

Anderson taught and coached at the Bement, Ill., High

School following graduation from Eastern. He has taken ad-

vanced work at the_ University of Illinois and last spring was

appointed principal of Bement High.

By Charles E. Anderson, '49 classes and taking part in the rec- Charles Anderson poses before
reation program. We arrived in typical Scandinavian statuary in
My trip was made as a member Copenhagen, Denmark, on July 12. Oslo, Norway.
of the University of Illinois grad- It is a quaint, rather old-fashioned
uate student group attending a city notable for its friendliness and zone. Upon arrival at the border,
World Seminar in Health, Physical hospitality. We spent two days ex- the train stopped and the Finnish
•ucation, Recreation, and Youth engine uncoupled in favor of a
Work held in conjunction with the ploring. t· was surprised at the ab- Russian locomotive. Russian sol-
llympic Games. The Seminar was diers pushed up the wooden shut-
•nducted by a number of leading sence of automobiles. Bicycles out- ters on the outside of the windows
lhysical educators from universi- numbered them 75 to 1. We visited of every car, leaving us in com-
ties throughout the world and was the castle of King Frederick IX and plete darkness. Doors to the plat-
Kronberg Castle, visited by Shake- forms were locked so that we could
........****************** speare and presumably the inspir- not use them . After about two
tion for Hamlet. hours, the train stopped at the Fin-
Editor's Note: Mr. Anderson plans nish border and another engine
We took a steamer up to OSio, switch was made, the shutters
to show his color movies of the Norway, a modern, progressive were lowered, and we proc~eded
city of a half million people. I was on to Helsinki.
trip to various organizations about particularly impressed with King
H a a k o n ' s castle, the ski-jump I was beginning to believe what
the state, beginning early in Octo- where the winter Olympics were I had heard about the Iron Curtain
held, remnants of old Viking ships, and the ·mysterious Russians!
ber. Interested alumni may write and the raft upon which Thor Hyer-
dahl made the trip which resulted During my 12 days in Helsinki
him in care of Bement High School in the best-selling novel Kon-Tiki. I lived in a private home, which
proved very interesting. We at-
concerning arrangements for such From Oslo we traveled to Stock- tended the seminar in the morn-
holm, Sweden, the Paris of the ings and were then free to go to
showings. · North. From Stockholm to Abo, Fin- the Olympics in the afternoons i:ind
land, required but one night and evenings. Since I was taking cdfor
.....*******************•• the ride from there to Helsinki by movies of .my. entire trip, I wanted
train took eight hours.
lninently worthwhile. But I · will (Contiriued on next pciget ~:.o
not write of our work. I think During this train ride I experi-
Alumnus readers will be interested enced one of the most unusual
in some of the incidents of the trip happenings of my entire trip. After
the last war, Russia kept one of
-and they ranged from a visit to Finland's 'seaports and made a
the castle which inspired Shake- naval base of it. The train to Hel-
IPeare's Hamlet to shipwreck on sinki traveled through the Russian

lie trip back.

Our group left New York

aboard an Olympic ship, the M/S
Anna Salen, on July 1. There were
many Olympic officials and parti-
tipants' wives on board. We were
kept b1,Jsy attending language

PAGE ~INE

Seventy Thousand Applauded This could be seen burning day
and night all during the Olympictl
Nattily dressed U. S. Olympics team marches on opening day before
cheering crowd of 70,000 representing 69 nations. There was a short · lull imm~
diately after the torch was lit and
(Continued from preceding page) packed with 70,000 people from then a tall girl in a flowing whitEI
to get a good sampling of all 69 countries. robe raced from the runway and
events. I witnessed most of the sped around the track. She madei
best ones. The entire contingent of athletes a striking picture, with her Ion~
from each participating country hair flowing and the white robe
The opening day ceremony was marched on the field in order of blowing in the breeze. She ran
very impressive. Although it be- the Finnish alphabet, with the ex- around the track, stopped beforll
gan to rain at ten in the morning ception of Greece and Finland. The the speaker's platform, mountei
and continued all day, the rain Greek team was given the honor it, and said two words in Germarw
didn't keep the crowd away. The of appearing first, as originators of She was immediately seized by
large, oval-shaped stadium was the Olympic Games, and Finland, one of the officials standing near·
as the host country, was last. by and was dragged from the plat1
Frozen Action form and into a nearby office.
The Russians came out four
Olympics · statue, with torch in abreast, dressed completely in An immediate murmur a rose
background, at Helsinki. white suits. They looked very im- from the stands. Everyone thouglj
pressive. The U. S. team came out she was on the program and we
six abreast, dressed in white were amazed to see her bein!i
panama hats, maroon coats, light carried forcibly away. I found out
trousers, and white shoes. they later that she was a student from
presented a very neat, smart ap- West Germany who had hoped to
pearance and received a tremen- make an appeal to the presiderj
dous ovation from everyone. of Finland to help unite East anl
West Germany.
After the 69 teams were lined
up facing the stands, Paavo Nurmi, . Among the most memorable of
the great Finnish distance runner the athletic events was the fabu1
of past years, came out of the run- lous Emil Zatopek's record-breal
way carrying the Olympic torch ing 5000 meter race, then his tri·
which had been carried across umphs in the 10,000 meter and
Europe from Greece by runners
from the various countries. He marathon runs. It was somethil
touched the torch to a large recep- that had never been accomplish
tacle on the field, which imme- before.
diately flared up. Then he began
the long climb up the tower at the I saw Lindy Remigino sprint to
southwest end of the stadium. Af- a new record in the l 00, barelj
ter carrying the torch about two- beating out the more famous Herll
thirds of the way up, he gave it to McKenley of Jamaica. Mal Whit1
another famous Finnish runner, field was a picture of effortlesl
Kolehmaine, who finished the grace as - he sped to a new record
climb and iit the torch at the top. in the 800 meter race.

I saw Sam lness of Californil
win ths discus, Davis win the hig~
jump, and Richards win the pol~
vault. Mathias' performances in
winning the decathlon were mar·
velous to watch.

I saw several of the basketb4I
teams in action, including Russi~
and the U. S. Our team was the
tallest of the sixteen, but in the

game I saw them play again4
Uruguay they seemed rather unsurll
of themselves. I believe this was
due partially to the fact that the1
used a ball which was almost as
small and was molded in the same
way as our soccer ball. It appear4111
to be very heavy. The Russian te•
seemed to be well coached and
played a fast, smooth game. But
they couldn't overcome our terri~

(Continued on next page)

PAGE TEN

Sontinued from preceding page) Dies Of Polio ... Face-Lift for Tom .'

fie height advantage. Robert C. Ryle Did Young Lincoln

I also saw some of the gymnastic Staff Member First Live All Winter In
9npetition, which was practically Charleston Fatality
~wept by the Russians in both the 'Half-Faced Camp'?
hten's and women's divisions. I Robert C. Ryle, high school sup-
saw Americans sweep the spring- ervisory teacher of the social stud- Dr. C. H. Coleman
board diving competition. ies, died early Wednesday morn-
ing, September 24, of bulbar polio. Finds Evidence Putting
One afternoon I was able to He was the first Charleston polio
visit the athletes in Olympic Vil- fatality this year in an epidemic Tom Lincoln in New
1age. They very graciously permit- that has claimed 65 Charleston
~ed me to take pictures and I got victims and over 50 in Mattoon. and Better Light.
shots of Chuck Hoag, Clyde Lovel-
lette, Fortune Gordien, and a num- Mr. Ryle leaves his wife, the Did young Abe Lincoln live a
ber of other Americans, as well as former . Carolyn Gilbert, Eastern whole year in a "half-faced camp"
leveral members of foreign teams. Class of 1940, and their infant son when Tom Lincoln moved his fam-
Allen. ily from Kentucky to Indiana in
On July 30 Ken Hodgert, an- 1816?
other student, and I left Helsinki Mrs. Ryle served as Eastern's
for Paris, where we spent five health coordinator from 1948 until A "half-faced camp" was a pole
lemorable days. We visited Notre last December. She and Mr. Ryle shed enclosed on all sides but one,
Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, were married in June of 1951. with no floor, door, nor windows.
the Louvre, the Arch of Triumph, Survival through even a southern
managed to pull away from the Indiana winter in such a shelter
•poleon's Tomb, Versailles Pal- other ship and it was apparent would have been an inhuman ex-
ace, and the beautiful Champs that we were going to stay afloat. perience. Yet the story that the
We spent that night at anchor and Lincoln family lived in such a camp
lysees. We especially enioyed the learned the next day that we had for a considerable time has gained
lutdoor cafes and the famous Left rammed a Norwegian whale fact - currency in Lincoln literature,
Bank section, where artists, musi- ory ship. The Anna Salen received based probably upon statements
lians, and poets come to study and two holes in her bow about seven by Dennis Hanks, who often had
lemain to live. feet wide and twenty feet long and his chronology and facts confused.
the bow was rather badly burned.
From Paris we returned to Cop- Dr. Charles H. Coleman, East-
lnhagen to board the Anna Salen We anchored in Scapa Flow for ern's social science department
~gain, passing through Aachen, seven days while undergoing tem- head and a Lincoln authority of in-
lermany. We saw some evidence porary repairs and on August 19 creasing stature, advanced a new
of the last war but Germany gave headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia. hypothesis in an article, "The Half-
me the impression of increased in- From Halifax I took a train to New Faced Camp in Indiana-Fact or
klustrial activity and a general re- York and caught a plane the next Myth?", appearing in the Septem-
lrowth. evening for Chicago, arriving on ber Abraham Lincoln Quarterly.
the 29th, only a week late.
The trip back produced a rather Dr. Coleman thinks that Thomas
thilling thrill. At midnight of Au- Lincoln erected the camp as only
a temporary shelter in November
Est 12 we were traveling in a of 1816 after an exploration trip.
avy fog near the entrance to He returned to Kentucky, brought
ntland Firth, a· narrow strait be- his family to Indiana, and then
tween Scotland and the Orkney erected a full cabin with the help
Islands. Suddenly our ship came to of neighbors.
a crunching halt. I was thrown
from my bunk and when I asked Dr. Coleman, whose researches
one of the fellows what had hap- have put Tom Lincoln in a new and
pened he said he thought we had better light, then concludes that the
hit another ship. I threw my clothes facts are to Thomas Lincoln's credit
rather than otherwise. He made
Lgrabbed my life jacket and provision for his family while his
d up the ladder to the top house was being built, so that they
deck. would not have to crowd in with
some neighbor. The Lincoln fam-
I was greeted by leaping red ily probably lived in the "half-
flames coming from the bow of faced camp" less than a week,
our ship and from the side of the Coleman believes.
ship we had hit. There was some
l>nfusion and hysteria among the •
passengers but the crew did a
good job of handling the emer- President and Mrs. R. G. Buz-
gency. All of the 600 passengers zard are visiting relatives in the
were herded toward the stern and East until Oct. 13.
were told to stand by the life-
boats.

After about forty minutes we

PAGE· ELEVEN

BIG AND LI.TT LE may lie principally in the fifth year
offering and in special non-credil
Campus News Notes consultative programs and assist-
ance for the public schools, workt
ing through the highly professiont
group of administrators being dev·
eloped in the new units.

*
Bill Danley, a senior student

from New Holland, is editor of the

Almost half of the 1150 stu- Eldridge T. McSwain, dean of the Eastern State News for 1952-53,
dents at Eastern are now housed on School of Education, Northwestern
the campus. New Lincoln and University, and Nora Waln, author An honor student, Danley has been
Douglas Halls, opened September and lecturer on Far Eastern affairs,
9, were filled to capacity with 156 are principal speakers. The after- associate editor of the paper and
men and 156 women. A resident non session will consist of section-
counsellor on each floor of each al meetings. is now president of Phi Sigma Ell
hall provides both personal and
vocational guidance. According to * silon. He is a business educati<I
Dr. R. D. Anfinsl:>n, dean of men,
the drop-out rate among freshmen Construction of a 40 by 100 foot major and holds a journalism min1
can be materially lessened. service building for Lincoln Field,
recommended by the Alumni As- or. Danley entered Eastern upo~
* sociation last year, was started in
early August with the contractor's the recommendation of his coac~
Placement reports made by the promise that it would be complet-
Bureau of Teacher Placement for ed in time for the football season. Mac Waldrip, '37. Waldrip is now
the months of June and July of
this year showed an encouraging Built of concrete blocks, it will principal of the New Holland
upward trend in salaries. Accord- house separate dressing rooms and
ing to figures released by Dr. Harry showers for competing football school. ·
L. Metter, director, the average teams, public toilets, a ticket sales
nine months' salary for 73 place- booth, refreshment stand, and Ann Hardin of Robinson and
ments reported during those storage spaces. Dolores Wilson of Neoga are co-
months was $3,455 . The median editors of the Warbler. Both are
classroom teaching salary was * sophomores and members of Sig~
$3,200. Only a few administrative ma Sigma Sigma sorority.
salaries were included and they Alumni teachers of English and
ranged from $3,300 to $6,500. dramatics are being invited to bring Bob Ozier, a junior from Greent
Only two salaries under $3,000 studei:its to see the October 15 up, is advertising manager of the
were reported. Most of the place- performance of The Merchant of News and Rita Burke, Danville jun1
ments were of 1952 graduates Venice, to be staged on campus by ior, was appointed business man·
without experience. the famed Barter Theatre of Vir- ager of the Warbler.
ginia. A special price of 30 cents,
* including tax, has been offered to The Eastern State News won its
high school students. Ticket in-
Kevin Guinagh, head of the quiries should be addressed to the 16th consecutive Medalist ratinf
Eastern foreign languages depart- Office of Public Relations, Eastern. last spring. Medalist is the highe4
ment, has been nominated for the award made by the Columbil
presidency of the Eastern Division * Schola.stic Press Association.
of the Illinois. Education Associa-
tion. Dr. Guinagh was vice-presi- Summer enrollment at Eastern *
dent last year. Dr. William H. Zei- was 594, smallest since the war.
gel of Eastern was treasurer and One hundred of this number were Dr. Byron K. Barton, director of
Gerald Dunn, '30, now superin- working toward the M. S. in Ed. de- the Prairie States Field Studies pro-
tendent of Coles County schools, gree. gram for Eastern, has announcel
was treasurer. Clark Dennis, Moul- history and geography tours for
trie County superintendent, is the Dr. Bryan Heise, director of the the next five summers, as followl
vice-presidential nominee for next summer session, points out that
year. Zeigel and Dunn were re- consolidation and administrative re- 1953-Great Lakes region as far
nominated. organization have progressed more East at the Mohawk Valley and
rapidly in Eastern's area than else- featuring the Minnesota Iron Court
The Eastern Division will meet where in Illinois, with the result try, the North Woods, Southert
at Eastern Illinois State College on that there are now few rural teach- Canada, the Thousand Islands, and
Friday, October 10, this year. Dr. ers needing credit to retain their the Adirondack Mountains.
certificates. Eastern's area of future
service during the summer session 1954-The Provinces of Ontaril
and Quebec in Canada.

1955-The Ohio Valley, Sout'1
eastern U. S. Coast, the Great
Smoky Mountains, Eastern Ter11
nessee, and the Kentucky Blue.
grass Region.

1956-New York State, New
England, and Southern Canada.

1957-Washif!gton, D. C., the
Delmarva Peninsula, the Middl411
Atlantic Coastal Region, and sec·
tions of the Appalachians.

PAGE TWELVE

Keeping •1n touch

High School for the past five years. be known as the Honefenger Out-
She is a former Alumni Association door Advertising Company, with
officer. offices at his farm home at Millers-
ville near Pana. He and Mrs. Hone-
Hal Middlesworth, '31, is author fenger attended an advertising
of an article, "Sportsmanship and conference and school of instruc-
tion at Notre Dame August 18-22.
Our Schools," in the September is·· The Honefenger property includes
64 boards in a three county area,
Elsie Sloan, '24, attended a six sue of the National Parent-Teacher. plus construction and poster tools,
ft..eeks' session at Northwestern He deplores the decline of good mobile and office equipment.
ltiversity this summer. Miss Sloan sportsmanship in school athletics,
ldean of girls at the Edwardsville, quoting nationally known sports- Mac Waldrip, '36, coach at New
Ill., High School. writers on the subject. Middles- Holland, Ill., High School for
worth offers suggestions for im- eleven years, was named principal
of the same school this summer.
John B., son of William H. and provement, among which is the He finished his Master's degree at
the University of Illinois recently.
Fayma Bence Green of Alton, Ill., _ Babe Ruth Program he himself was
William R. Abernathy, '37, is the
•nsferred from George Washing- instrumental in organizing. new superintendent of schools at
Cuba, Ill. He was superintendent
ton U. this fall planning to major in Middlesworth is sports editor of at Stonington for several years.

leology at Eastern. William H. was the Washington, D. C. Times-Her- Sarah Fredenberger, '37, writes ·
that she was a member bf an Illi-
lass of '27 at Eastern. He teaches ald and is a leading writer for na- nois State Club at Peabody College
for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn., this
at a military academy in Alton. tional sports magazines. summer. Several Eastern graduates
were members.
Mrs. Green is president of the J. Harold Diel, '35, is the new
l\adison County Eastern State superintendent of schools at Staun- Alice Reynolds (Mrs. Russel I
Club. ton, Ill., having left a similar posi- Zimmerman), '37, now lives at 523
E. Chestnut, Bloomington, Ill. Her
tion in Jhe Stewardson-Strasburg husband is in the regular Army
and was in Korea most of the past
Wins Ford Fellowship unit. His successor at Stewardson- year, but is now back in the States.
Strasburg is James Harrison, who The Zimmermans have four chil-
dren. Mrs. Zimmerman taught near
attended Eastern in the early Bloomington last year and, accord-
ing to information received by the
l 940's and finished his work at the Alumnus, expected to teach in the
city grade system this year.
University of Illinois. He was form-
erly at Virden. Edward T. Ferguson, '37, is re-
turning to Lawrenceville, Ill., this
William Bails, '35, is spending fall as principal of the Arlington
most of his spare time this year School. He taught in the Lawrence-
working on his new home at 4410 ville junior high before the war.
SW 58th Ave., Miami, Fla. This He has been at Danville for sev-
spring his main project was a eral years. Ferguson holds the
swimming pool which the Bails M. A. from Peabody College and
family is now enjoying immensely. has been doing advanced work at
the University of Illinois during
Mrs. Bails is the former Susie the summer sessions.
Phipps, '34. The children are Mar-
garet Ann, 13; Billy, 12, and Rich- Clarice Cunningham (Mrs. Ernest
ard, 6. Mr. Bails is a senior pilot 0. Lombardi), '38, is teaching kin-
for Pan-American World Airways. dergarten in the Nystrom School,
Richmond, Calif. It is the largest
Mrs. Dorothy Tripp, '29 Cecil Elam, '36, was two weeks elementary school in the U. S. Mrs.
late in reporting to his duties at Lombardi's hobbies are oil paint-
Mrs. Dorothy Benepe Tripp, '29,
was recently granted a Ford Found- Morton High in Cicero as a result
ation fellowship, which she is us- of having broken a bone in his
ing for study at the Chicago Insti- foot. The injury was suffered while
tute of Fine Arts and for travel and Elam was examining the new resi-
further study at the University of dence halls on the Eastern campus
tllinois. She is one of 400 public in August.
school teachers of the U. S. to re-
ceive such a grant. Mildred Davis (Mrs. Ray Hall),
'36, is teaching second grade at
Mrs. Tripp has taught English Windsor, Ill. Mr. Hall, '33, is editor
and art in the Carpinteria, Calif., and publisher of the Windsor
Gazette.

Okey Honefenger, '36, has pur-
chased an advertising business to

PAGE THIRTEEN

ing, ceramics, color photography, moved to Lake View High School September l in St. John's Hospitt

and Girl Scout work. She was par- near Decatur. in Springfield, Ill.

ticularly interested in the last- Grace Thompson (Mrs. Ernest E.

named activity when teaching Bair), '39, is currently teaching in

Killed In Aleutiansadult craft classes in Laupahoehoe, the elementary school of Rantoul,

Hawaii, in 1949-50. She is also Ill. Although she is the mother of

learning Italian as a hobby. Mr. a son, James Ernest, born July 14,

and Mrs. Lombardi took an extend- 1950, Mrs. Bair continues to be

ed trip through New England and very active professionally. She

spent some time in New York City wrote and narrated the script for

this summer. Their address is P. 0. a three hour May festival in which

Box 526, San Francisco, Calif. over 1,000 school children parti-

Clyde W. Mills, '38, superintend- pated this spring. She is now in

ent of schools at Altamont since the process of writing a book of

1946, has guided · a building pro- poetry for handwriting correlation.

gram into the construction stage Forrest Fritz, '40, who coached
during the past few years. Ground and taught industrial arts at Piper
was broken in August for a new City for several years, is !")OW at
high school at the east edge of 815 N. Walnut St., St. Elmo, Ill. '

Altamont. Bob Fick, '40, is the new head of

Captain Joseph C. Snyder, ex- the music department at the junior George (Hank) Seaman, '42
'39 was named a winner of the college in Decatur, Mississippi.

Fifth Army's Soldier Singing con- Fick holds the M. A. in Ed. from Lt. . George Henry (Hank) Sea·

test last summer. He took second Peabody College and did a year man, '42, was killed July 16 in the

place in the classic soloist category of study toward the doctorate after crash of a Navy PBY in the Aleutial
and his entry was submitted to the leaving a position in the Carmi, Islands. Seven others aboard the
Department of the Army for com- Ill., High School. Mrs. Fick is the plane escaped death. It was report
petition in the All-Army contest. former Geraldine Wilcox, '40.
ed that Seaman was returning frorl
The Fifth Army area covers 13 mid- Dorothy McQueen (Mrs. John a "mercy mission" and, in landinl

western states. Schettler), '40, is the mother of a the plane, hit a mound of loose

Captain Snyder entered the baby daughter, Marcia Kathryn, sand, veered off the runway and
·Army in 1941 and fought in born Feb. 18, 1952. Mr. Schettler
Europe during World War 11. He teaches agriculture at Roberts, 111., crashed.
was wounded in one of the closing where Dorothy taught until last Lt. Seaman was in charge of all
actions of the war. He was employ- year.
ed with the Ohio Oil Company be- Naval Air operations at the Ada~
fore being recalled to active duty John Wynn Farrar, '40, is now a Naval Base. He had been stationej
in March, 1951. lieutenant colonel in the Air Force in the Aleutians for a year.
stationed in Anchorage, Alaska.
Carl Shull, '39, is on leave from His address is: Hdqs. AAC-3, APO Mrs. Seaman, the former Betty
the Eastern art faculty to continue 942, c/o Postmaster, Seattle, Wash. Jean Ehrhart, '43, and their two
work toward the doctorate at Ohio children, Gregory H. and Scott Lee,
State University. His address there Raymond Wilson, '40, for five had beer:i in Adak since Novembet
is Apt. 19, 26 E. Second Ave., Co- years principal of the Deland High
School, is the new superintendent Seaman was a Charleston High
lumbus. Shull recently received a of the Arthur Community Unit graduate. Me took his degree at
- third ·award at the Ohio State Fair School District. Eastern in business education and
social science. He was a popull
art exhiblrlon. He also exhibited Dean B. Davis, .'41, is supervisor
at the lllirtois State Fair t_his year. of trade and industrial education member of the Geography 4
in the Charlotte, N. C., schools. He
Gerald Lloyd Kincaid, '39, and was an Alumni Office visitor in Commerce Clubs. He entered mili1
Mrs. Kincaid, the former Margaret July. - tary service shortly after gradu4i1
Bennett, '40, are parents of a third · Charles K. Jenkins, '41, is the tion and for a time was stationed in
son, Don Harold, born Feb. 3, new high school principal at Paris, Texas and Florida. He and Miss
1952. The Kincaids live near Ill. Jenkins has been principal at Ehrhart were married in 1945. Fol-
Okemos, Mich. Gerald is a full Hennepin, 111. lowing World War II, Seamal
time member of the research staff taught at Charleston High befor~
in communications but has been Maurice Taylor, '37, '41, has re- returning to the service. He and his
able to complete a doctoral thesis. turned to Greenup, where he family lived in San Diego and Seat-
He expects to receive the Ed. D. coached before the war, after tle before going to the Aleutians..
degree within a few months. The coaching at Noble High since
Kincaids visited the Eastern cam- 1947. He is the new elementary Harry E. Prather, '42, is the new
superintendent at Greenup. assistant principal of the Ramsej
pus in August. Ill., Community Unit District
Dale (Rabbit) Smith, '39, is School. He took the M. S. degret
in school administration at Southt

coaching this year at the St. Char- Ray Suddarth, '41, and Mrs. Sud- ern Illinois University recently.

les, Ill., High School. He was form- darth, the former Betty Edman, are Edward M. Resch, '42, has re-

erly at Mooseheart, from which he parents of a third daughter, born turned to his home in Casey, Ill.,

PAGE FOURTEEN

lllowing a period of military ser- Grads Win Honors As Salesmen
• at Ft. Myer, Virginia. Resch
is a captain in the reserves. Three Eastern graduates won special honor
from the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Com-
~arguerite little, '43, reported pany in April of 1952.

as eaching at River Falls State Philip G. Baird, 46, was far and away the top

I hers College in the last. Alum- first year salesman for the company, according to

nus, left that position a year ago the June, 195?, issue of The Radiator, a trade
to marry Professor M'ax Dufner. Dr.
l.ifner has been teachi.ng Ger- journal. Phil left his position as teacher of build-
man at the University of Illinois.
lhis fall he went to the University ing trades at Olney High School last year and be-
of fAichigan as a member of the
gan selling insurance in Olney under the super-
lrfign languages staff.
vision of Nolan Sims, '30, a general agent for
Bill Couch, '43, (Bill Phipps) is
a inovie actor in Hollywood, Calif. Massachusetts Mutual with offices in Mattoon from
His address is 7209 Hillside Ave.,
l!lywood 46. Phil Baird, '46 which he supervises six full time representatives.
Baird sold $307,000 worth of insurance in
The Alumnus apologizes to lee
hdesta (Mrs. Franklin J. Hickman), April, nearly four times as much as the next highest company first or
143, whose married name was
second year salesman. Says The Radiator, "In ten months under contr~ct,
lven as Mrs. Richard Meyer in the
gh honors feature appearing in Baird has produced $539,825, has been a member of the Consecutive
the Summer issue. Mrs. Meyer is
Spotlight ten times, and ranks 21st and 14th in the l 00 Top Producers in
lee's sister, Violet, Class of 1939.
volume and commissions, respectively . . . "
The Podesta sisters have not traded
Another Eastern grad who helped the Sims agency to rank 12th
•sbands!
Mr. Hickman is a major in the among the company's 87 agencies for the month of April is Thomas 0 .

Air Force. The Hickmans live at Petty, '37, of Hindsboro. The Mattoon agency has the unusual distinc-
321 Gen. Ramey Dr., Ft. Worth 14,
tion of qualifying each of its full time representatives for the Massachu-
lexas.
setts Mutual "Leaders Club." Mattoon is one of the smallest cities in which
Lee sends the Alumnus a clip-
Jing describing "Operation Fairy- the company maintains a general agency.
•nd," a project she has sponsored
lrough the Officers' Wives' Club Baird, Petty, Sims, and their wives attended the 1952 Leader's Club
of Carswell AFB. As club nursery
liiirman, Lee has been in charge conference at Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada, on May 26, 27, and 28.
of the nursery building enrolling
180 children. About 700 addition- they purchased a few years ago, of the 1951-52 session. D. E. Park-
al fledglings use the nursery baby into one of the larger and livlier er, principal for many years, ·re-
lit~ facilities. weeklies of down-state Illinois. signed because of ill health.
The paper sometimes runs to 16
looperating with the art direct- pages. Dick Hutton, '46, took the Mas-
or for the Ft. Worth Children's ter of Science in health and physi-
luseum, the nursery board and Andy Sullivan, '46, was made cal education at Washington Uni-
staff have turned a drab building director of athletics for the Mat- versity last spring. Hutton teaches
into an elaborate fairyland, decor• toon, Ill., High School this summer in Edwardsville, Ill.
ated in colorful celotex figures. and will serve as head football
lr\urals and panels depict favorite and basketball coach. Sullivan was Clarence Coleman, '35, '46, has
l\other Goose and other childhood an assistant in Eastern's athletic de- returned from Australia, where he
a,aracters throughout the different partment following his graduation. went last spring planning to make
rooms and halls. He then went to Arcola High his home. He is teaching this fall
School, where he coached teams at Indianola, Ill. Coleman married
Mrs. Hickman is the newly elect- to the best football and basketball an Australian girl after the war.
record in the history of the school.
l vice president in charge of ad· Mattoon teams faced a tough Leland Watson, ex-'46, received
istration f o r the Officers' schedule lhis fall, including Elk- the Master of Fine Arts degree
tlives' Club. Among her many hart, Ind., Moline, Peoria, Decatur, from Yale University last year and
1:>ther interests has been "helping etc. is now employed as a lighting de-
with the tiny tots' dramatic .efforts signer by the Columbia Broadcast-
at the St. Alice School in Ft. Worth." Lee Horsley Taylor, '46, is prin- ing System, with main offices in
She has two children of her own, cipal of the Donovan Community Grand Central Station, N. Y. W.at-
lirginia Ann, 7%, and Franklin, Jr., High School, Donovan, Ill. son has also been a member of the
6. staff of Brooklyn College since last
Harold Cecil Werner, '46, is em- fall. He expects to leave CBS on
Jennie Goldsmith (Mrs. Charles ployed as an electronic engineer October 1 to devote full time to
H. Cox), '44, and her husband have at San Diego, Calif. His address is Broadway productions and his
built the Altamont News, which 2668 Grandview St. teaching. He will visit friends in
Charleston on October 6 and 7.
Herbert Clawson, '38, '46, be-
came principal of the Mattoon John lewis, '47, substitute in-
High School, where he was teach- structor and coach at Eastern the
ing science and math, in mid-year past year, has accepted a position
as football, basketball, and track

1·

PAGE FIFTEEN

coach in one of the Oaklawn, Ill., Tony (Homecoming) Pastor ployed as a sales representat~
schools. for Westinghouse Electric Supp
Plays concert and dance Oct. 25
Harold (Sam) Taylor, ex-'38, '47, at Dayton, 0. His address is 31
has been installed as president of Lyle Knott, '47, took a position Camp St., Piqua, 0.
the Long Beach Food Sales Asso- as principal of the Brownstown,
ciation in California, according to 111., High School this year. He has Lt. Harold Catey, '48, a transpct
a picture and story in the Long been teaching in Missouri. Harold pilot in the Marine Corps, has the
Beach Press-Telegram early this Hall, '42, is superintendent of the following address: VMR-153, ·Mar-
year. Brownstown schools.
ine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point
Betty Heise Reat (Mrs. William), Don Tingley, '47, expects to re-
'47, is the mother of Mary Eliza- ceive the Ph. D. in history at the N. C.
beth, born Sept. 11. Mrs. Reat is University of Illinois in October.
living with her parents, Dr. and His thesis, "The Rise of Racialistic Jean Elizabeth Dallas, (Mr~
Mrs. Bryan Heise, until a new Thinking in the United States in the Shull), '48, is a housewife living at
home is completed at the corner Nineteenth Century," was accept-
of Division and Grant in Charles- ed this summer. Tingley is now 209 South Broadway, Shelbyvi!I
ton. Mr. Reat is a captain in the Air employed with the State Historical 111.
Force Reserve and is anticipating Library. He held a teaching assist-
Korean duty soon. The Reats have antship at the University while Emery Vance Gifford, '48, is
a son, John, age 3. completing requirements for the living at 309 South Lafayette, Newt
doctorate. ton, 111.
Doris Cihak (Mrs. Paul Sphar),
'47, writes, " 'Home away from Wilma Schahrer, '47, received Maurice Emmett O'Donnell, '48,
home,' that's what is seemed to be. the M. A. in fine arts at Columbia is working toward the Master's de·
We stopped at the Arrowhead University in August of this year. gree at the University of Wisconsi~
Lodge Motel in Gallup, N. M. It She has been employed in the Ol-
was managed by two former East- ney, Ill., schools. William J. Block, '48, is teachiil
ernites, Herbert Walsh, '47, and social science at The Citadel (Th4
his wife, the former Ann Thomann, E. Charles Sullivan, '47, and Military College of South Carolina~
'45. Mrs. Sullivan are the parents of a
daughter, Connie Jean, born Au- and has been doing advancflll
"Just a week before, Tom Greg- gust 4. Sullivan is athletic director work at the University of lllinoil
ory, '47, also from Cowden (my at the Havana, Ill., High School. the past summer. His addreS£ is 5
home town), had spent the night The Sullivans live at 303 S. Prom- Joyce Ave., Mt. Pleasant, S. C.
at their motel. Herb is teaching in enade, Havana.
the high school at Gallup." June Bubeck (Mrs. James Gif1
Earl William Jones, '48, is em- fin), ' 48, is teaching in the Wil1
Mr. and Mrs. Sphar are living at mette, Ill., elementary school
1467 East Hickory, Decatur, Ill. while Mr. Giffin, '46, works to.
ward the doctorate in busin~
George Clementson, '47, has ac- education at Northwestern. Jim is
cepted an associate pastorship of on leave from the Eastern busi ne9
Forest Avenue Presbyterian Church education department.
in Dayton, 0. He received his
Bachelor of Divinity degree from Leon Elliott, '48, is teaching in
Louisville, Ky., Presbyterian Semin-
ary last May 29. the Mattoon Public School systel
and has his home at 1613 Shelb
Gene Price, '47, expects to re-
turn to the U. S. in October after a in Mattoon. He is completing wo
period in Arabia, where he has
been secretary to an oil company for the M. A. at the ·Uriiversity of
executive. Price is author of an- Illinois.
.other story to appear soon in a
national magazine. George Giffin, ex-'48, has re-

Miles Culver, '47, has been ceived the B. S. in Medicine fron1
made band director at Mattoon
High School. Culver has been very the University of Illinois College of
successful in securing participation Medicine in Chicago, having com,
at St. Elmo High School since 1947,
when he became band director pleted three years of pre-medi411
there, and has placed several study and two years of medicl
musicians and groups in the first study. He will now enter a two
division of Illinois High School As- year phase of clinical study, wher•
sociation contests. Mrs. Culver, the upon he will be qualified to re-
former Mildred Olmstead, '47,
will also teach music in the Mat- ceive the M. D. degree.
toon system.
Miriam Joan Bland, (Mrs. Miltoll
McMahan), '48, and her husbanl
have opened a shoe store in Greer1
ville, S. C., specializing in Corret
tive shoes. The address is 18 W.
McBee Ave., Greenville.

Joe Coleman, '48, was a cam-
pus visitor in September. He was

married last year in Casper, Wyi
·..,g . where he was employed

two years in a large music sto

He has now moved to Gulfpoil
Mitsissippi, where he operates his
l)W.1 music store. He specializes in

PAGE SIXTEEN
)f3- · :F\ ·\'l

cianc tuning and repair. Mr. Cole- John Barrett, '49, formerly a Her new address is 91 l West Hill,
man was called to his former home commerce instructor in the Van- Champaign, Ill.
in Willow Hil I this fall by the death dalia, Ill., High School, has estab-
of his father. lished an accounting firm in part- Peggy Fellis (Mrs. Date Wingler),
nership with a Vandalia account- '52, is teaching in the Muskegon,
William Carter, '48, left his posi- ant. Mich., schools. Her address is 1760
tion as a supervisory teacher of Fifth, Muskegon.
~ath in the laboratory school at Robert Wrenn, '49, is now teach-
lestern Illinois State College, Ma- ing commercial subjects at Char- Dolly Wiseman, '49, is now the
oornb, to take a teaching position leston Higli School after teaching wife of Max Jewell, principal of
in Guam this fall. Carter received at Ohio, Ill., the past two years. the Brocton Grade School, where
the doctor of Philosophy degree Miss Wiseman continues to teach.
lrom Ohio State University this Au- Hal Hubbard, '49, is now sales
~ust 29. manager for National Sales Promo- Betty Kirkham (Mrs. Harry Bow-
tions with main offices in Charles- lan), '50, will teach in Inglewood,
Dick Lehr, '48, basketball coach ton. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard (the Colo., a suburb of Denver, next
at Carrier Mills for several years, former Violet Luallen) live at 127 year. She and Mr. Bowland live at
is tssisting Russell Ghere, '50, at W. Jackson. Apt. A-7, 1554 Logan, Denver 3,
Coto. The Bowlands were Illinois
r.geport High in football this Bob Sink, '49, has been engaged visitors in July.
as assistant to Coach Louid Baker
Wilma Guthrie (Mrs. Jack Evey), on the Arcola, Ill., High School Denver J. Leturno, '50, and Mrs.
148, is the mother of Roger Alan, coaching staff. Sink has been em- Leturno, the former Norma Lath-
11ow almost one year old, and John ployed in commercial refrigeration rop, '48, are parents of a ·son born
lchael, nearly three. Wilma, a sales and service, working for G. this summer. Leturno teaches in
lome ec major, writes that she has E. Coleman of Mattoon. He will Taylorville. The Leturno address is
~me now for only one hobby, tex- help at Arcola until ~nether coach R. R. 3, Taylorville.
tile painting. Jack is assistant coun- can be obtained. Bob Brehm, '48,
is grade school coach at Arcola. Joan Levitt, '50, became Mrs.
ltYrent of Polk County, Oregon. Richard A. Bokenkamp on June 22
Ruth St. John (Mrs. Dick Thomas), of this year. She will continue to
Th Eveys' address is Rt. l, Box '49, is teaching English in the Shel- teach home economics in Clay City
byville, Ill., High School. Mr. High. Mr. Bokenkamp operates a
44 Dallas, Ore. Thomas, a former student, is a re- Marathon service station in Clay
Dick Handwerk, '48, is employ- porter for the Mattoon Journal- City.
Gazette.
ed with an accounting firm at Or- James Rominger, '50, was mar-
inda, fla., where his summer ad- Charleen Rosebraugh, '49, mar- ried this August at Albuquerque,
lress was l 900V2 E. Marks. He ried James J. Dickey last June 14. N. M., where he has been a grad-
has been taking extension courses
t·:im the University of Florida. The 1952 Frosh Crop

Jack and Arlene (Swearingen)
lithersbough, r48, are parents of
a son born last July at Amarillo,
lxas, where the Muthersboughs
~ave an apartment at 920 Bryan
St. The newcomer's name is Kevin
J.IKim) .

Shirley Thornton (Mrs. H. J. The Old Aud bulged at the seams as nearly 500 freshmen and new
9'ebaugh), '49, and her husband students crowded in on Sept. 9 at the beginning of a three-day orientation
are planning their vacation so that period. It was the largest freshman class since 1946, when W. W. II vet-
lhey can attend Homecoming at erans boosted the total to 732.
istern. The Stinebaughs live at
3218 Community, Dallas, Texas.

Albert Gregor, '49, took the
Master of Science in education at
llshington University last spring.
lregor teaches in Edwardsville, Ill.

Bill Monier, '49, is now at 2105
New St., Bellingham, Wash.

George Fogelman, '49, who re-
leived his Master's degree at the
•iversity of Illinois recently, is
laching in the Charleston High
achool this year.

John W. McNutt, '49, received
his M. A. in fine arts at Columbia
•iversity in August of this year.
His temporary address is Charles-
ton, Ill.

PAGE SEVENTEEN

uate assistant at the University of Warren Audrey Dunn, '50, is a Marries Bob Stabler
New Mexico. teacher at Dieterich, Ill.
Alice Hanks, '51
William Odes Wilcoxen, '50, is James Alba Curlin, '50, is now Robert (Jug) Stabler and Alice
an instructor at Chanute Field in living at 341 Burtschi St., Decatur Hanks, '51, were married Aogu4
.111. 9 in Crossville, Ill. They flew to
Rantoul, Ill. New York, where he is employel
Norman Railsback, '50, is a Marion Frieda Michael (Mrs. An- with the New York Life lnsuranc~
thony Rinderer), '50, is a house- Company. The Stablers may be ad-
chemist at American Aluminate Co. wife at 912 Thirteenth St., High- dressed at 611 111 th Street, New
at Clarendon Hills, Ill. land, Ill. York 25, N. Y. Mr. Stabler, a math~
matics graduate of the Universifl
Lloyd Hughes Loftin, '50, who is Steve Morgan, '50, and Mrs.
in the Air Force, has the following Morgan, the former Deva Kibler, of Illinois, is embarked upon I
'50, are back in Effingham again
address: 309-C East Aeronca Drive, this year, where Steve is teaching special training program to becoml
in the commerce department of an insurance actuary with New
Midwest Ctiy, Okla. . Effingham High School. The Mor- York Life. Alice is teaching in the
gans have been in California, New Rochelle, N. Y., High School,
Kathleen Nelson, '50, became where Steve was a yeoman in the
USNR. The Morgans' daughter, Shirley Fisher, '51, who taugf\I
Mrs. Harold Sprehe on June 8 of Gina Ann, will be one year old in at Potomac last year, joined thl
September. W. A. F. this August.
this year. Mr. Sprehe was in Naval
James T. Perryman, '50, was Bethel LaVerle Hill, '51, is a
service last summer, stationed at commissioned a second lieutenant cartographic aid with the U. S.
in the Army Medical Service Corps Army Engineer Corps. His current
Charleston, S. C. and Mrs. ·Sprehe in August. He then left the Medical address is 1112 Hilliard Ave., Apt1
Field Service School at Fort Sam 2, Louisville, Ky.
was teaching swimming with the Houston, Texas, for duty at Camp
Pickett, Virginia. Barbara Ann Honnold, '51, has
Charleston Recreation Department. been teaching home economics at
James Rue, '50, left Cerro Gordo Melvin, Ill.
Their address was 2023 Clements to take a position as principal of
Ave., Apt. 4, Naval Base, Charles- the Greenup Elementary School Alan Lee Johnson, '51, is teacht
th is fall. ing science at the Tower Hill, 111.1
ton, S. C. High School.
Paul V. Haase, Jr., '50, is a clerk Dennis D. Van Blaricum, '50,
plans to return for Homecoming. Merton Johnson, '51, is band di·
in the accounting department of He is an accountant in Dallas, Tex., rector at the Arcola, Ill., Hig~
the E. I. DuPont DeNemours Com- living at 4224 Prescott, Apt. 3. School this year.
pany at Dana, Ind. His address is
R. R. 3, Paris, Ill. Fred Wilson, '50, resigned as Don Luallen, '51, who receiv~
coach at Arthur High School this the M. S. in Ed. at Eastern this sum·
Albert Fullerton, '50, has been a summer to accept a teaching posi- mer, is teaching business eductt
business education teacher and tion at Morton High of Cicero. tion in the Roanoke, Ill., Higl1
guidance counsellor in the Melvin, School.
Ill., High School for the past year. James Joseph Bloomfield, '51,
is a chemist with the Rexall Drug Delores Seaman (Mrs. Johr1
Marshall Leon Reid, '50, is em- Company in St. Louis. His address Morris), '51, taught home econo1111
is 5700 Stratford, St-. Louis 20, Mo. ics at New London, Conn., last
ployed as office manager, at the
Brown Shoe Co. in Mattoon. His Earl Richard Chism, '51, is assist-
address is 802 Eleventh St., Char- ant coach and teacher of English at
leston. the Mt. Olive, Ill., High School.

Lavern Raymond Grandidier, '50, Adrian W. Ernst, '51, is teaching
is doing research in St. Louis, Mo. at Assumption, Ill.

Ernest Lloyd Copp, '50, is em- Dorothy Smith Ernst (Mrs. Adrian
ployed as a machinist in Youngs- Ernst), '51, has been teaching in
town 9, Ohio, and lives at 2706 the elementary school at Assump-
tion.
Oakwood Ave.
Morris Leroy Brehmer, '50, is the Don Glover, '51, may be reach-
ed at the following address: A/B
fisheries biologist in the Illinois Don R. Glover, AF 17360971,
Department of Conservation. Flight 979, 3727th B. M. T. S.,
Lackland A. F. B., San Antonio,
Charles Lynn Arnold, '50, is a Texas.
chaplain at the Parris Island Marine
Base in South Carolina. Mail will William C. Hammond, '51, is a
reach him at 1860 Pigeon Point first lieutenant in the U. S. Marines.
He may be reached in care of his
Road, Beaufort, S. C. wife at l 0 l E. Johnson St., West
James Daniel Boone, '50, is bas- Terre Haute, Ind.

ketball and baseball coach and
teacher of U. S. history at Bismarck,

111.
Floyd Allen Landsaw, '50, is a

staff sergeant in the Air Force. His
address is 516 N. Penfield, Apt.

B., Rantoul, Ill.

Patricia Ann Haycraft, '50, is a
vocal instructor at Carlinville, Ill.

Betty Alice Lilly, '50, is a regis-
tered medical technician at Deca-
tur, Ill., and lives at 325 · West

North St.

PAGE EIGHTEEN

year. Her husband is a petty offi- Coach At Ridgefarm Deleware Parkway, Munster.
cer in the Coast Guard and is sta- Kenneth Dean Sedgwick, '51, is
~oned at New London. The Mor-
ls~s were visitors at the Alumni in the Air Force. His address is:
tffice in July. Mrs. Morris plans
1o be a housewife and mother next A/2c Kenneth D. Sedgwick, A.F.
year.
16360691, 1503 Maintainance
Robert Sterling, '5l, left Char-
l!ston High School this year to Squadron, A.P.O. 226, clo Post-
teach journal ism and social science
in the Kankakee, Ill., Schools. master, San Francisco, Calif.

Robert Ernest Stuckey, '5 l, is James Clifford Sullivan, '51, is
llaching English at the Newton,
with the National Guard in Cali-
f., High School. His address is N.
fornia. His address is: CO. E., l 30th
Van Buren, Newton.
Inf., 44th Division, Camp Cooke,
James M. Taylor, '51, is teaching
ldustrial arts and mathematics at California.
~forth Manchester, Ind. His address
is 211 Mill St. Max L. Sweet, '51, is a chemical

Jim Welker, '5 l, was a platoon tester at Martinsville, Ill.
ammander in the Second Batt&l-
lon, Sixth Marines, at Camp Le- James E. Sexson, '50, is now at
leune, N. C., when he wrote The
Alumnus in August. He_ holds a 1464 Oriole Pl., Brentwood 17,
llmmission as second lieutenant.
Mo.
Lowell E. Anderson, '51 , of
loyal, Ill., is principal and coach Glen Shauberger, '51, on Sep-
of the Royal Community Consoli-
dater Elementary School of Cham- tember 13 married Carolyn Ann
l>aign County. He is married and
~as three children, Gary, 4; Mark, Widdershiem, a sophomore at East-
2; and Marsha, 2.
Pearle Parke, '51 ern this year. Their address is 1609
Joanne Waddell, '5 l, gives her Ninth St., Charleston. Glen is teach-
new address as 1501 Edgar Ave., Pearle Parke, Jr., '51, is the new ing music at Kansas, Ill.
football coach at Ridgefarm this
11\attoon, 111. year. He spent last summer work- Max Monroe Syfert, '51, who is
ing toward the M. A. at the Uni- in the Army, has the following ad-
Robert Owen Rehbein, '51, is a versity of Illinois. He taught last dress: Pvt. Max M. Syfert, US
radar mechanic in the Air Force. year in the Indianola, Ill., grades. 55159763, 86th Regiment, 10th
He was a July visitor at the Alumni Inf. Div., Fort Riley, Kansas.
Office. His permanent address is
935 W. Church, Mascoutah, 111. Charles Richard Thomas, '51, is

Paul Burrus, '51, a second lieut- Michlig operates the Buda Locker employed as a copywriter for Ben-
enant in the Marine Corps, expect- Plant. jamin Electric Co. and Benjamin
ed to receive a Korean assignment Research Laboratory at Des Plaines,
this fall after a brief period at Chester (Bud) Adams, ex-'51, Ill. He lives at 932 Lee Street.
tamp Pendleton, Calif., in July and has accepted a position as an ac- . Paul E. Green, '5 l, is a civilian
l'ugust. While a visitor at the count executive with the Hahn- instructor at Scott Field in Belle-
;.1umni Office, Burrus reported Rodenburg Advertising Company ville, Ill. His address is 212 S.
that Dave Smith, '5 l, former ath- of Springfield, Ill. Adams was Charles St., Belleville.
letic trainer for Panther teams, and graduated from the University of Mary Alice Thompson, '51, is
Bill Sargent, '51, grid quarterback, Miami, Fla., in 1951 and has taught now living at Lerna, Ill.
were both stationed at Camp Pen- speech and served as a radio sta- Elmer David Dalton, '5 l, is sup-
~leton. Smith was connected with tion announcer since.
the physical fitness program and intendent of the Newton Consoli-
Bill was playing in the Third Mar-
ine Division Band. John Wilson, '51, lists the fol- dated Grade School.
lowing address: A/B John E. Wil- Carl Morris Collins, '51, is an in-
Lewis Cox, '51, resigned a teach- son, AF 17360970, Flight 979,
ing position near Danville to con- 3727th Basic M. T. S., Lackland A. dustrial arts instructor and assist-
tinue working for the Huckaba F. B., San Antonio, Texas. ant coach at Newman High School.
Construction Company this fall. He did paint and repair work on

Doris Jean Snyder (Mrs. Dale Nancy Baird, '52, is teaching the school buildings the past sum·
~ichlig), '51, is teaching at Buda,
Ill., in the elementary school. Mr. second grade in Bellwood, Ill. mer.

Jack D. Winkleblack, '51, was Wallace Jean Beadles, '51, is

commissioned a second lieutenant now living at 5157 Washington

in the Army last August, following Avenue, St. Louis 8, Mo.
graduation from the Engineer Of- Bob Alter, '51, after a year of

ficers Candidate School, Fort Bel- teaching in Newton, has taken a

voir, Va. position as a junior executive in

Dolores Walker (Mrs. Harold the blueprint department of the

Schmalhausen), '51, has a new ad- Kaiser-Frazer Corporation of De-

dress, 1245 South Fourth St., Apt. troit. He and Mrs. Alter, the form-

33, Louisville, Ky. er Shirley Benscoter, live at 840

Richard G. Riggins, '51, is an Continental, Detroit. The Alters

evangelist at Marshall, Mo. have a baby daughter born Febru-

Harold James Hankins, '51, is ary 29 of this year (leap year).

employed in the operative depart- Marjorie Jean Wilson, '51, is

ment of the Sinclair Refining Co. at again teaching in the high school

Munster, Ind. He lives at 2149 N. at Forrest, Ill.

PAGE NINETEEN

Catherine Jeanne Barth, '51, is School and Junior College, Belle- tary service.

teaching vocal music from the fifth ville, Ill. His address is R. R. 1, William Garrett, '52, is teachi'1
through the twelfth grades at Sul- Millstadt, Ill.
English in the Sheldon, 111., Higl
livan, Ill.
Arthur Carlton, '52, is teaching School.

Norman Zale Bone, '51, is a stu- in the elementary schools of Ash- Josiephiene Greiwe, '52, is a

dent at the University of Illinois. kum, Ill. primary teacher in the Pana Cortro

His address is 1620 Alabama Donna L. Horton, '52, is teach- munity Unit and lives on R. R. 4,

Drive, A-2, Urbana. ing at Crete-Monee Community Pana, 111.

Rev. Andrew J. Cain, '52, is an Unit District in Crete, Ill. Loren V. Grissom, '52, is teach~
Evangelical United Brethren minis- Marjorie Ann Herman, '52, is a ing at Albion High School. His ad·
ter at Sheldon,111. dress is 403 E. Elm St., Albion, Ill.
commerce teacher in the Mt. Car-
Neva Buckley, '52, is a music mel, Ill., High School. John E. Hunt, '52, is head of the
teacher at Palestine High School. industrial arts department at the
Nancy J. Sharpe, '52, is employ- Ortonville, Michigan, High School,
Jacqueline Cravener, '52, is ed as speech correctionist by the
teaching the fifth grade at Grant Sullivan Unit District, Sullivan, Ill. Jean Farris Ikemire, '52, is a
Park, Ill. grade principal in the Findlay Co1T11
Margaret Ann Tate, '52, is teach- munity Unit School District.
Marry L. Carlson, '52, is a sci- ing English and Spanish in the
ence teacher at Woodrow Wilson Palestine, Ill., High School. James Johnson, '52, has enrollt
Jr. High School at Decatur, Ill. ed at Teachers College, Columbl
Mrs. Gerald B. Coleman, '52, is University, where he hopes to com-
Iris Johnson Gillis, '52, is teach- teaching in the junior high school plete the Master's degree. Johnsol
ing art and social studies in the at Villa Grove, Ill. Her address is took fifth year courses this summeq
upper grades at Danville, Ill. 805 S. Spruce St., Villa Grove. at Eastern.

Almeta Greathouse Garner, '52 Bobby Keith Cox, '52, has en- Tom Katsimpalis, '52, is basl<el
is employed as a teacher of home tered military service. He may be ball coach at Altamont High Schoo
economics and physical education reached by addressing him in care where Clyde Mills, '38, is super1'
at Laingsburg High School in E. of R. R. 2, St. Elmo, Ill. intendent. Katsimpalis worked this
Lansing, Mich. summer for the State Conservafatl
Mrs. Hazel H. Dunivan, '52, is Department.
Donald Charles Duensing, '52, is teaching grade six in the Lincoln
now working as a securities sales- School, Decatur. Her address is
man in Algonquin, Ill. l 035 N. Warren St., Decatur.

Richard E. Myers, '52, is employ- Frank A. Fraembs, '52, was Howard Stanley Kinkade, '52,
ed by the Ohio Oil Company in working in August as a house is working at West Salem, Ill.
painter for the Bear Brand Hosiery
Robinson, Ill. Dorothy Ann LaMaster, '52, is
Justin lsert, '52, is a graduate Company in Henderson, Ky. His now Mrs. John E. GreathouSll
student at the Ohio State Univer- address is 26 Pope St., Henderson. Dot is teaching girls' P.E. and bio-

sity in Columbus, 0. Paul Gilpin, '52, replaced Phil logy at Oakland Community Unit

Dwighi T. Baptist, '52, first per- Durland as assistant coach at Tus- High School. John, a 1951 gr•

son to receive the M. S. in Ed. de- cola High School this fall. His ad- uate, has finished work toward tll

gree at Eastern, has taken a posi- dress is 807 E. Daggy St. Durland Master's degree in accounting at

• tion as instructor in business edu- replaced Bill Crum, '51, at Villa the University of Illinois. Mr. and
cation at Belleville Township High Grove, when Crum entered mili- Mrs. Greathouse may be address4

They Took A Ride

This doughty group made a 7000 mile jaunt into the U. S. northwest last August and came back rea•
for more. Dr. Byron K. Barton, director of Eastern's Prairie State Field Studies program, has been encouragtl
by the success of recent trips to plan five years ahead. See details on page 12 of this issue.

PAGE TWENTY

in care of l 002 College Court, Apt. The Twin With Tony visor at the Western Reserve Uni-
704, Illini Village, Urbana, Ill. versity Hospitals, Cleveland, 0.
~ She and Mr. Leeds live at 1853
Charles Gale McCoy, '52, is ldlewood, East Cleveland 12, 0.
lorking as a junior engineering .f Mr. Leeds is employed as a chem-
laftsman in the electrical engi- ical engineer.
leering research laboratory at the Dolores Martel, one of two VQ-
•iversity of Illinois. calists with Tony Pastor's orchestra, Dennis Cougill, '52, is teaching
which will play the Homecoming business education at Colfax, 111.,
Norma Louise Metter, '52, is a concert and dance at Eastern Octo- High School.
laduate student at the University ber 25.
of Illinois, living at 510 E. Daniel, / Florence Meyer (Mrs. Bert Her-
9'impaign. man, Jr.), '52, is an elementary
Helen Josephine O'Day, '52, is
Velma Rentfrow Montonye, '52, teaching second and third grades teacher in the Mattoon Public
is lnployed at Sullivan, Ill., where at Hindsboro and lives at 1018 Schools. Her address is .R. R. 3,
she lives at 208 W. Strain St. Fourth in Charleston. Mattoon.

Howard Nelms, '52, is teaching Ray Snyder, '52, submitted to Doris Schmittler, '52, is teaching
ldustrial arts in the Arcola High a hernia operation in August and commerce in the Villa Grove, Ill.,
lchool and upper grades. He also is still resting at his home in Flora. High School. Her address is l 0 l
landles physical education classes. He expects to start work in Octo- S. Pine, Villa Grove.
ber for the Firestone Tire and Rub-
Marilyn Newlin, '52, is teaching ber Company's district office in Libby Cochran, '52, is a feature
Peoria, where he may be reached editor for the Cereal Institute of
I nd grade in the Wilson School, at 212 S. State, Peoria 2, Ill . Chicago, Ill. She is living at the
wood, Ill. Her address is l 03 McCormick YWCA, 1001 N. Dear-
S. Third Ave., Maywood. Jack Payan, '52, and Ann David- born, Chicago.
son, a sophomore at Eastern, were
Sue Niemeyer, '52, is studying married last June 14. Payan ex- Ed Soergel, '52, is playing de-
for the M. A. degree at the Univer- pects to be inducted into military fensive safety for the Argonaut
sity of Illinois. Her Champaign ad- service in the near future. Football Club of Toronto, Canada,
klress is 301 E. Daniel. this fall. As of September 9 he had
Patricia Shay, '52, is teaching at played in two games and inter-
Margery Potter (Mrs. John Wil- Humboldt, Ill. Her address is R. R. cepted four passes. He reports that
~n), '52, is teaching Spanish and 1, Arthur. Fran Cahill, stellar end for the llAC
English at Lostant, Ill., High School, title-winning Northern Huskies last
near Streator. Her sister, Jean Harriet Carriker, '52, is teaching year, is playing for Toronto's rival,
Marie (Mrs. ,Don Glover), '49, left at Argenta. Hamilton. Cahill was cut from the
het position as speech correctionist New York Giants and Soergel was
in ihe Robinson schools to take a Rex F. Hunter, '52, is art super- cut from the Cleveland Browns.
limilar job in Streator. Margery visor at Princeton, Ill., and lives at
and Jean are living together at 115 236 Randolph Street. Ed expects to be drafted in Jan-
S. tloomington in Streator. uary, 1953; hence he has turned
Melba Yuvonne Baker, '52, is down several coaching opportuni-
Joe Patridge, '52, has accepted teaching homemaking a t th e ties.
the assistant coaching position at Kenny, Ill., High School.
Paris High School for which John The Toronto club has been
Wilson, '51, was under contract be- Norma Lee Schmalhausen (Mrs. Dominion champion eight times,
fore joining the Air Force. Wilson David B. Leeds), '52, has taken a including the 1945, '46 and '47
koached at Westfield last year. part-time position as dietary super- seasons.

Robert l. Weppler, '52, is teach- Harry Otto Miller, Jr., '52, is en-
ing industrial arts in the Martins- gaged in scouting for the Carter
~ille, Ill., High School. Oil Company and lives at 1527
Division St., Charleston.
Robert H. Scherer, '52, has an
•stantship in the botany depart- Harold Ralph McCoy, '52, now
. t at Florida State University, teaches the 3rd and 4th grades at
•t1ahassee. His address is P. 0. Joslin, in addition to being a pas-
Box 1731, East Campus. tor for two Evangelical United
Brethren churches. His wife is the
Betty Worland, '52, was working former Linda Levitt, '51. Their ad-
this summer in a hospital in San dress is R. R. l, Hillsdale, Ill.
Diego, California, but at last re-
port was seeking a teaching posi- Robert Dean Climer, Gail Menk
tion. - and Herbert Wills, all class of '52,
are doing graduate work at East-
Melba Ann Strange, '52, is teach- ern this year.
ing at the Pleasant Hill School in
lfingfield, Ill. Nettie Maud Bunham Bingham,

Rebecca Eilene Harmon (Mrs. '52, is teaching the first grade at
Glenn Wright), '52, is a second Vandalia.
grade teacher at the Coburn School
in Battle Creek, Mich. Olen Eugene Brown, '52, is
teaching grades five to eight at

Isabel.

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Irma Lou Conrad, '52, is teaching

Pemites To Honor Gertrude Phippsphysical education in the Olney
High School.
Earlena May Davies, '52, is a

On Her Twenty-Fifth Year At Hall;speech correctionist at Morris, Ill.

James George Kehias, '52, is

Solicit Contributions For Giftstudying law at the University of
Illinois. ·

Jack Dwain Frost, '52, is teach- Pemberton Hall residents have

Younger Sons Ofing history and coaching at Long- asked the Alumnus to assist in cir-

Pres. Buzzard GetWilliam Marvin Isom, '52, is an ites to contribute to a purse beingview.
culating an appeal to former Pem-

New Addressesindustrial arts teacher at Humboldt. raised for Mrs. Gertrude Phipps,
Richard Clarence Lading, '52, is who is this fall completing 25

at Robinson working for the Ohio years of loyal service _as house- The three younger sons of Presl
Oil Company.
keeper. The money will be pre- dent R. G. Buzzard have recen
Nancy Ann Inyart (Mrs. Kenneth sented at a tea to be given in Mrs. acquired new addresses. Hen
Hesler), '52, is teaching home eco- Phipps' honor at the Hall Saturday '45, left a position as a cartog
nomics at Metcalf. Mr. Hesler is afternoon of Homecoming, Octo- pher in St. Louis to accept an
now assisting Stanley Elam, '38, ber 25.
sistant librarianship at Gallau
in Eastern's Office of Public Rela- It has been estimated that some College in Washington D. C. Hi
tions and Alumni Services. 1500 Pemites have come and gone address there is Gallaudet Colle

Anthony Mazzara, '52, is teach- since that November day in 1927 Kendall Green, NE, Washingto1
ing elementary music at Charles- when Gertrude started her long
ton. career at Pem Hall. Miss Carol Gallaudet is the only federally 4u
Besteland was the director then
July inductions by Coles County and during Gertrude's period of ported college for the deaf ln th
Selective Service Board 97 includ- service Miss Nathile McKay (now U. S., having been founded by
ed seven recent graduates and one Mrs. Clark Bryson), Miss C. Favour special act of Congress. Ensi
for m e r student from Eastern. Stilwell, Mrs. Alice Cotter, Miss Charles Buzzard, '48, may be a
Among those receiving t h e i r dressed in care of the U.S.
notices were Richard Allison, '52; Barbara Jones (now Mrs. William Remey, DD, Boston Navy Yar
Gerald Ferguson, '52; Robert and Jones), and Miss Kathryn Sneesby Boston, Mass. The ship will be i
Richard Parker, '52; Thomas H. have been directors.
Woodyard, '51; Billy Ray Crum, the Navy Yard for three or fo
'51; and Rex F. Hunter, '52. .Robert Because it is impossible to con- months. Robert D. Buzzard is a
Weigand, a former student who tact all those who have lived in tending San Diego State Colleg
finished his schooling at the Uni- the Hall since 1927, it is hoped that following his release from acti
versity of Illinois, was also called Eastern alumnae will spread word duty in the Navy, where he serv
of the plan to honor Mrs. Phipps, for eight years. He is taking cour
up. particularly among Pemites who work in electronics and will co
did not graduate. Letters are being tinue his research in the Digi
Winkler Twins Are sent to former residents whose ad- Electronics Research Institute. He
dresses are available, but records
a graduate of Duke University.

Reunited In Korea are quite inadequate. Postpone Scout Day
Miss Lela Johnson, assistant · di-

Cpl. Jeane T. and Pfc. Deane D. rector of the Hall, is chairman of College officials decided late i
Winkler, twin brothers from In- a committee planning the honor for September to postpone Scout 0
dianola, Ill., were reunited last Mrs. Phipps. .She is assisted - by until November 15, when lllfno
summer in Korea after being sep- Mary June Bland, Mary Lowrey, Normal plays at Eastern, and ca
arated since October, 1950. Deane, and Ninetta Biggs. The committee eel the Band Festival. Both we
after attending Eastern for a time, will welcome alumnae help with
became field manager of the Pro- the tea. originally scheduled for Sep!e
duction Credit Company in Dan- ber 27. The polio epidemic I
ville before entering service. Jeane Alumnus readers may send con- Coles County was responsible f
taught social studies at the Welling- tributions to Miss Johnson in care
ton, Ill., Junior High after his grad- of Pemberton Hall. the decision.
The Eastern music departme
uation in 1951. approved. But when a supply room
The twins were separated at position · became vacant in Com- is planning a series of cli nics f
pany M of Jeane's regiment, he vocal and instrumental groups
Camp Cooke, Calif., shortly after replace the Band Festival. It w
be renewed next year, howeve(

entering the Army, according to an got first chance at it and was quick- *
Army dispatch. While in Japan ly transferred. Deane is now sup-
The Eastern State News w

with the 40th Division, Deane ap-· ply clerk in the 224th Infantry sponsor a High School Press Cc

plied for a transfer to his brother's Regiment's Company M, where ference Saturday, November 1

unit, but the division was shipped Jeane is assigned as company · Alumni advisers of high sch

to Korea just as the transfer was clerk. publications are invited to atten

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