Eastern Alumnus Vol. 7 No. 4 (March 1954)

March

1954

The Eastern Alumnus

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

VOLUME 7 MARCH, 1954 NUMBER 4

Entered May 14., 1947, as second class matter, at the post office at
Charleston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August ~1.
1912. Yearly subscription rate $1.50; two years $2.25; three years $3.uw
Renewals, $1.00 per year.

Teachers College STAN ELAM ------------------------------------------- Editor
K. E. HESLER ------------------------------------- Sports Editor
Alumni Are Leaders
Editorial Board
"Coiled up in this institution, as
in a spring, there is a vigor whose Libby Cochran, '51; Hal Hubbard, '49; Hal Middlesworth, '31;
uncoiling may wheel the spheres." Elenore Moberley, '49; Louise McNutt, '35; Jack Muthersbough, '48; Dr.
Francis Palmer; Eugene Price, '48; Jim Roberts, '46; Mrs. Russell Shriv&
This quotation, taken from Hor- '09; Elsie Sloan, '24; Helen Stapp, '23; Alex Summers, '36; Dr. E. H.
ace Mann's dedicatory address Taylor; Roy Wilson, '36.
when the normal school was dedi-
cated at Bridgewater, Mass., in I
l £46, opens the 24th report to the One of David North's twelve "mothers" (Barbara Funkhouser of
Teachers College Board by Richard
Browne, executive officer and edu- Hume) gives him his morning dip while "Grandma" Ruth Schmalhaustl
cational coordinator of the Board. looks on. For complete story, see Page 3.

The report deals with the quality Teachers College Board Moves
of the teachers college graduates, To Eliminate Eastern State High
the demand for their services,
placements, etc. Basing his figures A move is underway at Eastern Assembly), are both consis
on reports from the alumni offices to eliminate the upper grades of with this earlier resolution.
at Eastern, Normal, Western, and the Eastern State High School with-
Northern, Browne notes that grad- in a few years and utilize public Last October Board Chair
uates of these colleges are serving high schools, particularly Charles- LE.wis Walker instructed Presi
as county superintendents in at ton High, for college practice teach-
least 24 Illinois counties, are super- ing. R. G. Buzzard "to leave no sto
intendents in a majoriety of the 272 .unturned nor any obstacle in t
community unit districts of the The Teachers College Board way that would hinder this consol
state, and are principals in at least adopted a resolution favoring a co-
165 schools. Alumni of these col- operative arrangement with the dation."
leges are listed as teachers in no Charleston Unit District as early as
less than 92 of the colleges hold- November, 1950. At that time think- A committee of five Easterit f
ing membership in the American ing favored a cooperative arrange-
Association of Colleges for Teacher ment so as to prevent duplication culty members has been selec .
Education in 32 different states. of facilities and specifically looking by the Committee of Fifteen to 1
Other graduates are teaching in toward the use of the Charleston vestigate the possibilities of c
s1ate universities and liberal arts High School to provide facilities for operation with the Charlestort U
colleges throughout the nation. student teaching at the senior high District. A series of meetingl h
lr:vel and the creation of a large been held with interested grou
Altha Dr. Browne's report does junior high school on the college On March 2 Dr. Richard Bro
not give a college-by-college break- campus. executive officer and educa
down, Eastern grads may be proud coordinator for the Teacher~
of the number of leaders coming The senior high building now lege Board, addressed the Ea~f
from their ranks. under construction by Unit No. l faculty and made specific r~c
and the proposed college junior
In conclusion, Browne notes that high, for which plans have been mendations to a group repre
the major portion of our graduates drawn (but for which money has ir,g the college and the Unit Bo
s1ay in the class-rooms of the ele- not been provided by the General
mentary and secondary schools, Dr. Browne stressed the n
doing work that is quiet, patient, sity for providing good stu
and almost unnoticed but is cru- teaching experiences and refe
cial to the future of America. to the 1951 Yearbook of the A

(Continued on page 5)

PAGE TWO

Controversy Over Home Management Baby

Brings Official Frowns, ·Popular Approval

auestion: Will 'Too 'Is My Personality Warped?'
Many Mamas' .Warp
David's Personality?

f;r more than a half a century Fame at an early age has come Little David
the name of . Eastern Illinois State to David "North," Eastern's young-
College has been scattered .across est student. These pictures appear- Dr. Ruth Schmalhausen, director of
the k'!ation and around the world ed in several hundred newspapers the home management house, to
by the thousands who have crossed following the revelation by the St. get a report on the progress of the
Louis Post-Dispatch that the Illinois experiment.
ampus and by others who have Department of Welfare did not ap-
red endlessly to enhance its prove of the arrangement which "He told Miss Schmalhausen that
i.emei but it took a six-month old permits future home economics he had been informed that the 'ex-
•aby boy to skyrocket the college teachers to· learn baby care by car- periment was not successful and
Jrto the national limelight. ing for a baby. The final chapter that you do not have a baby this
liere's nothing · unusual about to the story is yet to be written, but year.' Miss Schmalhausen counter-
this baby boyi he is no different David, apparently oblivious of the ed that the experiment was a suc-
rorn the thousands of others his fact that he is an ideological storm cess and that there was a baby liv-
age, and his achievements are no center, is learning to walk, eat jun-
more or less spectacular than those ior food, and distinguish between (Continued on next page)
that please and torment all moth- "Grandma" and "Mama."
ers.
But little David "North" does in the Wednesday, January 13, is-
liffer from most children his age sue of the Courier.
in that he nas twelve "mothers"
and lives in one of the home man- "The controversy over the prac-
ge en1 houses at Eastern. tice, instituted at Eastern in 1952,
The issue centering a r o u n d which brings a live baby in to live
~avid was prominently featured in at the home management house .on
mvspapers from Duluth, Minn., in the campus to give home economic
• North to the Canal Zone in the rnajors an opportunity to care for
Sou h, from New York in the East a real baby, began Tuesday with
a short story in a St. Louis paper
T h e Ea s t e r n Alumnus (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

wishes to express its appre· "A reporter for the paper called
csiation to the Charleston
r>aily Courier and its city edit-
~r, Bob Black, '48, for the
use of materials in the prep·

aration of this story. All quo-

tations noted in the accom·

~anying story are taken di-
ctly from issues of the
ourier.

to Phoenix, Ariz., in the West;
mevision and radio networks car-
ried reports, as did Life, Look,
'rime, and Newsweek magazines.

IJnder the byline of Robert W.
&lack, '48, city editor of the Char-
leston Courier, the following ac-
Jount of the . controversy appeared

PAGE THREE

(Continued from preceding page) if the baby were left in its own never been a representative of that

ir.g in the home again this year. home.' The baby's mother is un- office at the home,' she said. 'We

"In the course of the conversa- wed. asked them to visit us and surv4

tion it was brought out that the "Haremski said the primary in- our program in 1952 when we first

Child Welfare Services division had terest of Miss Schmalhausen was in had a conference with the depal

not placed its stamp of approval on 'tc.aching the girls' and her 'second- ment about our program.'"

the project. ary interest was the baby.' The following day, a surv•

"In checking with Illinois offi- "Miss Schmalhausen was vigor- conducted by the United Press re-
cials, the St. Louis reporter was ous in her denial of this statement.
ported that "educators across the

told that the divisio.n objected to 'It is impossible to teach baby care country had joined with Eastern in

the practice and had made attempts without having a primary interest defending the use of the baby as

to persuade Miss Schmalhausen to in the welfare of the baby,' she part of a course in home mana91

discontinue the program. said. ment for home economics majo4-"

"From this beginning the storm "Under the arrangement here, Meanwhile, plans for an investl

of controversy broke into full the baby lives in a $45,000 ranch- gation of the situation continuem

bloom late Tuesday afternoon and style home and has 12 'mothers' Haremski said that "we feel pref11

continued today with state offi- throughout the school year. Four sure we have jurisdiction in the

cials making a charge that the college coeds, each a junior and a case in view of the fact that the

practice would warp the child's major in home economics, live in child is away from its parent and
the home for thre~ months and not in a licensed (welfare) agen~"
personality.
"Roman L. Haremski, superin- share the responsioility of caring He suggested that the homt

tendent of the Child Welfare Ser- for the infant. Each girl is assigned, management house should hav•

vices division told the United Press in turn, as 'mother' and must do applied for a license. When askel

in Springfield that a district officer ull things for the baby. . by Editor Black what action his

in Champaign had been ordered "Although Eastern is the first col- division would take if the inves•

to investigate. lege in Illinois to have a baby in a gation and conference did not

"Haremski's assistant, Lela Carr, home management house, other change the attitude of the divisi

sai·d the state disapproved of the schools across the country have Haremski said that "if the inve•

baby~s situation and might take done it 'for years', Miss Schmal- gation warrants we will turn the

steps. 'It has been the experience hausen said. material over to the local statel

of the agency that so much damage "She named Penn State Univer- attorney for proper action.''
might be done in the first year of sity, where she was a director of
the baby's life that giving the baby a home management house, Ohio To this, Miss Schmalrausen re-

plied, "We will continue to act to

back to the mother in the second State University, Iowa State, Cor- keep the baby."

year could not correct it,' the state nell, Temple and Purdue as a few. Two Eastern faculty mem

officia I said. "College officials were not the then answered opinions of "eit

"Haremski said a psychiatrist at- only ones who had comments on perts" who suggested that the babl

tached to the U. N.'s World Health the controversy here today. Dr. cared for by home econo4
Organization recently published a William K. Hite, Charleston physi-
study which indicated a baby's per- cian who has been the baby's doc- trainees at Eastern might suffl

"personality structure" damage

sonality is formed in the first year tor, issued this statement: Said Dr. William G. Wood, P

of life. " 'The infant boy which has been in sociology: "The Departmelrf
Welfare is obviously attempti · to
"Miss Carr said she had already entrusted to the care of Dr. Ruth
told the college that she disap- Schmalhausen at Eastern is in ex-
apply a generalization of e

proved of the system. She said very cellent physical condition. He has validity to a particular and uniql

young children should not be sep- received physical care which is far situation. They are concerned w

arated from a single mother-per- superior to that given in the best conformity to a rule rather tha4

son, either the real or a substitute foundling homes and in most Am- with the welfare of individu '

one. erican homes. Psychologist Donald A. Rot

"In countering this statement, " 'Furthermore h e i s, I o v e d, child said in answer to the qoes-

both Miss Schmalhausen and Dr. which is a basic factor in the tion, "Do you think the child's pe,..

Robert G. Buzzard, president of the healthy emotional and develop- sonality will be warped by bei

college, said that the baby living . mental environment. These facts placed in this environment uo

here would have been boarded are obvious to anyone who will one year of age?"

elsewhere by its mother and would ethically and honestly observe "Most emphatically no! In rn'f

have been separated from a sin- them. This child has benefited tre- opinion, a child brought into th

gle mother-person had the college mendously from the good start he surroundings will be much be

not agreed to care for it. is receiving and will show it for off so far as developing behavl

"In answering the charge that years to come ... ' patterns is concerned than it wou

there was no. 'father-person' pres- " 'The college will welcome an be in a typical public institutiotl f

ent in the situation at Eastern, Miss investigation by representatives of child care, which I understancl "'

Schmalhausen said, 'There would the Child Welfare Services,' Miss the alternative in this case ... "

not be ·a father in the picture even Schmalhausen said. 'There has On January 15, Ha.remski,. in

PAGE FOUR

ent to the Courier, expressed To date, no ruling by the attor- the best care possible," she wrote
ney general has been forthcoming. in her reply.
., fidence about the division's
~iction . The most recent chapter in the "From the very beginning," she
. case of David "North" was the pub- said, "I have had every confidence
lication by the Charleston Courier in Dr. · Schmalhausen's ability in
llllfection 299a and 299b of of an exclusive interview between caring for my baby."
Black, Courier editor, and David's
liapter 23, Illinois Revised Sta- mother. The interview was obtain- TC Board Moves to
~~tecesan,siseJk,9i"'5s3s,caliatdr~mnEddoiftot?r1uBrr.slbad:c1kac.t~1on o~t ed by letter.
Eliminate High School
in Black sent a letter containing
(Continued fro'!l . page 2)
fli The division of Child Welfare se.ven questions to David's mother
through Miss Schmalhausen. Miss ciation for Student Teaching which
ices then moved to conduct an Schmalhausen is the only person notes the increasing popularity of
at the college who knows the wo- off-campus experience for practice
tigation. Charles · Dixon, re- man's address and her name. teachers. A number of faculty
members pointed to disadvantages
11onal director of the Department David's mother replied: "The of the proposal to drop the Eastern
arrangement with the college is State High School.
f ublic Welfare who has offices very satisfactory with me and
0 paign was to conduct the seems to agree with David as his There was agreement on a num-
response to the care is amazing."
on Tuesday, January 19, ber of basic considerations and de-
In reply to a question concern-
one week following the opening ing her present ability to care for 'tailed proposals by the ·unit BoarCl
the child, if he were returned to representatives and the faculty
of he controversy. her, she said, "At the present time committee. Among them was the
I would be unable to care for recommendation by the T. C. Board
nwhile, local sentiment fav- David and would undoubtedly be advisory committee for Eastern
forced to place him in a welfare that the high school be abandoned
or he college's position. Frank home if available. on July l, 1955. No faculty mem-
ber is to lose his position on ac-
v. lavins, chairman of the Coles "I have read several newspaper count of this action. Some of the
stories concerning David," she possible assignments are junior
l ty Welfare Service Advisory said. "My . . . paper states that the high teaching, off-campus student
mittee, conducted his own in- officials were afraid that David teaching supervision, and college
gation and reported: "I paid a would be pampered or spoiled. A teaching. The Charleston Board will
visit to this young fellow that is baby's main need is to feel secure accept a limited numer of student
and loved. A small baby that feels teachers, perhaps not more than
h center of controversy. I was secure and wanted will not make 20, in the senior high. Other agree-
too many demands for attention. ments relate to assignments, pay
santly surprised. Due to David's condition at birth, for supervision of student teachers,
I'm sure the main reason he is so etc. There was a proposal, to be
afFrom the charges that have happy is the fact that he has re- studied, for making the college ele-
ceived the required amount of ten- mentary school an area school.
been made, I thought I might see der, loving care."
spoiled, squalling, mistreat- The Teachers College Board has
e by. But I saw one of the hap- In response to Black's question not yet taken formal action with
as to why she decided to "loan" regard to abandonment of the East-
pi healthiest and cutest babies David to the college, she said she ern High School.
was told that ·there was no wel-
I tiave seen in a long time." fare home "available to place my Three Eastern Professors
baby in."
•mmenting on H a r e m s k i ' s Get Ph. D's in February
"David was very ill when born
•tement that no "father-person" and would have to have quite a lot Three Eastern professors took
of love and care when released the doctor's degree in February.
was present in David's home situa- from the hospital," she said. "Since F. Raymond McKenna, education,
I would have had to work in the took the Ed. D. from Harvard; Bob
an, Cavins said, "Who is the day and really didn't know where Carey, basketball coach, received
or how I could get someone to the Doctor of Physical Education·de-
er-person' to al I the unfortu- take care of David, when I was gree from Indiana University; and
told about the college I realized it Lester VanDeventer, mathematics,
n<1te children in our orphan homes would be the best solution. was awarded the Ed. D. by the
University of Illinois. VanDeventer
and foundling homes in the state?" "Naturally, when I first heard holds the B. S. in Ed. from Eastern,
of the plan I was slightly doubt- 1938.
Pixon visited the campus on Jan- ful, but when I saw the surround-
ings and met Dr. Schmalhausen, I
uary 19 and made his investigation. fe:lt ·as though David would receive

He did not comment on the care

of the child because his contact

with the baby was brief and he

did not have an opportunity to ob-

serve much of its care.

"I am here to get first hand in-

9mation in the case," Dixon said.

'My report should be in Spring-

field by Thursday and Dr. Harem-

ski will probably turn the findings

over to the attorney general for a

rl'ling soon after."
ecording to the Courier report,
th Child Welfare Services division
tould ask the attorney general to

tule on the question of whether

or not the division has jurisdiction

'>ver the case and whether or not

the school needs to have a license

as a "family home" to continue its

l actice of using a live baby in its
me management program.

PAGE FIVE

High School Moves into Newly Not Forgotten
Remodeled Training School

New Quarters Provide library, school to do many things long con- Dr. Howard DeF. Widger, whd
Space for Self-Monitored Study sidered educationally advisable but died just before Christmas after be-
Groups, Other Desirable Feat· impossible because of cramped ing in retirement for only half a
ures. quarters. For example, large study year. The Alumni Association has
halls have been outmoded for undertaken to raise a $2,000 fund
Eastern State High School stu- years. The large number of -small in hi$ memory, from which a schol
dents moved from Old Main into conference rooms and halls will arship will be awarded annua
new quarters in the remodeled permit an expansion of a type of to the outstanding junior Engl'
Training School Building on the col- self-monitored study with which major.
lege campus on March 15. Students Dr. Phillips has already experiment-
assisted with the moving opera- ed. Student teachers from the col- Dr. Widger taught at Eastern for
tions: lege may be assigned to help these 41 years, during which he estal.I
small groups. lished a reputation 'for scholars
Owen Brosam, contractor, com- teaching skill, integrity, and hu~
pleted remodeling work early in The library is l~e enough to manity that is seldom equalled in
March. The $180,000 project was permit proper display and use of the academic world.
begun in March, 1953. various kinds of study helps.
Heading the committee in char~
Fire Hazards Removed The high school will be open to of the fund-raising campaign is Dr.
observation by college students as Widger's long-time friend and col
The remodeling e Ii mi n ate d never before, according to Phillips. league, Dr. Eugene Waffle, wllo
wooden stairways which consti- succeeded him as head of the Eng4
tuted a fire-trap. The halls are now The High School Student Coun- lish department.
supported by steel I-beams and cil is planning to furnish one of the
steel stairways at the north and big third floor rooms of the build- Eastern State Clubs
south ends of the building are ing as a student lounge.
glassed in to reduce the first haz- Call Spring Meeting•
ard. Instead of a center 'stairway, College to Use Some Rooms
there are now a few steps up into Eastern State Clubs are begil
a light and airy library on the first Some of the classrooms in the f"ling to set dates for spring m~
floor. The library room appeared in building will be used by the col- ir>gs throughout the state. As th1t
original plans as an auditorium, lege. One will be a film projection is written, only two can be definlm
but was not included when the room. Another is planned as a ma-
building was erected in 1911-13. terials display room. The newest ly announced: March 30 for tlii
books in education and various
Besides the library, the high kinds of instructio1J..9I devices and Montgomery County Culb 11,,d
school will use most of the second equipment will be on year-round April 27 for the Macon Coun
and third floor rooms. Offices for display. Club. Presidents of the other cl~
Principal Thomas Phillips and Di- should contact Stanley Elam.
rector of Teacher Training Hans New Floors, Wiring, Etc. fice of Public Relations and Alumn
Olsen will be located on the first as soon as arrangements for a piact"
f!oor but most of the other space Among improvements in the old and date have been made. A rill
is being reserved, pending policy building not previously mentioned ber of excellent programs, inclu
decisions by the Charleston Unit are asphalt tile floors over plywood ing a fine film of the Easteni-N
Board and the Teachers College ln classrooms and halls, some new mal basketball game that gav4 Ea5
Board. ceramic tile floors, complete new
wiring, acoustic tile' ceilings, rede- ern its sixth straight llAC cta
Assembly Still in Old Main coration in a variety of modern
Most of the classes which have shades throughout, new cork- ion~hip, can be supplied this yefl
been held in Old Main since the boards, new doors and locks, flour-
campus senior high opened in escent lighting, and various minor
1918-19 will now be held in the changes and pieces of new equip-
Training School Building. The as- ment.
sembly on the second floor east,
Old Main, will be retained, how- Three Phi Sig Alumni
ever, and typing, home economics,
industrial arts, · science, and physi- Are Area Kiwanis Brass
cal education classes will · continue
to use other quarters on campus. Three former members of Phi
A typing practice room is available Sigma Epsilon at Eastern are presi-
in the new building. dents of Charleston area Kiwanis
According to Dr. Phillips, the clubs this year. They are Bill Reat,
new facilities will permit the high Charleston; Bob Sheets, Toledo;
and Wayne Gordon, Lincoln.
PAGE SIX

Remember Those Eastern (ofeterio Goodies?

M rs. G. Presents Morning Coffee

Her Best Recipes

l'Jhen work seems raher dull to
me

~nd life is not so sweet,
[)ne thing at least can bring me

lioy-

1limply love to eat."
Rebecca -McCann

IBY Ruth Henderson Gaertner, '45

Director of Food Services, Eastern

Do you know of any universal Mrs. Gaertn:r p~esides over her own "salon" of faculty and stu·
sure that exceeds "The Joy of dents every morning m the college cafeteria. Here she pours for football
ng"? The constant search for center and Sig Tau president Arnold Franke.
ething new,. a recipe that's dif-
employees, once intimated that it 3 teaspoons baking powder
rent or a · real treat, has put the might be well to have a require- % cup milk
k-book third in line of publica- ment of one term's work in a food l ounce square chocolate
service for al I students. Y2 teaspoon salt
tions which are referred to the l cup nuts
most frequently. (The Bible and the While we strive to adopt and use l tablespoon vanilla
•phone directory are first and standardized recipes for fifty
lli:ond.) At every gathering one throughout, we have many re- Have all ingredients at room tem-
•nders, "What will they have to quests for favorite dishes in family peraf'Ore. Cream butter until con-
size recipes. When inquirers are sistency of whipped cream. Add
?'' handed a recipe for fifty they al- sugar gradually and continue
most faint. We would like to share creaming. Add vanilla and melted
Pl'our alma mater has kept step some of their favorite dishes with cf-iocolate and mix until well blend-
with the popularity of this univer- you-so we have done the cutting, ed. Sift flour, salt, and baking
sal ~leasure by enlarging its faci- testing, and re-directing. We hope powder together twice. Add all of
lities for serving students. you will enjoy them. the flour, then all of the milk. Mix
":'ell. Add the chopped nuts, stir
Up until February 4, 1948, only CHOCOLATE FUDGE PUDDING lightly. Put batter into pan 9" x
90 students were served regular 9" x 2" and sprinkle dry topping
~eals on campus. Today 1800 to 8-10 servings mixture over this.
2000 meals are served daily in our (Eastern Cafeteria's Favorite
Topping mixture
four food services, school lunch, Dessert) ·
•eteria, Pemberton Hall, and Lin- l ~ cups brown sugar
coln and Douglas Halls. Students 5 tablespoons butter l cup white sugar
nolonly enjoy good nutritious food l cup white sugar
at leasonable prices, but some 130
to 150 students find financial as- P,4 cups flour
•tance by working during their
free hours in the services. Some-
one has put it (probably one of our
9'ployees) that students working
•food departments are "the cream
of the crop". They must make their
tades, be in good physical health,
neat in appearance, have good per-
•nalities and high work standards
b $fay in employment. Many call
these food services "melting pots"
for all major differences. Sorority
and fraternity ,.loyalties are forgot-
ten and all work happily together
for each other for a common pur-
J>ose. Dean Heller, in his praise for
the work and morale of student

PAGE SEVEN

The Winner

Alumna Wins
Nation-Wide
Essay Contest

Miss Rachael Richardson receives congratu-
lations for her prize-winning essay.

3 tablespoons cocoa apples Miss Rachael G. Richardson, '5~
a Sullivan, Ill., High School Englil
% teaspoon salt or
2V2 cups of frozen apples teacher, won the first prize of $HI
l 1,4, cups boiling water
in a nation-wide essay cont•
Mix white sugar, brown sugar, ~'.t cup water sponsored by the Christian Adv~
cate on the subject, "Why I Go to
cocoa, and salt together. Sprinkle l tablespoon lemon juice Church." Her essay, chosen from
more than 2,350 submitted by co~
mixture over pan of batter. Pour l V2 cups sugar testants from all of the 48 statel
Puerto Rico, and Cuba, was pub·
boiling water over pan. Do not 1 teaspoon cinnamon lished in the Jan. 21 issue of th~
Advocate, Methodism's of f i c i a I
stir. Bake in a moderate oven at l cup flour
weekly magazine.
350 degrees F. for about 35 min- V2 teaspoon salt Miss Richardson is also the win

utes. This will separate into two 1/.i, cup butter or oleo ner of a $ l 0 first prize awardecf by

layers, crust on top and chocolate l % cups grated American cream the Arthur Croft Publicatio
Washington, D. C., publisher of lhe
f..idge sauce on bottom layer. Serve · · cheese Teacher's Letter, a bi-weekly nev4

ir. sherbet dishes, using an ice Peel apples, quarter, core and service for teachers. The conh:'! t
cream dipper so that you will get slice. Arrange sliced · apples in a
some cake and some fudge sauce. greased baking pan 8" x 8" x 2". was conducted to secure opini
Garnish with whipped cream and a Mix sugar, cinnamon, flour, and concerning a problem of local a~
. riaraschino cherry. salt. Work in butter to form sociation policy which had beef
presented in an issue of th~
BAKED LIMA BEANS c.rrumbly mixture. Grate cheese Teacher's Letter.

8-10 servings and add to topping mixture and "All in all," says Miss
son, "I have had quite a
4 cups cooked lima beans stir in lightly. Spread mixture over series of events of late."
apples and bake in a moderate
14 cup chopped onion oven 350 degrees F. for 20 min- Eastern's annual College oa)t
1.:tes. (Apples should be tender and will be held on April 29 this yea~,
1,4, cup green pepper, diced the top a light golden crisp.) Serve
% cup pimento, chopped in sherbet glasses. (Be sure to dip according to Dr. Ned Schrom~ di•
some topping with each serving.)
2 tablespoons bacon drippings Garnish with whipped cream and rector of admissions.
a maraschino cherry. In accordance with a recruit
Vi cup white Karo
l V2 tsp. salt experiment being conducted t 1

Cook lima beans until tender year, schools of Edgar, Clark, era

(not mushed). Measure. Mix all the ford, and Lawrence ounties are (IOI

ingredients together and add to to be invited.

the lima beans. Place in a baking Teacher Shortage . . . Ouch!

pcm ~" x 8" x 2" for 45 minutes. Eastern's Placement Bureau re-
ceived more calls for teachers last
CHEESE APPLE CRISP year than any other Illinois teachers
. 8-10 servings

l V2 pounds apples (6 to 8) college, by l ,398. Eastern's total of

or different vacancies reported was

2V2 cups of solid pack canned 6,730.

PAGE EIGHT

Some Tune, Words--Eostern Wins Again

Jage Squad Snares Sixth Straight Nelson McMullen and Bob Gosnell,
Title with New Coach, Players 6-3 sophomore center from Law-
renceville, were the top reserves;
By Ken Hesler of the toughest small college com- but any of the firemen could be
petition in the Midwest. called on when needed.
[)nee again the Eastern Panth-
have wrapped up the Interstate The Panthers would have liked The Western game at Macomb is
ollegiate Athletic Conference to cap their season by winning the probably the best example of
etbal I championship title, the NAIA district playoffs at Cham- Eastern's reserve strength. As the
paign; but the hard drive for the overtime started, both Chi lovich
•ixth such they have won or shar- league title had taken its ·toll and and Brauer were out of the game
ec.! in as many years. the Panthers could not keep pace and Gosnell had replaced Kenny at
with Millikin in the second half of center. Thus, the Panthers out-play-
tuided by Bob Carey in his first the NAIA opener. Eastern wound ed the Leathernecks in the over-
~·ear of college coaching, a Pan- up its league race on the night of time with three reserves. McMul-
ther five consisting of two sopho- March 1 at Central Michigan and len had come in for Chilovich and
lores, two juniors and one senior met Millikin in the first playoff Kermit Radloff, Strasburg junior,
nd a capable bench of reserves contest on March 3. · had replaced Brauer.

rised even the most optimistic Much of the Panthers' strength Other reserves proved their
ervers by winning the league tr.is season came from the bench. merit during the season. Bill Par-
title and finishing the season with mentier, Gillespie, saw action in 11
a 17-6 record while playing some

Coaches Bob Carey and Rex V. Darling with the 1953-54 Eastern varsity that won the Interstate lnter-

l legiate Athletic Conference basketball crown with a l 0-2 record. The season record was 17 won, 6 lost.
the group pictured, only Martin Chilovich and Nelson McMullen are seniors.
Left to right, front row, Coach Darling, Martin Chilovich, Dean Brauer, Jack Kenny, Ron Claussen, Ken
ldwig, Coach Carey. Second row, Kermit Radloff, Gene Murray, Lloyd Ludwig, Bob Gosnell, Nelson Mc-
fullen, Bill Parmentier, and Dick McDonald.

PAGE NINE:

games; Gene Murray, Winebago That Victory Grin
junior, was in 12 games and Dick

McDonald, Mattoon sophomore,
took part in eight contests. Lloyd
Ludwig, the only freshman on the

varsity squad, saw action in six
varsity games in addition to play-

ing in most of the scheduled B-
team contests.

It might sound like the repititious

playing of the same record if it

weren't for the new tune. It has

become a tradition that armchair

coaches predict a dire future for·
each Eastern team; and the pre-

season situation at Eastern this year
provided plenty of ingredients for

the prophets' caldron.

To many it looked as though the Coach Bob Carey and his two senior Panthers, Nelson McMull!I
Eastern basketball machine had left, and Martin Chilovich, strike a jubilant pose immediately followi
been completely disbanded. Only Eastern's 96-80 defeat of Illinois Normal in Lantz Gym, which assur
remnants of the 1952-53 cham- Eastern of a share in the llAC title for the sixth straight year. Eastern late~
pionship team were two six-foot won the title outright by defeating Michigan Normal at Ypsqanti.
guards. Gone were seniors Bob
Lee, Roger Dettra, · Norman Pat- but many of the others weren't to Ron Claussen calmly dumped in
berg and Dwayne Roe; Ed Taylor, be so easy. The record shows that two free throws to send the ion-
the starting center, had transferred Coach Carey's Panthers had what test into a second overtime. In the
to Case Institute. And to top it off, it takes to come through with the second period Ludwig netted six
the coach had also left. close games. of Eastern's ten points to lead the
Panthers to an 88-82 victory.
Bill Healey went to Northeast In their opening league game
Missouri State College in Kirksv111e against Southern at Carbondale, The Panthers also c~me from be-
as athletic director. The experts the Panthers became the only llAC
were having a field day. team to down the Salukis on their hind to down Southern 64-60 at
home floor, coming from nine Charleston and to defeat Indiatl
Then Bob Carey came- to Char- points down in the fourth period State 80-77 at Terre Haute, a tas~
leston to take over the basketball to win 69-67.
reins; and when it came time to Eastern teams have accomplishel
open the season against McKendree Against a strong Western five at only twice in seven years.
College at McKendree, Carey had Charleston, Eastern's Jack Kenny
found himself a starting five. knotted the score 80-80 at the end Led by the scoring of Marti
of regulation playing time to send Chilovich and Dean Brauer, Eastel
The two returning lettermen the Panthers into their first of dropped such . non-league foes as
were at the guard posts. Martin three overtime games. Two free Illinois Wesleyan 75-60 and Belol
Chilovich, Mt. Olive senior and the throws by Nelson McMullen, top 72-68. Eastern split with Milliki~
only returning regular, and Ken Eastern reserve and a senior from
Ludwig, Effingham junior who had Hume, gave Eastern an 88-87 vic- during the regular season, losirl
played one full college game his tory over the Leathernecks. 67-82 at Decatur and winningj87·
sophomore year, would form the 81 in Lantz Gym. Millikin tool an
nucleus of the squad. Jack Kenny, McMullen gave a repeat perform- edge in the season series, howe
a 6-4 junior from Covington, Ind., ance against Western when the by dropping the Panthers 95-6q in
would work the pivot position; and Panthers travelled to Macomb. Af- the opening round of the NAIA
two 6-2 sophomores, Dean Brauer ter Western had tied the score 78-
of Staunton and Ron Claussen of 78 at the end of 40 minutes of play, playoffs at Champaign. The joy ~
Chicago (Onarga) would hold down McMullen notched two points on a victory was short-lived for the Big
the forward spots. layup for Eastern's margin of vic-
tory in a 82-80 win. Blue as Western won the cha
And with that combination pionship round for the trip to th•
Coach Carey didn't do too badly. The Panthers again came from national tourney at Kansas Cit~.
His squad swept through the sea- behind at Franklin, Ind., when
son with a 17-6 record, losing only Ken Ludwig jumped in a 15-footer Eastern's five losses during
two of 12 games in conference regular season were to In
State, Illinois Normal, Lincoln Un
versity, Millikin and Central Mi
igan.

play to capture an undisputed lea- to tie the game 78-78 as the gun The loss to Indiana State was t
gue title. sounded. As the first overtime
neared completion, the Panthers only black mark on Eastern's ha
The Panthers won that opening vvere again down two points, but court record this season. State ek
game against MeKendree 91-70; out a close 68-66 win. The Sy

PAGE TEN

ft.Ores have the distinction of being Busy B's
flie ly team to down the Panth-
rs Charleston since 1948. They Coach Rex V. Darling with the junior varsity basketball team that
lost only two of 11 games duringrhe season while rolling up an offensive
.ave ..ccomplished the task three scoring average of 88.7 points per -game.
lfles. Eastern's return victory at
L. to r. (front row)-Sam Anderson, Ed Hartweger, John Bodine,
e re Haute was sweet revenge. Lloyd Ludwig, Neil Admire, and Jim Malone. Back row-Coach Darling,
Pete Krainock, Jerry Porter, Ralph Freeman, and Manager Paul Halsey.
tern's two league losses came Not pictured are Dewey Lynn, Jim Foran, and Ron Hicks.

bY a total of four points. Illinois Darling1s Two-Platoon Hardwood

rrnal won 96-95 at Normal Team Wins 9of11 Games
~d Central Michigan finished
goals against Illinois Normal and Eastern's junior varsity basket-
..0 ng to drop the Panthers 72- ball team, under the tutelage of
69 at Mt. Pleasant. The victory 34 free throws against Northern Coach Rex V. Darling, completed
for ltentral Michigan marked the the 1953-54 season with nine wins
1rst time the Chippewas have ever Illinois. Opp. in 11 starts.
downed an Eastern squad. A stub- Eastern
born Lincoln team came out with Only losses suffered by the B-
Score Opponent Score team came at the hands of Indiana
a last minute 74-66 win at Lincoln. State and Illinois Normal. The Pan-
[>ean Brauer led the Panthers in 91 McKendree College 70 thers evened the score in a return
game with each.
scor1og The 6-2 sophomore netted 66 Indiana State 68
399 ~ints in 22 games for an av- The high mark of the junior var-
~age of 18: l points per game. He 69 Southern Illinois 67 sity season came with a 113-60
was ~losely followed by· senior win over Millikin at Charleston.
72 Lincoln University 56 Darling's squad held only a 39-32
l'Jar 1n Chilovich, .who averaged lead over the Little Blue at halftime;
17.8 points per game, scoring 373 88 Western Illinois (OT) 87 but a 74-point scoring spree in the
second half, including a 47-point
paints in 21 games. Ken Ludwig 75 Illinois Wesleyan 60 fourth quarter, gave the Panther
was the third high scorer with 321 Pups their highest total of the year.
paints in 23 games for a per game 67 Millikin 82
Near the middle of the season,
t rage of 14.0. Jack Kenny net- 64 Southern Illinois 60 Darling began to use a two-pla-
252 points, while Ron Claussen toon basketball system against his
95 Illinois Normal 96 opponents, alternating the teams
got 167 and Nelson McMullen 142. each quarter.
Chilovich led the Panthers in 66 Lincoln University 74
ting accuracy, hitting 43 per One squad had the advantage
72 Beloit 68 of height, the other speed. The net
t of his shots. From the field, effect of such a system was, gen-
•auer hit 41 per cent and Kenny 88 Franklin (Ind.) (20T) 82 erally, a very tired group of op-

per cent. Ken Ludwig led the 86 Michigan Normal 54
thers at the free throw line,
ltting 95 of 116 attempts for 82 100 Central Michigan 67
per cent and a national ranking.
96 Northern Illinois 78
On a team basis, the Panthers
87 Millikin 81
•intained a scoring average of
80.6 points per game for 23 80 Indiana State 77

Fmes and allowed their opponents 89 Northern Illinois 80
14.3 points per contest.
82 Western Illinois (OT) 80
From the field, the squad hit 40
per cent of its shot attempts and 96 Illinois Normal 80
tnded the season with a 69 per
cent mark at the free throw line. 88 Michigan Normal 76

For the first time in three years, 69 Central Michigan 72

•stern finished a season with 68 Millikin 95
"'1ore rebounds than its oponents.

•stern averaged 40.6 rebounds
per game to 38.4 for its oppon-
ents. Brauer was the top Panther
9>ounder with 196. He was fol-
t>wed in order by Kenny, Claussen,
ltilovich and Bob Gosnell.

High marks of the year were
lauer's 31 points on 13 field
t:>als and five free throws against
linois Normal at Charleston; ·Lud-
t-'ig's 12 free throws against ln-

'iana State at Terre Havte.
The Panthers scored 39 field

PAGE ELEVEN

ponents in the fourth quarter. Oc- Team Names Chilovich Three Regulars Make
casionally Darling would mix the Most Valuable for Season
height and speed if the -situation All-Conference Team
demanded. Martin Chilovich, re!;Jular senior.
· Three Eastern regulars were
Top scorer for the junior varsity guard on the Eastern Illinois State named to the Interstate lntercoll•
was Lloyd Ludwig, 6-2 freshman giate Athletic Conference's all.
from Effingham, with 153 points. basketball team, was named most league squad for 1953-54.

Ralph Freeman, 6-0 freshman from valuable player for the 1953-54 Representing Eastern on the first
Roxana, hit for 116, while · Neil five were Martin Chilovich, 6-0 sen-
Admire, 6-4 Gillespie freshman, season and selected as honorary ior guard from Mt. Olive, and Dean
scored 128. It must be remembered captain. Brauer, 6-2 sophomore forwarl
that very few of the players aver- from Staunton. Ken Ludwig was
aged more than a halftime of play- In addition to the team awards, named to the second squad.
ing in each game. Chilovich was unanimously named
to the Interstate Intercollegiate Ath- Other players named to the first
Other top performers on the jun- letic Conference all-league team five were Harvey Welch, Southerl
ior varsity were Sam Anderson, and nominated as an NAIA All- Norm Goldman, Northern; and Bill
6-3 sophomore from Benld; Ed America candidate by the execu- Sarver of Illinois Normal.
Hartweger, 6-2 freshman from Gil- tive committee of District 20.
lespie; Jerry Porter, 5-9 freshman In addition to Ludwig, the sec·
from Mattoon; Dewey Lynn, 5-11 In 21 games this season, Chilo- ond five consisted of Jacque Thei4
freshman from Petersburg; Jim Ma- vich scored 373 points for an av- iot, Southern; Tom Millikin, Southl
lone, 6-0 freshman from Sullivan; erage of 17.8 points per game. He ern; Marsh Stoner, Western; and
Jim Foran, 6-0 freshman from Mor- hit on 44 per cent of his field goal Dick Kackmeister of Central Miclll
ton Grove (a Niles Twp. High attempts and 67 per cent of his igan.
free throw tries, and was one of
the team's top rebounders.

School graduate); John Bodine, 6-1, One of the Best
sophomore from Danville; Pete
Krainock, 5-1 l sophomore from
Danville; and Ron Hicks, 5-7 fresh-
man from Mooseheart.

Following are the scores of the
junior varsity season:

Eastern Opp.

Score Opponent Score

69 Indiana State 72

89 Southern Illinois 76

76 Utterback Bus. College 52

92 Centralia Junior College 86

76 Millikin 72

83 Southern Illinois 69

67 Illinois Normal 78

89 Utterback Bus. College 62

113 Millikin 60

88 Indiana State 64

104 Illinois Normal 93

One for the Book

The former Annabel Scott, '40, ~
sends an interesting note which
qualifies for the sports page. Bill Waldrip, '40, took his Cumberland High team t~ the 'Sweff

Annabel is now Mrs. Harry Sor- Sixteen' this year. Altha the Toledo·Greenup-Jewett boys lost to Thornton
tal. Sortal coached at Paris, Ill., be- in the first round, they had already rolled up a spectacular 30-2 sea#
tween Eveland regimes. After a record. Bill will be remembered as Eastern's leading scorer as a freshm"
term in service, Sortal took a coach- in 1936-37. His college basketball career was cut short by illness.
ing position at the Negaunee,
Mich., High School. L. to r., front row-Howard McClain, Howard Ewart, Jim Strain, Ter,.,
Strain, Bill Waldrip. Second row-Lloyd Eggers, Chuck Cordes, John fwa
Negaunee is the school at which and Chuck Ingram.
D~. Bob Carey, Eastern's highly suc-
cessful · freshman coach, made a
record of 55 wins and 21 losses in
the four years which constituted his
high school experience.

PAGE TWELVE

G~oves' Gym Team To Only Fisher Wins
~ake Eleven Exhibitions
Consistently in 154
Wrestling ~eason

The Eastern Illinois State College Darling Faces Tough Ray Fisher, Charleston freshman
nsstic and tumbling team Tennis Schedule with
ned its 1954 season with an Three Lettermen became Eastern's most successful

( ibition on March 16 at Casey wrestler this season when, on

ttigh School. March 6, he captured the Interstate
The 1954 high school tour will
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
mar the third consecutive year
heavyweight crown.
mefhat the Eastern gymnasts under
lirection of Dr. William Groves . Eastern will open its 1954 tennis Fisher had won two previous en-
have exhibited their skills at area
season April 9 when it tackles In- gagements this season: In the con-
schools.
lleven exhibitions are listed on diana University at Bloomington, ference match held at Southern

me tentative schedule released by Ind. Fisher outpointed Gene Hoffman'.

Dr. Groves. In addition to the dem- Coach Rex V. Darling will have last year's 17710 champ, 8-2. In

onstration at Casey, the Eastern three lettermen returning from the a meet held at Charleston earlier

l nasts will perform in the high squad that took fourth in the Inter- in the season, Hoffman had out-
ols at Greenvp, Newton, Ef- pointed Fisher 12-3.
ham, Flora, Mattoon, Tuscola, state Intercollegiate Athletic Con-
atur, Taylorville, and Danville. Other league rankings won by
fe;rence meet last season.
~luded in the travelling per- the Eastern squad under the direc-
9fnance are stunts on the tram- In addition to Indiana, other
pol ne, parallel · bars, flying rings, tion of Coach John Nanovsky were
non-league opponents on Eastern's
ith tumbling, ground pyramids, two fourth place positions. These
ngboard diving and clowning. schedule are Greenville, Millikin,
went to Bob Robinson (177), Ash-
.:rhe demonstration team includes and Indiana State. League matches
a full complement of performers more freshman, and Paul Maxon
and equipment. All equipment, in- will be played against Southern
l>ding mats and apparatus, is car- C37), senior from Charleston.
ried by the group. Illinois Normal, and Western llli:
Score of the llAC meet was Illi-
Dr. Groves attempts to arrange nois. The llAC meet is scheduled
a khedule that will permit his nois Normal 33, Northern 32
m>up to present its exhibition to for May 21-22 at Carbondale.
Southern 24, Western 20, and East:
llo high school audiences on any Returning lettermen are Tom
ern 8. Eastern completed the sea-
one day it is away from the cam- Schreck, Mattoon senior and Dis-
pus. s~oenetwinitgh a 0-5 record in dual meets
trict 20 NAIA champ last se.ason; Southern twice and tang!:
No admission is charged for the
llformances and Dr. Groves Dick McDonald, Mattoon sopho- mg once each with Northern, Illi-
•ommends that all high schools
~heduling the exhibition admit more; and Berl Pulliam, Effingham nois Normal, and Western. Paul
their pupils free. '."'a~~n, a senior, scored the only
senior. · ind1v1dual victory not won by Fish- ·
The 1954 tour will be climaxed
"'ay 18 with an exhibition in Lantz Art Fox, Shelbyville junior, and er for Eastern, pinning his oppon-
Gym on the Eastern campus. C~rl Sellers, Dekalb sophomore, ent at Western.

Tentative schedule is: will report for the team, along with

March 31-Greenup, 10 a.m.; three Effingham freshmen - Phil Other wrestlers on the Eastern
Newton· 2 p.m. St~ckey, Dick Dirks, and Lloyd Lud-
squad were Neil AGlabyin~ Robinson
April 8-Effingham, 10 a.m.; wig. soph.; Dick Carr, freshman:
Flora, 2 p.m.
The 1954 tennis schedule is: Kent Dalton, Newport freshman'.
April 28-Mattoon, 10 a.m.; Apr~I 9-lndiana University, away 1
Tuscola, 2 p.m.
April 13-DePauw, home Lyle Lloyd, Highland sophomore•
IAay 4-Decatur, 10 a.m.; Apr~I 15-Southern Illinois, away Armand Loffredo, Greenup soph0:

f' Taylorville, 2 p.m. April 21-Greenville, home more; John Murphy, Atwood fresh-

May 13-Danville, 2 p.m. April 24-lllinois Normal, home man; John O'Dell, East St. Louis
May 18 - Home exhibition at
April 27-lndiana State, away sophomore; Dave Radford, Whea-
Lantz Gym.
May 1-Western Illinois, away ton freshman; John Rhyne, Oblong

May 4-Greenville, away freshman; Bob Robinson, Ashmore

May 8-Millikin University, away freshman; and Bob Gilpin, Atwood

May 11-Southern Illinois, home freshman.

May 12-lndiana State, home . Student assistants are Roy Hat-·

May 14-lllinois Normal, away field, Champaign junior; and Fred

May 15-Millikin University, home Barber, Pana sophomore.

May 21-22-llAC, Carbondale

Virgil Sweet, '50, has won the Harley Culberson, '40 coached
his O'Fallon, Ill., High School bas-
Vermilion County Conference title ketball team to a regular season
for t~e second consecutive year, record of 24-1, losing only the sec-
coaching at Westville High School.
ond game of the year. O'Fallon
Sweet is president of the Vermilion won the Cahokia Conference title
County Eastern State Club. with a 12-1 record.

PAGE THIRTEEN

Key Men Missing As Boseboll, Trock Open

Defending Champs Nine Lettermen
Return in Track
Lose Heavy Hitters Expand Music

The Eastern Illinois State base- Camp Program Nine lettermen are among tl!m
ball team, defending champions of
the Interstate Intercollegiate Athle- 40 candidates reporting to Coa.tl
tic Conference, will play a 20
game schedule opening April 5 For This Summer Maynard O'Brien for the track and
against Washington University (St. field season at Eastern 111 inois Statf!I
Louis) at Charleston. The tracksters wi II open the 1954

Thirty-three men have reported Eastern's second Music Camp season April 15 when they meet
to Coach Clifton W. White for prac- will be held this summer over a Indiana State at Charleston.
tice. Among them are 11 lettermen three-week period. Widespread in- Returning lettermen are Leo
and 15 freshmen. Three members terest forced extension of the band Beals (high hurdles), Newton; Brue•
of last year's pitching staff are re- section to cover two weeks instead Knicley (pole vault), Willow Hilla
Gail Borton (shot put), Tower Hil~
turning. of one.
Eastern took the IIAC title last The chorus group meets on cam- Chuck Matheny (mile run), Pari•
pus from June 20 to 27 and the Dick Burch (440), Danville; Gary
season with an 8-2 record. The band from June 27 through July Newell (440), Pekin; and two-mi-
Panthers compiled an overall rec- 11. Dr. Myron Russell, last year's IE::rs Jim Mitchell, Newton; Fred
ord of 11 wins and three losses in conductor, will conduct the band Gore, Danville; and Jim Edmunll
1953. one week and Mr. Nilo Hovey of son, St. Elmo.
Last season, Eastern won three of
Coach White will have to find Butler University will do the otner.
replacements for John McDevitt, Weston Noble, director of the fam- . five dual meets, took third place
all-llAC second baseman, and Bill ous Nordic Cathedral Choir of in the state meet and tied for sixtl
Reineke, outfielder, both of whom Luther College, will condu~t the in the llAC.
graduated in 1953. McDevitt and Others reporting for track are
Reineke led the Panthers in the chorus.
hitting department, batting .449 High school students from all Dick Phipps, Charleston; Jim Bru
and .377, respectively. over the state have been wel- Charleston; Dick Corso, Taylorv·
comed. The cost will be only $1? Bob Seed, Bridgeort; Jerry Big
Also lost to Coach White by Mattoon; Bob Gilpin, Atwood; Jo
graduation is pitcher Harry Moeller, per week per student.
who finished last season with a Yerem, Westville; Marvin Sprost
3-1 record and an earned run av-
erage of l .55. Aledo; Wesley Walker, Danvi

Returning lettermen are: Pitchers Paul Swinford, Windsor; Dick Fred Rose, Altamont;
-Maurice Hemphill, Dorchester;
Ken Ludwig, Effingham; and Jack Wakeland, Danville; Ronnie Gris- Pat Price, Charleston; Dick Mar~
Kenny, Covington, Ind. Catchers-
Jesse Orvedahl, Effingham; Don som, Ramsey; Bill Schuetze, Car- tin, Carlinville; J. Alvin Daugh
Stelzer, Mt. Carmel; and Gene Mur-
rny, Winnebago. First base-Nel- linville; Gib Rainey, Ramsey; Joe Newton; Tom Juravich, Benld;
son McMullen, Hume. Third base-
Chuck Edgington, Crown Point, Clay, Thomasboro; Carl Stephen- bert Luthe, Findlay; Jim Wo
Ind. Shortstop-Bill Parmentier, Gil-
lespie. Outfielders-Tom McDevitt, son, St. Francisville; Jim Foran, Tuscola; Gerald O'Flaherty, Bra
Effingham; Bob Lee, Edgewood;
and Jack Vick, Harvard. Skokie; Larry Hart, Pruett; and ley; John O'Dell, East St. Lou s·

Other veterans are George Dewey Lynn, Petersburg. Richard Jeffers, Georgetown; Wirt
Smith, Cl:!icago; Bill Corey, Coving-
ton, Ind.; Clark Leden, Winnebago; The 1954 schedule: ston Brown, New Orleans, La.1
Bob Nippe, Strasburg; Billy Snede-
ker, Jewett; and Larry Fulton, Cat- April 5-Washington University, Hank Carter, Gillespie; Jon Ulz.
lin.
home Gillespie; Roger West, Wyanett
First year men are Rudy Gon-
zales, Chicago; David Zimmer, April 9-lndiana Central, away Ed Davis, Bradley; Everett HardY
Windsor; Ken Hearn, lvesdale; Ern-
est Cimo, Westville; Rich Heyden, April 10-Anderson, Ind., away Paris; Mervin Carl, Bridge
Gillespie; John Watkins, Arthur;
April 17-lllinois Normal (2), home Wayne Brooke, Gillespie; Ray

April 20-Navy Pier, home er, Charleston; Dave Radf

April 23-Michigan Normal (2), Wheaton; Ron Hicks, Mooseh

home and Jerry Porter, Mattoon.

April 30, Central Michigan (2), The 1954 track schedule:

home April 9-Millikin, there

May 3-lndiana State, away April 15-lndiana State, here

May 8-Chanute AFB (2), away April 23-lllinois Normal, ther~

May 14-Southern Illinois (2), April 27-Southern Illinois, her~

away April 30-Northern Illinois, ·ther41

May 19-lndiana State, home May 8-State College Meet,

May 21-Northern Illinois (2), Charleston

away May 14-Western Illinois, here

May 28-Western Illinois (2), home May 21-22-llAC, Carbondale'

PAGE FOURTEEN

Keeping •In touch

&ntoinette Slemmons, 'O 1, now filmstrip library at Eastern's audio- to retire from his work as head of
ired from her work at St. Paul's visual center is a set of four color the botany and entomology depart-
strips authored by Miss Ruby Har· ment at the University of Maine,
ore Roosevelt High School, ris, '12, member of the Eastern Orono, at the end June. Dr. Stein-
lives at 128 Fifth St., Wilmette, geography department now on metz recently published a paper,
111. l'>uring the pa_st four years she leave to edit films for Rand Mc- "Air Borne Pollen and Fungous
has Lcted as precinct chairman for Nally in Chicago.
Spores."
i New Trier Township Womens' Hazel Willson (Mrs. Thomas Anna Emma Phipps {Mrs. Char·
ublican Club. Thompson), '12, writes that her
uth Reat, '06, of Vashon, Wash., daughter, the former Ruth Elanor les Roscoe Daggy), '13, writes from
Mills, married Carl E. Liedtke at Greencastle, Ind., that her husband
is now retired from teaching. Gardena, Cal if., in December. Mrs. died suddenly last August.
Ruth Riley (Mrs. John W. Mat· Liedtke has been an industrial
nurse at Northrop Aircraft, where Lois F. Shortess, '14, is now gen-
•ews) '08, sends her new ad- Mr. Leidtke is a supervisor of e~al assistant in the extension de-
1!._ess as 812 W. New Hampshire, mechanies. Mrs. Thompson now partment of the Louisiana State Li-
Iives at 313 S. Seventeenth St., Mat- brary. She lives at 5279 Greenside
•ando, Fla. toon, Ill. Lane, Baton Rouge, La.
Henry H. Zimmerman, '10, now
Fern Wright (Mrs. Francis Hard- Jane Shaw {Mrs. Jane L. Bige-
lives at 1919 Orange St., Musca- wick), '12, died last September. low), '14, is in charge of two and
Mrs. Hardwick was the wife of the three year old children of working
fine, la. head of the psychology depart- parents at the Covina, Calif., Child
Jesse E. Ernst, '10, recently com- ment at Whitworth College, Spo- Care Center and writes that s!ie en-
joys it very much. Her home is at
. .ted 33 years as postmaster in kane, Wash. 532 Valencia Place, Covina.
Mr. and Mrs. William Ernest
•rdin, Ill. Edwin Ansil Whalin, '14, lives at
Gossett, '12, who operated a gro- Rose Hill, Ill., where he is tempor-
Percy White Zimmerman, '10, al- cery store near the Eastern campus arily an instructor of veteran stu-
lough not teaching, has been in for some years, now live on a farm dents.
aicational work since graduation
..om Eastern. He has published ap- near Windsor, Ill. Mrs. Gossett is Oren Whalin, '14, of 208 W.
the former Goldie Smith, '14. Washington, Urbana, Ill., writes
ximately 200 reports on the that his daughter, Mary Lois, and
siology of plant life. He directs Katherine Timm (Mrs. Edward her husband, Fred Major, Jr., are
Boyce Thompson Institute for Rosenheim), '12, writes that her moving to Houston, Tex. Major has
Jlant Research at Yonkers, N. Y. son, Dr. G. E. Rosenheim, is a just completed his M. S. in geology
practicing physician at Boise, Idaho, and has taken a research job with
Zella F. Powell (Mrs. Albert where Mrs. Rosenheim lives at the Shell Oil Company at Houston.
Brown Lovett), '10, who taught at 181 6 Jefferson St. Dr. Whalin is an associate professor
the Haven Branch for Girls of the of agriculture at the University of
losely Special School in Chicago Emma Newell (Mrs. 0. E. Sea· II Ii n ois.
litil 1952, now lives in retirement ton), '12, has moved from Detroit
at 4725 St. Lawrence Ave., Chi- to 645 Lake Deer Drive, Winter Joseph Louis Barger,, '14, will
.go 15, Ill. She taught in Chicago Haven, Fla. retire after two more years as an
lhools for 32 years. industrial arts instructor in Dun-
Mary Virginia Springer (Mrs. bar, Va.
Alma Stewart (Mrs. Chester S.
tarrell), '11, is employed as a com- Leslie Kendall Jackson), '13, writes Edna May Furness (Mrs. Ralph
lanion and housekeeper at Cob- that she attended Homecoming at H. Erickson), '14, died five years
:ten, Ill. Eastern last year and "enjoyed ago, according to word received
every minute of it.'' from her husband. Mr. Erickson
Waverly Rodecker (Mrs. John G. lives at 1010 West 65th St., Kansas
Smith), '11, retired last year from Mabel Mary Furness (Mrs. Fred City, Mo.
her work in the Los Angeles City N. Johnson), '13, is now teaching at
lhools. A daughter, Johanna, is a Grants Pass, Ore. Her present ad- Mary Virginia Robinson (Mrs.
U. C. L. A. graduate now on leave dress is R. R. 3, Box 740, Grants Verne R. McDougle), '14, is now
rem teaching because of son Fred- teaching in Urbana, Ill., where her
~rick T.homas Lythe, age 6 months. Pass. home address is 806 Iowa St.
Pw\rs. Smith lives at 1124 Norton
Ave., Glendale 2, Calif. Helen Comer (Mrs. Arthur Tay· Nora Virginia Spencer (Mrs. Earl
lor), '13, · is doing substitute teach- A. Runyan), '15, has operated a
Among recent additions to the ing in the-Evanston, Ill., elementary grocery store in Decatur, Ill., for
schools. She has a new grand- many years.
daughter, Susan, the daughter of
her son, Robert Taylor. Lewis Hanford Tiffany, '15, pro-

Ferdinand ·steinmetz, '13, plans PAGE FIFTEEN

fessor of botany at Northwestern, bert), '17, took a position as teacher ard), '19, writes that she finds tr1
is co-author of a recently published of first grade in the new Carolyn ical gardening a most interesti
paper, "Algae of Illinois," publish- Wenz School of Paris, Ill., last fall.
ed by the University of Chicago A clipping from the Paris Beacon· hobby. She lives at 111 Palmett
Press. News gives an account of a talk
made recently by Mrs. Gilbert be- Rd., Belleair Estates, Clearwat
Inez Olive Dawson (Mrs. Richard fore the Paris Business and Profes-
Vance), '16, is again teaching in sional Women's Club on employer- Fla.
Mercer County, where she has employee relationships. Mr. Gil-
taught at various times since 1916. bert is owner of the Gilbert's Men's Ruby Mary Bonham, '19, is now
Her husband died in 1950. Her Clothing Store of Paris.
home is at Seaton, Ill. a primary teacher in Cleveland, O.
Martha Van Sellar, '18, has 316 Her permanent address · is 2615
Elizabeth Gard (Mrs. Clarence N. Central Ave., Paris, Ill., as a Ashurst Rd., University Heights 18,
Scott), '16, is teaching second grade permanent address. Her winter ad-
at White Heath, Ill. Her address is dress is 2185 S. W. Tenth, Miami, 0.
723 S. Lynn, Champaign. Fla. Audrey Shuey (Mrs. Neal E. Fir-

Russell Howard Anderson, '16, Mae Stanberry (Mrs. Mayberry kins), '19, is author of two recent
lives at 1639 Hazel Dr., Cleveland W. Rozar), '18, has moved her resi-
6, 0. dence from Macon, Ga., to Hebe publications: "Stereotyping of Neg4
Sound, Fla., but keeps an apart- roes and Whites: An Analysis of
Ralph Zehner, '16, retired from ment in Macon. She writes that the
teaching some years ago and since Rozars have been traveling a great Magazine Pictures" in the Public
1949 has been an inspector for the deal on business and pleasure, to Opinion Quarterly; and "Achie-.41
Illinois Crop Improvement Associa- Washington, California, and Eur- ment of Public and Private Sch~
tion and is farming on R. R. 3, Law-
renceville, Ill. ope. f.ntrants in College: The Freshm•
Zela Catherine Winkleblack (Mrs.
Irene Couchman (Mrs. R. G. Buz· Year" in the Journal of Education.
zard), '16, visited Marie Hartmann G. A. Brewer), '18, is the wife of Research (in press). Mrs. Firkins
(Mrs. James Kessinger), '16, at the an evangelist at Greenville, Ill. She
latter's home in San Diego in Feb- writes that a son-in-law, Lt. Charles teaches at Randolph Macon Wo-
ruary. Mrs. 'Buzzard was attending Cromeaus, returned from Korea in man's College, Lynchburg, Va.
the wedding of her son Charles, December and expects to resume
•48, and Miss Norma Heck. Mrs. his work in school administration. Bernice Greathouse (Mrs. Waynt
Kessinger has two married daugh- Hance), '20, has been the assistail
ters. Mr. Kessinger died in 1945. Dorothy Hotchkiss Davis (Mrs.
Frank Ora Faul), '18, recently be- county superintendent of sch
Mary Bell Roderus (Mrs. 0. came a grandmother. The grand- in Toledo, Ill., since 1951.
Frank Kellogg), 'l 7, teaches fifth daughter is Susan Dairs Faul,
grade in the Washington School, daughter of Dick Faul of Chicago. Lucille Maude Wilson (Mrs. John
Charleston. Mrs. Faul's current address is 105 G. Trumbull), '20, is a housewif41 in
West Palm St., Robinson, Ill.
Esther Woodson Doty (Mrs. Mer- Maywood, Ill., where she lives at
wyn H. Cable), '17, sends her new Lucy Gray (Mrs. W. E. Moulton), 709 N. Fifth Ave.
address as 7510 Parkdale, Clayton 'l 8, has had a long record of teach-
5, Mo., where Mr. Cable is employ- ir.g in Kansas since graduation Doris Shafer (Mrs. Austin R. Mc-
ed by the International Shoe Com- from Eastern. She now teaches the Carty), '20, writes that,her husba
pany. third grade in the Neodesha an insurance agent at Arling
School. Her address is 602 Osage Heights, Ill., is now deceased.
Grace Reininga, '17, teaches in St., Neodesha. McCarty lives at 717 S. Mitch.
the Bateman Private School in Chi-
cago. Her permanent address is Helen Shrieve (Mrs. E. H. Ben- Arlington Heights.
320 Horne Ave., Oak Park, Ill. nett), '18, now lives at 5210 A East Harry Whitesel, '20, is an eng
Broadway, Long Beach 3, Calif.
Mary Hazel Young, '17, who neer with the Amana Refrigera
married Stephen Ford Elms, a con- Kathryn May Reeder (Mrs. E. R. Company of Cedar Rapids,
sulting engineer, has three chil- Nelson), '18, retired from active where he lives at 320 Forest Driv
dren. Their daughter Jennie re- teaching in 1953 after 34 years of S. E.
ceived her B. S. degree in June, service. Mrs. Nelson is a widow liv-
1953, and was recently married. ing at 502 E. Pembroke St., Tuscola, Agnes Irene Smith, '20, of R. R.
She now lives in Los Angeles. Wil- Ill. A son, Dr. W. 0 . Nelson, lives 2, Marshall, Ill., won · the Pen4
liam, their son, graduated from at 2108 Grange Dr., University
Purdue University last May and is Downs, Urbana. women's prize for poetry in the
now an ensign in the Navy. Mrs. State of Illinois last year wit" a
Elms lives at 435 Stellar Ave., Pel- Anna Marie Wiman (Mrs. George sonnet she submitted.
ham, N. Y.
Allen Matheny), '1 9, writes of the Homer Scovil, '20, princiPI of
Francis Berne Norton, '18, lives death of her husband. Her current
at 703 South Third St., Champaign, address is Box 356, R. R. 2, Robin- the Franklin Junior High afl Ke-
Ill. son, Ill. wanee, Ill., for 30 years, wr11d

Marie Pollard (Mrs. Stanton Gil- Nida Smith (Mrs. Edward Barn- that his family consists of two ma,.

PAGE SIXTEEN ried daughters and one grarid-

daughter.

Trevor K. Serviss, '20, is autld

thBeullAetminerfiocranFL~i-
1of an

brary
article in
Association

ruary, 1954, on reading and du
growth. Mr. Serviss is editor-~

chief of D. C. Heath, Boston.

lives at 100 Memorial Dr., Ca

bridge.

Lucile Rhoads (Mrs. L. A. ICr .

natbe), '21, is a substitute teach• 111

the Dieterich, Ill., School. She

Under a Spell of Art Clubs. Mr. Jackson is an
attorney.

Perry Rawland, '22, professor of

industrial arts education at the St.

Cloud, Minn., State Teachers Col-

lege, writes that Opal Bussard

(Mrs. Charles W. Scott), '22, moved

from Minneapolis to 744 Wren Rd.,

Jacksonville 7, Fla., recently be-

cause of Mr. Scott's health. He sug-

gests that friends write them there

and call when in Jacksonville.

Mary Pauline Bowman (Mrs.

Miles C. Johnsen), '22, is a critic

teacher in the Toledo, 0., schools.

Irene King (Mrs. Charles P. Zim-

mers), '22, has been on a three

months' tour of Europe. Mrs. Zim-

mers lives at Twenty-nine Palms,

Cal i f .

Calidonia Kathryn Weber (Mrs.

Milton M. Brubaker), '22, received

her B. S. in Ed. degree from Illinois

Dr. Charles H. Coleman (left) proved that Abe Lincoln (right) could State Normal University last sum-
~pell at least as well as the typical high school student of today in a mer. She is presently teaching the
un que spelling bee covered by the United Press on Lincoln's birthday last first grade in Springfield, Ill.,
where she lives at 1737 Lincoln St.
month. A dozen sophomores from Eastern State High and Charleston

llgh went down repeatedly on words that also floored Lincoln in his Victoria Elizabeth Bostic (Mrs.

lritten works. Lincoln had about l 0 months of formal schooling to the W. C. Taylor), '22, is a housewife

sophs' l 0 years. Coleman had prepared a list of 50 words misspelled by in Tuscola, Ill.
aicoln between 1830 and 1845. Samples: "verry," "disclosiers," and . Irene Champion (Mrs. James Ell-

urtenances." • wood Amos), '22, sends her new

President R. G. Buzzard is the "middleman" in the above picture, address as Box 6773 Southboro Sta-

.,ken in the parlor of new Lincoln Hall. tion, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Wynemiah Rardin (Mrs. G. D.

Perry), '22, is employed as a book-
a tr'anddaughter, Julie Jo Spitz, Schriner), '22, writes that her sons, keeper in Detroit, Mich. She wries

born last August. Fred and Karl, Eastern State High that she is arranging time to attend

Lura Marcialene Williams (Mrs. graduates, are scholarship students Eastern's Homecoming celebration

Pleasant F. Robnett), '21, writes in the College of Engineering, Uni- next year, and is pleased that the
~hat her husband is deceased. Mrs. versity of Illinois. The Schriners live alumni magazine keeps her in

l>bnett lives in Kinmundy, Ill. , on R. R. l, Ashmore, Ill. , contact with her old friends. Her

Lucy Marie Redden (Mrs. Ed Mayble Lucile Damon (Mrs. home address is 3969 Harold St.,

lronson), '21, died in August of wHenry Brethauer), '22, lives at 1725 Detroit 12.
1I951. She taught in the Blfue Island, Ruth Pierce (Mrs. James M.
11., elementary system or many . 91 st St., Ch1' cago 20, Ill. Mr.
·,t:an . Brethauer is a salesman. Shields), '23, writes that she is a

Virginla Emily Goodman (Mrs. Mrs. Joyce Treager Neal, '22, Welcome Wagon hostess at Nash-
writes that her daughter Paula ville, Tenn., where her home is
~man A. Hickle), '21, teaches a PIans to enter Eastern next fa II ·
all class of piano students at Cul- Wood mont Terrace, Apt. D-8 . Mr.
Shields is a supervisor for the

l1s.on, Kan. Mr. Hickle is a rural Mrs. Neal teaches ·in the Mattoon, Southern Bell Telephone and Tele-
~ail carrier.
11!., High School and lives at 2217 graph Co.

Evelyn Sarah Allison, '2 l , Western Ave., Mattoon. Wade Steel, '23, is superintend-

lltaches the third and fourth grades Mattie Ann McKeown, '22, is a ent of the Leyden High School,

in the Indianapolis, Ind., schools. nurse in San Francisco, where her Franklin Park, Ill. His home is at

• r permanent address is Green- home is at 1520 Gough St., Apt. 4342 Emerson St., Schiller Park.

ll>od, R. R. 3, Indianapolis. 702. . Virginia Shield (Mrs. Ora N.

Flossie Mae Read (Mrs. Fred Lola Raper (Mrs. Amos W. Jack- Essex), '23, has a daughter, Pat,

lacey), '22, teaches sixth grade in son), '22, is president of the who is a junior at Bowling Green
~ the Main School, Costa Mesa, Haveohn Art Club of Versailles, State University and a son, Mike,

~alif., and lives at 12172 E. Edinger Ind., where she now - lives. She is who is a freshman at the University

St., Santa Ana. also a member of the board of di- of Wisconsin. The Essexes live at

Avis Rhoden (Mrs. Charles F. rectors of the Indiana Federation 315 Merry, Bowling Green, 0. Mr.

PAGE SEVENTEEN

Essex is chief engineer at the Day- Inez Tearney (Mrs. Errett Warner}, been an admissions counselor at
brook Hydraulic Co. '25, is principal of the Lake Shore Lake Forest College since 195 l. He
School and lives in Ridge Farm, Ill.
Rhea Helen Beam (Mrs. L. A. Mr. Warner is Ridge Farm superin- has been a partner in Ca!
Delaney}, '23, now lives at 201 S. Mishawaka, near Grand Rapids
English Ave., Springfield, Ill. tendent of schools. , Minn., since 1933 and now dire
Alberta Inez Rogers, '25, is a re- the camp.
Emily Jane Fox (Mrs. Thomas
Gilbert}, '23, is a housewife in tired teacher now doing part time Lelan Rodebaugh (Mrs. Paut
Tempe, Ariz., where she Iives at work in the Springfield, Ill., Cereb- Cummins), '26, a teacher in the
l l W. 12 St. ral Palsy Treatment Center. Her Mattoon, 111., s-chool district, is the
home is at 1318 Franklin in Spring· mother of Richard L. Cummins, one.
Gertrude J. Sharkey (Mrs. Sam- field. of three co-valedictorians at the
uel Plumb), '23, is a homemaker at University of Illinois last year,
503 Monroe St., Streator, 111., Hulah Stokes Boswell, '25, now when he took the degree in phy4
where Mr. Plumb is an accountant teaches in Champaign, Ill., where sics. Another son, Donald, is a 1un-
at the Owens Glass Company. The she lives at 609 State St. ior at Mattoon High School. The
Plumbs have one daughter, Patri- elder Cummins is an Illinois Cen~
cia Louise. Earl George Horn, '26, has been tral agent at Lerna.
the superintendent of schools at
Angel '-Corbet, ·'24, a dramatic Ashton, Ill., since 1948. Virginia Goodman (Mrs. Lymat
theatre director at Arecibo, Puerto A. Hickle}, '27, writes that she i
Rico, has recently returned to her Florence Mary Ersham (Mrs. John teaching a small class of piant
home at· 34 Jose de Diego St., Hart), '26, is a housewife at 2813 pupils in her home at Cullison, Kan.
Arecibo, from a trip through Marion Ave., Mattoon, Ill. She attended Wesleyan Univers
Europe, Asia, and Africa. last summer.
Ted Barkhurst, '26, is director of
Edwin Thompson, '24, received adult education at Great Falls, George Clayton Towles, '.27,
a 25 year pin for a quarter century Mont., where he lives at 3026 teaching in the Columbia Eleme
of teaching agriculture at a recent Eighth Ave. South. ary School, Peoria, Ill. His prese41
meeting of the Illinois Agricultural address is 122 Bartlett Ct., Peori•
Association in Chicago. He now Mabel Ruth Wilson (Mrs. Ralph
teaches in Durand, llL E. Edwards), '26, writes that her Frieda Juanita Green (Mrs. Clin-
son, Richard, graduated from the ton C. Green}, '27, lives at 629 E.
Karl Whisenand, husband of University of Illinois in 1953 and Washington St., Greencastle, Ind .
the former Clara Rodebaugh, '24, is now a second lieutenant in the where Mr. Green is a professor
died early this month. Mrs. Whisen- Air Force. A daughter, Nancy, is education at DePauw University.
nand teaches mathematics in Robin- a freshman at the University of
son and lives in Oblong, Ill. Wisconsin. Another son, John, is a Eloise · Swearingen (Mrs. And
Meurlot}, '27, writes that she is
Elsie Sloan, '24, will serve as an junior in high school. The Edwards president of the Decatur, Ill., Coun-
Illinois delegate to the N. E. A. Re- live at 612 S. Bloomington, Streat- cil of Parent Teacher Associatio•
gional Instructional Conference in or, Ill. Son Karl is attending the Univer
Minneapolis in April. Miss Sloan, of Illinois. Daughter Carole is a
who is dean of girls and teacher of Alex Reed, '26, is an associate junior at Decatur High.
EngJish ...in the Edwardsville, Ill., professor at Southern Illinois Uni·
High School, is also serving as the versity. He is working toward the Thelma Mae Whitney (Mrs. Clern
Illinois member · of the · N. E. A. C. Shreve), '27, writes that her son,f
Resolutions Committee · this year. doctorate degree at the University Dee, is a senior and her daugh
She plans to attend its meeting in of Illinois. Murnell, a freshman at the Gr
New York this summer. Bend, Kan., High School.
Mary Hodgin (Mrs. W. V. Brenne-
Opal Margaret Rippey, '24, is ,man}, '26, teaches in the Boston, Dorothy Josephine Shafer (Mrs.
teaching biology in Lanphier High Ind., Grade School. Her home is on Lewis T. Lanphier}, '28, teache~ in
School, Springfield, Ill. She holds R. R. 3, Niewoehner Rd., Richmond, the Lowell School, Mattoon, Ill. Mr.
the B. S. and M. S. from the Uni- Ind. She has two daughters, one a
versity of Illinois. graduate of Purdue .and the other Lanphier is a farmer. Their daugl
a junior there. Mr. Brenneman also
Mrs. Beulah Treloggen, '24, ter. Sue will graduate in June froii
teaches sixth grade at Roxana in teaches.
one of the new unit schools. She Beatrice Burnette Barrett (Mrs. the Passavant School of Nursi'9
lives on St. Louis Rd., Edwardsville, Northwestern University.
Ill. Charles Hartman}, '26, is a primary
te·acher in the Monger School, Elk- Major John Sherman Ross Pop-
Rhoda Prather (Mrs. Myron Perk- ham, '28, is now with the N. D
inson}, '24, died last May 2. She hart; Ind. Mr. Hartman died in Army Reserve Advisory Grau!
had lived for many years in Toledo, 1952. A daughter, Patsy, is 11. Bismark, N. D. Mrs. Popham is,.:.
0., where Mr. Perkinson is a rail- 2911 Daisy Ave., Long Bea....
way mail clerk. Frank Woodard, '26, is teaching Calif.
the upper grades at the Oak Hill
Helen Jones (Mrs. Christian School, Springfield, Ill. He lives at Clarice Hester Croy (Mrs. Shel"
-Heyl), '24, lives at 35 Hawthorne 705 S. State, Springfield. man Lineberry), '28, of Charle
Ave., Delmar, N. Y. Her husband
is an office manager. Ted Cavins, '26, was elected is a proofreader for the Journ
president of the American Camp- Gazette of Mattoon. She was for
PAGE EIGHTEEN ing Association in February. He erly with the Herald and Review ill
will take office in 1955 for a two
year term. Cavins lives at 1221 Decatur.
Griffith Rd., Lake Forest, 111. He has

. .therine Brown, '28, writes son's live at 155 S. Oak Knoll, Maurine Audrey Tate (Mrs. Rob-
t she had a two-day visit with Pasadena 5. ert Clark Warnick), '31, received
B.S. degree from Illinois State Nor-
ilormer teachers, M;ss Isabel Naomi LaRue Neisler (Mrs. D. A. mal University in 1952. Mrs. War-
nney and Miss Orra Neal in Ripley), '30, is a housewife at 214 nick teaches the second grade at
rnont, Calif., last November. S. Pine St., Pana, Ill. Cerro Gordo, Ill., and lives at 1140
W. Decatur St. in Decatur.
ther looks a day older than Gladys Eliza Squires, '30, is a
ft,ttien I saw them last, twenty-five child welfare worker in Chicago, Alta Mae Wiyatt (Mrs. Dwight
where she lives at l 003 E. 53rd St. L. Huddlestun), '3•1, received B. S.
i ago," she says. " . . . Miss
is quiet, competent, and aris- Rella Blanche Warner (Mn. Rella in Ed. degree from Northwestern
in 1948. The Huddlestuns live in
ic-looking as ever . . . Miss B. Holyoke), '30, teaches first grade Rose Hill, Ill., and have a son;
JJ1CK1nney is still the understand- in Delano, Calif. The mailing ad- Jeffrey Dwight, l 0 months old.
,j,pQ wise, and sure teacher, an ex- dress is P. 0 . Box 445.
anple for us all." Miss Brown lives Theodore Lewis Whitesel, '31, is
at 4432 Washington Blvd., St. Lillian E. Brackenbusch (Mn. J. an associate professor at Montana
~uis 8, Mo. Eldon Snider), '30, is a farm house- State University. He lives at 126
Mcleod Ave., Missoula, Mont.
benelle Voigt (Mrs. Harry Jack- wife at Coffeen, Ill. A daughter,
Ruth Ann, is a junior in the Coffeen Martha Alita Waltrip (Mrs. Law-
tol!li '29, writes that she has been High School.
rence L. Lehmann), '31, lives at 86
a llusemother at Lucas Lodge, a Lyla Anna Louise Messman (Mrs. Brookdale Gardens, Bloomfield, N.
S. S. Dohorty), '30, is a housewife J. Her husband. is a landscape archi-
tiovs' dorm, for the past 15 years. at 203 Elm Dr., Neptune, N. J. tect draftsman.
Mr. Jackson is head of the indus-
trial arts department at Winona, John Holin Prater, '30, is co- Harold Sampson Robbins, '31, is
•in., State Teachers College. author of an elementary textbook director of special education and
•elle's chief hobby is the Jack- titled "Exporing Illinois" which is to visiting counselor in Carmi, Ill. The
son cottage at Nisswa, Minn. be published this spring. John is Robbins have a second son, Bruce
director of curriculum in Maywood, Allan, one year old.
J1111ia Thomas (Mrs. George A. Ill., where the address is 1615 S.
tlhant), '29, writes that she is busy Seventh Ave. Everette Glen Womack, '31, and
~ing to the University of Hawaii his wife, the former Josephine
Wanita Sedgwick (Mrs. William Spires of Ramsey, Ill., have a fam-
1very spare minute to meet the H. Catey), '31, manages the Five ily of three boys and two girls, who
. , year requirements in the Star Motel in Greenup, Ill. are all in school. Everette teaches
avaii school system, where she math and social science at Marissa,
tBches grade one. The Jahants Gertrude Hermine Wente (Mrs. Ill., where the Womacks live at 203
Markus Lohrmann), '31, lives at 809 E. Lyons St.
live at 1135 Koohoo Pl., Lanikai. W. Jefferson Ave., Effingham, Ill.,
Cyril D. Reed, '29, a business- where she teaches the third grade. Edith May Price, '31, is now an
Her husband, a former chaplain,
man at Wheatridge, Colo., writes died in 1944.
~hat his son Dale won a tuition-free
Resolved . ..
Elarship to the . University . of
rado, where he is studying . .. to speak well for Eastern. Led by John Dowling (left) of Danville
trical engineering.
Marjorie Edith Young, '29, is on and Dana Johnson of Mt. Carmel, Eastern's debate teams are having a
the 'temporarily disabled retirement
list. She has been teaching at Alta- good season under the tutelage of new forensics director Dr. Ernest Bor-
lnont, Ill.
mann. Dowling and Johnson won all of their debates in Eastern's l 7th
Mary Tittle (Mrs. D. W. Willing-
halti), '29, has three children, Don, Annual Invitational Tournament in February. Sixteen Midwest colleges
18, Judy, 14, and Bonnie Sue, 11.
Mr. Willingham is a buyer for the and universities took part. ·
J. l. Hudson Company of Detroit,
Mich., where the Wilinghams live
at 10463 Roxbury.

Ruth Marie Zimmerly (Mrs. Gil-
bert H. Morrison), '28, '30, writes
·roni Peotone, Ill. that her daugh-
ter, Sue, is a senior music major
at Eastern.

t ),Kathleen Wilson (Mrs. Thomas J.
'30, of Marissa, Ill., reminds

that she played a saxophone in
fhe original E. I. Band.

Thelma Fern Price (Mrs. John M.
larlson), '30, has acted as assistant
~rdinator of elementary educa-
tion in the city schools at Pasadena,
Calif., since last August. The Carl-

PAGE NINETEEN

elementary teacher in Maywood, ing at Henderson State Teachers L. Herscher), '33, is teaching in Cas~
Ill. She accepted this position in College, Arkadelphia, Ark. sopolis, Mich. Her husband is a
January, 1954. merchant.
Pauline Bennett (Mrs. Ralph
Mabel Naomi Wilson (Mrs. Del· Cox), '32, teaches sixth grade at Elizabeth lumbrick (Mrs. Virgil
bert l. Young), '31, has a daughter, Westfield, Ill. Her mailing address
Joan, who is a freshman at Eastern is Box 337, Kansas, Ill. . T. Cunningham), '33, l 012 W. Fair1
this year. The Youngs live at 24 child St., Danville, Ill., writes to in.
Norwood Dr., Decatur, Ill. Mr. Charles Donald Betebenner, '32,
Young, '32, is -employed as a is employed as a harness horse race quire about the alumni art exhibil
teacher in the Decatur High School. starter during the racing season. in the Sargent Gallery at Easten•
His winter address is West Salem, Mrs. Cunningham, who studiei
Willard Edgar Turney, '32, is 111. · under Sargent in the l 930's, has
principal of the Bn.ineau, Idaho, been painting for the past sevenl
High School. Josephine Anna Stulgin (Mrs. years under the instruction of Har.
Louis Bednar), '32, sends her cur-
Walter Milone, '32, is teaching rent address as 2507 Georgetown old McDonald of Veedersbuil
at Gardner, Ill. Rd., Danville, Ill. Ind., and Professor Niccoli Ziroli of

Pauline Bennett (Mrs. Ralph Paul Emil Chitenden, '33, sends the University of Illinois. She has
Cox), '32, took _a sixth grade teach- his current address as 204 North also been active in the Danville Art
ing position at Westfield, Ill., in Grant St., Desloge, Mo. League. She has exhibited in Da~
December. Mr. Cox works for the
New York Central Railroad. The Marguerite Marie Zimmer (Mrs. ville and at the Swope Gallery in
Coxes live in Kansas, Ill. Roy Heath), '33, is employed as a Terre Haute.
reading consultant in the depart-
Josephine Anna Stulgin (Mrs. ment of pupil adjustment of the Grace Teel (Mrs. Arthur C. Shri-
Louis Bednar), '32, is living at 2507 Des Moines, la., schools system.
Georgetown Rd., Danville, Ill. Her husband is captain of the Des ver), '33, of 823 Henrietta, Pekirl
Moines fire department. 111., has a new daughter.
Grace Reigle (Mrs. Dale Moore),
'32, teaches English in the Newton, Paul Blair, '33, played bass biol Olive Marie Hawkins (Mrs. Mar·
Ill., High School. in the Joe Berns Orchestra which cus A. Sisson), '34, teaches seconl
played the Mistletoe Frolic at East- grade at the lndianola, Ill., Gradl
Edna Ida Vaupel (Mrs. John F. ern this winter. Blair, who was School. The Sissons have a dau~
Spahr), '32, has been teaching in a News editor in 1931-32, was recog- ter who is planning to enter Eastefl
new elementary school at Farming- nized by Dean Hobart Heller, who
ton, Mo., where she lives at 320 introduced him to other faculty next year.
W. Third. Mr. Spahr is commercial members. Blair is in the postal ser- Kathryn Ann Pierce (Mrs. Jackitll
manager for WBLN-TV. After June vice in Danville, Ill., and plays in
l Mrs. Spahr will be at 12 Nor- the orchestra as a sideline. A. Werder), '34, is a housewif~ in
bloom Ave., Bloomington, Ill. Highland, Ill., where she cares for
Clyde P. Richman, '33, of 2008
Lutheria Ellen Eveland, '32, of Wilson St., Durham, N. C., was ap- her two daughters, Carolyn Kay4
317 Campbell St., Paris, Ill., is pointed by the North Carolina sup- and Emily Dawn.
teaching in Oakla.nd. erintendent of public instruction as
a member of the State Industrial Clarence Edward Jackson, '3~
.Esther Louis Kiger (Mrs. James Arts Advisory Committee for a two teaches in Indianapolis, Ind., wherl
E. Pricer), '32, took a first grade year term recently. Richman teach- his address is 670 E. Eightieth St.
position at Fithian, Ill., last fall. es in the Durham City Schools.
- Neva Quick (Mrs. Herman Stel- Gail Kathryn Weber, '34, is now
ter), '32, has two daughters, Lucie Opal Titus (Mrs. E. R. Duling), Mrs. E. Roenike of 321 Rose Ave.
Elaine, 31/2, and Judy Joan l 1/2. The '33, a second grade teacher in the
Stelters live at Buchanan, Mich., Flint, Mich., Schools, writes that Big Rapids, Mich.
where Mr. Stelter is a grocer. last June's tornado passed about Fern Annabel Richter (Mrs. Elson
one mile north of the Duling home.
Helen Sayre Weber (Mrs. Clar- 3416 N. Belsay Rd., Flint. Moreman), '34, is an agent-oper
ence Beem), '32, is a housewife at for· the C. -& E. I. Ra iIroad at
9255 S. Ridgeland, Oaklawn, Ill. Evelyn Madge Snodgrass (Mrs. marck, Ill. Her home is at 62
She and her husband have one boy Oliver), '33, is attending the Uni-
12 years old. Mr. Beem is employ- versity of Mississippi this year. Wayne St., Danville, Ill.
ed at Ford Aircraft at tool and die
leading man. For the last five years Clara Alice Mills (Mrs. Austin Margaret Marie Hosch, '34, ma,..
before going to Oaklawn Mrs. Pinkstaff), '33, retired from school ried Kenneth C. Johnson last No-
Beem worked with handicapped teaching at the Berger School, Cook vember. The newlyweds live at
children in Mattoon, Ill. County, Ill., in 1952. She lives at 1224 E. Voorhies St., Danville, 111.
221 Condit St., Hammond, Ind.
Velman Rodebaugh (Mrs. Ches- Mary Alvera Schroer (Mrs. Johll
ter Waltrip), '32, now lives at 4663 Frank E. Wood, '33, owns an in- M. Vollmer), '34, is a housewit at
Kenny Blvd., Columbus, 0. surance agency in Charleston, with 812 N. Twentieth St., MattoonA Ill.
offices in the Linder Building. He Mr. Vollmer is a pharmacist. Th*
Norman Goldsmith, '32, is listed and Mrs. Wood specialize in mutual Vollmers have one daughter, Mart
in the first edition of Leaders in insurance and magazine service. Key, 11.
American Science, distributed last
November. Dr. Goldsmith is teach- Cecile Burkybile (Mrs. Frederick Louise Katherine Stillions (ft\ISo
Antone Fernandez), '34, eachel'
PAGE TWENTY
fourth grade at Laupaho
Hawaii, where her husband
foreman at the Laupahoehoe Su9
Co.

Ida Marie Schraut, '30, '34, ha5

taught math at the Hillsboro Jun
High School since last Septe

~resides in Coffeen, Ill. trial Arts Club last year. Grand Rapids, Mich., public schools
lfl1 lvia Chloe Shipman (Mrs. John Ruth Hepburn (Mrs. Gene A. last fall. Her address is 319 Fuller
S. E., Grand Rapids 6.
~ atteberg), '34, lives on a farm Davis), '35, is a housewife at Colli-
liott, Ill. The Hattebergs have son, Ill., where her husband is Agnes Smith (Mrs. Arthur Aston),
:Wo children, Rachel, age 5, and manager of a bulk plant.
'35, has a daughter, Margaret Ann,
Jo!in Arthur, age 4. Mary Martha Baker (Mrs. Wilber born March 30, 1953. Her brother
t.\argaret Acecia Snyder (Mrs. James is 6. The Astons lives at 801
L. Honnold), '35, lives at 219 North Castello, Florissant, Mo.
John F. Cant), '34, is a housewife Ridge Lane, Peoria, Ill.
Burton Clark, '35, is an military
ill830 Vine, Park Ridge, Ill. Her Aileen Wood (Mrs. Rueben P. leave from his junior high position

.band is a physician. They have Rushing), '35, is a substitute teach- in Houston, Tex., to serve as sup-
'fWO children, Mary, age 10, and er in the Garberville, Cal if., ele- ervisor of administration and sup-
mentary schools.
ioh ' age 7. ply and instructor in supply in the
• !Vivian Arlene Thompson, '34, Golda Leoma Breen (Mrs. Elbert basic officer military course, USAF
Officer Candidate School, Lackland,
acted as librarian of the Ed- Askins), '35, is a housewife in Mor-
dsville, Ill., Community High ton, Ill., where her address is 516 Tex.
Carol St. Scott Funkhouser, '35, is the new
ISchool since last September. She
Annette Blomquist (Mrs. Gilbert Robinson, Ill., superinendent of
.elso doing graduate work at the
ersity of Indiana. .The Ed- E. Tramm}, '35, writes that she was schools. He succeeds Roe Wright,
"so mad!" upon reading about now with the national PTA office.
f dsville address is 201 Benton Eastern's difficulties with the De-
SI. partment of Public Welfare over the Funkhouser was superintendent at
home management baby that, for
Frances Ruth Whitlock (Mrs. the first time, she called all her Wapella for several years.
state legislators. Mrs. Tramm lives Herbert C. VanDeventer, '35,
~arles E. Holderread), '34, has at 353 S. Alma, Kankakee, Ill.
ght the third grade in Litchfield, took the Ph. D. degree at the Uni-
Helen · Swanson (Mrs. J. Rex versity of Iowa last November. He
, since last September. She lives is a member of the social science
at 211 W. Tyler in Litchfield. Hovious), '35, of 3413 Richmond staff at Drake University, Des
Ave., Mattoon, Ill., writes that Mr.
Beulah Blanche Tolch (Mrs. Har- Hovious is now vice president and Moines.
trust officer of the Central National Richard Allen Popham, '35, is
old Edward Walker), '34, is a co- Bank of Mattoon. He ha9 been
secretary of the Okaw Building and author of a book, Developmental
rating teacher with the Univer- Loan Association in Mattoon. The Plant Anatomy, published in 1952.
Hoviouses have three children. He is also business manager of the
of Illinois this semester, and Ohio Journal of Science, associate
ves in Mansfield, Ill. She has Parmer 0. Reed, '35, writes that editor of the American Journal of
1rugli home economics in the high he is assistant principal and dean of Botany, a member of the executive
boys at the new million dollar high
school at Mansfield the past three school at Morris, Ill. His home ad- committee of the Ohio Academy of
dress is 423 E. Washington, Morris. Science, and member of various
1ears. Reed was recently promoted to
Mary C. Brinkerhoff (Mrs. Gary captain in the Army Active Reserve. other scientific societies. He has
taught botany at Ohio State Univer-
H. furry), '34, may be addressed at Forrest Erlene Weber (Mrs. Hom- sity since 1940.
42 W. Washington, Paris, Ill. Mr.
er D. Hendricks), '35, writes that. Max Lee White, '36, was a dele-
ry is a welding supervisor for her husband, Eastern, Class of '36, gate to the I. E. A. convention in
started his position as superintend- Chicago in December. He became
New York Central Railroad. ent of schools at Bangor, Mich., a life member of N. E. A. White is
Elberta Marguerite Hendry (Mrs. last fall. The Hendrickses have a superintendent of the North Bar-
fourth child, Beva Lynn, born last rington, Ill., School.
ltY H. Pictor), '34, resides at 3733
March. Roger Dumas Jones, '36, is an
mikson St., Gary, Ind. Mr. Pictor is John W. Wyeth, '35, is assistant interior decorator in West Palm
a lJnited States Steel employee._ Beach, Fla., where he and Mrs.
principal of Rockford West High Jones, the former Frances Fisher of
Thelma Grace Quicksall (Mrs. School. His home address is 2803 Indianapolis, live with their son
Lavondale Ave., Rockford, Ill. at 405 Citizens Bldg. Before going
John P. Mueller), '34, is president to Florida, Jones served over seven
of the Maricopa County Home- Gerald A. Royer, '35, is director
•kers' Council, and lives at 45 N. of publications in the Whiting, Ind., years in the Army and spent four
schools. His home is at 1415 War- years as an interior decorator in
J3rd Ave., Phoenix, Ariz. wick Ave., Whiting. A second
Helen Alice Van Middlesworth dc:ughter, Cynthia Ann, was born Denver and Laramie, Wyo.
to the Royers on December 6, 1952.
(Mrs. Floyd R. Haney), '34, has Royer is active in the Naval Re- Lavere Owens, '36, is a recrea-
serve holding a lieutenancy. tion director at St. Charles, Ill. He
ltJght first grade at Lovington, !II. lives at 111 S. Fifth Ave., St. Char-
Jeanette Rosene (Mrs. Norman les.
llnce last September.
Marian Wozencraft, '35, is an as- Schoer), '35, took a position in the Vance Boswell, '36, is an engi-
neer living at 20246 Detroi't Rd.,
atant professor at Fenn College,
.Weiand, 0. She has a year of Cleveland, 0.

'ork beyond the Master's at West-

ern Reserve University.

William Sylvester Hardy, '35, is
laching industrial arts in Douglass
ti;gh, Webster Groves, Mo., where
his home is at 802 Ennis Ave. He

lolds the M. A. from the Univer-
~ity of Illinois, '50. He was presi-
•~nt of the Greater St. Louis lndus-

PAGE TWENTY-ONE.

Duluth Dean and Wife Margaret Virginia Dague (Mrs.
Roy E. Martin), '36, lives near Sid~
Dr. Thomas Chamberlin, '36, and Mrs. Chamberlin, the former Ruby ney, Ill., where Mr. Martin is en-
Stallings, '37. The photo was taken when he taught at East Tennessee gaged in farming.
State Teachers College in 1940.
Virginia Ruth Staff (Mrs. Eari
Thomas W. Chamberlin, '36, was address is Box 446, Depue, Ill. Crabtree), '37, writes that she ha~
three children, Phillip, 11, Sally, 6,
appointed academic dean of the Florence Young (Mrs. Walter and Sherry, 2. Mr. Crabtree is a
g•ocer in Ramsey, Ill.
University of Minnesota, Duluth Patzwitz), '36, writes that her son,
Juanee Swearingen (Mrs. Fred.
Branch, in February, succeeding Dr. born last August, died when only erick R. Boll), '36, is the mother. of
Sandra Kay, Frederick Eugene, and
Raymond W. Darland, who was ap- two weeks old. Mrs. Patzwitz is Roberta Jane. Mr. Boll is princi
of the Atwood, Ill., High School
pointed provost. Dr. Chamberlin now an office worker in St. Louis,
Babe Stevens (Mrs. Morris F.
had been head of the geography v1here her address is 1514 N. Piatt), '37, teaches at the McMill..
School of Westville, Ill., and Mr.
d£:partment at Duluth since 1947. Vandeventer, St. Louis 13. Piatt is an area mechanic for Du~
Pont at Dana, Ind.
Mrs. Chamberlin is the former Ruby Frederick Earl Zimmerman, '36,
Helen Marie Turner (Mrs. Pren-
Stallings, Eastern '37. The Chamber- lives at 992 Ransford Court, Grove tice Adams), '37, teaches the pri~
mary grades at Windsor, Ill.
lins have two children, Thomas, Jr., Highlands, Pacific Grove, Calif.
Lucille Jane Springer (Mrs. Clyde
l l, and Susan, 6. Dwane A. Ripley, '36, is now at Krohn), '37, teaches fourth gradl in
the Altamont, Ill., schools. IAr.
Harriett Teel (Mrs. William Her- 214 S. Pine St., Pana, 111. Krohn is a distributor .of petrole

rington), '36, has a daughter now · Elizabeth Jane Wilson, '36, of products.
Norma Katherine Shores (Mrs.
one year old. She lives on R. R. l, 13221 Barlin, Downey, Calif., is co-
Francis M. Whitaker), '37, is now
Areola, Ill. author of Harvest of Books, a Chi- in Lawton, Okla., and reports tha1
she is doing quite a bit of substih. .
Laura Avenelle Wheatley (Mrs. cago School Journal supplement. teaching. She says that the State of
Oklahoma is interested and con·
G. Kenneth Greer), '36, is teaching Miss Wilson teaches in the Long c£:r.ned about the teaching prof4
sion.
fourth grade at Vandalia, Ill. Her Beach, Calif., schools.
Dale Wingler, '37, and Mrs,
home is at 322 S. Eighth. Evelyn Irene Wolfe (Mrs. Glain
Wingler, the former Peggy Felli4
George Lewis Reynolds, '36, W. Lingafelter), '36, is the mother both teach English at the 1un or
high school in Muskegon, Mic .
writes that he is now a sales rep- of two daughters, Sandra Sue, 6,
Raymond Max Baker, '37, sencl
resentative for the Faultless Milling and Alice Jane, 3. The Lingafelters his address as 61 Pine St., Grays
lake, Ill.
Company of Springfield, · Ill. His live at Hutsonville, Ill.
Alice Evelyn Reynolds (Mrs. Rus-

Yisell Zimmerman), '37, writes that

she resigned from her Bloomirtl

ton, Ill., teaching position last
to have her fifth child, Jane Elle
The Zimmermans live at l Whi
Place, Bloomington.

Mildred Summers (Mrs. Maurel
'37, recently moved from Chet
enne, Wyo., to Galion, 0., whel
her address is 265 Orange St. She
is teaching kindergarten in the
South School at Galion.

Geneva Pinkstaff (Mrs. '"'"
Crawford), '37, has served for the
past three years on the Hutton Co~
solidated School Board of Educat
in Lawrence County. The Crawf
live on- R. R. l, Flat Rock.

Martha Valbert (Mrs. Earl lk,.
mire), '37, has a third child, sari

PAGE TWENTY·TWO

f ~·zmaibreetsli, born last August. The September. The address is Franklin Salem, Ore., where he is employed
live at 4501 S. James- Ave., R. R. 3, Oswego. as · note department suervisor in the
National Bank of Portland, Salem
wn Tulsa, Okla., where Mr. Ike- Frank Broyles, '34, '38, is .an air- Branch. His home address is 1710
1 N. 23rd St.

re is employed with the Sinclair plane mechanic at Grand Central Agnes Louise Worland (Mrs.
Louis K. Voris, Jr.), '39, lives in
Oil llompany. Aircraft in Tucson, Ariz., where he Neoga, Ill., where Mr. Voris
teaches at the Neoga High School.
pliline Souers (Mrs. Richard lives at 4910 E. l 7th St. They have a new son, Fral'lklin
Dean, born last September. She
Tr•'yJ, '37, is author of a booklet Sadie Gail Shrake (Mrs. Kermit writes, "Personality will no doubt
be damaged; too little 'father per-
l!ature poems entitled "His Wood Gregg), '39, is a housewife in
son'."
iwork." The Tracys live at 447 Tracy City, Tenn. The Greggs have Gale Leroy Wesley, '39, is a

hes nut St., Bridgeport, Ill. two children, Mary Alice, 22 printing instructor at Niles Town-
ship High School, Skokie. His home
~elson L. Lowry, '37, won one of · months old, and Nathan Earl, who address is 9114 Menard, Morton
Grove, Ill.
four free flights to Washington was born last November l l.
Ruby Lois Nay Swartz (Mrs. Wil-
warded to Illinois public school Warren Smith Pulliam, '39: lives liam Sattelmaier), '39, teaches the
first grade at the Chicago Ridge
hers last December for out- in Center Line, Mich., where he is Elementary School. She attended
summer session and extended day
ding work in aviation educa- employed as an equipment special- courses at Chicago Teachers Col-
lege, accumulating 13 additional
icn He was flown in an Air Force ist in the Ordnance Tank Automo- hours in elementary education.

ane for the three day trip in tive Center. He underwent surgery James William Coleman, '40, is
now in Bement, Ill., where he
bration of the 50th anniversary at the St. Anthony Hospital in Ef- teaches industrial arts and algebra.
He writes that he and his family
of wered flight. Lowry teaches fingham, Ill., last December and made a visit to Australia for six
months in 1951.
in e Arlington Heights High spent a seven week convalescent
Gerald Gale Mieure, '40, is
School. period at home. coaching and teaching industrial
arts in the high school at Marshall,
E. J. Haire, '37, formerly super- James Edwin Rice, '39, is a sales 111.

ndent at Byron, Ill., is now sup- manager for the Clearing Industrial Ruth Pauline Morr (Mrs. Steele),
'40, is a housewife on Route 2,
tendent of the Onarga, Ill., District, Inc., Chicago, Ill. His home Clayton Lane, Clinton, Md.

schools. He lives at 309 S. Poplar address is 1736 East 85th St., Chi- WillT)eth Frances Pinkstaff, '40,
recently married Mr. Grover Lyle
;., Onarga. cago. Adams. Mr. Adams is a superin-
tendent for the DeLaval Separator
Ruth Freeda Crosby Shann, '38, Alene Marie Moon (Mrs. H. Company. Their home address is
105 N. Bryan St., Weatherford,
is ~nable to teach, because of tem- Hampton) '39, is teaching in Glen- Texas.

SJrary disability. Mr. Shann is a wood, Ill. George Smithdeal Richmond,
'40, is principal of the DeWitt Ele-
murth grade teacher in Olney, Ill., Edith Durham (Mrs. Livington), mentary School in Clinton, Ill .,

lhere the Shanns live at 1325 E. '39, is a housewife near Mattoon, where he lives at 622 So. Monroe.

•urel St. 111. He received his M. S. degree from
Millikin Ur:iiversity last year and is
James Noah Sherrick, '38, writes Mrs. Ruth Preston, '39, a farm currently doing advanced work at
the University of Illinois.
that he is a candidate for Douglas and apartment manager and house-
Emmett Thomas Shipley, '40,
t unty judge. He is an attorney wife, writes that she continues to writes that he is employed by the
Villa Grove, Ill. be a colored film fan. She shot Velsicol Corporation and lives on
R. R. 3, Marshall, Ill.
~ncBreotftty),Ja'n3e8, Stublefield (Mrs. Leo films on Highway 36 to Cheyenne
writes that the Ban- this year, and has films made at William Glenn Shutt, '40, lives
at 4130 Guilford, Indianapolis,
rofts have recently adopted a son, Key West, Cuba, Niagara, etc. Mrs. Ind., where he is a school principal.
He received his M. S. from Butler
~ho will be six in March. Her home Preston lives at 900 S. Sixteenth

lldress is 1119 Maple Ave., Bel- St., Mattoon, Ill.

" dere, 111. Betty Rice (Mrs. F. E. Fair), '39,

Osler Z. Stephens, Sr., '38, writes occasionally teaches speech as a
substitute in Iowa schools. She is
lorn 8 N. Holmes, Memphis, Tenn., the wife of the manager of the
that a daughter, Barbara Stephens Eastern Iowa Light and Power Co-
lderson, '52, is teaching her sec- operative. The address is Box 49,
Durant, la.
bnd year in Riverton, Ill. Osler, Jr.,
·~3 , is in the U. S. Army at Ft. Carl E. Shull, '39, expects to
complete a doctoral disseration in
lonard Wood, Mo. time to receive the degree in June.
Clayton Noble Slifer, '31, '38, He is on leave from his position on
the Eastern art staff to study at
trites that his industrial arts clas- Ohio State University, where he
ses are making some very inter- has held a research fellowship this
year. Shull has exhibited his paint-
l ting projects with wood and ings in various Ohio shows this
etal combined. The building year.
tades class is. finishing its fifth
rome. The boys have done all the Helen Louise Cummings (Mrs. W.
J or except plastering. Clayton
~as taught in Effingham, Ill., since

1~38.

Kenneth Eugene Gabel, '38, is A. Berdelman), '39, lives at 1876

ltting head of the department of Andover Rd., Columbus 12, 0.,

lathematics at the State Teachers where she is a housewife.

College, Oswego, N. Y., as of last Floyd Wesley Pruett, .'39, lives in

PAGE TWENTY-THREE

University in 1951. cago. After the war he attended the . Edward Schwartz, Jr., '41, sendj
Paul Taylor Stine, '40, has been
G.I. University at Shrivenem, Eng., word of his new son, David Ed-
employed as an electronic scientist and taught at Chelteham Grammar
ward, born January· 9. Edward is.
in Washington, D. C., since 1946. School, Eng. He is a recent gradu- a science and math teacher in Ran~
He presented a paper entitled ate of Utterbacks Business College
"Parallel T Discriminator Design kin, 111.
Techniques" at the National Elec-
tronics Conference held in Chicago, in Mattoon. Leola May Shaw (Mrs. HarreU
Ill., last September. His home ad- Nettie Ward (Mrs. Paul Earl), '40,
dress is 5900 Skyline Dr. S. E., Lewis), '41 , is a housewife near
Washington 23, D. C. has three children, David, 7, Dan-
11'1, 5, and Donald, 3. Mr. Paul is an Louisville, Ill., where Mr. Harnt
Antoinette Paula Miseur (Mrs. engineer at the Eastman Kodak Co.,
John W. Strader), '40, teaches the Rochester, N. Y. farms.
sixth grade in Lincoln School, Pana, R. Doyle Sisson, '41, has twoi
Ill., where the Straders live on R. Barrett Racster, '40, took a posi-
R. 3. Mr. Strader is principal of the sons, Alan and Robert. He is cur-
grade schaol~·at· Rosamond. Both tion as D. 0. coordinator in the rently teaching biology at the
the $traders .attended schools at Greensboro Senior High, Greens-
Eastern last summer doing grad- Pekin, Ill., High School. His homl
uate work: · address is 1203 S. Ninth St., Pekirl

Alice Roberta Wickiser (Mrs. M. boro, N. C., after receiving the M. Mrs. Sisson is the former Wilba
R. Taylor), '40, is a housewife in A. degree in industrial arts from Cribbet, '42.
Greenup, Ill., where Mr. Taylor is
Colorado State College last sum- Donald G. Smith, '41, lives at
principal of the elementary school. mer.
The Taylors have one son, Stephen, 333 W. Graysville St., Sullivan, Ill.,
Mrs. Woodrow Viseur, the form-
7. er Beatrice Bollman, died in early where he is production mana911
January. Mr. Viseur, '41, is a coach for Meadowlark Farms, Inc. Smitl
Robert Osborne Thomas, '40, at the Urbana, Ill., High School.
took the B. S. in agriculture at the
lives in Fayetteville, Ark., where he University of Illinois in 1952.
is a plant physiologist for the U. S.
Department of Agriculture. He Sophia Faye Wright (Mrs. Ver· Emil Spe:z:ia, '41, received his
writes that the Eastern graduates
non Fleming), '41, is a voucher M. A. degree from the Univer4
he sees most often are Bob and
Juanita (Brow~) Fairchild, Fayette- cierk in the State Auditor's Office, of Illinois last year and is now do-
ville, and Don Davis, Auburn, Ala.
Springfield, Ill., where her home is ing advanced work. He is a senicl
Geraldine Wilcox (Mrs. Robert instructor at Chanute Air Forcl
at 411 N. Klein. .
Fick), '40, teaches piano in the East
Central Junior College at Decatur, Phyllis Ann Stuebe (Mrs. Jacob Base.
Miss.
Ousley), '41, i-s the mother of Don- Frank W. Tate, '41, is an assistam
Harry .Wood, '40, a commander
in the U. S. Navy, is stationed in a Id Alan, born last August. Ousley professor of English at Washi
Springfield, Va., where he lives at is an electrician with the Carter Oil ton State College, Pullman. He re-
6000 Craig. Company, living at 214 S. Chest-
nut, St. Elmo, Ill. ceived his Ph. D. degree at the
Robert Charles Zimmerman, '40,
lives at 2441 Oak St., Northbrook, University of Chicago last year.

.111. Jennie Garner (Mrs. Ralph E. Maurice Taylor, '41, is princi
Mary Louise Rogers (Mrs. Fred Smith), '41, is the mother of Anita
and coach in the elementary sc
Snedeker), '40, writes that her hus-
band is superintendent of construc- Louise, born last September. She at Greenup, Ill., after a highly
tion on a new subdivision in Louis- now has three boys and three girls.
ville, Ky. The Snedekers live at The Smiths live at Garrett, Ind. cessful coaching career at
4503 Shelbyville Rd., Apt. 4, Louis- High School. Taylor's junior hig~
ville 7. Marie Reineke (Mrs. Melvin
Rogers), '41, writes that she has basketball team at Greenup wor1
Marjorie Mccartan (Mrs. Paul R.
Bartlett), '40, writes of the birth of the Southern Illinois District Toor
son Charles in February of 1953.
Daughter Carole is now 7, The Bart- been doing some substitute teach- ney last year.
letts live at 427 W. Sixth St., Cen- irig. Son Davis is in kindergarten. Ruth Moreen Williams (Mrs.
tralia, where he is an auto mechan-
ic . The Rogerses live at 55 Goff St., James A. Howard), '41, is a housl
Corning, N. Y., where Mr. Rogers
Bob Whitlatch, '40, is now a self- wife near Noblesville, Ind., whel
.employed photographer in Mat-
toon, 111. He is a graduate of the is a ceramic engineer doing re- Mr. Howard is Hamilton Coun
Ray School of Photography in Chi- search for Corning Glass, Inc.
elevator manager. .

Jess Robert Beard, '4 1, teaches Emily Marie Witt (Mrs. E. H. Mc•

in DeKalb, Ill. His home address is Kelfresh), '41, has a son, Gregt 1,
1832 Lincoln Highway, Dekalb.
and a daughter, Wendy, 5. The Mc•
Venisa "Lorene Siverly (Mrs.
S. Nagy), '41, is now at 2904 Wal- t<elfreshes liv~ at Ford City, Pa.--~
nut St., Mattoon, Ill. Cleo Esther Wood, '30, '41, tOU"

Newt Drummond, '41, is teach- the M. S. in Education at Milli!
ing at the Williamsville, Ill., High last July. She teaches sixth gra e

at Oak Park, Ill. .

School and lives at 713 N. Bond Dean A. Arnold, '42, expe<1! to
St., Springfield. receive the Ph. D. from the Unrver·

Ben Harrison Richardson, '41, sity of Chicago in June. His diss4
has a second daughter, Patricia tation is entitled, "American Ee~
nomics Interests in Korea, 189
Key, born last October 3. Ben is
an assistant entomologist in Winter 1939." He lives at 5329 Kimb
Haven, Tex.
Chicago 15.
Paul Edmund Pearson, '4 1, is at
323 N. Second St., Monmouth, Ill. Royena Beatrice Gilpin (Mrlo

James T. Campbell), '42, is a hornt

PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

in Charleston, Ill. Mr. was born in London. The current Marjorie Chamberlain, '44, lives
address: Lt. R. E. Swisher, USN, U. in Mattoon, Ill., where she teaches
bell is a welder. S. Naval Schools, Mine Warfare,
y Jean Baker (Mrs. William Yorktown, Va. the first grade.
rthy), '42, is the mother of Emily Marie Steinbrecher (Mrs.
~ne Marie, born last May 13. John Wilson, '42, is an associate
f~e l\cCarthys live at 3248 Gar- professor of chemistry at McNeese Anthony Codispoti), '44, writes
fit.1.d, Highland, Ind. State College, Lake Charles, La. that she would like to hear from
· l'artha Lorraine Noyes, '42, is other Eastern alumni in Los Ange-
Janet Ann Winans (Mrs. Jack le~. or nearby. She lives at 7829 Mc-
ftOw at 3121 Sheridan Rd., Chicago, Henry), '42, of R. R. l, Chrisman, Connell Ave., Los Angeles 45. Mr.
Ill., has two children, Vicki Ann, 4, Codispot.i is a sales supervisor for
1111'arshall Provinces, '42, is teach- and Gregory Vincent, 2. Standard Brands, Inc.

i at the East Richland High William J. Treat, '42, is principal Cathryne 0. A. Shippy (Mrs.
ool, Olney, Ill. of the elementary and junior high
lyn Rathe (Mrs. Ralph Wilson), schools in Waverly, Ill. Wright), '44, who recently retired
~ lives at 203 W. Iowa, Urbana, after 24 years as second grade
Ill. She has three children, Ann, John George Wozencrah, '42, teacher at the Washington School,
AAark, and Linda. Mr. Wilson, East- sends his current address at 1121
er'n '47, left his position at Mac- N., Kensington St., Arlington 5, is now doing some private tutoring
Mvrray College to teach at the Uni- Va. Son John George II was born in in Decatur, Ill., where her home ad-
September, 1952.
sity of Illinois. dress is 744 E. Decatur St.
iolet Saiter (Mrs. Herbert Shaf- Emily Marie Ohlsen (Mrs. Mel- Lena Elizabeth Smith (Mrs. R. H.
.,er), '42, lives in Martinsville, Ill. vin L. Miller), '43, is now living in
A •ughter, .Shelia Kay, is two Daily), '44, is a housewife in To-
iyels old. Mr. Shaffner is a watch- Kalamazoo, Mich., where her hus- lcno, Ill., where her husband is
n"ilker in Terre Haute, Ind. band is supervisor of the element- cashier at the Citizen's Bank. She
ayne Saxton, '42, married ary schools. The address is 416 El- has two young daughters.
thy Hibbs in 1950 and has dred St. Kalamazoo. Mr. Miller,
Eastern '44, took the Ed. D. at the Evelyn Rose Smithenry (Mrs.
daughters, Judith Ann, Mary University of Illinois last year. Joseph T. Faggetti), '44, lives at 569
Beth, and Martha Lee. The Saxtons Cherry St., Jacksonville, Ill. Mr.
ffve on a .farm near Kansas, Ill. Naomi Ruth Ramsey (Mrs. GeralCI Faggetti is the assistant farm ad-
i yne is commander of the l 8th Gieseking), '43, teaches English
Distr1c , American Legion. and Latin in the Altamont, Ill., High viser in Morgan ounty.
School. Mr. Gieseking is an insur- Joseph Leon Strader, '44, is con-
P/irginia Lois Schwartz (Mrs. ance agent and funeral director.
tlenn M. Schlager), '42, lives in tinuity editor for Radio Station
anton, Mo., where her husband .The Giese kings have two sons.
is an insurance agent. The Schlag- Robert James Rourke,.'43; is the WBBM in Chicago. .
ers have one son, Lynn, born last Margery Beth Thomas (Mrs.
Ju y. father of a new son born in De-
cember. His home address is at 813 Jerry D. Heath), '44, writes that her
H rold Seip, '42, is a chemistry Gaffield Place, Evanston, Ill. husband is a resident physician at
•cher in Danville, Ill. He received
the M. S. degree in science educa- Bessie Mae Townsend (Mrs. Jim the St. Francis Hospital in Des
"on from the University of Illinois Hanks), '43, is a housewife in Jack- Plaines. He hopes to start a per-
1.s June. son, Miss., where her husband is manent practice in Lawrenceville,
the district manager for the State Ill., next month.
Letha Ellen Storckman (Mrs. Ar- Farm Insurance Co.
Jhur Ray Kiefer), '42, is a homemak- Geneva Margaret Weidner (Mrs.
Lena Mae Walker (Mrs. John E. Rebert H. Jenne), '44; lives at l 064
er at 20 N. Waller Ave., Chicago Redding), '43, lives at 9141 Can- Lincoln Park Dr., Decatur, . Ill.,
44 , Ill. Mr. Kiefer is an accountant ford St., Rivera, Calif. where she is a housewife. Mr.
fo,. the Arthur Anderson Law Firm. Jenne is a certified public account-
Bettie Marie Witts, '43, teaches ant.
Virginia Aschermann, '42, of 117 the third grade in Salinas, Calif.,
N. Monroe, Decatur, Ill., has served Elizabeth Stanfield (Mrs. Robert
a~ treasurer of the Decatur branch where she lives at 441 Y2 Central P. Kitchell), '44, is the mother of
of the A A U. W. this year. She is three boys, Paul Lee, 5%, Frank A.,
a cretary in the Staley Mfg. Co. Ave.
1%, and John Phillip, four months.
arry Prather, '42, is assistant Jewell Allen Brent, Jr., '43, is The Kitchells live in Lawrenceville,
erintendent and principal in the chief of the chemistry section, Re- 111.
msey, Ill., schools. He has three search and Development Division,
ughters, Patty, 7, Chery, 5, and Minute Maid Corp., Plymouth, Fla. Charles Baker O'Neal, '45, is at
thy, 5 months. 6747 Granda Lane, Prairie Village
Rasho Winget, Jr., '43, is an en- 15, Kan.
Ila Fay Snow (Mrs. R. E. Swisher), gineer at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Carbide and Carbon Mary Agnes Beattie, '45, teaches
"-2, and her husband, a Naval of- Chemicals Division of Union Car- in Alton, Ill., where she lives at
bide. His address is l 05 Milton 744 Washington St.
ite r, have recently returned from Lane, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
h ' O and one-half years in London Earl Sparks, '45, is a social sci-
~nd Naples. Their fourth daughter Roland Bernard Wickiser, '43, is ence teacher at the Charleston High
teaching English at the Homer, Ill., School since last September.
High School. He is doing graduate
work at Eastern. Elizabeth Magdelene Craig (Mrs.
Joe Wells), '45, is teaching music
in the Marshall, Ill., grade schools.

Willa Mae Strotman (Mrs. James

PAGE- TWENTY-FIVE

Stroud), '45, has twin daughters, Miles Culver, '47, and Mrs. Cul- Charles E. Barber), '47, lives at 834
Norma Jean and Nancy Jane, born ver, the former Mildred Olmstead, E. Sixth St., Centralia, Ill.
last July. The Strouds live in Aledo, live in Alamogordo, N. M., where
Ill. he has been band director since Joseph Charles Whitacre, '47,
last fall. Culver did work toward
Clarence Mills Coleman, '46, is the M. S. at Eastern last summer. teaches science and coaches at the
an electrician in Willow Hill, Ill. Mayo Junior High School, Paris, Ill.
Russell Pierson, '47, is now
Ola Beatrice Seeley (Luther), '46, teaching in Lanphier High School, Wendell Dale Williams, '47, is a
teaches third grade in Champaign, Springfield, Ill. student at the University of Illi nois.
Ill., where her home address is 412 following his discharge from ser-
West Church St. Dale Franklin Dilthey, '47, is a vice. His present address is 1604
chemist in Columbus, 0., where he
Jim Roberts, '46, editor of the lives at 2117 Grasmere Ave. Virginia Dr., Urbana, Ill.
American Shetland Journal in Ralph David Wilson, '47, recei-1
Aledo, Ill., covered ~0,00 miles last Troit Freeland, '47, is a B-47 pilot
year on the horse show circuit and at Atwater, Calif. His home address ed his Ph. D. degree in commer•
expects to do 50,000 this year. there is 468 Drakeley Ave. at the State University of Iowa in
February.
Marjorie Grace Shook (Mrs. Edward Rennels, '47, is an as-
Alexander Manz), '46, teaches the sistant professor of anatomy at the Walter Gerard, Jr., '47, a re-
third grade in Casey, Ill. Mr. Manz, University of Texas Medical Branch, search chemist ·at the Commer
a- Swiss-American now in Naval Galveston. Daughter Beth is now
OCS at Newport, R. I., is a graduate 9, Douglas 8 months. Solvents laboratory in Terre Hautl
of the University of Illinois College Ind., spoke on "Antibiotic Grow
of Agriculture. Virginia Seifert Rouse (Mrs. Rob- Stimulation" before the Americlll
ert Rouse), '47, is a housewife at
Harriett Lucille Stanfield (Mrs. 416 W. Madison St., Charleston, Chemical Society Student Affilial
James D. Huffmaster), '46, of ste- Ill. She has a new daughter, Marla Group at Eastern in January. He
wardson, Ill., writes that she is not Sl!e, born December 11. Mr. Rouse
teaching at present. Her husband is a clerk on the Nickel Plate Rail- presented some of this materia' at
has been stationed in Korea. road.
the Los Angeles meeting of the
Harriet Woods (Stelzer), '46, · Hollis Raymond Sallee, '47,
teaches social science at the Mt. teaches the seventh grade at the American Chemical Society last
Carmel, Ill., High School. Her son Lakeview Grade School, Decatur,
Don is a sophomore at Eastern this Ill., where he lives at 1329 Oak Dr. September. A paper on the subj
year. Son Kenneth is at Southern
Illinois University in pre-engineer- Vera Louise Scherer (Mrs. How· by Gerard appeared in the Joum
ing. John is a high school sopho- ard R. Shaw), '47, a housewife near
more. Olney, Ill., writes that she is con- of Agricultural and Food Chemi1
tinuing her study of the flora of
Henry Edward Wright, '46, is a Richland County. recently. His work on the use
high school principal in Newton,
Ill. He lives at 123 S. Lafayette St. Eileen Pauline Schutte, '47, re- antibiotics with farm ariimals ha5
ceived her M. S. degree from the
Elizabeth VanMeter (Mrs. Ver- University of Illinois last summer. been of considerable value to ag·
non Cox), '46, moved to Mobile, She is presently a business teacher
Ala., in early March, where Mr. in Antioch, Ill. r:gulture. ·
Cox is a project engineer with a
large construction company. John Milton Stabler, '47, is a W. W. Kirchhoff, '47, of 222~
football coach at Paris, Ill., where
Freda Rubydean Heady (Mrs. Jcckson St., Beloit, Wis., is princ
Dwight L. Black), '47, is a house- he Iives at 204 E. Edgar St. pal at the Wright School in Beloit
wife in Westville, Ill. She has three Bertha Revis (Mrs. Willard H. St. this year. A daughter, Sara BethJ
children, Randy, Diane, and Mike. was born Feb. 6. Sons Billy and
Mike was born last June 5. John), '47, is a homemaker at Jimmy are in school.
Ccvina, Cal if., where her home ad-
Wally Wilson, '47, is a press op- dress is 1592 McGill St. Ruth Marie Wiseman (Mrs. Rob·
erator living at 218 Moore St., ert S. Hawkins), '47, is .a house
Westville, Ill. A daughter, Ann- Edward Charles Sullivan, '47, is
marie, was born to the Wilsons this a high school teacher in Havana, Ill. at Oakland, Ill. She has a son
January 5. He writes that he is currently work-
ing on his M. S. degree at Western Thomas Robert, -2.
Harold Louis Schultz, '47, is now Illinois State College. Stanley Eugene Young, '47, is a
at 17834 Escanaba, Lansing, Ill. He
hss taught and coached at Thorn- Samuel Harold Taylor, '47, is an manual arts therapist in the Blac
ton High School, Calumet City, an assistant merchandising mana- Mountain, N. C., Veterans Hospi
since 1950. A daughter, Connie ger in Long Beach, Calif. He be-
Marlene, is 2Y2. came the father of a third daugh- Samuel Edwin Yost, '47, teach
ter last October. industrial arts at a high scho~ ~~
George William Roberts, '47, is Tampa, Fla., where he lives at 33u.t
a pharmacist at the Krafft Drug Mae Beth Vail, '47, is an assist-
Store, Lake Forest, llL·His address: ant professor of education at Ball San Jose Ave.
405 E. Illinois Rd., Lake Forest. State Teachers, Muncie, Ind., where Thomas Stonewall Young, '47, is
she lives at 3206 Devon Rd.
PAGE TWENTY-SIX a basketball coach and comm
Leona Elizabeth Wente (Mrs. teacher in the Monticello, 111., Hig
School.

Allyn Cook, '48, has moved fro,..

South Dakota State College to the

department of plant pathology

is an agent for the U. S. De

ment of Agriculture. (Mrs. ~~
Madeline Ruth Doyle
nest Waren), '48, is teachin~

Roberts, Ill.
Carl Millard Jacobs, '48, is ~

draftsman of farm machinertl a

Shelbyville, Ill. He has two dau.

L.rj~ Ginger, 2Y2, and Brenda, 1. Mabel Matilda Wente (Mrs. Otis in employers relations with the
.,.,11rtha Ellen David Napoli, '48, Dappert), '48, is a fourth grade
tGacher at the East Side · Grade Danville, Ill., division of General
. a 1harmacologist in Decatur, Ill., School, Effingham, Ill.
Motors. He is also helping with
1\ere she lives at 2164 E. Hendrix Leonard Pourchot, '48, is princi-
pal of the junior high at Ripon, broadcasts of sporting events at
ve. VVis., where his address is 120 Ty- two local high schools and the Uni-
lhomas Harlan Rothchild, '48, gert St. He is working toward the
doctorate at the Colorado State Col- versity of Illinois over Danville's
hes at the Norwalk High lege of . Education during summer
vacations. new radio station. His address is
l hool, Wilton, Conn. The Roth-
ilds live on R. R. 1, Whipstich Ellen Mae Hanks (Mrs. Wm. 0. 119 S. 'Griffin, Danville.
~d.:· Wilton. Wilcoxon), '48, has a son Wm. 0.
Jr., 2. Mr. Wilcoxon is a civilian Calvin Randall Colwell, '49, may
frank Gerald Rutger, '48, lives instructor supervisor at Chanute
11 ~77 Carolina Ave., Decatur, Ill. AFB, Rantoul. be addressed at Box 161, Friend-

Rosa Violet Schaub, '48, recently Lt. (j.g.) Charles E. Buzzard, '48, ship, Tenn.
married Miss Norma Eileen Heck of Marie Lucille Gressel, '49, is
,eceived the Ed. M. at the Univer- San Diego recently. Mrs. Buzzard
of Illinois. She is teaching in is a graduate of San Diego State teaching in the Cahokia, Ill., High
gham, Ill., where she lives at College. She has taught for five
years. Lt. Buzzard is an occupation School. Her home address is Beulah
N. Oak St. officer in the U. S. N. R.
Earl Thompson Sheffield, '48, Club, Ninth and Ohio St., East St.
Fred Albert Pilger, Jr., '49, re-
is an elementary teacher in Scotts- ceived his M. S. in Ed. degree from Louis.
uft, Nebr. He was married De- Millikin University last July. He Patricia Ann Howey (Mrs. Nich-
teaches math and science in the
cember 24. high school at Melvin, Ill. olas Brian), '49, is a housewife at
Verne Allen Smith, '48, died Oc-
er 13, 1953, according to word Jacob Daniel Pottgen, Jr., '49, 1343 West Ninty-fifth St., Cleve-
eived by the Alumni Office teaches English at the high school land 2, 0. The Brians have a son,
in Charleston, Ill., where he lives Nicky David.
tom Mrs. Smith, who lives in Sul- at l 023 Fourth St. The Pottgens
l1Y n, 111. have a daughter, Kathleen, age 2%. Donald Lee Pyle, '49, is teaching
at the Kilbourne, Ill., High School.
Vivian Nadine Swinford (Mrs. Al Gregor, '4'9, coached the Cov-
larold Wilkey), '48, is a housewife ington, Ind., High School football Heston Leroy Richards, '49, is a
team to a conference championship
in l;alesburg, Ill., where her hus- law student at the University of Illi-
barkl is head of the industrial arts this year.
Avanella Carmen Shew Jeffers, nois.
artment of the Junior High Leon Anthony Slovikoski, '49, is
'49, lives at 519 S. Sixth St. in Sul-
ool. The Wilkeys have two livan, Ill., and teaches grades five employed as a cost accounant by
ldren, Michael, 4, and Patrick, and six in Bethany. the A. 0. Smith Corp., Kankakee,
6 ~onths.
Wilma Ethel Winters, '48, teaches John Austin Alexander, '49, is a Ill. He was promoted to supervisor
captain in the U.S.A.F., stationed at
in the high school at Kansas, 111. Lowry AFB in Colo. The address is in 1952. ,.,,
Mary Lou Rowland (Mrs. Carl 211 Pontiac, Denver.
Harriett Maurine Smith (Mrs. Bill
L. Luck), '48, is a housewife in Laverne Eileen Jones, '49, is
armer City, Ill. Mr. Luck is a letter teaching in Honolulu, Hawaii, Byers), '49, is teaching in the lndia-
where she may be addressed at
rrier. 2937 - K - Kalakaua. nola, Ill., High School. Bill is teach-
Marilyn Violet Bagby (Mrs. R. D.
l'ullen), '48, is now living at 1205 Leo Fred Maronto and his wife, ing at Danville High.
ladison St., Edwardsville, Ill. Dorothy Cooley Maronto, both Jack Obid Smith, '49, is principal
Kenneth Lloyd Taylor, '48, re- Class of '49, are teaching in Comp-
centl y completed 17 months of ton, Calif., where the address is of the Lowell Grade School in Mat-
dlJ y at the Marine Corps Air Sta- 4039 E. San Luis.
toon, Ill. ·
•.on, Cherry Point, N. C. He is prin- Arthur Wallace Sibley, '49, now
2?81 of the elementary · school in lives at 17150 Henry St., Melvin- Marilyn Miller Snearley (Mrs.
dale, Mich.
•wood, Ill. Earl Snearley, Jr.), '49, is a house-
William Levi Henry, '49, is dis- wife in Mesa, Ariz., where she lives
Robert Dean Tipsword, '48, is trict manager of the Universal C.I.
the athletic director and ·coach at K. Credit Corp. in Evansville, Ind., at 115 N. Fraser Drive West. She
the high school in Casey, Ill. He where he may be addressed at has a son, Phillip Wayne, born De-
is the father of his third child, 1364 Cass Ave.
cember 28. Son Eddie is 3%.
V1t ie, born February 22. Edgar Wayne Sellers, '49, works Charles Roger Sorenson, '49,
Jack Woodrow Ulrey, '4 8,
writes that his wife died March 18,
laches science at Proviso High
hool, Maywood, Ill. His perman- 1953. He is living at 111 East 54th

,.nt address is 2412 S. Thirteenth, St., Tulsa, Okla., and is employed
loadview, 111.
by the Texas Co.
Betty Faye Wellman, '48, is a
Lloyd Harlan Steen, '49, has
lewardess with the American Air
Ines. She live at 3113 Crest Dr., been teaching geography and his-

lanhattan Beach, Calif. tory and coaching basketball and
track at the H. Ford Community

College in lnkster, Mich., since last

September. His address is 2637
Josephine, lnkster.

Charles John Tolch, '49, is teach-

speech and dramatics at the Un i-
versity of Nebraska in Lincoln. He

attended the University of Illinois

last summer. A daughter, Jenny

Lou, will be two years old in May.

Loren Edward Unser, '49, is an

PAGE TWENTY·SEVEN

insurance underwriter in Taylor- Morgan), '50, is a housewife in East He holds the Master's degree from

ville, 111. He is the father of a third Moline, Ill., where the address is the University of Wyoming.

daughter, Rebecca Susan, born last 423 l 6th Ave. Anna Mary Weiler, '50, is teaclil
ing home ec in Farina, Ill. Her ad~
December 20. Wendell Rodney Needham, '50, dress is 240 East Boone St., Salenl

Robert Harold Van Note, '49, is employed by the Highland Box Ill.

lives at 533 •rside, Westport, Co., in Highland, Ill. Laverne Anthony Wente, '50, I

Conn., where Iris a chemical en- Marshall Leon Reid, '50, lives at an instructor with RCA at Ft. Blisl
gineer. 5727 W. Claridge Circle, Dallas,

Robert Norman · Vickers, '49, Tex., where he is a field engineer Tex. His address is 7122 Dale Rd

teaches industrial arts and seventh for Gould Industrial Batteries. The El Paso.

grade and works part time as an Reids have two children, Skeeter, William Odes Wilcoxen, '50
lives at 201 Mary Alice Rd., Ra~
insurance agent in East St. Louis, 3, and Mary K., 1.

where his home address is 1204 S. John George Wargo, Jr., '50, tcul, Ill.
Fred L. Wilson, '50, teaches in~
11 th St. He has two sons, Robert J., lives on R. R. l, Carlinville, Ill.

age two, and Eric Keith, age one. Richard Prather Watson, '50, is dustrial arts at the J . Sterling Moll
ton High School in Cicero; Il l. He
Frank Adam Walters, '49, is employed as a production foreman lives at 2329 S. Westover Ave. ,
North Riverside, Ill . He writes that
teaching at the Hillsboro, llJ., Com- in Anderson, Ind., where he lives he hopes to send some Mortel

munity High School. at the YMCA. He attends the In-

Robert Kenton Wibking, '49, is diana University law school part

a geography instructor in Colum- time. grads down Eastern way in 19541

bia, Mo., where his home address Pfc. James M. Rominger, '50, 55.
Maurice Eugene Wilson, ' 50,
is 39 East Dr. A daughter, Mary who has been serving in Japan
sends a change of address: 3321
Angela, was born last Nov. 19. since last June, expects to return Marion Ave., Mattoon, 111.

Jack Otis Williams, '49, teacnes in July of this year. Mrs. Rominger

industrial arts in Hoopeston, Ill. has been with him. Robert Glenn Winkleblack, '50,

Earl Delbert Wilson, '49, lives at Morris Brehmer, '50, is a biolo- is teaching in the Mattoon Conti

10 Westwood in Mattoon, Ill., gist with the Illinois Department of munity Unit. His home addresSi is

where he teaches and is an an- Conservation and lives at 1321 825 "C" St., Charleston, Ill.
Philip Francis Worland, ~so,
nouncer at Radio Station WLBH. He Shelby Ave., Mattoon, Ill. Mrs.

has two children, Leslie Dean, 3, Brehmer (Jean Scofield, '53) is em- is principal of the South School in
Arlington Heights, Ill., w here he
and Donna Kaye, 1. ployed in the Carter Oil Co. offices

Kenneth Ewing Winkler, '49, in Mattoon. The Brehmers were lives at 837 S. Chestnut Ave.
Philip Allan Young, '50, is pr•
teaches at Greenup, Ill. married on Feb. 7.

David Richard Winnett, '49, lives Charlene Spencer (Mrs. Crews), ently a S/ Sgt. with the U. S. Arrrl

in Litchfield, Ill., where he is part '50, is living in Aberdeen, Md., but hopes to be discharged in Sep-!
tember or sooner. His addres~ is
owner of a farm supply store. The where her husband is stationed.
U. S. A. F. Band, Bolling A.F.B.,
Winnetts have two boys, David, 5, The address: 103 L. Garden Dr.,

and Richard, 1. Chesapeake Garden, Aberdeen. Washington 25, D.C.
Robert Edward Zimmerman, '50J
Dolly Virginia Wiseman (Mrs. Virginia Bullard, '50, is a speech

Max Jewell), '49, is a housewife in correctionist in Norwood, 0. The teaches English and speech in

Brocton, Ill., where her husband address: 1115 Rossmore, Cincin- Litchfield, Ill. He may be addre
at 123 Bayless, Litchfield. ·
.. is - principal of the Brocton Grade nati, 0.
Dean Alden Ruyle, '50, is a
School. The Jewells have one son, Jim Gindler, '50, is an associate

Arthur Alvin, born last November cl1emist with the Argonne National speech correctionist in Charles

14. ' Laboratories, Clarendon Hills, Ill. 111.
Milton F. Schonebaum, '50•
Mary Ethel York (Mrs. Laverne The address: 1481 Ann St., Claren-
H. Dahlke), '49, is a housewife at don Hills. coaches at Carlinville, Ill. He is
51 W. Capistrano Ave., Toledo, 0.
She ·is the mother of two children. Virginia Eagleton, '50, is a lab- wa~otrhkei nUg ntiovewrasirtdy his M. Ed. degr•
oratory technician living at 537
George Lewis Bailey, '50, sends of Illinois and wiff
his new address as 4550 Shore Dr., Melrose St., Chicago 13, Ill.
clo Cherokee Trailer Court, Nor- Robert C. Whitehead, '50, is an complete it at the end of this surT1
folk, Va. He is a lieutenant, junior
grade, U. S. Navy. insurance agent at New Athens, mer.
Ill. He was discharged from the Air
Rosella Fern Brooks (Mrs. How- Force a year ago. Phillip Mack Settle, '50, is an .art

Marcella Rose Sullivan, '50, is a teacher at Champaign Junior H1gl

School, Champaign, Ill., wherl hi

ard B. Riley), '50, is a receptionist second grade teacher at the Tenner lives at 207 Arcadia Dr. He rec:en
in a dental office in Newton, Ill. School, Paris, Ill., as of last Septem-
aCrtairceleer"enptuitblleidshe''dTebaychi~nh\1e
Donald Claude McKinney, '50, ber. WIhad an
as a
Art
Art Education Foundation. His

lives in Gr:eensburg, Ind., where he Everett Morris, '50, has an assist- the former Nellie May Shepp L~
al""
is employed by the Western Ad- ship in the department of botany, '50, has a new son, SKetetvli'e1~
born January 22. The
justment and Inspection Co. The · University of Iowa. He is working

address is 434 N. Broadway. toward the doctorate in mycology have a daughter, Rebecca Sue, W

Deva Modesta Kibler (Mrs. Steve after returning from Naval service. is 19 months old.

PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT

lames Earl Sexson, '50, is a stu- Nellie Emiline Simmons (Mrs. Cooks Mills Unit No. 2, and lives on
jtflf at the University of Indiana.
Robert Joseph Prescott), '32, '51, R, R. l, Humboldt, Ill.
is completing work for his M.
s.~egree. The address is 7-E Wood- started teaching first grade in Tus- A/le Glenn Martin Targhetta,
wf"I Cts., Bloomington.
cola, 111. last September. Her hus- '51, may be addressed Hq. Sq. Sec.
Dames William Smith, ' 5 0 ,
ches social science at the high band is a sales representative for 3520 A.B. Group, Wichita AFB,

ol in Mattoon, Ill. His home ad- Singer Sewing Machine Co. The Kan.
s is at 1212 S. l 8th St. He is
e father of a baby girl, Donna Prescotts live at 2313 Shelby Ave., Tommy Van Atkins, '51, is a .ser-
lope, born last July 15.
elores Jean Shirley (Mrs. F. L. Mattoon. vice engineer for lllino~s Bell Tele-
m), '50, writes that her two
Donald Dean Smith, '51, is work- phone Co. and lives at 1233 N.
ar old daughter, Elaine Dianne,
rawberry blond, is quite a con- ing on his· M. S. in Ed. at the Uni- Oakland, Decatur, Ill. The Atkins

ationalist! versity of Illinois in his spare time. lrnve a daughter 9 months old.
Morris Elmer Tschannen, '50, is
,.ow teaching in Highland, Ill., He is a U.S.A.F. instructor living Joan Murphy (Mrs. C. W. Sch-
ere he lives at 1421 Laurel St.
~e previously was in St. Jacob, Ill. at 302 W. Hill, Champaign. licher, Jr.), '51, 'is a housewife at
Leona Bertha Ulm (Mrs. Oliver
Paul Max Thomas, '51, teaches at 1230 N. Temple, Indianapolis, Ind.
a. Morrell), '50, teaches in Mowea-
the Grant Park High School. He James Cyril Reeder, Jr., '51,
qua, Ill. Her new address is E.
started working on his M. S. de- teaches in the high school at Casey,
erry St.
Martha Beatrice Waller (Mrs. gree at the University of Illinois Ill.

•mes L. Baldwin), '50, is a house- last summer. Robert Owen Rehbein, '51, is an
ife at l 047 No. Hamilton Ave.,
ianapolis, Ind. Her husband is Claude Edward Towne, '51, is employee of the Krey Packing Co.
ployed as a chemist for the U.
taking evening classes in metal- ard lives at 935 W. Chwich, Mas-
Rubber Co.
Chester Adams, ex-'50, is teach- lurgy at the Illinois Institute of coutah, Ill.
,g speech and dramatics a~ the
Technology. He is employed as a Glenn Maurice Schauberger, '51,
tgomery City, Mo., High
physical tester and lives at 122 teaches at the high school in Kan-
ol.
Henry Stepping, '49, '51, is Center St., Des Plaines, Ill. sas, Ill., and lives at 1617 Ninth St.,
ching science in Casey, Ill.,
Marjorie Lee Waller (Mrs. Clif- in Charleston. The Schaubergers
there his new street address is
104 E. Jefferson. He will complete ford Carter), '51, is a housewife on have a daughter, Dorothy Ann,
~is master's degree this summer.
R. R. 1, Belleville, Ill. Her husband who was born last July 26.
Donald Louis Sunderland, '51,
ches at the junior high school in is a civilian instructor at Scott Air Marion Frances Railsback, '51,
ana, Ill., where he lives at 422
Base. teaches Spanish and English at the
"rlawn Dr.
Kenneth Ross Wilson, '51, mar- Dixon, Ill., High School. She is also
Max Leon Sweet, '51, is employ-
ed as a claims adjuster for the ried Betty Jean Wolter of Belle- working part time in the research

untry Mutual Casualty Co. in ville, Ill., last August. Kenneth is department of American Peoples'
rlinville, Ill. He has one son,
an electronics instructor at Scott Encyclopedia, Chicago.
l adley Leon, born February 9,
53. AFB. The address is 7101 W. Main, Opal Alcoke Gillespie (Mrs.
Billie Marie Swick (Mrs. Fred
Pavid Baier), '51, is a housewife in Apt. 5, Belleville. Omer N. Gillespie), '51, has been
C:c ro, Ill., where her husband is
an accounting student at Walton Thomas Henry Woodyard, '51, is on leave of absence from position
lthool of Commerce. Their home
a clerk-typist with the rank of cor- a:; social worker at Alton State Hos-
lldress is at 1235 S. 50th Ct. A
ughter, Rebecca Lee, was born poral in the G-1 section at Ft. pital since December 1947. She is

t September 19. Leonard Wood, Mo., and plans to now a full-time homemaker, car-
John Paul Schnarr, '51, is on a
~les trainee program for ten be released in July. ing for the only child, James Clin-
~nths, at the end of which he will
Richard Ingles Tomlin, '51, mar- ton, who is 13 months old. The
be assigned to a sales district.
ried the former Melba Thompson Gillespies live at 4500 College Ave.
-b e address is 24101/2 E. Wabash
of Brownstown, Ill. last Dec. 26. in Alton, Ill.
•ve., Terre Haute, Ind.
The Tomlins live at 226 E. Seventh, Don Roberts, '51, married Pa-

Flora. Dick teaches science at the tricia A. Cambron of Louisville, Ill.,

North Clay Community High .School last November 11. Mrs. Roberts is a

ir Louisville. registered nurse working at the

Nancy Worner, '51, has been a Christie Clinic in Champaign. Don is

graduate assistant in the depart- an investigator for the U. S. Civil

ment of genetics at the University Service Commission. His mail ad-

of Wisconsin and recently was pro- dress is Box 56, Urbana, Ill.

mated to an instructorship, having Robert A. Alter, '52, is the father

tc>ken the Master's degree. Her re- of Richard Rhoads, born Dec. 30.

search toward tl-e doctorate is in The A.hers' daughter, Katherine

the genetics of corn. Miss Worner . Sue, is now two years old. Bob is

also assists in the editing of the a tool and die maker in Detroit,

American Journal of Genetics. Mich.

Howard William Borman, '51, is Patricia Lou Brotherton (Mrs. Phil

employed· by the Shell Oil Co. and . Bowman), '52, is doing substitute

lives at 235 E. Washington St., Car- teaching in Stockton, Calif., where

linville, Ill. the Bowmans live at 1515 Rose-

Wayne Edward Rand, '51, lawn.

teaches fifth and sixth grades at Elizabeth Lou Cochran, '52, be-

PAGE TWENTY-NIN~

gan teaching home economics in Joanne, is a junior in high school race, Champaign, Ill. Her husbarl
Blue Mound, ill. last January.
. .Margery Potter (Mrs. John E. and a member of Delta Kappa is working toward his Master's in
Wilson), '52, began teaching fresh-
man English in the Del Rio, Tex., Gamma. teaching the deaf and hard-of-he•
High School last September. She
writes that John, '51, is co-coach Rosemary Dee Stain (Mrs. Carl- ing.
of the Laughlin AFB basketball
team which had won 13 and lost 6 ton D. Woodruff), '52, writes that Marilyn Lora Zimmerman <Mrs.
games as of Jan. 16. John had been
averaging 23 points a game. their second child and daughter, James A. Herman), '52, may be ad-

Janet Railsback, '52, is a research Denise Dee, was a year old in De- dressed 1239 Appleton, Long
t.echnician in Rio-Medical Building
at Argonne National Laboratory cember. The Woodruffs live at Beach, Cal if.
and lives at 14 Tuttle Ave., Claren-
don Hills, Ill.. 1412 S. Fourteenth St., Mattoon, Dorothy l. Groves, '52, enterel
111. .
· Pvt. Herbert Wills, Ill, '52, may graduate training in dietetics at
be addressed at Headquarters Det.
Sec., Hdq. Comm., 5022 ASU Sta. Norma lee Schmalhausen (Mrs. Indiana University Medical Cent•
Comp., Camp Carson, Colo. Herb
is in special Services, performing David Leeds), '52, is a homemaking Indianapolis, in February. She at-
magic shows for the Army. His
wife, Phyllis Bridges Wills, is a jun- teacher for grades six and seven tended Purdue University for one
ior at Eastern.
in Kansas City, Mo. She writes "I semester last fall. Her addre51 is
Sgt. Glen Wendel Temple, '52,
is a T. I. & E. Instructor and may be learned to fly and own an airplane, now Cottages 1.U. Medical cent.El
addressed: HQ. Btry., 92d AFA
Bn., APO 264, c/o Postmaster, San a Piper Vagabond. Appeared on Indianapolis.
Francisco, Calif.
local TV in November." The ad- Cpl. Robert A. Stump, '52, H<i
Margaret Ann Wright (Mrs. J. D.
Gregory), '52, is a secretary in a dress is 3726 Benton Blvd., Kansas and Hq. Btry, 51 st FHGP, Ft. Bragl
real estate office in Rockville, Md.,
where the address is 706 E. Mont- City 28. N. C., will be discharged from ser,
gomery Ave.. She writes that Den-
nis is a hospitalman 3rd class at Mary lee Wilson (Mrs. Donald v:ce in June.
the National Naval Medical Center,
Bethesda, Md. Dean Smith), '52, teaches first Rebecca Eilene Harmon (Mrs.

Mary Lou Carrico, '52, is teach- grade in Gregory School, Unit 4, Glenn Wright), '52, has a sonJ
. ing_ second grade. in Fairfield, Ill.
She has started work on her Mas- Champaign, Ill. David Glenn, who was born last
ter's degree at the University of
Illinois. Thomas Thode, '52, is in Mon- February 13. The Wrights live in

Joseph Williams Elliott, '52, is a t~rey, Cal if. in the U. S. Naval Post- Kansas, 111.
·traffic clerk for a meat packers com- graduate School studying aerology. Melba Ann Strange, '52, teac~
pany in Danville, Ill., where he
may be addressed at 219 W. · North He is an ensign in the Navy. He science in Kankakee, Ill., where th&
St.
expects to be reassigned in June. address is 696 S. M.ay.
Hazel Rhea Garrison, '22, '52,
began teaching in Lowell Junior Thode visited Eastern last Decem- Richard Hudnut, '53, is teach'
High in Mattoon, Ill. last Septem-
ber. The address is 2701 Western ber. in Peotone, 111. The Hudnuts hav
Ave.
Bill Balch, '52, writes that two a son, Kenneth Dean, who was
Anthony Mazzara, '52, is teach-
ing music in Kincaid, Ill. former teammates on Eastern's born February 11 .

Dorothy May Schwartz, '52, baseball team met again last De- Jame·s Alexander, Jr., '53, is sta·
teaches second grade at Argenta,
Ill. She writes, "Barb Chri5man, '53, cember, but on different teams. His tioned at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.4
Ike Yost, '52, Imogene Shryock,
and I went to Florida and Cuba dur- own basketball team played that in the supply room of the Food
ir.ig Christmas vacation last year."
of Ray DeMoulin, coach at Oregon, · Service School.
-Velma Lillian Rentfrow (Mrs.
Montonye), '27, '52, writes from Ill. Bilt coaches at Byron. At the William Thode,, '53, is an assisl
Sullivan, Ill. that a daughter, Nancy time neither team had been defeat- ant chemist in Huntington Park.
ed. Oregon won by three points. Cal if. He married Miss Louise 0~
PAGE THIRTY Bill and Ray were te'ammates again,
hf;wever, when a group of cc;>aches ings of Mattoon on Jan . 29. Thel

played a group of officials on Jan- newlyweds live at 2411 E. Gagt
uary 4 in a cancer benefit game.
Bill's football team at Byron was St., Apt. 26, Huntington Park.
the most successful in the school's
history, taking second place in the Mr. and Mrs. Norman Endslt
conference. They lost out for first '53, live at 300 Colona, Apt.
place by virtue of a tie game.
Bartonville, Ill., where both are em·

played as commerce teachers in the

700-student Limestone High School

Norman has charge of 1'he newt

Howard Emmett Sheffield, '52, paper and Helen helps with the

is a bank accountant at El Paso, -yearbook.

Tex., where the addrass is 1509 Vito Nick Vitulli, '53, is a mecl

N. Mesa. cal student at Marquette Unive

Robert l. Weppler, '52, is an in- and lives at 3117 W. High

dustrial arts instructor at Martins- Blvd., Milwaukee 8, Wis. .,..

ville, Ill. Richard Shiley, '53, is do1..,.
Cpl. Billy D. Williams, '52, Co. fluorine res<earch witloi the S!~~
B, 601 Ord. B.n., APO 185, c/ o Geological Survey, as of this !'"°".

Postmaster, New York, N. Y., will ruary and lives at 901 W. Cal 1fol"'

be released from the Army in Sep- nia, Urbana, Ill.
Pvt. Ray Tipsword, '53, arid ~
tember.

Elizabeth Kathleen . Worland Tipsword (Betty Seyfert, '52) h

(Mrs. Richard D. Maxey), '52, is a at 802 E Ave., Lawtol'I, Okli1.1

housewife at A-44 Stadium Ter- where Ray is in service at Fort Si.

tie lcpects to be discharged in Tenn. Alumni Association

nea· ry Frankl"1n, '53, 1· s a speech Clyde Nealy, '53, took a repor- Officers Are Listed
rectionist in the Taylorville, Ill., torial position with the Glendive,
Mont., Dailey Ranger in February. New Alumni Association of-
hoofs . Nealy was doing graduate work at ficers elected at Homecoming last
tlorence Smith (Mrs. Ray Rich- Eastern at the time. fall are as follows:

_,ds), '53, of Stewa.rdson, Ill., sub- Dwayne Roe, '53, may be ad- Harold. Marker, '34, president,
dressed as follows: Pvt. E-2 926 Second St., Charleston. Mr.
~htuel r in the third grade at Marker is a former teacher of
City in January. Mr. Rich- Dwayne E. Roe, U. S. 55423102, mathematics and physics. He serv-
M. P. Co. 8457th A. A. U., Po. B. ed as a Naval radar officer during
~rrds.s i~sicahabradnsk' cashier. David Smith, 5500, Albuquerque, N. M. Mrs. World War II. He holds the M. S.
brother, is a lieuten- Roe is finishing her work at East- from the University of Illinois. He
ern this year. now operates the Marker Machine
ant in the Army and is now station- Company of Charleston, which
Paul Carter, '54, took a research specializes in the chrome plating
ed in Korea. c.ssistantship in plant pathology at of gun barrels by a process invent-
Ohio State University this winter ed by Marker himself. Mrs. Mark-
!Shirley Strine, '53, is teaching after completing his work at East- er is the former Dorothy Johnson.
ern.
ustc in the Roosevelt High School, Charles Crites, '41, vice-presi-
Donald Loyet, '54, has accepted dent, 1113 Lafayette, Mattoon, Ill.
1£1' stet, Mich. Her address is a fellowship in physics for gradu- Mr. Crites is teacher of diversified
ate work at the University of South- occupations, metalwork, and draw-
1'1323 Garrison, Dearborn. ern California. It was granted by ing in the Mattoon High School. He
the Hughes Research and Develop- holds the M. S. from the University
Roger Claude, '53, may be ad- ment Foundation, for which Loyet of Illinois. After war service he first
will work part time. taught at the Oakland, Ill., High
tessed as follows: Pvt. Roger P. School. Mrs. Crites is the former
Helen Mcintyre.
CJaude, U. S. 55364332, Prov. Co.
Mary Linder, '15, .secretary-treas-
912, APO 2, c/ o Postmaster, San urer, 904 Sixth St., Charleston. Miss
Linder, who is now retired, taught
frarici sco, Calif. high school English and Latin over
a long career centered chiefly in
Robert Ambrose, '53, of 900 Charleston, where she taught at
Charleston High from 1920 to
Eleventh, Charleston, Ill., is em- 1942. She is now active in civic af-
fairs.
ployed in the accounting depart-
Maurice Foreman, '27, Executive
hient of the Carter Oil Company. Committee (three-year term), 1139
Buchanan, Charleston. Mr. Fore-
John Simmons, '53, writes that 'News' Wins 18th man was a high school principal
Consecutive Meda list and superintendent for many years
Mrs. Simmons, the former Marjiel- before coming to Charleston in
1946 to manage farm land north
lyn l{oigt of Mattoon, is the mother of the city. Mrs. Foreman is the
former Thelma Ryan.
of Frederick John, born Jan . 29.
Roscoe Hampton, '18, Executive
9nmons is a speech correctionist The Eastern State News won its Committee (three-year term), R. R.
3, Mattoon, Ill. Mr. Hampton was a
in the Mattoon, Ill., schools. eighteenth straight Medalist rating coach and director of physical edu-
cation for nearly 30 years at the
William D. Thorn, '53, writes, in the Columbia Scholastic Press Evanston, Ill., High School before
retiring to a farm near Lema re-
ltlever knew working for a living A~sociation contest, according to an cently. Mrs. Hampton is the former
Syble Jane Funkhouser.
tc>uld be so enjoyable." He is an announcement made at the CSPA
prepared to make talks, demonstra-
actronic engineer in Indianapolis, convention in early March. Medal- tions, etc. without fee, although
they must usually be reimbursed
Ind , where he and his family live ist is the highest award given. for travel exepnse.

at 3609 Balsam Ave., Apt. 27. Editors over the period during PAGE THIRTY-ONE

John Ira Alexander, '53, of R. R. which the paper was judged were

E, ~ewton, Ill., is a journeyman Bill Danley, now back on campus

hanic. to finish work toward the degree,

Merle E. Pollard, '53, is a 2nd ar.d Bob Bain, who finished his

lautenant in the U. S. Marine Corps work last fall and is now teaching

•tioned at Camp LeJuene, N. C. ir. Springfield. Danley has a repor-

Paul Swofford, M. S., '53, is torial position on the Lincoln, Ill.,

•incipal of the Blackhawk, Ind., Courier. ·
llhools. He lives at 2030 S. Eighth
St., Terre Haute. Present News editor is Audree

Elizabeth Moira Stevens Fuller, McMillan of Danville, a junior.. Or.
,J , lives at 16-A, Campus City,
Francis Palmer is adviser.
larleston, Ill., and teaches in the
eenup, Ill., Grade School. Speakers Bureau Organized
Gail Menk, M. S. '53, is author of
o band numbers featured in the A list of 44 college faculty mem-
uers who will accept speaking en-
lnnual spring concert at Edwards- gagements of various kinds has
ville, Ill., High School, where he been compiled by the Public Rela-
l"aduated in 1949. Menk has writ- tions Office. Alumni who need a
ten another composition appearing qualified speaker on almost any
i~ "Together We Sing," a book of academic subject (and some not
pongs for elementary schools com- so academic) may write to the of-
l>iled by Irving Wolfe, former head fice for a compact kit with a de-
of the music department at Eastern scription of speakers and titles.
Jlow at Peabody College, Nashville, Most of the faculty members are