Eastern Alumnus Vol. 2 No. 2 (September 1948)

TEMBER
948

October 15 October 16 October 15 October 16 Oceober 15 October 16

WELCOME HOME!

Yes, welcome home to the alma
mater.

This year she has a birthday. It
is a time to celebrate.

Here as Eastern we are sparing
no effort to make the Golden Anni-
versary memorable and meaningful.

Homecoming is our first big
celebration of a year full of celebra-
tions.

Let the clan gather, from the
ends of the nation, and be gay!

President Robert G. Buzzard

'Jubilee Homecoming Plans for Oct. 15, 16

You will receive a complete Golden Jubilee production of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit"
follows at 8 :15 p. m.
Homecoming program in the mail soon. This is
The traditional midnight show at the new
a preview: , Will Rogers Theater falls right in line with the
Golden Jubilee theme of glorifying Eastern and
Laying of the cornerstone of the new two Eastern's offspring. According to a very recent
announcement by Rino Bianchi, former student
million dollar library by Governor Dwight Green who operates the Will Rogers, and his assistant,
Don Griffin, '49, the show will be "Train to
of lllinois at 3 :00 p. m. Friday, October 15, will Alcatraz," in which a former Eastern student
"steals" the show. Critics have been watching the
be the initial event. (This arrangement is tenta- rise of Billie Phipps ever since he played in
"Crossfire". Given a choice role in the newly re-
tive, and may have to be postponed, subject to leased picture, Phipps, who attended here in the
Governor Green's itinerary.)
(Continued on next Page)
At 4 :00 o'clock the traditional tug-of-war
between freshmen and sophomores will decide

the green cap question. The new lake on Lincoln
Field will be the scene.

Early in the evening a bonfire and pep ses-
sion will be held on Lincoln Field. The Players'

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

VOLUME 2 SEPTEMBER, 1948 NUMBER 2

Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter, at the post office at Char-
leston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress August 24, 1912.

HAL HUBBARD ------------------------------------ Editor

STANLEY ELAM ------------------------- Consulting Editor

Within a month, all alumni for Lou _Stiv~r~ a junior physical education major from Olney,
whom the Alumni Office has current was elected captain of the Golden Jubilee Panther grid team when
addresses will be asked to supply in- the squad met on September 1. Stivers' 205 pounds will anchor a
formation about themselves for the light but fast line determined to manufacture a good record out of
Golden Jubilee Alumni R egister to a rugged nine game schedule.
be distributed early next year.

Please, when you receive the in-
formation blank, sit down and fill it
out and return it. There is a limited
space of time in which to complete
the books and your Alumni Secretary
wants to leave out no one.

(Continued from Page 2) Because the football game must be held at
Trojan Field (Charleston high school's gridiron)
early 1940's, rises to stardom. at the corner of Harrison and Fifteenth Streets,
The big day, Saturday, gets under way with the evolutions of visiting bands have been elim-
inated. However, Eastern's 100 piece marching
a Golden Jubilee Parade of 25 bands and as many band under the able direction of Tom Richardson
floats. The entire Eastern Illinois area is joining will perform. One hundred new uniforms were
in to make the parade a high-light of the cele- receiv€d September 10, so that Eastern's Golden
bration. Historic incidents, such as the Charles- Jubilee Band will be appropriately dressed. Arm
ton Riot, the Lincoln-Douglas debate, the laying insignia show the tower of Old Main.
of the college cornerstone, etc., will be the basis
for beautiful and expensive floats. Many busi- Northern of DeKalb is the football opponent,
ness organizations and civic clubs are joining and, as it happens, Northern is also celebrating
in, with the assistance of the Charleston Cham- a Golden Anniversary.
ber of Commerce. Other cities will also enter
floats. The climax of the traditional two-day home-
coming is the dance and coronation of the queen.
For the first time in many years the alma The Homecoming Committee has been called
mater is prepared to provide a luncheon for all "foolish" for spending so much money, but they
alumni and former students. They are welcome have laid $2,500 on the line and expect to get no
to eat at the college cafeteria, opened last March. less a name band than Tommy Dorsey's or Dick
Hours will be from 11 :30 to 1 :00. Four regis- Jurgens'. "We may mortgage the next ten Home-
tration booths will sell tickets up until 11 o'clock, comings, but we're not going to spare the money
along with Golden Jubilee souvenir buttons bear- to make this one memorable," say they.
ing a reproduction of the tower of Old Main.
A poll of 300 alumni, townspeople, and stu-
Two class reunions have been planned. The dents showed that Dorsey and Jurgens were first
Class of 1913 will hold its 35-year reunion in the and second choice in a list of nearly 30 leading
home economics dining room of the practical arts dance bands which might be available at that
building. The Class of 1938 will hold its tenth price. These leading bands cannot always be
year reunion in the "Woodshed" of the cafeteria. secured when wanted, but alumni may rest as-
Several other classes are planning reunions for sured of a good one.
May 22, 1949, when a huge Founders Day festival
Latest information (Sept. 11) was that
will be held. Tommy Dorsey's nationally known orchestra was
An Alumni Association business meeting will being contracted.

be held in the recreation hall at the south end of At midnight October 16, 1948, the Golden
the cafeteria at 1 o'clock. President Ray Lane Homecoming will be over.
will be in charge.

PAGE THREE

Widger and Lontz Reminisce on

1948

Dr. Widger Loo k s 1912
'Across the Years'
to Glorious El of
Yesterday.

Dr. Howard DeForest Widger By Dr. Howard DeForest Widger

Thirty-six years is a long time to teach in one col- Although, in spite of my greying hair, I do
lege. When a person does so, it is usually because he likes not yet consider myself old, my years at Eastern
the college and the college likes him. That is most emin- have been many-thirty-six to be exact, from
ently true of Howard DeForest Widger, a young Yale 1912 to 1948. Only Mr. Lantz, my associate and
grad of 1910 who came to Illinois after two years of neighbor across the page, of the present active
teaching at Massachusetts Agricultural college. With faculty has a more extended term of service. In
the exception of some time at the University of Illinois, a very real sense I have grown up with Eastern,
where he took the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees, Dr. Widger "E.I." as it was affectionately called. Thirty.
has hardly missed a day on the Eastern campus. In 1945, six times before these eyes has the green of the
following the retirement of Miss Isabel" McKinney, he ivy on Old Main turned to crimson. Twice have
became head of the English department. the shadows of world war gathered, hovered, and
passed; twice have I heard the tramp of East-
Dr. Widger has never been outside the United States ern's sons marching to war. Generations of stu-
and Canada, but he has entered the lives of thousands dents have gone in and out of the halls and class-
of men and women whose addresses now include the 48 rooms. And like Tennyson's Ulysses, "I am a
states and a dozen foreign countries. Some remember part of all that I have met."
him not only as a gifted teacher but as a former princi-
pal of TC high. Now a public speaker in constant de- When I first knew Eastern, she was, as in·
mand, member of several national professional and stitutions go, young, only thirteen years old, a
honorary societies, author and authority in the field of normal school in name and function offering but
grammar and grade school English, Dr. Widger has two years of work beyond high school. No de-
widened the horizons of Eastern while inspiring ten grees were granted, only diplomas. Let no one
generations of Eastern students (including his own four think, however, that scholarly teaching was not
daughters) to an appreciation of the alrna mater. going on. "A normal school," said Mr. Lord at
my first faculty meeting, "should be a seat of
Most recent honor to come to Dr. Widger is nomina-
tion (tantamount to election) as preseident of the dele- (Continued on Page 7)
gate assembly of the Illinois Education association.

PAGE FOUR

Seventy-Three Years at Eastern

1948

'Charlie' Wins Se-
cure Place in East-
ern 'Hall of Fame.'

1911

By J..Donaven Tenison, '50 Dr. Charles P. Lantz
Walk through the gailery of time into East-
ern's storehouse of memories and dust off some schools as the University of Pennsylvania, Cor-
of the famous name-plates and faces. nell, and Penn State. In the days of brutal, pile-
up football, the wiry little quarterback never suf-
That one-the one hanging at the far end, fered a serious injury.
determined, distinguished, colorful-that is our
own Dr. Charles P. Lantz. Although nearly all of the rules and plays of
the game of that day have since been modified,
Back when lovers wooed in "The Surrey with the "T" formation was in use in 1904. One oddity
the Fringe on the Top"; when heroes were made, which remains clear in Charlie's mind is how, af-
not born ; in the days before the forward pass ter a man had been brought to the ground, his
was initiated and when there was no football hud- teammates would push and pull to gain every
dle-it was then that young Charlie Lantz, a inch of yardage. Only five yards were needed for
mighty mite of 140 pounds, reigned over the a first down.
gridiron, the hardwood, and the diamond at
Gettysburg college, Gettysburg, Pa. Something new in sports arrived at Gettys-
burg after Charlie's first college gridiron season.
It was at Gettysburg almost half a century It was basketball.
ago that the late Dr. Nixon saw the great future
in the field of athletic coaching and suggested it Knowing hardly more than that the ball was
to young Lantz. And it was then that Charlie round and had to be tossed at a wicker basket,
started developing his own physical education young Lantz grabbed off a first string berth and
~rogram, a program that has benefited tens of held it also for the next four years.
thousands of American youths everywhere.
In the spring, when all other young men's
When the first call for football came at fancies turned lightly to the bicycle built for two,
Gettysburg in the fall of 1904, Charlie moved im- Charlie's heart turned to his first love-the "hot
mediately into the quarterback position and ran
his teammates for four years against such (Continued on Page 6)

PAGE FIVE

'Charlie Wins Secure Place in later Gettysburg college discovered that Charli
Lantz, three letter man, class president, captai
Eastern State 'Ha II of Fa me' of the baseball team, athletic association tre
urer for three years, manager of the musi
corner" of the ball diamond. In 45 years of college clubs, business manager of the Spectrum, Pe
sports, Lantz has never forsaken his fondness for and Sword, and winner of the Pittsburg chemi
baseball. One of his greatest joys was in master- try prize had become "Dean of the Little 19,'
minding a group of freshmen to an IIAC cham- head of the 'Eastern athletic department, and
pionship in 1947. An old friend, the great highly respected leader in sportsdom in the grea
"Rajah" Hornsby, gave Charlie an autographed state of Illinois.
baseball on that occasion, and it's one of his most
cherished souvenirs. Although he "gives up" In 1938, the year that the health educatio
active coaching every year because of the heavy building was dedicated, Lantz received an honor·
duties of the athletic directorship, no one who ary doctorate from Gettysburg.
knows Lantz believes that he won't be out direct-
ing the ball team as soon as the first crocus It's typical of the man that Charlie cherishe
blooms in spring. the doctor's degree far less than he does that
autographed baseball from Rogers Hornsby.
During his college years, Charlie spent the
summer vacations as player-manager of various Yes, that one hanging at the far end-Dr.
semi-pro ball clubs. There was no ruling barring Charles P. Lantz, Head of the Physical Education
professionals from collegiate competition. Department at Eastern Illinois State college.

After graduation Charlie turned down an of- Present Eastern Profs Average Ten
fer to coach at his alma mater and accepted a
position at Harrisburg Academy, where he spent Years on Staff; Total 1,375 Years of Service
his next three years.
Last year the Eastern State News: discovered that the
A short vacation into the Midwest called total years' service performed at Eastern by her 135
Lantz nearer to the Normal School at Charles- faculty members was approximately 1,375. This showed
ton. It was a short vacation which developed into that the average length of service was more than ten
a lifetime job. All athletic events, all physical years, despite the rapid turnover during and immediately
education classes, and a couple of math classes after the war and the addition of over 30 new faculty to
for good measure were tutored in those by-gone handle the record-breaking post-war enrollments.
days by Charlie alone.
A quick look at the 1948-49 catalogue reveals that
The problem of getting a team ready for there are 27 active faculty whose span of service includes
competition was great indeed in the early 1900's. both of Eastern's administrations, that of L. C. Lord
Unlike today, high school boys were not solicited and that of R. G. Buzzard. Thus these 27 have all served
to come to college. Very few freshmen had ever more than 15 years.
seen or read about athletic contests. Many of the
youngsters in the "Normal School' were eighth This kind of faculty stability, coupled with efficient
grade graduates of 14 or 16. But the problem was administration by only two presidents, has helped give
no greater than the men who confronted it. Eastern its wide reputation as one of the nation's leading
teacher education colleges. Talented · in different ways
Coach Lantz introduced basketball to East- but in ways that their times demanded, these two admin-
ern his first year and, of course, a few of his stratiors have supplemented each others' work in a way
favorite stories. There was Paris with an un- that has brought great credit to the school.
beaten record (even then) and Charlie with his
green squad scheduled a game. Final score: Paris ~· Ford, Former Dean, Dies
18, Eastern-"! forget the s~ore, but we really
humiliated them," says Charlie. Miss Ellen A. Ford died at her home in Syracuse,
N. Y. last June 13.
"Then there was the time we headed cross
country for Westfield college in our freshly Miss Ford was for nearly 35 years a teacher and
polished buggies drawn by well curried horses. dean at Eastern. According to an article written for the
After we finally found the place, we were defeat- Eastern State News at the time of her death, Miss Ford
ed 29 to 26. But there was something unusual probably had greater influence in directing the course of
about the game. Twenty-seven of Westfield's 29 the school than any other woman member of the faculty.
points were free throws." (Westfield visited
:EISNS later and returned home with the small At the time of her retirement in 1934, the Alumni
end of an 81 to 20 score.) Association expressed its deep appreciation in a letter,
quoted herewith in part: " . . . Nobody appreciates more
Summer vacations now meant more educa- than we what it has meant to the College to have the en-
tion for Charles P. Lantz. Three years at the tire devotion of such a person as Miss Ford throughout
Chautauqua School of Physical Education at the early years when (Eastern) was becoming a real
Chautauqua, New York, then on to Notre Dame teachers college. Her high standards of scholarship, her
to study under Rockne and Meanwell. Penn State clear grasp of what was happening in the world of teacher
awarded him the M. S. in 1936. A couple of years training, her contempt for everything shoddy and cheap,
her delight in classical beauty and perfection, have done
for education more than Illinois will ever know."

PAGE SIX

Widger Rem inisces. on Th irty-Six my direction was given-Sheridan's Rivals. But
in the winter of 1913-1914 the theater burned.
Years of Eastern State Tradition Another escape was to open-air productions on
the south campus. I shall never forget the pre-
learning ." E astern met t h at test then as she sentations of Twelfth Night and The Piper before
does today. Henry Johnson, Lotus Coffman, the lily pool and the tall willows near the place
John P a ul Goode, Thomas Briggs, and others where the southeast corner of the Practical Arts
had become such distinguished teachers that buildi?g no'Y stands. There were the open air,
the mght with its stars, and the frogs-ah, yes,
larger institutions had called them· but there
still remained scholars and master 'teachers in beloved, the frogs.
the persons of E. H . Taylor, Ellen Ford, Edgar N.
Transeau, S. E. Thomas, Annie Weller Florence Outranking all other traditions, however,
Skeffington, and Isabel McKinney to' carry on was that of Chapel, an institution within an in-
the tradition of a seat of learning. stitution. I can see it now-the faculty seated
in stiff, formal rows on the platform, the children
Because at the beginning of my employment of the Training School seated in the little red
chairs packed between the desks and the plat-
here Eastern was young and its enrollment small, form, the college students in desks behind the
children, and a man in gray hair taking or read-
there were not the complexity and multiplicity of
ing aloud. Chapel was Mr. Lord's classroom in
student organizations that exist today. The four which he instructed the faculty and students
about teaching or about living. For those of us
classes-freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior who listened humbly and attentively chapel was
a transforming experience from which no one
- served as the foci for school activities. But al- emerged quite the same creature he entered.
There was talk in high seriousness about the sub-
ready traditions were growing, though not yet jective and objective, about sacrifice and the
damnation or salvation that came from its re-
moss-covered. One was the system of class jection or acceptance, about telling the truth
and not being afraid.
"angels," faculty advisers freely chosen by the
Sometimes there was a story-"How the
classes to serve as counselors. Believe it or n oat~ Elephant Got His Trunk," "The Roman Road,"
as Mr. Ripley would say, I have already been "The New Little Boy's Thanksgiving," "The

"angel," not once but many times; and anyone 'Eathem," or "Mother Gets Back on the Job."
Chapel as we knew it was the lengthened shadow
who has been an "angel" even once can face the of a great !llan. When that man died, the shadow
retreated mto the hearts and lives of all it had
hereafter with calm, for he has already had his touched.

fling with wings.

Another tradition stemming from the class Yet it must not be thought that the glory
organizations was that of decorating the Assem- of Eastern is of the past only. In 1920 Eastern
bly Room (the Old Auditorium to you alumni still becal!le a four year teachers college and began
in the swaddling clothes stage) . You older alumni offermg degrees, B. Ed. at first and then B.S. in
can recall the times when you worked all night Education. The faculty grew in number, and
gathering lilacs, crabapple blossoms, snowballs, new departments were created. Under Dr. Buz-
or other flowers to use in creating a fairyland out zard and his insistence upon graduate study the
of the ugly Assembly Room. If you were ever a academic preparation of the faculty rose mark-
freshman or sophomore in those days, decorating edly until now, according to the rating of the
meant a battle to the finish with your rival class American Association of Colleges for Teacher
perh aps a ducking in the lake; but come heli Education, Eastern's faculty is near the very top
or high water, you saw the thing through. If it of member institutions. Today you can scarcely
be true that "A ihing of beauty is a joy forever," pass through the corridors without bumping into
then you gave to students and faculty alike an a ha!f dozen Ph. D's.
everlasting joy. It was no mean experience to
walk into the Assembly Room on a spring day
and to find yourself in a lovely garden enclosed
fo a white picket fence and fragrant with flowers

Remember?

Still another tradition-one that persisted In another year Eastern will probably be in

down to the present-is that of the high standard fact as it is now in name a state college offering
of excellence for dramatic performances. Noth-
. g cheap or shoddy would do. It was my good the B.A. and B.S. degrees to those not preparing
fortune during the first three years of my ser-
"ce to direct the senior class plays. Our only to teach. Nor can the day be far distant when it

age was the bare platform of the Assembly will ~e offering graduate work as is now being
oom, considerably lower than now. It posses-
d no back drop, no front curtain, no footlights; done m three of the Illinois state institutions for
et on it have occurred some unforgetable pro-
uctions. One escape from the poverty of such the preparation of teachers.
stage was the arleston Opera House on the
est side of Sixth Street Just south o -e Town Thanks to the administration of President
ranch. It was there that the first play under
Buzzard, the college tishebHeceoamltihngEdbuectatetironhobuusiledd~
With the Science and

(Continued on Page 26)

PAGE SEVEN

One of many interesting features being included in Dr. C. H. Coleman's anniversary history o

Eastern is a compilation entitled "Homecoming at Eastern, 1915-1947." With his permission, th
following material is printed in advance of the publication date of the history. It will test yo
memory of Eastern homecomings.

Homecomin at Eastern, 1915-1947

Date Football Game

Nov. 6, 1915 Shurtleff 6, EI 52 Chapel, parade, decorations, game, receptio

dance

Nov. 11, 1916 Carbondale 7, EI 19 Student "take off" on chapel, at reception

Nov. 17, 1917 Normal 7, EI 13 "Circus" in evening. Proceeds to Athletic Ass

ciation

No Homecoming in 1918. War and influenza

Nov. 8, 1919 Millikin 32, EI 0 Dedication of Schahrer Field. Banquet replac

reception

Nov. 6, 1920 Normal 20, EI 7 Dedication of Pem Hall tablet to Mary E. Ha

kins

Oct. 29, 1921 Rose Poly 0, EI 28 Class stunts following chapel. School band ·

parade

Nov. 4, 1922 Normal 0, EI 0 Students impersonated faculty in the parade

Nov. 17, 1923 Carbondale 0, EI 23 T. C. High football game. First sale of chrysa

themums.

Nov. 1, 1924 Normal 0, EI 3 Outdoor vaudeville at football game

Nov. 7, 1925 Evansville 13, EI 0 Program announced over radio. College orchest
at chapel

Nov. 6, 1926 St. Louis U. Fresh. 19,H. S. game in morning. Bonfire night before ga

EI 0 'The Players present

Nov. 12, 1927 Carbondale 2, EI 14 Vaudeville show after Class stunts at game

banquet

Nov. 10, 1928 Normal 0, EI 19 You Never Can Tell No dance

Nov. 15, 1929 Indiana State 6, EI 7 Three "folk tales"

Homecoming Queen

Nov. 21, 22, 1930 Macomb 0, EI 23 The Trysting Place Ernestine King

(Two-day program. Homecoming tea and dance. "Midnight show".)

Oct. 16, 17, 1931 Carbondale 6, EI 0 Enter the Hero Frances Sudduth

Oct. 28, 29, 1932 Millikin 40, EI 0 Half an Hour Margaret Irwin

(Game broadcast by radio. Stunt show)

Oct. 13, 14, 1933 Normal 23, EI 6 The Romancers Beulah Haslitt

Oct. 26, 27, 1934 Indiana State 0, EI 19 The Importance of Katherine Hall

Being Earnest

Oct. 18, 19, 1935 Normal 13, EI 0 The Man Who Married Elizabeth Irwin

a Dumb Wife

Oct. 16, 17, 1936 Indiana State 0, EI 13 The Late Christopher Maxine Harrod

Bean

Oct. 22, 23, 1937 Normal 0, EI 0 Seven Keys to Vera Evelyn Carruthe

Baldpate

(High school bands first invited to take part in parade)

Oct. 28, 29, 1938 Macomb 18, EI 0 The Cat and the Martha June Jack

Canary

Oct. 20, 21, 1939 Normal 0, EI 0 Fashion Donis Barber

Nov. 8, 9, 1940 Carbondale 6, EI 25 Brother Rat Helen Thomas

("Pep dance" on Friday night)

Oct. 17, 18, 1941 Normal 19, EI 0 What a Life Jewell EmmeriCh
Oct. 23, 24, 1942
Dec. 3, 4, 1943 Macomb 45, EI 0 Out of the Frying Pan Margery Thomas
Oct. 13, 14, 1944
Oct. 19, 20, 1945 No game. No team Stunt Night Geneva Wiedener
Oct. 26, 27, 1946
Ill. Wesleyan 40, EI 7 Stunt Night Thelma Whiteleather

Carbondale 0, EI 0 The Far Off Hills Jeanne Volkmann

Normal 26, EI 13 Snafu Martha Jean Tym

(Burl Ives performance. Paul Sargent memorial exhibition)

Oct. 24, 25, 1947 Normal 6, EI 13 Dear Ruth Arlene Swearingen

32 Homecomings; 31 games, 14 won, 4 tied, 13 lost; Total scores-EI 314, Opponents 351.

P AGI!: EIGHT

Lord Memorial Scholarship Goes to Eastern State High Graduate

Commencement Speaker Entertains College Scouters Above- Jack Sensintaffar, college
junior, receives the LlVingston C.
• Lord Memorial scholarship awarded
annually at commencement time by
the Alumni Association. Mr. Sensin-
taffar is a graduate of Eastern State
high school, a war veteran, and a
zoology major. Shortly after receiv-
ing the Lord scholarship, he was mar-
ried to Jeanne Lower of Kankakee, a
former student of art at Eastern.

Miss Ruby Harris, Class of 1912,
now professor of geography at
Eastern, is chairman of the scholar-
ship committee.

Left-Roe Bartle not only spoke
eloquently before the 1948 graduat-
ing class but addressed members of
the local chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega, Scout service fraternity of
which he is national president. He
is shown here talking to Dr. Donald
R. Alter, local Alpha Phi Omega
sponsor; President R. G. Buzzard;
Loren Unser, student president of
APO; and J. A. Culumber, Boy Scout
field executive.

PAGE NINE

August, 1948 Metter Reports

223 Placements

Above-Work is progressing as scheduled on the two million dollar "We have had more calls for
Mary J. Jiooth_lib.r:ai:y on Eastern's south campus. Outside walls are now more teachers than ever before," reports
than half up and the interior is taking shape. Dr. Harry L. Metter, director of
teacher training and placement at
Below-This is the way the artist tells us the new structure will look by Eastern, "and the number of calls in
1950. A four-story modified Gothic edifice with a number of different the elementary field is especially
floor levels, it will probably be the most beautiful building on the Eastern great."
campus.
According to Dr. Metter, all but
August, 1950 five or six registrants at the Eastern
placement bureau have taken teach-
Fall Enrollment at New High ing positions. In all, 223 placements
have been confirmed, a number al-
Students from 60 Illinois counties, freshmen finished in the upper half ready equalling last year's total.
a dozen other states, and two for- of their graduating classes in high
eign countries poured into Charles- school. Last year the per cent was Although some experts contend
ton in early September. Some 460 65 and in 1946 it was 62. that the supply of qualified elemen-
new students who reported for a tary teachers will not catch up with
three day orientation program swell- Especially encouraging to the the demand in the next ten years,
ed enrollment past the 1400 mark trnching profession is the fact that Dr. Metter is hopeful that the period
for a new record as Eastern begins students in four year teacher-edu- will not be so long.
its fiftieth year of service. cation curricula are 77 per cent
upper-half students. This means that At Eastern, however, the number
The high level of scholastic a- teachers of high caliber are "on the of freshman elementary education
chievement of the new students in way." The two year curricula at majors has not increased over last
pre;p school is big news. According to Eastern have attracted a larger per- year. Only 30 of over 460 freshmen
a study of applications reported by centage of students finishing in the list elementary education as their
Dr. William H. Zeigel, guidance di- lower half of their high school major interest.
rector, 72 per cent of this year's classes.
Dr. Metter states that the average
PAGE T EN • salary obtained by bureau regis-
trants is at least $3,000 per year.
Most of the teachers placed through
the college bureau are inexperienced.

"Probably because of reorganiza-
tion, superintendents have frequent-
ly changed their minds from week to
week as to what teaching combina-
tions they want," said Dr. Metter.
"Since our candidates for jobs didn't
know what they wanted either," he
remarked, "it's been a tough place-
ment year. One candidate had 75
job notices before making up his
mind."

Because of the tremendously high
number of practice teachers to be
given teaching experience this year
in the junior and senior classes, Dr.
Metter has certified a number of new
off-campus centers.

Decatur high school will take com-
merce and industrial arts practice
teachers. Noble, Pana, Robinson, and
Shelbyville get home economics
teachers, with Robinson also avail-
able for commerce people. Charleston
high will take physical education and
science teachers. Dr. Metter also
mentioned Casey and Effingham
high schools as practice teaching pos-
sibilities.

Keeping in Touch • • • ern, then eight more in Crawford
county. Now married, she resides at
Keep your class correspondent in- school work, superintending the De- 810 N. Howard St., Robinson, Ill.
formed! He or she writes material at catur public schools, uRtil about four
the request of the editor-but not if years ago when he and Mrs. Harris "A similar letter, addressed to the
you fai l to pass along items about retired to a nice new home on the postmaster at Danville, Ill., inquired
yourself and ypur classmates. farm near Moweaqua. Mr. Harris about Chester H ume. Paul E. Blair,
could not get entirely away from the '34, former editor of the Teachers
Class of 1901 public schools, however. He is now College News- and a frequent guest of
Mildred Wh ite an active member of the board for the Shriver family, now a postal em-
Moweaqua's big new consolidated dis- ployee at Danville, searched in vain
920 S. llth St., trict. through the postal directories. Then
Charleston, Illinois he inserted an item in "Voice of the
Zula Persons Calla han lives in People.'' The following day a reader
Class of 1902 Danville. She writes that she spent of the Commercial-News informed
a month last spring in Mexico. Mrs. us that Mr. Hume's address is 8011
Mahala J a ne White Callahan is a widow. She has a mar- Linden Ave., Seattle 3, Washington.
920 S. llth St. ried son and a grandson. The reader was Chester's niece at
Charleston, Illinois Muncie, Ill. An interesting letter
Class of 1904 from Chester himself will be printed
M.ahala W hite died just as this Mr. DeWolfe suggests that one of at a later time."
issue of the A lumnus was going to the fo llowing classmates succeed him
press. She was one of five remaining as class correspondent. The editor The rest of Mrs. Shriver's account
members of the Class of '02, which is one of persistent detective work
numbered 13. Eastern and Eastern's (Continued on next Page) which resulted in finding Pluma
sons and daughters are sad as those Buckmaster (Mrs. W. H. Nehrling)
first ranks dwindle. Adventures of a at R. R. 1, Bucyrus, Ohio; Jessie
Honn (Mrs. George I. Myers) at 440
Class of 1903 Class Correspondent Jasmine St., Denver, Colo.; and sev-
eral others.
My rtle L u mbrick Class correspondents are having
Shelbyville, Illinois fun! Mrs. Nehrling taught until 1912,
Mrs. Lumbrick has located every when she was married and returned
To illustrate that statement, we to Ohio to live on a farm. She has
living member of the Class of '03 and are using in this column a condensa- two daughters and one son, all mar-
srnds excerpts from a number of tion of an account sent by Mrs. Rus- ried, and two granddaughters.
letters she received. Just half (12) sell Shriver, correspondent for the
of the members of her class are liv- Class of '09: Mrs. Nehrling reports that with
ing, she says. her husband, a retired farmer now
"It has been suggested that this working as a machinist, she is a mem-
Charles Wallace of near Charles- correspondent set up in business un- ber of the Antique Automobile Club
ton, a lawyer, has been married 25 der the name of 'Bureau of Missing of America and possesses a 1907
years. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have no Persons.' F'ord "in excellent running order.''
children but have cared for a niece They go on the Glidden Tours, con-
and nephew. Mr. Wallace has often "With but ten correct addresses to ducted by such celebrities as James
used his lifetime pass to athletic start with, our class members have Melton, a fancier of the Stanley
events at Eastern. responded with suggestions and in- Steamer.
formation that have led to all 28
Ernest Freeman, whose first wife 'lost' members of the class. Mrs. Myers spent some time at the
was Mabel Wright, '03, has recently Northwestern School of Music after
re-married. His two grown sons live "Letters to postmasters brought graduation at Eastern, then was
in Texas. The Charleston post office some amusing results. One addressed graduated from the New England
could scarcely operate without to the postmaster at Robinson asked Conservatory of Music at Boston,
Ernest. for information concerning Verna where she studied the harp, piano,
Howe. When our self-addressed enve- and organ. After a brief career as a
Eva Young lives in Chicago with lope returned, it contained a message music teacher and public school
her sister Mildred. She taught in addressed to 'Dear Lida.' supervisor, she married Captain
Oakland, Bement, Effingham, and Myers of the Army Air Corps in
Chicago. She has a B. S. degree from "Hastily turning it over to see 1917. They lived for some time at
Ltwis Institute and is an M. D. She what postmaster knew us so well, we Alameda, Calif., transferring to Den-
and her sister have done hospital ser- found the signature of Verna Howe ver soon after Pearl Harbor when her
vice among women and girls and in Apple. The Robinson postmaster had husband became superintendent of
children's clinics and taught many handed the letter to an employee and pilot training for United Air Lines.
years. Both have now retired and told him to 'take care of that.' The The Myers' have one daughter and a
travel a great deal. employee was Verna's nephew. Mrs. baby granddaughter. Jessie has kept
Apple states that she taught three up an active interest in music-teach-
Will Harris and Mrs. Harris years at Mattoon after leaving East- ing, holding church positions, and do-
(Laura Parks, '02) attended the East- ing radio work.
ern State club dinner in Shelbyville
last spring. Mr. Harris remained in

PAGE ELEVEN

Keeping in Touch • • • versity of Kentucky in Lexingt
Kentucky.
will be happy to hear from ALL Class of 1907
of them: Lucy L. DeWolfe, 3320 W. Marguerite Bainbridge Class of 1912
Kilbourn Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.; (No correspondent)
Mrs. H. R. Wilson (Ruth A. LaRue), 1028 Ninth St. Nellie Catherine Haley, '12, (M
124 S. Morgan St., Olney, Ill.; Mrs. Charleston, Illinois. Peter J. Harrington), died in t
Harry A. Cottingham (Mary W. spring of 1947 at her home in Arco
Coon), 1112 Grant St., Danville, Ill.; Class of 1908 The mother of eight children, M
David M. Dewhirst, 203 N. Walnut Ruth Hostetler Harrington lived to see her daugh
St., Marion, Ill.; Carrie A. Littler, ters, Mary Jane and Mildred, gra
7519 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 26, Ill. E. I. S. C. uate from Eastern and become sue
Charleston, Illinois. cessful teachers. Elizabeth, th
Mr. DeWolfe also threatens suit youngest, is now a senior and a lead-
(in a facetious way, we think) if we Class of 1909 er on campus.
don't correct the spelling of his Mrs. Russell Shriver
name, which is NOT DeWolve. Class of 1913
412 Van Buren St. Mrs. Ronald King
Class of 1905 Charleston, Illinois
Cecil E. Stark 875 Eleventh St.
"Thanks to The Eastern Alumnus Charleston, Illinois
923 Forest Ave. and Alice M. Cooper, '43, the mailing · Twer_ty 1913 graduates listed them-
River Forest, Illinois list for our class is now 100 per cent selves as Charleston residents in the
complete," states Mrs. Shriver. Quot- year of graduation. Today only three
Class of 1906 ing from Miss Cooper's letter, "In remain in "The Friendly City:" Mi
the March issue of the Alumnus you Jennie Case, who retired from teach-
Charles W. Fender re']uested the address of Laura Grace ing several years ~go and whose hob-
1927 ElDorado Ave. Cossairt. Her home was in Potomac, bies now are making tatting and
Berkeley 7, California Ill., and she taught the first and reading Spanish; Faye Durbin (Mrs.
second grades there for a number of 0. E. Jack), who has kept up her in-
Mr. Fender writes that he and A. years before she was married. Her terest in music: and the present class
0. Bainbridge were roommates at address now is Mrs. Elmer W. Harri- correspondent, Bess Shrieve King.
college. The Bainbridges are now at man, 710 Church St., Urbana, Ill. · Eight have been called by death:
Saugatuck, Mich. Grove Butler, Bruce Corzine, Anna
Mrs. Shriver contiues, "This cor- Dwyer, Paul Ewald, Carmilla Jen-
Flora Balch, '05, reports to Mr. respondent was both surprised and kins, Helen McDonald, Arthur Fraz-
Fender by way of Minnie Rosen- pleased that a member of the Class ier, and George Rankin.
berry, '06, that Mildred Faris Bark- of 1943 should have read the column The other 43 have been or will be
ley, '06, lives in Casey, Ill., having concerning the Class of 1909 and contacted during the year. Since the
retired on pension from the Chicago promptly complied with our request. last reunion ten years ago there have
schools. been many changes. Some have for
"Mrs. Harriman writes that she the first time joined the brotherhood
Ellen Dwyer, '06, lives at 1142 should have graduated with the Class of the bereaved because of the war.
Maple, Evanston, and has been a of '06 but due to illness was forced At least two· have married and many
teacher of Spanish in an Evanston to drop out. Mr. Lord advised her to have become grandparents.
high school for 28 years. return some summer session to com- Worth Allison is a patient at
plete her work. This she did in the Methodist Sanitorium, Albuquerque,
Donald De,Volfe, '06, is a lawyer at summer of 1908 and received her N. M. He is not a bed patient, how-
Evanston. Miss Balch taught Mr. De- diploma in 1909. She says, 'So, I feel ever.
Wolfe's daughter in school. Mr. De- as if I belong to neither the Class of
Wolfe was also a roommate of Mr. 1906 nor 1909-but very much a Char- Stella Br.iggs (Mrs. C. J. Naas)
Fender. leston Normal School alumna of the lives in San Francisco, Calif.
M.r. Lord Regime.'
Bertha Harry Smith is a widow Helen Comer (Mrs. A. A. Taylor),
and lives in Springfield, Ill., where "Nevertheless we claim her in our the mother of two grown sons, does
she is engaged in government work. class and hope she may attend our substitute teaching in the elementary
reunion in the fall of 1949." schools of Evanston, Ill.
Miss Balch taught 38 years and is
now retired. Class of 1910 Portia Ewing has remained in
Ruth Carman Neoga, Ill. She taught a short time
The Class of '06 was saddened by and now cares for her aged parents.
the death of Otis W. Caldwell, says E. I. S. C.
Mr. Fender. "He was truly a great Charleston, Illinois. Gladys Feagan taught until her
man and a wonderful friend. He in- marriage to W. F. Brockman a few
spired me to go into science, which Class of 1911 years ago. Her home is in Kirland,
I taught for over ten years. He and Washington.
Livingston C. Lord had great influ- Mrs. William 0. Rogers
ence in my life. I was present when Vernon Kern, who married Edith
the Normal School was dedicated and Box 612 Hardy, '12, is chief appraiser of the
had my first glimpse of Mr. Lord Lank Bank of St. Louis, with which
then... " Pasco, Washington he has been connected for over 25

Walter Wilson Jennings, '11, is now

professor of economics at the Uni-

P AG E TWELVE

years. Vern is a busy man with a Latin-American Class of 1916
diversity of interests. His home is Glenna Sprout Albers
in Waterloo, Ill. Senorita Erlinda Moncada, above,
is the second Latin-American stu- 300 Polk St.
Flossie Lee is assistant postmaster dent to attend Eastern with a Charleston, Illinois.
at Casey, Ill. She entered the postal scholarship provided by the Nine-
service in 1913. teenth District of F e d e r a t e d Class of 1917
Woman's Clubs in Illinois and the (No correspondent)
Irene Malhoit (Smith) has taught International Institute of New York. Ruth Frances Thomas, '17, who has
in the public schools of South Rock- Miss Moncada will conduct weekly served for some time as a missionary
wood, Mich., since 1929 and is now lessons in conversational Spanish at Inhambane, Box 41, Portuguese E.
teaching in kindergarten. She boasts while on campus, according to Dr. Africa, is at home on furlough until
a new grandson. Kevin Guinagh, foreign languages January, 1949. She may be addressed
department head who has just re- at 1117 Baugh Ave., E. St. Louis, Ill.
Edith Miller has lived in Phoenix, turned from a year as visiting pro-
Ariz., for several years, where the fessor at Antioch college, 0. Miss Class' of 1918
climate is kind io her arthritis . She Moncada comes from a teaching Mary Crowe
taught until the fall of 1947, since career in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
which time she has been librarian 2525 E. •Florida Dr.
for two elementary schools. She was Senorita Marietta Perez, last Ft. Wayne, Indiana
back in Illinois this summer. year's scholarship student from Co- Elsie Blanche Aten, '18, is now
lombia, S. A., is spending a second Elsie Aten Kurtz of Robinson, Ill.
Mabel Furness (Mrs. John Mer- year in the United States, teaching
kwa) taught school for 20 years, and studying at the Cardinal Stritch Class of 1919
worked in the Chicago Army War college in Milwaukee. Edith Crowe
Bond office during the war, and now
teach Es near her home in Josephine Class of 1914 2525 E. F'lorida Dr.
county, Ore. She attended summer Mrs. C. T. Gates Ft. Wayne, Indiana
school at Eastern in 1947.
708 Johnson St. Class of 1920
James Shoemaker seems to be Charleston, Illinois. Mrs. Paul A. M.oody
prouder of his new grandson than of Leonard Jones, '14, may be ad-
being head of the research and buy- dressed at 802 Seventeenth St., 4615 Oakland Ave.
ing department of Schwaubucher and Boulder, Colo. Downers Grove, Illinois
Co. in San Francisco. Word has been received from Kate
Martin Ownby of Mattoon that Bess Class of 1921
Lois Strawbridge (Mrs. H. F. Skad- Cooke Logan died in 1941. At the Vernon E. Barnes
den) lives in Danville, Ill. with her time of her death she was living in
husband and two children. Vander, Wash. She had two sons. Rushville, Illinois
One son and her husband are now
Edna Fern Terry (Mrs. Harry R. living in Peoria. Class of 1922
Prather) has three children, one d Cyril D. Reed
whom teaches in Tower Hill. This is
the third year that Mrs. Prather has 2395 S. Broadway
taught a rural school near Kansas, Denver, Colorado
her home for many years.
Class of 1923
Elva Wannamaugher (Mrs. John Harold H. Whittemore
lampper) has one daughter and
ince the death of her husband in P. 0. Box 1122
1937 has taught first grade in the New Orleans, La.
ouglas school, Danville, Ill.
Errett Warner, '23, is now super-
Fred Steinmetz (Dr. F. H.) has intendent of school at Allerton, Ill.
ne farther in the teaching profes- A successful coach and school ad-
ion than most of the Class of '13. ministrator, Errett's hobby is farm-
e has been at the University of ing, and he lives in the middle of the
aine in Orono since 1927 and since best farming country of Illinois. He
929 has been professor and head of took the B. Ed. at Eastern in 1925,
e department of botany and ento- the S.M. and the A.M. at the Univer-
ology. He sent a snapshot of him- sity of Illinois.
lf and his wife, Helen Horne, '14.
a future issue Dr. Steinmetz' let- Lois Olmsted, '23, is an orthopedic
r will be printed. The Steinmetzes nurse with the League of Nursing
d the Ronald L. Kings were among Education. Her business address is
ose whose sons lost their lives in 1790 Broadway, N. Y. However, her
meat. work takes her to many parts of the
United States. She reports that
It is hoped that many members of she has still to meet any of her form-
e Class of '13 will attend the Gold- er classmates, although she just
missed the "Eastern" dinner in Chi-
Jubilee and be present for the cago a couple of years ago. Miss
'rty-fifth reunion at luncheon Octo- Olmsted took the M.S. degree at
Western Reserve university after
16. earlier study at the Cook County
School of Nursing and at Northwest-
ern.

Florence Sutton Ogg (Mrs. Frank
C.), '23, taught math at EI until 1929,

PAGE THIRTEEN

when she married Dr. Ogg, now a Guidance Expert Class of 1929
professor of mathematics at Bowling Dorothy Tripp
Green State university, Ky. She has Harold Cottingham, '35, will teach
also taught there since 1939. There guidance and develop a program of 360 N. Ivy
are three sons and two daughters, counselor training, primarily for Monrovia, California
ranging from age 7 to age 18. Mrs. teachers, at Florida State university, C. C. Galbreath, '29, '37, former
Ogg holds the A. M. from the Uni- Tallahassee, this year. Dr. Cotting- coach at Lovington, Eureka, and Pax·
versity of Illinois. She did an addi- ham has been director of guidance for ton high schools, has been named as-
tional year of graduate study on a the Moline public schools for the past sistant football coach at Decatur
fellowship at the U. of I. Her hobbies three years. He has taught guidance high school. He will also teach indus-
at Indiana university, William Woods trial arts.
are books, her children, and new college, Arkansas State college, Aug-
ustana college, New York university, Class of 1930
recipes. at a University of Illinois extension (No correspondent)
cente1: in Moline, and, during the past Marie Gould, '30, is now Mrs. Gro-
Class of 1924 summer, at Colorado State college, ver C. Byrkit. A second son, Gary, i
Greeley. now four months old. Son Davis is
Joe Fender four years. The Byrkits have moved
Charleston, Illinois As an associate professor with the to 2504 N. Sheridan Road, Peoria 5,
Class of 1925 title "coordinator of counselor train- Illinois.
ing," Dr. Cottingham hopes soon to
Ozeta Goodman Cowan offer a graduate major in guidance Class of 1931
at Florida State, a fast-growing in- (No correspondent)
325 Third St. stitution. Recentlly become co-edu- Samuel Joseph Gray, '31, was a-
Joliet, Illinois cational, the university has an under- warded a master of science in educa-
William Rexford Beniot, '25, is now graduate enrollment of 4500. A grad- tion at the June commencement at
uate school offers degrees in several Indiana university. He is coach at
assistant director of athletics at departments. St. Francisville high school.
Michigan College of Mining and Delbert L. Young, '32, and his wife,
Technology in Houghton, Michigan. Acknowledged as one of the na- the former Pat Wilson, '31, are liv-
tion's leaders in the young field of ing in Decatur, where he is teaching
Edna Whalen, '25, '28, left her posi- guidance, Dr. Cottingham is author vocational building trades in the sen-
tion in the Decatur public schools this of a dozen articles appearing in vari- ior high school.
· year to join the staff of the Forest ous educational journals. His grad-
uate study has been done at the Uni- Class of 1932
Park-Lincoln elementary schools in versity of Iowa, Indiana university, Ruth Corley
the University of Missouri, and the
Joliet. University of Illinois. 1005 W. Cossett
Class of 1926 LaGrange, Illinois
Ave., Richmond, Calif. She teaches Harry C. (Stormy) Parr, an athleti~
Everett L. Green English in a junior high school there. great at Eastern, is commander of
3703 Western Ave. the Jasper county American Legion
Mattoon, Illinois post. Delbert Young, '32, is helping
Edgar Neal Gwin, '26, has begun Commander Par prepare blueprints
and specifications for a new Legion
work in the trust department of the Home. Mr. Young formerly taught
Springfield Marine bank after 22 at Newton and is now head of the
years as a teacher at Springfield building trades department in De-
catur high school.
high school, where he has been dean
of boys for the last few years. Class of 1933
(No correspondent)
John Fred Adams, '26, is now a Mr. Robert E. Wiseman of Miami,
general contractor in Springfield, Florida, tells us that he is too busy
Ill., after teaching for some time in with a number of duties at home and
in his business to continue as class
the Springfield schools. His address correspondent. Volunteers?
Lloyd S. VanWinkle, '33, is an ele-
is 1302 Leland Ave. mentary school principal at San
Diego, California. His address is
Ernest R. Bails, '26, is teaching 3688 Indiana Street.
mathematics at Denver, Colo. ("I
majored in social science and minor- Class of 1934
ed in English," he quips.) Two Louise Stillions
daughters are married and Mr. Bails
has four grandchildren, but there is Laupahoehoe School
Territory of Hawaii
also a son in high school. Mr. and Miss Stillions forwards a letter
Mrs. Bails (the former Rachel Lee) from Hazel Whitesel Volle:
still correspond with Herman Cooper, "After travelling and living for
'Baldy' Hawkins, Ruby Lee, Redith four years in many places all over
Goodson, and Sumner and Amy Wil-
son, all former EI students.

Class of 1927

Otho Green
3614 Fairview Ave.
Downers Grove, Illinois

Class of 1928
(No correspondent)
Maude Mae Buckler, '28, is now

Mrs. A. P. Conne!ly of 3949 Center

PAGE FOURTEEN

the U. S., my husband, daughter Here's to Health '37, is also at Evansville, with Mrs.
Merua, and I are settled again in Treece, the former Clara Balmer.
crntral California about 50 miles Carolyn Gilbert, '40, above, joined
south of San Francisco, in San Jose. the Eastern faculty last June as Hugh (Doc) Harwood, '36, is demo-
health coordinator under a program cratic candidate for state's attorney
"Our home is built in a former sponsored by the Kellog Foundation. of Coles county in the fall election.
English walnut orchard ... We find A registered nurse with a master's
the Santa Clara valley climate most degree in education, Miss Gilbert has Mr. Harwood took the LL. D. from
beneficial ... the varied agricultural already had marked success in work
and orchard industries make for good which takes her throughout the East- the University of Illinois in 1942 and
living." ern Illinois area. has been assistant state's attorney
for Coles county since his return
Mary Catherine Newman, '34, is ties" have included helping to plan from military service in 1945.
now Mrs. Mary Baker, of Westfield, a new $250,000 'greenhouse and a
Illinois. $600,000 addition to the present bot- Class of 1937
any building, helping revamp curri- William Abernathy
Harold E. Walker, '34, has been cula and courses, ad infinitum, right
named principal of Mansfield com- up to advising Gamma Alpha and Phi Superintendent of Schools
munity high school. He taught sci- Epsilon Phi fraternities. Stonington, Illinois
ence and mathematics at Lovington Pauline S~uers is now Mrs. Hichard
high school, and at Toledo high There is one other Easterner on the Tracy of 447 Chestnut St., Br idge-
school. He received his master's de- Ohio botany staff, Vesta Zimmerly, port.
gree from th e University of Illinois '3Z, Duane Grace is now teach:ng at
in June, 1947. Princeton high school. He took the
Dean Gray, '36, writes that he in- M. A. at the University of Illin,,1s in
Dolores Lillian Bible, '34, is now structs in the math department in 1941.
Mrs. Dolores Cochran of Louisville, the University of Houston, Tex. He Doris Ross is teachin.; in t;he
maintains his interest in basketball, Roosevelt junior high at Decatur .
Ill. rdereeing a bit, and operates a Georgianna Fr~zier, now l\Irs.
rooming house on the side. Last year Charles N. Swigart ·of 138 E. 155th
Class of 1935 he was chairman of the math divi- St., Harvey, Ill., is m~rried after
Harold F. Cottingham sion of the Texas State Teachers as- tc::aching three years in Danville.
sociation. Virginia Staff is now Mr.s. Earl
Florida State University Crabtree of . Ran1.sey, Ill. H·=r hus-
Tallahassee, Florida A. C. (Mick) Spence, '36, writes band, a for~er Easternite, has a
at length and entertainingly, but grocery store there.
Class of 1936 we've cut him down to a news item: Carl Brant operates a grocery in
Thomas Chamberlin He is assistant professor of English Kansas, Ill.
in Evansville college, the largest Arthur Maglone died of a heart
628 Woodland Ave. Methodist college in the U. S. In ad- attack in Chicago in Nov emb1~r of
Duluth 5, Minnesota dition, he does part-time announcing 1947. He was Carl Brant's brother-
Letters to Mr. Chamberlin, prom- at WEOA, CBS affiliate in Evans- in-law.
is:d for the May Alumnus, are here- ton. Mr. Spence has two sons, Mich- Leo Berns, '37, superintendent of
with condensed. Mr. Chamberlin him- ael and David Lee. Walter Treece, schools at Hume, Ill., last year, has
lf writes that Minnesota winters been named principal of the Mt. Zion
en't as bad as he feared (he is head community high school.
f the extension division of the state Bertrice Flori, '37, is now an assist-
niversity at Duluth). The lowest ant in the zoology department at the
mperature was -20. Snow covers University of Illinois. Her address is
e ground at Duluth from November 506 W. Nevada, Urbana.
'II spring. Tom is full of Duluth Cloyd Paskins, '37, spent the past
ography-he wrote a chapter on it summer in Saltillo, Mexico, teaching
or the State Geological Bulletin! and studying languages at Escuela
Mrs. George Buck, '36, the former de Inter American Verano. Mr. Pas-
lorence Wood, is at 1023 Grant St., kins will return this fall to Elon col-
anville, Ill. So~ Stevie is four. lege, N. C., where he teaches socio-
!\fax White, '36, is teaching geog- logy and history.
phy in the extension division of the
niversity of Wisconsin at Kenosha. Jane Hall, '37, and John Krzton
Mary Jane Ewing, '36, has taught were married in July. She will con-
tinue to teach third grade in Hills-
graphy and community health in boro, where they are living at pres-
ginaw (Michigan) high school for ent.
e past six years.
Edison Moseley, '37, athletic direc-
Richard A. Popham, '36, writes tor at Fulton High, has received con-
om Ohio State university, where siderable publici~y recently as the re-
sult of a survey of 43 state basket-
is professor of botany, that 5,000 ball tournaments, made for the Illi-
shman are now taking botany
ere every year. Dick teaches gen- (Continued on Page 22)
! botany to the frosh, plus .plant
'crotechnique and anatomy to ad-
nced undergrads and graduate stu-
nts. His "extracurricular activi-

PAGE FIFTEEN

Twenty-Two Lettermen Bolster Grid Hopes;

Tackle, Quarterback Problems Pester O'Brie

New Line Coach Football prospects at Eastern look help from the line.
golden this year of Eastern's Golden In an effort to speed up a rath
Henry (Hank) Miller came to Jubilee. Coach Maynard (Pat) O'-
Eii.Stern as a physical education in- Brien has 22 letttermen back from slow and beefy line, O'Bri·~n in earl
structor last summer. He was so well last year's third place IIAC team practice shifted Chuck Gros .>, har
liked that he was asked to stay on as and a number of better-than-average plunging fullback on the 1946 a
assistant football and basketball freshmen. The only weaknesses that 1947 teams, into a tackle positio
coach. He was formerly athletic di- could mean a mediocre season are at Smith might take the fullback sp~
rector at Canterbury college. He was the tackle and quarterback spots. If not, speedy Virg Sweet of Coving
highly successful with service teams ton, Ind., may play regnlar there.
in the army. At tackle, however, there will be and Smith could team for some ha
Frank Pitol, Collinsville ace whose to-stop running and blocking.
Fidelis Meets Again-- one year of experience should help
At University of Ill. greatly; and several good men yet Other top-notch backs include
almost untested in varsity competi- Johnson, Charleston ~enior who
Jim Stahl, '39, sends the following tion. It is doubtful whether Lee- spring broke the 100 yard dash r
item from the University of Illinoi:>, Roy (Gunner) LaRose, all-confer- ord hung up by Charlie Austin, '36
where he started the master's degree ence tackle in 1946 and shot put rec- and Earl Benoche, slippery halfbac
in education and physical education ord holder for three years in the voted most valuable to the Pamhe
last summer. Jim is back this fall at IIAC, will compete. last season.
Downers Grove, where he has coach-
ed since leaving the Navy. O'Brien will try to replace Chuck Unless Neal Hudson's right kn
Boyle and Bob Babb at quarterback responds to treatments being carri
"There are several old Fidelis (now with Howard Boudreau, only r·~ turn­ out by O'Brien, a new offensive e
Sigma Tau Gamma) here at the Uni- ing letterman at that position, or one will have to be developed. Hudso
versity this summer, so we had a of three good freshman prospects. starred at that position for thr
get-together early in August in the Most highly touted of these is Joe
basement of Kammerer's. Hayes Patridge, big Areola product devel- (Continued on next Page)
Kennard jotted down the names. We oped by Andy Sullivan, '45. A fine
just sat around and shot the breeze passer and hooter was sent down Eastern High Mentor
. .. I'm rooming with Pat O'Brien . .. from Niles Township h'gh by Jim
a wonderful fellow and one who defi- Phipps, '42. He is Ed Soergel :ind he VanHorn as head coach at Eastern
nitely has his heart in his work. He's is a boy to watch. Last, :md least State high school this year. Van wi
made many friends here on the cam- in size but not in grid sense, is 160 devote full time to safety educatio
pus. These are the fellows: pound Bpb Schmalhausen of Olney.
Any one of these three eoulc; be the E lmore is a former Little A
"Mac Waldrip, Glenn Sunderman, answer to Pat's prayer. American, playing for Georgeto
John Pier, Hayes Kennard, Robert college of Kentucky. He is a Na
Best news to Eastern grid fans Vet with two years of high sch
PAGE SIXTEEN was the return of Bob Smith, fleet coaching experience.
halfback from Downers Grove who
left school last year to work in Los
Angeles. A compact 205 pounds,
Smith can run a 10.2 hundred and
looked like an All-American last
year. He could put the Panthers at
the top of the column with a little

Zimmerman, Doyle Sisson, Ferrel
(Pat) Patterson, Ross Stephenson,
Don Tingley, Robert Frame, and Bill
Bane.

"Pat was a guest and so was Hal
Wimberly, coach at Jacksonville high
school.

" I 'm sending a cou ple of good track

men down, one a good basketball
player. Hear Bob Smith is back at
Eastern . . . Lots of Luck."

O'Brien Gets 22 Lettermen, but Schohrer Memorials To Be
Port of New Campus
Needs Tackles, Quarterback Landscaping Pion

(Con tinued from Page J~) Fights 13 Jinx One of Eastern's most widely ac-
claimed war heros was Martin
years bu t suffered an injury last Schahrer,_j'or whom Schahrer Field
year which benched him well into the
basketball season, although lw ma<le

a fine comeback and helped the team was named. A great athlete and fine
to its best record in 23 yearr.:. Hu<l- sportsman, Schahrer was killed in
son was also high-scorer ior the 19-18 the Battle of St. Mihiel Salient in

track team. France in 1918. The gridiron on the

There are some ten better-than- college campus was named for him
average prospects, including letter- and a me~orial plaque was dedicated

men Lewis Cox, Joe Krnzich, and to his memory as the result of a reso-

Wes Hilligoss, although it i~ doubt- lution by the Alumni Association.

ful whether the latter two can l'Om- Last summer, when the new li-

pete this year. brary began to rise on the northeast

The guard positions seems to be corner of Schahrer Field and a new

cinched by veterans Bill Snapp of gridiron began fo take shape on Lin-

Mattoon, and Howard (Slug) Barnes coln Field, President R. G. Buzzard

of Tuscola. Snapp's father was at assured alumni that Martin Schahrer

Eastern in the heyday of Martin is not forgotten. Far from it, for his

Schahrer. Barnes is a senior and name will be forever enshrined in

has been a regular guard .for three two places on the campus which will

seasons. assume greater and greater signi-

At center Captain Lou Stivers (see ficance as senior classes of the future

cover) should take most of the first- leave Eastern.

line responsibility. Anot:he::: letter- Each spring at graduation time,

man at center (who was .·narried on Coach Maynard (Pat) O'Brien, stated President Buzzard, seniors will
September 4) is Jim Sexson. above, is hoping this year to reverse pass through the Schahrer Memorial
the jinx which dogged the 1947 Gate, which onceguarded the foot-
The schedule this year includes Panthers. ba 1 fie ld. This gate is being built into
two and possibly three night games. an ornamental structure just south
Three radio stations will broadcast Three losses in a 6-2 season were of the west wing of Old Main. Sen-
the day games, WVLN of Olney, by 14-13 scores.. In two seasons the iors will pass through the gate dur-
WCRA of Effingham, and WLBH Panthers scored 13 points in each of
of Mattoon. WCIL of Carbondale will six games, losing five of them. (Continued on Page 21)
roadcast the Southern game and

·soy of Decatur will broadcast the

illikin game, by FM if it should 1948 Lantzmen Win 11 out of 14 Ball Games

z played at night.

'Ihe home schedule: Sept. 18-St.

oseph; Oct. 2-Ball State; Oct. 16-

orthern; Nov. 6-Millikin; Nov. 13

Southern. Games away: Sept. 24-

astern Kentucky; Oct. 9-West-

; Oct. 23-Normal; Oct. 30-ln-

·ana State. The St. Joseph and Ball

te games will be played at the

arleston high field at 8 :30 p. m.

thers, with the possible exception

the Millikin game, will be at 2

Glenn, '41, a grid ·.md basket- Although single losses to DeKalb and Western dropped the 1947 IIAC
! star at Eastern for four years, champions into second place this year, it was a highly successful season.
back at his prep alma mater as Scoring 57 runs to the opponents' 16 in the last five games, the Lantzmen
ketball and football coach this finished the season with 11 wins against three losses.
r. Employed with the Chefford-
ster Mfg. Co. after he quit coach- Ray DeMoulin (front, far right) of Decatur was voted most valuable
to the team because of his two pitching shutouts and low earned run average.
at F'airfield high in 1945, Glenn
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A Bird's Eye View of Eastern in 1953,
Showing New Library, Laboratory
School and Open Air Theater

Envision Your Campus in 19531

Homecomers, You Will Find Raw Earth Everywhere, Landscaping Incomplete, and Build-
ings Unfinished; But Don't Despair! Eastern 's Second Fifty Years Begin with a Surge of
Post-War Construction. It Will Bring Added Lt;ster to Eastern.

Homecomers and Friends of Eastern! (President R. G. Buzzard replied to ques-

When you visit the campus during Home- tions about Eastern building needs as follows.
coming October 15 and 16 you will be surprised.
You will be surprised even if your last visit was This article appears concurrently in EDUCA-
recent. For Eastern's campus is expanding rapid-
ly. TION TODAY, a quarterly publication of the

Your college administrators have had a five state teachers colleges of Illinois.)
vision of service to the Eastern Illinois area here-
tofore unrealized-almost undreamed. They are Interviewer: "Pres. Buzzard, what in your
doing something about it! The post-war period opinion is the most immediate building need at
may bring realization of many dreams. Eastern Illinois State college?"

Read the interview (adjoining column) made Pres. Buzzard: "The imperative need is for
a laboratory school building to house nursery
with the man who knows most about Eastern's ex- school, kindergarten, elementary, and high school
units, with the educational laboratories and
pansion. clinics modern knowledge of child growth and
development demands."
Part of your surprise this fall may be un-
pleasant. You will come when the alma mater has Interviewer: "Why do you feel that the need
her hair in curlers. Yes, the campus looks a mess. is more urgent for a laboratory school than for
Relandscaping of almost the entire original cam- other buildings?"
pus, plus the "72" and thirty acres of land re-
cently purchased, has uncovered Coles county Pres. Buzzard: "As a matter of fact, our
clay everywhere. need for men's and women's dormitories and a
union building is extremely urgent too. I men-
But we invite you to share in Jack M.cNutt's tion the laboratory school first because practice
teaching is the very heart of our teacher-educa-
vision of the campus of tomorrow, sketched on the tion program. With our present buildings we can-
not carry on the program needed if Eastern is
opposite page. Jack is an art student who lives in to continue its 49-year record as a college for
teacher education. Certainly that function should
Campus City. He has looked at President Buzzard's be our main interest. We must meet the demand
for better-trained teachers, particularly in the
blueprints and listened to his plans. elementary field. Our practice teachers as well
as our 450 training school students are seriously
To share in this vision you need look ahead hampered at present.
only three or at most five years. Note the librai:y
building, numbered five on the sk~tch. This Interviewer: "There is a training school
beautiful two million dollar structure is assured; building on the Eastern campus now, is there
the walls are already beyond the first floor; the not?"
money for the rest is in the bank. The Simmons
Company reports that the building is progress- Pres. Buzzard: "Only for grades one to
ing on schedule and should be finished early in eight. There is no nursery school, kindergarten,
1950. or high school unit.

Note also the laboratory school, numbered six. "The new building would give our training
school students an auditorium and a gymnasium
This building is in the blueprint stage-AND EAST- for the first time. They have been sharing the
old college gymnasium, called the· "Cracker-box,"
ERN CALLS UPON YOU TO HELP CONVERT with the college band and other organizations.
Our training school has been, in a sense, an
IT INTO BRICK AND STONE. T'ell your friends orphan child on a college campus. The high school
in particular must use college facilities but gets
about Eastern's plans and needs. Let your congress- them only when the college does not need them."

man know that Eastern deserves, and Eastern Illi- Interviewer: "Eastern does not now offer
graduate work, although three of the other Illi-
nois young men and women deserve, the buildings nois teachers colleges do. What is the reason
for this?"
President Buzzard describes.
Pres. Buzzard: "When we offer graduate
The new football field shown at the upper
right of the sketch is finished and gam~s can (Continued on Page 20)
be played on it just as soon as the turf thickens.
The new lake has water but no trees, and as yet
no golf balls rest in it. The athletic fields are
scraped and leveled and ready to grow grass.

Forty-eight thousand square feet of concrete

sidewalk, enough to make a path one foot wide from

Charleston to Mattoon, have been laid out on campus.

(Continued on Page 20)

PAGE .'IINETEEN

Eastern 's Hair Is in Curlers; mission recommendations?"
Pres. Buzzard: "The third project (a library
Wait for 'New Look'
and the laboratory school were the first two) con-
(Continued from Page 19) sists of a three-building group: a student union
building, a men's dormitory, and a women's dor-
No one will have the slightest excuse to walk on
the grass, no matter how late to class he is. mitory. Housing and recreational facilities are
necessary to teacher education. Eastern needs
A very carefully worked out plan will save the best to house 480 women and 360 men, with common
of the trees, ·cherished by generations of Easterners. dining hall facilities. Present accommodations
New planltingr,s, elegant formal gardens, new vistas house 90 women (at Pemberton Hall) and 96 men
with ornamental pergolas and memorials will once again (in temporary barracks)."
make Eastern one of the most beautiful of the small
colleges in Illinois. Ten years will easily effect the change. Interviewer: "What
cost?"
The reader who takes a second look at the McNutt
sketch and reads the interview with President Buzzard to Pres. Buzzard: "With furnishings, the stu-
the end will have other questions: What about the open dent union would probably cost $1,250,000, the
air thEater? Is a new vocational education building in women's dormitory $2,500,000, and the men's
the near future? Will the old practical arts building dormitory $2,000,000. This is at the present level
be torn down then? What about the dormitories? Will of construction costs."
the cafeteria remain on the campus until the union build-
ing is completed or will the dormitory dining rooms care Interviewer: "What other buildings do
for all students? When will the central quadrangle, which consider important to Eastern?"
is part of the twenty-five year plan, actually be cleared?
Will the laboratory school be started before the library Pres. Buzzard: "Equally important in the
is finished? If so, will the temporary library (not shown current functioning of Eastern is a college audi-
in the McNutt sketch) be dismantled? Is it necessary torium with a 2,500 person capacity and, incor-
that all the Campus City barracks apartments and corporated in this project, proper facilities for
dormitories, now the property of the college, be torn music, speech, and art instruction. Each of these
down by 1950, according to terms laid down by FPA? critical areas in the modern education program is
at present inadequately and inefficiently housed
Frankly, your editor cannot find space for the at Eastern. Such a building would probably cost
answers in this issue of the Alumnus. Watch future edi- $2,500,000."

tions. Interviewer: "Are there any other building

President Outlines Building needs at Eastern?" ·

Needs for Biennium Budget Pres. Buzzard: "One could look around the
Eastern campus in 1948 and also see immediate
(Continued from Page 19) need for (1) a college swimming pool, (2) a
home management house for home economics
work it must be of the highest quality. We have students, (3) a plant and insect house, (4) re-
the teaching staff for it now. We do not have the
building facilities." modelling of the present women's dormitory to
include an infirmary for the health service and
Interviewer: "The laboratory school plans the addition of apartments for singe faculty
are well advanced, I believe. I understand that woman, (5) a field house-stadium on the new
you have detailed blueprints. Has the construc- football field, and (6) a vocational arts building."
tion been authorized?"
Interviewer: "The total for buildings, exclu-
Pres. Buzzard: "Governor Green's Post-War sive of the last six improvements you have men-
Building Program included the needed laboratory tioned, is approximately $12,500,000. Do you pro-
school building in the first allotment of funds, pose to include this amount in the 1949-51 budget
along with the library building now under con- for Eastern?"
struction. Present building costs precluded con-
struction of more than the library, however, and Pres. Buzzard: "I have not yet gone over the
we will have to ask the next session of the Gen- problems in detail with my advisory committee
eral Assembly for funds, to erect the laboratory of the State Teachers College Board. Eventually
school."
this committee will reach a decision and make
Interviewer: "How much will the building its recommendations to the board. The board
cost as now planned?"
will in turn present a budget to the State budget-
Pres. Buzzard: "Together with furnishing ary Commission.
and equipment, the cost will probably total
$4,250,000. It must be a commodious building and "In my opinion there is no area in which the
afford all facilities for modern teaching. It is a state can better invest its money than in teacher
unit project, and one that should be considered education. I have suggested to the alumni this
as a whole in its relation to college functioning." slog.an, "Educate the veteran's children-to
avoid another generation of veterans'."
Interviewer: "What other building projects
were included in the Post-War Planning Com- •

Clotilde Harwood,, '45, and Robert E. Tirey were

married Sunday, September 4. Mr. Tirey is a transfer

student from Indiana State.

PAG E T 'WENTY

Pantherettes of '15--Class Champs Schahrer Memorials
Will Be Re-Located

(Continued on Page 20)

r:'t1- w'I A ~ o..<iZ w'<""""-- ,. (l..C~ ing the processional from Old Main
to the auditorium, or to the outdoor
It was a long step from the or- The above picture, contributed by theater, which will be used for com-
mencement services when weather
ganization of a "Young Woman's Mrs. Zepha Hageman _Radloff of permits.

Athletic Association" at EI in 1911 Stewardson, Ill., shows tournament During all the rest of the year the
memorial gate will be kept padlocked.
by Miss Alice M. Christiansen to the winners of '15. Mrs. Radloff says she
Like the gate, the memorial stone
graduation of Eastern's first also recalls that the girls participated and plaque dedicated to Martin
Schahrer' also had to be moved. It
woman's physical education majors in interscholastic basketball. will soon form the center of a per-
gola and formal garden just south of
this year. But interest was there Mrs. Radloff and Miss Mary Lin- the new library.

from the start. Class basketball der, Class of '15 correspondent, were Among the persons most pleased to
hear of this plan was Dr. C. P. Lantz,
tournaments were held as early as able to identify six of the nine play- director of athletics and coach for
37 years. Said Coach Lantz:
1910. By 1913 there were 84 girls in ers above. Front, 1. to r.-Virginia
"Martin was one of the finest men
the YW AA. Alexander (Mrs. Leland Cox), Opal I've ever coached. It was a great
According to the '13 W'pper, the Ingram, Berniece Corzine,.- - - - - shock when he was killed only a year
Back, 1. to r.-Miss Linder, - - - - after he captained the 1917 football
final class tournament game in 1911 -----, Mrs. Radloff, and Nellie team, playing end and guard. He was
was called off "because of strained Balch. Mrs. Radloff's daughter No- an elected, not an appointed captain,
relations." Perhaps that's why YWAA berta (Mrs. Renshaw) was a 1943 because he was one of the most popu-
was organized-one of its objectives graduate. Mrs. Cox's son Lewis plays lar men on the campus.
was to "strengthen a true sportsman- regular end on the 1948 football team.
like spirit among the women." "Martin weighed only 140 pounds,
but it was all muscle. I remember
hearing this story about him when
he was in army training in Kentucky.
He attended an exhibition boxing
match where one of the professional
pugilists failed to show up. He had
little experience as a boxer, but for
the sake of the show, Martin volun-
teered to take on the heavyweight
who did arrive. It was characteristic
of Martin that he knocked out his
opponent."

Student Council Prexy

Dorothy Everson Harold Leffler Accepts -..J-i-m---Gindler of Highland, Ill.
Newton Superintendency
Marries U of I Student P AGE TWENTY-ONE
Harold G. Leffler, who did most
Dorothy Everson, a former stu- of his undergraduate work at East-
dent, married Robert E. Bjelland, a ern, has accepted the superintendency
law student at the University of Illi- at Newton community high school.
nois, last July 23. A step-daughter of Mr. Leffler holds degrees from the
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Manson, Mrs. University of Illinois and Duke uni-
Bjelland may be addressed in their versity. The latter is a law degree.
eare at the Neil hotel, Champaign. Mr. Leffler is a native of Newton.
She will teach first grade in the He performed outstanding service as
Urbana public schools this year. a commander in the navy during the
war.

(Continued from Page 15) Heads Women's League last year. The couple is now livi
on a farm near Gilman.
nois High School Coaches associa- Mrs. LeeRoy LaRose
tion. Mr. Moseley recommends that Ben Richardson, '41, is an entomo
the IHSA split its tournament into music in Pana for three years. ogist at the Texas Agricultural Ex
Class A, Class B, and Class C, so Logan Fearn, '39, is the new city periment station at Winter Have
that small schools will have a better Texas. He likes the climate.
chance in the state finals. superintendent of schools at Litch-
field, Ill. William Thomas, '41, and M
Class of 1938 Thomas (the former Martha Hust
Elizabeth Widger Bayles Harold G. Fearn, '39, is superin- '43) were Charleston visitors un
tendent of the newly cr eate:} Kane he returned to his position as profe
1655 Twelth St. county consolidated school district sor of botany at Kansas State college
Charleston, Illinois 301 and princ'pal of Plato high M:anhattan, Kan. The Thomases hav
school, Plato, Jll. Total enrollment of a young daughter.
Vernon Hartsell, '38, has moved the new school is 500. Mr. Fearn has
from Windsor to Gridley, where he been an industrial arts teacher at Class of 1942
will teach fifth grade and act as the Elgin high s chool sin ~ e 1942. Irene Allison
principal of the Gridley Consolidated
school, district No. 474. Class of 1940 R. R. 2
Carolyn Gilbert Danville, Illinois
Arlow Lee Julian, '38, is a place-
ment officer for the Veterans' Ad- E.l.S.C. Virginia Schwartz will teach gen-
ministration at Alameda, Calif. A Charleston, Illinois eral botany and genetics at Culver-
yeoman 1/ c during the war, Julian Leona Paden, '40, is now Mrs. John Stockton college, Canton, Mo., this
now lives at 954-B Park St., Alameda. S. Adams of Robinson, Ill. year. Virginia taught two years a
Wilmeth Lane Pinkstaff, '40 took Shelbyville and the past three at
Robert E.- HaHO\vell, ,.'38, has been charge of girls' physical education Dupo. Aftn graduating from East-
named an instructor in the Univer- at Oblong high school this fall. ern she went to Northwestern for
sity of 1llinois department of French. Lana Davis, '40, (Mrs. Stephen J. her M.S. She has done some summer
He took the master's and doctorate Hluchnik) is the proud mother of work at the University of Illinois.
degrees at I 11 in o is and has a daughter, Renee, born April 4, 1948. She writes that Mamie Walker was
studied at McGill university, Conn., Rosemary Bevis (Mrs. John Knezo- also in school at the U. of I. this
and the National university in vich), '40, has a six-month-old daugh- summer. She will teach at Fairfield
Mexico. During the past year he has ter Kathie. Rosemary's husband has again this year.
studied at the University of Geneva, been coaching in Peoria.
Switzerland. In military service he Bob Fick, '40, was chosen stag~ R. Jack Grantham was employed
acted as a special agent for the coun- manager for the summer opera, by the Sinclair Refining Co., working
ter-intelligence service from 1942 to Pagglicai, produced at George Pea- on several problems related to or-
1946 and was a war department in- body College for Teachers, Nash- ganic chemistry, petroleum refining
vestigator in Germany during 1946- ville, where Mr. Fick was a student and aviation gasoline production, un-
47. last summer. He is again at C>trm: til January, 1946. He then enrolled in
high school this year as music di- the graduate school of arts and sci-
Class of 1939 rector. ences at Duke university. For nine
Gerald Lloyd Kincaid months he worked in Duke hospital
Class of 1941 part time as a research assistant.
R. R. 4, Box 80 Frank Tate The result of this work under the
Mason, Michigan direction of Dr. Susan C. Dees should
H. D. McCain, '39, is superin tend- English Dept. be published within the year. "Since
ent of the Grayville community unit Washington State College October, 1946," he writes, "I have
district, another new district. It in- Pullman, Washington attended school on a full time basis.
cludes a four-year high school, a jun- Eleanor Goble, '41, was married to .. If all goes well, I should be ready
ior high school, two elementary Howard Elliott June 30. Mrs. Elliott for my Ph. D. thesis exam about
schoo's in Grayville, and three rural taught home economics in Milford November, 1949 .. ." He adds that he
attendance centers. has done some emergency teaching
Mrs. Grace Thompson Bair, '39, is in freshman chemistry.
now principal and fifth and sixth
grade teacher at the Washington Maxine Rennels (Mrs. Robert
school in Urbana. She rel!eived her Frame) and son Randy spent the
master's degree from the Univer5ity summer at the home of her parents
of Illinois. near Charleston, while Bob, '43, com-
Mary Alice Trierweiler was mar- pleted work at the U. of I. for his
ried to Robert W. Burmeister, '39, master's degree. They live in Ottawa,
August 16. He is athletic coach at where Bob is principal of the largest
St. Teresa high school in Decatur. of the six public grade schools.
John G. Howell, '39, finished work Maxine does not teach full time, but
towa;d the master's degree at the she for two years tutored a crippled
University of Illinois this summer. boy.
He returns to Pana as music super-
visor in the new consolidated district Rosa Mae Estell (Mrs. Reid E.
this fall. Mr. Howell has taught

PAGE TWENTY-TWO

Jackson) writes from Wilberforce, Men's Union Prexy Franklyn F'lynn early in August.
Ohio: "I went to Chicago, where I Mrs. Flynn will contiue teaching home
worked at the Veterans Administra- Ernie Waren of Hume, Ill. economics at Boone-McHenry Town-
tion as agent cashier. . . In Decem- ship high school. The newly married
ber, 1946, I m arried Dr. Reid E. Jack- Bureau insurance department, Shel- couple will live in Poplar Grove, Ill.,
son, who is dean of the college of by county. Pilot of a Navy Privateer where Mr. Flynn is in business.
arts and sciences and director of the during the war, Clark served as a
bureau of educational research here. c o n s t r u c t io n superintendent in Class of 1945
I am secretary to the dean of men." Springfield for a time after his re- l\'!.ary Grossman Mail
lease. Married and father of twin
Mary Adelle Thurn (Mrs. Emery daughters, two years old, Mr. Clark 826 Dewey St.
McGuinn) divides her time between has purchased a home at 915 N. Wal- Anderson, Indiana
caring for daughter Stacy, age 9 nut in Shelbyville.
months, and assisting husband Jack Class of 1946
at his auto body shop in Mattoon, .Jane Lionberger, '43, married Al- Jim Roberts
where she "keeps books and runs er- len Monts, '48, last June 5. Mrs.
rands." Monts contiued her work in the Aledo Times-Record
Bureau of Teacher Placement dur- Aledo, I}linois
Paul W. Jones writes: "Since leav- ing the past summer, where she has Alice Louisa Sheets, '46, is one of
ing the service in 1945 I have been been employed for five years. Mr. the new teachers at Manteno high
employed by the Shell Oil Co., Inc. , Monts plans to do graduate study at school, where she is teaching com-
as a research chemi st in their Wood- Penn State. mercial subjects.
river, Ill., research laboratories. More Joan Coon, '46, is teaching com-
specifically, my work is research and Robert W. Bokenkamp, '43, mar- merce at Robinson high school this
development of rust-preventatives." ried Alice Katherine Birner of Mat- year after two years at Armstrong.
He lives in East Alton, Ill. ton last August 15. Mr. Bokenkamp James H. Roberts, '46, and Lo's
is a member of the industrial arts Fassett were married May 23. Since
Mary Buck (Mrs. Wm. Annin) is staff of the Champaign high school graduation from Eastern, where he
living in Champaign where her hus- and is doing graduate work in that was editor of the New~. Jim has been
band attends the U. of I. They have field at the University of Illinois, edi tor of the Aledo Times Record.
a year-old daughter . where he is a member of Phi Delta James Watson Smith, '46, is in-
Kappa and Epsilon Pi Tau, honorary instructor of industrial arts at Pied-
Evelyn B. Davis (Mrs. Robert Car- fraternities. mont junior high school, Charlotte,
rell) lives on R. R. 1, Charleston. Her N. C.
husband, Bob Carrell, '41, works for Class of 1944 Sarah Fredenberger, 46, is travel-
the Standard Oil Co. in Mattoon. Jean Henderson Marlin ling as a demonstrator and promoter
Their daughter, Anne, is five years for the Zaner-Bloser company of Co-
old. c/ o Shelbyville High School lumbus, Ohio. Miss Fredenberger
Shelbyville, Illinois taught last year at Saginaw, Michi-
Louie Alvah Crim, '42, is now a Rebecca Jean Henderson married gan.
minister in Harrisburg, Ill. Jim Marlin last spring. The Hender-
sons now live in Chicago, but the Class of 1947
Wilson (Wick) Day, '42, former Alumni Office does not yet have a Jim Hanks
assistant track coach at Chester high, street address.
has been named head basketball and Mary Ruth Fleenor, '44, is now 16 Harrison St.
track coach at Bement high school. Mrs. Frank G. Boyd, and is residing Charleston, Illinois
Day commanded a navy mine sweep with her husband on a farm west of Morris William Wise, '47, received
during World War II. Gays, Illinois. the degree of master of arts at the
Marie Dickson, '44, has moved to June commencement at Indiana uni-
Ellen Lee Henkle, '42, now Mrs. Ed Sterling, where she will teach senior versity.
Perry, is with her husband at a new high school English. Vera L. Scherer, '47, became Mrs.
permanent address, 209 Ohio St., Rosemary M.cGee, '44, became Mrs. Howard R. Shaw in Olney last June.
oswell, N. M. He is a Lt. Col. at At present the Shaws are living at
130 South East St., Olney.
alker Field there. The Perrys visit- Marion Fitzgibbons, '47, was mar-
in Charleston in late August. ried August 21 to Les Powis, a stu-
dent of the University of Miami. Mrs.
Class of 1943 Powis will teach in Miami this year.
Dennis Gephart, '47, is teaching in
Charleston, Illinois Oakland, California. His address is
Mrs. M.arjorie Freebairn, '43, form- 717 Twentieth St., Oakland 12.
teacher at Casey, has accepted the Harry Kull, Jr., '47, after a year at
sition of Smith-Hughes home eco- Cresent City, Ill., will teach social
mics teacher at Sumner high school. science in the high school at May-
Deane Weber, '43, discharged from wood, Neb., in 1948-49.
e navy as a lieutenant, junior
Class of 1948
de, in 1946, is farming at W est- (Still looking for a correspondent).
Id, Ill. The record class of 170 Eastern
graduates this year has already scat-
43, has been
General Agent
in Kirchhofer, '41, in the Farm

!'!AGE TWEN ' L'Y-THREE

tered to the four winds. Approxi- It's Not News When News Does It Again
mately 70 per cent of the four year
grads have taken teaching jobs, a The above pitcure appeared in the has created new enthusiam and sim-
number are married, and several are Publishers' Auxiliary, a trade paper plified staff probelms of the News.
taking advanced work or have gone devoted chiefly to news of small From three in 1946, the number of
into fields other than teaching. Most newspapers. It shows Eastern State pre-journalism students jumped to
of the two year graduates (there ~ heads examining an issue of 33 in 1947.
were 11 this year in general and pre- the paper, which once again in 1947-
professional curricula) will attend 48 copped all the top prizes in state Illustrating the value of the jour-
professional schools. and national contests. nalism minor now available to grad-
uates in teacher-education curricula,
At the traditional faculty-senior An Auxiliary article traced the Jack Muthersbough, 1948 grad and
banquet before commencement June careers of former News heads and associate editor of the News, took a
4 all members of the 1948 class were found many of them in highly re- highly-paid position as sponsor of
inducted into the Alumni Association sponsible journalistic positions: Hal student publications in the Minot,
by President Raymond Lane. At this Middlesworth, head of the Daily North Dakota, public schools.
time the seniors were given member- Oklahoman sports empire; Roy Wil-
ship cards in the Association with son, NEA press and radio director; Above, I. to r. L.e.o.nar.d.___IIather,
dues paid up for one year. The East- Glenn Cooper, finance editor of the manager of the Prather company
ern Alumnus will be sent free of Decatur Herald-Review; Don Cavins, which prints the News; Mj!ther§-
charge for one year also; all members advertising staff, Louisville Courier- Qp,uth; Dr. Tunci~r, faculty
of the Class of '48 are urged to keep Journal; Jim Roberts, editor of the advis er; Elenore ~y, 1948-49
the circulation manager informed of Aledo Times Record, leading Illinois editor, a~B lack, 1947-48 editor.
their addresses. weekly; and many others. Black is nowrep;;rting for the Char-
leston Courier.
The whereabouts and activities of Since 1946 the addition of a pre-
most of the class follow: journalism curriculum at Eastern Prathers printed the first edition
of the News, back in November, 1915.
Robert L. Ankenbrandt, '48, has
accepted a position in the Lincoln Joseph Coleman, '48, is now teach- Bernadine M. Day, '48, is teaching
school at Robinson. ing music at the Sumner Township in Bethany.
high school.
Charles B. Arzeni, 48, has enrolled Janette Doerr, '48, has accepted a
for graduate work in botany at the Victor Coleman, '48, has a grad- position in Albion.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, uate assistantship in botany at the
Michigan. He is a graduate assistant. University of Iowa, Iowa City. Helen N. Drake, '48, is teaching in
the high school at Chrisman.
Francis E. Bailey, '48, is now Eugene P. Collins, '48, is teaching
teaching in the unit school at Ston- at the high school in Albion. Madeline Doyle, '48, has joined the
ington. faculty of Orion community high
Allyn A. Cook, '48, is doing grad- school, teaching physical education.
James 0. Bailey, '48, has accepted uate work in the botany department She will also teach physical educa-
a position at Olney. of the University of Wisconsin, tion and music in the grade school.
Madison. He has a research assist- Orion is near Moline.
Charles R. Barth, '48, is now at antship.
the high school in Lawrenceville. Keith Howell, '48, will do graduate
Everette Cooley, '48, plans to at- study in botany at Iowa State college,
Burk Beerli, '48, and family are tend the University of Tennessee for Ames, la.
remaining in Charleston for the time graduate study in botany at the end
being. of the winter quarter at Eastern. Marilyn Johnson, '48, became
Mrs. Drake this summer and is now
Roy E. Boley, '48, and Jack Burg-
ner, '48, are now attending graduate
school at the Greeley, Colorado,
State College of Education.

Robert D. Bond, '48, has accpet.ed
a teaching position at the high
school in Brimfield.

Robert F. Brehm, '48, is teaching
in the high school at Toleqo.

Leo E. Bryant, '48, resides in Po-
tomac.

Thomas L. Buchanan, '48, has ac-
cepted a position in the high school
at Toledo.

Albert A. Cacherat, '48, can now
be addressed at Moweaqua.

Jack Campbell, '48, is now in
Girard.

Mary Ellen Chapman, '48, has ac-
cepted a position in the high school
at C1ay City.

P A GE TWEN 'l'Y-FOU R

teaching in the high school at Neoga. Eastern State Clubs Program Gets Underway

Albert H. Eckert, '48, has accepted •
a position at the high school in
Strawn. Officers Dick Hutt n and Lucille Abbee Kelly confer after the initial
meeting of a newly formed Eas ern State Club at Edwardsville last spring.
Leonal Q. E lliott, '48, can now be
found at the Junior high school in The Eastern State Club program gets under way with its first meeting
Ottawa. at Decatur this fall.

Imogene Engel, '48, and Fred H. Maurice Taylor, president, and Helen Stapp, secretary, are inviting all
Kolkhorst were married in July in Macon county Alumni to a luncheon meating, probably at the Greider Cafe-
Strasburg. Mrs. Kolkhorst is teach- teria, on October 7.
ing in Oakland and Mr. Kolkhorst
is a student at Eastern. Carrier Mills high school. Shirley Jean Middlesworth, '48,
is teaching English and history at
Emma Jane English, '48, now Merle Lockyer, '48, is the director Amboy high school.
teaches vocal music in the Milford of visual education in the new Wag-
public schools. goner - Raymond - Harvel - Farmers- George R. Miller, '48, has accepted
ville community unit district. He will the industrial arts post at Catlin
Richard W. Falley, '48, is teaching a lso act as assistant to the admin- high school.
at Freeport hi g h school. istrator of the district.
Marian P. Mills, '48, is teaching
Thomas Freebairn, '48, has accept- Wanda Ruth Longbons, '48, begins math at Brownell hall in Omaha,
ed a position in Petersburg. her music kaching career in the Nebraska.
Mount Pulaski consolidated grade
Merrit J. Fuson, '48, is teaching at school. Betty Carmichael Monier, '48, is
the Riverside school in Decatur. living in Charleston where her hus-
Mary E. Lowry, '48, is teaching band is in college, and is teaching in
Wilm a Guthrie, '48, is now Mrs. grade school music in Robinson. Mattoon high school.
Jack Evey. They will live in Oregon,
where he will complete his college Dorothy Ann Corzine, '48, became Randall Montgomery, '48, and
work at Oregon State college. Mrs. Norman Macy this summer and Norma Jean Weger, '48, and
is now teaching home economics at at F'lat Rock high school this year.
Har ry Harrison Higgins, '48, is Kansas high school.
s:.ipt. of grades at Palestine. E mil Kirk Moore, '48, has accept-
Grover Lee Malan, '48, is principal ed a position as industrial arts teach-
Kathleen Bell, '48, now Mrs. Pey- and coach at Young elementary er at Farmer City.
ton Holoday, is teaching home ec- school in Salem.
onomics in Oakland high school. Florence R. Moore, '48, returned
Jean Manuell, '48, is principal and to her native Indiana to teach third
Wa rren K. Jackson, '48, has a posi- teacher at the grade school in Sidell. grade at Hobart.
tion at the unit school in Shelbyville.
Raymond E. Metter, '48, was mar- Martha K. Murphy, '48, is teaching
Rose Jarboe, '48, is teaching in the ried to Elaine Hanson on August 12. home economics at Atkinson.
high school at Leaf Riv er. Both have assistantships in the math
department of Ohio State university, John Muthersbough, '48, will teach
Elva Dean Jenkins, '48 has accept- where they are working on their jounalism and sponsor student
ed a position as seventh grade in- master's degrees. publications in Minot, North Dakota,
structor in Shafter, California. She this year. Minot is a city of some
spent the summer doing research Kenneth E. Michael, '48, is teach- 21,000 population.
work for the Shilling Spice company ing in Winnebago, wher13 his wife,
in San Francisco. the former Mary Katherine Kellett, Robert B. McCarty, '48, has accept-
also has a position. The Michaels ed a position as teacher at Flat Rock
Marjorie Louise McGee, '48, be- were married August 2~. high school.
came Mrs. Roy J. Jester and is teach-
ing fifth grade at Newton. Derrill C. McMorris, '48, is coach-

Don W. Kirchhofer, '48, has ac-
cepted a position in the junior high
school at Jacksonville, teaching
math and general science.

Barbara R. Knott, '48, continues
teaching at Oakland this year.

Eleanor Krask, '48, is at the
Oglesby school in Decatur, teaching

ond grade.

Veda Laffoon, '48, is a member of
e hi gh school faculty at Mattoon.

Norma June Lathrop, '48, has ac-
pted a position at Findlay.

Herbert J. Lee, '48, is directing
chorus at Flora high

Harry Lehr, '48, is coach ing at

PAGE TWENTY FIVE

ing social science at Crescent City. Donald E. Sullivan, '48, is coach- Mary E. York, '48, is a researc

Catherine McQueen, '48, is teach- ing and teaching at Argenta high chemist in the laboratory of Rive~

ing first grade at Dundee this year. school. side hospital, Toledo, Ohio.

Eugene F. Norman, '48, is the new Arlene Swearingen, '48, has . ac- Bernard Lance, '48, is teaching in-

art instructor in the public school at cepted a position in the elementary dustrial arts in Olney high school.
school system of Minot, N. D. Miss
• Areola. Swearingen has worked during the Donald W. Davisson, '48, married
M.arthel Nicholson Rennels, '48, an- past summer in the Pacific Trust Co. Eileen Ballard of Mattoon on August
other art teacher, has taken her tal- of Amarillo, Tex. Betty Carrell, '49, 7, 1948. Following a wedding trip to
ents to Eagle Pass, Texas, where she also worked in Amarillo. Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Davis-
is teaching in the high school and sons took a home in Bethany, where
giving private lessons. Vivian Nadine Swi.nford, '48, is he is employed as assistant coach in
Jacob Ousley, '48, is a field clerk teaching home economics, also at the new Bethany school unit. Mrs.
in the geofogical department of the Argenta. Davisson was an Eastern student.
Carter Oil company at Mattoon.
Myra Jean Richards, '48, has ac- Kenneth Taylor, '48, has accepted Gerald Rutger, '48, and his family
cepted a position in the high school a position as principal of the grade have moved to Palestine, Ill., where
at Cooksville. school in Atwood. he will teach mathematics and phy-
John Lincoln Roberts, '48, is sics at Palestine township high school
Robert Dean Tipsword, 48, is teach-
ing at Lawrenceville high school.

working in the office of the Road Omer Morris Tobias, '48, has a jun- Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Suycott, '48, have

B u i 1 de rs Equipment company of ior high school teaching post at Litch- moved to Iowa City, Iowa, where he
Memphis, Tennessee, and is living at field. will study at Iowa State universtiy

926 Bruce St. in that city. Joseph Walton, '48, is coaching in for a master's degree in music. Mrs.

Mary Lou Rowland, '48, is in Bethalto high school. Suycott is the former Joan Romer.

Farmer City, teaching first. grade Morris Dean Warner, '48, has ac- John Earl Conley, '48, has re-en-
cepted an industrial arts position at listed in the Army for duty at Chan-
at the Franklin school.
Rosa V. Schaub, '48, teaches third Madison high school, Madison.
ute Field, Rantoul. He will study
Willis Henry Weber, '48, has be- meteorology as an Air Force major,
grade in Effingham.
Mary K. Schouten, '48, has accept- come assistant principal and teacher the rank at which he was discharged.
ed the position of music instructor for at Oakland high school.
Mr. Conley held a fellowship for
Betty Wellman, '48, is teaching study in mathematics at Ohio State
the grade schools of Louisville.
Earl T. Sheffield, '48, "went West" sixth grade in the Hawthorne school at the time of his decision to re-en-
to Lyman, Nebraska, here he is at Mattoon.
Mabel Wente, '48, is remaining in list.
Effingham, where she teaches fourth
teaching in the high school. grade. Don Hutton, '48, has accepted an
Roy E. Sheppard, 48, is teaching at exclusive agency for the Wender Co.

Leaf River. Ralph R. White, '48, has accepted of New York, with headquarters in

Mary Alice Stewart, '47, became
the bride of George H. Crawford, '48, the industrial arts position at Neoga l Charleston. Mr. and Mrs. Hutton (the
Ralph Widener has' an assistant-
at Waggoner, Ill., last July 23. The ship in speech at the University of former Marjorie Tefft, '48,) will
happy couple will live at 213% S. Wyoming, Laramie. Ralph traveled make their home at 1036 Seventh St.
Seventh St. in Mattoon, where Mr.
Crawford is employed with the Car- 2000 miles to be present at the June June Bubeck, '48, became Mrs.

ter Oil Co. After completing work for 4 commencement at Eastern. James Giffin on August · 29 at the

his degree at the end of the fall term Ellen Hanks Wilcoxen, '48, is home bride's home in Marshall. The Giffins
last year, Mr. Crawford attended the economics teacher at Westfield. will live in Charleston, where he is
University of Illinois. Mrs. Crawford an instructor in the business educa-
taught in Pana high school last year. Dorothy Winkler, '48, is teaching
in the grade school in Kansas.

Paul Steward, '48, is the new coach 'Vilma E. Winters, '48, has accept- tion department. Mr. Giffin is a grad-

and science teacher at Hillview high ed a position in the high school at uate of Eastern with the Class of

school. Mt. Olive. 1946.

(Continued from Page 7) the making of Eastern. It has been a great bless-
ing to work with such warm-hearted associates
ings already adorning the campus; with the new as I have had and to know so many ambitious,
$2,000,000 Library now taking shape in concrete, high-minded, forward-looking young people who
brick, and limestone; with the "new look" being have sat in my classes. Indeed, my teaching days
given the campus according to the state archi- have been spent in a pleasant place. The little
tect's plans; with the plans already being drawn that I may have contributed to Eastern is over-
up for a new Training School that, when com- balanced by the much I have received. So, alumni
pleted, will be one of the finest in the nation, the and former students, I lift high my glass and join
new Eastern is emerging. Whatever outward with you in singing
changes it may involve, the old spirit will con-
tinue to burn "across the years" because it is "For gift of friends, for lasting gain,
For hard won joys that long remain,
"Enkindled with the light of truth For strength of victory possessed
Made perfect in eternal youth."
We thank the school we love the best."
It has been fun to have a modest part in

PAGE TWENTY-SIX

Marriage Takes Anna Manuell, '45, when it started to rain, but just now
I saw one carrying an umbrella that
consisted only of ribs-no covering

From Casey High to Addis Ababa; at all.
"In spite of the fact that the Ethio-

She Writes Impressions of Ethiopia pians are dirty, ragged, uneducated,
they seem very happy and are indeed
very polite. They are cruel people,

Ae rial Bombing G r e et s Th e Servants Have Servants though. They seem to derive a cer-
Newly-Weds at Cairo; tain delight and satisfaction in beat-
Exotic Life in Ethiopia ing their poor scrawny, underfed
animals.

Enchants Anna . "This may sound preposterous, but

Married to Charles Jacobs shortly I actually tlid not recognize the cows
after the end of the 1947-48 school
term at Casey, where she has taught or goats. They are the oddest looking
English in the high school since grad-
uation from Eastern in 1945, Anna creatures I've ever seen. And the

-mem::-Louise Manuell found herself a horses are no larger than burros,

ber of Eastern's farthest flung having very little meat on their
batalion by mid-summer.
bones. They are used mainly to draw
Mr. Jacobs is a newly appointed
foreman of maintenance for the Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs the garreys (two wheeled carts)
Trans-World Airlines at Addis which are the main means of trans-
Ababa, Ethiopia. On July 17 the misty blue in the distance. portation.
newly-weds left the States by air "From the air, the buildings are
for Cairo, Egypt, and the trip turned "There are a few taxis, but it costs
out to be a thrill-packed honeymoon. exceptionally pretty, as pastel blues, a fabulous sum just to ride a couple
pinks, yellows and greens are the of blocks.
The Egyptians greeted them with dominant colors. That is because of
a first class aerial bombardment. But
let Mrs. Jacobs, an English teacher the Italian influence, as the poor "The boys are servants. Very few
to whom appreciative Casey students
dedicated their 1948 yearbook, tell the Ethiopians seem to have no concep- girls work out--only as nursemaids.
story:
tion of building or of much else. It Surprisingly enough, the boys are
"When we arrived in Cairo, we had
no idea of the trouble the Egyptians is evident what the country would much cleaner and more intelligent.
and the Jews were having. Monday
night I witnessed my first (and hope surely be like if the Italians hadn't And I was amused to learn that the
my last) air raid. The hotel where we
were staying was bombed but luck had it for eight years. servants have servants. I can ima-
was with us. We had gone out to see
the Pyramids at night, and they are "Those years these people don't gine what they are paid. A servant
about 16 miles out of the city. I was
plenty nervous, and you can't ima- count. This September in Ethiopia is gets about $15 a month and that is
gine my amazement to return to the
1941, and if you ask the age of one very little to live on here.
otel and find it so badly damaged.
who is 27, he will immediately say "The flowers are gorgeous. They
"Luckily none of our belongings
that he is 19. When the Italians left · are of every kind and description, and

they had several buildings started- seem to grow with i10 apparent care

a large opera house and museum for and attention. The rains now might

example-and they are in the same be responsible, as it does rain every.

state now as then. day, sometimes two and three times.

"We fortunately are staying in a But it soon clears up and the sun ap-

beautiful hotel which is run by Swed- pears, and one would never know

ish people. It is nicer than any we there had been rain such a short time

stayed in when in the states, but we befort. It's not much fun to get

pay a handsome price. Our room is caught, though, as it does pour. And

large and furnished in light oak-a the other day I went out without my

bedroom-living room combination. rain coat. I'll learn."

"The dining room at the hotel is The above paragraphs were taken

were damaged, but we had to remain beautiful-on the top floor with win- from a letter to friends of Mrs. J or-
our room a day and night until the dows all around so it's possible to see dan living in Casey.

Jane left because the hatred for most of the city. The food isn't too Persons interested in Ethiapia and

mericans is so great. They feel that bad. I manage to eat a little now, but Addis Ababa will enjoy an article in
e United States is giving too much' Chuck is starved all the time and does the June, 1947, Readers Digest. It
id to the Jews and they consider a grand job. The dining room in the tells of the development of the Ethio-
mericans and Jews both pretty bad. evening doesn't open until 7 :30, and pian Air Lines to help market the
don't think that I have ever felt so the meal is a lengthy one-five cour- rich resources of Ethiopia.
Jieved as when I finally sat in the ses, soup, fish, entree, vegetables,
Jane, knowing that Cairo was be- dessert and demitasse. Mr. Jacobs works for the Ethio-
'nd us. pian Air Lines, which are affiliated
"I just paused to look out the win- with Trans-World. He is teaching the

"We were happy to see Addis, dow and believe I saw my prize sight. natives something of airplane mech-
hich is indeed a beautiful city. It's Yesterday I was amused to see a cou- anics and also serves as ground en-
igh-8000 feet-but mountains sur- ple of natives put down their umbrel- gineer, checking incoming and out-
und the whole city, and appear las and put them under their clothing going planes.

PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

Dean Heller Heads Committee to Grace Nees Starts Move
For California E. S. Club

Secure Painting of~- H. Ta0_or A move is on to form an Eastern
State Club of Southern California.

A committee composed · of four Additional Class Items That area is a favorite for Eastern
alumni and Dean Hobart F'. Heller, grads and at least three of them
chairman, has been named by Presi- Violet Podesta, '39, was married have written the Alumnus of their
dent Ray Lane of the Eastern Alumni June 5, 1948, in Toledo, Ohio, to interest in a get-together. Latest
Association to plan for a portrait of Richard Meyer, an engraver. They proponent is Grace Kortum Nees
E. H. Taylor. It is intended that the plan to make their home in Wash- (Mrs.. Ralph E.), "40, who lives at
portrait be unveiled at a Founders ington, where she continues in per- 1324 Michelson Street, Long Beach
Day Festival next May 22. sonnel work for the ·United Nations. 5. Grace has asked that grads and
former students write her and she
The committee members are Miss Hollis Sallee, '31-'47, has accepted will arrange a place and date con-
Chenault Kelly, '25, Dr. Ciney Rich, the principalship of Excelsior South venient to as many as possible.
'12, Alexander Summers, '36, and

Carl Shull, '39. Miss Kelly is now a school near Decatur, in a newly con- Among candidates for the· Eastern
member of the E;;istern faculty in the solidated district. · State Club of Southern Cal are
English department. She is herself Juanita and Bob Fairchild, '38, who
a fine amateur painter as well as Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Voris, both of live, Grace found, only ten miles from
a successful free lance writer. Dr. the Class of '39, have moved to her home; Doris and George (Sugar)
Rich, president of his class and long- Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Voris is a Cain of nearby Los Angeles; and
time friend of Eastern, is a national- district representative of one of the Sam Taylor, '47, of Long Beach.
ly known surgeon at Decatur, Ill., nation's largest wholesale sporting George and Sam both started with
and a civic leader recently elected to goods houses. Mrs. Voris is the .form- the Class of '38.
the Decatur public schools board of er Agnes Worland.

education. Mr. Summers is also a Bill Jones Navigates, Newton to New Orleans
school board member, at Mattoon. He

was one of the most successful of Unfortunately, there is no Homer rocking violently from the wake of a
Teachers College News editors under to celebrate the Odyssey of Bill passing tug. Jones had not yet learn-
Franklyn Andrews, and is now an Jones, et al, but the Newton Press ed how to tie an overhand knot.
executive in the Progress Manufact- did a pretty god job of it as week
uring company of Arthur. Mr. Shull by week communiques came in to On the next to the last day of the
came to the Eastern art department Newton, Ill., from a venturesome trio trip, said Eaton, Jones decided to
last year after taking his M.A. at including Bill who navigated the Am- guide the boat to the other side of
Missouri. He has done some out- braw, Big Wabash, Ohio, and Missis- the river, which looked smoother. In
standing work, a sample of which sippi rivers in turn to wind up in midstream he throttled down and
appeared in the December , 1947, edi- New Orleans last July in their 15 the motor stopped. High waves
tion of the Alumnus. foot gallion. drenched Arndt and Eaton as they
worked to start it. Once they looked
This committee expects soon to Lest Bill Jones be confused with up to find Jones batting desperately
announce plans for financing the someone else of the same name, his with an oar at a particularly high
Taylor portrait. As head of the complete moniker is William Jen- wave. After they were safely under-
mathematics department for m a ny nings Jones and he attended Eastern way, Bill remarked (according to
years, an interim president of the Eaton), "We're sure lucky I smoothed
college, and one of the three remain- o ff and on, playing a rather good that one out."
ing original members of the Eastern
faculty, the only one to devote al- brand of football, first with the The Associated Press and the New
most his entire brilliant career to the championship team of 1929 which in- Orleans papers gave the Newton trio
same institution, Dr. Taylor is most cluded Burly Burl Ives and later with quite a reception at New Orleans.
deserving of this honor. Still very some teams that didn't get so far. There was a three-column story with
active as manager of h~s several Of late he has principaled the grade pictures.
farms near Charleston, Dr. Taylor school at Rose Hill, where wife Iva
helps in many ways to promote the McCrillis Jones, '36, also taught, Last The best part of the Odyssey
interests of the college to which he year he was at Willow Hill. was omitted, however. Bill had not
gave 45 active years . decided to make the trip until the last
Fellow sailors Bill Arndt, a New- minute. When he did he had to wade
Glen H. Dowler, who attended ton m erchant, and Jim Eaton, state's out into the Ambraw barefooted to
Eastern from 1940 to 1943, received attorney, seemed to have little trouble catch the departing voyagers.
recalling incidents concerning ap-
prentice seaman Jones after their re-

his master's degree in journalism at turn from the 17 day, 1,500 mile trip.

the University of Illinois last month At dawn one morning, said Eaton, Persons who wish to receive a copy

and is now an instructor in the he awoke to find the · boat drifting of the Coleman history of Eastern,

school of journalism there. Mr. Dow- in midstream of the choppy Missis- due for publication within the next

ler was editor of the Tuscola Review sippi. It had gotten loose from its half year, should send word to . the

for some time. moorings and was at the moment Alumni Office, Eastern.

P AGE TWENTY-EJGHT

Eastern Bloodhounds Hit Trail; Quarry Still Elusive

Over 300 New Addresses Other contributors were Thelma Be a Bloodhound; Win Free
Harrison, Georgia Rogers, H. F. Cot-
Contributed by 50 Oper- tingham, Okey Honef enger, Alma Alumnus with Six Ad-
Furste Homann, Beulah V. Chestnut dresses of 'lost' Persons.
atives; 700 Alums Still Treloggen, Mrs. A. A. Redding, Mrs.
W. Scott Teal, Mrs. A. H. Hotson, Membership in the Bloodhound
Lost . Mrs. Harry Emmett Callahan, Jessie C1ub is wide open!
L. Harris, Cleo Wood, Mrs. S. M.
The Bloodhound Club announced Elam, Irene Allison, and Mayme You are invited, yes, urged, to
in the June, 1948, Eastern Alumn us O'Hair Goss. earn a free one year subscription to
attracted a large number of detec- The Eastern Alumnus, or an exten-
tives and resulted in bringing ad- Complete List of sion of your present subscription,
dresses of some 364 lost alumni up to plus a handsome certificate testify-
date. This is a marvelous record for Lost El Alumni ing to your membership in the one
the determined hounds. and only Eastern Bloodhound Club.
N ecia Viola Adams, '37 ; Dolores
There were 23 Golden Pluto contri- Margaret Easton Adams, '23, '26; To win a year's subscription it
hutors, but the sleuthing of Mrs. Rus- Ralph Roy Adams, '20, '26; Goldie is necesary to report correct current
sell Shriver, correspondent for the Kathleen Adkins (Mrs. Leslie F. Nel- addresses of six or more of the "lost"
Class of 1909 and an active member son), '32; Ruby Elizabeth Adkins alumni listed on this and following
of the Alumni Association for many (Lamb), '36; Bette Juanita Sherrick pages. Only one address gives you
years, deserves the hig hest tribute. Albers, '44; Helen Anderson Alison, membership in the club.
Mrs. Shriver collected addresses of '29; Evelyn Sarah Allison (Mrs. Ivan
44 lost alumni. S. Glidewell), '21; Bernita A. Amyx, Mail to Bloodhound Club, Alumni
'43; Oliver Frank Anderhalter, '43; Office, Eastern Illinois State College,
For some time, a close competitor Brice Anderson, '40; Earl Roy Ander- Charleston, Illinois.
to Mrs. Shriver was Mrs. Marguerite son, '40; Dean Alexander Arnold, '42.
Bainbridge, '07, who may have had It is the hope of the Alumni Office
a capable "Watson" in husband A. O. Mary Elizabeth Baker (Mrs. How- to secure current addresses and other
Bainbridge, 1906, who took his detec- ard F . Williams), '36; Bette Lou data for each of the more than 700
tive training in the post office de- Bails (Mrs. J. K. Johnson), '40; Bes- "lost" persons before publication of a
partment. Mrs. Bainbridge sent in a sie Barbee, '24; Ted Barkhurst, '26; Golden Anniversary Register of
total of 34 a ddresses in two install- William Loren Barnett, '35 ; Beatrice alumni and former faculty. The prob-
ments. Burnette Barrett (Mrs. Charles Hart- lem is one of great magnitude, for in
man), '26; Luther Oliver Barrick, '23; many cases the last address for an
Mrs. Bainbri dge seem ed like a sure Paul Philip Barrick, '34; Virena Mer- alumnus is many years old and there
second place winner until Antha cedes Bennett, '35; J essie Bidle (Mrs. is no other clue to his present where-
Endsley, . Class of 1912, sent in her T. E. Bellotte), '15; Helen Black abouts. A hasty survey has shown
contribution listing 39 "lost" persons (Mrs. Wariston Cultra), '30; Alene that the average a lumnus mov~ :i
with current addresses appended. Ruth Blair (Mrs. Edgar Tolliver), about eight times in 25 years. Nat-
Miss Endsley, also an active member '33; Myrna Grace Bradford (Mrs. urally, he cannot be expected to keep
of the Alumni Association for many Wm. K. Strader), '25; James Paul everyone interested in him informed
years, has been principal of the Lin- Brewer, '23, '27; John Thomas Brown, of his whereabouts each time he
coln School in Charleston and h as '46; Gladys Leone Bryant (Mrs. Wil- moves.
taught in the home city during al- bur Kenneth Brown) , '15; Glen Otis
most her entire teaching career. Burger, '37; Lottie Lucille Buss, '44. The cooperation of many people is
needed in the task of making a gond
These persons are the summa cum Gladys Campbell, '14; Faye Ber- alumni register. Please help!
laude Golden Plutos, but four others neeta Holsapple Centers (Faye Ber-
sent in twenty or more addresses. neeta Nugent), '42; Paul Emil Chit- There are six different types of
They were Peggy and Dale Wingler, tenden, '33; Lola Martha Clapp, '39; Bloodhound Club membership. For
Edna Corzine, Edwin C. Hood, and Kenneth Wilson Connelly, '30; Mil- one address, you become a "Heck-It's-
dred Maudline Conner, '23; Charles a-Pup" member. For two, you are a
yril D. R eed. Robert Cordis, '39; Lily Belle Court- "Bone-of-Fido" member. Three are
right, '32; Alta Elizabeth Covalt "Arf Enuf." Four make yo:1 a "Blue
Other Golden Pluto members are (Mrs. E . W . Davis) , '27; Palmer Sar- and Bay" member, five a "Daisy
rank W. Chamberlin, Miss Emma gent Cox, '26; Ralph Cox, '47; Ruth Chain" member, and six merit t.he
einhardt (Eastern faculty), Ruth Crabtree (Mrs. Chester R. Ellett), coveted "Golden Pluto" membership.
rman (alumna and Eastern facul- '29; Martha Marie Cressler, '15; Luke
), Mrs. Robert G. Buzzard, Martha Crouse, '23; Dorothy Ruth Curtiss, kins), '34; Nelle Katherine Doak
ane Dunn, W. Harry Phipps, Amelia '28, '36. (Mrs. Edward J. Gorecki), '28; Bes-
. Thomas, Mrs. Willis H. Bloom, sie F'erris Dorsey (Mrs. Robert N.
den Cutshall, Mildred and Mahala Bernace Marie Dare, '16; Eleanor McKee), '13; Edna Doyle (Mrs.
bite, Veva Moody, Mary Virginia Louise Devore (Mrs. Eleanor D. J en- George R. Wheaton), '01; Betty
Ermine Duff (Mrs. Ronald T. Denny) ,
binson McDougle, Gertrude Hack- '37; William Raymond Duke, '40;
' Mrs. H. W. Fredrick, Oral N. Tay-
r, and Helen Stapp.

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Fern Geneva Dunham, '31. Plans Spring Festival Gladys Hays, '16, 27; Kathryn Eliza
Ruth Irene Edington, '36; Minnie Head (Mrs. Glen F. Montgomery)
I '28; Lucille Anne Heaney, '38;
Edman (Mrs. Frank M. Mealey), '05; Blanche Marie Heath, '37; Velma
Martha Emelyn Elder (Mrs. Herbert Don Musselman, '49 Pauline Heath (Mrs. Emanuel Hel-
Clawson), '36; Clarice Mary Estell, President R. G. Buzzard has offer- lerman), '29; Edna May Hedrick, '12;
'46; Selma Anna Eversole (Mrs. ed Don Musselman, a senior social Evalena Heeb (Mrs. Frank Ernest
Thomas Edward Henley), '16; Rus- science and speech student, an as- Johnson), '10; T'homas Edward Heg-
sell Ellsworth, '3'r. sistantship to plan and direct a pag- gerty, '39; Martha Heidler (Mrs.
eant depicting Eastern Illinois his- Adolf Antshel), '15; Ruth Marie
Julia Vernonica Fields (Mrs. John tory in relationship to the develop- H einzmann, '39; Jesse James Hei-
Joseph Ryan), '20; Roberta Jane Fin- ment of the college at a Founders schmidt, '27; Catherine Clara Helm
ley, '40; Ivan Jessie Fleener, '40; Day Festival next May 22. (Mrs. Catherine Rhodes), '39; Gladys
Martha Frances Ford (Mrs. Charles Mr. Musselman, an older student Cleo Helm, '29; Jenness Rebecca
Martin Phillippe), '35; Thelma Edna with broad stage experience, has Helm (Mrs. Clarence Joseph Wol-
Freeman (Mrs. Garrett Wall), '30. won wide recognition for radio and bert), '14; Geneva June Henderson
theater work. He has starred in every (Mrs. James Lowell Padgett), '39;
Marie Agnes Gardner (Mrs. Ed- major stage production of the Play- Homer Dee Hendricks, '36.
ward H. Stolze), '14; Sherman Ed- ers since coming to Eastern from the
ward Gilmore, '29; Ross Sylvester Merchant Marine, where he served Julia Louise Hendricks (Mrs. Julia
Klick, '28; Grace Winifred Gordon, during the war. Bedinger), '34; Virginia Jane Hen-
'24, '28; Catherine Martha Grant, dricks( Mrs. R. C. Ingle), '41; El-
'36; Mildred Gray (Mrs. Donald Bur- Phoebe Eleanor Hashman (Mrs. Wil- berta Marguerite H en dry, '3 4 ;
gess Atwell), '18; Carl Green, '24; liam Bain Shaw), '26. George William Henry, '35; Robert
Joe Calvin Greeson, '33; W auneta Paul Henry, '31; Willa Mae Henry
Inez Griffen, '32; Andrew Francis Otto Harwood, '07; Winfield Stark (Mrs. John Franklin Moffett), '23;
Grunlok, '38; John Neal Gullett, '24; Harwoo<l, '33; Beulah Gertrude Has- Lloyd Stanley Henson, '43; Carolee
Mildred Evelyn Guthrie (Mrs. John litt, '34; Alta Jean Hawkins (M1·s . Wanda Herron, 40; Ruth Azalea Hep-
Davis), '38. Farr), '42; George Edmon Hawkins, burn,, '35; Rog'er Franklin Hibbs,
'23; John Henry Hawkins, '17; John '43; Ruth Claire Hicks, '26; Hazel
Dorothy Irene Hackett (Mrs. Lemuel Hawkins, '28; Olive Marie Marie Higgins (Mrs. R. M. Dunivan),
Ralph Vernon White), '25, '27; Clara Hawkins (Mrs. Sisson), '34; Gene- '28; Edna Mabel Hiler, '36; Charles
Rutth Hadden, '19; Lillian Ruth Had- vieve Marie Haworth (Mrs. Ralph F'. Hill, '11; Dorothy Mildred Hill
dock (Mrs. Ralph E. Webber) '20; Faraday Spicer), '20; Doris Virginia (Mrs. John Phillip Floyd), '30; Ger-
Bartlett Hagemeyer, '04; Harold Hayden, '43; Amelia Helen Hayes trude Ozeba . Hill, '14; Kathryn Thel-
Dale Hale, '42; Frances Eileen Haley (Mrs. R. F. Derrough), '23; Dorothy ma Hill, '42; Stanley Hill, '11.
(Mrs. Ralph Wightman), '26; Carl Elizabeth Hayes (Mrs. Helgren),
Marvin Hall, '32; Hazel Hall (Mrs. '30; Essie Iomia Hayes (Mrs. Leon Walter Jackson Hill, '33; Esther
F'rank Ankenbrand, Jr), '14, '26; Barnes), '30. Marie Hillery (Mrs. Everett Sunkel),
Paul Stephen Hall, '26; Sara Frances '28; Virginia Edith Hillier (Mrs.
Hall (Mrs. F. B. Travis), '28; Wil- Kathleen Louise Hayes, '40; Vela Kenneth Palmer Sharpe), '35; Doro-
metta Hallock (Mrs. Lee E. New- thy Marie Hilligoss, '41; Dorothy
man), '10; Vivian Ordell Hamel (Mrs. Louise Hills, '38; Lois Elaine Hilsa-
T. R. Ruess), '35; Granville Hampton, beck, '42; Emma Jane Hitchens, '41;
'28; Ida Marguerite Hampton (Mrs. Gladys Lorena Hobbs, '38; Virginia
Harry F. Stoll), '20; Josephine Rae Hocking, '38; Mary Magdalene
Louise Hampton (Mrs. Ralph Phipps Hogins (Mrs. W. V. Brenneman),
Dallas), '33; Mildred Kathryn Hand- '26; Clara Catherine Hoffman (Mrs.
ley, '33. Perry H. Rogers), '23; Martha Eliza-
beth Holladay (Mrs. Bert S. Rosen-
Juanita Haney (Mrs. Tedd 0. Cop- baum), '38; Warren Wilbert Homann,
pin), '32; Alice Virginia Hanks (Mrs. '43.
Alice H. McCox), '36; Jessie Mable
Hanks, '15; Grace Genevieve Har- Electa Marie Honn (Mrs. Kenneth
bert, '16; Edith May Hardy (Mrs. Williams), '40; Josephine W. Honn
bert, '16; W i 11 i am . Sylvester (Mrs. Charles M. Sherman), '05;
Hardy, '35; Elbert Thomas Har- Hazel Irene Honnold, '27, '33; Bessie
gis, '20; Blanche Irene Harman Hooppaw, '16; Frances Louise Hop-
(Mrs. R. R. Sherwood), '23; Edith kins (Mrs. D. E. Sti:atton), '32;
Marie Harper (Mrs. Byron Trexler), Estel Amelia Hopper, '41; Earl
'26; Edith Henrietta Harris, '34; George Horn, '26; Jean Hosford
Frank Charles Harris, '17; Mary (Mrs. Elbert K. Fretwell), '08; Fern
Jane Harris, '38; Maytle Marie Har- Elizabeth Hostettler (Mrs. Harlin M.
ris, '39; Neva Beck Harris, '21, '33; Steely, Jr.) '18; Veva Florence Hos-
Vera Gertrude Harris, '18, '33; Shir- tettler (Mrs. E. H. Winegarner), '29.
ley Jane Harrod, '37; Margaret Rose
Harvey, '42; Rheba Margaret Henry David Franklin Kibler, '15; Esther
Harvey (Mrs. Rheba H. Brown), '37;

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Louise Kiger (Mrs. James E. Pricer), Midnight Show Homecomer son (Mrs. Bryce L. Gillis), '25; Kath-
'32; Ercel LaFern Kincade, '18; Her- erine Jean Johnson, '41; Loren S.
schel Guy Kincaid, '15; Mary Hazel Billie Phipps, above, appears in Johnson, '16; Rose Johnson, '22; Viv-
Kincaid (Mrs. Mary H. Hayes), '39; the Home~ing midnight show ian Morea Johnson (Mrs. William
Bess Kinder Bethel), '31; Margarnt October 15. A student at Eastern be- G. Mendell), '17; Wanda Moreen
Bess Winder Bethel), '31; Margaret fore the war, Phipps has won a se- Johnson (Mrs. Russell Andrew
Adeline King, '32; Ruth King (Mrs. cure place in moviedom. Price), '29; F'rances Lee Johnston
Clarence Qeaty Weger), '18; Virgil (Mrs. Samuel Holland Taylor, Jr.),
Dewitt King, '31; Wilbert William Louise Lumbrick, '38. '34; James Wilson Johnston, '39;
Kirchhoff, '39; Edgar Lynn Kisner, J~lian House, '24; Nellie Fern Has- Elizabeth Lorraine Jones (Mrs. Ralf
12; Don Thomas Klein, '39 ; Dolores Warder Reat), '18; Dorthy Erelene
Josephine Klunk, '39; Evelyn Mae kell House, '39; Emeline Vernett J"on£S (Mrs. Cecil Thomas Heaven),
Knezik, '45; Flora Margaret Knight Howe (Mrs. Bryan E. Apple), '09; '28; Helen Dorothea Jones (Mrs.
(Mrs. Donald Sampson), '29; June Wylma Elizabeth Howe, '34; Berdina Christian Lee Heyl), '24; Paul Wil-
Amanda Knowles (Mrs. Elmer E. Frances Huckaba, '32; Mary Mar- liam Jones; '42; Dorothy June Jor-
Barnett), '16; Fred Arthur Koertge, guerite Hudspeth (Mrs. George Hill), dan, '23; Eva Marie Jordon (Mrs.
'26, '36; Carrie Anna Kogel (Mrs. '31; William Logan Huffman, '31; Wayne Schaeuble), '24; Ola May
Albert Fred Hertel), '20; Julia Ellen Catherine Hughes, '42; June Ruth Jordan, '37; Mabel Marie Jourdan
Knupp, '29; George Otis Koeberlein, Hughes, '36; Vance Hulbert, '25, '32; (Mrs. Alfred H.Schoenke), '26; Mar-
'30; Emma Eileen Koss, '37; Mabel Chester Hume, '09; Goldie Irene tha Pauline Baril Juvenall, '31.
Florence Kresin (Mrs. Gale Hael), Hunt, '24; Martha Frances Husted
'34; Victor Henry Krueger, '35; Roy (Mrs. William Thomas), '43; Nina Kathryn Jane Kannamacher, '42;
Jay Kyger, '06. Hazel Hutton (Mrs. Harold Breeden Nola Opal Kannmacher, '26; Opal
Wyeth), '14; Alice Elizabeth Hyde, Juanita Kelley (Mrs. Opal Dun-
Helen Christine Lacey, '30; F'lor- '44; Rosetta Mae Hyman, '41. away), '42; Elsie Ione Kelly, '38;
ence Ethel Lambert (Mrs. Arthur E. Marguerite Agnes Kelly, '11; Harry
Pfeiffer), '20 i Irvin Todd Lanman, Icenogle, Betty Mae, '43; Daisy Edwards Kelsey, '32; Frances Lela
'29; Jessie Leona Lacey (Mrs. John Irene Icenogle (Mrs. Anton H. Lar- Kennard, '39; Mary Elizabeth Ken-
E. Scott), '35; Irvin Todd Lanma n, son), '24; Jean Farris Ikemire, '35; nedy, '29; Paul Howard Pepner, '25;
'39; Florence Mae Land, '36; Lois Helen Louise Imle (Mrs. Harold Richard DeMonbrun Kepner, '21;
Miram Landers, '38; Winifred Jnan- Amateis), '36; Francis Graydon In- Ala Lois Kerna, '25; Mildred Leotta
ita Lane, '40; Esther Lape, '30; gram, '33; Lillian Margaretta Ire- K ersey, '32; Carl M. Kibler, '11.
Sevilla Isabel Larimer, '38; Violet land, '15; Claudia Isenburg, '36;
Eva Lashbrook (Mrs. Fred W. Hus- Thelma Pearl Isenburg, '23; Wayne Helen Jeannette Lumsden (Mrs.
ton), '16; Regina Mary Elizabeth Emerson Isley, '29; Angelo S. Isola, Vernon Fenwick Huntley), '17;
Laughlin (Mrs. Jos. J. Schneider), '47; Norma Leone Ives, '39; Mamie Velma Luther (Mrs. Damon
'18; Jeannette Winifred Lawrence, Curtis), '19; Florence Esther Lutz
'31; Wilma Jeanne Lawrence (Mrs. E leanor Virginia Jacobs, '37, '39; (Mrs. George Toland Pfeifer), '26;
Ted Kaster), '42; Bernice Lawson, Katherine Virginia Jacoby, '14; Sara E lsie Mabee, '07; Mirtie Mabee, '08;
'31; Myrtle Irene Leamon (Mrs. E liza Jenkins (Mrs. Raymond Clif- Elizabeth E llen Maddock (Mrs. Leo L.
W€slin J. Bartlett), '27. ton Towler), '28; Violet Grace Jen- McCarthy), '18; Rachel Margaret Mad-
ner, '29; Betty Lou Johnson (Mrs. dock, '30; George Albert Mager::;, '45;
William Earl Lee, '27; Ethel Hor- Joseph D. O'Neal), '42; Iris Mae J ohn- Elizabeth Mahaney (Mrs. Howard J .
tense Le Fever (Mrs. Eugene Collier), Nagle), '34; Nellie Susan Mahaney,
'31; Nadine Jesse Lehman, - '39; '17; Thelma Ruth Major (Mrs. Lyn-
Frances Paris Leigh, '16; Neva Lu- den P. Bowden), '32; Jennie Eliza-
cile Leigh, '35; William Oscar Level, beth Major, '33, '41; Honora Aloysia
'37; Ruth Virginia Libotte, '33; Malhoit (Mrs. Leroy McNeill), '14;
Pauline Lientz, '39; Anna Evelyn Lil- Irene Emma Rose Malhoit (Mrs. Wil-
ley, '33; Mary Louise Little, '35; Jay liam Allan Smith), '13; Kathryn
Littlejohn, '39; Mary Esther Lloyd Louise Mallory (Mrs. J. D. McNair),
(Mrs. Rex Sinclair), '31; Tilman Mc- '31; Mary Mae Maloney (Mrs. Kirk),
Kinley Lockard, '36; Freida Pearl '35; Alberta Slaten Mareing (Mrs.
Logan, '35; Cecil Marie Long (Mrs. Howard Garrett Mareing), '29; Ruth
Russell Howard Anderson), '22; Lucille Margason, '37.
Grace Emily Long (Mrs. David B.
Flinn), '17; Juneba Grace Love (Mrs. Vera May Markwell, '28; Viola
Henry Zeis Gumm), '14; Mary Kath- Magdalene Maronta, '35; Leona
erine Love (Mrs. Mary K. DeMunns), Pauline Marshall (Mrs. Ross Cox),
'35; Elizabeth Rosett Lovett, 12; '37; Irene Martin, '38; Russell Mor-
Harold Robert Loving, '17; Howard gartin, '17; Zola Louise Watkins
Hayden Loving, '32; Edith Marion Martin (Mrs. Paul Martin), '39; Neva
Lowe, '21; Ruby E lizabeth Lowe Lucille Marx, '38; Evelyn Gloria
(Mrs. Stewart Gray Woodward), '21; Massie, '32; Madonna Marie Master-
Douglas Porter Lucas, '08; Martha son (Mrs. Roy Checkly), '31; Bertie
Irene Mateer (Mrs. Curt D. Ham),

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'36; Freda M. Walz Mauck (Mrs. Returns to Eastern day, '29; Kezia Ethel Munson, '10;
Fred R. Mauck), '33; Rosetti Maxey, Bessie Murphy (Mrs. Geo. A. Swin-
'13; Ula Maxham (Mrs. G. Will Another alumnus returning to ford), '08; Edith May Murphy, '14;
Smith), '05; Eda Marie May (Mrs. Eastern to teach is Robert C. Wad- Leland Chandler Murphy, '39.
Russell Curtis Mader), '15; Helen dell, '47, who took his master's egre;oi
Georgia Mayer, '24; Emma Eliza- in physics at the University of Illi- Elaine Vivian Nantkes, '41; Louise
beth Mayfield, '19; Steve John nois thi~ year. Mr. Waddell married Calanthe Naumer (Mrs. Harry 0.
Mayoras, '39. Helen Reynolds, a freshman music Donnelly), '15; Lora Irene N aumer,
~ending Eastern. Mrs. '27; Delbert Pearl Nave, '29, '34;
Lois Davis McCabe (Mrs. Ernest Waddell will continue in school at Eva Blanche Nave, '24; Mable Nee-
W. Cop), '23; Merrell Linn McCabe, Eastern and is expected to take the ley (Mrs. John Riley Baker), '25;
'20; James Arthur McCall, '22; Doris leading role in Carmen, a full-scale Valeta Joyce Neill (Mrs. Glenn A.
Ethel McCarty, '28; Sadie Marie Mc- opera to be produced next January Keen), '38; Olive Blanche Newlin,
Clain, '35; Mary Louise McCord, '36; under the direction of Dr. Leo J. '16; Theodosia Elizabeth Newman
Wanda Chlotilde McDivitt, '27; Louis Dvorak. (Mrs. T. Donald Wilhelm), '31; Ora
Love McDonald, '04; Pauline Jane Hildred Nicholson, '32; Ruby Edith
McDonald, '34; May McDougle (Mrs. Mr. Waddell is a graduate of Mat- Nolin, '39; Francis Berne N ort1Jn,
Roscoe David Furry), '12; Virginia toon high school and a naval veteran '18; Lois Irene Nuttal, '42.
Earline McDougle, '36; Ethel Mae released as a lieutenant, junior grade,
McDowell, '27, '29; Olivia Blanche in 1945. A high honor student in phy- Fern Elizabeth Olive, '34; Helen
Herron McEvoy (Mrs. Albert Ray- sics, he will teach that subject in the Maxine Oliver (Mrs. Earnest E.
mond McEvoy), '20; Margaret Mc- physics department. Zink), '30; Marietta Jane Orndorff,
Gahey, '29; Margaret McGrath, '27; '36; Paul Robert Osborn, '27; High
Mattie Ann lVIcKeown, '22; Lura Mc- Evelyn Shirley Moore, '31; Harriet Osburn, '25; Mary Margaret Otto,
Kinney, '28, '29; Lillian Nadean Mc- Martha Moore (Mrs. Charles E. '36; Nora Grace Overholser (Mrs.
Kinney, '41; M. Augusta McKittrick Rhoades), '37; Helen Mae Moore, '30; William H. Beam), '05; Elfie May
(Mrs. Edmund Clark Glen) '08; Hilda Juanita Moore (Mrs. Harlo Owen (Mrs. Arthur Wright, Jr.),
Mary Elizabeth McKnight, '29; Mar- Grant Benner), '25; Madge Eleanor '22; Alice Alvera Owens (Mrs. Ad-
garet Frazier McLaughlin (Mrs. A. Moore, '43; Margaret Florence Moore rian Byers), '38; Ermine Lavere
G. Ervin), '21; Charles Roy McMul- (Mrs. Paul Wayne Lee), '02; Ruth Owens, '36; Johnson Lavern Owens,
len, '43; Elizabeth Foulkrod McNutt, Marie Moore (Mrs. Leonard E. Mont- '36.
'15. gomery), '36; Thelma Boyd Moor-
head, '32. Geneva Pauline Paddick, '36; Ruth
Mary Irwin McNutt, '07; Marguer- Limuel Paine, '26; Velma Marie
ite Mary McTaggart, '21; Rose Gladys Irene Morehead, '38; Mary Painter, '39; Matilda Harmena Park,
Marie Megaw (Mrs. L. A. Musick), Elizabeth Moreland, '36; Arlene Isa- '36; Buryl Franklin Parker, '33;
'36; Addis Roefae Meier, '38; Her- bel Morgan, '38; Lilly Myrtle Mor- Jessie Margaret Parker, '15; Ada
mina Kennard Menzi, '19; Christine gan (Mrs. John Edgar Kelly), '32; Patrick (Mrs. J. J. Deakin), '11;
Mercer, '29; Lyla Anna Louise Mess- Frances Virginia Morrison (Mrs. Jennie Mae Patton (Mrs. Deane C.
man, '30; Monica Marie Mickey, '37; Joseph G. Duncan), '35; Mary Ellen Severance), '19; Lola Patton (Mrs.
Beulah Marie Midgett, '38; Lawrence Wright Morse, '44; Lois Edith Frank P. Tillman), '12; Juanita Mar-
Anderson Midgett, '40; Marjorie Rea Moyer (Mrs. William H. Smith, Jr.), ian Pease, '38; Hazle Mary Perkin-
Milburn, '26; Sophia 0. Miles (Mrs. '31; Joe Dennis Muchmore, '25; Joe son (Mrs. Ray B. Barricklow), '24;
Lee I. Morgan), '10; Florence Ellen John Mucci, '38; Mary Charlotte Mary Loretta Peters (Mrs. Carl D.
Milholland, '33; Grace E. Milholland Muchmore (Mrs. Edwin L. Schatz), Cleaver), '15; Ruth Jane Peters (Mrs.
(Mrs. Arthur L. Riche), '10; Awanda '26; Mary Magdalene Mullikin (Mrs. Walter S. Riser), '16; Hazel C.
Glyn Crackel Miller, '43; Bertie Ethel Mary Kerr), '33; Emma Leah Mun- Sparks Petzing, '42; Martha Wilma
Miller, '14; Floyd Nye Miller, '37; Petzing (Mrs. Clarence W. Engel),
Lester Harold Miller, '41; Mary '31; Ada Eversel Pfnister (Mrs.
Hazel Larrance Miller, '19; Neva John E. Foster), '33; Andrew Shel-
Irene Miller, '33; Phyllis Vivian Mil- don Phillips, '16; Dolly Phillips (Mrs.
ler (Mrs. Irving Lewis), '32; Ruth Maurice Owen Shake), '29.
Irene Miller (Mrs. Howar;d Esbeck),
'36; Edna Lorine Mille, '37; Ruth Josephine Pauline Phipps (Mrs.
Isabel Milnes, '42. Edgar S. Leach), '18; Martha Lu
Phillips, '34; Mary Helen Phillips
Walter Milone, '32; Burl Kenneth (Mrs. Mary Myers), '36; Minnie Alice
Mitchell, '30; Daniel Palmer Mitchell, Phillips, '12; Anna Emma Phipps
'13; Edna Mae Mitchell (Mrs. Donald (Mrs. Charles Roscoe Daggy), '12;
Ross Pfeister), '19; Ivan Poel Mit- Elsie Margaret Pierce (Mrs. Francis
chell, '30; Kate Mitchell (Mrs. James A. Kromer), '30; Kathryn Ann Piece,
Louis Gray), '12; Mary Ellen Mobley, '34; Margaret Ellen Pierson (Mrs.
'33; Helen Irene Moffett (Mrs. Isaac Ben 0. Morgan), '27; Clara Alice
Myers), '14; Doit Arden Montgom- Mills Pinkstaff, '33; Harry Martin
ery, '23; F'lora Lois Moore (Mrs. Pinkstaff, '27, '30; Geraldine Marie
Robert Goodyear), '27; Florence Piper, '38; Alice Marguerite Pittman,
'21; Lillian Blanche Pittman (Mrs.

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Edmund D. Wahl), '26; Lena Agnes Mowe aqua -Bound Olive Elvene Sederberg, '37; Ola
Pontius, (Mrs. Paul M. Willey), '33; Beatrice Seeley, '46; Mary Evelyn
Evelyn Lucille Postle (Mrs. Virgil Circulation manager of the Alum- Seip (Mrs. John G. Turner), '32;
F. Jon es), '36; Gaile Virginia Potter, nus last year, Al Cacherat, '48, as- Sara Isabel Seitz (Mrs. George A.
'38; Zella F. Powell (Mrs. Albert Dussault), '23; Kathryn Louise Sel-
Brown Lovett), '10; Effie Fern sumed a position in fueMW Mowea- lars (Mrs. Eldon G. Lindberg), '26;
Prather (Mrs. H. C. Prather ), '30. Gladys Helena Serviss, '10; Trevor
qua unit district this fall. Wife Ardis Knott Serviss, '21; Pearl Marie Set-
Ethel May Prather (Mrs. Ben Bailey Cacherat, '47, will teach music tle, '34; Dorothy Josephine Shafer
Wells), '27; Lillie Prather (Mrs. Joe in the same system . Al attended the (Mrs. Lewis T. Lanphier ), '28; Cath-
Turner Connelly), '17; Rhoda Prather University of Illinois this summer. erine Jane Shaffer (Mrs. Parker C.
(Mrs. Myron Perkinson), '24; Ernest Hardin), '31; Harry Ellis Shannon,
Pricco, '34; Edward V. Price , '30; log), '17; Jean Eleanor Roettger, '36; Gertrude Josephine Sharkey
Imogen e Muriel Price (Mrs . John '38; Eugene Rogers, '13; Helen Eliza- (Mrs. Samuel Walter Plumb), '23;
Tyler Williams), '20; Julia Price beth Rogers (Mrs. Walter S. Enterpe Sharp (Mrs. Carson Don-
(Mrs. Thomas James Reedy), '25; Stewart), '34; Vivian Frances Rogers, nell), '19; Lutie Beatrice Sharp, '40;
Pearl Sharp Price (Mrs. H erbert Al- '40; Gertrude Alice Roe (Mrs. An- Mildred Sharp, '12; Serena Elizabeth
fred Hoffner), '21; Thelma Pearl drew Martin), '17 ; Katherine Sharp (Mrs. Evan Glenn Payne),
Price, '26; Richard Kenneth Provines, Romizer (Mrs. Faye Ellis Sebright), '16; Leola May Shaw, '41; Rosalie
'33; Georgia Clare Andrews Pritchett, '27, '31; Merle Ellington Root (Mrs. Shawver (Mrs. Theron Brown), '38.
'29; Stephen John Prosen, '39; Fran- Harold George Preece ), '19.
ces Louise Pruitt (Mrs. John Wayne F'rances Katharine Shea (Mrs.
Mitchell), '36. Jeanette Rosene, '35; Doris Mil- John Riley ), '16; Jane Elizabeth
dred Ross, '37; Dai sy Rotramel, '28; Sheets, '37; Sarah Rebecca Shew
Marcella Leona Quatman (Mrs. Robert James Rourke, '43. (Mrs. Carl Richard Flodin, Jr.), '26;
Charles Stockman), '36; Audrey Virginia Blanche Shield (Mrs. Ora N.
Irene Quick (Mrs. Davidson) , '41; Edna Alene Saltzman (Mrs. Ger- Essex ), '23; Edna Flo Donaldson
Margaret Corene Quinn (Mrs. Ed- ald DeLoss Anstine), '25; Doris Shipley, '37; Alvena Elizabeth Shirk-
ward C. Schneider ), '21. Evelyn Samford, '42; Homer Cleve- liff (Mrs. Irvin W. Lloyd), '20;
land Sampson, '12; Lillian Sanborn, Robert Wells Shoemaker, '25; Paul-
Alma Ferne Radebaugh (Mrs. H. '14; Est her Mae Sanders, '24; Anna ine Shortess (Mrs. Ivan C. Miller),
D. Ewing), '36; Iren e Alberta Rags- Magdalene Schahrer (Mrs. Marion '16; Forest Hugh Shoulders, '35;
dale, '34; Lillie Randolph, '12; Mar- Reinoehl Harris), '17; John Robert Dora Shrader (Mrs. Robert L. Mor-
tha B. Rapp, '04; Wynemiah Rardin Scheidk ::-r, '42; Margaret Clara gan), '16; Nellie Marie Shull (Mrs.
(Mrs. D. P erry), '22; Elvira Anna Sch erer, '25, 42; Marie Elizabeth George Phipps Rodgers), '25; Nelle
Rau, '28; Alier B. Rauch (Mrs. Rol- Sch crnekau (Mrs. Lynden Nyle Shy, '02; Eli Roscoe Sidwell, '11;
land M. Pettit), '04; Perry Gardner Smith), "38; William John Scherne- Milton Seigel, '37; Aubrey Nolan
Rawland, '22; Carol Virginia Rebbe, kau, 'J.4; Otto Schmaelzle, '17; Karl Simmons, '38.
'43; Loue Record (Mrs. Edwin E. Joseph Schmaelzle, '10.
Cummings) , '04; Lucy Marie Redden, Nellie Emiline Simmons, '32; Flor-
'21; Mary Ellen Redden (Mrs. Mary Alma Anna Schottman, '29; Don- ence Belle Simms, '24, '27; Helena
E. Neilsen), '27, '34; Dwight Lincoln ald Dain Schriner, '31; Annie Carolyn Marguerite Simpson, '42 ; Paul Evans
Reed, '26; John Harold R ennels , '22; Schroeder, '30; Helen Lucille Schroy, Simpson, '40; Lillie LaRue Sims, '19;
Olive Fayea Reynard (Mrs. Olive R. '42; Mendolyn Marilyn Schwarm, Robert Kenneth Sims, '28; Venisa
Baldwin) , '35; Betty Lucille Rhodes, '~ 5; Edward Schwartz, Jr., '41; Vir- Lorene Siverly (Mrs. Frank S.
'41; Glen Harold Rhodes, '25. ginia Lois Schwartz, '42; Erma Jean Nagy), '41; Agnes Margaret Smith,
S::oggins (Mrs. Attilio Solari), '43; '35; Anna Laura Smith (Mrs. Eugene
Hollys Esther Rhodes (Mrs. Ray- Eila Grace Scott (Mrs. Charles Kelso Poliquin), "22; Bemis Essie Smith,
mond Lester Cutts), '31; Zona Lu- Ross), '14; Marjorie Caroline Scott '29; Beulah Naomi Smith, '19; Dean
cille Rhodes, '42; Betty J. E. Rice, (Mrs. Clarence E. Well), '33; Homer Francis Smith, '30, '31; Donald G.
Sydney Scovil, '20; Chester Roscoe Smith, '41; Dorothy Smith (Mrs. C.
9; Anna Marie Richardson, '36; Seaney, Jr., '40; Martha Frances E. Blackmore), '36; Edith Rosalie
n Harrison Richardson, '41; Zella Sebastian, '33; Virginia Louise Se- Smith, '39; Elsie Marie Smith (Mrs.
aye Richman (Mrs. John Bidwell chrest (Mrs. S. Virgil Sprague), '3G. Maurice A. Bryant), '40; Helen Eliza-
ilder), '17; Charles Henry Ridey, beth Smith (Mrs. Storm), '41; Helen
40; Louise Glenn Ring, '23; Maude Margaret Smith, '34; Ida Eliza Smith
arie Ringo (Mrs. Paul E. Bales), (Mrs. Percy Stump), '32; Iris Augus-
ta Smith (Mrs. Ellis Droddy), '34.
Opal Margaret Rippey, '24;
yman Ritter, '18; Helen Loui se Jessie Euphemia Smith (Mrs. Emil
oberts (Mrs. Ralph Oscar Pate ), Bernhart Hansen), '12; John Martin
Smith, '38, '41; Kate Emily Smith
; Edith Catherine Robertson, '22; (Mrs. T. Marion Austin), '27;
ma Robinson, '42; Francis Wil- Kathryn Barbara Smith, '36; Kath-
d Robinson, '41; Ruth Love Robin- ryn Isabel Smith (Mrs. A. L. Calli-
n (Mrs. Dean Johnston), '12; Ciara son), '37; Morris Gerald Smith, '30;
mantha Rodebaugh (Mrs. Karl
isennand) '24; Waverly Rodecker
rs. John Gordon Smith), '11;
ry Bell Roderus (Mrs. Frank Kel-

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Myrtle Venis Smith (Mrs. G. C. Van- Johnny-of-All-Trades Stephen Gilpin Turner, '20; Willa
dersall), '14; Rosemary Ellen Smith Edgar Turney, '32; Edna Blanc
(Mrs. Louis Donaldson), '35; Ruth Known to two generations of East- Tyrell (Mrs. Earnest Clarence Price
Snider (Mrs. R. D. Baker), '29; ern alumni as band leader, radio di- '24.
Evelyn Madge Snodgrass, '33; Ila rector and announcer, actor, and
Fay Snow, '42; Esther Snowden, good fellow, Johnny Paul, '47, is now Inis Naomi Uhl, '38! Lea Maixn
(Mrs. Russell Lowell Giffin), '18; an assistant in speech correction on Underwood (Mrs. John Howard Du
Mabel Ruth Snyder (Mrs. Frank the staff at Purdue university. Ker), '33; Grace Fontellt Van Clev
Graham), '18; Edna Blanche Sparks, (Mrs. Gordon Ezra Sanders), '27;
'26; Lida Phoebe Sparks, '24; Bitha During World War II, as a captain Anna Alta Vandiver (Mrs. Paul G.
. Spaugh, 23; Carolyn Elizabeth Specht in Army special services, he directed Epling), '34; Helen Alice Van Mid·
(Mrs. Carolyn E ·. Lockart), '36; Paul a company of native entertainers in dlesworth (Mrs. Floyd R. Henry)
Harmon Spence, '39; Frieda Hermin Korea-displaying one more facet of '34; Helen Augusta Vaupel (Mrs.
Spengel, '18. a talented personality. Harold A. Schoeck), '32; Lillian
Drury Vernon, '41.
Robert Lenard Spillman, '35; Ruth Theron Linn Elliott), '30; Kathryn
Vernette Spitler, '30; Martha Chris- Blanche Taylor (Mrs. Mark L. Mit- Nannie Elizabeth Walker (Mrs.
tine Spitz, '26; Florence Emily chell), '11; Lee Horsley Taylor, '46; Clifford S. Young), '22; Marjorie
Springer (Mrs. Emil Albert Volk, Lena Evelyn Terrell, '29; Lera Hazel Wallace, '25; Eileen Bernadine Wal-
Jr), '20; Mary Virginia Springer Teufel '31; Lillian Mida Tevault ler (Mrs. Francis Edmund Smithf,
(Mrs. Leslie Kendall Jackson), '13; (Mrs. Donald Hugh Bell), '28; Eunice '32; Helen Lucy Walters, '39; Chloa
Elsie Lura Staff, '24; Avia Aldena aMrie Tharp, '33, Mary Catherine Loretta Walton, '27, '42; Martha
Stahlman, '32; Jesse Oscar Stan- Thomas, '36; Aleen Crews Th0mp- Alita Waltrip, '31; Burniece Marie
berry, '05; Malora Mae Stanberry son (Mrs. John Marlin), '20; Grace Ward (Mrs. C. W. Frankenstein),
(Mrs. Mayberry W. Rozer), '18; Lillian Thompson (Mrs. Robert R. '27; Arleigh Josephine Ward (Mrs.
Mary Arlene Stanberry (Mrs. Har- Godfrey), '40; Lois Marguerite A. J. Spessard), '36; Hula Virginia
ley Rosenberger), '43; Roscoe Dewey Thompson (Mrs. Arthur F'. Thomp- Ward (Mrs. Burl A. Hocking), '26;
Stanberry, '19; Lucille Wiles Stan- son), '26. Nettie Alene Ward, '40; Bertha War-
ley, '38; Anna Ruth Stansfield, '44; ner, '27; Rella Blanche Warner (Mrs.
Elizabeth Stansfield, '44; Ovil Leon Virgil Thompson, '35; Dorothy R. B. Holyoke), '30.
Stephens, '27; Mary Eleanor . Step- Carma Thornton (Mrs. Charles
henson (Mrs. William Dennis Grant), Ernest Vaughn), '31; Wilma Etta Dora Ethel Wasson (Mrs. John Ed-
'29; Babe Stevens, '37. Thornton (Mrs. John G. Johnson), ward Driscoll), '27; Lydia Frances
'26; Amelia Magdalena Timm (Mrs. Wassen (Mrs. Bruce Fulurder), '28;
Edna Irene Stewart (Mrs. Harry James Monroe Eads), '14; Anna Mar- Helen Margaret W assen, '24; Hen-
Dixon), '28; Martha Marie Stewart garet Timm (Mrs. Floyd Booker rietta Waters (Mrs. Charles Wayne
(Mrs. Harry A. Johnson), '23; Mar- Cockrill), '16; Mary Aileen Tittle Hudson), '19; Lois Fern Waters
jorie Peterson Stickler, '44; Roy (Mrs. D. W. Willingham), '29; Opal (Mrs. Edward L. Brumleve), '2[J;
Clarence Stillions, '25; Paul Taylor Titus (Mrs. E. R. Duling), '33; Flos- Bernece Echo Watson (Mrs. Theo-
Stine, '40; Bonnie Stipp, '39; Leora sie Tohill (Mrs. Edgar D. Randolph), dore Nelson Boss), '23; Hazel Marie
Stitt (Mrs. Glen Levi Greeson), '16; '05; George Clayton Towles, '24, '27; Barnett Weakley, '35; Anna Louise
Bessie May Stockdale, '39; Ruth Irmah Alvona Townley (Mrs. Starr Weathers, '24; Charles Weaver, '46;
Evelyn Stone (Mrs. D. Webster Cochran), '27; Billy Jo Treat, '42; Anna Van Deren Webb (Mrs. Philip
Branan), '18; Reta Dolores Storme, Mildred Tressler, '27; Bertha Mae Stephan Barto), '04; Lillis Leona
'33; Ellis Leo Stout, '42; Mabel Oteal Trimble, '27; Beulah Marie Trimble Webb, '24.
Stout (Mrs. Leo Lyman Hutton), (Mrs. Thomas M. Hudson), '29; Mar-
'32; Antoninette Paula Miseur (Mrs. tha Emaline Turner, '34, '39; Helen Sayre Weber (Mrs. Clarence
John W. Strader), '40; Joseph Leon Beem), '32; Lois Mildred Weck, '39;
Strader, '44. Clarence Oeaty Weger, '17; Elva
Josephine Weger (Mrs. Alvin A. Mc-
Margaret Mary Struif (Mrs. Oliver Cammon), '35; Geneva Margaret
Parks), '16; Phyllis Ann Steube, '41; Weidner, '44; F'ern Welch (Mrs. 0. B.
Josephine Anna Stulgin (Mrs. Louis Hess), '16; Grover Frederick Welch,
Bednar), '32; Henrietta , Katherine '10; Marjorie Eleanor Welch, '42;
Suess (Mrs. Eldredge Steiner), '28; Harold Cecil Werner, '46; Amanda
Katie Marie Svaldi, '33; Alice Sum- Anna Wessell, '23; Lennie Minnie
mers (Mrs. Clarence B. Summers), West (Mrs. M. Russell Davis), '13;
'08; Kathryn Maurine Swearingen, Helen Louise Westrup, '32.
'36; Arthur Dale Swinford, '31; Clar-
ice Vivian Swinford, '24; Ralph Edwin Ansil Whalin, '14; Harold
Everett Swisher, '43. Lee Whitacre, '29, '35; Alice White,
'42; Oshia White (Mrs. John A.
Susane Louise Taber, '29; Harriet Ellis), '09; Ralph Vernon White, '27;
Lucile Tabe, '24; Edna Irene Taylor, Robert Wallis Whitlatch, '40; Arley
'41; Ethel Marie Taylor, '34; Eula Lee Whitten, '37; Mary Virginia
Christine Taylor (Mrs. Eula C. Bos- Wickiser, '39; Roland Bernard Wick-
ton), '27, '29; Inez Ruth Taylor (Mrs. iser, '43; John Adam Weiland, '12;

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Eastern Grad Reti'res as Head of (Continued from Page 34)
James Philip Wiley, '46; Phyllis
Elizabeth Wilkins (Mrs. R. R. Rut-

School for Crippled Children ledge, Jr.), '25; Cecil Herbert Wilkin-
son, '14; Frances Hicks Willett, '38;

Last June, 21 crippled children at A greater life and a chance to real- Charles Murray Williams, '38; Lois
he Stuart school in Springfield lost ly live in a big way by helping others Jean Williams, '45.
opened for Miss Rogers. For 23
teacher but not a friend. years she has given of her best and Lucia Q. Williams (Mrs. A. B.
Alberta Inez Rogers concluded her received in return the best the young Gunn), '06; Lura Marcialene Wil-
eaching career that month. A two children could offer. liams (Mrs. Pleasant F. Robnett),
ear graduate of Eastern in 1925 af- '21; Irma Marian Willingham (Mrs.
er first enrolling in 1911, Mi3s Many people agree that it takes C. P. Young), '22; Amy Rose Wilson
Rogers has spent 23 years as teacher something extra special within a per- (Mrs. J. Lewis Ford), '13; Enid Faye
of lame youngsters at Stuart. son to work with, teach and help the Wilson, '30; Frances Marie Wilson,
When she retired, Ethel Zimmer- crippled. Miss Rogers began with '41; Jane Wilson, '43; John Shirley
man, staff writer for the Springfield limited experience but with a lot of Wilson, '42; Kathleen Wilson, '30;
egister, wrote the following article the "something extra special." Ora Maxwell Wilson, '36; Dorothy
s one of a series featuring Spring- Maxine Winkleblack, '32; Emily
ield women in outstanding and inter- In a letter to the Alumnus editor, Marie Witt, '41; Alta Mae Wilatt,
sting positions: Miss Rogers says, in part: '31; Evelyn Irene Wolfe, '36; Eve-
. . . One hundred seventy-five rette Glen Womack, '31; Dorothy
(crippled childred) have been enroll- "I finished the two year course at Mary Wommer, '29; Bernice Jean-
ed since one room was first opened Eastern in 1924 after starting in nette Wood (Mrs. Stanford T. Car-
here Jan. 5, 1925. Miss Rogers was on 1911-12... I have no degree ... . al- rington), '32; Helen Margaret Wood-
the job the first day and has been though I took extension courses until all, '27.
ere ever since. two years ago. My advice to all young
The one room has now grown to teachers is to get the degree early Amy L. Woodwon (Mrs. John Glat-
ree and the number of pupils has but don't think that the degree in- felter), '10; Kenneth Claar Wooley,
ore than doubled at the crippled sures success. That means hard '36; Cathryne Owings Anderson
ildren's school where the rooms work. Forgive me for preaching. Shippy Wright, '28; Edith Lucile
Wright (Mrs. Austin A. Claypool),
other schoolrooms. At "I am continuing my work this '28; Helen Anne Wright, '07; Nelle
ne end of one room is a kitchenet winter in the home of a faculty mem- Louise Wright (Mrs. Wm. Tony Pen-
here each day the cook prepares a ber of the U. of Dubuque, where I'll rod), '22; Sophia Faye Wright, '41;
ot lunch for the children. teach his handicapped girl."
Each week committees are chosen
Greenup High Grads · Hazel Oma Wyer (Mrs. Eldon
set the table, to clear the table Emory), '35.
d to wash the dishes. Not only do
e children have a cook, but a bus Help Swing Election Florence Pearl Young, '36; r...ns
·ver who picks them up at their Madonna Young, '34; Mary Agnes

After several negative elections of Zehner, '25; Ralph Lackey Zehner,
the subject, citizens of Cumberland '16; Henry H. Zimmerman, 10.

mes each morning and delivers county voted last August to establish Scholarship Winner

em each evening. a community unit school district em-

Miss Rogers, who lives with her bracing the Jewett, Toledo, and

· ter, Ann, at 1318 Franklin St., was Greenup areas. Opposition had been

pointed when J. Harry Winstrom very bitter, but a great deal of credit

s city superintendent of schools. for the change of opinion is attribut-

e had taught in country schools in ed to a paid ad appearing in the

r home town of Waverly, in War- Greenup Press.

n, Mo., near St. Louis, and three In the ad a number of graduates

rs in Iowa. of Greenup high school mentioned

The one room "schoolhouse in a ddiciencies in the high school curri-

ool" opened soon after the first culum which could not be rectified un-

orld War and close on the heels of a less a larger school district were or-

lio epidemic which had swept the ganized.

ks of the younger generation. Among the signers of the state-

The teacher recalls she was asked ment were the following students or

ply if she was sympathetic, had graduates of Eastern: Kenneth Hes-

ever taught a country school, and ler, Kenneth Fritts, Robert Crane,

she ever worked with handicap- Kenneth Sedgwick, Joan Driller, Elza

people. To all the questions she Cherry, Ewell Winnett, Robert R. Betty Baughman, high honor stu-

able to answer yes and more es- Smith, George Elmer Fogleman, Earl dent from Edwardsville, won the

ially to the latter since she had a Snearley, Jr., Francis Titus, William University of Illinois graduate

ther who had been seriously handi- Winnett, David R. Winnett, Rose- scholarship awarded at commence-

ped the greater part of his life. mary Van den Ende, and Joan Brown. ment last June 4.

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