Eastern Alumnus Vol. 7 No. 1 (June 1953)

EJ.5.C. PERCENTILE RANKS

June

1953

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The EaStern Alumnus

Published in June, September, December and March by Eastern lll i nol~
State College, Charleston, Illinois

VOLUME 7 JUNE, 1953 NUMBER 1

Editorially Speaking Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter, at the post office at
Charleston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August 24
1912. Yearly subscription rate $1.50; .two years $2.25; three years $3.0ct
Renewals, $1.00 per year.

STAN ELAM ------------------------------------------- Edito~

You may be one of those read- K. E. HESLER --- ---------------------------------- Sports Edito~
ers who works from the back of a
magazine forward. Our arrange- Editorial Board
ment of personal items probably
encourages that maverick type. Libby Cochran, '51 ; Hal Hubbard, '49; Hal Middlesworth, '31;
Certainly the class news section is Elenore Moberley, '49; Louise McNutt, '35; Jack Muthersbough, '48; Dr.
among the best-read regular Alum- Francis Palmer; Eugene Price, '48; Jim Roberts, '46; Mrs. Russell Shrivel,
nus features. '09; Elsie Sloan, '24; Helen Stapp, '23; ~lex Summers, '36; Dr. E. H,
Taylor; Roy Wilson, '36.

But there is a front-page

story in this issue which we

invite you particularly to read.

As an alumnus, you are con- President R. G. Buzzard points to rating of Eastern's facuity, as madel

sidered to be "in the know'' by a North Central Association inspection team this year. At right are
about your ALMA MATER. As
a teacher (perhaps) you are Paul Foreman, '53, president of the Student Association, and Dr.
expected to guide young
Lawrence Ringenberg, chairman of the faculty Committee of Fifteen.

people educationally. Yet, be-

, cause of that all-too-common rather generally accepted, no due to poor scholarship, of

human reaction to the fami- one need apologize for at- course, but poor students sel-

liar, your information about tend'.ng Eastern. dom graduate. The average

the way Eastern. stacks up You may ask, "How about the score of those 1953 seniors
who took the ACE test in 1949
against other institutions of student body? Does Eastern get is at the 64th percentile
similar purpose may be pretty its share of good students?" Re- among the several thousand
freshmen throughout the na-
limited. cently published data about the tion who took the test. There
were 54 Teachers· College
We are not asking you to go poor performance of male educa- Scholarship holders among
about telling people that the little tion students on draft deferment the 153 June grads. Many of
school a Charleston has the best exams may give rise to the ques- these persons were valedic-
teaching faculty of any college in tion. torians er salutatorians of
the North Central Association (a:- Here are a few pertinent facts: their high school graduating
though this is almost stated flatly Over the past seven years Eastern classes.
by the examiners). You know from · has administered the AmeriCan
experience that our faculty mem- Council on Education psychological No. don't apologize for thd
bers are human and fallible, even examination to all entering fresh- quality of the raw material Eastt
if they do rate high · in comparison men. The median score has varied
with others.
with these classes, but has been
We do ask this: Don't let consistently higher than the med- ern processes, either.
ian for teachers colleges of the
anyone sell Eastern short to nation. True, teachers college stu- *In filling your role as expert ot1
you or to your students be- dents rank lower, on the national
cause of its teachers college average, than do those entering Eastern, here are some other factl
background, low tuition rates, the selective professional and lib- you ought to have:
and lack of snob appeal. As eral arts schools. Only junior col-
the chart shows (see cover lege freshmen, as a group, score Among the reasons why th~
picture), Eastern compares lower than teachers college fresh-
favorably with all NCA men. physical education department re-i
schools in such vital areas as
staff and physical facilities. If One should not overlook ceived such a high rating by Nor
one of the important reasons the fact, however, that inept Central is the absence of any of
for going to college is to get students drop out early at
an education, and this is still Eastern. Not all dropouts are fensive type of athletic recru
ment by the coaching staff, al umn

office, or other college agen
Alumni coaches and teachers sorn
times ask, /1Aren't you interes

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NCAInspectors OK Eostern's M. S. Program

. this ethlete we have at Podunk Rate Faculty at Very Top;
~·ighe?~" Recommend Laboratory School
They ask it because no one
to see the boy at his home.
le;~hhm~seEaasltuemrnni is
should remember find Athletic Program Well-Bal· or Ed. D. degree and with only
living up to both anced, Integrated; Congratulate two exceptions all the 68 profes-
President Buzzard on Building Fa· sors and associate professors hold
letter and the spirit of NCA culty over Past 20 Years. the doctor's degree, the faculty is
well qualified academically to of-
19Ulations. "Eastern Illinois State College fer advanced training."
has the best qualified faculty, both
The Association has specifi· from the viewpoint of advanced According to the North Central
degrees and of experience, that report, Eastern ranks among the
cally ruled that no coach may the examiners have evaluated in top colleges and universities of the
a North Central Association institu- 19 states included in the Associa-
go off campus to recruit an tion of higher education." tion in every respect. Only one
general area of weakness was
ithlete. This does not mean This is a direct quote from a re- noted. S~s the report, "The physi-
that the coaches and other port recently accepted by the cal plant facilities are not adequate
staff members are not anxious Board of Review of the Commis- for the laboratory school and for
to meet these boys, talk to sion of Colleges and Universities some of the specialized depart-
them, and help them by dis· of the North Central Association ments. The college officials are
of Colleges and Secondary Schools. aware of th.is fact and expect the
cussing physical education as legislature to remedy the situa-
1 teaching field. But it is up to The Board of Review congratu- tion."
the boy to come to the cam· lated President Buzzard upon his
pus. Alumni can help get him success in building the faculty. Since the examination was
When he became president of the made, however, the Illinois Bud-
here! Charleston school in 1933 the getary Commission turned down
North Central Association had a Teachers College Board recom-
* moved to place it on probation be- mendation for a new laboratory
cause, despite traditionally high training school on the Eastern cam-
If you have the opportunity to standards of scholarship, the facul- pus.
ty did not rank high in academic
advise a Korean GI about college preparation. Meriting special commendation
in the report was Eastern's athletic
t ndance, here is something to A North Central committee ex- program, which was termed well-
ember: amined Eastern last December 15 balanced and integrated, with no
A veteran who chooses to at- and 16, when the institution undue emphasis. The physical edu-
sought approval for its fifth year cation faculty is uniquely strong.
tend a state-supported school is teacher-education program, now
eligible to receive a state military in its third year of operation. Five Other elements of strength in-
9iolarship in Illinois, in addition master of science in education de- clude the educational background
to the minimum allowance of $110 grees have been awarded and and training of the administrative
per month in cash from the fed- about 20 more will be given this officers, high teaching standards,
1 eral government. The World War II August. adequate salaries, the leave of ab-
sence arrangement, opportunities
GI bill provided for a federal The examiners were Dr. John for recreation, means for faculty
R. Emens, president of Ball State participation and exchange of
tuition allowance up to $500. Un- Teachers College, Muncie, Ind., ideas, arid a workable health insur-
and Dr. Ronald B. Thompson of ance program and retirement sys-
der the new law the veteran in Ohio State University. They gave tem. All have helped to build a
Illinois who chooses to attend a considerable attention to evalua- high quality staff with a long av-
tion of the M. S. in Ed. program erage tenure.
•ately-supported school must and made this summary statement:
£.~Y the tuition fee out of his cash The following is quoted from
mowance. Thus it is greatly to the "The program is well conceived, the North Central report:
carefully planned, and is being
Illinois vet's financial advantage to developed in accord with sound " . . . The college has experi-
educational objectives well within enced a steady growth in enroll-
attend one of the state schols. the reach of the faculty and com- ment and curricular offerings and
patible with the physical facilities is strategically located for -future
Metter Serves on of the College. Since all 20 depart- growth ... "
ment heads hold either the Ph. D.
I C. of C. Council " ... this college deserves a
(Continued orv next page)
:'or. Harry L. Metter, director of

: acher training at Eastern, has

1 en asked to serve again as a

:i.mber of the State Chamber of

: mmerce Advisory Council to. the

: ucation Committ.ee. Vernon L.

1 tieath of Robinson will be chair-

: ~mtaenr. nMr.IlHlineoaitsh is a member of the
: State College Area

: visory Council. He is also a vice-

' resident of the Illinois Chamber

~Commerce.

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't\ 96967

(Continued from preceding page) ...'Promise of Distinction I

high rating on clearness and scope President Buzzard presents the twentieth L. C. Lord Scholarship, al"I
of purposes and acceptance of the Alumni Association award, to Miss Virginia Carwell of Oakland. Mis
purposes by faculty and staff." Carwell also won the first Winnie Davis Neely Creative Writing Awar
also presented at commencement.
"The exceptionally large per-
centage of .the faculty of Eastern Member of Teaching Family
. . . who hold an earned doctor's Wins Lord Memorial Scholarship
degree constitutes a major strength
of this college . . . It is an active The daughter of a teacher has of the scholarship, which was
faculty concerned with the general won the . Livingston C. Lord Mem- awarded in 1934.
educational policies of the college, orial Scholarship awarded annual-
participating energetically in the ly by the Alumni Association of In the future two students
entire college program." Eastern. Virginia Carwell, a junior receive the award each year. The
English major from Oakland, Ill., value of the scholarship has bee
"Undoubtedly the salary scale received the scholarship at com- more than quadrupled by a rece
has contributed to a stable tenure mencement ceremonies on June 5. alumni campaign.
·Of the faculty. It might be noted Her father, James 0. Carwell,
that the salaries were rated at the teaches near Oakland. The Neely award is given to the
99th percentile and consequently student contributing the best war
-most of the faculty have been with She is also the first winner of the in the annual literary contest spo
the college 15 to 25 years." Winnie Davis Neely prize for crea- sored by the Eastern State New
tive literature. It was also awarded More than 70 manuscripts were e~
"As evidenced by the quality at commencement. tered in this year's contest.
of the faculty, the recruitment of
this faculty has been most effec- Miss Carwell comes from a fam- Miss Carwell has a straight "A''
tive ... If . . . one were to enum- ily of teachers. Her brother, Mar- scholarship record in her maj
erate the strongest universities in vin, teaches at Paris, Ill., and an subject for the past three years al
the United States in specific areas au n t, Mrs. Virginia Carwell Eastern. Her point average in al
of instruction and compare this Leonard, has just retired after 32 subjects is 2.97, with "A" equiv
list with the institutions from which years of teaching. ent to three points.
the members of the faculty of
Eastern ... have been graduated, The Lord Scholarship is awarded Active in a number of extr
it would be found that the faculty to a junior student "who .gives curricular fields, Miss Carwell ha4
has been chosen from these same promise of distinction in the field served during the past year as c·r·
universities which · are strong in of education." It honors the mem-
these specific areas of instruction ory of Eastern's first president, Liv- culation manager and colum
ingston C. Lord, who served from for the Eastern State News, priz
II 1899 until his death in 1933. Miss winning student publication. Ne
Carwell is the twentieth recipiP.nt year she will serve as its busin.
"The new library building with manager. Miss Carwell holds rnHl"
its excellent reading rooms, stacks, ors in journalism and Spanish.
offices, art gallery, little theatre,
music . listening room, and new
equipment provides one of the
finest facilities to be found in a
college of this size. The staff is
well trained and provides excel-
lent service."

*Eastern's student body is drawn

from 52 counties of Illinois, six
other states, and two foreign coun-
tries. Coles County, of which Char-
leston is the county seat, is best
represented with 216, but l 0 other
counties send at least 40 students
to Eastern and 12 send 15 or more
students. Represented by 40 or
more are Clark, Cook, Crawford,
Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Eff-
lngham, Fayette, Shelby, and Ver-
milion. Sending at least 15 are
Champaign, Christian, Clay, Ed-
wards, Jasper, Lawrence, Macon,
Macoupin, Montgomery, Moultrie,
Richland, and Wabash. One stu-
dent is from Nigeria, Africa, and
another from Brazil, S. A.

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Three Stoff Members Retiring This Yeor

'Widger1 Means '1'11 Retire to Rules Infraction
Vegetable Raising',
Scholarship, Starts Carman
Says Noble 0. Rains
On Long Career
D aching Genius The campus at Eastern has un-
dergone many changes in the last Oddly enough, it began with a
The following is a copy of quarter of a century; new buildings rules infraction. If Ruth Carman,
as a fourth grader, hadn't been
the talk made in honor of Dr. have been erected; more than l 00 "kept in" over the noon hour she
might never have spent 49 years
Widger by Dr. Eugene Waffle additional acres of ground have at Eastern .

1t an AAUP dinner for retiring been acquired; and the equipment But she was "corrected," and
for caring for these many acres those 49 years give Miss Carman
~mbers of the college staff has been modernized; but for the distinction of having spent the
spring. A similar address Noble 0. Rains, gardener and longest career on campus of any
roducing Miss Ruth Carman individual ever to teach at East-
was made by Dr. Kevin Guin- florist, only the years have ern. She retired with the close of
the spring term.
1gh but, unfortunately, no changed.
copy is available. The trowel and the spade are It was in the spring of 1901.
Miss Carman was in fourth gradd
Dr. Waffle succeeds Dr. still his equipment and the earth at Charleston's Franklin school, a
9-year-old in pigtails. She has for-
Widger as head of the Eng- and nature's flowers still the mat- gotten her offense, but remembers
lish department. erial with which he works. the penalty. When the elder Mr.
Carman, now a man of 85, heard
A score and seven years ago Rains, who will retire this sum- the story of her humiliation he de-
mer, came to Eastern in 1928. At cided to enter her in the new train-
when I came to Eastern a green the time, he was a member of the ing school, which had opened · a
ground crew. In 1935, with no couple of years earlier on the south
l ngster, some people made me formal training as a florist or edge of town.
like an outlander on trial. Not gardener, he took over the duties
Dr. rt'lidger. In those days a teach- of providing the floral landscape With the exception of four years
and caring for the greenhouse. The spent in advanced study and a year
er's I office was his portfolio and greenhouse, one of the oldest of practice in the art of teaching
buildings on the campus, is just (University of North Dakota) fol-
getting acquainted w.ith the other the same as when Rains first came lowing her graduation at the Uni-
to Eastern; so is the tulip bed in versity of Wisconsin, Miss Car-
iftembers of the staff was diffi- the circle. man has been on campus ever
since. She took the diploma at the
cult. But Dr. Widger saw to it that Speaking of the present iris gar- normal school in 1910 and return-
dens, located south and west of ed in 1914 to teach Latin and Eng-
we got acquainted. I knew from Booth Library, Rains noted that lish in the high school and, eventu-
many persons seemed to think the ally, Latin and German in the col-
the start he was my friend . When old iris gardens covering the site lege.
now occupied by the temporary
there was a difficult line of poetry training school had been an East- Monotonous, to spend year after
ern landmark since early Eastern year teaching the same subjects?
to Eerpret or a puzzling sentence history.
"Not a bit," says Miss Carman.
to nalyze, my friend was there The traditional iris gardens on "The thrill of teaching is in get-
Eastern's campus, he said, were ting acquainted with new students,
to elp me. All through the ye~rs first instituted about 1937 at the watching them develop, helping
request of President Robert G. them to explore new worlds of
it has been the same; I could count Buzzard. On the site of the early knowledge."
gardens had been a school garden
ilingly on his scholarship, on where various elementary classes The most exciting years of her
planted and cared for an array teaching career, she says, were
[ greatness as a teacher, on his of vegetables in the spring. those following World War II,
om to help me in time of need. when there were big classes of
The lack of formal training as a mature students, men who knew
And so has the entire institution
(Continued on next page)
f>rofited during Dr. Widger's forty-
PAGE FIVE
one years of service. ·

Dr. Widger has contributed ser-
vices in public relations that can-
not be measured, so great are
they. He has given hundreds of

ltnmencement a n d institute
lfieeches over the entire State of
ltinois. To hundreds of school
people the name Widger means
Eastern and means quality.

One of my periods of closest as- florist didn't bother Rains. He

IOciation with Dr. Widger was in learned much from Walter Nehr-

The year 1928-1929, when he was ling, t h e n superintendent of

l'Lncipal of the Eastern State High grounds. He also credits Ors.
~col. He has a delicate feeling Ernest L. Stover and Hiram F.

or that fine line between liberty •Thut . of Eastern's botany depart-

(Continued on page 7) · .• ' (Continued on next page)

Their Combined Tenure: 119 Years volume of her personal corre•

pondence testifies to her gift for

lasting friendships. Dr. Kevin Guirl
agh, her department head at Eas11
ern and no mean corresponde
himself, once asked her, "How
you get so many personal letters
Miss Carman's reply was inco
plete: "I answer the ones I get
She did not say that her studen

and former colleagues write to he•
because she has a genuine intere
in people-and . they like her.

Rains . . .

Dr. and Mrs. H. DeF. Widger, Mr. and Mrs. Noble Rains, and Miss (Continued from preceding pagej
Ruth Carman at honorary dinner given by AAUP Chapter at Eastern's
cafeteria. ment with teaching him most o~
what he knows about botany.
Carmon ••• new building in white limestone.
The upper five grades were on the Working in close conjuncti
·(Continued from preceding page) west. The training school did not with the botany department, Rai
come until Miss Carman had gone has supplied its classes with veg
the world and knew what they away to study. tables, bulbs, seeds and a varie
of floral products for many year
wanted from college. "In those days," she said, "the
curriculum was restricted. We had Scattered about the campus arEt
Although Miss Carman has never no industrial arts, home econom- nine flower beds and a huge frl~
been free to travel as much as she ics, physical education depart- garden which are cared for by
would have liked, two summers of ments, or speech. I suppose the Rains. Five of the flower beds ar~
adventure in far-away-places stand expansion in offerings, the more replanted twice a year, and th4
out in her mind. In 1927 she at- diversified opportunities for stu- remainder once. But the task is
tended the American Academy in dents, make up the best and most more complicated than' it soun
Rome, where Professor Shower- important change." for all vestiges of the earlier
man, who had taught her at Wis- planting must be removed fro
consin, had organized a class call- A native Charlestonian, Miss the bed, the soil fertilized, and th
ed "Latin in Its Setting." The Carman has two brothers who al- new bulbs planted - individual
grandeur that was Rome took on so attended Eastern. Both are artistically.
new meaning. In 1930 she took teachers. One of Miss Carman's
a "Vergil cruise." It celebrated most vivid memories is the fuss The huge tulip bed in the circ
the bi-millenium of Vergil's birth made over the family the year at the entrance to the campus r~
by retracing (in reverse) the route (1925) Max got the Ph. D. in math- quires a three-day period for r~
of Aeneas from Troy to Italy. Miss ematics, Gage took the M. S. in planting and contains some 90
Carman and her fellow students agricuture, and Ruth took the A. M. bulbs.
got a good look at the Mediter- in languages at the University of
ranean lands and went as far east Illinois. Rains doesn't plan to do mu
as Constantinople. floral gardening after his retir
In 1949, when Eastern celebrat- ment. "I'm only going to rai
Asked to look back over the ed its fiftieth anniversary, Max was
years and comment on changes at awarded one of the ten honorary things to eat," he says. He and hf
Eastern, Miss Carman was some- doctor of pedagogy degrees given
what at a loss. There are the ob- to distinguished alumni. He has wife, Cora, won't be far from 1fis
vious ones-more buildings, better for many years taught mathematics campus, however, for they live a
facilities, a bigger student body at Murray Sta1e Teachers College, 1515 Seventh St., just across 1fie
and larger faculty. She can recall Murray, Ky. Gage is teaching chem- street. Their ties with the colle
the day when the first four grades istry at the Kansas City (Mo.) Jun- are close. Their four children gra
of the training school were loc;:at- ior College. uated from Eastern State Hi
ed on the grouna floor at the east School and two from the collegel
Miss Carman, by her own ad-
end 6f:o01d Main, then a gleaming mission, is not a "joiner." But the So the name of Noble 0. Rai
blends with those of other Easte
pioneers, each of whom has left a
little of his own personality to giv
the college its own.

*Velma (Mrs. Albe rt Tuxhor
'27, '33, lives at l 004 S. Fauth 51
Champaign, Ill., where she has
many years taught fourth gra
Ruth (Mrs. J. P. Pretlow), '41, 11111

be addressed at P. 0. Box 63

Wilmington, N. C.

PAGE SIX

Widger · · · ble pioneer work. He was one of *i~i**C*o*m**e**O*n**e*, *C**o*m*e**A**ll****i*
the first and most distinguished
.ntinued from page 5) presidents of our chapter of the !~ Lord Alumni Get 1*
American Association of University
d d'scipline that every top ad- Professors. He put the programme
of that organization on a high
an t:ator has. He has a brilliant level. No bickering, no gripes, no ! Ca II to 'Old- i
self-seeking. At once the purpose
rrnetcnois~d ~lsisah teacher and as head of of the chapter became the im- ! Time Chapel' i
department. The high provement of culture and teaching.
***i~~i Plans for the "Old-Fashion-
the n f morale and unity in the Although a man with a reserve t ied Chapel" are progressing
which even his closest friends re-
~ 0 nt is the result of his spect, he is a man of limited but ~ well. All alumni who attend- :
abiding friendships. His oldest
. d i loyalty, understanding, friendship was with Ned Water-
kind rship. Every member of bury, New York newspaper pub-
lisher, who was his friend at Yale
an artment is a devoted and and fraternity brother in Alpha
o1ouyr;earsieangdo Dr. W1'dger. Sigma Phi. Dr. Widger has been my
of heard a number of loyal friend for twenty-seven years ~ ed during the administration ::
I and was one of my most faithful
correspondents all through the *ii of Mr. L. C. Lord will receive
0 r. ec Widger's commencement war. t ia special invitation this sum-
e~. They were not the usual
He is a good man. I have never i~ mer. The program itself will
:frfng of platitudes in common- known him to hurt anyone. A man *~ begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct.
abstemious in his own habits, he
lace ftanguage one hears so fre- is tolerant of the vices of other!;. i~ 17, in the' auditorium of Old
He has a lively sense of fair play.
puently on graduation day. They He loves his friends and is chari- ! Main, with Dr. E. H. Taylor in ;:
f4 n ained the seemingly antithet- table to his enemies, if he has any. *:; charge. The Homecoming
He is always on the side of the un-
f:al qualities of the practic?I and derdog and people in trouble-a *~ committee has arranged to
man of great mercy and great i~ start the parade later than
literary. They were phrased in sen- compassion. His pleasures are sim- *ii usual to make sure that
ple. He loves the conversation of ! chapel participants will be :
tences ltythmical, fresh, clean, and friends and the the companionship
of good books. He is a man of t iable to see it.
lucid. Few of us who heard it can wide reading and sensitive, intelli-
gent appreciation of his reading. *ii Classes ending in the num-
forget Dr. Widger's speech on He is an independent spirit. He is ! erals 3 and 8 from 1903 :
no man's man. He is his own man.
Honors Day, 1948. He dislikes Christopher Morley once quoted a
poem in honor of his professor of
•istocrats, but there is one type he English at Haverford College, Pro-
fessor Francis Barton Gummere. I
likes - the intellectual aristocrat. think this poem characterizes the *~ through 1933 are planning :
life of Dr. Widger. It is The Char-
Don't t&nisunderstand. He doesn't acter of a Happy Life, by Sir Henry ii reunions. As yet secretaries
Wotton.
like mental snobs. He likes people ~ have not been named for all :
How happy is he born and taught
who love learning for its own sake. *~ of. them, but members of
That serveth not another's will;
Many who heard that speech ! ithese classes will get letters
Whose armor is his honest thought,
found a new meaning in culture *ii containing details as soon as
And simple truth his · utmost ! arrangements can be made. :
and a new enthusiasm for their skill! *~ In most cases separate class

special fields. Who envies none that chance doth ~ luncheons are planned. :
W~n public reading had fallen raise,

into ~eglect, Dr. Widger gave it Nor vice; who never understood •ii•'Pf••···················*·

new life, not only on our own cam- How deepest wounds are given
by praise;
pus but on the campuses of many Who hath his life from rumors
Nor rules of state, but rules of
another institution in the state. The good; . freed;

first real interest of many of us in Whose conscience is his strong
retreat
the Barrack Room Ballads came

with Dr. Widger's superb reading

of IJ;unga Din," "Fuzzy-Wuzzy,' Whose state can neither flatterers
feed,
the lrst class fightin' man, "Danny

Deever," and "Boots." Who can Nor ruin make oppressors great;

forget the Tinker of Tom, who Who God doth late and early pray

l ght the devil and put him in More of His grace than gifts to
budget. Having the native Irish lend;
and humor, Dr. Widger caught
the humor of Shamus McManus And entertains the harmless day

with all its naturalness. He caught With a well-chosen book or
friend;
too the vitality and march of Kip-

•aling's lines because he wasn't This man is freed from servile
bands
afraid to emphasize their rhythm
day when it was becoming Of hope to rise or fear to fall:
•ionable to read poetry as one
Lord of himself, though not of
Would prose. lands,

In spite of the fact he is a busy And having nothing, yet hath
man, Dr. Widger has always ac- all.
cepted more than his share of com-
mittee work. He was for several Sir Henry Wotton
Years a member of the personnel
and salary committee, doing valua- So we say au revoir to an ex-
ceptional man, but not goodbye.

PAGE SEVEN

Cumberland Club Leaders ES Clubs Hold

Spring Meetings

Cumberland County Eastern State Clu.b officers for next year are, Seventy-two persons attendecl
I to r. above, Isa Winnett, vice-president; Lyle Marshall, president; and the Cumberland County Easter•
Eva Lacy, secretary-treasurer. State Club meeting held March 21
at the Pioneer Attendance Cenl
Plan for Crawford ter east of Neoga, giving that dull
the distinction of having the lar
Lottie Leach Leeds, left, is vice-president of the Crawford County est turnout for 1953.
Club for next year and Roberta Musgrave, right, is secretary-treasurer.
President Bob McCarty is not shown: Jim Lane, center, was president Nineteen high school seniorl
this year. from the area were guests of thd
college. Members of the local Parl
The three officers of the big Cook County Club are shown above at ent Teachers Association preparel
left: Ben Edman, president; Ernest Pricco, vice-president; and Cecil Elam, the meal.
secretary-treasurer. At right is Bill Herren, new president of the Clark
Co'ti'nty Club. Gene Deverick is his assistant as secretary-treasurer. Piano music for group singing
PA'GE .EiGHT was provided by Dean Hobart f.
Heller. Dr. Walter Scruggs, head of
the zoology department at Eas"
ern, spoke of "Fact and Fictio
about Snakes."

*

Shelby County Eastern
Club members met at the ne
Shelbyville High School on Marc
24. President R. G. Buzzard discus
ed recent happenings on camp
and music students sang selectio
from the opera "Martha." Uoy
Elam of Strasburg served as presi
dent and master of ceremoni
New officers are U. L. Evans, pre
dent; Mrs. Margaret Lumbrick Wi
son, vice-president; and Bert
Mathias, secretary-treasurer.

*

The Edgar County Eastern Sta
Club met at the Hotel France i
Paris on April 14. Miss Louise R1n
planned the meeting and, wil
the help of a first-rate attendan
committee, secured an attenda
tataling more than 40 persons.

Dr. Glenn H. Seymour discuss
Eastern's two presidents, showi
how the contributions of each m
have been essential to the healt
growth of the institution. Mu
students from the college
ed entertainment.

*

The Crawford County East61
State Club had a dinner at t
Ohio Oil Company cafeteria, f
lowed by a program at the
school, on April 9. President R.
Buzzard was the principal spea
Club members also heard f
Vernon Heath of Robinson, a me
ber of the Eastern Area Advis

ncil and chairman of the llli- Edgar County Officers
C~ t+iamber of Commerce Educa-
~ois ~mittee. Music students

tion ht by James Lane, retiring

OtParfuesgh•idgehn • entertain.ed. pA1annnui.nmgbteor
school seniors

ttend Eastern were on hand and

a t advice from Dean H. F. Heller.

goNew officers elected were Bob

Mc;Cart"'-. president; Lottie Leach

Leeds, p-president; and R?berta

-usgrave, secretary-treasurer.

* Edgar County Eastern State Club Officers for 1953-54 are Mrs.
Florence Gumm Jones, left, secretary-treasurer; Cecil Smith, center, vice-
\'ermilion County alumni met on president; and Don Cavins, right, president. The spring meeting feat-
April 18 at the Danville YWCA and ured Dr. Seymour as speaker.
heard Coach Bill Healey discuss the
1952-53 basketball season at East- The Lineup -- Shelby County
ern. Dr. B. K. Barton showed color-

ed slides of the 1952 Prairie Sta!es

field Trip. A number of Danville
'High School students were guests
of the club. In the absence of
fltesident Doris Hussong Campbell,
Harold Seip served as master of

llemonies.

New officers .are Virgil Sweet,
•sident; Amelia Blanche Thomas,
9J>resident; and Emil Spezia,

mtary-treasurer.

* U. L. Evans, left, will plan next year's Shelby Club meeting with the
help of Bertha Mathias, center, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Margaret
Several Effingham County alum- Lumbrick Wilson, right, vice-president. President R. G. Buzzard spoke at
ni who like basketball held a din- the spring meeting.
ner on April 21 in honor of the
seniors on the 1953 llAC champ- L. to r.-V. Sweet, Al Redding, Gertrude Leigh, and Cathryn Cothren.
ionship squad before the second of The above alumni are officers in various Eastern State Clubs for ·
two games between Eastern all- next year. Virgil Sweet will head the Vermilion County Club, assisted
stars and lllini seniors at Effing- by Amelia Thomas, vice-pres., and Emil Spezia, secretary-treasurer. Al-
ham. Clyde Mills of Altamont serv- fred Redding is president of the Sangamon County Club at Springfield,
ed as chairman for the get-to- assisted by Cathryn Cothren, and Mrs. Leroy Halberg, the former Betty
gether, held at the new Rosilyn Jane Ewing. Gertrude Leigh is secretary-treasurer of the Fayette Club.
dining room. The guests included Earl Crabtree is president and Teresa Reis, now assistant county super-
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Katsimpalis of intendent, is vice-president.
lltamont, Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Pa berg, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Lee,
and Roger Dettra and his guest.

• !lowing the dinner the Eastern
()layers downed the lllini by a
score of l l 0-83 for their second
111ttory over the Big Ten runners-
up.

*

though Clark County alumni
di 't quite make the goal of 50
•mbers at their April 21 gather-
ing, they had a very successful
fe'eting to revive the club after a
tpse of several years. Freda Gard
of J:asey, with some excellent help
from her friends all over the coun-

ty, ~lanned the affair, held in the

United Brethren Church of Casey.

JContinued on next page)

PAGE NINE

(Continued from preceding page) BIG AND LITTLE

Principal speaker was Dr. E. W. Campus News Notes
Ewbank, professor of speech at
Eastern, who gave an illustrated 16. The local field chapter of Phi
talk about the Hawaiian Islands. Delta Kappa assisted with the pla~
Don Decker and Ralph Fitch, col- 1Promotions, Resignations
lege students from Casey, sang Twelve faculty promotions and ning and Dr. William H. Zeig
songs from the opera, "Martha,"
along with other music students. five resignations have been an- served again as chairman. The lar

*Fayette County alumni held their nounced by President R. G. Buz- . est groups visited business educal

spring meeting on April 23 with zard, following action of the Teach- tion, home economics, and elemert
Dr. Kenneth Damann of the college
botany department as guest speak- ers College Board at a recent meet- tary education departments.
er. Dr. Damann brought an 'illus-
trated talk on spring flowers. With ing.
him was Dr. B. K. Barton of the
geography department. Able presi- five staff members were pro- Guinagh Writes
dent Eula Durston retired in favor moted from associate to full pro-
of Earl Crabtree who, with other Dr. Kevin Guinagh, head of th~
alumni of Ramsey-way, will take fessorships. They are Dr. Arthur U.
the fall meeting to the north side
of the county for the first time. Edwards, elementary training foreign language department, is

*Dr. Glenn Seymour was guest school principal; Dr. Elizabeth author of what is believed to W

speaker at the Cook County meet- Michael, foreign language; Dr. the first prose translation of Verl
ing held April 25 in the Art lnsti-
tue, Chicago. Seymour talked of Donald Rothschild, education; Dr. gil's Aeneid to be published in
"Eastern's Two Presidents," Dr.
Livingston C. Lord and Dr. Robert Ruth Schmalhausen, home econom- America in the past fifty year~
G. Buzzard.
ics; and Dr. William G. Wood, so- The book has been issued by Rine-I
Forty-five alumni and guests
gathered for the occasion. Prepar- cial science. hart as the sixthy-third in a serief
ations for the meeting were made
under the able direction of retir- Promoted to associate profes- of classics, economically boun
ing president Lou Urbancek, '49.
sorships were Dr. Juana deLaban, and intended primarily for the us~
*The Washington Park Pavilion
women's physical education; Char- of students.
in Springfield was the site of the
1953 Sangamon County club meet- les Elliott, industrial arts; and Dr. Guinagh is a well-kno
ing, held May 17. Featured speak-
er was Dean Hobart F. Heller. He James Giffin, business education. author and translator. His oth
spoke of Dr. Franklyn Andrews,
publications adviser and teacher of Four promotions from instructor works include Inspired Amateurfl
English at Eastern until his death
in 1944. to assistant professor were Calvin Search for Glory, and two volum

Some 35 alumni and guests met Countryman and Lynn Trank, art for which he was co-editor: Latit~
for the annual occasion. Willard
Duey, '36, was in charge of prep- department; Walter Elmore, high Literature in Translation and Grad
arations.
school physical education; and and Roman Classics in Translatioitl
*Thirty persons met in the Decat-
Benjamin Lewis, librarian. Another work will soon be an
ur YMCA on May 12 for a special
screening of the 1952 Olympic Dr. Ernest Campbell, Eastern nounced by Wilson and Compan
films taken on the spot in Helsinki,
Finland, by Charles Anderson, '49, State High principal, has resigned I Am Happy to Present. It tells ho
now assistant high school principal
at Bement. to join the faculty of Chico State to introduce a speaker and co

Anderson told of his European College, Chico, Calif. He wjll teach. tains many famous introducto
tour and described the film as it
was shown. Ken Lanman, '50, now at Eastern during the summer ses- speeches. Gy Lyle, librarian
at Decatu.r_ High School, was in
charge of the meeting. sion. Dr. McKenzie Buck, speech Louisiana State University is

PA.GE TEN correction clinic head, has received author.

an appointment to head a similar

clinic at the University of Florida; Committee of 15

Dr. H. L. Ewbank, speech depart-

ment, has resigned to take a posi- Eastern's faculty has elected fiv

tion at Purdue University. Dr. Rob- of its members to fill vacancies oil

ert Rodin, college physician, will the Committee of Fifteen, adviso

leave at the end of the summer group to assist the college admi

term to join the medical staff of istration on policy matters.

the University of Illinois. Those elected are Doctors Arth

Byrnes, David Davis, Glenn Du

College Day can, Glenn Lefler, Eugene Waff
and Mr. Arnold Hoffman. They r~

College Day at Eastern attracted place Doctors Byron K. Barto

a record number this year-1,028 Kenneth Damann, Earl Dickers

high school students from 69 high H. F. Thut, and Clifton W. Whi

schools of the central and south- whose terms expired this year.

east ·part ofAhe state. The College Dr. Elizabeth K. Lawson has b

Day activities were held on April elected to membership on the f

It person nel committee, which Troutman Student Stars in Stage
Hit, 'The Seven Year Itch'
cu .Yt thet. president in appoint-

ass•st sand l!llary decisions. She re-
~=~es Dr. Raymo.nd Plath, whose
tPer~be~rxspiorfedthethpiesrsoynenaerl.
Other Glory Reflects William C. Troutman, '12, has
commit-
~= are Dr. Earl Dickerson and Dr. Former Student Gets- seen another of his drama students
'1 nstructor' Prize
Walter Scruggs. achieve stardom with the success
Mrs. Irena Sexton Maris, a form-
Backgrounds Analyzed er student, has received recogni- of "The Seven Year Itch" on Broad-
tion in a recent art contest conduct- way.
egistrar's Office prepares ed by The Instructor, educational
magazine for elementary schools. A drama critic for the Baltimore
an al analysis of the occupa- Mrs. Maris is a teacher of grades Sun says of the occasion, ' ' T h e
tions and nationalities of parents of two and three in the Cannon School light from Broadway's latest star,
fastern latudents.' from which the of Danville, Ill., and lives on R. R. Tom Ewell, has cast a bright re-
following data 1s excerpted: 6, Danville. She participated in the flection into one of the classrooms
contest for the best examples of in the University of Baltimore.
The largest group of students pupils' creative work in art and
come from farm parentage. Of the handcraft, accompanied by teach- "William C. Troutman, professor '
l 154 legistering last fall, 253 or ers' lesson plans. Her entry, en- of speech in that school, is the man
2'1 per cent give their parents' oc- titled "Painting Can Be Fun," was who set the actor on his course 23
announced as one of 24 having years ago. At the time, Professor
.,pation as farming. "exceptional merit." It was includ- Troutman was head of the drama
Other large occupational cate- ed in a group of 150 outstanding department of the University of
projects exhibited this spring by Wisconsin, and director of the Uni-
gories are commercial service, The Instructor. versity Theatre, which he had
124; ~rofessional service, 114; founded in 1928.
9?rietors, 95; personal service, Thomas Briggs Writes
•tiachine and related trades, 92; Fo'r Educational Forum "In a recent magazine interview,
m,Lneral and lumber work, 83. Mr. Ewell said that Professor Trout-
9'1mercial s e r v ice includes Thomas H. Briggs, a member of man 'had a real love of the theatre,
clerks, real estate salesmen, C. I. the Eastern English department and inspired the same feeling in
P. S. and telephone company em- from 1901 to 1911, is author of an a lot of us. Under his direction we
tloyees, business men, auditors, article appearing in the Education- did a number of interesting plays,
•untants, secretaries, bookkeep- al Forum for January of this year. things that were ·really out of the
ers, and office workers. Profession- Briggs is an emeritus professor at ordinary for college dramatic
al ~ervice includes all the recog- Columbia University. groups. The greatest kick I've had
nized professions. Only a small since the play opened came when
aumber of parents are teachers. he came to see it and stopped
Among "proprietors" are bankers, around afterward.' "
service station operators, private
~siness operators, and news- Other students of Professor
9er publishers. Under "personal Troutman include Don Ameche,
•ice" come housewives, beau- Eric Brothermonth of "Room Ser-
ficians, barbers, seamstresses, tai- vice," Rusty Lane· of "Mister Rob-
lors, cooks, and bartenders. "Mach- erts," Kendall Clark of "The
ine and related trades" includes Shrike," and Norris Houghton, de-
9:;hanics, machinists, and factory signer and producer.
IDrkers. Miners, oil workers, and
9'bermen are included under Mrs. Francis Blair
ltiineral and lumber work." Living at Springfield

l\lmost all of Eastern's students Mrs. Francis G. Blair, husband
have native American parents. of the late superintendent of pub-
Only 78 give other nationalities. lic instruction of Illinois, now lives
,arents of 17 students are Italian, at 631 S. Fauth St., in Springfield.
12 Jnglish, eight Canadian, and six Mr. Blair was the first head of the
•strian. Ten other nationalities training school at Eastern, from
are ~epresented by parents of from 1899 to 1906. The Blairs' son Liv-
one to four students: African, ingston is one of the supervisors
Cuba n, French, German, Greek, of the National Red Cross in Wash-
Irish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Po- ington, D. C. He left the U. S. in
lish, and Scotch. late May for a month's stay in
Europe. Another son, Caton, lives
~Agnes F. Hatch, a training school in Springfield.
cher from 1926 to 1930, now
1ves at 8554 E. Mississippi Dr.,
.lneapolis 21, Minn.

PAGE ELEVEN

Lord Fund Hits From Paris to Paris ...

$9,600 Peak; Donors Brigitta Kuhn Wins Ph. D.
Degree at Sorbonne University
Since March Listed
'Greatest Honor a Student o
Contributions to the Lord Mem- French Can Achieve,' Says Dr. Eliz
orial Scholarship Fund continued to beth Michael.
pour in for weeks after the March
Alumnus listed donors who con- Brigitta Kuhn, a 1942 gradua
tributed $6,415.75. By June 13 of Eastern, has been granted th
the Fund total reached $9,309.25. Ph. D. with "mention honorabl
not counting some unpaid pledges from Sorbonne University,
and some not due until next year. France.
Counting pledges, the total is more
than $9,600. Campaign expenses "To receive a doctorate in Frenc
amounted to only $245, so that the from the Sorbonne is the highe
Eastern Illinois State College honor any student of French ea
Foundation will be authorized to have," according to Dr. Elizabet
invest approximately $9,200 in Michael of Eastern's foreign Ian
July and the two scholarship recip- uage department. "Dr. Kuhn is on
ients next year will probably re- of our most distinguished alu
ceive a total of more than four nae."
hundred dollars.
Dr. Kuhn taught Latin and En
The following lists include the
names of donors whose pledges lish in the Paris, Ill., High Sch
or contributions were received af-
ter the publication of the March following her graduation at Eas
Alumnus:
Dr. Brigitta Kuhn ern, then joined the Woment
Mrs. Eva Russel I Andrews, M/ Army Corps in 1943. After hel
Sgt. Robert Armstrong, Charles
Arzeni, Jr., William Benton Bunn, discharge in 1946 she stayed at
Mrs. Jane L. Bigplow, Mrs. Nelle
W. Brown, Mrs. Dwight Black, Mrs. . Wright Field, Dayton, 0 ., for a
Howard I. Begeman, Mr. and Mrs.
William B. Bails, Mrs. Leon Barnes, Nellie S. Mahaney, Albert J . Mc- year as a civilian translator. Sh
Flora E. Balch,
Henry, Mrs. Thomas Manuell, Mrs. took the M. A. in French at Lav
Noble Courter Cusick, Dorothy
Curtiss, Mary Crowe, Mrs. Sant- T. E. McMeekan, Mr. and Mrs. H. University, Quebec, Canada, in
ford Carrington, Edith Crowe, Jac-
queline Cravener, Rhoda M. Con- Stephen Morgan, Miss Edith M. Mil- 1948 and for three years taug
rad, Mrs. Eugene Cottle, Mrs. An-
drew Dallstream, Myrtle Dunlap, ler, Mrs. L. Douglas Meredith, Mrs. French at the Hockaday School f
Esther Duggleby, Helen Fern Dar-
inger, Mrs. Lloyd W. Daly, Karl R. Naumann, Mary E. Neblick, Girls, Dallas, Tex.

Ralph F. Evans, Stanley Elam, Orra E. Neal, In 1949 Miss Kuhn made h
Antha Euphemia Endsley, Harold
Fildes, Sarah E. Fredenberger, Mrs. Mrs. Frank Ogg, Thomas and first trip to France and two yea
Louise Fernandez, Mary E. Fellows,
Ross Sylvester Glick, Mrs. Nettie D. Laudy Petty, Eugene L. Price, Otha later entered the Sorbonne. On
Hankinson, Gertrude Ozeka Hill,
.Lola E. Howard, Irma Alice Hoult, James Quick, Perry G. Rawland, May 23 of this year she succes
John E. Harris,
Arlin Rennels, Jr., Lura M. Robnett, fully defended her thesis befo
Ethel I. Harison, Mrs. Bert Her-
man, Jr., Mrs. John Lloyd Howie, William Merle Rankin, Mrs. Wil- the Faculty of Letters. The thes
Ruby M. Harris, Mrs. Lyle Howe,
Harry L. Huber, Angelo S. Isola, liam J . Sunderman, Antoinette dealt with the works of Xavi
Louis Josserand, Mrs. Ronald ! .
King, Dr. Richard Kepner, Mrs. Slemmons, James William Smith, Marmier, French litterateur, 180
Emily H. Lynch, Lillie M. Lauher,
Ananymous, Joseph Leon Strader, Cecil E. 1892. Miss Kuhn's degree is 1h

C. E. Muchmore, Mrs. Lewis S. Stark, Charles Roger Sorensen, "Doctorat de l'Universaite de Parisi'
Meisenbach, Harry A. Mitchell,
Mrs. Thomas A. Thompson, Tin- One of the advantages Dr. Ku
PAGE TWELVE sie Mae Welsh, Elizabeth K. Wor- enjoyed most during her stay In
land, Mrs. Carl Edwin Wood, Annie Paris was the opportunity to accu
L. Weller, Mrs. Karl Whisennand, ulate a fine French library.
Mrs. Roy M. Winger, Class of 1950.

Pledges not listed before were Ralph D. Doson, a former st
made by Mrs. Margaret Fischer, dent, has been · appointed distr
Virginia Berniece Christian, Glenn
Bennett, Mrs. Freeland Brown, manager for the State Farm Ins
Richard Tomlin, Wayne Isley, Mrs. a n c e Companies supervis
Jim Marlin, Arthur L. Glad, Frank agents in Putnam, Marshall, W
W. Chamberlin, Dr. D. F. Fleming, ford, Livingston, Ford, and lroqu
Mrs. Don Smith, Mrs. Herbert S. Counties. He lives at 303 S. Thi
Potter, and Oren L. Whalin . Watseka, with his wife and NJtl
children, Joe Dan and Jill.

Coach Clifton White and his Eastern Panthers, 1953 llAC baseball champions with an 8-2 record in league

play and 11 wins and three losses for the season.
Left to right, standing, Coach White; Bob Lee, Edgewood; Ken Ludwig, Effingham; Jesse Orvedahl, Effing-

ham; Don Stelzer, Mt. Carmel; Marshall Slingerland, Edwardsville; Jack .Kenny, Covington, Ind.; Gene Mur-
ray, •innebago; George Smith, Chicago; Jack Vick, Harvard; Harry Moeller, Mascoutah; and John Nanovsky,

assisAit coach.
Seated, John McDevitt, Effingham; Maurice Hemphill, Dorchester; Clark Leden, Rockford; Bill Corey, Dan-

ville; Bill Reineke, Montgomery; Chuck Edgington, Crown Point, Ind.; Neison McMullen, Hume; Tom McDevitt,
lfingham; and Bill Parmentier, Gillespie. Bat boy is Jim White, son of Coach White.

Clutch Victories in Doubleheader Give Eastern
Third Baseball Championship in Six Years

Eastern won its second major Devitt, freshman and brother to league games to Michigan Normal,
sports championship of the year John, and Nelson McMullen, junior 3-7 and 5-7.
when Coach Clifton White's base- first baseman, added to the hitting
ball squad defeated Northern in power with averages of .320 and Southern Illinois, the 1952 de-
both ends of a doubleheader at .302 respectively. fending champions, came to Char-
11\arleston on May 23. The base- leston leading the league and left
ba 11 title is the first for Eastern in Eastern's ace mound crew con- in fourth place. Moeller and Hemp-
the •ven-member Interstate lnter- sisted of senior Harry Moeller (3-1 ), hill pitched the Panthers to a 5-4
lbllegiate Athletic Conference. junior Maurice Hemphill (5-1 ), and victory in the first game and Ken
~rior to the formation of the seven- two sophomores-Ken Ludwig (2-0) Ludwig went all the way in the
srhool league in 1950, Eastern had and Jack Kenny (l-1). For the 42 second for a 4-3 win.
won two basebal I titles-1947 and innings he pitched in se.ven games,
1949. Hemphill had an earned-run aver- Eastern now had an outside
age of 1.09. The combined earned- chance to win the league title.
Eastern also won the basketball run average of the four pitchers Central Michigan, playing a short
title in 1952-53. was only l.46. schedule because of cancellations,
had the title to itself if it could
The Panthers lost only three of Coach White and his diamond only win a doubleheader from
squad went through the conference Michigan Normal; but the Chips
Iii" games in the season just ended season "two at a time." Opening from Mt. Pleasant couldn't come
l'id completed llAC play with an their league play, the Panthers took through and Michigan Normal took
a doubleheader from Western at both games.
8-'.2 record. Behind these winning Macomb, l 0-4, 5-1. Traveling to
records were the booming bats of Normal two weeks later, Eastern Then, with a heavy rain falling
seniors John McDevitt and Bill downed Illinois Normal 8-5 and on May 22, Coach White faced a
5-0. Then, in a rainy weekend at difficult situation. If Eastern were
•ineke, plus the best pitching home, the Panthers lost their only rained out of the games with
rtaff in the conference.
(Continued on next page)
For the season, McDevitt hit
,449 and Reineke .377. Tom Mc-

PAGE THIRTEEN

Slugger Winning Coach

John McDevitt, Eastern's star sec- - he graduated with the class of Coach · Clifton White, in his first
year as baseball coach at Easternl
ond baseman and most valuable 1953. guided his diamond squad to an
llAC championship and a 11-3 rec~
to the baseball team for the past For the 14 games of the Panth- ord for the season.

two years, has signed a pact with ers' 1953 season, McDevitt hit a ·(Continued from preceding

the Pittsburgh Pirates to play · for lusty .449, knocking out 22 safeties Northern, it would tie Michiga
Normal for first place. If the garnet
their farm club in Longview, Texas. in 48 times at bat. Half of his hits were played, Eastern had to wl
both.
Longview is a Class B team. were for extra bases, including two
Came the next day, Saturda'JI,
McDevitt, of Effingham, worked home runs and four triples. He May 23. The sun was out hot, and
the field drying. At noon the uma
out with the Pirates at Forbes Field led the llAC in slugging with an pire called, "Play ball," and Coac
White was bringing his squ
in Pittsburgh the week following .837 percentage. He reported to through the front door to captu
the title. "We didn't want to bac.
his completion of studies. A senior, tile Longview club June l 0. into a tie," he said.

Top-notch Mound Crew Northern's Huskies, althou
completely out of the runnin
, Eastern's four ace hurlers made up the top ranking pitching staff brought all their power to bear o'1
in the llAC. Consisting of, left to right above, Jack Kenny, Harry Moeller, the Panthers in the first game; bur
Maurice Hemphill and Ken Ludwig, the Eastern crew finished the season John McDevitt was out to win. 1
with a combined earned-run average of 1.46. Moeller is the only senior. nine innings, Eastern got only IW
Hemphill is a junior and Ludwig and Kenny are sophomores. hits, a triple and a home run
John McDevitt. They were enou
PAGE FOURTEEN to account for three runs and a 3
victory'. In the second game, th1:1
Panthers went all-out early, co1•
lected eight runs in the second, and
held on for an 8-0 win and lh
conference title.

In non-conference games dur·

ing the season, Eastern took tw
from Indiana State, 7-0 and 9-5
The Panthers swamped Milliki<'I
10-0 on a one-hitter by Ken Lud·
wig. Washington University of 5
Louis was the only non-leag

to down Eastern. Washing- lniuries Cut Track Squad
tearn won an 8-7 decision in an Power After Strong Start

5t-inning game called on ac- Seniors Sims, Ellis, and Craw- Another Eastern record was set
by Chuck Matheny, freshman miler
nt of darkness at St. Louis. ford Impressive; Best Freshmen from Paris. Matheny ran the mile
co~hree members of the 1953 in 4 :23.3 in a dual meet with
Prospects Are Burch, Carter, Math- Southern for the record.
m will not return next year be-
te~se of traduation. Seniors on the eny. Coach O'Brien's hopes for next
season rest on improvemen·t of his
ea uad are John McDevitt, Bill The Eastern track team, atter freshman tracksters. The three big
rolling up three impressive victor- guns, Sims, Ellis, and Crawford,
Rqineke and Harry Moeller. Coach ies early in the seasoA, slowed will be gone. But the track squad
down in the stretch to drop two will have a strong crew of run-
..;hite should have the remainder final dual meets, rank third in the ners returning. The main Panther
state college meet, and tie for sixth difficulty next season will be to
~af stohnis, .)tar's squad back for next place in the llAC. build some power in the field
·IJepending on the draft. events.
Injuries played a big part in
Record Breaker the Panthers' decline. Hank Car- Aledo Star Enrolls
ter, top Eastern sprinter from Gil- Marvin Sproston, all-sports tro-
Jack Sims, St. Elmo senior and lespie, injured his leg in the final phy winner at Aledo High School,
holder of four letters in track, set Eastern victory over Northern and has enrolled at Eastern through the
a new IIAC record for the two· was out for the season; and Dick good offices of Alumnus Jim Rob-
mile run when he ran it in the Burch, Danville freshman, pulled a erts.
9iference meet at 9:46.7. The muscle while warming up for the
record is also a new Eastern mark. state college meet at Normal and National Contender
was unable to start for the re-
Pobrino Still Possibility mainder of the season. Burch was Fred Crawford, Danville senior,
As Eastern Quarterback a consistent winner in the 220- tied for third in the pole vault at
yard dash and ran in the mile re- the NAIA track and field meet at
Coach Maynard O'Brien is still lay. Abilene, Texas, by going over at
12' 6". Crawford holds the Eastern
looking for a· quarterback to help Top Panther tracksters for the pole vault record at 13' even.
season were three seniors: Jack
Bob Thrash of Tolono next fall. All- Sims, distance runner; Fred Craw-
ford, pole vault; and Ted Ellis, high
Sfater Don Dobrino of Mt. Olive jump, 220-yard low hurdles, and
broad jump.
Was still a possibility as the ALUM-
Sims set a new llAC record for
NUS went to press, although the the two-mile run in the league
meet at DeKalb. The St. Elmo sen-
9iversity of Illinois .may be ior clicked off the course in
9:46.7. The time was also a new
.brino's final choice. . Eastern record.

Crawford was unable to better
his Eastern record of 13' in the
pole vault, set last season; but he
won his way to the NAIA track
meet in Abilene, Texas, where he
tied for third in the National tour-
ney as 12'6". Crawford is from
Danville.

Setting a hot pace early in the
season and racking up ten firsts in
three dual meets, Ted Ellis, Dan-
ville senior, seemed to lose his
point-making ability in the final
meets, thus taking one of the maj-
or power punches from the win-
ning attack.

Coach Pat O'Brien's s q u a d
scored 19 points in the llAC meet
to tie for sixth place with Southern.
Michigan Normal won the meet-
just as they have ever since enter-
ing the conference in 1950.

PAGE FIFTEEN

Net Team Gains Name as Ace Netman
llAC Darkhorse under Darling

Eastern's tennis squad made a effectiveness in the league finals. Tom Schreck, Eastern tennis ac~
strong comeback in the Interstate Coach Rex Darling and his ten- from Mattoon, advanced to thd
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
spring meet to take fourth place nis squads are fast becoming the semi-finals in the consolation rounf
in the league after running up a dark horse of the conference at of the NAIA tennis meet at Abit
season record of one win and nin~ the annual spring meets, however. lene, Texas, before losing out.
losses. Two years ago, Eastern took second
in the league after failing to win Schreck, who dropped his first
The departure of Bill Sharp for a single llAC meet and with only match in the first round of the
the Navy and the absence of Glenn two victories for the season. Last double elimination meet, was lhe
South, who did not return to year the squad also had a record
school this year, gave Coach Rex of no llAC victories and only two Illinois representative to the na•
V. Darling a playing squad with wins for the year, yet wound up tional meet in the singles. He wo•
little depth. Tom Schreck and Bob third in the conference. The cap- the singles in the state meet a~
Warren were back from the 1951- ture of third place in the league
52 squad that took third in the after a 1-9 season this year has Macomb. Schreck will be a seni
league, along with Paul Foreman. · added to Coach Darling's reputa- next season.
tion for producing league threats.
The addition of a freshman star
to the tennis ranks gave promise Charles Session, Indiana All-
of adding considerable strength; Stater from the little town of
but fate intervened. Dick McDon- Glenn, and his brother have en-
ald, Mattoon freshman and a ten- rolled for the summer at Michigan
nis player of considerable reputa- State. Session won an award as the
tion, reported following the bas- best basketball player in the Euro-
ketball season; but a major opera- pean theater. He was expected to
tion kept him out of play practical- enroll at Eastern.
ly all season and robbed him of

Tommy Tells 'Em

Tom Kouzmanoff, sports official Snyder To Organize
and columnist for the Chicago Am-
erican, was the guest speaker at 'Bird-Dog Club'
Eastern's annual All-Sports ban-
quet. The banquet honors all men Plans are being considered
who have been active in intercol- leading alumni interested in athle
legiate athletics. Seated at left is ics for a "Bird-dog Club" whi
Dr. Byron K. Barton, head of the would spot high school athlet
geography department and toast- who might help Eastern. Becau
master at the banquet.
of the ruling which prevents 1 e
PAGE SIXTEEN
athletic staff from making co
tacts with high school prospe
this appears to be one means o
maintaining the post-war ascen
ancy of Eastern teams.

Leading the movement to re--
cruit help from loyal alumni is J
Snyder of Charleston, who is pr
paring a letter of inquiry to be sent
to various coaches and influent
alumni in the area from whi
Eastern draws students. He hop
to find one person in each co
munity who will be willing to bri
boys to the campus to become a
quainted with opportunities
Eastern .

K~eping •1n touch

Antoinette Slemmons, '01, plans conducts seminars in the graduate Frazier was a former state repre-
attend the 1953 homecoming school. She has the bachelor's and sentative, having served two
master's degrees from the Univer- terms. He operated a farm along
iaebration a n d "old-fashioned State Route l until the time of his
chapel." Miss Slemmons writes sity. death.
mat . "the memories of chapel as Mrs. Hagan taught in Kansas, Ill.,
9cfucted by Mr. Lord will remain Georgia Mathes (Sister M. Can-
with me through life." Miss Slem- then married Warren Hagan, '07, delaria), '10, of the Notre Dame
mons lives at 128 Fifth St., Wil- and has three sons. Mr. Hagan Industrial School, Puerta de Tierra
died in 1919, when the boys were 27, P. R., writes that she is still do-
mette, Ill. all small. Mrs. Hagan then taught ing the work there to which she
in Charleston High School for sev- was appointed in 1922. "This
Elsie Woodson Butler, '02, writes eral years before going to Urbana school is not a correctional institu-
from 234 S. Grove Ave., Oak to live and teach. She has traveled tion as one might be led to think
Park, Ill., to renew her Alumnus widely, including two t r i p s by its name. It is for young girls
lascription. and women who do fine needle-
abroad. work. My work is to make mono-
Ernest Freeman, '03, writes from One of Mrs. Hagan's sons has grams and embroidery designs,
louston, Tex., to accept the secre- and to stamp the linens for work-
been in Germany for more than six ing. I also teach some classes in
ship for the Class of '03 in years. As an army major in the English, piano, and singing. The
aration for the reunion of that provost's office, he took part in work is not easy, but very inter-
c at Homecoming next Oct. 17. the legal proceedings at the Nuren- esting.
Mr. Freeman is a Charleston resi- burg trials.
dent. He is currently preparing for "What a rare treat awaits those
the July 4 dedication of the Coles Mrs. Hagan now lives at 506 S. who may be coming back for the
Coun ty Airport, a celebration Gregory Pl., Urbana. celebration in October! I shall be
which will involve the whole state with you all in spirit. My kindest
and bring national figures to Mary Ewing (Mrs. R. S. Loy), '07, regards to all."
lharleston and Mattoon. The now lives at Paris, Ill., where she
theme is "The Fiftieth Anniversary is a housewife and mother of four Susan Faris, '10, is retiring this
of Powered Flight." Mr. Freeman sons and one daughter. Calvin, the June after 38 years of teaching, the
youngest son, attended Eastern for majority of them spent as mathe-
ris secretary of the Coles County a time before entering military matics teacher in DuSable High
irport Authority. service and serving in Korea. He School of Chicago.
Minnie Edman (Mrs. Frank M. now lives in Kansas City, Mo.
Mealey), '05, lives at Monte Vista, Cynthia McKittrick (Mrs. W. 0.
tolo., where she is employed as Nelle Wiman (Mrs. Victor I. Rogers), '11, died in May of 1951.
a tfenographer. Brown), '08, retired from teaching Mr. Rogers lives at Pasco, Wash.
in June, 1952, after 28 years in
Nora Overholser (Mrs. Beam), the elementary schools of Illinois. Merle Rankin, '12, sends his best
'05, retired from teaching last year All of her teaching was in Cook regards to his math instructor, Mr.
after having served as principal County after 1925. She now lives Taylor, and his baseball coach, Mr.
of the Washington School in Char- at 619 N. State Rd., Arlington Lantz, from 2295 31 st Ave., San
leston for 25 years. She and her Heights. Francisco, Cal if.
sister, Rose, live together at 1120
l\onroe St. Their mother died last Chester Hume, '09, recently re- Ruth Beall, '12, and her sister
year at the age of 93. newed his Alumnus subscription. Leona, '17, live at 313 W. Black-
He lives at 8011 Linden Ave., Seat- burn St., Paris, Ill. Ruth is principal
William Henry Earnhart, '06, list- tle 3, Wash. of the Vance School in Paris. She
ed as "lost" in Alumni Office files, attended the Edgar County East-
died some years ago. Mary E. Fellows, '10, writes that ern State Club meeting this spring.
"it gives me pleasure to contribute
Mabel Rea (Mrs. Warren L. to the Lord Scholarship Fund. The Esther Mccrory, 'l 0, is vacation-
Hagan), '07, will retire from the chapel service in memory' of Mr. ing at Estes Park, Colo., this sum-
Lord with Mr. Taylor and old fa- mer. Her home is in Charleston, Ill.
iversity of Illinois faculty in June culty members seems an excellent
this year. Mrs. Hagan has been idea." Miss Fellows lives at 708 N. Ruby Harris, '12, is doing techni-
!n charge of student teaching (typ- Coler, Urbana, Ill. cal work for Rand-McNally in Chi-
'ing and shorthand) at the Univer- cago this summer. She is currently
sity High School in Urbana and Charles Tarble; ex-'l 0, has retir- staying at the Palmer House. Miss
ed from his position as Cumberland Harris has taught geography at
County farm adviser after 20 years. Eastern since 1923. She will be
He spent part of the past winter back on campus in the fall.
in Florida.
Under the direction of Dr. Frank
G. Otis Frazier, ex-'l 0, died May A. Lindhorst, '12, the College of
8 at his home south of Marshall,
Ill., following a heart attacl<." Mr.

PAGE SEVENTEEN

the Pacific, Stockton, Calif., is R. R. l south of Martinsville. p I' e s s operator for Standard
pioneering a new study program Gertrude 0. Hill, '14 now lives Brands, Inc., at Pekin, Ill.
to train students for lay leadership
in the churches of their choice. Dr. at 320 W. North St., Decatur, Ill. Nellie S. Mahaney, '17, now
Lindhorst- is director of Christian Mrs. Jane Shaw Bigelow, '14, lives at 136% Sibley St., Ham..
Community Administration at Paci- mond, Ind. She forwarded her new
fic. Lindhorst believes that a now teaches at Covina Child Care address with a generous contribu~
church-related college has a res- Center, Covina, Calif., having the tion to the Lord Fund.
ponsibility to train not only pro- two and three year old children.
fessional religious leaders but also She writes that she enjoys the Mable Neely (Mrs. John Riley
effective lay leaders in various work immensely. Mrs. Bigelow's Baker), '17, now lives at l 0 l Park
phases of the program of the local youngest son, Ralph, will take the St., Robinson, Ill.
church. master's degree in music from the
Eastman School of Music, Roches- John E. Harris, 'l 7, Iives at 1405
Mary E. Neblick, '12, writes as ter, N. Y., this month. Campbell Ave., LaSalle, Ill.
follows: "Have been in the so-
called leisure class since June, William J. Schernekau, '14, is a Cecile Yanaway (Mrs. Jim Drake.
1952, having rounded out 40 years general contractor in Robinson, Ill., ford), '17, is society editor of the
of teaching. Am enjoying myself where his home is at 704 W. Main. Toledo, Ill., Democrat. She lives on
immensely." Miss Neblick sent a R. R. 3, Toledo.
generous check to the Lord Scholar- Mary Newlin, '15, is now prin-
ship Fund. Her home is at 725 S. cipal of the Robinson, Ill., High Leona C. Beall, '17, teachesl
Fourth St., Springfield, Ill. School, where for many years she fourth grade in the Vance SchoolJ
was dean of girls and teacher of Paris, Ill.
Hazel Willson (Mrs. Thomas A. social ·science.
Thompson), '12, says, in making Zella Faye Richman (Mrs. John
Dorothy Ricketts (Mrs. Andrew Bidwell Wilder), '17, now lives at
her Lord Fund contribution, :'1 am Dallstream), '15, may be addresed 510 Poinsetta Lane, KissimmeeJ
thankful for having had the privi- as follows: Bruiker Road, Barring- Fla.
lege of attending El under Mr. ton, Ill.
Lord's leadership." Rachel E. Risser, '18, Iives at 615
William Benton Bunn, '16, farm Ten Broeck St., Paris, Ill. She
Ruby Ellen Handshy (Mrs. John adviser in Champaign County, re- teaches fourth grade at the Red-
J. Devlin), '12, is a retirement clerk sponded to the Lord Fund cam- mon School.
with the Illinois Teacher's Retire- paign characteristically: "Wonder-
ment System in Springfield, where ful idea-glad to contribute." Stella Lawton (Mrs. Albert Vie.
she lives at l 044 S. Spring. She at- tor), '18, has moved to 1103 S.
tended the Sangamon County East- Herman L. Cooper, '16, is re- Main in Paris, Ill. She is a substi~
ern State Club meeting in May. ported ill with leukemia at his tute teacher in the Paris schools.
home at Oak Park, Ill.
Carrie Jordan (Mrs. Thomas CeC:le Mae Ellsberry (Mrs. Law·
Manuell), '12, teaches third grade Lenola Longnecker (Mrs. Albert rence R. Langford), '18, is a hous~
Haller), '16, visited the Easrern wife at 608 Connelly St., Paris, Ill.
in the Dennis School of Decatur, 111. campus on May l for the first time
since her graduation. She was Grace Davis (Mrs. Frank Farrell),
Eva Winifred Stitt (Mrs. Lacy) astounded at the great changes '18, lives at 209 Parrish St., Parisj
'13, is superintendent of the Illi- wrought in 37 years. Mrs. Haller
nois Public ·Aid Commission office reported that she has one son who 111.
in Toledo, Ill. is a Purdue University graduate. Nina Mae Funk, '18, lives at 15
A nephew plans to enter Illinois
Louise D. Hudson (Mrs. Arthur Normal next year. Mr. Haller is a North Seventh St., Casey, Ill.
K. Schultz), '13, lives at 541 E. l 5th
St., Brooklyn 26, N. Y. Dorothy Davis (Mrs. Frank Faul),
'18, continues to serve as a su~
Bess Shrieve (Mrs. Ronald L.
King), '13, is secretary of the board stitute teacher at Robinson, 111.,
of directors for the proposed new where she lives at l 05 W. Plum.
hospital at Charleston. The board
is now in the midst of a campaign 'For Us Arose .. '
to raise $750,000 locally to build
a fifty bed hospital. Dean H. F. Heller plays and Wayne Hance leads as 72 Cumberlanl
County alumni and guests sing the "Alma Mater."
Mary Mansfield, '14, lives at 205
N. 35th St., Mattoon, Ill.

Nellie E. Baker, 14, writes of
taking a bus trip back to Tuscon,
Ariz., where she lived four years
in the l 920's. "How the population
in the Southwest has grown since
then!" she remarks. "Dallas and
Fort Worth are so nearly one big
city now, one has to be alert to see
when he is leaving one and enter-
ing the other." Miss Baker lives on

PAGE EIGHTEEN

Esther Kelso, '18, is a mathe- at 422 West Eldorado St. in De- festival, held April 10-12 at Tampa,
matics,.. tJ,structor in the New Trier
High 15<:hool, Glencoe, Ill. Her catur. . Fla. He is president of the Callers
home is at 373 Hazel Ave., Glen-
Dorothy Leggitt, '23, teaches at Association and edits the monthly
col.ymond M. Cook, '19, has suc-
the Dennis School in Decatur and "Bow and Swing," official publica-
ceeded in securing a large measure
of state financial support for the lives at 133 N. Taylor Ave. in that tion of the Florida Square and Folk
Chicago Teachers College since he
became its chief administrative of- city. During the past two summers Dance Callers end Teachers Asso-
ficer some years ago. Mr. and Mrs.
Cook live at 608 Dorchester Ave., she has taught at Northeast Mis- ciation. Emery lives on R. 2, West

Chicago 37. souri State Teachers College Kirks- Palm Beach, Fla.
Maedona Deames, '20, teaches
ville. ' Louise Milnes (Mrs. John L.
English at the New Trier Township
High School, Winnetka, Ill. Her Myrtle N. Dunlap, '23, writes Howie), '25, lives at 260 N. Wood-
home is at 1106 Dempster, Evans- that she is serving her second term
lawn Ave., Decatur. -
ton. as state president of the Iowa As-
Bernice Greathouse (Mrs. Wayne Harry A. Mitchell, '25, lives at
ance), '20, is assistant county sup- sociation of School Librarians and 914 Monroe, Charleston, Ill.
endent of schools in Cumber-
County. Mr. Hance is county will be lowa's assemblyman at the . Geneva Bell (Mrs. Harry T.
intendent. American Library Association Con-
Wright, Jr.), '25, · married Mr.
Dr. Richard Kepner, '21, sends ference in Los Angeles this June.
his ~ntribution to the Lord Fund Miss Dunlap says she has marked Wright in November of 1951. The
from Honolulu. His address is P.
O. Box 3119, Honolulu 2, T. H. Oct. l 7 on her engagement calen- Wrights now live at 1509 S. Sixth,

Marguerite Mary McTaggart, '21, dar and will make every effort to Springfield, Ill.
has taught in the Cleveland, 0., be at the Homecoming celebration.
schools for several years. Her ad- Glen H. Rhodes, '25, is employ
dress is 1369 Bunts Rd., Lakewood
7, 0. Mrs. Emma Phillips Krows, who ed in the engineering department
attended Eastern briefly in 1923,
Katherine Stapp, ex-'21, has pre- was recently named superintend- of. the· Elliott Co., Ridgway, Pa.,
pared the layout and art work for ent of nurses at Carle Hospital in
a teacher recruitment bulletin be- bu1l.ders of power plant equip-
ing published by the teacher-prep-
mator~ scho_ols of Illinois in co- ment. His home is at 212 Spring
~rat1on with the state superin-
Jendent's office. Urbana. Garden Ave., Ridgway.
Louise Ring, '23, teaches in the
Lillian Myers (Mrs. Stephen Tur- Hazel Dell Clark (Mrs. inWartdh)~
ner), '22, is the first woman alder- W-.elementary schools system of Pai-is '26, nfeaches first grade
man ever elected in Pontiac, Ill.
She was elected as a People's party 111., ·where she lives at 221 Vance School, Paris, Ill.
llandidate in 1949 and during the Elizabeth.
past four years served as chair- Phoebe Hashman (Mrs. William
man of the law and ordinance com-
mittee. Mr. Turner, '20, is a farm Dorothy Pierce (Mrs. Jackson M. Shaw), '26, teaches at the Hazel
seed dealer in Pontiac.
Merwin), '23, has moved to a new Dell School in Springfield, Ill., and
Lpla E. Howard, '22, m~y be ad- Grosse Pointe, Mich., address, 699
dressed at the California Bldg., lives at 1624 S, ,;itate St. in that

9>oseheart, Ill. She was a gen- Shoreham. city. .
Florence Sutton (Mrs. Frank C.
erous Lord Scholarship Fund con- Ruby Doty (Mrs. Carl Edwin
Ogg), '23, writes that her two old- W~9d), '26, lives at 1440 N. W.
In u or. est children are in graduate schooL 34th St., Miami .42, Fla.

Perry G. Rawland, '22, writes, in Frank, Jr., is working on the doc- · Mary Catherine Griswold, '26,
teaches in Geneva, 111. Her perman-
l ing his contribution to the Lord torate degree in mathematics at ent a.ddress is R. R. 4, Robinson
olarship Fund: "I have never Johns Hopkins and Virginia is Ill. .. I
icipated in any educational
1ve that so filled me with pride studying for the master of fine Nadine Parker (Mrs. Stewart A.
as the writing of this check." Mr. Kincaid), '26, teaches third grade
liwland is a professor at the state arts at the University of Colorado. at the Redmon School and lives at ·
tachers college, ·St. Cloud, Minn. 114 E. Monroe, Paris, Ill.
The Oggs live at 636 Wallace Ave..
Helen Stapp, '23,· teaches English Eloise Swearingen (Mrs. A. E.
at Decatur High School and .lives Bowling Green, 0. · Muerlot), '27, attended the national
Parent-Teachers Association conven-
Mary Edna Farr (Mrs. McKinney), tion at Oklahoma City in late May.
'24, teaches English arts at the Mrs. Muerlot is president of a De-
catur, 111., PTA group and has been
Neoga Junior High. active in the state organization.
Kathryn L. Gray, '24, is secretary-
Isabelle Basham (Mrs. Theodore
treasurer of the Illinois Council of R. ·Danner), '28, now lives at 1445
Teachers of Mathematics. Miss N. Folk St., Decatur, Ill.
Gray teaches mathematics in jun-
ior high school at Decatur, where Edna Irene Stewart (Mrs. Harry
D:xon), '28, is temporarily unable
she lives at 765 W. Waggoner St. to teach and is at her home on R.
R. 4, Robinson, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Louis Oder, '24,
Cathryne Owings (Mrs. Wright),
live at Dawson, Ill., where he is '28, now lives at 744 E. Decatur
St., Decatur, Ill.
superintendent of the Tri-City
Schools. Mrs. Oder is the former Charlotte Fey (Mrs. Lewis Meis-

Louise Nicholson.

Marie Jordan (Mrs. Wayne
Schaeuble), '24, died April 5 of

this year. Her home was at Hamil-

ton, Q.

· Harold Emery, '25, was one of enbach), '28, lives at 708 Earlham

the promoters of Florida's first St., Pa~adena 4, Calif.

stafe-wide square and folk dance Sara Frances ' Hall :.,. (Mrs. F. B.

PAGE. NINE'ii?€N

Travis), '28, lives at Chrisman, Ill. Jr.), '30, has worked as a secretary- . ard I. Begeman), '32, teaches fift~
Ruth C. Ellett (Mrs. Crabtree),
stenographer in the Pentagon and sixth grades in Sandborn, lndJ
'29, teaches second grade in the
Decatur school system. Her home Building at Washington, D. . C., Florence Gumm (Mrs. Russell
Is at 440 S. Crea St., Decatur, Ill.
since 1942. She lives at 2612 Myr- Jones), '32, teaches third grade at
Julia Thomas (Mrs. George
Jahant), '29, lives at 1135 KooHoo tle Ave., N. E., in Washington. Mr. the Vance School in Paris.
Pl., Lanikai, Hawaii.
and Mrs. Barnes were married in · Helen Sayre Weber (Mrs. Clar-
Mildred Hopkins, '29, has taught Washington in December of 1943. ence Beem), '32, teaches horn~
at Hoopeston, Ill., for several years.
Her home is at 31 7 E. Penn St. Lola Kessler (Mrs. Charles Chap- bound students in the Mattoo'\t

F. E. Shipman, '29, once princi- pelear), ex-'30, teaches third grade 111., Schools. Her address is 817 N.
pal of the high school at Humboldt,
started his own insurance business in the Neoga schools, where Mr. 33rd St., Mattoon.
in 1933 and now has built up a
business with a total volume of Chappelear is a principal. Margaret Gwin (Mrs. John W.
more than $100,000 per year in
premiums. He is the author of an Kathleen Wilson (Mrs. T. J. Lee), Gillum), '32, is a housewife at
article entitled '.'I Get a 95 Per
Cent Return on Renewals'.' in the '30, is associate editor of the Maris- 1528 W. Jackson St., Springfielc:t
current issue of Local Agent, a sa, Ill., Messenger, a weekly news- Ill. Mr. Gillum, '35, is a chemist at
monthly educational insurance
magazine. Mr. Shipman lives at paper which her husband edits. the Sangamo Electric Co. in Springi
Oblong, Ill. She has lived at Marissa · for the field.

Marian Rambo, '29, a teacher of past 20 years. Bernice Wood (Mrs. Santford
third grade in the Redmon School H. Nolan Sims. '30, has been Carrington), '32, lives at 720~
at Paris, Ill., joined the Gamma Knickerbocker Parkway, Ham~
Chapter (Decatur) of Delta Kappa awarded the President's Trophy by
Gamma in March of this year. the Massachusetts Mutual Life In- mond, Ind.
surance Co. for the outstanding
Hettie Blythe, '21, '29, retired performance of his agency during Mary Holmes, '32, has bee~
from her position as head of the 1952. Mr. Sims received the tro-
geography department of the Col- phy at the company's agents' con- granted a Ford Foundation awarcl
lege High School, Valley City State ference at Chandler, Ariz., in
Teachers College, N. D., at the end April. The trophy indicates that the for a year's study and researchl
of the winter quarter and became Mattoon area agency Mr. Sims She will study for six months at
the owner of a flower shop in Val- operates was first among 90 gen-
ley City. In an article printed in the University of Chicago with the.
The Viking News, teachers college human development committe~
student newspaper, she stated, "I
believe in retiring to a new inter- investigating the sociological and
est, rather than from an old one.
I hope that I will enjoy the flower eral agencies of the country in all- Gets Ford Grant
business as much as I've enjoyed around accomplishment. Among
teaching in the College School."
Sims' assistants are alumni Tom
Miss ·Blythe attended the Colo-
rado School of Floral Design at Petty of Oakland, Phil Baird of Ol-
Denver last year in preparation for
opening her shop. ney, and Joe Snyder of Charleston.

Miss Blythe earned the M.A. Vera Tolch (Mrs. Queen), ex-'30,
at Columbia and did additional
work at the University of Chicago. is a Neoga, Ill., grade school prin-
She became a department head .at
Valley City in 1938. She has been cipal and teacher of grade six.
active in AAUW, Gamma Theta Up-
silon, the Association of North John Prater, '30, is director of
Dakota Geographers, and the Na-
tional Federation of Business and curriculum in District 89, May-
Professional Women's Clubs. In
BPW, she has served as state presi- wood, Ill., where he lives at 1615
dent, state parliamentarian, and as
chairman of the north central re- S. Seventh.
gion. She is currently editor of the
state BPW newspaper. Florence Kohlbecker (Mrs. Thom·

Essie Hayes (Mrs. Leon Barnes, as Hargrave Ayers), '31, teaches

fifth grade in the Matheny School

in Springfield, Ill. Her address is

2912 Hoover, Springfield.

,Luther ~. Black, '31, is secretary

of the State Certification Board in

Springfield, Ill., where he lives at

1728 S. Walnut.

Amy Ruth Jordan (Mrs. Charles

Maudlin), '31, is the motlier of

Paul E., a sophomore pre-engineer-

ing student at Eastern. The Maud-

lins live on R. R. 1, near George~ Miss Mary Holmes

town, Ill.

Dorothy Thornton (Mrs. Charles psychological aspects of home and
Ernest Vaughn), '31, has the fol- family living as it relates to th~

lowing address: North Shore Lane, subject matter of home economi

Lakeview Acres, R. R. 1, Collins- in secondary schools. Miss Holm4

ville, Ill. teaches homemaking in CharrJ

Margaret V. McNees (Mrs. Ralph paign High School. For a secortl
Fischer), '31, is teaching grades six months period Miss Holm~

two and three in the Gardner, Ill., will travel, doing field work 11'1

Grade School. connection with her chosen re<

Margaret Thompson (Mrs. How- search field and observing w hat

PAGE TWENTY

glj:ier schools do in homemaking pal at the Melrose Park School at E. Montgomery), '36, lives on R. R.
3, Tuscola, Ill.
•ruction. She .will .concentrate. on Maywood, 111., resides at 31 5 South
the ~othing, interior decorating, Sixth Ave., Maywood. Cecil W. Elam, '36, lives at 2516
S. Austin Blvd., Chicago 50, Ill.
and .c.h_ild ca.re phases of homemak- lval1 Ernest Bailey, '34, lives at He teaches mathematics in the
inQ ~truct1on. .. l 034 East Walnut St., Evansville, Morton High School and Junior
College of Cicero.
In reply to an Alumnus inquiry, Ind.
Robert D. Smith, ex-'36, lives at
she says: "I am quite happy over Kenneth Dean Davis, '34, is em- 6740 Longmeadow Ave., Lincoln-
wood, Ill.
this fellowship. and plan to sha~e ployed as district manager of the
Ritta Whitesel, '19, '37, has
[fY lindings with home economic Elastic Stop-Niet Corp. of America. developed a new line of clothing
laboratory equipment which ·will
11achers, as we are all trying to He lives at 5858 Sheridan Road, be displayed by the . St. Charles
Manufacturing Co. in Kansas City,
chan1a,e our teaching to include the Chicago, Ill. Mo., June 23-27. Miss Whitesel,
assistant professor of home eco-
low lt>cial-economic group as well Edith Farrell (Mrs. Alvin Spries), nomics at the University of Illinois,
will attend the showing, which is
If the middle class. We have been '35, and her family recently moved part of the National Home Econom-
ics Association convention. Miss
a:cused of foisting our middle to a small farm north of Danville, Whitesel believes the most unique
part of the display will be a cloth-
class ideas on all classes of people." Ill. Mr. Spries, who finished his de- ing construction unit with all work
area and sewing tools combined
Miss Holmes taught in her home gree at Eastern in 1951, and Mrs. in one. That is, a sewing machine,
pressing equipment, storage area,
~ty, Crawford, in Stewardson, Spries both teach in the Danville and the hand sewing and cutting
surfaces will be one complete unit.
~-Jonesboro, Harrisburg, River- elementary schools. They have a It is the first unit of its kind to be
made available to schools and
ton and Farmer City before going daughter, Bonnie, 14. should, Miss Whitesel thinks, fill a
long-felt need.
to Shampaign in 1950. She has Louise McNutt, '35, is an editor
Arley Lee Whitten, '37, now
also served as a demonstration with the Scott Foresman Co. of lives at Fillmore, Ill.

agent for Purdue University. Chicago. She lives at 6030 Sheri- Rose Moore, '37, is the wife of
Dr. Tom E. McMeekan of 421 Wa-
While at Chicago U. Miss Holmes dan Rd., Chicago 40. bash Ave., Mattoon, Ill.

will live with her sister, Stella (Mrs. Lee Dulgar, '35, teaches in the J. R. Curry, '37, h~s been named
superintendent of schools at Wind-
Fred Barrick), '30, at 5500 Main Thornton Township High School sor, Ill. Curry coached at Windsor
High for many years after grad-
St. Downers Grove. and Junior College at Harvey, Ill. uating at Charleston and was made
high school principal a few years
lalph Evans, '32, will teach at His home is at 15432 Myrtle Ave., ago. He holds the M. S. from the
University of Illinois.
tht University of Maine this sum- Harvey.
Don Cavins, '37, and Mrs. Cav-
mer. He is head of the Fresno State Olive Holsapple, '35, teaches at ins, the former Ruth Clapp, '37,
live at 620 S. Austin, Paris. Don
College education department, . Jewett, Ill., in grades one and two. teaches part time in the industrial
arts department at Kansas High
Fresno, Calif. Her address is R. R. l, Toledo. School and operates a farm near
Paris.
Maudeline White (Mrs. Dale Ernest Chilton Keigley, '35, is
Margaret Ellen Stephenson (Mrs.
Huffman), '33, is secretary of the employed with the Bendix Manu- George Cassius Richardson), ':37,
teaches homemaking at the Pales-
•mberland Unit School District facturing Co. His address is 807 tine, Ill., Hi~h School. Mr. Rich-
ardson continues to teach business
No. 77. She lives at Greenup, Ill. Cushing St., South Bend, Ind. subjects at Robinson High School.
The Richardsons live at 609 W.
Lloyd H. Garrison, '33, is a liquor Harold Lee Whitacre, '35, is a Walnut, Robinson.

distributor in Chicago. His address tool designer and draftsman with June Richey, '37, has received a
Fulbright award for a year of teach-
is Box 207, Palatine, Ill. the Fisher Body Plant. His home ing abroad. She will leave for the
Netherlands in August and begin
Vera Gertrude Harris, '33, lives is at 2515 Hills St., Flint 3, Mich.

at 312 South C St., Monmouth, Ill. Eva Marie Weber, '35, now lives

Neva Irene Miller (Mrs. H. A. at 10 Knollwood Dr., Decatur, Ill.

Harris), '33, now resides on R. R. Louis Josserand, '25, '36, lives

2, Tower Hill, Ill. at 2004 E. Oakland, Bloomington,

Louise Stillions (Mrs. Fernandez:), Ill.

'34, may now be addressed as fol- Rachel Lowry (Mrs. Jack Austin),

lows: Box 31, Laupahoehoe, ex-'36, died Sunday, April 26. Be-

Hawaii. sides her husband, she is survived

Delbert Pearl Nave, '34, lives at by a son, Jackie, 7, and a daughter,

3440 Spottswood, Memphis 11, Barbara, 3. ·

Tenn. Wayne Howard, two-year-old

Pearl Marie Settle (Mrs. Clyde son of Ruth Miller (Mrs. Howard

Cole), '34, is teaching first grade in Esbeck), '36 was drowned in the

fethany, Ill. The Coles have one stock watering tank on their farm

small son. Their mailing address is in Exira, la., last April 21. The

Oalton City, Ill. Esbecks are parents of three other

Kenneth Boyd Duz:an, '34, of l 0 children.

ledney Way, Newburgh, N. Y. is Ora Maxwell Wilson, '36, now

leaching preparatory mathematics lives at 623 E. Monroe Ave., Chris-

at the U. S. Military Academy, West man, Ill.

Point. Florence Mae Land (Mrs. Go-

Lillian Kirk (Mrs. Alan Schlosser), bert), '36, now lives at 1108 Wau-

'34, is now teaching in the Central ponsee St., Morris, Ill.

Unit Schools of Robinson, Ill. She Kenneth Claar Wooley, '36, lives

resides on R. R. 2, Robinson. at 325 S. Pearl St., Pendleton, Ind.

Ernest Pricco, '34, who is princi- Ruth Marie Moore (Mrs. Leonard

PAGE TWENTY-ONE

teaching English in the Gemente- ton, 111., since her graduation at to Fifth Army Headquarters, San
lijke Hogere Burgerschool Voor Eastern last year. Mr. and Mrs. Francisco, soon.
Meisjes on Sept. l. It is a secondary Stephens, Sr., live at 8 N. Holmes
school for girls in Rotterdam. in Memphis. Dr. Bill Hite, ex-'38, who recent..
ly moved to Charleston to practiceJ
Miss Richey is a member of the Robert W. Anderson, '38, is a has given $l 0,000 toward con-
English faculty of the Univers,ity of metallurgical engineer with the struction of a new hospital for the
Illinois Undergraduate Division, Wisconsin Steel Division of Inter- community. Dr. Hite is a doctor of
Navy Pier, Chicago. She has been national Harvester and lives at internal medicine.
doing work toward the doctorate 163rd and Central Park Ave.,
degree. Markham, Ill. Paul Wakefield, '38, will teacH

Nelson Lowry, '37, will teach Louise Inman (Mrs. Edward J. music in the Shelbyville, Ill.,
"Science in the Air Age" at the Na- Wagner), '38, is a housewife at
tional College of Education, Evans- 6235 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Schools next year. He taught in
ton, Ill., this summer. Hs is regular- Ill. Beecher City for many years.
ly employed as chairman of the
science department and dean of Joe John Mucci, '38, teaches at Cathryn Anne Cothren, '39,
boys at the Arlington Heights High Hinckley, Ill. teaches in the Springfield, Ill., Hig~
School. His address is 120 N. For- School . Her home is at 900 S. FifthJ
est, Palatine, Ill. He is a candidate Marle Esther Fields (Mrs. George Springfield.
for the Ed. D. degree at the Univer- H. B~da), '38, lives at 821 Holy-
sity of Illinois. oake Rd., Edwardsville, Ill. Louis K. Voris and Mrs. Vorisl
the former Agnes Worland, '39,
Gwendolyn Oliver (Mrs. Alvin Verniec:e Sylvester Yeazel, '38, live at Neoga, Ill., where Mr.
Borah), '37, was seriously ill in farms and teaches at Catlin, Ill. Voris (Judy) teaches and coacheJ
May following an operation for Agnes has done substitute teachin~
rupturec;I appendix. She is now Stanley Elam, '38, is the father at the high school this year and
greatly improved and is resting at of a daughter, Lucy Anna, born is program chairman of the local
the Borahs' new home in Spring- May 22. Mrs. Elam is the former PTA. The Vorises have three childt
field, Ill. The address is 848 Elizabeth Jones, ex-'38. The Elams ren, Steve, Jim, and Valerie.
Loraine. have three sons. ren, Steve, Jim, and Valerie. Mr.
Voris began work toward the M. S.
Betty Jane Ewing (Mrs. LeRoy Helen Hall (Mrs. William Adair), in school administration at Easterri
A. Halberg), '37, is elementary '38, and her husband, Lt. Col. this summer.
supervisor for Sangamon County Adair, visited in Charleston in
Schools. She lives at 2029 S. Fifth June after 44 months in Germany, Cecil E. Smith, '39, is superirt
St., Springfield, Ill. Mr. Halberg where he was located at the mili- tendent of unit schools in nortlf
teaches at Feitshans High School tary post in Stuttgart. With them Edgar County. He lives at 301 E.
in Springfield. were their children, Libby, Billie, Monroe St., Chrisman. .
Bobbie, and Larry. Lt. Col. Adair,
Joe Henderson, '37, is sales en- a former Eastern athlete, reports Beiiy I. E. Rice (Mrs. F. E. Fair)A
gineer at the Hannifin Corp., Chi-
Shorthand Students Mean Business
cago, Ill. He lives at 6817 S. Union,
Chicago. Second-place trophy in the college division of the 1952-53 Nation
Gregg Shorthand Contest is displayed by Marian Cochran, Robinso~
Guss;e M. Braithwaite, '38, freshman, center.
teaches social studies at the Cen-
tennial Junior High School, De- The other four members of the advanced group of 24 persons who
catur, Ill. Her home is at 251 N. took part in the contest show trophies won in past years. Instructor o~
Church. the . shorthand class is Dr. James M. Thompson, head of the busine
education department.
lee A. Steward, '38, is secretary
of the Coles-Cumberland Medical Left to right, Bettiann Harcarik, Mattoon; Margaret Land, Car
Society. Dr. Steward practices in Marian Cochran, Robinson; Jerry Wyeth, ·Hindsboro; and Betsy Pritt
Mattoon, Ill., where his home is Shelbyville.
at 3312 Prairie.

Roberta Walters (Mrs. Mus-
grave), '38, is a bank teller in the
Crawford County State Bank of
Robinson, Ill.

Ben F. Edman, '38, is a sales en-
gineer for the Glidden Co. with
offices in Chicago. His home ad-
dress is 911 Forest, Evanston, Ill.

0. Z. Stephens, Sr., '38, moved
from Mattoon to Memphis, Tenn.,
last year and is now teaching in
that city. His son, Osler Z., Jr., is
a 1953 graduate of Eastern and
his daughter, Mrs. Barbara Jean-
nine Alderson, has taught at River-

PAGE TWENTY-TWO

, may be addressed as follows: time of his death he and his wife Joe, 10, and a daughter, Judy, 6.
8309~Ele4a9~obr They will make their home at 1027
urant, la. and two small daughters were liv- Seventh in Charleston.
Virginia
Jacobs (Mrs. ing in Des Plaines, Ill., where he Merve Baker, '40, has resigned
his position as head coach at the
Leon Ew· . Holliday), '39, is now at was principal of the Central School. Dupo, Ill., High School to coach at
3212 d Blvd., Kansas the Charleston, Ill., High School.
Parkwoo Lela Mae Evans (Mrs. W. C. A native of Charleston, Baker play-
ed on CHS, Eastern State High, and
CitDy~itKaAn.. Montgomery, '39, may Blakeman), '40, lives at Buena Vis- Eastern athletic teams. He has had
remarkable success with teams at
ta, Ky. Dupo and three years ago was the
subject of an ALUMNUS "portrait."
f '~ntwinbgetoanddSrteastisoend, at 31 Scott Dr., Esther Diel (Mrs. Walter Wells),
L. I., New York. Lottie Leach (Mrs. Bayard Leeds),
'40, lives at 6644 Alexander Ave., '19, '40, teaches fourth grade in
the Robinson, Ill., schools. Her
Eva E. Thompson (Mrs. A. L. Hammond, Ind. home is at 408 E. Pine.

Hunsicker), '39, writes that she has Chester Roscoe Seaney, Jr., '40, Betty Jane Ford (Mrs. Nelson
Lowry), '40, is a housewife and
~ebfou1r3th, son, Randall Lee, born is a minister at Lake Wales, Fla., night school teacher in the Arling-
1953. The Hunsickers may ton Heights, Ill., adult education
where he lives at First and Johnson program. She teaches advanced
sewing. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry live
be ljdressed as follows: Research Sts. at 120 N. Forest, Palatine, Ill.

Hospital, Galesburg, Ill. Albert J. McHenry, '40, operates Marie Elizabeth Reineke (Mrs.
Melvin Rogers), '41, lives at 55
Paul H. Spence, '39, has taught a farm near Brocton, Ill., on R. R. Goff St., Corning, N. Y.

for lleveral years at Westfield, Ill., 2. Dwight Max Dappert, '41, lives
at 320 Wedge Dr., Ferguson, Mo.
,QJ;ld for the past six has been sup- Glenda Bernadine Fink (Mrs.
Dorothy Marie Hilligoss (Mrs.
•tendent of both the grade and frank Lowell), '40, lives at New Tom Murphy), '41, is the mother of
two children. Mr. Murphy farms
high schools there. He is married Baden, Ill. · on R. R. 1, Windsor, Ill.

and the father of two daughters, Emma Elizabeth Holycross (Mrs. Cleo Wood, '41, will receive the
master's degree from Millikin Uni-
Sharon and Paula. Reddy), '40, now lives at 1645 N. versity in August of this year. She
has a position teaching fifth grade
Margaret Palmer Lake (Mrs. D. Gilbert St., Danville, Ill. at Oak Park, Ill. She may currently
be addressed at 2050 N. Union,
w. . .ares), '39, teaches in the lies R. R. Wilson, '40, superintendent Decatur.

Schei of Springfield, Ill., serving of Arthur, Ill., Schools, helped Jack Monts, '41, is business man-
ager of the Elmhurst, Ill., High
Qi..an assistant in craft work in the chaperone a group of 29 Arthur School. He and his family recently
moved into a new home in Lom-
mrvground Recreation Depart- High seniors on a four-day bus bard.

ment. Her home is at 146 N. Eng- trip to the East by way of Canada Rosemary Donahue, '41, is work-
ing toward the master's degree at
lis~ Springfield. and Niagara Falls this spring. The the University of Michigan. She
teaches sixth grade in the Wash-
... Bohn, '39, has accepted the class financed the trip. ington School at Decatur and lives
at 210 S. Fairview, Decatur.
mrintendency of schools in the Earl R. Anderson, '40, is prac-
Emil Spezia, '41, will receive the
;iy formed Allerton-Broadlands- ticing law in Paris, ill., where he M. A. from the University of Illi-
nois this June. Mr. Spezia is a sen-
IP#igview Consolidated School Dis- lives at 114% Court St. ior instructor at Chanute Field,
Rantoul. He lives on R. R. 3, Dan-
trict in Champaign County. Bohn Frances Pinkstaff (Mrs. Leo K. ville.

has been superintendent of the Lane), '40, has moved from French Ada Kirk, '41, teaches first
grade in the Harvard Park School,
Paris, Ill., Rural Community Unit. Lick, Ind., to 400 S. Piatt, Bement, Springfield, Ill. Her home is at
2332 S. Eleventh St., Springfield.
Helen Hoffman, '39, will marry 111.
Eldred Walton, '41, is superin-
Arthur B. Schottman in June. Miss Carl Clapp, '40, teaches mathe- tendent of the Community Unit No.
3 School of Kansas, Ill.
l!toffman is a member of the Eff- matics at Woodrow Wilson Junior
' Estel Hopper, '41, · is a graduate
iltgham, Ill., · High School faculty. High, Decatur, Ill., and lives at
PAGE TWENTY-THREE
She holds the M. S. degree from 1463 W. Wood.

the University of Illinois. Mr. Elizabeth C. Morse, '40, teaches

lthottman is a College of Com- fourth grade at the new Southeast

merce graduate of the University School, Decatur, Ill. Her home is

of Illinois who is now associated at 631 W. Eldorado.

with members of his family in the Don Neal, '40, has been promot-

lthottman Farm and Home Store ed to a position in the Chicago of-
of ~fingham.
fices of Scott-Foreman, school text

John W. Cain, ex-'39, is an elec- book publishers. Neal has been in

trician with the Wilson Electric Co. charge of sales in central Illinois,
of ~ockford, Ill. He was a Republi-
making Bloomington his headquar-

can candidate for alderman this ters. He and his family expect to

lting. With his wife and three move to a Chicago suberb this sum-

ft'.'_ldren, Cain lives at 419 Grove mer.

t., Rockford. Joe Snyder, ex-'40, has located

Chlorene E. Shick (Mrs. C. C. in Charleston following his re-

Roan), '39, left Honolulu last Sep- lease in March from active duty as

Imber for a new home at 4111 a staff officer with the Second Log-
cholsen St., Hyattsville, Md. This
ring the Roans · adopted a son, istical Command in Korea, where
nneth Neil, born March 20,
his headquarters were at Pusao.

Snyder has joined the sales force

1953. His big brother, Ricky Lee, of the · Nolan Sims insurance

is now six. · agency, selling Massachusetts Life.

Ernest Thompson, '40, died April Mr. and Mrs. Snyder (the.. former
17, 1952, of a heart attack. ~t the
Frances Faught, ex-'40,) have a son,

student at Eastern on leave of ab- Vermilion County Menagerie and Keepers
sence from the Lincoln School of
Park Ridge, Ill. This striking array of papier mache figures decorated tables at the
Vermilion County Eastern State Club meeting in April. Students in the
Freda Mae Rich (Mrs. Victor Sea· elementary classes taught Iris Gillis, left, and Emma Lou Robbins SmithJ
ton), '42, is a housewife at 1015 right, did most of the work.
S. Fifth Sf., Leavenworth, Kan.
with her parents in Jewett, Ill. Aileen Carter (Mrs. Carter), '4441
Jane Abbott (Mrs. Herschel D. Jean Cress (Mrs. Don Tingley), teaches home economics at the Mt.
Mahon), '42, and Colonel Mahon Zion, Ill., High School and liveSi
returned to Charleston in May af- '43, is the mother of a son, born at 1637 E. Decatur St., Decatur, Ill.
ter three years in Anchorage, Alas- March 26, at Springfield. It is the
ka. The Mahons has a son, Jimmie. Tingley's first child. ·Mr. Tingley, Jean Henderson (Mrs. James
a 1947 graduate at Eastern, is a Marlin), '44, asked that her contri~
Beulah Davis (Mrs. W. David member of the staff of the Illinois bution to the Lord Scholarship Fund
Brown), '42, now Iives at Browns- State Historical Library. He receiv- be made in the name of her infan•
town, HI. ed the Ph. D. in history at the Uni- son, Bruce James, and in memor)4
versity of Illinois last fall. of Bruce Corzine, for whom he is
Marjorie Young (Mrs. Alfred A. named. The late Mr. Corzine, a cou•
Redding), '42, and her husband Virginia Dolan, '43, lives at 1129 sin of Mrs. Marlin, was a promi ~
live at 2017 Lowell Ave., Spring- North Alabama, Apt. 306, Indian- ent Eastern alumnus. A Lord sch~
field, Ill. Mr. Redding is a printing apolis, Ind. larship winner herself, Mrs. Marliri
instructor in the Springfield High says, "Receiving the scholarshirl
School. Ross K. Stephenson, '43, is ath- was one of the very proudest mom'4
letic director of South Bend Cen- ents of my life." Bruce James was
Violet Saiter (Mrs. Herbert Shaf· tral High School, state basketball
fner), '42, writes that she has a champion of Indiana. Mr. Stephen- born March 26, 1953. The Marlin•
daughter, Sheila Kay, now 17 son was head football coach last have a new six-room flat in Nor1
months old. She substitutes occa- fall. wood Park near Chicago.
sionally in the Martinsville High
School and has just finished the Ida Louise Teagarden (Mrs. Wil· Annabelle Borton (Mrs. Lesli..
year as a general science teacher. liam F. McConnell), '43, wrote in Robertson), '44, is now at 641 "D1
April that she and her husband ex- Estabrook, Wright-Patterson AFBJ
Jack Grantham, '42, and Miss pected to leave their home at 308 Dayton, 0.
Martha Clemmer of Midway, E. Ninth St., Bloomington, Ind.,
Tenn., were married in March. Af- "but the Air Force hasn't told us Kathryn Dively (Mrs. Robert Sea·
ter a wedding trip to New Orleans, when yet.'' man), '44, lives at 313 S. Prairi4
Houston, and San Antonio, Tex., St., Champaign, Ill. Mr. Seama!I
the Granthams took up residence Lee Podesta (Mrs. F. J. Hickman), teaches at the University Hig~
in Kingsport, Tenn., where Mr. '43, may be addressed as follows: School, Urbana, and is a candidat41
Grantham is a chemist for East- Flt. D, 7440 Hq. Sq. Sq., Box 101, for the Ed. D. degree at the Uni4
man Chemical Products, Inc. Mr. APO 115, c/o Postmaster, N. Y. versify.
Grantham holds the Ph. D. degree The Hickmans were formerly sta-
from Duke University, where he tioned at Ft. Worth, Tex. Joseph Leon Strader, '44, has
was a member of Sigma Xi and Phi
Lambda Upsilon. Mrs. Grantham
is a graduate of East Tennessee
State College and did graduate
work at Peabody College and the
University of Tennessee. She has
a position as secretary at the Ten-
nessee Eastman Co.

Wendell A. Blair, '42, is man-
ager of the procurement depart-
ment for the U. 0. Colson Co. of
Paris, Ill.

Harry Everett Estell, '42, is teach-
ing English in the Chicago school
system. His home is at 918 E. Hyde
Park Blvd., Chicago 12.

Opal Juanita Kelley, '42, lives
at 720 S. 29th St., Mattoon, Ill.

Ethel Cassida, '43, and Earl W.
Snider were married March 26 in
Villa Grove, where Mrs. Snider is
assistant youth adviser for Doug-
las County. The newly-weds make
their home on a farm near Tuscola.

Grace Ingram, '43, who teaches
in the Indianapolis, Ind., school
system, is spending several weeks

PAGE TWENTY-FOUR

mployed with the C?lumbia Walter Gerard, Jr., '47, and Mrs. trees in Shepherd's Field-and the

asting System, Radio Sta- Gerard are parents of a son born pageantry and drama of the an-

n BBM, since 1945. His pres- Easter Sunday at Terre Haute, Ind., cient rites which are still celebrated
tiot ~sition is as continuity editor.
where Mr. Gerard is a chemist for there. He has illustrated the book

Mr ltrader lives at 2120 N. Spring- a grain company. The Gerards with pen-and-ink drawings and

f1eid Ave., Chicago 47. have a daughter, Terry Ann. with the music for 41 hitherto un-
Margaret Mary Wente, '44, is an
Harold Fildes, '47, now lives at recorded religious folk songs."
~istant buyer for Marshall Fieid
634 N. Sangamon, Gibson City, A professor at various · universi-

and Co. of Chicago. She Iives at Ill., where he and Mrs. Fildes, the ties and colleges of the U.S., Mr.

5 9RE. . Bellevue, Chicago. former Ruth .Saxe, both teach in Foley is currently completing doc-
H. Jenne, ex-'44, is
a certified the unit schools. Mrs. Fildes ex- toral study at Columbia University.

~0ub6l4icL•icnccoolunn tant. His home is at pects to attend Eastern this sum- He visited the Eastern campus in
Park Dr., Decatur, Ill.
mer. late May, when he had speaking

Pollyanna Peterson (Mrs. Gus Ralph Closson, '47, was elected engagements at several Illinois

t,pp), '44, no":' lives at 303 E. mayor of Charleston this spring. colleges and universities. His pres-

larrison, Palestine, 111. He had been a member of the city ent major activity is directed to-

f lia Blanche Thomas, '45, commission for the past four years. ward building up interest among

is ipal of the Franklin and Mc- Closson has resigned his position American colleges in the Holy Land
Ki Elementary Schools of Dan-
as principal of the Lerna Elemen- Refugee Student Organization. The

ville, Ill. Her home is at 709 N. tary School to take a sales posi- organization seeks t-o place deserv-

Vermilion St., Danville. tion in Charleston. ing students from the Holy Land in

Virginia Kannmacher, '45, of Rubydean Heady (Mrs. Dwight college here.

•rtinsville, Ill., writes "My hat's Black), '47, and her husband live The original manuscript of Mr.

ff to Eastern's home ec depart- on a farm between Westville and Foley's book and his sketches may

... for providing a real, live, Georgetown, Ill. The Blacks have be acquired by the college library

ce-teaching baby.' " two children, Kandy and Diane. at Eastern.

ean Williams, '45, and Robert Mrs. Black gave music lessons last Willis C. Rardin. '47, is principal

Bliler are planning a summer wed- summer. of the Libertyville, Ill., Elementary

ding. Miss Williams teaches in Leona Wente (Mrs. Charles Eu- School.

laarleston High School and Mr. gene Barber), '47, is a housewife E. D. Wilson, '47, may be ad-

Bliler is employed with the central at 2008 S. Eleventh, Springfield, dressed: Box 452, llliopolis, Ill.
111. Don Shawver, '47, and Mrs.
tccounting bureau of the Wabash
Rolla Foley, '47, is author of a Shawver are parents of Paul Henry,
~ailroad Co. He is a graduate of
book, "Song of the Arab," publish- . who arrived April 3. The Shawvers
Millikin University.
ed by the Macmillan Co. in April. live at 65 East Dr., Columbia, Mo.
Jane Everhart (Mrs. Philip W.

Smith), ex-'46, and her husband In announcing the book, the pub- Orla Jean Kimbrough, '47, is

are living at 770 Plover Ave., lishers· say this: sales manager for the Nion Corp.

Miami Springs, Fla. Mr. Smith was "In 1939 Mr. Foley was sent to and lives at l 0630 Moor Park,

te«:ently called back into military the Near East from the Western North Hollywood, Calif.

tervice. Ye a r I y Meeting of American Naida Rae Bush (Mrs. Don

Charlotte Green (Mrs. Dick Fish- Friends, to supervise the teaching High), '47, lives near Ridgefarm,
of music at the American Friends 111. •
er), '46, and her husband are par-

ents of a daughter, Ann Elizabeth, Schools in Palestine, American Angelo S. Isola, '47, is employ-

born March 9, 1953. A son, Mich- Girls School in Aleppo, and the ed by the Sinclair Refining Co. of

ael, is five. Mr. Fisher, Class of American University of Beirut. New York in marine and foreign

1947 at Eastern, is a graduate as- There he collected information con-. operations. Mr. Isola lives at 6052

sistant in the botany department cerning the songs, music instru- Harper Ave., Chicago 37, Ill.

at Indiana University. The Fishers' ments, costumes, dances customs Wilma Guthrie (Mrs. Jack Evey),
~dress is 18-25 Hoosier Ct.,
~mington, Ind. and folklore of the Holy Land '48, and her two young sons were

Christian Arab. 'Song of the Arab' Illinois visitors in May and early

•inna Alice Hoult, '46, writes that grew out of this experience, and June before returning to Corvallis,

she is completing her fifth year as royalties from the book are going Wash., where Mr. Evey recently

hemaking teacher at the Chris- to the Holy Land Arab Refugee purchased a partnership in an ap-

man, Ill., High School, where a Student Fund which was organized pliance repair service. The Eveys

new homemaking department was and is now directed by Mr. Foley. expect to move into a new home

lcently completed. "In 'Song of the Arab' Mr. Foley this month. Mr. Evey's business

James William Smith, '46, has describes the folk expressions, tra- address is 809 Western Ave., Cor-

Epleted his second year of ditions, and brilliantly colorful vallis.
hing social studies in the Mat-
n, Ill.,- High School, where he Christian ceremonies of the Arabs James 0. Bailey, '48, is princi-

of the Holy Land. He pictures the pal of the consolidated elementary

perves as head of the department. biblical sites a n d t h e many schools of Kansas, Ill.

Sarah E. Fredenberger, '46, may churches and shrines of this small, Jack Campbell, '48, is employed .

fbe addressed in care of her home sacred area - the birthplace of in the sales division of the CIoll.ntHin~-
ress, 415 N. Sixth St., Marshall, Christ, the garden of Gethsemane, ental Filling Corp., Danville,

the Well of the Magi, the olive and Mrs. Campbell, the former

.. -· .·'

PAGE TWENTY-FIVE

Doris Hussong, '49, live at 1224 Evelyn Sperry (Mrs. Jack Zim- ed Jack ·Austin, '36, as city attorne~
Franklin, Danville. merman), '48, now lives at 2111 E. in Charleston following the spring
67th St., Chicago 49, Ill. elections.
Charles E. Moore, '48, lives at
669 W. Leafland, Decatur, Ill. Lt. (j.g.) Charles Bu:z::z:ard, '48, 15 George Reat, '49, was recent!"
a photo interpreter and photogram- named superintendent of the Cenj
Allen Monts, '48, and Mrs. metrist with TACRON 3, now oper- tral Schools, Burlington, Ill. During
Monts, the former Jane Lionberger, ating in Japanese and Korean the past year he has served as
'43, are taking an extended trip waters. Lt. Buzzard went aboard Central High School principal. Reat
through the U. S. West this sum- an AGC (headquarters ship) after holds the master's degree froni
mer. Mr. Monts teaches in the Oak- Colorado University.
wood High School, Muncie, Ill. a trip to Japan by. air. He left
Charleston for his new assignment Don C. Carmichael, '49, is a
William M. Rominger, Jr., '48 on May 2, following a training per- teacher in the Arlington Height~
lives at 712 S. Ashland, Chicago, iod in the Navy photographic High School in Cook County, Ill. His
111. school at Washington, D.C. home address is 512 W. Campbell;
Arlington Heights.
Ruth I. Good, '33, '48, formerly Herbert Lee, '48, teacher of
of Paris, Ill., is now teaching in the music at the Casey, Ill., High ';,·1muel Franklin Morehead, '49,
Libertyville, Ill., Elementary School. School, took a number of music will teach junior high math at Tay-
groups and individual students to lorvi lle, Ill., next year. Morehead
Earl William Jones, '48, has a the finals of the Illinois High School taugnt two years at Stewardsorl
new address: R. 1, Box 327-B-4, Music contests this year, where and two at Fenville, Mich. He has
Piqua, 0. several of them received the sup- done graduate work at the Univert
erior rating. sity of Illinois. _
Elizabeth Ruth Baughman, '48,
is a reference librarian with the Quentin Abraham, '39, '48, will Charles E. Anderson, '49, has ap-
Chicago Historical Society, Chi- be principal of the Oblong, Ill., peared before some 20 audiencel
cago. She lives at 1832 N. Orleans, elementary school next year. with his movies of the 1952 Olyn-4
Chicago 14. pies since returning to Americ4
Buren McClure, '48, left Ft. last August. The showings includEI
Allyn Cook, '48, joined the staff Myers, Fla., this spring for Macon, one before the Eastern student as-
of the South Dakota State College, Ga., where he is similarly employ- sembly and one before the Macori
Brookings, as an assistant patholo- ed by Sears Roebuck, as a credit County Eastern State Club. Mr. An~
gist recently. Mr. and Mrs. Cook department manager. The Mc- derson is basketball coach and as-
(the former Carolyn Shores, '47) Clures have a two month old sistant principal at the Bementj
Iive at 1119 Second St., Brookings, daughter, Sandra Sue, as well as a Ill., High School.
N. D. They have two daughters, girl of ten and a boy of six. Their
Jacalyn, 3, and Cheryl, 16 months. present address is Apt 16-C, West- Wesley W. Hilligoss, '49, plan•
wood Heights, 2901 Churchill St., to attend the University of lllinoi•
Marilyn Johnson (Mrs. Major Macon. this summer. Mr. Hilligoss is ~
Drake), '48, is a housewife at 501 teacher of art in the Springfiel
S. Elm, Washington, Ill. Mr. Drake, Jack Muthersbough, '48, and his Ill., school system, living at 236
'49, is an insurance claims adjuster. wife and young son visited in Illi- E. Keys, Springfield. Mr. and Mrsl
nois in June. Mrs. Muthersbough Hilligoss have three children, in·
Miriam Bland (Mrs. Milton I. is the former Arlene Swearingen, eluding a girl and two boys.
McMahan), '48, now lives at 321 '48, Mr. Muthersbough teaches a
Townes St. Extension, Greenville, general jet fighter course at Amar- Pauline Pachiar:z:, '49, teachel
S. C. illa, Tex., Air Force Base. Son Kim first grade in the Mary W. Frencl
·is now one year old. School at Decatur. Her address is
Joe Walton, '48, will leave his 605 W. Macon, Decatur, Ill.
position in the Lake Forest, Ill., Leo Bryant, '48, resigned the di-
High School this year. He is spend- rectorship of elementary education John A. Barr, '49, who ha•
ing the summer at his home on R. for the Charleston Community Unit taught in the elementary schools of
R. 2, Charleston. Schools this June and accepted a Havana, Ill., for the past two year
position with Scott-Foresman, pub- will teach sixth grade in Villa
Albert H. Eckert, '48, built a lishers of school text books. Bryant Grove next year.
new home during the past year at will handle sales and promotion of
1305 W. Seminary, Bloomington, the company's books in the central Art Glad, '49, has resigned hi~
111. He teaches in the Bloomington Illinois area, remaining in Charles- coaching position at Deland-Wei
school system. According to Mrs. ton until he can find a home nearer on High School. He will coach at
Eckert, the former Nancy Clapp, the center of his territory. the Serena Community High Scho
'48, Al did all of the work except in LaSalle County near Ottav.1
laying the concrete floor and do- Jack Sensintaffar, '49, has ac- next year.
ing the plumbing and electricity. cepted a position in the high school
at Horton, Kansas, for next year. Joyce May Grinstead ( M r s ·
Charles B. Ar:z:eni, '48, received Mr. Sensintaffar took the master's Feiler), '49, teaches physical ed
the Ph. ' D. in February of ·1952 degree in zoology at the University cation at the Lexington, 111., Hig
from the University of Michigan of Kansas and has done consider- School. She lives at 406 N. Pin
and is now employed as a research able work toward the doctorate St., Lexington.
botanist with the Firestone Planta- there while holding an assistant-
tions, Harbel, Liberia, West Africa. ship. Louis A. Urbancek, '49, has a
He and Mrs. Arzeni will be in trop- new address: 2718 North Pin4
ical Africa for two years, he says, J. Elwood Popham, '49, succeed- Grove Ave., Chicago 14, Ill.
and are so far enjoying it very
much. Edgar Wayne Sellers, '49, ha~

PAGE TWENTY-SIX

Lincoln Hall Scalplock William F. Morris, 'SO, has
moved from Aurora, Cold., to R.
Mabel Wilson (Mrs. Delbert Young) '31, and her daughter examine
a string of dance programs in one of the student rooms at Lincoln Hall Jack F. Zimmerman, '50, is sec-
with Hall Director Vanlou Patton. Miss Young and her mother, who live retary to the assistant vice-presi-
in f)ecatur, were College Day visitors. Delbert Young, '32, teaches at DHS. dent of the Illinois Central Rail-
road. His address is 2111 E. 67th
rnoved from Selma, Ala., to S09 S. Mary Jo Maisch, '50, lives at 861 St., Chicago, Ill.
Fifth, Apt. 19, Champaign, Ill. S. State St., Lincoln, Ill.
Fred Wilson, 'SO, lives at 2329
foster Marlow, '49, is the father Darrell Kenneth Biggs, 'SO, is at S. Westover, North Riverside, Ill.
of a son, Stephen Lee, born March Manteno, Ill., where he teaches He teaches industrial arts at Mor-
15. Mrs. Marlow is the former industrial arts in the high school. ton High of Cicero.
Patricia Brown, '49. The Reverend Earl Benoche, 'SO, is the Manteno
and Mrs. Marlow live at 4200 S. High School coach. H. L. VonBehren, '50, is superin-
E. Jennings, Portland, Ore. tendent of the Farina, Ill., Element-
Pfc. Bill Crum, ' 50, has been ary School.
James D. Boone, 'SO, coach at awarded the Combat Infantryman
lsmarck High School for the past Badge for excellent performance Robert Huffman, 'SO, is sports
two years, will be at Catlin, Ill., of duty under enemy fire in Korea. editor and advertising manager of
next fall, where he will coach high He is a member of the 7th Infantry the Robinson, Ill., Argus.
school football, basketball, and Division, an outfit which has seen
track. action in every sector of the Fred Kolkhorst, 'SO, is an adjust-
Korean fighting since landing at or for the Country Mutual Casualty
Leon Elliott, 'SO, teaches build- Inchon in Sept., 1950. Mrs. Crum Co. He and Mrs. Kolkhorst, the
ing trades in the Mattoon, Ill., lives at S22 Chestnut St., Mt. Car- former Imogene Engel, '48, live at
mel, Ill. 614 S. Austin, Paris, Ill. Mrs. Kolk-
.h School. His classes have built horst teaches commerce at the Oak-
complete houses since Elliott Stanley Martin, '50, will continue land, Ill., High School.
as coach at Tri-City High, Buffalo,
i anized the course three years Ill., next year. His basketball team Betty Jean Nixon, '50, is a secre-
won 29 straight games this year tary in the Sangamo Electric Co.
ago. Elliott is completing the mas- before losing in tournament ac- offices at Springfield, Ill. She has
ter's degree at the University of tion. The team won only four an apartment at l 018 S. Seventh,
Illinois during the summer ses- games the year Martin went to Springfield.
sions. Tri-City, l 9SO. Seventy-one of the
90 Tri-City High students went on Jennie Fern Brown, '50, teaches
H. Stephen Morgan, 'SO, will strike this spring when the board grade three at the William Harris
l>egin work on the master's degree of education failed to sign Martin School, Decatur, Ill. Her address is
~t the University of Illinois this at the s·alary he requested. A com- 210 .S. Fairview, Decatur. Miss
1ummer. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan (the promise was effected giving him Brown is working toward the M. S.
lbrmer Deva Kibler, '50), are par- a $900 increase. Martin is doing degree at Eastern during the sum-
ents of a daughJer, Gina. He graduate work at Eastern. this sum- mer sessions.
leaches at the Effingham, Ill., High mer. ·
School. Forrest Lile, '50·, and Doris Nel-
son were married -in April of this
Maurice E. Wilson, 'SO, is assist- year. Mrs. Lile is a graduate of
ant superintendent of the Chad- Bradley University and teaches at
dock Boys School, Quincy, Ill. . West Junior High in Kankakee. Mr.
Lile coaches at the same school.
The Liles now live at 370 Duane
Blvd., Sunnyside, Kankakee, Ill.

Arthur Ray Stough, '50, is an ac-
countant at Newport, Ind. His
home is at 409 N. Vermilion St.,
Danville, Ill .

Joe Stringfellow, 'SO, writes that
he will receive the M. A. at the end
of the first summer term at the Uni-
versity of Wyoming, where he is
a graduate assistant. He has been
teaching two classes in Spanish
there.

Paul V. Haase, 'SO~ married Mar-
garet Lawson of Terre Haute, Ind.,
on May 31. He is now in his third
year with the E. I. DuPont de
Nemours Co., serving as a yard-
master in the Dana, Ind., plant.

Jean Coon, 'SO, is now Mrs.
Royce Hinton. The Hintons live at
3240 Owasso Height~, St. Paul,

PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN

Minn. The Hintons have a daughter Ivan McDaniel, '51, is doing Schools. His address is R. R. l,
who was born in July, 1952. graduate work toward the Ph. D. Humboldt, Ill.
degree in entomology at the Uni-
Vera Ruth Myers, '50, is now versity of Illinois. He rooms at 303 Lewis Cox, '51, married Jacque)
Mrs. Robert Wieties, 1119 Reser- Harker Hall on the University cam- lin Gallagher on April 11, l 95;t
voir, Springfield, Ill. pus. Cox is currently on leave from the,
Huckaba Construction Co. to opert
Betty Mae Frew, '50, married James S. Waltrip, '51, teaches ate his father's farm near Charlesl
Edward Crona of Longmont, Colo., in the Lincoln School in Charleston ton. The elder Cox is bedfast witli
in June. Mrs. Crona has been teach- and lives on R. R. l, Mattoon, Ill. a heart ailment. Lewis and his wifq
ing at Canton, Ill. Her husband is live at 1210 Monroe St., Charlesl
a graduate of the Colorado State Lola Olds, '51, has a new Law- ton.
College of Education, Greeley, and renceville, Ill., address: 9 l 4
has been teaching English,. Span- Twelfth St. Anna Butler (Mrs. Freeland
ish, and history in Luck, Wyo. The Brown), '51, started teaching En!'.i
newlyweds will live temporarily at Howard W. Borman, '51, is a lish and journalism at Charlestol
R. 4, Box 84, Longmont. pipeliner for the Shell Oil Co. and High School last December. Mr.
lives at 235 E. Washington, Carlin- Brown was released from militarj
Harold (Steve) Morgan, '50, has ville, Ill. service last July.
left Effingham, Ill., to teach distri-
butive education at the United Jim Rominger, '51, recently com- C. Edman Adams, ex-'51, now.
Township High School, East Mo- pleted a signal corps course at Fort edits the Areola Record-Herald, a
line, Ill., next year. He begins Monmouth, N. J., and returned to weekly newspaper. He began his:
work toward the master's degree at Charleston for a visit with his par- new work in May.
the University of Illinois this sum- ents and friends. He reported to
mer. Fort Lewis, Wash., on May 22 for Polly Ann Lowry, '51, and Howl
overseas assignment. ard C. Hayes of Pawnee, Ill., were
Robert Lee Sinclair, '50, is a married on April 5. Mr. and MrsJ
graduate student at Eastern and Kenneth Wayne McPeak, '51, Hayes are now at home on a faml
lives at 710% Lincoln St., Charles- teaches industrial arts in the Mat- west of Springfield, Ill. Mrs. Haye4
ton. toon, Ill., schools. His address is has been teaching commerce at
908 S. l 7th, Mattoon. Tri-City High School in Buffalo, Ill.
Paul Eugene Cornell, ex-'51, re-
ceived the "most valuable player" Opal Alcoke Gillespie, '51, is a Richard I. Tomlin, '51, teache~
trophy for his play with the Pearl social worker in the Alton State science at the Kinmundy, 111., Hig~
Harbor Naval Base basketball team Hospital, Alton, Ill. School, where he was employed i~
during the past season. Cornell, January, 1952. .
who joined the Navy in October William F. Foss, '51, and his
of 1950, is a teleman third class. Irene Cook, '51, will teach first
wife, the former Wanda Beckett, grade in Taylorville, Ill., next year.
Paul E. Green, '51, is a radio in" '51, have moved from Belleville, She has been teaching the primarj
structor at Scott Field, Belleville, Ill., to 516 W. Schuetz, Lebanon, grades at Fairbury for the past twd
Ill., where he Jives at 701 Hecker 111. years.
St.
John R. Schaeffer, '51, is a Mary Patton, '51, is teaching in
Anna Belle Groves, '51, is a lieutenant in the Air Force. His an Arthur Murray dance studio ill
teacher of social studies in the current address is 314 C Hesse Washington, D. C.
Mayo School of Paris, Ill. She lives Ave., Apt. 445, Daly-Lewis Acres,
on R. R. l, Clinton, Ind. Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, Ill. Betty Jester, '51, and Charlel
Sellers were married on April 4.
Glenn M. Schauberger, '51, Robert Lewis Lanman, '51, is a The Sellers will live in lndianapoli
teaches music at the Kansas, 111., draftsman with the Central Illinois Ind. Mr. Sellers is employed by an
High School. He lives at 1609 Public Service Co. and lives at 813 insulating contractor of Danvill
Ninth St., Charleston, where Mrs. S. l 8th St., Mattoon, Ill.
Schauberger, the former Carolyn Ill., and Indianapolis. Mrs. Seller•
Widdersheim, is still attending Dolores Walker (Mrs. Harold attended the University of lllinoil
Eastern. Schmalhausen), '51, may now be
addressed in care of Schmalhaus- for one year and for the past yea
John W. Sullivan, '51, is teach- en's Drug Store, Olney, Ill. and one-half has been employ
ing in the Redmon Junior High as a child welfare worker for t
School. He lives at Brocton, Ill. John Richard Adams, '51, was at State of Illinois in Carbondale.
7092 ASU VINT-Hill, Warrentown,
James Raymond Davis, '51, is a Va. in May. His Army serial num- Lois Muriel Crum, '51, teachEt
social science teacher at Chrisman, ber is 16375689.
111., where he lives at 214 N. Illi- fifth grade in the Dennis School ot
nois St. Marjorie Lee Waller, '51, is a
housewife on R. R. 1, Belleville, Decatur, Ill . She is doing gradua
John Charles Price, '51 coaches 111. work for the M. A. at the Unive
at the .Lincoln School, Danville, Ill.
He lives at 1104 Voorhees, Dan- Ray C. Coffenberry, '51, . and sity of Illinois. She lives at 605 W.
ville. Mrs. Coffenberry teach at Toketee
Falls, Ore. Mr. Coffenberry is prin- Macon, Decatur.
Gerald Vincent Moore, '51 , cipal of the five-room elementary
works for the Franklin Life Insur- school there. He is enrolled for ad- George Pratt, '51, has been pr~
ance Co. at Springfield, Ill. His vanced work at Eastern this sum- mated to senior merchandiser in
home is at 844 S. Second St., mer. fashion shoes in the main officel
Springfield. of Montgomery Ward and Co., C
Wayne E. Rand, '51, teaches the cago. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt (the for
PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT intermediate grades at Cooks Mill
in the Mattoon Community Unit er Jo Waffle) live at 1101 Cha'
field Rd., Winnetka, Ill., Thel
daughter, Leslie, is 18 months old.

kussell E. Carter, '52, is stationed joyed all the Eastern basketball to continue teaching fifth grade at
lh the Army in Japan. the Grant Park, Ill., Elementary
games this year. She teaches in the School for the 1953-54 school year.

lfl''pavid J. Dunscomb, ex-'52, is Hawthorne School, fourth grade, at Robert Stump, '52, may be ad-
dressed at Findlay, Ill.
W~•thngthseerAvrimcey in Korea. Before.en- · Mattoon.
in the fall of 1951, Russell Delbert Dale Foust, '52, is a
Heckel, '52, is a Signal minister at Rose Hill, Ill.
re nscomb was employed as a Corps private and has been sta-
ician with the Paul Douglas tioned at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. He Peggy Jane Burton, '52, is now
Mrs. Len H. Vise of 1707 Campus
r'-hestra . was later transferred to the Casual Rd., Toledo, 0. She is a housewife
and teacher.
anthony Mazzara, '52, will Enlisted Persons Section, Camp
ach music in the Kincaid, Ill., Kilmer Personnel Center, New Barbara Christman and Patricia
h ols next year. He organiz~d Brunswick, N. J., and expected an Carriker, both Class of 1952, left
in early June for a two months con-
n trumental music program in overseas assignment in May. ducted tour of European countries,
ae Lerna, Rardin, and Ashmore including England, Belgium, Hol-
Robert Wayne Allen, '5 2, land, Switzerland, Italy, and France.
entary schools of the Charles- teaches at Staunton, Ill., where his Mi~s Christman teaches home ec-
ton tlistrict last year and his stu- onnmics in the Scottland, Ill., High
den1s had much success in state address is 431 N. Union. Sch:>ol and Miss Carriker teachP•
11usic contests. second grade in the same system.
Olen Eugene Brown, '52, has
2nd Lt. Robert Burke, ex-'52, en- been teaching at Oakland, Ill. William Bruce Moody, '52, is a
claims adjuster for the Travelers In-
tered military service in January of Robert F.· Roseberry, '521 took surance Co. of Worcester Mass. His
1952 after teaching for a time in part in one of the series of atomic current ·address is 574 Main St.,
the Tovey, 111,_, Grade School. ~e tests in Nevada. Private Roseberry Shrewsbury, Mass.
ecenfly completed a course 1n
Farad1ule jumping at Ft. Ben~ing, is regularly assigned to Headquar- Glenn F. Van Blaricum, '52, is
Ga It is given to volunteer officers principal of the grade school at
ters Detachment, 5017th Area Ser- Toledo, Ill:
and men from all branches of ser-
vice Unit, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. Joseph William Elliott, '52, is a
vice. Betty Worland, '52, has been salesman for Swift and Co. . His
June Squibb, ex-'52, and Ed- address is 704 Catherine St., Metro-
teaching English and girls' physical polis, Ill.
ward Sostek of Brookline, Mass.,
education in the Niantic-Harristown Beverly Jean Hunt, '52, is teach-
were married on May 18. Mrs. ing at Ortonville, Mich. Her ad-
J$tek and her husband are on the High School, Niantic, Ill., since dress is 347 Sherman Ct., Orton-
ville. ·
itlff of the Cleveland Play House, Febr~ary 2. .
aeland, 0., as actor-technicians. James Lowell Dale, '52, is at-
Both have summer engagements in Robert L. Phillips, '52, has been tending the University of Illinois.
ai,mer stock at Chautauqua, N. His current address is F-44-B, Sta-
Y. Mrs. Sostek has been with the teaching industrial arts at Noble, dium Terrace, Champaign.
aveland Play House for three 111.
years. Besides stage productions Mona Lee Cross, '52, teaches
there, she has had considerable Donald E. Rogers, '52, may be
addressed as follows: A/3c Donald
rience on television. She is a E. Rogers, 3275th MTW, B-102,
uate of the Patricia Stevens
eling School of Chicago. Parks AFB, Calif.
Joy Crites, '52, is teaching at
James LaPorte, ex-'52, is a claims
ad1uster for the Hartford Insurance Hindsboro, Ill.

Warren Leroy Ferriell, '52, is
engaged in the insurance business

at Decatur, Ill., where his address
is 890 S. Stone.

Jacqueline Cravener, '52, plans

Co. while attending the night divi-

sion of the Kent College of Law, Friends of Eastern
aicago. His home is at 447 S.

9urth, Kankakee, Ill.

Ruby Lagesse, '52, is a substitute

high school teacher in Chicago,

where she lives at 4613 N. Beacon,

9licago 40. Her permanent ad-

dress is Bourbonnais, Ill.

lorothy L. Groves, '52, is an as-

si•t dietitian at the Paris, Ill.,

aspital. She lives on R. R. 10,
ll"inton, Ind.

Melba Strange, '52, teaches at

the Pleasant Hill School, Spring-
field, 111.

Iris Johnson Gillis, '52, teaches Snapped at the Crawford County Eastern State Club me~ting this
art and social studies in the Dan- spring were Bill Schernekau, '14, Robinson contrac!or; Roe Wright, EISC

yille, Ill., public schools. Her home
is at 457 N. Jackson, Danville.

Florence Meyer (Mrs. Bert Her· Area CouncH president; Vernon Heath, Area Council member; and Pres-
rnan, Jr.), '52, writes that she en- R. G. Buzzard.

PAGE TWENTY-NINE

physical education at Park Forest, '52, has taught in the elementary teach industrial arts in the Franklirj
lrl. Her mailing address is 390 Ill., High School next year.
Dogwood, Park Forest. school at Muskegon, Mich., during
Rita Burke, '53, will teach food.
Russell Eugene Carter, '52, is a the past year. in junior high school at Pekin, Ill.,
clerk in a specialist school on Eta
Jima. He entered service in May of Daniel C. Ferree, '52, is in of- next year.
1952. He may be addressed: Rus- Gerald L. Cavanaugh, '53, ha~
sell E. Carter, U. S. 55254805, Co. ficer training at the Ft. Belvoir, Va.,
F, EJSS, 8098 AU, APO 354, c/o accepted a position as teacher of
Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal if. Army engineering school. grade eight and coach at Farmel
City, Ill.
Ens. Albert W. Fehrenbacher, Gerald W. Ferguson, '52, may
'52, is stationed with the Navy James P. Carr, '53, will teactl
Supply Corps in Guam. His address be addressed as follows: Pvt. Ger- grade five at Villa Grove, Ill.
is Box l l, Naval Air Station, Navy
No. 943, c/ o FPO, San Francisco, ald W. Ferguson, U. S. 55256088, Dave Cohrs, '53, will coach and
Calif. teach industrial arts at Saunemi
Co. B, 84th Engr., Const. Bn., APO Ill., next year.
Natalie Williams Clark, '52, is
with her husband, who is station- 301, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Mary F. Cline, '53, will teacll
ed at Hotel Bristol, Rue Dr. Klein, grades one and two at the Ullric~
Mondorf, Les Bains, Lu>tembourg. Cal if. School, Decatur.

David Henry Wilson, '52, may John Horsley, '52, is employed Marcia Clements, '53, has ac-
be addressed as follows: Pfc. David cepted a business education-libral
H. Wilson, U. S. 55-262-203, Hq. in the office of the Carter Oil Co., ry position at Sidell, Ill.
Btry, 90th F. A. Bn., APO 25, c/o
Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal if. St. Elmo, Ill. Mrs. Horsley is the Fred Davison, '53, will teacll
business subjects at Frankfort, Ind..
Rosemary Dee Stain Woodruff, former Dorothy Troesch, '50. The next year.
'52, is at home at 1412 S. l 4th St.,
Mattoon, 111. Horsleys live at 724 N. Fourth St., Neta Estes, '53, , has taken a
girls' physical education positi
James G. Kehias, '52, is studying Vandalia, Ill. at Colfax, Ill., next year.
law at the University of Illinois,
where he lives at 618 E. Daniel St., Margaret Ann Tate, '52, married Mary Franklin, '53, took a mi
Champaign. year job in speech correction in thd
Paul Allen Thornsburg, Marshall, Taylorville, Ill., public schools.
Earl Lee Brackenbush, '52, may
be addressed as Pvt. Earl L. Brack- Ill., on March 27. Mr. Thornsburg Patricia Gill, '53, will teach ph
enbush, U. S. 55298570, U. S. skal education and typing at Cla
Army Dental Unit, 5017 ASU, Ft. operates a farm near Marshall. He City.
Leonard Wood, Mo. He entered
the service last fall. recently returned to the U. S. after Martha Robinson Hurt, '53, hat
accepted a junior high music po5i·
Margaret Ann Wright (Mrs. 20 months of military service in tion at Allerton, Ill.
Dennis Gregory), '52, is now at
l 017 E. Walnut St., Kokomo, Ind., Strassbourg, Germany. Mrs. Thorns- Marilyn Huisinga, '.53, will tea
after teaching a year at Fairmount, physical education at the Cer
111. burg taught in the high school at Gordo, Ill., High School next yea

Olin C. Roberts, '52, is teaching Palestine, 111., this year. Marilyn Heth, '53, has a horn
in Robinson, Ill. making position at Morris, Ill.
Marilyn Lora Zimmermann, '52, which she accepted in mid-year.
Jesse Eugene Shoulders, '52, is
teaching at Bridgeport, 111., where teaches home economics at Cof- Barbara Hargis, '53, will teacli
his address is 1245 Judy Ave. and supervise art at Edwardsvil
feen, Ill. Her current address is Ill., next year.
Dick Davis, '52, is in leadership
school at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., Sorento, Ill. Nancy Hampton, '53, will be a
training to be an instructor. His speech correctionist in the M
address is Pvt. Richard Davis, U. S. Bruce Enselman, '52, visited Vernon, Ill., schools.
55298524, Hq. Co. 5th Armored
Cav. Gp., 6th Armored Division, Charleston on furlough in early Joan Ingram, '53, has a gr d
Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. two teaching position at Farm
April. He is stationed at Toledo, 0. City for next year.
Marilyn Newlin (Mrs. John
Fortier), '52, is now at 1305 E. Jim C~y, ex-'52, and Leon Louella A. Johnson, '53,
Walnut, Decatur, Ill. She has been teach grade two in the Taylorvi
teaching in the grade school at Fisher, '52, are attending the Signal 111., schools.
Bellwood, Ill. Mr. Fortier is in the
Navy. Corps School at Ft. Monmouth, Sarajean Jones, '53, will teac
grade two or three at Farmer Ci
Velma Lillian R. Montonye, '52, N: J. 111.
is a kindergarten teacher at Sulli-
van, Ill. Lynn C. Swango, '52, may be ad- John Kolesa, '53, has been hir
to supervise music at Cowden, HI
Peggy Fellis (Mrs. Dale Wingler), dressed as follows: Pvt. Lynn C.
Jeaneene Lane, '53, will tea
PAGE THIRTY Swango, U. S. 5525534, Hq. 45th homemaking at Pleasant Hill, 111.

Div. (rear) UPS 3, APO 86, c/o Marilyn Macy, '53, has sign
to teach English and speech
Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal if. Maroa, Ill. She and Tom North
'53, are engaged to be marrie<I
He has been "pushing a typewrit-
Gloria A. Mays, '53, will tea
er" behind the lines in Korea.

Melba Yuvonne Baker, '52, of

Wyaconda, Mo., and George Von

Lanken of Tuscola were married

June 6. Mrs. Von Lanken has been

teaching homemaking at Kenney,

Ill., during the past year. She and

her husband will live at Strasburg,

Ill., where he is employed as voca-

tional agriculture teacher in the

Stewardson-Strasburg Communitv

Unit.

Howard Nelms, '52, has been

employed to teach industrial arts

in the Mattoon Junior High School.

Nelms taught last year at Areola.

Paul Wheeler, '53, has accepted

an assistantship in physical educa-

tion at West Virginia University,

Morgantown. ·

Robert E. Adams, '53, will

de two at Modesto, Calif. instructor at the civic pool in Dele- Phillips Takes
ware, Ohio, this summer.
graP•t Major, '53, will teach grade Priricipa Iship
J. D. Anderson, '53, is playing
or three at LaGrange, Ill., in baseball with a Class C farm team Dr. Thomas A. Phillips will suc-
of the Philadelphia Phillies at ceed Dr. Ernest H. Campbell as
t1w9oN53•-d5i4n·e Medler, '53, expects to Granby, Quebec. His team is pres- principal of the Eastern State High
ently leading the Provincial Lea- School for the coming year, ac-
teach nrade one in the Springfield, gue. J. D. is batting .338 and leads cording to information released as
the team in runs and stolen bases. the ALUMNUS was going to press.
7:1 Mrs. Anderson, the former Millie Phillips has been a member of
Wilson of Charleston, is with him. the education department at East-
Ill •ystem. Their address is 31 Central St., Apt. ern since 1949. He is a native
'ioy Olive, '53, has a grade six 20, Granby, Quebec, Canada. lllinoisan and holds the Ed. D.
~ition at Edwardsville, Ill. from the University of Illinois.
Ella Mae Kercheval, '53, has
Margery Steele, '53, plans to been employed to teach music in Dr. Campbell will join the staff
grades one through five in the of the Chico, Calif., State College
teach •mmerce at Maroa, Ill. Shelbyville, Ill., Public Schools. at the end of the summer term at
Eastern.
Elaine Scanlan, '53, will teach Tom Northen, '53, will work
ptiysical ~ucation at Newton, Ill. with his father this summer and Dr. A. U. Edwards, who recently
next year in San Francisco. The received a promotion to full pro-
Norma Thomas, '53, will teach elder Mr. Northen is manager of fessor, will shift to full-time teach-
the Executone Communication Sys· ing in the education department,
.writing in the Rich Township tern Corp. Going to California with s:..icceeding Phillips.
• ~hool, Park Forest, Ill., next Northen for the summer is Goef-
frey Crewe, a junior from Brazil, No announcement has been
year. S. A., who will transfer to Indiana made with regard to Edwards'
Lois Tuetken, '53, will teach phy- University next fall to complete his successor in the Training School.
work in speech. Dr. J. Sherrick Fisher, specialist in
sical ~ucation in the upper grades elementary education who joined
Francis Onorati, ex-'53, has been the Eastern faculty in 1950, was
at f,\orris, 111. with the 40th Infantry Division in prominently mentioned, but has
Janet R. Venatta, '53, has been Korea. He received a direct com- accepted a position on the faculty
m1ss1on in the National Guard in of the state college at San Diego,
doing ~emedial teaching in the November, 1951, and entered ac- Calif., instead. Fisher's successor
tive Army service a month later. has not been named.
lower grades at Danville, Ill., hav- Mrs. Onorati lives at 301 Buena
ing ~cepted a mid-year appoint- Vista St., Paris, 111. Danley, Rardin Take News

ment. Peggy Ann Mattingly, ex-'54, Jobs Before Graduating
Margaret A. Wood, '53, has who has been teaching at Redmon,
married A-3c Ernest Mcintosh of Bill Danley, a senior this year,
taken a grade five position at Tay- Kansas, Ill., in March. Mr. Mc- has accepted a position on the staff
Intosh is stationed in Alaska at of the Evening Courier at Lincoln,
lorville, 111. present. Ill., to begin in June. His contract
stipulates that he will be given a
Carol Pullen, '53, and Ettajane Frank Bensley, ex-'54, an Army leave to complete work for his de-
private, is stationed at Fort Knox, gree at Eastern next spring. Danley
Jones, '53, were marri~d in May Ky. has been editor of the Eastern
State News this year. His home is
and will both teach in the Bureau Dick Barriball, ex-'55, has en- at New Holland, near Lincoln. The
1isted in the Navy. Lincoln paper is recognized as one
llwnship High School at Prince- of the best small city dailies in the
Eva Jean Moeller, ex-'55, mar- state. This summer it is preparing
ton, Ill. Mr. Pullen has a high ried Ben L. White last March. The a giant special edition on the oc-
couple make their home at Belle- casion of a centennial celebration
scho<I English and physical educa- ville, Ill. at Lincoln.

tion iosition. Mrs. Pullen will Peggy Pierce, ex-'55, and James Jack Rardin, a senior at Eastern
Martin of Lovington were married who edited the Eastern State News
teach grades one and two. in April. Mr. -Martin is a veteran of in 1951-52, will graduate when he
the Korean War. has completed a correspondence
Rose Maxwell, '53, will teach course in English. Rardin is work-
Carole Joan Bennett, ex-'56, 1s ing full time on the Charleston
in lt>ckland, Ill. ' engaged to marry Jack K. Buckler Daily News staff.
of Westfield. Mr. Buckler is em-
G. L. Barthel, '53, a transfer this ployed with the Martinsville Planet
and Westfield Review.
year from Westminster College,
Charles Pettyjohn, ex- '56, mar·
will teach social studies in the ried Carol Ridenour of Urbana in
April shortly before being inducted
Beecher, Ill., schools. into the Army.

Billie Lee Brian, '53, will teach

English and speech at Clay City, Ill.

Loren Blaase, '53, will teach
commerce and American history
at 'amsey High School next year.
Blaase and Miss Jane McCormick
were married Sunday, June 14.

Walter Dale Crumrin, '53, mav
be 111ddressed at West Union, Ill.'

Harris Moeller, '53, may be ad-
dressed temporarily at l 01 W.
Madison , Mascoutah, Ill.

Charles E. Cole, '53, has obtain-

ed an assistantship in entomology

at Ohio State University and may
~ '9ddressed next year at 238 E.
pventh Ave., Columbus, 0.

Jim Brubeck, '53, has been
9fa~ted an assistantship to teach

Jkisiness education at Ball State
~chers College, Muncie, Ind., for
next year. He will be a swimming

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