Eastern Alumnus Vol. 9 No. 2 (September 1955)

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Editorial . . . The Eastern Alumnus

Help Needed Again; Published in June, September, December and March by Eastern lllinoi1
State College, Charleston, Illinois
It's Mailing List now
VOLUME 9 SEPTEMBER, 1955 NUMBER ~
Income from subscriptions to
The Eastern Alumnus (which in- Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter, at the post office al
clude Alumni Association dues) is Charleston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August 24,
now adequate to pay for four 24- 1912. Yearly subscription rate $1.50; two years $2.25; three years $3.00.
page issues a year. Henceforth we Renewals, $1.00 per year.
hope to publish the magazine on STAN ELAM _________________________ ------- __ __ ___ ____ Editor
a self-sufficient basis.
K. E. HESLER -----------·--------------------------- Sports Editor
Beginning this October, a new
quarterly will be issued by the Editorial Board
Public Relations-Alumni Office as
an institutional publication. A four- Libby Cochran, '51; Hal Hubbard, '49; Hal Middlesworth, '31;
page sheet containing campus Elenore Moberley, '49; Louise McNutt, '35; Jack Muthersbough, '48; Dr
news, it will be mailed free to all Francis Palmer; Eugene Price, '48; Jim Roberts, '46; Mrs. Russell Shriver,
graduates. It will also go to alumni '09; Elsie Sloan, '24; Helen Stapp, '23; Alex Summers, '36; Dr. E. H.
who have not graduated, just as Taylor; Roy Wilson, '36.
fast as an address list can be com-
piled. We will appreciate your help These half dozen Eastern freshmen, representative of 52 valedic-
in compiling such a list. Send us torians and salutatorians in the class, are out to prove that good students
names and addresses of former have wide interests. The three men are all athletes and two of the girls
students who might be interested, are former cheerleaders. The third girl said, "I was always too busy
won't you? playing in our band to lead cheers."

Alumni Fill That L. to r.-Mark Gregory, a music major who played four years of
football at Moweaqua; Nancy Peterka, a two-year general student who
Skinny File--Fu II! edited the yearbook for Eastern State High last year; Louis Strack, pre·
veterinary student from Bement who is on the college grid squad; Kay
Last June your Alumnus editor Vole of Seneca, a home ec major and daughter of a former Eastern grid
asked for copies of the December, star, Jake Vole, '34; Chloann Moore, LaGrange, an elementary major;
1953, magazine to place in the and Harry Jackson of Farmersville, a social science major who played
files, hoping that one or two would high school basketball and baseball.
come in.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
As of September 19, when the
last copy was received, 17 alumni Eastern Illinois State College Alumni Association
had responded and the file is fat
with 14 copies of the magazine. July 1, 1954, to June 30, 1955 I
Giving copies and receiving sub-
scription credit or the one dollar Receipts Expenditures
bonus offered were Harold Cavins
of Charleston, Betty Jane Coventry Dues and subscriptions, Printing, engraving, and
of Findlay, Ernest Cramer of Ran- The Eastern Alumnus $1,446.63
toul, Maurice Foreman of Charles- photography for The
ton, Eva Honn of Mattoon, Chester
Hume of Seattle, Wash., Mrs. Lau- Sales of campus scene Eastern Alumnus ____ $1,530.66
rence Langford of Paris, Mrs. R. H. postal cards ______ _
Magill of Wichita, Kans., Mrs. Mil- 52.60 Stationery and supplies 53.64
dred S. Maurer of Galion, 0., Rob- Labor, mailing ______ 10.00
ert and Helen Mitchell of Bradley, Balance on hand,
Sophia Morgan of Glendale, Calif., July 1, 1954 _____ _ 556.18 Postage (mailing of
Mrs. Arthur A. Taylor of Evanston,
and Ritta Whitesell of Urbana (now circular on budgetary
of Carbondale). Offering copies if
needed were Bess King of Charles- needs) ------------ 200.00
ton, Mrs. Nema B. Whitehouse of Loan to Widger Scholar-
Highland Park, and Mrs. Lida Shri-
ver of Tucson, Ariz. One contribut- ship Fund for award _ 75.00
or is unidentified.
Balance on hand, $1,869.30
Thanks, folks! June 30, 1955 186.41

PAGE TWO $2,055.41 $2,055.4 l

Eastern Record: l,911 Full-Time Students

Frosh Wear the Green A record registration of 1,911
full-time resident students at East-

ern for the fall quarter of the 1955-

56 school year makes a two-year

enrollment increase of more than

56 per cent.

Final registration figures for the

fall quarter show an increase of

19 per cent over the 1954 total of

1,605 and a 56.2 per cent increase

over the 1,223 who enrolled in the

fall of 1953.

An even greater increase in on-

campus enrollment would have

been possible this year if sufficient

housing, especially housing for

w omen , had been available, ac-

cording to Dr. Newell Gates, regis-

t rar.

The increase results largely from

the record freshman classes of

1954 and 1955. The 791 freshmen

and 534 returning sophomores

A docile group of freshmen bought more than 600 bright green places the total number of stu-
beanies within a few hours after sales opened during Orientation Week. dents in the first two years of col-
lege at 1,325, a number greater

than Eastern's total emollment in

Homcoming Set for October 20-22; 1953. Some 60 transfer students
brings the total of newcomers to

lasses of '05 and '15 Meeting more than 850.
Of the 1,320 students who pre-

registered last spring, less than

Eastern's forty-first Homecoming Musical." New and old song titles five per cent failed to return, ac-

lebration will begin Thursday will be illustrated. The Alumni As- cording to Dr. Gates.

ening, Oct. 20, and end at mid- sociation proposes to enter a float The ratio of men to women re-

ight Saturday, Oct. 22. for the first time this year. mains approximately five men to

In between are the time-honor- Reunions of the Classes of 1905 every three women . The incoming

events- the Homecoming play and 1915 highlight the Alumni freshman class is composed of 502

t 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, the luncheon, which will be held in the men and 289 women, while the

eshman sophomore contests Fri- college cafeteria. final school totals will be approxi-

y afternoon, the pep session Fri - Indiana State, the Homecoming mately 1, 180 men and 740

y evening, the parade Saturday 9,r id foe, whipped the Panthers 40- women.

orning, the Alumni luncheon at 7 last year in the first game of the Evening and Saturday classes be-
n Saturday, the football game season. The last meeting prior to ginning the third week of Septem-
2 p.m., the various open houses 1954 was in 1951, when Eastern ber enrolled an additional 110
hammered the Sycamores 47-0. part-.time students, according to
er the game, the coronation and Dr. Bryan Heise, director of exten-
nee Saturday evening. Dan Bullie and his orchestra

This year the Players will pre- have been tentatively engaged to sion . These classes are taught on-

nt the rollicking "Time Out for play the concert and dance. Bullie campus.

'nger," which has had long runs features Johnny Desmond, vo- In addition, some 400 students

New York and Chicago in recent calist. A second orchestra will play · will be enrolled this year in off-

ars. It features the domestic in the women's gym to alleviate campus extension classes in vari -

oblems which arise when a red- over-crowding in the men's gym. ous eastern Ill inois communities.

ded female tornado makes the Nancy Davis of Lawrenceville Laboratory School enrollment

h school football team . and Judy Borchert of Morton rose from 265 last fall to 326 this

The parade and house decora- Grove are student chairmen for year. Additional units have been

ns will be based on the 1955 Homecoming . Dr. William Crane is added in grades six, seven, and

theme, ''Moments faculty coordinator. eight.

PAGE THREE

Accept Plans for $1,500,000 Lab School

Construction Contracts To Be Let mentary students in grades one kindergarten and grades
Soon, According to Pres. Buzzard. through six. through six can be operated
double units.
Final plans for a $1,500,000 Constructed of brown tapestry
elementary and junior high school brick, the building will be trimmed Sought since the end of Worl
at Eastern were accepted by the with Bedford limestone, similar to War II, the new structure will ac
Teachers College Board at its Sep- the Booth Library, Science Building, commodate the junior high sch
tember 19 meeting at Macomb, Lantz Gym and Lincoln and Doug- students presently housed in th
according to President R. G. Buz- las Halls. old Training School Building an
zard. the elementary students no
In addition to classroom space, housed in a temporary structure t
The plans have been ordered the building will house a double the rear of the Practical Arts Build
out for bids, said Dr. Buzzard, with gymnasium, an auditorium seating ing.
the possibility that the contract for 360 persons, band and vocal music
construction may be let at the No- rooms, industrial arts shop, home- The new building is the outcom
vember 21 meeting of the Teachers making shop, library, cafeteria and of a cooperative plan instituted i
College Board. swimming pool. 1950, whereby the Teachers Col
lege Board agreed to provide jun
An L-shaped structure, the two- The swimming pool is planned ior high facilities for Charlesto
story, flat-roofed training school as an institutional unit, to be used students, as well as additional el
will be located on the east side of by college as well as Laboratory mentary school accommodations
Seventh Street, south of Hayes School students. It will be 75 feet while Unit District No. l of Char
Street on what was formerly the long and 35 feet wide and will leston built facilities for senior hig
high school athletic grounds. have its own spectator area and students of the community.
dressing rooms. The gymnasium is
The 470-foot north-south wing, designed to be used as a single The Community Unit opened it
designed to accommodate some or double unit, with an electrically- $1,300,000 senior high buildin
300 junior high school students, operated folding wall located at this fall. Eastern's four-year col
will face on Seventh Street. A 270- the center of the larger unit. lege-operated high school was dis
foot east-west wing will run paral- continued with the close of th
lel to Hayes Street and accommo- Class room space in the east- 1954-55 school year.
date 50 kindergarten and 300 ele- west wing is so designed that

Two Years Before the Fact

This is the architect's version of what the new Laboratory School will look like when finished sometim
in 1957. The building will be placed at the corner of Seventh and Hayes.

PAGE FOUR

wenty--three New Members Swell · James 0. Whittaker, M. A., Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, replaces

Donald and Jeanette Kluge, who

astern Academic Staff to 160 joined the Illinois State Normal
University staff as assistant dean

Twenty-three teachers assumed new assistant professor and super- of men and assistant in the men's
uties at Eastern for the first time vising teacher in grade eight. He dormitory, respectively. Mr. Whit-
is fall. Eastern's academic staff holds the M. S. from the Univer- taker, now a candidate for the Ph.
w totals some 160 members. sity of Wisconsin, where he is now D. at the University of Oklahoma,
a candidate for the Ph. D. is director of Douglas Hall.
Eight newcomers are taking po-
Sallie Guy, M. A., Syracuse Uni-

itions created this year because Taking permanent positions on versity, replaces Maryann Ehrhardt
expanding enrollment and new the college staff are two teachers as an instructor and director of

rvices. Dr. Gerhard G. Matzner who came to Eastern as substitutes. Pemberton Hall. Miss Ehrhardt has

s the new director of research and They are Cary I. Knoop, formerly taken a position as dean of stu-
rofessor of school administration. art supervisor in the Laboratory dents at Elmira College, N. Y.

e holds the Ph . D. from Cornell School, who joined the college art Beverly Brissenden, B. S., Uni-

niversity. Dr. Leonard Durham, staff, and Dr. P. Scott Smith, assist- versity of Illinois, replaces Carol

h. D., University of Illinois, join- ant professor of physical science. Peterson in the division of food
the zoology department staff Gerald G. Green, M. B. A., In- services. She is a faculty assistant.

s an assistant professor to teach diana University, has been serving Miss Peterson has joined the food
iology. Dr. Robert J. Smith, Ph. D., as assistant business manager since services staff at Pennsylvania State
niversity of Iowa, is teaching in July l. Green is a candidate fot the University.
e chemistry department. He holds Ed. D. at Indiana .
Velva J . Osborn, M. A., Univer-

e rank of associate professor. Dr. Five newcomers are replace- sity of Chicago, is an instructor in

alter H. Friedhoff, Ph. D., Iowa, ments for members of the staff the Library. She is substituting for

a new assistant professor in the who resigned this year. Dr. Louis James Eberhardt, on leave for

epartment of education and psy- Grado, Ph . D., Iowa State Univer- study at Peabody. When Arthur

ology. Dr. Richard K. Darr, Ph. sity, replaces Dr. Thomas Phillips Fish, a temporary replacement for

., University of Nebraska, will as an assistant professor of educa- Ben Lewis, resigned late in the

ach economics in the social sci- tion. Phillips joined the education year, it was decided not to fill the

nce department as an assistant staff of the Northern Michigan position. ·Mr. Lewis resigned to be-

rofessor. Paul 0. Gurholt is the College of Education, Marquette. (Continued on next page)

Faculty members teaching at Eastern for the first time this fall include the above. L. to r., tront- Miss
rn, Dr. Barr, Dr. Darr, Dr. Liepholz, Mr. Gierhart, Dr. Friedhoff, Mr. Jones, Dr. Cox. Second row-Mr.
rholt, Dr. Grado, Mr. Page, Dr. Stevenson. Third row-Dr. Whittaker, Dr. Smith, Mr. Berlo. Fourth row-
Stockman, Mr. Hughes, Dr. Durham . Not shown are Dr. Matzner, Mr. Green, Miss Guy, Miss Brissenden,
Miss Below.

PAGE FIVE

Borrowed by Brazil • University of North Carolina, has David Berlo, a candidate for th
been employed as an assistant Ph. D. at the University of lllinoi
is an assistant professor in th
professor of English. Dr. David speech department, substitutin
Stevenson, · Ph. D., University of for Dr. Elbert R. Moses, director
Michigan, is also a new assistant radio, who is spending a year i
the Philippines on a Fulbrigh
professor of English. · Author· E. grant.

Hughes, Jr., a 1951 graduate of Mary Below, M. Ed.,
Agriculture and Mechanical Co
Eastern, returns this fall as an in- lege, is a substitute instructor f
Julia Kilpatrick, on leave for stud
structor in the business education at Pennsylvania State Universi

department. He holds the A. M. James Jones, M. S., Iowa Stat
from Colorado State College and College, will substitute for a hal
has taught for four years in Colo- year in the physics departmen
while Robert Waddell complete
rado high schools. the Ph. D. at the University
Five ne wteachers are substitut- Iowa.

ing for regular members of the Richard L. Lawton continues t
Eastern fac'ulty now on leave. Dr. substitute for Dr. Byron K. Barton
Verne Stockman, Ed. D., Michigan geography department head no
State College, will serve as director on leave to administer a school o
of audio-visual education while Dr. conservation for the State of lllinoi
Arthur F. Byrnes spends two years at Springfield.

as a State Department representa- Returning from leaves of
sence this year are Miss Ruby Har
Dr. .Arthur F. Byrnes tive working in the Brazil, S. A., ris in geography, Dr. C. · H. Col
secondary schools. Dr. Robert W. man in social science, Miss Lei
Cox, Ed. D., University of Michigan, Johnson in business education
Miss Catherine Smith in musi
is a substitute assistant professor Miss Roberta Poos in speech, an
Mrs. Virginia Hyett in elementa
(Continued from preceding page) of English while Dr. Ruth Cline ac- art.
companies Dr. Edith Haight of the
'La Boheme' Slated
come head librarian at Hamline women's physical education de-
University, St. Paul, Minn. Eber- partment in world travels. Ors. for October 16
hardt is expected to take the doc- Cline and Haight expect to spend
tor's degree at the end of this some time in Nigeria, Africa, with Four numbers are scheduled
year and return to the library staff. missionary friends Miss Haight the 1955-56 Entertainment Seri
at Eastern, according to Dr. Glen
Dr. Donald Tingley is teaching made while in China some years Lefler, chairman of the Entertai
ment Board.
social science in the Laboratory ago. Marise Daves, already a mem-
A Charles L. Wagner producti
School , replacing Lynn Barber, who ber of the staff, is substituting for of Puccini's opera "La Boheme
resigned to take a position in the Dr. Haight. will open the series October 16.
will be presented on the stage
Long View, Tex., High School. Director of Research Lantz Gym at 8 p.m.
Tingley has been a member of the
social science staff since 1953. The American Chamber Orche
tra will appear on February
John W. Gierhart, M. A., Syra- Jose Limon and his dance co
cuse University, joined the geog- pany are scheduled for Februa
raphy department staff as an as- 28; and a final date has yet to
sistant professor, replacing Dr. set for a March appearance of th
Rose Zeller, who retired in August Dublin Players.
after 25 years at Eastern. Gierhart
is a candidate for the Ph. D. at the Season ticket prices for adul
are $6.50 for reserved seats an
University of Washington. $6 for non-reserved seats. Seaso
admission prices for high sch
Dr. Roland Leipholz, Ed. D., students are $4 reserved and $3 .5
University of Michigan, is an as-
(Continued on next page)
sistant professor in the art depart-

ment, replacing Erving G. Monroe,

who substituted last winter and

spring following the death of Dr.
Mildred Whiting, department head.

Four new positions created last

year were filled temporarily. Three

new teachers have been employed
to fill the resultant vacancies. Dr.
William Armstrong, who joined

the staff last year, becomes a per-

manent member of the social sci-

ence faculty. Dr. Lois Barr, Ph. D., Dr. Gerhard G. Matzner

PAGE SIX

Alumni Nominate Merve Baker for Phi Sigs Erecting
op Office; Name Other Candidates House on Second St.
Phi Sigma Epsilon, Eastern's old-

Mervin Baker, vice-president of est social fraternity, expects soon

he Alumni Association during the Sig Taus Slate to move into a new $40,000 fra-
st year, has been nominated for ternity house the organization is

e 1955-56 presidency. A native Housewarming for .building on Second Street just
south of Lincoln. It is the first
harlestonian who graduated in New Home on Seventh house ever built by a fraternity or
1940, Baker has been a highly suc-

ssful coach of football and bas- Sigma Tau Gamma, second old- sorority at Eastern.
The building' will house some
etball. He is now head coach in est among Eastern's five social fra-

e new combined high schools of ternities, plans a special reunion 38 members and a housemother.
arleston. Baker was a four-sport at Homecoming this fall to cele- It is a two-story stucco building
tter-winner at Eastern.
brate the purchase of a new fra- with nine rooms upstairs housing

Two candidates have been nom- ternity home at 865 Seventh Street. four members each. The officers
nated for the vice-presidency, Don A large number of the fraternity's are to live downstairs and the
utton, '48, and Rex Hovius, '36. 456 alumni is expected to re- housemother will occupy a two-

utton is now associated with Mid- turn for a housewarming and buf- room apartment. There are meeting
est Homes, Inc., of Charleston, fet supper Saturday evening, Oct. rooms, a lounge, and a modern
hich is headed by former student 22. Wives are also being invited . kitchen.
alter Reasor. Hutton is a member
Claud Sanders is student presi-
the executive committee of the
sociation . Hovius is vice-presi- Jake Hallowell Dies dent of the Phi Sigs. Nolan Sims,
nt of the Central National Bank '30, president of the Phi Sig Alum-
Mattoon. James E. (Jake) Hallowell, ex- ni Association, has been instru-
The Alumni Association execu- '42, died suddenly this August. mental in making business ar-
e committee will submit to vote He was a partner in the firm of rangements necessary for the ven-
the membership a constitutional Dean and Hallowell, geologists, ture. Sims is manager of a district
mendment providing for automat- and lived in Carmi, Ill. He is sur- office of the Massachusetts Mutual
succession of the vice-president vived by his father and a brother, Life Insurance Company in Mat-
the presidency in the future. Robert, Eastern '39. toon.

Candidates for secretary-treas-

rer are Mrs . James Giffin, the Phi Sigs Are First
mer June Bubeck, '48; and Mrs.

al Hubbard, the former Violet

allen, '39, '52. Both are Charles-

residents.

Nominated to succeed Maurice

eman and Roscoe Hampton on

Association executive commit-

are Hampton, '18; Joe Snyder,

-'39, present president; Walt

armoth, ex-'39; and John Stoner,

-'42.

from preceding page)

-reserved. Season tickets may
obtained by mail from Dr. Lef-

ingle admission tickets may be
chased at the door for any of
four numbers. Adult tickets are
25 and student prices are $1.25.

rved seats are 25c additional.

wt Walker, an employee of The Phi Sigs will be first to own a house expressly designed
Eastern maintenance depart- for fraternity living when the above structure is complete. ;' : ._
t for many years, died this
mer. He was 86. PAGE SEVEN

Bendix Winner with Mount

Portrait

of an

Alumnus

Col. Carlos M. Talbott and Super Sabre jet

A United Press dispatch dated Point appointment put an end to bott himself accounted for two
Sept. 4 states that Air Force Col. Maurice's pugilistic career. the 12, but he was also in the o
Carlos M. Talbott of Charleston, plane the Germans managed
Ill., averaged 610.726 miles per Like that of several other stu- destroy. He parachuted into
hour on a cross-continent dash in a dents who entered Eastern in the area where U. S. forces were a
Super Sabre jet to win the Bendix l 930's, Talbott's rise in the Air vancing and German forces we
Air Trophy in one of the two coast- Force has been rapid. To win a retreating. The American G. I. w
to-coast races ending at the Na- colonelcy in 15 years is not exactly picked him up informed Talbo
tional Air Show in Philadelphia. SOP, yet Joe Kelly, '38, Hersch that he had attended Eastern som
Mahon, ex-'40, John Farrar, '40, time in the mid-30's.
Col. Carlos M. Talbott is "Maur- and Ed Perry, ex-'41, have all done
ice" Talbott, 16 years and many it. Maurice mentions having been "In all of the excitement that fo
achievements removed from the associated with Farrar at Air Force
ramrod-straight young man who Headquarters in Washington in lowed, I forgot the G. l.'s name,
spent three years at Eastern. It 1948-49. Talbott writes. "Many times sin
was on July l of 1939 that Talbott that day I have wondered who
began his military career as a West Doubtless Col. Talbott's magni- might have been."
Point appointee. After that date ficent war record had something
journeys to Charleston to see his to do with the fact that his group For Talbott's sake, the Alumn
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Tal- had the honor of flying the Air would ljke to enlist the help
bott of 300 Harrison Street, could Force's first supersonic plane, the fellow alumni in identifying thi
not be frequent. Super Sabre jet. But study and ac- "unknown soldier."
complishment (Talbott has the
Maurice's friends on the college equivalent of a doctor's degree in Col. Talbott flew 89 comb
campus remember him for indom- aeronautics) since the war played missions during his 18-month tou
itable courage and determination. a crucial role. as a fighter flight commander an
He did his best with whatever he group operations officer with th
undertook. One of his ambitions The war record is high-lighted Ninth Air Force, serving in En
while at Eastern was to win a Gold- by a story Maurice told in reply land, France, Belgium, and Ge
en Gloves boxing championship. to a request from the Alumnus. He many. For his part in the abov
He barely missed it in the 150- holds the Pulple Heart as the re- mentioned fracas he received th
pound class in 1939, being runner- sult of an European Theater mis- Distinguished Service Cross. H
up in the Terre Haute Star-sponsor- sion in which the group he led shot also holds the Distinguished Flyin
ed tournament. Then the West down 12 of 60 German aircraft Cross, and the Air Medal with 1
they engaged in a dog fight. Tai- Oak Leaf Clusters.
PAGE EIGHT
(Continued on next page)

Panthers to Play Nine Game Grid Schedule

Optimistic Skipper Indiana State To Be Homecom-
ing Foe; Twenty-Two Lette,rmen
Release Cage Bolster Big Squad of O'Brienmen.

Card for 1955--56 Head Football Coach Maynard There wi 11 be no "breathers" for
(Pat) O'Brien, above, undaunted by the gridiron Panthers in 1955 from
Twenty-two games and a holi- mediocre seasons since 1952, notes the day they open against Kalama-
day tournament are tentatively that "this is the best freshman zoo College until the horn sounds
scheduled for Eastern's 1955-56 group we have had in five years" in the curtain closer against West-
basketba II season. and is encouraged by the squad's ern nine weeks and nine games
rapid progress. later.
Three new opponents on the
Panthers' schedule are Morning- ers, I consider myself quite for- Following their home opener
side (la.) College, Wabash (Ind.) tunate to have been able to have with Kalamazoo on September 24,
College, and Anderson (Ind.) Col- participated in the Bendix Race Eastern travels to Evansville Col-
lege. Illinois Wesleyan also re- and even more fortunate to com- lege, Illinois Normal, and Southern
turns to the card after one year's mand the first fighter group in the Illinois University on consecutive
absence. Air Force to be equipped with weekends before reappearing on
these aircraft." Lincoln Field for the October 22
Scheduled but not yet approved Homecoming contest with Indiana
by the Athletic Board is the Quincy Col. Talbott gives much credit State.
Holiday Tournament at Quincy to his ground crew men at Foster
(Ill.) College. Other teams compet- Air Base. Their ability to quickly The week after Homecoming,
ing in the t6urnament December refuel his plane was one of the Coach Maynard O'Brien's charges
28, 29, and 30 are Rockhurst (Kan .), success factors . "We devoted a will host Michigan Normal; and,
Kirksville (Mo.), University of great deal of extra time to refuel- one week later, they will enter-
North Dakota, St. Ambrose (la.), ing practice," he says. tain Northern Illinois. The long
Illinois Normal, Regis College, and trek to Central Michigan is sched-
Chiefly because the six Super uled for November 12, with the
uincy. Sabres in the race had to buck season finale against We~tern Illi-
(Continued on next page) 70-mile-per-hour head winds, their nois on tap for November 19 at
speed did not equal the Bendix Lincoln Field.
(Continued from preceding page) Race record of 652.522 m.p.h.
Talbott's winning time was 3 Two of the 1955 road games will
While in England, Talbott met hours 48 minutes and 4 seconds be played under the lights. The
uise Jackson, an Army nurse, for the 2,324 miles from Victor- October 1 game at Evansville and
ho is now his wife. The Talbotts ville, Calif., to Philadelphia. the October 15 clash at Southern
ave three sons, Carlos, Jr., 9; are scheduled to be played at
omas, 7; and Richard, 5. Speaking by telephone to his night. Evansville replaces Navy
parents immediately after the race, Pier lllini on the Eastern schedule.
Col. Talbott's sister, Elaine, who Talbott made what Eastern alumni
ended Eastern for one year, is who know him will recognize as a Some 75 candidates, including
w the wife of Major A. J. typical remark: "I'll try again." 22 lettermen, reported for the
ghes, deputy chief of staff with 1955 season . Following the annual
intra-squad game on September
First Cavalry Division in Sen- 17, Coach O'Brien noted that the
i, Japan. Major Hughes was a coaching staff was of the general
ssmate of Talbott at West Point. opinion that the squad was far
ahead of where it was at the same
Asked how it feels to win the time last year.
ndix race, Talbott said, "Natur-
He also had high praise for the
y, I'm quite elated. The National freshman contingent. "This is the
best freshman group we have had
r Show and the Bendix Air Race in the past five years," he said;
re in pre-World War II years "especially when one looks at it
ited primarily to civilians. How- from the viewpoint of more depth
r, in recent years they have be- at more positions." Among those
e one of the primary means of reporting for practice this fall
playing to the American public were some 40 freshmen .
general capabilities of the new-
combat and support aircraft of The only freshman likely to start

U. S. armed forces. Since the (Continued on next page)
OOC is the first of the Air Force's
alled 'Century Series' of fight-

PAGE NINE

Grid Card Includes Senior Quarterbacks
Nine Straight Games

(Continued from preceding page) Gene Ward, Champaign Gary Anderson, Litchfield

in the season opener is Dave Fields, ball for Fort Benjamin Harrison, Cage Team Schedules
221-pound tackle from Danville. Indiana. He turned down a $7,500
He will pair at the tackle positions contract with the Baltimore Colts Card of 22 Contests
with Ray Fisher, 228-pound letter- this fall to continue his work to-
man from Charleston. ward a master's at Eastern. (Continued from preceding page)
Home games:
Starting guard assignments are Eleven home games are on the
still doubtful, but the four top con- Sept. 24- Kalamazoo, 2 p.m. schedule. Coach Bob Carey's Pan-
didates are Vincent Zuber, sopho- Oct. 22-lndiana State, 2 p.m. thers open the season December
more from St. Marie; Howard Cur- 3 against Illinois Wesleyan at
rent, junior from Urbana; Ron (Homecoming) Bloomington. First home game is
Leonard, junior from East St. Louis; Oct. 29-Michigan Normal, December l 0 with Morningside.
and John Keiser, sophomore from
Mt. Olive. Roy Hatfield, senior 2 p.m. (Parents' Day) The schedule:
from Champaign and a regular at Nov. 5-Northern, l :30 p.m. Dec. 3- lllinois Wesleyan, away
the guard spot last season, will not Nov. 19-Western, l :30 p.m. Dec. 8-Franklin (Ind.), away
see action in the first game because Games away: Dec. l 0- Morningside (la .), home
of a strained knee. Oct. 1-At Evansville
Oct. 8-At Illinois Normal Dec. 14- lndiana State, away
Bob Thrash, senior from Tolono, Oct. 15-At Southern Dec. 17-lllinois Normal, away
and Pat Price, senior from Charles- Nov. 12-At Central Michigan Dec. 19-Anderson, home
ton, are slated for the end posi- Dec. 28, 29, 30-Quincy Touma·
tions. Thrash, Eastern's starting Olson Moves to Tulsa
quarterback in 1953, was convert- ment
ed to an end last season. Chuck Robert Olson, '49, has received Jan . 6- Michigan Normal, home
Larson, senior from Winnebago, a promotion in the Carter Oil Com- Jan. 7-Central Michigan, home
will go at center. pany and has moved from St. Jan. l 0-Millikin, away
Elmo to a new home at 3503 S. Jan. 13-Northern Illinois, home
Quarterbacking duties will go to Oswego, Tulsa, Okla. The Olsons Jan. 19-lndiana State, home
Gary Anderson, senior from Litch- have a son, Greg, now six months Jan. 21-Beloit, home
field, and Gene Ward, senior from old. Jan. 27-Northern Illinois, away
Champaign. Captain Bill Hardin, Jan . 28-Western Illinois, away
senior from Carlinville, and Bob Hart Coaching at Kansas Feb. 1-Southern 111 ino is, home
Gilpin, junior from Atwood, are Feb. 4-lllinois Normal, home
the probable starting halfbacks, Dave Hart, '41, is coaching at Feb. l 0-Michigan Normal, away
with Roger West, junior from the Kansas, 111., High School this Feb. 11-Central Michigan, away
Wyanet, the number one choice year after some time spent work- Feb. 16-Southern Illinois, away
for the fullback spot. ing in the oil industry. He was Feb. 18-Millikin, home
formerly coach at Albion, Ill. Feb. 20-Wabash College, away
Walt Elmore, coach of all sports Feb. 24-Western Illinois, home
at Eastern State High School since
1948, has joined the college foot-
ball staff following the dissolution
of the college's secondary school
at the close of the 1954-55 school
year. Elmore led his 1954 high
school team to an undefeated sea-
son and the Eastern Illinois Confer-
ence championship. Elmore has
been assigned as line coach, and
Bill Groves is in charge of the ends.
Harold "Hop" Pinther will coach
the junior-varsity squad.

Ed Soergel, '52, one of Eastern's
all-time football greats, is "helping
out" with the backfield, especially
the quarterbacks. Soergel, who
played pro ball with the Toronto
Argonauts following his gradua-
tion, was named All-Army quarter-
back in 1953 while playing service

PAGE TEN

Eastern's Cross County Champions Rothschild to Head
Look Good Again; Have Four Lettermen Samoan Schools

Harriers Seek to Remain Un- llAC's Best Dr. Donald A. Rothschild, direct-
beaten in Dual Meets. or of Eastern's psychology clinic,
Chuck Matheny will leave Charleston in November
Coach Clifton White's harriers, to become director of education for
defending state cross country the American Samoan Islands for
champions, will seek to stretch two years . He has been granted a
their victorious dual meet streak to leave of absence for his period.
12 when they open the 1955 sea-
son October 8 against Northern at Dr. Rothschild has been a mem-
DeKalb . ber of the department of educa-
tion and psychology since coming
Four lettermen are returning to Eastern in 1934. He served for
from last season's squad that won 13 years, longer than anyone else,
five of five dual metts, placed first as principal of Eastern State High.
in the state meet and finished sec-
ond in the Interstate Intercollegiate Commenting on the new assign-
Athletic Conference meet. ment, obtained as a result of his
acquaintance in college with the
Heading the list of returnees is present governor of the Samoans,
Chuck Matheny, senior from Paris Dr. Rothschild said, "I am filled
and individual champion of the with considerable anticipation .. .
llAC. Matheny won the 1954 3 3-4 After all, anyone who has lived
mile run with a time of 19:46. for fifty-some years and has never
been farther west than the Black
Also back are lettermen Jim Hills of Dakota, surely should be."
Mitchell, senior from Newton; Jim
Edmundson, senior from St. Elmo; Mrs. Rothschild will accompany
Fred Gore, senior from Danville; her husband to Samoa .
and Wesley Walker, junior from
Danville and a returning letterman Line-Breaker and Custodian
from the 1953 season.

Sophomore Chuck I n g r a m ,
former Cumberland High School

arrier from Toledo, will be in the
ineup after completely recovering
om a leg injury he suffered be-
ore the season opened in 1954.
nother sophomore reporting is

ichael Harvey, former distance
unner for Paris High School.

Freshman candidates are Bill
elly, Chicago; John Miller, Dan-
ille; Dick Storm, Mattoon; and Le-
nd Tolliver, Louisville.

Eastern will host the state meet
ovember 5. The 1IAC meet is set
r November 12 at Ypsilanti. The
hedule:

8- At Northern
15-l llinois Normal
22-Southern

29- At Western

5- State Meet (Charleston)

12- llAC Meet (Ypsilanti,

Herbert S. Anderson, who at- Those long registration lines you remember at Eastern are fast dis-
ded Eastern in the early 1920's, appearing . Among the reasons are this and two other IBM machines,
now chief legal counsel for the operated by student John Jones, shown at right.
llman Company.
PAGE ELEVEN

Keeping in touch

; in the Mattoon Art Club, the Mem- The Fish home is at 335 S. Crescen
orial Hospital Auxiliary, and in the Ave., Park Ridge, Ill.
\\ Mattoon United Charities. She lives
at 1417 Wabash Ave., Mattoon, Ill. Bernice Barker (Mrs. Carleto
Albert 0. Bainbridge, '06, is _vil- Northam), '18, writes that "w
lage clerk of Saugatuck, Mich., and Carrie Mae Jordan (Mrs. Thomas moved into our new house la
also serves as secretary of the local Manuell), '12, of Decatur, Ill., December." The Northams live o
Lions Club. writes that "I finally decided to re- Vollmer Road, Flossmoor, Ill.
tire, and am having a wonderful
Agnes Barrett (Mrs. Clarence time ." She and her husband have Ritta Whitesel, '19, '37, move
Wehrle), '07, began teaching in the in August to Carbondale, Ill.
high school at Sandoval, Ill., last traveled this summer. Mrs. Manuell where she is now a member o
year . Mr. Wehrle is retired. The will continue to sell the Word Book the home economics staff o
Wehrle address is 317 N. Pine, Encyclopedia, which she has been Southern Illinois University. Sh
Centralia. doing during summer vacations. taught at the University of lllinoi
for several years. The SIU positio
Ezra 0. Bottenfield, '08, died Robert F. King, '12, retired last offered a promotion in rank an
last June. Mr. Bottenfield taught February l after ten years in Saudi salary. Miss Whitesel taught tw
history at Champaign High School Arabia with the Arabian-American weeks at the University of Wyom
for 30 years before his retirement Oil Co. He may be addressed at ing in June (her fourth summe
in 1949, and had served as an of- 714 Ninth St., Charleston, Ill. there) and flew to San Jose, Calif.,
ficer of the Champaign High for a visit with her sister Hazel
School Credit Union and as a di- Elsie Emily Beatty, '14, retired (Mrs. M. E. Volle), '26, '34, befor
rector of the summer school for a from teaching last June. She lives teaching in the second half of th
number of years. He held the bach- at 505 N. Webster St., Taylorville, U. of I. summer term .
elor's degree from the University
of Chicago and the M. S. from the Ill. Phyllis Alexander, '19,
University of Illinois. In 1950 he Nancy Alexander (Mrs. Harold taught home economics at Bell
received the Champaign Exchange ville, Ill., since 1927. She lives at
Club's Book of Golden Deeds for Y. Gray), '14, has taught in Cham- 427 E. A St.
outstanding service to the commun- paign since 1941. She lives at
ity. 1203 W. Church St. Ruth Hadden, '19, moved t
2211 Central St., Evanston, Ill., in
Ruth Hostetler, '08, an emeritus Mary Bi:-iggs (Mrs. Theodore J. August.
member of the Eastern math fa- Waddell), '16, has moved from
culty, of 1441 E. Edison, Tucson, San Francisco to Battle Mountain, Leonard Gle.nn Baker, '19, o
Ariz., returned in July from a two- Nevada. 739 N. Elm St., Greenville, Ill., has
month visit in Illinois and Wiscon- taught industrial arts in the Green-
sin. She was a guest of Ruth Car- Russell H. Anderson, '16, be- ville High School since 1920.
man, '10, in Charleston and visited came chairman of the social stud-
with many friends, including the ies division of the Pensacola, Fla ., Fortieth and a fiftieth reunions
Maurice Romingers, Maurice Hamp- Junior College in August of 1954. will feature Eastern's 41 st Hom
tons, Flora Balch, and May Smith. He lives at 3865 Menendez Dr., coming. Some half dozen members
Pensacola. of the Class of '05 have already
Oliver C. Hostetler, '09, is the indicated that they will be on hand.
only member of his class still Earl W. Anderson, '16, professor Mrs. Harold R. Girard of Newton,
actively engaged in teaching. He the former Shirley Money, is in-
teaches science and is a home of education at Ohio State Univer- viting each member of the Class
room director at the Evanston, Ill., of '15. Both groups _will meet in
High School. sity, spent seven months last year the cafeteria for luncheon and re-
new old friendships. Inquiries
Mary E. Fellows, '10, has moved as a consultant in teacher educa- about either reunion may be ad-
from 708 N. Coler to 410 W. Wash- dressed to the Alumni Office.
ington St. in Urbana, Ill. tion with the U. S. Office of Edu-
Bonnie Bell (Mrs. Clarence Love-
Susie Archer (Mrs. Nathan Flem- cation. _ land), '20, of 708 N. Jackson St.,
ing), '11, who retired from teach- Frankfort, Ind., writes that she
ing in 1950, is active in the William Weger Allison, '17, is took graduate work at Indiana
Women's Society Christian Service, now writing insurance of all kinds State Teachers College last winter
after a 28-year teaching career. and qualified for an elementary
PAGE TWELVE He lives at Flat Rock, Ill.

Frances Isabel Behrens (Mrs.
Carman Tisdale Fish), '17, writes
that her husband has been editor
of the National Safety News, of-
ficial publication of the National
Safety Council, for over 30 years.
She herself has been singing and
teaching singing "more years than
I care to remember." She has one
daughter and two grandchildren.

nse in Indiana. She already New Era, New Name
Id the high school license.
Robert J. Allen, '20, is chairman
the English department at Wil-

s College, whose staff he
ned in 1937. The Allen address

21 South St., Williamstown,
s.
ernon Barnes, '21, of 203 E.
ms, Rushville, Ill., writes that

daughter, Mrs. Richard Ste-
ns, teaches sixth grade at River-
, Ill. Another, Mrs. Ansel Bart-
, teaches art in the Rushville
h School. A son, Lt. Byron A.
es, is teaching in the School
viation Medicine, Gunter AFB,
tgomery, Ala. Vernon's wife

recently elected vice-president
director of the Central Region,

Federation of Woman's

Warner, '23, '25, took of- The name, "Eastern State Normal School," was removed from the
as Lawrence County superin- tower of Old Main this fall in favor of "Eastern Illinois State College."
nt of schools in August of Additional work to make the new lettering visible at a greater distance
year, replacing Glen Fiscus remains to be done.

ho held the office 16 years. department at Murray College. Cyril Bell two years ago. She now
r holds the M. S. from Chi- Virginia Alexander (Mrs. H. B. resides at 324 W. Seventh St.,
University and the M. A. Oak Cliff, Dallas, Tex.
the University of Illinois. He Brew er), '24, is a registered phar-
:taught and administered llli- macist and co-owner of a hospital Georgiana Coleman, '27, has
schools for 33 years. pharmacy at Casper, Wyo. She is been teaching social studies in the
• Mae Armstrong, 23, '24, a a member of the Casper College Kankakee, Ill., High School since
or of education and director Advisory Board. 1950. Her address is 728 Webster
Circle E., Kankakee.
reading clinic, Whittier Col- Alice Bernadine Abell (Mrs.
has moved to 515 S. Painter Lloyd William Daly), '25, writes Stanle·y Cook, '28, received the
ittier, Calif. that Mr . Daly, who is dean of the doctor of education degree at
college, University of Pennsylvania, Wayne University in Detroit last
r Dale Alcorn, Sr., '23, be- received an honorary doctor of June 16. He is head of the English
superintendent of the Cow- letters from Knox College last June department at the Grosse Pointe,
6. Mrs. Daly has been librarian for Mich., High School. He holds the
11., Schools this fall. the American Viscose Corporation master's degree from the Univer-
since 1951. sity of Chicago.
Adams (Mrs. Ralph R.
, '23, '26, of 4812 Oakland Bubara B:sson, '25, is now Mrs. Eliza Isabelle Basham (Mrs.
Minneapolis 17, Minn., is Clare L. Reed. She may be addres- Theodore R. Danner), '28, teaches
sed in care of Mrs. Shelby A. English and social studies at the
English in the extension Price, Brocton, Ill. Centennial Junior High, Decatur,
of the University of Minne- Ill .
is fall. John Fred Adams, '26, of 1306
Leland Ave., Springfield, Ill., gave Leslie Aikman, '29, '31, of 1712
J. Sloan, '24, dean of girls up teaching high school math and Lowell Ave., Springfield, ill., is
general shop after 20 years and superintendent of agencies for the
Edwardsville, Ill., High is now a building contractor. Curtis Circulation Co.
is an "All-Star NEA Build-
Ted Barkhurst, '26, is adminis- Earl A. Adams, '29, became
rding to the May NEA trative assistant to the superintend- manager of the Mattoon Imple-
, having recruited 13 NEA ent of schools, Great Falls, Mont. ment Co. last year . He continues
to live at 1721 S. Eleventh St.,
bers. Emily Heistand, '26, '27, the Charleston.
former Mrs. Lee Lynch, married
Mcintosh (Mrs. Max G. PAGE THIRTEEN
, '24, died suddenly of a

hemorrhage at the Car-
me in Murray, Ky., this
Mrs. Carman is survived
usband and three brothers,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Stanley,
on, D. C.; and William,
Colo. Dr. Carman, Eastern
head of the mathematics

Mabel Clarice Adams, '29, is as- Murvil Barnes, '34, principal of ing my age, having discover
sistant director of nurses- at the the Woodrow Wilson Junior High that the mother of one of my fre
Swedish American Hospital in in Decatur, Ill., has a new street man girls was in my first class
Rockford, Ill., where she lives at address: 1252 W. Decatur. Sidell High in 1937." Mrs. Cla
1316 Charles St. teaches homemaking in the n
Ronald A. Carpenter, '34, visit- Jamaica Consolidated High n
Kermit Dehl, '30, writes that his ed in the Alumni Office this sum- Sidell. She received her mast
son Ronald was graduated from mer. Since 1948 he has been gen- degree at the University of lllin
Oberlin College this June and has eral manager of a theater chain last spring and was initiated i
a teaching fellowship 'in chemistry and lives in Radford, Va. He has Kappa Delta Pi.
at the University of Michigan this two daughters, Donna Sue, 15, and
year. Mrs. Dehl, the former Goldie Carole Lynn, 13. Fred T. Hash, '37, '52, a teac
Hartman, '29, teaches half time at Mattoon, Ill., took the Ed. M.
in Mr. Dehl's reading laboratory Paul Barrick, '34, is assistant the University of Illinois June l
at the Oak Park-River Forest High supervisor of the Aircraft Tech-
School, where he is reading coun- nical School, Allison Division, Mary Rosalie Bear (Mrs. C.
G. M. C., Indianapolis, Ind. Since McClay), '37, writes from GI
selor. leaving the Naval Air Force he has
lived in Indianapolis, where the Burnie, Md., that she is on lea
Dolores Barthelemy (Mrs. W;;_ address is 6130 Carvel Ave., Apt. of absence from the University
B. Neidringhaus), '31, is a relief 2. Illinois for a year and is seeing
teacher in the Collinsville, 111., the sights around Baltimore, An
schools. Lee Dulgar, '35, is now director polis, and Washington. Mr.
of a fast-growing adult education Clay is a senior engineer for t
Gertrude Baxter, '31, of New- program for Thornton Township Air Arm Division of Westinghou
man, Ill., writes that she is enjoy- High School and Junior College,
ing her retirement. "My time is Harvey, Ill. Ray Baker, '37, teacher of soc
taken with church, clubs, traveling, science at the Grayslake, Ill., Hi
caring for home and lawn, and William Bails, '35, and family School, is working toward the m
visited relatives and friends in ter's degree at Eastern. He join
visiting and entertaining friends. Charleston in August and vaca- Gamma Theta Upsilon, honor
tioned in Canada, Maine, and ciety in geography, this summe
Marguerite Wigner (Mrs. Bur- other places in the East. The Bails
dette Rardin), '32' now lives at family lives at Coral Gables, Fla. William Ray Abernathy, '37,
203 Ave. A East, Barksdale AFB, principal of the Washington, II
Shreveport, La. Her husband is in Wilma Nuttall, '36, spent her High School in a rapidly growi
the regular Army. summer vacation traveling in area east of Peoria. The school
Europe. Among high points was expected to have 900 students
Helen Phipps (Mrs. Lester Van- the Wagner Music Festival at 1960. The Abernathys live at 4
Deventer), '32, is teaching in the Bayreuth, Bavaria. Miss Nuttall W. Jefferson St., Washington.
Cumberland High School near teaches in the Robinson, Ill., High
Toledo, Ill., this year. Dr. Van- School. Harry Lincoln Anderson, '37,
Deventer is a member of the East- 5521 N. Central Ave., Chicago
ern math faculty. The VanDeven- Willard C. Duey, '36, is the new writes that he has identical t
ters built a new home on South football coach at Springfield High sons, born on August l. Th
Fourth St. near Charleston this School, Springfield, Ill. He moved names are Michael and Melvi
year. up from freshman coach to replace Mr. Anderson is a training sped
Jack Turner as head coach. Duey ist.
Harland Baird, '32, writes that was an All-State selection in foot-
he is father of Pamela Fran, born ball while a student at Springfield. Sadie Abraham (Mrs. Maur·
June 21. The Bairds live at 1701 McCoy), '37, and her husl3and b
DeArmon Dr., Charlotte 5, N. C., Reuben Merle Allard, '36, has teach in the Rose Hill, Ill., Cons
where Harland is employed with taught at the Noble, Ill., High dated School. The McCoy home
Lance, Inc. School since 1940. at Yale.

Grace Bainbridge (Mrs. Bobbie Jack Austin, '36, and Hannah Blanche Hankins, '38, teach
Clark), '33, is the mother of a McAndrews were married Aug. 20. fourth grade in the Stuart Scho
fourth child, Lucille Ellen, born last Austin is an attorney in Mattoon, Springfield, Ill.
December l . She writes that Fran- Ill. His home is at 107 Harrison in
ces Fi nley (Mrs. Lewis Taylor), '33, Charleston. Kenneth Eugene Gabel,
of Charleston, visited her at her took the doctor of philosophy
home in Saugatuck, Mich., this Rosemary Baker (Mrs. Leslie R. gree at Syracuse University June
summer, Mrs . Clark, whose hus- Wright), '36, teaches the intermed- Dr. Gabel teaches math at t
band is a construction worker, is iate grades at Fillmore Consolidat- teachers college, Oswego, N. Y.
a substitute teacher in Saugatuck. ed School, Lawrence Co., Ill. Les
teaches industrial arts at the Law- Col. Joe. Kelly, '38, writes fr
Agnes Anderson, '33, teaches renceville High School. The Wright Marietta, Ga., that he is curren
first grade at Stewardson, Ill. home is at l 014 Austin, Lawrence- assigned as senior air advisor
vii le. the Air National Guard of Georg
Ivan Ernest Bailey, '34, owns a He is stationed at Dobbins A
coal yard at Evansville, Ind., where Josephine Baker (Mrs. Everett twenty miles north of Atlanta.
his home is at 917 S. Eighth St. Clapp), '36, writes that 'Tm feel- Kelly hopes to visit at Eastern o
The Baileys have three sons.

PAGE FOURTEEN

the Homecoming weekend. 401 Washington St., Fairfield. The Ankenbrandts were formerly
Rosemond Petty (Mrs. Ralph Mc· Harry E. Prather, '42, is now of Robinson.

lntosh), '39, writes that this past teaching at Oblong, Ill. Verna Lowry (Mrs. Felix Juska),
year the Who's Who _publishers Robert L. Nichols, ex-'43, writes '47, has moved from East Lansing,
found Ralph. Mr. Mcintosh, '37, is Mich., to 546 Beacon Rd., Silver
now listed in Who's Who in Engi- that he has been selected for Spring, Md.
neering, Who's Who in the East, transfer to the regular Navy after
and American Men of Science. He 14 years as a Naval Reserve officer. Ralph Closson, '47, underwent
is supervising physicist in the elec- A lieutenant commander, he lives major surgery this August but has
tronic department of the Westing- at 1906 E. l 24th, Seattle 55, now fully recovered . Closson is
house Research Laboratory in East Wash., where he is aircraft main- mayor of Charleston, Ill.
Pittsburgh, where he has worked tenance officer at the Seattle
for 14 years. His specialty is tech- Naval Air Station. He has two Bill Winnett, '47, taught in the
nic for electronic tubes and braz- daughters, one 4 years and one 3 Toledo, Ore., High School last
ing. The Mclntoshes live at 263 months old. Nichols contributed an year. His current address is 1600
Cascade Rd., Pittsburgh 21. article to the March, 1947, Alum- Holloway Ave., San Francisco 27,
nus after returning from an Antarc- Cal if.
Nettie Ward (Mrs. Paul Earl), tic expedition with Admiral Byrd.
'40, lives at 110 Avis St., Roches- Joseph Duane Beck, '47, became
ter 15, N. Y., where Mr. Earl is an Jane Lionberger (Mrs. Allen S. principal of the Table Grove, Ill.,
assistant engineer in the Eastman Monts), '43, sends her new ad- High School (V. I. T. Community
Kodak Co. power plant. dress: 3804 Brems St., San Diego Unit) last year. He has four chil-
15, Calif. Mr. Monts is teaching dren, one boy and three girls.
Emily Elizabeth Waggoner (Mrs. graphic arts in the Roosevelt Ju·n-
John Smith), '40, is teaching this ior High in San Diego. He former- Marvin Johnson, '47, has return-
year in the Russell County, Kans., ly taught in Danville, Ill. ed to the Southern Illinois Univer-
schools. Mr. Smith recently became sity staff after a year of leave
Mary Ashby, '44, and James R. spent in graduate study at the
anager of the Century Loan Co. Lanman were married June 19. University of Missouri.
f Russell, Inc. The Smiths have The newlyweds are living in De-
ne son, John Hiram, 3. Their catur, where Mr. Lanman is em- Dr. Claude Hayes, '47, recently
dress is 132112 W. Eighth St., ployed with the Standard Oil Co. purchased a new home at 2146
ussell. Mrs. Lanman has taught on the McKinley Rd. N. W., Atlanta, Ga.
business education staff of the He is head of the speech correc-
Mildred Adkins (Mrs·. Lawrence University of Illinois the past four
utchens), '40, a teacher in the years. Walter E. Gerard, '47, above,
arshall, Ill., High School, writes was named feed nutritionist at the
at she enjoyed working with Bette Juanita Sherrick (Mrs. Staley Co., Decatur, Ill., this month.
udent teachers from Eastern last Robert Albers), '44, has four Gerard has been with the Commer-
ear. daughters, Margery Ann, l 0, Juan- cial Solvents Corp., Terre Haute,
Alyce Behrend (Mrs. Porter ita Jane, 8, Rebecca Jo, 7, and Ro- Ind., in technical feed research for
II), '41, of 31 Michael Lane, Mil- berta Ela·ine, 4. Mr. Albers is an the past seven y~ars. Gerard holds
ae, Calif., writes that she has airport tower controller. The Albers the master's degree in science from
ree children, Stephen, 8, Dickie, live on R. R. 2, Robertson, Mo. Indiana State College, 1953.
, and Sally, 2. Mr. Hill, '41, is
est Coast sales manager for Flo- Sara Louise Bainbridge (Mrs.
1 Products, Inc. Irving Burtt), '44, writes that her
Mrs. Katherine Anderson Londo, husband is now assistant principal
of the Central Junior High in Sagi-
, '41, is a Civil Service clerk in naw, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Burtt of-
Immigration and Natrualization ten see Bertha Ridgely (Mrs. Rus-
ice, Long Beach, Calif., where sell Polzin), '43, who also lives in
home is at 330 Cedar St. Saginaw.

Virginia Aschermann, '42, be- Ferrel Atkins, '45, married Vir-
e secretary to one of the offi- ginia Anne Hogge of Hampton,
in the Staley Company in De- Va., last June. Atkins teaches
r last February. She lives at mathematics at the University of
N. Monroe, Decatur. Richmond, Richmond, Va. ·

argaret Chamberlin (Mrs. Don Phil Baird, '46, is now district
), '42, has moved from Metro- manager of the Massachusetts Mu-
s back to a farm on R. R. l, tual Life Insurance Co. in Olney,
nap, Ill. The Smiths' oldest Ill. The Bairds live at 324 N. In-
hter, Terrie, has enrolled at diana, Olney.
ern Illinois University.
enia Marie Allison, '42, has Mildred Allen (Mrs. Robert Lee
ht fourth grade at Fairfield, Ankenbrandt), '46, is now at 1824
since 1946. She now lives at Lowell Ave., Springfield, Ill .,
where Mr. Ankenbrandt teaches.

PAGE FIFTEEN

tion department at Emory Univer- staff of the Department of Exten- George W. Allison, '50,
sion Teaching and Information at teacher in the Olney, Ill.,
sity. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in School.
Francis E. Bailey, '48, now lives mid-September. His duties will in-
clude preparation of news re- Arthur Aikman, 'SO, is eleme
at 1317 S. Lawn, Mattoon, Ill. He leases and teaching a class in jour- tary principal at Cissna Park, Ill
has a new position as an insurance nalism . Black was a member of the this year. The district has just co
Charleston Courier staff since pleted a new junior high buildin
salesman. 1948. He became city editor in
Kenneth E. Michael, '48, receiv- 19Sl. Elmer Jamnik, 'SO , is in his s
ond year as distributive educatio
ed the master of arts in education Freda Roberts (Mrs. Lyle R. teacher in the Joliet, Ill., Hig
at Washington University, St. Beals), '49, writes that her hus- School. He and Mrs . Jamnik, th
Lou is, this year. band, a clerk with the Illinois Cen- former Nancy Definbaugh, 'S4, a
tral Railroad, is building a new parents of Susan, now eleve
Ralph E. Widener, Jr., '48, is home in Mattoon, where the months old.
now debate coach at Byrd High
School , Shreveport, La . He had Bealses now live at 716 N. Twel- Max W. Anderson, 'SO, taug
state winners in both debate and fth. He is doing all the work him- in Brown's Business Colleg
oratory last year . This summer self and expects to move in by Springfield, Ill., this summer. H
Widener attended summer school Christmas time. Freda also writes is a commerce instructor in th
at the University of Colorado, that her twin sister, Veda, is the Virginia, Ill. , High School.
Boulder. mother of a son, Kyle Jean, born
July 9. Veda's husband , Kenneth Glenn Mobley, 'Sl, is an ai
Charles E. Moore, '48, M. S. 'S4, Laffoon, 'SO, is a Carter Oil Com- man in the 67th Supply Squadro
is teaching in the American High pany employee in Tulsa, Okla. whose overseas address is Box N
School near Paris, France, this 92, APO 703, San Francisco, Cali
year. He is assigned to the school James C. Bailey, '49, head of the
detachment of the 77SSth Army department of industrial arts in the Mary Lape (Mrs. Gene Gresham
Unit. Hialeah, Fla ., High School, is the 'S 1, is the mother of Steven Brue
father of Bruce Dean, 1V2. The a first ch ild , born last Jan . 9. Th
Don Sullivan, '48, will coach at Baileys live at 7S3 E40 St., Hialeah . Gresham address is 118 N. Ermi
the Moore High School, Farmer Ave., Al qert Lea, Minn. Gene, wh
City, Ill., this year. He took his John Barr, '49, is principal of received the master's degree i
Peoria Spalding basketball team to the Lincoln School, Clinton, Ill. The agronomy from South Dakot
the state tournament last year. Barrs have two children, Audrey State College last year, is a sale
and Bobby. man for the Smith Douglas Ferti
Lloyd Steen, '49, was named izer Co. at Albert Lea . He sold mor
superintendent of the Steger, Ill., Charles Bartimus, '49, is princi- than $1,000,000 worth of fertiliz
School District this summer. He pal of the elementary school at in his first year.
was assistant superintendent last Seward, Ill.
year. Steen holds the master's de- Duane Bruce, 'Sl, is the fath
gree from Indiana University. William H. Barr, 'SO, is now of Anthony Duane, born this A
teaching at Sims, Ill. gust. Bruce is a staff sergeant st
Howard Barnes, '49, coach at t ioned at Lowry Air Force Bas
Unity High, Tolono, Ill., for many Everett Franklin Morris, 'SO, re- Denver, Colo. Mrs. Bruce is th
years, has taken a position as as- ceived the Ph . D. at the State Uni- former Julia Post, 'S4.
.. sistant in football and basketball versity of Iowa in August.
at the Wheaton, Iii., High School. Don Rothschild, 'S 1, and
Don Davis, 'SO, resigned from Niemeyer, 'S2, were married i
John Barrett, '49, now lives at his position in the Areola, Ill., High June . Rothschild is an engineer f
1S24 Division St., Apt. A, Charles- School to become office manager the International Business Mac
ton, Ill. He is an accountant for for the Brosam Construction Co. ines Corp. Mrs . Rothschild h
Sears Roebuck in the company's of Charleston this summer. taught home economics at lllinoi
southern Ill ino is stores. Wesleyan University, Bloomington
Jerry Dean Bell, 'SO, is the father for the past two years . The Roth
George Reat, '49, is the father of a son born in Charleston in childs now make their home
of Hollis Anne, born Sept. 12. A June. 1901 E. Hunter Ave. in Bloomin
son , Michael, is 3 V2. Reat is super- ton, Il l.
intendent of schools at Burlington, Everett F. Morris, 'SO, has com-
Il l. pleted his work at the University Helen Penn (Mrs. Herbert
of Iowa and is now teaching in Coslow), 'S l, writes that she bega
Jeanne Ashby (Mrs. Ben P. the biology department, Millikin her fifth year of teaching in th
Hall), '49, is the mother of Jane, University, Decatur, Ill. Lovington, Ill., High School thi
born June 27. Mr . Hall is a dis- fall. The Coslows have built
trict manager for the Ralston Kathleen Nelson (Mrs. Harold ranch style home on the west edg
Purina Co. The Halls live at 1104 Sprehe), 'SO, is now at 2S02 Grove of Lovington . Mrs. Coslow wa
S. Mattis, Champaign, Ill. E, Boulder, Colo., where Mr. secretary-treasurer of the Moultri
Sprehe is a student at Colorado County Education Association las
Charles David Anderson, '49, Un iversity . Last summer the year and has been elected vie
began teaching in the Arlington Sprehes lived at Grand Junction,
Heights, Ill ., elementary system where Mr . Sprehe played semi-
last year. The address is 1OOS N. pro baseball.
Dunton, Arlington Heights.

Robert W. Black, '49, joined the

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president for this year. Gene E. Haney, '51, has been biological and medical division of

Shirley Fisher (Mrs. Peter Eva,s, a staff sergeant with the Air Force the Argonne National Laboratory.

Jr.), '51, is a housewife and mother Band at Stewart AFB, Tenn. He ex- "Janet isolates paramecia, and I

at 4004 Windsor Ave ., Dallas, Tex. pected to enroll for graduate work bleed rabbits. Nothing new or ex-

Bob Sterling, '51, moved back at Eastern this fall if released from citing else to report. (I did too pass

from Kankakee to the Oak Lawn service in time . the Junior English Exam .)"

schools this fall. He is working to- Wayne Rand, '51, committed sui- Robert L. Weppler, '52, is teach-

ward the Ph. D. in history at the cide at his home in Cooks Mill, 111., ing industrial arts in the Oblong,

University of 111 ino is. on Aug. 4. Rand had been work- Ill., High School this year.

Gaydon. Brandt, '51, received the ing toward the master's degree at Wilma Rosebraugh, '52, and

master's degree from Southern Illi- Eastern. He had taught for 17 years Carl 0 . Anderson were married

nois University in June. He is now at Cooks Mill. last June 25 . Mr. Anderson is a

a speech correctionist in the De- Marion Frances Railsback, '51 , farmer near Deer Creek, Ill. Mrs.

Kalb, Ill., public schools. studied at the University of Colo- Anderson has taught at the Minier,

John Schnarr, '51, is back with rado this summer. Her permanent Ill., High School for the past three

the Ohio Oil Company at Mt. Car- address is 14 Tuttle Ave., Claren- years.

mel, Ill ., after a serious illness last don Hills, Ill. Arthur Carlton, '52, is the new

winter. He and Mrs . Schnarr are Jane Louise Baker (Mrs. Thomas Stockland, Ill., High School prin-
parents of a baby girl, Christie E. Clements), '51, is the mother of cipal. He spent three years as ele-

Lynn . two children, Thomas Allen and mentary principal at Ashkum, Ill.,

Jeanne Barth (Mrs. Bobby Cox) Mary Elizabeth . Mr. Clements is and this year received the master's
'51, and Mr. Cox, '52, both receiv- a student at the University of Illi- degree in education at the Univer-

ed the M. A. degree at the State nois College of Agriculture, living sity of Illinois.
Dick Davis, '52, has been em-
University of Iowa in August. at 1117 W. Illinois, Urbana.

John Bell, '51, is an instructor Sarah Jane Bartholomew, '51, ployed with the Rawlings Sporting

at the Valparaiso, Ind., Technical teaches in Miami, Fla., where her Goods Company for the past seven

Institute. His address is 258 Green- address is 5541 N. W. Miami Court, months . At present he is in the

ich, Valparaiso. Miami 37. company's sales training program.

Louise Delap, '51, took a three- Lowell Eugene Ande.rson, '51, He may be addressed in care of
week vacation in Florida and Cuba principal of the Royal, Ill., Elemen- Rawlings, Lucas Ave . at 23rd, St.
his summer. She teaches third tary School, is the father of a Louis 3, Mo.
grade at the Hay-Edwards School Capt. Lewis D. McMillan, '52,
n Springfield, Ill. fourth child, Jacci Lynn, born July
28. may be addressed at 3839 Kidd Dr.,
George Pratt, '51 , of 1509 As- Jack Winkleblack, '51, is work- Honolulu 18, Hawaii.
ury, Winnetka, is the fatber of a Dorothy Jeanette Dillman (Mrs.
cond set of twins, a son and a ing in the office of Midwest Homes
aughter, born Sept. l 0. They have in Mattoon, Ill. He spent four years Gerald R. Baker), '52, writes that
in the Navy following graduation she is again teaching in the busi-
n named Je·an and Douglas. from Eastern. Mrs. Winkleblack is ness department of the Mattoon,
ffrey and Elizabeth are now one secretary to President R. G. Buz- Ill., High School. Jerry is still sell-
d one-half and Leslie is four. ing for the Lindley Chevrolet Co.,
rs. Pratt is the former Jo Waffle, zard at Eastern.
x-'51 . Mr. Pratt is a merchandiser John E. Hunt, '52, is finishing now located in Mattoon. The Baker
his master's degree in industrial · address: 321 N. 35th, Mattoon.
r Montgomery Ward in Chicago. education at Wayne University. Marilyn Newlin (Mrs. John

Kenneth Sedgwick, '51, and Mrs . He moved from the Brandon Town- Fortier), '52, is the mother of Mark

dgwick, the former Dora Louise ship Schools of Ortonville, Mich., Allen, born last Jan. 21 . Also in

wer, '52, are parents of Kim to Waterford High School; also in January the Fortiers moved into a

n, born this summer. Michigan, this year. During the new home at 3163 Stevely Ave.,

Marilla Carson (Mrs. A. B. Cross- past summer he and Mrs. Hunt Long Beach 8, Calif. Mr. Fortier,

it, Jr.), '51, writes to correct a operated a Dairy Queen store ex-'51, is a truck salesman for In-

graphical error in the June which they built last fall. ternational Harvester in Los Ange-

mnus. The Crosswait's daugh- · Norma Metter (Mrs. Jeffrey les.

is named Susan . The Crosswaits Crewe), '52, wrote in June that Mary Cole (Mrs. Paul Arnold),

e a new address: 962 Hillsboro Jeff joined the Upjohn Pharmaceu- '52, writes that she and Paul

., Edwardsville, Ill. Mr. Cross- tical Co. and has been sent to Tor- moved into a new home at Mc-

it is now employed with the onto, Canada, for a period of six Leansboro, Ill., this summer. Mr.

ardsville lntelligencer. to eight months . During this per- Arnold teaches industrial arts in

Joan Madden (Mrs. D. W. Frank), iod the Crewes are at 1582 Bath- the McLeansboro High School.

, is with her husband at 29 W. urst, Apt. 309, Toronto, Ontario. Bill Balch, '52, left his teaching

Air Ave., Aberdeen, Md ., Frank A. Fraembs, '52, writes position at Byron, Ill., this summer

re he is stationed with the that he and Janet (the former Janet to establish the Balch Insurance

y. The Franks expect a child in E. Railsback, '52) are still working Agency in Effingham, Ill., where

ber. as research technicians for the he lives at 401 W. Clark.

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Billy Del Williams, '52, is teach- Carlyle High School. Joseph E. · Block, '54, is now Ii
ing at 1445 Gilbert St., Haywar
ing in the North Clay High School, Lois Tuetken, 53, married Calif. He is in service with the
Leonard Hansen of Morris, Ill., last S. Air Force.
Louisville, Ill. June 19. She continues as teacher
of physical education in the upper Ted Ellis, '53, is a Marine Cor
Mrs. Marion James Akers, '52, grades of the Morris elementary first lieutenant stationed at Cam
system. The Hansens Iive at l 04 l Y2 Pendleton, Calif. He coached ba
a teacher of French and English in Wauponsee St., Morris. ketball for the Third Tank Battali
in South Camp Fuju, Japan, la
Centerville, Calif., attended Laval Verna Ballard, '53, a teacher in season, winning 21 and losing
the East Peoria Elementary School, He spent l l months in Japan,
University, Quebec, this summer. lives at 362 Crescent Ave., Peoria, month and a half in Korea, and
Ill. month in other parts of the Eas
Richard Allison, '52, attended He is now recon ' and liaison off
Margaret Anne Wood, '53, be- cer for the First Tank Battalio
the summer session at the Univer- gan teaching fifth grade in the with additional duty as educatio
Coleman School, Elgin, Ill., this fall. and information officer.
sity of Illinois this summer, re-
Jack Rardin, '53, has received Jerry Stanley, son of Monty Sta
turning to his speech correction his release from the Army and is ley, '53, competed this summer i
editing the Charleston Daily News an amateur contest broadcast ov
work at Pana in September. His with his father. Television Station WTHI of Terr
Haute. Monty is a teacher a
wife, Martha, is a staff nurse at Don T. Beagle, '54, is stationed Flora, Ill. He and Mrs. Stanley oper
near Seoul, Korea, in the Army. He ated the Stanley Dance Studio i
Huber Hospital, Pana. · expects to return to the States in Charleston while he was a studen
November. at Eastern.
Harold McCoy; '52, and Mrs. Mc-
Patricia Major (Mrs. Nelson M
Coy, the former Linda Levitt, '5 l, Mullen), '53, and her husband ar
at 1237 Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ga.
are parents of Noel Ray, born where he is currently statione
with the Army.
Sept. 7. Daughter Sarah Lynn is 2.
Betty Harrison, '53, and Bobb
The McCoys live on R. R. l, Hills- Lee Yaw were married last Apri
9 in · Beecher, Ill. Marilyn Het
dale, Ill. (Mrs. Milford Larson), '53, and he
husband, of Morris, Ill., were at
Robert Wayne Allen, '52, of tendants. The Yaws live at Beecher

1391 Livingston, Carlyle, Ill., is Elizabeth De.Pew, '53, M. S. '54
is teaching vocal music in the el
teaching industrial arts in the mentary schools at Libertyville
Ill., this year.
Out for Medalist No. 20
Robert F. Zeigel, '53, receive
The Eastern State News, winner of 19 straight Medalist awards from the A. M. degree at Harvard Uni
the Columbia University-sponsored national press association, will be versity last June 16. He is no
striving for its twenti.eth this yea_r under Editor Jim Garner, right, and working toward the doctorate.
Marcel Pacatte, center.' Clare Emmerich, left, edited the summer editions.
James A. Lynch, '53, and Mrs
Lynch of Somonauk, Ill., are par
ents of John Michael, born in Au
gust. They have another son
named James Arthur.

Carel Wolven (Mrs. Paul Ri
manic), '53, is the mother of Lynn
Ann, born July 27. Since Septem
ber l, the Rittmanic address ha
been Staff House, Dixon Stat
School, Dixon, Ill.

John Simmons, '53, is now set
ting up a speech correction pr
gram in four · school district
around Girard, Pa. He received th
master's degree in clinical speech
at Pennsylvania State University in

PAGE EIGHTEEN

August. The Simmons address is High School this year. team makes to different military
317 E. Main St., Girard. Samuel C.- Von Brock, '54, is a posts in Austria and Germany.

Fred Voigt, '53, is teaching in member of a hand-picked five-man Tom Hashbarger, '54, is in flight
the Mt. Pulaski, Ill., High School. team experimenting with a new training with the Naval Air Cadets.
method of pr'esentation in the cur- He wrote in June, when stationed
Frank Salamone, '53, and Mar- rent information and education at Foley, Ala., that six Eastern
gery Alter, '54, were married on program of the Seventh Army in alumni were in the NavCad pro-
Aug. 7. The Salamones are now West Germany. The team, com- gram.
making their home in Milwaukee, posed of college-trained men, rep-
Wis., where Mrs. Salamone is resents different fields, such as Carolyn Hill (Mrs. Robert Lee
teaching in the sixth grade in the business, public relations, theology, Washington), '54, studied at East-
city system, and Mr. Salamone and education. If effective, the ern this summer. Mr. Hill, also
will continue his medical educa- program may be established on an Class of '54, remained in Cali-
tion at the Marquette University Army-wide basis. Von Brock hopes fornia to attend a geography camp
Medical School. to be released from service next sponsored by UCLA, wher.e he is
summer. a graduate student.
Nadine Medler, '53, and Robert
A. Plemitscher were married this Wilda Hoskins, 54, and Richard Mrs. Erma Thompson Hyland,
summer. Mrs. Plemitscher is teach- Francis were married on June 5. '54, moved in August from Villa
ing in the Springfield, Ill., elemen- They are making their home in Grove to 405 Fredonia Ave.,
tary school system and Mr. Plemit- Charleston, Ill., following a wed- Peoria, Ill.
ding trip to New Orleans.
her is a draftsman for Allis- Barbara Ann Rosborough (Mrs.
halmers. The address: 1905 S. Richard Lee Wilkinson, '54, is in Wm. J. Hughes), '54, now lives at
pilot training with the Air Force 707 Locust Lane, Robinson, Ill.,
ond, Springfield. at Vance AFB, Enid, Okla. where she is a secretary in the
Janet Beagley, '53, has been Ohio Oil Co. offices.
ibrarian at the Litchfield, Ill., High Harold P. Carter, '54, took the
ool since last fall. She lives at master of science degree at Ohio Carol Volle, '54, spent the sum-
324 N. State, Litchfield. State University in August. mer vacation with her brother at
Tarawa Terrace, N. C. He is sta-
James Gire, '53, states (humor- Joyce Stigers, '54, and Lynn tioned at Camp LeJeune. She re-
sly, of course) that he operates Swango, '52, were married Aug. sumed her second grade teaching
pest extermination business on 14. Following a wedding trip to position at St. Elmo this fall.
e side so that he can afford to Colorado Springs, the Swangos
ach . A teacher of biology and took up residence in Mt. Pulaski, Kenneth Wayne Ratts, '54, is a
neral science at the Martinsville, Ill., where she te•aches commerce. student at Ohio State University
I., High School, he is busy wip· Mr. Swango teaches in the Depue, and may be addressed at 95E
g out cockroaches, . ants, and Ill., High School. Twelfth Ave., Columbus.
hat have you on Saturdays and
roughout the summer vacation Mildred Myers, '54, is teaching Henry F. Kirts, '54, is teaching
riod. elementary physical education in in the Grayville, Ill., High School
Johh I. Alexander, '53, wrote in the Miller School, Evanston, Ill., and Junior High.
gust that he would be with the where she lives at 221 Dempster
St. She has announced her engage- Max Don Shaefer, '54, of R. R.
ed forces in France for the ment to Neil W. Perington, now in 2, St. Elmo, is attending dental
xt year. service in Hawaii . The wedding is school in St. Louis.
Donald Lee Griesemer, '53, 1s in to take place next June following
his release from the Army . Marjorie Weller, '54, and James
third year as coach at the Sum- A. Harrington, '54, were married
r, Ill., High School. Dorothy Dorband (Mrs. Leo on Aug. 6. Both of the newlyweds
Cordes), '54, is again teaching in are now teaching in the San Jose,
Dorothy Appleman, '53, and the Mattoon, Ill., schools. She Ill., High School.
rry John Burgener, Jr., were lives at 2800 Richmond, Mattoon.
rried last January. Mr. Burgener Lucille Van Zant, '54, and Earl
now in military service with the Maurice R. Hemphill, '54, is now Portwood were married in August.
in Schweinfurt, ' Germany, on "Op- The Portwoods are now living in
Force in Korea, expecting to re- eration Gyroscope" with the 86th Moweaqua, where he is employ-
to the States by the first of Infantry Regiment. He expects to ed with the Thompson Lumber Co.
be in Europe until next summer Mrs. Portwood taught in the
year. Mrs. Burgener teaches in or fall. Hemphill and Miss Mary Moweaqua schools last year.
Woodrow Wilson Junior High, DeWerff, '55, were married in
atur, Ill. The address is 1026 June. Grace Allard, '54, has taught in
Macon. the Noble, Ill., Elementary School
In G. Court, '54, is now teach- Chuck Edgington., '54, is a Pfc. since 1939.
in the elementary school at in the personnel section of the
rd, Mass. His address is 244 63rd Signal Battalion, stationed in Dick Weatherford, '54, has been
land St., Holden, Mass. Salsburg, Austria. He is playing sent to Pennsylvania after five
baseball with the battalion team months of guided missile training
rgaret Ellington, '54, received and enjoying the many trips the at Fort Bliss, Tex . His address is
master of science degree frqm Pfc. R. L. Weatherford, Main St.,
Russellton No. 1, Pa.
University this June and is
ing biology at the Pekin, 111., Verne Bear, '54, is a troop in-

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formation and education non-com- League. His earned run average tee for a beginning teachers co
missioned · officer in the Army's was 3.3 for the season. He had 15 ference at the Abraham Lincol
4th Infantry Division Intelligence strikeouts in his last game. Hotel in Springfield this Augus
School in Germany. Mrs. Bear lives Miss Andrews is teaching at th
at 431 S. Winfield, Kankakee, Ill. Mrs. Isabel Lustig, '55, is teach- Tampico, Ill., High School thi
ing seventh grade in the Central
Orpha Bower, '54, and Lewis School at Effingham, Ill., where year.
Goekler, ex-'55, have announced her address is 601 E. Market St.
their engagement. Miss Bower is Carl Norman Sexton, '55, i
teaching her second year in Mrs. Mary McKean Lutz, M. S. coaching at the Clay City, Ill
Moweaqua, Ill. Mr. Goekler is '55, is teaching at Mulberry Grove, High School this year.
with the Air Force in Panama, near 111.
the Canal Zone. ' Max Judy, '55, is teaching musi
Carroll Dukes, '55, is studying at Oblong, Ill., this year.
Mrs. Ervilla Lefever Lapointe, law this fall at George Washington
'54, writes from Fairbanks, Alaska, University, Washington, D. C. He Jo Anne Brooks, '55, teach
that she is leaving that city in Sep- may be addressed in care of his first grade in the Grant
tember and will be at Milmine, father, W. L. Dukes, R. R. 2, Poto- School, Mattoon, Ill.
mac, Ill.
Ill., this year. Urban Uptmor, Jr., '55, is
Bob H. Newton, '55, is teaching Kenneth Ludwig, '55, has a po- director at the Rankin, Ill.,
sition in the upper grades at School.
speech and social science in the Neoga, Ill., where his wife, the
Effingham, Ill., High School. Bob former Jeanne Stuckey, '55, teaches Mrs. Lois Lyon, '55, teaches i
and Ann (Eastern, '54) and daugh- home economics in high school. Shelbyville, Ill.
ter Leslie live at 305 S. Fourth, Ludwig expected to enter military
service following a summer with Roscoe E. Wallace, '55, is no
Effingham. the Clinton, Ill., baseball team in a graduate student at Ball Stat
lrl Schuyler, M. S. '55, is princi- the MOY league, but won a year's Teachers College, Muncie, Ind. H
reprieve. Son Roger Ernest is now has a teaching assistantship.
pal of the Windsor, 111., Elementary three months old. The Ludwig ad-
-dress is 907 Park, Effingham. Martha Wylie, '55, is teachin
School. home economics at the Roxana
Charles Smith, '55, is employed Lyle R. Marshall, '55, continues Ill., High School.
to teach in the Neoga, Ill., Unit
with the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. District. His address is R. R. 3, Daisy Woodyard, '55, teache
at Waukegan, Ill., where the Smith Toledo. in the Mattoon, ill., Unit.
address is 1407 Brookside. The
Smiths have a son born in Septem- Taney Cochran (Mrs. Fred Fink- Mrs. Mary Ellen Storckman, '55
biner), '55, writes from Honolulu, who completed her work at East
ber. Hawaii, that she lives three blocks ern after 12 summer terms and on
from Waikiki Beach. Her husband, year of extension, teaches fir
Georgeann Bell, '55, began dut- a radioman in the Army, is sta- grade in the Lancaster School o
ies as a TWA hostess in August. tioned at Schofield Barracks. The the Mt. Carmel, Ill., Unit. She ha
Her address is 54th and Brookside, Finkbiner address is 2277 Ala Wai tauqht 24 years.
Apt. 511, Kansas City, Mo. Blvd., Apt. B, 'Honolulu 15, Hawaii .
Sister M. Norbertine, '55, is ban
Jesse Orevdahl, '55, entered the Uoyd R. Sage·r, '55, is principal director in the Teutopolis, Ill., Hig
Marine Corps Officer Candidate of an elementary school in the School.
School at Quantico, Va., this West Richland Unit at Noble, Ill.
month. Mrs. Orvedahl, the former Elmo LeRoy Bruce, M. S. '55, i
Ada Devore, is secretary to Dr. Helen Durston, '55, is teaching teaching in the intermediate grade
Stuart Anderson in the office of the sixth and seventh grades in the at Stringtown, Ill., in the Olne
Director of Teacher Training at Worden, Ill., School. Unit .
Eastern.
Lois Shelton, M. S. '55, may be Sandra DeAtley, '55, is sqcia
David Fonner, '55, is now an addressed in care of the Eastern studies and speech instructor a
accountant for the Central Foundry Bible Institute, Green Lane, Pa. the Petersburg, Ill., High School.
Division of General Motors in Dan-
ville, Ill. Martha Brown, '55, is teaching Mrs. Mary Beery Wooters, '55
home economics at Macon, Ill. of 165 Pershing Rd., Decatur, Ill.
Mrs. Ethel Greathouse, '55, mar- teaches in the Decatur elementar
ried Oscar Beal in August. She con- Wilma Briggs, '55, is living at system.
tinues to teach at Lancaster, Ill. 2031 Sherman St., Evanston, Ill.,
The address is R. R. 3, Mt. Carmel. 'Nhile studying at Northwestern Ne·al R. Flynn, '55, teaches
University. the Newton, ill., High School.
Phillip Gene McDivitt, '55, of
l 04 Cherry St., Carmi, Ill., is an Ann Payan (Mrs. Jack Payan), Roland Wickiser, M. S. '55, i
accountant with the Carter Oil '55, and her husband have moved assistant principal of the Homer,
Company. into a new home they purchased ill., High School.
this summer at 3248 W. l 63rd,
Jack Kenny, '55, expects to be in Markham, Ill. Marjorie Erb, '55, teaches first
military service by the end of grade at Sidell, Ill.
October. He had a 6 won, 5 lost Ida Jane Andrews, '55, was
record with the Hot Springs, Ark., chairman of the reception commit- A. E. Pourchot, '55, teaches at
professional baseball club which San .Jose, Ill.
finished fourth in the Cotton State
.Mrs. Tressa Poynter, '55, is prin-
cipal of the Montrose, Ill., School.

William A. Sproat, '55, is prin-

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cipal of the St. Elmo, Ill., Grade In Her Children's Footsteps

School.

W. T. Hatch, M. S. '55, is prin-

cipal of the East Richland Junior

High, Olney, Ill. It is his fifth year

in the system.

Joyce Taylor, '55, is teaching

home economics at the Carlinville,

Ill., High School. .

Thurl Williamson, '55, is prin-

cipal of the North Silver Street

hool at Olney, Ill.

Sue Morrison, M. S. '55, is music

coordinator in the elementary

schools of Hinsdale, Ill.

Irma Dean Woodyard, '55, is

aching fourth grade in the Mc-

lernand School, Springfield, Ill.

Mary Mildred Aschermann, '55,

a primary teacher in the North

hool, Taylorville, Ill.

Mary Anna Frankland, '55, is

ssistant county superintendent of

hools in Edwards County in

arge of elementary music. She

'ves at 202 N. Fourth, Albion, Ill.

Vernice Clark, '55, is teaching

rades three and four in the Rob-

son, Ill., schools.

Jack Howell, '55, is taking grad-

te work at Eastern .

Mrs. Jemima L. Campbell, '55,

teacher and principal_ of the August was a memorable month for Mrs . Ethel Greathouse, right
above . After sending five of her six children to Eastern, she· finally com-
eak School, Moweaqua, Ill. pleted a degree herself. A widow since 1937, she married Oscar Beal,
also in August. The five Greathouse children who have entered Eastern
Glenn F. Van Blaricum, M. S. are Almeta, '52; John, '51, Leroy, '51; James, ex-'53; and Miriam, a junior.

5, is principal of an elementary Miriam is s.hown above helping Mom with her homework.
ool in the Momence, 111., Unit. P. S. The sixth Greathouse, Garfield, entered Eastern as a freshman

Lorene Sacre (Mrs. David Saw- this fal I.

), '55, is teaching home econom-

at the Williamsfield, Ill., High

ool. Mr. Sawyer is stationed at

Hood, Tex. Mary Jo Voorhies, '55, is teach- student in education at the Uni-
ing in the Warren Township High versity of Illinois .
Howard Kinkade, M. S. '55, School, Gurnee, Ill.
Betty Williamson, '55, is teach-
ches social studies and English Herbert Yunge, ex-'55, is station- ing business subjects at Pleasant
ed with the Air Force in England. Hill, Ill.
the West Salem, Ill., High A second lieu'tenant and navigator
for bombers, Yunge hopes to re- Graduate Bulletin
ool. turn to Eastern for Homecoming. Now Available at EISC
He writes Dr. James Thompson of .
Mrs. Florence B. Koelsch, '55, the business education department A graduate bulletin for Eastern
that he met Maior John McCarty, has been printed and is available
hes in the East Side School, '41, in England . McCarty expects to alumni and others upon request,
to leave the service next May and according to Dean of Instruction
mgham, Ill. return to his legal practice in Char- Hobart F. Heller.
arold (Pe.te) Krainock, '55, is leston. Yunge has visited in Rome,
Naples, Tripoli, Nice, Marseilles, Persons interested in obtaining
h and physical education in- Venice, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, sop- information about the fifth year
enhagen, and Paris . He will receive program may obtain the bulletin
tor in the Morgan Park Mili- his release from service in 1957 from the office of Registrar Newell
and hopes to return to Eastern. Gates. All graduate courses are
Academy, Chicago 43, Ill. listed and described.
Dave Winters, '55, is a graduate
rs. Viola K. Hallock, '55, is

ech correctionist in the Char-

n, Ill., Unit.

. Mary Ryan Moore, '55,

es second grade in the Ran-

' Ill., Elementary Schools.

• Betsy Shimp, '55, is teach-

business in the Paris, Ill., High

I.

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A Statistical Off-Campus Supervisors
View of EISC
Class of 1955

Who are the teachers of tomor-

row? Here's a profile of the 1955

senior class at Eastern:

It was wmoamdeenu. pTohfeysormeepr9e2senmteend.~ •
and 99 :

35 counties of Illinois and a couple I

of other states. ·' !

In college the me n- earned a

grade point average of 1.56,

which is better than halfway be-

tween B and C in all credit courses

taken. The women did a little bet-

ter. Their GPA was 1.85.

The grade point range (through

the junior year) is all the way from

.90 (just under C) to 3.00 (a straight

A), and wouldn't you know it, the

.90 average belongs to a man and

the person who never made a

grade lower than A is a girl. Since

there's no praticular stigma attach-

ed to making straight A's, we can "For the first time in the history of the college, most students pr

reveal that the owner of that re- paring to teach high school subjects will do their student teaching off

markable record is Donna Richison, campus," says Dr. Stuart A. Anderson, director of student teaching a
an elementary major from Danville. Eastern. To supervise this work he has the above staff. L. to r.-Dr . A
derson, Miss Roberta Poos, Miss Lela Johnson, Miss Winifred Bally, Mi
Lest the girls get giddy, we has-
ten to inform them that the average

male senior did better on his Amer- Mary Below, Miss lea Marks, Dr. Don Tingley, Robert Pence, Mrs. Jess

ican Council on Education Psycholo- Orvedahl (secretary to Dr. Anderson), Dr. Otho Quick, Paris J. VanHorn

gical (taken as a freshman) than did Dr. Albert Brown, Arnold Hoffman, Cary Knoop, Miss Gertrude Hendri
the average girl. The median ACE
score for the class is l 02.5. Half of and Dr. Kevin Guinagh.

· ..the seniors scored l 03 or higher

and half of them scored l 02 or of the drop-outs were less able stu- Durward B. Barkley, ex-'19, vi
lower. The average or mean score dents. It is also true, however, that ited the Alumni Office in July an
is a little lower, however, because too many good students dropped reminisced about the 1917 foot
some of the seniors, as freshmen, out. ball season, when El won all b
evidently got the gaping gagas two games. But for a defeat b
'when they took the test. The mean High school rank in class is a fair Millikin, Lantz's charges woul
ACE for men is l 0 l.64. The mean predictor of · college success, at
for women is l 00.65. The highest least for the girls, but the signifi- have won the llAC championship
ACE (167) was scored by a man and cant thing about the seniors of Barkley played all of every game
the lowest (39) was marked up by 1955 is that only 47 of them came except the last quarter o'f the first
the weaker sex. from the lower one-half of their He joined the Army later tha
respective high school classes. Of year and did not get to complet
As you may have guessed, ACE these 47, 37 were men, most of his work at Eastern. In the Arm
scores don't correlate very highly whom did pretty well in college. he met Martin Schahrer, captai
with grade point averages. For ex- Of the 96 women for whom high of the 1916 football team an
ample, the brain who scored 167 school rank in class is available, president of the Class of '17, wh
made a GPA of 1.25. The girl with only l 0 were below the 50th per- was killed in World War I.

the 39 ACE has a GPA of 1.22. An- centile in high school. And there
other girl with an ACE of 49 has are 31 senior women who were in Sigma Tau Gamma and Tau Ka
better than a B average.
the top decile, between 90 and 99, pa Epsilon have switched homes

Significantly, the mean ACE in their high school classes. Twenty- Since the purchase of the house a

score for the Class of 1955 when eight more were between 80 and 865 Seventh by the Sig Taus, th

it entered college back in 1951 was 89 and fifteen more between 70 Tekes are living temporarily a

under l 00, which means that many and 79. Not bad. 1501 Seventh.

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