MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Commencement Speaker LETTERS to the EDITOR
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SPARTAN ALUMNI MAGAZINE SPRING ALONG ENGINEERING ROW MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Commencement Speaker LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Feb. 8, 1952 4. There seems to be a disregard for the opinion Dear Editor: of experienced chemical engineers outside of the Your invitation to write and express opinions state of Michigan, when 40 per cent of the engi is surely typically American and I feel that it neering graduates earn their livelihood out of is this spirit which is raising M.S.C. to the top. the state. The editor and staff need to be highly com Very truly yours, mended for an excellent publication which is Harlan G. Bogie, '25 most eagerly received by alumni. However, as 17630 Briar Avenue an alumnus of the college's short course, I'm Homewood, Illinois disappointed in not seeing any news regarding (Mr. Bogie's proposal for a Dean of Chemical short course activities in the last issue. Engineering would make M. S. C. as brass heavy What are the chances of getting in THE as the Pentagon. Chemical engineering has been RECORD? on a departmental level — equal with engineering Cordially yours, drawing, and civil, electrical, mechanical and Donald Willison, sc'42 metallurgical engineering — since 1931. Although PAUL HOFFMAN: Outstanding Howard City, Mich. without an official head since the resignation of American leader will address the (Good point. Short coursers have the same Dr. David F. Smith last year, the department is chance of getting into print as any other alumni expected to have a new director in the near June graduating class in Macklin of M.S.C. Just let us know what you are doing, future.—Editors.) Field Stadium June 8. and we'll print it.—Editors.) January 30, 1952 Dear Editor: I see from the Jan. 15 issue of THE RECORD Alumni-Commencement Events that Dr. Hannah heads a committee investigating intercollegiate sports. Yet, in the same issue you further glamorize football by putting M.S.C.'s To Culminate School Year June 7-8 all-time All-Americans on the cover. A steady budding of green along the Memorial Chapel will be held at 2 p.m. People don't simply de-emphasize without a Red Cedar River is an everyday reminder Saturday, immediately following class re substitute emphasis first. that East Lansing is nearing a significant union banquets. Harold Gasser, '23, Please allow me to start an all-time "All- American" cover for THE RECORD by emphasiz date. president of the Alumni Advisory Coun ing Spartans who have really made contributions. Alumni Day-Commencement week-end cil, as spokesman for the alumni, will For the number one spot, I nominate Liberty- is just around the corner. More than make the formal presentation of the Hyde Bailey. Who will nominate the second? 1,000 graduates are expected to return chapel to President Hannah and Michi Sincerely, gan State College. Roy L. Donahue, '32 to the campus Saturday, June 7 for tra Box 5763 ditional Alumni Day festivities. Regis Estimated 2,100 Will Graduate College Station, Texas tration will begin the Friday preceding, Many alumni will be staying on for with a meeting of the Alumni Advisory Commencement, June 8, some to watch March 5, 1952 Council scheduled in the afternoon. Dear Editor: sons and daughters graduate, others to ... I believe that all readers of this magazine Patriarchs Honor '02 Class hear an outstanding American deliver should know that while Michigan State has ad the Commencement address. vanced in many ways, one matter has been kicked Highlight banquets Saturday will around by the administration for nearly 27 years. honor the classes of 1927 and 1902, cele He is Paul Hoffman, director of the This concerns the accrediting of the M.S.C. chem brating their silver and golden anni Ford Foundation. Hoffman is best known ical engineering curriculum by the Engineering for his directorship of the Economic Co Council for Professional Development and/or versaries. The class of '02 will enter the the American Institute for Chemical Engineers. Patriarch's circle this year and will be operation Administration through a period of great importance in the re There is not time in this letter to review all honored at the Patriarch's banquet given of the correspondence which has taken place in the Union by President John A. habilitation of war-torn areas. He is a between myself and college officials with no re Hannah. past president of Studebaker Corp., sults, but the letters boil down to these facts: serving in that capacity from 1935 until Traditional class reunion banquets 1. As far as I have been able to determine, 1948 when he was appointed to head Saturday will be held in the M.S.C. there is presently no Dean of Chemical Engineer ECA by President Truman. ing. Union. Reunion classes this year are all An estimated 2,100 seniors will receive 2. No inspection by the E.C.P.D. and/or those ending in two and seven (1902, '07, their diplomas at Commencement cere A.I.Ch.E. has been requested for several years. '12, '17, etc.). 3. The provincial attitude of college administra monies, which will begin at 5 p.m. in tors denies the importance of this matter. Dedication ceremonies of the Alumni Macklin Field Stadium. THE RECORD Vol. 57—No. 3 ALVIE L. SMITH, Editor April 15, 1952 JOHN C. LEONARD, '48, and RICHARD J. DANDENEAU, Associate Editors STARE H. KEESIER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLET, Sports Editor; EDWARD M. ERICKSON, '48, Assistant Sports Editor; JOHX MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KTJHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; JOHX W. FITZGERALD, '47, Agricultural Editor; MRS. BARBARA CAHOON, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Information Services. Campus photos this issue by EVERETT HUBY, RAY HUBY, BOB BROWN, and JOHN RANDALL, '52. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. MSC's Basic College Is Revised; New MSC Fund chairman First Changes Planned for Fall Term Spartan alumni have long been cake 12 credit hours in this area. familiar with Michigan State's pro Social Science: This course, again, in gram of self-evaluation and revision to volves the combining of two existing make a better university. Most signi basics, Effective Living and Social Sci ficant evidence of this process in recent ence. It is scheduled to begin fall term, years has been a major revision of the 1953. It will carry 12 hours credit. Basic College, part of which will go into Humanities: History of Civilization effect next fall. and Literature and Fine Arts, the present Modifies to Four Courses basics in the area, will be combined with Essentially, the modification amounts the best from each preserved. Scheduled to taking the best material from the for fall, 1953, it will be taken for 12 present seven basic courses and concen hours credit. trating it in four core courses to be Three Principles Govern Decision required of all students, according to Basic College students now are re Dr. Clifford E. Erickson, dean of the quired to take Written and Spoken Basic College. English and four of the other six basics. Modified basic courses will line up as The 45 hours of credit now required follows, although the names of the in basic work will remain unchanged courses are tentative: under the new set-up. Lewis A. Smith, '14 Communication Skills: This course Three principles governed the decision will be a revision of the present Written of the college to make the revision. Four Graduates Named and Spoken English course, and will be First, a need was met to decrease the taken for nine credit hours. It will go number of individual courses students To High Alumni Posts into effect next fall. must take in their first two years. Sec Four men have been named to high Natural Science: The best features of ond, the college wanted to make available offices in Michigan State College alumni the present Biological and Physical Sci to all students the strong points of the affairs. They are Harold Gasser, '23; ence courses will be combined into the Basic College, a system of general edu Lewis A. Smith, '14; Hazen Stevens new course, which also will begin in the cation tested for the past eight years w'42; and Earl Webb, '12. fall, 1952. Students will be required to through experimentation and research. Gasser, who is sales manager of Kelsey Finally, M.S.C. believes that a general Hays Wheel Corp., Detroit, has been education program must give students' elected president of the Alumni Advisory William H. Berkey Dies a common core of knowledge on which Council. Parallel to build their vocational spev ialties. ing his successful In Cassopolis March 22 Intensive Study Precedes Change rise in the busi ness profession is Newspaper publisher, business man, Though the present modification of the basics was the result of an intensive a long record of civic leader are titles that would describe active participa William H. Berkey, 78, who died in six-month study, a constant eva^ation program has been carried on in that tion in alumni af Cassopolis March 22. But he was much fairs. He was more. school since its founding in 1944, Dean Erickson said. president of the Born in Pennsylvania, Mr. Berkey lived Oakland County in Cass county since 1875. He founded Actually, modification of the Basic College is only a part of the larger pro Alumni Club in the Cassopolis Vigilant in 1892 and was 1947 and is also its publisher until 1948 when he retired gram of curricular reorganization and improvement for the whole university.