wm'wm- m m ILf ••' M . — <*» «*» FOOTBALL RETURNS EAST LANSING ... Spntpm lQil *************** * ^e^e Men Qaue AU * **•*•****••*••* Raymond Kazimer Kukoski, 1940 Clay Underwood Bullis, 1940 41, entering from Huntington Woods, Michigan. His wife and parents survive. Raymond K. Kukoski, first lieutenant Capt. Clay U. Bullis, of the Army Air in the Army Air Forces, was killed in Forces, was reported killed in action in Hugh Even Mosher, 1938 action in the South Pacific area on March the North African area on March 24, 28, 1943. Lt. Kukoski entered from 1944. Capt. Bullis was graduated from Capt. Hugh E. Mosher, of the Army Stambaugh, Michigan, and was gradu­ the School of Science and Arts on June Air Forces, was killed in action in the ated from the School of Agriculture on 10, 1940, entering from Portland, Michi­ South Pacific area on May 19, 1944. June 10, 1940. gan. He is survived by his mother; a Already the recipient of the Air Medal, brother, Lt. Col. Harry J. Bullis, '37; and he was posthumously awarded a bronze a sister, Helen Bullis Oldt, '37. Fred Niffenegger, Jr., 1940 oak leaf cluster to the medal. Capt. Mosher was graduated from the School Fred Niffenegger, Jr., captain in the Charles Paul DeRose, 1943 of Science and Arts on June 13, 1938, Army Air Forces, was killed in an air­ entering from Lansing. He is survived plane accident in England on July 8, Charles P. DeRose, second lieutenant by his father, his wife, and a son. 1943. Capt. Niffenegger was enrolled in in the Army Air Forces, was killed in business administration during 1938-39, action over Europe on April 11, 1944. entering from Elk Rapids, Michigan. His Lt. DeRose entered from Lansing and Lyman Dewayne Rieck, 1945 wife and parents survive. was enrolled in business administration Lyman D. Rieck, second lieutenant in during 1939-41. He is survived by his the Army Air Forces, was killed in action parents, his wife, and a daughter. Frederick Baxter Lome, 1941 in Italy on June 13, 1944. Entering from Pontiac, Michigan, Lt. Rieck was Ensign Frederick B. Lome, of the Carl George Marzke, 1936 enrolled in the School of Engineering Naval Air Corps, missing in action in the during 1941-43. His wife and parents Pacific area since August 8, 1943, has Capt. Carl G. Marzke, of the Army Air survive. been declared dead by the War Depart­ Forces, was killed in the Mediterranean ment. Ensign Lome entered from De­ area on April 20, 1944. Capt. Marzke Lynn Clare Rice, 1940 troit and was enrolled as a junior in the was graduated from business adminis­ School of Engineering during 1939-40. tration on June 15, 1936, entering from Lynn C. Rice, second lieutenant in the Lansing. He is survived by his wife, the army ordnance department, was killed in William Clair De Cou, 1945 former Blanche Hunt, w'36, and a action in Italy on June 21, 1944. Lt. daughter, Mary Susan. Also surviving Rice was graduated from the School of William C. DeCou, staff sergeant in the are his parents, a sister, Dorothy, '33, Engineering on June 10, 1940, entering Army Air Forces, was killed in a bomber and two brothers, Frederick O., '42, and from Lansing. crash in Riverside County, California, on Oscar T., '29. March 3, 1944. Sgt. DeCou was enrolled Henry Richard Pattengill, 1944 in engineering during 1941-42, entering William Graham MacKichan, 1942 from Hastings, Michigan. H. Richard Pattengill, private in the William G. MacKichan, second lieu­ Army, was killed in action in France on Harry Stuart Bengry, Jr., 1941 tenant in the Army Air Forces, was July 2, 1944. Pvt. Pattengill was en­ killed in action on a mission over Ger­ rolled in the School of Engineering and Harry S. Bengry, Jr., second lieutenant many on April 24, 1944. Lt. MacKichan, the general course during 1940-43, en­ in the Army Air Forces, was killed in who had recently been awarded the Air tering from Lansing. His mother, the action over Germany on March 6, 1944. Medal for exceptionally meritorious former Edwina Prudden, w'10, and two Lt. Bengry, son of Harry S. Bengry, w'15, achievement, was graduated from the brothers survive. was graduated from the School of Sci­ School of Science and Arts on June 13, ence and Arts on June 14, 1941. He 1942. He entered from East Lansing entered from Lansing and is survived by where his father, George MacKichan, and Kenneth Finlay McLeod, 1935 his wife and parents. sister Margaret, '46, reside. He is also survived by his wife, the former Gene­ Lt. Col. Kenneth F. McLeod, of the vieve Pierson, w'44. United States Marine Corps, was killed Paul Jones Ehmann, 1942 in action on Saipan on July 4, 1944. Col. McLeod who received the Silver Star Paul J. Ehmann, second lieutenant in John Irwin Mathewson, 1941 medal for bravery as a battalion com­ the Army Air Forces, died March 8, 1944, mander in the attack on Tarawa, was of wounds received in action over Ger­ John I. Mathewson, captain in the graduated from business administration many on February 22. Lt. Ehmann was amphibious branch of the army attached on June 10, 1935, entering from Port graduated from the School of Agricul­ to the Atlantic fleet, was killed in action Huron. He is survived by his mother, ture on June 13, 1942, entering from in the European area on April 28, 1944. his wife, and two daughters. Patchogue, New York. He is survived Capt. Mathewson was enrolled in the by his parents, his wife, and a son. School of Science and Arts during 1937- (Continued on Page 5) 2 . THE RECORD TfticAtyut State @otleae Lloyd H. Geil, Editor Philip McClosky, Assistant Editor Glen O. Stewart, Alumni Editor Founded JanuarRECORDy 14, 1896 — Entered as second-class matter, East Lansin^g Vol. 49 No. 4, Quarterly September, 1944 Basic College Department Heads Pictured above are the new heads of the departments in the basic college. They are: left to right, Dr. S. G. Bergquist, acting head, physical science; Dr. Ben Euwema, literature and fine arts; Dr. W. R. Fee, social science; Dr. Leo A. Haak, effec­ tive living; Dr. H. H. Kimber, origin and development of civilization; Dr. C. A. Lawson, biological science; and Prof. Paul D. Bagwell, written and spoken English. dents were created equal, intellectually; that all could be "processed" by the same machinery designed to produce the scholar, the scientist, the professional man and woman. On liaUc QoUeae. The results, Dr. Hannah said, were pitiable. Too often, several of the most valuable years of a student's life were EDITOR'S NOTE—The folloiving article is: "The purpose of education is to edu­ wasted, not to speak of the parent's and appeared in the Sundai/ edition of the cate." Yet, in the opinion of the entire the State's money, and the time and en­ Detroit News, July 16, under the byline faculty, the schools of the nation, not ex­ ergies of instructors. Those who dropped of Allen Shoenfield. The news story fol- cluding their own institution, have been out were prepared for nothing. Many loived an interview with President Han­ failing miserably at that task. who did acquire a degree later found nah who expressed his viewpoints on the Few Fit For College that they were not at all suited for the basic college plan at MSC. Through the It was last March that President John careers they had fancied. Some drifted courtesy of the Detroit News, the article A. Hannah called his faculty together to to other channels; others doggedly pur­ of interest to all alumni appears below. lay before them some thoughts that had sued, as mediocrities, the course they By ALLEN SHOENFIELD been troubling him for years. had planned. (Staff Correspondent of THE DETROIT NEWS) He pointed out that many freshmen What could be done to establish the could neither speak nor write forcefully aptitudes and abilities of the individual, Breaking sharply with accepted peda­ or intelligently. They could not spell. gogical theory and practice, Michigan to direct the youngster into paths calcu­ Their knowledge of mathematics, history lated to yield the greatest satisfaction to State College has staged a revolt of such and the basic sciences was generally significance and magnitude that it may himself and the maximum degree of use­ rudimentary. They had no conception of fulness to the community? influence the course of higher education their place in nature or in human society. in the United States for generations to They were unprepared to become citizens Back to Fundamentals come. in the broadest sense. Occasional brief reports of "reorgan­ Dr. Hannah was critical of the century- Some should never have entered col­ old tendency toward free electives. He ization" and of the creation of a "basic lege. Others would benefit by a year or college" appearing to date have given proposed nothing more than a return to two of instruction. But only one in four first principles and to disciplined study little hint of the philosophy and purpose had sufficient capacity to graduate. And underlying the changes taking place here. which would give the student a broad even among these, there would be many perspective, providing him with basic in­ But, in effect, the State has acquired a who were well grounded in some special­ wholly new institution of learning which formation relative to the world in which ty and wholly uneducated outside their he must live. will open its doors for the first time on special fields. Sept. 19. He asked each college department to Breath-taking in its conception, the A Waste of Time name representatives from whom he purpose is stated simply as to seem a Yet the college treated all alike.