Commencement Schedule Dr. Roadman Resigns
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VOLUME XIV • MARCH, 1 9 5 6 • NUMBER FOUR Dr. Roadman Resigns OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT On February 7, exactly twenty Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa years to the day he was elected pres Mr. D. W. Stewart, President of the Board of Trustees Jan . 24, 1956 ident, Dr. Earl A. Roadman submitted Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa the Board of Trustees of the college, Dear Mr. Stewart: the resignation to be effective July 1. I was seventy years of age on November 14 of the year just passed. I The Board moved that the resigna am, therefore, requesting that my term as president of Morningside Col tion be accepted with regret and that, lege be completed not later than July 1, 1956. upon the taking effect of his retire I was elected to this position on February 7, 1936. I assumed the office ment, he be elected president emerit on April 17 of the same year. Twenty years are comparatively short in the existence of institutions. They are, however, a considerable span in the us of Morningside College" lives of persons. The twenty years of Dr. Roadman's In retrospect, however, twenty years seem very short and very won administration have been years of derful. The experiences have been inexpressibly meaningful and happy. I growth for the college. A great build have loved every minute of it. The host of happy student personalities, the ing program has been developed. The lists of faithful faculty and staff associations, the splendid cooperation of A. W. Jones Hall of Science, The Board members, the loyalty of alumni, the warmth of Sioux City and George Allee Gymnasium, the O'Don Siouxland friends, have filled the months and the years with experience oghue Observatory, and the Men's which are evidences of the goodness of God and the fellowship of men. Dormitory have been erected. The old To one and all, Mrs. Roadman and I want to say with fervent grati auditorium in Main Hall was remod tude, thank you for the privilege of these twenty years. eled into the Klinger Forum, remodel Very sincerely, ing improved the Conservatory, and EARL A. ROADMAN, President the old Alumni Gym will be complete ly changed into a modern library by June 1. Dr. and Mrs. Roadman will go to Commencement Schedule Europe this summer as tour leaders, FRIDAY, JUNE 1- after that their plans are uncertain. 8.00 P. M. - Commencement Recital by Conservatory Seniors The Board of Trustees took action Klinger Forum to obtain a successor for Dr. Road SATURDAY, JUNE 2- man. ALUMNI DAY 12 :00 Noon- Reunion Luncheon- Dimmitt Hall MID-TERM COMMENCEMENT Honored Classes- '06 and '31 Dr. Kenneth Metcalf '38, pastor of the Reunion year for '11, '16, '21, '26, '36, '41, '46 First Methodist Church of Cedar Falls, was 6 :00 P. M.-Annual Alumni Dinner-Mayfair Hotel Alumni Achievement Awards the speaker at the Mid-Year graduation Initiation of Seniors into Tribe of the Sioux exercises which were held in Grace Metho Recognition of Dr. and Mrs. Roadman dist Church on February 1. SUNDAY, JUNE 3- Seven seniors were presented for degrees 10 :45 A. M.- Baccalaureate Service at Grace Methodist Church by Dean Thomas Tweito. The diplomas were 4 :00 P. M.- Faculty Sonata Recital- Klinger Forum awarded by Dr. Earl A. Roadman. Elizabeth Whittington, pianist; Karola Hustis, Mary Jane Tawney O'Meara received violinist Cum Laude honors. 8 :00 P. M.- Commencement Concert-Allee Gymnasium The Brass Ensemble under the direction College Choir, Robert M. Larson, Director of Mr. James Hustis of the Conservatory Brass Ensemble, James Hustis, Director faculty furnished the music. MONDAY, JUNE 4- Dr. Metcalf is at present in Alaska as one 10 :00 A. M.- Commencement Exercises-Allee Gymnasium of the 16 members of a preaching mission to that country. ENTERED AS SECDND CLASS MATTER JULY I, 1944, AT THE POST OFFICE AT SIOUX CITY, IOWA UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 PUBLISHED Bl-MONTHLY, SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER, JA NUARY, MARCH AND MAY BY MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE Page Two MARCH, 1 9 5 6 Portrait of Miss Dimmitt A portrait of Miss Dimmitt is to be hung over the fire-place in Lillian E . Dimmitt Hall. In January of this year Miss Dimmitt flew to Cleveland and was the guest of Cornelius and Margaret Eerkes, who had made arrangements for her to sit for a portrait to be painted by Rolf Stoll. Mr. Stoll is the head of the department of portrait painting at the Cleveland Insti tute of Art. A native of Germany, the artist was trained in the Academies of Fine Arts at Karlsruhe and at Stuttgart, and at t he Art Students League in New York. He has exhibited widely and has painted many famous people of the middle west. The Eerkes are sponsoring this portrait as a part of a Lillian E. Dimmitt Memorial. They are Morningside alumni of the class of 1924. Margaret was Miss Dimmitt's secretary during her college career. Cor nelius returned to Morningside following graduate work at Northwestern as a mem Front row Don Stone '51, Elaine Barndt Rogers '25, Lillian Pickergill '41 , Gales Stevens ber of the faculty. Following that he enter '48- back row, Clara Back Graning ' 18, Charles Dirr '44, Ira Gwinn '22, Hazel Siman Mahood ed the mercantile field and is now an exec- '12, Edgar McCracken '38, Russell Pecaut '24. utive of the Higbee store in Cleveland. Miss Dimmitt was accompanied on her Plan Alumni Events trip to Cleveland by her niece, Frances Kolp The Alumni Executive Committee at their The Alumni Achievement Awards, spon Gingles '18. March meeting completed plans for Alumni sored by the Living Endowment Committee, Since her return the portrait has been Day, June 2. The dinner this year will be held will be presented, and the traditional cere finished, and Mrs. Eerkes writes of their in the Mayfair Hotel where a larger group mony will initiat.e the seniors into the Tribe complete satisfaction with it. She says, can be accomodated than on t he campus. of The Sioux. "You are so real that I would not be a bit Gale Stevens '48, president of the Alumni surprised if you moved, or started speak The Reunion Luncheon will be held at Association, will preside at the dinner. The noon of June 2 in the dining room at Dim ing... There is dignity, warmth, intelligence program is in charge of Edgar McCracken and much beauty of character, all captivated mit Hall. Charles Dirr, president elect of '38 and Don Stone '51. Clara Back Graning the Alumni Association, will preside. No in oil in a very interesting portrait study... '18 is chairman of dinner arrangements. I think this portrait will mean much to the formal program is planned, it is the occa Honor guests will be Dr. and Mrs. Earl A. girls in the dormitory, and it will be a joy sion for former classmates, to me.et and Roadman and the 1956 graduates. visit. to all who have had the good fortune to know you." The portrait will be presented to the col ENROLLMENT 1955-56 PRESENT ROADMAN PORTRAIT Men Women Total lege at a date to be announced. A portrait of Dr. Earl A. Roadman will SENIORS ________ 95 26 121 TIME TO MAKE AN L.E. RECORD be presented to the college by the Roadman J UNIORS _________ 114 32 146 The number of Morningsiders who have children as a memorial gift upon his retire- SOPHOMORES ____ 183 57 240 participated in the 1955-1956 LIVING EN ent from the presidency of the college. FRESHMEN ______ 250 91 341 DOWMENT program to date is substan The portrait will be formally presented UNCLASSIFIED __ 14 27 41 NURSES _________ _ tially larger than this time a year ago. The at the Alumni Dinner on June 3rd by Keene 58 58 outlook for the year is promising and the Roadman '39 of Baltimore. All of the child EVENING DIV. ___ 74 138 212 Committee hopes for a record high in the ren plan to here for the event. (Nurses) 53 53 number of gifts in the current campaign. The six children, Earline Roadman Youle TOTAL 730 482 1,212 A steady increase in participation is a of Wellington, Kansas; Pauline Roadman CONSERVATORY most healthy sign and t he committe.e hopes Fishbeck of Manitowoc, Wisconsin ; Dr. SENIORS _______ 8 8 16 for at least 200 new names on the list t his Charles of Washington D. C.; Keene; J oyce J UNIORS ____ ___ 8 3 11 year. Roadman Scott '44 of Sioux City, and Katie SOPHOMORES __ 7 5 12 There will be two more mailings before Roadman McLaughlin '47 of Omaha, plan FRESHMAN ______ 10 15 25 the Fund closes for this year on June 15. ned the project and arranged sittings for SPECIAL ________ 37 40 77 Any gift after that date will be credited to their father with Lester Bentley of Green TOTA L 70 71 141 the 1957 fund. The size of the contribution wich, Connecticut. Mr. Bentley is the artist TOTAL LIBERAL is of your own choosing. ( $1.00 to $ ?). chosen by the Art Department of Columbia ARTS & MUSIC __ 800 553 1,353 Use the return envelope provided in each Univers,ity to paint the portrait of Presi dent Eisenhower for the University. SUMMER SCHOOL --- - -------- -------- mailing. ___________ 146 245 391 MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE Two Records PLEASE MAIL __ __ CHOIR Long Play Records to: GRAND T OTAL 946 798 1,744 Duplicates S. S. & NAME - ------ - - ---- - -------------------- CHOIR RECORDS $5.00 Acad.