Eastern Alumnus Vol. 22 No. 3 (December 1968)
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Eastern Illinois University The Keep Eastern Alumnus Volume 22 (1968-1969) Publications of the EIU Alumni Association 12-1968 Eastern Alumnus Vol. 22 No. 3 (December 1968) Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eiu_alumni_news_1968 Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association, "Eastern Alumnus Vol. 22 No. 3 (December 1968)" (1968). Eastern Alumnus Volume 22 (1968-1969). 4. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eiu_alumni_news_1968/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications of the EIU Alumni Association at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Alumnus Volume 22 (1968-1969) by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "' 7~ 144ete , , , A Cup Of Coffee With Glenn Seymour, Teacher-Historian ~ The Restless Student, His Restless Home And Church: Campus Pastor ECEMBER 1968 Alumni Association lresident Glen Hesler Mattoon lice-President Bob Miller Springfield lee re ta ry-Treasurer Lynn Swango Sullivan Contents lxecutive Committee John Huffman Mattoon Restless Students ------------------------------ 3 W. D. Norviel Belleville Book Review ---------------------------------- 5 Jack Whitson Decatur Coffee With Seymour --------------------------- 7 John C. Gibson Paris Larry Mizener New Position Filled 9 Charleston Gerald Dunn Mattoon Dr. Olsen Dies --------------------------------- 10 Drayton Miller Clayton, Missouri News Notes ~---------------------------------- 11 Ray Suddarth Springfield Paul Foreman Charleston Dorothy Greathouse Vol. XXII. No. 3 (Winter) December, 1968 Mattoon The Eastern Alumnus Pat Pitol Published in the months of June, September, December, and Collinsville March by Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois. All relating correspondence should be addressed to Harry Read, Dave Fields Editor, Alumni Office, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Danville Illinois, 61920. Entered May 14, 1947, as second class matter at the post office in Charleston, Illinois, under authority of the act of Congress, August 24, 1912. Yearly subscription rate, $2.00; Director, Alumni Services two years, $4.00; three years, $5.00. Kenneth E. Hesler PAGE ONE PAGE TWO idly changing post-World War II period. Rapid scientific changes have helped to produce a questioning gen eration. With more new things and facts being discovered every day, very few facts seem to remain con stant. This has helped to produce a generation of kids that questions almost everything that is said. Technological changes have brou ght about rapid changes in work. Formerly a person could make up his mind at an early age about what type of work he wanted to do and then begin preparing for that. Today, though, the type of work you pick out at age ten may not Restless Students And Their Society The accompanying article was Holding hostages even exist at age 20, and six other lritten by Rev. Walter E. Rose, pas Boycotting classes new jobs will have taken its place. of the Immanuel Lutheran Anti-draft demonstrations This causes a great deal of indeci urch in Charleston and Lutheran Anti-Vietnam demonstrations siveness among the students. mptts pastor. Pastor Rose is an Anti-recruiting demonstrations The courts have affected the so l visor to Gamma Delta, Lutheran Anti-hiring demonstrations ciety in their seeming protection lulent organization and is also an Drug usage for the criminals. The courts, and llvisor to Beta Sigma Psi fraternity. Why all of this? These students punishment of crime seems to be a A native of St. Louis, Pastor Rose did not just "happen." They happen bit of a joke. Students, therefore, •ended high school in Altamont, to be products of their society. So are not too concerned about engag Jl1. where nis coach was Dr. Tom instead of looking at the students, ing in unlawful or criminal acts 'mpalis, now athletic director at we will look at the society that pro since they seem to observe many t'em. He served in the Air Force duced them (and is apparently con criminals going unpunished in the •55-1958. Pastor Rose attended tinuing its production). We will courts today. This is not true but the llmcordia Theological Seminary in pay particular attention to the home impression is still given. · ngfield, Ill., 1958-1963. Before and church. The political society gives the ing to Eastern in 1 966 he served There is a great danger in trying impression that you can always get pastor of a congregation in Spring to isolate a few facets of the society enough to eat, a place to live, and ld, S. D. and also as campus pas and say these are more responsible additional money by simply holding ~ at Southern State Teachers Col for restless students than any other out your hand. The attitude that l, ··r in the same city. Mrs. Rose, the influence. There is the realization many students have, as a result of Inner Sharon C. Durheim of Alta that they are all connected and in a this, is that this society owes them '°1it, attended Eastern 1955-1958. way affect each other. everything and will provide every It seems that the previous genera thing, but they share no responsibil tion set the stage, wrote the script ity in the society itseH. University students have been and provided the directors for the The tremendous civil rights strug lowing their restlessness in recent play which is being presented on gle in their generation gave the im H-.1rs in some of the following ways: our campuses today. The previous pression that everybody was equal Sit-ins generation said and thought these in all things. This was erroneously Slanderous newspaper articles things, individually and in private, applied with respect to people in Student Senates adopting anti and the current generation has, as a authority. The attitude given was iversity statements collected and organized group, now that "I am as good as my boss or Requests for resignations of admin put them into action. administrator and therefore what he ltrators and faculty members Most of today's students were says, demands, or suggests is no Apathy born between 1945 and 1951, and more valid than my opinion. There- Violent demonstrations were raised in the affluent and rap- ( Continued on next page) PAGE THREE (Continued from preceding page) eYerything, materially speaking. our freedom not to do as we pleasj fore I do not have to do what he This they did. But the one mgre but to do as God pleases. We • says or demands because we are dient so necessary, love, was miss to constantly be lead by the Law equal." This is a poor interpretation ing. and life of Christ Jesus. It is not a of civil and equal rights, but none The children often saw and heard freedom without responsibility. It the less, a part of our kids' makeup. their parents struggle for more should make us even more awar& While the above mentioned influ wealth and ~ better position by us that we are to carry out a respoit ences certainly are important, it ing people, cheating, and using any sible life in Christ. seems that there are two basic units other evil method for achieving more A "freedom" message with~ in the society which have a more wealth and status. The kids have proper foundation, recognized re lasting impression and have too of adopted these same unscrupulous sponsibilities, motivation or ~ ten negatively influenced today's stu methods in trying to achieve recog ance has produced a part of the cur dents. These two units, which we nition on the campus. rent generation's thinking and action. will examine more closely, are the The parents were doing more so Many who claim to be Christi.al home and the church. cializing and were also able to en think, that on the basis of their "freet The homes of the past generation gage in more extrlt-curricular activ dom", they are completely free to have seen many children raised in the ities. Thus, the home life was brok do as they please, when they pie~ "Spock tradition" of letting the chil en up even more. This left the kids because they are "free". The free dren express themselves freely, no pretty much on their own and far life should mean that our motivati~ discipline and an attempt to ration too often the parents were not only is love, the acts are loving, the alize and reason out everything that ignorant of the whereabouts of their foundation is Cod Himself, and the was to be done. One of the diffi children, but worse than that, did joyous responsibility we have is to culties was that the parents were un not care. This was correctly intre be Christ-like. able to out-wit and out-reason the preted by the kids as meaning that On the other hand there has been children with the result that the chil mother and daddy did not really in some church circles an over-eIDI dren gained the upper hand and care. They assumed that the adult phasis on legalism. This occur1 were in fact running the parents. world was really made up of fakes when arbitrary rules and regulatiClllllll Many students as a result, feel that and not to be counted on for really ru·e set down and demanded, witho\il they should be free to do as they knowing and understanding them. proper motivation for their being fol· please. They also think they can Some homes were controlled with lowed. This system has produCec1 a (and sometimes do) out-wit faculty a.ii iron hand and also brought about part of the generation which has and administrators to gain the upper detrimental results. These homes been gagged on rules.