u SUMMER 1973

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT A REMEMBRANCE The ~homasHardy House, Racine, Wisconsin, shown on our cover was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed in 1905. Draw- ing by Marion Mahoney, assistant to Wright. MARK HEYMAN, Associate Professor of City Planning, was apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright for five years. He has experience in state government, and served for a time as assistant director of the State Planning Board in Pennsylvania. He received his Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Heyman has written an article on his experiences with Wright for this issue of Sangamon. Other articles in this issue are written by: Edith Terwilliger, a newly appointed member of the Board of Regents, which governs Sanga- mon State University, was appointed to the Board to represent the Office of the Superin- tendent of Public Instruction. She is a student at the University of Illinois. Robert P. Howard, now serving in the office of the Illinois Attorney General, was for many years the legislative correspondent for the Chi- cago Tribune. Mr. Howard has been actively involved in the field of journalism since he joined the Associated Press in 1927. Cullom Davis, Associate Professor of History, is the director of the Oral History Project at Sangamon State University. He received his A.B. at Princeton, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale and has taught in Illinois and Hawaii. For two years Davis served Sangamon State as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs. Pamela Huey is presently a Public Affairs Re- porting intern, serving with the Associated Press. She is a graduate of Western Illinois University, in Macomb, where she was on the staff of the Western Courier, WIU's student newspaper. Table of Contents

The campus is filled with an air of expectation this summer. Page Several changes will become effective this fall which make this period one of preparation and excitement. It is almost as if a new university were being readied to be joined to the one now here. Notes From a New Regent Traditionalists, of course, lament the passing of some things Edith Terwilliger they have been used to, but most on campus seem actively involved in preparation for the coming semester. The largest change is the addition of several new academic programs. Starting this fall programs such as Management, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Remembrance ...... 5 Nursing, Medical Technology, Community Arts Management and others will be in operation. The expanded curriculum will Mark Heyman bring with it thirty to forty new members of the faculty and may boost enrollment to a record three thousand. This, of course, necessitates more faculty office space and many more classrooms. Commencement '73 ...... 10 A new interim building is now under construction, the change from quarters to semesters is under way, a new course numbering system will be in effect for the fall, and plans are underway for a meaningful student orientation program this August. From all of this should come a Sangamon more History in Print .... diversified and tnore exciting than last year. Robert P. Howard One of the greatest needs generated by this expansion is student housing. Alumni in Springfield can be very helpful to new students if they keep us informed of any vacant rental apartments or houses which they know of. History on Tape ...... 12 Another service alumni can provide the school and their fellow Cullom Davis alums is identifying employment vacancies. If alumni know of job openings in the school, agency or organization in which they work, it would be very helpful to let the Placement Office know about those openings. Each day we see students and alumni who are looking for employment opportunities. Alumnus Profile: Jack Lauer The Placement Office actively seeks information on job openings, Pamela Huey but a thousand alumni keeping us aware of opportunities could do much more than we can. -- - Several alums-Malcolm Holman, Ted Downey, Charlie Williams, Chuck Shultzabarger, and Susan Wing among them- have been very good about telling us where job openings exist. News Notes ...... 18 Your call could have a lot of meaning for a Sangamon graduate seeking employment. As the new semester shapes up, then, there are many changes underway. There are in addition some things that remain constant. One of those is that the people in this community need help from others. If you can give a student some help on finding housing or locating a job, give the Alumni and Placement Office a call at 2 17/786-67 16. It takes only a few SANGAMON, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 1973 minutes to contribute to the community of which you are Editors: Philip Bradley, John Garvey still a part. SANGAMON is the alumni magazine of Sangamon State University. It is published four times yearly by the Office of University Relations. Third class postage paid at Springfield, Illinois. Send all correspondence and changes of address to Alumni Office, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois 62708.

Printed by Authority of the State of Illinois Phil Bradley 1.5M r:opes, July 1973 As a new member of SSU's governing board, the Board of Regents, I have been learning about the Regency system and its institutions. It seems fair for others to learn about those on the Board also. The philosophies, biases, interests, and attitudes of governing board members determine how they work together in making decisions and carrying out their tasks. This article will, I hope, provide some insight into how I view my role on the Board and my relationship with all involved in the system. So. in order to account for "how I came to be here," a brief capsule of stages in my life is appropriate followed by an attempt to articulate my philosophy concerning my role on the Board. Stage 1-Dormant Graduation from high school and marriage to my high school sweetheart were my primary goals at this stage: these I accomplished. In swift order the following occurred: my husband's discharge fram service, two children, a decision for my husband to return to college, work to help my husband through college, another child, my husband's graduation and A JOB (his). During this period of time my major concern was the survival and support of a family on EDITH TERWlLLlGER

a student income. The minor concern was that I found I liked working, especially with people, and found it difficult to become a stay-at-home wife and mother again. Stage 2-Incubation A full-time secretarial job was dictated for me when, after two years of high school teaching, my husband decided to return to college to work on a doctorate degree. I was fortunate enough to find a position with the Veterans Administration which involved a lot of contact with people and which I found challenging and interesting. This was great for a time-until the office was closed in an economy move (even in 1961 !) -and I was transferred to another federal office. Our last child arrived about this time. The major problem of this stage was an internal turmoil-how to tolerate a job I did not like; how to continue working with people; and how to further my own interests which were becoming more apparent and pressing. And, of course, all of this had to be accomplished while the Stage 6-Blooming family continued as a student family. My return to school sparked the beginning of the Stage 3-Budding current stage which I may never leave. I found that I really could do both-be a wife and mother and A decision was made! I would begin my own college pursue a career (as opposed to a job)-and not career. With a scholarship in hand and four children damage my family. This time I became active in constantly in mind, I began work on a bachelor's student activities, mostly centered around curriculum, degree in business education. After a scary half teaching effectiveness, student participation in semester, I finally relaxed and really began to enjoy decision making, and teacher education. what I was doing. For two years I continued in school After completing student teaching, I decided to full-time. The major concern? Ah, that two-edged enter graduate school. My personal feeling was that sword was turning. Although I enjoyed school and I could not enter high school teaching given the was beginning to realize that there was something I structure of most secondary schools. I felt that it was could do with my own life, the guilt over leaving my too stifling, both for students and teachers, and that children to "enjoy myself" was beginning to gnaw my contribution to education would be better coming at me. in another way. Therefore, I decided upon graduate Stage 4-Spring Frost school in education with the idea of studying the A short period of trying to be a full-time wife and teaching-learning process and ways to improve it, mother followed. During this time I participated in both at the high school and college levels. That wives' groups, study groups, church activities, PTA emphasis has changed to an interest in program functions, and other traditional activities. At the same development and evaluation using a total time I tried to be a perfect mother and housekeeper. organizational-or systems-approach. This interest After nine months, I suggested to my family that I led naturally into activities concerned with learning, might like to return to work on a part-time basis. My teaching, and program development, including an oldest child, 11 at the time, said: "Great idea. You're assistantship working in Course Development in an much easier to get along with when you have Office of Instructional Resources. Subsequent contact something other than us to worry about." with the Student Advisory Committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education led to a state-wide concern Stage 5-Renewed Budding and interest which resulted in my appointment to the I returned to work on a half-time basis, working Board of Regents as Superintendent Michael Bakalis' with students in a special National Science Foundation representative. program. I served as a secretary but in addition You are no doubt wondering why I bothered to tell counselled, helped, and thoroughly enjoyed the you that somewhat ordinary life history. The reason students. After a short period, I began taking one is to provide an opportunity to present the next logical course a semester. After my husband finished his step of attempting to articulate my own philosophy doctoral dissertation (Hurrah!), I quit working and of what university life should be about and how that returned to school more or less on a full-time basis. philosophy relates to serving on a governing board.* EDITH TERWILLIGER

The most important aspect of what a university should be about, I believe, is a continuing dialogue and interchange among all of its participants. Through subject-matter content, teaching styles, research projects, course offerings, and, above all, interpersonal contacts, a university conveys its "personality" to its students. My firm belief is that every administrator, faculty and staff member must participate in this dialogue and consider it an integral part of the learning process. This obviously implies that the response, "We tried it that way five years ago, and it didn't work," is inappropriate. Now is a new time, with new people who haven't traveled that way before. Thus, any university, especially one with a public affairs mission, should remember that its example in confronting problems serves to teach its students. When that example is open, honest, and problem- oriented, members of the institution-including students-will learn democratic methods of compromise. The atmosphere created by a continuing dialogue leads to other benefits. Among these are the participation of all who are involved in the atmosphere created and nurtured by those on organization, an atmosphere conducive to learning governing boards and in top level administrative and experimentation, and the constructive and positions is quite important in influencing the quality creative use of conflict and tension. Another outcome of the dialogue that takes place on a campus. If those which I would hope for is the involvement of persons in leadership positions do not concern themselves in life outside the institution-governmental, social, with what happens on the campus, with the educational, recreational. undercurrents of existing relationships, and with the This philosophy has evolved-and is still attitudes and habits induced by college life, then I evolving-from participation in many groups. In a think the campus atmosphere can be unproductive, study group, I once complained about some college uninteresting, and unchallenging. This is an antithesis teaching. I was told by another group member, "Don't of what college life should-and can-be about. It just complain. If you truly believe it is bad, you have is also the opposite of the continuing dialogue I an obligation to do something about it. You are discussed earlier in this article. My part of the accountable for doing something constructive." Since dialogue now is serving on the governing board. My then, I have become more involved. Why? Because job can only be fully accomplished if I listen to and that was my part of the dialogue. Without the talk with, all members of the Regency system. That intelligent, committed participation of students (and I shall try to do. My pledge is to maintain my part all other members of the organization), no university of the dialogue. Will you, as an alumnus, student, can carry on a dialogue. This does not mean that each faculty member, and/or administrator, maintain the student must be on the University Assembly, serve other part? If so, the problems of restrictive budgets, on an academic planning committee, or work in the developing programs, increased course offerings, student affairs area. (Nor should each faculty member tenure, space, affirmative action, enrollments, and or administrator do all of these either.) What it does mission can be met head-on and solved constructively mean is that each person accepts some responsibility and creatively by all of those involved in the for the dialogue, depending on time and interest institution and system. constraints. At times, the dialogue may consist of Sangamon State University can fulfill its mission activities undertaken outside of the institution which by participating in such a dialogue. At its best, it will, stem from interests sparked within. hopefully, help many students and faculty members Many persons believe that the governing board through the various stages of their lives, culminating level is not the place to work on campus problems in an involvement with the democratic processes that such as the improvement of teaching or the evaluation make up our collective lives within this State and of programs. I concur-up to a point. The reason I nation. Let's get on with the task-all of us in was persuaded to accept the appointment to the dialogue-and meet those challenges that face us in Board of Regents is simple. I believe that the the future. o I was apprenticed to Frank Lloyd Wright from Novem- ber 1954, until Apri t 1959, when he died at the age of 91, and this is the first time I have written about the man or about my experiences. tn the past five years, I have developed and exhibited a mixed media program of slides, film, and audio tape which reveals aspects of Wright through his work and his words; on these occasions, I try to field (but sometimes resist) ques- tions that the show inevitably elicits. But to this day I have not attempted to write an article, give a lecture, or otherwise try to communicate my experiences to an audience of more than one interested listener. During the fourteen years since Wright's death, few of his former associates have written about their ex- periences: those who have say very little. Why the silence7 It isn't absolutely clear to me. Did we experience something so,deep, so personal, that the task of either adding a detail to or correcting the established picture of Wright seems hopeless? Perhaps we feel honored holders of knowledge which others can't share; are we members of a fraternity that Ioses something when it reveals its inner secrets? Whatever the reason, it seems to be working effectively on hundreds of former ap- prentices; 1 have not been alone. But there were things I learned from Frank Lloyd Wright that I believe I can communicate. Out of the powerful, personal, vital life we Ted with him, I did A REMEMBRANCE reach certain conclusions about the man and his work -and the world around us, ~hichhe illuminated by his every action, word and drawing. I learned from Wright that history-architectural or social-can rarely approximate reality, so why spend time trying to correct what you know to be in error when you have other, more important work? In this sense Wright, while intensely concerned with history --especially with his intellectual and artistic roots- did not believe in trying to "teach," set the record straight, or otherwise bring his wisdom to all in sight. In answer to the charge that he was a teacher. Wright once said he was "only an exemplar," which may be the only way one can teach. He was a patient man who knew that the truths he found-if they were true-- would stand the vicissitudes of time. If during his life- time he was thought of as a "genius" (a term he con- sidered a burden for it allowed people to set him apart from ordinary humanity and ordinary events), or thought to be indifferent to "lesser" men. he regarded 5 MARK HEYMAN that as one of the costs of being an artist, an original.- Susan Lawrence Dana House Springfield, Illinois, 1903.

For the next half century Wright was always "good copy." It is easy to see why. But I think it took him twenty or thirty years to make a reasonable adjustment to reporters and editors. He told the Lewis story when he was in his 80's; it is obvious that the press was an important factor, for both good and evil, in his later life. He occasionally said that he didn't mind the fame, only the notoriety. Wright believed that it was his obligation to pursue truth and beauty-not that he thought that everything he did or said was true and beautiful; he changed his Several times 1 heard Wright tell the story of an views and his designs enough so that this charge is incident that occurred in the 'E940's, One of his clients, ridiculous. But he did believe that the essence of his Lloyd Lewis, was also a close friend. Lewis, a Chicago work-"the centerline,"he would say-woudd persist. newspaper sports editor and Civil War historian, was come what may. He maintained a grand sense of opti- with him when a reporter phoned for the umpteenth mism even though he faced much opposition through- time for an interview. Wright told his secretary to say out his life, beginning with the time when, as a long- he would again be toe 'busy, and Lewis interjected, haired teenager, he was literally attacked by his fellow "But, Frank, you ought to talk to the reporter; he's got draftsmen for his unconventionality and confidence. to live! He'll get a story even if you don't cooperate?" How else could he accept in his office home, strang- The implication was that the story would focus on ers without demonstrated evidence of capacity or a'bil- Wright's reluctance to talk, feeding more tales of ec- ity-callow apprentices like myself-who came to cqntricity, arrogance, and querulousness to the public him with a fervent desire to participate, to live and and to newspaper files, for other writers to "research." work with him and be his staff and support? It was The media enjoyed portraying Wright as an eccentric, our interest and drive that he took to be honest and if not a crank. real. "Why eke would you want to be a parasite on But why did Wright tell this story so often? The me or me on you7"he erne said. Wa were highly- moral of the story is as I have stated, but it seems to me motivated youths of variable talents who lived with that Wright was deeply troubled with the problem of him to learn and to become (if we didn't know it at the how to live his life as a well known artist and yet start, we learned soon enough) an important link in the create a public image that would not interfere with his historic chain of art. We were there to participate in life nor damage his work. When I read about an artist's helping create an architecture worthy of America. absolute rule on no talking to the press, I am reminded Lest you think that I believe that Wright was fault- that Wright was not the only one with this problem. less, let me note that I knew he was only a man. We (Norman Mailer. to take the other extreme, has prob- lived, so to speak, in a commune (albeit under the ably become part of the media out of his struggle with leadership of a great artist), in which all the work was it; how else can one understand his outlandish behavior shared. The group varied from 40 to 60 during my stay. in the media 7 ) Living in isolated settings in rural Wisconsin during the Wright had media problems most of his long life. summer. and desert Arizona in the winter, we knew He first made the headlines in Chicago in 1911 when, each other we1 I. Weaknesses in anyone present were as a prominent architect (albeit of "strange" build- well known; I suspect we experienced all .the problems ings), he left his wife and five children and went to of communes today. Europe with the wife of a client. (His father, a music The Taliesin Fellowship was a living-learning-work- teacher and preacher, and sometime composer, left his ing environment, and everyone contributed in his ar family when the budding architect was in his teens.) her own way, through participation In the drafting 6 room, in the field {we had farmland in Wisconsin), in homes. In addition to his practice of architecture, the kitchen, laundry, workshop and in construction (we Wright also designed, during my time at Taliesin, built and maintained our own dwellings, principally of fabrics for Schurnacher, several lines of furniture for Wright's design). The income supporting us came Heritage Henredon, prototypes of an air structure for from Wright's architectural fees, and we produced all Goodrich Rubber, which was just then developing the the necessary drawings, supervision, and other services fabric that is now widely used over tennis courts and provided by an architectural office. for other air-support structures. For Mike Todd, Wright During my apprenticeship, I saw the design and designed a movie theatre based on Bucky Fuller's geo- occasionally the construction of many buildings, mostly desic dome which Todd, killed in a plane crash a few homes, the core of his practice. Clients came from weeks later, had intended to build in shopping centers throughout the United States to both Taliesins, to con- throughout the nation. sult with Wright, and occasionally we went out to I read with some interest about the current move- help in the building. I participated in the preparation ment toward communal living, wondering how many of drawings for homes in at least a dozen states, and who opt for it are prepared for the difficulties. One has saw work proceeding on homes in perhaps ten other only 20 skim the written material trickling from the states. (Recall that we routinely traveled between Wis- "successful" communes, such as Total Loss Farm and consin and Arizona twice yearly.) There were also the Twin Oaks, to get a flavor of the problems. Fortunately, designs and construction of an automobile service our communal life had one unshakable core-our de- station in Minnesota, a Mercedes Benz showroom in votion to Wright's work, his art. New York City {since destroyed}, the Marin County I have written about The Fellowship in the period (Cal.) Government Center, the Guggenheirn Museum between 1954 and 1959. when Wright was alive; I am in New York City (originally designed in the T940's), no more familiar than the average newspaper reader a building For 'Florida Southern College (for which he with what the current faliesin group, Mrs. Wright and had done several}, the Beth Shalem Synagogue near a core of fellow apprentices, and students does or is. Philadelphia, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church I believe I knew Wright well, but he was a world- near Milwaukee, pre-fabricated houses near Madison, figure. and a man almost sixty years older than I. My and a theatre in Dallas. Designed, but not built, were a view of him is personal, and tinged by myself, my university, central post office and opera heuse for personality. We apprentices were occasionally viewed Baghdad, a home for Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe as sycophants, as weak-willed dreamers who were for Connecticut; "The Illinois," (a mile-high office trying to be "little Frank Lloyd Wrights." Our own building for Chicago, not built yet) a capitol complex personalities differed a good deal, so it is not possible for Arizona that suggested the hanging gardens of to generalize about apprentices' relationships to Babylon, and several churches. Among the designs Wright. Perhaps I can sum up the master-apprentice that were built after Wright's death were a large audi- relationship at Taliesin by comparing it to a father and torium for Arizona State University, the second stage son relationship; there was the generation difference, of the Marin County Government Center, and several the respect and love, and there was aka the younger- generation's identity problem. For some apprentices, this was difficult, for others no problem at all. A question that is frequently asked of people who knew Wright is "What was he really like as a man?" 1 have found that if I am totally honest, most people will not accept my response for he was not very much like his public image. Nevertheless. I'll' try the same approach here. Wright was warm and generous. He was not odd, eccentric, or zany. He was unconventional in many ways; his clothes alone always set him apart. He often wore a cape. had flowing hair, and had his hats (made in Paris) modeled after a Western cattleman" flat-top style. He sometFmes carried a cane and he drove a red and black Mercedes or Jaguar. Earlier he had a Cord, and other classic cars. (He was one of the first to ap- preciate--starting in the 1920's-what automobiles and the system of roads and highways they generated would do to our life style and development patterns.) Because his smile was evident mostly around his eyes, many did not think he smiled much, but he was a humorous man, even while he was tl-horoughly im- mersed in creative action on thought, the lighter side was bound to surface. He delighted in playing with words, analyzing their meanings and uses. He was an eloquent, if occasionally florid, writer. He spoke bril- liantly, almost never failing to win over even hostile audiences (who were usualiy architects). Women were especially drawn to him; one client {when Wright was in his 80's and she in her 30's-and married) whisper- ed in my ear, "If he was only thirty years younger or I thirty years older . . .". He had many friends, even if his work and his stature made him stand apart. Me was an avid fan of the films; we saw at least one a week at both Taliesins. Anne Baxter is his grand- daughter, and other film people visited often. 1 re- member Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Burke, Charleton Hes- ton, Tom f ryon, Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, and others. We also saw well-known people from other walks of life: Margaret Sanger. Bucky Fuller, Henry and Clare Booth Luce; Yehudi Menuhin, William Ben- ton, and Christopher Isherwood. Architects from all over the world were frequent guests, Raymond Rubi- cam, Harold McCorrnFck, Frank Church, Adlai Steven- son are some others who visited. And, after all that-the way he lived and worked, and even the fame and the notoriety-what about Wright's place in history? Those who could do justice to the question-professionals who knew Wright and his work (Lewis Mumford would be one)-have not tried. While at Taliesin, I saw several scholars devote their talentg to some aspect or period of Wright's work with indifferent success, even with his cooperation. I remember one young. very tall and very thin Ph.0 candidate--suited and tied (we wore work clothes)- who asked Wright, as an opener, about the Chicago School of architecture. "There was no Chicago School," Wright told him, and then while he continued to work proceeded to talk at length about himself and some "boys" who shared his office. The Rh.D candi- date never did recover from his initial setback-his thesis topic was "The Chicago School." I saw his book years later, and this candidate was able to note that interview in a short. noncommiral footnote, thereby recovering his academic aplomb. Of course there was a "Chicago School," bus any of us apprentices would have known that this phrase wouldn't make any head- A Short Guide to the Literature on Frank Lloyd Wright: way-especially as an opening remark-with the man who was the acknowledged leader of that group and His An Autobiography (Duell, Sloan and Pierce, who was a great individualist. And who else but an 1943) is indispensable, even if neither impartial nor individual could have been the leader of a major move- complete. The best comprehensive book on Wright is Frank Lloyd Wright; Writings and Buildings (Merid- ment in architecture, which not only changed American 19601, architecture, but world architecture? It would have ian, edited by Edgar Kaufmann and Ben Rae- burn, one a former apprentice and now an architectural been like saying to Michaelangelo, "Tell me about the Florentine sculptors." Well, as Wright aften said, historian, and the other his long-time publisher. It has there's a difference between being an artist and being an excellent selection of his writings, many drawings an art historian. and photographs, biographical information, and a And not wanting to became-nor having the talents handy list of Wright's buildings, with addresses. The best critique of Wright's work is found in four to becomean art historian, 1 am ready to end this remembrance. short essays by Lewis Murnford, who originally wrote them for Yorker" magazine: "The Fujiyama I am not optimistic that efforts "by those who knew" "The New will correct history as far as Wright's work is con- of Architecture" and "A Phoenix Too Infrequent" in (Harcourt Brace, and cerned, but that in due time it will be better under- From the Ground Up 1956) stood, despite historians, reporters. and writers of re- "What Wright Hath Wrought'' and "In Memoriam: membrances. If you want to try to understand it. it is 1867-1959" in The Highway and the City (Harcourt there in some 600 buildings and numerous books. 1 Brace, 1963). After Mumford. the most perceptive hope you can experience some of the beauty and joy critics are Leonard Eaton, Henry Russell Hitchcock, that I did, in your way. Edgar Kaufmann, Grant Manson, Vincent Scully, and A final note: For Wright, his work was his life, and Norris Kelly Smith. But none approaches Mumford. his life was his work. That, it seems to me, is a signifi- Most libraries will have good selections of books cant characteristic of a great artist. o by and about Wright, many of them well illustrated. Depending on whether one counts collections of previous published material (such as the Kaufmann- Raeburn book}, revisions ef earlier books (Wright did three versions of Broadacre City, his vision of future development patterns), and foreign language books, rhere are from twenty-five to forty books on the sub- ject. An especially interesting one is the 47-page An Organic Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy (MIT Press, 1970). a transcript of four informal lec- tures Wright gave to a group of London architects (and the subsequent discussions) in 1939. The number of articles on Wright is large. I know of no up-to-date, readily available bibliography, but- with the above suggestions and the assistance of your librarian-you should have no difticulty in finding the published material. An excellent illustrated collection of essays-Roots of Contemporary American Architecture (edited by Lewis Mumford, Dover, 1972)-includes "The Art and Craft of the Machine" (1901) and "Nature as Architect'" 19411 by Wright, and "The Example of Frank Lloyd Wright." by Walter Behrendt. "The Prairie School Review." a quarterly concerned with the Chicago School, has had some excellent articles on Wright and his contemporaries around the turn of the century. Above all, see his work. Chicago and the surround- ing area is a good locale. especially for the early buildings. 0

Years ago, due to a series of coincidences, my college majors were in the fields of political science and eco- nomics. Without too much effect on my current status in life, they could just as well have been in history or English literature or whatever else was offered on a small liberal arts campus. For the undergraduate, the important thing is exposure to a liberal arts education, and history would have been as good a field of special- ization as any other, whether I had gone into journal- ism, business, the law, or some other field. Strangely enough, more than four decades after graduation I did become a semiprofessional historian, at least so far as Illinois is concerned. Quite possibly it was preor- dained, in part because of a penchant for saving odd bits of printed information, but, of more importance, because historv must be one of the foundations for a career in journ.alism that is involved with any aspect of government, whether it be provincial, Washington- based, or international levels. The sciences and the trades are exceptions, of course, but most careers could PRINT use the discipline required of an historian. News reporting is not always glamorous and it ROBERT P. HOWARD occasionally consists of waiting for something to hap-

What was it like to teach in a one room country school house in central Illinois? Where could you buy bootleg liquor in Sangamon County during the prohibition era? What kind of heating fuel did United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis use in his home? What do eyewitnesses remember about the 1908 race riot in Springfield? What do charter students, faculty and staff members recall as the highlights of Sangamon State's first year, when it migrated from a Washington Street storefront to a church basement and finally to a muddy campus? The answers to these questions cannot he found in history books, but someday they may ke, thanks to an energetic effort by SSU faculty and students in the Oral History Research Project. This is an ambitious undertaking that seeks to collect and preserve infor-

mation about the history of Illinois, the Springfield. - and Sangamon County area; and other subjects, including the universityIs own history. The technique of oral history is practically as new to the historical profession as Sangamon State is to m the world of higher education. As presently defined and practiced in more than 700 centers throughout the nation, oral history is only 25 years old. But de- CULLOM DAVIS fined more simply as the spoken recollections of eye- witnesses to historical events, it is old as history itself. It rests on an oral tradition that was practiced by the earliest Greek historians more than two thou- sand years ago. What gives this tradition a new twist and a fresh name are three significant developments of the past pen, which a prosperous neighbor once said would Without an historical perspective, news writing can never be permitted if I worked for his insurance agen- easily be distorted, and one of the first lessons in be- cy. Beat men have their own specialties, and general ginning journalism should be that it is living danger- assignments men are frequently required to dash off a ously to write that something is unprecedented. If you few paragraphs about some situation that, not being haven't been on the job more than three years, how do repeated soon, can be dismissed from conscious mem- you Iknow that it never happened before? After three ory. The fortunate newspaperman can frequently be- years, you should know that it might have. As an ex- come involved in a continuing and intensive study ample, a new man in the State House press room once that provides opportunity for broadening perspectives informed his public that the governor was working and intellectual growth. In one of my off seasons, harder on his annual budget than any of his predeces- Colonel McCormick wanted to promote a consolidation sors ever had and as a consequence was better in- of the six railroad passenger terminals that fringed formed fiscally. Such clap-trap was given straight-faced Chicago's loop. The city editor pointed at me and, distribution in spite of a complete ignorance about the before writing a series of stories, I did research that working habits of earlier governors. The writer appar- gave me a thorough education in transportation, includ- ently had never head of Governor William G. Stratton, ing detailed knowledge about which transcontinental who was learning rapidly at the age of fifteen when and short-line railroads run from where, in which di- his father became secretary of state. Historical per- rection, when and why they were built and by whom. spectives can be acquired only with time for reading. That knowledge was invaluable when I wrote Illinois: One of the competent younger men in the press room A History of the Prairie State. And for a quarter of a covered all of the 1972 campaign before he learned century I have cherished a paper-bound copy of a doc- that Governor Henry Horner beat the Chicago Demo- toral thesis, on Chicago's railroad systems, by a man cratic organization in the 1936 primary, just as Dan now eminent in other fields. Walker was attempting to do. +

25 years or so. One is the tape recorder, and more in common people's history has led naturally to de- recently the lightweight portable casette recorder, pendence on the oral history technique for gathering which makes it convenient and economical to preserve evidence. eyewitness historical accounts, with all the nuances These three developments have given importance of dialect and speaking style. The second is the com- and even urgency to the field of oral history. Launched munications revolution, which has tended to reduce in 1948 by the historian Allan Nevins at Columbia the amount and quality of an individual's written ac- LJniversity, it has grown dramatically. At Columbia count of his role in historical events. Letter writing alone there are typed transcripts of oral history inter- and personal diaries are not as common a source of views with more than 2,500 persons. Major projects personal history as they were a century ago, because are underway elsewhere, including the John F. Ken- people increasingly depend on electronic and direct nedy Library in Massachusetts, which has 1,000 inter- personal contact for their business and public affairs. views with persons who knew President Kennedy. Oral history is one way to fill this diary gap, because The Oral History Research Project at Sangamon it enables persons to tell the tape recorder what they State is an upstart even in this young field, and it fail to write in a personal journal or autobiography. scarcely compares in magnitude or scope with the Finally, oral history has flourished and taken on new major centers. It began quietly a year-and-a-half-ago, meaning because it has accompanied a sweeping trend when I introduced a course, "Workshop in Oral His- to democratize history. History used to be limited to tory," and asked students to assist me in building an a chronicle of the lives of important persons-kings, oral history collection at SSU. Our holdings are mod- presidents and generals. Their lives were amply docu- est, but already we have the largest oral history col- - mented in their letters, speeches, newspaper accounts lection among the ten recognized centers in Illinois. and other printed sources. But in recent years his- The figures change daily, but at present we have a torians have focused growing attention on the ordinary total of 150 hours of tape recorded interviews, and citizen, his job and life experiences. Only by adding 2,000 pages of verbatim or edited transcript. Our an understanding of everyday life by everyman can we roster of interviewed narrators numbers 125 persons. hope to gain a full picture of civilization's history. The In scope the SSU project deliberately concentrates trouble is, where do you turn for information about on matters of local and regional history. Furthermore, everyman? He rarely saves his letters, he doesn't give true to the democratic trend in historical study, we are speeches or issue proclamations, and too often the just as interested in the lives of coal miners, grocers newspaper records no more about his life than its vital and school teachers as we are in governors and other statistics, his birth and death. The swelling interest executives. Our purpose is to collect, preserve and d ROBERT P. HOWARD

Romanticists to the contrary, journalism is a craft able to keep out of trouble. Since then I have belonged and not a profession, and anyone can aspire to join its to the minority school which contends that journalism ranks on a short or long term basis and at almost any should fight its own battles in the open without seek- level. That adds to the competition and increases :he ing protection of a special law granting privileges not potential labor supply, to the detriment of wage rates. held by others. Newspapermen are not required to take a prescribed Remembering that an old uncle used to warn me course of study, and neither are they licensed and against interferring with the wheels of progress, I have registered by the State. At journalism's fringes are in- tried not to be antagonistic when electronic gear is tellectuals who on occasion contribute learned disser- hauled into the presence of men who use ball points tations, free lancers whose activities might extend into to scribble notes on borrowed copy paper. Television the neighboring fields of literature and advertising, and radio do compete with newspapers, for advertising and unprincipled and odd-ball hacks who have the revenue as well as for news breaks. Tom Littlewood right to start their own publications and claim for of the Sun-Times a decade ago bitterly protested that dubious activities the First amendment's constitutional a man being interviewed before cameras and micro- guarantee of freedom of the press. This flexibility and phones would never contribute in-depth answers, in diverseness is one of the craft's intriguing character- part because he would hesitate to give off-the-record istics, but it also makes impossible the precise defini- or qualified information while the reels turned. And tions that would be required of a "shield law" desired the late Don Chamberlain did his best to bar television by those who seek immunity from accountability for and radio men from the Capitol press room, Bob Foster what they write and publish. Back in the 1940's the of WGN excepted. Nevertheless, in my role as an old Chicago Tribune would not support a forerunner of the timer who in his later years felt a little self-conscious shield law concept; the publisher believed that men when carrying a tape recorder, I can't help but applaud competent to gather and write the news should also be Professor Cullom Davis' pioneering in the field of oral

offer for study and research as much historical raw Viehweg. We also have benefitted from the volunteer material as we can concerning central Illinois, par- services of various members of the Springfield and ticularly the Sangamon County area. This leads us into SSU communities, including students who enrolled in such subjects as agriculture, Springfield's ethnic the Workshop and produced the bulk of our taped groups, coal rnining and union violence, the 1908 race interviews. riot, local commerce and industry, and various per- SSU alumni, students and employees have co- sonal memoirs. operated as narrators in one of our special projects, a If our growth over the past year has been notable, continuing oral history record of the University. The all the more remarkable is the fact that we have done it recollections of such alumni as Ed Niederer, Marlys with a small qroup of part-time volunteers and student Lackey, Brian Becker, and Roger Sweet, and also employees. These individuals work on every facet of former Dean of Student Services Bob MacAllister, will the oral history process, which is more complex and be an important part of the University's corporate laborious than simply placing a microphone in front of memory, supplementing the printed materials avail- the narrator. Students have made the initial contact able in the SSU Archives. with prospects, conducted background research, inter- A few excerpts from our collection suggest the viewed narrators, typed verbatim transcripts, edited variety and flavor possible with oral history. A former and proofread them, and indexed our holdings. Within one room school house teacher recalls the custodial a few months they and I will be able to observe with duties that were part of her job: some pr~dethe completion of our first bound memoirs Every Friday was scrubbing day. Regularly on Fri- volume. Further in the future we can expect to see day after the kids had left, I took my scrub bucket students and scholars visit SSU to examine the oral and did the two toilets. The girls over in one corner history collection, and beyond that we can anticipate of the yard and the boys over in the other corner. publication of articles and books based on this And the cloak room and back porch also got a material. scrubbing at that time, not every Friday, but about Presently our paid staff consists of a half-time grad- once a month . . . Then we had that good old red uate assistant, Bobbe Herndon, and four part-time stu- sweeping compound. Just scatter it over the floor dent employees: Brian Alexander, Kay MacLean, Ed and sweep it up. Of course, during the winter season McKinley, and Chris Skoczynski. Other students and when we had to have heat every night, I had to carry alumni who have served in the past include Greg John- in buckets of coal and then have some corn cobs in son, Jim Krohe, Betty Kyger, Steve Morse and Juanita case the fire went out overnight.

CULLOM DAVIS history. Interviewing always has been one of the most Southern Illinois district was brought to Springfield, to important journalistic techniques, and Davis the his- serve as House chaplain for a week, during which torian is helping to make it a science. protocol required that Powell take the preacher each Regretfully, Davis did not start his oral history proj- night to the Lake Club or scme other expensive place ect in time to preserve the salty diction and hill coun- of entertainment, and when the preacher, who had try twang of one of the unique characters of the last acquired a taste for Springfield after hours, turned on half century, the late Paul Powell. Part of the blame his host by running for state representative in a pri- should be on my shoulders. It was more than twenty mary campaign that had the unexpected benefit of years ago, on an occasion when Powell the legislator bringing Powell and John Stelle, a future governor, was speaking in an uncomplimentary manner about into the same Democratic faction. I missed that per- Governor Adlai Stevenson, that I realized that his dia- formance, because I was talking to a long-lost friend lect, if not his opinions, should be preserved on tape, in another part of the room and later I did not attempt for better or for worse. Not too long before his death, to elbow my way into the secretary of state's audience. Powell. as was his custom, invited the press room to Having heard the stories before, it did not seem vital a luncheon at the St. Nicholas Hotel for the unveiling to be in the front row again, but that was my last of a report by a special committee he had appointed to chance to listen to Powell at his best. Since then my study some phase of the secretary of state's office. advice to oral historians is to work harder at getting Predictably, with the bar open, the meal was delayed prominent men on tape. o an hour while Powell, always a great raconteur, began telling some of the colorful tales of his first terms in the house of representatives, when underpaid legisla- tors slept in their cars because their pocketbooks were flattened by the depression, when a preacher from his

Springfield radio personality Spizz Singer remem- me!' He'd bounce her on his knee and they just had bers an amazing fact about UMW President John L. a great affinity for one another. Lewis: Nearly everyone who has been involved with our work has found it rewarding. Interviewers meet inter- John L. Lewis lived on West Lawrence in a large esting citizens and hear their life stories. Transcription- house. For a long time the President of the United ists listen to the taped reminiscences of people they've Mine Workers didn't burn coal in his house; he had never met, and regularly are jolted or entertained by a oil. I think that's rather unusual because he, of narrator's colorful language. Even most of our narrators course shouted coal to the high heavens, but he enjoy the experience, perhaps because it assures them used oil. a measure of immortality and historical value by means of a simple technique. Lewis' niece, Myrta Nickey, reveals a soft, paternal side Our only frustration is with the mounting backlog to the controversial labor leader: of unfinished work. More than 75 .~ros~ective . narrators await our attention; in all likelihood some will die or He was fond of children, believe it or not, and one move away before we get around to them. We also of my favorite recollections was that he loved to have a substantial backlog of untranscribed tapes and sing Welsh songs-all kinds of old folk songs like unedited transcripts. Until these materials are pro- 'Froggie Did A-Courting Go' and that variety of song. cessed we cannot expect them to be of much use to Later on he and my daughter were particularly fond interested researchers. For this reason we are constant- of one another. This was much later, in the late ly on the lookout for volunteer assistance of any kind. 1940's and early 1950's. When he came back to SSU alumni and other persons who regard oral history town every six or eight months, he'd drive up or as a possibly interesting avocation are urged to write James (his valet and chauffeur) would drive him up. or telephone me at the University. I promise to put as He'd pull up there in the yard and Susie would al- much time and energy as you can spare to good use. u ways be there to meet him, but one day she wasn't there. I whistled for her because she was still down the street playing. He got out of the car, looked around and said, 'Well where's Susie?' . . . That tickled me-Where's Susie?' When she got there he kind of looked at her and said, 'Where have you been?' It was just like, 'You weren't here to meet PAMELA MUEY alumnus prof ik:j

"'Ifthe Sangamon State degree Lauer who received his is to receive high accepti'bility in Bachelor of Science in ! the general community and in the Agriculture and his Masters of academic community it will Science in Agricultural Economics depend entirely upon the from the University of Illinois performance of the graduates of attended Sangamon State the first few classes to give University in 1971 and '72 while credence to the degree." on sabbatical leave from his I That answer to the question of teaching post at Lincoln College, 51 the worth of a Sangamon degree Lincoln, Illinois. He concentrated was made by a member of the his graduate study at SSU in the Illinois House of Representatives areas of Economics and who also just happens to be a Work/ Culture /Society. former student of Sangamon f State. Rep. Jack Lawer, a I Republican from Logan County, I may be helping to prove his own statement. I ack lau~r

The 43 year-old teacher on that farm." decided on Sangamon because Lauer decided to run for the "I was curious . . . curious about legislature because he says "I the new innovative approach." am a very political animal. There And did Sangamon State live rarely is anything that comes up up to this expectation? Lauer that 1 don't have an opinion on confesses that he had then and and after thinking about it, I'm still has mixed feelings on the willing to take a stand." purportedly new approach which He also says he has never has distinguished this young believed "that Illinois government university in Illinois' capital city. had to be bad although it has the Lauer admits that the reputation of not only being bad informality and loose structure but absolutely vile." Lauer hopes at SSU "was extremely valuable he can do his part to change that and permitted me to do whatever reputation, but adds, "I'm one I wanted.'" voice out of 236 prima donnas. "But," Lauer goes on to say. 1 realize it will take time." "I don't think that kids just out The freshman legislator isn't of junior college have the the only one in his family who is discipline for this type of familiar with Sangamon State. classroom structure. For those Lauer's wife Jane is an assistant that are older with degrees, it's to Sangamon's Vice President far just exactly the thing." Planning and Deve!opment. However, since Lauer's student Thomas Goins. The Lauers and days at the "nivers~t~he has their Sour children live in been watching the course Sangamon State is a part. He Broadwell, a suburb of Lincoln. offerings and is "beginning to see did so only because SSU took This is the first year in a mote structured approach." "that middle ground and has Sangamon State University's And he feels this is proper. proved itself worthwhile." short life that it can claim a At first he compared the Although this is Lauer's first member of the Illinois General students at Sangamon to children year in the Illinois General Assembly as one of its alumni. who want to eat only dessert but Assembly he would like to be Perhaps if other Sangamon also need meat and vegetables. around "'for at least another two students aspire to equally But Lauer now feels a change has or three terms-'that is if my esteemed positions they will join taken place at the university. constituents choose to send me." with Rep. Jack Lauer and "give "A balance has been attained Lauer, besides having taught credence to the degree. " o between the innovative and at Lincoln College, has farmed unstructured and the highly in*Logan County all his life. structured." Lauer says. 'Becoming a legislator was "Sangamon State University has "something I wanted to do ever taken the middle road." since I was a child growing up Lauer, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, supported the Board of Regents budget of which ter calendar, and it was felt that adopting a similar NEWS NOTES calendar would benefit those people as they transfer to the university. COMMENCEMENT, Sangamon State's second, oc- curred on the weekend of May 25-27. The events in- THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO SANGAMON STATE cluded the commencement ceremony itself, a recep- STUDENTS as legislative interns fox 1973-74 was tion for graduates at the Old State Capitol, an Alumni announced recently by the sponsoring committee of Association-Vets Club picnic, and a dance gradua- the Illinois Legislative Staff Internship Program. tion night at the St. Nicholas Hotef. DAVID W. OLlEN of Decatur and JUDITH REDICK of Springfield, both graduate students in political Participation in commencement ceremony was volun- studies, are among 1 6 interns who will be assigned to tary and wearing academic apparel was optional. Over staff positions with the legislative leaders of the Gen- 350 of the graduates eIigible to participate in com- eral Assembly next year. mencement did so, and almost all appeared in aca- demic regalia which included the Oxford or "'floppy" Olien is a copy editor with the Lindsay-Schaub news- hat which was worn last year. Speakers for the com- papers. He received the E3. A, degree from the Uni- mencement program included CHARLES LOCKHART. versity of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, with a major in Chairman of the Alumni Assaciation; HARLlNGTON journalism and a minor in history. He has been as- WOOD, JR., Assistant United States Attorney Gene- signed to the House Republican leadership. Redick ral and Judge-designate for the Southern District af received the B. S, degree from St. Louis University Illinois; and MAT B. FRAZER, a graduate. The event with concentrations in political science, education, and was a large one held in the Illinois State Armory and English. She has been assigned to the Senate Repub- with an audience of approximately 3,000 people. lican leadership. The legislative Intern Program, now in its eleventh year, aperates under the joint auspices of The reception at the Old State Capitol on Friday be- the IFlinois Legislative Council, Sangamon State Uni- fore commencement was hosted by the President and versity, and the University of Illinois. featured tours of the building conducted by women from the Springfield Junior League in period costume, Work with the Legislature is also the basis for an Ap- and the music of a jazz quintet. The Saturday after- plied Legislative Study experience, a pilot project noon picnic attended by over 200 graduates and stu- inaugurated this spring, which allowed 15 SSU under- dents was held at Lake Springfield and included a graduates to receive university credit while working spirited softball game and a raffle of a new motor- as staff aides to members of the General Assembly. cycle. Several hundred people attended the dance at THE EARLY SEMESTER CALENDAR has been adopt- the St. Nicholas, and danced ro the music of the ed by Sangamon State University and will go into George Hudson Band from St. Louis, and the Spring- effect beginning with the fall semester of 1973. The field High School Jazz Band. change to the new calendar, an object of much discus- AN EXPERIMENTAL DEGREE PROGRAM IN HIS- sion on campus, was initiated by Vice President for TORY has been announced by Illinois Central Col- Academic Affairs, JOHM KEISER, because he believes lege, East Peoria, and Sangamon State. The program, it offers many advantages in scheduling for the uni- which will begin in the 1934-1 975 academic year, is versity. Keiser a'lsa feels that the early semester cal- designed to be competency-based and free from the endar will have educational benefits because of more rigid traditional commitment to the four-year time class time. period usually associated with Eachefor's degrees, In Some night students objected to the new calendar, addition the degree is expected to be free from the feeling that it would make it more difficult for them traditional credit counting approach. Instead the new to attend Sangamon as part-time students. Following Newly elected directors of the Sangamon Stata University discussion and acrion in the University Assembly Alumni Associatian. Standing, left to right: Horace Martin, the matter was referred to the Board of Regents who Lorrio Farrington, Chuck Shultzabarger, Jeffrey Davis, Charfes supported Keiser's proposal and voted to move the Lackhart. Seated, left to right: Bifl Logan, Charlie Williams, university to the early semester calendar. Keiser has Wanda Berschelt, Dean Debolt. said that he believes that this calendar change will be the most rapid that any institution of higher educa- tion has made. The necessity for rapid change was brought about because of the approval of several new academic programs which will begin instruction next fall. The vice president felt that planning for those programs should be done on the basis of a calendar system which would be in effect for some time. The early semester calendar is currently used by more institutions of higher education in the United States than is any other. Lincoln Land Community College recently voted to adopt the early semester calendar for classes beginning in September of 1974. Well over three-fourths of all public community colleges in the State of llineis now operate on an early semes- program defines the objectives of the degree for the A NEW TEMPORARY BUILDING is going up on camp- individual student and provides means of evaluation to us. The Illinois Board of Regents at its meeting on determine the point at which the student has achieved April 12 authorized Sangamon State University to con- his objectives. The program will be experimental for struct an additional interim building at its Main Cam- the first six years, during which time it will be evalu- pus and also to lease additional space at the downtown ated and assessed. Capital Campus. The additi0na.l facilities will provide space for projected increased enrollments and special In a news conference held in East Peoria, the presi- program requirements not now provided for by the dents of the two institutions announced the degree university's long-range development plan. The new and stated that they felt it offered a number of ad- structure will be similar to the already existing tem- vantages for students, such as graduation in three porary buildings. The building, which will house SSU's years instead of the traditional four, more individua- new FM station as well as classroom and office space, lized attention from faculty from two institutions, and is now under construction west of the cafeteria. Oc- a potential saving to the student in time and money. cupancy is expected by Fall. Thirty to fifty students are expected to enroll in the first class beginning' with a colloquium on the East "ALTERNATIVES IN ENVIRONMENTS AND TECH- Peoria campus one year from this summer. Through- NOLOGY" WEEK was held on campus May 7-13. The out their studies, students will attend classes on both week featured a three-day craft fair, a geodesic dome campuses taught by members of both faculties. display, three films, kaleidoscopic image infinity box, and a public lecture by R. BUCKMINISTER FULLER. TENURE was granted to eleven members of the San- gamon State University faculty by the Board of Re- Fuller spoke to a capacity audience in the university's gents at a meeting on May 17 in Normal. The Regents' cafeteria. He discussed the theme "Doing More with decision was based on recommendations from aaten- Less with the Universe." This is a basic tenet of his ure decision committee composed primarily of faculty philosophy, which holds that technology has enabled members and on recommendation of the President of man to increase the productivity of energy sources the university. The criteria used in making recom- and supplies of raw materials throughout history. mendations for tenure were (1) overall performance and qualifications in such areas as teaching, student Fuller is the creator of the geodesic dome. As part of advising, service to the community, the application of the "Alternatives" Week students of Professor ROB- knowledge to public affairs, and the search for ways ERT SlPE built a geodesic dome on the Sangamon to increase the effectiveness of learning and teach- campus near the I Academic Building. ing, (2) future potential, (3) the long-run interests of the university. The committee, composed of five facul- RAY BESS, Dean of Admissions and Records, an- ty, one student, and two administrators, made recom- nounced that enrollment at Sangamon State hit an all mendations to President Spencer which were then time high during Spring Quarter 1973. The enrollment conveyed to the Board of Regents. of 2,481 students is 150 students above the fall and winter registrants. Enrollments normally decline dur- The Board granted tenure to the following eleven ing the spring at most universities. faculty members: STUART ANDERSON, ROBERT BATSON, DENNIS CAMP, CULLOM DAVIS, HOW- RADOMIRO TOMIC, one-time Chilean ambassador to ARD DILLON, J. RICHARD JOHNSTON, JOHN KEI- the United States and an unsuccessful candidate SER, KING LEE, MARY JANE MACDONALD, F. against Chile's Marxist President, SALVADOR AL- MARK SIEBERT, AND RALPH STONE. LENDE, made a speech and visited classes at Sanga- mon State University in February. Tomic spoke on the THE PEOPLE'S PLACE, Sangamon State's Student subject, "What's Wrong with the Communistic Experi- Coffee House, has reopened in new quarters. The ment in Chile." Tomic, a lawyer and former oewspaper- new quarters are immediately to the north of the man, has been making comparative studies of third original location of the coffee house and provide about world liberation movements. He visited China six four times as much space as was originally devoted to months prior to President Nixon's trip and has recently this interesting new part of the university's social life. traveled in Asia, Africa, and Europe. It is possible that The People's Place is usually open on weekends dur- Tomic, who lost the election to Allende by a margin ing the academic year and often features folk singers, of less than one per cent of the vote cast, could be poets, and other types of entertainment. The public a candidate again in Chile's next presidential election. and all students are welcome to stop by the coffee house and join in the discussions or entertainment Tomic was brought to the campus by faculty member which occur there. AUSTIN CARLEY. Carley has been a South American i correspondent for a number of American and foreign I THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE at Sangamon State Uni- newspapers and periodicals. Carley met Tomic when I versity is nearing completion at its site on the east he and the Chilean were attending an inter-American side of the Sangamon campus. The location of the conference in Dallas. home is the location of the former McClelland house off West Lake Shore Drive. The home, surrounded by SEVERAL POETS AND WRITERS have come to cam- trees, is a modified prefabricated building of an early pus at the invitation of faculty member JOHN KNOEP- American clapboard style. The downstairs of the home FLE. They have spoken to classes and given readings includes a large living-dining room, a study, kitchen, of their work at the university. Among them were and utility room as well as a guest room. The upstairs CYRUS J. COLTER, senior member of the Illinois Com- includes bedrooms for the president's family. merce Commission. Colter was appointed to the Com-- 19 merce Commission in 1950 by Governor Adlai Steven- pointed curator of the Clayville Rural Life Center and son. He began writing at the age of 50. He is the au- assistant professor of history. Sherman has served as thor of a book of short stories and two novels, as well district historian for the lllinois Department of Con- as his own poems. HOWARD SCHWARTZ, who is servation, Division of Parks and Memorials,-in charge currently with the University of St. Louis at St. Louis, of the memorial sites in southern Illinois. As curator and the author of a recently published book called A of Clayville, Sherman will be responsible for the day- Blessing Over Ashes, presented a reading of his own to-day administration of the facility, coordination of works in May. Also in May, MARSHA LEE MASTERS all programs, developing and reviewing long-range SCHMID, daughter of the late EDGAR LEE MASTERS, planning and development of programs and facilities, read poetry by her father, Edgar Lee Masters, and by assisting in fund raising, and will serve as liaison with herself. Mrs. Schmid is editor of Today's Poets, a col- key community, state, and national agencies, associa- umn she started for the Chicago Tribune six years ago. tions, and foundations. DON LUCE, author of the book Vietnam, the Unheard Voices and a special correspondent for ABC News, was TERRY LUTES has been appointed by Governor Walk- another speaker to visit the Sangamon campus during er to serve as the assistant director of the Department the last three months. Luce made world headlines in of Agriculture. Lutes, who was active in the Walker 1970 when he along with two American congressmen campaign in Sangamon County, is a former Sangamon discovered the notorious "Tiger Cages" in one of State student . . . DEBBIE DRENNAN has gone to work South Vietnam's largest prisons. Because of this his for the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation . . . visa was withdrawn by the South Vietnamese govern- CHARLIE WILLIAMS has been employed by the Green- ment in 1971 for "special reasons." Luce has been in view School system as high school principal in that town . DOUG PITCHFORD, who worked part time Vietnam for the last fourteen years. He presented a . . lecture and spent a day visiting various classes at the in the security office at Sangamon State University university. while a student, has gone to work as a part-time legis- lative aide for Representative KEN BOYLE of Illinois' ALFRED BALK, the editor of the Columbia Journalism 49th District . . . JEAN GENDE has been appointed Review, spent two days in Springfield in February. Head Resident/Counselor at Lincoln College in Lin- Balk spoke to the Sangamon Valley Chapter of Sigma coln, lllinois . . . HORACE MARTIN has taken a job Delta Chi and also spent time with student and faculty with the lllinois State Commission on Human Rela- members of Sangamon State University. Balk, formerly tions. SUSAN WING is leaving Springfield for Wash- with the Sun Times and WBBM TV in Chicago, has ington where she will soon marry M. B. Oglesby, an also served as editor-at-large of the Saturday Review. assistant to lllinois Congressman EDWARD MADIGAN He spoke to several classes at Sangamon State, includ- . . . DAVE EVERSON of the political science faculty is ing the graduate class in Public Affairs Reporting un- the co-author of a recently published book called An der the direction of Professor PAUL SIMON. Balk was introduction to Systematic Political Science . . . JOHN the main speaker at a luncheon at which the ROBERT R. ARMSTRONG has gone to work for the Department P. HOWARD Scholarship in Public Affairs Reporting of Agriculture as the director of printing for that de- was awarded. partment. Armstrong is a Sangamon graduate and the publisher of the newspaper The Spectrum. The Howard Scholarship was created by friends when he retired as capital correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. I-loward was the Dean of the Capital Press THE SANGAMON STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI AS- Corps. The scholarship was awarded to MIKE KIENZ- SOCIATION held its first meeting at Clayville on LER who will use it to finance his studies as a student March 2. Over forty alumni attended to put together in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at Sangamon. a group which will encourage a meaningful relation- ship between the university and its alumni and to pro- DICK GREGORY, comedian and lecturer, was the ma- vide services to alumni once they have left the uni- jor speaker during the second Black Awareness Week versity. The group which met at Clayville discussed held at the university. The week, entitled "A Journey and ratified a proposed constitution for the Alumni into Black Culture," was sponsored in part by Sanga- Association. They also heard a presentation by faculty mon's Black Student Union. The week focused on member ED HAWES on the history of Clayville and the political, economic, and social issues relating to the university's plans for use of the recently acquirec black community. Gregory is best known as a comed- facility. ian. However, he has been very active in civil rights movement of the sixties and in the peace movement The Constitution adopted by the alumni provides fo~ connected with the Vietnam War. He spoke to a large the election of nine directors serving staggered three. audience in Sangamon's cafeteria. In addition to year terms on a Board of Directors. From the group o' Gregory other speakers participating in Black Aware- directors four officers are to be elected each year ness Week were civil rights leader BENJAMIN MAYS, Those elected as directors of the association includec author ALEX HALEY, and a group of lllinois politicians CHARLES LOCKHART, CHUCK SHULTZABARGER who spoke on the black politician and his role in the LORRIE FARRINGTON, HORACE MARTIN, WANDE culture. In addition, a dance and drama group from the BORSCHELT, JEFFREY DAVIS, DEAN DEBOLT, BlLl University of lllinois presented "The Journey." The LOGAN, AND CHARLIE WILLIAMS. At the first meet week concluded with a performance of African music ing of the directors following the organizational meet by ALlZA THANDEKA NGONO. ing at Clayville, Lochart was elected chairman of thc association. Shultzabarger was picked as vice chair ROBERT W. SHERMAN of Springfield has been ap- man, Farrington as secretary, and Martin as treasurer Non-Profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE - Springfield, Illinois Alumni Office Permit No. 703 Sangamon State University Springfield, Illinois 62708

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