The Ursinus Weekly, October 2, 1975
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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Ursinus Weekly Newspaper Newspapers 10-2-1975 The rsinU us Weekly, October 2, 1975 Ruth Von Kummer Ursinus College Alan Stetler Ursinus College George Geist Ursinus College Grace Olmeda Ursinus College Barbara J. Grider Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly Part of the Cultural History Commons, Higher Education Commons, Liberal Studies Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Von Kummer, Ruth; Stetler, Alan; Geist, George; Olmeda, Grace; Grider, Barbara J.; Leibensperger, Kevin; DeWitt, David; Jones, Jina; Vincent, Barbara Ann; McCarthy, Cathryn; Brant, Robert; Barbin, Sheryl; Ulan, Leonard; Taberty, Sharon; Poots, Cindy; Crawford, Judith; Weatherwax, Nancy; Bechtold, Carolyn; Fritz, Warren; Lange, Stephen M.; Grosh, James; and Saraco, Joseph, "The rU sinus Weekly, October 2, 1975" (1975). Ursinus Weekly Newspaper. 41. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/41 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ursinus Weekly Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Ruth Von Kummer, Alan Stetler, George Geist, Grace Olmeda, Barbara J. Grider, Kevin Leibensperger, David DeWitt, Jina Jones, Barbara Ann Vincent, Cathryn McCarthy, Robert Brant, Sheryl Barbin, Leonard Ulan, Sharon Taberty, Cindy Poots, Judith Crawford, Nancy Weatherwax, Carolyn Bechtold, Warren Fritz, Stephen M. Lange, James Grosh, and Joseph Saraco This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/41 Non·Profit Org. U. S. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 40 mhr lIrsinull Co"egeville. Po. V~lume LXXV THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1975 No.1 Meetings on Perkiomen In Memoriam Gene Shue Presents: By RUTH VON KUMMER Valley Crowth The college was deeply grieved last week by the death of a very Year of ·the Sixers By ALAN STETLER the quality of life in the Lower dedicated and resourceful professor, Mr. Walter Woodrow Marsteller. Ursinus College is hosting a Perkiomen Valley and the potential for change in the future. Mr. MarSJteller died about 3:00 p.m. series of town meetings this month on Friday, Sept. 19. in which residents of the Lower On October 20 the second meet Perkiomen Valley can prepare for ing will be held with three different He was praised by both his fel the impact of metropolitan P.hila speakers and subjects on iflhe agen low teachers and the students he delphia growth on the semi-rural da. E. Digby Baltzell, professor of taug>ht for his unfailing interest in area in the years ahead. Sociology at the University of both his students, his work and fqr The program was planned as a Pennsylvania, will speak on the a constant desire to offer assis cooperative venture by Ursinus threats of metropolitan growth and tance whenever it was necessary. staff members and representatives what can be done to maintain a Mr. Marsteller was a student at of Perkiomen Valley local ,govern sense of community in the area. Ursinus having previously attended ments, and social and civic organi Michael P. Conzen, assistant pro other schools. He was also a vet zations. fessor of Geography at Boston Uni eran of World War H. His work The series of meetings will be versity will speak on how new experience as a machinis,t was ut il funded in part by a $6,000 grant transportation systems can bring ized in a very beneficial way at from the Public Committee for the about community changes'. Ursinus. Immediately after grad Hum ani tie s in Pennsylvania. The third speaker of the evening uation, he employed this skill to Matching funds and in-kind ser will be Robert M·arler, Director of build the dome on the top of vices are being provided by repre American Studies-Temple Univer Phaler Hall, also designing and sentatives of area organizations sity, reflecting on a scholar and building the observatory in addi and governments, and by Ursinus. teacher's view of the changing tion to teaching. Dr. Marvin Reed, assistant pro countryside. Beginning in the fall of 1949, Mr. Marsteller taught courses at By GEORGE GEIST cuit's best guards. He had the best fessor of history here at Ursinus, The town meeting series will con shooting percentage from the field Ursinus in optics and astronomy, This is "The Year of the Sixers." is project director. clude on October 29 wioh the pro and foul line among the regulars, The main focus of the programs gram devoted to local residents both of which he had been interest It's been almost a decade since the ed in all his life. He also had topped the team in steals, and his is to explore the values of the conducting a panel discussion on 76ers have entered a season with 17.9 scoring mark was No. 3 on what the decisions ahead are for classes in Astrophysics and in gen communities in the Lower Perkio so much optimism about the club's the team. men Valley and what can be done the Lower Perkiomen Valley as the eral physics. He attended the Uni to preserve those values as tJ:!e re people themselves see them. versity of Pennsylvania for grad prospects. To players, to members Even with McGinnis, Dawkins, gion prepares for the industrial All t he meetings will be followed uate school, but never completed of the media and to basketball fans Carter, Cunningham and Collins, and commercial growth of the nex,t by an informal question and an his master's degree. all across the nation, the reasons fans cannot forget the importance twenty-five years. swer session. They are open to are obvious. and talent of All-Star Steve Mix. The first meeting, held October anyone who wants to attend and The most contributing factor was Mix hurt his foot right after the 1, had Edmund N. Bacon, a re will be held on the dates noted at the acquisition of superstar George All-Star game and missed almost nowned city planner, speaking on 8:00 p.m. in Bomberger Hall. iMcGinnis (The Two Million Dollar half the season. His availability Man) from the ABA. George will gives the club three standout for automatically bring the Sixers li wards, and Shue has indicated berty from mediocrity. After four there oo-uld be -times when Cunning years in the ABA with the Indiana ham, Mix and McGinnis will be t he CITY PLANNER SPEAKS three big men operating. the cover of Time magazine along Pacers in which he averaged 24.8 with the story of the project and points and 12 rebounds a game, Sixers' talent is also demonstra his involvement< with it. McGinnis will be playing his first ted by "sleeper" Lloyd Free from season in the National Basketball Guilford College, an unheralded Bacon earned a bachelor of ar Association. chitecture degree from Cornell second round hardship draft selec University in 1932 and then went Along with court talent, a pro tion. Free experienced a tremen on to test his theories in other re fessional basketball franchise must dous summer in New York and gions of the globe before returning have a strong front office organi Philadelphia in sum mer pro to his native Philadelphia in 1940. zation. With General Manager Pat lea.gues. His scoring, leaping and By 1949 Bacon was executive di Williams and Coach Gene Shue, feeding abililties were a big sur rector of the Philadelphia City the Sixers have two of the finest prise and if he can maintain this Planning Commission, and within in the business. Shue took over the level of play, he could be a strong three years he received the power club after a 9-73 record in 1972-73 candidate for the No.3 guard slot. to turn ,his dreams into reality as a Mr. Marsteller was also extreme and has created a competItive team There is plenty of competi-tion result of a new city charter. ly interested in and knowledgeahle in two seasons, (34-48 last year) for positions such as with back His vision cherishes the old and about telescopes. Besides having though it has yet to rise out of the court performers veteran Fred adapts it to iflhe new, creating vis an observatory at his home, he Atlantic Division cellar. Boyd, sharpshooting Don Smith tas rthRJt are visually exciting and built several 16 inch reflecting Now, the common belief around and Coniel Norman. The "Phan expand the spirit, he says. telescopes. He also constructed the league is that the addition of tom" Raymond Lewis, <the highly In recognit ion of his achieve clock drives, the mechanisms which McGinnis will enable the team to touted guard from Los Angeles ments Bacon received a Rockefeller enable a telescope to remain fo play power basketball, something StaJt.e! (who led ;the California Foundation Award to write the cuse'd on the stars and to move at it hasn't been able to do for many summer league in scoring) is an book Design of Cities, which was bhe proper rate. seasons. other strong candidate. published in 1967. A few years ago, Mr. Marsteller Darryl Dawkins, the eighteen The <team has many other pluses Edmund N. Bacon, a nationally- Among the many awar~s Mr. Ba- was recognized for making a set year old high school youngster such -as centers Clyde Lee and Le known city planner, gave the key- con ·has received are: the 1974 Gold of slides of all the constellations in note address last night a.t the first Medal from the Royal Institution from Orlando, Florida, is another Roy Ellis.