UMP Campus, 09/24/1965

University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons UMP Campus, 1959-1967 Student Newspapers 9-24-1965 UMP Campus, 09/24/1965 Frank Tordoff University of Maine Portland Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the Social History Commons Recommended Citation Tordoff, Frank, "UMP Campus, 09/24/1965" (1965). UMP Campus, 1959-1967. 2. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UMP Campus, 1959-1967 by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 9, No. 2 UNIVERSITY OF MAINE IN PORTLAND September 24, 1965 Dr. H. Edwin Young Appointed President of -UM Dr. H. ·Edwin Young; for the past ment as president, Dean Fink com From 1943 to 1947 he taught four years Dean of the College of ments: "We are fortunate to attract economics at the Orono Campus. In Letters and Sciences at-the University an educational leader of Dr. Young's 1947 he moved to the University of of Wisconsin, will be the new Presi stature. He is a scholar and a proven Wisconsin, where he earned his doc dent of the University of Maine. The administrator, with long-standing in torate in 1950 and became assistant decision was made at a closed session terests in Maine and our state uni professor of economics and director of the Board of Trustees in the Con versity. of the School for Workers a,t the ference Room, Payson Smith Hall, "I think it is especially important Madison, Wisconsin, campus. From , UMP, on Wednesday, September 15. to us at Portland that Dr. Young's ex 1953 to 1960 he served as chairman At Wisconsin Dr. Young has been perience includes development wor:k; of the economics department of the actively involved in the development with the University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin. More re of added campuses of the State Uni branch campus at Milwaukee. He is cently he has been responsiple for versity, similar to the development committed to the principle of expand coordinating the activity ·of depart which is , now progressing so rapidly ing opportunities for higher educa- ment heads in all areas except engi on our Portland Campus. He states ti. on. " neering and agriculture at the various that he believes in making as many Dr. Young · and his wife are both campuses of the University of Wis educational opportunities available to graduates of the University of Maine. consin. as many Maine students as possible. After Dr. Young received his master's Dr. Young is currently involved in He hopes to start his duties in early degree at Orono in 1942, he taught two Ford Foundation projects in the October. for a year at Westbrook Junior Col Philippines, one in vocational edu In regard to Dr. Young's appoint- lege in Portland. Cont. on Page 3, Col. 4 Dr. H. Edwin Young September 12- Up North Editor's Note: The following article A Message Frotn Mayor Griffin was written by Jean Scanlan, a junior \lt the University, who is new on the By the time you read this article, you will have developed a routine. Orono Campus, after two years here You will have found a favorite table in the caf, and a favorite carrel in the at UMP. Jean was a tried and tested, library. Before you become permanently lodged in either place, I'd tike to loyal member of the Student Publica give you some advice. tions staff here at UMP and will serve You have read in the Profiles and in the Campus -lists of the activities and as our Orono correspondent durir.g organizations on campus. Find ·one that appeals to you and JOIN IT! Don't this year. Her account of the first day wait to be asked. Watch for the announcement of the meeting time and at Orono - which will interest all of attend. The clubs will welcome new blood. Everyone should join at least one you who stood in line here at UMP - campus organization. Most important, after you have joined, PARTICIPATE! follows. School spirit at UMP has been good in the past, but it can stand improve Confusion is the by-word for the ment. I am counting on you freshmen to bolster school spirit with your first few hours at anything new, but at support. You are Maine men and women, and it is to Maine that you owe your a resident college the size of Orono, loyalty. pandemonium would be a better word Throughout the year you will be asked to show yom spirit in different to dJscribe what goes on. Arriving on ways. The firs t chance you will get will be the class elections. Let's have a campus accompanied by a most com voting record of 100%. Another chance to show your spirit will be by attending mon complaint called nervous stomach the various functions from Mountain Day to Splendor in the Grass held ( treated in one extreme case 1hy nine throughout the year. Another important way to show your spirit is by support nerve pills and a cup of tea), one faces of the Viking athletic teams. an afternoon of endless lines. To begin Charles F. Griffin, 1965-66 Mayor I would like to offer my services to the clubs as well as to the fresmen. with, 6,500 sh1dents with parents, rel- · With everyone working together, we can have a productive year. atives and friends necessitate a few cars and create a small traffic problem. But finally, steered by several campus 'fest Dates Pleasant Mt. - Blood, Sweat and Toil policemen you find your own dorm and encounter the first line, if you Announced Unemployment may be a source of don't count the traffic jam. This is the Location - Mt. Day worry and aggravation to the Johnson line for house registration, room and Princeton, N.J.: College seniors pre Mountain Day, an annual event administration, but it apparently closet keys and linen. If by some mir-· paring to teach school may take the sponsored by the UMP Student Senate wasn't of immediate concern to the acle you insert the right key into the National Teacher Examinations on for all students, will be held this year students at UMP this summer. Almost right door, you're ready to move in. any of the four different test dates on Sunday, October 10 at Pleasant everyone interviewed had found some For this you need either a willing announced by the Educational Test Mountain in Bridgton, according to sort of job, or jobs to keep him off the relief rolls. father or a strong boyfriend, prefer ing Service. Estelle Watson, Senate president. ably both. Now you will soon discover New dates set for the testing of A_t Mountain Day, there are many For the most part UMP girls could that settling your room is only a small prospective teachers are: December games for the fun-seeker to participate be found wiping their brows in such part of the whole procedure. Addi 11, 1965; and March 19, July 16, and in such as touch football, soccer, base places as Porteous, where freshman tional dorm matters include finding October 8, 1966. The tests will be ball, and others. Along with the Anne Chute and sophomore Penny the laundry room, the TV room, the given at nearly 500 locations through games, there is always an assortment Davis were. Rosemary Troiano, soph · lounge, the nearest water fountain out the United States, ETS said. of food including hot dogs, hamburg omore, could be found at Day's, and representatives from UMP w'ere nu . ad infinitum. By this time your Results of the National Teacher ers, potato chips, and the traditional . nervous sto!Uach isn't nervous any cider. merous at the Telephone Co., includ Examinations are used by many large ing freshman Carla Bryson, Dixie . more - just empty. But wait! You school districts as one of several fac The Senate at its September 14 bought your books by mail to "save McGonigle, sophomores Judy Oldham, tors in the selection of new teachers meeting, tentatively set the admission · time" and the line is shortened. It - Ann LaPierre, Jennifer Parks, Janie and by several states for certification price at $1.00 per person. This in might only take two hours. ( The Jacobs, Ann McGonigle, and Margo or licensing of teachers. Some colleges cludes the food and the chairlift ride record? Four hours - from four to Thornton. also require all seniors preparing to up the mountain which usually costs eight - over the supper hour.) teach to take the examinations. Lists $1.50. Arrangements at the Mountain Out on the road, looking for farmers' Having lugged $62 worth of books of school systems which use the exami are being made by Russ Haggett, daughters, were sophomore Bill Beck, back to the dorm, it's time for - no director of Pleasant Mountain. a route driver for Bell Linen Service not supper - TB tests and ID pictures. nation results are distributed to col and senior, John McMennamin, who leges by ETS, a nonprofit, educational Inquiries are presently being made Only a one hour and forty-five minute for hiring a bus for those students commented, "I was a route salesman line this time. A little wearing you organization which prepares and ad for Sealtest Ice Cream, which is a ministers the examinations. who would not have transportation say? Well wait in line for a meal to the Mountain.

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