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Comm arts center receives $ 1 million grant Marist College has.received a total funds for the center to pean correspondent in 1939 after also the author of numerous munication Arts Advisory Coun­ $1 million grant from The Mc- $1,850,000. The total cost of the working for UPI and the New books including "Not So Wild a cil.. :-. Cann Foundation toward the center has been estimated at $3 York Herald Tribune in Paris, Dream, "This is Eric Sevareid," According to. Murray, no firm Lowell Thomas Communication million. ' and the Minneapolis Journal and and "In One Ear." timetable has been set for the con­ Arts Center, president Dennis J. the Minneapolis Star. The reci­ struction of the center, which is to Murray announced last week. The donations were announced pient of three George Foster Graduate Virginia Luciano be built at the north end of cam­ "That's tremendous gift for at a luncheon honoring' former Peabody awards, Sevareid broad­ received an alumni award 'for pus, visible from Rte. 9. any college to receive,"^ Murray CBS correspondent Eric Sevareid casted news from around the achievement in the field of com­ Preliminary plans for the facility said. "It's certainly going to be an as the recipient of the first annual world, including Asia, Africa, munications. Luciano, who is include television, radio and film impetus for us .to finish up our Lowell Thomas Award. Sevareid Brazil, Mexico, India, Vietnam employed by WEOK, Poughkeep- studios, a multi-media theater, campaign in the next several mon­ was presented with a miniature and London during the bombing sie, is the only female drive-time darkrooms, seminar and con­ ths." bust of Lowell Thomas designed raids of the Battle of Berlin and personality in the Hudson Valley. ference rooms, and corridor by sculptor Phil Kraczkowski, "the Paris before the German takeover The luncheon, held at the galleries for photography and Murray also announced that a creator of the lifesize bust of in World War II. Helmsley Palace in New York Ci­ journalism. The center will also donation of $300,000 was made Lowell Thomas for the Explorer's A graduate of the University of ty, was attended by 100 guests in­ contain memorabilia from Lowell by Lowell Thomas Jr., son of the Club. - Minnnesota and the Student cluding faculty, trustees and Thomas' career in communica­ late broadcaster, "bringing the Sevareid joined CBS as a Euro­ Alliance Francaise in Paris.she is members of Marist's Com­ tions. t "\ THE CIRCLE ^i&c K Volume 28, Number 19 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. April 28,1983 J Po'towri was Profs stage 'slowdown' once hot spot The Marist faculty has decided overwhelmingly to reject the ad­ ministration's contract offer for 1983-84. As a result, faculty members have immediately halted all activities outside of meeting classes. on Hudson The faculty will also refuse to participate in student evaluation of by Roger Romano classes and all registration activities, including add/drop, overrides and advisement. Partiers are familiar with it. If a settlement with the administration is not reached, the faculty Joggers are familiar with it. But may also refuse to participate in the graduation ceremony and in what is it? And who knows what freshmen registration. it once was? A decision on the latter two steps has not yet been made. The 25 acres of land and the The decision to reject the administration's latest contract offer was ruins of Woodcliff Amusement endorsed by faculty members at a meeting last Friday after negotiators Park sit just north and within for the professors declared contract talks at an impasse. walking distance of Marist Col­ Students seeking override cards from faculty members participating lege along the Hudson River. The The site of the Woodcliff amusement Park which was dos­ in the job action are being referred to the division chairmen, who are park closed in 1941, shortly after ed in 1941 shortly after a race riot. considered administrators. 3,000 "visitors "on "-an" excursion' (photo by Jeff Kiely) Some faculty members have suggested that the faculty withhold stu­ from'New York City battled with was the tallestinVhe country. The the roller coaster^was, permanent-^ dent grades and demonstrate at the time of graduation. Neither sugges­ police in a summer riot on the following was taken'-from the ' ly shut down.' '-- tion is apparently under active consideration by the faculty as a whole grounds. New York Times, June 9, 1974: At Woodcliff there was also a at this time. - "- . - . •• ' " _ _ The ruins of Woodcliff have "...the Mexican giant (refen- lake with boats on it. It was a According to several faculty sources, the primary point of disagree­ since been reclaimed by nature. ing to the "Racer" at favorite picnic spot. ment in the negotiations is salary' level for the 1983-84 term. But in the 1930s, the amusement Chapultepec Park outside Mexico Marist students are probably The current faculty contract expires this summer. center flourished. City — 110 feet high) is not, most familiar with the remains of There was a dock on the river however, the highest coaster ever the park's olympic-size swimming and many people came up from built. The record is held by the pool, where thousands of New York City every Sunday on "Blue Streak" at the old Poughkeepsie children once Women protest inequity the Hudson River Dayliner to go Woodcliff Pleasure Park in frolicked in the summer heat. The to the park. Poughkeepsie, New York, whose pool ruins.couTd be mistaken for a by Lou Ann SeeligT The 3-5THS refers to the Adrian Perrault, Marist. builder, Joseph McKee, said it building foundation, except for and Lori Dyer average starting salary of a historian, said there were the stood 120 feet tall. That park's decaying walls marked by depth. secretary compared to the average • usual attractions found in the manager boasted that it was 138 A foundation in the pool re­ To call attention-to what they starting salary for the unionized _ amusement park, which he feet high. In either case, it was a mains intact, but a deteriorated consider an inequity in the Marist workers Ton campus in. the described as "Coney Island record measurement." surface exhibits its age — 53 pay scale, many Marist secretaries maintenance department and the without the sand." The "Blue Streak" was design­ years. ' have begun wearing buttons Dining Service. Bill Stutka, a member of the ed by Vernon Keenan, the same Remains of past campfires and displaying a fox in a skirt and the Though they are not members Fairview Fire Department, and a man who designed "the Cyclone" numerous beer "cans indicate there motto "3-5THS." of a union, the secretaries are native of Poughkeepsie, at Coney Island. It was 3,200 feet have been recent guests. The secretaries refused to com­ negotiating collectively through remembers the park as a child. He long, and one part of it went out The property is directly across ment on the issue, but have the Policy Committee of the especially recalls the roller overtheriver. from Western Publishing Co. Ac­ recently begun voicing their Secretarial-Clerical Association at coaster, roller rink, boxing rink, One day.a man named.Howe cording to Stutka, the northern disapproval to what they consider Marist. arcade, boat rides, tunnel of love, stood up in the car as it went over entrance was about where the is an inadequate salary increase in Eugene Best, affirmative action bath house and the pony rides. that part that was over the river, Dutchess Bank is today and the the new contract proposed by the officer for Marist, is acting as a The roller coaster at Woodcliff fell out and was killed. After that Continued on page 11 administration. Continued on page 2 Pre-school gets stay of eviction — for now by Lisa Arthur . very positive attitude about the porary modular .building which "There is a need for quality day Beurket said there is the future and is continuing to make could be.attached to a main care in this area," she said. equivalent of- lO'/i full-time The Marist College Pre-school plans for the fall program. When building on campus. The last "There are a.great number of students enrolled this semester. It Center has been informed by Dr. asked if she could think of any possibility is some other space on families that are forced to have takes about three -children to Andrew Molloy, Marist vice other suitable location on campus campus which has not yet been both parents go out and work. It equal one full-time student. Tui­ president, that it will be allowed for the center, she said, "Present­ determined." comforts them to know that their tion for a full-time student is to remain at its location in the old ly, No. I'm just hoping the ad­ Molloy explained that the children are being well taken care $661.50 per semester. gym for the remainder of the ministration will recognize our allocation of space to the pre­ of. We have the opportunity to Beurket said on a financial semester, according to Joy merits and create some space for school would come only at the keep a very, very good school basis the pre-school aims to break Beurket, head of the pre-school. us." ' price of eliminating something available. This center has the even. "I'm not even sure we will According to Dr. John Pod- else. • • ' potential to be the best of its kind break even this semester," she zius, director of the pre-school, When asked if he could see in the area." said.

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