The Alumnus, V47n2, May 1962

University of Northern Iowa UNI ScholarWorks The Alumnus UNI Alumni Association 5-1962 The Alumnus, v47n2, May 1962 State College of Iowa Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Copyright ©1962 State College of Iowa Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/alumnusnews Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation State College of Iowa, "The Alumnus, v47n2, May 1962" (1962). The Alumnus. 11. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/alumnusnews/11 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the UNI Alumni Association at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Alumnus by an authorized administrator of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MAY, 1962 CEDAR FALLS, IOWA t, ,t.1 THE ALUMNUS ;,,,. SI.ate e~ o/; 1ow.rz COVER- One of thz. mony interesting features of several new buildings on campus is this original sculpture by Don Fin egan, a m ember of the SCI Art faculty. The work is shown here at night, when the ca:efully planned lighting gives it an cspzcially unique beauty. 196 3 y earbook editor Bob Bing took !his photograph of the front of the new music building. The Alumnus May 1962 CONTENTS Maucker Addresses AACTE Students Reject Proposed Honor System 2 n Sports o.) Original Cantata 8 Dr. Lillehei Dies 9 Reunion 10 Ne1cs11 otes 13 Volume 47, N umber 2. - T HE ALU111NUS is entered as second class matter at the post office in Cedar Falls. Iowa, under the act of August 24 . 1912. Authority granted January 27 , 1930. It is published and distributed quarterl y in Septem Milo l.awton ············- ····- ...... ..... Alumni Director ber, D ecember, February and May b y Slate Col Jack Hnls .... .............. ........... ...... Editor lege of Iowa. The A lumnus i s mailed without charge to 22,500 alumni. As second class matter Loree \\'Uson . ___ ---------·-··· Information Services it is not forwardable without extra cost . G . II. llnlmr• --·· Director of Colleire Rellltlona The Alumnus judging the relationship between teacher preparation and teacher per May 1962 formance. We must go even farther and determine whether or not the necessary amount and quality of learning takes place in children taught by teachers prepared under a given SCI President Assumes teacher education program," said the State College president. Presidency of AACTE . " Unless, in our research, in our in stitutional self-evaluation, in our ac creditation, and throughout our total teacher education effort, we look more critically at outcomes than we have in Maucker Lists the past, we will find ourselves promi nent among those talking about ex cellence who aren't going there," he "Musts" for Better told the educators. " Many elementary and secondary school teachers do an extremely in Teacher Education genious job of leading their students to master misinformation and trivia,'' he said. "I believe our greatest weakness in education and teacher education is failure to recognize the importance and extreme complexity of the job of EDUCATION must take a harder determining .. what to teach in any look at its teacher education programs given situation." by evaluating the learning of the chil Dr. Maucker called upon the leading dren taught, instead of judging only scholars and best thinkers in the coun the methods by which they are try to accept the responsibility for taught," said State College of Iowa determining what knowledge is of President J . W. Maucker recently in most worth. He challenged the teacher Chicago. educators to prepare teachers for the " A teacher may be friendly, sy task of applying the work of scholars stematic, stimulating, and using ap in their teaching. proved techniques, and still be teach In our fantastically complicated ing nonsense to children," he said. world today we simply cannot afford Dr. Maucker addressed the conven to look complacently at our method tion of the American Association of of educating teachers and ignore the Colleges of Teacher Education on the terrifying responsibility we have of topic, "Imperatives for Excellence in preparing teachers to guide the growth Teacher Education" in the annual of all youth and stimulate excellence Hunt Lecture. He assumed the presid to the fullest, he said. "To do this ency of the association on March 1. will require a radical leap to a new Thus far the bulk of our research level of effectiveness in our schools has merely paid lip service to a re and our teacher education programs. alistic and imaginative evaluation of Dr. Maucker cited the National our present teacher education pro Science Foundation institutes in grams, he said. "We need some hard science and mathematics for provid headed, lay-it-on-the-line research that ing a feasible method of bringing the searches for evidence instead of con work of scholars to large numbers of ducting a sales campaign." teachers. " But we ought to be making " We must find reliable standards for that kind of investment in the humani- ALUMNUS-May 1962 sonal and corporate taxes levied locally for support of education, and others," said the State College presi dent . •"We must not let loyalty to tradi tions of localisms prevent our finding an imaginative solution to school fin ance." Dr. Maucker challenged the educators to meet their responsibilities of leadership by lifting education from "second table" and helping it to be come an essential priority in resource allocation. Students Reject Proposed Honor System President J. W. Maucker S rUDENTS at the College rejected ti s and the social sciences, as well," a proposed Honor System in a record he said. breaking, campus-wide vote. Our desire to have the local com The syst m, proposed by a student munity responsible for the support of faculty committee, would have given public education may well prove to be students full responsibility for honesty an Achilles' heel rather than a source in taking written examinations in un of strength, he said. Education must proctored classrooms. compete with other "economic goods" Dissension on the Honor System gen for the use of the scarce resources of erally arose from the proposed Con our Gross National Product, instead stitution which would have required of appealing only to the generosity of individuals to report cheating on the the voters or state legislators for part of their fellow students. schoolboy allowances. Under the system, students would If we are to meet the quantatative have been asked to sign a pledge demands and make the qualitative following their examinations indicat improvements in education that are ing that they had neither given nor essential to the general strength and received assistance, and that they had welfare of our nation, we will have seen no dishonest work. to make the decision as a nation to After several weeks of lively inter give defiintely higher priority to edu est and debate on the proposed Sy cation in the allocation of our national stem, a campus-wide vote was held dollar resources, said Dr. Maucker. Mcl-rch 23. Off-campus students voted The American people may feel they by mail. have made a tremendous effort and Over 78 per cent of the student given education a high priority in the body cast votes, with 57.5 per cent last decade, but actually, the propor opposed and 42.4 per cent in favor of tion of the Gross National Product the system. The proportion voting on per pupil invested in education has the Honor System marked the largest remained the same during this period, student vote on any issue in the his he said. tory of the College. " The fiscal problem must be viewed It is expected that student leaders realistically with such mechanisms as will continue to study the issue in an direct federal grants, scholarships, attempt to develop a system which extension of credit, provision of in would meet the approval of the entire come tax credits for increases in per- student body. 2 ALUMNUS-May 1962 New Student Body 6 New Scholarships Leaders Named in Donated for Local Spring Elections Students at SCI Six new $200 scholarships have been OSITIONS in the top three p student added to the Greater Waterloo-Cedar government organizations have been Falls Chamber of Commerce Scholar announced following a recent student ship program to aid local students to election at the State College of Iowa. begin study at the State College of Iowa. Arlen Gullickson of Northwood is the new Student League Board presi The scholarships will provide funds dent, while Steve Halstead of Marion for tuition fees during the freshman was elected the new president of year at State College for local stu Men 's Union. Carolyn Craven of Ar dents selected by a community-college lington, Va., was chosen as the As committee. sociated Women Students president. Local 838, United Automobile Work ers, representing employees at the Student League Board also includes John Deere Tractor works, Hinson a newly elected vice-president, Wayne Manufacturing Co. , L . H . Schultz Bishop of West Union, and a n ew Manufacturing and Bopp Manufactur secretary-treasurer, Connie Davis of ing Co., has pledged funds for an Keokuk. a nnual scholarship. William Ashby of Chariton assumes Funds for three yearly scholarships the duties of vice-president in the were provided by the Elks club in Men's Union. Waterloo, while the Elkettes auxiliary In the women's dormitory election organization have also pledged a of officers, Merna Harl of Numa was scholarship. elected president of Campbell hall and Also providing an annual scholar Pat Libersky of St. Ansgar was chosen ship will be the Home Builders As president of Lawther hall. sociation of Waterloo. Richard Unsted of Harcourt was elected president of the Student Coun Awards Announced cil of Religious Activities.

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