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EASTERN KENTMCKY UNIVERSITY

JESSE STUART

Eastern Kentucky Univer, A monumental giant of Leantin^i^^Ught,

Implanted here for our eternity, ' Expanded by a Qianjt, in ^ir^^^arid fight: Bob Martin's dream is sh^^Ma ftr a star Above this stately irearning^J^iitadei, Beyond the reach of wherej^iothers are. Forever liere /ils^pirr/f wu^rS«|ii/ Eastern, Eastern where m^^^au^f have found Their dreams and vision^ i^ne^lif&b^ With training here to send the^outv^^d bound Each to his dream ^nd 4®!^^^ '" '^® ^"''• Artistic buildings on thi^ v^^^m^^ OPe Where happy youth in thbi^MJ^Mpiff and play. Eastern, young giant of iou^^^b^r, strength and hope, To pave America's imm^t^llndy^ 11 . . . From the Editor's Desk NOTES I

talk to Jesse Stuart is like taking a Every visit with Jesse Stuart should In case you missed the big doing: Tobreath of fresh air just after a sum- be recorded and published. This is our whether or not you are members of th' mer rain shower. It is as refreshing as conclusion after having associated with honored classes. \'ou are bound to red visiting with old friends at the corner him from time to time during the past ognize many of your friends who ar! drug store back home—you remember four or five years. For those of you who pictured or described in the story. ' the one that still smells like a drug store, have not been privileged to meet and to The editors want to add their congraj without the interfering aromas of as- know the man. The Alimmus introduces Illations to those already received by Dl sorted beauty potions and the like. It's him in this issue to the 1 .'i.OOO-member D. T. Ferrell. Jr.. Eastern's 1967 Ou like talking with a hundred characters Alumni body. You are certain to enjoy standing Alumnus. He is featured as pa you've read about in novels, but all Vance's article on the celebrated writer of the Alumni Day spread in this issui rolled into one. Jesse Stuart is a giant of and The Alumnus is proud to publish for a man in every respect, a legend in his the enjoyment of our Eastern family own time. Most of all, Jesse Stuart is a some of his works. e kind human being who loves the world We feel it is fitting to dedicate this and all its living things. issue to a giant of a man, a true Ken- vo\age to six distinguished merr tuckian and a real American. Poet, novel- Bon It is a distinct privilege to present to hers of the faculty who are hiddin ist, educator — these are only a very few the alumni two short stories, heretofore adieu to active teaching careers spar of the words necessary to describe Jesse unpublished, which characterize Jesse ning a combined total of 180 year: Stuart, Kentuck\', truly, is Jiis land. Stuart and his love of the world and its Each has served the institution admii creatures. Jesse, who was author-in-resi- ably through the multifarious stages c dence the past school year, also contrib- its history and have earned special place, utes an original poem which he wrote in the hearts of their fellow teachers an, one day while on his way back home thousands of alumni who were privilege' his following a series of class lectures. It is PRESIDENT Martin points out in to study in their classes. simply entitled: "Eastern Kentucky Uni- Report to the Alumni, appearing in Dr. Smith Park, whose retirement bt versity." The poem reveals his love and this issue, that there has been more in- gan this year, joined the faculty in 192.' admiration for Eastern and his respect ternal growth within the academic com- just a year after Eastern became a foui for the courageous leadership of the in- munity that is dramatized by high-rise year college. served as chairman c stitution. buildings, than the imparalleled growth He of the physical plant. The obvious, but the Department of Mathematics and : Aliiiiiiiiis managing editor Dave Vance acting of the Faculty in 1965-6( often forgotten, point is well made that Dean and his sidekick, David Cawood (Harlan Mrs. Park, who has faithfully served i it is what goes on inside the buildings vintage) retvirned from a day at W-Hol- the library since I9.s4. begins a termin: that is of prime concern to a university. low full of enthusiasm. "It's like nothing Without elaborating on reports previ- leave of absence in September. Her rt

1 have ever experienced . . . like being in ously presented to the alumni by the tirement will become effective ne> a land of make-believe," Vance said of deans of the various colleges. President Spring- the Stuart home in Greenup County. Martin confines his report to new pro- "Everything was green and beautiful. Dr. Thomas C. Herndon, who ha grams that are under way and a few of Even the chipmunks would rest outside generally been held responsible for Rich the others which are planned. We think the kitchen door and the birds would mond's unpredictable weather because o you will be pleased, and some of you land at Jesse's feet." While these two his many years as meteorologist for th startled, to learn of the rapid internal young writers, indeed, will never forget U. S. Weather Bureau, has been a de growth of the University. their experience, Jesse, too, was im- voted chemistry professor for 39 yean pressed. He later complimented Eastern He has served as departmental chairma for "such wonderful young men," saying and as chairman of the entire science d vision. that "Dean (Mrs. Stuart) and I agreed e that they were two of the finest young Miss Blanche Seevers has been a val people who have ever visited our home." Those who attended Alumni Day were ued member of the music faculty sincij That's the way the Stuarts are — kind, treated to successful reunions for 1938 and Mrs. Mamie Scott began teach! considerate, understanding. each of the four classes honored. Ac- ing in the Education Department in 195' tually, there were five honored groups after a distinguished career in Estil After telling Kentucky's poet laureate as the only two surviving members of County, where she was superintendent o of the impressions of W-Hollow left in the 60-year Class of 1907, Mrs. Jennie the country schools. Miss Lois Colic; the minds of the young writers, he re- Jeffers Ashby, Greeneville, and Mrs. served the institution for 38 years in var plied, "We've always tried to tell and Alma Rice Bascomb. Sharpsburg. were ious capacities including secretary t< show people what can be done with this present. Some of their impressions of President O'Donnell and Director of Stu: beautiful country of ours by putting their Alma Mater, and reactions of sev- dent Loans. good conservation principles to work. eral other grads representing the classes

Why, anybody can fix up their place like of '17. '27. '42 and '52 are included in Thank you seems inadequate, even it this, but il lakes work, work with your the article which reports highlights of capital letters. Nevertheless, THANK hands and your muscles!" the festive event. YOU, and God's speed.

THE EASTERN ALUMNUf TheEf ALU

ol. 6 Summer 1967 No. 2

Official Magazine of the THE LEGEND OF W- HOLLOW 4 Eastern Kentucky University // you think it seems trite to cull a iiiun a legend in his own time, Alumni Association then you huven't been to W-Hollow. You haven't marveled at the natural beauty of its untamed meadows and midti-colored foothills. And most of all. you Iiaven't met Jesse Stuart. Stuart, the author,

has gained M-oiid-wide acclaim. Stuart, the man, is fascinating and inspirational. Alumnus Managing Editor David Vance visited Donald R. Feltner W-Hollow and left with the feeling that he knew the stuff legends Editor are made of. Find out why in this issue. David M. Vance JESSE STUART SHORT STORIES 10-19 Managing Editor Eastern's Auihor-in-Residence has contributed two previously un- published short stories for the benefit of the university's alumni. Lorraine Foley Alumni News "Circle Back to Home" is a beautifully descriptive story of an elderly man who returns to his boyhood home and reminisces of

Dave Cawood by-gone days. "Author and the Cop" is spiced with the inner News Editor thouglits of a great writer. Both stories, in style and purpose, reveal the true genius of Jesse Stuart. J. Wyatt Thiurman Director of Alumni Affairs REUNION '67 20 Si.x decades of Eastern graduates returned to the campus this

year. It marked the first time since the school's founding in 1907

that a si.xty-year class coidd be represented at Aliuitni Day. It was EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1967-68 an emotional unio)i of the past, interwoven with the awe of today. illlam Aiken '48 President It was a time to renew friendships, to talk of the "good ol' days." '62 mes E. Moore . First Vice President It was a time for nostalgia. ary Jo Parks '5? Second Vice President d Cook '56 PresldentElect THE YEAR OF THE UNIVERSITY 41 lymond Wilson '49 First Vice President-Elect Eastern has completed its first full year imder university status. liirley Hacker '58 Second Vice President-Elect fust The physical cliange has been nothing sliort of staggeriitg. But what of the internal growth? What has been done to meet the challenges of a new era? President Robert R. Martin answered these questions in his address to the Alumni Association May 27. The speech, cov- THE COVER ering the gamut of The Year of the University, appears in this issue Jesse Stuart, poet lau- for the benefit of the more than 15.000 alumni throughout the reate of Kentucky and world. Eastern's author-in- residence, has been hailed as one of the JUDGE ED HILL 45 greatest writers in Young Ed Hill arrived on the Eastern campus in 1931 with $25 American literature. The Alumnus maga- in his pocket. He was graduated four years later with the school zine takes great pride owing him $15. Today, he is Circuit Judge Edward G. Hill of the

I presenting two previously unpublished short I'ries by Stuart. They are presented along 26th Judicial District in Harlan County. And just this year, the i:h a poem last after a he wrote year lecture Kentucky Bar Association honored him as the outstanding jurist in Eastern and a personal profile of Jesse Stuart

I his beloved W-Hollow. Artist Franklin E. Stone the Commoiiwealth. For a better picture of this distinguished alum-

i captured the universal image of this great nus, read David E. Cawood's profile in this issue. n for our cover. REGULAR DEPARTMENTS

I'ublished biannually as a bulletin of Eastern Ken ky University for tlie Eastern Alumni Association Campus News Report 49 ler bulletins are published by the University in July Uust, November, January, February, IVlarch, anc Sports Report 52 'il, and entered at the Post Office at Richmond ntucky, 40475, as Second Class matter. Subscrip Alumni Report 54

! IS are included in Association annual gifts. Address correspondence concerning editorial matter or cir- Class Notes 55 3tion to: The Eastern Alumnus, Eastern Kentucky iversity, Richmond, Kentucky, 40475. Letters to the Editor 64

0MMER,1967 3 The Legend of lA/- Hollow

by DAVID M. VANCE Alumnus Managing Editor

Jesse Stuart? Sure, 1 know ol'Jess . . . cut his hair "Yessir, everybody knows Jesse Stuart," Timberlak for the last 35 years or so. Why. I gave him his said, sharpening a razor on a strop beside the chair, courtin" haircut when he was datin' his wife, can remember when he was principal of the high schoc

Naomi. I'm in one of his books, too, ya know. 'Year and the dogs would follow him to school. He was thai "' of My Rebirth.' Page 209. popular." Davis, carrying a snub-nosed revolver in > The speaker was Brad Timberlake, owner of a two- shoulder holster, nodded patiently. |

chair barbershop in Greenup, Kentucky. "Wanta see Jesse?" Timberlake continued. "Go ui,

"Chad Meadowbrook. That's what he called me in about half-a-mile, turn to your right and it's the thiri

the book. Yessir, you came to the right place if you're holler on the right. Tell him I said hello . . . ok?"

looking for Jesse Stuart. Wonderful man . . . never let My answer to both questions was yes. 1 had driven t

success go to his head. I can remember times when he Greenup to visit Jesse Stuart. It was a rare opportunit;

would come down to get a haircut and sit around and I had read many of his books and his lectures as A talk 'til his wife had to come and get him. Sometimes thor-in-Residence at Eastern had intrigued me.

I'd play the banjo for him. He liked that. Wanta hear After leaving the barbership. I had some time to k

his favorite tune?" so 1 decided to take a brief tour of Greenup. What

Without waiting for an answer, Timberlake leaned saw was pretty much what I had expected.

back in his barber chair and began strumming on an Greenup, seat of the county by the same name, i

antiquated banjo. a picturesque little community located where the Littl " 'Goin' up to Cripple Creek To Have a Little Fun,' Sandy River flows into the Ohio. Although fairly clos

that's the name of it," Timberlake said, still strumming to the midsection of Appalachia, Greenup is just dow

away. "Jesse loves it. He's a writer, ya know. Best there river from several bustling chemical plants. Still, th;

is. I don't have much education but I love his books." rich alluvium soil along the banks of the Ohio make, William Davis, balding Greenup constable, entered tobacco one of the chief sources of income for farmer

the barbershop, took off his coat and settled down for in the area. Judging from the scenery, Greenup is a

a trim. extremely appropriate name for the region. And its un

THE EASTERN ALUMNUS tamed meadows, sandwiched between colorful foothills, give a hint of its rich heritage. Tribes of Indians — mostly Shawnee and Cherokee — hunted and warred at |one time along the famous Warrior's Trace which 'stretches from Cumberland Gap to nearby Portsmouth, Ohio.

I proceeded the half-mile from the barbershop, 'turned right and followed a gra\el road that meandered between gently sloping foothills lined with yellow pines, poplars, oaks and chestnut trees. This, without question, was his beloved W-HoUow. The grass was as green as

Ireland and if I didn't know better, I could have sworn the sky took on a much bluer tint when I entered the hollow. A tiny crystal-clear stream flowed gently along- side the road. Surely, these meadows must have served is a setting for many of Jesse Stuart's poems. And I

:ouldn't help but think that this was his inspiration in

1947 when he wrote "Kentucky is My Land."

i Still following Timberlake's directions, I turned right jit the third hollow and followed a road lined by a cre- iDsoted stake-and-rider fence, the kind we used to call

1 north-south fence because its rails are staggered pur- oosely. I crossed a small bridge at the head of the hol- ow and saw a long house sided with brown cedar-shake

ihingles and trimmed in white. It was enveloped in

,jreen by two small hills on each side. Before I could j-each the front steps, Jesse Stuart was there to greet me.

That brief instant — when I shook his hand — may

lave been the only time all day I returned to reality,

-le has a grip like a vise.

This then, is the immediate picture of Jesse Stuart. I A bowerful man. A man who looks as if he had just plant- ed corn on the south forty. A large man, 6 feet tall and |)ver 200 pounds, with strong mountain features. A man n a hurry.

Almost from the outset, my visit to his home was ontrary to what I had expected. I was, quite frankly, irepared for a formal discussion of questions and an- wers. Instead, I felt (and was treated) like an old fam- jly friend. It would be unfair to describe Jesse and Jaomi Stuart as "down-to-earth." They are much more tian this. They are warm, sincere people, grateful for

le life they've lived. The confines of the Stuart home reveal a link with lie past. The living room — a converted log cabin 'here Jesse lived as a boy — has an extremely low

eiling with beams that require a tall man to stoop. The

ouse, which is rustic in a peaceful sort of way, is lined 'ith antiques, pictures and hook rugs made by Mrs. tuart.

After a guided tour through the house, which in- I ludes mementos from every corner of the globe, we .'ttled down to talk. A conversation, like anything else

I Jesse Stuart's life, hits high gear immediately. He uUs no punches and makes no qualms about his likes

JMMER, 1967

ll and dislikes. He is an extremely proud man, but also President Martin said it best once when we were visi quite realistic. His conversation may jump from world ing him at Richmond. He said: 'If you're young ar politics to Mother Nature with no more than a breath. can't do it, no one can.' I just wish he had said it 1 Jesse Stuart may be described, in every sense of the 10,000 people. word, as a lover of life. Not like the average man, mind "It's what's in you that has to come out," he coi you, but one who cherishes life because he has come so tinned. "If you've got something to do, break loose; a close to death. In 1954 he suffered a serious heart at- tack it! Once there was a boy in the Kentucky hills thi tack and was confined to his bed for over a year. It was felt that same way. I can remember following a plo during this time that he put on paper his affection for right here in this hollow and reading Emerson at tl the air he breathes. He developed it into "Year of My same time. 1 had something to say . . . something th;

Rebirth." wanted out. so I cut loose. Believe me, I'll never regn, Jesse recalls that year well. "I was going full-speed i ahead — jets were too slow — and then it happened. It was this zeal that led young Jesse Stuart to poetrj

During that year, I became a new man; a dedicated These poems, revealing the genius of a young man, wei man. I saw something new in a tree, a blade of grass later published in a modest little volume in 1930. Oii. and animals. I cease to kill anymore. I laid there and 150 copies were printed. Appropriately, its title is "Ha longed to take my toe and kick a tin can. Now, I can vest of Youth." The fact that some of these poems wet sit by a stream and hear music. I'm just a changed written when he was only 16 years old is remarkable i man." itself. Just one year earlier, Jesse Stuart had enterej

Greenup High School with only 22 months of eleniei; tary schooling at Plum Grove. His early education w;

interrupted because he was needed at home to heli farm. His father. Mitchel, could not read or write. H mother, Martha Hylton, had gone to the second grad But Jesse went on to become a teaciier, principal an finally, a scliool superintendent in Greenup County. H'

experiences as an educator are his greatest source (

pride. He wrote of these expericncs in "The Threa.

That Runs So True" in 1949. "The title represented th universal theme of education," Stuart said, "and no

it's been published in 28 countries."

This then, is still another description of Jesse Stuar

He is universal. His thoughts have reached millions c people. Textbooks throughout the world have printe his works. His poems, novels and short stories have bee selected as masterpieces in world literature. He has bee praised in at least 70 countries. Today, Jesse Stuart talks and acts like a man reborn. For this reason, I asked Jesse Stuart the inevitabl He gives no hint of nearing 60. I wondered just how question. I was fully aware of his gift with words andi fast his pace had been before the attack if he had slow- knew he could take a seemingly simple situation ani ed down since then. weave it into intrigue, excitement or nostalgia. Bn "He used to get up at three or four in the morning surely, 1 thought, there's another reason for this succesJ to write," his wife said. "Now he gets up late, usually "No, not that I know of," he said. "I write wa; around eight." my It's as simple as that. I agree that some people have A restless man, Stuart sits on the edge of his sofa, magic touch with words, but I've sat and stared at leans back against the headrest and then leans forward typewriter for hours without touching a key. You ha\ again. He's constantly in motion, re-lighting a cigar that to feel it. That's why I used to get up in the middle c has a tendency to go out while he's talking, tapping his the night to write. I get an idea and I'm malicious witi foot in a nervous fashion or tugging at his favorite it. Nothing can stop me. I've written lots of things whill sleeveless sweater. riding in a car. In fact. I wrote the poem about Easter (page one. this issue) the to One of his many loves is education and what it means on way back W-Hollov to the youth of the world. "I've had a passion for build- Dean (his wife) drives and I write. ing education since I was 17 years old." he says. "Actually, 1 just look at everything 1 write as a littlj

"Young people of today are learning more and doing slice of life. And it's my job to present this slice in th! more. And that's the way it should be. In fact, 1 think best way 1 know how."

THE EASTERN ALUMNUl We walked into the back yard and a half-dozen chip- munks scurried for a hiding place. Birds flittered their wings briefly but remained on perches Jesse had built for them. They know they're secure here." he said.

"Why. 1 won't even allow a slingshot in this hollow."

Again, just as if there had been no interruption in the conversation, he returned to his discussion of writing. "You look around." he' said. "Take a good look when you leave here. That's what I write about, so how can

I miss?" He failed to mention the fact that no other man has been able to present Eastern Kentucky the way he has.

When 1 mentioned this to him. he just shrugged his shoulders and started talking again. "Rural people are xcellent subjects. They're substantial things; the cream of our country. I stay here because it gives me strength."

I asked him about his consistency in dialect which he lis noted for and received another shrug. "These people write my dialect for me." he said.

"You make it sound so simple," I interjected. "No such luck," he said, guiding me toward a small jhouse in back of his home. "I'm just like a basketball i:oach. I've got a deep bench. See that?" he asked, point- ling in the drection of several rows of books and boxes.

I 'That's my deep bench. I have manuscripts I haven't pven looked at for years. I try to stay about 50 stories jihead of myself." He said it matter-of-factly, which

nade me feel like he was contradicting himself. I told jiim it still looked ridiculously simple.

1 "That's the point I'm trying to make." he said, open- ng one of the boxes. Inside was a large stack of paper. lEverything was written longhand but I could see where

Ihe typing had been crossed out. "See? That is revision

. . complete revision. Everything I write gets revision."

' After lighting his cigar again, he told me that much

if the first reading is done by his wife. "She's my best .ritic."

Mrs. Stuart, a tall, graceful woman who gives the aixed appearance of a housewife and socialite, was born

.t Lost Creek in Greenup County. She and Jesse met at ijreenup High School. "He was wearing those knee-

ength pants and the high black socks when I first saw iiim," she smiled. "She says we were just conscious of one-another I

jtien," Jesse said. "But I think it was more than that."

t was obvious from the glance he traded with his wife

lat it still was more than that. The phone range and Jesse excused himself to answer

. While he was gone, I asked Mrs. Stuart if Jesse had ne poem, short story or novel that he liked best. "I 5ked him the same thing once before," she said, "and

e told me it was like having several children and some- ne asking which one you liked best. He just loves to rite, that's all." She admitted, however, that she pre- Tred "Album of Destiny," which took him eleven cars to write, and "Year of My Rebirth." IUMMER,1967 When Jesse returned we talked briefly about thej world situation. I must confess I didn't hear a great deal of the conversation, either: I just sat there, watch- ing him and wondering what it was that made this man so magnetic, so intriguing. I wasn't just thinking ol

Jesse Stuart, the writer, either. I was thinking of Jesse Stuart, the man.

Soon, however, it was time to leave. I thanked them both, in the best way I knew how, for one of the most fascinating days of my life. Tm afraid my attempt fell far short of its mark. Reluctantly, I greeted his firm handshake again and returned to my car for the trip home.

Before leaving the hollow, I couldn't resist the oppor- tunity to stop and look around. It was near dusk anc the setting was even more tranquil than when I arrived

I thought that if I were a Jesse Stuart, I too coulc make this hollow come alive on paper. But this is wha makes him great. The combination of a Jesse Stuart anc a W-Hollow, or a Thoreau and a Walden Pond. It's the precious nourishment of a genius and liis love. Anc with Jesse Stuart, his lo\e is life.

So 1 left W-Hollow convinced that Jesse Stuart is a great man — yes, perhaps even a legend — because he's a grateful man; a man with a passion for life's intangibles and a gift of making them live for the bene- fit of his fellow man.

It was this same passion that inspired him to write a poem about life and his beloved W-Hollow. While un- der an oxygen tent following the heart attack in 1954, he promised God that if He would let him live, he woulc thank Him in verse when he was able. Perhaps this brief profile would not be complete without the verse he wrote in keeping this promise:

"/ thank God that He granted my stay here To count the many songs in winds that blow. When April's spring returns again this year

I'll walk with Him wliere rivers rise and flow.

I'll stand beneath the gray barked sycamore.

With softer hands I'll feel its seedy bark.

Not any man will ever love life more.

I'll pray as I walk in the April dark.

Death held me prisoner till God stepped in And took me by the hand and gave me breath, And I was glad this heart was cleansed of sin. And that I followed Him from arms of Death. Back to my valley for the blooming spring. Back to my garden and the wild bird's song, To shadow, sun and multicolored wing. The land, God iiuist believe, where I belong."

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:jl'MMER,1967 1^ ^

iUli/^lM- ^^Jj^ circle back to home

BY JESSE STUART

he morning sun was lifting the dew in white va- He left the car parked and started walking along to T porous streamers up into the bright air above the find a gate where he could cross the meadow and walk July meadows when a man drove his car over be- toward the place where the old schoolhouse used to ide the road, parked, and got out. be. \\ here is the lane road that used to lead over there,

he thought. 1 used to walk and run o\er that road on "My Coal Branch."" he spoke the words although my way to and from school. Wish I could run that way here was no one to hear him. "This is where 1 was now. If 1 were to run a hundred yards 1 belie\e l"d fall 5om and grew to manhoodl Coal Branch is still my o\er from exhaustion. lome."" He walked along the fence until he came to a sty. He stood there beside his car and looked across a Well, somebody has used this, he thought as he looked neadow at the foothill on the other side where the at a dim little path that curxed like a crawling black choolhouse stood. All the education I ever got was snake over the close-cut grass. There used to be a road )ver there, went through his mind. As, the good times to the school and the cemetery on the hill behind the

had there when I was a boy. school.

SUMMER, 1967 11 It's the very place where we used to cross, he though

when he came to the stream. Here he stopped again fc there was a swarm of multicolored butterflies sitting o the warm sand near the Coal Branch stream. He didn want to frighten them. I've seen this so many times bt fore, were unspoken words revived in his memory. Bu- terflies drinking water up through the warm sand makt a pretty picture. And I've not even thought of this fc

years. But something is missing here, went through hi

mind. And then it came to him: The old footlog with banister alongside for the children to hold to when th stream was flooded. All came back to him now. He wa once the largest boy in school and when the footlcj washed away he had waded water to his waist and hai ferried forty pupils and his teacher. Miss Rayma Boggs, over the stream. He remembered there had been rock stepping stont

across the stream and in July, August, and Septemb<

all the boys and most of the girls waded the strean. They came to school barefooted up until early Octobt when the farmers sold their tobacco and sorghum mc

lasses and then each family bought each child his c her one pair of shoes for the winter. Those too youn The man was now fiftyish. large and clumsy. He to walk didn't get any shoes for they didn't need then wasn't used to climbing over a sty. He placed his feet Now, he stepped on some of the loose stones still heij carefully in each rung of the ladder so he went up and and scared up the butterflies! The butterflies would re very carefully in each one as he went down the other turn after he's crossed the stream and was on his wa side. And he gripped the banister placed here to steady upon the bank where the schoolhouse stood. his going up on one side and down on the other. It's The butterflies flew up in a multicolored cloud c been a long time since I've gone over one of these, he soft wings on the lazy wind. They are soft and beautift thought. They're so typical here in my homeland. After things, he thought. They bring back nostalgic memorit he had climbed over he stopped and looked at the sty. too. He placed his soft slioes on the rocks carefully 4 Ah, these little things are the things that count and make he stepped across the shallow stream, always at lowq one remember! ebb in July than any month in the year. He rememberej

He was wearing a short-sleeved white shirt opened at rocks in this stream could be slick and he could step ol the collar, slacks, and soft shoes. And for comfort he one and his foot would go from under him. And now ; wore suspenders instead of a belt for he was heavy for his age he wasn't as agile as he had been in his youtl his six-foot frame. He weighed about 220 pounds and He could tumble and get a fall! his flesh was soft. If I were only back here I could do This is the place J've wanted to see again, he though; more of this, he thought. Walking is a wonderful exer- Thirty-three years is too long to be away. When I visi cise, I remember how I used to like to ride. I wanted ed here the last time the schoolhouse stood. School Wc to ride on a horse, a sled, wagon, or buggy. Now I want going on. Now, everything has changed! School bust to walk. How a man's life changes after the years pass! pick up the youth and haul them for miles to the bi He stopped and looked up at a cloud of fog that was Consolidated Tiber Valley School. Everything he rising in streamers of sunlight. Overhead there were changed in my lifetime, he thought. No, there is or small white vaporous gossamer-thin clouds flying like familiar thing. He was looking at the big sycamore trei| milkweed furze he'd seen carried by August winds over He walked over to see if the initials were still ther(] the meadows. Y. M. and D. B. Yes, he found them. But he had to pi

12 THE EASTERN ALUMNU lis glasses on before he could read them. There they vere! They were up as high as their small hands could reach but this wasn't too high. This was the time when

I'very small boy had his sweetheart and every small girl .lad her lover and carved their initials on this tree. He .emembered the heartaches too of when girl lost boy to i.ome other girl and boy lost girl to some other boy. He

emembered how it hurt when he had lost his Doreen 3ostwick!

She was the only daughter of Jeremiah Bostwick. 'nost prosperous farmer on Coal Branch. And how she 'oved to ride ponies and later fine riding horses. He had 'laimed her for his own. and he had had dreams that 'he would be his wife someday and the\' would settle on

\i farm on Coal Branch like his people before him had. he would bear their children, he would work hard, and

'hey would be happy together. But it hadn't turned out {hat way, thoughts came to him now. Maybe he might iiave had her if she hadn't been sent away to high school

'a Blakesburg where she won riding contests at the 'jreenwood County Horse Show and where she was jlected Greenwood County Beauty Queen three times n three annual contests. This was what did it. She had Doreen for their own. when Charlie put his and Doreen's orgotten him. the boy who had grown up beside her initials on this tree, and he had come back with a 'nd loved her. And she had ended up marrying a man hatchet on a Saturday and cut the initials off. Now, the j'ld enough to be her father and they had no children. fate of life, he had married and Charlie had never mar-

His life, he thought, had never turned out like he had ried until Doreen's husband had died. ireamed it would in his youth. Only the initials of his He looked up toward the top of the sycamore. It cer- jarly love affair remained and no one. he thought, knew tainly had grown in height. When he and Charlie Wil- jiese were here but he himself. But it was Doreen's son used to choose up ball teams and play each other larriage to that old man, not so old now when he and the pupils chose the side they wanted to root for.

lought about it, but old at 40 back when he married he remembered how he had batted the ball clean over

,)oreen who was only 2 1 . Yet, that was a lot of dif- the top of this tree for a home run. He was the only boy

erence now. For he had died at 70 and left her a widow in school ever to do this. Charlie Wilson had tried hard

t 51 and she went back and married Charlie Wilson, but he had never made it. He remembered the grand inother classmate who was his rival for her in this Coal slam home runs he had hit here and cleared the bases

ranch School. Charlie had said if he didn't marry while the pupils who rooted for his team had cheered.

!»oreen he wouldn't marry anybody. And he hadn't. Now, there was nothing here. It was a book of mem- j/hen she became a widow at 51 they were married and ories for hundreds of people. When the morning wind |ved happily on a farm on Coal Branch. While the blew through the sycamore leaves they spoke a rustling noughts went through his mind he searched for a scar language. Maybe these were the voices of those he used

a the sycamore. It should be there. And he found it. to know whose natural voices had been silenced for |his old sycamore was a living scroll that recorded years. There were voices in the wind and leaves in the |ames and initials with hearts carved around them. But blue cornflowers and the wild sweet williams now one would ever know but him why this scar was on blooming beside the stream. Now, these flowers were

lis tree. This was his secret. Only he had the answer. filled with butterflies with wings so light they moved si- his was back when he and Charlie Wilson both claimed lently on the wind.

I^JMMER,1967 13 He looked again at the initials T. M. and D. B. T. M. the water was in the bucket where he and other pupi'

stands for Tom Moore. And Tom Moore is my name. got their drinking water. They don't go to schools ani And D. B. stands for Doreen Bostwick. the most beau- where today like this one was, he thought. And I wor

tiful girl I ever knew! But T. M. and D. B. didn"t be- der what other pupils' memories will be of their schoo-

pome as one. And this is why I said farewell to Coal they attend today after forty years have passed. Yes, w|

Branch and to Greenwood County, and why I left Ken- went to school here and we were happy and had dream'

tucky for Xenia, Ohio, where I married my wife and And, today, only the hills, the valley, the stream, thi

where I live today. My wife, Nellie Prather Moore, saw sycamore tree, the foundation stones, and the graves c|

this schoolhouse with me when I was here before. But the hill remain. Where many were buried the wild hoi'

she never saw these initials. And she didn't know about eysuckle and the myrtle have taken over and there is ni

sign of graves. is Doreen. And our three sons, married now and with The earth going back like it was il homes of their own, don't know about Doreen either. the beginning.

These are my secrets and this time 1 came back alone. Here where the schoolhouse stood were more joy

He turned and walked over where the foundation than disappointments, he thought. But the hill up then

stones for the Coal Branch School were all that was left Many of the old people called this pioneer cemeteri

of his only citadel of learning. Ragweeds had grown up The Hill of Sorrow. I often wondered why it was si beside the old foundation stones where only parts of close to our school. I remember it wasn't quite fillei

these were visible. when I went to school here and they had a few funera'

and there was so much noise, singing, and weeping th; The times I sat here and ate my lunch, he thought. Miss Boggs dismissed school and let us attend the fi Mom fi.xed it in a small willow basket she had woven neral whether we knew the deceased or not. She sai- from willow branches that grew on the banks of the she couldn't have school with a funeral close. so So, i Coal Branch stream. I remember the cornbrcad and the remember when people were buried up there. And, no! bottle of milk. And I remember the biscuits with jelly who will remember? Who knows? It's a deserted cemi' spread on them. Biscuits with apple butter spread over tery! The forest, brush and briars have taken over. Tl them. And she'd always fix boiled corn and tomatoes kinfolks of the dead have died themselves or move] for me in season. 1 remember how Miss Boggs used to away. No one is left to take care of the graves now. Fj make us pick up roastin' ear cobs and clean up the yard walked upon the slope and looked at an ancient ston; after we'd eaten our lunches. She made us do this be- He couldn't decipher the name and the dates. He loo fore she'd let us play ball. And we'd do anything to play ed at a grave with a fieldstone at the head and focj a game of ball. Charlie's team and my team would end There were no names and dates on these. And on up in a tie score sometimes and the excitement would be headstone he read of a grave he remembered, Charl running so high I believe to this day Miss Boggs, who Dials, B. May 8, 1796, D. Nov. 10, 1848. In the cent' liked baseball and liked to watch us play, used to give of the grave stood a large cedar tree. And he remeri us a few extra minutes to finish the game. bered how the pupils in the Coal Branch School used He remembered how he used to sit on the hoys' side | call it the Charlie Dials tree. And now, in Ohio, whi of the school back in the last seat by a window where

he could look out across the meadow he had just walk- ed over. And how he used to think the jarflies were singing, "School Days, School Days", and the lazy song the grasshoppers sang on that meadow where the noon-

day heat glimmered was, "Take It Easy, Take It Easy". When he was a very small boy his father had told him these were the words they sang and he had never for- gotten. When the heat danced on the meadow in July

and August he remembered how hot it was in the school-

house and how wonderful it was when a gust of wind blew in at his window. And he remembered how warm

14 THE EASTERN ALUMN le saw a cedar tree, the name that came to his mind more stirring of his boyhood memories before he scared vas Charlie Dials. the multicolored butterflies still drinking from the warm But here they are. he thought. Here the people sleep wet sand. He looked at his watch. He had spent an hour vho cleared the Coal Branch bottoms, farmed the land, with his memories. He looked up and there wasn't a [ind built the roads. Here were the graves of pioneers white cloud in the sky. The dew had dried the meadows vho had gone back to the briar, cedar, and locust. and everywhere the grasshoppers and the jarflies were ifTiere was an epitaph he deciphered on a stone, "Gone singing.

[iut Not Forgotten". But he knew this wasn't true. The He listened again to the rustling voices of the wind people who were buried here were gone and forgotten. among the sycamore leaves. He wanted to think they ^e remembered how the}' used to bring their lunches were the voices he used to hear! There was no one here, ip here and eat in a cedar shade on a hot day. He re- no one. He was alone with all these memories. Soon the nembered the smell of the wilted clusters of oak and big sycamore would die or be uprooted by a storm. the wind umac leaves on a hot humid July day when Maybe it would be cut for pulpwood. But when this ras still. sycamore was cut. all its initials and the hearts cut

Here is where the people used to come, went through around the initials would go to make paper. This was lis mind now. This was a community center then. Peo- a love tree for hundreds of youth who had been here

le came here on foot, horseback, muleback. in wagons and who had gone forever. Soon there would not be one ind buggies. This was a lively place where the people foundation stone upon another. Time would see to this. let and talked. Now. all of this has gone forever. Over Well, with the education I received here. I haven't here where my car is parked was a dirt road filled with done too badly, he thought, as he walked on toward the ludholes and ditches, but today it is hard surfaced. A stream. Today 1 could buy all of Coal Branch but what ood span of mules did well to pull an empty jolt wagon would I do with it? I'm an old man. This is my home- [irough the winter mud. It took two teams hitched to land but I live in Xenia, Ohio. Besides, I own all of ne wagon to bring a load from Blakesburg when he Coal Branch. The only deed I have for it is the one in I'as a boy. Now, he could drive over the hard road to my heart. I can see the old Coal Branch and every l^lakesburg and be back in twenty minutes. house in this five mile valley in my memory. It is a

I Time had changed everything. There were only mem- picture I can't forget. And with the education I received ries last trip here now for him. And this would be his here I was elected five times on the City Council to ack to have his old memories brought to life again, serve my city. Not many from this school have done le didn't to return. him. plan This time was forever for better. I am happy with the training I have received j/hy had he come? He didn't exactly know. But he re- here and that I am a man of good character. 1 have

[lembered when he was a boy and his dog jumped a paid my debts. I have helped others. I have been a

ibbit from its sitting place, the rabbit ran a circle and good citizen in Ohio and in America. And this is the |ime back to its home. Now he walked back down the place where there are memories. Here where only the

|ope from the graveyard and he stopped again where wind, leaves, and water speak now is where I got all the

iie schoolhouse stood. He wanted a last Ions; look and book learning I have.

The butterflies flew up in a multicolored swarm on the bright July wind. He stood watching their soft fragile and beautiful wings fanning and floating in the

air. Some flew to the blossoms of the blue cornflowers and the wild sweet Williams and others circled around to return to their favorite watering place on the warm

wet sand. I'll not stop to see Doreen and Charlie, he

thought. There's no use now. And I don't want to see

her again. I want to remember her like she used to be. He walked up the winding path over the meadow toward the sty and his car. 't

jti'MMER, 15 , 1967 tf t' , J , -; , ,» V. "

I THE AUTHOR BY JESSE STUART AND THE COP was driving up U. S. Highway in his small pick- for ten dollars. Now, he could make than four dollars Heup farm truck. He looked at the for ten hours, but watch on his he had to pay most of it in taxes and wrist to see if he had plenty of time to get to the the acre of land he used to be able to purchase for four Greater Hinton-Auckland Airport on time to make his to ten dollars would cost a thousand. He could buy a flight on time. He had phoned in a week before and choice acre when he worked at nineteen years of age made his reservation for this flight. He was driving the for two and a half days' work. He tried to figure in truck, for his wife, who was teaching school in Green- mental arithmetic how long it would take him to buy wood County, drove the car to and from Argill Ele- an acre. Well, what he had made as a writer, school- mentary School. teacher, and lecturer, and he had worked harder than

As he drove along he counted the stop lights on this he had at the steel mills, couldn't have paid for it. after congested thirty miles of highway from his home in The taxes and living expenses, in one month. This was how Valley in Greenwood County to the airport. He's driven times had changed.

over this road so many times, left his truck parked at He looked up at the speed signals. While he thouglit

the airport, and upon his return to the airport quickly about these changes, he sped up and was driving a little got into his small truck and hurried home. This was get- too fast. Five miles over the speed limit when he should ting to be a pattern of life for him and a way to make have driven five miles under to have been on the safe a few dollars to pay grocery, utility, garage and fuel side. He was now entering Cantonville, the last Ken- bills, and to pay taxes and buy clothes for the family. tucky town before he crossed the bridge over the Big There were so many things to pay taxes for nowadays, Sandy River into Crossville-Kirkland, West Virginia, he thought as he drove through Rosten counting stop small cities that had grown together and the twain had and signal lights. become as one with a double name. Then, there was a flashback in his memory to the Why be a writer, he thought. Everybody thought he time he first began writing. There were so many maga- had made a million from his books. He'd written so zines then that used his poems, stories, and sometimes many books, stories, poems, articles, and essays. Yes, an article or an essay! Now, so many of the magazines there had been good times, good years, when he had that had published his work were gone! His magazine paid big taxes, but most of the years had been as lean world had changed like the surface of this land. He as Toodle Powell's cow. She had to stand in two places jcould remember when Greenwood, Wurtzville. Ross- at the same time, so Bill Abrahams said, before she :land, Rosten. Auckland. Cantonville. and Crossville- could make a shadow. Why was he now, at 54, still

Kirkland were small towns along this route and were insecure? He had property and it was difficult at times separated by cow pastures, cornfields, and apple or- to make money enough to pay taxes on his property. :hards. Now. they had grown together and he didn't The last twelve stories he had placed in magazines had know where one ended and the other began. There was brought him exactly $160. An article he sold now only one place along this route, a distance of two miles, brought him less than one-fourth as many inflated dol- A'here he was permitted to drive at fifty miles an hour. lars as an article brought him ten years ago. And the

Country people used to live along this route. He knew dollar had over twice the value than it had now. He hem. A few of them were in his stories, poems, and tried to figure this one too but he was no mathematical oooks. Now. even the people he had known had expert, especially when he had to watch signs along --hanged. The land used to feed these people. They these speed zones.

lOved the land because it fed them. Industry fed them Each town along this route had a different speed now; they no longer loved the land and they didn't care limit. He had to be alert, for his speedy little six-cylin- or industry. Many had ceased to love anything, he der truck could jump like a frog when he accelerated hought. too much. Why had he worked with his tongue out. he

Now he was in Auckland, the only city along this wondered. Why not have a little job, make a little salary, joute. Auckland was a beautiful city. There were many and take advantages of everything the government gave?

lore stop lights and caution signals than when he used Wasn't his government kinder to its citizens who re- 3 work here at the steel mills. He'd made four dollars ceived than those who gave? He was born of an older or ten hours here when he could buy an acre of land generation who couldn't adjust to this kind of thinking.

UMMER, 1967 17

11 He had to work. He had to work or die. There was thought. That's why he figured time closer than he did never time enough to do what he wanted to do. money. The trip, the plane to and from Nantonville and Yes, people had changed. People of his generation, two nights in a hotel, would leave him .$200 before he believed, read more books and magazines. Something taxes came out, he hoped. This would help pay ex- of this sort had happened, or he was a failure. So why penses while he worked on a novel at home. He had to be a writer? He had to be a writer. He couldn't be any- make a living first and use spare time on his novel. He thing else. To stop writing would kill him. He would used to take time for a novel and use spare time for rather write and live and take less for it than to die and other things. be put under the ground where he couldn't hear the He pondered the reputation of being a writer as he wind blow or the birds sing or see the seasons come and drove up the broad boulevard that skirted the twin go. He wanted to live. Life was worth it. Even if he cities. One can't live on a reputation. It no longer paid were in a state of decline as an author in his country. fuel, grocery, garage, and utility bills, nor bought clothes Actually, who knew about him? Who cared? And repu- and paid taxes! Life had changed. When he began writ- tation, more than money, was what he had always ing and selling he didn't own a car. He didn't have wanted. utility and fuel bills. He burned kerosene lamps and cut Sure, he had been egotistical, he thought. Who could wood to burn in the stove and fireplace. And he raised separate egotism from ambition? Now this was some- what he ate from the land. A few hen eggs paid the thing that rec[uired more thought than a short story. extra for spices and sweets he had to have. He didn't He'd never been able to separate egotism and ambition pay income taxes either. Life really had changed. And since the outer fringes of one overlapped the other. Who he had as much reputation as a writer then, if not more, would or could pull them apart and give eacli a concrete than he had now. Who had heard of him, flashed definition? He had never been sold on tests his fellow through his mind quickly. Some of the older ones had. teachers believed gave concrete definitions of a pupil's But the majority of them were gone. This younger gen- ability. How could a test measure or even predict a eration has never heard of him. youth's ambitions? How could one measure or predict Just then, a siren screamed to break his thoughts one's creativeness? Those he had taken had never pre- and a police car passed close beside him and pushed dicted that writing would choose him instead of his him over on the grass so the snail-creeping cars could choosing writing! He couldn't help writing when the pass. The police car pulled in front of him and stopped.! urge forced him. It was like hunger when he had to A man, perhaps 22, with a smooth youthful face andj have food. Money or no money, he had to write. Writ- pink cheeks, dressed in a uniform decorated with bright ing had been and still was satisfying! He had to write shiny buttons, got out and walked back. He wore a or die. broad leather belt with a holster on one side with the Since he couldn't sell enough to pay his bills and liandle of a revolver sticking up. His youthful face was his taxes, he supplemented writing by speaking. And serious. Pulling a speedster off the highway was serious twenty-two years ago he got more for giving a talk in business. the city same where he was going than he was getting "Seventeen miles through a fifteen mile school zone," now! He thought about this too. Something had hap- he spoke sternly. "Didn't you see the school zone sign?" pened to lecturing. Besides, when one went to give a "No, I didn't." lecture now, he gave instead two of one. He received The young cop looked at the author who was old half as for lectures much two a day as he did for one enough to be his father. nearly a quarter of a century ago! he Now was paid "Well, let me see your driver's license," he spoke with dollars worth half as much now as they were then. stoutly. "You were driving like you might be going to a This was another problem he tried to figure out but fire." mental arithmetic in this speed zone wouldn't let him. "No, but I do have a plane schedule to make!" he Besides, he was counting the stop lights and the eternal said. He opened the door slowly and got out of the car. blinking signal lights. He had reached the four lane "You come through here very often?" boulevard in Crossville-Kirkland. "Very often." 'H He looked at his watcl. again. He had time to get his "What is your work?" ticket and make the plane. He had thirty minutes to "Lm a teacher." spare. He'd been driving faster than he thought. But The author took his billfold from his pocket and he must be there, he thought. In the morning he would fumbled nervously for his driver's license. speak to 2,000 teachers. He would speak twice tomor- The young cop stood by watching him pull pictures row. It had taken today to get ready and get there, of a daughter from the time she was a baby until she tomorrow to give the talks, and the next day to come was a grown-up woman from his billfold. He searched

home. After 54 one hasn't got as much time left, he among a dozen small pictures of his wife and their "ii

18 THE EASTERN ALUMNUS

il laughter. Then there were cards with names and ad- characters from his books. "I've always wanted to meet

Iresses of people he had met. He wondered if the young you." :op didn't ha\e his eye on his folding money. He won- "But why aren't you in college?" iered how much would go for a fine and how much he "I am in college." he replied. "I have two years in vould ha\e left. He wondered, as he searched, if he college. I do this to help pay my expenses. I go to M. U. vould ha\e enough left to buy his plane ticket and pay And. you," he said, "get an honorary degree at M. U.

:xpenses when he got there. But he knew a lot of people next month. Let me apologize to you. Don't ever tell n Nantonville for he had gone to college there. He had that I arrested you! Please! Let's keep this between us." " riends in Nanton%'ille he had made thirty years ago. If "But I've broken the law and I deserve to be ... le didn't ha\e enough money he would he able to get "No, no. no!" The young cop raised his voice. "No. ome there. But the watch on his wrist was ticking away Never. Not from me. I tell you you've done something he time. This worried him too. for me. I can't take you in. You were speeding all right,

"I have a great respect for you officers of the law," but 1 can't take you in!" he author said. "Being a teacher, principal, and super- "I've ne\er been arrested for speeding." the author "1 ntendent of schools in my life, 1 know we have to have said. got to thinking." liscipline. And if we didn't have good police and state "What were you thinking?" the young cop

)atrol in your state and mine, we'd be in chaos. If we interrupted. lidn't have schools, and teachers, the situation would "That my reputation is slipping and 1 never should

>e worse than turning animals loose. Animals are ha\e been an author." ;uided by instinct. We are not. When the desires of ani- "Oh. no." he said shaking his head disgustedly. "You rials are satisfied they beha\e." must make your plane!"

The young cop looked strangely at the author. He "Yes. I must. We'll settle when 1 come hack." loesn't believe I ha\e my drivers license, the author "No, no, only one thing," he said. "Just let me shake hought. your hand and thank you. You've given me pleasure!

"I'll find that driver's license. I know I have it. Just You've given me courage!"

minute." "But a handshake is no way to pay a fine!"

He went into another section of his billfold and "It's a greeting and a thank you. Now, please, you'll

•rought out another little stack of worn pictures, ad- have to hurry. I know the plane schedules. And let me

Iresses. and identification cards. warn you." he added, "your driver's license is not valid.

"What kind of writing is on that card?" the young Look at it on the plane. It expired a year ago. Don't see op asked. me when you return but get your driver's license for "Arabic," he replied. "I taught school in Egypt last 1962. You may be arrested by a cop who hasn't read ear." your books." He fumbled through this little stack of worn and The author put the names and addresses back into lattered cards and pictures while the young cop eyed his billfold. lim, suspiciously he thought. "Hurry," said the cop. "I'll see that you get there!" "But you were speeding through that zone, all right," The young cop jumped into his police car and turned aid the young cop. on the siren. He motioned for the author to follow. He "Yes, I probably was," he replied agreeably. "Oh, led the way through all the traffic, through the stop lere is my driver's license," he spoke delightedly. "Here lights, the last three miles to the airport. Then the young :is!" cop smiled and saluted him and turned his police car He looked at his wrist watch again while the young and started back down the mountain road. The author op looked at his driver's license. smiled and saluted in return. Then he looked at his "Ah, but this name . . . this name," he stammered " watch. Just enough time, he thought. He parked his coking at the man beside him. "You couldn't be ... truck in the lot, grabbed his bag. and started to the "What have I done? Something more than speed ?" counter to get his ticket. irough . . .

I shouldn't have had such thoughts as those I had "Oh, no," he interrupted. "No, not that. You just ouldn't be the author." coming up here, he thought as he hurried to the ticket I wouldn't give the profession that has chosen "Yes, I've written books. Why? Have you heard of counter. le?" me for all the others I might have had.

"Heard of you? You've meant something to me. He was so happy he couldn't erase the broad smile 'ou're ," the reason . . . he began but didn't finish. He on his face if he had tried. He had his ticket now and irned his head. "You're the reason I finished high he heard the final call for his plane coming in distinctly

:hool. Your books ..." He sighed and started naming over the loud speaker. -t*

UMMER, 1967 19 REUNIO

Jennie Jeffers Ashhy. 83 years young, members of that class who returned to "But our neighbors convinced my pa, sat inconspicuously in Walnut Hall Richmond this year for the annual Alum- ents I should go back and then go to cci fondling a large badge made of card- ni Day. The sea of faces that milled lege. And do you know who my neigj hoard and brightly colored construction around her represented the honored clas- bors were? They were the parents of D' paper. The hall was filled with smiling ses of 1917. 1927. 1942, and 19.'^2. Roark!" (Dr. Ruric Neville Roark w

faces. There were men shaking hands It was a time for nostalgia. A lime for the first president of Eastern.) and slapping each other on the back. old friends. A time for memories. "Dr. Roark's father was a captain

Women embraced each other, some even And Mrs. Ashby, surprisingly alert for the Civil War, and it was him who i with tears in their eyes. But the hubub her age, had many memories of Eastern fluenced me to go fo Eastern." by-passed Mrs. Ashhy. She seemed con- Kentucky State Normal School. She and Mrs. Ashby taught in Greenville un' tent to sit quietly and watch. Mrs. Alma Rice Bascom. of Sharpsburg, her retirement. "I got kicked out wi Occasionally she would glance at the attended this year's festivities. They are ceremonies," she smiled. (There we badge and then look up to watch the the only living members of the class of over 1,200 people on hand for that cei crowd again. As a friend helped pin the 1907. mony, too.) badge on her coat, directly opposite two "There were only five of us," Mrs. As Mrs. Ashby talked, the hall cc

Cambodium orchids, Mrs. Ashhy shook Ashhy recalled. "I know everyone is tinned to fill. The sea of smiling fac

her head and said: "It's hard to believe. proud of the way Eastern has grown — continued to grow. It was rapidly becoi

Si,xty years is a long lime but il sure and they should be — but they should ing a cross-section of the 20th centurj

doesn't seem like it." have seen the campus in 1907. It was The excitement of old friends, the pi

Sixty years. Thai's how long it had beautiful then. too. hul in a different petiial intrigue of thrice-told tales, a

been since the former Jennie Jeffers at- way." the pride of a new generation played i tended Eastern Kentucky State Normal Mrs. Ashby, her twinkling c\es peer- portant roles in Alumni Day, 1967. School. Now, as Mrs. Ashhy, she had ing over rimless glasses, smiled as she Talks of yester\ear at Eastern wt i returned for the 1907 class reunion. The told of a young girl from Greenville who spiced with the advancement of today, badge singled her out as one of only two couldn't afford to attend high school. the same token — and in almost eve

20 THE EASTERN ALUMNL instance — there was a heavy accent on lomorrow. Yesterday, today and tomor- iin\. interwoven tightly by the class of r'l 7 and its counterpart of 1952. 'Talks of Yesteryear, Spiced With tlie Advancements lake Ishmael Triplett. for instance. He could recollect the hardships of a of Today and Promises of Tomorrow" 'Iniggling normal school in 1927 with ihe grace of a racontour. Vet he was. ad- outstanding professor at Indiana mittedly, quite awed by the bustle of a State where J. W. "Spider" Thurman and his this year, simimed university. Triplett. a former member of up his feelings in staff were busy handing out badges and three words: Ihe Knott Coimty Board of Education, orchids to the guests. Thurman, Director "I got lost!" recalled struggling with an unfamiliar of .Mumni Affairs, called the festivities Guests poured into the large electric light in his dormitory room in entrance "fantastic." "We're really pleased with hall of the 'Memorial Hall. Keen Johnson Student Union this turnout," Thurman said over the Building throughout the afternoon. "It wasn't too long after World War Greet- buzz of voices. ings were common-place. I." he said. "That light was blaring right And of course, After the "get re-aquainled" session. the inevitable welcome: "Wh\'. you hav- m our eyes and my roommate and I Alumni were guests of Dr. and Mrs. en't changed a bit!" Robert wouldn't turn it off. We didn't know how! Martin at Blanton House. Over in one Wc ended up tying a high-top boot corner, a group of ladies That night, at the Alumni Day dinner, wearing orchids and 50th Anniversary aroimd the light bulb. If I remember each guest was honored and the Out- badges were talking right, there were about 400 students here and laughing like standing Alumnus Award was presented young coeds during freshman orientation to Dr. ihen. I lived in Perry County and it took D. T. Ferrell, Jr.. ('48) technical week. us three days to get here." coordinator of the Electric Storage Bat- A large man wearing one of the silver Hut that was yesteryear. .And Triplett is tery Company. Philadelphia. Pa. anniversary emblems entered he first to admit that things have chang- Walnut Thurman also handed out special Hall with a small book tucked under his led quite a bit since then. "I told Dr. awards to the following Alumni: left arm. "Did you go here 50 years .Martin the campus looked just like Rock- / Hazel Marie Tate Whitlock. Miami. ago?" a yoimg college student asked. Fla.. for the greatest distance of travel efeller Plaza . . . and it doesi Why. if \ou "Sure did," the man shot back, lurn your back aroimd here, a new dor- "and the for a member of the class of 1942. Lord's blessed me so I could return." nitory jumps up!" i' Raymond Wesley Nelson. Hamil- The speaker was Luther Triplett's sentiments were echoed F. Morgan, for- ton. Ohio, for the largest family in at- mer superintendent of the Shelby hroughout the day. Count\ tendance for the class of 1942. Mason's Home. Morgan held out the Mrs. Eva Afton Kordenbrock ("52) is another I Duka Ventura. Carbon- book and showed it to the student. "See dale. III. xample. He graduated 25 years after and the Phillipines. for the here," he said, displaying a 1917 Eastern greatest Triplett. but he spoke with the amaze- distance of travel for a member football program, "this was the only team of the iient of a long-removed alumnus. class of 1952. to beat Western twice in one year," Betty Williams 'I'm not so sure about these Akmini l' Dembree, Little Sil- As grads filed into the crowded hall, ver. N. J., for the largest Days," he told Jim Baechtold. a former family in at- the hub of the action was a long table tendance for the class €^ :lassmate now serving on Eastern's fac- of 1952.

ilty. "You come back and see all this

ind you feel ancient. When I came here |ny high school was larger than Eastern. Knd my freshman class was about the ame size as this year's graduating class. Knd that was just 15 years ago!"

' Kordenbrock. sales manager for an en- iiraving firm and mayor of Taylor Mill 'n Kenton County, was a teammate with liaechtold on Coach Paul McBrayer's 1948-52 basketball teams. They spent much of the day recalling memories of Ihat team. "When we played in Weaver (Health 'iuilding). we had to be careful not to tep on anyone's feet." Kordenbrock said. 'And now look at Alumni Coliseum." Over in another corner of the room, ^mogene (Mrs. Lucus) Shackleford '42) joined in the chorus of praise. "It ad been 18 years since we visited the

ampus," she said, "and it was really an jmotional impact." Agreement I also came from Dr. J. Hill llamon ('52), who now serves as associ- 'te professor of Zoology at Indiana State I'niversity. Dr. Hamon. who was named

Summer, 1967 21 ALUMNI ^^m ^11!*^^^ DAY

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22 THE EASTERN ALUMNUJJ I Dr. D. T. Ferrell Jr

EASTERN'S OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS

D. T. Ferrell, Jr.. chemist, 613 Field Artillery Observation Bat- 1960. he was appointed Associate Di-

Dr.business executive and contrib- talion in Italy during World War IT rector of Engineering in the Industrial

utor to numerous technical pub- Following the war, Ferrell contin- Division. Still another promotion came lications, was selected from 15,000 ued his education at Duke University, in 1962 when he was named .\ssistant

" candidates as Eastern Kentucky Uni- earning the Master of Science degree Director of the same division. versity's Outstanding Alumnus for in 1948 and the Ph.D. degree in 1950. The year 1965 was important in 1967. The 1943 graduate was hon- At the age of 28, Ferrell moved to more ways than one for Ferrell. In ored May 27 at the annual Alumni Silver Spring, Maryland where he February, he was elevated to the posi- Day dinner. The award was presented served as chief of the Reserve Battery tion of Technical Coordinator for the by William Aiken ("48) president of Branch at the U. S. Naval Ordinance entire company. In this capacity. Fer-

the Alumni Association. Laboratory. After just one year, he rell is responsible directly to ESB

Ferrell, currently serving as techni- was promoted to chief of the Electro- president Edward J. Dwyer for coor- cal coordinator of the Electric Storage chemistry Section. dination of technical efforts. Battery Company, Philadelphia, Pa., Ferrell's success in research and de- In making the announcement, has been involved in the research and velopment of batteries and other elec- Dwyer said Ferrell would assist in the development of the electric battery for trochemical devices led to his appoint- continuing improvement and advance- the past 17 years. ment as manager of Battery Engineer- ment of the company's research, de- His education began at Eastern's ing for Battery Laboratory of the velopment and engineering efforts in- Model High School, where he was American Machine Foundry Co.. volving products, processing and raw graduated in 1939. From there, he Raleigh, N.C. While there, he con- materials. went on to earn the B.S. degree in centrated on development projects for " We have many talented employees chemistry and mathematics from East- silver-zinc batteries and conducted engaged in important and successful

ern in 1943 graduating with high dis- proprietary investigations in electro- technical efforts," Dwyer said. "It is tinction. During this time, his father. chemical processes. Less than two highly desirable that these efforts con- Dr. D. T. Ferrell, Sr., was serving as years later, Ferrell was named assist- tinue and achieve even greater success,

chairman of Eastern's Department of ant manager of the Battery Laboratory. and it is intended that Dr. Ferrell as Education and Psychology. The elder It was in 1959 that Ferrell joined technical coordinator will assist in Ferrell retired in 1964 after 38 years The Electric Storage Battery Com- meeting this objective." on the Eastern faculty. pany. He was assigned to the firm's Five months after the appointment, Eastern's 12th recipient of the Out- Missile Battery Division as assistant Ferrell married the former Louise standing Alumnus Award also was ac- general manager for Engineering. It Mais. They now live at 3871 Dempsey

tive in the school's Reserve Officers took only 1 Vi years for Ferrell to Lane, Huntington Valley, Pa. -Q Training Corps. After graduation, he move into the company's main head- served as a first lieutenant with the quarters at Philadelphia. In August,

I^UMMER, 1967 23 WELCOME

WELCOME 1917

Row 1, Icjl to riglit: Mar- Isaacs. Mrs. Winnie Falii tha Yater McKee Dawson. Houk. Mrs. Ellen Walke Frances Heflin Ricketts, Smathers. Kathleen Trimhli Mayme Bourne Highbaiigh. Stubblefield. Miriam McKci Katie Carpenter. Evelyn Gerow. and Grace Marrs, Henry Langford. and Susan Row S: Luther Morgan. A Haughaboo Caldwell. P. Prather. W. J. Moore, anc Ro]r 2: Mrs. .Serena Heflin Lloyd L. Martin.

IME is%. t; saiiv m 1927

Left 10 liulii: Ishmael Trip- ett. J. D. Coates. Bulah Wil- loughby. and Lee Pelley.

1942 Roif I. left lo right: Mary Row 3: Dr. T. C. Herndor Michael, Opal Thomas Hun- class sponsor, Pauline Snj ter. Georgia Mae Arnett, der Williams, Nora Maso Sally Hervey Foster. Mildred Foust. Dorothy Eggenspille' Logsdon Calico, Mary E. Harris, AnnEtta Simmor Humphrey, Mrs. Mary Bil- Shadoan, Mary Samuel lingsley Garth, Mary Stay- Schuler, Frances Samue' ton Brock. Cosby, Mable Walker Jei Roiv 2: Raymond W. Nel- nings, Alice Kennelly Rof son, Mrs. Emoeene Lucas erts, Lawrence Rodamer, an Shackleford. Mrs. Zella S. Prewitt Paynter. Archer. Daisy E. Vaught. Row 4: James E. William Mrs. Lawrence Rodamer. Don Scott. Martha Scot Mrs. Mary Gregory Hoff- Mary Oney Stokes. CharlotI man. Mrs. Hazel Tate Whit- Havnes Owen, Vivian Webe lock. Mrs. Dorothy Adams Warthman, Calfee G. Co Howell and Charles Howell. son, and Fred E. Darlinc.

1952

Row 1, left to right: Eva E. Wilson. Loy Hobert Duka Ventura. Johnnie Mor- White. James R. Morris. gan Sherwood. Shirley Spires James D. West. Charles B. Baechtold, Mildred Smithers Carty. and Robert N. Grise. Cook. Elizabeth "Sis" Park Row 3: Alex Stevens. Afton Griffin. Betty Jo Williams Kordenbrock. Harold Ed- Hembree, Leila C. Ham- ward Richardson. Larry R. mons, and Kathleen Kennev Buskirk, Jim Baechtold, Har- Wiley. old L. Kittrell. Jr., and Row 2: Beltv J. Dozier. Paul George H. Hembree.

24 THE EASTERN ALUMNU Americans colleges and universities,

recipients of billions in Federal fujids, have a new relationship:

Life with Uncle

T HAT WOULD' HAPPEN if all the Fed- A look at what would happen if all Federal dollars w2ral dollars now going to America's colleges and were suddenly withdrawn from colleges and univer- universities were suddenly withdrawn? sities may be an exercise in the absurd, but it drama- The president of one university pondered the ques- tizes the depth of government involvement: tion briefly, then replied: "Well, first, there would The nation's undergraduates would lose more be this very loud sucking sound." than 800,000 scholarships, loans, and work-study Indeed there would. It would be heard from grants, amounting to well over $300 million. Berkeley's gates to Harvard's yard, from Colby, Colleges and universities would lose some $2 bil-

'Maine, to Kilgore, Texas. And in its wake would lion which now supports research on the campuses. come shock waves that would rock the entire estab- Consequently some 50 per cent of America's science lishment of American higher education. faculty members would be without support for their No institution of higher learning, regardless of its research. They would lose the summer salaries which size or remoteness from Washington, can escape the they have come to depend on — and, in some cases, impact of the Federal government's involvement in they would lose part of their salaries for the other higher education. Of the 2,200 institutions of higher nine months, as well. learning in the United States, about 1,800 partici- The big government-owned research laboratories pate in one or more Federally supported or spon- which several universities operate under contract sored programs. (Even an institution which receives would be closed. Although this might end some it would no Federal dollars is affected — for it must compete management headaches for the universities, Tor faculty, students, and private dollars with the also deprive thousands of scientists and engineers institutions that do receive Federal funds for such of employment and the institutions of several million things.) dollars in overhead reimbursements and fees. Hence, although hardly anyone seriously believes The newly established National Foundation for faculties that Federal spending on the campus is going to stop the Arts and Humanities— for which have or even decrease significantly, the possibility, how- waited for years— would collapse before its first

ever remote, is enough to send shivers down the na- grants were spent. tion's academic backbone. Colleges and universities Planned or partially constructed college and uni- operate on such tight budgets that even a relatively versity buildings, costing roughly $2.5 billion, would slight ebb in the flow of Federal funds could be be delayed or abandoned altogether. medi- ''serious. The fiscal belt-tightening in Washington, Many of our most eminent universities and caused by the war in Vietnam and the threat of in- cal schools would find their annual budgets sharply , I cent. ilflation, has already brought a financial squeeze to reduced— in some cases by more than 50 per 4;-some institutions. And the 68 land-grant institutions would lose Fed- A partnership of brains^ money^ and mutual need

eral institutional support which they have been re- request funds to help construct buildings and grants \ ceiving since the nineteenth century. to strengthen or initiate research programs.) Major parts of the anti-poverty program, the nev^f The other half of the Federal government's ex- GI Bill, the Peace Corps, and the many other pro- penditure in higher education is for student aid, for grams which call for spending on the campuses would books and equipment, for classroom buildings, labo- founder. ratories, and dormitories, for overseas projects, and — recently, in modest amounts — for the general strengthening of the institution.

There is almost no Federal agency which does not provide some funds for higher education. And there are few activities on a campus that are not eligible;'

.HE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is nOW the "Big for some kind of government aid. TSpender" in the academic world. Last year, Wash- ington spent more money on the nation's campuses than did the 50 state governments combined. The National Institutes of Health alone spent more on educational and research projects than any one state allocated for higher education. The National LEARLY our Colleges and universities now Science Foundation, also a Federal agency, awarded dependcso heavily on Federal funds to help pay for more funds to colleges and universities than did salaries, tuition, research, construction, and operat- all the business corporations in America. And the ing costs that any significant decline in Federal sup-' U.S. Office of Education's annual expenditure in port would disrupt the whole enterprise of American

higher education of $1.2 billion far exceeded all higher education.

gifts from private foundations and alumni. The To some educators, this dependence is a threat to billion so that integrity independence of the colleges $5 or the Federal government will the and and |

spend on campuses this year constitutes more than universities. "It is unnerving to know that our sys-

25 per cent of higher education's total budget. tem of higher education is highly vulnerable to the About half of the Federal funds now going to whims and fickleness of politics," says a man who academic institutions support research and research- has held high positions both in government and on

related activities — and, in most cases, the research is the campus. in the sciences. Most often an individual scholar, Others minimize the^hazards. Public institutions, with his institution's blessing, applies directly to they point out, have always been vulnerable in this a Federal agency for funds to support his work. A professor of chemistry, for example, might apply to the National Science Foundation for funds to pay for salaries (part of his own, his collaborators', and his research technicians'), equipment, graduate-student stipends, travel, and anything else he could justify as essential to his work. A panel of his scholarly peers from colleges and universities, assembled by NSF, meets periodically in Washington to evaluate his and other applications. If the panel members approve, the professor usually receives his grant and his college or university receives a percentage of the total amount to meet its overhead costs. (Under several Federal programs, the institution itself can

Every institution, however small or remote, jeels the ejfects oj the Federal role in higher education.

Copyright 1967 by Editoiial Projects Jot Education, Inc, sense —yet look how they've flourished. Congress- another fact: the government now relies as heavily men, in fact, have been conscientious in their ap- on the colleges and universities as the institutions proach to Federal support of higher education; the do on the government. President Johnson told an problem is that standards other than those of the audience at Princeton last year that in "almost every universities and colleges could become the deter- field of concern, from economics to national security, mining factors in the nature and direction of Federal the academic community has become a central in- support. In any case, the argument runs, all aca- strument of public policy in the United States." demic institutions depend on the good will of others Logan Wilson, president of the American Council to provide the support that insures freedom. Mc- on Education (an organization which often speaks George Bundy, before he left the White House to in behalf of higher education), agrees. "Our history head the Ford Foundation, said flatly: "American attests to the vital role which colleges and universities higher education is more and not less free and strong have played in assuring the nation's security and because of Federal funds." Such funds, he argued, progress, and our present circumstances magnify actually have enhanced freedom by enlarging the rather than diminish the role," he says. "Since the iDpportunity of institutions to act; they are no more final responsibility for our collective security and tainted than are dollars from other sources; and the welfare can reside only in the Federal government,

vvay in which they are allocated is closer to academic a close partnership between government and higher

tradition than is the case with nearly all other major education is essential." sources of funds. The issue of Federal control notwithstanding,

, Federal support of higher education is taking its olace alongside military budgets and farm subsidies is one of the government's essential activities. All

evidence indicates that such is the public's will. -HE PARTNERSHIP indeed exists. As a re- Education has always had a special worth in this Tport of the American Society of Biological Chemists ;ountry, and each new generation sets the valuation has said, "the condition of mutual dependence be- ligher. In a recent Gallup Poll on national goals,

Americans listed education as having first priority. Governors, state legislators, and Congressmen, ever sensitive to voter attitudes, are finding that the im-

provement of education is not only a noble issue on Afhich to stand, but a winning one. The increased Federal interest and support reflect

DRAWINGS BY DILL COLE The haves and have-no^

concentration of funds. When the war ended, how-' ever, the lopsided distribution of Federal research

funds did not. In fact, it has continued right up tcj the present, with 29 institutions receiving more thai; 50 per cent of Federal research dollars. To the institutions on the receiving end, the situa'

tion seems natural and proper. They are, after all: the strongest and most productive research center in the nation. The government, they argue, has ai

obligation to spend the public's money where it wil, yield the highest return to the nation. tween the Federal government and institutions of The less-favored institutions recognize this ob higher learning and research is one of the most ligation, too. But they maintain that it is equall profound and significant developments of our time." important to the nation to develop new institution Directly and indirectly, the partnership has pro- of high quality — yet, without financial help fror duced enormous benefits. It has played a central Washington, the second- and third-rank institution role in this country's progress in science and tech- will remain just that. nology — and hence has contributed to our national In late 1965 PresidentJohnson, in a memorandur security, our high standard of living, the lengthen- to the heads of Federal departments and agencies scien ing life span, our world leadership. One analysis acknowledged the importance of maintaining credits to education 40 per cent of the nation's tific excellence in the institutions where it now exist! growth in economic productivity in recent years. But, he emphasized, Federal research funds shouli Despite such benefits, some thoughtful observers also be used to strengthen and develop new centei are concerned about the future development of the of excellence. Last year this "spread the wealth government-campus partnership. They are asking movement gained momentum, as a number c how the flood of Federal funds will alter the tradi- agencies stepped up their efforts to broaden tb tional missions of higher education, the time-honored distribution of research money. The Department c responsibility of the states, and the flow of private Defense, for example, one of the bigger purchaseii funds to the campuses. They wonder if the give and of research, designated $18 million for this academi take between equal partners can continue, when one year to help about 50 widely scattered institutior has the money and the other "only the brains." develop into high-grade research centers. But wit Problems already have arisen from the dynamic economies induced by the war in Vietnam, it and complex relationship between Washington and doubtful whether enough money will be availabl the academic world. How serious and complex such in the near future to end the controversy.

problems can become is illustrated by the current Eventually, Congress may have to act. In s controversy over the concentration of Federal re- doing, it is almost certain to displease, and perhaj search funds on relatively few campuses and in hurt, some institutions. To the pessimist, the situa

certain sections of the country. tion is a sign of troubled times ahead. To the oj The problem grew out of World War II, when the timist, it is the democratic process at work. government turned to the campuses for desperately needed scientific research. Since many of the best- known and most productive scientists were working in a dozen or so institutions in the Northeast and a few in the Midwest and California, more than half of the Federal research funds were spent there. .ECENT STUDENT DEMONSTR.^TIONS \\3.\1 R another problem to which the partne" (Most of the remaining money went to another 50 dramatized universities with research and graduate training.) ship between the government and the campus ha The wartime emergency obviously justified this contributed: the relative emphasis that is place mipete for limited funds

on research and on the teaching of undergraduates. Wisconsin's Representative Henry Reuss con- ducted a Congressional study of the situation. Sub- sequently he said: "University teaching has become

a sort of poor relation to research. I don't quarrel

with the goal of excellence in science, but it is pursued at the expense of another important goal —excellence

of teaching. Teaching suffers and is going to suffer more."

The problem is not limited to universities. It is having a pronounced effect on the smaller liberal arts colleges, the women's colleges, and the junior vate foundations, corporations, and endowment in- colleges — all of which have as their primary func- come. Scholars often built their equipment from in- tion the teaching of undergraduates. To offer a first- geniously adapted scraps and spare machine parts.

rate education, the colleges must attract and retain Graduate students considered it compensation a first-rate faculty, which in turn attracts good stu- enough just to be allowed to participate. dents and financial support. But undergraduate col- Some three decades and $125 billion later, there

leges can rarely compete with Federally supported is hardly an academic scientist who does not feel universities in faculty salaries, fellowship awards, re- pressure to get government funds. The chairman of search opportunities, and plant and equipment. The one leading biology department admits that "if a president of one of the best undergraduate colleges young scholar doesn't ha\e a grant when he comes says: "When we do get a young scholar who skill- here, he had better get one within a year or so or fully combines research and teaching abilities, the he's out; we have no funds to support his research." universities lure him from us with the promise of a Considering the large amounts of money available liigh salary, light teaching duties, frequent leaves, for research and graduate training, and recognizing

and almost anything else he may want." that the publication of research findings is still the

Leland Haworth, whose National Science Founda- primary criterion for academic promotion, it is not tion distributes more than $300 million annually surprising that the faculties of most universities spend for research activities and graduate programs on the a substantial part of their energies in those activities.

campuses, disagrees. "I hold little or no brief," he Federal agencies are looking for ways to ease the says, "for the allegation that Federal support of re- problem. The National Science Foundation, for ex- search has detracted seriously from undergraduate ample, has set up a new program which will make

teaching. I dispute the contention heard in some grants to undergraduate colleges for the improve- quarters that certain of our major universities have ment of science instruction. become giant research factories concentrating on More help will surely be forthcoming. Federally sponsored research projects to the detri- ment of their educational functions." Most univer- sity scholars would probably support Mr. Haworth's contention that teachers who conduct research are generally better teachers, and that the research en- terprise has infused science education with new sub- .HE FACT that Federal funds have been stance and vitality. concentratedT in the sciences has also had a pro- To get perspective on the problem, compare uni- nounced effect on colleges and universities. In many

versity research today with what it was before institutions, faculty members in the natural sciences World War II. A prominent physicist calls the pre- earn more than faculty members in the humanities war days "a horse-and-buggy period." In 1930, col- and social sciences; they have better facilities, more ^ leges and universities spent less than $20 million on frequent leaves, and generally more influence on the 1 scientific research, and that came largely from pri- campus. I — .

The government's support of science can also research disrupt the academic balance and internal priorities The affluence of of a college or university. One president explained: "Our highest-priority construction project was a the social sciences, which have been receiving some $3 million building for our humanities departments. Federal support, are destined to get considerably Under the Higher Education Facilities Act, we could more in the next few years. expect to get a third of this from the Federal govern- ment. This would leave $2 million for us to get from private sources. "But then, under a new government program, the biology and psychology faculty decided to apply to the National Institutes of Health for SI. 5 million EIfforts to cope with such difficult prob- for new faculty members over a period of five years. lems must begin with an understanding of the nature_ These additional faculty people, however, made it and background of the government-campus partner-^ necessary for us to go ahead immediately with our ship. But this presents a problem in itself, for one enr plans for a $4 million science building — so we gave counters a welter of conflicting statistics, contradic- it the No. 1 priority and moved the humanities tory information, and wide differences of honest building down the list. opinion. The task is further complicated by the "We could finance half the science building's cost swiftness with which the situation continually with Federal funds. In addition, the scientists pointed changes. And— the ultimate complication — there is' out, they could get several training grants which almost no uniformity or coordination in the Federal!- would provide stipends to graduate students and government's numerous programs affecting higher tuition to our institution. education. "You see what this meant? Both needs were valid Each of the 50 or so agencies dispensing Federal — those of the humanities and those of the sciences. funds to the colleges and universities is responsible For $2 million of private money, I could either for its own program, and no single Federal agency build a $3 million humanities building or I could supervises the entire enterprise. (The creation of the build a $4 million science building, get $1.5 million Office of Science and Technology in 1 962 represented for additional faculty, and pick up a few hundred an attempt to cope with the multiplicity of relation- thousand dollars in training grants. Either-or; not ships. But so far there has been little significant im-: both." provement.) Even within the two houses of Congress,

The president could have added that if the scien- responsibility for the government's expenditures on tists had been denied the privilege of applying to the campuses is scattered among several committees.^ NIH, they might well have gone to another institu- Not only does the lack of a coordinated Federal tion, taking their research grants with them. On the program make it difficult to find a clear definition other hand, under the conditions of the academic of the government's role in higher education, but it marketplace, it was unlikely that the humanities also creates a number of problems both in Washing- scholars would be able to exercise a similar mobihty. ton and on the campuses. The case also illustrates why academic adminis- The Bureau of the Budget, for example, has had to trators sometimes complain that Federal support of an individual faculty member's research projects casts their institution in the ineffectual role of a lesral middleman, prompting the faculty member to feel a greater loyalty to a Federal agency than to the college or university. Congress has moved to lessen the disparity be- tween support of the humanities and social sciences on the one hand and support of the physical and biological sciences on the other. It established the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities a move which, despite a pitifully small first-year al- location of funds, offers some encouragement. And close observers of the Washington scene predict that I siren song to teachers

wrestle with several uncoordinated, duplicative Fed- eral science budgets and with different accounting systems. Congress, faced with the almost impossible task of keeping informed about the esoteric world

of science in order to legislate intelligently, finds it difficult to control and direct the fast-growing Fed- eral investment in higher education. And the in- dividual government agencies are forced to make policy decisions and to respond to political and other pressures without adequate or consistent guidelines from above. The colleges and universities, on the other hand, must negotiate the maze of Federal bureaus with

consummate skill if they are to get their share of the Federal largesse. If they succeed, they must then cope with mountains of paperwork, disparate sys- tems of accounting, and volumes of regulations that

I differ from agency to agency. Considering the mag- nitude of the financial rewards at stake, the institu- tions have had no choice but to enlarge their ad- ministrative staffs accordingly, adding people who can handle the business problems, wrestle with paperwork, manage grants and contracts, and un- tangle legal snarls. College and university presidents are constantly looking for competent academic ad- ministrators to prowl the Federal agencies in search of programs and opportunities in which their institu- tions can profitably participate. The latter group of people, whom the press calls "university lobbyists," has been growing in number. At least a dozen institutions now have full-time representatives working in Washington. Many more have members of their administrative and academic

f; staffs shuttling to and from the capital to negotiate Federal grants and contracts, cultivate agency per- sonnel, and try to influence legislation. Still other institutions have enlisted the aid of qualified alumni or trustees who happen to live in Washington.

.HE LACK of a uniform Federal policy pre- vents the clear statement of national goals that might give direction to the government's investments in higher education. This takes a toll in effectiveness and consistency and tends to produce contradictions and conflicts. The teaching-versus-research contro-

versy is one example. Fund-raisers prowl the Washington maze

Last sum- President Johnson provided another. really get- mer, he pubUcly asked if the country is support of scientific ting its money's worth from its have come research. He implied that the time may of the nation, to apply more widely, for the benefit medical re- the knowledge that Federally sponsored of ap- search had produced in recent years. A wave prehension spread through the medical schools when inference the President's remarks were reported. The supporting to be drawn was that the Federal funds urging of the elaborate research effort, built at the actual the government, might now be diverted to medical care and treatment. Later the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, John W. Gardner, tried to lay a calming hand on the medical scien- reaffirmation tists' fevered brows by making a strong of the National Institutes of Health's commitment to basic research. But the apprehensiveness remains. Other events suggest that the 25-year honeymoon of science and the government may be ending. Con- necticut's Congressman Emilio Q. Daddario, a man

who is not intimidated by the mystique of modern science, has stepped up his campaign to have a greater part of the National Science Foundation budget spent on applied research. And, despite pleas from scientists and NSF administrators, Congress terminated the cosUy Mohole project, which was designed to gain more fundamental information about the internal structure of the earth. Some observers feel that because it permits and often causes such conflicts, the diversity in the gov- ernment's support of higher education is a basic flaw in the partnership. Others, however, believe

this diversity, despite its disadvantages, guarantees a margin of independence to colleges and univer-

sities that would be jeopardized in a monolithic "super-bureau." Good or bad, the diversity was probably essential to the development of the partnership between Wash- ington and the academic world. Charles Kidd, ex- ecutive secretary of the Federal Council for Science

and Technology, puts it bluntly when he points out that the system's pluralism has allowed us to avoid dealing "directly with the ideological problem of what the total relationship of the government and universities should be. If we had had to face these ideological and political pressures head-on over the past few years, the confrontation probably would have wrecked the system." That confrontation may be coming closer, as Fed- eral allocations to science and education come under sharper scrutiny in Congress and as the partnership enters a new and significant phase.

F.EDERAL AID to higher education began with the Ordinance of 1787, which set aside public lands for schools and declared that the "means of educa- tion shall forever be encouraged." But the two forces that most shaped American higher education, say many historians, were the land-grant movement of the nineteenth century and the Federal support of scientific research that began in World War II. The land-grant legislation and related acts of Congress in subsequent years established the Ameri- can concept of enlisting the resources of higher edu- cation to meet pressing national needs. The laws were pragmatic and were designed to improve edu- cation and research in the natural sciences, from %shich agricultural and industrial expansion could proceed. From these laws has evolved the world's greatest system of public higher education. In this century the Federal involvement grew spasmodically during such periods of crisis as World

\Var I and the depression of the thirties. But it was not until World War II that the relationship began

its rapid evolution into the dynamic and intimate partnership that now exists. Federal agencies and industrial laboratories were ill-prepared in 1940 to supply the research and technology so essential to a full-scale war eff"ort. The government therefore turned to the nation's colleges and universities. Federal funds supported scientific research on the campuses and built huge research facilities to be operated by universities under contract, such as Chicago's Argonne Labora- tory and California's laboratory in Los Alamos. So successful was the new relationship that it continued to flourish after the war. Federal re- search funds poured onto the campuses from military agencies, the National Institutes of Health, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Science Foundation. The amounts of money in- creased spectacularly. At the beginning of the war the Federal government spent less than S200 million a year for all research and development. By 1950, the Federal "r & d" expenditure totaled $1 billion. The Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik jolted :

Even those campuses which traditionally stand apa from government Jind it hard to resist Federal aid.

the nation and brought a dramatic surge in suppo of scientific research. President Eisenhower name

Janies R. KilUan, Jr., president of Massachusetts I:

stitute of Technology, to be Special Assistant to tl President for Science and Technology. The Nation. Aeronautics and Space Administration was estal

lished, and the National Defense Education Act i 1958 was passed. Federal spending for scientific n search and development increased to $5.8 billioi Of this, $400 million went to colleges and univers

ties.

The 1960's brought a new dimension to the rel; tionship between the Federal government and high( education. Until then, Federal aid was almost syi onymous with government support of science, an

all Federal dollars allocated to campuses were i meet specific national needs. There were two important exceptions: the GI Bi after World War II, which crowded the colleges an universities with returning servicemen and spent $1 billion on educational benefits, and the National Di fense Education Act, which was the broadest legi

lation of its kind and the first to be based, at lea

in part, on the premise that support of education i

self is as much in the national interest as suppo! '

which is based on the colleges' contributions to somr thing as specific as the national defense.

The crucial turning-points were reached in t\ i

Kennedy-Johnson years. President Kennedy saic "We pledge ourselves to seek a system of higher edi

( ition where every young American can be edu- Federal government and higher education has en- ited, not according to his race or his means, but tered a new phase. The question of the Federal gov- xording to his capacity. Never in the hfe of this ernment's total relationship to colleges and univer- )untry has the pursuit of that goal become more sities — avoided for so many years —has still not been iportant or more urgent." Here was a clear na- squarely faced. But a confrontation may be just

Dnal commitment to universal higher education, a around the comer. ' ablic acknowledgment that higher education is orthy of support for its own sake. The Kennedy id Johnson administrations produced legislation hich authorized: $1.5 billion in matching funds for new con- ruction on the nation's campuses. -HE MAJOR PITFALL, around which Presi- $151 million for local communities for the build- dentsTand Congressmen have detoured, is the issue g of junior colleges. of the separation of state and church. The Constitu- $432 million for new medical and dental schools tion of the United States says nothing about the Fed- id for aid to their students. eral government's responsibility for education. So

The first large-scale Federal program of under- the rationale for Federal involvement, up to now,

•aduate scholarships, and the first Federal package has been the Constitution's Article I, which grants )mbining them with loans and jobs to help indi- Congress the power to spend tax money for the com- dual students. mon defense and the general welfare of the nation.

Grants to strengthen college and university li- So long as Federal support of education was spe- raries. cific in nature and linked to the national defense, Significant amounts of Federal money for the religious issue could be skirted. But as the em-

Dromising institutions," in an effort to lift the entire phasis moved to providing for the national welfare, stem of higher education. the legal grounds became less firm, for the First

The first significant support of the humanities. Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, "Con- In addition, dozens of "Great Society" bills in- gress shall make no law respecting an establishment uded funds for colleges and universities. And their of religion. ..." jmber is likely to increase in the years ahead. So far, for practical and obvious reasons, neither The full significance of the developments of the the President nor Congress has met the problem 1st few years will probably not be known for some head-on. But the battle has been joined, anyway. me. But it is clear that the partnership between the Some cases challenging grants to church-related col- i new phase in government-campus relatioiiships ).;

Is higher education losing control of its destiny

leges are now in the courts. And Congress is being tions to higher education, the question of respons pressed to pass legislation that would permit a cit- bility is less clear. izen to challenge, in the Federal courts, the Con- The great growth in quality and Ph.D. productic gressional acts relating to higher education. of many state universities, for instance, is undoubted Meanwhile, America's 893 church-related colleges due in large measure to Federal support. Feder, are eligible for funds under most Federal programs dollars pay for most of the scientific research in sta supporting higher education, and nearly all have universities, make possible higher salaries which a received such funds. Most of these institutions would tract outstanding scholars, contribute substantial applaud a decision permitting the support to con- to new buildings, and provide large amounts tinue. student aid. Clark Kerr speaks of the "Feder. Some, however, would not. The Southern Baptists grant university," and the University of Califom, and the Seventh Day Adventists, for instance, have (which he used to head) is an apt example: near- opposed Federal aid to the colleges and universities half of its total income comes from Washington. related to their denominations. Furman University, To most governors and state legislators, the Fed- for example, under pressure from the South Carolina eral grants are a mixed blessing. Although they ha

Baptist convention, returned a $612,000 Federal helped raise the quality and capabilities of state i- grant that it had applied for and received. Many stitutions, the grants have also raised the pressure u colleges are awaiting the report of a Southern Bap- state governments to increase their appropriatio; tist study group, due this summer. for higher education, if for no other reason than > Such institutions face an agonizing dilemma: fulfill the matching requirement of many Fedei.l stand fast on the principle of separation of church awards. But even funds which are not channel I and state and take the financial consequences, or through the state agencies and do not require t; join the majority of colleges and universities and state to provide matching funds can give impetus risk Federal influence. Said one delegate to the increased appropriations for higher education. Fe-

Southern Baptist Convention: "Those who say we're eral research grants to individual scholars, for c- going to become second-rate schools unless we take ample, may make it necessary for the state to pi-r

Federal funds see clearly. I'm beginning to see it so vide more faculty members to get the teaching dor clearly it's almost a nightmarish thing. I've moved toward Federal aid reluctantly; I don't like it." Some colleges and universities, while refusing Federal aid in principle, permit some exceptions.

VVheaton College, in Illinois, is a hold-out; but it allows some of its professors to accept National Science Foundation research grants. So does Rock- ford College, in Illinois. Others shun government money, but let their students accept Federal schol- arships and loans. The president of one small church- related college, faced with acute financial problems, says simply; "The basic issue for us is survival."

-ECENT FEDERAL PROGRAMS have sharp- enedRconflict the between Washington and the states in fixing the responsibility for education. Traditionally and constitutionally, the responsibility ''Many institutions not only do not look a gift ha has generally been witii the states. But as Federal in the mouth; they do not even pause to note whet support has equaled and surpassed the state alloca- it is a horse or a boa constrictor." —^John GARDt Last year, 38 states and territories joined the about the impact of the Federal involvement in

I Compact for Education, an interstate organization higher education. designed to provide "close and continuing consulta- The more pessimistic observers fear direct Federal tion among our several states on all matters of educa- control of higher education. With the loyalty-oath tion." The operating arm of the Compact will gather conflict in mind, they see peril in the requirement information, conduct research, seek to improve that Federally supported colleges and universities standards, propose policies, "and do such things as demonstrate compliance with civil rights legislation may be necessary or incidental to the administra- or lose their Federal support. They express alarm tion of its authority. ..." at recent agency anti-conflict-of-interest proposals Although not spelled out in the formal language that would require scholars who receive government of the document, the Compact is clearly intended support to account for all of their other activities. to enable the states to present a united front on the For most who are concerned, however, the fear is future of Federal aid to education. not so much of direct Federal control as of Federal influence on the conduct of Ainerican higher educa-

tion. Their worry is not that the government will deliberately restrict the freedom of the scholar, or directly change an institution of higher learning. Rather, they are afraid the scholar may be tempted I N TYPICALLY PRAGM.-\Tic FASHION, wc Ameri- to confine his studies to areas where Federal support cans want our colleges and universities to serve the is known to be available, and that institutions will public interest. We expect them to train enough be unable to resist the lure of Federal dollars. doctors, lawyers, and engineers. We expect them to Before he became Secretary of Health, Education, provide answers to immediate problems such as and Welfare, John W. Gardner said: "When a gov- water and air pollution, urban blight, national ernment agency with money to spend approaches a defense, and disease. As we have done so often in university, it can usually purchase almost any serv- the past, we expect the Federal government to build ice it wants. And many institutions still follow the i creative and democratic system that will accom- old practice of looking on funds so received as gifts. plish these things. They not only do not look a gift horse in the mouth;

A faculty planning committee at one university they do not even pause to note whether it is a horse itated in its report: "... A university is now re- or a boa constrictor." garded as a symbol for our age, the crucible in which —by some mysterious alchemy — man's long-awaited Utopia will at last be forged." Some think the Federal role in higher education

s growing too rapidly. As early as 1952, the Association of American Uni- -HE GREATEST OBSTACLE tO the SUCCCSS of the

versities' commission on financing higher education Tgovernment-campus partnership may lie in the fact /vamed: "We as a nation should call a halt at this that the partners have different objectives. ime to the introduction of new programs of direct The Federal government's support of higher federal aid to colleges and universities. . . . Higher education has been essentially pragmatic. The Fed-

:ducation at least needs time to digest what it has eral agencies have a mission to fulfill. To the degree ilready undertaken and to evaluate the full impact that the colleges and universities can help to fulfill )f what it is already doing under Federal assistance." that mission, the agencies provide support. rhe recommendation went unheeded. The Atomic Energy Commission, for example, A year or so ago. Representative Edith Green of supports research and related activities in nuclear 3regon, an active architect of major education legis- physics; the National Institutes of Health provide ation, echoed this sentiment. The time has come, funds for medical research; the Agency for Interna- he said, "to stop, look, and listen," to evaluate the tional Development finances overseas programs. mpact of Congressional action on the educational Even recent programs which tend to recognize higher ystem. It seems safe to predict that Mrs. Green's education as a national resource in itself are basi- vaming, like that of the university presidents, will cally presented as efforts to cope with pressing- ail to halt the growth of Federal spending on the national problems. ampus. But the note of caution she sounds will be The Higher Education Facilities Act, for instance, veil-taken by many who are increasingly concerned provides matching funds for the construction of )

academic buildings. But the awards under this pro- gram are made on the basis of projected increases in enrollment. In the award of National Defense Graduate Fellowships to institutions, enrollment ex- pansion and the initiation of new graduate programs are the main criteria. Under new programs affecting medical and dental schools, much of the Federal money is intended to increase the number of practi- tioners. Even the National Humanities Endowment, , which is the government's attempt to rectify an academic imbalance aggravated by massive Federal support for the sciences, is curiously and pragmati- cally oriented to fulfill a specific mission, rather than to support the humanities generally because they are £ worthy in themselves.

Who can dispute the validity of such objectives.^ Surely not the institutions of higher learning, for they recognize an obligation to serve society by pro- viding trained manpower and by conducting applied research. But colleges and universities have other traditional missions of at least equal importance. Basic research, though it may have no apparent relevance to society's immediate needs, is a primary (and almost exclusive) function of universities. It needs no other justification than the scholar's curi- osity. The department of classics is as important in the college as is the department of physics, even though it does not contribute to the national de- fense. And enrollment expansion is neither an in- herent virtue nor a universal goal in higher educa- tion; in fact, some institutions can better fulfill their objectives by remaining relatively small and selec- tive. '

Colleges and universities believe, for the most

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lit, that they themselves are the best judges of sities, because only there could the scholar find the hat they ought to do, where they would like to go, freedom and support that were essential to his quest.

I lid what their internal academic priorities are. For If the growing demand for applied research is met is reason the National Association of State Uni- at the expense of basic research, future generations rsities and Land-Grant Colleges has advocated may pay the penalty. jat the government increase its institutional (rather One could argue —and many do — that colleges individual project) support in higher ; an education, and universities do not have to accept Federal funds. us permitting colleges and universities a reasonable But, to most of the nation's colleges and universities, titude in using Federal funds. the rejection of Federal support is an unacceptable

Congress, however, considers that it can best alternative.

I termine what the nation's needs are, and how the For those institutions already dependent upon ixpayer's money ought to be spent. Since there is Federal dollars, it is too late to turn back. Their ver enough money to do everything that cries to physical plant, ; their programs, their personnel '.done, the choice between allocating Federal funds are all geared to continuing Federal aid.

'r cancer research or for classics is not a very diffi- And for those institutions which have received

It one for the nation's political leaders to make. only token help from Washington, Federal dollars "The fact is," says one professor, "that we are offer the one real hope of meeting the educational dng to merge two entirely different systems. The objectives they have set for themselves.

I vernment is the political engine of our democ- cy and must be responsive to the wishes of the ople. But scholarship is not very ; democratic. You

I n't vote on the laws of thermodynamics or take a

11 on the speed of light. ] Academic freedom and nure are not prizes in a popularity contest." . OWEVER DISTASTEFUL the thought may Some observers feel that such a merger cannqtbe beHto those who oppose further Federal involvement i complished without causing fundamentalchag^^ in higher education, the fact is that there is no other

? colleges and universities. They point to^^BBn^ •getting the job done — to train the growing ;ademic imbalances, the teaching-versus-re^arcfi ir of students, to conduct the basic research tntroversy, the changing roles of both professor necessary to continued scientific progress, and to

. d student, the growing commitment of colleges cope with society's most pressing problems.

: d universities to applied research. They fear that Tuition, private contributions, and state alloca-

3 influx of Federal funds into higher education tions together fall far short of meeting the total cost Tl so transform colleges and universities that the of American higher education. And as costs rise, the

'ry qualities that made the partnership desirable gap is likely to widen. Tuition has finally passed the sd productive in the first place will be lost. $2,000 mark in several private colleges and univer-

The great technological achievements of the past sities, and it is rising even in the publicly supported years, for example, would have been impossible institutions. State governments have increased their

' thout the basic scientific research that preceded appropriations for higher education dramatically,

?m. This research —much of it seemingly irrele- but there are scores of other urgent needs competing

' nt to society's needs —was conducted in univer- for state funds. Gifts from private foundations, cor- 5

porations, and alumni continue to rise steadily, but evolution of the partnership. The degree of thei the increases are not keeping pace with rising costs. understanding and support will be reflected in futun Hence the continuation and probably the enlarge- legislation. And, along with private foundations anc ment of the partnership between the Federal gov- corporations, alumni and other friends of highe ernment and higher education appears to be in- education bear a special responsibility for providinj evitable. The real task facing the nation is to make colleges and universities with financial support. Thi it work. growing role of the Federal government, says thi To that end, colleges and universities may have to president of a major oil company, makes corporat become more deeply involved in politics. They will contributions to higher education more importan have to determine, more clearly than ever before, than ever before; he feels that private support en just what their objectives are— and what their values ables colleges and universities to maintain academi are. And they will have to communicate these most balance and to preserve their freedom and indepen effectively to their alumni, their political representa- dence. The president of a university agrees: "It i tives, the corporate community, the foundations, essential that the critical core of our colleges am and the public at large. universities be financed with non-Federal funds

If the partnership is to succeed, the Federal gov- "What is going on here," says McGeorge Bund> ernment will have to do more than provide funds. "is a great adventure in the purpose and perform Elected officials and administrators face the awesome ance of a free people." The partnership betwee: task of formulating overall educational and research higher education and the Federal government, h goals, to give direction to the programs of Federal believes, is an experiment in American democracy support. They must make more of an effort to under- Essentially, it is an effort to combine the force stand what makes colleges and universities tick, and of our educational and political systems for the corr to accommodate individual institutional differences. mon good. And the partnership is distinctly Amer' can — boldly built step by step in full public viev inspired by visionaries, tested and tempered b honest skeptics, forged out of practical politicj compromise.

Does it involve risks? Of course it does. But wha

-HE TAXPAYiNG PUBLIC, and particularly great adventure does not? Is it not by risk-takin Talumni and alumnae, will play a crucial role in the that free and intelligent people progress? — —

The report on this and the preceding 1 Naturally, in a report of such length and pages is the product of a cooperative en- scope, not all statements necessarily reflect deavor in which scores of schools, colleges, the views of all the persons involved, or of and universities are taking part. It was pre- their institutions. Copyright © 1967 by Edi- pared under the direction of the group listed torial Projects for Education, Inc. All rights below, who form editorial projects for reserved; no part may be reproduced without EDUCATION, a non-profit organization associ- the express permission of the editors. Printed ated with the American Alumni Council. in U.S.A.

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^'1 A SPECIAL REPORT TO THE ALUMNI

President Robert R. Martin Alumni Day, May 27,1967

YEAR OF THE UNIVERSITY

rhank you so \ery much for the welcome you have in the history of this Commonwealth has developed its given me and for the opportunity to meet with physical plant more rapidly, more completely, or in a

such a distinguished group. I have had a wonder- more attractive way than has been accomplished here

il time this evening as I have sat by Mrs. (Jennie Jef- at Eastern.

rslAshby and Mrs. (Alma Rice) Bascomb at the That story is not complete. We could take time to Deakers table. Realizing that these two ladies entered tell you about the Moore Building to expand our science

lis institution in January. 1907 with the first class here facilities, the planned fine arts building to expand our nd to know that they are now attending their si.\tieth offerings in these areas, the Burrier Building to house

:union on this campus. 1 was taken back many years. 1 the home economics program, the additional classroom

.lought of all the wonderful people who ha\e been on building to give more in general classroom facilities, the

'lis campus and ha\e served this institution in such a physical education plant which will also serve as the onderful way. Men like President Roark, President football stadium, the agriculture complex, and the 'rabbe. President Coates — Mrs. Ashby told me how planned addition to the Student Union Building which

['resident Coates was her first teacher — and President is so badly needed for our student affairs. The two

)onovan and President O'Donnell are all symbolic of dormitory complexes which are now under way and

II the people who served this institution and of the will be completed in the next four to six years will pro-

'cople who have attended this college. I am extremely vide housing facilities for an additional five thousand Toud to be an alumnus of Eastern. students to bring our enrollment to 12,000 in 1972. We

I am not going to make a speech consisting of all this. could point with pride to the recently completed John am going to present something of a report to the Grant Crabbe Library, the addition to the Laboratory lumni concerning the program development that has School and the two new dormitories which have not yet

one on here at Eastern. I would like to speak for a few been occupied.

linutes to the point: "The Year of the University." This evening, however, 1 want to talk to you about

This is the year of the University. Eastern, like other programs. The basis of what I have to say has come

miversities of its type, founded as a normal school for from reports given me by the deans of the various col- he training of teachers, had developed through phases leges and activities here on the campus. Taking this

s a teachers" college, a multi-purpose state college and material directly from the reports of the deans, I would ad ultimately reached the status of a university. This report to you that these are some of the things which

tatus was evidenced by the broadness of its program, they believe are important in the development of our

he size and training of its faculty, the size and diversity program.

if the students who came here to study. The General Certainly, the strongest element in any institution is Assembly in 1966 recognized these things when our the faculty. We have seen our full-time faculty grow in .ame was changed to Eastern Kentucky University. two years from slighdy over 200 to more than 337 this On other occasions we have talked about the physical year, and we expect to have 400 next year. If we con- levelopment of the campus. This story has been an in- sider the entire staff, including the ROTC, the Model

eresting one because it is doubtful that any institution Laboratory School and the Library, then we had more

UMMER, 1967 41 a faculty member who serves part time as regional trairj fr There have been more things going on ing officer for Head Start. the Kentucky Art inside this institution than are seen from This year we have a contract for our own Kentucky String Quartet hal the outside appearance of the buildings. ^^ Commission, and given concerts in ten eastern Kentucky communitie;! This year we have had approximately 900 students en and these have been cor than 440 members on the staff last year and will have rolled in extension classes communities. Other federal program] more than 500 members on our staff come September. ducted in twenty made have been funded to the extent of $400,000: Upwar! How well is this staff trained? In 1965 when we training program, a program fc our report to the Southern Association of Colleges and Bound, our social-work orientation clinic Schools, we found that only 23 per cent held the earned corrections personnel, our job fc Kentuck' doctorate. Last year, however, when we made a second rural youth, vocational teachers training, Council, the la; report to them, we found there were 32 per cent — Peace Officers Standards and Training institutes i from 23 to 32 per cent in a period of two years. We enforcement course, and the in-service also found last year that we had an additional 13 or 14 mathematics and in earth science. per cent who had three years of graduate study but had We would then go to our graduate work. While w not received the doctorate. We now find that more than have strengthened our program in the matter of educ;

50 per cent of our people this next year will either hold tion, we began this year a master's degree program i the earned doctorate or will have completed at least history and English. This not only served to strengthe three years of graduate study. the education program in that it gave cognate courst; How well our program has gone can be best attested (gave other courses there supporting offerings), bv to by the self-studies and reports of the Southern As- we also found that there was a need in history an, sociation of Schools, of the National Council for the English, and we had more than sixty people workir, Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the National toward the master's degree in these two fields. Ne? Association of Schools for Music. We very soon expect year we plan to move to a master's program in biolog to ask for consideration by the American Chemical There have been some eighteen candidates who hav Society and also the Association of Collegiate Schools been enrolled there. Next year we also expect to offii of Business for those programs. the Master of Business Education. We have already af

You might be interested in knowing what is being proved a master's degree program in psychology fi

done in research. I want to say that although this is training of school and clinical psychologists and th basically a teaching institution, we have seen in the last will go into effect in the fall of 1968. This, significantli

two years an increase from about $10,000 in funded is a new department, but next year, the first year th-

projects by the institution to $20,000 this year. Next we have offered majors in it, we will have more thd year we expect to go to $25,000 to $30,000 in research 100 people who are majoring in the new Departme:

projects. These projects have been carried on by eleven of Psychology. Before this time it was part of the D' departments. partment of Education.

Our Director of Research is now doing studies which And then there's Central University College. The d

have to do with success of students, with the reasons velopment of the general education program is one '

why students chose Eastern, why they drop out of col- the real movements that we have on campus. It h;

leges, if they do. These studies are showing that there worked exceptionally well in social sciences. It has d

is an improvement in the quality of the freshman class veloped and will be developing next year experiment

to match the increase in quantity of numbers that come programs in the humanities. Next fall the freshmc to us. We have received during the last year two grants health course will be part of this program and, from the U. S. Office of Education totaling more than course, the freshman physical activities program , $50,000 for the training of educational researchers. physical education will be part of the Central Universi How well are we doing in continuing education? How College. A great deal of work has been done concernii well are we doing in getting our hand into the federal the freshman English sequence.

treasury, so to speak? We found under Title 1 of the We go now to the College of Arts and Sciences. V Higher Education Act that last year we had some have some four or five new departments there, phil $53,000 in projects. This year we have been approved sophy being new this current year, and we have sei for $32,000, and perhaps there will be others. This these developing. New programs that we expect summer we have institutes under the National Defense launch next year are the program in social work, in t'i Education Act for $173,000 of federal money. In a few Speech Department a program of speech correctio. days we expect to have 360 teachers here on the cam- audiology and in the Foreign Languages Departme pus working in the Head Start Program, and we have we are adding Greek to our curriculum. The Depai

42 THE EASTERN ALUMNU lents of Chemistry and Geology and Mathematics are course, are very proud of their placement program. The low engaged in extensive review of the curricula in point has been reached where any graduate with a rec- hese departments and are looking forward to significant ommendation from the College of Business has eight or ipgrading of those curricula. We find that next year, ten interviews and almost all of them have received

v'hile we have not recruited all the people that we ex- offers from three or four different companies.

lect to recruit, some forty-five new faculty members in Another point which should be made is the develop-

^rts and Sciences join us in the fall and twenty-two of ment of Education's research potential. We are the lead- he forty-five hold the doctoral degree. ing institution in the state, in my opinion, in the field of In the College of Applied Arts and Technology our reading. laculty has increased from eighteen to forty-six. We had It is this college which has done the first work in the years in which sixteen per cent held cooperative doctoral program with the University of I situation two ago accepted he earned doctorate and new thirty-four per cent hold Kentucky, We have two people who have been both by this institution and the University of Kentucky. he earned doctorate. We have new programs in the They will complete the sixth year here and go on for the Department of Agriculture. We are developing new seventh year to the University of Kentucky where they irograms in home economics, concentrating on the will receive the doctor's degree. This department is also raining of dieticians. In industrial education we are cooperating with the United Cerebral Palsy in the de- ;iving more attention to the training of vocational of a special program there. The Governor echnical teachers as well as those on the college level. velopment has set aside a grant for this program once it is de- nd the training of manual arts therapists. The new ex- veloped. anded program in industrial technology will serve both

:s a two-year terminal program and four-year program. Under this College now we have the Department of Ve have developed the new Kentucky School of Crafts Health, Physical Education, Athletics and Recreation,

;nd it is being developed on and off campus for begin- and we have seen new two- and four-year programs in ling and practicing craftsmen. the field of recreation, a new cooperative therapy pro-

The School of Law Enforcement has now received its gram in cooperation with the Veterans Administration, hird grant from the federal government, and that rep- and, of course, there are other programs coming along. esents more grants than any institution in the entire na- We have made a significant development in the Depart- ion has received. You can look forward to significant ment of Professional Laboratory Experiences in the pre- jlevelopment in this area. Next Monday (spring com- student-teaching laboratory experiences, and we are jnencement) we will give the two-year diploma to the now using off-campus situations more widely. We are

lirst fourteen nurses who have graduated from this in- sending our students, at greater expense to the institu- Ititution. The School of Nursing will be expanded. We tion, to be sure, more widely to more school districts bok forward to the continuation not only of the two- across the state. The Department of Library Science, a

I'ear program, but the development of the four-year new department, has grown considerably. In the fall of orogram. Certainly, one of the most significant develop- 1967 we will begin a major in library science.

nents in this college has been the development of the And then, of course, tiie Laboratory School 1 think

Traffic Safety Institute. We are looking forward very is one of the fine developments on our campus. They oon to the approval of a grant in excess of S200.000 have, as you may have read, become deeply involved in or the training of the people who are to do the auto- international education and have raised money to erect nobile inspection under the new highway safety pro- a new school building in Guatemala through the Peace -am in this state. Corps. This year the Nursery School was incorporated W'e have seen in the College of Business a develop- into the program of the Laboratory School, so there are nent there of the Bachelor of Business Administration programs from nursery school through the twelfth legree. We have seen the development of the business grade. ore with majors in accountancy, business education, This is a wonderful story to tell. We have heard many conomics, finance, management and marketing. We people talk about the facilities that have been built here lave also witnessed the faculty in the College of Busi- and we, too, have talked a great deal about them. But, (less to developing within the last year from twenty-two in my opinion, there have been more things going on ihirty-four and the qualifications have improved signifi- inside this institution than are seen from the outside cantly. In the school year 1964-65, we employed the appearance of the buildings of the LIniversity. The de- irst certified public accountant on our staff, and today velopment of staff, programs and the work that has ve have six CPA's. We have also employed an attorney been done by a conscientious, devoted faculty, have |o that the business law courses are taught an ex- by made this is a rich, rewarding experience for all of us. |)erienced attorney. The library holdings for the College

I Business is another significant development. They, of

S.UMMER. 1967 43 Daniel Boone:

A Symbol of Courage and Optimisn

Just over 192 years ago. Daniel Boone explored the students constandy aware of the courage and optimisi regions of Madison County and established Ken- he possessed. The principles he exemplified are an ir

tucky's second settlement at Boonesborough. The spiration to all our students." fortification, located on the banks of the Kentucky Dr. Thomas E. Clark, a noted historian and educa

River just 12 miles from Richmond, formed the first or. Claude Harris, an administrative assistant to U. government in the territory that would later become the Representative William O. Cowger. and Joe Creasoi Commonwealth of Kentucky. A statue honoring this an authority on Boone, took part in the dedication pn

man. Kentucky's founding father, was unveiled May 3 gram. "We should look upon Boone as a symbol i on the Student Plaza in front of the Keen Johnson Stu- courage, optimism and belief in this land," said Clar dent Union Building. "He was a man of common sense." Eastern's statue "This area has been known as Boone country for a replica of the original owned by the City of Louisvil years." said President Martin. "We wanted to pay and located at the entrance of Cherokee Park. * proper respect to this great frontiersman and make our

44 THE EASTERN ALUMNL ~^rom the courtroom, it looked like the last act of a Perry Mason television script. "i Ed Hill -The Judge black-robed judge pounded his gavel and asked the ry if they had reached a verdict. They acknowledged in BY DAVID E. CAWOOD e affirmative, and a hush swept over the audience with e reading. He pounded his gavel again, adjourned the lurt and returned to his chambers to end another episode, it this drama was only visible to the untrained eye. The gal proceedings in Judge Ed Hill's court are possibly the '35 C/ass President est respected in Kentucky. "He runs a good, orderly court," said Harlan Mayor Honored By iram Brock. "And he runs it with as much dignity and ficiency as any court I have ever been in." Hill's admira- Kentucky Lawmakers m from his peers on the statewide level became evident rlier this year. The Eastern graduate (B.S. — Commerce -'35) was selected the outstanding jurist in the state by e Kentucky Bar Association.

JMMER,1967 45 fie came to Eastern with $25 Judge Ed Hill and when he left, the school owed him $15

image was revealed in his first charge to the jury. "I hav had certain monikers and labels about me — a tough judge,

a modern judge and Wyatt Earp. 1 hope you will find I am a kind person, but I do insist on doing what 1 am sup posed to do under the law. and 1 hope the community wil accept me in that light." The jury eventually assessed the Newport city official fines totaling $80,000. But like an athletic coach. Hill is quick to give the credi for his success to his players, the jury. "We have a goon court because of the high caliber of jurors," he said. "The;! are fine, outstanding citizens with much responsibility! Visiting lawyers serve as emissaries." said Hill. "They sa;'

the court is ver\' impartial and have no hesitance to pre' sent a case here,"

Oldtimers in the coimty insist Hill's determination tc

have good jurors is a result of jury tampering, allegedly ij onetime common practice in the county. "In the old days the right people could always get you clear," said a Harlaij

"The main job of any judge is to see that people get a fair trial. He miner on the May jury outside the courtroom. "That's nc stiould be student a of the law — a man who disregards personalities the case anymore. He tells the jury to inform him whei and pressures." someone approaches them about a case. People know the; can't afford to mess with the jury because he will take cari| of them. He doesn't care who they are or what their joK "Our coiinrooni procedures follow those set li\ the I'ed- is. he treats everyone the same." cr;il courts." Hill said. "It provides for a bulton-up — court Circuit Court jurors are chosen by a three-man jury com one with decorum, order and dignity. It is especially im- mission selected by Hill. They are instructed to place thi portant for the \'oung lawyers." he said. "If they aren't names of 2.000 "respected, law-abiding citizens" from th' familiar with federal procedures. lhe\'ll be in an awesome tax or election rolls in the jury wheel. position when they have to present a case in federal court. "The selection of the commission is the key," said Brocki It"s actually the most streamlined and efficient system." "He has real fine jury commissioners. He doesn't tampe| F.dward G. Hill became the Circuit Judge o\ Harlan with his commission, and they make a good, impartial jurol County in 1954 via appointment. Judge Bert T. Combs list. His jurors do a good job because they know what ii resigned his appellate judgeship to enter the gubernatorial going on," the Mayor said. "He is very patient with theni race and Hill's predecessor. .Asior Hogg, was appointed to and goes out of his way to explain procedures. This is veri the vacancy in the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Smce that helpful to the jurors," lime. j Hill has been elected to the top judicial position in Another reason for the high quality jury is the fear o the 26lh district unopposed. And in each race, he has re- a "Hill lecture on citizenship," "People don't ask to be ex ceived the unanimous endorsement of the county's lawyers. cused "We ha\e trom jury duty anymore," said a courtroom observer an excellent bar in this comity." said Hill. "It can "If they do, they had better have a good excuse. He car compare favorably with an\ m the state. They have received make you feel like you are knee-high to a grasshopper witl excellent training from such schools as Harvard. one of his speeches." Louisville. Vanderbill. Kentucky. Virginia. Cincinnati. Ten- nessee and Florida." Before selecting a jury, Hdl will ask a complete list o Prior to pertinent questions that vary with the situation. For in the Hill era, the Southeastern Kentucky county had stance, in his selection earned national notoriety as "Bloodv Harlan." The of jurors for the Northern Kentuck; infamous reputation vice and gambling proceedings, he said: "The law require; was based on a high murder rate cre- ated by personal the court to ask certain questions conflict on the locaTlevel and stnle be- to qualify a juror. Thir tween the United court intends to ask further Mine Workers labor imion and coal mm- questions, and if any jurors anj mg embarrassed, I operators. At apologize i one tune, the local circuit court had 62 in advance," separate murder cases appearing on a one-term docket. To- Mountain people, by their nature, usually resist change! day, the average is about two a vear, and "there hasn't But the "new-look" decorum in Harlan's court proceeding; been a labor death suiee I've been on the bench. have been welcomed with open arms, "Most of our peopio "Harlan County has improved are because its people in Anglo-Saxon stock," he said, "and being such, they like general, insist on peace and lormality." tranquility," said Hill. How- Formality is best characterized' by the cleanli ever. Hdl gained .statewide recognition in the Newport ness. appearance and opening and closing court procedures (Campbell County) vice and gambling conspiracy trial Courtroom dignity on the m the early sixties. He received much local level also has beer; pretrial publici'ty and achieved was by Hill. He was the first jurist in Eastern Keni called "ihe man who tamed Bloodv Harlan" by news- lucky to wear a rolie and insist on a coat and tie attire b} papermen across the country. His reaction to the pres his lawyers. "Everyone has respect for his court." said Dr' 46 THE EASTERN ALUMNU: of "25), a practicing physician with was appointed judge in 1954. . L. Cawood (Class "Before Judge Hill took Hill was president of the Harlan County Bar Association 1 years experience in the county. because for ten consecutive years and has been a Kentucky Bar le hench. the court did not receive proper respect judicial district. He has re- it took to get some- Commissioner for the eastern f informality and the amount of time ceived Radio WHLN's (Harlan) Distinguished Citizen ling done. Award, the Harlan Cotmty Cancer Award, is a past presi- "Nobody minds being a witness in his court." he said. dent of the teenage Babe Rtuh baseball program and has rhey know he's all business and won't waste time. He's served on the Appalachian Region Hospital's board of di- ;ry helpful to doctors because he doesn't make us sit in rectors. Hill is presently a member of Harlan's Fellowship 3urt all da\. When he's ready for us to testify, he calls us of Christian Athletes board of directors, teaches a youth t the office and then permits us to return as soon as we School class in the Harlan Christian Church and is ave completed our testimony." Sunday a member of the Harlan Planning and Development Com- Although he rules his cotirt with firmness. Hill finds mission. In addition to these activities, he shoots golf in me to help the yoimg lawyers when they are presenting a the low SO's. He is the father of three children, Burce ise. "He always takes time to advise >ou about proce- (Mrs. 'V. D. Florence), recently selected the outstanding ures," said Karl Forester, the youngest member of the matron in the Daughters of American Revolution organi- junty bar. "If \ou make a mistake, he'll let \ou know zation; Lane (Mrs. Tomnn Gentrv). whose husband pur- hat it is and how to correct it in his chambers and won't chased Kentucky Derby winner Kauwai King for Mike mbarrass you in public. He's a strict disciplinarian and Ford; and Logan, a prc-law student at the University of ontrols the lawyers." Forester said, "and he'll listen to me Kentucky. s diligently as he will one of the established lawyers." judicial philosophy is simple. "The main job of any Hill finds the teaching opportimity a satisfying experi- Hill's is that people get a fair trial." he said. "He nce. judge to see should be a student of law — a man who disregards per- "I like to work with the young lawyers." he said. "The> now their law but are sometimes green on application, sonalities and pressures." His philosophy of life also is simple. Although he could hrough them. I see myself when I began my practice." earn more money as a practicing lawyer, he believes. Hill has overcome many obstacles on his road to suc- much "I c;m do a better service for the community as judge." ess. The son of a coal miner, he was born in Edgewood his willingness to serve his profession, community, Bell County). Kentucky, and attended six different ele- And state has made him a credit to the field of lentary schools. He went to Harlan High School for three county and law. Harlan Coimty and Kentucky, ears and graduated from Pineville High School. One of Harlan. ve children, he learned the meaning of work at an early

,ge. When he was 16, he grabbed a chance for summer imployment in the Coxton (Harlan County) mines as a lack helper. His wages for an eight-hour day were S3. 20. lO cents an hour. Judge Hill listens to a point of law trom (Class of '41) and Hiram Brock (Class "I worked in the mines every summer imtil I completed Jim I of '39), prominent members of the Harlan ollege." he said. "My peak performance was the summer County Bar Association. Hiram is the Mayor efore I entered I loaded at 50- Eastern. 25 one-ton cars of Harlan and Jim is a former Harlan Coun-

|;nts each and earned .Si 2.50. I averaged about S7. 50 a da\ ty Attorney. iiat summer." Hill arrived at Eastern in 1931 with a pair of corduroy ants, a sweatshirt, a Pet Cream box as a suitcase and $25 je had earned mining. "That box was so much a part of lie the students called me Pet for a long time." Hill said.

1 went to Eastern with $25. Four years later, when I got iiy degree, the college owed mc Si 5 for wages due." bakery, dormitories, ! Although he worked in the college

Itid pumped gas at a local filling station, Hill found time i) quarterback the football team, serve as president of the i^nior class and develop a lasting romance with his wife, >-athleen Welch, a Richmond native. His other campus i;tivities included track, basketball, orchestra, Sigma Tau

li. Upper Cumberland Club, "E" Club, Progress Staff and !:cretary of the Freshman Class.

' "He had less physical assets than anyone at Eastern," jiid Brock, a classmate. "As a matter of fact, he graduated learing my shoes. All of the seniors wore white shoes and

nee I was a junior, he borrowed mine." Upon graduation in 1935, he accepted an academic l:holarship to the University of Cincinnati Law School nd received his professional degree in 1937. With the exception of three years as a Navy Lieutenant j

[i World War IL he has practiced law in Harlan. He be- \ in a private practice in 1937 and later formed a partner- tip with James Sampson which remained solvent until he

47 ^IMMER, 1967 Greater Love Hath No Man

"Greater love hath no man than this: That a man lay down his hfe for his friends." John 15:13

Thus may \vc rcmoinbcr Captain Paul Edwin Van awarded posthumously this country's third highest hor Hoosc. of Paintsviilc. Class of 1963. who was killed or. The Silver Star, for gallantry in action.

in combat operations in Viet Nam Friday, February 24, Born January 2. 1940, he was the son of Mr. an

1967. Mrs. Claude Van Hoose of Stanbaugh. A graduate c Paul had served as deputy subsector advisor in Di Paintsville High School, Paul entered Eastern in 195i

Linh Subsector for only one month prior to his death. While in college, he participated in intercollegiate con' He was killed when two battalions of Viet Cong am- petition. He received the bachelor of science degree i bushed his near the subsector. company Paul was January. 196.3, in elementary education. Active in th struck by gunfire in the legs and chest. Following Pershing Rifles and Reserve Officers' Training Corp: the first engagement with the enemy force, his unit was Paul was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in th forced to temporarily withdraw and then again attack United States Army following graduation. before eliminating the Viet Cong. During the second Paul married the former Glenda Raye Holebrook. ( attack, Paul's body was recovered. However, the Viet Fallsburg. Ky. They had one child, Paul Edwin, Jr. A( Cong had taken his personal effects — including his cording to Eastern's Military Science officials. Paul uedding ring — during the withdrawal. the first Eastern ROTC graduate to be killed in actio Maj. Gen. Kenneth G. Wiekham announced April 12 in Viet Nam. to the Van Hoose family that the captain had been

48 THE EASTERN ALUMNL IrHE EASTERN CHRONICLE

A precis of nev^s about Sastern and its Alumni

Campus News Report Classnotes Alumni Report Sportscope Letters

'Whither America. ' Senator Mc6ee Asks '67 Grads

706 Receive Degrees From President Martin

U. S. Sen. Gale McGee challenged members of Eastern's 60th graduating class to carry on the perpetual change on which America was founded. Addressing some 5,000 persons attend- ing the commencement exercises, McGee called for a better understanding of the

world situation and its ultimate results. The Wyoming Democrat told the 706 degree recipients that this change "has

never been so fast as it is now. This speed requires considerable expenditure of worldly goods as well as blood. "What used to be called the Far East

is now right here at hand," he said. "And received the COMMENCEMENT — President Martin is shown Honorary Doctor of Sciences De- since you, members of the class of 1967, gree and U. S. Sen. Gale McGee of with Thomas McDonough, Sr., (left) chairman Wyoming, were born, man's knowledge has doubled. of the Division of Physical Education and Di- commencement speaker, who was presented The chaos of change is found in the fact rector of Athletics at Emory University, who the Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. that this is the first war (Viet Nam) that has been waged on the TV screen," he said. "Nightly we see blood spilled on Complex Proposed, $15,000 Grant the living room rug." "But," he emphasized, "we must not Awarded Law Enforcement School News Campus lose sight of the Big Picture. We must The Office of Law Enforcement Assist- forever ask whither America? What is ance, U. S. Department of Justice, has our future? How can there he hope?" approved a $15,000 grant for the School REPORT The 42-year-old senator answered by of Law Enforcement. The grant will be his challenge to face the continuing used fof training and development of ed- change in America and the world. Training Council, a traffic safety institu- ucational programs for corrections per- McGee was presented the Honorary tion and research center, a training acad- sonnel in Kentucky. Degree of Doctor of Laws by Eastern emy for municipal, state and county po- This marks the third grant received by President Robert R. Martin. Dr. Martin lice, a statewide crime commission and Eastern under the Law Enforcement As- also presented the Honorary Degree of an institute for the study and prevention sistance Act of 1965. The first one pro- Doctor of Science to Thomas Edwin Mc- vided of juvenile delinquency. support for the law enforcement Donough, Sr., chairman of the Division curriculum and the second was used to Eastern is the only university in Ken- of Physical Education and Director of establish the Kentucky Peace Officer's tucky which offers a baccalaureate degree Athletics at Emory University, Atlanta, Standards and Training Council. in law enforcement. Specialization is of- Ga. McDonough was director of phys- A proposed law enforcement and traf- fered in general law enforcement, juve- ical education at Eastern from 1928 to fic safety complex has also been planned nile delinquency, corrections or industrial 1942. for the School of Law Enforcement. It security. Eastern was the first university Ceremonies were halted momentarily is designed to cover some 40 acres in the in the nation to receive a grant under the to honor the 15,000th degree recipient in southwest corner of the campus and in- Law Enforcement Assistance Act and Eastern's history. He was Raymond Ellis volves virtually training in every phase conducts all of its law enforcement pro- Price, of Livermore, Ky., who received of law enforcement. Included in it will be grams, curriculum and federal grants, on the Bachelor of Science degree from the the School of Law Enforcement, the Ken- the main campus. College of Applied Arts and Technology. tucky Peace Officers Standards and

SUMMER, 1967 49 b ^M Ctk Moretz Stapelton Thurman Leach

grees from Florida State University and Five Departmental Chairmen fundamental number theory, sets, re the Ph.D. from the University of Wash- tions and functions, and algebraic s; ington. Three Administrative Heads terns as they are likely to affect the md ern math Named By President Martin programs in high schools. Dr. Bennie Student Attairs Committee R. Lane, Chairman of t President Martin has announced the Mathematics Department, said all hi Created By Regents school appointments of three administrative of- math teachers within commutit distance of the University should appi ficers and five departmental chairmen A Student Affairs Committee has been

for admission. i for the 67-68 school year. Two of the created by the Board of Regents to study The second grant is for $4,000, wij administrative positions became reahties in depth the area of relationship designed matching funds from the University, ' this summer. Bill Stapleton has assumed to provide belter insight regarding regu- purchase calculating machines for t duties as Bursar and Colonel Shirley lation of student activities by institutional department. It provides funds to Castle is serving as Eastern's first full- authority. purcha eight calculating machines that will time Personnel Director. In the other For the past several years, there has placed in a laboratory and used regulati administrative assignment. Dr. Elmo Mor- been a growing concern in the academic by students enrolled in the Statistics ar etz became Dean of the Graduate School. community concerning student rights. Numerical Analysis courses. He holds the B.S. and M.A. degrees from This area has to do with those rules and Appalachian State Teachers College policies of the institution which seek to (Boone, N. C.) and the Ed. D. from the regulate student behavior in their aca- 61 University of Miami. demic and social roles. Graduates Honored Three of the academic appointments Eastern has been no exception to this For Academic Distinction were chosen from the Eastern faculty. widespread concern. "As the University Sixty-one students graduated with ac Dr. Kelly Thurman is Chairman of the has increased in size and complexity, the deniic distinction at spring commenc Department of English, Leslie Leach is need for carefully considered regulations, ment exercises. Director of the Traffic Safety Institute policies and procedures has also in- Twenty-six students, who compiled ;l and Dr. Helen Reed is the Director of creased," said President Martin. "Care academic point standing of 3.6 for thn the Model Laboratory School. The new- must be exercised to insure that students years, or 3.8 for two years of stut comers are Dr. Ned L. Warren, Chair- are treated fairly and equitably in the (based on a 4.0 system), received man of the Department of Health and application of regulations and that this hif, distinction recognition. They were: Vi Physical Education, and Dr. Alan treatment of stLidents be in the American ginia Lee Amis and Phyllis Ann Du Downes, Chairman of the Social Science tradition of providing safeguards against from Ricetown; Milton Kendall Department. capricious and arbitrary treatment." Bark dale, Cindy Darling Cadell, Helen X Dr. Kelly Thurman received the A.B. Pierce and Camilla Elaine Sasser froi from Western Kentucky University, the Richmond; Judy Kaye Caswell froj M.A. from the University of Kentucky Math Department Carlisle; Kathryn Ann Colebrook froi and the Ph.D. from the University of Grant Cincinnati, Ohio; Billie Jo Cormney froi Iowa. He has done extensive research in Recipient Lancaster; Sally Louise Santel, Caroly the field of semantics. Leslie Leach is a Two National Science Foundation Webster Haman and Thomas Euger past Superintendent of the Barren County grants totaling $12,000 have been award- Hashem from Covington; Jane Kare school system. He received the B.S. from ed the Mathematics Department. The Holt from Somerset; Joyce Evalyn Keer Eastern and the M.A. from Western. larger of the two grants, $7,680, will pro- from Frankfort; Mitchell L. Kenned Ned L. Warren is the former Chair- vide tuition, textbooks, and travel ex- from Independence; Hildreth Christia man of the Department of Health and pense for instructing 30 high school Kidd from Falmouth; Robert Elwoo Physical Education at George Peabody mathematics teachers. The courses. Math- Lewis from Deer Park, Ohio; Virgini College. He holds the B.S. from Georgia ematics 607-608, will be taught from Brakefield McClanahan from Paint Licl Teachers College and the M.A. and Ed.D. 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings during Geneva Gail Otten from Erianger; Mi from George Peabody. Alan Downes has the fall and spring semesters. dred Hiidnall Quinn from Paris; Janic taught at Washington State University, The in-service institute is designed to Mae Rache from Highland Heights: Wi Minot State College (N. D.). United Col- give secondary math teachers working liam Aldoris Raker from Carrolltoi lege (Canada) and Southern Oregon Col- toward the Master of Arts degree in- Stephen J. Rust from Florence: Trud lege. He earned the B.A. and M.A. de- struction in number and numeration. Marlene Shearer from Bryan, Ohic

50 THE EASTERN ALUMNUal Jancy J;iy Smith from Corbin; ;md laine Geary Taylor from Louisville. Graduating with distinction were 35 indents who compiled an academic oint standing of 3.4 for three years, or

.6 for two years (based on 4.0 system), hey are: Charles Gerald Adams from irooksviUe; Andrea Sham Bell from "oopersville: Mazie Lee Blanton from Sorbin; Patricia Newton Brashear from rvine; John Lewis Osborne. Glenna Kay (ogers, William E. Halland, Cynthia .loonyeon Childress from Lexington;

(andall Clark from Mount Vernon: Jill \nn Cooke from Lebanon. Ohio: Brenda raryl Cracraft from MaysviUe: James

(lorris Crithchfield, Jr. from Danville: )iana Lynn Dawson from Richmond: )onabeth Doyle from Campbellsville: FIRST NURSING CLASS The first graduating Fleming. Back row: Sandra Foley, Richmond; vlancy Alice Johnson and Carolyn Reed — class from Eastern's School of Nursing received Linda Rauen, South Fort Mitchell; Brenda Kin- vans from Russell: Patricia Nelson Associate of Arts degrees at Spring commence- ser, Brownsville; Zelma Turpin, Richmond; riend from Cincinnati. Ohio: Doris ment exercises. Receiving degrees were, front Brenda Land, Richmond; Peggy Brown, Irvine;

SUMMER, 1967 51 by DAVE CAWOOD Sports Editor SPORTSCOPE 1

The Life of Turkey Hughes Strawberries And Baseball Titles

winner in everything he does. And 1967 with three championship teams and I t When it conies to raising strawber- ries, Charles "Turkey" Hughes is was a typical championship year for lieve the success of the strawberries ru a dean of the garden. He's also dean of Hughes — another OVC trophy and an- with the success of the team. They we the Ohio Valley Conference baseball other champion strawberry crop. better than ever this year and this h, coaches. "Turkey was particularly happy with to be one of our best teams." Ten OVC baseball championships in this year's championship," said Elmo Hughes has a background of succes the 20-year history of the league is a Head, a graduate-assistant baseball coach ful experience ranging from a four-spc record unmatched. As is the post-season and former Colonel letterman. "He knew athletic career at the University of Ke strawberry-and-ice cream party he and we cotdd hit with anyone, but was wor- tucky. to coaching and principalship Mrs. Hughes host honoring his players. ried about the pitching. But near the end Harlan High School. He retired in Ju! And if you don't believe he raises the of the season the pitchers were his pride as Chairman of the Department best strawberries in the country, just and joy. I've never seen anyone get as Health, Physical Education, Recreati( drive by 107 Westover Avenue the night much satisfaction out of watching a and Athletics but will remain on tl of the festival and ask one of the young group of athletes develop. At first, all he faculty and continue his coaching dutie men rubbing their stuffed stomachs. talked about was hitting. Now all he talks He served as director of athletics fro

But that's the kind of man he is. a about is pitching. Tve been associated 1942-1963 and has coached each of t) University's sports during his 38 years service. In 1961, President Martin nami the baseball field in his honor. Hughes was born on a farm ne Marion, Ky., and was graduated froj Morton-Elliott Junior College and Pnj School in Elkton, Ky. In 1922, he e; tered the University of Kentucky, whe he starred in football, basketball, bas'

ball and track. ; In 1924. he held the national recOij for a runback of an intercepted pass wi-j a 98-yard return against Alabama. C one occasion, he pitched six scorelej innings in a baseball game with Tenne see, dashed to the dressing room at' changed into his track togs, and set tv

conference records in a track meet tl

same afternoon, i He received the A.B. degree in 19^! from U. K. and the M.A. degree fro! the University of Michigan in 1934. A top professional prospect in bas ball, "Turkey" decided to keep his t: ents in the coal-mining towns of sout eastern Kentucky in semipro ball, rath than ink a professional contract. He became athletic director and coai at Harlan High School in 1926 and w. named principal there two years lat(i He came to Eastern in 1929 and, uni 1935. coached football and basketball, 1942, he was named athletic director. Hughes has coached the varsity ba;

ball teams since 1942. He has been ; lected OVC Coach of the Year thp times and has won 12 league Eastern I vision championships. He was the fi president of the OVC and was a lead in the formation of the conference. He is married to the former Mai

Gahegen, of Harrisburg, Illinois, and J Charles "Turkey" Hughes the father of two sons, Charles, Jr., a

Dean of OVC Baseball Allan. -i

52 THE EASTERN ALUMNttI 3uy Strong Returns Home; NCAA Champ \ccepts Basketball Duties

Eastern's basketball program will take ference. the Ohio Valley Conference and

I

' "new-look" next year as Coach Guy the National Collegiate Athletic Associa- to his alma mater to carry tion as a player. It also takes in the , rong returns

1 a tradition he helped establish. He re- NCAA college division title and national aces Jim Baechtold, who retired in May "Coach of the Year" honors as a coach. devote fuU-time to teaching. After leading Irvine High School to The 36-year-old Kentuckian carries the State Basketball Tournament as a ith him one of the most impressive senior, he enrolled at the University of cords in college basketball. It includes Kentucky and pla\ed on Coach Adolph jiampionships in the Southeastern Con- Rupp's 1931 NCAA championship team. He later transferred to Eastern and took a partial load while working toward an Grant Colehour is Eastern's first three- Army Commission. After a stint in the time All-America. He earned the dis- service, he came back to Eastern, played tinction winning the National Collegiate one more year, and received his B.S. de- Athletic Association College six-mile gree in 1955. Eastern won the OVC his run. finishing third in the NCAA three- senior year. Strong compiled a 3.4 stand- mile run and placing sixth in the NCAA ing as an undergraduate and is a charter Cross-Country Championships. The ju- member of OAKS, senior men's campus nior earned all of the honors in the honorary society. He received his M.A. 1966-67 school term. from Eastern two years ago. He has coached at Richmond Madison 1966-67 team losing in the semi-finals to and Louisville Male on the high school the eventual champion. level and has done collegiate coaching at "I just hope I can carry on the high Virginia Tech and Kentucky Wesle\an. caliber of basketball Eastern is known His record on the college level is impres- for." said Strong. "My main objective is Coach Guy Stron sive, to say the least. In five years, his to uphold her (Eastern's) prestige in the teams have won 87 games while losing conference and the nation. It's just great

' Francis, a 1962 graduate of Morehead. selected Eastern's Most Valuable Player the finals of the number three and five d St. Joseph to a 20-6-4 record in three by his teammates. The Colonel infield hit singles competition. ears at the helm. His 1966 team was over .375 percent this season, possibly Coach Glenn Presnell's golf team post- inked ninth in the state in one poll, re- the highest percentage hitting infield in ed a 13-6-2 record in pre-tournament srding eight wins, no losses and three the country. play. Ron Roby gave Eastern its best in- es. He served as an assistant coach at Connie Smith's track team missed sec- dividual performance in the OVC match 'ambridge (Ohio) High School in 1962 ond in the conference standings by only finishing in a tie for 13th. Others en- id was a graduate assistant at Murray three points. Eastern received first place tered in conference competition were

I 1963. Francis earned his M.A. at points from Grant Colehour in the three- Jimmy Martin. Ed Luxon. Paul Schultz lurray and worked with the offensive mile with 3:15.9 time, a league record, and Jack Good. ickfield. and Carey Guess, who ran the 120-yard Next Spring could easily be Eastern's "Fred is one of the top offensive high hurdles in 14.4 seconds. The Colo- best yet. All of the coaches return most caches in the business," said Kidd. "He nels' mile relay team. Stan Smith. Keith of their key men and each is carrying on ad the best-coached high school back- Small, Earl Jordan and Clarence Lamp- one of Eastern's most successful Spring -Id I have ever seen." kin, also scored winning points with a Sports recruiting campaigns. ^ UMMER, 1967 53 by JAMES W. THURMAN ALUMNI REPORT Director of Alumni Affairs

Alumni Day, May 27, 1967, will be long remem- year. The South Florida Chapter chose Carl C, Eagl

bered in the liistory of our Alma Mater, It marked the '52, as president. C. S. Van Arsdall, '35. as vice pre;

University's first 60-year-old class. There were five dent, and Fannie C, Catlett. '49, as secretary and trea

members in the Class of 1907, three are deceased. The urer. The Breathitt County Chapter selected Robert < remaining two were honored at Alumni Day, They Gabbard, "58, as president, Frazier B, Adams, '38, were Mrs, Jennie Jeffers Ashby from Greenville, and vice president, and Mrs, Etta White, '60, as secreta, Mrs. Alma Rice Bascom from Sharpsburg, The Golden and treasurer. The Perry County Chapter reelected E:' Anniversary Class of 1917 set a record for having the Smith, '58, as president. John Leveridge, '65. as vi

largest number of class members return. Eighteen of president, and Mrs. Homer (Alcne) Jones, "57, as se. this group returned for their reunion after a span of rctary and treasurer. half a century since their graduation from Eastern. The other reunion classes were the classes of 1927, 1942 welcome the 1967 Class, which ovi and 1952. We consists of 1000 graduates (June and August), into the Eastef

alumni family, which has as its sole purpose to help aii Many of our alumni, with the exception of those who serve Eastern in any capacity that will benefit our Air! majored in music, probably didn't know Jane Campbell. Mater, The 1967 Class has already established a recoj Miss Campbell served for 40 years in Eastern's Music in that eight members of this class became Life Mei| Department. She wrote the lyrics for our beautiful Alma

bers of the Alumni Association immediately after i Mater which is so dear to all who ever attended Eastern. ceiving their degrees May 29th, Serving Eastern for 40 years and giving us our Alma Mater song wasn't enough for this remarkable woman. I Although she was not an alumna of Eastern, she loved Homecoming next fall will be OCTOBER 21st, tI our University with every ounce of strength she pos- football game will be with Western, You will want sessed. Jane Campbell died February 9, 1967 and left plan for this now and return to the campus for this 1 Eastern approximately ,$S().0()0 in her will to be used event. for music scholarships. It can be said without reserva- tion that Jane Campbell gave herself, her time and her energy to our Alma Mater, When wc alumni sing our Many of you Eastern alumni will be vacationii

Alma Mater it should mean a little more to us if we traveling and sight-seeing this summer. Why not incliJj think of what it stands for and what the person who Eastern's campus on your itinerary? If you haven't bel. composed it stood for — EASTERN. on the campus within the past three years you will hcj: a treat in store for you. Visit the Alumni Office, Rotji Several alumni chapters which had meetings this 112 in the Crabbe Library, and we will be glad to shf spring have elected new officers to serve for the comint; you what has taken place. ALUMNI DAY- 1967 ALUNNl * • FACULTY * ' " STUiliTS Fl^fENDS

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THE EASTERN ALUM S by LORRAINE FOLEY CLASS NOTES Alumni News Editor

1911 SUSAN HAUGHABOO CALDWELL and teaches piano. Her address is Route

MARY ELMORE HATCHETT is now now resides at 2621 Hampton St.. Ash- 2. Waddy, Ky. 40076. land. Ky. ired afler being a teacher in the State 41101 after many years of CARRIE JONES PIGMAN taught un- teaching. She has one son. hool for Deaf and Blind in Colorado Dr. William til 1963 when she retired. She has two F. Caldwell who does research for rings for 28 years. She and her hus- daughters — one who is a teacher and the Hughes Aircraft, nd. J. B., reside at 24 W. Espanola and two grandchildren. other, an attorney. Mrs. Pigman resides eet. Colorado Springs. Col. 80907. SERENA HEFLIN ISAACS and her at 1525 Rosewood Ave.. Louisville. Ky. husband have one son and five grand- 40204. 1913 children. She has been active in PTA, homemakers, and 4-H clubs. Mrs. Isaacs DUMONT H. STIGALL is a retired 1920-1929 is active mer. residing on Route 2, Somerset. in church work and does flower ELSIE HITEMAN. '24. teaches Eng- arrangements. Her address is 2, '. 42501. Before retiring he served as a Route lish, Latin and speech at Simon Kenton icher in the Pulaski County School Harkins Road. Winchester, Ky. 40931. School and resides at 5209 Main St., In- stem and was a field worker KATHLEEN TRIMBLE STUBBLE- for old dependence. Ky. 41051. : assistance. FIELD, 12 Broodview Ave., Asheville, '23. N. C. 28803. retired in 1961 after serving LO\EL H. LILES. received his 1917 for 45 years in several schools, 39 of L.L.B. degree from the University of Kentucky, and now practices law MAYME BOURNE HIGHBAUGH, those years being in Asheville. She still in does substitute teaching there. Greenup, Ky. He was commonwealth at- 17 Dogwood Road. Kno.xville, Tenn. FRANCES HEFLIN RICKETTS re- torney for 18 years. His mailing address 918. is a homemaker. For fifty years tired in 1963 and received special recog- is Box 576, Greenup 41144. e has found a place of service in her nition SUE STOKES CATRON, '24. resides urch. working with youth groups. She in the K. E. A. Journal for 51 years of active teaching. She is married at 307 Clements, Somerset, Ky. 42501, s three children and was active in PTA to Glenn Ricketts, an attorney, re- and has done substitute teaching for sev- lile they were in school. and sides at 258 S. .Ashland Ave., Lexington. eral years. KATIE CARPENTER is now retired Ky. 40502. er teaching 47 years. She has traveled GREEN WASHINGTON CAMP- MARTHA YATES McKEE DAW- BELL. "25. is now retired after being su- all 50 states except Alaska; Mexico, retired in 1959 after nearly 40 years perintendent inada. South American. European SON of Corbin City Schools since of teaching. She has been church organist 1928. He and Amanda reside at 914 'Mas- luntries and Bermuda. She is now ac- and Sunday school teacher for many years ter St.. Corbin, Ky. e in church work and is a member of nod's Council on Educational Institu- ns. Her residence is Apt. 3. 271 E. axwell. Lexington. Ky. 40508.

WINNIE FALIN HAUK. who is now ;ired. took special education courses d was employed for 10 years as a amebound teacher by the McMinn lunty Board of Education. Tennessee, e has one daughter and resides on 9lh

. Etowah. Tenn. 37331. GRACE MARRS of 318 Riverside, estonshurg. Ky. 41653. has been retired ice 1960 after being a teacher since 17. EVELYN PRICE HENRY LANG- )RD taught for forty-nine years and is w retired, residing on Route 2, Har- Isburg, Ky. 40330, with her husband, "in, who is a farmer. A. P. PRATHER. 302 W. Main. Earl- ;ton, Ky. 42410, now retired, was in educational field since graduation, Mk ''FnrrE/Borlinn ving 38 years as superintendent of rlington Schools before retiring in 52. He has been active in civic organi- ions, the Masonic Lodge and has been Darling Named Fitness Leader teacher in the Earlinglon Christian FRED E. DARLING, '42. Professor Council, he also planned and directs urch for 43 years. of Health, Physical Education and Rec- Kentucky's state-wide fitness clinic. After :ARR0LL YEAGER sparks has reation at his Alma Mater, has been receiving the bachelor's degree from East- ) sons. She retired from teaching after named one of the nation's 12 outstand- ern, Fred earned M.A. degrees from East- years and now resides at 307 S. ing physical fitness leaders by the United ern and the University of Kentucky and :ar St.. McArthur. Ohio 45651. States Jaycees. Fred was honored at a the Re.D. degree from Indiana Univer- vIIRIAM McKEE GEROW is now re- banquet in Washington D. C. sponsored sity. He is a member of numerous educa- d after teaching over 30 years. She by the United States Jaycee-Standard tion and physical fitness organizations, one son and one daughter. She re- Packaging Physical Fitness Leadership and has published several articles de- ;s on Route 1. Lawrencebure. Ky. Awards Congress. A member of Gov- signed to upgrade physical fitness pro- 42. ernor Edward T. Breathitt's State Fitness grams in this country. iiVlMER, 1967 55 Robert W. Terhune Dr. Jake Reams Jack Horner Col. Thomas Lowe J. Hill Hamon (Class of '64) (Class of '49) (Class of '58) (Class of '48) (Class of '52)

ISHMAEl, TRIPLETT. 77, is director taries attended the fete including: Presi- L. R. STATON, '29, of 1915 2: of Ifie division of Textbooks, Depart- dent Martin, Dr. Dixon Barr, dean of the Ave., Gulfport. Miss., received his M.B; ment of Education, Commonwealth of College of Education; Dr. Thomas Sto- degree from Boston University and n4 Kentucky and resides at 1328 Fontaine vall, vice-president for academic affairs; operates the Staton Motor Co., Gulfpcj Rd.. Lexington, Ky. 40502. Mr. James Thurman, director of alumni affairs; and all of the Eastern Board of 1930-1939 J. DORLAND COAXES, '27. is as- Dr. Harry Sparks, sociate dean. College of Education, East- Regents members. MABEL DUDLEY. '30. is librarian! state superintendent of public instruction Chandler ern, and resides on Hycliffe Drive, Rich- High School. Her address is 6? mond, Ky. 40475. was the principal speaker at the occasion. Simland Drive, E., Chandler. Ariz. 852 During the course of the evening, Ira '30, ALLIE RUTH MOORES SPURLIN, FRED W. DIAL, is head of i was presented an engraved plaque by the department of social studies at Geor '27, was Hbrarian, Shepherdsville High Wayne Coimty Education President. Glen Rugby Ave., College Park, Ga. 30022, School, Shepherdsville, Ky. She and her Massengale. A check for $1,000 was also Military Academy. He resides at 231 husband Tom now reside at 205 Lang- presented to President Martin to establish Rugby Ave.. College Park, 30022.' ford Court, Richmond, Ky. 40475. Ga. the Ira Bell Student Loan Fimd at East- LOUISE B. CONRAD, '31, is m, THOMAS LEE PELLEY, '27, has ern. teacher at Holmes Jtmior High Schc been in the Covington School System The loan is to be administered by East- and resides at 32 Alta Vista. Walton, I since graduation and is presently princi- ern in accordance with regulations estab- 41094. pal, 6th District School. His mailing ad- lished by the Wayne County Education ELMER C. WHITEHOUSE, '31. is dress is 611 Delmar PI., Covington, Ky. Association. It is to be available for stu- the engineering department of Brown Miss BEULAH WILLOUGHBY, '27, dents graduating from Wayne County Williamson Tobacco Co., Louisville, i 103 Westfield, Richmond, Ky. is a teach- High School who have advanced to the He and Lorena reside at 1274 Farmd er at Madison Central High SchooL junior or senior year at Eastern and are Ave.. Louisville 40213. ANNA L. BERTRAM, '27, now re- majoring in the field of education. LILLIAN ESTES MILLER. '32. tired from leaching, is manager of a farm ROBERT K. SALVERS. '29, is assist- first grade teacher and supervising tea( at Route 7, Vanceburg, Ky. 41179. ant to Undersecretary of Labor for the er in connection with University of K( MARGARET LINGENEELSER, '27, United States Department of Labor, tucky education department. She and Ij who taught at Eastern 18 years, is now Washington, where he has been employed husband. Samuel reside at 123 Chenai' retired and resides at 10513 Clair Dr., since 1946. He and Loretta reside at 5617 Ave., Lexington. Ky. 40502. Sun City, Ariz. 85351. S. 5th Road, Arlington, Va. 22204. PAUL M. GOODLOE, '32, is v '27, given EMMA BAKER ROSS. was CHESTER R. ALEXANDER, '29, re- president and stockholder in Venseai; a trip to a England and Scotland year ceived his M.S. degree at the University Corporation. They do management c(; before her retirement by the people of of Tennessee and is now professor of suiting in the chemical process industrij Ky., Hazard, where she resides. Chemistry at Georgetown College. He specializing in corporate developmel !' IRA BELL, '28, a past recipient of and Thelma reside at 711 S. Hamilton, His mailing address is 175 Prospect Eastern's "Outstanding Alumnus" award, Georgetown, Ky. 40324. East Orange, N. J. 07017. recently retired as Superintendent of the ROBERT EDWIN CHANDLER, '29, E. CLIFTON DOWELL, '33, receiv Wayne Coimty Schools. is vocational agriculture teacher at Mus- his M.A. degree at the University Upon his retirement, he was honored selman High School in Martinsburg, W. Southern Mississippi. His present positi for his thirty-eight years of service to the Va. He is married to the former Mildred is supervisor, training section, compU' Wayne County Schools at a banquet Alsip and they have one son. Robert. Jr. systems department technical trainii given by the Wayne County Education Their address is Bunker Hill, W. Va. center, Keesler Air Force Base. He is Association. Numerous Eastern digni- 25413. Colonel in the U. S. Marine Corps I

Roy Maupm David Gillespie Bernard Wilson John Loyd Ben Wilson (Class of '56) (Class of '65) (Class of '36) (Class of '60) (Class of '33)

56 THE EASTERN ALUM^ Ben Turpin George Norton Mike Cornett Dwight D. Gatwood John Ed McConnell (Class of '54) (Class of '52) (Class of '38) (Class of '64) (Class of '38) rve. He and his wife, the former Kath- ation. He is married to the former 51iz- warehousing for the Kroger Co. He and ine O'Neal, have one son, CHfton De- abeth Irene Howard and they have two Dorothy have four children and reside at itt and reside at 1000 Cecille St., Giilf- sons. Bernard III. and William. Their 5100 Ballantrae Ct.. Cincinnati. Ohio irt. Miss. 39501. residence is 416 Glaids Drive. Pittsburgh. 45238. BEN F. WILSON, '33, is listed in the Pa. 15216. CHARLES L. STAFFARD, '39, (Col- 66-67 edition of "Who's Who in the NAOMI MARGARET KALB COL- onel) has been transferred to Robins Air est". Ben is director of internal aiidit- LINS. '37. is a sixth grade teacher at Force Base. He and his wife, the former

;, Southern Permanente Services, Inc., Woodleigh School. She and William have BONNIE APPLEGATE, '38, receive ving been employed there since 1962. one son. John William, and two daugh- their mail at 447 Officers Circle E,

; is married to the former Marie Fo.\ ters, Susan Margaret and Carol Jane. Robins AFB, Ga. 31093. d they have one daughter, Charlotte, Their residence is 1054 E. 2nd St., Mays- AUBREY WILLIAM PREWITT, '39. leir residence is 8635 Louise Avenue, ville, Ky. 41056. is president of the Citizens State Bank in jrthridge, Calif. 91324. RAYMOND I. FIELDS, '38, is pro- Logan. Ohio. GENEVA FERRELL TODD. '33. is fessor and acting head. Department of ird grade teacher at Bellevue Elemen- Engineering Mathematics, University of 1940-1949 iy School at Richmond. She and James Louisville. He is married to the former BILL WORTHINGTON, '41, is gen- .ide at 102 Eastway Dr., Richmond, Ruby Tinsley Southworth and they re- eral manager of Alton Box Board Co. '. 40475. side at 1057 Ardmore Dr., Louisville, He is married to the former NELL HAROLD E. PRIM. '34. is department Ky. 40217. ELIZABETH OGDEN, '37 and they re- ad, Business Education. Henry Ford CHARLES L. FARRIS, "38, Lt. Col. ceive their mail at Alton Box Board Co., gh School where he has been principal (retired) is teaching in Lexington city 646 West Hill St., Louisville. Ky. Henry Ford Summer Schools, with ap- schools. He and his wife, the former CLAUDE McSPADDEN. '42. is work- pximately 2500 students, for the past Helen Virginia Williams, have two chil- ing for a Certified Public Accounting |years. He is married to the former dren. Sue Virginia, who is attending firm residing at 340 Winslow Dr., S. E., plley L. Suppnick and they reside at Eastern, and Charles William. Their res- Knoxville, fenn. 37920. 1285 Westbrook. Detroit. Mich. 48219. idence is 3419 Woodside Way. Lexing- '42. jCol. JOHN C. SPARROW. '35. is with ton. Ky. 40502. THEDA DUNAVENT MIRACLE. teaches elementary physical education. \: United Stales Army in Seoul. Korea. EVELYN EDMUNDS ERP, '38. is a 'lere will She has two sons, and one daughter. She he remain until July. 1968. private governess and resides at 1404A and her family reside at 64 N. Highland .;k is Commanding Officer of the U. S. Penile Road, Valley Station. Ky. 40172. .|my Procurement Agency. His address Ave.. Avon Park. Fla. 33825. She is married to Clifford Erp. i| USA Korea Procurement Agency.' MIKE H. CORNETT, '38, is head ,'0 San Francisco. Calif. 96301. metallurgist with the National Lead Co. .EDWARD G. HILL, '35. circuit judge. He is author of a book entitled "Metal- 'is named Kentucky's outstanding jurist lography of Uranium: Procedures and 1. the Kentucky Bar Association. Ed Standards" with contributions by E. L. ^ved on the board of directors of the Schaich and F. W. Hoffman. Mike is /jipalachian Regional Hospitals, the Har- Woridvvide married to the former Laddie Goins and depend on Iji Planning and Development Corp., the TWA they have five children. Their residence Ij.rlan draft board and other commis- is 5640 Cincinnati-Brookville Road. ins in his home county. He is married Okeana, Ohio 45053. •[the former KATHLEEN WELSH, '61, '38. 'jo teaches speech at Harlan High J. ED McCONNELL. was recent- hoard of trus- !iool and does free-lance writing, ly elected president of the "Adventures tn iistly poetry. They have three children tees of the Kentucky Blue Cross Hospital 1 receive their mail at Harlan, Ky. Plan and Kentucky Physicians Mutual. .331. See related feature on page 45. Until his new appointment, he served as Europe" Mational recognition in the life insur- executive vice-president of the two cor- ;e industry has been accorded BER- porations. The Franklin County native vRD E. WILSON. '36, senior vice received the "Outstanding Alumnus" For FREE Brochure, Write: sident of American General Life In- award in 1966. He is president-elect of ance Co.. Pittsburgh, through elec- the Louisville Rotary Club and vice pres- n to the Combination Companies Ex- ident of Goodwill Industries of Kentucky. TWA, 1222 Storks Building itive Committee of the Life Insurance Ed is married to the former ANNE 5ncy Management Association of Hart- GENE WELLS. '37. They reside at Apt. Louisville, Kentucky 40202 d. Conn. He recently completed a 3 10-8. 3320 Bardstown Road. Louisville. Jir term as director of the annual Agen- Ky. 40218. Management Conference of the associ- ROBERT C. RUBY. '39. is supervisor of 'i

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l; GEORGE ORDICH, 42, of Midland, MARIAM GEX GRAHAM, '42, has Guatemala and Australia as her husbai Pa. teaches school there. His duties in- been married 17 years to an interior dec- is an engineer with an oil compan clude audio-visual aids director in the orator. She is co-ordinator of Youth Op- Their residence is 112 Whitworth. Pon E. S. E. A. Government Poverty Pro- portunity Center in Covington. Her ad- Citv. Okla. 74601. '42. gram; he teaches woodshop; and man- dress is 602 Sandford Street. Covington. GEORGE V. NASH, has accej ages stage activities. Ky. ed the appointment as superintendent HELEN HALEY REYES. '42. teaches GEORGE F. HARTJE. '42. is assist- the Cardington-Lincoln School District in the Lexington City Schools and is a ant professor. Mechanical Engineering Ohio. He. his wife. Joan, and two ch supervising teacher for Asbury College at Technology, at Purdue University. He is dren. Mary Jo and George Bruce are Ji Nicholasville, Ky. married to the former Jennie Alice Ho- siding at 334 E. Main St., Cardingto ALMA BACH HUTCHINGS, '42, is bart: they have 3 children. Vincent. Jen- Ohio 43315. living in London, England with her hus- nifred. and 'William, and reside at 148 RALPH W. CLARKE, "46. is assw band and two sons. They invite anyone Drury Lane, West Lafayette, Indiana ate professor. Department of Educatic to visit them at 31 The Loning, Colin- 47906. East Tennessee State University. His a dale, London, N.W., 9, England. ALICE KENNELLY ROBERTS, '42, dress is 2417 Huffine Circle, Johnsi DOROTHY ADAMS HOWELL, '42, is dean and counselor. Oak Hills High City. Tenn. 37601. where he resides wi is principal, Elsmere School, Erlanger, School, Cincinnati. She is also a daily his wife, Cornelia, and their two soi Ky. She and Charles reside at 417 Gar- columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Richard and Ralph. vey Ave., Erlanger 41018. She has written three books of verse, and THOMAS A. DOUGLAS. '46, ALEX H. ANDERSON, Jr.. '42, is an gives original readings for programs be- ceived his D.M.D. from the Univers electrical engineer at the National Labor- fore civic, educational and church organ- of Louisville Dental School and n atory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and re- izations. She and Edward reside at 209 practices in Louisville. He is married sides at 236 Iroquois Road, Oak Ridge. East 26th St., Covington, Ky. 41014. the former Jo Martin Morris, who SUSAN BIESACK MANN, '42, is di- EMILY LAND SETTY, '42, 280 Briar- tended Eastern, and they reside at rector of Springfield Methodist Kinder- cliff Dr.. Dayton. Ohio 45415. is director Eastover Ct., Louisville. K\ . 40206. Th garten. Her husband. Major K. S. Mann, of Parent Education. Dayton Board of have 5 children: Marilyn. Thomas. J USAF, is on duty at the Pentagon. They Education. Her daughter, Sally, is a Donald, D. Harris, and Carole. have a son. Ken, and a daughter. Sue. freshman at Eastern. JOHN W. GARTH. '46. is product e '41, Their residence is 6202 Rockglen Dr., HANSFORD W. FARRIS, is De- gincer for Chromcraft Corp. He is m; Springfield, Va. 22150. partment Chairman, Electrical Engineer- ried to the former MARY BILLING ing, at University of Michigan. He is mar- LEY. '42, and they reside at 2822 Woe ried to the former VERA MAYBURY view Ct.. St. Louis. Mo. 63131. with thi FARRIS, '42. Their residence is 1505 three children. Nancy. Gary and Cynth^ Sheridan Dr., Arbor, Mich. 48104. Ann LORRIN G. KENNAMER. Jr.. '42, HARVEY K. MEYER, is assist- has been named Dean of the School ant dean, academic affairs and director Arts and Sciences at Texas Technologii of learning resources, Florida Atlantic College, to he effective Sept. 1. Dr. Kf University. His residence is 371 S.W. 8th namer. at Texas since 1956 and autl Fla. 33432. St.. Boca Raton, or co-author of numerous learned NESBITT LOGSDON, '42. HIEATT pers and books, is married to the forr is Home Economics teacher at Bay High Laura Helen Durham. They reside 23rd St.. School. She lives at 108 W. 2610 Fiset Dr.. Austin. Texas 78731. Panama City, Fla. 32401. with Jim and COL. THOMAS A. LOWE. '48, their two children. Linda and Lee. cently received his Third Oak Leaf CI ADA RANKIN. '42. teaches in Mon- ter to the Army Commendation Medal Raymond Wilson tana School for the deaf and blind. Her ceremonies held at Carlisle Barrac (Class of '49) address is 3516 2nd Ave.. N.. Great Falls. Pennsylvania. Col. Lowe was decoral Montana 59401. for his exceptionally meritorious serv PAUL A. ROBINSON. '42, is an Or- while a member of the Strategic Stud Surgeon, residing at 1809 Fair- thopaedic Directorate of Strate CHARLES W. '42, teaches Group and the CARNES. mont S.E.. Huntsville. Ala. 35801. during the period of July 1965 Industrial Arts at Oak Ridge High Studies SAMUELS COSBY. '42. is FRANCES 1967. School. His residence is 122 Nevada Cr.. May employed by Burnham & Harber. Gen- ' Oak Ridge. Tenn. 37S30. BETTY M. HAMM McKINNEY. eral Insurance Agency. She and Albert CHRISTINE CHESNUT and her husband. J. A., are now resid CLOTFEL- reside at 614 North Street. Richmond. TER. '42, teaches at Henry Clay High in Puerto Rico. Mailing address: c Ky. with son, Steve. School. She is married to Jack Clotfelter, FAA/IFSS. Route I. Box 29A. Loiza MARY SAMUELS SCHULER, '42, is architect, and has one daughter, Paula. Sta.. San Juan. P. R. 00914. a 2nd grade teacher in the Louisville They live at 449 Bristol Rd., Lcxineton. The 1967 James A. McClintock Aw; Public Schools. She and Lee reside at 432 Ky. for faculty recognition at Ball State V W. Ormsby Ave., Louisville. Ky. 40203 CALFEE G. COLSON, '42. is regional versity. has been awarded to Dr. JAl with their two daughters. Carolyn and manager for Southern States REAMS. "49. associate professor of Coop. His Nancy. son. Guy Randal, is a freshman at East- diistrial education and technology. ern. Their residence is 211 Skyline Drive, JOHN TOLLNER. '42. is manager of Reams will use the award to support

Campbellsville, Ky. Rish Equipment Co.. in Youngstown. project. "An Integrated Experience i

Z. S. DICKERSON, Jr., '42, is head Ohio. His residence there is 7544 Market. proach to Wood Technology." of the Department of Business Education. EVELYN VAUGHT KEENEY, '42. Reams, who has been at Ball State si:i i Madison College. He is married to the teaches 4th grade in Kettering, Ohio. Her 1956, earned his M.Ed, degree at former MILDRED ALICE GORTNEY. son, Norbert. is attending Eastern. Mrs. University of Illinois where he had '42. and they reside at Route I. Forest Keeney lives at 1565 Constance Ave.. assistantship. and his Ed.D. degree Hills, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801. Mildred Kettering. Ohio 45409. Indiana University. He is married to is assistant professor of Education and RENO OLDFIELD STAFFORD. former Irva Lee Gilmore and they h; Supervisor of the Nursery School, Madi- (Mrs. J. H.). '42, has taught in Saudi four children. The Reams family resi son College. Arabia and Texas, and has lived in at 1104 Greenbriar, Muncie, Ind. 473

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ROCCO PIGANELL. '49. teaches at as teacher, principal, assistant n(cnnial superin- They have two sons. Robert High School. Pueblo, Coio- tendent, Owen and and was superintendent for the David Presley, lo He is and reside at 115 married to the former Lucille past four West- years. He is married to the wood Drive, 'ic^ Richmond, Ky 40475 and they have five children: Roc- former Esther Johnson and the\ have GENE R. Koxanne, Chris. ADKINS, '52,' is an instruc- Timothy and Jon two children, Michael and Tamara. They tor at Lincoln University, -II en. Their address is .i22.s residing at 709 Brookfield will reside in Vickers Village. Eastern Ohio Street, Jefferson City, ehlo. Col. 81004. Kentucky Missouri University, Richmond. ALFRED P. PHILIP M. R.ANSDHLL, -49. BIANCJJI, Jr„ '52 is has been owner nit-d of Lilac Farm Super St. Louis district sales manager b\ WILLIAM KENNETH McCART^', Mart and '>0. lives at 4306 Brummel .-tinghouse. He will be responsible CLU, has been appointed St., Skokie 111 for Shenan- 60076. -ale of some doah Life Insurance 8,000 varieties of light Compan>'s general MAR^- lb-- in agent in KATHERINE nine Southwestern states. His Lexington, Ky. He is marned to HENDIX BR.ASHE.AR. '52. ' idqiiarters the former teaches reading at is at the company's sales Phyllis Lee James and they Les- lie County ices have three High School. She has at 411 North 7th St., St. Louis, children. Marlene, James and two Joanna. children, W. F., Jr., and Leonard. '. He is married, has two sons Their residence is 1755 She and a Br>an receives Station her mail at Box 68, Lighter. Road. Lexington. ' H\den K\ Ken has an •' 41749. ' B. opening staff |J5hN "Jack" LEY. -49. is trans- of two additional under- writers, LAQUATA WALTERS '52, irtation administrator for McBee S\s- RAY BERRY WIREMAN •6-' BROOKS. IS a iv and homemaker for husband, Keith, 1 .Athens, Ohio. He is married LINDON GR.AY POWELL, and to the 67. two mer Their offices boys. Residence is 3732 1 .Martha Barbara DeBord are located on "^'oung Drive Romnay and Rd,, in Lexington. Columbus, Ohio 432'' \ have six children — Michael. Rob- E. C. -52, c. Jacqueline. JA.MES BROWN. i^ a rural mail Teresa, Philip and ROBERT ABNEY. si, is carrier and dries. Their mailing teacher of mathematics teaches science at Casey address is 17 at Tales Creek County I'lth High School in High School. He resides at Shannon Ave.. Athens. Ohio Lexington. He is married Lib- ert), Kv. - -11] to 42539. the former HELEN BOWLING. '41 LAWRENCE R. ' and resides at BUSKIRK. -52, nwiN W. BRANANLAN. -49. re- 342 Stratford Drive Lex- is '\eJ mgton, Ky. minister of the University his D.V.M. degree at Iowa State 40503. They have one son, Methodist Church in Morehead. ' i^ersity. Robert Steven, Ky. He is Ames, Iowa and is presently who is attending Eastern married and the father of .'-i wterinarx CARL E. GENITO. -51. three daughters supervisor for the Ken- is manager of CHARLES BOYD t Orange CARTY. '52, N> State Department of Agriculture, News Company in Orlando". Fla. M.D He and has 3 children. David. Joel and Jinkfort. He is married to the former Dorothy have a daughter. "Bet- Kalen. alah sie" and reside at Marie .Armes and the\ reside at 8219 Edie Wav. Or- lando. 1 Apache Trail, Danville, k\. 40422 Dr. h Scott, 16, and Susan, 12. CHARLES RAY HELTON si received his D.O. W. WILLIAM STARNS. "49, 1222 degree at Kansas City erbourg Rd., College of Osteopathy and Lexington, Ky. is man- Surgery, and IS :r now in the Southside of Sterling Hardware in the Gar- Medical Center iside in Tucson, Ariz., where Shopping Center in Lexington. he employs one other is ph\sician and seven married to the former Bernice nurses. He is vey married to the former and they have two sons, Warren Jean Duncan and they have two sons, m, and William Todd. Charles Rav II, and Kobert Stacy. Their residence is 344 RAYMOND WILSON, "49, has been W. Ajo Wa\'. Tucson. Jcted by the Eastern Alumni Associa- DOUGLAS J. HINES, "51, n as vice president-elect. In 1952 Ray is now head basketball and baseball ;ame associated with the East Ken- coach at ky Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn. His Rural Electric Cooperative Cor- ad- dress is 124 Ted Cook ation at Jordon St.. McKenzie Winchester and is now Plant (Class of '56) GEORGE D NORTON, '52, |fice Manager of that organiaztion. Ray of 46 Lillian Place, Whitebirch Farms |married to the former Evelvn Smith. Glen- dora, N. J. 08029. |i has been elected they have three children: Leslie Ann. a vice president of The The ,jI, and John. Philadelphia Na- Carty family resides They reside at 43 on Route 1 Bon tional Bank. ven Mr. Norton joined PNB in Salem. Ind. 47167. Avenue. Winchester. Kv. 40.391. 1954 and has been an assistant vice BETTY J. DOZIER, '52, is a super- president since 1963. I He is a graduate of visor for the Woodford County Schools, the Stonier School 1950-1959 of Banking, Rutgers living on Route 3, Versailles. Ky, 40383, Lt. Colonel University. He and his CLA\TON CRAFT. 'SO wife, the former EVA DUKA Alma VENTURA, '52, is a with the United States Army, Wainscott, have two dauehters, graduate Pacific' teaching assistant in the Col- is June Karen and married to the former Jean Teresa Darlene lege of Arts Val- and Sciences, Southern Illi- dmgham. Dr. J. HILL They have one son. HAMON. 52. associate nois University, Brent working for Ph.D. in o was born professor of zoology at Indiana in Teheran, Iran, and re- State Government. She receives Universitv-, her mail at: ve their mail at .519 was awarded the annual Out- Wanaao Road Department of Government. Southern ilua, standing Teacher Hawaii 96734. of the Year award at Illinois University, Carbondale, 111. 62901. the spring banquet of Kappa -ESLIE LE.ACH, Jr., '50, Delta Pi. CARL EAGLE. '52. is director Dr. Hamon teaches at Hialeah the Traffic Safety is married to the former Sr. High and Institute, an aca- ELIZABETH officiates in Jr. College and ™ic unit ANN COX, "52, and they of the College of College ranks. He is married Applied have three to Jacquelyn s children, David Wavne and Technology at Eastern. Deb- Dawn Hammons and Mr. orah Ann, and has 3 children. ch will coordinate J. Hill. Jr. Their mailing Gary. Caria Dawn, research, public address and Robin. Their 'ice is Route 7. Box 423-L. Terre and instruction in traffic safety address is 1620 N.W. 179 Terr. Haute. Ind. Miami idards. The Fal. program is designed to ROBERT ruct 6,000 NEWMAN GRISE, '52, re- mechanics throughout the ARLIE FIELDS. '52. is ceived his Ed.D. Elementary e in standards degree at the University and techniques School Principal. He is of auto of Kentuck>', married to the lection. and is associate professor Mr. Leach has served in the former Mabel Baber and their of Education at residence ren County Eastern. He is married IS School system since 1950 Route 1, Box 620A, New to the former Martha Richmond Katherine Spurlin Ohio 45157. ^MER, 1967 59 NrORRIS D. FREEMAN, 52. is a Manila imtil Oct. 1968 after which they ley. and their two children reside controller for G. H. Hicks & Sons. Inc. will be in the country of Nepal. They 15341 Cohassett St.. Van Nuys. Ca I He resides at 1721 Sutherland Dr.. Lou- also spent two years in Tokyo, Japan. 91406. '54, isville, Ry. 40205. Their address is USAID/Philippines, c/o JOYCE NOE. is married Francis- '54, BILLY K. GORDON. '52, is a grad- American Embassy, APO San CHARLES MILLER, and is residi uate assistant at U. K. working on his co, Calif. 96528. with her parents at 2303 Monton, C '52, D.Ed, in Education Administration. His PAUL E. WILSON, is Lubrication cinnati, Ohio, while Charles is servingi address is Route 2. Waddy, Ky. 40076. Coordinator for Standard Oil Co. He has Vietnam. Joyce teaches crafts and art WALTER GREEN. Jr., '52. is a foot- 3 children. Valya, Patricia and Patd, Jr. Sharpsburg Elementary School. ball coach and teacher. He is married to Paul was president of the 1952 class. He KARL D. BAYS. '55. has been sele the former Sylvia Taylor and they have and his family reside at 2605 Browns ed for inclusion in the 1967 edition 3 children, Stephen, Kathy and Signee. Lane. Louisville. Ky. "Outstanding Young Men in Americ His address is 411 N. 25th, Middlesboro, RICHARD B. DAMRON. 53. has The publication is an annual biograp Kv. 40965. joined the firm of Clayton L. Scroggins cal compilation of approximately 10,C HAROLD H JENKINS, 52, is em- Associates, professional business manage- young men of outstanding rank throu; ployed by Johns Manville Flooring Prod- ment, as a management coimselor. Rich- out the coimtry. honoring young men '52, daughters, ucts. He and Evelyn have .3 children and ard and RUTH. have two having distinguished themselves in any reside at 201 Third St.. Piketon, Ohio Desetta and Rosa Lee. and live at 1049

several fields of endeavor. Karl is pri i 45661. Redbird Dr., Cincinnati, Ohio 45231. dent of Institutional Industries Inc., '52. KARL E. KEPLER. is a manu- BILL C. "53. of 5640 S. Uni- VENDL. subsidiary of American Hospital Sup .114 facturing representative, residing at versity Ave.. Chicago. III., is assistant Corp. Karl resides at 5862 Countryhi Redwood Dr., Covington, Ky. 41011 professor of Psycho-Physiology, attached Cincinnati. Ohio 45238. with his wife, Gwendolyn and their 4 to Physical Education Department for VENCIL DELANO ENGLE. '55. il children: Kurt, Jill, Jennie and Judy. Air Force-NASA Research Project at the mechanical designer for IBM. He is m AFTON H. KORDENBROCK. '52. is University of Chicago. ried to the former Billie Muriel Lyn sales manager for Advertisers Engraving '53, ; ROBERT M. COE, is head of the they have three children. Mars' Co. He resides at 728 Winston Hill Dr.. fine arts department at West Georgia Michael and Mark, and live at 2069 Covington. Kv. College. Prior to moving to Georgia, Mr. Teresa Dr.. Lexington. Kv. 40502 f JOSEPH L. RICH. 52. 501 Boyd Coe was assistant professor of music at CHESTER RAKER. '55. was pron-|- 87.301, is a Ave., Gallup. New Mexico Hastings College. Nebr. He is married to ed to the IBM District Office in Cinct' lawyer and assistant District Attorney. the former Kathryn Creason. They have nati. He will provide the technical sfi HAROLD EDWARD RICHARD- one daughter. Holly Elizabeth and live at port to the District scientific marketfe SON. '52, is a professor in the Dept. of 106 Cimningham Dr.. Carrollton. Ga. force and is the focal ponit for all scif English at Eastern. His publications in- 30117. tific application problems and soluti'fel clude: Modern Fiction Studies; American '53. WINDELL E. FLOYD. is an concerned with IBM computers witwJ Literature; Books & Bookmen (London, Adult Education Specialist for the Bu- '; the district. Chester is married to England), featured article; and the Ari- reau of Indian Affairs. He and his wife former PHYLLIS COUNTS. '56. ;1 zona Quarterly. He has two children. have three children and live on Route 1. they reside at 779 Strathcoma Dr., C - Shawn Edward and Jill Calvert, and re- Tama, Iowa 52339. cinnati, Ohio 45230. sides at 104 Stratford Dr.. Richmond, J. C. SIZEMORE, '53, is attending the TED COOK, "56, has been nar i Kv. 40475. University of Kentucky working toward president-elect of the Eastern Alumni - 52, DAVID ROBERT SHOCKLEY. the doctoral degree in education. He also sociation. Ted is presently assistant i- is guidance Junior j counselor, Edgewood has been graduate assistant in the Bureau rector of the Division of Adult Educalji I High School. He resides at 1290 Dolphin of School Services, a research assistant ' as for the State Department of Educatii. St., Surfside Estates. Merritt Island, Fla. in various research programs. His ad- Ted is married to the former Patsy Rji THOMAS MILTON SMITH, 52, is dress is 660 S. Limestone, Lexington. Ky. Back. They reside at 894 Furlong Dr , Police Judge, City of | Richmond, and re- ROBERT C. BUCKLEY, '54, has join- Lexington, Ky., with their childr': j sides at 1 12 Windsor Dr., Richmond, Ky. ed the firm of Applied Data Research, Richard Warren, Jackie L\ nn. and M v KATHLEEN VIRGIN KENNEY. '52. Inc. as manager of the systems develop- Elizabeth. In with his work '56, s is a teacher at the American School. ment. connection dur- HERBERT F. PREWITT, ing the past 9 years. Mr. Buckley was promoted to the rank of Major of e Manila, Philippines. Her husband is with first edition is Biy the American Embassy. They will be in named to the of "Who's Who Army. He married to the former in .Space", a publication listing biograph- in C '• Clark and they reside Bonn. West I

ical sketches of outstanding members of many where he is assigned at the Un :i I childi, the United States Space Commimity. He States Embassy. They have two j C^TD resides at 10310 Antietam Ave.. Fairfax, Gregg and Kim. ' Va. 22030. BETTY B. THOMSON. '59. reside t

PRtSTIGt BEN C. TURPIN. '54. has been pro- Jon-Mar Apartments #35. Route . C30RTPJAITS moted to product coordination manager Greenwood. Ind. 46142. Betty has •! of Hyland Division of Travenol Labor- returned from Germany after teacl atories. Inc. The domestic operating sub- there for the Army Dependent Sch

Porlrait Photographers sidiary of Baxter Laboratories, Inc.. is a the past four years. She now has a f diversified producer of medical equip- tion teaching first grade at Franklin, the Milestone for ment and supplies and specialty chem- diana.

icals. Previously, Ben served for ten ROY C. MAUPIN, "56, has I years as chief medical technologist and named manager, casualty agency, at teaching supervisor at the Lexington Travelers Insurance Companies Jack Clinic, Lexington, Ky, He has been ac- Miss, office. He joined the compan' tive in the American Society of Medical 1956 as a field supervisor for fire Imperial Plaza Shopping Center Technologists, twice serving as chairman marine lines.

of its Advisory Council. He also served WILLIAM DOSCH, '58, is coordi I- I

Lexington, Kentucky ' two terms as president of the Ky. So- or of a new program, at Norwood I h ciety of Medical Technologists. Ben. Shir- School, an "Occupational Work-Exi

60 THE EASTERN ALUM^S ;' :e Program" for youth, partially fi- in music. His wife is the former Gerry reference librarians and specialized re- iced by the State Department of Voca- Rea Brown, who attended Eastern and search personnel. As a result of the sale nal EJucation. The program will af- they reside at 910 Winslow. Carrollton. of the book. AU-American Productions d training and part time employment Kv. 41008. and Publishers has made Mrs. Whalin a students, who. without the opportu- WILLIAM HARRY WAGNER, Jr., ph\sical education editor for the com- ies thus provided, might find it ncces- "61, received his medical degree from the pany. She is married to Robert W. Wha- y to withdraw from school. Bill is University of Kentucky and is a resident lin, son of Mr. Ralph Whalin of Eastern's rried to the former Janet Grant, who (OB-GYN) at Barnes Hospital, Wash- Industrial Arts Department. Their ad- ;nded Eastern, they have two daugh- ington University, St. Louis, Mo. Dr. dress is 31231 Ceanothus, S. Laguna,

5, Robin Jo and Leigh Ann, and reside Wagner and his wife. Sheilagh Ann, have Calif. 92677.

330 Locust Lane. Belleviie. Ky. two daughters and their residence is 727 iHIRLEV TIREY HACKER. "SS, is Cherry Street, Kirkwood, Mo. Eastern Alimini Association's new PHYLLIS JASPER KERNEN, '61 is BLUE GRASS RURAL ond vice president-elect. She received teaching at East Carolina College, Green- ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE degree in elementary education and ville, N. C. She has studied at University ght for two years at Waco Elementary of Kentucky, where she has been accept- CORPORATION ed for doctoral study. She has two sons, lool before turning her attention to " Oicned Btj Those It Serves" l-time housekeeping duties. She is mar- Joseph and James. Serving parts of .seven counties with J to Warden Percy Hacker and has PATRICK J. STIDHAM. ^l, has been dependable, low-cost power. ,ee children: Robert Stephen. Charles promoted to Captain in the United States Reid. active Phone Richmond 623ir)82 lliam. and Daniel An Air Force. He is a fuels officer at Ft. Nifliulasville 885-4191 in or mber and Sunday School teacher Campbell. Ky.. and is a member of the First Baptist Church, she resides with Tactical Air Command which provides GO ALL ELECTRIC!! familv at Route 6. Richmond. Ky. combat reconnaissance, aerial firepower 175. and assault airlift for U. S. Army Forces. iACK HORNFR. "58. is band director His wife is the former Ercia Faye Combs JUDITH KINDRED DELANEY, '63, |Willianison High School. His band, 85 and they have one son. Michael Preston. is supervisor of Hematology Department, nng, has a featured twirler and 8 ma- LEO WHITE. '61. has been employed Grant Hospital Laboratory, Columbus, lettes, and has won nimicrous superior as Sanitarian in the Breathitt Coimty Ohio. She and Wayne reside at 622 jings in state music festivals. His band Health Department. He is married to the Queenswey Drive, Grove City, Ohio IS also rated superior in the Marshall former ETTA DRURY. '60, and they 43123, with daughter, Leah Michelle. jiversity Marching competition in have one daughter, Jennifer. JOHN EDWARD GRIPSHOVER, '63, ntington, W. Va.. and the Southeast- Lt. PAUL F. WILLIAMS. '61. has is an accountant with General Electric. Music Festival in Bristol, Va. The completed a 26-week course in aerospace He is married to the former Patricia id is winner of the State Stage Band medicine and is qualified to be a flight Miracle. They have a son, John Paul, mpetition. having held this distinction surgeon. He is now a key member of the and reside at 7820 Greenbriar, Cincin- ir consecutive years. Jack resides at 8 Navy's aeronautical team. He will be as- nati, Ohio 45243. ;st Ave,. Sixth Williamson. W. Va. signed to the Third Marine Aircraft BOB TERHUNF. '64, was selected '58, 3ETTY CORRFLL VENCILL, Wing, El Tore, Santa Ana, Calif, and outstanding teacher by the faculty of ches at Madison High School. She is upon completion of his assignment their Lexington Junior High School. Besides i3 head instructor of appro.ximately 60 will serve a tour of duty in Vietnam as his teaching duties. Bob is responsible for jure twirling majorettes. The corps has a naval doctor. His wife, the former the audio-visual aids, teaches adidt edu- \)n "Starlettes" named and have par- BRENDA HOLLOWAY, '61, will remain cation classes at Veterans Hospital and jpated in many parades, including the at Green Cove Springs. Fla. (Box 123-41 the University of Kentucky, supervises a (iss Richmond" pageant parade, wear- Riverview Park), where she will teach in children's club and a teenage club. He I their new uniforms for the first time. the Clay County School System. They also manages Casllewood swimming pool ;ty is married to A. RAY VENCILL. are parents of a daughter, Kathleen during the summer. Bob is married to the

I '59. who is head basketball coach at Louise. 2. former Nancy Brown, who attended cdison High. have They two daugh- RICHARD B. GREEN, '62, has com- Eastern, and they reside at 2015 St. Patti Sue and Vicky Ray, and re- pleted his work at the Dental College of Michael Dr.. Lexington. Kv. 40502. e at 113 Divins Court, Richmond, Ky. the University of Kentucky and is now in TERRI GROVES MORRIS. '64. teach- private practice in the Pikeville Medical es classes in remedial and accelerated 1960-1966 Building, Pikeville, Kv. He is married to reading and mathematics at Silver Grove. iARVIN J. DUCKER, Jr., '60. is the former PATRICIA ANN GRIF- Terri's program involves slow and su- fting instructor at the Technical In- FITH. '64, and they reside at 916 Cline perior students in the first eight grades. ite of Alamance in Burlington, N. C. St.. Pikeville 41501. Her husband. DICK. '64, is head basket- and his wife have 3 daughters and FRANK NUNEZ. '62. is head of ac- ball coach and athletic director at the de at 2117 N. Ashland Dr.. Burling- quisitions in the John Grant Crabbe Li- same school, where he also teaches Eng- 27215. brary at Eastern. He and his family re- lish, mathematics, and history. Dick and '.ONALD B. BENTLEY. -60, or Er- side at 107 Divins Court. Richmond Terri have a son. "Richie", and reside at e, Ky., was elected secretary-treas- 40475. 215 Third St.. Silver Grove. Kv.

' of Royal Crown Bottling Co.. Inc. JACQUELINE KEARNS WHALIN. LAWRENCE G. FALK. '64, is em- Whitesburg. having been with Royal '62. is co-author of a publication on phys- plo>ed at Montgomery Wards, Middle- wn since his release from the Army ical education. She is physical education town, Ohio, in managerial training. He 963. instructor a Laguna Beach High School lives at 2908 N. Verity Pkwy., Apt. 20, OHN LOYD. '60, is the newly elect- and wrote the book in association with Middletown. iresident of the Pulaski County Alum- George B. Pearson of San Diego State J. WENDELL ROBERTS. '64. re- association. John resides in Somerset, College. The book is entitled "Reference ceived his Juris Doctor degree of Law

, and is a teacher at Somerset High Index of the Research Quarterly of the and was chosen by Phi Alpha Delta Le- ool. American Association for Health, Phys- gal Fraternity as "Outstanding Senior". AMES F. HACKER, '61, is director ical Education and Recreation, 1930- He resides at 1922 Cambridge Dr.. Lex- pands in Carroll County, and is pres- 1960." It is a source of information for ington, and is employed on the Legal y working toward a master's degree school administrators, teachers, students. Staff, Kentucky Department of Revenue. ii'i4MER,1967 61 DWIGHT DEAN GATWOOD. Jr., NORRIS D. MILES III, '66, who was \yiH}il\-White '64. was awarded a Ihree-year Title IV managing editor with the Eastern Prog- MARTHA ANN WOODS. '66, NDEA Fellowship by George Peabod>' ress while attending Eastern, is teaching Donnie Preston While. Dec. 27. 196i College for Teachers in Nashville. This at Parkland Junior High School. He lives They live at 16 Cameron St., Paris. K' award provides for three years of grad- at 1521 W. Oak St.. Louisville 40210. 40361. uate study leading toward the Ph.D. in RAYMOND T. SCHAAF, Jr.. '66. is Sliiclds-Taliiin Music Education with concentration in a graduate assistant at the University of ETHEL WARE SHIELDS, '64. the area of college teaching. Gatwood re- nhnois. His address is #467. 909 S. 5th Gary S. Tatum. on Dec, 27, 1966, Thi sides in Columbia. Tenn.. with his wife, S.. Champaign. 111. 61820. live at 204 N. 35th St., Louisville. K the former ILENE OSBOUR, "63, and SHARON DONES. '66, teaches at 40212. daughter, Lisa, where he is a member of Masconomet Regional High School in Piigli-Tdtuiii the music faculty at Columbia State Topsfield, Mass. Her address is 12 Or- ELEANOR LYNN PUGH. '67. to I Community College. chard Lane, Lvnnfield, Mass. 01940. JOSEPH MICKY TATUM. '66. on Ja \i ROCKY NIEMEYER, '66, teaches 14. 1967. They reside at Apt. 2116 2 DAVID E. GILLESPIE. 'e.V Route 5. mathematics at Conner Junior High Apt.. Cameron Dr.. Baltimoi Campbellsville. assumed his new duties Cummins where he is also coach of the football Md. 21222. as registrar at Campbellsville College on and basketball teams. His wife, the for- DowJ-Zcll June 1st. He is married to the former H '65, teaches at Boone '63, Rosemary Hancock. In 1966, Mr. Gil- mer GAYLE TOY, GERI LOU DOWD, to Don County High. They live at 3812 Lori Zell, on Feb. 24, 1967. Their address lespie was named first runner-up in the Drive, Erlanger, Ky. statewide Kentucky Outstanding Young 264 Dolphin Wav, Laguna Beach. Cal '66. was 'i Educator competition. CLIFFORD D. CHAMBERS, 92651. awarded United States Air Force Silver Coniwrs-Bennell PAUL E. PONCHILLIA, '65, is grad- pilot wings upon his graduation. He is Carol Conners to uate assistant, working on M.S. and DAVID BENNET now assigned to Davis-Monthan AFB, '66. 26. 1966. They reside at 3 Ph.D. in Plant Pathology at Iowa State on Aug. Ariz, for flying duty with the Tactical 8, Tallahassee. University. He and Janet reside at 1218 N. Gadsden. Apt. E Air Command. 32301. where Dave is enrolled at Florii 4th St.. Ames. Iowa 50010. BARBARA R. OWENS. '66. is now State for graduate work. KENNETH E. ALFREY, '65, is chem- Mrs. Richard L. Hite and resides on Isaiic-Dowiiey ist for Tennessee Eastman Co. He and Route 3. Box 282. Lot CIS. Montgom- '62. to Jei his wife, the former Doris Haney, reside JUDITH ANN ISAAC. ci-v. Ala. 36110. 19. 1966. hoi at 3929 Lvnda Lane. Kingsport, Tenn. Downey on Aug. Their '66. 37664. JOHN BRIGGS KENT. Jr.. 110 is 1511 Venetian Wa\'. Lexington. Ky. East Todd. Frankfort, Ky. is codes spe- Hrouiihlon-Mditiii JERRY LYNN SEAY, '65, is a chem- cialist in the Department of Commerce '. ist for Reynolds Metals. He and his wife, ANNA MARIE BROUGHTON. the former JO NELL "WHITEHOUSE. for the State of Kentucky. to Kendall Martin, on Nov. 24, 19^ '64, reside at 1207 Bourbon, Louisville, They live at 426 Highway Ave., Ludlo Ky. 40213, with their son, Roger David. Ky. 41016. SlaltciY-Clcnu'iils DAVID R. BRYANT, '65. Is employ- I ment counselor for General Telephone MARY VIRGINIA SLATTERY, Co. and resides at 808 Apache Trail. to William Proctor Clements. Jr.. who Lexington, Ky. with his wife, Loretta. attending Eastern. Sept. 3. 1966. TTi Lt. DANIEL E. 'WILSON, "66, mar- reside at 255 Brockton. Richmond. ried Wanda Jane Masters, who attended 40475. Eastern and was head majorette with the >VEDDINGS Folcv-Lciu li Eastern Marching Band, Dan left for McDoHcil-Dciiliin SANDRA CAROL FOLEY. AA '67. service in Vietnam recently and his ad- Lucia Ann McDowell to GAR^' Nursing. to STEVE ALAN LEAC '64, '65. '66. 3. wi dress is Hqrs. & Hqrs. Co., 2nd Brigade, RICHARDS DENTON, on Nov. II. en June 1967. They 25th Inf., APO San Francisco 96225. 1966. They are living in Richmond, Va. side in Knoxville. Tenn., this summ is Steve will additional gradu Wanda is residing with her parents on where Gary employed with Roadway where do h, Route 5. Richmond and will continue her Express. work at the University of Tennessee. Cai'lislc-Dockcl RtmiiC\-Daiii;lH'iiY education at Eastern while Dan is over- seas. JENELLE CARLISLE. '63. and ROB- SYLVIA RAMSEY. '66, to Ron« ERT C. DOEKEL, Jr., '65. on Aug. 15, Lee Daugherty. on April 22. 1967. R( JUDITH LEACH CAUFIELD. '65, 1966. They live at 317 E. Riverside, Jef- aid attended Eastern and is now serv: and Louis are now residing at 8910 S. fersonville, Ind. Robert is a medical stu- with the U. S. Navy. 132nd St., Renton. Wash. 98055, where dent at the University of Louisville. Tiiplcll-Appcl Judith is substituting in the Renton Cn'cii-lVilsiin JANET KAY TRIPLETT. '65. School District, and Louis is working in SHIRLEY ANN GREEN, '66, and Leonard Martin Appel, on April the Quality Control Div. of the Boeing RONALD WILSON, Jr.. '64, on Aug. 1967. The couple will reside in Covi Co. They have one daughter. Lisa Ann. 13. 1966. Ron teaches at the Ohio Col- ton where Mr. Appel is associated w who was born June 29, 1966. lege of Applied Science and Shirley Standard Oil Co. of Ky. JAMES BOUTCHER. '66. is attend- teaches at Highland High School. Ad- ing veterinarian school at Auburn. He dress: 3051 Lindsey Dr..^S. Ft. Mitchell. and Sally reside at Box 81. Lakeshore m Summit Hills HGTS. Ky. 41017. Trailer Park. Opelika. Ala, 36801. Hcnson-SI}ocubcrgcr DOUG HAMILTON. '66, is under- Miss Billie Hensen to JOHN SHOEN- going basic jet flight instruction at the JUNIOR ALUMNI BERGER, '61, on Match 18. 1967. Ad- Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Meridian, A son, James Daniel, Jr., Jan. 15, dress: 60 Edgewood Dr.. Ft. Thomas. Miss. (Training Squadron Nine). His in- JAMES and LINDA HIBBARD N( Ky. struction will include techniques of jet VELL, '62. of Route 5. Box 70N. LI acrobatics, basic instrument flight, radio Funiuni-Pd.'.h'y don. Ky, 40741. instrimient navigation and formation fly- LAURA L. FURMAN. '66. to Larry A son. Don Joseph. Jr.. Nov. 28. IS ing. Also, 200 hours of academic in- Pasley, on Dec. 26, 1966. They live at to JUDITH FRANKLIN LEAR. '62, struction in aircraft engineering, meteor- 310 Wayland Dr., Springdale. Ark. DON JOSEPH LEAR. '59. of Siopij ology, navigation and naval leadership. 72764. Baird Lane. Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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1 A son. Robert Bryan. Sept. 6. 1966. to A son, Michael Alan, on Feb. 15. to MILDRED MASTERS, '40, 1967, a . and Mrs. JERRY WAGNER, "62. David and ARLENE CALICO GATES. teacher in the Lexington City Schools. ry is assistant director of buildings '63. of 1990 Victoria Ave.. Da\ton. Ohio Survivors are her father, 3 sisters, and 1 grounds at Eastern. 45406. one half-sister. RONALD. "60. and FAYE BROWN. .•\ daughter. Mary Clark, on March 2. JASON ROBERTS. '47. Dec. 3. 1966, to . KING, welcomed Karen Lynn on Mr. and Mrs. William Clark Parks. of Stanford, Ky. He had served in the

1. 29. Their address is 5225 Mitchell (MARY JO TREADWAY. '58). Mary Lincoln Co. School system for 23 years. Alexandria, Va. 22.^12. Jo is the second vice president of the CHARLES ALLPHIN. "36, Grant Co. .Alumni Association. The family \ son, Jeffrey Allan. March 22. to Parks school superintendent. Sept. 28, 1966, resides at 200 Burnam Ct.. Richmond. A. '32. MES SEXTON II. '66, and Patricia, ANTHONY HOHNHORST, Ky. 40475. iormer Eastern student. They live at March 29, 1967. daughter, Julie Ann, to '57, 3 Arnold Ave., Fairborn, Ohio 45.^24. A EVERETT. MARGARET MASON COWAN. '55. and DOROTHY OGDFN. '55, of Ferguson, Ky. on Jan. 20. Survivors \ daughter, Joni Carol, Sept. 26, 1966, BICKERS, of 3325 Buffalo Trail, New include her mother, a son. a brother and THOMAS WAYNE WHITAKER. '6.^ .Albany, Ind., on May 2. a sister. 1 JAMIE CORNELISON WHIT.A.- A son. George Nelson, on .April 30. to ORVILLE K. PRICE, '27, Dec. 26, R, '63. They live in Hillcrest Homes. Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE RIDINGS. Jr.. 1966. Mr. Price has been mayor of Er- :hmond. Ky. 40475. '64. of Fort Polk, La. langer. Kv. for several years. \ son. Steven James. Jan. 28. to JIM. A son. Stephen Spencer. Dec. 24, 1966. SADIE RAF JACKSON GIBBS, '11, '64. . and JULIE HOUSTON. to JIM. '57. and PEGGY SPENCER. '58. of Huntington, W, Va. on Dec. 9. 1965. HWIER. They reside at 213 Allison CHEAK. of 321 Sycamore, Elizabeth- SUE V. ARNOLD. '30. May I. 1966, Florence. Ky. 41042. lown, Kv. after more than 50 years of teaching in \ son. William Hanks. Dec. 19. 1966, Kentuck\. and Mrs. Julian P. Hatchett. Mr. MOSS GIBSON WITT. '49. Nov. 4. DNNIE NEVINS. '63). Their resi- 1966. ice is 437 Morgan Ave.. Harrodsburg. HETTIE LEATHERS TRIPLETT, '25, 40330. English teacher at Lafayette High, on \ son. John Thomas. Oct. 11. 1966. to IN MEMORIAM March 8. She was the wife of ISHMAEL I, '56. and BETH BROCK. '58. ALMA MINCH UPTON, '42, March, TRIPLETT. '27, of 1328 Fontaine Road, OYD. of 4126 Hillbrook Dr.. Louis- 1966. Survived by 2 daughters. Kar\n Lexington, and is also survived by a e, Ky. and Susan. daughter, a granddaughter, and a brother.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . .

since retirement. We are 6. No. 1 ) I am sending a check for Message to the Aliiniiii Travel Trailer having the time of our lives! Alumni dues. I am taking this opportunity to thank Dr. Partin, Chaplain, Mildred B. Shaw Martin. Eastern, and its many loyal Delbfrt C. (Ret.) (Class of '64) alumni for the confidence shown in me Lt. Col. of '36) RFD 1, Box 353 by selecting me as the new head basket- (Class P. Drawer CC Alexandria, Ky. 4100 ball coach. I feel humble and grateful for O. Beach, Fla. 32548 this wonderful opportunity. Eastern has Ft. Walton a rich basketball tradition and I shall en- € deavor to uphold that tradition while continuing to have the type of team every To the Director of AIninni Affairs: Eastern alumnus will be proud to call I was amazed and pleased to read To the editor of The Eastern Alinnnns: his own. the university status which Eastern Thank you for the recent edition of reached. I think it is nothing short o support in helping to inspire I solicit your Ahtinniis and the several issues of The miracle — the growth and strides tow, our present players to greater heights, the Progress. I have enjoyed them all a wonderful future that the college : while also aiding in the recruitment of It was very interesting to hear immensely. achieved under Dr. Martin's leadership is always open to new talent. My office of my the news about Eastern and many Margaret Louise Culton you when you are on campus and I will back many former students. It brought (Class of '39) hear from you in re- be most happy to years as a teacher happy memories of my 215 Seventh Street players. Through our North gard to prospective (1962-63). at Eastern Saint .Ioseph, Missouri 64: alumni chapters, we will try to keep you If any of my former students visit Eng- informed about the players we are con- land or are coming to Europe in the fu- sidering. Your words of encouragement ture I'd be glad to see them. to these prospective players concerning At present I am busy writing a book and tJie Director AIninni Affairs: our excellent programs of instruction and To of I hope to re-visit the USA in 1968. With the years thoughts keep wonderful facilities will help us in "sell- Through my best wishes . . . turning to those happy years I spent ing" them on our imiversity. Bernard Aspinwall the campus, I will always be grateful ; Let us all join in making Eastern the Department of Modern History those days and the wholesome influei;; greatest university in the state of Ken- The University of Glasgow of those teachers and other personnel! tucky, both academically and athletically. W-2. Scotland Glasgow. • the administration. Yes, I have and you. • Thank ways will admire and respect those Guy Strong tues which Eastern stood for. The f; young boys and girls I had the pleas;

be precious i To the editor of The Eastern Ahimniis: of knowing will always I was singing) I was back to Eastern this past summer me. Just the other day

myself the first verse of the Alma Ma . To the editor of The Eastern Ahiniiiiis: and was so amazed at the progress in beau- Herman W. Fulkersc I am so happy and proud to see Eastern building. I found everything very (Class of '38) Kentucky University growing so fast. I tiful and look forward to returning again mater. 510 Seminary Square believe it is the best university of them soon. I am very proud of my alma Alton. Illinois 6200 all. Please hold the banner high! Beryl M. Boerner Nora M. Taylor (Class of '61 (Class of '57) 336 E. William St. e Punta Gorda, Fla, Route 1, Erankfort, Ky. 40601 To tlie Director of AIninni Affairs: H I want to express my appreciation to and the Eastern Kentucky Univer,/ extended;) To the editor of Tlie Easlertt Ahiiiuti{.\: personnel for the courtesies To the Director of Aliiiniii Affairs: Thank you for the fine magazine into me and the members of the Classlf I am very proud to be an alumnus of put so much care and effort. 1917. . . . which you Eastern Kentucky "U"! you could have done m It is, indeed, a joy to follow the develop- I do not think Donald B. Boyer record being for our comfort and pleasure. ment of Eastern and the fine (Class of '56) has risen to It was good to see classmates whor made by a classmate who 1765 Delores graduation, also President. I was retired had not seen since the eminence of Livonia, Michigan 48152 progress that from the U. S. Air Force Chaplaincy see again the great Nov. 30, 1965 with 28 years total serv- been made on the campus. yours, Sincerely , ice. My wife and I will very likely settle Kate Carpenter in the Orlando, Fla. area, and do Interim | of '17) Minister and pulpit supply work. I am To tlie Director of Ahiiitni Affairs: (Class Apt Interim Minister in Fort Walton Beach. I am so pleased with the copy of the 271 East Maxwell, Kv, Fla. and we have been traveling an Avion "Year of the LTniversity" (Alinnnns, Vol. Lexington.

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