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Eastern Michigan University DigitalCommons@EMU Alumni News University Archives 1971 Alumnus, Fall 1971 Eastern Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news Recommended Citation Eastern Michigan University, "Alumnus, Fall 1971" (1971). Alumni News. 254. http://commons.emich.edu/alumni_news/254 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at DigitalCommons@EMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@EMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1971 FALL EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY CENTRAL MICH MT. PLEASANT MACEXPANSION 148 136 •m•�:. KALAMAZOO Eastern Joins Mid-American Conference Eastern Michigan University competing for league scholarsrups may be awarded at and Central Michigan University championships in all sports one time. ln addition, freshmen were selected July J 5 as the two except football and basketball will no longer be eligible to newest members of the during the 1972-73 academic compete in varsity football and prestigious Mid-American year. Football and basketball basketball and transfer students Conference (MAC). The two competition will be must wait one year, as opposed schools join Bowling Green State implemented as soon as to one semester in the NAIA. C: Uni v e rsity, Kent State schedules permit, probably in In accepting the invitation to fl'ocr, University, Miami University, 1975 or 1976. join the MAC, EMU President � ('.) ·- (Y) f-- <l: .c � Ohio University, the University Long range plans call for the Harold Sponberg commented, <l: ·c f-- 0 0:: OJl (/) of Toledo, and Western Michigan addition of an east grandstand to "Today is a momentous day in �oz Y: oOa.. <i - - University in conference Rynearson Stadium and a new the history of Eastern Michigan ::::i 0 0.. ro � membershjp. I 0,500-seat convocation center University. 0:: ui c·E co c ::: (lJ The MAC is one of 11 major for basketball, concerts and ''We are highly elated and a ::i � a.. :z >- college Nati o na I Collegiate special event s. particularly proud to become a Athletic Association (NCAA) As a member of the MAC, member of the Mid-American Unjversity Division leagues. Each Eastern is required to drop its Conference, an association of of the NCAA conferences membership with the National universities which enjoys a u toma t i caI I y q u a Ii fies for Association of Intercollegiate national academic distinction. post-season "Through our tournaments It is with great pride that I bring to you the news that Eastern affiliation with ..... and champion has been invited to join the Mid-American Conference. Our new this conference, i::: our academic Q) srup meets and affiliation will prove beneficial to all segments of the University E program is 0.. the Mid-Ameri community. Eastern alumni all across the United States will now enhanced and .Q c an football have a sense of cohesiveness in spirit and pride which will make our graduates Q) champion for a better Alumni Association. will enjoy Q) competes greater 0 annually in the The University is looking forward to our new association with acceptance 'v C Tangerine Bowl thjs conference which has demonstrated over the years high throughout the "' nation. V, against the standards of both academic and athletic excellence, ..... champion of the competitiveness and good sportsmanship. "We dare to 0 ·c,; r- believe that we C: ... 0\ Southern ..... Q) - can bring "' .2 > 00 Conferen ce. I am looking forward to seeing you at some outstanding a3 C: C: ,;t d istinction to ex: ;::) Three of the athletic contest in the near future. ;::) "'i::: the conference C: >, i::: MAC grid games through our i::: -� Lonny J. Head E i::: "' .c: are televised s c h o I a r I y ::l Q) -� ·-u nationally each Director of Alumni Relations facu 1 t y, ex - :::0::: .c: � u u � year. cellent students, ... Athletics (NAIA) and affiliate couregeous Board of Regents :E i .... Football, cross country, and superb academic facilities. V, C: C: Q) basketball, swimming, wrestling, only with the NCAA. Standards C) .... "Hence we believe that C) � u .:: ..... "'..., baseball, tennis, golf and of the MAC require that all "' V, mem bershjp will be mutually '-!;:: .c "' 0.. outdoor track are the nine athletes adhere to a projected advantageous. 0 u LJ.l >- conference sports in the MAC. I .7 grade point average and that "We are also proud to join our Eastern and Central will begin only 126 "full ride" athletic (Continued on Page I 0) Page 2 The Alumnus 1 Eastern MOVINGINTO A NEW YEAR 'l WO NEW MEMBERS is always an appropriate time for a need and right to be informed reviewing the past and looking about the academic community Michigan ahead to the future. This past toward which they feel some year was relatively quiet around degree of responsibility and JOIN ALUMNI BOARD campus with the majority of some desire to support. University students and faculty still I extend to you a cordial recovering from the invitation to join us for a wide unforgettable spring of I 970. variety of new activities this Alumni Many tin1es in our year's travels coming year. Also, we encourage we heard alumni comment that your thoughts and comments "It was never like that when I about the campus today. Association went to Ypsi." This, of course, is Lonny J. Head true; however, things have Director, Alumni Relations changed drastically in the last few years on our campus and at OFFICERS other campuses across the nation. While many of the old PRESIDENT buildings such as Sherzer, JAMES RYNEARSON Starkweather and Welch still welcome students and several VICE-PRESIDENT familiar professors still occupy the classrooms, the students are FREDERIC W. BENNETTS greater in number, wear their hair longer, their skirts shorter Judy Bates Jones Vanzetti M. Hamilton SECRETARY and are much more concerned Judy Bates Jones and Vanzetti M. Hamilton are the two newest LONNY HEAD about the major issues of our J. times. So, things have changed. members of the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association, We must now review the role having been elected last May. TREASURER and responsibilities of the ABE KARAM Alumni Association and attempt Mrs. Jones, wife of EMU swimming coach and assistant to bring things back to normal. professor of physical education Mike Jones, graduated from DIRECTOR The function of an alumni Eastern in 1957 with a major in English. While at Eastern, she was organization should be to build a CLARKE E. DAVIS a member and vice-president of Alpha Xi Delta, secretary of the EMERITUS strong and vital relationship sophomore class, social chairman of the Women's League and a between alumni and their alma 1888 - 1971 member of the English Club and Lambda Iota Ta u. LESLIE A. BUTLER It is with great sadness mater. This becomes a difficult that the Alumni Office task at EMU because the Eastern Following graduation, Mrs. Jones spent two and a half years notifies you of the death teaching at Clawson High School. Since then her two sons, Kyle, Michigan University from which of a tremendous leader in BOARD our alumni graduated forty, alumni affairs, Clarke E. 11, and Jay, 9, have oc_cupied most of her time, although she has twenty or even five years ago Davis. He passed away still been able to substitute teach in Clawson, work part time for OF does not exist today except in July 8, I 97 I, after Oakland County as a homebound teacher and offer services as a memory. suffering a heart attack at library aide for the Ypsilanti Public Schools. Currently Mrs. Jones The Eastern Michigan his home in Vermontville, serves as chapter director to the EMU chapter of Alpha Xi Delta DIRECTORS Mich. and is the chief fan of the Huron swimming team. C. Eugene Beatty '34 - Frederic University of 1971 is simply an Born May 3 I, I 888, in institution which most alumni W. Bennetts '42 - Edyth Cole '45 Burnips, Mich., Clarke Mr. Hamilton is an attorney with the local firm of Hamilton do not know. Developments in - Donald M. Currie '47 - Elven Davis enrolled at Michigan and McDonald. A 1949 graduate of Eastern, he was president of Duvall '47 - Clare Ebersole '50 - higher education are occuring at State Normal College in September, 1905. While Pi Kappa Delta, a speech fraternity, and editor of THE NORMAL Vanzetti Hamilton '49 - Lonny such a rapid pace that most NEWS as an undergraduate. He received his Master of Arts in alumni will continue to be on campus he was J. Head '67 - Judy Bates Jones speech education from the University of Michigan in 1952 and his ignorant of them, unless newer president of Phi Delta Pi '57 - Abe Karam '62 - Robert law degree from Wayne State University in 1957. Mr. Hamilton and more effective methods of fraternity, the Chemistry LeAnderson '30 - Olga Madar Club and the Stoic spent five years as a teacher with the Willow Run Public Schools '38 - Arthur Maschke '42 - alumni relations are established. During the weeks and months Society, manager of the and has also worked as a field representative for the Secretary of Valerie Turner Moffett '49 - 1907 football team, State's Office. ahead, we will try to do a better treasurer of the senior Lloyd W. Olds 'IS - James job of bridging the gap in Rynearson '52 - Paul Shoemaker class of 1908, secretary of understanding that exists Mr. Hamilton is active in various civic and community '32 - Robert Sims '52 - Robert the Athletic Association between the University of today and a member of the organizations, including the Ypsilanti Human Relations Smiley '48 - Earl K.