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- ~ BELOIT COLLEGE ~ 0 z ~ ~ ~ UJ ~ ~ :J ~ UJ :r:: ~ THE BULLETIN OF BELOIT COLLEGE SEPTEMBER, 1967 HOMECOMING NOTICE 1967-1968 Be The The 1967 Homecoming mailer Will Year of Science will be sent to alumni, parents and HE focus at Beloit this academic year will be upon Science as friends living in Midwestern states within several hundred miles of the the College begins operations in its new four-million-dollar campus. If you live a great distance T Science Center. Alumni and the public in general will have from Beloit, but plan to be on or numerous opportunities between September and May to inspect the near campus during the Homecom- facilities of the new buildings and to participate in seminars and ing weekend and would like to re- discussions as well as to hear prominent speakers. ceive the advance program, please contact the Alumni Office, Beloit David J. Mason, Assistant to the President, heads a committee College, and a mailer will be sent of faculty and administrative personnel making plans for the year- to you. The limited circulation of long observance. the mailer is due to postal delays Science was stressed from the very beginning 0£ the academic year and costs, plus small attendance by when faculty members gathered September 1 for their annual two- alumni living a great distance from the College. day conference preceding classes. This year's conference was on the computer and visual aids and was held on the campus rather than at College. Camp, Williams Bay, so that demonstrations of Beloit's Joins Board own computer and inspection of new mechanical devices could be used to illustrate some of the possibilities for education in the future. Formal dedication of the science buildings is scheduled in con- nection with the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, Friday and Saturday, September 29 and 30. All facilities of the buildings Student Chairmen of this year's were not to be in full use for some time, although the departments Homecoming activities are pictured started moving from Pearsons Science Hall in August. above, below the inscription at the east end of the new Thomas Chrowder Alumni will have an opportunity to inspect the center during Chamberlin Hall of Science: At the Homecoming Weekend October 27-29, when guided tours will be left, Judy L. Major, Lockport, Ill., and, on the Saturday morning schedule. Similar tours are scheduled dur- right, Robert R. Nielson, Jr., Holden, ing the October 14-15 Parents Weekend program, and other public Mass. Both are members of the Class open houses are planned during the year. of 1968. Appointed during the s u m m e r And Science probably will be the theme in May when the annual months, the chairmen organized their Alumni Reunions are held the weekend of the 17th through the staff and began making the arrangements 19th. that assure returning alumni a good In the meantime, numerous lectures and seminars are being time on the last weekend of October. planned-for faculty, students, high school science teachers, and the Judy is a chemistry major and treas- urer of Mortar Board. Bob is on the general public. A "Convocation Cluster" lecture series on modern Social Board and is majoring in ec- technology and its relation to education also will be featured during . onomics. the year. ANE QUISENBERRYWIRTZ, 1935 N IMPORTANTHomecomingevent J graduate of Beloit, has accepted an You-'re Wanted Here October 27-29 A for all Tekes will be a banquet on invitation to become a member of the Saturday night, October 28, marking the Beloit Board of Trustees, and was to HE last weekend in October will Homecoming Queen. fiftieth anniversary of the establishment begin her three-year term in September. T see hundreds of alumni returning to In the meantime, members of the "B" of Tau Kappa Epsilon on the campus. Mrs. Wirtz lives in Washington, D.C., the Beloit campus in observance of the Club, both undergraduates and alumni, Prior to 191 7, the group had been where she is active in many organiza- annual Homecoming-a custom started will have their annual dinner in Chapin active as a local, Delta Phi Upsilon, and tions and movements. She is a member at Beloit in 1910. Beloit's observance is Hall, including the ceremonies attend- had maintained its house on Emerson of the Executive committee of the Presi- one of the oldest in the nation. ant upon inducting two more alumni Street in the area then known as Hill- dent's Committee on Employment of As usual, football will be in the spot- into the Athletic Hall of Honor. This is crest, until moving to the present loca- the Handicapped, currently serving as light, with the St. Olaf game Saturday an invitational affair. tion at the head of College Street in the chairman of the Arts and Crafts group afternon, October 28, as the principal Following the pep rally, Players will late 1930s. The chapter moved into the of the Women's committee. She heads attraction. Kickoff is at 2 p.m. Re- have a 9 p.m. presentation of their first home built in 1909 as a President's the board of directors of Project Earning served seats are not needed, but alumni fall play, not yet selected. Al Barra- Home and remained there until the pres- Power, Inc., a non-profit corporation wishing to avoid standing in line for ad- clough '47 of the Speech & Dramatic ent house was built in 1957. aiding severely handicapped persons to mission tickets may reserve them in ad- Arts staff will direct this play, which The Anniversary Banquet will be held make and market products of superior vance and pick them up at the Union will have opened the previous week. at Holiday Inn with a social hour sched- design and quality. In this capacity she earlier in the day. A mailer will be sent Tickets may be arranged for in advance uled for 5:30. Dinner at 6:30 will be a supervises the operation of a national out giving further details on this and or may be available at the Scoville Hall stag affair with wives and girl friends of board of directors and three field task other aspects of the weekend, particu- box office. Tekes to have dinner in another room of forces (in New York, Chicago, and Los larly those events requiring reservations. Students will gather at the Union the Inn, Mrs. F . Ramm, the housemoth- Angeles) . Students working with Director of later in the evening for a dance. ~r, acting as hostess. For the past six years she has been Alumni Affairs Joe Kobylka and alumni Saturday morning there will be con- Among the banquet speakers will be active in the Hospitality and Information have scheduled a program that will keep ducted tours of the new Science Center, the national president, representative Service, a group making Washington's visitors busy from their arrival Friday informal reunions over coffee at the, alumni and undergraduates. The hon- 1800 diplomatic families feel more at evening through Sunday morning's wor- Union, and the traditional kaffee klatsch ored guest will be Professor-emeritus home. She is also serving and has been shio service in Eaton Chapel. at the Kappa Delta house. At noon Lloyd V. Ballard '12, No. 1 on the chap- co-director of Widening Horizons, ac- Emphasis will be upon alumni this there will be informal lunches at some ter's roll and a former national officer. quainting teenagers with educational, vo- particular weekend, parents having had of the fraternity houses and at Chapin At least two other alumni, Herbert cational, and occupational opportunities their own weekend October 13-15. Hall dining room. Helble '21, and Charles E. Nieman '28, in Washington. Currently she is on the A special event this year is the 50th Half-time ceremonies at Strong Stad- have headed the national organization. newly-formed Board of Higher Educa- anniversary celebration of Tau Kappa ium will provide entertainment for those Master of Ceremonies for the occasion tion, charged by Congress to found a Epsilon, details of which are given in in the stands for the St. Olaf game. Im- will be Kenneth V. Haagensen '34 of federal city college. She also serves on a separate article. Other Greek groups mediately following the game there will Milwaukee. the Ladies Committee of the Smithsoni- will have entertainments and open be the traditional Dutch-treat party at an Associates. houses at different times, and most of the Beloit Country Club on Riverside Her chief hobbies are "creative stitch- them are notifying their own member- Drive. This will end in time for dinner The Class of 1958 is planning ery" (she designs and makes her own ship. at Chapin Hall, at some of the frater- its I 0th Reunion to coincide with clothes) and gardening. All alumni are asked to register at nity houses, and special class and fra- the October Homecoming celebra- In Beloit, she was active in literary, the Union on their arrival on the ternity dinners. tion. Bob Clarey of Beloit is Re- dramatic, and musical organizations as camous, and to procure there the up-to- At the dinner at Chapin Hall, open union Chairman. Letters giving well as top scholastic achievement and the-minute program schedule for the by reservation to all alumni, Coach Reunion particulars will be mailed membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Her weekenrl events. Norm Amundsen is to be a special guest to Class members. Tentative plans home had been in Maplewood, Mo., un- On Friday night, the usual paiama and will talk on the afternoon game, the include a 7:30 dinner on Satur- til the time of her marriage in 1936 to oarade through the camous and down- season in general.