MSC Could Lose $2.7 Million Ceramics Invitational Being Held In Sykes In Student Financial Aid The works of many of the Nation’s out The higher education budget proposed by total campus. standing ceramic artists and craftsmen will President Reagan could cause the loss of ap College Work Study funds pay the salaries be on exhibition in Sykes Gallery April 1 5 - proximately $2.7 million dollars in student of students employed on the campus. May 9. financial aid at MSC. According to Frerichs, MSC would lose ap The Sixth Annual MSC Ceramics Invitation The estimate was made by acting director proximately $100,000 of the $254,000 it receiv al Exhibition will feature a large display of of financial aid Richard Frerichs who said it ed this year. “That would mean that some pieces spanning the various trends in con is important to remember that the estimated 100 students out of the present 300 on Work temporary work. cuts in aid are based on a budget proposal Study would lose their jobs,” he added. Artists and craftsmen from New Jersey, which is subject to modification by The recent increase in minimum wage, New York, California, Vermont, Indiana, Loui Congress. combined with the cut in aid, would result In siana, Maryland, Montana, and Massachu The MSC financial aid office administers a reduction in the number of work hours setts, as well as Pennsylvania, have been five federal programs in addition to the Penn available to the college next year from 83,000 invited to participate. Most of the some 75 sylvania Higher Education Assistance Agen hours to 46,000. Not only would this hurt stu ceramic pieces on display will be for sale. cy grants. The cuts would come primarily in dent employees, but it would have a dramatic Gallery hours are Monday— Friday 9 a.m. the Basic Education Opportunity Grants (Pell effect on the various departments and of —12 noon and 1—4:30 p.m. and Monday eve rants), and the Guaranteed Student Loans, fices which depend on student help to sup nings 7—9 p.m. The exhibit is open to the hich will be reduced by $500,000 and $2 plement its full-time staff, Frerichs observed. public without charge. Pmillion respectively. Although proposed cuts in the major aid programs would affect many students direct ly, reductions in the College Work Study pro gram would have a far-reaching effect on the
Dr. Duncan Returns to Campus to Give Award Dr. William H. Duncan, president emeritus, returned to MSC recently to present a service award to Dr. Syd Radinovsky, professor of biology and former advisor to Explorer Post 549, the college-sponsored, science-oriented scouting club. Radinovsky was recognized for his service to the club since it began three years ago. This year Radinovsky stepped down from his position as advisor to the Post for 10th-12th graders from Lancaster County. Duncan, a 15-year member of the executive With the help of bricklaying students from The cooperative venture was Leighty’s idea. board of the Lancaster-Lebanon Council of Thaddeus Stevens State School, construc According to Charles Robie, assistant the Boy Scouts of America, presented tion on the new storeroom addition to Roddy director of physical plant, construction of the Radinovsky with a certificate and an explor Science Center is moving right on schedule. 1,000 square foot addition should be com ing key “for service rendered to the college, Students in bricklaying courses at Stevens pleted by early summer. “This cooperative the Boy Scout Council and, most importantly, have been assigned to construct the outer effort could save the college approximately to the young people.” brick shell of the Roddy addition as a way of $13,000 in construction costs,” he added. Duncan added, “He has been at the helm developing on the job training skills, in A letter from Dr. Joseph Caputo to Stevens the exploring post here since its begin return, MSC provides transportation and President Dr. Allen K. Cohen stated, “It is ning. He’s carried most of the burden without lunch. MSC also provides the basic construc indeed gratifying to me to see that our two in much support.” tion materials but students bring their own stitutions can work together in this coopera Replacing Radinovsky as Post advisor is tools and scaffolding. tive venture benefiting the taxpayers and junior MSC earch science major, Kim William Leighty, MSC Chief Designer and a also providing an educational opportunity for Walters. graduate of Stevens, is supervising the work. the students of Stevens State School Staff Activities Ceramic Boat Race ELAINE PEASE, library, presented a slide DR. PHILIP D. WYNN, MURRAY BLOOM, Set for April 24 show and talk on Ireland at the Columbia DR. RICHARD F. DOUTT, DR. DENIS J. Senior Citizens Center March 17. FOLEY, DR. PERRY R. GEMMILL, LAVERNE The campus pond will be the site of t n DR. HAROLD HARRIS, DOROTHY HARRIS, S. HAUCH, KEITH A. LAUDERBACH, RALPH Third annual Ceramic Boat Race Friday, Aprni and DR. RICHARD BLOUCH, counseling W. MILLER, WILLIAM SCHOTTA, WILLIAM 24 at 2 p.m. The public is invited. center, attended a workshop “The Great SKELLY, RICHARD STEINMETZ, PAUL M. Sponsored by the Ceramic Art Club of Debate: How to Help the Troubled College WIGHAMAN, and GLENN HECKMAN, indus MSC, the regatta in past years has attracted Student” at Johns Hopkins University March trial arts, recently participated in the 43rd entrants from the Maryland Art Institute, 26 and 27. International Conference of the American Towson State University, Kutztown State DR. PATRICK COONEY, physics, is the Industrial Arts Association held in Pitts College, Bloomsburg State College, West principle author of a short paper published in burgh. The MSC industrial arts department Chester State College, Beaver College of the January issue of the American Journal of was represented by an educational exhibit Philadelphia and West Chester High School. Physics. The paper describes a convenient staffed by MSC students. An entry from Penn State University is ex numerical technique for solving the one C. J. RANDOLPH, political science, was pected this year. dimensional Schrodinger equation for bound recently the personal guest of the Dean of MSC ceramics professor John Ground states and has prompted reprint requests the Medical School of the University of says it is the only regatta of its kind in the from such places as Argentina and Poland. Virginia and was given a tour of the campus. world and it is always a colorful event. “The DR. JACK CASSIDY, elementary educa Mr. Randolph was accompanied by an MSC boats, which are usually made from clay, are tion, was the keynote speaker at the Michi student. large enough to float a person and many of gan Reading Association in Grand Rapids DOROTHY P. BEAM, music, served on the them are cleverly decorated,” he added. March 10 and the Nebraska Reading Associa scholarship audition committee of the Trophies, ceramic of course, will be pre tion in Kearney March 20. His presentation Musical Art Society for Youth Symphony and sented to the winners of various categories. was entitled “Creative Reading for the Wind Ensemble Camp Scholarships. ‘Abled’ Reader.” He also conducted a work WALTER BLACKBURN, music, will con shop for administrators of gifted programs at duct the Ago Choir Festival at Zion Lutheran Citamard Players the southeastern office of the Educational Church, Lancaster, on Sunday, -May 17. He Testing Service (ETS) in Atlanta March 25-27. will also conduct a performance of the Rehearse “ Joe Egg” Dr. Cassidy recently had an article entitled “Bartered Bride” at the Capitol-Strand Thea “Implementing a High School Tutorial Pro tre in York on Saturday, June 6, at 8 p.m. The Citamard Players will present “A Day gram” published in the Tar Heel Reading WILLIS M. RAPP, music, presented a clinic in the Death of Joe Egg” April 23-25 and April Journal. on marching band and marching percussion 30—May 2. DR. WALTER KREIDER, JR., educational techniques and materials in Anniston, Harry H. Long, well-known alumnus on the foundations, presented an illustrated lecture Alabama, on March 27-28. He was assisted local theatre scene, will be guest director fou “China: Changes in the Middle Kingdom” at by percussion students from Jacksonville the play to be held in the MSC Rafters The
make the military a little more bearable. suggestions. “I wouldn’t be doing my job,” h ^ ^ The new Mrs. Nancy Myer accompanied adds, “if I didn’t do at least these th ra ^ F her husband throughout his four years active things.” duty. Much of that time he was stationed in With the help of his staff—fiscal assistant, the Far East; for one year they lived in Korea Dawn Reese, and student payroll employee, “in a little one-room building with no indoor June Caldwell, Myer “pulls all the pieces plumbing, living off the local economy. It was together” and prepares a budget. He collates an experience,” he reflects, “that was only the college’s total revenue—state appropria slightly more difficult for my wife than for me. tions and income from the basic tuition fee We appreciate things more back home here and room and board—with the projected ex now.” penditures for the coming fiscal year. After After his military stint, Myer returned to the the original budget Is drawn up several “re States and to Cornell University where he budgets” appear at various times throughout became a graduate teaching assistant. Again the year, usually after the fall and spring his wife was with him as were their two infant enrollment figures have been released. sons, Eric and Ethan. (A third son, Scott, is It seems everyone is feeling the pinch of now 2.) Not long afterward he learned he inflation these days, and Myer says colleges “had gained a respect for the teaching pro are not Immune. MSC's income has not kept fession but realized I did not want to spend up with its increased expenses wrought by in the rest of my life in the classroom.” flation. When this happens, it’s Inevitable The Myers moved again, this time back that some cuts will have to be made, but home to Pennsylvania where, in 1975, he where? And how much? Myer is the man who By began work for the State Justice Department must “suggest” the answers. JOANNE McCASKEY in Harrisburg. He worked in personnel admin “In the past, the college has cut every pro Who would have guessed that our istration where he dealt with employee com gram by a certain percentage. And In the last college's budget director is really a Chinese pensations and benefits and labor relations. three to four years, we’ve had to cut pretty linguist with a B.A. in psychology who had Myer supplied the budget director of the significantly our non-instructlonal staff, par but “a couple of accounting courses in col Justice Department with data that the budget ticularly the housekeeping staff.” lege”? director needed to do his job. Myer says such He says our college has a reputation as be Dave Myer, MSC budget director since data shows that 80% of all expenditures are ing “one of the cleanest and best-maintained 1978, might even be able to stump the panel personnel-related costs. of the 14 state colleges,” and adds that “w ^ ^ on “What’s My Line” with that one, but it’s He transferred the following year to an would not like to see the housekeeping se^^A true. Despite the unusual formal-educational other state position—this one landed him in vice cut back much further. backdrop to a career in budgeting, Myer has his old neighborhood, Millersville, where he “But If MSC is cut even further in state worked his way up from personnel admini grew up. At MSC he became the assistant to appropriations and if enrollment declines as strator to assistant personnel director and the personnel director, Dave Vitale, and for predicted, then we will need to look at a dif finally to budget director in just five years. the next year there were two Daves in the ferent approach” as to how to handle cut How did that happen, and whatever hap same office who both had the same military backs. “We may need to look at the services pened to that degree in psychology? Myer security background. The two were both we provide the students. We will need to says not even he ever expected to become a fluent in Chinese Mandarin! decide which programs we want to support Chinese linguist. Here’s how it all developed: While he was assistant personnel director, fully and which ones we may need to elimi The year was 1970. He had just graduated Myer again compiled data for and worked nate.” from Franklin and Marshall College and was closely with Robert Girvin, who was the bud Myer says the Reagan plan to significantly a newlywed when he got the letter which get director for the college at the time. He cut financial aid to students will affect enroll began, “Greetings from the President of the acknowledges his earlier work in personnel ment and mean “hard times” for MSC. Yet, he United States___” So, setting aside any administration as having helped him prepare feels, “If any of the colleges and universities thoughts of psychology research and gradu for the position of budget director which he are going to survive declining enrollments, ate work, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. assumed in 1978 when Girvin retired. MSC will be among them. “I envisioned myself being trained as a “I’m In a very interesting job in that l get “We’re in a good position to survive—good truck mechanic or something, or being involved in the budgeting as well as the geographical location, very good academic assigned to something I really would hate.” accounting, and still do some work In person reputation, good fiscal reputation, basically Instead, the Air Force Security Service sent nel.” He finds “retirement counseling” a very good faculty and administration and him to Monterey, California, to the Defense especially rewarding. Here he meets with col very good cooperation between all the ele Language Institute. There he was taught to lege employees about to retire. He discusses ments of the college community.” speak and orally comprehend Chinese Man with them the retirement system and the He has offered this Myer meteorological- darin, China’s main national dialect, and to benefits they’ll receive, and then processes fiscal forecast for the Millersville vicinity: transcribe tapes of the language. It was a their application for retirement. “Budgetwise, the next couple years do not “top-secret job” which he found “unique.” In his view, the job of any budget director is look extremely bright, but I think we’re flexi He looked upon the training as a continua to 1) find ways to conserve fiscal resources, ble enough to make any adjustments and to tion of his college education, and that helped 2) pinpoint waste in the system and 3) make weather the storm.”