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MARCH, 1950 Vandeveer Presents Southern With $114,000 i> ire Destroys UI AND SIU SET UP Gives 5,000 CO­OP STATION Trustees Hear Recommendation Southern is joining with the Oil Shares Jeans' Offices University of Illinois in setting up For Med­School and Hospital The personnel deans' offices a cooperative horticultural experi­ Establishment of a two­year basic science medical school and W. W. Vandeveer of Rocky were destroyed when a fire razed ment station here on the South­ the construction of a 400­bed general hospital were among the River, Ohio, president of the he former residence where they ern campus, according to an an­ recommendations laid before the University Board of Trustees at Alumni Association, has presented the University Foundation with have been housed for the past nouncement made at the annual its February meeting here on the campus. Recommendations for the development of training programs 5,000 shares of Ashland Oil Re­ year and a half. meeting of the Southern Illinois for nurses, medical interns and other technical and semi­pro­ fining Company stock, currently The fire which began about 2 Horticultural Society. fessional personnel in the health science fields were included in valued at $114,000, University This is the first cooperative en­ a.m. on Feb. 1 left the house in the report made by Dr. Gerhard Hartman, University of Iowa President D. W. Morris an­ ashes destroying the offices of terprise to be undertaken by the hospital superintendent. nounced Feb. 13. the housing service, testing serv­ two state­supported universitiei. Dr. Hartman was employed in President Morris made the an­ ice and the employment service The announcement was made COUNCIL URGES the fall of 1948 by the State nouncement at a joint luncheon as well as the deans' offices. jointly at the annual banquet of Teachers College Board, then the meeting of the University Board Damage was tentatively esti­ the Society by President D. W. governing board for Southern Il­ of Trustees and the board of the mated by Business Manager Ed­ AREA­WIDE PROGRAM Morris of Southern and Dr. linois University, to make this Alumni Association. vard V. Miles, Jr., Dean of Men In a recent meeting, the execu­ Charles Birkeland, acting head survey, which has required more Income from the gift is ulti­ i. Clark Davis and Miss Helen tive committee of the newly­ of the Department of Horticul­ than a year. mately to be used to provide .­ihuman, dean of women, at $17,­ ture, University of Illinois. formed educational Council of 100 Full discussion of the volum­ scholarships for needy students. ;>00. Miles said the building, a Purpose of the new experi­ for Southern Illinois announced inous report was held during the Pending development of the l\vo­story, residence, was valued ment station as stated in the its support o fthe various educa­ SIU Board meeting today, with scholarship plan, the income, at $13,037. Equipment and office agreement is to provide facili­ tional groups in the area, and it several experts invited to par­ which amounts at the present .supplies lost were valued at ties for carrying out research plans to work toward a total time to approximately $8,000, is ticipate in the discussions, but 33,917. and demonstrations on horticul­ regional program for the im­ to be used at the discretion of no action was tah^n, according to In addition, almost all student tural crops, especially as they provement of education. the University Foundation, al­ Dr. Leo Brown, Carbondale, personal records for the period are related to Southern Illinois. though the donor suggests that it The executive committee a­ j30arcj secretary, who presided .935­1944 were lost, most of which be used to strengthen the organi­ Southern will provide the land, greed one of its first tasks should • L Lhe mee^jng jn absence of are irreplaceable. Most of thejoffices and laboratories for the zation and development of the be to develop a fact­finding pro­ j Gen Robert w Davis, Carbon­ records dating since 1944 were|station under the agreement. In gram to ascertain and correlate j Alumni Association. •­ \lvaged. No academic records dale> chairman addition to a ]ot of land already pertinent facts about educational; Dr. Morri pointed out that ' ere involved, University off­ (available at the south end of •, „_ „ Among those who appeared be­ conditions and needs in the area. 0 . s Mr. Vandeveer has already shown Ws stress, s.nce these are kept, Uie cam lhe Uni, fore the Board to discuss the re­ deep interest in the University's • n the Registrars Office fire­' , . , • in line with this policy, the.,^y.f wore Dr. W. Cordon flar­ ­uannuig to acquire more iand in welfare and in efforts" rc mcrkfe firool vault. council served as a coordinating chief of professional seiv­ he area as soon as possible. the Alumni Association of greater Temporary quarters have been agency at the recent hearing of The Horticulture Department ices, Veterans Administration hos­ service to the University, and i ovided for the offices which for­ the Commission to Study School lot Illinois will furnish personnel, pital, Marion; Dr. Percival Bailey, cited * that the alumni president merly occupied the residence. Thei Problems which visited Southern equipment, facilities and plant University of Illinois Medical has ^ade a number of trips to i^ean of Men's * Office, testing) Illinois Feb. 1. School, Chicago; Dr. Carl Reiliy, the campus this year to plan for material l 1 for J. the 11 station. ICt LclSt service and employment service j ,ai l,,c director of the Health Service greater alumni contributions to spring each are now located in the barracks ' P breeding work and here at Southern; and Dr. W. J the University, and has issued trees were transferred fr0m NOTICE .milding at the north end of the » Tudor, SIU sociologist, who had one publication for alumni and the olne Southern's third annual KDA old football field. The Dean of y station to Carbondale collaborated with Dr. Hartnrm plans others at his own ex­ where experiments will be con­ All­School Variety Show is ap­ ,Von>en and the housing service in making a survey of U. S. hos­ pense. ^ ' tinued. The Olney station will be pearing at the high school audi­ ue occupying the former resi­ (See feature on page 3) closed out in the next two years, torium in Mt. Vernon at 8 p. m., pitals to provide data used in dence at 215 Harwood. drafting the Hill­Burton bill. In commenting on his gift, Mr. leaving the Carbondale station March 23, under the auspices of Fire reports were presented Vanudeveer said, "A great many the only horticultural experiment the Mt. Vernon Junior Chamber "The report made by Dr. Hart­ at a special meeting of the ex­ man was most comprehensive, students in this area have not o' utive committee of the Beard station in Southern Illinois, ac­ of Commerce. been able to attend Southern or and we are grateful to nim for his of Trustees on Fee 4 ar.d be­ cording to Dr. Birkeland. any other institution because of fine presentation, as well as to Jore the entire Board on Feb. 13. Projects will be carried on co­ ing of peaches, apples and pears; lack of finances. It is for that operatively under the new set­ but the area will be used also the other authorities who con­ Like other temporary struc­ particular use that this fund is up wherever possible. Most of by other divisions of the Horti­ tributed to our discussion today," : iires pressed into educational being set up. the work planned so far will cen­ cultural Departments for their Mr. Brown said. "The discussions service, the former residence had "This will only go a short way ter around experiments on breed­experimental work. lasted too long for any action to to meet the demands of worthy been inspected by the State Fire be taken today, but we were all Marsna! and all teasible precau­' young people in this region, but agreed that the need for a nurses 1 feel that this donation is being iions taken to guard against fire! training program is our No. 1 and other hazards, University! made to a good cause, in line need in this area." 'resident D. W. Morris said. wJh the fundamental objectives — + Land Acquisition Approved of the SIU Foundation." The Board authorized Universi­ During the Alumni Association . WElDMAN CONCERT ty officials to proceed, to acquire board meeting held earlier in the certain lands needed for the Uni­ day, Mr. Vandeveer announced OANCE HERE MARCH 2 versity's immediate building pro­ that he would defray for one year Charles Weidman, one of the gram and for expansion of the the expenses of employing an ex­ most, important 'figures in Ameri­ j University farm, and authorized pert to organize and develop the can concert lance, is bringing his President D. W. Morris to make alumni records in the Alumni Lji'oup of dancers to Southern for application for Federal funds un­ Service office, as one means of a public performance on Thurs­ der Public Law 352 to aid in de­ expanding and developing the day, March 2, at 8 p. m., Dr. fraying cost of architectural plans Dorothy Davies, chairman of the for University buildings. women's physical education de­ The Board approved recom­ . .. j oe establish' partment, has announced. ­ mendations of the Graduate Stud­ ed to purchase and serve only The Weidman dance concert is ies Committee and the President Grade A milk. being sponsored here by the phys­ that the graduate curricula in Report of the Board's executive ical education department and the microbiology, sociology and zo­ committee, headed by O. W. I­y­ University lectures and entertain­ ology be approved as curricula erla, of Herrin, on a hearing ment committee. leading to the master of arts and conducted Feb. 4 on the fire Mr. ­Weidman was formerly a the master of science degrees. which demolished a former resi­ member and later soloist of the Designation of Robert L. Gal­ aence used as offices for the per. dance company of Ruth St. Denis legly, chief accountant, as as­ sonnel deans ar other student and Ted Shawn. In 1928 he and j sistant to the business manager, life services was accepted. Whil< Doris Humphrey, also a former was approved, as wa the assign­ no criticism of previous precau. Denis­Shawn soloist, opened their ment of Bruce Benedict, formerly tions was made, the Board aU' own dance school and formed auditor, to the position of chief thorized further tightening O! their own concert group. accountant. These changes were fir­ prevention measures, includ In 1947 Mr. Weidman was made to permit Business Man­ ing more frequent checks of tern awarded a Guggenheim fellow­ ager Edward V. Miles, Jr., to de­ porary buildings and additional ship with which he created his vote his time to the handling of training for physical plant per­ new ballet, "Fables For Our the University's land acquisition sonnel. Time," based on James Thurber's program. The Board's March meeting wil stories. The program also adopted a be held March 27, Dr. Brow! policy authorizing the residence said. At that time it wiB At present he is choreographer Firemen fight the flames at the former residence of 305 W. Har­ consider a report of a ^ lor the New York City Center wood which housed the deans' offices. Damages were estimated hall, the Cafeteria, the Canteen com­ (Continued on page 2) Opera Ballets. at $17,000. and any other University food 2 HE SOUTHERN ALUMNUS The Southern THIS IS YOUR Reunion Clases Attention!! Alumnus Expert Advice ALUMNUS By JOHN MULKIN By Bill Price Published monthly by the Beginning with this issue, the Southern Illinois University In­ We consulted an expert the Southern Alumnus will be pub­ Are you a member of the class of '00, '05, "10, '15, '20, '25 '30, other day. He's a very friendly lished monthly. We believe that '35, '40, or '45? Then 1950 is YOUR Reunion Year. The second formation Service and the Office week in June will be the time for those lawn parties, noonday of Alumni Services, Carbondale, fellow and has taught a lot of by converting to a monthly news luncheons, and sundry other get­togethers. These daytime gather­ Illinois. Southern students about trees of the University and of the ings will be climaxed with the evening alumni banquet, at which Entered ao second class matter, and flowers—but if you've been alumni will be more timely when officers and Alumni Board members for 1950­51 will be elected. Dec. 1, 1939, at the Post­office at around the University in the last it reaches you. June seems quite distant, but if we are to make 1950 the banner Carbondale, Illinois, under the fifteen years you probably know By converting to news stock, year in class reunions, we should be making plans now. Details Act of August 24, 1912. Bill Marberry, Class of '35, and we will be able to send you 24 for the various reunions are now being worked out and will be you probably know that he's a pages of news for the price of 12 published in forthcoming editions of the Southern Alumnus. Editorial Board pretty good authority when it on the slick paper which we have However the files of the Alumni Office are not complete and the Mrs. Maxine Blackman, '47, comes to putting out the straight addresses of many members of the above classes are missing. been using. This means twice If you know the whereabouts of any of the members of our Editor information about plants, from as much information about what dandelions to orchids. reunion classes published below, please notify the Alumni Office. Norm Nilsson, '50, Sports Editor is going on at Southern and how To really have a successful reunion all members of the class should Marjorie Enrietto, '46, Well, Bill says that spring is the alums are faring from Ha­ be there. We enlist your help in finding these "lost" alumni. Alumn' Personal Editor for sure on its way. He bases that waii to Alaska. Let's make these reunions the greatest yet by having 100 per cent statement on the fact that things In order to fill these pages attendance. Director of the Information are beginning to grow. He even with interesting features, it will \ Service explained a little further. He be up to all of you to lend a help­ LOST ALUMNI Ber. F. McCre" y ^ Ivbrena Druramond pointed out that when the con­ ing hand or an able pen. It is Zilpha B. McKinney ditions are right, things just can't impossible for the Alumni Servic­ 1880 Bertha McNeilly Director of Alumni Services keep from growing, and that's the es to find out about the great Louis Heitman Theodosea Meng Dr. Orville Alexander, '31 reason, regardless of Napoleons honors that have been bestowed Henry A. Kimmel Nora Monroe or hydrogen bombs, spring just upon you or your family unless Wallace E. Mann Lucy Moore. Alumni Association Officers keeps coming each year, century someone volunteers the necessary Frank P. Rentscheler Stella M. Norton 1949­50 after century, and things just 1885 Anna Pinkerton President details. If you are taking a trip, keep growing. getting married, having a baby, Ida Buckley (Mrs. G. W. War­ Roberta Robertson W. W. Vandeveer, '09 Wait a minute! We don't be­ getting a promotion, or making ner) Henry Shrey 21620 Avalon Drive grudge you the opportunity of history with an atomic baby sit­ Tilman A. Lancaster Minnie E. Stalions « Rocky River 16, Ohio being a philosopher, but we ting device, your fellow alumni 1890 Gladys Mary Steel Vice­President started this line of thought so would like to know about it. John Charles Bain Hilleary Talbot Dr. C. M. Brooks, '22 you can at least give us first If you are too modest to tell Kate Hackney (Mrs. F. O. Elizabeth E. Walker 915 W. Main, Carbondale crack at the more obvious con­ us that you have just been voted Rogers) Lillian Warnecke Secretary clusions. Minus our grey beard, the president of the barber­shop 1925 Mrs. John Lewis, '32 we have a few ideas on which we Fountain F. Sams leg­watchers, then write about Grace W. Anderson 510 W. Walnut, Carbondale would like to air our views. Ann Eliza Torrance the alum friend whose name is 1895 Eddie A. Brayboy In case a couple of you don't connected with the legs. Mary Davidson (Mrs. J. Tay­ Mary Browning know, conditions are getting Trustees Hear TELL US WHAT YOU WANT lor) Nellie Carson "darn" right around the alma Recommendations FOR THIS IS YOUR ALUMNUS! Thomas J. Haney Clarence D. Connaway mater that a lot of you used to Vesta P. Connaway (Continued from page 1) refer to as "The Normal." Things Cora E. Nichols (Mrs. David E. Eric Craven in Marberry's field might grow Lab anymore. Within a few yards O. Jones) mittee on proposed rules and Miriam Rosamonde Doolittle a little faster, but then, after of the new boiler plant, a founda­ John E. Patterson regulations and by­laws for the tion is being laid for a new build­ Myrtle L. Sowell Helen A. Duty Board. These rules and regula­ all, spring only builds things to last for a few months. The con­ ing to house the service shops. Mable Clare Yourex Carrie Grantham tions are being drafted by Board crete that's being poured on all But most important of all, 1900 Nora M. Hall members John Page Wham of the newly acquired acres of Sou­ come spring, that growing routine Beulah Besse (Mrs. R. H. Sheri­ Robert Hartley Centralia and Guy Gladson of thern Illinois University is going we keep talking about is going to dan) John Hayden Chicago, working with Dr. Ar­ to last for quite a while longer assert itself in excavation for a Andrew Duff Hartwell Eula E. Henderson thur J. Klein, dean emeritus, than the rose. brand new library building. You Nora Stewart (Mrs. Jesse Mit­ Evaline S. Henson Ohio State University, who has Well, there's our point. It has know what we mean ? In case chell) Ruth H. Jenkins been serving as consultant to the taken a little time but now the some of you didn't get around Carrie Jones University on internal organiza­ 1905 Lucinda Jones (Mrs. Kevrins) ' conditions at your University are to finding out what it is when J. LaFaette Parks tion and development. you were in school, a library is Flossie Logan right and things are really grow­ 1910 Present for the meeting a thing we call a wonderful in­ Herman C. Luse ing. There's quite an impressive Russell E. Brown were Dr. Brown, Mr. Lyerla, Mr. building being completed on the stitution after we get our degree. Sarah L. Mayer Minnie J. Carruther Wham, Mr. Gladson, Lindell W. hill just behind a place where a Cecil A. Miller Now, now, you cynics, don't you Elizabeth Davis Sturgis of Metropolis, Kenneth lot of you used to drink a coke Finley P. Morse dare sit back and say "So what." Marie Grater (Mrs. Harlan Be­ L. Davis of Harrisburg, and Ver­ between classes. People have Elouise C. Price Along with all the concrete and dell) non L. Nickell, state superintend­ waited for the new training Alexander Rice bricks, a lot of other things have Julius Harrell ent of public instruction and ex­ school for a long time; it's finally been growing around here. In­ Marie A. Shannon 1915 officio Board member. Also pres­ going up, so conditions must be stead of only one degree, the Mildred Stephenson Alta Mae Barrow ent ­were President Morris, Dr. right. chairman of the Board of Trustees Livingston Taborn Glenn A. Butler Charles D. Tenney, administrative That's not all! There's a new now gets to make little confer­ Alice W. Vessell Orous Leach assistant to the president, and boiler plant behind the football ring speeches about seven de­ Helen Walter Charles Martin Business Manager Edward V. field. It has a coal storage bin grees. You know what that Celeste White Viola Pearl McLaughlin (Mrs. Miles, Jr. . that holds 500 tons—uh, that is, means? It means that the time Leroy H. Wiley John W. Bain) Hartman Reports Deficiency when John L. and the physical you spent here is worth more Mary E. Wilson plant get together. Carpenters Lucy D. Miller (Mrs. Car] In his report, Dr. Hartman now than when you trudged the Lottie P. Wood and plumbers aren't going to be halls of Old Main. That goes Roberts) cited figures showing the defi­ * * • in the basement of Parkinson for '49ers too. Emilie Milligan, Mrs. J. B. By­ ciency of hospital service in the ars) Paul V. Dunn Southern 31 counties of Illinois, Everything's growing. The fac­ Florence L. Graves (Mrs. Mc pay patients and 15 per cent ulty numbers over 300, students Herman Reilin^ and the even more acute shortage Arthy) for full­pay patients. He stressed over 3000, and our alumni files Anna Gertrude Samson of trained nurses. Willard R. Henson the inability of small hospitals, have practically tripled in the Fred W. Samson He reported that only 16 hos­ such as those in most Southern Bessie R. Smith (Mrs. Hendrix) Abigail H. Wood pitals are available in Illinois, last three years until we now Illinois communities, to care for have approximately 11,000 alumni Genevieve Smith (Mrs. Spence) 1930 and only seven nursing schools are any heavy load of indigent pa­ listed. There's more. Take a look Estelle Yewell (Mrs. Folta) Lucille Barbee " operating, while 90 accredited tients. at this paper. No, not just what Edna Zuck Florence A. Baumann nursing schools are operating in In his report Dr. Hartman es­ you're reading. We mean all 1920 Maudie M. Bell the entire state. Southern Illi­ timated cost of the proposed gen­ eight pages of it. You're going Mary C. Andrews Mildred Bell nois nursing schools have jnly eral hospital would be approxi­ to get it every month now instead Elmer C. Belford Gladys Billingsley 273 students enrolled, or 4.4 per mately $7,220,000. If the proj­ of every three. There's more, Grace M. Blair Fay Boren (Mrs. Floyd Mus­ cent of the 6,763 total for the ect were expanded to provide more that we can tell you and Lois Butler grave) state. By contrast the Southern housing for nurses, interns, resi­ more that we don't even know Ruby Cerney (Mrs. Ralph B. Thelma Brandon 31 counties have 12V". per cent of dent doctors and out­patients, the about, but you get the idea. Vanston)) Florence E. Brock the State's total population, the entire cost would run to approxi­ Which brings us right up to V. Holeman Crest Juanita Clanton (Mrs. Moore.) report showed. mately $9,920,000, he said. the point where the bite comes Wm. Floyd Davis Anna Coffman At present there al'e only 1,000 Wilma H. Dieckman Mary L. Crawshaw "acceptable" hospital beds in the David H. Fischel Everett M. Crossin hospitals in Southern Illinois, the Wilson Halter Helen Dawson survey showed. The Illinois Hos­ MEMBERSHIP BLANK Bertha Holaday Doris Day pital Survey and Plan provided Frankye G. Flicker Southern Illinois University Caroline Holaday in Public Law 725 calls for 2.5 Juel Jackson Holmes (Mrs. Cal­ Alma Forbes beds per 1.000 population in rural Southern Alumni Association len Tjader) Lenetia T. Foree areas and four beds per 1,000 pop­ Beulah Fox Carbondale, 111. Flora Cathryn Hood ulation in centers of 25,000 to! Mary L. Marshall Virginia L. Frank 100,000 population. i I would like to become a member of the Southern Alumni Irene Friar To meet this standard, Southern} Association for one year. in. All this growing ought to be Lois Frick (Mrs. Spurgeon Mc­ Illinois would require 3,685 beds, worth $2.00 to you. Two bucks Donald) the report pointed out. Thus • Enclosed find dues—$2.00 pays your Alumni Association Evelena Galbraith there is a short' 2 of 2,683 beds. • Bill me later dues for a year, and by golly, Sibyl C. Garrison Additional hospital facilities under you can't spend two dollars much Marie Gartner construction or projected would better. Now don't get us wrong. Rosemary Gunn reduce this shortage to 540 beds j Signed. If you will have to give up eat­ Judith L. Hancock and the proposed 400­bed hospital j (name) (class) ing for a couple of days in order Gladys Hanna (Mrs.Olma Kin­ t Southern Illinois University j to join the Association, we don't cheloe) would bring the area almost up! want your money. But "for the Wilson L. Harland to standard. (street address) other 99.9 per cent of you, send Mary Heern Dr. Hartman recommended that the two. If you send it in March, Audrey B. Heustis 60 per cent of the beds in the pro­ in April you'll nevr know you | Marie E. Hoffman posed University hospital be al­ (city) (state) missed it. i Emma Irwin located for the care of indigent CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT, j Mary W. Johnson patients, 25 per cent for part­j HELP THINGS GROW! j (Continued on page 3) 3 Alum Receives First PH. D. In Recreation Indiana U. MARCH CALENDAR March Awards Degree 1—Kappa Delta Alpha Va­ The first man in the history riety Show. of education to receive the degree 2—Charles Weidman Dance known as Doctorate of Recreation Group. is Southern's own William H. 3—Southern vs. Illinois Wes­ Freeburg. leyan. 7—White County Alumni "A ball of fire on the athletic meeting, Carmi. field, a great sport, very well 10—Spring Vacation begins. mannered and extremely courte­ ous, and a charming personality," Midwestern Conference are the characteristics attributed of International Rela­ o Bill Freeburg by the man who tions Association. probably knows him better than 14—Wabash County Alumni anyone else, Glenn "Abe" Martin. Meeting, Mt. Cai'mel. University Madrigal Con­ Bill's successful rise from an cert, Mt. Carmel. orphan boy in Princeton to Doc­ 20—Registration for Spring tor of Recreation and instructor Term. at Southern is attributed to not 23—Alec Templeton in Com­ one, but a combination of a num­ munity Concert. ber of characteristics. The fact BILL FREEBURG 28—Margaret Webster's that he was always so aggressive Shakespearian Players on the athletic field is indicative all­time football greats. Had in "Julius Caesai*. of one reason for his success. But contact lenses been in use then, also he was, at all times, a great Freeburg would be wearing even sport. As "Abe" put it, "He is greater laurels today. the type that would hit you so His color­blindness was the ob­ LOST ALUMNI hard he'd jar you loose from ject of many chuckles for Mrs. your football helmet and then Continued from page 2 Martin, who tells of '"some of the reach over and pick it up for most outlandish color schemes Pauline H. Karraker you. He couldn't be any other you ever saw" that became a part Hettie Keown way." of Bill's dress unless she or one Edith A. Kidd "Abe" Martin got to know his of the boys picked out the ties, Chloe Koons friend Freeberg inside and out shirts and suits in colors that did Rosa L. Lamb during the six years that "Abe" not clash. Helen C. Lambert served as his coach. They first "One of the things about Free­ W. W. VANDEVEER Josephine A. Lauder met at Princeton, when Bill was berg that used to worry me," Grace E. Laughman a senior in high school and captain \be commented, "was the seem­ Martha E. Lillard of the football team and "Abe" ing inability of Freeberg to get Susie Lyons was coach. in a hurry about anything, but he Vandeveer, A Great Salesman Golda Martin Little did anyone imagine that troleum industry committees and As might be expected, the coach does get things done." Gwendolyn Mathis and the captain of the team be­ one of the members of the class from 1943 to 1945 served as Di­ Alice M. Morris It has taken Bill five years of 1910 would sell himself into rector in Charge of District II, came close friends. Bill, who to get his doctor's degree, but his Helen L. Morris then lived in an orphan's home, the presidency of an oil company comprising the 15 midwestern Helen M. Nelson work created great esteem at and yet that is the story behind states, for the Petroleum Admin­ occasionally stayed all night at Indiana University where the de­ Bernadette O'Brien the coach's house. Then when one of our alumni who reached istration for War with headquar­ Dorothy M. O'Leary gree was confe red in February. Martin became assistant football The Univerity examining commit­ the top. ters in Chicago. Mary E. Pope coach at Southern the following tee stated that it considered his Born on a fcirm near Haub­ At the present time he is a di­ Vivian A. Randolph (Mrs. year, Bill entered the University stadt, Indiana, on Feb. 16, 1887, rector of the Ashland Oil and Charles Reeves) dissertation to be one of the a freshman. finest ever to be presented at W. W. Vandeveer's first attempts Refining Company; American In­ Mary B. Rogers at the art of salesmanship were dependent Oil Company; Toledo, In the years that followed, the Indiana. Marie Rushing young student stayed with his not always too encouraging. Guy Peoria and Western Railroad; and Lucille Saunders Viewing Bill Freeberg's high Gladson, former classmate of the American Petroleum Insti­ coach and worked for his room achievements from any angle, you Jessie Schunhoff and board. The relationship be­ "Van" and now a corporation tute; a member of the National Lucille Smith can never arrive at the conclu­ lawyer in Chicago, relates an in­ Petroleum Council; and chairman tween the two approached that sion that he has had an easy Marie M. Smith of father and son, as Bill con­ cident that occurred around 1909 of the National Petroleum Coun­ Myretta Smith time. His story could be pre­ while they were students at cil's Committee on Survey of tinued to be an outstanding ath­ sented as the typical success stor« Ruth K. Smith lete under Martin's guidance. He Southern. Manpower. He is also a member of an industrious American who Helen Talbott participated in varsity football It seems that "Van" had de­ of the 25 Year Club of the Pe­ Mary B. Tenekot quite literally "made his own troleum Industry. for three years and was named way." Hard work has opened the cided to increase his cash assets Beulah M. Thomas captain during his junior year. by selling a publication called He belongs to various social Ruth Tregoning way to his present position. His He won the intramural boxing first two years at Southern, he the Century Book of Facts, a book clubs and is a life member of the Anna W. Tunison championship twice and was out­ which may be familiar to many Southern Alumni Association of William C. Tygett worked in a local restaurant as standing. in gymnastics. a dishwasher, waiter and finally of you. He journeyed to Hills­ which he is president. Vivian Wakefield 'Abe" says that only the phys­ >oro with hopes of fame and for­ The Vandeveers live on the Mabel Whipkey cook. For the next two years, ical handicap of poor vision kept he pushed a mop as a campus une, but had to hock his watch banks of Lake Erie at 21620 Ava­ Margaret F. Woods Bill from becoming one of the ro a barber to get out of town. lon Drive, Rocky River, Ohio, • * • janitor. H<~ has a farm in Medina, Ohio— While attending the University Perhaps the book­selling exper­ Raymond Akin Emery Howard Chandler the Wilda Ruth Farm, which was of Illinois, where he received the iment spurred him on, for after Mildred E. Becklong Gerald Wm. Davidson named for his wife whom he master's degree, he sold sport­ only five years with Goodrich Charles M. Benson Frank E. Davis married in 1919. They have two Mary Buckner (Mrs. Newell ing goods in a sport shop. At In­ Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Eleanor Etherton diana he served as supervisor of children, James W. Vandeveer Wilton) Ohio, he was made supervisor of Alene C. Galbreath the counselors of the dormitories and Mrs. Ruth Shropshire. C. Ray Chrisman the Sales School, having been » Jessie Gardner there. leading salesman during the five Inez Coffey Nedra Goggin (Mrs. Fred L. Freeberg's only comment was, years. FORMER GRAD TO HEAD Zenobia Easley Fox) "I have always had an interest Emma Viola Francis After leaving Southern in 1910, WEED CONTROL Naomi G. Hall in recreation and its possibilities Margaret L. Glover (Mrs. Han­ he taught school for three years Lewis W. Hoover in connection with education. It Howard L. Yowell, 1938 grad­ son) and then worked for the Western uate of Southern, was elected Lorean Mayor has always seemed to me that Union Telegraph Company for James A. Hook Eugene C. Schilling many of the things that are now president of the Northwestern Geo. W. Karraker four years. A very serious acci­ Weed Control Conference for the Irene Sumner taught in classrooms could best be dent interrupted this work and Milton Keene Mary L. Williams taught out or doors." year 1950 at a recent meeting Opal Kern he was hospitalized for a year. 1940 At the present time Dr. Free­ at the Hotel New Yorker in New Ruth Moore It was at this time that he en­ Harold Michael Aramovich berg lives with his wife and* two York City. Melvin G. Randall tered the sales field for Goodrich Approximately 360 research Richard Balotti small daughters, Ann, age 4, and Oraer A. Robinson and later in 1922 became a sales­ scientists from federal and state Elizabeth Brocket (Mrs. Mede­ Susan, age 2, at 821 S. Illinois Gertrude Smith man for the American Petroleum agricultural experiment stations dith Kershaw) Ave. Mrs. Freeberg is the for­ Virginia Claire Walker Company at Cleveland, Ohio. and industrial laboratories located Paul G. Budy mer Willabel Fraseato of Swan­ Emma Wiggs On June 15, 1925, he began to in the thirteen Northeastern Alonzo V. Crim wick, a student at Southern in Ray A. Williams states were present at the meet­ Glynn Latham Gibbons '43. sell for himself and founded Al­ 1935 lied Oil Company, Inc. He was ing. Mabel R. Harbison Mildred I. Burks president of that organization un­ Yowell, a member of the staff Wilma J. Hefner Ray Clifton Vernon Mary Coggins ti1 Aug. 3, 1948, at which time of the Chemical Division of the William E. Holaen Please notifly the Alumni office Standard Oil Development Com­ Harvey B. Creed Edithe L. Hudgens if you know the addresses of any Allied Oil was merged with the Dorothy Dudley (John R. Reed) pany, holds the doctor's degree Mildred Mabel Lemmel or all of the "lost" alumni men­ Ashland Oil and Refining Co. of Rose M. Freudenberg in chemistry from Ohio State Mary H. Miller tioned above. Ashland, Ky. Nina R. Gardner Mr. Vandeveer has great cause University. Sophia J. Neal LET'S MAKE THE '50 CLASS to remember his school teaching Formerly from Carlinville, he Golda Harmon Tim O'Donnell REUNIONS THE BEST EVER. William G. Hutchcraft days which followed his course now lives at 212 Hyslip Avenue, Emmet Radcliff « — Eunice McCree (Mrs. John at Southern. He took a lease on Westfield, N. J. Roy Evelyn Stallings Mrs. Margare Krysher Love­ land near the school which he Stephens) Thurman Melvin Travelstead lette, a 1933 graduate, has aa Fern T. Nichols article, "Little Clock Rabbit," in taught in Fairfield, and some Thanks go to Albert B. Ede, 1945 of his best wells were brought Roberta K. Norton (Mrs. Nich­ Euline Dallas (Mrs. Robert A. tl»e January, 1950, issue of Amer- of Cobden, D '32, who has sent ols) ican Childhood. Mrs. Lovelette was in on the path over which he a number of old catalogs which Wilson) walked to school daily. Mary F. Smith Kathryn Armenta Jones formerly from Cobden. were asked for in the last • • • . « — During World War II Mr. Van issue of the Alumnus. Zidania Francis Ogden deveer served on numerous pe­ Thelma R. Belford Howard Rudolph Peters Boost Southern! 4 THE SOUTHERN ALUMNUS

'NIVERSITY SPONSORS Third Rotary Scholarship DEANS OFFER j VACATION TOUR Board Approves COUNSELING TO HIGH Service Frat An eight­day tour to New Student Studies Here Orleans and the Gulf during SCHOOL SENIORS Faculty Changes spring vacation is being sponsored Conducts March by the University. High school seniors who wish to Faculty changes at Southern become better acquainted with i Faculty, students, employees, Of Dimes approved by the Board of 'their families and friends have college life may do so by par­ Trustees at its recent meeting been invited to take the trip at a ticipating in a broad program of Three hundred and fifty dollars here included the following: cost of less than $70. advance counseling which is now were collected during the fourth Appointment of Robert W. Mc­ being offered for the first time Mrs. Olive Webb, faculty assist­ annual March of Dimes drive Millan as assistant professor of by the personnel deans at Sou­ conducted here at Southern by art. Mr. McMillan received iiis ant in the President's Office who thern. planned the tour, is also getting Alpha Phi Omega, service fra­ bachelor's degree from Southern This program will be offered to ternity on the campus. information about other interest­ and his master's from Columbia all Southern Illinois high school ing tours which may be made dur­ The A P O members at University, and has done doctoral seniors regardless of where they ing future vacation periods. Southern each year conduct the­. study at the State University of plan to attend college. It will March of Dimes drive. This Iowa. He has had five years' ex­ include special interest tests to year they constructed a holder perience as director of art edu­ Change Requirements aid the student in selecting his for the dimes and ran it from the cation in the Belleville public exact field of study, information main gate to the steps of Old schools. For Master's Degrees concerning general college re­ Main, a distance of 200 feet. They Temporary appointment of Dr. quirements, and extra pointers on succeeded in having a complete Eugene Fitzpatrick as assistant At the February meeting of finances and extra­curricuiar line of dimes ,ie ••ontai'ner professor of guidance and special MANUEL DE EZCURDIA the Graduate Council, recom­ activities. which added up to $300. Fifty dol­ education to serve from now mendation to the administration Recipient of the Fourth Ob­ Parents are invited to accom­ lars more were also collected through the summer term. Dr. that the present blanket require­ ject Scholarship Fund of District pany the students, for, as the among student organizations. Fitzpatrick holds the master's de­ ment for a thesis of all master's 149 of the Rotary Clubs, Manuel deans pointed out, if the This figure, although more than gree from the University of degree candidates be modified de Ezcurdia is currently study­ parents are well informed as a dime per student, is slightly Kansas City and the doctor's was approved. ing at Southern with the avowed to the nature of the student's less than the $360 collected last degree from the Colorado State The council adopted a motion purpose of learning English. new environment, there is a bet­ ' ear. Collect of Education. "that each candidate for the The 24­year old Mexican has ter chance that the college career Temporary appointment of Roy master's degree shall write a set his goal at obtaining a doc­ will be a greater success. Meyer as instructor in geography thesis, which may be counted for tor's degree in international law Four Faculty In "Who and geology to serve uniil May For several years, the Uni­ not more than nine or less than in this country after which he in­ versity has carried on a program 19 and again in the summer term. five hours' Credit, or carry out a tends to return to Mexico and Knows — and What" Mr. Meyer holds the master's de of counseling for students who are special project, or take extra enter the diplomatic service. Four University faculty mem­ gree from the University of Chi­ enrolling as freshmen. This ac­ courses on the "500" level, as He already holds a degree in bers are listed in the latest is­ cago and has served on the fac­ tivity which takes place during may be recommended by his ad­ law which he obtained in Mexico. sue of Who Knows—And What ulties of the University of Mis­ the week prior to the beginning visory committee and be approved His thesis for the degree was on : souri and Drake University. of the fall term J called Fresh­ Among Authorities, Experts and" by the chairman of the Graduate international law. Summer appointments: Miss man Orientation and is designed the Specially Informed. Council." Ezcurdia was born in Guana­ Ritta Whitesel as visiting lec­ to acquaint new students wiih They are Dr. Harold E. Briggs, The council also recommended juato, Mexico, where he attended turer in home economics for the life at Southern. The new pro­ professor of history, Dr. Charles that the maximum amount of grade and high school. He then period July 3­8. Miss Whitesel has gram, however, is planned es­ Foote, associate professor of graduate credit in extension attended the University of her master's degree from Teach­ pecially for students who are zoology, Dr. Carl.C. Lindegren, classes be increased from eight Guanajuato after which he went ers College, Columbia University, still not sure they will attend professor of microbiology, and quarter hours to 16 quarters to the University of Mexico for end is an assistant professor of college. It is also proposed as Stewart Chandler, consulting hours, provided that the credits two years, switching back to home economics at the University a service to Southern Illinois entomologist. beyond eight quarter hours were Guanajuato for his final work of Illinois. students who may find it in­ Dr. Briggs is listed as an earned at regular extension toward the law degree. Dr. James Benziger, as asso­ convenient to receive the counsel­ authority in the field of western centers. Although he has been on the ing at the university they wish and frontier history; Dr. Foote „ciate ­professor of English. Dr. Southern campus for only a rhort Benziger holds the doctor's de­ to attend. in endocrinology, embryology and time, the handsome dark­haired reproduction; Dr. Lindegren in gree from Princeton University, SIU Joins National youth says he "likes it very and has served on the faculties yeast and neurospora genetics; much" and is "having a good Southern Holds Clinic and Mr. Chandler, who is on the of Northwestern University, New Restaurant Association time." York University, and Carleton staff of the State Natural His­ Membership in the National Ezcurdia is the third recipient For Choral Directors tory Survey, in entomology. College. of the Rotary Fund to attend Herman R. Lantz, who holds Restaurant Association, an or­ Southern recently held its sec­ ganization designed to raise the Southern. Jose Reyes and the master's degree from Ohio ond annual sight­reading clinic WRITES NEW BOOK standards of food service in the Raphael Ricardez previously State University, as instructor in studied here. for choir directors from Southern sociology. restaurants in the United States, Illinois schools. ABOUT FAMOUS PETS Mrs. Marjory Lyons, as in­ has been secured for Southern by The University A Cappella choir Mrs. Mae Trovillion Smith, structor in physical education for Miss Carolyn Van Mason, in­ SON BORN TO FAIRS and members of a University English instructor, is the author structor in home economics and women. Mrs. Lyons has her IN GERMANY class on high school music of a new book, Famous Pets of master's degree from the Uni­ manager of the University Can­ methods introduced new materials Famous People, which has just versity of Wisconsin and for the teen. A son, Scott Richard, was born that the choral directors may come from the press. It is a fol­ past seven years has been di­ January 10 to Dr. and Mrs. use in their respective schools. low­up to her earlier volume, rector of women's physical edu­ CHEM MAJORS Eugene R. Fair, who are now in John A. Walters, representa­ Famous Dogs of Famous People. cation at Ripon College, Ripon, Wiesbaden, Germany. tive of the Shattinger's Music The new book deals with anec­ COMPLETE EXAMS Wise. She has previously served Dr. Fair, former dean of the Company, St. Louis, Mo., directed dotes of animal friends of Rosetti, on Southern's summer staff. Senior chemistry majors have College of Education, resigned his the clinic choir of the combined Helen Keller, Paderewski, Eugene Dr. R. F. Sondag as part­time Just completed four weeks of position at Southern in 1948 to voices of the visiting directors j Field, Mark Twain and the visiting lecturer in health educa­ oral comprehensive examination, enter government service. He is and the University choir. 'British royalty. tion. Dr. Sondag is director of Dr. J. W. Neckers, department in the Foreign Service of the the Jackson County Health De­ chairman, has announced. State Department, serving as partment and will conduct a sum­ All four years of chemistry chief of public education for the mer class in public health ad­ were covered in an attempt to Office of the Land* Commissioner ministration. overcome the segmentation that for Hesse, the second largest Temporary appointment of the students obtain in their course State in U. S.­occupied Germany. (Continued on page 8) by course credit and attitude. Always a hotbed for basketball, the high schools in and around Southern Illinois are going all­ out of late in search of new fame on the hardwoods. Three brand new gymnasiums are in full op­ eration this winter with promise of many more to come in the near future. Marion, Herrin, and West Frankfort are all sporting new gyms in hopes of pulling in bigger crowds to watch their favorites in action.

Rumor has it that Bob Johnson, All­State center on Pinckney­ ville's state championship team of .1948, is headed for Southern. That would give the Maroons four members of the Panther's championship team as Tom Mil­ likin, Frank Gladson, and Dave Davis are already wearing the Maroon and White. Johnson en­ tered Illinois after leaving high school and would have two years Students relax at the newly office space for student or­ of eligibility remaining. opened Temporary Student Cen­ ganizations, meeting rooms, a ter which is located in the lounge and game room and At this writing It appears very University President D. W. placing the first dime former residence at 910 S. Uni­ space for dancing. likely that Southern will be play­, Morris officially opens the line starting at the versity. The center provides ­ ing night football next fall. "March of Dim«s" campaign by entrance to the campus. THE SOUTHERN ALUMNUS 5 TfCatuKM' Sfcarte

I'lMichigan Teams Join SIUMayGet Central Michigan of Mt. Pleasant and Michigan Normal ofj Ypsilanti have been added to the roster of the Illinois Intercol­ invitation to legiate Athletic Conference to swell the membership of the former state teacher's league to seven members. In addition to the two Michigan entries, both Indiana State of Terre Haute and Ball State of Muncie, Indiana, are being considered as members of the NJLLB. Playoff new loop. At this writing, Southern has Glenn "Abe" Martin, Southern! an excellent chance of being in­ athletic director who also serves | BEST FRESHMAN CAGE vited to participate in the Dis­ trict 20 four team playoff to de­ 2|SQUAD IN HISTORY termine the basketball aggrega­ •j­.ese four schools would give the j Upholding the tradition of play­ tion that will represent this area new league one of the strongest j ing winning basketball at Sou­ in the national tourney played •;inferences in the midwest. j thern, the Maroon freshman have annually in Kansas City. The addition of the out of state I shown that they will take a back Glenn "Abe'' Martin is chair7 •hools will bring to a close the seat to no one man of the District 20 committee .jng colorful history of the Illi­ and he met with the other mera­ nois state college league'. The | bers late in February to select unference had its beginning in the four teams to compete in the :<08 when Monmouth, Bradley, playoffs. Uinois Wesleyan, Lombard Col­ ege, Knox College, James Milli­ Leading contenders for berths kin, and Illinois State Normal in the single elimination classic ombined to form the Illinois are Eastern Illinois, Western Il­ 1 nlercollegiate Athletic Associa­ linois, Southern, ­ Illinois College, t ion. Wheaton College, Illinois Wes­ The following year Eureka Col­ leyan, and James Millikin. ege, Hedding College, and Lin­ Southern copped fourth place oln College joined the league to in the N.A.I.B. tourney in 1945, , orm a ten­team conference. In O'BRIEN won the national championship 1911, Shurtleff College and Car­ in 1946, and was the representa­ Immediately following their • hage College were both admitted Chuck Thate scores for Maroons in 60­37 conquest of Evansville tive of District 20 in the national ;o the new loop. heartbreaking one point^loss to the yearlings of St. Louis Uni­ meet in 1947 and 1948. By 1916, six more schools added versity, Athletic rDiector Glenn t heir names to the league mem­ "Abe" Martin commented that Basketball Enters Final Month bership to bring the total to 19 this years' crop of newcomers is CAGERS COP 33 OF . ^ms. This number of schools the finest he has seen since he uve rise to the name of the 34 HOME TILTS has been connected with the Uni­ With Maroons Boasting 16­4 Mark • T .it tie Nineteen" by which versity and that will date back During the past few years, the : lie conference became known to the late thirties. Lynn Holder has done it again! Southern cage squad has proven throughout the state. The six ad­ For the fourth year, the Holder­ to be a very rude host as invad­ This season's outfit, under the ditional schools were Eastern Illi­ men have racked the opposition ing quintets have been on the capable direction of Bill O'Brien, nois, 1912; McKendree and Au­ 16 times in 20 tries this season short end of the score 33 times is a well balanced group, with gust ana, 1913; Southern, 1914; to continue the hardwood pres­ in the last 34 tilts played in Hlackburn and Western Illinois height, drive, and speed to burn. tige that the Southerners have the Maroon lair. :n 1915. For height, O'Brien can call maintained since copping the Eastern Illinois snapped the Other late entries were St. upon Chuck Thate, 6'7" giant of national title some years back. Viator, Northern Illinois, and Chicago; Bill Duncan, 6'7" Her­ Southerners' streak at 21 in a Lake Forrest, all before 1922. rin center of a year ago; Bob Following their 58 to 51 row on the home court by stop­ Wichmann, 6'6" rebounding ace triumph at Illinois Normal earlier ping the Lynn Holder­coached Ten of the schools withdrew of E. St. Louis; Leroy Brandon, in the month, the Maroons en­ crew 53 to 47 last winter. in 1937 leaving the loop with tered the final stages of the Il­ ' • 6*4" Herrin lad; or "Darrell Going back still further, the eleven members. By 1942, six Thompson, 6'4" pivot man from linois Intercollegiate Athletic LYNN HOLDER Maroon maulers have been suc­ cf the remaining teams had with­ Belleville. If O'Brien thought it Conference flag race one full cessful in 58 of 61 games played drawn from the league, leaving necessary, he could play all five game behind Eastern and Wes­ only these five schools, Eastern tern Illinois with two more tilts Frank "Pud" Gladson and Dave in the men's gym since early of these boys at the same time February of 1944. Uinois, Western Illinois, Northern as each is a capable floor man. remaining on the league agenda. Davis, both teammates of Milli­ Tllinois, Southern Illinois, and kin on Pinckneyville's champion­ The "little" boys who have the An early season drubbing at In the season of 1944­45, Glenn Illinois Normal. All these remain ship five, have turned in spark­ speed to go along with the height Eastern and a heartbreaking 68 Martin, then basketball coach, as members of th« newly expand­ to 66 overtime loss at Western ling performances along, with took his cagers through an eight­ are all Southern Illinois boys with such ball players as Bob Colborn ed i.i.A.d one exception. The exception is accounted for the two reversals game schedule at home without encountered by the local lads in and Jack Long, Flora; Joe a defeat. The following year only Dick Ryan from across the river Hughes, West Frankfort; and "I" CLUB PURCHASES their six loop starts. one reversal was encountered and at Cape Girardeau. And inci­| Bob Kissack, Hoopeston; all of TROPHIES FOR MOST dentally, Ryan is one of the two The two remaining contests that came from the famed Wright whom are seniors. Others who Field Fliers, a service team com­ VALUABLE PLAYERS remaining 19 squad members will pit the Maroons against have helped out are Ernie Bo­ who is under six feet tall. posed of Dike Eddlemen and four The "I" club has voted unani­ Northern Illinois at DeKalb and zarth, junior letterman from Western coming to Southern for other All­Americans. mously to purchase individual Bill Garrett, sensational high Waltonville; Chuck Thate, 6'7" a return bout and affording the trophies for the recipients of school scoring ace the past four Chicago center, Bill Duncan, 6'7" With Lynn Holder at the helm Iloldermen a chance for revenge. Most Valuable Player Awards in years at Fairfield, is one of the Herrin center; and Bill Garrett, in 1946­47, the Southerners drop* In order even to tie for league football, baseball, and basketball. junior Maroons' leading scorers Fairfield. ped a title to James Millikin for honors, however, it appears as They have also purchased plaques along with the Herrin twins, their only loss in 12 starts. Then though outside help is needed. Even though Colborn is not that will remain in the gym­ Shirlan Eckert and Dick Henley. scoring as he did in the past, in the following campaign, the nasium denoting those who have In addition to the aforementioned If Western can beat Eastern in some attribute the success of Holdermen breezed through the received the honors. four Herrinites on the club, Don the match on the Leathernecks' this year's quintet to his general­ eleven games at home without, In addition, the club has also Miller and Jimmy Smith are also floor and Southern can down ship on the floor. Definitely a tasting defeat. purchased a huge trophy for the on the freshman roster which Western, then the I.I.A.C. could team man from the word "go," This year, the Maroon quintet iootball team for winning the first gives Southern the first six boys end in a three­way tie with Colborn now resorts to setting up has turned the invaders back annual Shrine Bowl game played from a good Herrin club of a Eastern, Western, and Southern plays for the other boys rather seven consecutive times with year ago. last year with Indiana State. all sharing the top position. How­ than scoring himself. three more games remaining to Southern won that game 41 to 14. Other yearlings who have seen ever, the Maroons face another be played. much action because of O'Brien's In addition to the games with obstacle in Northern as the Northern and Western, a home platoon system include Stan Huskies led the Southerners most No records are available on INTRAMURALS Horst, Hoyleton; Bob Hake, Irv­ contest is scheduled with Illinois the results of all home games of the way in their previous game Wesleyan on March 3. fr Approximately 420 boys are ington; Jack Castillo, Breeze; Jim in Carbondale before bowing out played by the Maroons since. playing on 42 different teams in Parker, Johnston City; Adrian 56 to 54. basketball was inaugurated at o'c^ht different leagues in the Smith, McLeansboro; Carol Cox, BASEBALL PRACTICE Southern in 1913 but the overall intramural basketball program Palmyra; and Joe Leighty, Allen­ Pacing the scoring parade for record of all games played gives the locals is sophomore Tommy vt. Southern this winter, according dale; GETS UNDERWAY the Southerners 417 wins to 247 o Jjm Wilkinson, director of the Millikin, the unheralded fifth for their opponents. Although the baseball season s;it ramural program. "Doc" Lingle is anxious for man of the state championship ic still some months away, the Of these 417 victories, the late For the first time, thi track season to roll around so Pinckneyville quintet in 1948. General Wm. McAndrew was that he can find out just exactly Ranking high among the confer­ Southern diamond aspirants are year all of the games are being working out daily in preparation responsible for 307, Martin won played in the men's gym with how good "Hank" Warfield really ence's top point producers, "Big for their jaunt into the deep 41, and Holder has compiled 69 portable baskets being installed is. Hank, 190­pound colored boy T", as he is dubbed by his mates, triumphs. from Evansville, Indiana, trans­ racked up 24 points against the south during the University's on the east and west side of the spring vacation in March. ! yrr. to allow two games to be ferred from Indiana this year and Panthers of Eastern in a 57 to 51 In an effort to increase the played at the same time. reports say that he can clip off win for the Maroons and he also Coach "Abe" Martin has a seven membership of the letermens' Each team plays every other the quarter mile under 50 seconds accounted for 28 tallies in the game schedule arranged for the •earn in the same league one time and the half­mile under two fracas at Normal. trip south, and he is working his club on the campus, Bob Colborn, md then at . the conclusion of minutes. In addition, Haigk is Even though Millikin is travel­ charges every evening in the president of the organization, pur­ ,<

Jack Mawdsley Harold Hartle­ Roy Foley is shown wrestling against his opponent from Arkansas State Two of Southern's finest ath­ the netsters last year, he is al­ letes, Jack Mawdsley, conference so captain­elect for this coming tennis champ, and Harold Hart­ season. HERE'S SOMETHING FOR ley, high jumping star, have been Hartley, a senior from Cen­ selected to appear in the 1948­49 tralia, jumped his way into na­ Del publication of Who's Who in tional prominence last spring with TOD TO THINK ABOUT! College Sports. a leap of 6 feet 5 and 5/8 inches WILKISON Mawdsley,* a senior from Gran­ to place him among the top ten By Norm Niteson Coach Jim Wilkinson, well ite City, copped the number two jumpers in the country. He also Glenn "Abe" Martin once said that if Southern could get all qualified for the mentorship of singles crown in 1948 and last holds the I. I. A. C. record with the top Southern Illinois high school athletes that graduate each the matmen by virtue of being a spring he won the number one a leap of 6 feet 4 inches. Last year, the Maroons could hold their own in any sport with any singles division in the annual winter he won first in the North school in the country. Big 10 champ while an under­ graduate at Indiana University, Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Central Indoor Track meet and Now before you jump to a "snickering" conclusion, let's take Conference has molded together a combina­ meet held in Macomb. tied for fourth in the famed Chi­ a better look into the situation and evaluate his statement more In addition to being captain of cago Relays. closely. tion of freshman competitors that are proving with each match that In the first place, Southern Illinois is a pretty big area, housing on to Western to tangle with the 155­pound class and he has four the southernmost 31 counties in our state. This area stretches they have the makings of a great from E .St. Louis on the northwest corner to Lawrenceville in the wrestling team. unbeaten Leathernecks. Once wins and one defeat as a recorti again they emerged with a treas­ for his efforts. He, like the fore­ northeast and down to Cairo in the south. Located within that: This being the first year of ured triumph. In this case the mentioned grapplers, is only a triangle are several high school sports centers. collegiate wrestling for Southern, scoreboard read 15 for Southern, freshman at Southern and has a And who can deny that Southern Illinois high schools are the naturally, all of the boys are 9 for Western. bright future ahead of him. proving grounds of many great college athletes ? To name just a freshman" in the wrestling few, look at Dwight Eddleman, Junior Kirk, Lou Levanti, Max But the season was still young ranks but six of the eight weight At 165 pounds is Harold Hen­ Morris, Cotton Hughes, Charlie Hunsinger, Mel Brewer, and Joe and two big matches stared the divisions are actually held down son, football letterman from Gran­ Ossolo. And you and I could both go far into the night naming grapplers in the face as they re­ other local lads that have gained fame and fortune in the sport­ by boys that are freshman scho­ ite City. His record is compar­ turned home to display their ing world at distant points. lastically. One junior and one able to Whalen and Stoudt with wares before the homefolk. First At the present time our University is expanding rapidly and we, senior round out the squad that five wins and a draw in six out­ on the agenda was Arkansas as sports enthusiasts, can't let the school in general get ahead has been competing in the match ings. of the athletic program because intercollegiate competition is es thus far. Thus, wrestling seems State, famed for its wrestling one of the quickest, if not the surest way to plaster the name of destined to have a great future teams in recent years. With a Charlie H®inz, standout on th Southern Illinois University in the minds of the general populace on the Carbondale campus. capacity crowd on hand, the Ma gridiron at Southern for the pas throughout the country. roons turned the match into a '"Wilkie's" crew opened their four years, is the only senior on And so with the flag waving ceremonies over with, let's get to rout by whipping the Indians 20 initial campaign against Illinois the squad and he holds down the the point! We Need Your Help! to 9. One week later the power­ Normal, defending champion of 175­pound division. He is improv­ Here is our problem: Last year, 26 freshman were carried on ful Great Lakes Naval Training the Illinois Intercollegiate Ath­ ing with every match and should the varsity football team which is indicative of the current trend Station crew came into town to letic Conference from a year ago, be at full steam by the time on the Carbondale campus: that being to build up our football provide another stiff test for and with most of the same boys the conference meet comes program on a level with the academic standing of the school. Wilkie's boys. This match turned However, only a few of the gridiron yearlings measured up to available for duty this season, around. out to be little more than a farce par and many more are needed to help carry the burden during they reigned as heavy favorites Another footballer, Don Riggs, as the local lads ran roughshod the next few years until such time as Southern can emerge over the inexperienced Maroons. Fairfield, wrestles in the heavy­ as a potent, well­oiled football machine. over the sailors to hang up victory Followers of the new sport at number four to the tune of 25 to weight class with his 205­pound The same situation exists in basketball. The trip to New York Southern feared that this type of frame. A junior, he too is im­ that the cagers made this winter may be the beginning of a new 3. trend on the hardwood, but we need better ball players if we match to start off the season The number six match was proving with each performance hope to crack the big­time "name circuit." would dampen the spirit of the return contest with Eastern Illi­ and scored an impressive pin Our track team has won 55 consecutive dual meets and "Doc" boys and also the anticipated nois and, displaying their best against his opponent from Great Lingle is anxious to take any standouts that he has and enter small crowd might leave with a form to date, the locals lost but Lakes. tnem in all of the nation's leading meets. But the same conditions bad­ taste in mouth concern­ one match in a one­sided 23 to 5 Wrestling has arrived at South.­ are true here as in football and basketball. ing the mat game as no one is too battle. era. • There is always room for candidates on the baseball, tennis and interested in a loser. Chicago Boys Lead Sewing golf teams. Wrestling is comparatively new in Southern Illinois, The number one man in the but good grapplers can always be used at Southern. Such was not the case. A capaci­ ty crowd of inquisitive people had 121­pound bracket is Bob Whalen By now you are probably remarking, "Okay, maybe those are of Chicago. Whalen has five your conditons. But what can I do to help?" their questions answered early in the evening as three of the green victories and one draw to his Well, the answer is a very simple one. We would like for you to credit for the six matches and sell Southern Illinois University to the top high school athletes in and non­experienced Maroons your communitty. wrestled conference champs from he gives promise of being a top performer for three more years Ten years ago that would have been a mere routine assignment Normal to a draw and the out but today it is a very tedius task. You must be well versed in come of the match was in doubt Roy Foley, Belleville, and Joe your subject matter before undertaking such a "job" nowadays right up until the final horn Fedora, Granite City, have been for the high school hero of this era is a hardened man with ideas sounded before the Redbirds fi­ sharing the duty in the 128­pound of his own concerning his future." nally emerged victorious 18 to division. Their duel each week But ammunition of this type is plentiful around the Southern 12. to see who will wrestle in the camp and here are a few rounds of ammo that you may wish to meet sometimes attracts as much fire: Wrestling had arrived and with 1. The big item is that the athlete can be close to home while the unexpected enthusiasm attention as a match itself. Both JIM LOVIN going to school. Possibly that seems absurd to you but a boy shown by the local partisans, it­ of these boys are freshmen. fresh from the apron strings will consider it mighty important. was up to Coach Wilkinson to; Wrestling at 136 pounds is Jack A movement is under way on 2. Another measure of prime importance is that he can play keep the interest at a high peak. Stoudt of Chicago. Like Whalen, the Southern campus to retire varsity ball at Southern as a first year freshman. This is probably He drilled his charges hard for Stoudt has five wins and a draw the football jersey worn for four the most important point to stress. a week and then took them on a in his six matches. An All­ years by Jim Lovin of Benton. 3. By coming to Southern now, a boy can get in on the "ground three­day tour for matches with Stater while at Hirsch High, Jack Jim, wearing number 78, was a floor" as within a few years a new field house will be available; is probably the best grappler on the football program will be in full swing; and the remaining sports Eastern and Western Illinois. first team selection on the All­ might possibly be competing against "name" schools the same as Eastern was the first stopping the entire squad. Conference first team for four the football and basketball squads. off place and the Southerners Jim Veatch, Harrisburg, holds consecutive seasons; was the It seems to us that it should give one a certain amount of pride came through with a convincing down the 145­pound berth and Maroons' most valuable player to think that he was responsible for sending a boy to Southern 20 to 7 triumph. This was the even though he had never been for three years; was captain of and then watching that particular boy lead Southern to national incentive that the youngsters; on a mat before entering South­ the team during the most recent prominence in one sport or another. needed, proving to themselves ern, he has shown signs of great gridiron campaign; and further, If you run into a snag drop us a note and we will be glad to that they could win in collegiate promise. he started every game during his Kelp, or better still, send the boys down to the campus and let them circles. With their newly found Another Belleville boy, Jack four year span with the Sou­ •look the situation over. At any rate, it is something for you to think about. confidence the Maroons moved Robertson, is the regular in the'therners. THE SOUTHERN ALUMNUS 7

A new system of showing Electric. He and Mrs. Pritchard Texas. I *dies' Home Journal. His wife faculty of the Junior College of attendance at Southern is (the forme Marie Warford, D Orin C. Keplinger, Jr., E 1940, is the former Mary Frances Gil­ Benton Harbor, Mich. He is fac­ being incorporated with this 1923) live at 835 W. Wayne St., recently accepted a position in lespie, 1945. Their address is ulty manager of the basketball Fort Wayne 2, Indiana. research with the General Tire 985 S. W. 37th Ave., Miami. team and is a member of the issue of the Southern Alum­ athletic board. He recently edit­ nus. The letter or letters Mrs. Ruby Gambill Baker, D and Rubber Co. in Akron, Ohio. William Robert Lawrence, E 1924, a widow, is living at 116 He received a Ph. D. in chemis­ 1943, has accepted a reserve com­ ed a booklet called, "Basketball preceding the year indicate South Elm, Centralia. She has try last June. Dr. Keplinger is mission as a captain in the U. S. Prospectus of Benton Harbor Jun­ which degree the student one child. married, has two sons and lives Army Air Force. He is assigned ior College.' received. Coding is as fol­ Mrs. Gladys Williams Boyd at 1094 North Main, Akron 10, to the 1918th AACS Squadron, Harold Richard Kinder, 1947, lows: Needham, D 1925, is principal of Ohio. Scott Field Air Force Base and is an instructor in communica­ A & S—Bachelor's degree a two­room rural school in Colo­ Mrs. Clayton Yauch (Lillian is commanding officer of the tions at Scott Air Force Base. in Liberal Arts and Sciences. rado. Her address is Box 412, Pillow E 1940) is a secretary in 8543rd AACS Squadron (Corol­ He received­a B. S. in E. E. from D—2­year Diploma. Las Animas. the Chevrolet Central Office in lary Unit). Captain Lawrence is Washington University last June. E—Bachelor's degree in Mrs. Ralph L. Anderson (Min­ Detroit, Mich., Her address is now enrolled at Southern as a His home address is Jonesboro. graduate student. Education. nie Glabb, D 1926) is teaching 5273 Linsdale, Detroit 4. Laline L. Lord, E 1947, M 1950, M—Master's degree in arithmetic and reading in the Delton G. Ret, E 1940, is a Mrs. Kenneth Thurow (Neva recently began a one­year in­ Graduate School. McClure grade school. This is pilot for the Chicago and South­ Millican, 1943) is teaching the ternship with the State Depart­ her twentieth year in the posi­ ern Airlines. He is married and second grade in the Naper ele­ ment, Division of Education of V & P—Bachelor's degree mentary school. The Thurows Exceptional Children. The work in Vocations and Profes­ tion. has two children. Their address Mrs. Ernest J. Craft (Ruby Ice, is R. 7, 3269 Lucibill Rd., Mem­ are living at 19 North Brainard, is with the mentally handicapped. sions. phis 9, Tenn. r'aperville. Miss Lord's address is 419 Jeffer­ The year not preceded by E 1926) is at present living at 324 West Duval St., Lake City, Hilmar B. Schmelzel, E 1940, is Lt. John L. Adams, V & P 1944, son, Galesburg. a letter indicates the last Fla. Her husband, a graduate a laundry superintendent in Belle­ is a fiscal officer in the U. S. Edward Betts, 1949, a lieuten­ date of attendance at South­ of the University of Florida, is ville. He, his wife, and two sons Navy. His home address is 1300 ant in the U. S. Army, is station­ ern. employed with the U. S. Forest ed in Linz, Austria. Mrs. Betts, Service and is engaged in drawing the former Mary E. Miles, E The 190©'s up a ten­year management plan MARRIAGES 1947, is with him. Their address Mrs. William Walker (Tillie for forests. is A Co., 4th Recon. Btn., APO MeConaghie) D 1900, a widow, is Giovanna Mazzara, E 1940, Barbara Ilaroldson, E 1948, 174, Dependents Mail Room, % Phillip M. Kimmel, 1926, is pro­ to Charles Collone. At home: to Carl Wimberly, E 1948, iving at 5186 Raymond Avenue, prietor of the Yellow Cab Co. in Postmaster, N. Y. The Betts have St. Lc, is, Mo. She has one 3010 Piedmont Rd., Hunting­ M 1949, in Carbondale on Feb­ a daughter born Feb. 15. Carbondale. Mrs. Kimmel is the ton, W. Va. ruary 4. At home: 705 S. Pace daughter. former Phyllis Prosser, 1L 1932. Frank L. Pulaski, 1947, is requi­ Olinda Feurer, E 1944, to St., Urbana. Dr. Elizabeth Brush, D 1902, is They have two children. sition editor at the Granite City Walter E. Soehrman. At home: Jane K. Somers, E 1949, to leaching at Rockfoid College in F. Dewitt Roberson, 1920, and Engineering Depot. He is mar­ 1515 Wilson Ave., R. 2, Elm­ Evan Louis Hill, A & S 1949, in liockford. his wife, the former Lucille Tay­ ried and lives at 2664 Iowa, Gra hurst. St. Louis, Mo., on November Lily Gubleniar, D 1902, is Jor, D 1926, are living at 303 ite City. 19, 1949. Evan is in law spending the winter in Califor­ South 9th St., Wood River. Ada Kraemer, E 1945, to Wayne L. Dye, 1948, is a senior school at Washington Univer­ a. Her address is 116 Sea­ 30's Harold M. Davis on October at St. Louis University. He is sity and Jane is teaching in uright, Santa Cruz, California. John R. Ivers, D 1928, E 1931. 5, 1949. At home: 2400 Pine, married and lives at 1528 Locust Eldorado. The death of Mrs. G. E. Beaver, is a history teacher in the Cham­ Mattoon. St., St. Louis 3, Mo. < Leslie King, D 1902) was recent­ paign senior high school. They P­uline Sabella, E 1945, to Phyllis Ann Austin, 1949, to John B. Griffith, 1948, is .y reported to this office. iave four daughters, one of whom, Willie Bencini. At home: 2225 George Trifonoff, 1943, in Car­ studying civil engineering at Mis­ Mary Kirk, D 1902, a retired in 1948. Mrs. Ivers is the former Pine St., Murphysboro. bondale. At home: 923 North souri School of Mines. His address teacher, is living at 159 North Alice, graduated from Southern Glendale, Apt. 3, Wichita 6, is 807 State St., Rolla, Mo. Helen Hall Brennan, E 1946, Kansas. ergreen Ave., Kankakee. Reba Forbes, 1928. Their address to Keith Ray. At home: 229 John S. MccFeron, A & S 1948, Clyde L. Smith, 1903, owns an is 1113 South Second St., Cham­ North 28th, Belleville. Gloria Dean English to Dan­ E 1950, has accepted a position insurance agency in Carbondale. paign. iel J. Schiff, 1949, in Johnston in the Columbia high school as a He is the son of the late George Mrs. Marie Griese Lence, D Lucille Koch, 1946, to Olin City on January 14. At home: chemistry and physics instructor* VV. Smith, a member of Southern's 1920, E 1932, is teaching in the Thies. At home: 304 Scenic 911 Jefferson St., Johnston Roy Hall, 1948, is teaching In .'acuity from 1890 to 1935. Mrs. McClellan Park (private) school Drive, St. Louis 15, Mo. City. the Akin consolidated school. He Smith is the former Mary Pow­ in Sarasota, Fla. Her address Evelyn Parker, E 1947, to John C. Corbitt, E 1949, to is married, has five children and ers, 1911. there is 740 East Wood St. Robert E. Davis on December Gretchen Johnson, on Decem­ lives in Thompsonville. Ella Schmalhausen, D 1904, a Bert Phillips, 1932, a World War 10, 1949. At home: 604 East ber 22, 1949. Address: Box H. Y. ROWE, A & S 1948, is in ­etired teacher, is living at 310 II veteran, is employed as a Main, Casey. 6025, Fort Worth 10, Texas. law school at the University of East Luarel, Oiney. She taught teacher in the State Prison at Lorraine Carrington, E 1948, Marjorie Helen Templeton, Arkansas. His wife, Jean Bayless school for forty years. Pontiac. He writes that, in his to Floyd Koets, in Carbondale 1949, to Glen R. Hamilton, E Rowe, E 1948, is teaching in the Charles C. Figley, D 1905, is a opinion, this is the most interest­ on Decemebr 26, 1949. At home: 1949. At home: 103 S. Grant, Fayetteville schools. Their ad­ member of the faculty of the ing field of teaching, participat­ Gilman. Pinckneyville. dress is 615 Ida St. Arizona State Industrial School i­ p ir. giving young criminals a Joyce Marguerite Wall, 1948, is ia Fort Grant. cultural background and stimu­ secretary to the chairman of Bonum Lee Kirk, D 1906, is an lating ambition for useful careers Metals Research at the Armour are living at 5 Woodland Court.! attorney in Champagin. His ad­ in society. Mrs .Phillips, the for­ East Second St., Centralia. Research Foundation of the Illi­ dress is 1011 West Clark St. mer Helen Maddock, D 1930, is Glenn J. Goddard, E 1941, is Mr. and Mrs. Charles Riva nois Institute of Technology. Her Pearl Porterfield, D 1906, re­ teaching in a unit district at a social science teacher in Mont­ (Maryann Peek, E 1945) of West address is 6915 Beverly Ave., tired, is living at 6664 Stony Is­ Chenoa. They have four children rose, Mich. Mrs. Goddard is the Frankfort, are the parents of a Chicago. land Ave., Chicago 37. She for­ and live at 111 Pinckney St. former Helen Dial, E 1941. They son born in January. Their sec­ Judy Adams, 1949, is working merly taught in the Chicago John R. McCloskey, 1935, is have one child. ond son, he has been named in her father's furniture store in schools. sales engineer for the Hercules William E. Lipsey, E 1941, a Harvey Patrick. Sparta. 10's Powder Co. He, his wife and professor of mathematics as West­ Edward Watson, A & S 1945, is Bill Auten, 1949, is teaching and Orlan L. MeBride, D 1911, a daughter are living at 708 Don­ ern State College, Macomb, plans minister of the Methodist Church lives near Benton (R. 3). fruit grower, lives in Villa Ridge. nelly St., Columbia, Mo. to complete his Ph. D. degree at in Cisne. Rev. Watson received Wanda Helen Bankson, 1949, William H. Ball, D 1912, is Comdr. K. Maxwell Morgan, E Northwestern in 1951. Mr. Lipsey a graduate degree from Asbury is teaching in the Unit elemen­ teaching in the College of Mines 1936, is at present executive of­ is a key member in higher edu­ Theological Seminary in 1948. tary school. She lives at Olmsted. and Metallurgy at the University ficer at the U. S. Naval Base cation of the NEA. His wife* is the former Margaret Doris M. Bauer, 1949, is a sen­ of Texas. in Bermuda. Frederick Dreyer, 1940, and his Webb, E 1941. They have two ior at the University of Illinois. LaCene Black, D 1913, is now Mrs. Bill Finn (Elsie Robert­ wife, the former Frances Morgan, children. Ellen Louise Beaty, 1949, is an !iving at 41 Brighton Way,'Clay­ on) 1936 is teaching in the Kell E 1941, are now living in Steele­ Harold L. Barnard, 1946, an English teacher in the Centralia ton 4, Mo. consolidated school. The Finns ville. Mrs. Dreyer is teaching agriculture teacher and cattle­ high school. Raymond J. Crocker, D 1914, live in luka. commerce and physical education man, is living in Geff. James Beeker, 1949, is now at­ is in the real estate and insurance Mrs. John E. Larsch (Ruth in the high school there. John O. Erkman, A & S 1946, is tending the University of Illinois. ousiness in Sesser. Mrs. Crocker Neal, E 1938) i­epresented South­ Ernest R. Moss, E 1941, is an a physicist for th: General Elec­ His address is 201 North McCuI­ s the former Mary T [cBride, 1914. ern at the inauguration of Dennis insurance adjuster for the West­ tric Co. and is working at the lough, Urbana. They have five children. Hargrove C^oke as president of ern Adjustment Co. in Carbon­ Hanford Plant of the Atomic Marjorie E. Best, 1949, is at­ Sadie Bobbins, D 1914, is di High Point College, High Point, dale. The Mosses have one child Energy Commission in North tending a seminary in Fort Worth, rector: of the Nurses Training N. C., on Feb. 23. The Larshes and live at 503 West College. Richland, Washington. He and Texas. school of the Victoria Memorial live in Chapel Hill, N. C., where Harry A. Priestt, 1941, operates his wife (Effie Chaney Erkman, Charles C. Bourland, . 1949, is hosfHfcarliif Deccan, South India Dr. Larsh is head of the depart­ a grocery store in Ledford. E 1949) are living in a trailer teaching in the Mt. Vernon high EtomatStewart, D 1914, is teach­ ment of parasitology, School of Kenneth A. Whisler, E 1941, is which they took with them from school. i n;j at Central School in Metrop [Public Health, at the University teaching in the Alton senior high Champaign. Jane A. Brayford, 1949, is a olis. of Nprth Carolina. school. He is married and lives John B. Harris, 1946, is at student at the University of Illi­ Anne Lill, D 1915, is an English Jean Morton, E 1939, is proj­ at 3541 Oscar St. present under treatment in the nois. instructor in the East St. Louis ect director of the YMCA and Mrs. David Stewardson (Beu­ Jefferson Barracks Hospital. His James and Jeff Brooks, 1949, senior high school. Her address YWCA at the University of Ari­ lah Jones, E 1942) is living at address is Ward W­3, Room 325, of Louisville, are attending the is 1761 North 36th St. zona in Tucson. 2120 Third Ave., San Diego, Calif. Jefferson Barracks, Mo. University of Illinois. James D. Bullard, D 1916, is Robert H. Simpson, E 1939, Wilma Tolley, 1942, is a re­ Ted Morgan, 1946, is principal Stanley E. Ceglinski, 1949, is employed with the Junction Ele­ began his duties in January as porter­photographer for the Daily of the elementary school in Ham­ studying agriculture at the Uni­ vator and lives in Equality. pastor of the Union Chapel Meth­ Pantagraph in Bloomington. mond. He has a M. E. degree versity of Illinois. His address Mrs. Mildred Gregory Ladd, D odist Church in Caseyville. Mrs. Mrs. Jennie Young Jones, E from the University of Illinois. is 1010 West California, Urbana. 1916, is living near Nampa, Idaho Simpson is the former Ruby Lee 1942, is the first grade teacher Mrs. Morgan is the former Juani­ Joseph H. Caveglia, V & P 1949,

GRAD RECEIVES PH.D. TRACK RECORD Alumni Personals Frank McCurdy, 1949, recently Two Trackmen opened a photo studio in Belle FROM COLUMBIA HOLDERS HONORED (Continued from page 7) Vernon, Penn. Mrs. McCurdy is Leland P. "Doc" Lingle, vet­ near Cave­in­Rock. He is mar­ the former Vera Robertson, 1947. eran track tutor, is compiling a On Midwest ried and has one child. They have two children. nuge picture plaque of all record Gloria Faye Cochran, 1949, is Kenneth Kirk Marshall, 1949, is holders in track that will soon teaching the Brewer rural schooL pastor of the First Baptist oe on display in the foyer of the Honor Roll She is living in Pomona. Church in Creal Springs and is gymnasium. also teaching a rural school near • In the most recent edition of Warren Reed Crader, 1949, is Although not completed as yet, there. His wife, Wanda Coving­ the Midwestern Long Distance doing construction work. His ad­ the proposed exhibit will contain ton Marshall, 1949, is also teach­ Log, two Southern trackmen were dress is 1730 Second St., New individual pictures of each thin­ ing a rural school. placed on the Midwestern Honor Orleans, La. clad who holds a Southern track Fern Mittendorf, 1949, is a stu­ Roll for outstanding accomplish­ Huey Cummins, 1949, is teach­ mark along with the name of the dent nurse in the School of ments during the track season last ing near Elizabethtown. event and the record. spring and the cross­country sea­ Nursing at the Evangelical Dea­ Maroon track records at the Edith A. Enright, 1949, is a son just completed. coness Hospital in St. Louis. Her present time are as follows: hostess for the Stouffer Restau­ address is 6150 Otkland, St. The two distance men, Ray Mile—Joe McLafferty, 4m.34s, rant Corp. Her address is 2230 Louis 10, Mo. Palmer, Belleville, and Joe Mc­ (1949). Witherell, Detroit 1, Michigan. Basil A. Moskoff, 1949, is a Lafferty, Carbondale, each com­ 440 yd. dash—Strusz, 49.3s, Daisy L. Fink, 1949, is an ele­ student in the University of Illi­ peted in the mile and two­mile (1938). mentary teacher in Equality. nois School of Medicine. His ad­ 100 yd. dash — McLaughlin, event during the cinder schedule and both participated on the R. June Flynn, 1949, is the sec­ dress is 812 S. Ashland, Chicago. Wright, Pierce, Payton, 9.9s. ond grade teacher in the Percy William N. Paris, 1949, is work­ " 120 yd. high hurdles—Aiken, Maroons' cross­country squad last fall. public school. ing for the De"irtment of Reve­ 15.3s, (1939). nue in Springfield. He is mar­ Palmer copped the Illinois Ross Foley, 1949, is coaching 880 yard run—Beltz, 2m.01.4s, ried and lives at 219 W. Wash­ Intercollegiate Athletic Confer­ and teaching health and science (1949). ington in Springfield. JULIAN GREENLEE ence crown in the two­mile event at the Springerton grade school. 220 yard dash—Payton (1937), Kenneth Ray Peters, 1949, is last spring and McLafferty, for William R. Foreshee, 1949, is Julian Greenlee, associate pro­ Strusz (1938), 21.4s. now attending LaSalle Univer­ the third straight year, paced studying chemical engineering at fessor of physics at Western Two mile run—Palmer, 10m.4s, sity. His wife is the former (1919). the Southern harriers to a suc­ the University of Illinois. He is Michigan College of Education, Shirley Anne Hill, 1949. Their 220 yard low hurdles—Payton cessful season. married and lives at 602 North Kalamazoo, Mich., was recently address is 5239 Calumet Ave., 23.9, (1936). Palmer holds the two mile Cunningham, Urbana. awarded the doctor's degree by Chicago. Shot Put—Guiney, 45­ft. 8% in., record at Southern with a mark Teachers College, Columbia Uni­ John Palmer Fought, 1949, is Donald Quillman, 1949, is teach­ (1942). of 10 minutes and four seconds, versity. now attending the University of ing in the Valier public schools. Discus—Stinson, 145­ft. 11V2 in., and McLafferty is the one mile Colorado. His address is 1724 S. A 1932 graduate of Southern, Fred P. Ragsdale, 1949, is coach­ (1948). king with a record of 4 minutes Lafayette, Denver. Dr. Greenlee majored in ele­ ing and teaching in the Carlock Pole Vault—Rains, 12­ft. 5y and 34 seconds. mentary education and continued 2 Lois Fox, 1949, is studying at iun'or high school. in., (1938). in this field at Columbia, where the Snodgrass School of Labora­ Melvin Allen Sparlin, 1949, is High Jump­­Hartley, 6 ft. 5% he was sponsored by Dr. Gerald tory Technique at City Hospital Clay County Youth Assistant. He in., (1948). Selected To Award ^5. Craig, professor of natural in St. Louis, Mo. Her address is is living in Louisville. Broad Jump —Alexander, 23 ft. '^sciences at Teachers College. 5058 Waterman. 7 in., (1949). ^udio­Visual Scholars*"' Nan Agnes Spivey, 1949, is Dr. Greenlee holds in addition Dick G. Friz, 1949, is a student teaching in the Mt. Vernon ele­ Javelin—Brown, 193­ft. 8% in., Southern has been selected as at the University of Alabama. His to the master's and the doctor's (1932). mentary schools. one of 26 colleges and universi­ address is Riverside Bldg., No. 18, degrees from Teachers College, Relay—Parson, Sutton, Morgan, Florine Christine Stumpf, 1949, ties to award scholarships for Rm. G. a master's degree in zoology from Strusz, 3m.27.5s, (1938). is teaching a rural school near audio­visual aid study this sum­ Maris Gary, 1949, is doing the University of Illinois. He has mer, according 'i Donald A. Ingli, Columbia. also done graduate work in stenographic work in St. Louis, Mary Ann Terry, 1949, is teach­ Despite the fact that the director of the Audio­Visual Serv­ chemistry, physiology and educa­ Mo. Her address there is 5314 ing, in the Shattuc grade school. wrestling team is faring so well, ice. tion at the U. of I. Englewood Place. Her address is North 4th St., two top contenders for berths on The scholarships are being pro­ Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Gillespie, Carlyle. Since leaving Southern, he has the team have been unable to vided by Encyclopaedia Britan­ 1949, (Nancy Schneider Gillespie, W'arren Van Arsdalen, Jr., 1949. taught in various elementary and compete this season. Both are nica Films, Inc. Approximately A & S 1949) of Carbondale have is now attending the University high school in Illinois, in the high Chicago boys, Phil Bruno and 97 of the scholarships will be announced the arrival of a daugh­ of Delaware. His address is 409 school and the college at Western Jim MacAndrew, and both were available, and successful appli­ ter on October 31, 1949. Their Michigan College, and served for city champions while students at Elizabeth Ave., Wilmington. cants may attend th^ university second child, she has been named a time as a consultant in elemen­ Hirsch High. Bruno, a heavy­ James Douglas Walker, 1949, of their choice. Christy. tary science in the Horace Mann­ weight. broke his wrist during is a student at Marquette Uni­ Only other institution in Illi Lincoln School in New York City. football season and the injury Jerry Bender Gott, 1949, of Mt. versity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, nois selected for this program While working toward the doc­ has not responded well to treat­ Vernon is at present a polio pa­ and lives at 1530A North 35tli tor's degree, he was an in­ ment. MacAndrew, 165­pounder, is the University of Chicago. tient, at Warm Springs, Ga. Jer­ St. structor in natural sciences in was forced to withdraw from "All of the universities chosen ry plans to return to Southern Carol Joyce Washburn, 1949, Teachers College, Columbia. school at the end of the fall have outstanding audio­visual when he recovers. is employed by the Randolph Mrs. Greenlee, the former Ruth term. programs and will offer full time Lewis H. Gould, 1949, is a stu­ Service Co. in Sparta. Allen, was graduated from Wes­ courses in audio­visual instruc dent at the University of Illi Lewis C. Waters, 1949, is a nois. clerk in the Post Office Dept. tern Michigan College and is The possibilities of Southern's tion for the scholars who are ap Donald D. Gray, 1949, has a His addrcr^ is 526 N. 37th St., teaching home economics in Cen­ having a field house in the near pointed for the tuition grants," sales position in South Bend. Ind. East St. Louis. tral high school in Kalamazoo. future appears to be more than Floyde E. Brooker, chief of visual Mrs. Gray is the former Mary James Westermeier, 1949, is The Greenlees have two a pipe dream as a committee of aids to education, U. S. Office of studying at the U. S. Naval daughters, Marilyn and Shirley, faculty members recently toured Education, who is chairman of Frances Gaines, 1949. Their ad­ and live at 912 Normal View, Kal­ the huge field house at the Uni­ the EB films scholarship selec dress is Apt. B. HOU Franklin Academy in Annapolis. He re­ amazoo, Mich. versity of Iowa for ideas. tion board, said. Place. ceived his appointment last July. William L. Harsha, 1949 is a Donald and Justin Willi, 1949, laboratory technician for Prairie ai'e operating a service station DIRECTORY OF ACTIVE ALUMNI CLUBS BOARD APPROVES Farms Creamery in Blooming­!in Du Quoin. CHAMPAIGN AREA CLUB ton. He is married anj lives at! 1950 FACTTF.TY CHANGES : ­ President, James O'Malley, 704 S. Sixth St., Champaign; Vice­ 612East Was! ngton. j H. Russell Akers, A & S 1950, President, John S. Rendleman, 1102 Locust St., Champaign; (Continued from page 4) Gwendeline Hase, 1949, is a is teaching the upper grades in Secretary­Treasurer, Mrs. Veda Taylor Larson, 212 W. Cali­ following part­time faculty as­ student, nurse at the Washing­ the Breese school district. fornia Ave., Urbana. sistants; Miss Jane Catherine ton University School of Nursing. Frederick O. Criminger, Jr., E Mrs. Neal E. Stamm (Mary 1950, is an announcer for radio CHICAGO AREA CLUB Bess, in the Health Service; Gayle E. Boggs, in the Library; Lou Hunt, 1949) is a clerk­typist j station WINN in Louisville, Kv. President, Mill Warren, 237 Leitch Ave., LaGrange; Vice for Swift and Co. Her address Glenna Fritts, E 1950, has re­ President' Carney Chatten, 412 S. Edgewood, LaGrange; John D. Edwards, in the indus­ 3612 North 48th St., East St. Secretary, Mrs. J. Wesley Davy (Pauline Brown), 7258 N. rial education department; Bruce cently accepted a position as ar' Rascher, Chicago. G. Hardesty, in the Museum; Louis. supervisor in the East Richlana Rexel D. Karnes in the sociology k Bessie Mae Ice, 1949, is a stu­ county public schools. She i­ DETROIT AREA CLUB department; Miss Margaret Mil­ dent at the Southern Baptist living in Olney. Chairman, Otis Winn, 1600 Seward Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Sec­ Theological Seminary in Louis­ George Kiriakas, E 1950, is at­ retary, Mrs. Ray Williams (Edith Boswell), 3047 Clairmont, ler, in the Health Service; Del­ ville, Ky. Her address is 2801 .ending law school at the Univer­ Detroit 6, Mich.; 'Executive Committee, Vernon Hicks, 1906 mer Porter, in the Health Service; Fleetwood, Grosse Point, Mich.; Clyde Dearing, 64 Oriole Miss Phoebe Wilkins, in the de­ Lexington Rd. sity of Illinois. Road, Pontiac, Mich.; and Dr. R. C. Colyer, 56 Rhole Island, partment of guidance and special Fernanda Inskeep, 1949, is Estel Edwin Logan, E 195U, Highland Park, Mich. education. teaching the second grade in the has recently ac ­pled a position Appointment of two former Albion public school. as social science teacher in the HONOLULU, HAWAII, CLUB Wilma Fay Jordan, 1949, is Springfield public schools. His President, Dr. Clarence L. Hodge, % Chamber of Commerce, part­time faculty assistants to teaching commerce in the Thebes address is 1130 South Seventh. Honolulu, T. H.; Secretary, Mrs. Jane Warren Hodge, % full­time positions—Thomas Dean Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, T. H. Evans, formerly part­time in the high s^ool. Ronald W. Quigley, V & P 1950, Veterans Administration Guid­ Elva Bernice Lands, 1949, is has accepted a position as ac­ MASSAC COUNTY CLUB ance Center, now full­time in the teaching a rural school near Har­ counting clerk for Swift & Co. President, C. W. Stephens, Metropolis; Vice President, Mrs. Dean of Merj's Office, and Mrs. risburg. Plant Food Division, National Henry Fixman (Rebecca Roxy), Metropolis; Secretary, Miss Vernon Leier, E 1949, is teach­ Stock Yards. Nellie W. Millikan, Metropolis. Ana Mae Russo, formerly half­ time, now full­time in the Health ing agriculture and industrial arts Marjorie Ann Raback, E 1950, ST. CLAIR COUNTY CLUB Service. in Pawnee. He is married and is employed in the library at President, Mrs. Robert Davis (Katie Alley), 117 S. 23rd, Belle­ Leave of absence for Miss has one child. Southern. ville; Vice President, Jack M. Howell, 831 St. Clair Ave., Gladys Babcock, assistant pro­ Clara M. Lewis, 1949, is teach­ O. R. Readhead, E 1950, is now E. St. Louis; Secretary, Miss Jennie J. Kaestner, 308 N. 4th ing the second grade ­in the employed as a contact man for St., Dupo. fessor of home economics, for the period Sept. 11, 1950, through Farmer City public school. the Allied Products Co. of St. SPRINGFIELD CLUB June 8, 1951, to permit her to Frank S. Lofton, 1949, is an Louis, Mo. His address is 3070 President, Aubrey Holmes, lt>08 S. 2nd St., Springfield; Secre­ continue study toward the doc­ electrical oilwell logging drafts­ Summer Ave., Box 175, Memphis, tary­Treasurer, fltotrs. Dewitt Kuykendall (Margaret Coeleta tor s degree man and is living at 705 North Tenn. O'Sullivan), 706 W. Miller, Springfield. Resignation of Dr. John R. First, Fairfield. Sherwin L. Sanders, A & S 1950, WASHINGTON COUNTY CLUB Bucar, associate professor and is studying in a medical techni­ Chairman, Martin Schaeffer, Hovleton. associate University physician in Bob Kissack, senior from cians' school in St. Louis, Mo. His the Health Service, was accepted, Hoopeston, was elected by the address is S08 Leland. WHITE COUNTY CLUB Ruth Shafer, E 1950, is teach­ President, Warren Greenlee, Carmi; Vice President, Francis effective Feb. 15. Dr. Bucar plans student body to serve as general ing in Granite Sity and lives at Welch, Norris City; Secretary, Fern Lee, Enfield; Treasurer, to continue his studies in med chairman of the Spring Carnival Mrs. Hubert I. Sutton (Lorojie Post), 306 Fifth St., Carmi icine. to be held April 28­29. 2603 Lincoln Ave.