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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC SIU Alumni Magazine SIU Alumni Association 3-1-1950 The outheS rn Alumnus Southern Illinois Univeristy Information Services and the Office of Alumni Services Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation , . "The outheS rn Alumnus." (Mar 1950). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the SIU Alumni Association at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in SIU Alumni Magazine by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. i The ^ Alumnus VOLUME XI NUMBER 3 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.

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