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SPARTAN ALUMNI MAGAZINE ^ f> Afc. ^ JANUARY 15, 1951 '-> cJCi WINTER ON THE RED CEDAR MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Board o£ Trustees Named for MSC Program of Off-Campus Courses Begins at MSC Fund; Eight Scholarships Awarded Dr. Harold J. Dillon, a leading national A seven-member board of trustees has Mass.; Jack Wingerden, Hastings; Gwen educator, has been named head of an ac been appointed for the Michigan State Forsman, Pontiac; Helen Takacs, Melvin; celerated program of off-campus courses College Fund, according to William L. Lillion Goodwin, Flint; and Joan Rexford, to be offered by the Continuing Educa Davidson, '17, fund director. Grosse Pointe. All are freshmen at MSC tion Service of Michigan State College. The MSC Fund was established a year except Miss Goodwin. Dr. Dillon, who took over his new post ago for the purpose of raising money to in December, was national educational support college activities, particularly re director of Junior search and scholarships, not adequately MSC Will Publish Ag Achievement, Inc., financed in the budget. Contributions to Dictionary in 1955 New York, N. Y., the program come from alumni, friends at the time of his of the college, corporations, and wills Tentative plans for a dictionary of appointment. and bequests, Davidson said. agriculture to be published in Michigan State College's centennial year, 1955, At MSC, he Prominent Alumni Named will develop a have been made by an editorial board of The board of trustees is composed of •—. program of regu- college staff members headed by John seven prominent MSC alumni. They are: Jk ~w mk _ j3| 1 a r college Lewis A. Smith, '14, Grosse Pointe; N. Winburne of the Department of Writ ten and Spoken English. in. % fl courses represent- Harold H. Gasser, '25, Birmingham; m a Supported by the All College Research Bk wH ^m £ substantial Claud Erickson, '22, Lansing; John J. expansion of ex Korney, '31, Detroit; Norton W. Mogge, Committee and the Michigan Agricul Dillon tural Experiment Station, the dictionary isting services in '14, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Regina this field. The courses will be offered at Gabriel Frisbie, '35; and Karl H. Mc- will be published by the Michigan State College Press. various locations around Michigan, and Donel, '16, East Lansing. may or may not be taken for college During the first two months of exist Great Need Cited credit. The types of courses will vary ence, the board of trustees awarded an Prof. Winburne first became aware of according to public demand, according Emeritus Research Professorship grant the great need for such a publication to Edgar L. Harden, director of the Con to retired Dean Ralph C. Huston and in his work with foreign students at tinuing Education Service. four-year scholarships to seven students. MSC. Adequate dictionaries covering Dr. Dillon was formerly a specialist Scholarships Awarded other sciences existed; for agriculture in educational problems for the National Receiving scholarships valued at ap there were only outdated and incomplete Child Labor Commission, and taught at proximately $500 were: Philip Johnson, books, some published as early as 1797. Michigan State, New York University Bay City; Robert Pettys, Newtonville, "As the leading country in agricul and Syracuse University. He received tural research, development, and educa his bachelor's and master's degrees from tion, American farm jargon has assumed Boston University and his Ph.D. from MSC "Alumni Hews" Program not only domestic but also international Yale University. importance," Winburne states. Now Carried by Six Stations Both foreigners and city-bred agricul The Michigan State College "Alumni tural students are often puzzled by such National and World Convos News" program, which returned recently common-place terms as middle-buster, to the air waves over the college station spring tooth harrow, and riding cultiva Will Attract 14,500 to MSC WKAR, has expanded its listening area. tor, he points out. An estimated 14,500 people will come The weekly program is now heard over Want Strictly Ag Terms to the Michigan State campus during the Paul Bunyan network, a Michigan As general editor of the volume, Win the summer of 1951 for national and regional hookup which includes WTCM, burne has begun the task of gathering world conferences, according to Russell Traverse City; WATT, Cadillac; WATZ, agricultural terms from all parts of the J. Kleis of the MSC Continuing Educa Alpena; WMBN, Petoskey; and WATC, nation. Implement catalogues, books, tion Service. Gaylord. agricultural bulletins and other sources The organizations and number of peo Scheduled time for the broadcasts on will be studied to find words for inclu ple expected are: International Luther the Paul Bunyan network is 1:30 p.m. sion in the dictionary. League, 4,000; Boy Scout Executive each Saturday. WKAR will continue to Citing the complexity of the job of Council, 3,500; American Society for broadcast the show at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, gathering words, Winburne says, "Terms Engineering Education, 2,500; National according to John McGoff, '50, program related only to agriculture will be used. Home Demonstration Council, 2,000; Na director. For example, 'fence' has its agricultural tional Farm Bureau Training School, It is hoped that the "Alumni News" implications, but it may also imply a 2,000; National Future Homemakers program will continue to expand its certain kind of sword play—such a mean Association Leadership Training School, listening area to include all of the Upper ing will not be included in the diction 350; and Agricultural Marketing Work Peninsula, McGoff said. ary." shop, 200. THE RECORD Vol. 56—No. 1 ALVIE L. SMITH, Editor January 15, 1951 JOHN C. LEONARD, '48, and RICHARD J. DANDENEAU, Associate Editors STARR H. KI:ESLER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; EDWARD M. ERICKSON. '48, Assistant Sports Editor; MADISON KUHS and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; JOHN W. FITZGERALD. '47, Agricultural Editor: MRS. BARBARA CAHOON. Artist: W. LOWELL TREASTER. Director of Information Services. Campus photos this issue by EVERETT HUBY, RAY HUBY, RUDY HARTMAN, BILL BURKE and JOHN BEECH. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD if published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OP INFORMATION SERVICES. Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress August 24, 1912. MSC's Ag Engineering MSC Installs Campus Television Given Top Recognition Network for Teaching and Research National accreditation has been By RICHARD DANDENEAU financing higher education which plague awarded the Department of Agricultural administrators and worry friends of Engineering at Michigan State College. Michigan State College will accomplish another "first" next month when a higher education everywhere. The day Only Six in U.S. closed-circuit television system is put may well be at hand when there will be a revolution in teaching methods, which MSC's agricultural engineering depart into operation on the Spartan campus. have not changed much since the days ment is believed to be the sixth in the It is believed to be the first campus- of Socrates." U.S. so recognized by the Engineering wide television system for educational Turning to another phase of the tele Council for Professional Development, purposes to be installed at any major vision picture, MSC has taken a leading according to Prof. university in the U.S., according to role in the fight for allocation of a speci Arthur W. Far James H. Denison, administrative assist fied number of TV channels by the Fed rall, department ant to the president and chairman of the eral Communications Commission to head. The Council MSC television committee. educational institutions. includes all the Equipment Purchased major engineer Equipment has been purchased and Educational Channels Urged ing societies of In December President Hannah, chair the U.S., and is installation in the Electrical Engineering building is almost completed. The sys man of the executive committee of the the official accred- American Association of Land-Grant iting body for tem will link several campus buildings through the central control room. Colleges and Universities, appeared be American engi fore the FCC to ask that educational neering schools. MSC has already applied for one of Farrall institutions be given their fair share of Prof. Farrall Michigan's unusued TV channels, and should a channel be assigned and per television channels. said that the examining committee was Knowing the unlimited possibilities of especially impressed with physical facili mission to make public telecasts be granted, the present equipment will be campus TV, it is difficult to predict what ties for teaching agricultural engineer could be done when educational television ing, which members called "about the augmented by a transmitter, Denison said. Meanwhile, sending and receiving points is channeled throughout the state and to best in the nation." The committee also all parts of the nation. commended the department for its out will be linked by wire, and the campus standing teaching staff and graduate and station will be used as a laboratory for Through a college TV station, with research programs. teaching and research only. the cooperation of commercial stations, it will be possible for the television To Test Teaching Value Research Cited population of Michigan to see how to Engineers, speech, radio, and dramatics Among the most recent research make a dress, and how to cull poultry students will use the studio and control developments drawing praise from the flocks, or to sit in on a college lecture or room facilities for laboratory work in inspection committee were the mechaniz concert. the technical and production aspects of ation of sugar beet culture, the frost TV. The system will be used to deter machine, rural electrification improve mine the value of television as a teaching ments and other projects, Prof.