Where to find Waylon, Muffie, Ingmar and Mardi Gras Tuesday, November 16 Antique Festival Theatre, 8 pm, SUB Ballroom Coffeehouse, Muffie Blakeley, 8 pm Boisean Lounge Dorm contest, "Almost Anything Goes", 3:30pm Morrison Hall Alpha Eta Rho films, 7 pm Boisean Lounge Foreign film, "Cries and Whispers" (Bergman), Sweden, 7 pm Special Traditional IK-TKE Toilet Bowl, plus Powder Puff Game, 6:30 pm Events Center Bronco Stadium Flaherty senior recital, 8:15p.m., Music Aud ..
17 Wednesday, November Saturday, November 20 Uri Geller, Lecture, mental telepathist 7:30 pm SUB Ballroom; HomecominJt Jt&me, BSU vs. Web�r State, 1:30 pm Bronco Stadium; announcement of Homecoming Queen and Mr. Bronco, plus King Beard coronation of Homecoming Queen and Mr. Bronco at half-time Bud Gudmuson, Coffeehouse, 8 pm Boisean Lounge Alpha Chi Omega pancake feed, 8am-12 noon, SUB Gamma Phi Beta beer-chugging contest, 7:30pm Bronco Hut Homecoming Dance, "Today's Reaction", semi-formal at Ramada Downtowner Ballroom, 8 pm, no admission charge, Homecoming Queen Thursday, November 18 arid Mr. Bronco presented Concert, country-rock star Waylon Jennings, plus Jessi Coulter, 8 pm Faculty Recital, 8:15p.m., Music Aud. Gym, $5 student, $6. 50 general, $7at door Alpha Eta Rho films, 7 pm Boisean Lounge
Friday, November 19 Sunday, November 21 Sorority Mardis Gras Pop film, ''The Four Musketeers", 8 pm SUB Ballroom
Boise, Idaho Volume II, No.3 The Monthly Newsmagazine Of Boise State University Homecoming Welcomes Alum By Bob C. Hall Homecoming events, this one offers an invitation to all BSU alumni, friends and It started almost a half-century ago, students to attend. when Jacmto Urresti tied three strips of Also on Tuesday evening, a two adhesive tape around one leg of his foot decades old campus Homecoming event, ball mol(skins to hold thighpads in place, the clash of Intercollegiate Knights and slapped the ball to teammate Jim Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity in the Shawe, then laid a key hlock that sent Toilet Bowl }'ootball game �t 6:a0, the single wing play crushing across a behind the Student Union Building. I muddy goal line and a 6-0 defeat of the Following will be a Powder Puff scrim .. Univ ersity of Idaho frosh squad on mage hetwt'en feminist footballers and Homecoming Day, 1934. sorority jockettes Forty-two years later, this Saturday Wednesday, November 17, will offer on N'ovember 20, 1976, "Gus" Urresti an evemng entertainment double bill. �II return with now-thousands of World-famous Israeli mentalist Uri former Boise State University graduates Geller will lecture and defend his claim to take a Bronco Stadium seat and to bend object by mind power in the SUB whoop for their successors in sleek, ballroom at 7:30. stretch fit orange and blue uniforms as Geller will stay on stage to help they face Weber State University on [continued on page 2) Astro-Turf. It will climax HSU's Forty-Third Homecoming Week celebration that has scheduled lectures, tht•atre specials and a. nationally famous pop musidan as a mark of the university's growth since 1933. In 1934, the only event besides the second Homecoming Game was a "Home coming Party" held afterwards. It All Came Together In'47 Welcome to Boise State's Homecoming! Whether you are a current There was not even a Homecoming student, alumni, guest, or football fan, the upc6ming game and home Queen until 1947 when, after a long World War II shutdown of normal coming festivities will hold many exciting surprises! Please share them campus activities, B.J .C. "re-converted" with us. to a major institution. It already had the BSU offers opportunity for many students with varying interests, key to Homecoming, a powerful football especially in the field of community involvement. For example, the team under Lyle Smith, a Homecoming Devrea Herman, recent "Pie-Fly" on campus resulted in students contributing $350 to the parade, a Queen, Faye Spilsbury, and 1975 United Way Campaign. Queen's Attendants, Dorothea McFall The advantages of attending Boise State are multiple. Personally, I and Evelyn Zamzow. have been rewarded many times over in my decision to complete my There were mums for alums, a ban education here. quet at the Hotel Boise and, just like in 1933, a great Bronco running back, Bob Homecoming is clearly a time for meeting old friends as well as making new ones. If you are not acquainted with BSU on a friend-to-friend basis, Mays, cutting for great gains behind the l!_ undefeated Broncos' Notre Dame Box w at better time to begin than the weekend of November 20? to power blocks beat the Idaho Frosh Paula Stueve 19·12. Bob Mays is now a partner in Boise's MissBSU successful Starline Equipment Co., who11 join Urresti as one of a long line of Bronco alumni who've made equal gains
· in Idaho business and community leader Susan Clark ship since their playing days. 1965Homecoming Queen Those who come back to see BSU in 1976 will find a university-wide celebra tion of that same state leadership growth. A Five-Day Festival All Homecoming events will take five Faye Spilsbury days to complete, starting with a folk First Homecoming Queen, song evening with Muffle Blakeley in the 1947 Boisean Lounge of the SUB. Like all BN [ ES
.... ?M IT ALL STARTED at St. Margaret's Hall in 1932, above. School faceliftings came as fast as name changes as the fledgling BJC in 1949, right, with its football field, Ad Building and Auditorium, turned into an expanding Boise College by 1966, left, page 3. That face is still changing, as the 1976 photo, right, page 3 shows the new science building under construction.
State Board Eases Gift Acceptances
In a session devoted almost wholly to motion from Idaho State University actions affecting non-university sectors officials that would liberalize acceptance of Idaho public education, the State of gifts by administrations at all state Board of Education took one action universities. affecting operations at Boise State Uni All university and college presidents versity this month. will be allowed to accept small, indi Meeting in Gooding and in Twin Falls, vidual donations "of a routine nature," November 4 and 5, the board accepted a without first submitting these for formal state board approval at a regular meet ing. Gifts over $500 in value and others of Evans,Booth less value but rated as "non-routine" will still require board approval at regular session. Edit 'drill' In other action on public education affairs, the board: Rhonda Booth, Kingston, and Georgia STUDENTS IN 1950 showed typical BJC spirit when they pitched in to build the Evans, Boise, have been selected as Deferred a request from Rep. John familiarcampus fireplace located behind the Special EventsCenter. student editors for the 1976-77 edition of Sessions (R-Driggs) for their support of the Boise State University literary a higher priority listing on the State Per magazine "the cold-drilL" manent Building Fund projects rating Both are English majors at BSU. for a vo-cational-technical building at The magazine features art work, Eastern Idaho Vocational-Technical more homecoming poems, short stories, essays and plays School. Proposed building cost is $1.2 by BSU students, staff, faculty and [continued from page 1) million. At 8 p.m., AI p h a Rh o c h ap t er o f alumni. In the past the magazine has announce the 1976 Homecoming Queen, Granted their support of a public edu Kappa Sigma Fraternity will present won several awards. BSU's Mr. Bronco and winner of the cation campaign planned by the Idaho Idaho's popular Antique Festival The- 1976-77 traditional King- Beard contest. The issue will be printed in League of Women Voters. The league atre troupe in the classic play "The Little February. It will contain a symposium Entrants in that event shaved three will seek private funds to produce media Foxes," at the SUB Ballroom. weeks ago, have been racing their with nationally known Oregon poet programs and materials on public school William Stafford as well as a special whiskers along with various psychic and There's a ticket fee for that event: funding in Idaho. Aim is to get support $2.50 general admission and $2 students, issue of "Truest Confessions," a collec for reform of the system. medical aids to produce the most macho tion of student "pulp" stories. brush and bristle by contest deadline available at the door. The student editors are still in the Heard from Lewis-Clark State College Wednesday. Culture One Day, Then Pancakes processof collecting material for the new that the school's teacher education pro Gamma Phi Beta sorority will help the A special foreign film classic, Ingmar issue. FOCUS readers who want to sub gram has received accreditation from celebration along as sponsors of a beer Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" sets a
- mit articles for consideration can bring the National Council for Teacher Educa chugging contest at the Bronco Hut that starker tone of entertainment realism at or mail manuscripts to Taunya Blake, tion. evening. Starting glugs will be taken at the Speccenter theatre Friday evening, English department secretary at Boise Authorized Board President Ed Benoit 7:30p.m. 8 p.m. Students get in free, others pay State. to seek support from Governor Cecil Waylon Jennings Is Centerpiece just $1. Editorial selection will be made Andrus for a supplemental appropriation Homecoming entertainment center It all aims toward Saturday, when an without the author's name so the deci that would make up a budget deficit for piece is a concert Thursday evening by Alpha Chi Omega sorority pancake feed sions will be 1mpartial, according to state education. That deficit was caused record-smashing country music "outlaw" is open to all headed to the football game advisor Tom Trusky. Notification of by Senate Bill 1494 that awarded longe Waylon Jennings, at BSU's gym, 8 p.m. that afternoon. Pancake time is 8 a.m. acceptance will be made in December. vity pay increments to state employees. One of the few charge events all week, through noon in the Student Union cafe Copies of the 1975-76 "cold-drill" are Received notice that a former Lewis this one is pegged at $5 for students and teria; game time is 1:30 p.m. still on sale at the Campus Store for $1 a Clark State College faculty member has $6.50 general admission. Postgame, it all closes at a come-one, copy. filed a $1 million "exemplary and Jennings has been called an "incredi come-all Homecoming dance at the punitive damages "lawsuit against LCSC ble" country-western performer whose Downtowner Ramada ballroom, with that seeks money and re-instatement to recent albums "Wanted-The Outlaws" music from"Today's Reaction". Dress is his former position. Dr. Larry D. Quinn and "Ready For The Country" have left semi-formal, admission charge is "zip", Faculty Bazaar was not reappointed at LCSC in April, establishment Nashville sounds behind to enjoy the last Homecoming week 1975. He claims the action violated his Boise State University's Faculty and melded the Austin, Texas country hours and see the presentation of BSU's tenured status there. Wives and Women will sponsor a bazaar music sounds to a rhythm and style that new Homecoming Queen and her Mr. Set December 2 and 9 as dates for the and rummage sale Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. to has packed his concerts solid in a cross Bronco escort. next Board of Education meeting, at the 5 p.m. in the Boisean Room of the country tour now headed for Boise. General Chairman for BSU's most State Office Building in Boise. Student Union Building. On Friday of Homecoming week, complex Homecoming week in its history Persons with rummage to donate can something wacky and something classic is Brent Dunston. Coordinating his work contact Bonnie Stitzel at 336-4852. The Library Hours will fill the university's day for visiting with university officials and organiza group is also looking for persons with alumni and students. At 3:30 p.m., tions is Christa Bax, Assistant Director crafts or plant cuttings. They can con Library hours for the coming Thanks- Morrison hall dormitory teams will of Student Activities on campus. tact Pam Applegate at 343-0572. giving holidays will be as follows: organize their second annual "Almost Dunston and Bax say a complete The bazaar and rummage sale is an Wed., Nov. 24: close at 10 p.m. Anything Goes" contest in the afternoon schedule of Homecoming activities is annual event now going into its fifth Thurs., Nov. 25: closed all day just outside the dorm. available by calling the Student Union year. It is the only money-making Fri., Nov. 26: Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. At the Mardis Gras hall, an all-comers Information Center, 385-1108. That project sponsored by the Fi!.eulty Wives Sat., Nov. 27: open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. dance is set by BSU Panhellenic Council. source will also supply tickets and ticket
and Women. · Sun., Nov. 28: open 2-10 p.m. "Thrust" will be on stage. prices to charge events. .._
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· Paper Parody Now It's Called Word Processing News reporters who cover State Back when secretaries were always But that same machine shock has hit Clark is proudest of a recent letter Board of Education meetings did some women who looked cute at the office business only in recent years, says from a vice-president of a Wall Street creative writing t<' illustrate the "educa water cooler and typewriters were all Marvin Clark, Chairman of the Business brokerage firm who had spotted an tion-ese" they must grapple with during black with great white round keys, Boise Education department. nouncement of BSU's new Word Pro board proceedings, this month. State University had courses for cute It is what secretaries and office cessing major in a trade publication. He According to Lindy High, Public Infor girls who learned to hammer on those managers will have to cope with in both wrote: mation Officer for the State Board of keys with timeless efficiency. corporate and individual business ca- "Your students are indeed fortunate Education, the press row group got Besides cute girls, little else is the reers. to have the opportunity of studying at together during a break in business at same at BSU's School of Business today. Basically, Word Processing will teach Boise State University ... I wiU be on a the November 4-5 board session to pencil Secretarial training and a new discipline its students to understand business poli panel and wonder if I might have your this parody on "The Battle Hymn of the "Word Processing" are now one of the cies and methods involved with those permission to mention the great job you Republic." most advanced course designs among all batteries of high-speed document creat are doing in word processing. " "Next theyUstart to get the imput, programs. ing machines that now type and copy another eastern firm underlined but the output's still in doubt. AndL If word processing suggests some information at print-press speeds. "Should they implement or expedite the reputation BSU's major is earning: to see what theyUfind out? thing very scientific and machine How to feed them, via telephone and "Congratulations for recognizing the oriented, it is. The new major has television input equipment; how to impact that Word Processing wiU have "A Need8 Assessment might be fine, on the role of the traditional secretary ' or maybe a SpeakOut, required a radical change in equipment, organize office space and train people to "Butthe PaperworkJust Goes On. " instructional techniques and even room work with the new machines-all are and for deveWping a program to prepare arrangements. essentials of course content. alumnae for this trend, " writes a Mutual of New York insurance executive from Syracuse, N.Y. What BSU's program emphasizes, says Clark, is to provide knowledge that ;/New Benefits will allow both operators of word processing equipment and business supervisors and managers to be effective Given Vets with the systems involved. Boise State's Veterans Affairs Office has announced that vets can now extend their college benefit eligibility period Who's Whos and receive increased monthly payments Dr.David Taylor, BSU vice-president under new changes in the GI Bill. for student affairs, has announced that According to Bob Garrecht of the fourteen Boise State students were Veterans Affairs Office, the new law will selected for inclusion in the 1976-77 increase VA assistance 8 percent. That edition of the prestigious "Who's Who means a single veteran's monthly pay Among Students in American Univer ments while attending Boise State will sities and Colleges." go from $270 to $292 monthly. Married Juniors selected for that honor were vets will go from $321 to $34 7. Gertrude L. Arnold, business manage In another section of the revised law, ment (Idaho Falls); Anthony L. Chirico, veterans were granted an extra nine business-PR (Nanuet, N.Y.); Gregory L. months benefits to continue their educa Easter, pre-dental (Boise); Michael L. tion. Previously VA payments ran out Hoffman, theatre arts (Payette); Dara after 36 months of college. The new law lyn R. Morrison, social work (Jerome); extends them to another 45 months. and Miren Totorica, business manage Left unchanged was the "delimiting date" of 10 years. Veterans still have ment (Bruneau). Seniors chosen for "Who's Who" were only that amount of time to use their Miren D. Asumendi, pre-med (Boise); benefits before they are canceled. Cathrine E. Elliott, P.E. (Boise); Laura All changes in the GI Bill also apply to J. Hebert, history (Idaho Falls); Patti I. disabled veterans, with the exception of Lind, communication (Boise); Robert R. the delimiting date. Naugler, accounting-finance (Malad); About 1,800 veterans at Boise State Toni J. Portmann, office administration will be affected by the new changes. (Idaho Falls); Susan M. Rinard, art (Mt. Garrecht thinks vet enrollment, which Home); and Robert W. Williams, chem has been down this fall, could increase in istry (Mt. Home). the spring as veterans who ran out of benefits will return to finish their degrees. The higher monthly allowance Programs Studied will also encourage some to return, he Boise State's mass communications thinks. programs will come under State Board of In the third major GI Bill change, the Education scrutiny, along with those at law did away with VA educational bene all state higher education institutions, fits for recruits who enter the armed starting December 6, according to a forces after Jan. 1, 1977. After that release from the State Board office. date, persons can voluntarily contribute A Curriculum Conference On Journal IN 1949 to an educational fund while they are BACK the hunt and peck system was in vogue and the most sophisticated ism, to include reviews of allstate higher to enlisted. That amount will be matched maehine secretaries had use was the old hand return Underwood. Those days are education programs in communications, 2-1 once the veteran decides to attend gone forever as word processing programs like BSU's brings office manqement into radio and television will run for the week college. the electronic qe. of December 6-10. r=. - .. -) >t - 4
Alumni Look Around Bronco Stadium To Letter
The main Alumni attraction of the year is HOMECOMING, which has been scheduled for November 20. This is a time for reunion for all BSU Alums and this year has been predicted as the best ever. More alums have expressed interest each year; the involvement is ever increasing. The Associated Students of BSU and the Alumni Association have a very exciting and entertaining week planned for your enjoyment. We want you to join us; we would really like to see you again. Please refer to the Homecoming Week schedule, on page one to help you with your plans. The highlight each year is obviously the football game, which this year will be against Weber State. It is also the final game of the season. Immediately following the game we have the popular Homecoming Dance at the Downtowner Ramada Inn, featuring "Today's Reaction" who performed for a crowd of more than loUO people at last year's dance. Please plan to join us and see all of your friends at HOMECOMING 1976. Dyke
Ex-Prof Gives
Boise State University Library has received a collection of materials written and published by Dwight Emerson Mitchell of Palo Alto, California. Mr. Mitchell was a member of the English department faculty of Boise Junior Col lege between 1939 and 1946. Before that he taught journalism courses at Boise High School during the 1930's. The gift includes a book entitled MIGRANT ANGELS published in 1968, DEML Y, an irregular privately pub lished series of essays and commentaries on a variety of subjects, and CLINT, an unpublished autobiographical study cov ering the author's student years at the University of Oregon.
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Alumni in touch . • They're doing all kinds
Meredith attended the University of numerous real estate courses at the Uni Silver wings have been awarded to Thanks! Idaho and was graduated from BSU with versity of California at Berkeley and at Second Lieutenant James F. Weathers a bachelor's degree in business. He Boise State University. He holds a B.S. following graduation from U.S. Air started his banking career in 1974. in Economics from San Francisco State Force navigator training at Mather Several hundred alumni and friends of College. AFB, California. BSU gathered before the games in Las Vegas and Pocatello. The Alumni Asso V. Emmett Broillier has'been ap A 1968 graduate of Mountain Home pointed manager of the Orofino Office of ciation is pleased with the increased High School, he received his B.S. degree T. involvementin pre and post game func Thomas Naylor, an Albertson's, First Security Bank of Idaho. in 1975 from Boise State University and Brollier, a native of Wichita, Kansas, tionsand would like to extend a special Inc., real estate manager, has joined the was commissioned in 1976 upon gradua was raised in Boise and is a graduate of thank you to all people who have so Retail Properties Division of Wright tion from Officer Training School at · faithfullyatteDded. Leasure Company. Wright-Leasure Boise State University. He holds basic, Lackland AFB, Texas. Company is a Boise real estate agency standard and general certificates from specializing in commercial and industrial the American Institute of Banking. Jobs He joined First Securityin 1970. properties. Buhl school superintendent Mr. Dan Warren Solterbeek, 21, has been hired Naylor was responsible for store site Mabe has announced the hiring of two at Payette High School to teach algebra selection and acquisition and property Kevin Hamilton, who attended the BSU graduates in the Buhl school and geometry classes. management for Albertson's Intermoun School of Engineering here at BSU, is district: He is a Payette native, has a tain Region. In his new position with presently employed by the Engineering Jane Park of Wendell, a graduate of bachelor's degree from Boise State Uni Wright-Leasure Company, he will assist Department of Ford Motor Company at Boise State University. is the new upper versity and attended the Air Force major retailors with real estate analysis the Proving Grounds in Dearborn, elementary resource room teacher and Academy for twoyears. as well as site selection and acquisition. Michigan. Naylor also served six years with After leaving Boise State, Kevin Ron Reimann will be teaching junior The Bank of Idaho has appointed Safeway Stores, Inc. in both the Real attended Oregon State University and high school social studies. He is a Joseph Meredith to the position of Estate Development and Market Re received his BS degree in 1976 in graduate of BSU and a native of Garden manager at the Post Falls Branch. search Departments. He has taken Mechanical Engineering. Valley, Idaho. �5
Find These Grads: Guess Who?
Fun at Poky
By Jim Dickey President, Alumni Association�
Your Alumni Association continues to try to bring those of us who are directly associated with the University together with alums and friends throughout the state. This was evident in Pocatello oa November 13, 1976. Boise State University staff, faculty, coaches and other officials from Presi dent Barnes down, attended a pre-game function planned especially to bring out-of-town alums together with many of us from Boise. This type of activity is not only for the fun we have, but also for the business of making Boise State a better and more responsive University. Those in Pocatello had the opportunity to hear directly from President Barnes, Coach Criner, Coach Connor, Dyke Nally and the best representatives of Boise State in person. We want to continue this kind of per sonal exchanges and we want all of you tobe involved. To continue the involvement, read the Guess Who? "FOCUS" or contact the Alumni Office and drop by and visit with us when you TO PLAY TillS GAME FAffi, YOU MUST can. FIRST TRY TO IDENTIFY AS MANY OF Next year we'll all be in Moscow. As THESE FAMILIAR IDAHO FACES AS Dyke's article and others have explained POSSIBLE. THEN TURN YOUR HEAD throughout this issue, HOMECOMING UPSIDE DOWN TO SEE IF YOU ARE A is "looking good." Please. take part and get involved in '-' BSU ALUMNIEXPERT: 'JOIIP9 SlJodS U8WS8181S Af18Q 048PI MOU '1>9, 1Sif8UJOOI sndweo the excitement. It's the last game of the 'aJOOd LU!r� !'::lUi 'uaspnu)I-UOSIJJO� 'U8UJJI840 year, so let's get together. pJeoa Mou 'oc, 'A.Jero::>� w1r-s� !!il>. 'pun, eupao-e� The BSU Alumni Board of Directors !JOI::>8J!Q UO!Un IU8PniS nS8 'JOI::l8J!P·J8::>npoJd will meet Thursday, November 18 in 18::l!Snw pue eweJp MOU '9!;, 'U8UJJON P9J:t·H !JOI81 Boise. If you have some input or ques -S!68f MOU '!;!>,JOitpa lf00QJ88Apue dnpun01::1 'J8f!8MUQ tions, please feel free to contact me at 20 :as,oa 'saAaa�::� qoa ·sJ� Mou '61>. uaano 11!8·9� my office, 384-3384, or the Alumni 6U!WO::l8WOH 'UOSj813 A118S·S� 'OMI 8S841 SMOUlf Office, 385-1959. auoA.JaAa '69. Kregg Hanson has been appointed as Making their home in Nampa are He went to work for the Federal A via Associate Administrator at Mercy Medi Weddings newlyweds Kathy and Charles Gray, tion Administration as an Air-worthi cal Center and will assume the new who were wed July 24. ness inspector. He was a member of the Marth Ann Massin,-rill and Jeffrey duties in November. The brideis a graduate of Nampa High Elks Lodge. Layne Coats were marri.' I11 recent years increasing numbers of people have elected to send memorial gifts to Boise State University in honor of departed friends and alumni. The gifts provide a helping hand by making available funds to help current students at BSU. Memorial giving is two-fold, since it provides the donor an opportunity to memorialize a loved one or friend and at the same time to help students of the University. The families of those to be honored are notified of the gift by a memorial card and the donor receives an acknowledgment with an official BSU Foundation, Inc. receipt. This gift is fully tax deductible. Friends and alumni wishing to contribute to Memorial or Scholarship Funds should send their contributions to: Boise State University Foun dation, Inc., in memory of , 1910 University Drive, Boise, Ida. 83725. I ANTHONY ROBERT SCOTT MARY ANNE ZINIKER MALOOF A scholarship fund in the memory of The Mary Anne Ziniker Maloof the late Anthony Robert Scott is being Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established at Boise State University by established at Boise State University in his family and friends. honor of the late Mrs. Maloof by her Mr. Scott, 20, son of Mr. J.L. Scott of family, students, and many friends. This New York City, and Mrs. Barbara J. scholarship will be awarded to majors in Rasmussen, Boise, died of injuries mathematical sciences. suffered in an accidental fall on October Mrs. Maloof was a very popular 26 in Onate, Spain. At the time of his teacher in the Mathematics Department death, he was a student in the Boise at BSU until she became disabled with THE MORRISON family has always been one of Boise State's biggest benefactors, even dating back to 1958-59 when Mr. Harry Morrison gave a willing financial hand to the BJC marching band. Gary Brown, president of the band, accepts the Morrison gift. About The Foundation by David T. Lambert Director of Development State University foreign studies pro cancer. She passed away on October 4, gram at Onate. 1976. Many changes have taken place within the BSU Foundation, Inc. during the past He was born March 11, 1956 in Boise Prior to moving to Boise, she was a years. It started its life as the Boise Junior College Foundation, Inc.. The articles and attended Boise public schools, and Mathematics-instructor at Oregon State and by-laws have been changed and amended and presently it exists as a very St. James Academy, Faribault, Minne University, Corvallis, teaching there functional organization. sota. from 1960 to 1968. During the past year, significant changes have occurred which have moved it from Mr. Scott was well known on the BSU In 1968 she and her husband Dr. Giles a low silhouette to the official fund-receiving organization for the University. The campus, as an outdoorsman particularly W. Maloof, Professor of Math, moved to fifty-two Directors and Foundation Trustees, representing all walks of life, are the in the area of Motorcross (Dirt Bike Boise to teach at BSU. She lectured in ones entrusted with its successes or failures. Motorcycle) Riding. He had a great love the Mathematics Department from 1968 Several significant changes have taken place which account for its renewed vigor. for the out-of-doors, spending much time until 1975 when her health would no They are listed as follows: fishing and hunting. longer permit. 1. Changed the name from Boise State College Foundation, Inc. to Boise State Surviving Mr. Scott are his parents Mrs. Maloof was a member of the University Foundation, Inc. listed above, maternal grandparants, Presbyterian Church, she was a troop 2. Newly amended articles and by-laws which give it more flexibility and use. Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Albertson, Boise; leader for the Girl Scouts, active in 3. A stronger commitment by the Directors and Trustees to promote the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Jewell AA UW and she was a division leader in Foundation and the Foundation concept. Scott, Homedale; and a brother, J.B. the March of Dimes. 4. Organization of the Foundation Trustees into working committees to lend Scott, Boise. their advice and professional expertise to promote the Foundation. Persons who wish to contribute to the Friends wishing to contribute to the 5. Establishment of a Foundation Office and an on-campus advisor. Anthony Robert Scott Memorial Schol Mary Anne Ziniker Maloof Memorial 6. Accounting and fiscal control to handle gifts and donations so that they can be arship fund should send their contribu Scholarship should send their contribu received and expeditiously utilized. tions to: Boise State University Founda tions to: Boise State University Founda The Boise State University Foundation, Inc. is truly a dynamic and a growing tion, Inc., 1910 University Drive, Boise, tion, Inc., 1910 University Drive, Boise, organization. This year has been a milestone in its existence and as time progresses, Idaho 83725. Idaho 83725. the Foundation will be of even greater benefit to the institution. Such growth over a period of years will enable it to reach the stat"ure of other state university founda Forensics Squad Does Well tions. It is planned that in the future the Foundation will have the funds to aid Boise State University even more. For information about the Boise State University A squad termed "relatively young" by Freshman Remona Moorequalified for Foundation, Inc., call (208) 385-3276. BSU forensic director Jim Riley placed finals in junior division in persuasive two teams in debate elimination rounds speaking, with an oration on mid-wifery, and two members in individual events as did freshman Jacquie Larson in Overseas Teachers Needed finals in tournament competition at the expository speaking with a topic about University of Oregon, Eugene, Nov. 4-6. the Loch Ness monster. "Friends of World Teaching", an colleges in over 120 coun�ries. The junior division team of Tom "All our team members did exception independent teachers' information agen Anyone interested in contacting this Monagle-Scott Tate qualified for the ally well," Riley said, "including several cy dedicated to assisting American and organization for updated lists of avail quarter-fimil round after emerging from complete novices who had never atten Canadian educators in overseas positions able schools and colleges overseas should the six preliminary rounds with a 4-2 ded a tournament or even seen a debate has sent a bulletin for BSU's faculty write to: Friends of World Teaching, P. 6454, record on a topic concerning consumer before. I'm delighted with everyone's readers. 0. Box Cleveland, Ohio 44101. all product safety. performance." They have announced that hundreds Vacancies exist in almost fields and The novice team of Carol Epperson The Eugene tournament featured of teachers and administrators are still at all levels according to the announce 29 J acquie Larson also made quarter competition from schools in Washing needed to fill existing vacancies with ment. Qualification requirements, salar finals with a 4-2 win-loss record, on the ton, Oregon, California and Nevada. overseas American Community schools, ies, and length of stay vary from school off-topic concerning legal rights of BSU was the only Idaho school repre international, private, church-related, to school, and foreign language is not a accused persons. sented. and industry-supported schools and pre--requisite, the bulletin said. �7 BSU Nurses Score High on National Exams by Kim Rogers with no standard score Jess than twenty and keep up on new procedures," Linda worthwhile program." points. College students must have at pointed out. Mrs. Vivian continued, "I feel that Nursing graduates from Boise State least twelve credit hours and carry a right now very positive things are University are ranked high in national 2. 75 grade point average throughout the happening between nursing educators examining scores. Latest statistics re course - the same GPA required to get and employers. leased by the state examining board for into BSU's MPA program in the registered nurses shows that BSU nurs Mrs. Vivian claims approximately two graduate division. Betty ing students graduating in June, 1976 weeks is needed to work a general surgi "We have applicants standing in line had a passage rate of ninety-three per Vivian cal unit nurse into a staff position. "Some to get into this program," continued Dr. cent. nurses in team leading are having to Vahey. "The curriculum has been modi In a letter sent to Dr. JoAnn Vahey, start their responsibilities virtually fied in recent years to include both the BSU nursing department chairman, con overnight," she continued, "and we are use of clinical appointees, practicing gratulations were offered to the nursing not having any problems." community nurses hired to teach various program and Dr. Vahey on the "signi "In years past, some orientation pro phases of nursing; and an independent The purpose of the joint appointees is ficantly increased number of BSU grams were more like five and six study program that joins nursing to have clinically active nurses teaching nursing graduates passing the state months, but that time has drastically students in their sophomore year with a the students. "Regardless of how board." This letter was sent by E.E. reduced. I will admit, however, that practicing RN so the student can have dedicated you are, you can't teach all the Gilbertson, administrator of St. Lukes more time is probably needed to orient a actual clinical on-the-job experience in a nursing theory and do clinical· practice hospital in Boise. new nurse to responsibilities in a small specialized field." Gilbertson also cited a ninety percent too," explained Mrs. Vivian. "Nursing hospital, but that is because of the Approximately ninety percent of the has become as specialized as medicine, pass rate for all BSU students writing variety of jobs required from a nurse in a nursing students graduated have taken the exam in 1976. He continued, "These every doctor should be aware of that." smaller institution." advantage of the independent clinical figures are not only extremely fa�orable Charon took her nursing practicum at Summing up the problems and accom practicum since its inception in 1974. Mercy and claims that it helped her plishments over the past few years in comparison to the seventy-eight per "Only with the support of community cent pass rate achieved by associate obtain a better understanding of the between hospitals and nursing educa clinical agencies could we have accom degree graduates on a national basis, but workings of a hospital. "I worked with a tion, Mrs. Vivian concluded, "Changes plished the curriculum improvements we are a further documentation of the con nurse for three days of intensive clinical have taken· time, but they are coming have," explained Dr. Vahey. "Not only tinuing progress that has been made by experience, and found it was a very right along." have our students demonstrated a signi the nursing program at Boise State Uni ficant improvement in exam passing versity in recent years." rates, but we feel they can practice after They Haven't Slowed a Bit! Dr. Vahey reported an increase in graduation with a great deal of success mean scores on the five examinations also." Betty Vivian, nursing administrator at Mercy Medical Hospital in Nampa, believes that BSU nursing graduates are JoAnn coming to work with a better under standing of nursing theory and practical Vahey ability. "From an employer's point of view," Betty explained, "new employee orientation has decreased since the joint ·appointees program has begun. I believe graduates are more reality oriented now, they have better access to develop which comprise the National State Board ing some relationships with physicians Test. Scores ranged from an average of . and other staff nurses, whereas before, 470 points to 490 in 1973 to a mean range they were more dependent on their of 532-568 points on the June, 1976 instructors and that put some restraints exams taken by BSU students. "When on their ability to practice. I would say you consider that 350 points is passing," that the joint appointee program and the explained Dr. Vahey, "our scores are clinical practicum are only a beginning." pretty high." � Several factors are given by Dr. Charon Castanon, a May BSU gradu Vahey explaining the increased scores. ate serves as a staff nurse on the surgical "Number one, I attribute the success of floor at Mercy Medical and Linda our nursing program to a stable, dedi Childers, a 1969 graduate is head nurse cated faculty that is running an average in the obstetrical/gynecology depart /of student contact hours between twenty ment. · and twenty-five hours per week." In 1969, when Linda graduated from "Second, intensive work on curriculum BSU, student nurses weren't even modification and refinement which takes allowed in the obstetrical department considerable time and effort on the part when a mother was in labor. Because of of the nursing faculty has been accom the joint appointees program, imple plished. Third, in September, 1974, we mented in the last three years, nursing implemented high academic standards students are able to see first hand what for acceptance into the nursing program. procedures are followed in the OB If a student is a high school graduate, department. ARTS AND Sciences Dean Joe Spulnik,left, and his now retired biology buddy Dr. "The joint appointments have really he must have at least a seventy percen DonaldObee, right, cut a wide swathe on the 1948campus scene. tile rating on all phases of the ACT test, helped nurses get to know each hospital ;: :;: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :: ; : : : : : ::: ::::: ::::: ::::::: ::: : : : : : : : : : : ::::: : ::: : : ::::: ::::::: : : : ::: : : : ::: : : : ::::: : : ::: : : : ::: : ::::: ::;:;:::: ::::::::;:;:;:;:;:; ;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::: : : : : ::: : ::: : : ::: : ::: : : ::::::::::: ::::: ::::: : : ::: : : ::: : : : : ::::: : ::: : ::::: : : : : : : : : ::: : ::: : : : : : : : : : ::: ::::::::::: : : ::: : :: : ForJ,O Years, They've Led Bronco Cheers ·-··-� 1947 1964 1976 ------� • 8 ERSPECTIVE Homecoming Healthy Here Like Christmas tree hunts and the summer circus parade, Homecom ing survives at a few colleges and universities, but only as an annual frustration to the people trying to hold the old idea together. Happily, BSU is one school unburdened by hoary tradition and its Homeeoming events are growing more popular as they touch on today's tempo. At too many other schools, Homecoming is a scrapbook ritual of events that went out with the quilting bee. Of course, some of that loss IS sad. It is, indeed, a revved up society with little of the old hot loyalty, earnest kinship with fellow students, and high pride in alma mater expressed in turgid songs and unashamed rally roaring. But when they dismantled so many Gothic images, they removed the icons around which grads liked to rally-the lionized professor puffing his ponderous pipe, fraternity row, the campus beer basement, the Old Tower. Now the buildings are towerless, you can't find "Hello Walk" among the cars and building sprawl, Ph.D's are dime-a-dozen and look like graduate students, few grads think of their frat as more than a place to liked the play. sleep and eat. . Cordially, So what's left, most places, is the football game-the surviving [ DearSir! Milton Small anachronism where school colors are flaunted, emotions tun to toasting Executive Director and boasting and the lusty fight song revives old innocence and the joy of J State Board of Education being with the gang, again. The rest is victim to the new, urbanized age. U. Oregon tried to Dear Sir: revive the old Homecoming bonfire this fall. Anti-pollution protests First, let me congratulate you on the drowned the project before a match could be struck. U. Washington had overall quality of your monthly news all motels in Seattle full on Homecoming eve-but only 250 hard core magazine, Focus. I am sure your readers Barnes Huskies turned out for the pep rally. The rest were saving their shekels will find it informative and interesting. and refreshment fund for homage to the Supersonics (at $9 a seat) and In Seahawks, in pro pavilions. Second, let me correct some serious· Focus misinformation which you included in And· there was no Homecoming queen. Homecoming Chairman Earl your editorial, "Take A Number, Any by Atkinson explained the idea was scrubbed out of fear of protest from Number". It is this kind of misinforma ·Dr. John Barnes feminist groups. Only Moscow and Bozeman still seem able to get a tion which has surfaced frequently Homecoming parade onto community streets without fights with traffic during the election campaign with refer It takes more than ten days of walking bureaus and safety ordinance bureaucrats. ence to the higher education "Distribu in someone else's moccasins to under Those Homecoming events are relics, to be put on the shelf like an tion formula". stand their problems. Although the nation of Israel is about the size of heirloom watch that doesn't quite keep the same time, anymore. There is no such animal. We have no "distribution formula". Not for at least Owyhee County, and although I had the Is Homecoming, then, defunct? The answer at Boise State is to expand six years has the appropriation for privilege of spending better than a week the definition beyond the old, narrow, Greek-centered rituals to a higher education institutions or the allo-. traveling from the urban centers to the "come-all" series of events in tune with our times. cation of the appropriation been based development towns to the kibbutz, I still Here, this week, a famed Israeli mentalist will demonstrate psychic on a formula. came away with more questions than phenomena to anyone with a ticket. While hundreds won't seek out a Nor is that appropriation tied to the answers. nostalgic stroll across our campus, thousands will take a warm tour of "FTE"-the straw man your reporters On the one hand they are uncovering yesterday at BSU through Focus pages and the modern marvel of photo "try to write intelligible stories about". the vital remnants of the past and on the other hand they are developing the offset production that makes old Yearbook treasures retrievable for The FTE has been used for a number future directions for a young nation. their pleasure. Today's penchant for spontaneous fun will be celebrated ·of years, not primarily to compare BSU Modern Glow From Old Roots at the Toilet Bowl football frolic and the formless festival that is "Almost with U of I and ISU, but to compare BSU It is great to see how the Jewish Anything Goes" day at the dorms. in 1976 with BSU in 1975 with BSU in nation has settled into the old land. They And those who don't miss a bonfire won't want to miss the sorority 197 4 and so forth. have made some remarkable strides in Of course the FTE is abstract. So is boogie at the Mardis Gras. highways, in the construction of new the average daily attendance in the pub Happily, it all leads to up, as it always has and always should, to the communities, and in some social experi lic schools of Idaho, the average number Game, on a bright Homecoming afternoon amid tailgate toasts and ments of a kibbutz or communal nature. of yards gained by the Broncos in a twenty-thousand Broncophiles. It is also thrilling to see the modern season, the average temperature of Yep, we'll even sing that years-old Bronco fight song-and forget the glow of ancient spiritual beliefs. It would Boise. take more than pure grit to. achieve what words halfway through, together. Many of us, together, will still slip up It makes a nice basis of historical com the state of Israel has achieved in the and sing "Boise JUNIOR College" in the refrain. parison, and is widely used by institu last thirty years. Homecoming lives here, a different form, but in one treasured thread tions for internal planning, projection of of good memories of good times on campus. To renew those feelings, in enrollment growth, etc. The Peril From Within any style, is reason enough to keep it up. As for the graduate students who "get I cannot help but believe, as a brief counted twice", that is a gross misinter walker in a new land, that there are pretation of a weighted average (another greater perils domestically for this Not Wit's Fault abstraction, of course, but one held nation than there may be internation highly in most statistical circles). ally. In fact, numerous people with You can't blame BSU Music Department Chairman Will Elliott for his whom I talked said they feared inflation frustration ov_er the recent "advisory vote" by the B�U student body Two years ago, recognizing that the much more than war. (15, 12, 8) that went 614-322 against a proposed student fee increase that would particular weighting which we For example, inflation runs thirty per use tends to deviate from reality, I support revival of the university's marching band program. cent per year; the national debt is in an suggested to the four four-year institu The student leaders ran the advisory ballot without making sure even great spiral than our own; eighty tional presidents that we consider five percent of the lands are still owned Music Department band leaders had opportunity to campaign for the changing that weighting to a different by the government; the country has the band program's support. Elliott says he didn't even know about the vote set of figures. · largest percentage of union workers of until the week of the balloting. However, the four presidents unani any nation I know, and the unions seem Properly, Elliott thinks the vote might have gone differently had some mously opposed the change, even though poorly coordinated for the national of the important operating and fiscal facts about the marching band been the present figures are slightly askew. objectives. Why? To preserve, for historical com presented to students before decision time. B.C.H. · On any given day one reads in the Tel parisons, the same weighting which we Aviv Post of three or four different 1969. have used since After all, we do strikes. not divide the money on the basis of The balance of trade is precarious to FTE's; why change? the disadvantage of the country. The All budgeting is done-all appropria nation cannot feed itself. There are now tions are made-all allocations are twelve recognized political parties in· determined on the basis of program Israel. Its government is usually a com 'ublisher · ...... •...... ••...... •...... Bob C. Hall needs at eaeh institution-not on the promise government in-which three or so · News Editor ...... •...... ••...... Larry Burke basis of FTE's-or of head count, so parties develop a platform or program. News-Copy Desk ...... ••...... Kim Rogers please get this in focus (or, in Focus, if These and other domestic problems Copy Assistants ...... •..•...... Shawna Hahn ... Chris Schultheis you like). are certainlY recognized by the people of Photographer-Artisi ...... · ...•...... ••...... Charles Scheer There is no "state budget system that Israel and with typical diligence the Printer ...... •...... Graphic Arts Publishing Inc. leaders are at work. The future of the Alumnr Page...... Dyke Nally puts prime stress on a formula that cuts country may depend more on the stabil Sports Page ....•...... •.•...... •...... Jim Faucher enrollment roughly in half, for fiscal · Typesetting ...... ••.•.•.•...... · · ...... : .. Carole Moore support purposes". izing of the economics of the nation than Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln, I :m any other single factor. • �9 ,...... A. .. again in sleek four-story Library building. In 1.964, this campus Old Boise State Library, in East Wing of Administration building, had a warmth and style not to be seen new landmark was walled off, its space divided into administrative offices. Twenty-four years of college students did research and reference assignments here, from 1940 through 1964. It's Grown from Ad-Enclave to Four Stories C. There were chances to know every By Bob HaU Also, I could sure hear ·when anyone died across campus in boxes borrowed made too much noise!" collegian by name-and to get involved from the state liquor commission, on Almost the first instant of their return She now entrusts the hushing chore to with their problems and plans, though flatbed trucks and carts in 1964. BSU's to the main hallway of the always· a staff of eleven professional librarians one time proved almost too personal. new Library building waited for the familiar Administration Building, BSU who supervise twenty-eight library per One Korean War returnee was book and resource explosion to come. alums of the school's first thirty years sonnel on full time assignments and accosted by Librarian McBirney as his Within a few years, those 16-thousand get a vague sense of unease. almost eighty student assistants, rang voice rose to a passionate noise level volumes in 1954 were obscured among a Something is missing, but everything ing through four floors of glass, tile and over behind a library pillar where he was library holding over twelve times that along the corridor where they used to fluorescent lighting. in heated conversation with a coed. amount. She expects the library to top take their English Comp. and Basic Back then, in the early years, there "I had to ask him to leave the library 200-thousand in holdings by the close of Psych. and French courses seems was Ruth McBirney, one assistant and a . . . he seemed very upset about having this year . exactly the same. pillared, wood-floored room lit by the talk with the girl broken off. I Statistics tell an interesting story. In Then, after some careful thought, sparsely-spaced huge hanging globe learned from his parents that, at the 1954-55 the library.added 923 new they usually demand: lamps. time, he was trying to propose to the girl books. Last year some 16,400 new addi "I know! There used to be the library and having a hard time of it." tions were put on the shelves. The 1964 down here." Socializing Easy - In a typically McBirnean aside she amount spent on new materials was Closer examination will reveal that There were neighboring faculty mem adds softly: "I,can't remember if they $22,600. Last year the figure approached four arched frames along the corridor bers with offices "just down the hall" ever did get married," as if she should $300· thousand. who dropped in to select their references remember details like that. side wall still show the marks of gypsum But all the size and gloss of the build l inserts that have closed off the once and socialize a bit. That more intimate world was trun- ing and its functions has not made BSU's ' widest section of the Ad Building into library pioneer and promoter any less office cubicles. anxious about future needs. _ Behind those barricades, from 1940 She rummages among neat-lined file through ·1964, generations of BSU stu folders at the edge of her desk: dents did reference and research work "Somewhere here I should cull out the under the watchful eye of the woman inflationary factor in book costs over the who has shushed the noisy ones, helped past decade. It's just astonishing. Books the searching ones and presided over the average $4.13 in 1953 ... now they are three major changes in BSU library his up to over $16. Journal costs alone went tory. up 27 percent last year." This Homecoming Year will be the last "Now, we have to keep a constant one as Librarian for Ruth McBirney, watch on unnecessary acquisitions and who says she'll leave that post in 1977 check priorities against available funds. after 36 years here. The growth in variety of materials Today, trimly suited, silvered hair in a beyond just books has been the single boyish upsweep, Ruth McBirney takes major change in library work and costs." an extra sharp rap of her spectacles on a A funny thought brings another paper-piled desk top and grins widely: sudden grin: "You know, I just remembered, I "One day we got a shipment of trans- helped move our entire library three missions." times!" She exclaims, in recollection: A Boise native, she had completed "Auto transmissions!" library school at the University of Wash "Well, I just went up the wall, but it ington and came home to be an assistant turned out they were part of a to Mary D. Bedford, Boise Junior vocational-technical manual system in College's first Librarian. QUIET was the rule in the intimate quarters of the old Library. Librarian Ruth auto repair-a part of a kit." Justin Time McBirney, who will retire in 1977, recaUs the facility as an outstanding resource In educational materials alone, McBir She was just in time to help haul the center in terms of the size of the college and its programs. ney says the need to keep up with stock four-thousand volumes of big, hard ing, ordering and disbursing a depart cover tomes from the original St. Mar ment store's worth of "kit" accompani garet's Hall campus site across Boise ments to texts is costly and space River and into the new Administration BSU Profs Building Preschool demanding. Building that would keystone BSU's per Creative preschoolers will have a field signed to fit the needs of the community. "But," she repeats, "we have made, I manent campus developments. day when Drs. John and Trudy Comba Special summer programs will also be think, a worthwhile effort to catch up to With Mary Bedford's retirement in have completed building "A Small offered for six to nine year olds. Parents all this .. . we just have to keep pointing 1954, Ruth McBirney took over a library World," a preschool designed to develop may also enroll in special classes such as out that we never really caught up, in that was already twice the size of the one creativity and giftedness in children flower drying, batik, and a course in budget needs, to the library expansion she had helped move onto the campus, from three to six years of age. creating instructional materials. They costs when we converted to four-year one that doubled in size again, to over Dr. Trudy Comba is the coordinator of will be able to receive credit for these status." 20-thousand volumes by 1964. the Early Childhood program at Boise classes from Boise State. For Ruth McBirney, whose four floors She remembers that library of the State, and her husband, John, is the of quiet, orderly library processes still '50's as one that never quite kept up with former state director of programs for show the management imprint of a the rapid growth of the college in build gifted and talented. Frisco Paper veteran librarian, that dollar battle is ings and student needs. The new preschool was designed as a about to end. Yet, it was a certain pleasure: hacienda with'a courtyard and covered In Asked about her plans when her "I had little privacy, compared to patio, all to lend an air for creativity. Library retirement becomes a fact, "sometime this," she indicates in her glass-enclosed Included in the structure will be a stage, On the 3rd Door of the BSU Library is next year", the face most familiar to all office in the modern university library special art center, nature room, cooking a small display containing a San generations of BSU graduates turns, building and its adjoining conference and language centers, and a special Francisco newspaper publishedApri1 19, picks up the morning light as it touches room . • Japanese culture room equipped with 1906, the day after the infamous the scene outside where autumn golds "But I could also talk to everyone who authentic tatomi mat flooring. Foreign earthquake. This paper, donated by Dr. the park across the river. came in the door, because that's where languages will also be offered. Peter Wilson, is part of a smaU but "I'll finally do what I want to, when I my desk was-right out in the open. The center will offer programs de- growing special collections. want to." ' • Sweet Q.d Bob's Sportin' Life One to Go . ... One to By Jim Faucher by Bob C. Hall Only a slingshot arm and a team rated resuscitation job of his own, with his "most improved" in the Big Sky stands Purple gang rolling up TD's in bundles in between Boise State's oncoming Broncos the late going. and a winning finish to their 1976 build Bockwoldt has been the key, with 164 ing season this Saturday afternoon. completions in 282 passes for over two Headed towards the Forty-Second thousand yards so far. Flanker Tommy Homecoming game at Coleman is his main man, while split end Broncs Are Together All Year , Funny thing about Bronco athletes-in skills and patterns of play they're as modern as the Wishbone, the Veer, the Box and One and aluminum bats. In performance style, they're often as coolly "profes sional" as any competitors in the high pressure cooker of NCAA sports events. But in fellowship-what a strange word these days-for each other, regardless of team label, they're as old fashioned as a Homecoming pennant, a pullover letterman's sweater. Someone called our attention to the basketball and spring sports guys, always early in seats for Bronco football games, always most vocal to roar for Jim Criner and his troops. So when the BSU basketball Broncos unveil their running, driving new offense at an Open House show as a special Homecoming treat this Saturday, a lot oft he gym seats will hold football warriors who've just finished their own Homecoming test against Weber State that after- noon. Lyle Makes A Subtle Thing Work That displays one of the subtleties of management in major team sports programs, mastered by Athletic Director Lyle Smith-he gets too little credit for the BSU all-sports success record. That subtlety is in how smoothly each sports season meshes to another, and the personal support each coach gives to his fellow mentors-and thus the full program. Some good things happen as a result of that cooperation, when it's honest and full-hearted. Fall sports like football and cross-country set a "tone" for each years' sports atmosphere. When good policies in train ing, academic requirements and physical conditioning regimins are set by such admitted leaders as Jim Criner and Ed Jacoby, those attitudes become patterns of behavior for players of the following seasons to "pick up on". That next coach's job is that much easier. In return, a sense of team belonging and support makes an overall climate of friendship and fun around the gyms and weight rooms where all athletes must mingle. That magnet keeps a football player coming around to stay on his fitness program with more enthusiasm during off season; it gets cross-country guys to watching the basketball and wrestling teams for attitude and training ideas. _ All of which leads us to salute the nifty idea of dovetailing the final Stadium are these characters in the Rick Molina prevents double coverage football game into the first basketball public event this Saturday. Just drama: on Coleman with 27 key grabs. fifteen minutes after the season closes for Coach Criner, he'll become a (1) An oft-crippled but "together" But the real draw to the 1:30 kickoff number one fan for Coach Bus Connor's defending Big Sky champions, Bronco team that survived new systems, will be the offensive surge shown by the when the Open House starts across the parking lot at Bronco Gym. some major personnel changes and a Broncos against traditionally heated We'll bet some of Bus's troops will be hustling to pull their sweats on balancf'!d Big Sky league gauntlet to cap rivals in Las Vegas and Pocatello. because they stayed to the last minute to support the gridders. And the a late-season comeback at the Minidome Last week, only the loss of starting last week, 36-zip over Idaho State. quarterback Dee Pickett with a severe football team will hustle through the shower to make the Open House (2) Rod Bockwoldt, exploding from knee injury dampened a day when the Scrimmage show at the gym. early-season obscurity to revive a once Broncs' defense simply smothered Ben · · hapless Weber Wildcat offense on an gal backs in their tracks · arm that throws the most consistent "Our offensive line also did a great Of Balance And The Big Sky passes in the loop, that' has smashed a job," pointed out Coach Jim Criner. Division II record for sheer throwing (52 They gave the quarterbacks time to If the strength of an athletic conference is based in its "competitive · in one game). operate, they gave running room to the balance" the Big Sky is one of the nation's healthiest, theW AC may have (3) Greg Stern, a veteran lead player other backs." avoided the one-sided disease this year, and the Pac-8 plunged further in many Bronco dramas for two seasons He cited offensive lineman Mark toward the dangerous status of a Pac-2, as has the Big 2 they used to call who quarterbacked the Broncs stunning Villano, also Lloyd Cotton and Everett Big 10. win last week and will close a brilliant Carr for key efforts. Beyond the chivalry involved in a salute to Montana State's certain offensive rushing-passing career Satur Criner compliments also named Mike Big Sky football crown, there is the comfort that the Bobcats didn't take day. Holton, the Boise senior who nabbed two the thing without some repeated scares from other contenders along the N.ow 4-5-1 overallwill and 1-4 in Big Sky TD tosses among seven receptions for 98 way. play, the Broncs seek to continue the yards. solid play that has reminded fans of old Cross-country, wrestling and basketball races the past few years have Junior Mick Coats' center snaps, said powerhouses, against Las Vegas and Criner,-continue to be a oft-overlooked seen the Broncos and at least three other contenders gasping, at the end ISU. factor in the Broncos' new ffeld goal and to claim loop championships. . Wildcat Coach Dick Gwinn has done a kicking game excellence. And now, thanks to resurgent Wyoming, a suddenly-exciting Utah and steadily-stronger BYU, the Fiesta Bowl prize is no longer an Arizona goldmine, but a true conference debate. Kubitschek -----1 Are They Really In The League? That's what faces the Pac-Two, where only California was thought to by Don Kubitschek Bronco make a reasonable slap at USC and UCLA this year. That didn't come Bronco Boosters, your physical and financial support for the 76-77 off, and the Rose Bowl race is of less interest in San Francisco, Seattle, athletic program has been tremendous. Let's not let down as the football Pullman and Portland than a surfing match in Malibu. season winds to an end. To illustrate the gap that Rose Bowl lockup has now developed: last I have just finished looking over the calendar of events for the winter weekend UCLA entered its second string in the second quarter, then its sports program and it is very impressive. There is something there for third string in the third quarter and STILL couldn't keep their mauling the interest of the entire Southwest Idaho. of Oregon's "best team in years" below 48-0. - Coaches Young and Connor will be out trying to repeat as conference But when a league hurts, all members hurt, as are USC and UCLA trying to keep straight faces and full cash registers waltzing to meaning champs. The women's athletic program at BSU is also on the move. They are coming off of an impressive schedule of fall sports with a strong less wins before paltry crowds all around the league. · win column. It may eventually raise the proper Rose Bowl question, when Ohio As we look back at the growth of atmletics at Boise State, we can see State-Michigan and UCLA-USC beat each other on alternate years one that there has been a lot of progress. The quality of competition con more monotonous time. The question is-who did they beat to get here? tinues to improve and create greater challenges for our Bronco squads. Within their own leagues, mostly nobody in their league. , PORTS Crown WOMENSPORTS By Julie Howard It was a rebuilding year for the were leaders throughout the season. 1976·77 Boise State women's volleyball "Bev Ballard and Kim Erekson were team as they concluded the season this this year's co-captains. They were week with a 9-18 record. always leaders on the court and were our The young BSU team has a majority of strongest spikers and blockers through freshmen and sophomores to build on for out the season." next year. Said Fahleson: "This year was Vicki Fifteen players opened up the season Lawson's first year of volleyball, but against the University of Idaho with a she's sharp and consistent and she really totally new defense. The new 6-2 held the team together." . defense put three spikers in the front Fahleson was also impressed with row with a setter in the back. setters Johna Reeves, McDermitt, Nev., After losing three, then winning three and Barb Klooze, Boise. matches at the NCWSA Eastern Area Tournament recently, the ,team had achieved its best playing performance of FIELD HOCKEY the season. "We were stronger this year than we BSU's 1976-77 field hockey team, who were last year," said Coach Genger were undefeated last year, ended this Fahleson, "and next year we'll be even season with a 16-3-3 record. · stronger and more experienced." The Broncos will face Pacific Lutheran Fahleson called attention to those who University and Central Washington State College on Friday and Canada's Simon Fraser University and the Uni Oa Way Up Broncos ran over people To NCAA versity of British Columbia on Saturday. to football pride, cross-country The newly-crowned Big Sky cross Coach Connie Thorngren says, at this crown. Left, Mitch Britzman rams country champion Boise State Broncos point: Las Vegas Rebels; below Mike will compete Thursday, Nov. 22 at the "We'll be losing some very good Mallard divebombs ISU quarter Hoop Open NCAA cross country championships in seniors this year. Two of our best are back; above proud Big Sky champs Denton, Texas. The NCAA champion Elaine Elliott and Kendra Falen." are happy harriers Jim ships are being hosted by North Texas House Sat. Elliott, of Boise, has been Boise State's VanDine, Emil Magallanes State University. The Boise State basketball team will leading scorer for the last two years. and Coach Ed Jacoby. Boise State has competed once before be holding a scrimmage and "open She's a leader on the team and, accord [Sc heerphotos] in the championships, they finished house" Saturday, Nov. 20, following the ing to Thorngren, "the most outstanding seventeenth in the nation in 1973. That BSU-Weber State football game. All field hockey player in the Northwest." race meet was held in Spokane, Wash. Bronco fans are invited to attend the With a total of sixty goals scored The Broncos placed five men among affair which will begin approximately 15 altogether for BSU this season, Elliott the top 10 places last Saturday to win minutes after the football game. made 30 of them. . the Big Sky title. Coach Bus Connor's defending Big Sky Falen, who was out last season with an BSU had 30 points to second place champion Broncos will open their season injury, came back strong this year to Northern Arizona's 52. Nov. 26 in Seattle against Seattle play three different positions including "I felt all along that Northern Arizona Pacific. The next night they will face fullback and the forward line. Thorngren would put the pressure on us," BSU Puget Sound in Tacoma. also recognized junior Debbie Hill. Buhl, head coach Ed Jacoby said. "NAU had Puget Sound is the defending national as the key to Boise State's defense. good depth and ran a fine roce," he Division II champion. The Loggers will "Debbie not only played well but she was added. also be in Boise Dec. 29-30 for the Boise the leader on defense, helping direct the The scoring for the other league State Basketball Classic Tournament. play," said Thorngren. schools saw Idaho and defending cham They will be joined by Cal State Irvine Freshman Valerie Jones, Nampa, who pion Montana tie for third with 69 points and Sacramento State. played goalie for Boise State this year, followed by Weber State, 140; Idaho BSU's home opener is Dec. 2 against was also praised for her cool and , State 176; Montana State, 193; and Gon Fresno State. valuable abilities in important games. zaga, 250 points. Dean Erhart of Montana successfully defended his individual title. BSU's Jim VanDine finished just 12 seconds behind him for second place. Other Broncos in the top ten were Steve Collier, fourth; Gil Esparza, sixth; Emil Magallanes, eighth and Glen Lorensen, tenth. Jacoby said he was especially ...pleased with Lorensen's effort. The senior from Notus, Idaho was just one second away from ninth place. "Glen was just great. He put everything he had into the race," Jacoby said. ; "We really had fine grouping. Some coaches even said it was the best team Steve Need• Randy WatMD TimMattlle w• performance they had ever seen in the league," he added. "That national competition in penton Broncs Open vs. Utes will be fantastic. I think we have a team The Broncos will open their season at that is capable of being in the top 12 at Eight returning lettermen, three of home December 8 hosting the UniversitJ the championships," Jacoby said. whom are Big Sky Conference cham pions, make up the nucleus of the of Utah. That match will begin at 7:80 1976-77 Boi8eState wrestling team. p.m. in the Bronco Gym. The early Bronco breakdown b7 Coaeh Mike Young's squad has won weight: 118 lbs.: Hector Cedillo, senior, Let's Get Growing three straight league titles and Young Cal4well, Idaho is getting a good fiPt says that this year's team is very com for the starting spot from JC trander Association parable to last year's team. Mark Jordine from Blaekhawk JC ia The three returning title holders are A glance tells us Coach Young has his toughest wrestling schedule in Dlinois; Randy Watson, 158lbe. senior from The Firth, the history of the school. Coach "Bus" may be looking at as formidable a 1261bs.: Leon Madsen, junior, Dalles, Ore.; Steve Needs, 177 lbs. Idaho; 134 lbs.: Brad Allred, junior, basketball schedule. His charges and Mike Young's wrestlers will have senior from Nampa, Idaho; and Tim Nampa, Idaho; be up to their best efforts. to Matthews, 190 lbs. senior from Declo, 142 lbs.: open at present-possibl7 I'm sure the girls have their sights set on returning to the Nationals in Idaho. This year Needs may move to 190 John Brady, sophomore from Boise's basketball and that will be no simple task. lbs. while Matthews willmove to 1771bs. Bishop Kelly High School who would Meanwhile Bronco Boosters will be in the stands offering all the moral move up from 1341bs.; support they can muster. Cheek in on some of these sports you have Young said that he is hoping to fill in 150 lbs.: Joel Styron, junior from neglected so far; you'll be glad you did, not to mention how much enter some holes with wrestlers that did not Hobart, Oklahoma; 158lbs.: Randy Wat tainment you get from watching the teams compete. But it is important participate on the varsity last year. son, senior, The Dalles, Ore.; 167 lbs.: to be there and support them. That is what requires a little eff:ort. Too "I think we don't have as well-balanced Lou Grasso, sophomore, Boise; 177 lbs.: Tim Matthews, senior, Declo, Idaho; 190 many of us want to stay home and then criticize their play or perfor a team right now as we had at the end of last season, but I think that by the end of lbs.: Steve Needs, senior, Nampa, mance. At Bronco State we are winners, so let's back our teams like the year after some weight adjustments Idaho; Heavyweight: open at present winners. we11 be better," Young said. time. 12 Five Big Years Keyed Bronco _Rise By Larry Burke games would draw between 1,500 and it also started a series of post-season enough light to play " were over. 3,000 fans, good in those days before games and national attention that still After the winning streak ended, When Bronco thousands gather this television made football a national continues. The unfamiliar limelight in '50 Smith coached his teams to more Saturday to celebrate another BSU mania. brought "an honor that is seldom placed victories with only a few post-season Homecoming, not too many people will The biggest of small BJC's triumphs in on the shoulders of a small school like bowl losses to mar most records each be pre-occupied with history. Matters of 1934 was a 6-0 victory over powerful BJC." boasted the yearbook. season. Until 1963, Smith's teams never the present, like Weber's record setting Rick's, which had earlier beaten the Uni· lost more than two games a year. His Post-season honors would fall on passer Rod Bockwoldt, for one, will keep versity of Idaho, Southern Branch. worst record was 6·4 in 1964. Bronco shoulders ten more times after nostalgia from creeping too close. But "It was a big upset," crowed the 1950. there is a precious few seated in BSU's Bronco yearbook, giving credit to the Football during those years wasn't the modern concrete-astroturf stadium who backfield play of Shawe, Cantlon and The Broncs also found a permanent only sport that gained the Boise school will cast a quick glance around and Urresti. home that year.The sparkling new gray national attention. For three straight remember other Homecomings on other Bronco facilities were soon updated wooden seats brought Bronco facilities years coach George Blankley's basket· fields that must seem like distant rela with the addition of lights in 1935. That into major league status. The days that ball team went to the national JC cham· tives to this one. A misty-eyed look made capacity crowds another part of one alum describes as a step above pionships, coming back with fifth in '55, across the street to the East Junior High the Bronco le�acy, as the yearbook "turning car lights on so there could be tenth in '56 and fourth in '57. field or behind the stadium to the SUB explains. "Using a white football, the field brings back memories of earlier team was able to play to capacity crowds days in the Bronco pedigree for some at the Lewiston Normal and Albion fans. games," it boasted. In teletype fashion, all-American Up & Down 'Til'47 names flash by ... Ben Jayne . . . Bob Br,onco fortunes were up and down for Agee . . . Eddie Lodge . . . George the next decade until the second turning Naukana ... Joe Schaffeld ... Dave point in 1947. Wilcox ... Frank Kaaa ...Jim Evenson The stage was set for a savior to ...Steve Svitak . . .Eric Guthrie . . . Don Hutt ... Like any 44-year old, Bronco football has gone through its infant and adoles· cent growing pains. With them have come the normal ups and downs. Along the way were five key years, turning points that honed the Bronco machine into the successful football pro· gram that it is today. The Early Years It wasn't exactly a blazing start for the young Broncos who started the school's football tradition in 1933.Their schedule would draw a snicker by today's standards: St. Joseph's of Boise twice, College of Idaho frosh, and Albion Nor· mal.The 1-2-1 record of Dusty Kline's charges that year wasn't a harbinger of things to come. But the first key year in Bronco history was 1934 ...It was the first year, really, that the fledgling junior college got serious about football.Led by new coach Max Eiden, the team raced to the first of many winning seasons that Lyle Smith year at 4·3. rescue the team from its previous incon One man who remembers those days sistancy. With opponents like Gowen Field and Gooding College, the best the team could muster was a 4-2 record, once. Then Lyle Smith arrived on the scene and the face of Bronco football changed THE 1950 Junior Rose Bowl team was led by triple threat tailback Bo:, Mays, JlOW a forever. In 194 7 the Smith tradition partner in Starline Equipment Co. of Boise. started . . . a 2-4-2 record by Harry : : : : : : ::::::::::::�:::: :::::::::::: :=�=::::::::::::::::::: : ::::::: ::: :::::::::::::: ::::;::::::: ·:·:·:· . :·:·:·:·:·:::::·:·:·:::::::·:::::::·:::::::;::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::·: � :::::· :·:·:::::·::::::: Jacoby (the last Bronco losing season) metamorphosed into a perfect 9-0. That sterling record brought new spirit to the junior college.The yearbook called the '47 Homecoming the "most Recognize colorful in the annals of the college." Led by first-time ever queen Faye Spilsbury, a bonfire, parade, banquet, dance and victory of the Idaho frosh highlighted the school's spirited Home coming. That year saw the Broncos approach national prominance as one of the six top JC teams. Dick Nelson, a tackle, became the school's first all-American and a special assembly was held to present the certificate to him. Gus Urresti It Peaked'50 in Smith's teams kept winning, and is the hard-charing fullback of that team, winning, and winning. Finally, in the Gus Urresti. Still sporting a football third BronCI) highlight year, 1950. it player's physique and an anxious com· peaked. The Broncos went through an petitor in the yearly Alumni Game, unprecedented fourth straight undefeat Urresti talks about the early years. ed season, running up a string of 40 wins "Our teams had a more powerhouse that set the tone for years to come and style.We had fast boys and the blocking got Boiseansin the winning habit. was tough. We had harder ground to Smith, who had turned the reins over play on too," he says. "But today the in mid-season to George Blankley during players are much more skilled in tech a short Navy stint, saw his team finally nique and have better form and move get the national attention it deserved. ment than we had." After one minor post-season bowl the Urresti, who now helps with the McU year before, the 1950 JC powerhouse Sports business in Boise, called the was finally invited to the "biggie," the progress of the BSU program "fantas Junior Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. tic." He should know because he's been a That game with Long Beach Community constant, close-up fan for years. His son College would decide the national JC Rich was named an all-American full champ. • back in 1963. BJC's hopes were riding high, but the Urresti remembers that community string ended. Their trip to the land of support has always been good for college roses resulted in an unfamiliar 33-13 football. Even before Bronco Stadium, defeat. when the team played on the old sod That year was remembered as the end J form public school field across Broadway, the of Smith's marathon winning streak.But Larry ackson, 1950, er major league pitcher with St. Louis �13 New Name, New Schedule University. The next watershed season came in New Conference 1968. The scene at the Boise school had Knap, like Smith before him, rolled off changed completely from the 1950's. the victories. Gone were the old JC days when Boise Then came 1971, the year BSC would ·fans looked forward to the Idaho find a new home in the Big Sky Confer Vandals' annual game here with a big ence. For the second time in just four name opponent like Utah or Oregon. years, the Broncos faced another major By 1968 the Broncos were THE show schedule up-grading. in a town that was turning football During that time, the Broncs moved crazy. into a totally different Bronco Stadium. Another nc.w magician was brought in Gone was the soggy turf that bogged to take over as old master Lyle Smith down teams in wet Novembers. Gone moved into athletic director duties. His were the battleship gray stands that name: Tony Knap. held cheering Boise supporters for some The new coach brought with him 20 years. offensive schemes that brought the new In their place ... the latest in concrete four year college up to par with the and astroturf. After 1970, Boise State tougher schedule as the team made the would have one of the fmest 12,000 seat JC transition. (now 20,000) stadiums around to match Knap faced a slate that looked impres the quality of the football teams on the sive compared to the Snows, Everetts field. and Columbia Basins of just the year It didn't start easy. Knap's high flying previous. After losing two of the first passing attack, already a proven success three, Knap's 1968 team went on to win against the Southern Oregons and the rest, including the biggest victory Central Washingtons, faced in-state yet, 27-20 over new rival Idaho State 1 rival Idaho in what many consider the WOMEN'S FIELD hockey was on the sports ec:ene back in 1951. Then part of the Women's Athletic: As110c:iation, this team made a trip to Vancouver, B.C. to partici pate in the Northwest hockey tournament. most important game in Bronco history. State. But if 1975 was a watershed year for Fans on both sides of the stands were any sport, it was basketball. Molding a shocked when Knap's crew, led by spirited underclassman team into a dis eventual pro Eric Guthrie, passed to a ciplined unit, Coach Bus Connor went stunning 42-14 win. That win set the through the season with only a modest tone for the 1971 season. BSU finished record. second in its first Big Sky year and went By Big Sky playoff time, the Broncs on to the regionally televised Cammilia were ready. After what many fans called Bowl in Sacramento, Calif. In typical the most exciting weekend in BSU come-from-behind fashion, the Broncs basketball history, Connors Cagers had won that one, too, 32-28. won the Big Sky playoffs and advanced to Eugene to a televised game in the Reachesa Peak • NCAA tourney with Nevada-Las Vegas. last 1975. The final key year was year, It was the first NCAA berth ever for By then BSC had changed to BSU and BSU basketball. had approached adulthood as a major In other sports, BSU continued its state university. Athletic teams that wrestling dominance in 1975 with yet year also climbed to new heights. By another conference title. Baseball and year's end, Knap's footballers had three cross country teams also took second in titles behind them in the Big Sky with their leagues. out a loss. Icing on that cake came from In women's sports, 1975 saw the field three straight post-season playoffs, with hockey team go undefeated. The basket losses to eventual national small college ball team, after making a trip to champions each time. Tony Knap, on the scene in 1968, takes a familiar glance toward the scoreboard that nationals the year before, nearly re During the 68-75 span Boise State was usually lit up with points. Quarterback Hal Zimmerman, 11, and end Dave peated, but lost in the regional title teams lost only once to Idaho and Idaho Toney, 89, join Knap. game to Portland State. ::::::::::::::::::::::;: :::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: : ; : : : : : : : : : : ::: : ::: ::::: : :;:;: : : : ::: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : ::: : : : : : : : : : : : : ::: :::::::;::: ::::::: ::::::: : : : ::::: ::::::: ::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::: : ::::: :::::: ::;:; :: :::::::::::::::::: ;;:::::;: : :;:;: ::::::;: : :;:;:. :;: ::::;:;: ::::::::;:::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::;:::: :::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: �= :::::: : : : : : =�:: :: ·::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 14 1963, Dave Wagnon, became national Gus Johnson, 1962, all-pro forward with scoring leaderat ISU Dave Wilcox, 1962, all·pro linebacker with San Franc:ieco Baltimore �14 Geophysics Added to Geology Fare Boise State University's geology de agencies that deal with resource explor Once hired out of state, it is possible partment, already a leader in area geo ation. There is room for a small consult that BSU grads could return to Idaho as thermal research, got an added boost ing firm too, the professors say. But the their companies begin work on the last month when the State Board of Edu rest of the graduates will probably find state's rich oil, gas and geothermal re cation approved a new degree in geo jobs outside Idaho. That's only because sources. Already geophysicists at BSU physics. no large gas or petroleum companies are have conducted studies in Cascade, Raft Senior level classes in the subject have headquarted here, they explain.· River, Boise and north Idaho. already started, and a few in the major are expected to graduate this spring. Students who follow the geophysics Leaders in Arts and Sciences degree path will be trained in resource exploration techniques, according to PHOTOGRAPHER Frank Carr, retired professors Jim Applegate and Paul in 1974, was a familiar face as he roamed Donaldson. Geophysists use scientific the campus to document Boise State instruments to measure electric, seis happenings. mic, chemical and magnetic properties beneath the earth's crust. "We are electrified and computerized prospectors," is the way Donaldson describes the 50-year old branch of Sciences geology. Geophysics students will follow the same basic course schedules as geology Move Ahead majors. Added to those will be four more advanced math courses, doses of physics During Boise State's transition from and engineering and specialized geo junior college to major university, the physics classes. school's biology department has tripled In addition, students will have plenty its teaching staff to keep up with the of field opportunity because of BSU's growth, according to chairman Russell active role in local geothermal explora Centanni. tion. Where once there were four, there are It was that research that got the now 13 teachers providing the latest degree off the ground in the first place, knowledge as the department reaches says Applegate. As more equipment out to be the best in Idaho, he adds. came in, classes in geophysics were Faculty in the popular department added. With the arrival of Donaldson, Jerry Young, 1965 Harry Fritchman, 1956 bring together a wide variety of biologi the department expanded to a full cal skills. The result is breadth of course schedule of senior level classes in geo work that prepares students for secon physics last year. dary school teaching, acceptance into With the original geotherriJal research medical or dental schools, and employ winding down, BSU now has over ment with state agencies or the private $300,000 in equipment, most donated by sector. the government and major corporations, The department is about to turn a for student use. major corner in its history next year The new degree is the only one offered when it moves into the new science in Idaho. The next closest is at the Uni building. Limited facilities have ham versity of Utah. After that, the nearest pered student and faculty research schools are Montana Tech and Univer efforts, but that problem will be sured sity of Nevada-Reno. with the ample labs and project rooms Until this fall, Applegate and Donald that will be in the new structure. son were the only geophysicists at Idaho's A new research microscope, pur universities. chased with some alumni association A widE' open job market greets the funds, will be given a proper setting so new graduates, both say. Jobs will come photomicroscopy can be accomplished. from agencies and corporations who Centanni says an "air of excitement" explore for natural gas, petroleum or surrour,ds students and faculty because geothermal resources. of the new quarters. But that excitement Applegate says one BSU graduate over the additional research facilities is who recently visited provides a good "tempered" by the fact that faculty example. His company. Shell Oil, hired research will not be at ·the expense of only 40 percent of the geophysists it undergraduate education, he says. wanted last year. The rest were Undergraduates will be "encouraged converted geologists.- Jack Dalton, 1961 William Shankweiler, 1958 to engage in independent studies that Even before the degree got the State will give them an appreciation for the Board green light, the BSU professors trials, joys and disappointments that said they received calls from gi-aduate accompany research," explains Cen programs who want students. Most of Home Ec Not the Same tanni. those offers carry with them some • healthy scholarship money. When Dr. Clark Swain, Associate busy pioneering new and improved • Once on the job, geophysicists can Professor of Marriage and Family curriculum changes. Currently, no de Like the rest of Boise State, the expect to average at least $1,100 a Studies, was asked to address a psy gree is offered through the BSU home Department of Physics and Engineering - month, says Applegate. Some of them chology class on campus, he found him economics department. has grown over the years. From four start at $1,800. self using half the class period explaining Students who enroll in home ec must faculty just eight years ago, the depart Idaho could use some geophysicists in what home economics is all about. transfer to another school to complete ment now has 10 professors to teach the Labeled as "one of the most misunder requirements for a two or four year increasing numbers of students. stood programs on campus," home eco degree. Leda hopes all that will be The department offers only pre nomics offers much more than learning changed soon, as a· proposed four year engineering and pre-physics courses, Chem Seminar how to bake cookies and sew aprons. program is in the works. but more expansion is just around the During this homecoming week, a look The four year degree curriculum has corner after two State Board of Educa Homecoming week will not be without back into BSU's history includes a look been developed, worked its way through tion decisions. a contribution from the chemistry at a home economics program flourishing the curriculum committee and the Next year a new program in construc department, according to Jack Dalton, since the college_ began. As early as faculty senate. The format now rests in tion management will be housed in the chairman. "Our department thought we 1941, students. were gathering together the hands of the State curriculum com department. Starting in the fall, it will would sponsor a seminar on Nov. 18 as to promote "further interest in the study mittee. tie already existing courses from engin our part of Homecoming Week," Dalton of home problems." Growth has not passed the home ec eering and business with new courses explained. Eta Epsilon, the home economics club department b:,., in three years the that specialize in construction manage The evening seminar will be on "high organized in 1941, boasted two major faculty has doubled. Four full-time staff ment. pressure liquid chromatography", a projects for the year ...sewing for the members and three part-time faculty A void in BSU's science offerings will process concerned with pesticide analy Red Cross and making garments for the instruct the 481 students enrolled. be filled in the near future with the addi sis, organic synthesis, food and feed Children's Home. Special topics courses have been tion of a baccalaureate degree program analysis. Times have changed, but not the spirit offered as part of a testing program to in physics. Presently the degree is Curt Ivy of Water's Association, an of students involved in home economics. determine where interests and course waiting "modest" funding before ad eastern firm that manufactures chroma Some twenty-five people have joined numbers lay. "Our curriculum is people vanced undergraduate classes begin, tographs, will be the featured speaker. SHEA (Student Home Economics Asso oriented," explained Dr. ;lchrimsher. according to department chairman Gary Ivy will talk about his firm's instruments ciation) this year, a great increase over "Our program is designed to reflect the Newby. and possibly demonstrate one of the six members last year. times and meet the needs of our modern Beside their teaching duties, several newest techniques for analytical and society." people in the department have re To promote the club, members have preparatory work. Dr. Schrimsher is looking forward to sponded to urgent energy problems sold stationery and tupperware in the The seminar will be held in the BSU even more growth and expansion as soon facing the people of Idaho. Current pro past. Last year they made food baskets Science building, room 106 on Nov. 18 at as the new science building is completed jects are being carried out in solar for Easter and Christmas. 7:30 p.m. There will be no charge for the and space is opened up in the old build energy and will soon yield data that will meeting, and anyone interested is Even though projects are cooking, Dr. ing for more home economics cl�sse� and "help in the solar heating and cooling of invited to attend. Leda Schrimsher, Home Ec Chairman, is labs. homes in the Boise Valley," says Newby. � - -...·· �1! From 'Gib' To Mike�· Jazz 'Lives' Here Pianist Sets More Concerts First high point for Boise State jazz reputation was hit by the groups of Gib • Madeleine Hsu, Associate Professor in Hochstrasser, Boise's jazz and swing Piano at Boise State University, played pioneer. concerts in the Sun Valley and Twin In zooty suits, improvising from Falls areas Nov. 14 to Nov. 16. She also famous Big Band scores, Gib gathered has been invited by the Magic Valley BJC musicians to become a most Symphony Orchestra to perform the remembered fixture at college dances Beethoven Concerto Number Five (Em and "hops" that were the rage of that peror) at the CSI Fine Arts Auditorium. day. Mrs. Hsu and her students are prepar While on-campus jazz has taken a ing a Gershwin Duo-Piano concert on back-door place on many university December 3 as the last bicentennial schedules, it is again in revival at Boise State, under Mike Sam ball, musician from North Texas State, southern cradle of serious jazz study. Now on the staff at BSU, Samball has already developed two full Jazz Ensem ble groups here. He disputes the thought that 1970's musicians have a tough time recalling the style, or "getting the feel" of sounds that were common entertainment cur rency on record, radio and in clubs and dance halls of the 40's and 50's. COMBO JAZZ had a different look in 1948 when Gib Hoehstrasser [piano) and Keith "The only difference is that almost no Black [drums) were local stars in school shows, club dates and backroom "jams" one at this level really taught jazz as an around town. art form, it was something musicians just did.'' "I think it has been now firmly recog When students depart from straight Samball has insisted that his courses nized as a legitimate American art, one score "dance band" music and move to be open to all students at the university. to be studied in its history and method, small "combo" improvising, jazz moves He wants to make the jazz ensembles but like all good art it can be evolving as beyond its commercial base and into high an experience for any student to share, musicians apply new styles to it." art, he claims. Madeleine Hsu He sees his own jazz courses at BSU as as an elective "break" from course loads piano event. Mrs. Hsu is also scheduled holding a promise of national leadership "The deeper the students' knowledge in other schools and disciplines. for a benefit concert this winter in order for students interested in the form. New of jazz-its history and its variations as "At North Texas State, we had nine to raise money for the Tuesday Musicale interest in jazz playing in high schools it has developed-the more they become jazz ensembles, and many of the mem Scholarship in Boise. has sparked strong enrollments for the equipped to create their own forms on bers were not what you call full music jazz classes in the Department of Music the basic themes-and that's true in any majors. They were musicians taking here. legitimate art activity." other degrees, but still interested in Samball hopes to tap that interest by Aside from the modern infusion of keeping their music skills alive as a forming still more jazz ensembles, electrical instrumentation and emphasis learning variation and a lifetime avoca Opera Travels breaking those into a variety of perform on concert performance as opposed to tion thing." ing and concert combos who will explore the original dance and nightclub set From Hochstrasser to Samball, BSU's BoiseState Opera Theatre singers got the interpretive, extemporaneous joys tings, jazz is essentially unchanged by tradition of jazz leadership seems intact, a rare travel opportunity early this of playing jazz. today's top performers, he says. and set for another leap forward. month when they went to Seattle for a Nov. 6 guest performance of Act IV from "Rachel." Recognize These BSU Artists? The occasion was the University Opera Scenes concert which was held during the fmal session of the week long national convention of the National Opera Association in Seattle. Other universities invited to perform scenes were Washington State, Western Washington State, University of Idaho, Eastern Washington, Montana State and Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle. "Rachel" is a historical opera based on the lives of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. It was authored by BSU professor emeritus Dr. C. Griffith Bratt in collabo ration with liberettist Hazel Weston. The opera premiered in 1972. Making the trip to Seattle were Glen Grant, Larry Peterson, Angela Wur della, Gerald Morelock, Joni Damiano, Barbara Ligenfelter, Belinda Cheslik, Debbie Riedel, Debra lrusta, Rod Daugherty and Robert Heller. Opera Theatre is directed by William Taylor, with J oni Damiano directing choreography and Jackie Dodson as Lou Peck, 1956 Carroll Meyer, 1950 James Hopper,1953 pianist. �:� ·-: ,..�-: (.·=#:::; ;;�=-�::::=f.t:::�=���zt.===J People on the Move >'i!�o;W;I@M'J:W;�tmm::-W!lS���m""��'W@'«"<>.:.'m;sr� In Art ln Communication school veterans tutorial aid. Presently In Vo-Tech those students cannot receive the same The Portland Metropolitan Arts Com BSU forensic director Jim Riley tutor aid as academic students. Mary Scholes, BSU vo-tech instruc mission has recently awarded Professor moderated a debate between the six tor, has been accepted as the first John Killmaster of the BSU art faculty a candidates for Ada County Commis woman member of the Active Corps of $3,500 commission to complete and sioner on October 26 in the SUB Consulting Executives for the Small install a porcelain and steel object, Ballroom. That debate was televised live Business Administration with expertise similar to the art work in front of BSU's over educational TV station KAID, and In Business in small business record keeping. Special Events Center, in the Portland was co-sponsored as a public information She will be consulting with small busi mall project next year. service by the BSU debate squad and the Dean Charles Lein has spent time this nesses as needed and providing instruc The award was one of several awarded Lea�roe of Women Voters. fall traveling to all the junior colleges in tion on their record keeping during SBA to artists nationally and in the northwest Idaho to meet with officials on credit seminars and workshops in an open competition. transfer for students who plan to attend In Veterans Affairs BSU. Dr. Richard Grant and students In Education Gary Bermeosolo, new elected coun Oberle Mabe and Marge Kondo were in Dr.. Keaneth Hill served as a consul In Library ty Commissioner and head of BSU's Ogden, Utah Nov. 11 for the annual busi tant to the Office of Career Education, Veteran's Affairs office, was in the Con ness symposium sponsored by the city of U.S. Office of Education, on October 25 New Acquisitions Librarian Thomas gressional Record spotlight again this Ogden and Weber State College. and 26. Dr. Kenneth Hoyt, director of W. Leonhardt comes to BSU from fall as Senator Frank Church credited Dr. Thomas Stitzel hosted Georges the Office of Career Education, brought Stanford University where he was gifts him with "special thanks" on a speech L101dau, official for the Inter-American to Washington twelve teacher educators and exchange librarian in acquisitions before the Senate. Development Bank, to a one-day series from colleges and universities across the for three years. Both his BA and MLS Church was urging passage of a bill of meetings with students, local bankers nation for meetings to help provide are from Berkley. which would give vocational-technical and faculty Nov. 15. directions for career education. �16 History Charts Growth from BJC Era Billed as the largest history depart demonstrated the importance of history can in Idaho during and since World War in national figures in history such as Dr. ment in Idaho, BSU's history staff has and research as a method for under II, and work is continuing on the history Wilcomb Washburn of the Smithsonian, grown from one member in 1961 to thir standing the past, but they have also of minorities in Idaho with emphasis on Jess Large of American Indian Move teen full time members in 1976. The staff shown how it relates to the present in the Indian and Mexican American. ment, Professor Arrell Gibson, editor of shows an impressive eight-four percent Idaho as well as the nation. Research on U.S.-Cuban relations has Western History, Professor Reynold Ph.D. degree holders. led to international implications with the Wik, biographer of Henry Ford, and Dr. Courses offered on a regular basis Research has been completed on the State Department using that research Page Smith, director of the Peoples' numbered two in the old days, with an history of Idaho banking and economics. for studies. Bicentennial. expansion over the years to sixty-five Currently. the department is engaged in During the past five years, the history Aware of increasing job openings, the regular classes, not counting special researching energy history with specific department has worked in cooperation department has responded to preparing topics offerings. emphasis on the history of western coal. with the honors program in bringing the students for teaching, for research and Library holdings in history have Extensive research has been con distinguished lecture series in history to for professional advancement in Jaw. grown from a collection of six shelves of ducted j!oncerning the Japanese Ameri- the campus. This program has brou�ht busit�essand gov£ ·nment agencies. books in 1961 to 26,000 volumes today. Major primary source collections are offered in American colonial, diplomatic, Familiar Faces From Education School western, Indian affairs, social and cultural, and Civil War history, as well as volumes in Latin American, medieval, renaissance, reformation, English and Russian history. The history department was also influential in establishing the rare books collection in the library and the collation of the Senator Len Jordan papers. The newest program offered by the department is the Master's degree in education with an emphasis in history. This program, designed for in service teachers, offers up to twenty-seven hours of graduate history in a thirty three hour program. While the departmental emphasis has Jean Boyles,1953 John Phillips,1956 Acel Chatburn, circa 1949 Arthur Buntin, Only history prof in 1961 Childhood PrOgram Enlarges Early Childhood Education, an on to BSU from Florida where she received Students at BSU have the option of campus program dealing with numerous her Ph.D. in Child Development and electing a specialty in ECE as part of facets of teaching the young, has grown Early Childhood Education from the their general education program. This always been to offer an enriched broad from one full-time instructor in 1970 to University in Tallahasssee. specialty offers an in-depth develop- · ' liberal education, it has also emphasized three members and one graduate assis Mrs. French received her B.A. in mental look at the young child from birth the application of history and its tant this year. Spanish Education from the University to eight years of age. research methods to a broad range of Two new faculty members were added of Northern Colorado and a M.A. in A new infant and toddler stimulation professional outlets as well. to the Early Childhood program this fall. Child Development. She lived in Hawaii course offers the student a more compre The creation of internship oppor Dr. Carrol Lambert is an associate pro for six years and taught in preschools. hensive look at the child from birth to tunities for students through the U.S. fessor from Utah State University In addition to her teaching responsi two years of age. A master's program Forest Service, State Historical Library where she served as supervisor of the bilities at BSU, Mrs. French also super may be offered in the near future. and the Smithsonian Institution is an Child Development Laboratory for fif vises student teachers at Franklin Child Development Associate, a two example of this professional outlet. teen years. School. She is married and her only son, year program, is currently being offered Faculty members have not onlv Mrs. Lambert studied under Martin Todd, attends Meridian's fifth grade. for people working with young children Deutsch at the Institute for Develop Judy's husband, Bruce, works for Head in day care, Head Start, nursery, Publisheda Book? mental Studies and Merrill Palmer Start in Caldwell. private and public kindergartens, and School. She has been a demonstration Felicia Brukhalter. who is completing private preschool programs. Don Haacke, Maps and Special teacher and supervised several master her master's degree, is working as a Academic credit can be earned by Colleetions Librarian, is seeking copies theses. graduate assistant at the ECE center. attending mini-courses, seminars, work of articles and books published by BSU David Lambert, BSU's new director of She is involved in all the programs shops, and by competency programs faeulty. The publications are to be used Development, is Carrol's husband. They offered, but is especially involved with where the trainees receive on-site in a display in the first Door display ease have two sons. Paul and Mark. Dr. Lambert as a field trainer in the instruction. in the near future and then will become Mrs. Lambert has worked in Head CDA program. There are currently twenty CDA can part of the BSU archives. Start and served as a national consultant Big steps have been made in expand didates registered. Their program con Professors who have published books to various programs in the United ing the ECE program at BSU in the past sists of forty-eight semester credit or articlesean callHaacke at 3958. States. Currently, she is working with few years. Mrs. French, curriculum hours. At the end of this program, they the Child Development Associate as a instructor, sees the early childhood will receive a CDA certificate from BSU. A display of art on stamps, courtesy of field trainer. movement gaining momentum and influ Interested students may continue at the BSU Stamp Club, will be on view for Judy French, an instructor in curricu encing the quality of teacher expertise in BSU and complete the remaining hours three weeks beginning November 15 in lum in the Early Childhood Education day care. pre-school, kindergarten, and in the education department for their tltemain Door Library displayease. program, is a Colorado native who came the early grades. B.A. degree. em��:n=�;:<;:;::=�=���=m=:§:m:>& � People on the Move 183��-rt::.:=�::-1:::$.!*::-::�:::::�:�$��=:�:t:t£m��;;_{:m:wm;;�:ar:n:�:-::i::::=t��s�;;;:::::::��=�==:::�� In Music pus and serve as its faculty advisor. throughout the northwestern states. Music Education program and will be in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is open to all Two students of Madeline Bsu, asso Atlanta, Georgia for the annual meeting Boise State University music faculty persons with a professional or amateur ciate piano professor, won the Magic of the National Association of Schools of members were in key roles during the interest in music. Valley Symphony Orchestra Contest Music. Oct. 29-30 presentation of the "Marriage held Oct. 30 in Twin Falls. They were Band Directors Mel Shelton and of Figaro." Appearing in the production Melody Youtz and Meg Rayborn, both On Staff were William Taylor as Figaro and Michael Samball will be guest conduc sophomores. They played respectively tors of the District V High School Band Catheriae Elliott as Mercellina, both Chopin Concerto No.2 and Mozart Con Esperanza Nee was nominated by the Clinic in Pocatello on Nov. 19 and 20. Idaho Association of Student Financial vocalteachers at BSU. certo K488. Other faculty members in the orches The two BSU conductors will serve as Aid Administrators to participate in a tra were Daniel Stern, conductor, John clinicians for the honor bands, and will review of college and university annual BalclwiD, Sara Blood, William Schink, conclude Saturday evening with a con Melvin Shelton, Band Director, applications for the National Direct Mel Shelton, Wallis Bratt, Russell cert. worked with the Glenns Ferry High Student Loan/Supplemental Education Mamerowand James Hopper. Both directors have been active in School Band in early November. He and al Educational Opportunity Grant/ consulting and serving in advisory capa Mike Samball, Jazz Ensemble, will be College Work-Study award for 1977-78. Dr. John Baldwin, Associate Profes cities to many high school bands in the District V High School Clinicians in late Mrs. Nee and Kathleen McCullough. sor of Music, recently traveled to area as part of an outreach service of -the November. IASF AA past president from ISU. will Missoula, Montana, with several stu BSU Music Department. serve as consultants to the Division of dents for a Province Workshop for Phi Mr. Samball is new to the BSU Music Will Elliott, Choral Director and Student Financial Aid Support Program. Mu Alpha Sinfonia, an international Department faculty this fall, .coming Chairman of the Music Department, was They will recommend appropriate fund music fraternity. from North Texas State University the Choral Festival Conductor in Lewis ing levels for each institution. Schools in Dr. Baldwin has been a life member of where he was a member of the famed ton for the District II High School Clinic the region are from Idaho, Oregon. Sinfonia since his own undergraduate One O'Clock Jazz Band and conducted Nov. 5and6. Washington, and Alaska. The review days, and was asked to help found the several other jazz bands. Mel Shelton is He was a member of the state evalua panel will meet in Seattle in mid Lambda Delta chapter on the BSU cam- a well-known clinician and adjudicator tion team for the University of Idaho November. Know These Business Profs? Three Recitals Ready With three concerts already com last year and has performed at the Sun pleted, Boise State's music department Valley and Aspen music festivals. will finish a busy November with three Currently the musician is tympanist more performances coming Nov. 19, 20 with the Boise Philharmonic and plays in and 21. the 25th Army National Guard Band in The musical Homecoming weekend Caldwell. will start Friday with a senior recital by His recital is open to the public free of Pat Flaherty. charge. He will perform six compositions on The next evening BSU faculty mem timpani, marimba, snare drums and bers John Baldwin and Donald Oakes will multiple percussion. He is a native of be in recital. Baldwin, BSU professor of Boise and has studied percussion under percussion, will open the recital with the Dr. John Baldwin for four years. avant-garde composition "Brances". He Flaherty was named to the Interna will close his portion with a piece written tional Who's Who in Music and Musicians for 41 percussioninstruments. Oakes, professor of music theory and organ, will perform four selections on the organ. He has been with BSU since Center Helps 1964 and has served as organist and John Young, circa 1967 Duston Scudder, 1965 The Boise State University Reading choirmaster of Immanuel Lutheran 1959. Education Center is adequately staffed Church since to satisfy the Reading Education needs Admission of $2 for adults (BSU Ahsahta Prints Poet of the BSU graduate and undergraduate faculty, staff and students free) will go students, according to director Dr. Bill into the music department scholarship South Dakota poet Marnie Walsh, pass by unnoticed, the regularity of Kirtland. fund. noted for the realism in her poems, is the theme and technique operates like a Dr. Ruth Marks, Dr. E. Coston The final recital will be on Sunday latest author spotlighted by Boise State wacipi drum, pounding its way into the Frederick, Dr. Anne DeLaurier, Mr. when the symphonic band plays. That 50 University's Ahsahta Press publishers. reader's sensibilities," he says. Kenneth Munns and Kirtland make up piece group will be directed by Mel Her 42-page book of poetry titled "A "There are no surprises. Rarely does the faculty. The combined faculty teach Shelton. Taste of the Knife" was released earlier aQything humorous or 'soft' interfere more than fifty hours of reading course All three music events will start at 8:15 this month. with the sordid elements of reality or l.vorkeach semester. p.m. in the Music Auditorium on Walsh is a native Dakotan who is offer relief from them." The Center is assisted by secretary campus. currently at work on her third novel. The Ahsahta book is the fourth to be Marilyn Stokes and two graduate assis- She lives in the Black Hills. printed by the BSU company which is tants, Lois Herman and Marianne Applications Described as an outdoorswoman, housed in the English department. Christian. Applications are now beiag aeeepted observer of hunters, Indians and crea- Other books are collections of poems by Everyone on the staff is looking for- from artists wishiDg to participate iD 10 the tures of nature, Walsh's poems talk Norman Macleod, Gwendolen Haste and ward to moving to the new Reading U.S.-United Kingdom Bieentenniai Ex about the "sordid and brutal, in both Peggy Pond Church. Education Center upon completion of the ehanp Fellowship program for 1977-78. man and nature," says critic John Milton The publishing company was started Education Complex, Kirtland adds. Deadline for the fellowship applica in the book'sintroduction. over a year ago to give exposure to Presently over six hundred public school tions is November 22, 1976. Crit�ria may "Especially in the sketches of Indians, lesser-known Western poets. Copies of children have received assistance in be obtained by writing National Endow where it is impossible to let the futility the four books can be ordered from Your diagnosis or remediation over the past ment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the monotony of reservation life Campus Store at BSU for $2 each. six years. 20506. �' ,, 1/f' B;;t;;,s;nio;'''Tra;z;,s:JJor.edomto:rBsrJ, , 'I By LarryBurke J his 11 years of teaching. backwards, upsid� down and mirror his son was going to sign up for one class ) :;: When most teenagers get bored, they Sulanke teaches Roger in the calculus image with both hands and both feet. at BSU and two weeks later he found out ;:;: :;: flick on the television or jump in their course which is intended for advanced That took two months of practice. Roger was taking a full load. :;: ;�:: : cars for a cruise in Boise's downtown. freshmen and sophomores, and in a math - · How has reaction been to all his IS :;: :-::;:· oon h' amb't' 1 1o ns will e cb h anne1 e d ·.·; No t Roger Dem a ree . He's got a d1'ffer . · · 1. S - semmar f or JUmors and semors. accomp 1sh ments at su h a young ? · e age 0 ; :;: ent cure for boredom . . . he goes to m t college · Right now Roger is looking ;: · .. Bill Mech, chairman of the Honors "I really haven't had any problems," ;: : . co . . 1 1 ;: ll ege. Program 11 1 . at sch oo s 1ik e MIT and Ca T ec h f or ....; ; . . . . th at Roger stud' 1es und er, ca s he says of his years m sc h oo Wit h ol der :;:; :;:· Already m h1s semor year at Botse their engineering programs. him "the most advanced student at his classmates. ;:;: :::· High School at he tend r ag of 15, � � ': age that I've run across." Mech has His father says he hasn't "bitten any- In the meantime, he won't be sitting ) ;:; Roger decided this fall to JUmp mto the 15 . taught for years. thing off he couldn't chew" yet. "As long on his hands. What's happening this fall ;:;: ;:; college mainstream w1th a full load of "He's the kind that throws all our as he makes advances one at a time, he could be only a tune-up for what he has ;:;: ::: math, German and English courses. guidelines out the window. It's because can do what he wants," says the older planned next spring. Then he wants to ;:;: : That means in addition to his high school :: of people like Roger we have an Honors Demaree. Sometimes that means a few get serious about this college business :::: :;: classes, he spends noon hours and three Program." surprises, like this fall when he thought and sign up for 16 credits. : ::: evenings a week sitting in BSU class· ::: Roger's Jove of the intellectual is :;:; ::: rooms. something he' picked up on h s own His · . . � � : -ll---:-7:;.� , - . ;:; The d�y pace has left h1s father, BSU parents haven t had to push him an mch. \ . r;--.;�:'·. ·1;. "', . . :::: :;: busmess mstructor Ray Demaree, gasp- And the Los Angeles school system : · � _.,. :;:; ing. "I have no idea h� he handle "'%:�\'f � ::: � �a� where he came from two years ago didn't . :;: the load he does. I couldn t do tt! �- �::: help. Boise's schools are better, he says. JJ """ :;:: ::: While he doesn't fit into the classic "I've always liked math," he says as he ; : J :;; } "child prodi�" mold, Roger co�es"close. quickly writes a series of equations that He worked his way through htgh school } :;: prove 5 equals 2. :;:: ::: in three years, a�d has already read . . Asked how many other tricks like that :::. ;:; through the books m so�e of hts semor he has up his sleeve, Roger replies, :::: ;:; classes. If all goes accordmg to schedule, "Hundreds." Modesty creeps in. "Other ;:;: : be could enter college next fall as a :: 15 year olds could.do the same thing . . . ;:;: :;: second semester sophomore .. . at age if they were nuts," he says. :;: 16. ::;: His math slass at BSU is a solid :::: :;: The cross-town zig-zag he takes to get example of how seriously he takes his ;:;: ::: to his noon hour class in accelerated- academic life. During the summer he :::: ::: make that capital - ACCELERATED c - � reads books on the subject. When class r ;:: culus provides a good example of hts started in the fall, he was a month ahead :;:; } exhausting schedule: of everybody else. Now it's getting :::: r Leave Boise High after 11 a.m .• run harder as he getsinto fresh material. • { :;:; the two miles to BSU, leave class by He's been into the study habit for a :;:; :::: 12:30 and run back to Boise High for time, according father. ' long to his Last � 9 ::j: ;:;: afternoonclasses. On the way he grabs a year he got hooked on the Wall Street •';,, -,. ;:;: :;;: sandwich and has lunch, all the time Journal and ran to the public library � \, ' ; ; so ;:;: : ; running. His best time far is around during noon hour to read it each day. :;: : 13 . i ; ::: minutes. From that .he learned "enough that I ' " ., · :::: ;:; Evenings, when most prepsters are don't want to invest in it. " :;:; ;:;. settled back watching "The Waltons" or Two summers ago he combed through :;:; :: . : "Welcome Back Kotter," De01aree is at every Scientific American magazine ::: :;: BSU diving into his English or German since 1958, reading articles :· that inter-· ;:;: :;: classes. But, he smiles, his schedule is a ested him. ;:;: list ::: little looser than it was earlier this fall The goes on: :::: ;:; to when he was going school and work- He is so accomplished at chess that he :;:; ;:; . ing as a dishwasher at Denny's too He can play the game blindfolded by :;:; :::· quit that job a month ago when it started remembering his opponent's moves. ::j; :;: to interfere with his schoolwork. For the past three years he has been ;:;: :;: It's that kind of pace that leads his on a "world record kick" says his father. ;:;: j;: math instructor Robert Sulanke to call Sonow he is being considered for several r k him U e ery iedY Y clab nuuuD«· a erose :::j ::: Demaree one of-the most ambitious stu- entries in the Guinness Bookof Records. �!.. v rou P 8 18. ue. : : ;:; dents he's seen come down the pike in �wn �t � 1isuee.:U. � :: : For one record he learned to write :;;: ::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;�:::::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:;:::::::::::;:;:;:::::::::::::::::;:;:;:;:;:;:::::;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::;:;:;:::::::::::::::::;:::::;:;:::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::;:::::::::;:::::;:;:;:::::;:;:::;:;:::;:::::::;:;:::::::::::::::::;:;:::::::::::;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:;:;:::;:;:;:::::;:;:::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::$� � · 18 Thomkins Reflects on Vo-Tech ·Early Days : ' By Kim Rogers "There has been quite a bit of The open ended concept has also been "Things have changed so fast," Fifteen years may not seem like a expansion in our programs," explained added to some of our programs. Thompkins ponders what he is about to great expanse of time, but on the BSU Thompkins. "Double shifts have been Students in the office occupations say. . . "that we lose track of where we campus, fifteen years can lead to initiated to better utilize the lab courses, for example, can enter and exit are. When we were a junior coUege, two startling changes and tremendous facilities, and programs start at different the program whenever they have year programs fit very nicely, but when growth. times throughout the year to better finishedthe requirements." we became a four year school, vo-tech Jim Thompkins, vo-tech communica meet the needs of the community. We Adult basic education and the learning became somewhat independent. But all tions instructor began his career at BSU enroU students 'n January as weU as in center have also been added to better that is changing again, it seems we are just fifteen years ago. Not too long ago, September where we used to enroU at accomodate vo-tech students and the working even closer together than ever but long enough that he has seen the the same time the rest of the school did. community. before." physical layout of the campus evolve from a small squatty caterpillar into a btooming Monarch butterfly. A small, gracious man, done up in wool plaid and string neck tie, Thomp kins reflects the type of university BSU has become. Once a young, struggling .... crusader for education rights, he has settled over the years into a more complacent fighter, ready to organize into committees and wait for orderly progress. A quick walk over to the window, second floor of vo-tech's round.building, and the past is brought back to life. "When I first came to Boise Junior CoUege," Tompkins reflects, "we were one big happy family... vo-tech and. academic faculty were all together." "See, out this window," he explains through parted venetian bk'nds, "in the 19j0's the 'WPA built this brick building where maintenance is now. That used to be the only vo-tech building in this area." A quick look toward the SUB parking lot and old quonset huts· emerged. "The auto mechanics program used to be in those old huts that were torndown when the SUB Was put up. They even changed VO-TECH AUTO mechanics gather outside the frame"barracks's whieh were ueedfor maDYyears as the auto machine shop. Most of the way the street curved around that the old build.iags have given way to modern red briek structures that now house the vo-teeh schools and their equipment and lab corner to give more room for the SUB. " facilities. "And back over here," Thompkins gettu.res toward the stadium lot, "stood two wO �- 19 Nov. ------What's Happening in -Dec. Monday, November29 Tuesday, November16 Womens field hockey, NCWSA Division Tourna Tuesday,December 7 Last day to register by petition, change from Student Senate,3:30 pm, Student Senate Cham ment, Ellensburg, WA Wrestling, Arizona'lnvitational credit to audit, add or withdraw from classes, bers, SUB Coffeehouse Basketball, vs. Utah State University at Logan apply for Independent Study, Internship, or Muffle Blakeley, 8pm Boisean Lounge Saturday, November20 JV Wrestling, Columbia Basin J.C., Pasco, WA Challenge for fall semester Alpha Eta Rho films, 7pm Boisean Lounge Womens volleyball tournament, Nampa Student Senate, 3:30 pm Student Senate IK-TKE Toilet Bowl, plus Powder Puff Game, 3C6: Womens field hockey tournament, Ellensburg Chambers, SUB Tuesday, November 30 pm Bronco Stadium Homecoming Game, BSU vs. Weber State, 1 :30 Student Senate, 3:30 pm Student Senate Fifties Dance, 8pm SUB pm Bronco Stadium; coronation of Homecoming Chambers, SUB Queen and Mr. Bronco at half-time Friday, December10 & Wednesday, November 17 Alpha Chi Omega pancake feed, 8 am to12 noon, Foreign Film, "Every Man For Himself God Wednesday,December1 Lecture, mental telepathist Uri Geller, 7:30 pm SUB Against All", Germany (Herzog), 7pm SEC Opening, theatre production "The Matchmaker'', SUB Ballroom HomecomingDance to "Today's Reaction··. 8 pm by Thornton Wilder, 8:15at SEC Announcement of Homecoming Queen, Mr. Ramada Oowntowner, semi-formal, no admission Basketball, vs. BYU at Provo Bronco and King Beard charge Saturday, December 11 Coffeehouse, Bud Gudmuson, 8 pm Boisean Faculty recital by Oakes and Baldwin, 8:15p.m., Thursday, December2 Basketball, vs. Australian All-Stars, home Lounge Music Auditorium "The Matchmaker'' continues Gamma Phi Beta beer-chugging contest, 7:30 pm Basketball, vs. Fresno State University at BSU Sunday,December 12 Bronco Hut Sunday, November 21 • film, "Young Frankenstein", 8 pm SUB Faculty Senate, 3:10 pm, Student Senate Pop Pop film, "The Four Musketeers", 8 pm SUB Chambers, SUB Ballroom Thursday, November 18 Ballroom Symphony 8:15p.m., Music Aud. Faculty Senate, 3:10 pm Student Senate concert, Monday,December 13 ' Friday, December 3 Chambers, SUB Second Annual High SchoolDebate Tournament, Wrest ling, Beehive Invitational, Provo, UT Concert, country-rock star Waylon Jennings, plus campus, all day Jessi Coulter, 8 pm Gym, $5 student, $6.50 Tuesday, November 23 "The Match maker'' continues Tuesday,December 14 Student Senate, 3:30 pm, Student ·senate general, $7at door Foreign film, "Prince Igor'', Russia (Tikomirov), 7 Wrestling, Beehive Invitational 7 Chambers, SUB Alpha Eta Rho films, pm Boisean Lounge pm LA106 Student Senate, 3:30 pm Student Senate Chambers, SUB Friday, November 26 Friday, November 19 Saturday,December 4 Womens volleyball, NCWSA Large College Sorority Mardis Gras High SchoolDebate Tournament continues Thursday, December 16 Regionals, Monmouth, OR Antique Festival Theatre, 8 pm, SUB Ballroom Last night, "The Matchmaker'' Basketball, vs. San Diego State University at San Basketball, vs. Seattle Pacific College, at Seattle Dorm contest, "Almost Anything Coes",3:30 pm Basketball, home, vs. College of Great Falls Diego Morrison Hall Faculty Senate, 3:10 pm, Student Senate · Foreign Film, "Cries & Whispers",. Sweden saturday, November 27 Sunday,December5 Chambers, SUB (Bergman), 7pm SEC Basketball, vs. University of Puget Sound, at Pop film, "Gallleo", 8pm SUB Ballroom Womens volleyball, NCWSA Small College Tacoma, WA Regionals, Nampa Friday, December 17 28 Foreign Film, "Sunday Bloody Sunday", Great Senio r recital by Pat Flaherty, 8:15p.m., Music Sunday, November Monday, Decembers Britain (Schlesinger). 7pm SEC Auditorium Pop film, "China Town", 8pm SEC Wrestling, Arizona Invitational, Tucson With No GRE, Early Test Takers Had It Easy After a month pouring over old year By Chris Schultheis What about Tony's inherited marble books to help the Old Editor get this superiority as it aggravates George's Homecoming scrapbook edition togeth emerging. self-concept? Is there a subtle er, I have decided none of those smiling, suggestion here that someone is about to saddle-shoed people ever really went to "lose his marbles?" Could this be a Boise State. failing of our capitalist system, due to its , I do, and after four years here, I'm inequitable marble distribution? I� convinced that all the people in those Who Ed anyway? Is he a surprise glossy pages carried about two credit witness, brought in to solve the case at hours, during which they posed gleefully highest impasse? If so, where is Perry? around microscopes, jitterbugged, WeD, Something To Color, Anyway waved at each other from the rumble So much for that half of QUANTITA seat of Bonnie and Clyde's.cars and prac TIVE SECTION misery. I turned the ticed standing with arms glued to hips in page, just to keep pace with everyone neat, boxed rows for club portraits. else in the room, and saw a faint light down the corridor. Solid, substantial One thing I know they �ouldn't have ___.,-· graphs and charts sat square before me. done. Theynever had to take a graduate I never understood these either, but admissions test. Or their happy faces at least in grade school I could color wouldn't be so wrinkle-free. Their eyes them in' alternate boxes to make some would be more glazed. They'd have wild Aztec-type designs. chewed-up pencils sticking out of their MODERN TEST GIVERS would never survive in the crowded atmosphere of the old Having brought no crayons, I turned pockets, and ballpoint smears on their BJC days when taking a test was also a time to meet friends and exchange the latest to the page of statistical designs. hands. 1937 gossip, as this photo indicates. Here raw scores (as opposed to what, For BSU alums who missed tests cooked scores?) fight against herding to while climbing from one jalopy to central tendency camps, while devia another, let me record THAT part of try to soften it, it still says "mathe Who ever saw a dictionary of num tions scurry to escape before another college as a yearbook footnote. There matics" and it still makes my head hurt bers? A fatherly reference full of neat graduate mathematician drops the ".05 ARE tragedies along with the triumphs to see it. little pictures, alphabetical ways of look level of confidence" barrier. to remember. On command, the roomstarted s�iftly ing up answers and suggested usages? Failing ·to get clear, they fall hopeless Trapped By A 'Petty Detail' to work. Who'd even want to make one? ly to the "alpha level of rejection." This one was no everyday test. This Well, not the whole room. Alone in my Like my childhood fear of the dark, my was the Graduate Record Examination island of fear, I parted the undergrowth maturing fear of numbers is a panic that Around the struggle, those co-efficient something they herd you into by refer of cosigns and fractions, peered into the still haunts me after school. Murky func twins Phi and Correlation lurk with ring to a "petty detail" you should "take depths of page one, then retreated to· tions scrape around under the bed, binoculars, trying to find their delin care of' en route to graduate school. think the whole thing over. marauding equations lurk in the closet, quent buddies Mean, Median and Mode. · I decided to "take care of' this routine I finally spotted, in all that mathemati killer isosceles triangles poise like At Last, A Way Out chore last month. My yearbook portrait cal morass, a familiar equation face. I daggers in dark corners. I turned finally to the back of the test grin faded a bit when I entered a room tried it, then a few others that looked "Why don't they at least give me a book and started to make notes for the already full of other seniors looking like easiest. story problem? I griped at the page future, since my immediate past was ' passengers on the Titanic. All were Anything harder than that (all ques before me, as other pencils twitched obviously hopeless. waiting the unseen iceberg, loaded with tions after No. 3) brought rising panic. coolly on. Then I remembered that I Rule 1. Plan a thesis that sneaks extra No. 2 pencils, stopwatches and All test-takers remember the feeling of always hated story problems, too. around numbers, fill in any blank spaces anxiety. staring dumbly down while pencils all with pictures, and1add a bibliography by At the word "Go!" my brain clashed, around you scratch expertly on. The Trouble With Marbles numbered reference to prove you can trying to mesh gears at 8:30 on a Besides, it's hard to focus on a prob Why are they called "story" problems count. Saturday a.m. High gear finally caught lem when you start wondering why you anyway? In a real story you like the Rule 2. Marry that guy with the cal when I noted the first section of the GRE should pay $18.50 to flunka test. characters and are interested in their culator eyes and the whizzing pencil two is "Verbal Skills." Why Don't Numbers Care? fate. In a story problem you hate the seats away, before first term starts. No real pain there. Even mind Then, because I had no answers to characters, and wish they were all dead. Then, I noted some small type at the bending Analogies, Synonyms, Anto consider, I wandered into the odd rela "Mary has one-third more marbles bottom of the closing page and I .saw-why nyms and Reading Comprehension traps tion between Words, Numbers and Me. than Tony. Tony has twice as many those old yearbook faces beam with failed to loosen a reasonable grip on my Words are my friends. I play ·with marbles as George. But George has only uncluttered good nature. They weren't confidence. them, travel with them, even take them one-fourth as many as Ed. If Ed has 87 vacant at all. Not so everyone, I judged from the to bed with me. marbles, how many does Mary have?" They had just discovered this very way a few were gasping during the test Treat a word decently and it will treat How many marbles does Mary have? paragraph, possibly provided by the break: you the same way. Show a little affection Who cares? They are some interesting GRE gods as forgiveness for the mathe "How can you give the opposite of a for language, and you've made a friend questions raised in this problem, but this matically deprived of this earth. word you never heard before?", one for life. is not one of them. There are other, Hastily, I took the few remaining testee wailed. Sick grins in the crowd at But numbers. They're another story more -fascinating aspects to the marble seconds of test time to fill it out, my the door proved she had lots of company. entirely. I grew cold, a little anger power struggle. pencil now happily pushing forward. The My Moment OfTruth Comes welling up inside me. Numbers are If marbles are a symbol of status, is title of this section? Back in the test room, my own cruel, rigid, unbending. Don't fit the Mary socio-culturally deprived? If Tony "REQUEST FOR SCORE CANCEL moment of truth had come. The heading numbers and they'll leave you short gives Mary half his marbles, will his own LATION". called this the "QUANTITATIVE SEC changed, with something uneven, with security be shaken and his kids take to Humming, I headed down the hall for TION." No matter how the testmakers too little, or too late. dope? a date with the yearbook photographer. Focus On Faces Of Homecoming We put high emphasis on memories that amuse, rather than hot news, in this special Focus on Homecoming here, 1976. We figure the same people who remember wHen Dr. Gene Chaffee wore a U.S. Navy brass hat to his President's office (War II) and when Dr. John Barnes sported a spiffy crew cut, will want to leaf through these twenty pages for more of the same old stuff. 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