Volume 21 December, 1969 Number 2 Page 2 Indiana Central ICC EDUCATES TO SERVE Another alumnus with a record of Ind. He did his post-graduate work Editor’s note: During the holiday sea- service to the community is William at Garrett School of Theology, North- son it is most appropriate to turn our L. Hammersley ’31. A resident of western University. He received his thoughts toward giving to others. Frankfort, Ind., Mr. Hammersley is a honorary Doctor of Divinity degree The motto of Indiana Central College, dentist and is quite active in civic in 1964. Dr. Kirkpatrick has been a “Education for Service,” is demon- affairs. He is a life member of the member of all three Methodist Con- strated all over the world by Cen- Boys’ Club of America and is a mem- ferences in Indiana and has served tral graduates. The following article ber of the board of directors of this as youth director of several districts. attempts to tell what some individuals youth group. He has been honored He also served as a member of the are doing as servants of society. All with numerous awards by the Boy Commission on World Service and alumni are urged to send the Alumni Scouts of America. In December, Finance, the Commission on Higher Office a brief article about your- 1968, he received the Twenty-Five Education, the Board of Education, selves. By doing so, you show a will- Year Plus Award. Mr. Hammersley and the Preacher’s Aid Society. ingness to satisfy your friends’ desire is active in the affairs of St. Mat- to know what other graduates are thews United Methodist Church of doing. which he is a member. He is a past &OD;*+ president of Methodist Men, and he presently serves as a Sunday school teacher. He is active in a number of Serving society both at home and William Raspberry ’58 is a voice dental organizations and serves as abroad are the numerous graduates of the Negro population in his pro- staff dentist for Wesley Manor Re- who serve VISTA and the Peace vocative column, “Potomac Watch,” tirement Home in Frankfort. Corps. Steve ’66 and Barbara Gillaspy appearing in the Washington Post four times a week. In a city where served as Volunteers in Service to two-thirds of the population is Negro, America in 1966-68. They began their the column is almost exclusively con- &DO&& experience in Chicago where Barbara cerned with racial problems. The worked with preschool programs and hours spent in contemplating each of Steve worked to get the ghetto popu- his stories are apparent in his delib- Byron ’32 and Dorothy (Cooper lation interested in welfare rights and erate think-before-speaking manner. ’34) Goetz are also active in com- community action. They served the munity service activities. Dorothy Raspberry served a ,€our-year ap- “domestfc peace corps” in Dayton, prenticeship as reporter on a Negro spent several years as a Red Cross Ohio. There they assisted a minister weekly, the Indianapolis Reportcr, executive secretary and taught Eng- in establishing a community house in during college. The draft took him to lish for a few semesters. She has Washington as a public information been a part-time book review lecturer an old Methodist church. They also officer. As he neared the end of and discussion group leader and vol- started a preschool which still func- Army service in 1962, he decided he unteer for the League of Women tions in the community. While in Day- would like to work for the Post. He Voters. Byron is regional commis- ton, they worked with John Waite first worked as a teletypist, then as sioner of Social Security. He heads ’64, who was in seminary. John and a police and court reporter. After the a field organization of six bureaus Steve started a “half-way house” for of the federal government in the Watts riot in 1965, the paper needed alcoholics and worked together to aid middle western region with head- a black reporter; and Raspberry was the community members who were in chosen for the job. After some time, quarters in Chicago. The services he need of it. Steve and Barbara believe he realized the role he could play as directs include claims and monthly the voice of the Negro. Since that payments of Social Security, Medi- one of their most meaningful experi- time, his columns have shown sub- care reimbursements, and Federal ences in VISTA was serving in Guam. urban whites, government officials, Credit Unions. He was promoted to Working with the people in Guam was and the upper-class Negroes of Wash- regional commissioner in 1965, when a great challenge. They established a ington’s “Gold Coast” his personal Medicare was added to Social Se- girl scout organization to complement insights into racial problems. curity. Since then he has been placed the boy scout group which was quite After high school in Okoloma, Mis- in charge of administering the new active. Barbara and Steve worked procedures and coordinating them sissippi, Bill Raspberry moved to In- with preschoolers and tutored junior dianapolis to attend ICC. He needed with the entire program in this high school students. During their a job and a friend suggested a sport- region. duty in Guam they were able to travel writer’s position on the Indianapolis Reporter. He said: “I knew nothing to the Phillipines, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. During their travels about writing or sports. I lasted a *&&&& week in the sports beat, but learned they found Joy Lynn, a seven-month to like reporting. That was my old orphan. Six months later, Barbara journalism school.” Rev. John M. Kirkpatrick ’39 is and Steve adopted the child. Joy is Raspberry’s column chronicles the representative of the ministers who now two-and-a-half years old and is hopes, gains and setbacks of a pre- graduate from Indiana Central and living with her parents in Indian- dominately Negro city-our national go on to serve society. Rev. Kirk- apolis. capital. He serves his race. patrick is minister of the Central *&&&& United Methodist Church, Richmond, Indiana Central Paae 3 ALUMNINEWS DECEMBER FEATURES Vol. 21 December, 1969 Number 2 Page Published in October, December, February and Estate Planning Corner ................................... 5 May by Indiana Central College. .Postmaster send form 3679 to 4001 Otterbem Avenue. Future Centralites 12 Indianapolis, IN 46227. ........................................ Second class postage paid at Indianapolis, Indiana Homecoming, 1969 ....................................... 11 Virginia Cravens, Editor ICC Educates to Serve .................................... 2 Connianne Pugh ’67. Associate Editor ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS In Memoriam ........................................... 4 President Ralph A. Coddington ’43 Vice-president Personals ................................................ 15 Eugene W. Lausch ’60 Secretary-Treasurer Sports 20 Geraldine C. McBride ’67 .................................................. President-elect Ronald L. Hauswald ‘64 Wedding Bells ............................................ 10 Past President Dwight L. Smith ’40 Winter Activities Calendar 7 Executive Secretary ................................ Virginia Cravens ‘66 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Term ending 1970 Gordon A. Frnnce ’33 Arville L. Funk ’66 Sogbandi Earns Doctorate BEEBES SERVE VISTA John J. Mullen ’48 Clyde F. Reese ’28 Lahai Jojahba Sogbandi ’63 re- “You’ve come a long way, baby Loren D. Thomas ’61 ceived the Doctor of Education degree .. .” might be an appropriate theme from Ball State University on June 4, for the Beebes. John, president of 1969. His major was Educational the Class of ’69, and his wife Nancy Administration. The title of his dis- are VISTA workers in Banks Coun- sertation was : “Follow-up Study to ty, one of the poorest counties in Determine Lasting Relationship be- Georgia. tween Mobility and Achievement, Grade 11, Anderson City Schools, During June and July the couple Anderson, Ind.” spent ten days in sensitivity training and four weeks in on-the-job train- Dr. Sogbandi has been assistant ing for Volunteers in Service to professor of education at Huntington America in order to prepare them College, Huntington, Ind., and is to cope with the conditions they would teaching there during the current encounter. There are approximately school year. Next year, he will return 6,700 people in the county, but there to his home in Sierra Leone for serv- is only one retired doctor and no Dean M. Ransburg ’64 Director of Alumni Relations ice in education. dentist. There is no place to buy Born in Kangarne, Koko, Sierra fresh meat, and no water or sewage Leone, he received his master’s de- system is available. Surveys reveal gree from Butler University in 1966. that nearly 50 percent of the county CHICAGO AREA He also attended Albert Academy in housing is dilapidated or in need of ALUMNI MEET Freetown and Fourth Bay College major repair. John and Nancy will and Lava1 University in Quebec City. be working with these low-income Chicago area alumni of Indiana Mr. Sogbandi has taught at an housing problems. They will also face Central held their fall meeting on Saturday, October 18, 1969, at the Evangelical United Brethren School the task of encouraging industry to home of Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth in Taiama, Sierra Leone, in a gov- locate in this area where monthly Brooks in Dolton, Ill. A pitch-in ernment school at Kenama, and at welfare payments exceed $200,000. Albert Academy in Freetown. supper was arranged to precede a John writes the following com- program from the college campus. ments about their way of life: “We Rev. George Jacobs, chairman, wel- are instruments of change for these comed the group and gave introduc- CHECK YOUR IC I.&. people. This is not an easy task. tions. Professor Gerald Boyce, chair- Do you know that there are now They have been doing things and man of the art department, told the studying at Indiana Central: thinking the same way for many group of the progress and changes 1,063 day students taking place in the department and years.