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For more information, please contact [email protected]. rCD THE EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS / VOLUME 16 / NUMBER 2 FEnrURlOG: the Presidential Installation, Commencement /Alumni Weekend and the Learning Laboratory BULLETin-/UmmER-l977 | We invite you to collect these HANDPAINTED WATERCOLOR PRINTS of EASTERN Keen Johnson BIdg Weaver Health BIdg KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY Each a limited edition of iw'ii,i!i« 750 handpainted copies John Grant Crabtie Library Select a campus scene you remember . beautifully hand-rendered in vivid watercolors! In order to offer you a gift that is personal, is of lasting value and is. ol course, a bit nostalgic, we have commissioned a nationally renownedj watercolorist to paint onginal scenes of our campus From these onginals.j we have reproduced a limited edition of 750 hand-painted watercolori prints, which we now make available to you — first come, first served — at special alumni pnces. ... in the quality tradition of Currier & Ives! These reproductions are created through a process similar to that used by Cumer & Ives just before the turn of the Century From the onginal. a lithograph plate is made of the penline. and this is pnnted on fine water- color p)aper. Then a team of watercolorists. working under the onginal artist's supiervision, that apply the colors by hand, so each pnnt you I receive is a unique, vividly colored, hand-rendered work of art. No two! are exactly alike — yet each matches the artists onginal in quality. ' Order now — order several for holiday gift-giving! ( These watercolors beg favorable comment on any office or home wall — esfjccially in the beautiful handcrafted wood framing pieces pictured on| the back of this brochure Fellow alumni in business immediately recog-j nizc the campus scenes fnends praise the handpainted quality They make great gifts" Return to: Gray's Watercolors. R.D. 1. Ringoes. New Jersey 08551 Please send me (fill in quuitity and title of your selection): , copies of copies of copies of . copies of 'l- Please send framed in handsome oak wood, @ SI 9.90 tor 1; $18,90 each for 2 or more. Shipping and handling: SI .50 for first framed print, 50« for each additional framed print C Please send malted, ready for framing, ll'x 14", handpainted @ $9.95 for 1 ; $9.00 each for 2 or more. Shipping and handling: $ 1 .00 for first print, 25c for each additional print. University BIdg N.J customers add State Sales Ta.\ U I understand that I may return any painting I do not want within 15 days and owe absolutely nothing. I also understand that, should I keep my Send no money — examine the quality of your paintings, payment will be due is full within 30 days. Gray's Watercolor for 15 days — before buying Simply cut out and mad the card today while this Name . Signature limited edition lasts We II ship your watercolors in- dividually marted and enclosed in polyethylene en- velopes, ready for framing, or you may order each Address framed, of course, (see order form for pnc«s) W/e re sure you will be as delighted with the quality as we were If not. simply return the paintings and the bill City State . Zip within 15 days and owe nothing EDITORIAL BOARD Xiald R Fellner. vice president for public affairs, lor, J WyattThurman. director of alumni affairs. Ron ;Volfe. associate director of alumni affairs: Don Rist, ptiotograpfiic editor: Karl Park. 1 Kjitor. Larry Bailey, ;|rts editor. Jotin Winnecke. Brown Lee Yates. Jack 5t and Paul Lambert contributing editors EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1977-78 J Raker, 67. 72 President /ity Joe Lovell. '68. 74 First Vice-President i ila Kirby Smitti. 71 Second Vice-President ;iley lylanning, '56 Past President '70 li -ny Brown. President-Elect '64 I e Gabbard. Vice President Elect Jerly Bernstrom. '72 Vice President Elect )ECTORS fylary Doty Hunter, '43, Bill Jack Parker, 7 Dan Reynolds, 71, Tern lylorris, '64. and tfie ! 7-78 Senior Class President. ;:lern Kentucky University is an Equal Opportu- II -Affirmative Action smployer and does not discnm- ne on tfie basis of race, color, religion, fiandicap. sex, ) ationai origin in the admission to. or participation in. it II educational f)rogram or activity wfiicti conducts. I discriminate on such basis in any employment iiortunity 'ilished biannually as a bulletin of Eastern Kentucky j'/ersity for the Eastern Alumni Association, and irVed at the Post Office in Richmond. Kentucky i(j75. as Second Class matter. Subscriptions are ilided in Association annual gifts Address all corre- pdence concerning editorial matter of circulation :'he Eastern Alumnus. Eastern Kentucky University, easTenn liimond. Kentucky 40475. THE EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS Contents Summer 1977/Volume 16 No. 2 Alumni Weekend-r Important Trivia 4 easreRn Ron Wolfe recounts the annual weekend 1917. 1927. 1937. with the ffBTVJRIfK: 1952 and 1962 classes as well as all the celebration for the 1977 the Presidential Installation, class. Featured in the article is a sidebar bv .lack Frost G)mmencement /Alumni Weekend on the two and the Learning Laboratory plaques unveiled by the Alumni Association during the weekend. BULLETin/ummEB-ra77 Presidential Installation 19 John Winnecke gives an overview on the installation of Dr. J. C. Powell. Eastern's seventh president, during Founders Day ceremo- nies this past spring. Dr. Powell succeeded Dr. Robert R. Martin who had held that post since 1960. The Learning Laboratory .'35 Dr. Jim Libbey. assistant professor in Central University College's Learning Laboratory, tells why the program there has enjoyed such success, both as a second chance for some, and as an opportunitv for others to make sure their first chance is a successful one. The Chronicle 39 THE COVER 'itured on the cover of this issue are The Campus 39 Sports 45 item president Dr. J. C. Powell, ad- The Faculty and Staff 43 The Alumni 48 lissing the 1977 graduates first at his The Student Body 41 cimencement as chief executive of the -Jiversity; a typical scene from gradua- i'|i day and Alumni Weekend; and the 7 Eastern Kentucky University Out- iding Alumnus, Mrs. Mary Ann Patton Vims, 35, a noted and dedicated school £;her for 23 years in Letcher County. >VIMER 19'^-: notes. ••from the editor's desk A I.VMN I WV-ckL-iid. among other things, also recalling the ve.irs ol pl.inning and h.ird construction crew which built the W [irovidcs lis the opportuiiitN (and the excuse) work in seeing the pro|ecls through to com- Health Building, he lo\ ed the college a 11 to return, through .1 phenomenon, or memal pletion. Located in the pl.i/a area are the students so much that he applied fo m ps\ehe. called nostalgia, to iiur college days. sprawling Powell Building, the social center ployment upon its completion in 193 Hei We see lamiliar laces, and one way or an- of the campus; the non-denominalional served until his death in 1961 as custc in. other, we attach names to them, and we're on Chapel of Meditation, built with gifts from But. he was more than a custodian. ! ch| our way toward romanticizing the years we alumni, faculty, students and friends; the more, indeed. For one thing, he WA spent at Eastern and having fond thoughts of William L. Wallace Building, a modern halftime show during Maroon baski all the campus, classmates, professors and classroom facility and the Smith and Nancy games in Weaver. Hazel had a way oft sr- buildings. Park Fountain, a gift to the University from taming as he went about his duties of c IT- This year's I'estiyities were no exception to Dr. and Mrs. Park. ing the dust olT the court. Hazel was »l most alumni and friends in attendance. To President and Mrs. Powell, too. seemed expert at s<i many things. Few peopjin some, they pros ided many more fond mem- reminiscent of the past. For it was Dr. Powell Central Kentucky knew better than I'', ories ol'the past than most alumni events. To who worked closely with his predecessor in how to properly care for a swimming »< the editor, at least, the 1977 version of the campus development plan, the bond and Hazel's advice was often solicited. r»' .Alumni Day certainly accomplished that i.ssues. and all the details in providing a new people knew more about so many ph; :al goal. Sandwiched between the major events facility. litness skills and I doubt if anyone took pre o\' the weekend the reunion luncheons, of an interest in so many students. alumni banquet, baccalaureate and com- The last sentence of the memorial pi mencement exercises— as well as the private truly states his legacy to Eastern. It r and nnpromptu parties, were two brief cerc- "His memory serves as an inspiratif nmnies attended by only a few persons. It those who knew and loved him and to 1 ler was during these ceremonies that years of generations of students who enter this I wonderful memories flashed back. Bronze HANGER STADIUM was a picture plaques placed only the day before inside football and track facility which also st the Weaver Health Building entrance and as home for hundreds of Eastern ath near the Chapel of Meditation were dedi- during its 33-year history.