Alumni Day Is Early This Year! ~---Saturday, May 8 AGENDA FOR ALUMNI DAY (1965) 9 :30 a.m.- 2 :00 p.m.-Registration 9 :30 a.m.-11 :00 a.m.-Campus Tours and Open House in Dormitories. 12 :45 p.m. -Luncheon (Family Style) in College Commons-$1.50 or Alumni Dues Receipt. Tickets may be secured in Lobby of College Commons. 2:00 p.m. -Annual Meeting - College Commons 3:15 p.m. -Class Reunions 4:30 p.m. -Tea and Dance in Husky Lounge 6:00 p.m. -Class Dinners at time and place planned by classes. 8:30 p.m. -Big Name Entertainment, featuring comedian Dick Gregory and the Four Lads. Centennial Gymnasium -$2.50 General Admission, $3.00 Reserved Seats. All Classes to . . . . 1904 1905 1910 1915 1920 1925 1930 (Inclusive) - Alumni Room - Room E, Noetling Hall - Room F, Noetling Hall - Carver Auditorium - Faculty Lounge - Room K, Noetling Hall - Day Men's Lounge, Science Hall 1961 to Present - Lounge, East Hall Lounge, West Hall Lounge, New North Hall Room 8, Science Hall Room K-6, Ground Floor, Ben Franklin 1960 - Day Women's Lounge, Ground Floor, Ben Franklin Upper Level, Husky Lounge 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 - FRIDAY EVENING, May 7, the Class of 1915 will hold their Fifty-year Reunion. They will be guests of the Alumni Association at a dinner to be held in the College Commons at 7 :00 p.m. Members of the classes of 1914 and 1916 will, in turn, be guests of the Class of 1915, Friday evening. RESERVATIONS for overnight accommodations should be made directly with Magee Hotel, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Tennytown Motel, Berwick Highway, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Hummel's Motel, Route 11, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Riverview Motel, R. D. 1, Berwick, Pa.; Stone Castle Motel and Restaurant, R. D. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Keller's Motel, R. D. 4, Danville, Pa.; Pine Barn Inn and Motel, Danville, Pa.; Reichard's Motel, R. D. 4, Danville, Pa. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT The scheduling of Alumni Day for May 8 represents a departure from the tradition of holding this important event after college classes have ended. We hope that this change of date to early in the month of May will make it possible for more of you to return to the campus. While education is much more than buildings alone, you will have an opportunity to see the two new dormitories occupied by women for the first time in September, and the walls of the structure which in time will become the long-awaited and much-needed Library. Designs have been completed and appropriations made for an Auditorium to seat 2,000, and a Dormitory to accommodate 300 men. But most of all, we look forward to your return so that you can meet your friends of other years, the faculty you knew, and also Harvey A. Andruss, President Architect's Sketch of the New Auditorium to be erected near Navy Hall EXPANSION CONTINUES DURING 1964-1965 COLLEGE YEAR GROWTH IN ENROLLMENT, FACULTY, CURRICULUM AND PLANT By Boyd F. Buckingham, Director of Public Relations ENROLLMENT AND PHYSICAL IBM Center. the design and construction of another FACILITIES Football fans saw their last game on dining hall which may be built on The number of men and women living on campus was nearly doubled in September, 1964, when the college opened East and West Hall dormitories to house 500 resident women. With 200 men living in New North Hall and more than 400 men and women in different sections of Waller Hall, the total campus population exceeded 1,100 students. The new dormitories have alreadv had several salutary effects. The Admissions Office was able to increase the number of Freshmen on campus, and the total college enrollment was increased to 2,478. Attendance at home athletic events increased so sharply that it became necessary to limit the number of fans admitted to basketball and wrestling contests in Centennial Gym. A similar increase has been noted in the number of students attending programs presented by the Bloomsburg Players and the Evening Entertainment Committee. That elusive "phantom", sometimes described as "college spirit", received additional impetus and enthusiasm from the increased memberships and activities of campus organizations. The Husky Lounge bowed to the growing need for food service resulting in the necessity of moving the College Store to the Day Women's Lounge in ·Noetling Hall. The former store area now contains tables and chairs and vending machines dispensing everything from "soup to nuts". One observer noted recently, "Things aren't what they used to be . . . . they're better!" The Day Women? Their new headquarters are located on the ground floor of the Benjamin Franklin Building, adjacent to the Mt. Olympus early in November, and, a week later, the bleachers and fences were removed to make way for the giant bulldozers and the beginning of the new library. Construction is expected to begin early this summer on the new auditorium and a dormitory for 300 men. The area now occupied by Old North Hall, the potato cellar, and part of the Ben Franklin playground will provide the site for the new dormitory. Nearing completion are architect's plans for a new athletic field and an extension of campus utilities. Pending completion of the new facilities, the Husky gridders will play home contests at Bloomsburg Athletic Park and the diamond squad will perform at the Light Street Field used by the Tri-County League. Total cost for the library, men's dormitory, auditorium, athletic field and utilities is expected to approximate $4,700,000. Architects are currently designing plans for a science classroom building ( near Sutliff Hall) and a dormitory for 672 men. Construction of the latter will require the closing of Wood Street and the use of the grass plots across the street from Long Porch. The dorms and classroom building will cost nearly $4,500,000 when completed. VVhen the fall semester begins in September, 1965, an enrollment of 2,800 is anticipated. To help accommodate this number of students and approximately 3,100 in 1966, the college will begin a "phase-out" of the elementary laboratory school in September, 1965. To keep pace with other needs, funds have been requested for part of the site now occupied by Waller Hall. FACULTY Student enrollments have nearly tripled during the past decade, and the number of faculty has shown a proportionate increase. There are 146 faculty this year and the staff will exceed 165 next year. During the 1964 Summer Sessions, the number of students and faculty was greater than that of the regular college year less than ten years ago. GRADUATE PROGRAMS During the current year, the college received approval to grant the Master's degree in English and Social Studies, including Geography. This is an addition to graduate programs in Elementary Education, Business Education, Special Education for Teachers of the Mentally Retarded, and Speech Correction. Approximately 725 students are enrolled in programs leading to the Master of Education degree. Applications have been submitted for approval by the Department of Public Instruction to allow the college to offer a graduate program in Biology. \Vork is progressing on two other proposals for graduate study in the areas of Guidance and Counseling and School Business Management. UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES The number of students enrolled in the Arts and Sciences curriculum continues to increase at a moderate pace. In addition, course work has been expanded in science to include individual research projects in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. Elective offerings have been expanded in the Social Sciences, particularly Sociology. Fourth Annual College Spring Arts Festival The Fourth Annual Spring Arts Festival at the Bloomsburg State College will be held from Thursday, April 22nd through Sunday, May 2nd, 1965. According to Miss Susan Rusinko, Faculty Chairman, this should be the finest festival to date with the purpose of stimulating interest and participation in the performing of the creative arts on Campus and throughout the Community. All events will be held in Carver Auditorium and are open to the public. There will be no charge for admission to any of the activities. The events will get under way with the Bloomsburg Players presenting John Patrick's Pulitzer Prize winning comedy "The Teahouse of the August .Moon", Thursday through Saturday, April 22nd - 24th. On Monday, April 26th, there will be an art lecture "The Roots of Modern Art" by Jack Bookbinder, Director, Division of Art Education, School District of Philadelphia, at 8 :15 p.m. Mr. Bookbinder will speak again at the Assembly on Tuesday at 2 p.m. on "The Art of this World". At 8 :15 Tuesday evening, Howard Nemerov, Award \,Vinning Author from Bennington College (Vt.), will present a reading of his poetry, with commentary. A drama lecture will take place Wednesday evening, at 8 :15, with Gerald W eales, eminent scholar of drama and editor, writer and faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania, presenting "Arthur Miller and the Name Game". At the Thursday Assembly, at 2 p.m., there will be a concert by Earle Spicer, ballad recitalist of songs from Elizabethan times to the present. That evening at 8 :15, the Orson Welles Production film adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel, "The Trial", will be shown. Thursday, April 30th, at 8 :15 p.m., brings dancing to the stage of Carver Auditorium, with "Adventures in Choreography" being presented by Merle Lister, Barrie Landauer, Rosalind Pierson and company, sponsored by the Lincoln Square Y.M.C.A. Theatre, New York City. Music will be the toast of the hour Saturday evening, May 1st, at 8 :15 p.m., with the Esterhazy Orchestra, a musical group dedicated to the masterpieces of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century, playing a program of String music for Chamber Orchestra. This Orchestra, under the brilliant conductorship of David Blum, is making its debut tour of the United States. The Festival will come to a close Sunday, May 2nd, 3 p.m., with "Hayden's Creation" by the Bloomsburg Choraleers, under the direction of William Decker, of the College Music Department. PRESIDENT ANDRUSS TESTIFIES AT SENATE HEARING On Monday, March 29, Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee on Budget and Fees for the Board of Presidents of the Pennsylvania State Colleges, testified before the Appropriations Committee of the State Senate. Dr. Andruss emphasized the need for increasing financial support by the State, improving budgeting and purchasing procedures to allow the colleg"es to function more effectively, coordinating and speeding construction of buildings to accommodate rapidly increasing enrollments. He also suggested establishing a four-man bureau to coordinate Finance, Physical Plant, and Curriculum for the 14 State Colleges. Legislators Visit Campus Ten members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly visited Bloomsburg State College on Friday, March 26. The Legislators represented the areas from which the College draws its greatest number of students. They had the opportunity to tour the campus, ob:;trve the progress being made in the building and expansion program, arn; meet administrators, faculty, and members of the student body. Due to the prime importance being placed on higher education in Pennsylvania. it is hoped thzit the visit afforded them the opportuni: v tc, learn more about B.S.C. and the other thirteen State Colleges in urcler to plan necessary legislation. This was the third consecutive year this successful get-together has been held. Invitations were originally extended to 25 Legislators, but previous committments limited those attending to the following: SEN A TORS : Robert P. Casey, Scranton; Preston B. Davis, Milton; Harold E. Flack, Wilkes-Barre; REPRESENT AT IVES : Adam T. Bower, Sunbury; Harry A. Kessler, Danville; Bernard F. O'Brien, \,Vilkes-Barre; Fred J. Shupnik, Luzerne; Kent D. Shelhamer, Berwick; James A. Goodman, Mahanoy City; Kenneth B. Lee, Eagles Mere. A WARM \,VELCOME was extended by Dr. Harvey A. Andruss and students to Coach Russ Houk and his wrestlers on their return from Terre Haute, Indiana on March 14th after winning the National NAIA Championshipsymbolic of small college supremacy. One of the wrestlers, Jim Rolley, Clearfield, also captured the 130 pound NAIA Title. Coach Houk was named N AIA Coach of the Year for the third time since the honor was initiated five years ago. The Huskies previously held NAIA Titles in 1960 and '62 and have won the Pennsylvania State Title five out of the last seven years. Houk's overall record in dual competition in eight years at B.S.C. stands at 81 wins, 8 losses and 1 tie. ----- 1'ews Briefs Dr. Melville Hopkins is the Director of Forensics at the College. The B.S.C. Debating Team, coached by Samuel Prichard, recently captured the Third Annual State College Tournament at Clarion State College. **** Charles G. Jackson, Associate Professor of Social Studies at B. S. C., testified at the public hearing conducted by the House Committee on voting and elections on Saturday, March 6th, in Williamsport. The title of Mr. Jackson's statement was "The Application of Limited and Multi-Weighted Voting Theories: Suggestions for Legislative Apportionment in Pennsylvania". Miss Cecilia Cuadra, a Latin-American student from Costa Rica, is visiting the B. S. C. campus for a three-week period to observe complete administrative and teaching procedures and observe student reactions in the Benjamin Franklin Laboratory School. Her - visit has been arranged in conjunction with the Internship Program of the Pennsylvania State University's Latin-America Edu~a tion Project. **** Stecher and Horowitz, duo-pianists, were featured by the Civic Music Series on February 22nd and the National Ballet Company, of Washington, D. C., appeared on March 25th. **** **** Former B. S. C. Art Professor, DonStudents from Bloomsburg State Colald Herberholz, now residing in Calilege appeared twice in 1965 on WNEPfornia, is the co-author of a new book TV's (Scranton - Wilkes-Barre) program "Varsity"---featuring-----tlte -coUeges - -- ''Developing--------Arti&ti£ and- -Percep-tual:c-Awareness". and universities of Northeastern Pennsylvania. **** During the Spring semester, the Eng**** lish Department is initiating an advisory Dr. Donald Maietta, Director of Specisystem for English majors and concenal Education at B. S. C., participated trators. This will encourage students in the National Conference on Rehabilto indicate preferences for courses in itation Codes and Communicative Disfuture semesters and this will permit orders held at Berea, Kentucky, March the department to gauge demands and set 18-21. up courses in relations to it. **** Mrs. Wanda K. Snyder, a graduate student in Special Education, is one of four graduate students throughout the State who has been selected to present papers at the Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania Speech and Hearing Association on April 10th in Pittsburgh. **** Hanson Baldwin, Military Editor of the New York Times, was the featured speaker of the Endowed Lecture Fund Series presented in Carver Auditorium March 17. **** The Lebanon Valley Concert Choir, sponsored by the Evening Entertainment Committee at B. S. C., presented an outstanding program in Carver Auditorium on March 19th. **** Bob Herzig, B. S. C. Star Basketball Player, who is in his Senior year, was again named to P.S.C.A.C. first team and received honorable mention on the Associated Press of Pennsylvania College Selections. Herzig played the entire season with an injured knee. **** Danny Litwhiler, a graduate of B. S. C. who became one of Baseball's greats, will be the featured speaker at the Eighth Annual Athletic Awards Banquet at B. S. C. on Tuesday, April 13, 1965. **** The B. S. C. Chess Team recently defeated the Lafayette College Chess Team by a 3-2 score to become the undisputed leader in the Eastern Pennsylvania College Chess League. The Husky Rooks were previously defeated by Lafayette last September-the only team to defeat the Huskies this year. **** Two summer abroad programs will be offered by the College this year. The first, a European Culture Study Tour including thirteen countries - 42 days from July 1st through August 11this being offered by the Department of Social Sciences under the direction of Edson J. Drake, Faculty Member. The second program, from July 15th to August 31st, will be a summer study in Dijon, France; Mainz, Germany; and Madrid, Spain, through the sponsorship of the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association. Director of this program is Dr. Carl D. Bauer, Chairman of the Foreign Language Department at B. S. C. **** - ~The -1965 Summer-Sessions schedule is as follows: Pre-Session - June 7 to June 25; Main Session - June 28 to August 6; Post Session - August 9 to August 27. Inquiries regarding summer sessions should be directed to John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction. Tickets for the Big Name Entertainment of Dick Gregory and the Four Lads appearing in Centennial Gym the evening of Alumni Day, May 8th, may be purchased in advance by ordering direct from Gil Gockley, of the office ofl C. G. A., Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. General Admission - $2.50 each; Reserved Seats - $3.00 each. Your help is needed to support Alumni activities. Join now! Oneyear membershil>43.00, three years -$7.50, five years-$10.00, life--$35.00. Dues should be paid to Mr. Earl Gehrig, treasurer, Alumni Association, Bloomsburg State College. Ninth Letter To Alumni And Friends of Bloomsburg Spring, 1965 Published by the Office of Public Relations Boyd Buckingham, Director J3ruce C. Dietterick, Information Specialist Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Bloomsburg, Pa. Permit No. 10