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ALUMNI LETTER

Alumni Day Is Saturday, .£4pril 29
Alumni Are Urged To Return Early For Activities
9 :00 a.m. - 2 :00 p.m.-Registration for all Alumni - Waller Hall
9 :00 a.m. - 11 :00 a.m.-Informal get-together for all Alumni and Faculty; Refreshments - Waller
Hall Lobby
9 :00 a.m. - 10 :00 p.m.-Art Exhibit - Waller Hall Lounge
Paintings by four Pennsylvania artists
11 :00 a.m.-Variety program presented by the students of B.S.C. - Carver Auditorium
No admission charge.
12 :15 p.m.-Luncheon - College Commons - $1.50 per person or Alumni Dues receipt.
(Tickets available at registration desk or in Lobby of College Commons)
1 :30 p.m.-Annual Meeting of Alumni Association - College Commons
*3 :00 p.m.-Class Reunions as indicated below
4 :00 p.m. - 5 :00 p.m.-Open House in Residence Halls; Tour Campus.
**5 :30 p.m.-Class get-togethers and dinners as scheduled.
8 :30 p.m.-R,ichard Wilbur, poet, translator, lecturer - Carver Auditorium. No admission
charge.
*All Classes to . . . . . .
1906 (Inclusive) - Room 10,
1927 - Room 8, Science Hall
1957 - Lounge, North Hall
Noetling Hall
1932 - Room 22, Science Hall
Dormitory
1907 - Room 11, Noetling Hall
1937 - Day Men's Lounge,
1962 - Day Women's Lounge,
1912 - Faculty Lounge
Science Hall
1917 - Alumni Room on Friday
1942 - Lounge, West Hall
Ground Floor, Ben
evening and Saturday
Dormitory
Franklin
afternoon
1947 - Room 15, Noetling Hall
1922 - Husky Lounge Annex,
1952 - Lounge, East Hall
1963 to Present - Upper Level,
Dormitory
Husky Lounge
Waller Hall
FRIDAY EVENING, April 28, the Class of 1917 (Allen L. Cromis, 637 East Fifth St., Bloomsburg,
Chairman) 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. The Class has also scheduled a breakfast
meeting in the Hotel Magee at 8 :30 a.m., April 29.
**Other classes have made the following plans for Saturday, April 29:
1907 - (Edwin Barton, 353 East Main St., Bloomsburg and William Moyer, 356 Center St., Bloomsburg,
Chairmen)
Breakfast at Hotel Magee, April 29, 8 :00 - 10 :00 a.m.
Class is invited to join the Class of 1917 at the Fifty-year dinner meeting, Fri., April 28 at 7 :00 p.m.
1912 - (Howard F. Fenstemaker, 242 Central Rd., Bloomsburg, Chairman)
Class will join the Class of 1917 for dinner in the College Commons, Friday, April 28, at 7 :00 p.m.
The Class of 1907 has invited the Class of 1912 to join them for breakfast at the Hotel Magee,
Saturday, April 29, 8 :00 - 10 :00 a.m.
1922 - (Miss Edna S. Harter, Nescopeck, Pa., Chairman)
Saturday, April 29, Social Hour at Hotel Magee at 5 :00 p.m.; Dinner at 6 :00 p.m.
1937 - (Mr. and Mrs. Earl A. Gehrig, 224 Leonard St., Bloomsburg, Co-Chairmen)
Saturday, April 29, Leiby's Restaurant, Get Together, 5 :30 p.m.; Buffet, 6 :30 p.m.; Business Meeting, 7 :30 p.m.
1942 - (Mrs. Ralph Zimmerman, 165 Kready Ave., Millersville, Pa., Chairman)
Dinner at Briar Heights Lodge, Saturday, April 29, at 6 :30 p.m.
1957 - (William J. Pohutsky, 554 Oakridge Ave., North Plainfield, N. J., Chairman)
Smorgasbord at Bloomsburg American Legion Home, Saturday, April 29 at 7 :00 p.m.
1962 - (Richard Lloyd, 6 Farragut Drive, Piscataway, N. J., Chairman)
Dinner at Bloomsburg Elks Club, Saturday, April 29 at 5 :30 p.m.
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RESERVATION

In order to plan for the preparation of food and the necessary table reservations, 1t 1s imperative that
the Alumni Committee has an idea as to the number of alumni who will be having lunch in the College
Commons at 12 :15 p.m. on Alumni Day.
Therefore, will you kindly clip this portion of the page and return it to Mr. Howard Fenstemaker,
President, Alumni Association, Bloomsburg State College by April 22, 1967.
Please make _ _ _ _ _ reservations for me for Saturday's luncheon.
Name

Class _ _ _ _ _ _ __

WHY DOES COLLEGE COST SO MUCH?
(based on Forbes Magazine, June 1, 1966)
Sending his children to college is the biggest single expense a father has today, even greater in
many cases than buying a house, so fathers can hardly be expected to hear a question like this with
equanimity. No under-graduate has even paid for more than a half or fraction of the true cost of
his education whil,e he was in college. This is equally true of private institutions who have high
tuition costs, as well as public institutions who receive large appropriations each year.
Since 1950, the average price of food, clothing, shelter, and a new car has risen by 22%. In
the same period, the average total cost of attending college has risen by nearly 60%, Tuition and
fees alone, which can come to more than 50% of the cost of going to a private university and
20% of the cost of going to a public one, have risen by more than 90%. The worst is yet to come,
for the average total cost of tuition, room and board, et al. is now rising at the rate of about 5%
a year. All education including higher education is becoming Big Business.
One reason college costs soar is that professors don't like frayed collars. Consequently, if the
Dr. Harvey A. Andru 5 s quality of education is to be preserved and enhanced, the salary schedule for the instructional staff
must be increased by at least 10% each year. The big question, of course, is: What can be done
to hold increasing costs to a minimum? One way for institutions of higher education to keep costs at a minimum is to
insure the most efficient utilization of their facilities.

WHAT IS BLOOMSBURG DOING?
( 1) A few years ago one study found that 100 leading colleges were operating their existing plant at· 46% of their
capacity. Bloomsburg has been utilizing its plant at 75% of capacity. (2) Bloomsburg is encouraging the growth and
development of community colleges so that the better students may transfer to our campus for the last two years, leading
to a Bachelor's degr,ee, thereby filling the upper level vacancies caused by attrition. (3) Bloomsburg is willing to change
its. calendar to a quarter basis if this would result in better utilization and if our appropriations are increased by at least
30%. ( 4) Classrooms are being used in the late afternoon and evening for certain courses, part-time and graduate. ( 5)
The growth in our enrollment is planned in an orderly fashion at approximately a 10% increase over the preceding year,
thereby maintaining the quality of edu_cation.
The education of our youth is an investment. The increased cost, at a time when all other costs are incl'easing, cannot
be looked upon as an unfavorable trend in a world which is subjected to spiralling inflation. Certainly higher education
is the hope of America in this time of trying to maintain world leadership and world peace.

CURRICULUM CHANGES STIMULATED BY REVIEW & CHANGING REQUIREMENTS
by Dr. John A. Hoch, Dean of Instruction
Bloomsburg State College has long
been recognized as one of the finest
teacher-education institutions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The college
has been able to
maintain this position of pre-eminence
by regularly and
critically reviewing
the many programs
of study in the fields
f0f---whk-h it -is approved for teacher
certification. Changing patterns of requirements for teacher
certification
have also stimulated
Dr. John Hoch
the planning of faculty curriculum study groups.
An extensive review and overhaul of
teacher education programs at B.S.C.
were effected in 1960, prior to the reaccreditation of the college by the Middle States Association of Secondary
Schools and Colleges. This curriculum
revision represented the most extensive
change that had been made in curriculums at Bloomsburg since the advent of
the four-year degree programs in 1927.
In March of 1966, a committee representing the Department of Public Instruc-

tion, visited the campus to evaluate all
teacher education programs in terms of
their adequacy to meet the new standards
for certification that had been adopted by
the State Board of Education. This committee gave its stamp of approval to the
following programs in Secondary Education; Biology; Chemistry; Earth and
Space Science; English; French; Geography; German; Physics; Spanish.
A new program of studies in the area
of Elementary Education--and --revi1red
curriculums in Business Education, Special Education for the Mentally Retarded,
and Speech Correction have also been
approved.
At the present time, several new programs are being reviewed by specialists
in the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction for total program approval,
including Mathematics, History, Comprehensive Social Studies, and General
Speech.
College students all over the country
have become impatient with courses of
study that provide vocational preparation
and a smattering of culture. Curriculum
change at Bloomsburg has attempted to
meet this criticism by putting stress on
courses that are designed to develop wisdom about major ideas and philosophies
in the area of the Humanities.
The number of "education" courses in

the new curriculums is somewhat reduced
over the previous programs Although
Bloomsburg still regards a full semester
of student teaching as an important prerequisite for graduation, many of the socalled "how-to-do" courses (as well as
other courses with doubtful professional
value) have been eliminated or combined
with other courses to form a betterbalanced sequence of professional studies
for prospective teachers.
Faetttty- · committees, involved· --in · developing the new curriculums, have provided larger blocks of credits for specialization in a "major" field of study. The
new programs permit depth in specialization which will meet not only the
needs of the public schools for well-informed teachers, but will also form a
basis for graduate studies in the field of
specialty.
The most radical difference between
today's colleges and those of fifty years
ago, however, is not in the curriculum
but in the use of learning resources.
Plans are now being developed for closed
circuit television on the Bloomsburg
State College campus, which will make
the standard lecture obsolete-and the
conventional laboratory demonstration
inadequate and costly.
Bloomsburg has also made strides in
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RESERVATIONS for overnight accommodations should be made directly with the Magee Hotel, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Hummel's Motel, Route 11, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Riverview Motel, R. D. 1, Berwick, Pa.; Stone Castle Motel and
Restauran.t, R D. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Keller's Motel, R. D. 4, Danville, Pa.; Pine Barn Inn & Motel, Danville, Pa.;
Reicharcfs Motel, R. D. 4, Danville, Pa.; Red Maple Motel, R. D. 2, Berwick, Pa.; Hotel Berwick, Berwick, Pa.;
Tennytown Motel, Berwick Highway, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Briar Heights Motor Lodge, Berwick-Bloomsburg Highway, Berwick, Pa.

Sixth Annual SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL
The sixth annual Bloomsburg State College Spring Arts Festival will
present an excellent array of talent for the eleven-day event, April 20
through April 30, 1967. The purpose of .the festival is to stimulate
interest and participation in the creative arts for the students and faculty
members of the college as well as area community residents. The
majority of events will be held in Carver Auditorium and will be open to
the public with no charge for admission. Miss Susan Rusinko of the
faculty is general chairman for the affair.
SCHEDULE FOR THE SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 20 and Saturday, April 22, 8:15 p.m.-Friday, April 21,
2:30 p.m.-Molier's "Tartuffe" by the Bloomsburg Players.
Sunday, April 23, 3:00 p.m.-French film, "No Exit."
Monday, April 24, 8:15 p.m.-Jean Erdman, choreographer, will present
a lecture-dance demonstration on the anatomy of movement.
Tuesday, April 25, 8:15 p.m.-Stanley Kauffmann, writer, drama and
film critic, will lecture on the art of the film. (Mr Kauffmann will
meet with special student groups during the day Tuesday and
Wednesday.)
Wednesday, April 26, 8:15 p.m.-Russian film "Don Quixote."
Thursday, April 27, 8:15 p.m.-Concert by Soulima Stravinsky, noted
composer and pianist. (Mr. Stravinsky will meet the student groups
on Friday.)
Friday, April 28, 8:15 p.m.-S;v,Inposium of four artist~ from facuh~e.s of
The Pennsylvania State University, Lock Haven State College, and
Lycoming College.
Prior to symposium, 7 :30 p.m., artists will meet with public in Waller
Lobby to discuss paintings on display. (These paintings will be on
display throughout the eleven-day period.)
Saturday, April 30, 8:30 p.m.-Richard Wilbur, poet, translator, and
scholar, will give a reading of his poems with commentary. (Wilbur
made the translation of "Tartuffe," which is to be presented by the
Bloomsburg Players.)
Sunday, April 30, 3:00 p.m.-B.S.C. Concert Choir will give a performance
of Honeggar's "King David."

Expansion of
Graduate Program
The B.S.C. graduate program, instituted in 1961, is now in its fifth full year of
operation. From a modest beginning the
program has now progressed to the point
where approximately 1400 students have
matriculated for graduate courses offered
by the college. The program, which
originally included only Business Education and Elementary Education, has
now been expanded to include Special
Education for the Mentally Retarded,
Speech Correction, English, Biology, and
Social Studies. The areas of emphasis in
the Social Studies program are American History, World History,_ Political
Science, and Geography.
Plans for the near future include the
addition of new programs offering the
Master of Education degree in the Foreign Languages, the Physical Sciences,
Speech and Dramatic Arts, Reading, and
History as a single field. These programs
will be implemented when, at the college's discretion, it is felt that the staff
and physical facilities are available to
undertake the additional load.
Also
under consideration for the future is the
possibility of offering other degrees such
as the Master of Arts and Master of
Science degrees.
An extensive offering of graduate courses is planned for this coming summer in
the fields of approved graduate studies.
Additional information on graduate courses may be obtained by writing to Dr.
Robert C Miller, Director of Graduate
Studies.
A successful Winter Weekend sponsored
by the Community Government Association was held Thursday, February 16,
through Sunday, February 19.

ABOUT CONSTRUCTION . . . .
The auditorium being constructed at a
cost of $1,268,978 is scheduled to be completed in June, 1967; completely air conditioned, it will seat an audience of 2,000
people.
A new men's dormitory, tentatively
called South Hall, now under construction, is scheduled for occupancy in September, 1967. Total cost of this building,
which will house 300 men, is $1,322,000.
A new dormitory for 672 men, now being constructed on the lots across Second
Street from Long Porch, is scheduled to
be completed in July, 1968, at a cost of
$2,646,570.
The construction for the new science
and classroom building which will be
located at the cornet" of Spruce"and East
Second Streets began in March, 1967.
This air conditioned building is scheduled
to be completed in December, 1968, at an
estimated cost of $1,894,000.
The second phase of the extension of
utilities on the main campus is well
underway. This $481,300 project is expected to be completed by July, 1967.

NEW ,DINING FACILITIES
The new dining hall-kitchen, which will
be located adjacent to Waller Hall on
part of the land now occupied by Noetling Hall, will be started late this summer. It is scheduled for completion in
September, 1968, and will seat 1,000 students with kitchen facilities to serve
2,000 students at each meal. Dining halls
and office areas of this $1,645,000 building will be air conditioned.
Two hundred sixty-nine Bloomsburg
State College seniors are currently doing
their student teaching. Of this number,
101 are in Secondary Education, 93 in
Elementary Education, 60 in Business
Education, and 15 in Special Education.

OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS
AT BSC COLLOQUIUM
A . number of speakers of national reputation will participate in a colloquium
sponsored by the Social Science Department of Bloomsburg State College on
Wednesday, April 12, and Thursday,
April 13. The theme of the conference is
"Human Dignity in a Mass Society," and
its purpose is to focus attention on the
problems of the individual in our American democracy.
The activities will begin on Wednesday
evening, April 12, in Carver Auditorium
with a lecture entitled, "Civil Rights:
Where We Stand Today," by Mr. James
Farmer, the former director of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). Mr.
Farmer is a professor of Social Welfare
at Lincoln University and also serves as
President for the Center for Community
Action Education, Washington, D. C.
On Thursday morning, April 13, four
Social Scientists representing four outstanding institutions of higher learning
will participate in a panel discussion.
Plans are to have a prominent area governmental official act as moderator for
the panel The participants on the panel
are: Dr. Peter Lejins, Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland; Dr.
Robert Mowitz, Professor of Political
Science and Director of the Institute of
Public Administration at The Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Monroe
Beardsley, Professor of Philosophy at
Swarthmore College; and Dr. Lynn Turgeon, Professor of Economics at Hofstra
University, L. I., New York.
Dr. Harold Taylor, the former President of Sarah Lawrence College, will
speak in Carver Auditorium Thursday
afternoon, April 13, on the subject, "The
Reconstruction of Education." Dr. Taylor is currently directing a project for
training teachers in international affairs
under the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare of the Federal Government and also under the auspices of
the American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education.
Through the efforts of Dr. Fred Saint,
General Chairman for the Colloquium,
former United States Senator Paul H.
Douglas of Illinois will present the
concluding address in Centennial Gymnasium on Thursday, April 13,. at
8:00 p.m.

-NEW ADMISSIONS FOR-"SEPT. 1967
In summarizing new admissions expected for September, 1967, John L.
Walker, Director of Admissions, stated
that to date 5,900 applications have been
distributed with 2,500 application procedures initiated. From this number, a
freshman class of approximately 800 students will be selected. This is the maximum number of new students that can be
classroom space, dormitory space, and
dining facilities. As a result of these
campus restrictions, applications for prospective resident women were not sent out
after February 17, 1967.
VARSITY SPRING SPORTS
The spring sports program at B.S.C.
will get under way Saturday, April 8, with
baseball, track, and tennis all opening
their schedules on that date. The first
golf meet will be Saturday, April 15. All
of the sports with the exception of golf
will have new coaches. Tom Davies will
coach the baseball team; Ron Puhl will
head the track team; Craig Himes will
return for his fourth year at the helm of
the golfers; Jack Jones will direct the
tennis team.

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NEWS BRIEFS

SOMETHING SPECIAL
In addition to the traditional features
of Alumni Day, returning alumni are
urged to attend two special attractions.
At 11 :00 a.m. in Carver Auditorium, a
group of talented B.S.C. students, who
have entertained at area affairs and have
appeared on television, will present a
special Variety Program.
At 8:30 p.m., Richard Wilbur, one of
the two or three great poets in America
today, will appear on the stage of Carver Auditorium

The U. S. Office of Education has
announced that the Division of Special
Education at Bloomsburg State College
has been awarded $35,100 for fellowship
and traineeship grants for the 1967-68
college year. Of this total, $17,100 is to
be used for three graduate fellowships in
the. area 9.f s.2_eech_and hearing and $18,000
wasawarded -for five-semdr trairieeslitps
in the area of teaching the mentally retarded.
The appointment of six additional members to the faculty at Bloomsburg State
College raised the total complement of
faculty members to 192 for the second
semester of the 1966-67 college year.
These faculty members who began their
assignments January 31 are Andrew L.
Wallace, Associate Professor of History;
Scott E. Miller, Jr., Assistant Reference
Librarian; Richard P. Whettstone, Assistant to the Dean of Men; Richard M.
Smith, Instructor of Speech Correction;
Henry Cecil Turberville, Jr., Associate
Professor of Physical Education; Mrs.
Frances Lawson, Assistant to the Dean
of Women.
The 1967 Summer-Sessions schedule is
as follows: Pre-Session, June 5 to June
23; Main Session, June 26 to August 4;
and Post-Session, August 7 to August 25.
Inquiries
regarding
Summer-Sessions
should be directed to Robert L. Bunge,
Registrar.

Thirteenth Letter To Alumni
And Friends of Bloomsburg

Spring 1967
Published by the Office of Development
and Public Relations.
Boyd F. Buckingham, Director
J3ruce C. Dietterick, Information Specialist

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Dr. Harvey A. Andruss spoke on the
topic, "Americans Abroad and at Home,"
at the first convocation of the second semester of the 1966-67 college year in Centennial Gymnasium on February 9, 1967.
Bloomsburg State College will host this
year's annual Pennsylvania Collegiate
Choral Festival on March 30-31 and
April 1-2. One hundred twenty-five students from 21 Pennsylvania colleges will
participate in the concert to be presented
Sunday, April 2, at 2:00 p.m. in Carver
Auditorium
Five hundred and six pints of blood
were donated by members of the college
community at the annual campus visit of
the Red Cross Bloodmobile at Centennial Gymnasium on Thursday, March 16,
1967. This was the second largest donation ever made in the Bloomsburg area;
a record was set a year ago at the college when 808 pints were collected.

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Members of the Board of Trustees at
B.S.C. who participated in the mid-January commencement exercises were: Mr.
William A. Lank, President of the Board,
Bloomsburg; Mr. E. Guy Bangs, Orangeville; Mr Gerald A. Beierschmitt, Mount
Carmel; Mr. William E. Booth, Danville.
Dr. Charles H. Watts, II, President .of
Bucknell University, spoke on the topic,
"A Quickening of Generations," to the
85 senior graduates and 6 graduate students.
A check for $1,800 was presented to the
Civic Music Association by the B.S.C.
Community
Government
Association.
This year's check represents a $300 increase over last year's contribution which
represents the college's participation in
the association.
The library of B.S.C. has more than
doubled the number of is holdings (35,846
to 87,860 volumes) from 1960 through
1966. During that interval, periodical
subscriptions increased almost two and
one half times from 330 to 800 with approximately 90% of them being preserved on microfilm or by binding.

WINNING TEAMS
Although no Pennsylvania State championships were won by any of the
Bloomsburg State College winter athletic teams, the wrestling, basketball, and
swimming teams all had winning seasons
and were a credit to the college.
Russ Houk completed his tenth year
as head wrestling coach and in the process registered his 100th victory at B.S.C.
in the final match of the year against
West Chester State College. In this ten
year period, the teams recorqed only 14
losses and two ties. The season's record
for this year's team was 10 wins against
5 losses.
Earl Voss in his first year as head
basketball mentor recorded a fine 12-8
season. This year's team had many close
contests losing several games in the final
two or three minutes of play. Voss lost
his star player at the start of the second
semester due to academic difficulties.
Eli McLaughlin registered a second
consecutive winning season for the B.S.C.
tankmen. Last year, which was the first
-· -winning seasen ~ . C . , -the. team. had--a 8-4 record and this year the Huskies
won their last two meets to put the team
on the plus side with a 6-5-1 record.

CURRICULUM CHANGES (continued)
providing for the needs of the individual
student. Independent study, honors work,
language laboratories and research activities are available to the student who is
interested in adjusting instruction to his
individual rate of learning.
Since instructional flexibility and adjustment are necessary to meet individual
differences, the college has provided many
kinds of materials to enable the student to
progress at his own rate. Much of the
time he studies with his fellow students,
but at other times, he studies on his own
with instant access to a complete range
of learning resources including taped lectures, programmed course materials, language audio tapes, bibliographies and
original documents on micro-films.
While finding proper future directions
for improving the education of college
students may be difficult, the potential
for gain is almost without boundary.
Great promise, however, lies ahead at
Bloomsburg State College

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