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ISC ALUMNI LETTER
BLOOMSBURG STATE COLLEGE : SPRING 1969

--~lamni A,-e 'Ul'ged ro Retul'n Ea,-ly on Alumni Day, Satal'day, Apl'il 26
ro Attend the Special Dedication ce,-emonies
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - REGISTRATION FOR ALUMNI- Waller Hall.
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER FOR ALL ALUMNI AND FACULTY -Refreshments -Waller Hall Lobby.
10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. - BAND CONCERT - Haas Auditorium.
10:50 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - FACULTY PROCESSION - Begins at Andruss Library.
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon - DEDICATION CONVOCATION - Haas Auditorium.
12:30 p.m. - LUNCHEON -College Commons - $1.75 per person or Alumni Membership Card .
(Tickets will be available near registration counter or in College Commons Lobby.)
1:30 p.m. - ANNUAL MEETING OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION - College Commons
*3:00 p.m. - CLASS REUNIONS
3:30 p.m:. - 5:00 p.m. - OPEN HOUSE IN RESIDENCE HALLS
**5:00 p.m. - SOCIAL HOUR AND DINNERS as scheduled by Reunion Classes.
8:15 p.m. - HAAS AUDITORIUM-THE BLOOMSBURG PLAYERS will present "My Sister Eileen,"
a three-act comedy by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. This is part of the Spring
Arts Festival. Admission is $1.00 per person or Alumni membership card.
* All Classes to 1908 inclusive - Meet in Husky Lounge Annex outside of College Store in Waller Hall.
1909 - Husky Lounge Annex outside of
College Store in Waller Hall.
1914 - Husky Lounge Annex outside of
College Store in Waller Hall.
1919 ~ Lobby of College Commons
1924 - Ben Franklin Bldg., Room 7
1929- Faculty Lounge, Waller Hall
1934 - Room 63, Hartline Science Center

1939 - Room 64, Hartline Science
1944 - Room 65, Hartline Science
1949- Room 66, Hartline Science
1954-Room 67, Hartline Science
1959- Room 69, Hartline Science
1964-Room 72, Hartline Science
1965 to Present - Alumni Room

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FRIDAY EVENING, April 25, Class of 1919 (Miss Catherine A. Reimard, 335 Jefferson St., Bloomsburg, Chm.)
50th Reunion - Guests of Alumni Association at a dinner in College Commons, 7:00 p.m. Informal meeting
in Husky Lounge Annex after dinner in Commons.
** Other Classes have made the following plans for Saturday, April 26:
1909 - (Fred W. Diehl, 627 Bloom St., Danville, Pa. 18721, Chm.) Friday night at 7:00 p.m. College Commons-Attend 50 year Reunion Dinner.
1914 ,--- (J. Howard Deily, 518 W. 3rd St., Bloomsburg, Chm.) No special plans.
1919 - Breakfast, Saturday, April 26 at 9:00 a.m., Magee Hotel.
1924- (Edward F. Schuyler, 236 West Ridge Ave., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815, Chm.) Friday, 7:00 p.m., Smorgasbord at Hotel Magee>
Saturday, 8:00 a.m., Breakfast at Hotel Magee.
1929- (Mrs. Nelson Stauffer, 88 John St., :K:ingston, Pa. 18704 and Mrs. Walter Covert, 20 Parrish St., Dallas, Pa. 18612, Co-chm.)
No special plans.
1934 - (Mrs. Joseph McFadden, 154 East Fifth St., Bloomsburg, Pa. 17815, Chm.) Dinner at 5:30 p.m. at Keystone Room, Briar Heights
Lodge.
1939- (Willard A. Christian, Box 260, Bloomsburg State College, Chm.) Get-together from 4:00 p.m. at home of Mrs. Ruth Dugan
Smeal, 740 South Market St., Bloomsburg. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. at Rainbow Room, Elks Club, Bloomsburg.
1944- (Mrs. Carl Demitrikopoulos, Friar and Robin Lanes, Sherwood Village, Bloomsburg, Chm.) No special plans.
1949- (Richard E. Grimes, 1723 Fulton St., Harrisburg, Pa. 17102, Chm.) Dinner at 6:30 p.m., American Legion, Old Berwick Road,
Bloomsburg.
1954 - (William J. Jacobs, Tremont Annex Apts., 2 West Main St., Lansdale, Pa. 19446, Chm.) Get-together 6:00-7:00 p.m. (7:00-Dinner) at Bloomsburg Moose Club, W. Main St., Bloomsburg.
1959- (William F, Swisher, Box 245, Cincinnatus, N.Y. 13040, Chm.) No special plans.
1964- (Ernest R. Shuba, 1 Gaston Avenue, Raritan, N.J. 08869, Chm.) Get-together at 5:30 p.m. at Elks Club. Dinner and dance at
6:30 p.m., Main Ballroom, Elks Club.

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LUNCHEON RESERVATION

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IN ORDER TO PLAN for the preparation of food and the necessary table reservations, it is 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: 30 on Alumni Day.
Therefore, will you kindly clip this portion of the page and return it to MR. HOWARD FENSTEMAKER, President,
Alumni Association, BlooniSburg State College by April 21, 1969.
PLEASE MAKE _ _ _ _ _ RESERVATIONS FOR ME FOR SATURDAY'S LUNCHEON.
Name ____________________________________ Class _ _ _ _ _ _ __

From 'l'he President ...
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE TO THE
LOYALTY FUND
The goal of the Loyalty Fund seems to be stymied at the ten thousand
dollar level.
It seems to me that with approximately thirteen thousand. living Alumni
that the amount should be greatly increased. No doubt, you read in Howard
Fenstemaker's letter, the things that are being done by the Alumni Association of the College such as helping to sponsor an FM Radio Station, Radio
Broadcasts for athletic contests, scholarships, and the like. However, we
still have needs which the state is unwilling to subsidize.
Let us make an effort to exceed the goal of fifteen thousand dollars
so that we can say that we have- increased -Alumni support to go with a
developing college, but most of all, come back to Bloomsburg for the
Alumni weekend..
William A. Lank, (left) President of the
Board of Trustees, is shown congratulating
Dr'. Harvey A. Andruss on his present and
past accomplishments following the midJanuary commencement exercises when Dr.
Andruss announced his coming retirement
after serving 30 years as President of Bloomsburg State College.

Sincerely yours,

HARVEY

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TOTAL $27,000,000

ANDRUSS,

President

FOND MEMORIES

By BOYD F. BUCKINGHAM, Director of Development and Public Relations

Increases in enrollment and in the number of faculty and the expansion of curriculum
offerings have been accompanied by the planning and construction of new buildings
and utilities on campus. Since 1966, we have completed a new library, a dormitory for
300 men, an auditorium, an extension of underground utilities, the Hartline Science
Center, and a dormitory for 680 men.
Currently under construction are a dining hall-kitchen, a parking area for 215 cars,
a dormitory for 400 women, a classroom building, a maintenance building, a gymnasiumfieldhouse, and an extension of utilities.
Bids are expected to be opened during the late summer or early fall for the construction of an athletic field and most of the underground utilities which will serve new buildings on the Upper Campus (formerly the Bloomsburg golf course).
Architects are currently_ working with __college perso1111el _to
design a student center~ an administration building, a multi-level
parking area and roads, and recreation and additional parking
areas.
In the fall of 1968, the Director of Development met for the
first time with architects to begin pre-planning for the design of
two men's dormitories, two women's dormitories, a dining-hallkitchen, a classroom building, and a maintenance building. All
but two of these will be located on the Upper Campus.
Boyd F. Buckingham
The total construction cost of these twenty-six projects is
approximately $27,000,000. In order to finish other projects
planned for the upper campus, an additional amount of $9,000,000 will be needed.
The cost of constructing dormitories is paid over a thirty year period by a special
fee collected from each student for each week he lives in a dormitory. At the present
time, when a student center is built on a state college campus, the students at that
college must begin paying an additional fee of $20 per year until the construction
bonds are· retired.
A committee of faculty and alumni has been appointed at Bloomsburg State College
to suggest where trees, shrubs, and flowers should be located as various building projects
are completed. It is hoped that their plans will help to restore the n.atural beauty
of the campus.

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A recent news release, stating that Dr.
Harvey A. Andruss, President of Bloomsburg
State College, will retire during the latter
part of this year, brought pleasant memories
to Dr. Oliver S. Willham, retired president
of Oklahoma State University, according to
a recent article in the Sunday Oklahoman.
Dr. Willham and Dr. Andruss were graduated from high school together at Randlett,
Cotton County, in the class of 1918. "There
were four students in that class," the former
OSU administrator recalls. Then, he added
jokingly: "Fifty percent of the class became
presidents of colleges." Three of the 1918
graduates were boys. The girl, Vera Elmore,
-iHed shortly after thafin an automobile iccident. The third boy was Edison Spanagel,
now a Texas farmer.
A resident of Oklahoma since shortly before statehood, Dr. Willham is a native of
Clearwater, Kansas, where he was born June
26, 1901. He moved with his parents to the
"Big Pasture" country in February, 1907.
Dr. Andruss, a native of Texas, moved to
Oklahoma Territory with his parents in 1903.
He has been President of Bloomsburg State
College for the past 30 years - one of the
nation's longest tenures.
Do the three surviving members of that
Randlett High School class of 51 years ago
ever see each other? "Pretty regularly- at
school reunions," says Dr. Willham. "We
met last year at Randlett, after meeting for
several years .in Oklahoma City. Dr. Andruss
and I have remained close friends throughout the many intervening years."

RESERVATIONS for overnight accommodations should be made directly with the Magee Hotel. Bloomsburg, Pa.; Hummel's Motel. Route
11, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Riverview Motel. RD. 1, Berwick, Pa.; Stone Castle Motel and Restaurant. R.D. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Keller's Motel. RD.
4, Danville, Pa.; Pine Barn Inn & Motel. Danville, Pa.; Reichard's 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.

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Enrollment Curtailed
Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee in Harrisburg on March 4,
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss stated that if the
budget recommendations of the Governor at
that time were enacted into law, Bloomsburg
State College would not be able to accommodate its projected enrollment for September, 1969.
Present indications for the maximum total
figures for full-time undergraduate students
for the fall semester will be three thousand
seven hundred (3,700).
Several years ago, Bloomsburg State College planned to enroll 4,000 students in September, 1969, but that figure was reduced to
3,700 for the following reasons: a new dining hall-kitchen facility and a nine story
dormitory, both scheduled to be completed
in September 1969, will not be available until 1970; a drastic reduction has been made
in the number of additional nonsinstructional
personnel requested. Dr. AndruS6 indicated
the enrollment has to be tailored to meet the
terms of the budget now under consideration
by the State Legislature.

Shown above, looking across Spruce Street, is a portion of the new Hartline Science and
Classroom building which will be dedicated, along with Elwell Hall, a men's dormitory, on
Alumni Day, April 26.
The three story structure with basement was built at a cost. of $1,894,000 and has been
a beehive of activity since being put into use at the start of the second semester of the present
college year.
. Included in the Hartline Science Center are 22 classrooms, 8 lecture halls, 58 faculty
offices, 11 laboratories, 4 senior seminar rooms, 6 honor laboratories, 3 large lecture rooms,
11 storage areas, an elevator and an amphitheatre.
Several conferences including Second East Central Pennsylvania College Biology Teachers
Conference and the Fifth Annual Reading Conference have already been held in this building.
A portion of the roof area will be utilized by th.e Geography and Earth Science Department of the college. Roof facilities will include telescopes, an anemometer and weather
vane, rain and snow gauges, and an instrument shelter for very sensitive weather instruments
for use in courses in meteorology, climatology, and astronomy.

LOYALTY FUND -

1969

Your Alumni Association is now in its third year of its annual Loyalty Fund
Campaign. Its purpose is to make important contributions of the College for
which funds are not otherwise available. These include the following:
1. Loans and Scholarships
2. Books for the Library
3. Radio Broadcasts
4. Tree-planting projects.
At this mid-point in our third year, we have received over $25,000 since
we sent out our first appeal in October of 1966.
To those who have been making contributions, we extend our most sincere
thanks. We are sure that you have had a feeling of great satisfaction in doing so.
Over half of our Alumni, however, have not yet responded. Once more we
make this appeal to your loyalty to your Alma Mater. Why not begin now to
make a contribution to the Loyalty Fund at least once a year?
Sincerely yours,
HowARD F. FENSTEMAKER, President
B.S.C. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
TO BE DETACHED, FILLED OUT, AND RETURNED
WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTION

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5 Divisions -19 Depts.
The five divisions of education of Bloomsburg State College are currently broken
down into 19 departments.
The divisions and their directors are as
follows: Division of Elementary EducationDr. Royce 0. Johnson; Division of Secondary Education-Dr. C. Stuart Edwards; Division of Special Education-Dr. William L.
Jones; Division of Business Educatipn-Dr.
Emory W. Rarig, Jr.; Division of Arts and
Sciences--Dr. Alden Buker.
The departments and their chairmen are;
Art-Dr. Percival R. Roberts, III ; Biological
Sciences--Dr. Donald D. Rabb; Economics
-Dr. TejBhan S. Saini; Education-Dr. H.
M. Afshar; English-Dr. Louis F. Thompson; Foreigi;i Languages--Dr. Eric W. Smithner; Geography-Dr. Wendelin R. Frantz;
Health and Physical Education-Dr. Clarence A. Moore; History-Dr. Craig A. Newton; Mathematics--Mr. Charles R. Reardin;
Mental Retardation-Dr. Emily A. Reuwsaat; Music-Mr. William K. Decker; Physical Science--Dr. Norman E. White; P9litical Science--Dr. Robert L. Rosholt; Psychology-Dr. Merritt W. Sanders; Sociology
and Philosophy-Dr. William L. Carlough;
Speech-Dr. Melville Hopkins; Speech Correction-Dr. Margaret Lefevre; BusinessDr. Emory W. Rarig, Jr.--director serves as
chairman.
Two other areas which are closely aligned
to the departmental group are: Library Services--J ames B. Watts, director; Student
Teaching, Dr. Lee Aumiller, Coordinator of
Field Experiences.

Enrollment Summary
The enrollment report for the second semester of the 1968-1969 college year reveals
that there are a total of 1,764 males and
1,545 females for a total of 3,309 full-time
undergraduate students. This, coupled with
13 male and 16 female full-time graduate
students, gives us a grand total of 3,338 fulltime students ..
Part-time undergraduate and part-time
graduate students amount to 217 males and
260 females for a total of 4 77. The grand
total of 3,815 full-time and part-time students is broken down into 1,994 males and
1,821 females.

Send Checks to Alumni Office, BSC, Box 11
To insure tax deductions, make check payable to: BSC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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News Briefs . • •

For the third consecutive year, all three
Robert Goralski, NBC News Correspondwinter sports teams recorded a winning seaent, was a guest speaker at a dinner given
son. Wrestling posted a 11-3-1 record; basketby President and Mrs. Harvey A. Andruss
ball, 12-10; and.swimming, 9-2-1.
for faculty members, their wives and husWrestling finished third in the Pennsylba~ds, :and _Board of Trustees members and
vania Conference and seventh in N.A.I.A.
their wives ~n the College Commons on Sat:
competition. Ron Russo at 137 lbs., Amie
urday evenmg, ¥a~~h 15. Mr: Goralski
Thompson at 152 lbs., and Jim McCue at
spoke on the topic, The Changmg. 'Y,orld
hwt. were Pennsylvania State College chamand the Challenge to U.S. Leadership.
pions and Russo won the N.A.I.A. title.
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The swimming team finished third in
Miss Mary A. Tolan, a member of the
the Pennsylvania Conference with Ralph
faculty at Bloomsburg State College for the
Moerschbacher capturing a first place in
past year and a half, is Acting Dean of
both the 300 yard and 500 yard freestyle
Women at the college while Miss Ellamae
events.
Jackson, Dean of Women, is on sabbatical
The basketball team finished in a fourth
leave during the second semester of the
place tie with Kutztown in the eastern divi1968-1969 college year.
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sion of the Pennsylvania Conference.
T~e four _spring spor_ts teams have b~en
The Association, one of the nation's top
. workmg out ~n preparatwn for the opemng . singing groups, appeared at Bloomsburg
~of di~ season m the early p~l of April. Base- ---Sfate --Collegeon~rcn1Tunder tlieau- ball is coached by Rodenck Clark Boler;
spices of the Big Name Entertainment Comtrack by Ronald Puhl; golf by Jerry Thomas;
mittee of the Community Government Astennis by Burt~n Reese. Boler and Reese are
sociation.
new coaches this year.
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Two outstanding speakers, Dr. Paul Witty,
Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University,
Over 75 biologists from approximately 40
colleges and universities attended the Second
and Dr. Russell Stauffer, Professor of PsyEast Central Pennsylvania College Biology
chology and Director of the Reading Clinic,
Teachers Conference at Bloomsburg State
University of Delaware, delivered the adCollege on Friday and Saturday, March 7
dresses at the Fifth Annual Reading Conference held at Bloomsburg State College, Friand 8. The theme of this year's meeting was
day and Saturday, March 28 and 29. Dr.
"Biological Education: Its Relevance and
Social Implications." Dr. Donald D. Rabb,
Margaret Sponseller served as conference
chairman, Department of Biology at B.S.C.,
chairman.
served as conference chairman.
Clarence Gourley, Jr., a native of western
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Pennsylvania, joined the Bloomsburg State
The Maroon and Gold Concert Band parCollege faculty at the start of the second
ticipated in the Spring Arts Festival when it
semester of the 1968-1969 college year as
presented varied programs of symphonic
Assistant Director of Admissions.
band music on Thursday, March 13 in Haas
Auditorium.
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Four hundred ninety-six ( 496) pints of
A series of four Spanish scholarly conferblood were donated at the annual American
ences are being conducted at Bloomsburg
Red Cross Bloodmobile on the campus of
State College over a six week period. Noted
Bloomsburg State College on Thursday,
Spanish professors representing the PennsylMarch 13. This amount, donated chiefly by
vania. State University, University of Cordomembers of the college community, resulted
ba, Scranton University, and Wilkes College
in Bloomsburg remaining in Priority I status.
are participating on the dates of March 8,
George G. Stradtman has acted as faculty
13, 19, and April 16.
coordinator for a ~umber of years.

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Two official accreditation teams-the
Middle States Association of Secondary
Schools and Colleges visitation team and the
National Commission for Accreditation
Teacher Education visitation team-visited
the Bloomsburg State College campus March
10-12 to reaffirm the accreditation for the
undergraduate program in teacher education
and to place initial accreditation on the
graduate program in teacher education.

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A news release was issued in January stating that due to limited housing facilities and
increases in enrollment, Bloomsburg State
College is requesting that new students, applying for admission for the first semester of
the 1969-70 college year, ·commute from
their own home if they live within a reasonable commuting distance of the college. (The
college has established a 30 mile distance as
--a-guideline.lru:Jhis ~t.,,)_._,_ _

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Two study abroad programs, the seventh
annual European Culture Tour (June 30 to
August 11), and the third annual summer
study program, Bloomsburg in Spain (June
28 to September 4), will be conducted this
year by the college.

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The operation of the college and expenditures by students, faculty, and visitors will
bring more than $5,850,000 to Bloomsburg
.and the surrounding area during the present
college year. This figure reflects an annual
college payroll of approximately $4,607,945
paid to faculty, non-instructional personnel,
part-time students, college store and snack
bar employees, Community Activities Office
personnel, and the A.R.A. Slater School and
College personnel. The remaining $1,246,000
will be expended by students attending
classes for the 48 week period, including the
12 weeks summer session.

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Robert Van Waes of the national office
of the American Association of University
Professors, spoke on "Rights and Freedoms
of Students" on January 29 in the College
Commons at a joint meeting of the local
chapter of the AAUP and the Bloomsburg
State College Faculty Association.

Seventeenth Letter To Alumni
And Friends of Bloomsburg

NON-PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POST AGE
PAID

BLOOMSBURG, PA.
PERMIT NO. 10

Spring 1969
Published by
THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
AND DEVELOPMENT
BoYP F, BUCKINGHAM, Director
BRUCE C. DIETTERICK, Information Specialist

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