You And Your Friends Are Cordially Invited To Attend The

36th Annual Homecoming, Bloomsburg State College
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1963
8 :30 p.m.-The American Hootenanny Festival
Centennial Gymnasium - Admission - $2.00 per person.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1963
8 :30 a.m.-Registration - Waller Hall
10:30 a.m.-Open House - New North Hall and Waller Hall
11 :30 a.m.-Cafeteria Luncheon for Alumni and Visitors - $1.00
12 :30 p.m.-Homecoming Parade - forms at Parking Area Centennial Gymnasium
2 :00 p.m.-Football - West Chester State College - Mt. Olympus
Admission - Adults $1.25
Children - $ .SO
4 :30 p.m.-Get-Together - Centennial Gymnasium
5 :30 p.m.-Cafeteria Dinner for Alumni and Visitors - $1.50
8 :30 p.m.-Informal Dance - Centennial Gymnasium
Admission - $1.00 per person
Reservations for ov,ernight accommodations should be made directly with the Magee Hotel, Bloomsburg,
Pa.; Tennytown Motel, Berwick Highway, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Hummel's Motel, Route 11, Bloomsburg,
Pa.; Riverview Motel, R.D. No. 1, Berwick, Pa.; Berwick Hotel, Market St., Berwick, Pa.; Red Maple
Motel, R.D. No. 2, Berwick, Pa.; Stone Castle Motel and Restaurant, R.D. No. 2, Bloomsburg, Pa.;
Keller's Motel, R.D. No. 4, Danville, Pa.; Pine Barn Inn and Motel, Danville, Pa.; Reichard's Motel,
R.D. No. 4, Danville, Pa.

VARIED ACTIVITIES SPARK ANNUAL BSC HOMECOMING
With the smell of autumn in the air,
beautiful scenery coupled with colorful
decorations and a friendly welcome from
students, faculty, and townspeople, October 11 will be the kick-off at Bloomsburg State College of what promises to
be the most successful Homecoming in
the thirty-six years this annual event has
been held.
The current fad that has been sweeping the nation's college campus, "The
American Hootenanny" will start the
festivities on a musical note at 8 :30 p.m.
in Centennial Gymnasium. The Festival
will feature the established favorites, The
Greenbriar Boys, Joan Meyers, Dimitri
and Daniel, the Tanners, and Logan
English.
Blue Grass music, banjopickin', spirituals and blues, satire, international favorites, all the traditions of
America's great folk music movement
will be highlighted at the American
Hootenanny Festival. Don't miss it! ! !
On Saturday, following registration,
open house, and a cafeteria luncheon,
early afternoon activities will be high-

lighted by the cleverly decorated floats of
the Homecoming Parade. The largest
crowd of the day will then congregate at
Mt. Olympus to watch the keen rivalry
between the Rams of West Chester and
the Huskies of Bloomsburg.
Old grads and friends will then reminisce in the increasingly popular aftergame get-together which, due to larger
and larger crowds, is now held in Centennial Gymnasium. At 5 :30 p.m., the
delightful atmosphere of the College
Commons will be the setting for a cafe-

teria dinner for alumni and visitors.
Evening socializing will be climaxed with
an informal dance in Centennial Gymnasium at 8 :30 p.m.
During the morning, Howard F. Fenstemaker, President of the Alumni Association, will meet with the Board members.
All in all, we have the makings for a
highly successful BSC Homecoming.
Now is the time to start making your
plans to attend.

36th ANNUAL HOMECOMING, Bloomsburg State College
Saturday, October 12, 1963
11 :30 A.M. Luncheon $1.00 - Reservations
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5 :30 P.M. Dinner $1.50 - Reservations
(
)
Please return this Coupon on or before Oct. 8th to Public
Relations Dep't. showing No. of Reservations for meals.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO ALUMNI

Recently I looked through the file of
the pages which I have written for the
Alumni Quarterly during the last decade.
Most of them were about money - or
about new buildings - or about new
curriculum offerings, degrees, curriculums - or some about the increase in
student fees.
The President of the College is an
executive and knows the loneliness of
administration, for there comes a time of
decision, despite all the counsel from
associates from above and below ; and it
is he who says "Yes" or "No". He can't
afford to make too many errors in judgment, whether it be in the selection of
new faculty, the kind of expenditures in
the budget, or the appropriation requests
sent to the legislature, and now the revival of alumni interest.
Now I want to talk about the Alumni
Association. One time we had one of the
largest membership percentage-wise in
the then State Teachers Colleges. That
is to say, out of a file of 6,000 or 7,000
active addresses, we had about 1,000 to
1,500 members. With the passage of
time and until the last year the figure has
been about the same, regardless of graduating 300 or 400 students a year.
In other words, by merely maintaining the same number of members, we
have lost ground.
However, with the reorganization of
the Alumni Association, the changing of
the By-Laws, and the increase in the
number of directors, it is hoped that we
shall be able t9 contact all graduates on a
more frequent basis than once in five
years.
The College stands ready and has, I
believe, demonstrated in the past its willingness to cooperate in every way possible.
Many of those in attendance for Class
Reunions on Alumni Day presented their
Alumni Dues card and had their lunch-

eon in the College Commons. These
dues-paying Alumni were guests of the
College.
The Alumni File of some 13,300
(7,530 active addresses) or more students has always been kept by the clerical personnel in the College. It has been
of use both to the College and to the
Alumni Association. An increasing fraction of time of the Director of Public
Relations has been given to the Alumni
Association, and he is at the present
time the Business Manager for the
Alumni Quarterly.
Many of the Branches have had their
invitations duplicated and the envelopes
addressed by the College, upon their request. Faculty and representatives of
the College who attended meetings of
these=Bra11ehes have in most -ease-gc-. had
their expenses paid by either the Community Activities or the College.
It is time that these matters be fully
disclosed and that all members of the
Alumni Association be aware of the encouragement and financial support the
College is giving to the Association.
These are changing times and the
things that were planned thirty years
ago need to be reviewed and certain adjustments made to keep pace with the
future.
It has been evident for many, many
years that the number of teachers who
are able to attend Alumni Day, held in
the latter part of May, has been decreasing. In fact, most of the people in attendance are not teachers. Therefore,
Alumni Day needs to be rescheduled in
terms of increasing attendance at a time
when College Facilities are available.
It is now time, and I believe we are
about ready, to have a development of

the Alumni Association which is comparable to that that we have made in the
College.
I am sure you will do your part. We
need to increase, in fact, we need to
double, the pr,esent Alumni membership ;
and the best way that you can help
Bloomsburg is to ask other Alumni to
join our Alumni Association.
These are the thoughts of the President of the College

BSC Inaugurates New
Division of Arts and Scien.:es
Bloomsburg State College will inaugurate programs of study in the Arts and
Sciences with the beginning of the college year 1963-64. Curriculums in the
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural
Sciences will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, although the College doe's
not plan to graduate students in the new
programs before May 1966.
For almost a century, beginning in
1869, the Bloomsburg State College has
had as one of its chief objectives the
education of teachers and professional
personnel for the public schools of the
Commonwealth. However, following the
change of name of the institution by deleting the word "Teachers", Bloomsburg
State College was authorized by an Act
of the 1961 General Assembly to add
curriculums in the Arts and Sciences
leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Arts.
The new programs of study will be
under the direction of Dr. Alden Buker,
who joined the faculty this year after a
successful tenure as Chairman of the
Department of Humanities at Arizona
State University at Tempe. Dr. Buker
will serve as Director of the Division of
Arts and Sciences.

Here is one of the two very attractive trophy cases that adorn the walls on either side
of the entrance to the Alumni Room in W allei- Hail. These cases, in which are displayed trophies won by the BSC athletic teams, ·plus the college mace, were given as a
memorial gift by the Class of 1962. In addition to blending in with the decor of the
hallway, they also add a touch of airiness and provide more light in the Alumni Room.
Tµe materials were purchased under the direction of Mr. Thomas Gorrey, Superintendfnt of Buildings and Grounds, and all constructive carpentry and electrical work
was completed by that department.

24 New Faculty Members
Total is Now 131
Twenty-four new faculty members
have been appointed to the faculty of
Bloomsburg State College, according to
Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, President.
Twenty of the new members represent
replacements for faculty members who
have retired or resigned, while four are
additions reflecting the expanding services being offered by the College.
The largest faculty in the Bloomsburg
State College history, 129 full-time members supplemented by two members on
sabbatical leave, opened the 1963-64
academic year. The new members in
each department are as follows : Art,
three ; Business Education. two ; Elementary Education, one; English, two; Foreign Languages, one; Geography, one;
Health and Physical Education. two ;
Mathematics, two; Music, two; Science,
two; Social Studies, three; Speech, three.
The professional preparation of the
new faculty members represents an enormous background of experience. They
have studied at or received degrees from
thirty-three colleges and universities in
thirteen states plus Hungary, Germany,
and Mexico. Records show that teaching and administrative positions in public schools, colleges, and universities have
been held by this group in nineteen states
and Hungary. Eight of these new faculty
members hold Doctor's degrees while
the majority of the rest are in various
stages of completing the requirements of
their degrees.

Four New Trustees Appointed
by Governor Scranton
Four Columbia County men have been
appointed as trustees for Bloomsburg
State College by Governor William
Scranton. The new members are Guy
Bangs, Orangeville, R.D. No. 1, Millville area insurance representative; J.
Howard Deily, Bloomsburg, retired officer of Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust
Company ; Edgar A. Fenstermacher,
Berwick R.D. No. 2, Berwick newspaper
editor : and William A. Lank, Bloomsburg R.D. No. 4, President of the Farmers National Bank.
At the recent reorganization meeting
of the Board, at which Vice President
Harold L. Paul, Pottsville, presided,
William Lank was elected President and
J. Howard Deily Secretary-Treasurer.
Other trustees present were : Judge Bernard J. Kelly, Philadelphia; Samuel M.
Jacobs, Danville. and Leo S. Dennen,
White Hall. Tribute was paid the memory of the ninth member of the board,
the late Frank A. Thornton, Northumberland, as a resolution was passed.

FACULTY MEMBERS ON SABBATICAL LEAVE
DURING 1963 -1964 TERM

Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy

Dr. Cecil C. Seronsy, Professor of
English and Chairman of the Department, who joined the faculty of the College in January, 1953, and was named
Chairman of the English Department
when it was organized three years ago,
has been granted a sabbatical leave of
absence by the Board of Trustees for the
academic year 1963-64.
In mid-August, Dr. and Mrs. Seronsy
went abroad and are now visiting England and the continent including Italy
and France, for a period of three
months. When they return to the United States in December, they will motor
to California for a five-month stay at
which time Dr. Seronsy will spend two
months in study at the Huntington Library, Pasadena, where he has been
given a grant. He will also devote considerable time during the year to study
and research in the process of preparing
a book on Samuel Daniel, and plans to
engage in future study in the works of
William Shakespeare. In the most recent issue of the Shakespeare Quarterly,
Dr. Seronsy has published an article on
the "Taming of the Shrew".
Among the organizations to which
professor Seronsy belongs are the Modern Language Association of America,
the Renaissance Society of America, and
the Pennsylvania Bibliographical Society.
While Dr. Seronsy is on leave, Dr. Louis
Thompson, a new member of the faculty,
will be Acting Chairman of the Department of English.

Boyd F. Buckingham

Boyd F. Buckingham, a member of the
faculty of Bloomsburg State College
since September, 1953, and Director of
Public Relations since January, 1955, has
been granted a sabbatical leave of absence for the 1963-1964 college term,
according to Dr. Harvey A. Andruss,
President of the College.
Buckingham will begin a year of graduate study in late September at the Pennsylvania State University towards the
completion of his Doctor's degree.
A graduate of the Class of 1943,
Bloomsburg State College, he earned the
Bachelor of Science degree, and, in 1949,
was awarded the Master of Science degree by Bucknell University.
·
Beginning February, 1943, he served
31 months of active duty with the United
States Army Air Corps. After his discharg.e from the service he joined the
faculty of Athens High School and in
1947 began a six year tenure as a teacher
at the Sayre Area Joint High School before his appointment to Bloomsburg in
1953.

1963 BSC Football Schedule

During the past ten years at Bloomsburg, he has served as Chairman of the
Assembly and Evening Entertainment
Committee and as coordinator of alumni
activities in addition to sports writing
and public relations responsibilities.

Sept. 21-Lock Haven S. C.
Away
Sept, __ 28-Mansfield S. C.
Away
Oct. 5-Kings College
Home
Oct. 12-West Chester S. C. Homecoming
Away
Oct. 19-Millersville S. C.
Oct. 24-Cheyney S. C.
Home (N)
Nov. 2-Kutztown S. C.
Awayt
Nov. 9-East Stroudsburg S. C.
Home

During his year's leave of absence, his
responsibilities for public relations activities will be assumed by Mr. Bruce C.
"Nick" Dietterick of Berwick, Pa., a
g-raduate of the School of Journalism,
Pennsylvania State University, 1947.

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Community Gov't. Association
Grants Scholarship to Hawaiian
Honor Student

HUSKIES AIM TOWARDS WINNING GRID SEASON

Another milestone
was reached at the
Bloomsburg
State
College when Miss
Leatrice K. Sunaoka
of Haneoke, Hawaii,
registei:ed September
10th as the first American student of foreign ancestry under
the sponsorship of
the College. According to Myles Anderson, Assistant to the Dean of Students,
Miss Sunaoka is the recipient of an annual $1,400 scholarship sponsored by the
Community Government Association
1963 BSC Coaching Staff, Left to right: Eli McLaughlin, Line Coach; Walter Blair,
~ith-~nlisted fund£ .from college ,organ,, ____ B.ea izations, community service clubs, private individuals, and private companies.
As we prepare to go to press just prior to a practice session with the SusqueThe Faculty Scholarship Committee
hanna Crusaders and the season opener at Lock Haven on September 21, it is
assisted by the Student Faculty Commitsomewhat early to accurately forecast the fortunes of the 1963 Husky football
tee selected Miss Sunaoka from a group
squad. The nucleus for Coach Walter Blair's team will be provided from 32
of many candidates from Hawaii and
returnees from last year's squad, 20 of whom are lettermen. Following two
Puerto Rico. Upon learning of her seweeks of rugged conditioning and a full intra-squad scrimmage last Saturday,
lection, she stated "Both my family and
the "Blairmen" are shaping up favorably experiencing only a few minor injuries.
I are thankful for this wonderful opporWith plenty of speed effective all around, the biggest problem facing Coach Blair,
tunity. I hope the people of Bloomsburg
and his assistants, is defensive depth replacements for key positions vacated by
are as eager to meet me as I am to meet
the following '63 grads: John Sills and Trevor Carpenter, guards; Gary Stackthem."
house and Don Denick, tackles; Bob Christina, center; Dick Rohrer, quarterback;
Mr. Anderson responded that everyMoses Scott, halfback; Ken Robbins, utility back.
one at the College connected with the
The freshmen squad members have been closely scrutinized and are showing
scholarship award hopes that this will be
eagerness to provide this reserve power along with a few possible starting roles.
the start of more financial aid to come
to futur,e worthly Bloomsburg State ColThe very capable Husky grid coaching staff has a wealth of coaching experience
lege aspirants.
and, with the practice session with Susquehanna, will start "jelling" the right
Miss Sunaoka will seek her degree in
combination to defeat the Lock Haven Bald Eagles. By the time you receive
the Secondary Education curriculum mathis letter, BSC will have played LHSC and we hope our prediction of a win for
joring in English and Biology.
the Huskies will be evident by the final score.
Leatrice's high qualifications and many
school honors should make her a top
student in the Freshman class.
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LETTER TO ALUMNI
AND FRIENDS OF BLOOMSBURG

FALL 1963
No. 6
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