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Gala Celebration Homecoming Week
To Mark College's 125th--President's 25th
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1964
8: 30 P.M.

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PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION ......... Centennial Gymnasium
Music of LES and LARRY ELGART

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964
2:00 P.M.

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ACADEMIC CONVOCATION ....... Centennial Gymnasium
Address by His Excellency SIVERT A. NEILSEN, Danish Ambassador to the

United Nations and President of Security Council - United Nations during the
Gulf of Tonkin crisis in August.

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FACULTY ASSOCIATION DINNER HONORING DR. ANDRUSS ................................. College Commons

You And Your Friends Are Cordially Invited To Attend
The 37th Annual Homecoming, Bloomsburg State College
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1964
8: 30 P.M.

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C~ncert featuring THE BROTHERS FOUR ... Centennial Gym
General Admission $2.50 per person; Reserved Seats $3.00 per person.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1964
8:30 A.M.

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Registration ................................... Waller Hall

9: 30 A.M.

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Open House .. East Hall, West Hall, Waller Hall, New North Hall

10:30 A.M.

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Dedication of New Women's Dormitories. East Hall and West Hall

11: 30 A.M.

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Cafeteria Luncheon for Alumni and Visitors ... College Commons
$1. 25 per person.

12:30 P.M.

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2:00 P.M. -

Homecoming Parade-forms at Parking Area- Centennial Gym
Football-Millersville State College ..... Mt. Olympus Stadium
Admission -

4:30 P.M.

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5:30 P.M.

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Adults $1.25; Children $.50.

Get-Together .............................. Centennial Gym
Cafeteria Dinner for Alumni and Visitors ...... College Commons
$1.50 per person.

8:30 P.M. -

Informal Dance ............................ Centennial Gym
LEE VINCENT AND HIS ORCHESTRA -

Admission $1.00 per person.

RESERVATIONS for overnight 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. 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.

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WALTER S. RYGIEL, Associate Professor of Business Education, is shown
congratulating Dr. Harvey A. Andruss
on his 25th Anniversary as President
of Bloomsburg State College while
Howard Fenstemaker, left, and Lloyd
Toumey, right, look on. Mr. Rygiel,
who has been teaching at BSC for 26
years, is the only active faculty member who has been present throughout
Dr. Andruss' tenure as President.
Mr. Fenstemaker, who was on the
Bloomsburg State College faculty for
37 years prior to his retirement in
May, 1963, is now President of the
Alumni Association. Dr. Toumey is the
present J).irector of Business Ed11,c_a- _
lion. Dr. Andruss founded the Division of Business Education in 1 930
and remained its head until 1 937
when he became Dean of Instruction.
Dr. Andruss was named Acting President of Bloomsburg State College on
August 29, 1939.

"All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone."
-EMERSON

We must be mindful, while celebrating the golden year,
that leaders cannot lead unless others are willing to follow. Over
a period of a quarter of a century or more, the support and cooperation of the alumni, faculty, trustees, students and friends
of Bloomsburg are appreciated by

President

37th ANNUAL BSC HOMECOMING- SATURDAY, OCT.17,1964
11 :30 A.M.
5:30 P. M.

LUNCHEON $1.25
DINNER
$1.50

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Please return this coupon on or before October 13th to Public Relations Office
showing number of Reservations for Meals.

Changes Made In
BSC Athletic Program

Above is the Architect's model of the new 200,000 volume library which is the next building
to be constructed on campus. It will be located on the southwest end of Mt. Olympus, the site
of the present baseball diamond. Construction is expected to be well underway during 1965.

2,500 EXPECTED TO ENROLL THIS FALL
Anticipated admission of new students
at Bloomsburg State College for the Fall
term will be approximately 889, according to C. Stuart Edwards, Director of
Admissions. These new students, along
with returning students from the Spring
and Summer terms, will swell the enrollment at BSC to a new all-time high of
close to 2,500 students.
Included in the 889 admissions will be
830 freshmen, twenty-one graduates of
junior colleges or students with credits
from colleges and univers;ties. thirty-two
former BSC students and six unclassified. This Summer, there were ninety

high school graduates attending the
Summer trial enrollment program and
of this figure approximately one half
will be included in the 830 freshmen.
The secondary education curriculum
will receive the greatest number of the
new students-326. Two hundred twenty-one will be going into elementary
education, followed by 129 in business
education, 209 in arts and science and
79 in special education. Another 51 have
not made their final choice as to curriculum.
With this increased enrollment, it will
be necessary to raise the number of faculty to approximately 150.

MOST SUCCESSFUL SUMMER PROGRAM
This year's Summer Sessions program
was one of the largest and most successful ever conducted at Bloomsburg State
College, according to John A. Hoch,
Dean of Instruction. A total of 2,749
students, representing an increase of 211
over last Summer, were enrolled for the
three Summer Sessions. Back in 195 7,
when four three-week Summer Sessions
were conducted, the total enrollment of
1,317 was 1,432 less than this Summer.
Ninety-one undergraduates and four
graduates earned degrees this Summer.
Eighteen of these degrees were in Business Education, 27 in Elementary Education, 34 in Secondary Education, 10
in Special Education, and two in Public
School Nursing. Two of the four graduate degrees were earned in Business
Education and two in Elementary Education.
During this year's Pre-Session, which

was held from June 8 to June 26, there
were 843 students pursuing studies with
111 being graduate students, 710 undergraduates, and 22 in the Vocational Rehabilitation program.
The six weeks Main Summer Sessions
conducted from June 29 to August 7,
had 1,211 students enrolled which included 962 undergraduates, 227 graduates, and 22 Rehabilitation students.
In the Post Session, August 10 to August 28, 695 were enrolled. Of this total,
587 were undergraduates, 86 graduates,
and 22 in the Vocational Rehabilitation
program.
Top talent was presented in the four
assemblies during the Summer Sessions.
The Newport Jazz Festival All Stars presented their musical history of jazz at the
Pre-Session morning assembly. Although
it was fairly early in the day for this
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The athletic complexion at Bloomsburg State College will change during
the 1964-'65 school term with several
new aspects evident. One of the major
instigations will take place when the
freshman rule is invoked in all the intercollegiate sports at Bloomsburg State
College this Fall. This should result in a
more careful sifting of freshman athletic
ability and enable a more gradual adjustment for incoming freshmen athletes
to college competition.
Football, which opens the school year
athletic program, will experience the
greatest change as three new faces will
be on the coaching staff. Appointed last
Spring as head coach was Russell E.
Houk, BSC Athletic Director and Head
Wrestling Coach. Houk has indicated
he will lighten his athletic load by appointing key assistants in both football
and wrestling.
Houk will retain George Wilwohl and
Dick Mentzer from last year's staff and
add Bob Davenport, former Berwick,
Pa., and Tenafly, N.J., High School
Coach who has been a member of the
BSC faculty for three years, and Ronald
Novak, who was appointed to the Mathematics Department for the Fall term
and was a former Elizabeth-Forward,
Pa., High School Football Coach. Wilwohl will handle the freshman squad
assisted by Novak.
To help supplement his wrestling
coaching duties, Houk has named as his
ass;stant, Jerry Maurey, widely known
and successful head wrestling coach at
Clearfield, Pa., Area High School.
Maurey will also be assigned to teach in
the Education Department along with
being an assistant to Dean of Men, Elton Hunsinger.
For the first time in a number of years,
Cross Country will be on the athletic
program this· Fall at the college with
John Brady, Spanish instructor, named
to coach the sport. Bob Norton will direct both the Husky basketballers and the
tennis team for his second straight year.
The BSC swimmers will be under the
direction of Eli McLaughlin, now in his
4th year as coach.
Two of the assistant football coaches,
who will coach other sports, are Dick
Mentzer, baseball, and George Wilwohl,
track. While Golf Coach Craig Himes
is on sabbatical leave for doctorate work,
Bruce "Nick" Dietterick, of the Public
Relations Department, will handle the
golfing duties.

News-Briefs . • •

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Two important dates on the school calendar this Fall to remember are the Education
Conference, Saturday, October 10, 1964, and
Freshman Parent's Day, Sunday, October 11,
1964.

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Bloomsburg State College has been officially placed on the qualified list of American
Association of University Women. Women
graduates of either Bloomsburg State Teachers College or Bloomsburg State College, who
have earned the Bachelor of Science degree,
may now become members of the AAUW.
Additional information can be obtained from
local AA UW Branches.

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- A graduate progr-am of Social &tttl~--with
geography, has been approved for the Bloomsburg State College by the State Board of Education and will be offered this Fall. BSC
now has six programs in which it may grant
a Master's degree.

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Two grants totalling $27,000 have been
awarded the Bloomsburg State College by the
United States Office of Education, Washington, D.C., to assist in the preparation of professional personnel who will teach mentally
retarded children.

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W. Bradford Sterling, Associate Professor
of Geography at BSC since 194 7 was awarded the Doctor of Education degree during the
Summer Commencement exercises at The
Pennsylvania State University. Nelson A.
Miller, Associate Professor and Head of the
Music Department, will be on sabbatical
leave until September, 1965 to continue work
on his doctoral program.

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Dr. Barbara J. Shockley, Asscciate Professor of Political Science at BSC was awarded
a grant by the Inter-University Committee
for post dc-::toral research and study and the
obligations of a visiting professor to advance
mutual understanding between Americans
and Israelis through the exchange of cultural
information. Dr. Shockley was in Israel from
July to early September.

SUMMER PROGRAM
(Continued)

Public Relations representatives from colleges of Northeastern Pennsylvania along
with representatives of WNEP-TV ( ScrantonWilkes-Barre) gathered at BSC this Summer
to plan for the continuation of the "VARSITY" television program in which BSC students appeared in two programs.

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Dr. S. Lloyd Tourney, Director of the Division of Business Education, BSC, attended
the 1964 Summer Institute featuring Data
Processing for teachers of Business Education
at Asheville Technical Institute, Asheville,
North Carolina.
~RA Slater School ~nd Colleg~ _Services
~ ~o=--sueh--a--fine-ioo of providimffoooservice m the College Commons for the entire year recently presented a check for $1,000
to the Community Government Association
of BSC, for use in the Foreign Student Fund.
This is one of the many fine gestures from
the Slater organization to show the college
community their appreciation for the cooperation they have received from the students, faculty and college administration.
James Lawson was recently appointed the
ARA Slater Manager and succeeds Don Hoshaw.

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Robert L. Bunge, who was Chairman of
the Guidance Department of Milton Senior
High School, recently took over his new duties as Assistant to the Dean of Instruction at
Bloomsburg State College.

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For the fourth consecutive year, a full time
summer residential program for adult trainees, to receive speech and hearing therapy,
was conducted on campus at BSC. The program is sponsored by the Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation of the Commonwealth.

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Two BSC faculty members-Boyd F. Buckingham, Director of Public Relations, and Dr.
Cecil C. Seronsy, Professor of English, completed their sabbatical leaves for the 1963-'64
college term and returned to campus this
Summer.

Eighth Letter To Alumni
And Friends of Bloomsburg

Fall, 1964
Published by the Office of Public Relations
BOYD BUCKINGHAM, Director
BRUCE C. DIETTERICK, Information Specialist

group to be performing, they warmed up
rapidly for the occasion and were well
appreciated by the students.
In the two Main Session assemblies,
the outstanding personalities of Tran
van Dinh, noted corresponqent and diplomat, and Dr:::w Pearson, one of America's foremost newspaper columnists, radio and television commentators, presented their talks in conjunction with
their own personal experiences. The interest of the audience was reflected in
the question and answer periods following each lecture, both of which went
--~ over Hie allotted trme:
The Post Session performer was deli!;htful piano-humorist Marshall Izen,
whose unusual combination of both the
humorous and serious sides of music
provided stimulating entertainment for
everyone. All the performances were
held in Carver Auditorium and were
open to the public.
With the continual growth of college
facilities and the expansion of curriculums,for both the undergraduates and the
graduates, the attendance at future Summer Sessions at the college is expected to
increase on a comparable basis to that
of the regular school term enrollment.

in memoriam
MRS. DOROTHY EVANS, a member
of the Bloomsburg State College faculty for the past eleven years and a
prominent figure in the civic and cultural life of Bloomsburg, died July 27,
1964, at Geisinger Medical Cente,r,
Danville, Pennsylvania.

NON-PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POST AGE
PA ID
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
PERMIT NO. 10