Twelfth Alumni Letter From Bloomsburg State College
1966 Homecoming Issue

PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE THIRTY-NINTH
ANNUAL HOMECOMING CELEBRATION
AGENDA FOR HOMECOMING WEEKEND
Friday, October 21, 1966
8:15 p.m.

Concert featuring THE HIGHWAYMEN and the comedy team of
Long and Daniels.
Centennial Gymnasium.
General Admission
$2.00 per person; Reserved Seats $2.50 per person.
Tickets may
be secured at the door or by writing to Hugh Bracken, Box 68,
Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815.
The
Homecoming Queen will be crowned prior to the beginning of the
concert.

Saturday, October 22, 1966
8:30 a.m. - 5 :30 p.m. - Registration - Waller Hall
10:00 a.m. - 11 :00 a.m. - All Residence Halls and Other Buildings will be Open to Visitors.
11 :30 a.m. _ _ _ _ _ Luncheon for Alumni and Visitors - College Commons - $1.25 per
person
1 :00 p.m. _ _ _ _ _ Homecoming Parade - begins at Parking Area - Centennial Gym
2:00 p.m. _ _ _ _ _ Football - Millersville State College - Town Athletic Park, Seventh
Children $1.00.
and Iron Streets. Admission - Adults $1.50
4:30 p.m. _ _ _ _ _ Get Together - Husky Lounge
4 :30 p.m. - 5 :30 p.m. - All Residence Halls Will be Open to Visitors
Dinner for Alumni and Visitors - Cafeteria Service - College
5 :30 p.m.
Commons - $1.25 per person
Informal Dance - Centennial Gym
8:30 p.m.
MEL WYNN'S RHYTHM ACES - Admission $1.00 per person
Alumni Membership Card will Admit Member and Guest - free
of charge.
The Alumni Room in Waller Hall Will be Open during the Entire
Day for the Convenience of Alumni and friends.
It is extremely important that the College and the Alumni Association have correct addresses including zip code numbers in order that mail may reach you from your alma mater.
Please notify the Alumni Association at your earliest convenience whenever you change your mailing address.
While you are on campus for Homecoming Day, please leave your name and current address at
one of the registration tables in Waller Hall.

GREETINGS TO ALUMNI
When you return for Homecoming, Mrs. Andruss and I will probably be m

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Australia on our way around-the-world .
However, we shall be thinking of Bloomsburg, its graduates and its future.
Be sure to see the new Library while on Campus.

Harvey A. Andruss
:Pre!)ident,

Fire in 1905

.... And the walls came tumbling down -

1966

Old North Hall, a familiar landmark on the Bloomsburg State Campus since 1895, is no longer standing. In early August the
demolition crew began removing the structure to make way for a new men's dormitory. Tentatively referred to as "South Hall", it
will provide housing for 300 resident men and is scheduled for completion on August 30, 1967 at a construction cost of $1,322,000.

Campus To Accommodate 6,000 by 1970
by Boyd F. Buckingham, Director of Development

Early in the summer of 1966, the
architectural firm of Price and Dickey
was authorized by the Department of
Public Instruction to revise and update
a plan for the utilization of both the 60
acre main campus and the recently purchased 68 acres which formerly comprised the Bloomsburg Golf Course. It
was anticipated that the architect would
plan the location of buildings and other
facilities necessary in both areas to
accommodate an enrollment of 6,000
students in the next decade.
Initial sketches indicate that the lower
portion of the main campus will have, in
addition to Carver Hall, four dormitories
to house 1,200 women, three dormitories
to accommodate 1,172 men, and two dining halls to feed 3,000 students.
The
middle portion of the campus has been
designated as a learning area and will
include the library, auditorium, Navy
Hall, Benjamin Franklin Building, Centennial Gymnasium, Sutliff Hall, the new
Science and Classroom Building, and
three additional classroom buildings.
The fifteen acres of land east of Chestnut Street will probably remain the site
for the President's residence along with
student parking areas, playing fields for
health and physical education classes,
and recreation areas for students.

New Site For Varsity Athletics
The first proposal, submitted recently,
for the utilization of the 68 acre Golf
Course tract provides a large area for a
gymnasium-field house and outdoor playing fields, another area for dormitories,
dining halls and a student center, a third
area for clas·srooms and laboratories, and
other areas for parking.
All varsity
intercollegiate athletic contest will be
played either in the new field house or on

the outdoor playing fields.
Arena seting for 4,000 spectators will be available
in the field house.

Plans Become A Reality
The proposed new look for the B.S.C.
campus moved closer to reality on June
28 when architects were instructed by the
General State Authority to begin the
design for five new campus projects.
The five included a classroom building, the
first phase of the student center, a dining
hall-kitchen to seat 1,000 and feed 2,000
persons, a dormitory for 400 women, and
a parking area for 350 or more automobiles.
The first sketches for the classroom
building have been submitted by Milton
Schwartz and Associates, Architects,
Philadelphia.
Facing Spruce Street on
a site between the new library and the
new auditorium, the proposed three story
structure will house general classrooms,
lecture rooms, faculty offices, and a
faculty lounge.
It is estimated that the
construction cost will be $1,400,00 with
a completion date of August, 1969.
The new dining hall-kitchen is being
designed by Peters and Riggi, Scranton,
as a two story building situated in the
grass plot now bounded by Carver, Noetling, and Wall er Halls and East Second
Street. The main floor of the building
will provide facilities for food preparation,
four dining areas each seating 250
students, a faculty dining room and an
employees dining room.
Completion
of the air-conditioned structure is anticipated prior to September, 1968 at a cost
of $1,645,000.
Before construction begins during the summer of 1967, Noetling
Hall will be demolished to provide
adequate site space.
The first phase of the student center,

which is being designed by the architectural firm of Valverde and Franco, Scranton, will be located on part of the terraced
area between Wall er Hall and East Hall
dormitory.
Phase I will include a large
multipurpose room, the college book
store, mailboxes and lockers for day
students, a vending machine area, an
office for a director of student activities,
and a programming and communications
center.
Construction is expected to
be,in early in the fall of 1967.
The new dormitory for 400 women
will be built on the site of Science Hall.
The latter cannot be demolished until
1968 when the new Science and Classroom Building is ready for occupancy.
The dormitory will be a high rise
building of approximately eight stories,
costing about $1,800,000.
Pharo and
Haas, Bethlehem, are designing the
building.
Completion of construction
is anticipated by September, 1970.
Alumni and friends will find that many
physical changes have occurred recently
on campus.
The library has been completed and occupied, the auditorium is
nearing completion, trenches for utilities
are being opened and closed in nearly
every part of the campus to accommodate
existing and proposed buildings, Old
North Hall has been demolished and the
foundations laid for the new 300 man
dormitory. excavation is expected to begin
October 20 for the 672 man dormitory
across Second Street from Long Porch,
and bids are being prepared for the
Science and Classroom Building to be
located between Sutliff Hall and the Ben
Franklin Laboratory School.
Your alma mater continues to plan
for the future-a future which will make
available a colleve education for qualified
citizens of our Commonwealth.

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
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, Berwick, Pa.

Three Adminstrative Appointments

John S. Scrimgeour Jr.

J atnes L. Watts

Dr. William Jones

JOHN S. SCRIMGEOUR, Jr., a member of the Bloomsburg faculty since 1959,
has been appointed Director of Placement and Financial Aid at the college. Scrimgeour succeeds Elton Hunsinger, who held the dual positions of Dean of Men and
Director of Placement. Increasing enrollments, planning and occupancy of new
campus dormitories, and general administration duties, have made it necessary for
Dean Hunsinger to devote full time to his assignment as Dean of Men.
JAM ES L. WATTS, Director of Library Services and Instructional Materials at
St. Petersburg Junior College, Clearwater, Florida campus, recently started his new
duties as head librarian at Bloomsburg State College. Watts replaces Miss Elinor
Keefer, who requested she be relieved of her duties in order to devote full time to her
position as Order Librarian.
DR. WILLIAM JONES, who joined the B.S.C. faculty in 1964 after being
Director of Psychology at Selinsgrove State School and Hospital, has been appointed
Acting Director of the Division of Special Education at Bloomsburg State College.
He succeeds Dr. Donald F. Maietta, who resigned this summer to accept a position as
Associate Professor of Special Education at Boston University, Boston, Mass.

Dr. and Mrs,. ANDRUSS
ON WORLD TOUR
Twenty-seven years ago, Dr. Harvey A.
Andruss was designated as Acting President of what was then the Bloomsburg
State Teachers College. War industries
and the armed services were already
attracting young men, so the enrollment,
varying between 600 and 700 students,
was dwindling toward 500. Three buildings-a classroom building constructed to
be a junior high school, a Gymnasium,
and a maintenance building-had been
completed but were not fully occupied
and put in use until three years later.
Only through contracts with the Federal
Government for training aviators, flight
instructors, deck officers, and Army service pilots was enrollment maintained and
even increased in certain years. Over
1,000 aviators were trained to fly through
the re-opening of the Bloomsburg Airport, eventually purchased by the Town
of Bloomsburg, and now used in part
for factory sites.
With the change of curriculums and
name Bloomsburg State College now
offers the Bachelor of Arts and the Master of Education degrees. To provide
additional land areas for an increasing
number of students, the Bloomsburg
Country Club was purchased for college
use; the present enrollment of more than
3,000 is five times the pre-World War II
student-body.
At the beginning of his twenty-eighth
year of service as President, Doctor
Andruss is helping to plan a campus
which will accommodate 6,000 students
in what will ultimately be called Bloomsburg State University. This expansion
will require an expenditure of more than
$25,000,000 for buildings and land, a
faculty of 400 (present number 185),
and a non-instructional staff of more than
300.
Dr. and Mrs. Andruss left on September 8th for a trip around the world. The
Board of Trustees has granted the President a sabbatical leave of absence for
the first semester of the 1966-67 regular
college rear.

Record Enrollment
Slightly over 3,100 full time students,
the largest enrollment in the history of
Bloomsburg State College, are expected
to complete registration for the first semester of the 1966-67 college year on
September 12th and 13th according to
John L. Walker, Director of Admissions.
Freshmen will represent about 850 of
the total figure.
In summanzmg new admissions, Walker stated that 6,034 applications were
originally distributed for the 1966-67
college year with 3,364 application procedures initiated.
From this number
1,377 applicants were offered admission
with 1,028 accepting offer of admission.
Cancellations have reduced this figure to
875 students accepted, which is the maximum number of new students that can
be accepted due to limitations on campus
of classroom space, dormitory space, and
dining facilities. As a result of these
campus restrictions, applications for prospective resident women were not sent
out after January 10, 1966.

Awarded Ed. D.
JOHN A. HOCH,
Dean of Instruction
and a member of the
faculty at Bloomsburg State College
since 1946, received
his Doctor of Education degree at the
fall commencement
exercises
of The
Pennsylvania State
University on SepDr. John Hoch
tember 4, 1966. His
thesis was entitled "Student Opinion of
Effectiveness of Instruction in Classes
Preparing Secondary Teachers".
A native of Milton, Pennsylvania, Dr.
Hoch earned his Bachelor of Science
degree at The Pennsylvania State University and his Master of Arts degree at
Bucknell University.
Prior to coming
to Bloomsburg in 1946, Dean Hoch was
a teacher and athletic coach at the Milton
High School.
During his first ten years
at Bloomsburg, he served as Dean of
Men, Director of Public Relations, and
Director of Athletics. He was appointed
Dean of Instruction January 1955, succeeding Dr. Thomas B. North, who retired after a quarter of a century at the
college.
Dr. Hoch also served as football coach during the 1946 session, and
as assistant football coach from 1947-1955.
He served as Acting President of the
College during the first semester of the
1963-1964 college year when Dr. Andruss
was on sabbatical leave and will assume
the same role during the first semester
of the 1966-1967 college year while Dr.
and Mrs. Andruss are taking a world
tour.
In response to the requests of some
graduates who lived in Old North Hall
during their undergraduate years at B.
S.C., we salvaged a limited number of
brick which will be made available to
graduates on Alumni Day on Saturday,
April 29, 1967.
Proceeds from the sale
of the brick will be placed in the Loyalty
Fund for scholarships and other projects
determined by the Alumni Association
and the College.

The new freshman class will consist of
students from 42 Pennsylvania counties,
representing 342 high schools, along with
students from six other states representing 31 high schools. Columbia County
has the largest representation with 118
students followed by Luzerne County
with 100 students. New Jersey has the
largest out of state representation with
18 students from 17 high schools.
Twenty-three percent of the incoming
freshmen ranked in the top ten percent
of their graduating class. Included in
this group are 14 valedictorians, 8 salutatorians, 21 who ranked 3rd in their
class, 10 who ranked 4th in their class,
and 16 who ranked 5th in their class.
The average total scored on the College
Board SAT mean scores for the class,
combining verbal means with math means,
was approximately 1,000.

A limited supply of the 125th Anniversary Plate as shown above is available at $3 each, postpaid. Persons wishing to place an order should address
correspondence to Box 118, Bloomsburg
State College, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
17815, including check payable to "College Bookstore."

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NEWS BRIEFS •

Norman Hilgar, Assistant Professor of
Business Education will be on a year's
leave of absence during the 1966-67
college year. to pursue his studies towards his doctor's degree at the University of Pittsburgh. Hilgar has been a
member of the faculty at B.S.C. since
1956.

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B. S. C. has received a federal grant of
$51,024 for the establishment and expansion of the Vocational Teacher Program in a thirteen County area in Pennsylvania. The program is designed to
improve and expand teacher education
programs in Pennsylvania and coordinate
this improvement of instruction at the
high school level.

The twentieth annual Education Conference will be held at B.S.C. Friday and
Saturday, October 7 and 8.
In addition
to the individual divisional sessions, there
will be a combined session in the College
Commons Friday, October 7, at 7 :00 p.m.
with an address to be given by Dr. John
R. Rackley, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Harrisburg.
The main
speaker at the general session on Saturday, October 8, in Carver Auditorium at
11 :45 a.m. will be Mr. B. Frank Brown,
Principal, Melbourne High School, Melbourne, Florida.

Dr. Clarence A. Moore, a member of
the faculty of the University of Alabama since 1954, has been named Professor of Health and Physical Education
and Chairman of that department at the
college. Dr. Moore succeeds Walter R.
Blair, a member of the B. S. C. faculty
since 1955.
Blair, who also coached
several sports at B. S. C., has accepted
an appointment to the Department of
Health and Physical Education at West
Chester State College, his alma mater.

Dr. John- Serff -and Dr. Ralph Herre,
both Professors of History, have been
granted a sabbatical leave of absence for
one semester. Dr. Serf£ is spending the
present semester, traveling in Europe and
doing research and study in England.
Dr. Herre will spend most of the second
semester in England participating in
study and research at the University of
London.

B. S. C. has received the sum of
$94,980 from the federal government for
student loans for the 1966-67 college
year. The $94,980 represents 9/10 of the
total figure available to Bloomsburg State
College for loans to deserving students
requiring financial assistance. The remaining ten per cent, amounting to $10,533
will be contributed by the college.

Thirty-six new members have been
added to the faculty at B.S.C., which
brings the total number of faculty and
administrative staff to 183 for the start
of the 1966-67 college year.

For the second straight college year,
evening undergraduate courses will be
offered at B. S. C. for high school graduates who are gainfully employed, including housewives.

Miss Harriet Moore, who was a
teacher of music at Bloomsburg State
College from 1921 to 1951, died of a
heart attack in Arizona on September
11, 1966. In addition to directing the
choir of the First Presbyterian Church
while in Bloomsburg, Miss Moore
organized and directed many college
musical units.

Eighty-one seniors and thirty-three
graduate students received degrees during the annual sumer commencement
exercises held in Centennial Gymnasium
on August 4. The year's total number
of graduates receiving degrees at commencement exercises in January, May,
and August was 529. This figure includes 477 Bachelor of Science degrees,
nine Bachelor of Arts degrees, and fortythree Master of Education degrees.

SPORTS OUTLOOK
Russell E. Houk, Athletic Director,
Head Football Coach, and Wrestling
Coach is looking forward to what may
br one of the most successful years in
sports at B.S.C.
Houk started varsity football practice
on September 1 with 45 eager candidates.
This is the first year that B.S.C. should
reap some dividends from the freshman
rule that was put into effect at the college
two years ago.
The bulk of this year's
football squad will be composed of
sophomores and juniors who showed up
quite well during the three weeks spring
practice in April.
Speaking of the incoming sophomores,
Houk stated, "These boys have ability
and are all eager to gain a starting berth.
This is the kind of enthusiasm with which
I like to work.
Maybe not this year,
but soon we will be contenders for
Pennsylvania State College Conference
honors."
Houk also indicated that barring injuries, the Huskies should come
up with B.S.C. 's first winning season
-since !960:
The outlook for the three other major
fall and winter sports is also quite promising.
Under new Head Coach Earl Voss,
the basketball team should come up with
a better than average season.
Most of
Houk's last year's wrestling team will
be back, which should result in another
outstanding season.
The swimming team of Eli McLaughlin
has shown continual improvement over
the last few years, and last year posted
its first winning season.
McLaughlin is
pointing towards his second consecutive
winning season.
The strength of the other fall sport,
cross country, is a question mark at the
moment, as new coach, Jack Jones, will
be working mostly with a group of untried harriers.
The 1966 football schedule is as follows:
Shippensburg S.C.
Sept. 16 H*
Lock Haven S.C.
Sept. 23 H*
Mansfield S.C.
Sept. 30 H/*
West Chester S.C.
Oct. 15 A/*
Millersville S.C.
Oct. 22 HC/
Cheyney S.C.
Oct. 29 A/
Kutztown S.C.
Nov. 4 H/*
East Stroudsburg
Nov. 12 A/
*Night Game
/Conference Game

Twelfth Letter To Alumni
And Friends of Bloomsburg

Fall 1966
Published by the office of Public Relations
Boyd F. Buckingham, Director
J3ruce C. Dietterick1 Information Specialist

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