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Central Michigan University
May 17f, 1973,
Trustees meet
B oa rd p ro motes
CM LIFE photo by Pat Procure
CLOUDY SKIES, — cold rain and strong winds hampered much of CMU's 1973 -graduation
exercises Saturday as approximately 2300 graduates took part in the first commencement
ceremonies at the new Perry Shorts Stadium.
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It's Michigan Week!
"All right class, today we will
draw a robin. A robin is our state
bird . . . tomorrow I want everyone
to bring in a map and find the city of
Lansing, Lansing is the capital of
Michigan ..." j
Anybody who was educated in
Michigan's   school   systent   should
*<tmm\m those word* far they-
always came around this time of year
and marked the celebration of
Michigan Week.
The week of May 19-26 will be
the 20th anniversary of Michigan
Week and althongh you might feel
too old to get the red crayon out and
start drawing robins, several activities will be taking place in the Mt.
Pleasant area and people of all ages
are welcome to participate.
On Hospitality Day, the Embers, Chamber of Commerce and the
League of Women Voters will be
offering free coffee and dontits at the
Municipal Building and the Embers
from 10-11 a.m.
An All Michigan Products
Dinner, sponsored by the Farm
Bureau Women, will feature continuous serving from 5:30-7:30 p.m.,
at the West Intermediate School
Tuesday night.'Advance tickets are
$3.00 and tickets at the door are
$3.25, with lower rates for children
under 12, Contact the Chamber of
Commerce for complete information.
The purpose of Michigan Week,
according to the Board of Governors
of the Greater Michigan Foundation
are: to give Michigan citizens a
greater knowledge and appreciation
of their state; to expound the state's
assets and resources for industry,
business, education and recreation;
and to faster s spirit of «soperstios
among all communities and people to
the end that all of Michigan will work
together to make the state even
more attractive and livable.
Traditionally there are eight
days of Michigan Week; Community
Pride Day, Spiritual Foundations
Day, Government Day, Heritage.
Day, Livelihood Day,* Education
Day, Hospitality Day »and Youth
Day.
Chamber of Commerces and
Michigan        Week        chairmen
Drop-Add
deadline
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is Wednesday
Next Wednesday is the last day
students may drop & class or file a
Repeat Request Card for the Spring
Session.
- Drop forms and Repeat Bequest
Card* are available and must be
returned to the Registrar's Office for
processing by 4:30 p.m., according to
Thomas A. Lindeman, Assistant
Registrar,
throughout the state are urging
people to participate in Michigan
Week activities, and even more
important to remember Michigan
after Michigan Week is over.
Clarence Tuma, Mt. Pleasant
restaurant owner, is the regional
chairman for this year's Michigan
Week activities.
Action by the CMU Board of
Trustees Wednesday resulted in the
promotion of a total of 60 faculty
members.
Seventeen faculty members
were promoted to the rank of
professor, while 30 were promoted
, to associate professor and 12 to
assistant professor. Central's faculty
currently numbers in excess of 650.
The promotions include the*
naming of Hans Fetting as chairman
of the Department of English.
Fetting had previously served as
acting chairman of the department,
The board approved the
establishment of the Walter P.
Nickell short-term loan fund; for use
to provide aid to students active in
museum natural history work.
Recommendation that the Col.
William B. Nolde long-term
memorial loan fund'be established
was also approved.
Gifts totaling $2,078.63 for the
month of April and a grant of $15,000
were 'accepted by the board.
Other board action Wednesday
included discussion and subsequent
approval of a new, Univac computer
system for the University.
- The system, to cost an unspecified amount of money, is
designed to upgrade educational
standards' by increasing student
accessibility to the computers.
Contracting for the computer
system is to be handled through the
business and finance office on a five-
year basis, according to a board
redommendation.
A report to the board by Vice
Provost for instruction and. research
Ernest Mineili on general education
study and teacher preparation was'
also heard.
Mineili indicated two university
seminars, which "could have far-
reaching effects" on basic programs
at Central, will be conducted during
the summer months.
Seven faculty members have
been selected to serve in the seminar
groups which will be conducted on
the two topics, he said.
Mineili said that two prominent
themes have surfaced from the
University's planning process during
the past three years. These themes,
he said, "reflect on aJl-University
concern   over   general   education
and
teacher
requirements
preparation."
Mineili said that many of the
ideas advanced by various groups
deserve "concentrated study" ami
that he hoped the seminars would
acheive that. - v
He adde'd that the seminar
reports will be shared with the
University community during the
' first general faculty meeting in th%
fall and at general forums and
hearings for faculty and student?.
Also approved at he meeting
was a supplement to the Graduation
List of May, 1973, It traditionally
had been up-dated each year, according to board members.
Fetting named
English chairman
A loan fund for ROTC cadets
has been .established at Central
Michigan University as a memorial
to Col. William B. Nolde, a former
student and teacher here and the
last American combat casualty
before the Vietnam ceasefire.
The long-term loan fund, approved Wednesday by the CMU
Board of Trustees, will become
available as an interest-free loan to
worthy ROTC cadets here who are
recommended by the Professor of
Military Science.
The fund, for which donations
are still being accepted, is being
established by friends, alumni and
various veterans groups.
Col. Nolde, who lived" with Mb
wife and five children in Mt.
Pleasant, died in a Communist-artillery barrage 11 hours before the
Vietnam War was to officially end.
He was senior American advisor in
Binh Long Province at the time,, and
had shown a deep interest in the
history and culture of the Vietnamese people and the rebuilding of
that country.
Col. Nolde had received his B.S.
degree from CMU and served as an
assistant professor of military
science here for three years.
He was born in Menominee and
taught briefly in Newberry after he
received his degree from CMU. It
. was there he met his wife, Joyce,
.who   still   lives   with   their   five
children in Mt. Pleasant.
"His life was characterized by a
dedication to peace and rebuilding
with the hope that all mankind would
try to understand one another,"
notes the Col. William B. Nolde Loan
Fund language approved  Wednesday by the Board of Trustees.
Interested persons may contribute to the fund by writing the
CMU Development Office.
CMU's Board of Trustees
Wednesday appointed Dr. Hans F.
Fetting as the new chairman of the
University's Department of English.
Fetting, a member of the
English faculty since 1965, has
served as acting department
chairman since October, 1972. He
replaced Dr. Lawrence Dawson, who
has been on leave from the
University throughout the 1972-73
school year.
The new department chairman
is an associate professor of English
and is an authority in the area of
historical linguistics. He is a past
president and secretary of the
Michigan Linguistics Society and is a
member of the Linguistic Society of
America, Medieval Academy of
America and the American
''ffiffgnffiflT ot '""University
Professors. '
A native of Saginaw, he earned
his A,BV and A.M. degrees from the
University of Michigan and received
his Ph.D. from Michigan State
Universtiy in 1970.
Before joining the University
faculty, he was a classroom teacher
at Saginaw High School.
In other board action nationally
syndicated columnist Russell Kirk
was named a Distinguished Visiting
Professor at CMU.
As a Distinguished Visiting
Professor, Kirk will teach special
classes in the University's departments of English and history.
Born and raised in Plymouth,
Mich., Russell Kirk has become an
intellectual spokesman for American
conservatism through his many
books and articles.
His syndicated column, "To the
Point," is carried ip more than 150
newspapers across the country.
Widely traveled as a guest
lecturer, Kirk writes most of his
columns and books from his home in
nearby Mecosta, Mich.
A collection of his published
works, including manscripts and the
columnist's personal correspondence
with prominent political and literary
figures, is housed in the University's
Clarke Historical Libarary, Kirk is a
member of the Clarke Library's
governing board.
LIFE
returns today
Today marks the return of CM
LIFE from a temporary ten-day
break in publication.
This summer LIFE will put out
a total of nine issues — one a week
during both the mini and summer
sessions.
LIFE will be published eacti
Thursday from May 17-31 and again
from June 21-July 26.
Regular fall publication three
times a week will resume on August
27.
Three out on bond in murder case
By Linda Minnie
LIFE Staff Writer
In recent developments of the
McNeil murder case, three persons
have been released on bail following
arraignments in the last six days.
William Rom waiter, 23, Haslett;
Harold G. Ingle, 22, Grand Rapids;
and Daniel E. Manville, 23, Flint,
were freed on=T*uesday. ---    -
Dan Manville, who was charged
with two counts of first degree
murder under the felony murder
doctrine and second degree murder
entered a plea of guilty to voluntary
manslaughter at a Tuesday
examination. Voluntary- manslaughter carries a maximum
sentence of 15 years.
Ingle, who was arraigned May 1
on charges of first degree murder
under the felony murder doctrine
and conspiracy to committ armed
robbery, was released Tuesday after .
paying a $35,000 bond.
Rom waiter, charged with the
same offenses as Ingle, pleaded
guilty to the lesser charge of
possession of herion, and was also
released on bond. His bond was set
at $50,000.
Jack Manville, brother of Dan,
is still being held in Jackson State
Prison, He was picked Up for
possession of marijuana and jailed at
Jackson, He was brought before the
district court May 4" and later was
returned to prison.
Manville will be sentenced June
4 at 1:30 p.m. by Circuit Court Judge
Robert Campbell. He has pleaded
guilty to  voluntary  manslaughter.
Gregory Yost, 21, Lakeland,, is
still waiting for his circuit court
appearance and is being held in the
county jail. Yost Was bound over to
Circuit Court at .a preliminary
examination'last ^PKursdayr-     -  -~
He was charged with murder
and conspiracy to committ armed
robbery as was Ingle and Rom*-
waiter.
Gary S. Knopp, Ionia is still at
large. He is wanted on twot counts of
warrant issued on him.
McNeil died the night of Dec. 9
when he, Douglas Edgar, Shepherd
sophomore and Terry Taft, 21 were
bound, gagged and beaten by three
persons at 1002 S. Main.
Two attend lectures
Two CMU faculty members
recently attended an eight day
educational seminar on drug usage
at the National i vDrug Dependence
Institute at Yale University, New
Haven, Conn.
Dr. Donald Bertsch, chairman of
the Counseling Center, and Donald
Rreckon, associate professor of
-health education, represented the
University and Mt. Pleasant
Community Council on Drug Misuse.
The institute included formal
lectures and opportunities to visit
drug treatment programs in the
New Haven area. Faculty included
representatives of the National
Institute of Health, the U.S. Office of
Education and the East Coast Drug
Prevention and Intervention
Program.
Both members were sponsored
by the Michigan Office of Drug
Abuse and Alcoholism.
INDEX TO LIFE
City News .." ...,...!.: ^ Page 2
Local News     v. -  .Page 3,5
Editorial .Page 4
Trena's Column ,. v Page 4
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' Sports Roundup. .^ Page 6
Tennis photo Story .' '. ;• Page 6
- CM UFE photo by Mlckl £••*>
CLASS OF '93 - Seven month old Marquis de East tries on his aunt's •
mortar board (after viewing comencement ceremonies Saturday when* *
2300 were graduated at Perry Shorts Stadium.
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