1964-05-29; Central Michigan Life

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A^ICHIGAN-S   NUMBER   ONE   COLLEGIATE   WEEKLY
Central Michigan University, Friday, May 29, 1964
Number 29
780 to Be Graduated June 7
61 Masters Degrees, 3 Specialist
In Education Degrees to Be Given
Seven-hundred and eighty students will be graduated
at commencement exercises Sunday, June 7. Four honorary
degrees will also be conferred.
I THIS IS the way to study for finals.
ight men? Soaking up the hot sun this
ast week were three Saginaw co-eds,
urbara Pinnell, Adris Corwin   and   Ann
(LIFE Photo by John Carroll)
Kowals. No sense studying in the cool
dormitory rooms when you can be out getting a good tan or lobster red, as some
students will.
Votes in Favor
itudents Approve New Constitution
The proposed student body
institution was ratified a t
ie polls Wednesday 1316-295
•732 votes above the neces-
iry two-thirds.
A. total 1,617 students voted
'Wednesday's election which
'cording to Joe Sweeney,
udent body presient, is 30
er cent of the electorate of
ill-time students.
The only negative vote cast
i the constitution was a
1-44 vote by Sloan Panhel-
nic House. The largest turn-
iit came from Larzelere
'hich supported the constitute 176-14.
Some of the more lopsided
otes included Sweeney, 61-2,
ieddcw, 54-3, Barnes,' 76-7,
iarrund, 73-10 and Calkins,
14-24.      *
A. good part of the results
an te attributed to the work
lone by  student  government
fficials  during  the past two
reeks.   Some 1,500 letters
fere sent out of the student
Jovemment   office   endorsing
lie constitution, plus about
'jOOO  endorsement  sheets   including bulletins and informa-
lon sheets.  Added to this are
he  500   student   government
bulletins which summarized
he constitution.
Outing the past week, James
sedore,   past   student   body
President, has made twelve
peaking appearances to varies  dormitories   and   campus
^ganizations  supporting the
constitution.   Sweeney made
about half  a  dozen  endorsement speeches.
After the election, Sweeney
commented that he was very
Pleased at the splendid turnout which was quite unusual
Jt the spring of the year
"■■special election,    ,
"The passage of this constitutional revision reflects two
years of concerted effort on
the part of many groups and
individuals," Sweeney said, "It
is a step forward in student
responsibility, and we can
thank the maturity of diverse
interest groups for its passage."
Bedore, who worked for
three years on the constitution, philosophized that,
"Leaders can only attempt to
show the way. The victory we
celebrate is only a verification
of our student body's maturity
and their willingness to accept
for
Portrait of Anspach
To Be Given to CMU
President Emeritus Charles
L. Anspach will be honored
June 6 when his portrait will
be unveiled and officially presented to the university.
The portrait, done by artist
Deane Keller, is being donated by R. Perry Shorts, class of
1900 and now chairman of the
board of the Second National
Bank of Saginaw.
Taking part in the ceremony, scheduled for 5:45 p.m.
in the upper lobby of the University Center, will be E.
Allen Morrow, Mount Pleasant and chairman of the CMU
Board of Trustees; Vice-president of Business and Finance
N. C. Bovee; Shorts and President Foust.
Dr. Bovee will deliver a
tribute to Dr. Anspach and
President Foust will accept
the painting on behalf of the
university* ■
greater responsibility for a
stronger voice in the affairs of
cur university. We celebrate
this  great  victory together."
The constitution will go into effect immediately, except
for the apportionment plan
which will not be presented to
Senate   until   next   fall.
A plan must be submitted
by the executive board by November 1 and must be accepted or rejected by Student
Senate within 30 days. When
a plan is approved it will take
effect the following September, so that the Senators eliminated from Senate by the new
constitution will hold their
offices next year.
There will be 716 bachelor
degrees, 61 masters degrees
and three specialiast in education degrees. Recipients of
honorary Doctor of Laws degrees will be John E. Warriner, Theodore Yntema, Walter P. Nickell and Nathaniel
Nichols.
Warriner is the son of former CMU president Eugene
Warriner and attended Central from 1924 to 1926. He received his bachelor of arts degree from -the University of
Michigan, master of arts from
Harvard and attended Columbia.
He started teaching in the
Shepherd school system, was
English instructor at New
Jersey State Teachers College
and was head of the English
department at Garden City
(New York)  High School.
As an author, Warriner has
been editor or co-editor of
some 15 English textbooks and
more are in preparation.
Yntema, vice-president and
director of Ford Motor Company, and has received eight
college degrees, three of them
honoraries. He is also coauthor of the book, "Jobs and
Markets."
He was graduated summa
cum laude with an A.B. degree from Hope College; M.A.,
University of Illinois; M.A.
and Ph.D., University of Chicago; honorary LL.D. degrees
from Grennell College and
Franklin and Marshall College; honorary Sc.D. from
Hope College and C.P.A. from
Illinois.
Yntema has also served as
director of the National Bureau of Economic Research and
the National Industrial Conference Board.
Walter P. Nickell is a naturalist at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloom-
field Hills. He did his undergraduate work at Kentucky-
Wesleyan and three years of
work at Vanderbilt University.
He has published approximately 100 papers and life history studies on birds; papers
on geology, mineralogy speleology, insects and botany and
the  pesticide  problem.
Nickell is a member of the
National, Michigan and Detroit Audubon Societies and
the Wilson and Cooper Orni-
theological Societies.
Nathaniel Nichols was born
in the Mount Pleasant area
and received his bachelor of
science degree from Central in
1936. He is presently chief
engineer and vice-president of
the. Taylor Instrument Company.
After receiving his masters
of science degree from the
University of Michigan in
1937, he was physicist with the
Dow Chemical Company.
From 1942-46, Nichols was a
group leader in the radiation
laboratory. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(LIFE Photo by John Rummel)
ERIC STEG and Betty Wollack are the class of '64's
valedictorian and salutatorian. Steg, from Mount Pleasant,
has an accumulative point average of 4.00 which he has
maintained through four years of high school and four
years of college. Miss Wollack, from Spring Lake, has an
accumuative average of 3.85 and received honorable mention for a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Anne Pannell
To Speak to
June Grads
Anne Gary • Pannell, one of
the nation's leading women
educators, will deliver the
speech at commencement ceremonies next Sunday.
Dr. Pannell, president of
Sweet Briar College, Sweet
Briar, Va., will speak on "The
Rising Market for Intellectual
Achievement in the United
States Today."
Processional for the approximately 780 graduates will
start at 2 p.m. in the Ronald
Finch Building, with commencement starting at 2:30
p.m.
Before becoming president
of Sweet Briar College-in
1950, Dr. Pannell taught 'at
Alabama College for Women
and the University of Alabama and served as academic
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