1964-07-03; Central Michigan Life

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MICHIGAN'S  NUMBER   ONE  COLLEGIATE  WEEKLY
Central Michigan University, Friday, July 3, 1964
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intra/ Receives Grants
baling Over $168,000
itral has received seven
al grants for a total of
j,026 in the last six
hs.
•ying  in   amounts   from
: to §77,600,  they  cover
je of areas from instruc-
n scientific equipment to
ch of the learning pro-
in mental  retardates.
r of the grants, totaling
10, are from the Nation-
ence Foundation  while
>me through the Nation-
:itute of Mental Health.
largest   single  amount
600 is for conducting a
>r  institute   in   mathe-
for  secondary   school
s of mathematics.   Un-
le  direction   of  Lester
of  the   CMU   Mathe-
Department, the insti-
now  in  progress   on
tier NFC institute, this
r secondary school
s of biology, is being
; the Beaver Island
under the direction of
1 Scheel. It is support-
a $42,000 grant.
?S giant of $7,660 for
service institute for
I science secondary
i  is  under the  direc-
Dr. Malcolm Filson,
I the Physics and
ry Department.
5,050 matching - funds
om NSF will support
r-graduate instruction-
itific equipment pro-
hich will continue un-
31, 1966.
rilliam Hawkins and
ed Baumeister of the
)gy Department   are
ident Talks
it Education
ent Judson W. Foust
ssent a talk entitled,
ty-Day Look at Edu-
i Pakistan" at 3 p.m.
in the Maroon and
>ms in the University
ent Foust, who was
5 American educators
isited institutions of
earning in Pakistan,
i: weeks touring Pak-
i the Far East,
ip, which was spon-
r the State Depart-
i the American Asso-
: Colleges for Teacher
i, was designed to
understanding of for-
ples and their edu-
problems.
investigating the learning
processes in retardates at the
Mount Pleasant State Home
and Training School under a
$19,250 grant from the National Institute of Mental
Health. Another Central
psychologist, Thomas Smith,
is doing research at the State
Home on the short-term memory processes in retardates.
He is working with a $3,866
grant from the same source.
A fellowship for $11,600 has
also been approved by the
U.S. Office of Education for
use in the areas of speech
and hearing. It will run for
one year beginning September  1,  1964.
Concert Ends
Music Camp
A concert by Central Michigan University's 1964 High
School Music Camp students
will highlight 4th of July festivities at CMU. The concert
is set for 2:30 p.m. Saturday
in  Warriner  Auditorium.
The concert, featuring
chorus, band and orchestra
sections, marks the end of the
two-week camp for 235 high
school musicians attending
this year's camp.
Saturday's concert, the second of two staged by the students, is open to the general
public free of charge.
Students, who must be entering grades 9, 10, 11 or 12
this fall, have received instruction from regular Department of Music faculty. They
have been housed in Central's
dormitories.
Number 30
One Token Already
four Trips Remaining
To Houghton Theatre
Four theatre bus trips to the Houghton Lake Playhouse
will be sponsored by Central Michigan University yet this
summer.
The trips, open to everyone, will be made each Tuesday.
Each trip will originate at the '
University Center circular part ment of Speech and
drive at 7 p.m. and return to Drama in cooperation with
campus at approimately 11:15    Field Services.
STUDYIN' ? ?
AN UNIDENTIFIED boy
was caught by Life photo
editor Barb Blass as he
casually strolled into the
(dormitory. Presumably, he
was going to study.
p.m.
Dates of each trip and the
plays yet to be seen are: July
7, Cliff Norton in "Visit to a
Small Planet;" July 14, Dody
Goodman in "Born Yesterday;" July 21, Hugh Marlowe
and K. T. Stevens in "Critics
Choice;" and July 28, Mac-
Donald Carey in "A Thousand
Clowns."
The cost of each trip, which
includes round trip bus transportation and play admission,
is $2.50. Persons wishing to
take the trip should call Field
Servies at Central Michigan
University to register. Fees
must be paid by 11 a.m. the
day of the play.
The theater bus trips are
sponsored  by  the   CMU  De-
2,208 Enroll
For Sessions
Central has a summer
school enrollment of 2,208 students with an 8.6 percent increase in the Graduate School,
according to George N. Lauer,
registrar.
There are 957 students in
graduate studies as compared
to  881  last summer.
Enrollment this summer by
classes includes 50 freshman,
104 sophomores, 286 juniors,
688 seniors, 34 specials, and
89 guest enrolees.
Assignments Completed
By Six ROTC Officers
Six members of the Military
Science Department will complete their assignments at
Central Michigan University
this summer.
Three of them, including
department head Lt. Col.
Adolph Fossum, will be discharged from the military to
take civilian jobs while the
remaining three will be assigned to new military posts.
Col. Fossum retired July 1, .
while  M/Sgt.   Howard   Crain
was  discharged  on  June  30.
Spec. 5 Robert C. Flint will
be discharged on July 12.
Capt. Paul Parham will
leave Mount Pleasant on August 17 for reassignment t o
Turky, Captain Mike Chirio
will leave on July 31 for
eventual duty in Turkey, and
Sgt. 1/C Jack Shannon will
leave in July for duty in
Germany.
Col. Fossum, who retired
after 22 years with the Army,
has been head of the CMU
Military   Science   Department
for the past three years. He
has accepted a position as Director of Records and Placement at Northwood Institute
beginning August 1.
Capt. Chirio has been at
Central for four years. His
wife and seven children expect to remain in Mount
Pleasant during his assignment in Turkey.
Sgt. Crain who is completing 15 years of Army Service,
expects to make his home in
Oklahoma. City. Spec. Flint
will enter the accounting field
in Detroit following his discharge.
Col. Fossum began his Army
career in 1942 as an enlisted
man. He made 110 paratroop
jumps during World War II
and was with the first U.S.
infantry division to reach the
fighting front in the Korean
War. During his tour of duty
in the two wars he was
awarded the Purple Heart,
the Silver Star and the Bronze
Star with cluster.
Artists Course
Starts Again
A concert featuring conventional musical instruments, as well as electronic
tape and light projection, was
presented at Central Michigan
University.
The concert, "Twentieth
Century Sound," was presented by the San Francisco Tape
Music Center as part of CMU's
summer Artists Course series.
In response to the growing
interest in the use of electronic devices as a tool for
musical composition, Ramon
Sender and Morton Subotnick
founded the Center in 1961 to
provide a studio for the production of electronic music in
the Bay Area* The Center
exists as a non-profit corporation dedicated to the concept
of promoting creative experiments   in  sound   as  music.
150 involved This Year
peech Clink Serves To Correct Problems
140 children and
ith speech, hearing
ing difficulties are
ar the University's
id hearing clinic,
c-week clinic, which
18th year, has drawn
from five to 28 years
all over the state,
by Dr. Keith Max-
he CMU speech de-
the  clinic  is   the
educational   program
d in Michigan,
ip primarily of chil-
clinic takes on the
Jets of a recreation
and correctional program, A-
bout 15 of the 50 person on
the staff are conducting the
recreational programs.
Between the sessions devoted to correcting problems of
stuttering, cleft palate, articulation, reading and hearing,
the children play ball, swim
in the university pool, bowl,
take part in skits, and generally enjoy the fun of just
being kids in the summertime.
While about 30 attend as
day students, 110 of them live
in  Ronan  and   Sloan   HallsL
The instructional part of the
clinic is housed in Ronan.
Students attend on a tuition
and fee basis with, support
coming from many sources,
including the Michigan Crippled Children's Division, the
state vocational rehabilitation
agency and fraternal and service clubs such as the Elks,
Kiwanis and Rotary.
The children learn to relax
in a friendly, understanding
atmosphere and put their
classroom knowledge to practice   over   the   dinner  table,
in skits  and  other activities.
The clinic is divided into
five areas with experts in
charge of each area. This
year's assisting directors are
Dr. Derek Sanders of the
CMU faculty, hearing; Judith
Olson of Midland, articulation;
Mrs. Lois Bush of Mount
Pleasant, reading; Leo Kipf-
muller, Sebewaing speech cor-
rectionist, stuttering; and Jack
Raymond, of the Clare school
system,  cleft palate.
Dr. Maxwell is in his tenth
year with the clinic and his
sixth as director.
Candidacy Tests
In Reading, Math
Set for Thursday
Reading and mathematics
competency tests required for
admission to candidacy will be
given on July 9 in Room 356
of Warriner Hall. The reading test will be given at 11:15
p.m. and the mathematics test
at 2:30 p.m.
Persons wishing to take the
tests must register in advance
at the Counselling Office,
Warriner 256.
The tests are designed specifically for students of sophomore standing and above who
have not yet been successful
in obtaining the minimum
score necessary for admission
to candidacy.
Decker Fleeted
Senate Chairman
Keith Decker, geography,
has been elected chairman of
the University Senate for the
1964-65 school year.
Serving with Decker will be
Elbert Bowen, speech, vice
chairman; and Olaf Steg, dean
of fine and applied Arts, secretary. Donald Kilbourn, per-
sonel, and Helen Lohr, home
ecOnomcis, will serve as members of the executive board.
Decker served the University Senate as chairman of the
constitutional revision committee this past year. He presented the document, which
was over two years in the
making, to the University
Senate. "*"" ***
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