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CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN,  FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1960
NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
. »„    j      wiU  Present music "fun" for everybody with
a concert Monday at 8 p.m. in friendliness,  charm,  m us iTa
l»t C?HHral- M'Cfhlg?n  ynivel> abilities' and ^ eAdless desire
sity auditorium for local music for perfection.
l0Rir?' ,„rf   p. ♦   ™ .,,        , Last  seas°n.   "The  Medleys"
Bill   and   Pat   Medley,   duo- played   in   119  cities  in  every
fun"'  fnH° h"m rUSiC   iS   7°r part of the United States and in
,i7 u  «*"       y Proceed t0 several cities in Canada, and as
tL   J"^' u • .one critic wrote, "proved they
The   Medleys   bring   their have   everything   it   takes   to
own  two  new  concert-grand make great music exciting for
pianos which are matched in
finish and perfectly balanced
in tone. The transporting of
their own pianos is so that
they may present a more perfect concert.
They   strive   to   make
everybody."
In private life the team is
"Mr. and Mrs." Bill Medley.
Bill is a native of Lubbock,
Texas, and Pat is the former
Miss Pat Duncan of Springfield,   Arkansas.   Both   have
BY MICKEY MIKESELL
Four CMU instructors will be
teaching one three hour course
each beginning this fall semester, 1960. They will be given
credit for a full teaching load
each    however,    because    they
a little, but they will return
from summer vacation to
Central's campus three weeks
before the fall semester begins for a trial-run and planning period.
The   instructors   volunteered
Some of the instructors
participating in the experiment have had no experience
on television, some have had
each will be teaching from 400 after people who have had ex-  money.
to 800 students. perience on TV, those who might       ^^^
Dr. Franklin Killian, of the have been interested and those
Department of Psychology and who had taught large groups of
Education, Dr. Arthur Water- students and might like to be
man, of the Department of relieved of the drudgery of re-
English, Dr. Carl Scheel, of the peated lectures were notified of
Department of Biology, and Dr. the experiment from the four
Carl Weaver, of the Department subject areas chosen,
of Speech, will embark on the The Ford Foundation stipu-
first year of a three year ex- iated that the courses taught by
periment in closed circuit tele- TV be basic courses. The
vision instruction to be con- courses and instructors had to
ducted at Central with the as- have flexibility, multiple stu-
sistance of a $75,366 grant from dents and adaptable classroom
the Ford Foundation.
"We were happy to have those be students helping with the
who volunteered and should mechanics of presenting the
have welcomed several more." classes by television, we haven't
President Judson Foust said, decided whether to have the
"Fortunately not too many helpers on all graduate level,
wanted it, though, because we undergraduate level or a mix-
had to choose and had limited  ture.    Nor   have    we   decided
whether to offer the work for
class credit, as part-time jobs or
on a fellowship basis.
Students   taking   the   classes
will include most of the fresh-
work.
Several departments were notified of the opportunity, but,
Dr. Wilbur Moore, vice president of academic affairs,  said.
The purposes of the experiment are to improve our educational    program    and    see
whether Central students will
profit enough by this method
of  presenting   certain  classes
to   continue  and   expand  ihe
TV instruction program after
the    grant    from    ihe    Ford
Foundation has run out in ihe
school year of 1963-1964.
We have hopes that not only
the students who enroll in the
classes  will   benefit  and  learn
from    the    program,    but   the
teaching depends greatly
upon ihe mechanical setup.
The lighting, seating and
audio have to be planned and
carefully controlled for the
benefit of the students. Good
teaching depends on ihe human factor, also, he said, or
the ability of the instructor to
organize and present the material.
Educational    television    has
men who enter CMU in the fall proved valuable in specialized
and many other students who schools, engineering, traffic
have not taken the offered safety, medical instruction. Dr,
couses which are required on Moore said there are likely to
their curriculums. The courses be bad days and good days for
to be offered are Speech 101, every one associated with the
required for all students; Edu- project just as there are now
cation 363, required for students with the present educational
on    the    teaching   curriculum;  system. "This is a chance, how-
Biology
students,
101,   required   for   all
unless   they   fill   the
graduate assistants and students requirement with Health Edu-
who  will  help  the  instructors cation 106; and American Liter-
and   help   with   the   technical ature, of which at least one se-
and   mechanical   work   of   the mester is required for all stu-
operation also, President Foust dents   with   either  an   English
said. major or minor.
Though  there definitely will        Dr.  Moore  said  thai  good
ever, for those who are working
with the project to have time
to become creative with instructional materials. This is a
chance they wouldn't have had
if we hadn't received the Ford
Foundation money," he said.
"We have been interested
in the development of educa-
playcd ihe piano since childhood but it took ihe combination to inspire them into music as a profession.
The title "Editing Whitlier's
Correspondence" was rightfully
changed to "Problems of Editing the Correspondence of John
Greenleaf Whiltier" in the introduction given for Dr. John
Hepler, head of the Department
i of English and speaker at the
Book Hour yesterday.
Dr. Hepler said he came in
contact with the letters he has,
which are written to Whittier,
quite by accident on a bus in
WAC Pvt. Linda Kay Manning, Lachine sophomore, completed a n oight-wrek finance
procedures course July 1 at the
finance School. Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Ind.
Private Manning, 1958
graduate of Alpena High
School, was trained in matters relating to ihe acquiring,
disbursing and accounting of
funds.
She entered the Women's
Ai my Corps last March and
completed basic training at
Fort McClellan. Ala.
The   concert   at   CMU   will i 1952. A lady of the group he
open with Bach's "Sheep  May J was taking to New England on  with   which   to   work
to work by giving the Ihe library another group of letters
similar to the first.
Dr. Hepler said that when
Whittier died, his letters went
io relatives. He has  no idea
how many letters the family
had   io   begin   with,   but   ihe
lady  iold   him   of   sitting   in
front of a barrel of letters for
one and one half days reading
and throwing letters away.
"Now,"    Dr.    Hepler    said,
"since I have so many letters
I   have
heep Sheds Fire
ossibly
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:By nipped ugarene,^
Fire threatened the old, wood
, buildings, locally know as the
l sheep sheds. Friday morning.
i      Joe  Merrill, head mainten-
|   ance man of that area, happened io walk by and see the
'  flames. Canvas thai had been
:   draped over empty steel chair
:   racks siored ai ihe south end
of ihe building was burning.
He   snatched    a   fire   exten-
guisher out of another of ihe
buildings and put ihe fire out.
ted for Oil Tli
tM
llHtffl
Attempts lo find oil or gas on      Current interest in the oil-gas
Beaver Island were begun this possibilities    of    Big    Beaver
month  by   the
pany of Alma.
Leasing activities have been
under way on the island for
over a year, but public land did
not enter the transactions until
June of this year when the Con
scrvation  Commission
Safely Graze" and "The Little I the bus had a notebook which
Fugue in G Minor." For the , contained 250 letters by such
St-S a ens'   "Variations   on   a j people as Lowell and Holmes.
NEXT LIFE JULY 25
The next issue of LIFE will
come   out   Monday,   July   25.
Theme of Beethoven" the lacy
music will be played on the
two pianos as if they were one.
Also included in ihe program will be Chopin's
"Rondo in C Major," Rachmaninoff's "Romance, Op.
17," ihe Coronation Scene
from "Boris Godounov," three
movements from Poulenc's
"Sonata" and Fantasy on
Themes from J. Strauss' "Die
Fledermaus."
There is no charge for the
concert and the public is invited.
After Hepler talked io ihe
lady, who was a distant
cousin of John Greenleaf
Whitlier, she gave him ihe
letters to be given io the library at Central. They are
siored in ihe vault in ihe library, Dr, Hepler said.
"My first plan," said Hepler,
changed my original idea to one
of editing a book."
There are five phases of my
study: translating, indexing and
annotating which includes interpreting bad hand writing.
"This is a real problem to me."
he said.
After he translates the letter
and it is typed, he files it and
makes up a corresponding card
with   the   author's   name,   the
Before he had arrived on tho j approval to bids submitted by
scene, someone else had driven I Mt.clure and others
McClure Com- stems from the recent dramatic
discovery and development of
the A 1 b i o n-Scipio field in
southern Michigan. Geologists
point out that the Trenton formation which underlies the island is the same as that pro-
gave its ducing oil and gas in Albion-
Scipio.
tional TV for three years or
more," President Fousi said,
"but we have been aciive
about it only for ihe last six
monihs because we were
given encouragement from
the Ford Foundation wiih
iheir suggestion thai they
would consider a request for
a grant. We went through a
long thinking stage before we
could possibly go io ihe action stage."
Other policies to which Central has to adhere by agreement
with the Ford Foundation are
that each instructor conducting
each course on the closed circuit TV system is to be released
from other teaching duties so
that he can devote full time to
the preparation and presentation of his course. The classes,
which were chosen by Central's
administration, have to be basic
courses and all the sections of
each particular class must be
presented on the closed circuit
TV system. Though some time
may be spent as a class period
in conference, or student instructor personal contact, the
major part of the time must be
presented on television.
This year ihe program will
cosi    Central    more    money
than an ordinary year of regular   class   instruction.   How-
:  ever, said Mr. Charles Park,
{  director of special studies, af-
i   ter ihis year our cost should
not be more.
j This year we will add staff to
j operate the equipment. We
j have had to buy the equipment
(and set up the rooms in which
j the people will have offices. We
.have tried to buy the best
j equipment so that our programs
j Con't Page 3, Col. 4
"1 am just following basic
landscaping principles, no particular style," Mr. George
Stansberry, Central's landscape
gardner, said.
The ultimate goal in mind for
doing   the   landscaping.   Mr.
Stansberry said, is to make the
campus  a  real show  spot,  the
bi'st  looking  campus  in  Mich-
igan. Mr. Stansberry, Central's
first fulltime landscape gardner,
was hired in December, 1959.
"Instead    of    limiting    my
work," he said, "I am getting
backing    100':;    right    down
from ihe administration." Before I came, the maintenance
department, which did all the
landscaping then, worked under   quite    a   handicap,   he
added.  "They  lacked  trained
men, a plan, a budget and ihe
equipment they had io work
with   was  nill.  There   wasn't
even    any    tree    trimming
equipment,"  Stansberry  said.
"This year ihey have stepped
up   man-power   200''r.   There
are now 16 men working full-
time on the grounds," he said,
and we have purchased a lot
of needed equipment.
The nun have been busy all
spring. Al the commerce building   we   tore   out   all   the   old
landscaping, which was only on
the   west   side   and   had   been
done 20 years ago. and redid it.
nr said.
when Trout residence hall
was completed we landscaped
tw area. The shrubbery at
™>mm w a s taken out this
spring, and "replaced with a
litf
around the north  end where
there are some bay windows,
nothing had been done before.
"To take away ihe jail or institution   1 o o k,"   Stansberry
said,   "we   planted  evergreen
and softened the appearance."
"Plans  for  this   fall  include
doing  the  new  student  center
as soon as the contractors work
is completed. We are going to
sod   the   area   between   Keeler
and the new union and plant riner when walking toward the
lawn and two groupings of field house where students have
evergreen. All the shrubbery worn a path, we are just going
around Warriner is going to be to resod, plant new grass and
removed and replaced, the work hope they stay off. This fall we
redone. want to put notices in LIFE
Long-range future plans are and probably some signs up re-
extensive, Stansberry, whoso minding students to stay off the
Warehouse  at grass.  Maybe  if we  appeal  '-
office is in the
the west side of campus, said.
All around Central Hall the
present landscaping will be
torn out as that that is in the
area becomes old and useless.
We plan to do both Grawn Hall
and Central Hall areas possiblv
in the fall of 1961.
Of course, he said, the new
residence hall quadrangle behind Washington Court will be
landscaped when it is completed. The new chapel will be
flone and the wood lot around
it will be maintained. As trees
die   out.   near  the   chapel   and
"was to edit the letters and do date of the letter and the sub-
research on material in the let- ject matter in the letter on it.
ters in order that I might write He now evaluates the letters
a lengthly article for possibly and eliminates some then re-
"American magazine." The checks copy, sentence for sen-
lady's sister, however, doubled fence for meaning in the ori-
the material with which he had  ginal then for accuracy in the
—, typed copy. He reevaluates and
again eliminates unnecessary
letters, then edits the letters
and writes a preface or accompanying information for the letters for the book.
Dr. Hepler said that he is
working wiih about 140 letters now, which may be too
many. He wants to publish
only one volume, but if after
he has evaluated ihe letters
and eliminated some, he finds
he can't eliminate enough to
cut the material down, he
will have io have two volumes. Letters thai have appeared elsewhere he doesn't
want in ihe book. "If I edit
all the letters I have," Hepler
said, "the book will be preponderant, and thai I don'i
want."
Dr. Hepler said that after
considerable thought, he has decided to arrange the letters in
the book in chronological order.
Actually, he said, they are just
a series of unrelated letters that
center around John Greenleaf
Whittier.
"I go to the library and work
on the material every opportunity that I have," Dr. Hepler
said, "but at the rale I go, I will
probably get done in 1998."
can't   provide   sidewalks   for
all   ihe    places   where   ihey
short-cut across the lawns. At
ihe library we put up fenses
around   the   lawn   and   have
gone over umpieen times and
found  ihe   wires   cut   or  ihe
wires lorn down," he said.
We do plan to put in a walk
on the lawn on the northwest
side of Warriner, he mentioned,
but from the flagpole to War
by the area and reported the
fire to the local fire department,
By the time the one fire truck
arrived, Joe had the incident
under control. He stood by with
a bucket of water handy the
'. rest of the day.
The  building itself had just
begun to burn. The paint was
burned  and  the  wood  charred
i on the south end.
Mr. John Lamoni, superin-
'   iendeni of maintenance, said
ihe    fire    probably    started
when someone flicked a cig-
:   aretie  on the canvas from a
,   car as he drove by on Preston
'  Road. Though ihe sun shining
through a piece of glass could
!  have   started   it,  he   said,  he
!  didn't see any glass near ihe
j  spot io have caused ii.
"Nobody realizes all our men
i have been trained to put fires
I out," Mr. Lamont said.
The 40 acres thai belong io
Central did belong to ihe
Conservation Department. Because the transaction changing ownership was simply a
transfer of title for SI, Mr.
Norval Bovee, vice-president
of business and finance, said,
the Conservation Department
as far as he knows, would
still have the oil rights on ihe
property.
Bovee said that he thinks the
         foekinesi's Exhibit,
Medleys, Bookmen ! Largest so State,
Highlight Week     [Here fat Week
The duo-piano concert by the
Medleys Monday and the Bookmen's Exhibit Wednesday and
Thursday highlight campus activities next week.
The concert by the Medleys,
an Artist Course number will
be   at   8   p.m.   Monday  in  the
we  appeal  to
the  individual,  Mr. Stansberry
said, we will have success.
Mr.  Stansberry,  who  came
io Central from  the Buffalo,
New York area, said that ihe
water here is the only thing
he has run up against thai he
doesn't like. "We  can't  even
lei it get on the buildings because it will discolor ihem."
The soil here is harder when
it  dries   than   that   he   worked
with   in   New   York   where   it
contained more gravel.
This   past   early   spring   we
hauled in a lot of sawdust and
GRADUATING SENIORS
Students completing work
for a degree and/or provisional certificate in August,
1960. must report at Warriner Hall Auditorium,
Thursday, July 21, at 11 a.m.
to fill out the required
forms. Students earning
teaching certificates will take
the Oath of Allegiance at
this time.
Department would have to ask ; Auditorium.
our permission before anyone : The Bookmen's Exhibit in the
could drill on the land, even Physical Education Building
though they do have the oil : will be open Wednesday from
rights. So far. he added, no one ; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday
has asked us for a lease on our from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m
40 acres. Dr. George M. Blackburn, as-
Wheiher oil  was  found  on   \ sistanl professor of history, will
our land and it belongs to ihe   , give  a  talk  at 3 p.m. Tuesday
in Room 219 Warriner on "King
I James I and  the Mormons on
Beaver Island."
Conservation Department or
lo Central, Bovee said, the
money would go into ihe
state treasury, so ij really
doesn't matter who has ihe
rights.
I do know that they have
been drilling on the island, and
they are working behind our
property, but I'm not sure how
close, Bovee said.
Almost two-thirds of ihe
island is now under lease of
which 11,000 acres are state
land. Total acreage of the island is 35,465.
Maurice Crane, assistant professor of humanities at Michigan State, will speak at a book
hour Wednesday at 3 p.m. in
Room 300 of the Library on
"The Idea of Tagedy in a Democratic Society."
"Germany Between East and
West" will be the topic of a lecture by Dr. Oscar Oppenheimer,
professor of psychology, at 11
a.m. Thursday in Room 219,
Warriner.
elsewhere   around   campus,   we  incorporated   it   in   the   flower
[jlp ■ ■    •   < 1-    ir>,.„,.,,  „„..,.   ,„o   keen   the
that   was   there,   he   said.
will replace them with the kind  beds. Every
He spent 13 years with west
New York state's largest
nursery doing a job similar
to the work he does here. He
was general superintendent
there, and they did work all
over ihe west New York
area, Pennsylvania and Canada.
Stansberry,    who    graduated
     _ from Niagra Parks Commission
he said. We do all this School    of    Horticulture,    was
uiu   «,.«... ..   year we keep the
We leaves we rake up and put them
behind Preston Court to build
the soil up. Right now we are
want to try to keep it as nat
ura) as possible. —	
The present practice fields dickering with a farmer outside
behind Preston court will be Mount Pleasant for some cow
built   up.   and   the   long-range  manure, he said. We do all this
it   into  to build up the organic content born in  the  United  Stales,  in
of the soil. the   Buffalo,   New   York   area,
Mr.    Stansberry    came   here  but was raised in Canada,
from   North   Tonawanda,   New     His family moved to Mount
York,   a    suburb    of   Buffalo, Pleasant early this spring. The
plans   are   lo   develop
saw   w ev*r£reen" Stansberry playing fields and a classroom
bW,    .   ave ,done  some  re" area,   Stansberry   reported,
pwcement    work    around    the Tnose plans, he said, are way in
s'Sn   on    US-27   and   worked the future
Pr°estnd  r1' Anspach's home in "Though students seems to
on Court. notice and appreciate ihe new
at   Central,   we
At Barnard residence hall,      appearance
which is similar to the Detroit people, he said, are very friend-
area where one town runs into ly here, but we still haven't got-
another,
ten used to the water.
The annual Bookmen's Ex-
j hibit, the largest display of ed-
! ucational materials in the state,
| will be in the Physical Education Building Wednesday and
Thursday, July 20 and 21.
More than 80 companies are
scheduled to be represented, the
: most that have ever come to the
; exhibit.   More   than   1,500  educators are expected to see the
i exhibit.
I    President   Judson   W.   Foust
j will officially open the exhibit
j at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The exhibit will be open from 10 a.m.
lo 5 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Thursday.
At the exhibit, interested parents, teachers and school administrators will be able to see
the latest in educational materials including textbooks, reference books, workbooks and
audio-visual equipment.
Maps, charts, globes, laboratory fixtures, copying devices
and a wide range of supplemental materials also will be featured at the exhibits.
Central Michigan University
and the Michigan Bookmen's
Club extend an invitation to the
general public lo visit the exhibits.
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT donated to Central by the Navy is examined by (Left
to right) Gene Berke, Prof. Kenneth Wright and Charles Batson. This equipment is
part of $300,000 of surplus equipment donated by the Navy to Michigan schools.
Of Oral'Readim
Poetry from "Duo-Tone," a
book written by Dr. Richard
Rothman, of the Department of
Speech, has recently been read
by an authority on interpreta- i
tive   reading   at   programs   at j' {.'
Baltimore,    Md„    Washington, 7
D.C.,   and   before   the   Rotary - I
Club here in Mt. Pleasant. j
Dr.   Lamoni   Okey,   of   the '
University   of   Michigan,   the :
interpretative reading author- ■
ity,   staied   ai   a   recent   Col- ;■
loquia on Oral Interpretation ;
Research al the U of M that 1
perhaps   there   has   been  too ' ■'■
much research on the obscure i (■■
portions    of    certain    major ;■ :,
poets, like Dylan Thomas, for I
example, and not enough re- ' '#
search on some of our minor ; f.
poets. : I
He then read from Dr, Roth- ; |
man's   book,   "Duo-Tone,"   and ! I
mentioned his name and loca- \ I
tion. There is a copy of the book ' §
in the  Central Michigan Uni- } ?,;
versify Library. :  ■*