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MT. PLEASANT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1948
NUMBER 32
Speech Expert
Mimics Dialects
at First Assembly
"How Other People Talk," was
the topic used by Mr. George Gilbert Groman in his talk at the first
general assembly of the summer
session,  Tuesday,  June 22.
Mr. Groman illustrated the dialects of the Swedish, Italian, Scotch,'
British, Irish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Chinese, Japanese,
Mexican, Yugoslavian and Russian.
He also illustrated colloquialisms oi
Northern Texas, New York and
Brooklyn. He pointed out where
the several dialects could be found
in the States.
"Speech is a very important part
of your personality," said Mr. Groman. He illustrated this by pointing out the difference in the speech
of the late President Roosevelt and
President Truman. He also imitated
several of the screen stars and
radio personalities.
He has taught dialect to many
stars and has appeared on several
radio programs himself.
He received his MJL degree in
Speech at the University of Southern California.
German Schools
Subject of Talk
Dr. Margaret O. Koopman, professor of sociology, will speak on
"The Reconstruction of German
Education" Tuesday, July 6 at 4
p. m. in W-107.
Miss Koopman is a member of
the United States Social Studies
Committee to Germany. In 1947
this committee spent &© months
working "throughout the .American
zone of Germany and "Vienna, and
teaching in the German schools.
They also served as co_cs_3tants for
the United States Military government, and to the Germam ministries
of education and directors of normal schools.
Nursery School
Opens New Term
Married summer studemtbB and
wives of veterans may make use
of the Mt. Pleasant Nursery School
during the summer session, It has
been announced.
Summer term of the Nursery
opened June 21 and will continue
for nine weeks. Located at the
Fancher School in the kindergarten, the Nursery gives expert -care
to the children from 9 a. m. to 12
o'clock each day. Miss Lillian Krog-
nes, Oslo, Norway, graduate student at Central, has charge of the
Nursery during the summer.
Limited to 20 children, the school
charges a tuition fee of $2 per
week, with a minimum enrollment
of three weeks. Those interested
may telephone Mrs. Rollie Den-
nison, Ph. 22-713.
Current Books Is
Topic of Book Hour
Miss Elsa Struble, Mt. Pleasant's
city librarian, will talk at the first"
Book Hour today at 4 p. m. in W-
107. '     '       .
Under the title. .^Current .Books,?,
her talk will include a cross section on the fiction and non-fiction
books which have been published
within the last few months.
Lectures Tonight
.John Harvey Furbay
Enrollment Is Up
by 14 Percent
Central Michigan College opened
its 1948 summer session last week
with the largest summer enrollment
in  many  years.  Steadily  climbing
registration figures since the war
surged ^upward again, showing 13.8
percent increase. Total registered by
Friday were 1095. Enrollment last
summer was 961.  •
Undergraduate students this
summer total 988, as compared
with 902 last summer. The graduate division, where the greatest
increase was noted, showed nearly
a 100 percent jump with JL06 students, compared with 57 last year.
One rehabilitation student is enrolled this year, tsompared' with
two last year.
• Although no official count has yet
been made, it is (estimated that
about one-third of itJhe summer students are veterans.
159 Attend
State Camp
The Conservation-Biology Camp
had its eleventh annual encampment at Higgins Lake June 13 to
June 19. The encampment is a cooperative affair between Western
Michigan, Michigan State Normal
and Central Michigan Colleges.
Eighty-four men and women
enrolled for the period. Classes in
agriculture-conservation,.' biology-
conservation^ general botany, biology entomology, and biology-ornithology were offered, with one
semester-hour credit for each
class. Central students at the
camp totalled 49.
Object of the Conservation Training School is to give the student a
chance to live out doors, get acquainted with plants and animals,
do field work in biology, and give
training in conservation education of
our natural resources.
At camp this week 75 Students}
nine of whom are from Central, are
receiving training in conservation
education, sponsored by.the Michigan Federation of Garden Clubs.
Noted Lecturer Presents
Film on Ireland Tonight
Curry to Speak
on John Calhoun
"John C." Calhoun, Speaker" will
be the subject of Assoc. Prof. Herbert L. Curry's address in W-107,
July 1, at 4 p. m.
Professor Curry will discuss the
place occupied by Mr. Calhoun to
the American society of 1800 to 1850
and will trace Calhoun's development into a special type of speaker.
Central Student
Goes to English
Summer School    *
, Harold M. Lane, Vassar, who was
a student at Central this year, will
take a summer course at University
College, Nottingham, England, beginning July 10. The university will
have 50 Americans enrolled this
summer.
Lane is a member of a group of
500 American students sailing from
New York this month who will study
in seven of Britain's universities
and university colleges under the
direction of the Institute of International Education.
Under the student exchange plan,
college students and teachers will
take summer courses at the Universities of Oxford, London, St
Andrews, Birmingham, and Leeds,
and University College, Nottingham,
and University College, Southhampton.
They will have opportunities to
take motor trips and excursions to
places of interest and will be housed
in college or in university hostels.
The students will Teturn to this
country late in August.
Faculty Receive
Summer Students
The annual Faculty Reception for
summer students took place Wednesday evening in Keeler Ballroom.
Students were received, by President
and Mrs. Charles L. Anspach and
other administrative officers and
wives, then mingled with other faculty members throughout the ballroom.
A musical program was presented during the evening by members
of the music department faculty.
An instrumental trio, consisting
of Verna Gilbert, cello; Lorentz
Hanson, violin; and Mrs. .Lorentz
Hansen, piano, played two numbers. Mr. Levi O. Dees sang two
solos, accompanied by Mrs. Hansen.
Refreshments of punch and wafers were served.
The general committee in charge
of the event was composed of members of the Student Social Activities
Committee, headed by Dean D,
Louise Sharp. Other committees included: Keeler Union arrangements,
Mr. R. J. Lichtenfelt; program, Mrs.
J. Harold Powers; decorations, Miss
Barbara King, Miss Mildred Ginger-
ick, Miss Jean Smith, Miss Dorothy
Schafer; name cards, Miss Gertrude
Pratt, Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Poor,
Miss Ethel LaMore, Miss Rachel
Loughridge; refreshments, Miss Ima
Chambers, Dr. Margaret Koopman,
Miss Irene Bell, Miss Ethel Praeger,
Miss Martha Wallace, Miss Irene
Jorae; publicity, Dr. D. Louise
Sharp; hostesses, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Merrill, Miss Rosalind Mentzer,
Miss Ella O'Neil, Miss Karolena Fox.
f "The Spell of Ireland," a new
color film and lecture by the noted
explorer, scientist, educator, and
author, Dr. John Harvey Furbay,
will be presented in the college
auditorium tonight at 8:15 o'clock.
"This all-rcolor film, made in 1946,
offers a variety of scenic wonders
to those who long for the tonic
of new and little explored worlds,"
according   to   publicity   advances.
"The infinite charm of the Emerald Isle, its unspoiled 'beauty and
the variety of life among its witty
people are facets of this picture."
Dr. Furbey is a doctor of philosophy from Yale and has many years
of university teaching to nis credit.
A Fellow of the Royal Geographic
Society of London and the Royal
Anthropological Institute; he has
appeared before many of the country's leading groups, such as the
American Museum of National History, New York's Town. Hall, the
National Geographic Society, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Pittsburgh's
Carnegie Music Hall, and Denver
Museum.
"The Last Chance"—a Swiss film,
sponsored by the Department of
Foreign Languages will be shown
in Warriner Hall Auditorium at
8:*00 pt m. Thursday, July "8.
Square Dancing
Every Wednesday
, "Square dancing on the green,"
according to Ass't. Prof. Jean Smith,
will take place every Wednesday
night at 7:30 o'clock in the front
of the Physical Education building.
Music will be furnished by John
Hinkle at the piano, or accordian,
amplified through a P.A. system.
Everyone is invited to come and
join in the fun, and instructor
Jean Smith will demonstrate the
steps to those who are interested.
BREAK OUT THOSE SLEEPING BAGS
Two-Week Conservation Field Trip to Be Resumed
A Conservation Field Trip course,
sponsored by the Department of
Conservation and the Central Michigan College, will be offered after
the summer term. Two semester
hours of credit will be allowed for
this course.
The trip will last two full weeks,
from July 31 to August ii, and will
cover 1200 miles of Northern Peninsula roads.
To give the students an intimate
picture of the natural and recreational resources of the Northern
Peninsula as well as a knowledge
of the Department of Conservation's objectives! and its methods
of administering these resources
is the purpose of the course.
• FolldWing subject material is to
be   presented:  (1) Historical   and
structural geology of the Northern
Peninsula. (2) History bf the development of the mineral, lumbering,
agricultural, and recreational industries. (3) Plant and animal ecology.
Local authorities on land management, game, fish,, recreation, social
and economic problems of the
Northern Peninsula, will be called
into the evening sessions whenever
possible.
Instructors  in biology,  botany,
and land use from the college will
accompany the group, while 'game
ecology, geology, and conservation
will be taught by Department of
Conservation   instructors.    These
instructors will act in the capacity
of resource persons rather than
teachers of regular classes.
The cost of the trip, including all
necessary,, expenses, transportation,
board and room, from the Higgins
'Lake Training school and return .to
that point, will' be $.60 plus the hotel
or   cabin   accomodations   at  Marquette and Crystal Falls. This will
include dinner, room and breakfast
for two days.
While on the trip, the group will
be quartered in tents. Students will
be transported in private cars while
two large trucks will be used to
transport the camp equipment.
Camp will be made each night
either on Lake Superior or Lake
Michigan. The only camp duties
expected of the group will be the
care of their individual sleeping
bags and cots.
Places o% interest to be visited, on
the trip will include the Superior
State Forest, Lower Falls of. the
Tahquamenon, Grand Marais and
the Grand Sable Sand Dunes, Cu-
sino Wildlife Experiment Station,
Pictured* .,Rqcks at Munising, Marquette and the Huron Mountains,
HoUghton and the Keweenaw Peninsula, the Porcupine Mountains,* and
the Garden Peninsula.
His travels have included most
of Europe, all of West and North
Africa, The Hawaiian Islands, Cuba,
Central and South America. His
commentary is said to be memorable for its humorous touches and
human interest appeal, and for
his thorough coverage of his pictorial subject.
Professor Mabie
Goes to Western    i
One  of  Central's faculty mem- •
bers   will  leave  in  September   to
take   the  position  of   director   of
placement and alumni relations at
Western Michigan College in Kalamazoo. The member is Mr. Vexa«.
E.  Maybie,  assistant  professor  of:
history.
Professor Maybie came to Central:",
in June of 1947. Previous to thisr,
he had been principal and superintendent of the Greenville High-
School for 14 years.
Since he has been here, he has'
taught classes hi "history and in
political science.
His wife, Mrs. Maybie, has been
office manager of the Student Personnel Office during this past year.
No replacement for either Professor or Mrs. Maybie has yet been  ?
announced. *
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Prof. Witherspoon    "■
Takes Florida Job
Ralph L.. Witherspoon, associate
professor of psychology, has " announced that he is leaving Central
to teach at Florida' State University
as an associate professor of. psychology ahd counselor in child development for the State Department of Education at Tallahassee,
Professor Witherspoon received*
his B.S. degree from Central iri
1932, A.M. from the University of
Michigan, arid expects to. receive
his Ph.D in child development from
U. Of M. in August.
During his six and one-half years
at Central, he has taught psychology and education, descriptive geometry and engineering drawing
during the "V-^12 program.
Professor Witherspoon is not
teaching any classes here this summer.
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