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Grove City College
BULLETIN ALUMNI ISSUE Vol. 39
may, 1943
No. 13
Summer School Starts June 1
Commencement
Program Is
Simplified
Courses Are Planned For
Three Groups; Session Ends Sept. 18
Date Advanced to May 22nd; Speakers Are An
Because of the accelerated pro gram, summer school will begin
nounced
this year on June 1. The summer school will consist of two terms. The first term will run from June
In view of problems growing out of the war, important changes
i
1 to July 24 and the second term from July 26 to September 18. Courses have been planned for three groups of people. The first
have been made in the commence
ment program of the College. The date of commencement has been
advanced and the program has been simplified. However, the
group consists of teachers who are now in service. There will be a
more essential events of the week
will be continued in this year's program and it Is hoped there may be a large number of alumni and friends of the College who will find it possible to participate in the program of the week. On Thursday afternoon. May
number of courses of special inter est to teachers, including a course in visual education which is re
quired for a permanent certifi cate. All teachers who did not take
visual education while undergradu ates are required to take a course in visual education sometime dur
20, at four o'clock a Senior Tea
ing their first three
wUl be held at the home of Presi
years
of
dent and Mrs. Ketler.
teaching.
ents
The second group who will be interested in our
will be students who will gradu ate from high school in May. Be ginning courses in all departments Due to War conditions, the regular May Pageant was not held this year. However, the ceremony of will be offered for high school crowning the May Queen was held in the Auditorium of Crawford Hall, preceding the May Dance, on gracl-uatea Who^eaire to.enter col SuLuraecy, May— Ttocn'c—~are, -Ao/n lejTf ia Trg-Jit-r JifurcftKrA, j lege at the beginning of summer will call the attention
of
high
of
The par
members
of
members of the Senior Class will
be welcome at the reception. On Friday, May 21, the Board of Trustees will meet at ten o'clock in the morning. At 7:30
^
cri't^^Ajr^y the-
Marshall of the Day; Jean Iddings, Lady in Waiting; Florence Crestani, Junior May Queen; Betty Thomp- (service will be held in Harbison son; May Queen; Sarali Katherine Wilson, Lady in Waiting; Eleanor McLaughlin, Lady in Waiting; Jean i
H. G. Means Develops Unique Program of Religious Training
early
in
March of ^ the deatii of Lieutenant
lege this summer.
ed while in a rojutine flight at City
Alumni
and
College
friends
of
Saturday,
the
commence
will be
held
at
10:45 A. M., in the Auditorium in Crawford Hall. The speaker is to be the Honorable Robert A, Taft,
President Roosevelt
of these students ■will attend col
College Course In S. History Meets Reffuirements
On
ment exercises
Named Delegate by
Richard F. Edwards, '39, of Ren frew, Pennsylvania, who was kill
An unusual plan for the social and .religious training of public school children has been develop ed by H. G. Means, '13, Superin tendent of the East Liverpool, Ohio, schools. Many communities are now conducting courses in re ligious education for public school children but the East Liverpool plan is unique in that students ac A number of alumni who are tually participate in religious ser
D. D., Pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania.
Harold W, Dodds
Killed in Texas Word was received
T'na jwaricxM
I Reverend Clarence E. McCartney,
school graduates to the possibility Adam, Bearer of Scepter; Betty Reed, Bearer of Crown. of entering college this summer and thus finishing their college Lieutenant Edwards courses in three years. The third group who will enroll during the summer consists of students who are now in college, and who' are following the accel erated program. Quite a number
friends
the graduating class as well as
summer school
term. It is hoped that our alumni
and
Grove
the United
States
Ohio.
1:00
At
Senator from
following
the
commencement exercises, the an nual alumni limcheon will be held
were delighted to
Newton, Texas.
j leam that President Roosevelt in the First Presbyterian Church At the time of his death, Uieu- had appointed Harold W. Dodds, of Grove City. There will be a
tenant Edwards w^ a member of '09, President of Princeton Univer a bomber crew of five, only one of sity, as Chairman of the American Delegation to the Anglo-American whom escaped aliv^. He w;as stationed at the Lake Refugee Conference which began
Charles, Louisiana j Air Base. The
its session at Bermuda on April
I
short program as usual. This year it is expected that Senator Taft will bring a greeting. Although there are some limi tations on travel which will affect
body was sent to ■ Butler with a 13. The two other members of the a number of the friends of the American Delegation were Sena military escort. , College, it is hoped that as many tor Lucas of Illinois and Repre teaching in Pennsylvania schools, vices. as possible 'will plan to be present Lieutenant Edwards was the son sentative Bloom of New York. but who have not yet received their Under the East Liverpool plan, of Mr. and Mrs. Duane H. Edwards at the exercises on Saturday, May
permanent certificates, have writ ten to the College regarding a re
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of Renfrew.
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cent ruling of the Department of Public Instmction. This regulation states that subsequent to Septem ber 1, 1943, all permanent certifi cates issued by the Department require a basic course in the his tory of the United States and Pennsylvania. Many teachers were uncertain as to whether this regulation requires a separate and distinct course in Pennsylvania history. In order to clear up the matter, Mr. 'Walters wrote to the Department inquiring as to whether a separate course in Pennsylvania history would be re
quired of students who had had the regular course in United States history. The Department of Public Instruction replied as follows: "The recent regulation of the State Council of Education requir
Alumni Plan a Student Union Building The Alumni Association was so successl'iil in raising the $25,000 Student Loan
Fund that it decided at its business meeting list Commencement to undertake another pro ject for the benefit of the College. The efforts of the Association are now to be directed towai'd erecting a Student
Union Building, which will serve as a recreation center. It is hoped that the building will
contain a lounge room, game rooms, a lunch counter, and an alumni office. It will furnish
a comfortable meeting place where alumni can meet fellow alumni, and where thej^ can greet their friends in the community or among the student body. No definite architectural plans have besn made, and the size of the building will de
pend upon the funds available. Of course the building cannot be constructed during the war, but plans can be made, and the necessaiy funds can be raised. The following committee has been appointed to plan the campaign: Carroll B. Wilson, '29, Grove City, Pa., Chairman. Roy W. Wiley, '18, Butler, Pa.
Earl F. Henderson, '13, New Castle, Pa.
the United States and Pennsyl vania does not contemplate two
M. L. McBride, '09, Grove City, Pa.
that a basic course in the history
of the United States will include the basic facts of Pennsylvania
history. Therefore, the full year iContinueo On Page Four)
Those who expect to attend
the alumni luncheon should send (Continued On Page Foil*"
ing a basic course in the history of separate courses. It is assumed
22.
S. W. Lyons, '10, New Brighton, Pa.
This new project affords alumni an opportunity to contribute to a fund which will be used, at least in part, for the benefit of the alumni themselves, and it is hoped that
every graduate of the college will respond liberally when he or she hears from the com mittee in charge.
Lieutenant Sends
Contribution To Fund The following paragraph is taken from a letter recently re ceived from an alumnus of the
College who is at present a First Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps: "Please add the enclosed check
for twenty dollars to the Alunmi Pkmd of Grove City College. well realize that to
insure
I the
present and future success of all privately endowed colleges and in stitutions it will be necessary for them to count more and more on
the continued support and loyalty of the MASS of their Alumni for
financial support rather than on
the perhaps larger contributions of a few."
The CoUege and the Alumni Association greatly appreciate this contribution to the
Alumni
Fimd, but they appreciate even more the spirit of the contribution and sentiment expressed by tlie foregoing paragraph.