1953 The Peru Stater (Nebraska)

Volume 1 Number 2 May, 1953

Official publication of the Alumni Association of Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska. Published quarterly funds permitting. Subscription by contribution to Alumni Fund. Extra copies of the PERU STATER, when available may be secured for twenty-five cents each. Office-Administration Building, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska.

Kenneth Heywood ______________________________ Editor

OFFICERS, PERU STATE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Pres:dent __________________ Dee Jarvis, '48, Peru, Nebr.

First Vice-Pres. __ Ruth Ann Crook Steele, '48, Peru, Nebr.

Second Vice-Pres. Truman Lytle, '51, Plattsmouth, Nebr.

Secretary ________________ Joe Workman, '51, Peru, N-cbr.

Treasurer ________ Bill Thurman, '51, Nebraska City, Nebr.

Executive Sec. ____ Kenneth Heywood, Peru State Coll€ge.

COVER PICTURE

Exchanging congratulations are Peru State's 1wo Little All ·Americans, tacKle Bob ·Lade arttl ·coac;1 ·At Wheeler.

Lacie's performances in the Bobcat for·ward wall last fall earne::l for him the distinction of being the first Nebraska college player ever to be selected by the AsS(Ciated Press on its elite eleven.

It was the Rockne Foundaticn which felt that his job dur·ing U:e should merit their selection of Wheeler as Little All-American ·Coach of the Vear. He was also declared winner of the Omaha World-Herald Coach of the Year award.

Lade, a junior from Tecumseh, will be back with the Bobcats in the fall cf '53.

Fund Drive and Budget

Plans were completEd at a recent meEt.ng of the officers of the Peru Alumni Assoc'ation to put fund drives on a regularly scheduled annual basis. During May all members ·Of the will be c;:,ntacted by mail.

Inasmuch as cnlv one fund drive will be conducted each. year hereafter - it is strongly urged that all Peru graduates cooperate by making their as promptly as possible.

The officers are dead serious about putt!ng the affairs of the asso.ciation on a basis and urge all Peruvians everywhere to partic!pate, even though your gilt must necessarily be small. A high percentage of" partic:pation w.dl enable tne Assoc'ation officErs to. imp:·ove service to the college and to its grd.duates.

Following is the adopted budget for the year J::eginn'ng Ma:r 1, 19•5::l.

Peru Operating Costs Comparatively Low

State Teachers Colleges' Costs lnsignifi.:ant

By

Comparison With Other State Agencies

Peru State College is asking for an approximate 10 per cent increase in tax funds for the 1953-55 biennium, according to President Neal s. Gomon. The college is now spending about $314,000 annually from tax funds and has requested the Leglislature to appropriate $345,000 .for each of the next two years.

The Peru budget request is in line with requests from the .. other state co'lleges at Kearney, Chadron and Wayne.

The total request from tax funds for all four colleges is $3,044,818.73 for a two year period. If the same distribuEon formula is used as in tne past P2ru will receive about 22 per cent of the money approp;:-iateti to the Board of Education for State Normal Schools.

Cost of supporting the four state teachers colleges in terms of tax dollars is quite insignificant in comparison with the other agencies -Of state gov-ernment.

Nebraska has an assessed valuation of slightly in ·excess of three billion dollars. The state teachers colleges are asking for approximately a million and a half dollars a year fro1n tax funds. On the basis of assessed valuation and the request, a levy of .0005 mills will raise the money requested.

A taxpayer with $5000 of assessed valuation on the tax rolls (wihich would probably mean about $20-,000 actual value) would pay $2.50 annually for the support of the four state teachers colleges. On the basis of present disbursement the college at Peru -would receive about 22 per cent of the $2.5'0, or 55 cents. The average family in Nebraska reports less than $5,000 in taxable property.

In addition to the tax m-0ney requested. Peru State expects to receive approximately $185,000 during the twoyear period from tuition, and miscellaneous charges. It is also estimated that the college will get about $5,000 ye2rly from library and matriculation fees.

The total operating budget of the college is estimated at approximately $443,000 annually. About $30-0,000 of this total will be paid in salaries, wages and other personial services. Another 15 pe··cen.t will go for onerating 2nd supphes, with 10 per cent for maintenance and repa ·rs, the rem.2inder be!ng divided ainong exuendi.tures for capital outlay, fixEd charges, refunds and distr"buticns.

It is also estimated that the Coin.mercial Enterprises of the college will take in about $125,000 annually. These enterp:ires include the dormitories, dining rooms, snack ba··, s'udent union, coller-.e athletics, iy<::eUm, numbers e·c All commercial enLerpr'ses are self supporting and not one nickle of tax mon°y or :rronev collected in f<>es and tuition is spent for these The dormitories are paid for out As soon as the bonds a-e paid the property of the State of Nebraska taxpayers of the state one red penny. 3're operated on a non-profit bas:s that they pay their o-wn way.

One of the great attributes of colleges is that they furnish a good able cost. Peru was established in at the ·ccllegiate level.

;f:ed the "free" aspects of Peru has not chang"d in its th2t the 19.53 Legislature Norm.al Board so that the to give adequate vice to

Clements Retirement Ends 37 Years Service ... Juett, Schmuller Join Facuity

The two newest members of the Pe::u "faculty farnily" came to the campus in January, both to the Division of Education.

T.lman L. Juett, supervior of sixth grade teaching, came to Peru from Lexington, Kentucky. He is 31. married and has an infant daughter. He is a veteran of W. W. IL Juett received his A.B. degree from Georgetown (Ky.) College and h:s Master's degree from the Un:versity of Kentucky. From 1949 to May of 1952 he SE-rved as an elementary Principal at Heppner, Oregon, under Supt. L. L. Pate, of the former pres:dont.

Immediately be_ore coming to Pe:u

Peru State lost the services of one of its veteran instructo!s when S. L. Clements reti'.ed in January after 37 years serv:ce to the cause of Nebraska education.

Twenty-seven of those years had been at Peru where he was D rector of the Campus Laborato:y School rntil two years ago when he "slowed dcwn" to teach'n.g a ::ull load of college classes in Education. Peru grads will also re::::all h:s intense :nte.est in the r welfare, exhib' ,ed throug.r.out the many years when he also doubled as of Tealh2r

A rnan of many hobb.es, Clemen's combined cne of these w:th his work in the Campus School where he dev loped a band that won I ecognit'on in state and nat onal contests over the years.

Clemen ts started his educat'onal caree.- at Elmwcod where he taught in the seventh and e:ghth grades af-

he did addit. onal graduate study at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Allen M. Schmuller of Highknd Park, Illino'..s, joined the faculty in January to succeed S. L. Clements as an of Secondary Education, School Adp:1inistration and aud'o-visual educaton.

He received his A.B. degree from Upsala College :n East Orange, New Jersey, and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has also done graduate work at Oxford.

Immed:ately before coming to the Campus of a Thousand Oaks, Schmuller. was employed by the Educat:onal Div sion, U. S. Army.

ter completing two years of college work at Peru. This was followed by three years at AlEance high where he taught mathemat cs, industrial arts. directed the orchestra and coached the athleti.c teams.

Both before and after his service ,overseas :n W. W. L, he taught Industr:al Arts, coached the athletic teams and directed the college orchestra at Chadron State. In 1922 he accepted an offer to become pr ncipal of L:ncoln high school and held that pcsiticn until he came to Peru.

Holder of an M. A. degree f. 01n Columb'a, he :s a life member of the Nat:onal Education Assoc ation and the Nebraska State Education As.sociaticn.

The Clements' have moved to Elmwood, his home town, where he antkipates enjoying a busy 1 fe of "retirement" as an assoc:ate of his brothers in the banking business.

W. R. Pate, Longtime Peru President, Died October 19

Former Peru State President W.R. Pate died at h:s Peru home on October 19, the day following Homecoming on the campus he had served for twenty-three years. He had been confined to his home much of the time following his ret rement from active control of the college in 1946. H5s tenure as president of Pe. u Staie was the longest of any person to head the school in 85 year history.

One the state's most distinguished educators, he could boast of fifty year's serv:ce to NebrasRa education. This ncluded experience as a rural te2cher in Furnas county, superintendencies at Danbury, Trenton, Grafton, and Sidney; instruc,orships in the North Platte and Alliance Junior Normals and thirteen years as a administrator at AlEance, from where he came to Peru to head the college in 1923.

His professional aff:liations included membership in Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, The National Education Associat:on, The Nebraska State Educ.ation Association, and the Nebraska Schoolmasters Club. He was also a member of the Masonic lodge and a Shriner. A lifelong member of the Methodist Church, he was a past president of the Peru church board.

He is survived by his wife, now living in Peru, and four Mrs. Mildred Morr:s, Englishtown, New Jersey; Dr. Robert S. Pate, Ypsilanti, Leonard L. Pate, Heppner, Oregon and Mrs. Bernice Yanders, Corpus Christi, Texas.

Miss Max:ne Davis, R.N., jo:ned the Peru State staff as college nurse on Noverr.ber L She is a graduate of St. Joseph's hosp'tal in Mitchell, Sou1h Dakota,. and had hospital expe:dence at Cre:ghton Memodal and St. Jo:o>eph's hosp tals in Omaha before coming to Peru.

1952 Peru State Bobcats Win

End Season as Conference Cham.,ps; One of Nation's Fifteen Unbeaten College Elevens

It will be a long time before Peru S'taters forget the 1952 football season, for the past fall saw Coach Al Wheeler field what ;·s undoubtedly the greatest team in Bobcat history.

From the warm September evening when the Peruvi,ans stunned powerful Washburn Unive:::-sity in what almost amounted to a comolete rout, on through to the Armfstice afternoon when a tired bunch of came from behind to wh p Augustana in a post-season classic at North Pl,atte, Peru followers were teated to a high calibre of gridiron technique and sportsrnans1hip seldon e:i:u led in college a1hlet:'.cs.

When the was over your P.eru State were one of the nation's undefe:oited and untied college elevens. N.A.I.A. statistics showed them to be the nation's fifteenth ranking offensive unit with a net rushing gain of 2710 yards, 1035 more yards gained passing and a season's scoring mark of 307 points as compared to a total of eighty ior the ten opponents.

Hundreds o.f letters, cards and wires .from Peruvians all over the world bore out the fact that the redhot Pe::uvians were featured in metropolitan dailies, were the subject of many a sports-cast on TV and radio, and were bringin,g glory and reknown to the Carnpus of a Thousand Oaks.

A season rundown of all games played Looks something like this:

SEPT EM BER 12, Peru State 43Washburn 20. The Bobcats used a devastatingi aerial bombardment and a smooth and powerful running attack from the split-T to blast the Wasbburnites wiho had been heralded as a better team than last year when they complied a 6-3 record in the Kansas Central Conference. Halfback Dick Stockm·an .from Oshkosh crashed over from six yards out in the first .five minutes and the outcome irom then on was never in doubt. The Cats scored ag;ain in the second minute of the second period and added two mere in the last minute of the half to lead 25-6 at the intermission. Three more touchdowns in the second half, even thcugh Wheeler used freshmen Eberally, sent NCC scouts home muttering to themselves.

SEPT EM BER 19, Peru State 27Iowa Central 0. Obviously suffering a bit of let-down fr.om the previous week, the Bobcats-didn't look-as sharp 1n the gam.e at Pella but still were able to put together enough flashy moments to score twice in the fLst q u.arter and once mo;·e in the se::ond for a halftime lead of 20-0. Late in the third period the Peruvians s'.opped the only Centr·al threat of the evening on . the six yard line and uncorked an overland attack that ca·.ried 94 yards for the final coun-

SEPT EM BER 27, Peru State 14HasLngs 6. Area sportswriters had said this was probably an "early season championship game." The Broncs had set the stage for a glorious hometown victory. It was Band Day at Hastings and the hundreds of high school musicians plus the throng dr:o.wn by pre-game publicity of the contest brought out a sellout crowd. But the Bot.cats poured water on the

filre w-ith little delay as they struck swiftly for two first quarter touchdowns and fought a bitter defensive battle the rest of the way. A series of fumbles in the second .and third quarters kept the Cats busy plugging the dikes and gave them little opportunity to open up offensively. When they did get into position to use all their tricks the Peruvians advanced once to the Hastings one, an-0ther time to the two, in the iinal quarter but both gains were nullified by clipp:.ng

The Hastings touchd-0wn came in the third period, shortly after the Broncs had recovered a fumble on the Peru 25.

OCTOBER 3, Peru State 47-Chadron State 7. The he-me folks who had been unable to travel to the first three games were treated to a liberal helning of th·:ills as the B<;>bcats thoroughly trounced Chad:·on State.

They used eight minutes to open the sco: ing but the Eagles roared back with an 8-5 yard march in the sec-Cnd qua·, ter :o tie the score. Stung into act'on by this turn of even's, the Wheelermen opened up with everything 'n 1.he book. An end run and a 40 ya· d aerhl resulted in a 20-7 halftime zcore but the Cats weren't through.

The Westerners folded completely in the last half -when the varsity played long enough t-0 rack up four touchdowns then sat back .and watched the freshmen have their moments.

OCTOBER 10, Peru State 27Wesleyan 7. Everybody had pushed tihe Plainsmen around but nevertheless Coach Al had told his charges he fe2red this outfit the most. He said they were loaded -with talent and that if they ever started clicking they would give any good teazn a long evening.

NED ECKMAN Pawnee City

All-NCC quarterback, 1952

DARRELL ROSENQUIST Essex, Iowa Lincoln Star-Journal all N·CC guard, 1952

HARLE.V RECTOR Weepi8' Watler ... AU-NCC

football Acclaim ;

The Cats knew what he meant ·at h2lftime because, so far in the game they had been unable to do anything constructive and were looking out from behind a 7-0 deficit.

In the second half the Bobcats displayed the quality that marked them as champions all season-the ability to come through in the clutches-as they took the opening kickoff and proceeded to cut the Methodist line to ribbons, ty:'.ng up the game with sevEn minu:es remaining in the third.

Just before the quarter ended tackle Bob Lade turned in one of the se.asc0 n's thriller plays as he crashed through on defense, stole a juggled ball and went 36 yards to se: re the play that cracked the game w'dp onen. Two more Peru touc:hdowns in the final seven minutes of the gam.e iced the contest.

OCTOBER 18, Peru State 40-Midland 7. It wasn't much of a contest, but an overflow Homecoming crowd on a beautiful afternoon enjoyed to the utmost seeing the Peru pow.erhouse r·oam the gridiron almost at will for the season's sixth win. There were two first-quarter touchdowns and the sco::eboard read 27-0 at halftime. Two more goal line crossings featured the fourth quarter.

OCTOBER 24, Peru State 13-Doane College 7. T:he always-tough Tigers were considered to be the most serious re1naining threat to the Peru hopes for the cham.pionship. It was a rugged defensive battle which saw the Bobcat defense stifle the vaunted D·oane running and passing attack to a mere 52 yards on the ground and 58 in the air.

But the Doane defense was stout also, and the Bobcats were forced to come from behind to win. An 85 yard drive paid off for Peru just before the firEt half ended, but the extra po)nt was missed. A third quarter Peru fumble set up the Tiger opportunity and Peru was behind 7-6.

T:hen the Bobcats became suddenly vicious, clawing their way to the winning touchdown with six minutes remaining in the third.

OCTOBER 31, Peru State 56-Wayne State 6. It was Halloween and the Peruv: ans celebrated with a flawless performance rem'nis·cent of the Washburn game as they tick-tacked the Wayne goal line for eight toucl:downs with eight perfect conversions.

The Cats blasted out 21 points ;n thp f'rst quarter and led 35-6 at halftime. They scored only once in the third quarter, adding two m.o:e in the ifourth.

NOVEMBER 7, Peru State, 13Kearney State 7. As always, the betw·een these two bitter rivals was a bruising affair. It was Kearnev's Antelopes who had spoiled Bobcat hopes for a cl:.am:p'onship in 1951. By November 7 it was too late for that because an upset victory by Wesleyan over Hastings the week before had made Al Wheeler's charges undisputed NCC champs, but the STATER

Bobcats wanted revenge, the Antelopes were bent on spoiling the Peru record of no defeats for the season. It wasn't until the second quarter that the Cats were able to crack the determined Kearney defense. This happened when Peru's freshman flash from Chicago, Bill Allen, came off the bench and forgot his crippled knee I.ong enough to pace the explosion that netted two touchdowns within minutes. Allen ran from the 50 to the 26, then took a pass .from Argabright good to the thirteen. Eckman went over on a quarterback keep play cut missed the conversion.

Three minutes later Allen ran 30 yards to the Kearney thirty and on the next play cut off tackle to go the rest of the way.

The Antelope touchdown came in the last minute and a ihalf of the game, Peru took the kickoff, ran up a first down for safety then loafed out the clock to finish the regular season as the undefeated and untied NCC rulers.

NOVEMBER 11, Peru·- State -27_ Augustana 21. Weeks befor.e this date civic groups had extended the Bobcats an invitatton to appear in a post season football game at North Platte on Armistice Day. The Peru staff had accepted the invitation.

The Friday game with Kearney had taken a bitter toll of the best Peru talent. Many of those able to play at all could see only limited service. The Bobcats had had one day of rest followed by a brief Sunday practice before they boarded the bus for the Tuesday date.

Their South Dakota opponent was fresh from an eleven day r·est with the result that it took all tihe now famous Peru "fighting heart" the Cats oould muster as they ca.me from behind three times to tie up the game and threw up a valiant second half defense which stopped the South Dakotans as they- went on to win.

Tihe scores had read 7-0, 7-7,14-14, 21-14, 21-21, and finally 21-27.

At the season's end the honors they deserved began to be heaped upon Wheeler and his gridders.

Most outstanding recognition of all was accorded junior tackle Bob Lade. The big Tecumseh athlete, a coach's dream inso .ilar as ability, ambition and attitude are conce1-ned, was na.med on the Rssociated Press L!ttle All-American first offensive unit. Lade is the first Nebraska college player ever to win cne of the coveted berths on the mythical eleven. In addition he repeated as unanimous choke as an All-NCC tackle for the second successive year and was nsmed winner of the Carriker A ward, given annually to the most outstandin,g- lineman in the Nebraska College Conference.

Two other Peru gridders we·-e also named All-NCC selections. They were Ned Eckman, fJa·shy sopl::om.ore from Pawnee City who quarte backed the Bobcats through tihe undefeated season and Harley Rector,- 230 pound

I Johnson, hes s1\ coac

senior tackle from Weeping Water who was generally capable of duplicating Lade's performances on the other side of the line. '

Darryl Rosenquist, a scrappy sophomore guard from Essex, Iowa where he learned his football .from Peru's '-Punchy" Linder, was ·chosen by the Lincoln .Journal on its all-conference team.

But not all the honorrs went to the players. T'he staff that had built the fine team also came in for its share of the glo.ry. Head coach Al Wheeler, who had labored fifteen years at Peru before producing a tea.m like thi·s one, W'as declared winner of the Omaha World-Herald "Coach of the Year Award," a development of no great surprise to .anyone. Then came word that the famous Rockne Foundation had named the Peru headman its choice ss the "Little All-American Coach of the Year." To receive this award Mr Wheeler was the guest of ho.nor at a presentation banquet in Kansas City in March.

The annual Peru State football banquet in December was a triutnphant ai1Jfair ah:o. Standing ovations greeted the .coaches and Lade as each rose to speak and a grateful squad sented m·<·mber of t1he coa.ching staff with a trophy-desk set, suitably engraved in commemoration of Peru State's greatest fo.:::itball season.

Bob Knapp Authors New Guidance Text

A Peru State College gradu3.te, Rober-t H. Knapp, is the author of a new book Practical Guidance Methods, released on April 29.

Knapp grew up in where he attended h:gh school. He graduated from Peru State in 1927 and at the present time is Dean of Student Personnel Services at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion.

His new work is a basic text in gu'dance courses for teachers and other gui<iance worke'.-s. It <'overs the guidance needs of childre,1 through elementary and SPConda'y school, considering the problems of both. larg2 and small schools.

V-5 Grad Proposes Peru Reunion for Californians

From Andrew F. Lakey, Box 14, Burney, comes a request for help wh'ch we are happy to print. He writes: "In 1944 fifty-eight members of the Navy's V-5 program were sent to Peru from California. From Peru these men were sent to all paTts of the world and eventually returned to their homes in California. During these past few years since the war ended many of us have kept in touch with each other. We have enjoyed talking over old times at Peru State and wondering where many of our classmates are today We have decided to set as:de one weekend each year for a reun:on of these "alums" and their famil'..es from California and for any other P.S.T.C. Alumni. who may be close enough to attend thought perhaps Sacramento or San Francisco could be a central point for the occasion."

Lakey says he's w:Uing to start the ball roll'ng but wan.ts help and suggestions. He points out that the few who have been getting together occasionalJy enjoy it so much that they want o.ther :Corm0r Peruvians in northern CaEf;or·n.ia to sihare the pleasure. He l'sts as fellow organizers, John Leavitt, 5717 Geary St., San Francisco Jack Staples, Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento; Leo Lantzbuger, No. 3 La Cresenta Drive, Oroville; Joe Edgar, Orland and Neal Evans, Colusa.

We'd like to urge all :nterested Peruvians in Californ"a to get in touch with th's group and we wish them every success. They can count on the Peru Alumni Office for any possible cooperation.

A real family affair was the return of the four Ray brothers for the 1952 Homecoming. They are shown above with Coach Al Wheeler and President Neal s. Gomon as t'hey attended the annual pre-game luncheon for former "P" Club members. All are Peru athletes of approximately fifty years aao.

In the picture, left to right are Coach Wheeler; John E. Ray, Hastings, Judge of the Adams ·County Court, who earned football and basketball letters between 1902 and 1906; Webster Ray, Shelby, retail lumber merchant, who was a Bobcat Ful I back during the '06, '07 and '08 -w. w. Ray, Grand Island lumber and hardware csealer and a Peru State at'hlete in 1901 and 1902; R0bert B. Ray, 1914 So. :d3rd., Lincoln, who held down an end position on Peru football teams in '03, '04 and '05; and President Gomon.

Many Peru grads w 11 rec:-all the bobcat who for years resided in a cage east of the Ad building and served as mascot to the college athletic teams. Sent to the taxidermist after his death .n 1934, he now occupies a position of honor in the trophy room. Campus visitors last fall were Mr. and Mrs. Geo.rge Hansen of Phoenix, Ar zona, who gave the kitten to the college in 1927.

Hansen. a 1912 Peru graduate, is now an Arizona insurance company executive.

Greatest distance "champ" of the 1952 Homecoming w-as probably Albert E. Brunsdon who came all the way fr.om San Bernardino, California, where he lives at 4149 3rd Avenue. He recalls that on Thanksgiving Day of 1905 he helped pour the concrete for the present steps in front of the Administration Building.

Mr. Brunsdon, attended Peru in 1905, has been a newspaper man most of his life, worked on the Nebraska City News-PreSs and later operated paper.; at Loup City, Nebraska and Apple Valley, Calif.

In 1920 he marr:ed another Peruvian, Mollie Su.dik ('10), who bad held teaching positions in Nebraska City, Wahoo and Frem-0nt.

Mrs. Brunsdon died on December 7, 1950.

Annual Homecoming Pilgrimage, Alumni Receptions, Provide New Line On

Old Graduates of PSTC

More form.er Peruvians registered at the annual Horr.E:ccming last October than hav2 been recorded at the even: .·:or several years, so we had an opportunity to check upon quite a few.

AncthEr source of information was the NSEA fall meetings in Omaha and Lincoln where receptions were held by the college for all Peru State alumni and friends. Fro1n the reg'stration cards collected at these events we learned that-

NORMA (HUNTER) EDWARDS, 2 yr., '50 is married and lives at 3516 Avenue D, Council Bluffs, Ia. She teaches kindergarten in th'" Avenue B School. JOYO F ::Z,ALEY, att. 33, farms and is an earth moving contractor at ChEster. He lays claim to fame also in that he is president of ''Stephen Epler Day," annual Chester celebration cc·m.memorating the fcunding of six-man football which w:s born at tha'. place. He says, "We have a new Stephen evc-ryone is welcome to the annual bowl F<me the f"rsr. Thursday in October every year."

GLADYS (RUDDY) BORNE has gone back into teaching this year "to help out in the shortage," lives in Kimball where her husband is in business. They have just built a new home .... WE.IBIBA (NEEMAN) BOETTCHER '42, lives on a farm near Unadilla, has two future Peruvians-both daughters, and is kindergarten in Unadil1a B. E. BELL, '18, lives in Lincoln. He is in the sporting goods business and visits the campus often.

LAURINE ANDERSON, '28 is librarian at Auburn.

MARIAN (DECK) STRAUSS, '46, lives at Audubon, Iowa.... WM. FANKHAUSER, '42, is the spark that runs Honey Creek scihool at Salem but when we saw him he could only talk about Wm. Jr. born June 17, 1952

C. L. WESTCOTT, '11 is Superintendent of Schools at Deshler where he has been administering good Peru education for the past 29 years PHYLLIS RUDOLPH, att. '41, is teaching junior high physical education at North Platte, has been for the past seven years. She was scheduled to receive her B.S. from N.U. this January. Is much in demand as a whistling soloist.... WM. F. DAVENPORT, '27, is Superintendent of Schools at Benedict, Nebraska. Lists a fine family consisting of wife, Betty, and children, Phyllis (a Peru State sophomore), Billie Lee, Richard, Mary and Deborah PATRICIA BENFORD, '52 is teaching English and Speech at Oakland .... CAROL DUER.FELDT, '52, is Supervisor of Elementary Music at Plattsmouth MILDRED (JODRY) VANDERFORD, '33, was married in 1940, lives on a farm 5 miles from Auburn with husband and daughter Jacqueline Sue, age four GLEN SHEELY, '39, decided to leave school adm.inistration last spring and is now a World Book representative. Lives in Auburn CLEO (KINNEY) HEADLEY, att. '26, also lives in Auburn. Son Jack is a Peru State student LLOYD L. DARROW, '49, lives at 3020 Cass in Omaba, is tea:ching in the science department at Benson High. Has his M. A. from Omaha U GLENN R. YOUNT, '39, is in bus'ne:-s for himself-indt:s1r·a1 refrige··ation-at North Platte. Fe taus;ht school from '39 to '42 and performed ordnance work dur.ing the w.ar Another '392r in bus;ness fr.r h;mself is LESTER A. MOSLEY who lives at Western. Fe reno· ts a w'..fe and two daugh'.:·er.::, six :ond three MANUEL BRISENO, '51, is Superintendent of Schools at Vesta EJ...AINE (BRIE.R) GLEASON, '50, mentions that the wife of a scbool super·ntendent is a busy one. She has a two vear old son. - Jim...-,,ie. and is pinch-hitting this year in Home Ee and girls physical Education at Ba:tlett HOLLIS (HUTCHINSON) MASAPUST '23. rP·v-rts br"p.r_ ly-"housewife and sub tea·cher in New Ycrk City schools, Her address is 5'"i3 Ed·.son f\_Ve., Bronx 61. j\T Y B.LL ALEXANDER, '50 l;ves 2t Merriam, Kansas, fi019 Mackey St. He's with the Internal R.evenue Bureau in City, has two children .... Pleased with the recent electic·n was A:LD H. LIENEMANN, '46, who lives at Pa.PUE re he is co.unty chairman of fre Republkan a life underwriter, has two little Peruvians, and Kenneth Alan, 2.

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Peru Program Subject Of AACTE Study

Intensive activity has been underway on the Peru State campus most of the winter as var:'.ous faculty groups have conducted a thorough study of the inner worki:p.gs of the college, its facilities and its program, in preparat·on for a scheduled visitation of an inspection committee from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education the latter part of April. The visit is a rout'ne period'c inspection by the AACTE for the purpose of evaluating st·anda:ds of the college and making recmnmenda tions.

The various points, or standards, with which the vis:'.tors will be concerned and which have been the subject of study include objectives and organization of a college for teacher education, student pe:sonnel services, preparat:.on of the faculty, teaching load of the faculty, curr:culum-instruction patterns professional laboratory experiences, and the library. Each of these standards has been studied by a separate faculty committee in the l:'.ght of its application to the Peru and a report has been prepared for the assistance of the v:'.siting AACTE group.

Faculty members have found that these investigations not only supply requested information ior the visiting committee,· but also they hav€:.gi.ven Peru Stat.eSiaff m-embers· an excellent opportunity for thorough-self-evaluation which should point the way for further improvement

Peru State President Neal S. Gamon visited the campus of Platteville, Wis., State Teachers College in February and served as a member of the AACTE inspection team for that institution. He was accompanied by two other Peru staff members, Dr. L. N. Downing and Dr. Leo Eiastman, who went as observers.

Grad, Successful

1 27 Peru Juvenile Author, New Novel Publishes

Marion Marsh Brown, 1827, :s the author of' Frontier Beacon" (The Press, $2.50), a book for children which was published M.arch 16.

The author's third book, it is the story of the founding of the first newspaper west of the Miss·ssippL It is the dream of young Jud Stuart, whose amily has come from Missouri to Nebrask1a to find f ee soil. Jud carries on alone after the death of his father, a newspaperrnan. He has many and is ready to give up until he receives inspiration from Abraham L'ncoln which leads to his success.

Mrs. Marsh now lives at 5013 Davenpo"t Street in Omaha. Her other children's books we:·e "Young Nathan" and "The Swamp Fox."

SOMETHING TO REMEMBFR-

ALUMNI of Peru State College recon1mend our best students for admission.

BUT a very small percentage of the btal alumni do all the recommending.

WE NEED 100% ALUMNi ASSISTANCE in student recruitment. TALK TO, and ,:,end us the name, of the best tudents and citizens in com.:nunity.

Peru, Nebraska PERMIT NO. 4

FORM 3547 REQUESTED

NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF BLANK

How Ieng has it been since we hea::d from you? The Alumni Office at the College likes to receive letters from alumni telling of promotions, trips, add t:'.ons to the family and anything of interest about you or other alumni you happen to meet. We would like to have you clip this blank; fill it in and mail it to THE PERU STATEH.

Name (Married women should give their maiden name also)

Diploma or degree __ :_ _____________________ Year of graduation

Present position or occupation

(If in service, give rank and branch)

Mai Ii ng address

p crmanent address _____________ _____

(If d'fferent from rr:ailing address, above)

Married When

Positicn of husband or wife

Ch:!dren

Further study since graduation

Additicnal news about yourEelf or other alumni

The 10,000th man to be processed in 1952 by the 2nd Armored Diviaion"s 502nd Replacement ·Company was a former Peruvian. Shown being.checked off as he arrived in Bad Kreuznach Germany, is Pfc. Dale E. Watermeier, Burr, who last. attended Peru State in 1947. He is at present: a clerk with Combat Command A Headquarters.

Eugene Howe

A leader in his community and in the field of his chosen career is Eugene Howe, Peru grad of 1899, now living in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Although he became a banker, Howe's early college training seems to be reflected in his latest activity-leading a campaign to interest state colleges in offering courses in savings and loan assoc:ations and banking.

President of the Custer County Federal Savings and Loan Association, he was last fall elected to .also head the Oklahoma Savings and Loan League and has named committeemen to assist in carrying out his program of education on a statewide basis.

"We want to better acquaint the people with our type of work," he says.

The Oklahoma Savings and Loan League has as its principal purpose the promotion of business of the various savin<gis and loan associations of the state.

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Howe has been managing officer of the Custer County Federal Savings and Loan Assoc·ation since 1924. During that time the business has grown into a three million dollar or.ganization serv:ng both investors and borrowers in western Oklahoma.

Support the '53 Alumni Association Fund Drive

Volume 1 Number 3 October, 1953

Official publication of the Alumni Association of Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska. Published quarterly, funds permitting. Subscription by contribution to the Alumni Fund.

Kenneth Heywood ------------------------------Editor

OFFICERS, PERU STATE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

President __________________ Dee Jarvis, '48, Peru, Nebr.

First Vice-Pres. Ruth Ann Crook Steele, '48, Peru, Nebr.

Second Vice-Pres. Truman Lytle, '51, Plath:-mouth, Nebr.

Secretary ________________ Joe Workman, '51, Peru, Nebr.

Treasurer ____ Bill Thurman, '51, Nebraska City, Nebr. Executive Sec. ____ Kenneth Heywood, Peru State College.

A third book of poetry by Rutheda Dysart Nicholson, entitled "Waters in the Wilderness," was published this year. With her husband, a mining engineer, and two <laughters, Joan 11, and Linda 7, Mrs. Nicholson lives at 1920 Yalecrest Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Kenneth Young, '37, has been awarded the Master of Arts degree at the University of Denver.

Paul Blair, '41, has been appointed counselor for boys at West Junior High School in Boise, Ida.

Peru State Students to

Come and see in '53.

Urges All Attend '!

This special issue of the Peru Stater will, we hope, "pack a wallop" as an urgent invitation to attend the 1953 Homecoming on October 10. If it inspires just one "old grad" to do what he or she has intended but never quite got around to do for many years - come back for Homecoming - the effort and expense will have been worth while.

We can't think of a time in the recent history of Peru State when graduates would be more welcome and would find more gratifying developments at the old school to warm their hearts than right now, a time when you can actually see concrete evidence of the growth and new spirit of Peru which we have been talking about for the past few years.

We want you to con1e back so that ybu might see the results of the vast renovation program of the past five years-over a half million dollars have been spent to make Peru even better. You'll see residence and recreational facilities that will make you wish it could have been thus when you were in school. Buildings have been repaired, redecorated, broad new walks have been built.

You'll be impressed with the new faculty personalities you will meet and as you see how the teaching staff has been strengthened in recent years and you will realize why Peru State in '53 can, for the first time in years, boast of a larger percentage increase in enrollrnent than the other state, colleges. As this is written 328 have been enrolled; last years peak was 276.

You'll find however that not all the faculty has changed. Many of the old standbys, persons who for many years have been lending stabilty and character to Peru State, are still here carrying on. They will be a,nxiOus you· again. ·

Your HOMECOMING day should begin early and it's bound to end late. During the forenoon you can register, pausing to look over the list and find out who else is here that you know, and look over the colorful campus displays erected in competition by the various campus organizations. To keep you going till lunch

No HOMECOMING is complete without lovely queens. Kay Hardy, left; Ruth Johnsen, center and Joan Reimers, right, were the 1£:52 candidates. Miss Reimers was named.

You'll get a real thrill out of inspecting the campus HOMECOMING decorations

::irads and Former

Homecoming

there'll be generous amounts of coffee and doughnuts to enjoy while you visit.

If you're a former Peru State athlete you are invited to be guest at the noon luncheon given by the Athletic Department for all "P" winners from the past. Here you will eat the regular pre-game menu with the members of the 1953 football squad.

It's in the same place, but there the similiarity ends, as you will discover when you go down the hill to the Oak Bowl for the HOMECOMING football game with Nebraska Wesleyan. You'll be amazed at the beauty of the newly landscaped field with the east bank cut away to provide an elevated parking lot with a backdrop of a bank planted with countless shrubs.

You'll sit in a new concrete stadium, completed in 1952, equipped with such modern facilities as press box, refreshment stand and, at the south end of the field, Peru State's new electric scoreboard-an $1,800 gift from the students, alumni, and community fans.

Of course the high spot of the day will be watching Al Wheeler's Bobcats, one of the nation's fanciest small college elevens, in action against the Methodists. Your Bobcats have lost only four contests in the last three years and were last defeated by Northern Illinois in 1951. As this is written they are still undefeated in '53.

The same old thrill will be yours as you view the colorful halftime coronation ceremonies, made more spectacular this year due to support from the fine Peru State band with the musicians attired uniforms.

Following the game there will be a social hour for you in the Student Union which will be over in time for you to get a delicious meal in the college cafe before attending the HOMECOMING play in the auditorium at 7:30. The hour is set so that ple_nty of time will be left .for a gay evening for all at the big HOMECOMING dance in the gymnasium.

_ Remember, YOU are wanted and '-you -are welcome. Peru is proud of her alumni and she wants thern to be proud enough of her to return for HOMECOMING.

lV{ake your plans now. Come and see in '53. ATTEND THE PERU STATE HOMECOMING ON OCTOBER 10.

COVER PICTURE

The three attractive Peru State coeds shown on the cover this issue appear there because they represent real Peru State tradition handed down from one generation to another .

Miss Bonnie Brunsdon, freshman, on the left, came all the way from Hammond, Oregon to attend the alma mater of her father and mother, the late Howard Brunsdon, '28 and Nellie Graf Brunsdon who last attended in '26 but is back in school now with her daughter.

lVLi£-s Joan Briggs, right, is a sophomore from Rupert, Idaho, who came to Peru a year ago to follow in the footsteps of pop and mom, who are Robert Briggs, '29 and Hazel Woodie Briggs, '29.

The young lady in the center may represent the champion Peru State family. She's Karlene Dougherty from Brock who was preceded at Peru by sisters Ruth Clayburn, last attended '47; Amber, last attended in '49; Marybell Gillman, B.S. '52 and Fern Johanns who last attended in '53. Elizabeth Aldrich Dougherty, the girls' mother, concluded her college career at Peru in 1920 and their grandmother, Martha Campbell Aldrich, who also :lives in Brock, attended Peru in 1878 and 1879.

If there's a "Peru State family" anywhere that can top this record the Peru Stater wants to know. Please send information and pictures.

Marion E. Dodderer, '27, has been named supervisor of art education in the Omaha public schools. She was formerly art teacher at Omaha's Technical High School. Marian earned a minor in art while studying at Peru.

and visiting with former classmates and friends.

Glen Gilkerson, former Peru coach, is at Riverside Junior College in Riverside, Calif.

Former athletes almost get the "butterflies" again when they eat the pre-game meal with today's Peru State footballers at HOMECOMING.

PERM IT NO. 4

Peru Enrollment to New High

Enrollment approaching 900 in all divisions and departments of Peru State, including off-campus and extension courses, was predicted by college officials after the fall session began with 12 per cent more students on campus than the peak enrollment of a year before. Late registrations were expected to swell the total of regular students to at least 325, with men out numbering the women by about three to two.

The 1953 freshman class is the largest in several years, with 79 men and 59 women. Sophomores include 41 men and 44 women; juniors, 30 men and 18 women; and seniors, 26 men and 14 women.

In the campus school, enrollment includes 88 in the high school and 188 elementary pupils. Enrollment in off-campus classes will approximate 100 to 125, and extension division enrollment will add another 125 to the total number directly, served by the college.

Opal M. Carter, one time member of Pel'U State's science faculty, has earned the Master of Arts degree at the University of Denver.

Dr. James E. Perdue, a graduate of Peru State in 1937, is the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Denver.

In announcing his appointment, Chancellor Albert C. Jacobs commended the qualities, ability and background of the Peru alumnus, pointing out that Dr. Perdue had already served the University with great succes in both academic and administrative postr-, and adding "I am sure he will do much in furthering the growth and development of this most important area of the University."

A former Navy officer, Perdue holds graduate degrees from Colorado State College of Education and Stanford University. He joined the D. U. faculty in 19.46 as an asr,istant professor of social sciences. He ·was named acting dean in 1947 and has since served as associate dean and budget officer.

Dorothy Stepan, '47, resigned from the Peru State Staff in July after serving as secretary to four college pre::-idents. She is now private secretary to Dr. Archer L. Burnham, executive secretary of the Nebraska State Education ' Association, with head'.:'uarters in Lin<::'.)]n. Sutceedihg her in the president's office is Mrs. Helen Jean Barrett, formerly of Nebraska City.

Cpl. LeRoy F. Wil::-on, star Peru quarterback who graduated in 1952, has been selected for the newlyformed Honor Guard Company for the U. S. Army in Europe's Communications Zone. Stationed at Orleans, France, Wilson was chosen because of his military record and appearance, and will participate in the guard in addition to his regular duties as a clerk-typist with zone headquarters.

He entered Army service in February 1952, and went overseas a year later after completing basic training at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. His wife, Lenie, lives at 2840 P Street in Lincoln.