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ItYCO Gr I^UttETIM Vol. VII JANUARY 1954 No. 1 Foreign Student Scholarships Dear Alumni and Other Friends of Lycoming College: I am writing this on the first day of classes following the long and pleasant Christmas holidays. I hope all of you had a helpful Christmas and have entered the New Year re-freshed and invigorated and hopeful. I could use all of the space alloted to me telling you about the alumni and friends who called at the college and at our home during the holidays and it would be very pleas-ant for me to do so but I want to take the space to call your attention to a matter that is presenting a greater opportunity and in a way makes a demand upon us which we are not able, under present circumstances, to meet. I have before me scholarship requests from a prospec-tive student in Manila, three from Korea, one from Liberia, one from Nigeria and numerous ones from prospective stu-dents among our regular constituency. There is a special appeal from the Korean Student Aid Committee, Department of the Air Force, Office of the Base Chaplain, Corswell Air Force Base, Texas, urging upon us the great need of help to Korean students. We are giving at the present time about $20,000 in dis-counts and scholarships to young people from our regular constituency and I am not making any special plea in their case. We ore giving at the present time a full tuition schol-arship to a young man from Nigeria, West Africa. These requests from young people of other countries and especially from Korea make a strong appeal to me. Through the years, because of missionary influence and contacts, students have come to us from a great many coun-tries but I doubt if there has ever been an opportunity such as that which we face at the present time. America must assume world leadership and I believe things are indicating that we will do just that. We are anx-ious that the colleges and especially Lycoming, shall do their part. Some of our alumni and other friends in Williamsport might be able to admit one of these young people into their homes so that they would be able to get, among influences, the advantages of American home life. Our friends outside of Williamsport might be willing to make a special effort to help make available scholarships. I shall be glad to give anyone further information about any one of these individuals if you are interested and are in a position to help. Let me thank you in advance for any-thing that you can do that will enable Lycoming to fulfill its obligations and meet its opportunities. Faithfully yours JOHN W. LONG President Pittsburgh Alumni Organized, More Clubs To Be Formed I No member of the administration nor any member of the alumni association of Lycoming College will deny that there is a need for strong alumni organization. Actual work in estab-lishing alumni clubs has been going on for some months during which a careful study has been made of our potential strength in this area. The organization of the clubs is now an established procedure for which all of Lycoming will benefit. On December 1, 1953, the Pittsburgh Alumni Club was or-ganized with alumni of Dickinson Seminary, Dickinson Junior Col-lege, and Lycoming College in at-tendance. Enthusiasm and genuine interest ran high in this meeting. Lawrence W. Lykens, assistant to the President, and in charge of alumni work at the college, showed colored slides of campus life at the school "on the hilltop." A social hour and business meet-ing were held climaxing with the election of officers. Elected pres-ident of the newly formed club was Dorothy Wenger, '52, and Margaret K. Barr, '25, as secretary. Plans have been made for the next meeting of this club to be held in March with Dr. J. Milton Skeath, head of the psychology de-partment at Lycoming, as guest speaker. Shamokin and vicinity was the next club to be organized. The initial meeting took place on Janu-ary 21, 1954. The college looks forward to or-ganizing clubs in Washington, Bal-timore, Philadelphia, New York, Harrisburg and other areas. Alum-ni clubs can be of considerable help and influence in the future devel-opment of Lycoming. Living En-dorsement, student recruitment, publicizing the college, scheduling the choir — these are but a few areas in which the clubs can be effective and helpful. With more than 4000 alumni throu.uhout the world Lycoming has wonderful reservoir of leadership whicli will bring in Ihe future, as in the past, credit and honor to the college. Activities Planned for Returning Alumni During an interview with Rev. Lawrence W. Lykens, assistant to the president, the Bulletin learned, that during the Homecoming week-end activities more than 100 re-turning alumni attended the activ-ities. This was one of the largest groups of alumni to have ever re-turned to the campus in the last four or five years. NEW FACES New faces are constantly being added to the staff at Lycoming College and the first semester, six new ones have been seen. In Rich Hall are Mrs. Mazie Lenker, the house mother and Mrs. Vivian Yonkin, housekeeper. On the second floor of old main are two more in opposite offices: Mrs. Louise Mortimer in the dean's of-fice and Charles Potter, in the ad-missions office. One more in the admissions office may be known to many, Miss Shallimar Sholley, alumnn of the class of '51, who is back for education credits. Mrs. Lenker came to Lycoming from Bellevue Hospital in New York, where she was a supervisor for tvyenty years. Born and reared in Clinton County where she at-tended school, Mrs. Lenker grad-uated from Old Clinton County High School as a business major. A native of Westport, Clinton County which is about six miles above Renovo, Mrs. Yonkin at-tended Renovo High School. In-terested in hotel work, Mrs. Yon-kin \\as housekeeper at the Cress-mont, Eaglesmere before coming to Lycoming. Although she gi-aduated from William.sport High School, Mrs. Mortimer is originally from Pitts-burgh, Texas. The petite blonde wife of alumnus Albert Mortimer, WRAK announcer, was formerly employed by WRAK. Across the hall in Dean Gram-ley's office, sits a man who has led a very full life and achieved success in his chosen profession, educiition. Mr. Potter, born and reared in Luzerne County, Pa., re-ceived his bachelor and master's degrees at Bucknell University after attending Bloomsburg Nor-mal School. Since then he has taught and held the priucipalship in many places including the task as super-vising principal at Jersey Shore for the past 17 years. He retired from the post in 1952. Mrs. Thomas E. Vargo, whose husband is football coach of the Williamsport High School football team, has taken over the duties of instructor in women's physical ed-ucation.
Object Description
Title | Bulletin, Lycoming College, January 1954 |
Date | 1954-01 |
Month/Season | January |
Year | 1954 |
Volume | 07 |
Issue | 01 |
Creator | Lycoming College |
Subject keywords |
Alumni Alumnae publication magazine |
Publisher | Lycoming College |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Identifier | 195401V07Iss01 |
Language | English |
Coverage geographic | Pennsylvania--Lycoming County; Williamsport (Pa.) |
Rights | May be used for educational purposes as long as a credit statement is included. For all other uses, contact Lycoming College Archives at archives@lycoming.edu. |
Contact | For further information about the collection or a specific item please visit the Lycoming College Archives website, http://www.lycoming.edu/library/archives/ |
Place of Publication | Williamsport (Pa.) |
Decade | 1950-1959 |
Collection | Lycoming College - Alumni Magazine of Lycoming College |
Rights URI | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
Contributing Institution | Lycoming College |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | English |
Coverage geographic | Pennsylvania--Lycoming County; Williamsport (Pa.) |
Contact | For further information about the collection or a specific item please visit the Lycoming College Archives website, http://www.lycoming.edu/library/archives/ |
Place of Publication | Williamsport (Pa.) |
Transcript | ItYCO Gr I^UttETIM Vol. VII JANUARY 1954 No. 1 Foreign Student Scholarships Dear Alumni and Other Friends of Lycoming College: I am writing this on the first day of classes following the long and pleasant Christmas holidays. I hope all of you had a helpful Christmas and have entered the New Year re-freshed and invigorated and hopeful. I could use all of the space alloted to me telling you about the alumni and friends who called at the college and at our home during the holidays and it would be very pleas-ant for me to do so but I want to take the space to call your attention to a matter that is presenting a greater opportunity and in a way makes a demand upon us which we are not able, under present circumstances, to meet. I have before me scholarship requests from a prospec-tive student in Manila, three from Korea, one from Liberia, one from Nigeria and numerous ones from prospective stu-dents among our regular constituency. There is a special appeal from the Korean Student Aid Committee, Department of the Air Force, Office of the Base Chaplain, Corswell Air Force Base, Texas, urging upon us the great need of help to Korean students. We are giving at the present time about $20,000 in dis-counts and scholarships to young people from our regular constituency and I am not making any special plea in their case. We ore giving at the present time a full tuition schol-arship to a young man from Nigeria, West Africa. These requests from young people of other countries and especially from Korea make a strong appeal to me. Through the years, because of missionary influence and contacts, students have come to us from a great many coun-tries but I doubt if there has ever been an opportunity such as that which we face at the present time. America must assume world leadership and I believe things are indicating that we will do just that. We are anx-ious that the colleges and especially Lycoming, shall do their part. Some of our alumni and other friends in Williamsport might be able to admit one of these young people into their homes so that they would be able to get, among influences, the advantages of American home life. Our friends outside of Williamsport might be willing to make a special effort to help make available scholarships. I shall be glad to give anyone further information about any one of these individuals if you are interested and are in a position to help. Let me thank you in advance for any-thing that you can do that will enable Lycoming to fulfill its obligations and meet its opportunities. Faithfully yours JOHN W. LONG President Pittsburgh Alumni Organized, More Clubs To Be Formed I No member of the administration nor any member of the alumni association of Lycoming College will deny that there is a need for strong alumni organization. Actual work in estab-lishing alumni clubs has been going on for some months during which a careful study has been made of our potential strength in this area. The organization of the clubs is now an established procedure for which all of Lycoming will benefit. On December 1, 1953, the Pittsburgh Alumni Club was or-ganized with alumni of Dickinson Seminary, Dickinson Junior Col-lege, and Lycoming College in at-tendance. Enthusiasm and genuine interest ran high in this meeting. Lawrence W. Lykens, assistant to the President, and in charge of alumni work at the college, showed colored slides of campus life at the school "on the hilltop." A social hour and business meet-ing were held climaxing with the election of officers. Elected pres-ident of the newly formed club was Dorothy Wenger, '52, and Margaret K. Barr, '25, as secretary. Plans have been made for the next meeting of this club to be held in March with Dr. J. Milton Skeath, head of the psychology de-partment at Lycoming, as guest speaker. Shamokin and vicinity was the next club to be organized. The initial meeting took place on Janu-ary 21, 1954. The college looks forward to or-ganizing clubs in Washington, Bal-timore, Philadelphia, New York, Harrisburg and other areas. Alum-ni clubs can be of considerable help and influence in the future devel-opment of Lycoming. Living En-dorsement, student recruitment, publicizing the college, scheduling the choir — these are but a few areas in which the clubs can be effective and helpful. With more than 4000 alumni throu.uhout the world Lycoming has wonderful reservoir of leadership whicli will bring in Ihe future, as in the past, credit and honor to the college. Activities Planned for Returning Alumni During an interview with Rev. Lawrence W. Lykens, assistant to the president, the Bulletin learned, that during the Homecoming week-end activities more than 100 re-turning alumni attended the activ-ities. This was one of the largest groups of alumni to have ever re-turned to the campus in the last four or five years. NEW FACES New faces are constantly being added to the staff at Lycoming College and the first semester, six new ones have been seen. In Rich Hall are Mrs. Mazie Lenker, the house mother and Mrs. Vivian Yonkin, housekeeper. On the second floor of old main are two more in opposite offices: Mrs. Louise Mortimer in the dean's of-fice and Charles Potter, in the ad-missions office. One more in the admissions office may be known to many, Miss Shallimar Sholley, alumnn of the class of '51, who is back for education credits. Mrs. Lenker came to Lycoming from Bellevue Hospital in New York, where she was a supervisor for tvyenty years. Born and reared in Clinton County where she at-tended school, Mrs. Lenker grad-uated from Old Clinton County High School as a business major. A native of Westport, Clinton County which is about six miles above Renovo, Mrs. Yonkin at-tended Renovo High School. In-terested in hotel work, Mrs. Yon-kin \\as housekeeper at the Cress-mont, Eaglesmere before coming to Lycoming. Although she gi-aduated from William.sport High School, Mrs. Mortimer is originally from Pitts-burgh, Texas. The petite blonde wife of alumnus Albert Mortimer, WRAK announcer, was formerly employed by WRAK. Across the hall in Dean Gram-ley's office, sits a man who has led a very full life and achieved success in his chosen profession, educiition. Mr. Potter, born and reared in Luzerne County, Pa., re-ceived his bachelor and master's degrees at Bucknell University after attending Bloomsburg Nor-mal School. Since then he has taught and held the priucipalship in many places including the task as super-vising principal at Jersey Shore for the past 17 years. He retired from the post in 1952. Mrs. Thomas E. Vargo, whose husband is football coach of the Williamsport High School football team, has taken over the duties of instructor in women's physical ed-ucation. |
Contributing Institution | Lycoming College |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
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