Bulletin, Lycoming College, January 1954

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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.