Lycoming College Report, September 1978

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COLLEGE
REPORT
Volume 31, Numbei
MR. CHARLES E. IVEYANT
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
What's new? Old friends at college reunions
always ask. The same question is heard each
fall as students and faculty reassemble for a
new term. It's usually a casual question, en-couraging
small talk. Sometimes it can be a
nervous question, betraying anxiety about
what lies ahead. But it can also be a very
serious and provocative question.
What should we expect from the year ahead?
We ought to have some idea. Chances are
we'll not get much more than we expect.
Limited achievement is often nothing else
than lazy expectation left behind by unnoticed
opportunities.
Sometimes, of course, we miss our golden
moment because we are preoccupied with
inappropriate expectations. Many Americans
expect education to be a ticket to success,
for example.
Not long ago, CBS presented a documentary
on degree mills in America, highlighting an
operation in California which offers repro-ductions
of diplomas from almost any univer-sity
you can think of—with your name affixed
if you wish! Even the price is right! A
similar company was exposed by my alma
mater in Atlanta a few years ago. Academic
counterfeiters seem to lurk in every dark
hole around. American education may be in
recession, but offering ersatz degrees is a
growth industry!
Why the demand ? It is common enough to
want something for nothing, but to get nothing
for something like the prices charged for
these bogus degrees? That's something!
I suspect this sort of fraud prospers because
society is somewhat disallusioned with the
nation's colleges and universities. Not only
is what we produce sometimes hard to dis-tinguish
from the diplomas we award, but it
is often difficult for the public to know what
should be expected from us. Despite the
jokes and cartoons, a college is not a factory
where students are run in at one end, pounded
with facts and theories and run out the other
end, all polished and ready to perform. A
college is an incubator for the mind, a place
where discovery becomes a preoccupation,
where human experience is refined into in-sight.
A college degree is not a certificate
in technology; it is not necessarily the door-way
to success. Nor should it be! Robert
Frost expressed the heart of the matter when
he observed that "education is hanging around
, until you've caught on.
"
The year ahead won't be a "quickie." With
luck it will be an eye-opening and extended
conversation about what's new these days.
(Please turn to page 2, column 2)
New Faculty and
Staff Appointments
Front. Judith Hill, Mrs. Diane Lesko, Dr. Catherine Studier
and Mrs. Louise Stone. Back; Richard Troxel, lack Murphy,
Dr. Fredric Wild, John Strieker and Dr. David Jex. (Dr.
Richard Nelson was absent when photo was taken)
Ten new members have been appointed to the
Lycoming College Faculty for me 1978-79
academic year to fill vacancies created by
resignations, retirements and sabbatical
leaves.
They include JUDITH M. HILL, teaching
fellow in philosophy; Dr. DAVID N. JEX,
assistant professor of music; Mrs. DIANE
M. LESKO, instructor of art; JACK D. MUR-PHY,
visiting professor in mathematics; Dr.
RICHARD J. NELSON, visiting assistant pro-fessor
of modern languages; Mrs. LOUISE
M. STONE, visiting instructor in English;
JOHN E. STRICKER, assistant professor of
business administration; Dr. CATHERINE E.
STUDIER, assistant professor of education;
RICHARD TROXEL, assistant professor of
mathematics, and Dr. FREDRIC M. WILD,
assistant professor of English. The appoint-ments
of Mrs. Hill, Murphy, and Drs. Jex
and Nelson are tempcoraryJ., .,, (cont'd on page 2, col. 1.
Walter |. Heir John G. Detwilei
We announce with sincere regret the
deaths of John G. Detwiler on July 8
in Florida, and Walter J. Heim on
August 3 in Williamsport.
Mr. Detwiler became a trustee of Ly-coming
College in 1964 and served as
Acting President for a year beginning
August 1, 1968. He was a generous
benefactor and the Detwiler Planetar-ium
was named for his family.
Mr. Heim became a trustee in 1965
and served as Chairman of the Execu-tive
Committee for many years. He,
too, was a generous benefactor to Ly-coming.
Only weeks before his death,
he agreed to accept a position of leader-ship
in our upcoming capital campaign.
We shall indeed miss them both.
The Faculty
of
LYCOMING COLLEGE
invite you to be present at
THE FALL RECEPTION
Friday, October the twenty-seventh
nineteen hundred and seventy-eight
from eight to ten in the evening
Pennington Lounge
ACADEMIC CENTER
Library and TV nil ripon Lounge, Aca-demic
Confer
Movie The Omen"
D-001 Lecture Kail, Academic Center
Admission J1.IIQ
Arena Thratre Two one-acl plays:
"Thin i., the Dill Speaking" and "Toe
Creel Nebula In Orion"
Admission: 53.00
LI
a.m. Registration
Burchlleld Lounge. Wcrlt Student Contei
Open Choir Rehearsal for Pareotl
Clarke Chapel(Frce coffee an.1 dnughnuia
Open House - Career Development Cents:
Room 105, Long Hall
l-AS p. m. Brunch - Colics Dining Room
(Parents, are gucala 01
up llcli
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register
:omtng v*. I'pssla
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Ccll,- K e pick up ticket! t*h
register]
Movie: "The Omen"
DKiul Lerlure Hall, Acadei
l: S.i ...
Coffee Houie - No admission charge
East Hall Lounge
Mime Duet, Vivian Belmont and Mark
Sky Sbriwr.
Di'iwilcr Planetarium, Academic Center
lAdmJssion by ticket onlj: on admisilon
charge) No one admitted after nhmue
ireoce. Preal
9SS to 19G«.
HOMECOMING
OCTOBER 6-8
PARENTS' WEEKEND
OCTOBER 27-29