Lycoming College Report, November and December 1972

              LYCOMINQ SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT
IVIU.IAMSPOHT, Pennsylvania 17701
Mr. Anthony L. Grlllo
COLLEGE REPORT NoverribeiV December 1972 /Volume 25 Number 9-10
eason's (greetings!
HONORARY DEGREE CONFERRED
Hi. honoraj degrei if Doctor of Humanities was
conferred on Mrs Pearl Williams-Jones, highl)
acclaimed musician, lecturer, and educator from
Philadelphia, on Sunday, November 5,-atthe
i lusion of a concert given bv the recipient in
i Uarki Mi morial Chapel at 11a. m. Mrs. Man' L.
Russell, associate pmlissur of musical Lycoming,
presented Mrs J<
ki- ^ for the conferral ceremony.
[*he c ill U i >rship Through Gospel Music", by
Mi- [ones opened a four-day colloquium, "The
Women's Movement—Toward an Equal Socitev."
Mis Junes had appeared three times previously
on tin' Lycoming College campus.
LYCOMING ASSOCIATES MEET
Tin'. 1
1 B. l-iOi. i (right) vici president foi continuing
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education .it The Pe lylvania State University,
was the guest speakei ;it ,i dinner meeting of
die Assoctati s of Lycoming Collegi 11hhm1.iv
November Bth En the Lycoming Hotel,
Mi Fisher, who ig a member of the associates
and residi s in State ' lollege discussed various
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models ol die "open university" and the
universit) will t walls" with the approximately
1 vc members ol the group attending the
dinner. He responded to qucsl s i oni i ming
the impacl ol such institutions on small private
coll I iming.
rhi Usoi iates of Lycoming Collegi was tunned in
196 I i '" ! group to < isl w ith promoting
the welfare ol the collegi Its membership is
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comprised of professional business, and industrial
li id. rs ol iln ..I' .i Mi . tings ore held .it least
twice a year, sometimes jointly v\ ith the colli i
board ol trusti i and the members ore kept
iui ed ol college activities through publications
ncwsletti i- and Dthei lia
PEARL WILLIAMWONTS
i-l Wllllama-Jones has been uniting find playing -in. • the og* ol flue when, wit
B| (he plain ped.l», ihe wu a Ifjrur.
dcaat from the Bible Way Church ol WaBhliuiton, D. C, Her father, Blnhop
llwood William* was tlu> pastor.
* mognn .-urn Iflude (rtaduote of Howar
bachelor and master of muilc degree?
hobotu) Mnalt Society, she has perl
under Ilr. Howard Mitchell and has loi
K»pp» Lambda
il Symphony Orrhi
n recllftlnotplaiH
it Town Hall di-b.il in 196} and h« sine* appeared In
rfonnliuj Wro-Amcrlcan music tor European audienci
n her throughout the United Stole* performing and
ings of freedom, ind «plrltua]t. She haj also found
gh School In Philadelphia. There she was the opoaaor
I (lie founder and director of ihe Overbrook Singers
a hlc.hl> ...rallies and com]
uranee and eonfldt
Breton, upon ricommeDdMlon ol ihe faculty, t,v thu authority ol th« Cammonwoall
Pennsylvania, and upon rate nf Ihe Board of Truslco and by Hi mandamus, 1 art-lyou,
Pearl Willi ama-Jonof, u the di-tree of Iloclor of Humanltloa, honorl* causi
h nil the rights, privileges and dlatlnctlcm rher.-umo appertain! n*. in token nf whic
PEARL WILLIAMS-JONES
RECEIVES
HONORARY DOCTOR
OF HUMANITIES
DR. TURNER RECEIVES GRANT
Dr. Andrew D. Turner, assistant professor of
chemistry, has been ju aided a S9.000 "Ct.ttrell
Science Grant for Colleges" by the Research
Curpurarion for his work on "Synthesis of
Trupane Al'.aloids and Related Compounds".
LARRABEE AND SANDIN
MEMORIALS ESTABLISHED
in sidi nt Harold H. Hutson has announced tin
establishment nf a memorial fund honoring Don L
I .iir.ilir i lecturer in law at Lycoming College for
mi in- than twenty-five Mars. During his long <• nun-at
the College. Mr. Larrabei gavi an annual award
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SI.500 SEARS GIFT
\n unrestricted grant of $1500 from the Sears-i
lundation was presented November 13th to
President Hutson li\ Mr John R Fahncstock, manager
nl tin- Williamsport Sears store Thi i;ift to Lycoming,
was part of iimre than $122,000 distributed in mid-
November to eighty-five private!) supported colleges
and universities in Pennsylvania and $1,500,000 to
approximatel) 950 two-year and four-year institutions
throughout the counti)
/ R FoJlIU .' of tlu- Willuinnporl Sean
_" fnwn tlu-undatlon
The grant will be utilized by Dr, Turn, r and
students during the summers of 197) 7 4. ,uu\ 75
to continue research on the project. A portion "I
the grant will he used to purchase equipment
ami supplies, including ;i nuclear magm Hi
resonance spectrometei for use by faculty and
students of the collegi Products obtained in
the research projet ton tropani alkaloids will be
si nt to Hi.- National Institutes ol Health to ti si foi
possibl ph) Biological a< ti\ it'. Some ol the
products derived have a medicinal use
The Resean li ( orporatit m was founded in 1912
l.\ Frederick Cottrell Grantsareav.
privati predominatel) undergraduate institul
to stri ngthi n ai ad pi ig) oms In the
in., s
hi Turner dtiaan a laboratory experiment with
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