Bulletin, Lycoming College, January 1953

              I LYCOMING BULLETIN
Vol. \'I JANUARY, 1953 \o. 1
Lycoming Banquet and Dance to Be Held Saturday, February 21
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ATTENTION ALUMNI!
The Annual Greater Lycoming Banquet and Dance.
Saturday, February 21, 195 3.
Banquet in Dining Hall of Clarke Building.
Dance in College Gymnasium.
Banquet: 6:30 o'clock.
Dance: 9:00-12:00.
Banquet Tickets—$1.50 per person, (see page 3)
Dance—$1.50 per couple
riutiom must be made for Baiuiuct mi or before
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18
February 21, 19 5 3 is a very important date for all alumni of Ly-coming
College, but it has a special significance for those alumni of the
classes of 1903 and 1928. That is the date of the Greater Lycom-ing
Banquet and a chance for class reunions, for these classes in parti-cular
it will mark the half century and quarter century marks re-spectively.
In the tradition of last year's event, the 195 3 Banquet will be
held in Clarke Dining Hall and the dance will be held in the gymnasium.
Tickets will be $1.50 per person and the dance will be $1.50 per couple.
The speaker for the occasion has not yet been disclosed but the
Alumni Council is busy making plans for entertainment for the oc-casion.
Don Larrabee is chairman of the speaker's committee.
Dr. Hilbish Dedicates
.atest Book to Father
Florence M. A. Hilbish, PHD.,
ormerly of Hughesville, recently
)ublished a book, "The Research
'aper." This was published by the
Jookman Association, Inc., New
fork, N. Y.
"The Research Paper" was dedi-
:ated to her father, Benjamin Hil-
)ish, who is a member of the Cen-tal
Pennsylvania Conference.
Dr. Hilbish, now a professor of
Rev. Lawrence Lykens, Reports
On Alumni Council Meeting
Reporting the results of the re-cent
Alumni council meeting. Rev.
Mr. Lykens, assistant to the presi-dent
of Lycoming College, an-nounced
the election of Nathan
W. Stuart, a local attorney, class
English at Taylor University, Up-land,
Indiana, is a member of the
class of 1912.
PLEASANT FUTURE PROSPECTS
Dear Alumni:
Greetings and good wishes to each of you from the President
and Staff, Faculty and Students of Lycoming College. In spite of
the many uncertainties which face all of us the present conditions
and future outlook of the college are very encouraging.
Greater Lycoming Baiiijiief
The important mid-winter event—our annual banquet—is
just one month ahead of us. I hope you are planning to attend.
Details of a most interesting program are included elsewhere in
this bulletin.
Meetings of Educational Associations
The annual meetings of the Methodist Educational Associa-tion
and of the Association of American Colleges were held Janu-ary
4-8 in Los Angeles. Mrs. Long and I took advantage of the
occasion to visit relatives, including Olive and John and their
families in Seattle, Portland, Chico, California, Los Angeles, and
Tucson, Arizona. Needless to say this feature of our trip was
most enjoyable.
In the Educational Association meetings questions were the
order of the day. In view of the expanded program of the church
colleges following ^"orld War II, and the greatly reduced enroll-ments
and income of the present time, many of the speakers
pointed out the difficulties facing our colleges. Lycoming shares
this general condition, and being new as a four-year college we
need your continued help. Thank you for your generous response
to our Living Endowment appeal. Please continue to send young
people to us.
Lycoming is now approved by the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Instruction for teacher training on the Secondary level.
Point this out to your young people who want to teach. The de-mand
for trained young people in many fields was never greater.
Our new Assistant to the President, Rev. Lawrence 'VC'. Lykens,
IS on the job—making large plans, responding to calls, eager to
help. Yours for a continually improving Lycoming.
Faithfully yours,
JOHN \V. LONG, President
of 1936, as treasurer of the Al-umni
Association. Also on the
agenda was planning for the
Greater Lycoming Banquet. The
date has been set for Saturday, Feb-ruary
21, 19 5 3 for both alumni
and students. Don L. Larrabee is
chairman of the speakers commit-tee.
The Living Endowment Fund
was repotted to have 29 5 contri-butors.
The concluding business was the
decision to join the American Al-umni
Council. This Council,
which dates from 1913 when the
Association of Alumni Secretaries
was formed has as its aim, the fur-thering
of friendly relations among
its members; the interchange of
ideas on alumni and educational
problems; by the study of prac-tices
and policies of organized al-umni
work; and by the appraisal
of alumni achievement.
A total of 549 colleges and uni-versities
throughout the U. S. are
included in the membership.
Just Released . . .
Dr. Marion R. Trabue, dean
of the department of education
at the Pennsylvania State Col-lege
will be the guest speaker at
the Greater Lycoming Banquet,
it was just announced by Don
Larrabee, chairman. Dr. Tra-bue's
message will be of parti-cular
interest to Lycoming Al-umni
because of the expected
addition of education courses to
Lycoming's curriculum.
A member of the Board of
Directors of Lycoming College,
Dr. Seth W. Russel, assistant
dean of the school of liberal arts
at the Pennsylvania State Col-lege,
will be the toastmaster for
the evening.
AAUP Sponsors
Lecture Series
The Lycoming College Chapter
of the American Association of
University Professors is sponsoring
its second series of three public lec-tures.
The first presentation was
made by Professor Eric \'. Sandin,
head of the I-^nglish department,
January 1 5 on "Mark Twain—Jes-ter
or Cynic.'"
The remaining two will be
given by Dr. J. Milton Skeath, pro-fessor
of psychology who will re-view
his recent study on social ad-justments,
and Professor Kiplinger
of the chemistry department will
give an illustrated lecture on as-tronomy.
Lycoming to be
Represented at
U.N.Model Meeting
Four students and a faculty
member from Lycoming will par-ticipate
April 1-3 in the annual
Middle Atlantic United Nations
General Assembly model meeting
at Cornell University.
Dr. I.oring B. Priest, professor
of history, will accompany the
delegates Peaslee Hoskins and Ed-ward
Younken, seniors, James Cen-doma,
junior, all of ^X'illiamsport,
and Daniel Little, a senior, of Pic-ture
Rocks. George Shortess, Wil-liamsport
junior, will serve as an
alternate.
Each college participating will
have a delegate on each of the four
committees paralleling those of the
U. N.. The committees will be
political and security, economic
and social, trusteeship, and human
rights.
The highest proof of virtue is
to possess boundless power without
abusing it.