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Faculty Bulletin: April 21, 1971La Salle University
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(Through May 17)
Lecture: Nayana Bhiran, Krishna Consciousness,12:30 P.M., Theatre..........................April 22
Service: Ecumenical Prayer, Chapel, 12:30 P.M........ April 23Concert; Mens' Chorale Spring show, Theatre......... April 23
Forum: President and Vice Presidents, 12:30 P.M.,Theatre......................................... April 27
Meeting: Faculty Senate, 12:30 P.M., CU 301............ April 27Awards: Annual ROTC Awards and Review Ceremony,
12:30 P.M., Theatre...........................April 29Last Day of Classes, (day)..............................April 30
Awards: Student Congress Annual Awards Dinner,Shack, 7:00 P.M...............................April 30
Final Exams: Day and Senior Evening Division.........May 3-10Last Day of Classes (Evening)...........................May 8
Final Exams: Underclass Evening Division................May 10-18Residence Halls Close: noon............................May 11Reception: Faculty-Senior, Ballroom, 6:30 to
8:30 P.M....................................May 16ROTC Commissioning Ceremony, Theatre, 11:00 A.M.........May 16
Mass: Baccalaurate, St. Timothy's Church,11:00 A.M................... May 17
Commencement: Convention Hall, 7:00 P.M.... ......... .May 17
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FACULTY BULLETIN CONTINUED PAGE TWOOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCEDDaniel J. Rodden, associate professor of English at La Salle College and mana
ging director of the college's popular summer MUSIC THEATRE, has been promoted to full professor, it was announced by Brother Daniel W. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D.
Rodden, who lives at Salem Harbour, Pa., is also chairman of the college's new speech and drama department and managing director of Theatre La Salle, the college's new year-round dramatic program.
Brother Burke also announced that five members of La Salle's faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor and that four others have been promoted to assistant professors.
The new associate professors (and their major field) are: Dr. J . Sandor Cziraky (history), of 5148 N. Sydenham st.; Brother Edward Davis, F.S.C., Ph.D. (theology);Dr. Peter J. Filicetti (psychology), of 1745 Bantry drive, Dresher, Pa.; Dr. Michael J. Kerlin (philosophy), of 1415 Clearview st., and Dr. Bruce V. MacLeod (industry), of 210 Woodlyn ave., Glenside.
The new assistant professors are: Mrs. Florence Fay (philosophy), of 119 Limekiln Pike, Chalfont; James H. Hanes (fine arts), of 415 W. Stafford st.; Allan Janik (philosophy), of 204 David drive, Bryn Mawr, and Brother Luke Tuppeny, F.S.C. (theology).
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VICE-PRESIDENT. ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
An "In the Literature" Excerpt has been submitted by Brother Emery C. Mollenhauer F.S.C., Vice-President Academic Affairs, and can be found at the back of this Faculty Bulletin.
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VICE-PRESIDENT, PUBLIC AFFAIRS
MAY FACULTY BULLETIN
The deadline for the May Faculty Bulletin will be Wednesday, April 28, with publication scheduled for Thursday, May 6. A blank Faculty Bulletin News Memo Sheet has been enclosed at the rear of this faculty bulletin. Therefore items for the May Bulletin may be submitted at any time prior to April 26 via campus mail or personal delivery to CU 205.
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FACULTY BULLETIN CONTINUED PAGE THREE
ALUMNI
LA SALLE SPRING RECEPTION HONORS CORACE AND KIRK
La Salle’s thirteenth annual spring reception was held on campus in the college union ballroom last Sunday (April 18) from 4:00 to 7:00 P.M. The guest of honor was Frank C. Corace '64, who was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Athletes. In addition, Joseph Kirk was posthumously inducted into the "Coaches’ Corner" of the Hall.
Frank Corace, one of the greatest scorers in Explorer court history, captained the 1964 team which won the Quaker City Tournament and Big Five title. Corace, who played both guard and forward, finished his career with 1411 points, sixth highest all-time total at the college. He scored 601 points in his senior year, including an 80 point three-game outburst which gave him the MVP award of the ECAC Quaker City Tourney at the Palestra.
Honors Corace received at La Salle include: honorable mention All-American (DPI, Converse and Sport Magazines), All-East, All-Big Five and Middle Atlantic Conference, and MAC most valuable player in his senior year.
Joe Kirk, who had coached swimming since the inception of the sport at La Salle in 1941, had an amazing career record of 213 victories against only 65 setbacks in 26 seasons at the helm.
In January, 1955, his La Salle mermen started a record-breaking winning streak that reached 39 consecutive victories before West Chester nipped La Salle 48-31, on February 5, 1958. Overall, from 1955 to the end of the 1958 season the Explorers had a 43-2 record.
The brightest star of the 22 All Americans developed under Kirk was Joe Verdeur, 1948 Olympic Champion, and charter member of the Alumni Hall of Athletes.
On January 31, 1970, Kirk suffered a heart attack during the West Chester meet. He lingered until March 23, 1970 when he finally succumbed.
Corace received the award from Harry White, La Salle Alumni president, after athletic director John J. Conboy had recounted some of Corace's exploits.
Former athletic director Jim Henry eulogized Joe Kirk, and Brother Daniel Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., received a plaque honoring Kirk from Marge Hulton Dolan of the Swimming Hall of Fame.
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FACULTY BULLETIN CONTINUED PAGE FOUR
DEVELOPMENTBRACELAND APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
OF "LETTER OF INTENT" PROGRAM
Francis J. Braceland, M.D., senior consultant and chairman of planning and development at the Institute of Living, Hartford, Conn., has been appointed executive chairman of La Salle College's new "Letter of Intent" development program.
Under the new program, alumni and friends of the college are being requested to make provisions in their estate plans for the college's endowment portfolio through outright bequests, trust agreements, or assignment of life insurance policies.
Dr. Braceland, a 1926 graduate of La Salle, is the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry. He is consultant to the Surgeon General, U. S. Navy, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Yale University.
A recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, Dr. Braceland was appointed a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XII, and Knight Commander by Pope Paul VI.He is a retired Rear Admiral and holds the Legion of Merit awarded by the U.S. Navy.
In announcing Dr. Braceland’s appointment, La Salle's president, Brother Daniel W. Burke, F.S.C., Ph.D., said: "The basic strength of a private college is its endowment fund. Traditionally, these funds have been built up by alumni who support programs for scholarships and excellence in teaching,which normally cannot be supported by tuition."
La Salle's new "Letter of Intent" program is part of the college's Bequest and Deferred Giving program under the direction of Jerry L. Watkins.
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MILITARY SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Military Science cordially invites faculty and administration to attend the ROTC Annual Awards Ceremony to be conducted at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, April 22, 1971, in the College Union Theatre. The Awards Ceremony will be followed by the Annual Review at 3:00 P.M. in McCarthy Stadium.
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
"STUDENTS AT LA SALLE INDUSTRY DAY" TO CONTINUE UNTIL APRIL 30La Salle College's Industry Department is again sponsoring a SOLID (Students
of La Salle Industry Day) program this year, it was announced by Dr. Bernard B. Goldner, department chairmen.
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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (Continued)
At least 100 students and some 80 companies are participating. Under the program, which continues until April 30, individual students "live" with executives for an entire day and observe all business activities of that executive.
Among the objectives of the program, according to Dr. Goldner, are "to establish and maintain professional relationships between the students of the college and the business community of the Greater Philadelphia area and to provide the student with exposure to management positions in his field of interest."
Among the companies participating in the SOLID program are Alan Wood Steel, American Sugar, Arco, Clarkies, Continental Can, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Eaton, Yale and Towne, Fischer and Porter, Franklin Mint, Litton Industries, Philco-Ford, SKF, Inc., Whitman's Chocolate, and Smith, Kline and French Labs.
When the SOLID program was initiated in 1969, it was limited to some 40 La Salle juniors and seniors. The program was opened to underclassmen last year and some 80 students participated in activities of 65 companies located from New York City to Delaware.
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LA SALLE COLLEGE
From the Literature - Vice President, Academic Affairs
TEACHING by Kenneth E. Eble (from The Chronicle of Higher Education,March 29, 1971, p. 8)
One of my most memorable classroom experiences was watching a college professor bet his brains against the laws of physics. Standing on one side of a cavernous auditorium, he held to his forehead an iron ball attached by a long cable to the ceiling.Then he let it go and stood unmoving as the ball swung across the room and back. It did not, as the laws of motion said it would not, bash his brains out. The students were tremendously impressed, both relieved and faintly disappointed.
I was thinking about this as I watched a recent class in introductory physics. The auditorium was smaller, more comfortable, better-equipped. The lecturer was competent, and he did turn to the blackboard occasionally. But not once during the 50-minute hour did he suggest that physics can be a visual, physical, subject. He did not, as I had seen another lecturer do, reach into his pocket and bring out various colored balls identified as atomic and subatomic particles. He did not bring out the mouse traps and Ping-Pong balls that illustrated nuclear fission in a more innocent day.
What he did was what most university lecturers do when faced with a big class: talk, talk, talk. Lecturers do, of course, read from books and other printed materials, make assignments, work out tests and exercises.
For the committed student, the "major," such rudimentary techniques may work well enough. The sciences, after all, have their labs, and most campuses provide students with opportunities for close at-hand relationships with art, music, ideas, other minds and sensibilities. But for the student just coming into college, too little is done to catch and engage his attention.
The introductory physics course is a case in point. Physicists tell me that the "magic show" is on the wane. To some degree, there are valid pedagogic objections to such a course. Demonstrations get in the way, one physicist told me. Students remember the gimmicks, but don't grasp the principles.Suspicious of Popularity
Yet, many of the physicists I have talked with look at it differently. "Only the older generation of professors are interested an associate dean told me. "The new men can't afford to work up the introductory course. No pay-off."
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Such attitudes help explain the lack of attention shown for the beginning student, the non-major, the general course. A suspicion toward popularity is a related academic attitude. Faculty members who are quick to find apologies for the dry-as-dust teacher who "knows his field," show less charity toward the professor who attracts flocks of students from across the university.
Perhaps such response grows out of the respect of a scholar has for the truth of his discipline. Ideally, a man's subject may need no ornamentation. Yet, Whitehead is surely right when he says, "Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. . .Somehow or other it must come to the student, as it were, just drawn out of the sea."
But it is not the philosophic position which keeps teachers from making an impact on the uncommitted student. It is easier to read from old notes than to bring in fresh ideas, to keep the 50-minute classroom format than to seek new modes of teaching, to work with one's office door closed than to leave it open, to take truth from the graduate school and mete it out sparingly than to test it out before a large and often unappreciative audience.The Professor as Example
Nevertheless, American higher education has great need for professors who have the ability to speak in terms the student can understand, to arouse and hold interest, to exemplify and illustrate and demonstrate. The greatly skilled teacher of this kind may embody the larger example: the professor as a being worthy of emulation. Students need the kind of professor who is willing to bet his skull against the knowledge he possesses, willing too to make the test in public, and to risk that his students may be entertained at the same time they are edified.
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FACULTY BULLETIN (Continued) PAGE EIGHTPUBLISHED, SPOKE, MET, ETC.
DIXON, Dr. Christa K., assistant professor, German, article: "Earlach Die Sundflutund Grass Hochwasser, Ein Beitrag zum Vergleich" in German Quarterly, May 1971.
DUFFY, John, assistant professor, economics, authored a paper, "Some Notes on theProposed State Income Tax Base," portions of which were adopted in the final (3 1/2%) state income tax law. A limited number of copies of the paper are available for those interested. (Box 212, campus mail or ext. 301).
CARCIA-CASTRO, Ramon, assistant professor, Spanish, spoke on "Aspects of the Spanish language in South America, with emphasis on Chile" at the Annual Spanish Contest of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese on March 21, 1971 at Temple University.
GILLINGAN, Robert M., assistant professor, psychology, has published with Dr. George A. Ferguson, McGill University, Montreal, an instructor's manual for the text Statistical Analysis in Psychology and Education, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, April 1971.
HARBISON, John L., instructor, evening division history department, participated inthe teacher education in political science program (TEPS) at the University of Colorado, April 12-16. The program is planned and executed by the de- partment of political science of the university in conjunction with the social science education consurtium and the school of education. The entire program is funded by the U.S. Office of Education. The overall objective of the program is to stimulate continuing and long lasting change and growth in pre-college political science education in the United States.
HASSAB, Dr. Joseph C., assistant professor, physics, will present a paper entitled "Coherent Scattering from a Unidimensional Random Slab," at the 1971 spring symposium USNC/URSI (United States National Committee/International Scientific Radio Union) on April 7-10, Washington, D.C. Also, Dr. Hassab participated as an advisor at the 4-H Council Conference of Southern New Jersey on March 19-21, Atlantic City. Also, Dr. Hassab lectured on "Scattering In a Turbulent Medium-Partial Summation Methods," at Drexel University, electrophysics advanced study group on March 11.
HOFMANN, Charles E., assistant professor, mathematics, successfully defended his disertation at Temple University on March 16, 1971. The title of his disertation was "Specializations of Pascals Theorem on an Oval." Also, he presented this paper to the meeting of the American Mathematical Society held in New York City on April 10, 1971.
JACOBOWITZ, Herman, evening division, electronic physics, delivered a paper at the first computer designer's conference on January 23 at Anaheim, Calif.The paper "Automatic Generation of Tests and Diagnostics for Chips, Plug-Ins and Computer Systems," will be published in April in the conference proceedings.
MC CARTY, Carl, mathematics, successfully defended his disertation on March 29, 1971. The title of his disertation is "On the Radius of Univalence of Certain Analytic Functions."
FACULTY BULLETIN (Continued) PAGE NINE
PUBLISHED, SPOKE, MET, ETC.(Continued)
MC KENNA, Margaret M., instructor, theology, was a guest panelist on WCAU's radio discussion on "Jewish-Christian Dialogue", March 7th. In addition, she addressed the Medical Mission Sisters on "the Early Church and Church of Today" March 23, 24 and 25. Also, she gave a lecture on "the Jewishness of Christianity" to religious educators assembled for a days workshop at St. Joseph's College, March 20th. On March 31st Sr. McKenna addressed the Newman Club of the University of Pennsylvania on "the Biblical texts of the Passion and Resurrection."
REIFSTECK, L. Thomas, associate professor, marketing, and president of the CPC, Inc.delivered a paper entitled "The Professional Development of the Government Recruiter" at the Regional Advisory Council of the Social Security Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Mr. Reifsteck also attended the American Personnel and Guidance Association meeting in Atlantic City April 4-7 whose theme was Human Rights-our concern for change. Also he has recently returned from a visit to the State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina where he conducted a follow-up visit to evaluate the Career Counseling and Placement Program at the University. This visit is sponsored by College Placement Services, Inc. College Placement Services is an educational, advisory and service organization which offers assistance, at no extra cost, to underprivileged colleges and universities. Funds are supplied from a three year grant made by the Ford Foundation.
ROONEY, Dr. John, professor, psychology, has completed a review of the psychological research on the American priesthood. This review will be included in the book "The American Priest" edited by Eugene Kennedy and Victor Heckler. Also, he has conducted a seminar on "Morale in an Organization" for administrative personnel of the Pennsylvania Department of Health in Harrisburg.
WILEY, Samuel J., assistant professor, mathematics, presented a presented a paperentitled, "Extensions of Left Uniformly Continuous Functions on a Topological Semigroup"to the meeting of the American Mathematical Society held in New York City on April 9, 1971.
WHITE, John Carroll, assistant professor, Theology, is the author of a chapter in the recently published book, New Dimensions in Religious Experience, edited by George Devine (New York: Alba House, 1971). The chapter, entitled "Religous Experience in Atheism," was originally an address given by Mr. White at the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, Boston, Mass., March 29-31, 1970.
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