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ESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Vol. 9, No. 2March 1964

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LETTER

Faculty Members Named to Administrative PositionsOne of the initial items of business

approved by Western Michigan University's Board of Trustees at its firstofficial meeting was the promotionof two faculty members to newlycreated administrative positions.Dr. Cornelius Loew, who has been

head of the department of philosophy and religion, becomes AssociateDean of the School of Liberal Artsand Sciences, as well. Dr. Loew has

been head of the department ofphilosophy and religion since 1958and during the 1962-63 school yearhe served as Acting Dean of theSchool of Liberal Arts and Scienceswhile Dean Gerald Osborn was on aleave of absence.Dr. Loew was graduated magna

cum laude from Elmhurst College,Illinois in 1938. He received hisBachelor of Divinity and Master ofSacred Theology degrees, magnacum laude, in 1941 and 1942 andreceived a Ph.D. in philosophy in1951 from Columbia University.As Associate Dean, Dr. Loew's

particular responsibilities are in thearea of the humanities, the fine arts,special programs and such other assignments as Dean Osborn may givehim.Dr. Leo Stine becomes Assistant

Dean of the School of GraduateStudies. He has been an administrative assistant to Dr. George G. Mal-linson, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies.Dr. Stine joined the WMU poli

tical sicence faculty in 1952.He is a graduate of Illinois State

University and he received M.A. andPh.D. degrees from the University of

Illinois. Prior to coming to WMUDr. Stine taught at Illinois and alsoat Milliken.He served on the Governor's Prep

aratory Commission for the constitutional convention which wrote Michigan's new constitution and he alsowas one of six political science educators in Michigan who wrote a 99page booklet in 1960which informedMichigan citizens about Con Con.

Dr. Leo Stine

Seek Funds to FurnishFlossie Sangren RoomWestern Michigan University

alumni, students, faculty, emeriti andfriends are uniting in a drive to decorate and furnish a large room in thenew Sangren Hall on the campus tobe called "The Flossie Sangren Commons Room," in honor of Mrs.Paul V. Sangren.When Sangren Hall is fully com

pleted and the "Flossie SangrenCommons Room" is furnished, theroom will be available to faculty andstudents for quiet conversation. Theroom will become a center for informal, intellectual discussion and forsmall social functions among studentsand faculty, a kind of extension ofthe classroom learning process but ina more personal, individualized andinformal manner.Mrs. Sangren was an active "first

lady" on Western's campus duringher husband's 24 years as presidentof the growing institution until 1960when illness forced Dr. Sangren toretire. During her husband's tenureMrs. Flossie Sangren presided overmany, many social functions forWMU students, faculty and staffmembers and thus became a belovedfigure on the Western campus because of her warm friendliness andher concern over the problems ofmembers of the Western MichiganUniversity community and Kalamazoo community as well.The Flossie Sangren Commons

Room is the first such room ever

Mrs. Flossie Sangren

WMU Conducts SeminarFor European StudentsOne of the only three American

colleges offering four-week seminarsto European students this summer isWestern Michigan University. TheSummer Study Programs at WMUwere arranged through the Councilon Student Travel, New York andare designed to help foreign studentsexplore community life in the UnitedStates as well as the American image.Another Mid-American Confer

ence school, Miami University atOxford, Ohio and Chico State College in California are the other twoschools taking part in the specialprogram.

Thousands of folders describingthe seminars have been distributedamong European students.The WMU seminar for the Euro

pean students is being held fromJune 30 to July 29. In addition toinstruction on 20th Century American civilization, history, literatureand political thought, the visitingEuropeans are invited into Kalamazoo area homes. They'll study businesses and farms and make severalfield trips to various parts of Michigan. While at WMU the Europeanstudents are living in campus residence halls, with each one having anAmerican roommate.The program is part of the WMU

summer session under the directionof Leonard Gernant.

planned for an academic buildingat Western and committee officialssay they hope this initial commonsroom in an academic building willstart a trend for such rooms in subsequent academic buildings at WMU.While the room will be open forcertain social functions it will not beconsidered to be an offshoot of theUniversity Student Center.Contributions may be sent to: The

Flossie Sangren Commons RoomFund, c/o Lloyd Wester, WesternMichigan University, Kalamazoo,Michigan.

WMU Math Students InNational CompetitionThree Western Michigan Univer

sity mathematics students made astrong showing in the William LowellPutnam Mathematical Competitionconducted this year. A team composed of seniors Charles Nagy ofAllen Park and Charles Flach ofAugusta and sophomore John Pilaarof Kalamazoo finished among thetop 25 percent in the nationwidecompetition among the country's bestcollege mathematics students, according to Dr. James H. Powell, head ofthe WMU mathematics department.Nagy ranked among the highest 10

percent of the 1,260 indviduals whotook part in the examination conducted by the Mathematical Association of America.It was the first time a team from

Western had entered the nationalcompetition.

Summer Science ProgramIn 6th Year at WMUForty-eight high school students

this summer are attending the 6thannual Summer Science Trainingprogram for high school students atWMU. The six week program issupported by a National ScienceFoundation grant, and the studentsare taking work in physics, chemistryand mathematics.Nineteen of the high-ability sec

ondary school students are fromMichigan, the rest from eight otherstates.

The students are receiving intensive teaching in mathematics andeither chemistry or physics, under thedirection of Dr. George G. Mallinson,Dean of the WMU School of Graduate Studies. To be eligible for theSummer Science Training Programat WMU, the 48 students must havecompleted their junior year in highschool, have taken a minimum ofthree science units, ranked in thetop 10 percent of their class witha B-plus scholastic average, achieveda superior mental ability score in

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New Centrex System in Operation Dean OsbornReceives HonorThe dean of Western Michigan

University's School of Liberal Artsand Sciences—Dr. Gerald Osborn—this spring was elected as a Fellowin the American Association for theAdvancement of Science, Washington, D.C. In a letter accompanyingthe certificate, Dale Wolfle, executive officer of the A.A.A.S., stated toDr. Osborn, "Your election as aFellow of the association is in recognition of your standing as a scientist.I know that this expression of esteemon the part of your fellow scientistswill inspire in you greater efforts inbehalf of science and of its positionin our civilization."Dr. Osborn joined the WMU fac

ulty in 1939 as head of the chemistrydepartment, followinga distinguishedcareer as a teacher of chemistry atEastern Michigan University. Hewas appointed Dean of the Schoolof Liberal Arts and Sciences andserved as acting president of WesternMichigan University for six monthsuntil December 31, 1960 when Dr.James W. Miller was named president of the university.

Dr. Strode on State BoardDr. Roland S. Strolle, head of the

education department, this springwas elected to the executive boardof the Michigan Association of theProfessions. As a board member,he'll represent the teaching professionin the state of Michigan.

and Charles Felt, vice president andcreative director, McManus, Johnand Adams, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell, WMU SwitchboardSupervisor, at the new Centrex Switchboardin Administration building.

The old adage, "Don't call us,we'll call you," just does not work ata dynamic and growing universitysuch as Western Michigan University. As a consequence, anyone whodoes phone the university must certainly be aware of the fact that anew CENTREX telephone systemhas been operating at Western sinceApril 18.The modernization of WMU's

telephone system was necessitated byWestern's tremendous growth of thepast several years and anticipatedgrowth in the future.Under the new Centrex telephone

system, WMU has a new, all digitphone number, as do each of the420 telephone stations in campus

SUMMER SCIENCE PROGRAM

tests, and had an excellent recommendation from a teacher in theirfield of intended specialization.Extensive laboratory work is in

cluded in the science training program as well as weekly field trips tobroaden the learning experience ofeach student.

faculty and administration offices.In other words, to reach a particularcampus office, you no longer dial theswitchboard central number, but instead you may dial directly the officeyou seek.Only when you do not know the

specific office phone number is itnecessary to dial 383-1600, which isthe new university switchboard telephone number.Under the old 14 trunk switch

board arrangement at WMU, Michigan Bell officials reported as manyas 900 busy signals a day at Western.In addition, the new streamlinedCentrex switchboard is manned 24hours a day. Intra-university calls toeast campus stations are now madethe same as to west campus offices.

Begin AdvertisingLecture SeriesA series of three lectures this spring

in the First Annual Advertising Lecture Series sponsored by the WesternMichigan University department ofmarketing and the student chapterof the American Marketing Association was highly successful.The lecture series was entitled

"The Challenge to Advertising of theSixties."The initial speaker in the series

was John V. Doyle, senior vice president and group supervisor of Camp-bell-Ewald Co., Detroit advertisingagency. Other speakers in the serieswere Robert E. Riordan, vice president of D. P. Brother & Co., Detroit;

Left to right, Ronald Cox, Kalamazoo, president of the WMU student chapter ofthe American Marketing Association; John V. Doyle; and Conrad Hill, WMUmarketing department faculty, hold certificate of appreciation given Doyle forhis efforts in lecture series.

Peon of Sports Publicists

Homer Dunham

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The late Homer Dunham's 50years of service in his field earnedhim the title of dean of the nation'scollege sports publicity men. Dunham began his long publicity careerin 1912 while a student at AlmaCollege.Dunham remained at Alma in that

capacity until assuming the positionof publicity director at Western in1929. As Western grew Dunhambegan to concentrate in sports publicity, until he retired on July 1,1962.His death in Kalamazoo on March

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Sports HighlightsOne of the most startling occur

rences in spring sports this year wasWestern's third place finish in theMid-American baseball race witha 7-4 record. The first of those lossesbroke a Bronco 32 game conferencewinning streak. The last two defeatswere both shutouts at the hands ofKent State, conference champ.But the overall record was 18-6.

On May 19 the Broncos celebrated"Charlie Maher Day" as proclaimedin Kalamazoo and at Hyames Fieldwhen Charlie was honored withnumerous gifts.Fred Decker, Colon senior out

fielder, was named to the third stringAll-American team.

8 ended a long and devoted allegiance to Western.Dunham won many laurels for his

sports publicity work at Western. In1935-36 he served as president of theCollege Sports Information Directorsof America; in 1943 he was honoredby the American College PublicityAssociation; in 1954 he was namedcollege public relations man-of-the-year by the association; and in 1957he was given the first annual awardof the College Sports InformationDirectors of America.He received his bachelor's degree

from Western in 1937.His wife, Ella, of Kalamazoo, and

three sons and a daughter survive.

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Track coach George Dales is inGreece this summer where he's helpingto coach the GreekOlympic trackteam (he'll return about Sept. 1).The Broncos culminated a fine

outdoor track seasonby winning their7th straight MAC track crown atOxford, Ohio, piling up 72 points toMiami's 61/2 and Ohio's 38. WMUwon six first places and set one newMAC record (Jim Vogler's 53.7 inthe 440 yard hurdles).On the same day a split-up Bronco

team won four first places at theMichigan Relays while the distancemedley relay team of Steve Kaiser,Ted Strnad, Martin Hammersteinand Bruce Burston, competing in theDrake Relays, came within a tenthof a second of tying the Drake Relays record for that event, going the2/2 miles in 9:51, in a winning effort.Tennis coach Hap Sorensen's team,

seeking its 11th straight MAC title,had to share the meet crown withBowling Green and Miami, each with12 points. Dual matches with eighttough Big Ten teams ruined Sorensen's dual-match season record, andBowling Green handed the tennissquad its first MAC dual match lossin three years, 5-4.In the final tennis event of the

spring, WMU surprised onlookers atthe national NCAA tournament heldat East Lansing in June by tyingMichigan for 9th place, as Bob Gilland Mike Goodrich played well.