The_Rambler_1965-10-14

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE. L.I., N. Y.
VOLUME 11 NO. 3 OCTOBER 14, 1965
A
Campus
Picture
by
Dean
Purcell
Foreign
Student
On October 11, 1965, you, who are ''brand new"
to our campus, register for your first collegiate
courses. On October 14 and 15, you, whom we have
known previously, will continue with us in your
collegiate career. Also, on October 15, we will
say farewell to our f i r s t October graduating class.
The campus picture is one of saying hello to the
new, and expressing a fond farewell to those students
who have made the grade and are now ready to
commence their careers with their Associate in Ap-plied
Science degrees.
Farmingdale is a college where you can achieve
as much or as little as you want to achieve. It is
entirely up to you.
It i s stated that it takes brains to become a suc-c
e s s , but it takes an awful lot of effort to become
a failure.
It will be most difficult for you to find a "snap
course*' on our campus. Our variety of curriculums
requires constant study and follow-through on your
part. A lot of thinking and study will go into your
Farmingdale college career. It is extremely
doubtful that you will be caught up in that '' automated
feeling*» of the serenity of ''too much*' leisure
time.
If we could only take some of that popular "go-go'
' energy and put it to use in a discotheque of
intelligence and a search for knowledge, we could
come up with a combo of happiness and a well-educated
feeling.
The prescription today for any college student
really interested in an education is to like the
courses you are taking, know your professors and
what they do require, acquaint yourself with both the
curricular and the extracurricular patterns of col-lege
life, and to make certain that you know the
difference between the fragrance of success and the
awful aroma of failure.
In any event, the fresh air of graduation with the
proper degree of the Associate in Applied Science
is so much more invigorating than the dark depths
of despair of "repeat courses," "low honor point
cumulatives," and the "OTHER DEAN'S LIST."
Good luck to all of you — to you who came and
became "all you were capable of being," and to
those of you who come for the first time, as
well as those of you who are returning to us ...
do try to become all you are capable of being 1
BE A SUCCESS! AND THE BEST!
We are here to help you to learn, to achieve,
to make your smallest knowledge dream come
true.
"Seek knowledge and it will find you, shirk know-ledge
and it will leave you an empty, ever-seeking
individual."
John M. Purcell
October 3, 1965
This Fall we are Instituting a
special orientation program for
foreign students entering Farm-ingdale.
It i s anticipated that this
program will assist them in mak-ing
the great transition from
their own countries to the Amer-ican
way of life and a college
situation in particular.
Some faculty members have
expressed interest in this project
and are volunteering their time
to conduct sessions with them.
Any students who may be inter-ested
in participating in the
orientation program are asked
to contact Miss Mulligan in the
Student Personnel Office. Wheth-er
you are formally participating
in this program or not, all stu-dents
are encouraged to do their
best to make these new students
feel welcome.
The program will take place
during the week of October 4-8.
During the day group discussions
will be led by faculty members
on topics which wUl acquaint
them with American socio-cul-tural
relations, national and local
governments, laws and law en-forcement,
the many facets of
college life, and additional sub-jects
which may be of help to
foreign students. They will also
be taken on guided tours of the
campus and the surrounding
areas.
Evening programs are de-signed
to be both social and in-formative.
These will include an
excellent film on Long Island
issued by the New York Tele-phone
Company; a reception held
by the International Clubs of
Farmingdale for out foreign stu-dents
and the foreign students
of Hofstra University; an evening
spent, by each new foreign student
in the home of a faculty or staff
member,
Mick Belgrave - British Guinea
Carlos Ck)nzalez-Costa Rica
Tejinder Kamboj - India
Gideon Laronne - Israel
Pablo San Miguel - Columbia
If Coffee Call
Commencement Speaker
The College Union Board has
announced that a series of Fac-ulty-
Student "Coffee Calls" will
be inaugurated Wednesday, Oc-tober
13th. The first coffee call
wiU be held from 9 AM - 12
noon in the new lounge of Roo33-
velt Hall. The program will
continue each Wednesday at the
same hours throughout the fall
semester.
The coffee call program is the
first of a series of Board ac-tivities
designed to fulfill the
Union goal of providing leisure
time activities for the entire
College Community. The Cof-fee
Call Is Intended to afford
an oiq;x>rtunlty for students and
facilty to meet Informally and
enjoy good conversation as well
as hopefully good coffee. The
success of the idea will depend
largely upon the Interest shown
by students and faculty alike.
See you tberell?
Dr. Kenneth T. Dor en
Dr. Dor an was appointed Associate Executive
Dean on September 21, 1961. Prior to that time,
he had been Associate in Higher Education with
the New York State Education Department for
eight years.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 14,
1918, Dr. Dor an is a graduate of Keveny Mem-orial
Academy, Cohoes, New York, 1935; State Uni-versity
at Albany, B.S., 1939; and Syracuse Univers-ity,
M.S. (Ed.), 1949 and Ed. D., 1961. He i s cur-rently
president of the State University at Albany
Alumni Association and a director of the State
University Central Administration Chapter, Civil
Service Employees Association.
His experience in the field of education includes
three years as a high school business teacher in
Roscoe, New York, during which he was Secretary,
then President, Sullivan County Teachers Associa-tion;
a year as research associate and curriculum
specialist. Institute Curriculum Research staff.
New York State Education Department; six years
as an instructor. Retail Business Management divi-sion,
Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica;
arid current service as a visiting lecturer in educa-tion,
Graduate School, State University at Albany.
His doctoral dissertation is entitled "New York,
New Yorkers, and the Two-Year-College Move-ment;
A History of the Debate over Structure in
Higher Education,'* and he has been author and
co-author of a number of journal articles on the two-year
college. He has also been a member of a
number of higher education accreditation teams
in and outside New York State.
Dr. Doran served as education officer with a
heavy bombardment group in England during World
War II, and he i s currently a lieutenant colonel in
the U.S. Air Force Reserve (retired).
He holds memberships in Phi Delta Kappa,
American Association of Junior Colleges and New
York State Association of Junior Colleges.
Dr. and Mrs. Doran, with their sons Christopher
and Eric, reside at Westmere, Albany, New York.
Mr. Kenneth T. Doran, Associate Executive Dean
for Two-Year Colleges, will be the guest speaker
at the commencement exercise to be held on October
15.
The graduating class would like to extend their
thanks to Dr. Doran for coming to Farmingdale
and addressing them.