The_Rambler_1968-03-26

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vol. 39 No. 3 . .the truth shall mako man f r a a .. March 26,1968
Alumni Scholar-ships
For Spring
by Dennis Acer
Mrs. Dorothy Treamer, '49
CT, chairman of the Alumni As-sociation's
scholarship commit-tee,
has announced that twenty
four scholarships have been
granted to students currently en-rolled
at the college for the
Spring . 1968 semester. The
scholarships, which varied in
amounts from $50.00 to $200,005
each, totaled $2,850.00.
All alumni scholarships are
granted on the basis of finan-cial
need and academic ability.
Students apply for the scholar-ships
through the financial aid
office of the College which pro-cesses
the applications and for-wards
them to the scholarship
committee for final review and
approval.
Students receiving Spring
scholarships are studying busi-ness
administration, electrical
technology, aircraft operations,
agriculture, secretarial science,
community service, ornamental
horticulture, nursing, photo-graphic
technology, data pro-cessing,
biology and building con-struction.
Over $17,000.00 in scholarship
assistance has been granted by
the Alumni Association to stu-dents
attending Farmingdale
since the inception of the pro-gram
in 1964. Funds to sipport
this program came from the As-sociation's
Annual Sy Wolf Schol-arship
Sweepstakes Program and
Voluntary Alumni Participation
Program as well as from life-time
membership fees. The
1968 Voluntary Alumni Partici-pation
Program is now In full
swing and its success will effect
the number of scholarships
granted for the 1968/69 academic
year,
Keaton in the
General
The College Union Board be-gins
its Spring Distinguished
Films Series starting on March
26th at 3:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M.
in the Roosevelt Little Theatre
with the classic, "The General,"
starring Buster Keaton.
The purpose of this service is
to provide outstanding films of
the past with educational value
that will not be shown at your
local theatres. This might be
a once in a lifetime chance to see
outstanding masterpieces, which
are not otherwise readily acces-sible.
It is hoped that you will take
advantage of the aforementioned
opportunity. Once again, the
films are scheduled for selected
Tuesdays during the Spring Se-mester
and are shown in Roose-velt
Little Theatre at 3:00 P.M.
and 7:00 P.M. Make plans now
to attend!
Speech Conff.
Joan Melzer (Nursery Educa-tion
'68) attended the annual con-ference
of the New York State
Speech Association from March 7
through 9th in Elmira, N.Y. She
participated in a panel discussion
on two-year Colleges, which was
A lively question and answer
period followed the formal pres-entation.
Professor Sherman of the Eng-lish
Department, who also attend-ed
the conference, reported that
Miss Melzer spoke eloquently and
presented a fine image for Farm-ingdale.
Both ladies also attended sev-eral
other meetings at the con-ference,
and agreed it was an
excellent opportunity to learn
current trends in education.
A l l a r d Field House,
address March 28th.
Barry Goldwater'
Allard Field House
Ready For Barry
by Paul DeLong
As March 28 approaches everything is being
readied for the arrival of Barry Goldwater. The
former Presidential candidate will speak to a ca-pacity
crowd of more than 2,000. All of the f a c i l i -
ties there will be utilized as it i s for Orientation.
The crowd will be somewhat
regulated by the weather outside.
If it is springlike so that lighter
coats can be worn, up to 250 more
people can be seated in field
house.
Only persons with tickets will
be admitted. These tickets have
been available since March 4.
Since then close to 1,700 tickets
have been distributed to students,
faculty members and o u t s i de
groups.
Students who need tickets can
obtain them in the Student Activi-ties
office Rm. 116 of Roosevelt
Hall. The only requirement is
that you present your Student
I.D. cara. No other card can
Nurserymen
Award College
"A most cherished tribute** commented Dr.
Charles W. Laffin, President of the State Uni-versity
Agricultural and Technical College at
being notified that the American Association of
Nurserymen had cited the college's Department
of Ornamental Horticulture, in part, for i t s thirty
years of pioneering in technical, horticultursd
training.
be accepted to acquire a ticket.
For those who don't have cards,
bring a small photograph of your-self
to the Student Activities Of-fice
and a card will be prepared
for you.
Press coverage will include
newspapers, radio and televisioni
Those newspapers include The
Suffolk Sun, L.I. Press, News-day
and The New York Times.
Many local pj^iers are also ex-pected
to attend. It is also ex-pected
that representatives from
the radio and t.v. networks will
be present.
Seating in the Field House will
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Water, Muck and Mire...
When the rains come down the floods come
up. This could possibly be the clearest and
most concise way of summing up the problem
which confronts everyone at Farmingdale, every
time it rains.
You don't have to go far to find
It either. Dorm students in
Hooper Hall could step down the
stairs and disappear. Cars driv-ing
past Horton Hall might need
a flotation raft to get through.
Water is only part of the prob-lem.
Where the tide reaches
our great amounts of mud collect.
As people walk through it, they
drag it through the classrooms,
cafeteria and locker rooms,
which in general creates a sloppy
looking condition.
All this has caused much in-convenience
for Farmlngdale's
Students, Faculty and Staff. Walk-ing
between buildings has become
a game of hqpscotch. Those that
could leap over the puddles made
It to class in fairly dry condition.
But for those who could not their
only alternative was to walk
around it, which could involve
The Association sent two of-ficials,
R, Raymond Brush, Sec.-
retary, and Wayne Dickson, Pub-lic
Relations Director, from
Washington, D.C. Thursday
morning, March 21 to make the
presentation of the coveted a-ward.
This marks the first time
in the national body's 94-year
history that such a citation, in
the form of a proclamation, has
ever been made.
The American Association of
Nurserymen, consists of more
than 1700 member groups in 50
states, the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico. In addition to
nursery stock producers and're-tail
garden center outlets, the
AAJI membership includes such
widely diverse but closely related
industries as: landscape con-tractors,
mail order nursery
men, turf producers, peat moss
producers, chemical manu-facturers,
landscaping and farm
equipment manufacturers, pro-ducers
of sprinkler and irriga-tion
systems, etc.
In notifying Dr. Laffin of the
A AN Honor, Mr, Bush said that:
"The members of this As-sociation
and other Industry
groups making yp the field of
ornamental horticulture continue
to look to Farmingdale for young
people who have both practical
and basic Instruction in land-scape
horticulture. If the nurs-ery
industry is to successfully
meet the challenges of maintain-ing
a pleasing, stimulating, and
natural environment for man we
must have more Farmingdale
Ornamental Horticulture Depart-ments,'*
The citation to be presented
by the American Association of
Nurserymen to Dr. Laffin reads
as follows:
Be it resolved, because of its
30 years of leadership in tech-nical
horticultural education
both in the classroom and a-bout
the campus gardens, ar-boretum
and greenhouses;
And because of its leadership
in developing a model cur-riculum
as a guide for other
technical colleges for the
teaching of the technical hor-ticultural
^eclalities of nurs-ery,
landscape, floriculture,
turfgrass and aboreculture;
The American Association of
Nurserymen, Inc.
commends
State University Agricultural
and Technical College at
Farmingdale, New York
and wishes to recognize the
dedication of the faculty who
have at all times endeavored
to:
1.Aid the student in devel-ing
abilities and compe-tence
in technical horti-culture.
2. Assist each student in de-veloping
his potentialities
so as to live a happy,
healthy, responsible, and
productive Ufe:
3. Serve business, industries,
professions and units of
government by providing
competent personnel In
technical horticulture; and
4. Serve society by stimulat-ing
students to develop their
respective capacities for
participating in and con-tributing
to the democratic
way of life.
great distances.
The overflow of water sought
its own level. This level was
often found in the basements of
many buildings. These buildings
often required pumping to allevi-ate
the situation.
In many buildings the overflow
caused serious concern because
of the danger involved. InL(4)ton
Hall the large amounts of water
possibly could have caused
danger to the vast amounts of
electrical equipment. In Knapp
Hall the runoff could have done
damage to much of the stored
food in the basement.
What can be done? More sew-ers
and drains? These questions
need to be seriously considered
and the conditions si^rroundlng
them should be eliminated as
quickly as possible.
Hooper Hall Lake . • • and there is ten'more like
it around cannpus.