The_Rambler_1953-04-17

              THE RAMBLER
Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute—Farmingdale, N. Y.
VOL. XXIV, No. 1 April 17, 1953
April In Paris Here April 18th
Instructor of the
Month
For this issue, we have chosen
Mr. Robert Davidson, a member
of the General Education De-partment,
as Instructor of tlie
Month.
Dr. Davidson hails from Med-ford,
Maine, a small New England
farming town, where he grew up
and went to school. Later he
went to Bowdoin College, Maine,
and received his Bachelor of
Science Degree, there.
At this point, due to the de-mands
of World War II, Mr.
Davidson's education was tem-porarily
interrupted while he
took a tour of service in the
U.S. Army for four years.
After being discharged from
the service, Mr. Davidson, en-rolled
at Columbia University
graduate school where he re-ceived
his Master of Arts Degree
in Education.
In the summer of 1946, Mr.
Davidson came to Long Island
A & T to become an instructor
in the General Education De-partment.
In his seventh year at
the Institute, Mr. Davidson has
become one of the busiest and
best liked instructors here.
Among the jobs and duties Mr.
Davidson has undertaken are:
Assistant to Mr. Merritt for the
Evening School; member of the
State University Personnel Pol-icy
Committee, and Chairmaii of
the Institute Personnel Policy
Spring Festival
Long Island A and T will see
its first all-around weekend an
affair which other colleges, many
times our size, hold every year.
A committee, consisting of club
presidents from every organiza-tion
on campus, has recently
drawn up a complete program.
The date has been set for the
weekend of May 15.
The purpose of this "Spring
Festival" is three fold. First, and
foremost, is the idea of having
a good time, in fact, three days
of good times; secondly, to prom-ote
a closer union between both
campuses by having them work-ing
together toward one goal;
and, thirdly, to arouse interest in
Institute activities by making the
students realize that there are
many worthwhile things right
here on campus.
The fanfare will start on Friday
night at 7 p. m. with an old fash-ioned
clam bake at the Log Cabin
and the soccer field. A series of
skits are to be presented by vari-ous
clubs, dorms, or anyone who
has an inclination toward enter-taining
the multitudes. A, not-so-
square, square dance will be
the feature event of the evening
with the Herb Schroder aggrega-tion
providing the musical
sounds.
C.I.S.G.A.
Committee. Recently he was ap-pointed
to the National Council
of Teachers of English. He has
assisted in the production of three
films showing life at the Insti-tute
and other schools in the
State University. Now he is
helping to make four short films
covering certain curriculums
now offered at the Institute. As
Advisor of the Yearbook, he has
helped the graduating class pro-duce
the "Islander", of which he
says, "This year's 'Islander' is
one of the best we have produc-ed
and we hope everyone has
ordered one."
As for Mr. Davidson's homo
life, he is married and has two
children, a boy 6 years old and
a girl 3 years of age. He likes
to go boating and swimming in
his spare time and likes Long
Island for that reason. Although
born in Maine, Mr. Davidson has
On. the 24 and 25 of this month
a multitude of "new faces" will
invade this campus. There is no
cause for alarm however, since
it will be the annual meeting of
the Council of Institute Student
Government Associations. The
representatives will be from the
eleven two-year Institutes in ad-dition
to guests from seventeen
junior colleges in New York
State.
The pux'poses of this organiza-tion
are many-fold; to discuss
problems of school sipirit and soc-ial
activities; to exchange ideas
on newspaper, yearbook and stu-dent
council functions; and in all
to gradually unify and strengthen
the two year colleges of our
State.
This year, for the first time,
a trophy will be awarded to the
institute publishing the best year-book.
All yearbooks will be sub-mitted
to members of a sister
college in the State University
for final decision. With this goal
in mind, everyone will strive to
publish a yearbook worthy of
recognition, for this award.
Nick Poulos is this year's Pres-ident
and, by coincidence, the
conference is at Farmingdale.
Acting as hosts for these people
and trying to make their stay as
pleasant as possible are members
of the Student Council 'and In-stitute
faculty.
Representatives will arrive
Thursday night through Friday
morning. After registration, a
welcoming address will be made
by Director Knapp. Following
the meetings, there will be a
square dance in the Gym Friday
night and a dance Saturday night.
At a recent meeting for the
planning of this weekend, most
of the organization problems were
settled. The agenda has been
drawn up and work is moving
along rapidly.
Those of us who are helpin.g
to make this weekend a success
feel that one will benefit from
the goals attained and the new
friends made.
come to like New York State
very much, and those of us on
campus are glad that he has
joined forces with us.
Have you ever been to Paris
in the Spring? How many times
have you wished that you could
say, "I've spent April in Paris"?
Let your desires be satisfied —
at last you too can know the won-ders
of intriguing Paris, and
right here on campus too. Satur-day,
April 18, at 9 P.M. the hap-piest
city in the world will be
transplanted from its European
soil on to the land between the
waters.
This could mean but one thing
- the presentation by The Class
of '54 of its Semi-Formal Prom,
under the guise of "April In Par-is".
Of course a few alterations
must be made in order to pre-pare
the student body for the
sudden change. The Ags will
have to get used to being called
monsieur', and the D.H.'s must
remember not to reply "Who
me?" to an address of 'mademoi-selle',
but these are only minor
details.
Knapp Hall will be renamed
Rue La Knapp for the evening,
while the fragrance of French
perfume will, no doubt, fill each
and every crevice in the sur-rounding
area. All one needs is
a good imagination, and he has
an expense-free trip to the
world's most exciting center of
romance.
As Chairman of the Decoration
Committee, Stu Lerner, Frosh
President from the Ag campus,
promises that nothing will be
spared in order to escort every
f reshman to one of the famous
sidewalK cafes of Paris as situat-ed
at the foot of the Eiffel Tower,
or along the streets of Paris. In
such a setting, food is almost im-material,
yet Joan Fletcher, and
her hard working Refreshment
Committee will have plenty in the
way of delicacies on hand to wine
and dine the Parisian visitors. Of
course the dreamy music is an
essential and will be ably pro-vided
for by Danny Basile
and his band, the persons
who did such a wonderful job
at the Snow Ball. With all this
atmosphere, it would be imposs-ible
for you to have anything
less than the time of your life,
and besides, girls, cui'few has
been extended until 1:30 A.M.
Spend this April 18 in Paris.
N'oubliez pas chef d'oeu'vre and
creme de la creme.