The_Rambler_1955-02-24

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COLLEGE OH i m i m J - ' YI
jEARMINGDALE, Ut ttl. ^
THE RAMBLER
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
LONG ISLAND AGRICULTURAI. AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARM INGDALE, L. L, N. Y.
Vol. XXV, No. 6 February 24, 1955
EDUCATION IN ACTION
MESSAGE
FROM ADMINISTRATION
In a document of 1,021 pages,
Governor Harriman has presented
the "Executive Budg-et" to the
Legislature. This document pro-vides
the financial underpinning
for the opsratiom of all kinds of
activities financed by the State,
f r om April 1, 1955 to March 31,
1956. Included are 4 pages devoted
to the Institute.
It takes a lot of money to operate
the Institute for a year—$1,260,000,
in round figures. The larger part
of this—over a million dollars—
goes for salaries and wages of all
kinds. The balance is for what is
termed "Maintenance and Opera-tion".
The largest item in this
category is for Fuel and Power,
as you would expect—$60,000.
The news of particular interest
in the Governor's Budget relates to
our building program. Here we
have an item of $520,000 for a
Frozen Food Laboratory Building,
to be devoted to instruction i n pro-cessing,
packaging and merchan-dising
fi 'ozen foods. This is one of
the most rapidly growing industries
in this country. This building will
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SENIOR STAFF MEMBERS FETED
In a. specially reserved section of Knapp Dining Hall on Monday,
February 5th, The Rambler Staff held its annual luncheon. Those at-tending
were honored by the presence of Director Knapp. After a
delicious meal was served, Director
PETER BOSLEY
LNSTRUCTOR BOSLEY
by Caroline Cassis
This month we are going to
offer a salute to "Pete" Bosley,
who has been chosen as the In-structor
of the Month for the Ag
campus.
Pete, who was a student here at
LIATI not too long ago, moved into
the job of Woody Plants Culture
Instructor at which he has been
doing an excellent job. Now, to our
regret, he is going to leave our
campus to take on a job of re-search
out in Ohio.
Pete is a man with an insatiable
curicusity about plants. An in-structor
whose greatest desire is
to arouse the interest of his stu-dents
and instill into them his
great love and unconcealed ad-miration
for plants, be they the
humble lichen or the highly de-veloped
rose; the simple, the beauti-ful.
A student of nature who at
times feels ashamed to admit the
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COUNTRY LIFE
OPEN HOUSE PROGRAM
Knapp gave a short talk concern-ing
school newspapers and stated
that the standard of a school could
easily be judged by the journalistic
achievements of its paper.
It was at the end of this talk
that the air grew tense because
we all knew that it was time for
the awards of merit to be pre-sented.
Each Senior asked himself,
"I wonder if I'll get one?" I am
very happy to report that all the
Senior members an the Staff re-ceived
their award of merit.
Some of those who received the
awards were: Leo Guliano, Editor-in-
Chief; John Birkentall, News
Editor; Judy Goldenblum, Feature
Editor; Frank Abate, Exchange
Editor; Elliott Donner, Sports Edi-tor
and Stan Zelazny, Circulation.
The Senior Staff members, now
f e e l i n g very jubilant and appreci-ative,
felt it was their turn to
award the faculty advisors, Mrs.
Purcell and Mr. Floyd, for their
great assistance, without which
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Signs of spring are already quite
evident here on the campus. A
trip to the Hort Building and the
Institute's Greenhouses gives ample
evidence of this. Exhibits in flowers
and gardening are featured. Sum-mer
flowering plants and lilacs
forming buds, rhododendrons and
azaleas sprout to bloom, and a
birch tree coming into leaf all
show promise of a June garden in
February. Indoor gardens for Long
Island homes and a number of fine
terrariums and dish gardens are
also featured, noi to mention the
beautiful floral arrangements that
are on display.
Other exhibits that can be seen
on the main campus includes a
dairy cattle f i t t i n g and showman-ship
contest, an exhibit of latest
models of tractors and farm ma-chinery,
a display of products and
photographs from other countries
presented by Students From Other
Lands, and a special food exhibit,
"The Food We Eat", which depicts
vegetable and salad gardens, chemi-cal
and other additives in modern
foods exhibit, and new develop-ments
in frozen foods.
The theme for the Industrial
Division's Open House is Tech-nology
on Display. Many new de-velopments
in automotive engines
and power transmissions, a full-sized
house under construction,
f i d e l i ty and sound system demon-strations,
and X-ray examinations
of metals. Several young women
f r om the Technical Secretarial
courses will demonstrate modern
o f f i c e esuipment; others who major
in Dental Hygiene will be operating
the Dental Clinic. Advertising and
Art students will be exhibiting
typical projects in advertising art
work,- while others demonstrate
airbrush rendering and portrait
sketching.
Our Country Life - Open House
program has attracted over 30,000
visitors during each of the last
three years. Tell your friends and
folks about it. Let's make it the
f i n e s t C. L. L. - O. P. Program