The_Rambler_1958-06-05

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UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N.Y.
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VOL. XXVIII, No. 11 JUNE 5, 1958
SENIORS MARCH
DOWN THE AISLE
Dean Of College
Retiring
Sunday, June 15, marks the
date of commencement exercises
for the graduating class of 1958.
From dawn until twilight, the
memory of this day will remain
a vivid picture in the minds of
all the graduates as well as to
all participants and observers.
The program will open with
the Baccalaureate Ceremony,
starting at 10:30 a.m. The speak-er
for this year's ceremony will
be the Reverend Dr. Wesley
Hotchkiss, Ph.D., of Huntington,
who is the Director of Town and
Country work, the Reverend
Bernhardt Bohrer of St. Luke's
Lutheran Church, Farmingdale,
has Ibeen chosen to give the In-vocation
at the beginning of the
program. The address will be
given by the Honorable Victor
L. Anfuso, representative in
Congress from the 8th District,
Kings County.
Graduation exercises, schedul-ed
for 2:00 p.m., will take place
under the Chairmanship of Mor-timer
J. Gleason of Manhasset,
Vice-Chairman of the Institute
Council. The seniors will sit on
bleachers which will extend
sideways from the Administra-tion
Building out towards the
flagpole.
Following t h e s e exercises,
there will be a reception on the
lawn, east of the main entrance.
This reception will take place
at 4:00 p.m., at which time the
seniors will receive their de-grees.
This is the first year in
the history of the Institute that
the Associate in Applied Science
degree will be awarded at Grad-uation.
Previously, six months
work in the field of your major
was required before a degree
could be received. Dr. William
Medesy, assisted by Mr. D. W.
Allee, Dean of Instruction, will
award the degrees at an appro-priate
time.
Every possible effort will be
made to hold the Graduation ex-ercises
on Campus. This means
under any acceptable weather
conditions. However, if it should
rain, the Baccalaureate Cere-mony
will be cancelled, and the
exercises will be held in the
gymnasium of Weldon E. Howitt
High School in Farmingdale.
Students are urged to cooperate
fully if such conditions should
occur. Directions as to the ex-act
location of the High School
will be given at that time.
There will be rehearsals for
the Processional and Recession-al,
directed by Mr. Watt, Leader
of the Line of March. Re-hearsals
are necessary and im-portant,
and promptness is
greatly appreciated. Please be
there at the appointed times
and help make your graduation
a memorable and lasting event.
One of the many highlights of
the graduation ceremonies this
June will be performance of the
Institute Chorus under the di-rection
of Mr. Walter Wither-spoon.
The Chorus will sing a
composition by Martin Shaw,
"With A Voice of Singing." In
addition, the Institute Octet will
sing "Alleluia" by Mozart. Un-doubtedly
this event will add to
the enjoyment of the Gradua-tion
Ceremony.
CARL F. WEDELL
Carl F. Wedell, Dean of the
College at State University Agri-culturaland
Technical Institute,
Farmingdale, has announced his
retirement effective July 31. Mr.
Wedell joined the Institute fac-ulty
in December of 1937 when
he was appointed Head of the
School of Ornamental Horticul-ture.
He became Assistant Di-rector
for Agriculture and Or-namental
Horticulture in April
of 1955, and was given his pres-ent
position in September of
1957.
A graduate of Cornell Univer-sity,
Carl Wedell has served as
a landscape architect for mary
estates, schools, and townships
in Western New York, Canada
and Long Island. With his fac-ulty
in Ornamental Horticulture,
he initiated the development of
the present gardens and nur-series
on the Institute Campus
at Farmingdale and the forma-tion
of the Long Island Horti-cultural
Foundation. With the
late Mr. William Robertson Coe,
he was active in the establish-ment
of Planting Fields Foun-dation
whose assets, principally
the gift of Mr. Coe, total ap-proximately
$1,500,000.00 It was
his association with Mr. Coe
which lead to the gift of Plant-ing
Fields to the State of New
York in 1949 for use by the
Farmingdale Institute for Orna-mental
Horticultural and Agri-cultural
instruction and re-search.
Mr. Wedell's membership in
professional horticultural organ-izations
includes the American
Horticultural C o u n c i l , t he
American Association of Botani-cal
Gardens and Arboretums,
the New York State Flower
Growers Association, the Long
I s 1 a n Nurserymen's Assoca-tion,
the American Vocational
Association, and the New York
State Junior College Association.
He has served during the last
eight years on the Executive
Committee of the American
Horticultural Council and was
President of the Council from
1953 through 1955. During the
years 1946 through 1948, he serv-ed
as President of the American
Association of Botanical Gar-dens
and Arboretums.
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Sports Stars
Receive Awards
Tuesday night. May 20, the
Annual Sports Dinner was held
in Knapp Hall. Letter awards
were given to the outstanding
athletes in Football, Soccer,
Cross C o u n t r y , Basketball,
Wrestling, Baseball, and Track.
William Loucka was awarded
the Most Valuable Player Award
by Coach Watt. Additional hon-ors
received were the Long Is-land
Press Trophy for Outstand-ing
Football to Myles Tintle.
The record for the year for the
Aggies was one won, five lost,
and one tied.
The Soccer awards were given
by Coach RolnLck. Charlie Kol-lar
was given Honorable Men-tion,
Goalie, All State Soccer
Team. Captain Bob Suli was
given the Most Valuable Player
Award. The Aggie Soccermen
won two and lost six.
Who's Who?
Spring Weekend Proves Great Success
The long-awaited and much anticipated Spring Weekend came
to a colossal end. Everyone agreed that it was everything that
it was cracked up to be.
The weekend had a real jumping start at the square dance
held off campus in Huntington,
Jimmy Connolly, captain of
the Cross Country team received
the Most Valuable Player award
in his field. The team placed
second in the National Junior
College Region XV Champion-ship
and placed third in the
Collegiate T r a c k Conference
Run. Coach Hartman's team
won four and lost none.
Charlie Kollar was the first
freshman to receive the Most
Valuable Player Award. Along
with Captain A1 DeBatto, Char-lie
and his teammates led the
Aggies to a record of eleven
wins and eight losses.
Carl Herrman, Captain of the
Wrestling team, as well as
being voted the Most Valuable
Player, set a record for straight
pins for his years at SUATI.
Coach Hartman's matmen closed
with a record of five wins and
three losses.
In the Knickerbocker Inter-collegiate
Conference, SUATI
placed first in 1957 and are the
defending champions for 1958.
Captain George Lewis won the
Most Valuable Player Award,
which was presented by Coach
Vining.
The track team under the
coaching of Tom Watt won four
and lost two. Ronnie Des-combes
was named Most Valu-able
Player, just one third of
a point over John Calabrese.
The team placed second in the
Eastern Junior College Track
Championships and fourth in the
Eastern Junior College Mile in
the Penn Relays.
Both the Senior and Freshman
cheerleaders were honored at
the dinner. Marilyn Bausch,
Sue Garrett, Veronica Kiefer,
Jane Larson, Gail Rappold, and
Pat Raven were the seniors hon-ored.
The freshmen who re-ceived
awards were Garna Beck,
Carol Gibson, Liz Munkel, Judy
Perkins and Karen Salomen.
Everyone attending this din-ner
thoroughly enjoyed it, and
were honored by the tribute
which was paid to them by
members of SUATI,
BLOOD BANK
BIG BOOM
On May 12 between the hours
of nine and four, the Inter-
County Blood Council held a
blood drive in Nassau Hall. The
drive was very successful, with
145 persons each donating a pint.
The whole process took each
student about fifteen minutes.
First they were questioned about
their general health to see if
they were physically able to give
blood, then their temperature
was taken, their blood pressure
measured, their blood t y pe
checked, and they proceeded to
the table to give their blood.
Student volunteers were on
hand to help the fifteen nurses
from a nearby hospital. The
Dental Hygienists were given
time off from their classes to
give their help.
Faculty wives served coffee
and cake to help with the re-cuperation
of the weark donors.
After the drive the blood was
taken to the hospital where it
was put on reserve. Any stu-dent
who has given a pint of
blood to the Inter-County Blood
Bank at any time is guaranteed
a pint of blood for himself or
any member of his immediate
family at any time in the fu-ture
when it is needed.
Thanks go to all the volun-teers.
APPRECIATION
The RAMBLER Staff wish-es
to express its sincere ap-preciation
to all those faculty
and administrative members
who graciously gave their
time and efforts in aiding the
staff with the many articles
published during the year.
We know that it is this
kind of support that makes a
project a success, and we feel
confident that with such sup-port
we will be able to bring
stronger, ever-improving pa-pers
to the SUATI Campus.
The Staff also takes this
opportunity to wish the grad-uating
Senior Class the best
of luck and success, and to
remind the Freshmen that
next year we will be the lead-ers.
Let's do a good job.
Friday night. The hall was
decorated in that real western
style. The girls were all decked
out in lively colored flared skirts
while the fellas were dressed
in everything from crazy shirts
to bermudas. Refreshments were
available in the room adjoining
the dance area. The 3-piece
band was more than happy to
play all requests at anytime
during the dance. Their special-ty,
however, was the good old
square dance music which they
did best. The scene was set for
an old fashioned square dance
and by the end of the night it
was unanimous that the week-end
was off to an exciting start.
On Saturday morning every-one
was out at Belmont bright
and early to join in the picnic.
All enjoyed the picnicking, ca-noeing,
refreshments, softball,
and other facilities that were
available.
Later Saturday evening, each
beau took his favorite date to
the Shore Beach Club in Long
Beach and danced at the Fresh-man
Ball—the highlight of the
weekend. Hors d'oeuvres were
placed at each table by courtesy
of the club. Drinks were offered
at reasonable prices along with
assorted sandwiches. The com-bo
playeed all types of music
under decorations of pink and
green. At the close of the dance,
pictures were taken—one of the
many memories to be kept of
Freshman Weekend.
It was a pleasure to see some
of our faculty attending the
dance and we hope they enjoyed
sharing our fun.
On Sunday afternoon, despite
t h e showers, everyone piled
down to Jones Beach for the
last, but certainly not least,
event of the weekend. This was
the beach party with free re-freshments
provided by t he
Freshman Board lof Governors.
Everyone participated in all ac-tivities
from being thrown into
the water to playing football.
Many thanks to the Freshman
Board of Governors for making
the Freshman Weekend of 1958
possible and so successful. It
was easy to see why the Fresh-man
Prom is always one of the
highlights of the social year at
SUATI.