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STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N.Y.
VOL. XXX - No. X June 12, 1959
SC Dinner
Fetes Seniors
The annual Student Council's
Recognition Dinner was held in
Knapp Hall on Monday, June 1,
1959.
The M.C. of the dinner was
Bill Herman, past president of
Student Council. Following the
meal, Prof. Reilly, faculty ad-visor
to Student Council, spoke
to the members on "Imagina-tion."
He pointed out that there
could be no progress without
imagination.
Dr. Medesy Distributed the
SC Awards
The students receiving awards
at the dinner were:
John Andres, member of the
Social Committee and the Orien-tation
Commitee.
Anita Bernhard, Secretary to
Student Court, and Constitution
Committee.
Nick DiGiovanni, vice presi-dent
of student council, presi-dent
of I.C.C. parliamentarian of
CISGA, mock senate, and orien-tation
committee.
Jeanne Friedrich, CISGA, rec-ognition
committee, year book
dedication, blood bank commit-tee,
constitution committee or-ientation
committee.
Janet Husslein, orientation
committee, secretary to CISGA.
Ronald Ireland, student court,
mock senate, recognition com-mittee,
dining hall, dorm com-mittee.
Russell MacDonald, recogni-tion
committee, parliamentarian
of student council, constitution
committee, and student court.
JerrieAnn McEviley, treas-urer
of student council, mock
senate, CISGA secretary, orien-tation
committee.
Dario Sacromone, blazer com-mittee,
ICC, mock s e n a t e ,
CISGA, orientation committee,
Mike Storch, dining hall, dorm
council, CISGA, mock senate,
student court, recognition com-mittee.
Morgan Storms, social com-mittee,
set-up committee.
Carol Young, dorm council,
mock senate, CISGA, orientation
committee.
Carol Marcone, Rambler.
Bill Pesce, Islander.
Bill McCann, Newman Club,
ICC treasurer.
Bill Herman, student council
president, student court, presi-dent
of CISGA.
Also present at the dinner
were Dean and Mrs. Allee, Dean
and Mrs. James, Dean and Mrs.
Willenbrock, Dean and Mrs. Mc-
Laughlin, Prof, and Mrs. Wal-lace,
Prof, and Mrs. Levine, and
Dr. and Mrs. DiGiovanni.
Dedication and Naming
of Buildings
Ceremonies marking the dedi-cation
of Hicks and Horton Halls
were held in the Horticultural
and Poultry Buildings, respec-tively,
beginning at 11:00 a.m.
Saturday, May 30, 1959. Metal
letters designating the names of
the buildings were installed.
The Horticulture Building was
named to honor the late Henry
Hicks, L. I.'s outstanding hoi'ti-culturist
and supporter of the
Institute's horticultural pro
gram. The Poultry Building
was named to honor the late
Professor Horton, head of the
Poultry Department at the Insti-tute.
Members of the Hicks and
Horton families. Faculty, Staff,
and Alumni attended the cere-monies.
Dr. Lawrence Bethel
Graduation Plans
The Class of '59, consisting
of approximately 520 members,
will be the 41st class to partici-pate
in Commencement Exer-cises
which this year will be
held Sunday, June 14 at 2 p.m.
This year, for the first time,
the Institute will do away with
the Baccalaureate Service which
has always been held in the
past. Only the actual Com-mencement
Exercises will be
held.
Dr. Lawroncp> L. Bethel, Presi-dent,
Fashion Institute of Tech-nology,
New York City, will de-liver
the key address at the
June 14 Exercises. Presiding at
the Exercises will be Reginald
C. Smith, Chairman of the Insti-tute
Council. Although Dr. Beth-el
will be the main speaker,
SUATI's Dr. Medesy will deliver
a brief address to the graduat-ing
seniors.
The Hilda Ward Scholarship
Prize and the Edmund R. Lup-ton
Scholarship Prize will be
awarded by Raynor W. Wallace,
Associate Professor in the Gen-eral
Education Department.
Fred Carey, a member of the
Alumni Association Executive
Committee, will award the Al-umni
Senior Prizes. Dr. Med-esy,
assisted by Dean Allee, will
award the degrees to seniors.
Adding to the enjoyment of
the memorable occasion will be
the Institute Choir with their
selections of "Jesu, Joy of Man's
Desiring" by J. S. Bach and
"Dear Land of Home" by Jean
Sibelius. Eve Marie Lehrman
will sing Malotte's composition
of "The Lord's Prayer."
Providing the sun is shining
and the weather is good, the ex-ercises
will be held as planned
in front of the Administration
Building, followed by a tea and
i-eception to be held on the lawn
area beside the Director's home.
The coveted degrees will be dis-tributed
adjacent to the lawn
area.
If the weather man does not
cooperate, however, and it does
rain, the Commencement Exer-cises
will be held in the Farm-ingdale
High School gymnasium.
In the event the exercises have
to be held indoors, those per-sons
possessing the PINK tick-ets
will be unable to see the
graduation exercises. Also, in
case of rain, the tea and recep-tion
will be held in Knapp Hall,
with the degrees distributed in
the Industrial and Technical Lab
Building.
Dr. Medesy Speaks
On May 19, the Faculty-Stu-dent
Association approved a
budget of $66,000 for the period
July 1, 1959 to June 30, 1960 to
cover requests from student or-ganizations
to be financed from
the Student Activity Tax. The
tax next September will be $40
per student representing an in-crease
of $10 over this year's
tax. The increase of $10 was
recommended by the Student
Council and will be deposited in
a special account for the con-struction
of a Student Union
Building, a facility much need-ed
on our growing campus. It
is hoped the plans for the build-ing
can be begun in the near
future.
The following items were ap-proved
in the budget: Assem-blies,
$2,500; Athletics, $12,950;
Band, $400; Cheerleaders, $845;
Chorus, $440; Operation of Fac-ulty-
Student Associatiton Office,
$3,214; Health Services (part-time
doctor and medical sup-plies),
$3,450; Majorettes, $100;
Gun Club, $446; Islander, $9,070;
Rambler, $3,996; Radio Station,
$625; Log Cabin, $597; Student
Council, $4,385; and Recreation
Hall, $2,050.
In addition, the Association
voted to build from current
funds an office for the Islander
in the Rec Hall at a cost of $1,-
268 and pr^ide $250 equipment.
Included in the new budget are
the following: a sum not to ex-ceed
$1,500 to provide a park-ing
lot for the illuminated path
to the Log Cabin; $500 for fur-niture
and $750 for maintenance
of the new student canteen be-tween
the Library and Conklin
Hall, and $190 for a ditto ma-chine
which will provide dupli-cating
services for student or-ganizations.
The Faculty-Student Associa-tion
has assumed responsibility
for providing the campus with
a number of facilities in recent
years. The Association current-ly
operates the Bookstore, the
Rec Hall, the Student Canteen,
the Log Cabin, Infirmary, Park-ing
Stickers and Fines, Student
Post Office, and some of the
vending machines.
As campus needs are brought
to the attention of the Associa-tion
every effort will be made
to provide them within the lim-its
of available resources which
is limited to whatever amount
the Student Activity Tax will
provide.
The facilities and organiza-tions
provided in a large meas-ure
by the Student Activity Tax
help to make our college a more
interesting place for both work
and leisure time activities.
THANKS
The Student Council of SUATI
would like to end this year with
a closing note to all the students
on campus. Thanks so much
for making this a wonderful
year for Council — its members
and officers. Everyone made it
so easy for the new officers to
take over, thanks to their won-derful
cooperative spirit and
understanding. From the old
and new officers, here's hoping
next year is just as great.
Lou Volpicella, President
Dr. T. H. Hamilton
HAMILTON HEADS STATE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Thomas Hale Hamilton, Vice President for Academic
Affairs at Michigan State University, will be the new President
of State University of New York, it was announced today. The
appointment is effective August 1.
In reporting the selection of the 44-year-old teacher and ad-ministrator
who has gained nationwide prominence in a variety
of educational activities, the State University Trustees said they
were gratified New York's public higher education program is
to have the benefit of his broad experience and recognized
leadership.
"We are confident that under Dr. Hamilton's guidance State
University can speed the pace
of its progress toward the edu-cational
goals set by the people
of our State," the Trustees said.
A native of Marion, Indiana,
Dr. Hamilton was educated at
DePauw University, Greencas-tle,
Indiana, and at the Uni-versity
of Chicago, where re
received his A.M. and Ph.D.
degrees.
Interrupted by three years
service as a naval officer in
World War II, his early teaching
and administrative experience
was gained at Lawrence Col-lege
in Appleton, Wisconsin,
where he was in the Depart-ment
of Government and held a
Deanship, at the University of
Chicago where he lectured in
the humanities and administer-ed
the academic program of
University College, and at Chat-ham
College, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
where he was professor of poli-tical
science, chairman of the
social sciences, and served as
vice president.
In 1953, Dr. Hamilton became
associated with Michigan State
University. From 1954 to 1956,
he serveed as dean of the Basic
College of that University and
director of its summer school.
In February, 1956, he was ap-pointed
Vice President for Aca-demic
Affairs.
An author of a number of
books, monographs, and articles
covering such varied subjects
as the armed forces and adult
education, c o n t e n t analysis,
trends in education for engineer-ing,
and the background for po-litical
conventions. Dr. Hamil-ton
has found time for service
in many community and profes-sional
activities. "The most re-cent
of these have been as a
consultant for the study of high-er
education in Florida, con-sultant
to the University of the
Phillipines, member of .the
Board of Directors of the Michi-gan
Children's Aid Society, and
a member and chairman of the
Commission on Instruction and
Evaluation, American Council
on Education.
Dr. Hamilton is a member of
the American Political Science
Association, American Society
for Public Administration, the
American Association of Univer-sity
Professors, the Cleveland
Conference, and of political sco-ence,
music, scholarship and so-cial
science fraternities.
He and Mrs. Hamilton have a
son, 15, and a daughter, four.
In Albany, they will reside at
40 Marion Avenue, the home of
the University President.
Dr. Hamilton will succeed Dr.
William S. Carlson whose resig-nation
was effective September
1, 1958.
State University of New York
is unique among American uni-versities
in the number of cam-puses
on which it operates. On
its many campuses, the State
University of New York serves
more than 65,000 students.
SUATI DEDICATES
Faculty and friends of State
University Agricultural and
Technical Institute dedicated
tv,'o classroom buildings as a
Memorial Day observance last
Saturday. Dr. William A. Med-esy,
Director of the college, pre-sided
over the dedication of
Hicks and Horton Halls during
ceremonies which began at
11:00 a.m.
Hicks Hall, the college's cen-ter
for Horticultural classes,
was dedicated in memory of
Henry Hicks, the well known
Long Island horticulturist. A
good friend of the college and a
frequent visitor to its campus,
Henry Hicks contributed much
plant material from his nursery
to beautify the college grounds.
Joseph F. Roesch, chairman of
the Department of Ornamental
Horticulture who made the dedi-catory
statement on Saturday,
said that "probably no other
horticulturist has devoted more
time, effort, concern and re-sources
in the interest of edu-cation
and in the interest of the
Institute than has Henry Hicks."
Edwin W. Hicks, son of Henry
Hicks, responded to Professor
Roesch's statement.
Horton Hall was dedicated in
memory of Daniel Hart Horton,
who joined the Institute faculty
in 1924 and served the Institute
as teacher and head of the Poul-try
Department until his death
in August of 1956. Professor
Horton's long service in the
Poultry Department, his work
over a period of years in plan-niig
and equipping this building,
a n d his national reputation
among poultrymen was recalled
by many at the ceremonies.
Mrs. Daniel Hart Horton re-sponded
to the dedicatory ad-dress
given by Robert R. Stock-bridge,
Associate Professor of
Poultry Science.
According to Dr. Medesy,
these ceremonies marked the
first occasion at which class-room
buildings on the Institute
campus have been dedicated fo
individuals. Similar ceremonies
are planned for Memorial Day
services during future years.