The_Rambler_1959-10-05

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State University Agricultural & Technical Institute
Farmingdale, New York
VOL. XXXI - No. 2 October 5, 1959
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ORIENTATION CREATES MEMORIES
Freshman Registration and
Orientation for the 1959-60 school
year began on September 8, this
year with the official registering
of all underclassmen. Here is
the story as told by a Freshman
student:
September 8, we approached
the Industrial-Technical Build-ing
and were faced by a human
Dr. Medesy Addresses Frosh
wall of eager students waiting
to enter the Institute. The long-er
we waited, the longer the
line seemed to get. The stu-dents
who arrived at 7:00 a.m.
were lucky to get out by 9:00
a.m., but students who arrived
anywhere between 8:15 a.m. and
8:30 a.m. were lucky to get
through in time for lunch. After
waiting in the hot sun for a
couple of hours, we were ready
to go up and sign our lives
away. As we passed through
the door, someone yelled, "Do
you have a car?" If so, he
pushed three cards into our hot,
nervous little hands to be filled
out. Then on again passing a
few tables and filling out more
and more cards until we hit a
room where we had to hand out
our hard-earned money. If you
were lucky and had the correct
amount you p a s s e d right
through; if not, you had to see
Mr. Dedowitz who told us to go
out and try to borrow some
from friends. Then we moved
along to more tables and re-ceived
our literature, creden-tials,
etc., and were checked off
on the check list. Then, another
waiting line; this time to be
mugged. Of course, there was
a lot of jacket borrowing and
hair combing.
After the pictures were taken,
we walked into trouble. We
handed a dollar to a Senior, of
all people, and were presented
with a DINK that didn't fit.
Then, another Senior gave us
the third degree.
"Where do you live, what is
your c o u r s e , what's your
name?" This information was
written on a small piece of
paper which was handed to an-other
Senior, who removed the
backing and slammed it on the
back of your dink, (practically
knocking you across the table).
If you were lucky, you went
right through the line; but, boy,
if a Senior caught you, and
many a poor Frosh was, he'd
have to stand on a desk and sing
or recite something from the
handbook. At the end of the
line, we received our tickets for
the Chicken Barbecue. This
ticket was designed more as an
introduction than an invitation,
as it helped us to get acquainted
with our classmates and Seniors.
We had to have some of the
most ridiculous things signed,
but we must admit that we did
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Assembly Schedule
1959
Oct. 2—ICC-Institute Council of
Clubs.
Oct. 16—Intramural Track Meet
sponsored by Physical
Education Department.
Oct. 30—Pep Rally prior to
Homecoming.
1960
April 22—Institute B a n d and
Choral Group. Dr. Ore
and Mr. Witherspoon
in charge.
May 6—Governor Rockefeller
(perhaps).
May 20—Honors & Awards spon-sored
by- Dean of In-struction.
Davidson Goes
To New Paltz
Mr. Robert Davidson, who
came to SUATI in September,
iy46 as a teacher in the Gen-eral
Education Department, has
left us to accept a position as
Associate Dean and Assistant to
tne President at the State Uni-versity
College of Education at
iN^w Paltz.
Mr. McLaughlin will be taking
Mr. Davidson's place as head
or the Evening School Division,
while Mr. Reilly is taking over
for Mr. Mci-aughlin as Assistant
Dean of Personnel. Mr. Hertel
will replace Mr. Reilly in the
General Education Department.
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NEW FACULTY JOINS STAFF
Blood Drive
Benefits You
Have you ever stopped to
realize (or to read your hand-book
( and discover how many
assets can be obtained from con-tributing
one pint of blood to
the SUATI Blood Bank? One
pint of blood contributed by you
entitles you to lifetime member-ship
in the Blood Bank. In
other words, should you or your
family find it necessary to with-draw
blood from the Bank, you
are welcome to do so, free of
charge. Certainly the minimum
effort required to become a life-time
Blood Bank member is
worth the peace of mind and aid
that it can give.
Our first Blood Drive for the
1959-60 school year, will be held
at Dorm 1 on October 23. Why
not put your name on the roster
now?
Put your name on the roster
NOW!
During the summer months,
quite a few new faculty mem-bers
have joined the staff at
SUATI.
Mr. John C. Egermeier, who
holds a B.S. degree from Okla-homa
State University, and the
M.S. from Cornell, is an Instruc-tor
in Agricultural Production.
Mr. Egermeier has two years
experience as graduate assistant
in teaching and research.
In the Advertising Art and
Design department, we have Mr.
Lawrence N. Jensen, an Assist-ant
Professor who holds the
B.S. and M.A. degrees in Fine
Arts and Fine Arts Education
from Columbia University. Ten
years industrial experience in
Fine and Commercial Art; two
years at Swain School of Design,
New Bedford, Massachusetts,
and one year at William Floyd
School, Shirley, Long Island,
along with four years with the
United States Coast Guard as
Combat Artist are all accredited
to the career of Mr. Jensen.
Mr. Robert E. Johnson, As-sistant
Professor, is now a mem-ber
of the Business Technology
department. Mr. Johnson has
had experience in industry in su-pervisory-
and management po-sitions.
This experience was
gathered through Republic Avia-tion
(four years) in Port Wash-ington,
four years with rank of
Lieutenant in the United States
Navy, and several years as in-structor
in the Institute Evening
Division. He holds a B.A. from
Manhattan College, plus gradu-ate
study in Education at
Catholic University, Washing-ton,
D. C.
With a B.S. degree from La-
Moyne College, plus experience
in teaching academic subjects
during four years in the United
States Air Force, and some high
school teaching, Mr. William H.
Lattimore joins the General Ed-ucation
department as Instruc-tor.
Panayotis D. Mavrommatis is
a member of the Mathematics
and Science department as As-sistant
Professor. Mr. Mavrom-matis
has to his c r e d it
graduate work in math, and six
years high school teaching ex-perience.
He also holds a B.S.
degree from North Carolina
State College.
An Instructor in the Mathe-matics
and Science department
On With the Show
ICC Sponsors Club Assembly
Friday, October 2, is the big day set aside for the Annual
Instititute Council of Clubs Assembly. The program will be
composed of acts and skits based primarily on the latest tele-vision
advertising and commercials.
Each club will present an assigned skit. At the present
time, the clubs that are members of ICC are working diligently
on their programs, which will be presented for your entertain-ment
and enjoyment.
The members are also working on club banners. These ban-ners,
bearing the name and insignia of the organization, will be
displayed during the assembly program and then will be put up
permanently in the Canteen. The clubs on campus are trying
to help you get the most from your extracurricular activities.
Won't you help them by displaying a real interest in your par-ticular
club's affairs?
Incidentally, don't pass up the fine club display in the show-cases
of the Tech Building. Each club will have a turn at pre-senting
a display for a week. Learn about all our clubs. Just
watch the showcases.
is Arthur W. Muller. Mr. Mul-ler
attended Brooklyn Polytech
for two years before he trans-ferred
to Oswego. He has his
B.S. degree from State Univer-sity
College of Education at Os-wego
and some graduate work
at Hofstra. He has taught at
Corning Free Academy and
Freeport High School.
Also in Mathematics and Sci-ence
department as an Instruc-tor
is Joseph R. Murrey who
obtained his B.S. degree from
Fordham University.
Bruce A. Thompson, Assistant
Professor, is assistant for Eve-ning
and Extension activities,
and holds a B.S. in Education
from State University College of
Education at Buffalo along with
the M.S. from New York Uni-versity,
and some further grad-uate
credit at Columbia. Before
coming to Farmingdale, Mr.
Thompson served four yea^s as
Assistant to the Dean, and one
year as Assistant Professor in
Mechanical Technology at the
New York C i t y Community
College.
Another new member of the
Business Technology depart-ment
is Instructor James I.
Walsh, who has taught at Vin-centian
Institute in Albany and
at Beacon High School, has the
B.S. from University of Vermont
and the M.S. from State Univer-sity
College of Education at
Albany.
Herbert J. Zipper, Assistant
Professor, is a member of the
Electrical Technology depart-ment.
Mr. Zipper holds the
B.S. degree from St. John's
University. This is supplement-ed
by four years as Electronics
Engineer at Sperry Gyroscope
Corporation as well as some
graduate study.
Mr. William P. Shultz joins
SUATI's faculty as Technical
Assistant after 20 years experi-ence
in the United States Army
Corps of Engineers, retiring as
Master Sergeant. Mr. -Shultz
has taken several courses ' at
Fort Belvoir Engineers school
and served at Brooklyn Poly-tech
with the ROTC.
An Institute Graduate of the
class of 1952 in Ornamental
Horticulture has become a Tech-nical
Assistant. This person is
Donald M. Swan who has had
several years experience in
commercial nursery manage-ment.
The Photographic Equipment
Technology department has as
an Instructor a graduate from
the Institute in the person of
Jacob A. Zimmer. Mr. Zimmer
obtained the A.A.S. degree after
ten years of experience in the
commercial photographic field.
Assistant Professor Charles F.
McGurk is Assistant for Eve-ning
and Extension Activities.
He holds the B.S. from St. Jo-seph's
College in Philadelphia
and has several yeax'S of public
relations experience which in-cludes
four years as Director
of the News Service Office of
St. Joseph's College.
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