The_Rambler_1962-11-02

              FARMINGDALK, LONG ISLAND
NEW YORK
AGGISa
Vol. XXXH No. 27 S1ATE UNfVBlSITy AGMCULJUItAt AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AT FARMINGDAUE NOVEMBER 2, 1962
a WINTER CARNIVAL
Set for January 22.
rr FACULTY FRO/KOTIONS
One of the most outstanding and
certainly best attended, social
event of the year is the annual
"Winter Candval" sponsored by
Student Council. This year's site
for Winter Carnival is GROSS-
1NGER*S, New York,to be hdd
January 22, 23. and 24. The price
is $37.00.
The Winter Carnival committee:
Marilyn Rajkovich, Sue Amrhein,
Jeff Gilray, Jeff Holmewood^ Bev
De Jesu. Jim D'Albro. Richard
Cemy and Nancy Clark. . .will
begin to collect money on Nfon-day,
Wednesday and Friday be-twecin
11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Com-mittee
men and womai will be on
duty in the Tech. Building lobby,
in Knapp Hall dining room, and in
the Dew Drop. The minimimi
pa'^ent is $5.
. ^ e buses will leave the school
on Tuesday, January 22, at 12
noon and return approximately at
7 p.m. on Thursday, January 24.
All facilities at Grossinger's will
be available to the students as to
the regular guests.
GROSSINGER'S offers hundreds
of acres of scenic beauty, and a
recreational round of activities
both indoors and outdoors:
excellent accommodations
indoor swimming pool
game room
snow-clad ski slopes
Tobogganing
skating
tennis
horsdback riding
Health Qubs - complement the
indoor pool, steam rooms, spray
rooms, showers, sunlamp rooms,
and massage rooms.
ALL THIS is just a sample of
what Grossingers has to offo:.
Night brings a variety of en-tertainment:
cocktail party. The"
Terrace Room, whose stage is
studded with famous stars, and the
Grossinger Playhouse and the
Night Watch are centers of en-tertainment
and dancing.
Added to "spectator" shows are
audience-participation in events,
forums, community sings, wiener
roast, champagne hours, parties.
AU this adds up to "GROSSING-ER'S
HAS EVERYTHING I" Make
sure you don't miss it.
ATTENTION
The first of the two an-nual
blood bank drives
will be held on Novem-ber
29, J962, between
the hours of 10a.m. and
2p.m. The place of dona-tion
is still to be decided.
Everybody is urged to give
a donation.
SU ATI'S POLITIC AI SCIiHCE
CAMPUS QUEIN STUDIHTS ATTIMD
CONVENT/ON
ANNOUMCID BY PRES.
Miss Arlene Gertzen, SA Sen-ior,
was crowned Campus Queen
at SUATI's annual Parents' Day,
Saturday, October 27.
Miss Gertzen was sdiected out
of 21 candidates who were judge^
by a committee, on personality,
poise, beauty, walk and posture.
Much like the Miss America com-petition,
each candidate was asked
a question and graded on voice
and intellectual quality of their
answers. The judges for the com-petition
were Mr. Vining, Miss
Solomlu, Mr. T ( ^ o , Mr. Adamo.
Mike Bemus, Jeff Gilray, Henry
Kogok, and Stan Mitchell.
Dlaiu Gsciala, DH Freshman,
and Darren Bonawandt. OH Senior
were selected as the' two<
runner-ups.
Miss Gertzen was presented with
a large trophy, a Tiara and a
bouquBC of Oivwers.
Several hundred students from
some thirty cplleges in the metro-politan
area gathered at Qieens
College on.Saturday, Octc^er 13,
to hear prominent political
and civic speakers discuss some
of this year's major campaign
issues in the State of New York.
The day-laig conference was co-sponsored
by the metropolitan
chapter of the Center for National
Education in Politics and the
Queens College Department of
Political Science. Dr. Marilyn GSt-tell,
a professor of political
science at the college, was the
conference chairman.
Senator Kenneth B. Keating,
State Assembly Speaker Joseph
Carlino, New York City Comp-troller
Abraham Beame, Nassau
County Executive Eugne R. Nick-ersmi,
W e s t c h e s t e r County
Executive Edward Michaelian,
State Senator Seymour Thaler, and
City Councilman Theodore Kup-ferman
of Manhattan, were among
those who took part in the program.
Among the students who attended
with Prof. Levlne's political
science classes at State University
Ag. & Tech. Institute at Farm-ingdale,
were: Lou Campo^ Mike
Rabin. David Brush, RayTomkins,
Elsa Johnsen, Jane Richards,
Jesse Weissman, Allen Mears,
Ronald Weiss, Carole Cootz,
Carole Valemi, Norman Immer-man,
Ronald DiGangi, Salvatore
Buscemi, and Joseph Kennedy.
Faculty promotions at the State
University Agricultural and Tech-nical
Institute, Famningdale, L.L
have been announced by the In-stitute's
president. Dr. Charles
W. Laffln.
Three faculty members have
been promoted from associate pro-fessor
to professor, eight from
assistant professor to associate
professor and two from instructor
to assistant professor.
The new professors are Harvey
Barke, Robert Dennison and
Raynor Wallace.
Mr. Barke. 182 Melville Rd.,
Farmingdale, is in die Institute's
Dept. of Ornamental Horticulture.
He has received Bachelor of
Science and master of science de-grees
from the University of
Massachusetts. He has been at
Farmingdale since 1947.
Mr. Dennison, 30 Mulford Ave.,
Huntington Station. L.I., is chair-man
of the Institute's Dqpartment
of Mechanical Power Technology.
He has a bachelor of science degree
from Pennsylvania State Univer-sity
and a master's degree in
business education from Hofetra
College. He has been at Farming-dale
since 1949.
Mr. Wallace. 4 Calgary Court,
Huntington Station, is in ihe
Department of General Education.
He has a bachelor oi arts degree
from Dickins(m College and a
master of arts degree from
Columbia Univei*sity. He joined
the Institute's faculty in 1946.
New associate professors are
Michael J. Abbatiello, Mortimer
Clingan, Dr. Leo Diiiello, Thomas
D. Greenley, Donald W. Griffiths,
Thomas Ladonskl. John Raffaele
and Nicholas RomanellL
Mr. Abbatiello, who lives on
campus, is in the D^artment of
Biological Technology. He has
an associate in applied science
degree from Farmingdale, a
bachelor of arts degree from Hof-stra
College and a master of
arts degree from St. John's Uni-
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verslty. He joined the Farming-dale
faculty in 19471
Mr. Clingan, 78 Prospect St..
Farmingdale. Is in theD^artment
of Mathematics and Science. He
has a bachelor of science degree
from New York University and
a master of arts degree from
Brown University. He came to the
Institute in 19S6.
Dr. Diiiello, 33 Reeves Avenue,
Farmingdale, is in theD^artment
of Biological Technology. He has
b e ^ at Farmingdale since 1958 and
holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. from
the University of Maryland.
Mr. Greenley, 37 Hamilton St.,
AmityvUle, L.I., is in the Depart-ment
of Advertising Art and
Design. He has been at the Institute
since 1949 and has studied art with
the Art Students League and the
National Academy of Design.
Mr. Griffiths, 13 Pear Tree
Lane, Huntington Station, is in die
D^)artment of Ornamental Horti-culture.
He has a bachelor of
science ^ r e e from Poinsylvanla
State University and a master of
science degeee from Hofstra Col-lege.
He has been on the Institute
faculty since 1956.
Mr. Ladcnski, 18LenwoodAve..
Farmingdale. is in the D ^ r t -
ment of Gencaral Education. He
has bachelor of scloices and
master ot science degrees from
Fordham University. He has been
at Farmingdale since 1949.
Mr. Raffaele, 26 Sullivan Road,
Farmingdale. is in the Dqpartment
of Electrical Technology. He has
bachelor of scioice and master
of science degrees from Brooklyn
C o l l i e . He has been at Farming-dale
since 1957.
Mr. RonuuielU, 86 Sagamore
St., Freeport, UU, is in the
Department of Construction Tech-nology.
He holds a bachelor of
civil engineering degree from the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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CHRYSANTHEMUtH
QUEEN CROWNED
The Chrysanthemimi Queen
competition was held in front of
Suffolk HaU on October 12, 1962.
The winners were chosen on the
basis of their appearance, poise,
voice, posture, and walk.
The crowned queen was Diane
Gaciala. The two runner iqps were
Maryann Salerno and Carol Sher-man.
Diane was the representa-tive
of the Radio Club, Carol,
l i e Dcrital Kygitnists AssociaUoii,
and Maryann, the Varsity Club.
The two runner ups received Tre-fare
jewelry, and Diane was
awarded a gold wrist watch. The
girls reigned at the Chysanthe-mum
Show on October 21 and
22 in the Field House.
There was a total of 14 con-testants.
These girls were the
representatives of many of our
school clubs. The 14 candidates
were: Laje Boos, Carol Collins,
Patricia Curry, Lynn Friar, Diane
Gacila, Arlene Gertzen, Marlene
Laird, Claire Loovls, Barbara Ri-ley,
Maryann Salerno, Ann Salva-to,
Carol Sherman, Fern %>ect;
and Karen S^ieed.
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PUBIKATION STAFFS ATTEND PRESS CONFERENCE
STAFFS LEAVING SUATI FOR COOPERSTOWN
State University of New
York Collegiate Press Association
held a conference in Cooperstown
on October 25-27, which members
bodi the Islander and Rambler
staffs attended.
The purpose of dds convention
was to ^ve die members of various
school publications theo|>portuntty
to exchange news and to return to
their c<dlege8 with new Journalistic
knowledge.
. The headquarters of the
convention were die Fenlmoze
House and die Farmers' Museum.
.The students had the oppcntunity
to listen to writers such as Karl
Shapiro^ Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet, and Lou Myers, free-lance
illustrator and writer, speak on
subjects relating to the field of
Jouniallsm. There was also an
anmrtunlty for the students to
discuss their various problems,
policies and alms.
Professors Hass wd Levlne,
along with Anthony Adamo, co-ordinater
of student activities, ac-companied
the students from State
University at Farmingdale. The
students representing the Islander
were: Howard NIsgor, Eileen Goes,
Elsa Johnson, Carl Johannsen,
EUera Cuskle, and Cecelia Moran.
The Rambler was represented
by Beverly Dejesu, Eleanor
Meyers, Barabra RUey, Jo-Ann
Botulk, Elaine Petrik and Nancy
Ctork.