The_Rambler_1964-11-24

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STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL A N D TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.L, N . Y.
VOL. XXV NO. 2 NOVEMBER 24, 1964
Guidance Counselors
Meet at SUATI
Over 150 guidance counselors
representing 75 high jschools in
Queens, Nassau and Suffolk coun-ties
met for the 20th annual Coun-selor
Articulation Conference on
Thursday, November 19, at State
University's Agricultural and
Technical Institute here.
Convening at 11 a.m. in the
college's Log Cabin, the con-ference
got underway with a wel-come
by President Laffin, -v^o
also related current develop-ment,
future plans, programs and
directions for State University
at Farmingdale.
Dean of Students Berthold D.
Willenbrock then discussed trim-ester
operation, financial aid.
student activities and the col-lege's
placement program.
Enrollment increases and
trimester admissions data was
presented by Mr. Carl H. Mit-lehner,
director of admissions.
The college's role in assist-ing
prospective students through
preparatory courses and new
part-time program offerings was
described by Mr. Frank A. Cip-riani,
assistant dean of the Even-ing
and Extension Division.
Following a buffet-luncheon, a
tour of Walt Whitman Hall, the
college's new library-labor-atory-
classroom building, the
Conference was concluded.
Program Concentrated on Long Island's Building Construction
SUATI Host to Labor-
Management Institute
2m/ And 3rd Place Winners
Due to the shortage of space
in the last issue of the RAMBLER,
the seccHid and third place
winners in the float parade were
unable to appear. So by popular
request, hefe they are.
Want To
Study Abroad?
EAST LANSING, Mich. —'Flo-rence,
Madrid, Barcelona, Co-logne
and other world - famous
European cities will become the
winter, spring and summer cam-puses
for American college stu-dents
participating in a Michigan
State university program of lan-guage
study abroad.
In cooperation with the Stiftung
fur Europaische Sprach-undBil-dungszentren,
the MSU Contin-uing
Education Service is offer-ing
intensive programs in
French, at Lausanne and Neu-chatel,
Switzerland; in Spanish,
at Barcelona and Madrid, Spain;'
in German, at Cologne, Germany;
and in Italian, at Florence, Italy.
Applications for winter and
spring quarter programs are now
being accepted. Details for the
summer program will be avail-able
shortly. Interested students
are encouraged to obtain appli-cation
forms as soon as possible.
In addition to classes in con-versation,
composition, gram-mar
and reading, panicipants
will visit points of historic and
geographic interest which be-come
the topics of lectures and
seminar-type discussions cover-ing
cultural, political, social
One of Long Island's most crucial problems,
a persistent decline in all forms of building con-struction
was discussed by key spokesmen for
labor, government and industry at the Tri-County
Long Island Labor-Management Institute held at
State University's Agricultural and Technical In-stitute
here on Tuesday, November 17.
Beginning at 9 a.m., the mom- men, a panel of fifteen experts
ing session opened with a wel- representing virtually every
come to Suffolk County by Mr,
H. Lee Dennison, the county's
Executive following which key-note
addresses were made by:
Mr. Michael Mann, Regional
AFL-CIO Director; Mr. Milton
Hendrickson, president, Hend-rickson
Brothers, andMr.Austin
Saar, distria engineer, State
Public Works Department.
Following the above spokes-and
economic institutions of the
country in which they reside.
To promote use of the foreign
language and provide them with
opportunities to better under-stand
their European contempor-aries,
American participants will
attend classes and share living
accommodations with students
from Germany, France, Italy,
Spain, Denmark, Sweden and
Great Britain.
Additional information about
the winter, spring and summer
programs may be obtained by
writing AMLEC, 12 KelloggCen-ter,
Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Mich.
N.A.G- - 2nd place winner
SUNY President's Home
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also took part in the project,
making a complete survey of
the grounds and determining
which of the existing plants need-ed
replacement.
This year's work at 40 Marion
Ave, marked the third time the
college has been called upon by
a State University President for
expert horticultural counsel.
In 1954, the OH senior class,
under Mr, Roesch's direction,
developed a complete landscape
project, including design and
plantings.
Twelve students and two faculty
members spent one week at the
home placing over 500 woody
plants (trees, shrubs, ever-greens),
all of which were
grown on the Farmingdale cam-pus.
Then, in the spring of 1960,
a rose garden designed by Prof.
Daniel E)owd was planted incorpo-rating
a total of 114 individual
rose bushes. Jack Monahan,
Gus Aebischer and Frank Stickle,
all of Planting Fields, partici-pating
in this projea.
Through its past and present
efforts, the OH Dept. of State
University at Farmingdale has
demonstrated its ability to main-tain
the highest of horticultural
standards and professionalism
at every level.
By request of SUNY Presi-dent
Samuel B. Gould, the col-lege's
Ornamental Horticulture
Department performed thorough
rehabilitation project on the
grounds and plantings of the Pre-sident's
home at 40 Marion Ave.,
Albany, on October 12.
Headed by Prof. Joseph
Roesch, chairman of the OH
Dept., the four-day project in-volved
the placement of a total
of 113 plants, 90 of which were
cultivated on the Farmingdale
campus and 23 of which were
purchased from local nursery-men
at wholesale prices.
Of particular interest among
the items planted were two pyra-cantha
(firethom) placed along
the front facade and a multiple-stemmed
gray birch planted near
the front entrance to the Presi-dent's
home.
Rhododendron, yews, azaleas
and cotoneasters also were plant-ed.
Personnel taking part in the
rehabilitation work included Mr.
William Bowden, who supervised
the crew from Planting Fields
consisting of Mr, Nicholas Van
Beek, James Witham, Jeremiah
Grace, Leon Chebuske, Ray
Halbig, John Settlocker and John
Monahan,
Professors Alex Takacs and
Donald Griffith of the OH Dept.
major field concerned with the
future of building construction on
Long Island provided additional
comments and answered ques-tions
from the 100 leaders
of labor management and the Long
Island community, who attended
the Institute program.
After the morning session, Dr,
Charles W, Laffin, Jr., presi-dent
of State University at Farm-ingdale,
delivered the principal
luncheon address. He was fol-lowed
by Dr. > Marvin A. Rapp,
executive dean of Nassau Com-munity
College, who summed-up
and closed the meeting.
The following persons com-prised
the panel of experts:
C. Preston Brady, executive sec-retary,
Building Trades Em -
ployers Association of Long Is-land;
David Kempner, Suf-folk
Commerce & Industry Dept.
executive secretary; Dr. Charles
Stonier, executive secretairy,
Nassau Planning Commission;
Bayard S. Forster, director,
State Office of Transportation;
Lee Koppelman, Suffolk Planning
Dept. director; Dr. Francis Lees,
Asst. Dean, College of Business
Administration, St. John's Uni-versity;
Robert Frese, vice
president, Dime Savings Bank of
Brooklyn; John G.Moran, Nassau
Commerce & Industry commis-sioner;
Deputy Industrial Com-missioner
Herbert W. Crispell;
Marcus Hero, Small Business
Administration; Nassau Public
Works Commissioner Eugene
Gibbons; Suffolk Public Work
Commissioner Hermon F.
Bishop; Harry Roffman, counsel,
Army Engineer District; Carl
Mattel, director. Industrial Safe-ty
Division, State Labor Dept.,
and a representative of the
Queens Borough President's of-fice.
They're Taking
The Eye
Out of SUATI
by Barbara Benson
As of November 12, 1964, all
sly Agricultural and Technical
Institutes will be known as the
State University Agricultural and
Technical Colleges. The Univer-sity
Board of Trustees approved
this change in the formal design-ation
of the two-year institution,
substituting college for Institute
In each case.
So, fellow SUATI students, a
new name for Farmingdale is in
order.