The_Rambler_1965-03-09

              First Trimester Graduation Great Success
Dr. Clifford Lee Lord, Pres-ident
of Hofstra University, de-livered
a most Inspirational
commencement address to 109
graduates and their guests, and
to members of the faculty, on
February 18, in the AUard Field
House, during New York State's
first trimester graduation, v^ch
SUATC had the distincUon of
holding.
Dr. Lord, who holds AB and MA
degrees from Amherst, a Ph.D
from Columbia, honorary LL.D
degrees from Lawrence and Buf-falo,
and an honorary L.H.D.
degree from Amherst, chose the
title, "Great Expectations" for
his address, in "the hope that
each of the graduates would a-chieve
his own great expecta-tions".
Naming three different
areas, Dr. Lord told of society's
expectations of its college grad-uates.
First, he told of how it turns
to those with degrees, for leader-ship.
Because a college diploma
means better jobs with more pay,
graduates tend to combat the
"hard core of xinemployment".
Also, because of their training,
he said they should be better
able to confront problems, and
exert their thinking processes,
both of which are qualities of a
leader.
The second expectation
society has for its graduates is
that of wishing to c(»itinue their
learning, for they have the some-what
unique ability to probe into
the unknown.
The third, and by far most im-portant
of the three expectations
was the "continuing commitment
and loyalty of those holding de-grees,
to higher education''. For,
as Dr. Lord said, "If you close
your books for ever, you have
wasted yoiu* time and money, and
failed yourself, your teachers,
your parents, and your country."
Tha speaker closed his address
with the reminder that com-mencement
is Just the completion
of the first phase of a life-long
commitment, not the end.
After the very well-received
address, the Honorable Mortimer
J. Gleeson, Chairman of the Col-lege
Council, presided over
the commencement exercises,
presented Dr. Lord with the New
York State University's highest
ward, The Commission of
Honor.
After three inspirational se-lections,
"Halls of Ivy", "CUmb
Ev'ry Mountain", and SUATC's
Alma Mater were skillfully
executed by the Collegiate Cho-rale,
under the direction of Dr.
Edwin P. Ore, Edwin R, Fisher
presented the college with the
Senior Class Gift.
The gift, a full-length portrait
of the late President John F.
Kennedy, painted by Mr. Guy
Corriero, a faculty member was
presented with the hope that it
be placed in the new arts and
sciences building, to remind all
who pass by, of this remarkable
man who believed so much in fur-thering
higher education, and as
a lasting memory of New York
State's first trimester graduating
class.
Following the exercises, a
buffet reception was held for the
graduates and their guests.
109 Students Receive Degrees
Graduating studetits, faculty members and guests listen in
rapt attention to Dr. Clifford Lee Lord, commencement speak-er,
in Allard Field House.
STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L. I., N. Y.
VOLUME XXXV NO. 7 MARCH 9, 1965
New Sec'y Options Offered
Increasing demands for com-petent
secretaries with a sound
working knowledge in specialized
fields has led to the addition
of two new options in the Sec-retarial
Science program offered
at State University's Agricultural
and Technical College here, an-nounced
Dr. Charles W. Laffln,
Jr., president.
Beginning with the Fall, 1965,
semester Medical and Legal sec-retarial
options will be offered
at the Farmingdale college as
well as the Industrial and Ad-vertising
secretarial options of-fered
in the past.
Medical secretary students
will be prepared for positions
as secretaries and office aides
in doctors' offices, hospitals,
Insurance companies and re-search
centers.
The two-year Medical Secre-tary
program places emphasis
on strong writing ability and the
transcribing of medical material,
the interpretation of medical
phraseology, the dictation of case
histories, medical and laboratory
reports and the practical use of
medical forms used by welfare
departments, insurance compan-ies
and workmen's compensation.
Applicants for the Medical Sec-retary
option at State University,
Farmingdale, must have com-pleted
16 units of high school
credit including one unit of Al-gebra
and two units of science,
of which Biology and Chemistry
are recommended.
Legal secretary students will
be trained for positions in law
firms, governmental agencies
and private corporations.
In addition to instruction in
law office procedures and the
handling of legal correspondence
and techniques for preparing
legal documents, the legal sec-retarial
student will have ex-tensive
practice in the dictation
and transcription of legal forms
and testimony, both of which
demand high standards of ac-curacy.
Legal vocabulary and the
necessary stenographic skill
forms for legal terminology will
also be covered in this two-year
program leading to the Associate
in Applied Science degree.
Applicants for the Legal Sec-retary
option at State University,
Farmingdale, must have com-pleted
16 units of high school
credit including one unit of Al-gebra.
Because of the anticipated en-rollment
demands for the Med-ical
and Legal secretarial op-tions,
students are encouraged
to file their applications as early
as possible.
Additional information on these
and other programs can be ob-tained
by contacting the Director
of Admissions, State University
Agricultural and Technical Col-lege,
Farmingdale, New York.
A Wekome to
the New Faculty
A cordial Welcome is extended
to the following new faculty:.
Mr. Roben Fox, An Depart-ment,
B^A.., Brooklyn College;
Mr, Fox formerly taught in the
Art department at New York City
Community College, Before that,
he was a commercial artist in
the advertising field.
Mrs, Muriel McClure, Nursing
department, A.B., Cornell, Mt.
Vernon, Iowa; M.N., West-em
Reserve University, Mrs,
McClure's elementary and
secondary schooling was com-pleted
in China. She has had
experience both as staff nurse
and school nurse.
Mrs, Sylvia Lasser, Nursing
department, R«N. Bellevue School
of Nursing, B.A,, Long Island
University, M,A„ New York Un-iversity,
Mrs, Lasser, has com-pleted
courses for doctorate in
Nursing Education at Teachers
College, Columbia University and
is currently writing her thesis,
Mrs, Lasser has worked at hos-pital
staff and private duty nurs-ing,
as well as in a summer
camp, formerly taught science
in the Levittown public school and
was also a school nurse.
Stony Brook Pros Appointed
Jol>n F, Kennedy — gift of
Class of February '63.
Mrs. Felissa Cohen, Nursing
department. Part-time. R.N,
B.S., Adelphi, M.A., New York
university, Mrs. Cohen's area
of specialization is in Medical
Surgical Nursing Education. She
has worked as a staff nurse and
as an office nurse for a pedia-trician,
Mrs, Mary Lou Kronke, Nurs-ing
department, part-time, R,N,
St, Clares Hospital School of
Nursing, B.S., Columbia, Mrs,
Kronke was formerly employed
by the Great Neck Public School
as a school nurse teacher,
Mrs, Catherine Vassallo,
Nursing department, part-time,
R.N., B,S., Mt, St, Vincent; M.A.,
New York University, Formerly
a school nurse-teacher at Bald-win
Public School,
Mr, Irving Saunders, Con-struaion
Technology, Part-time,
Registered Architea, He at-tended
E)rexel and Columbia, He
has his own firm.
REMEMBER! This is
PEACE CORPS WEEK
at SUATC.
See page a.
Dr. John S. Toll, professor
anA chairman. of the Department
of Physics and Astronomy, Uni-versity
of Maryland» has been
appointed president of State Un-iversity
at Stony Brook, effective
September 1, 1965.
The appointment was made by
OH Dept
Wins Awards
The department of Ornamental
Horticulture is the proud holder
of two certificates of merit
awarded to it by the Long Island
Nurserymen's Association for
the exhibits our college displayed
at the 18th annual Garden and
Home Show at the Roosevelt
Raceway, Westbury, Long Island.
The show ran from February
20 to February 28 with private
nurseries, government, and edu-cational
agencies demonstrating
their skills in garden and floral
design while at the same time
competing for awards given by
the sponsors of the show.
Through the combined efforts
of the landscape and nursery
departments an exhibit entitled,
"Horizons in Horticulture" was
produced featuring scale models
of the formal and informal gar-dens
on our campus, and border
plantings made from plant ma-terials
gathered from the college
and Planting Fields Arboretum
at Oyster Bay, The first award
reads:
Certificate of Special Award
State University at Farmingdale
Department of Horticulture
For
Outstanding Garden
Long Island
Nurserymen's Association
18th Annual
Garden Show 1965
A second and similar award
was presented to the department
of Floriculture for its exhibit
of about 50 floral arrangements
likewise created from materials
from ^ur own^reenhouses and the
collections at Planting Fields.
the State University Trustees at
their regular monthly meeting on
February 17, upon recommenda-tion
of the CouncU of the Un-iversity
at Stony Brook,
Or, Toll has been department
chairman at the University
of Maryland since 1953, His
experience also includes a year,
1950-51, as a theoretical physi-cist
at the Los Alamos Scien-tific
Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico, and two years, 1951-
53, as staff member and asso-ciate
director of Project Matter-horn,
Forrestal Research Cen-ter,
Princeton University.
A highly regarded scientist.
Or, Toll has been asked to serve
on numerous national and inter-national
advisory groups, as a
member and as chairman, .and
also serves as consultant to vari-ous
government agencies.
He has been chairman of a
Research Advisory Committee
for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration since 1962
and is a member of the National
Science Foundation Advisory
Panel for Pysics.
Dr. Toll is a past national
chairman of the Federation of
American Scientists and served
for three years as member-at-large
for the U,S, National Com-mittee
for the International Un-ion
of Pure and Applied Physics,
He studied at the University
of Paris in 1950 under a grant
from Friends of Elementary Par-ticle
Theory Research and in
1958-59 was a John Simon Gug-genheim
Memorial Foundation
Fellow, Institute for Theoretical
Physics of the University of Cop-enhagen,
Denmark, and the Un-iversity
of Lund, Sweden.
Dr. Toll received the B,S.
in physics, with highest honors,
from Yale University in 1944,
and the A,M, in physics, 1948,
and the Ph. D, in physics, 1952,
from Princeton University.
Dr. Karl D, Hanzell, an ex-ecutive
dean on the State Univer-sity
Central Staff, has been act-ing
administrative officer of the
University Center at Stony Brook
since being assigned that duty on
September 4,1962.