The_Rambler_1965-05-07

              The l^mlder^^^ STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N. Y.
VOLUME XXXV NO. 10 MAY 7, 8, 1965 April 13, 1965
SUATC Holds 46th Annual Open House
The main highlight of
the May 7 and 8 Annual
Open House event, as
reported by Dr. Charles
W. Laffin, Jr., Presi-dent
of Farmingdale,
will be the announce-ment
of the new master-plan
for the State Uni-versity
at Farmingdale.
This will be in addi-tion
to the traditional
exhibitions created by
each of the departments
to visually dramatize
the f a c i l i t i e s and
courses they offer to
their students. With the
motto thought, "Looking
To the Future," the col-lege
will again present
its galaxy of current
educational advantages.
The unveiling of the
plan will end the long
mystery about the build-ing
construction and
clear up the confusion in
the minds of many stu-dents
as to why changes
are being made the way
they are.
The theme of the pro-gram
will be, ** Farm-ingdale,
Past and Fu-ture.''
There will be
artists' renderings of
future buildings and
campus development;
Scale models of the
campus of the future,
and large panels de-veloped
by architects
showing the planning.
Before plans were
drawn, much research
and preliminary work
was first conducted. In-tense
study of the
region, road networks,
zoning characteristics,
future development of
the surrounding towns
of Oyster Bay, Hunting-ton
and Babylon were
undertaken. In addition
population c h a n g e s,
transportation and land
use studies were made,
to name a few of the
areas where investiga-tions
were made.
There will be a full
and detailed story of
total college develop-ment
on display. In r e -
gard to Farmingdale's
past, pictures showing
SUNY To /oogurate Dr. Gould
The State University of New York, which com-prises
58 public institutions of higher learning will
inaugurate its new president. Dr. Samuel B. Gould,
on Thursday, May 13^ 1965, it was announced by the
University's 6oard of Trustees.
The inaugui-al ceremony will be held in Phil-harmonic
Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts, New York City, and will mark Dr. Gould's
formal installation as head of the University, a
post he has occupied since September, 1964.
Dr. Gould has had a long and
notable career as an educator.
Prior to being named President
of Channel 13, the educational
television station in New York,
as Chancellor of the University
of California at Santa Barbara
from 1959 to 1962, and as Presi-dent
of Antioch College from 1954
to 1959. As Chancellor at Santa
Barbara, Dr. Gould guided the
transition of that college from a
four-year liberal arts institution
to a general university offerii^
advance degrees in the arts and
sciences and professional pro-grams
in education and engineer-ing.
At Antioch, he is re-membered
for his unique con-tributions
to that institution's
"work-education" program and
for the responsible role students
were encouraged to play in the
administration of the college.
In his inaugural address, Dr.
Gould will emphasize the
enlarging role the State Univer-sity
of New York will play in
providing quality education for
the burgeoning numbers of young
people requiring and education in
our increasingly complex so-ciety.
In his revision of the
Master Plan for the University,
recently submitted to the Gover-nor
and Board of Regents, Dr.
Gould expressed his over-all ob-jective
for the State University
of New York as follows: "The
framework for a great University
has been built. The task now is
to develop a sense of unity and
identity, and a passion for ex-cellence
throughout the Univer-sity.
Only in these ways can the
power of its resources generate
the greatest benefits for the youth
the original buildings
under construction will
be shown, and old photo-graphs
of the campus as
it appeared over the
years.
Until now, exact de-tails
of the plan have
been withheld from the
general public, but on
May 6, 1965, the day
before the Open House
w e e k e n d , a Press
Luncheon will be called
and all details will be
released at that time.
The Administration
worked with State Uni-versity
officials in an
e f f o r t to preserve
Farmingdale's beauty,
and to act as a watch-guard
against haphazard,
construction. The State
University's own land-scape
architect was
sympathetic to the Ad-minis
tr ation's request
to couple construction
with aesthetic appeal.
By 1970, Farming-dale's
day students will
number about 4000.
Since college enroll-ments
around the coun-try
will double in the
next ten years, our ex-pansion
program is in
keeping with this antici-pation.
It i s also an aim
to make available the
room s o t h a t E a c h May
Become All He Is
Capable Of Being."
See How WeVe Changed
of the State, its economy, and all
its people."
A highlight of the inaugural
program will be the appearance
of a 200-voice choir (a portion
of which has appeared with the
New York Philharmonic Orches-tra)
composed of music students
from two of the University's
units, the State University
Colleges at Fredonia and Pots-dam.
These colleges have the
largest music departments within
the University's highly diver si-field
system, which includes four
u n i v e r s i t i e s , two medical
colleges, a graduate school of
public affairs, ten liberal arts
colleges, six agricultural and
technical colleges, 28 commu-nity
colleges, the Maritime
College in New York, the College
of Ceramics at Alfred Univer-sity,
the College of Forestry
at Syracuse University, the Vet-erinary
College and the Colleges
of Agriculture, Home Economics,
and Industrial and Labor Rela-tions
at Cornell University.
An anticipated 600 to 900 rep-resentatives
of U. S. and foreign
colleges and universities, attired
in academic costumes whose
colors indicate the degrees held,
the institutions from which the
degrees were granted, and the
specialties in which they were
conferred, will open Dr. Gould's
inauguration with a procession
into the auditorium at Philhar-monic
Hall.
Established in 1948, the State
University of New York has ex-panded
from 29 academic units
to its present total of 58. Its
current enrollment numbers over
92,000 full-time, degree-credit
students.
S.U.A.T.C. CIRCA 1913. This is a photograph of the original model designed for the State In-stitute
of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale. The extensive open farmland is graphic evi-dence
that the original plan for the college precedes by more than 30 years, the rapid popu-lation
and industrial explosion of Long Island, Not to mention the development of the auto-mobile.