Binghamton University - Colonist Yearbook (Vestal, NY)

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Jock F. Kimball DIRECTOR OF THE EVENING DIVISION A chance for new growth - as workers, as citizens, as people en- joying life-is being given to the men and women of the Triple Cities by the college's evening program offered in Endicott and at State Tech. And the program itself is growing, under the hand of its ami- able chief, Jack Kimball. Back with us again after a year at Columbia winding up his study for a doctor- ate, Mr. Kimball is known to old- timers as the soft-spoken Missourian who was our first director of Stu- dent Personnel. Four years a Navy lieutenant, he had served as assistant to the dean at his alma mater, the University of Kansas City, before coming here in 1946. Elizobefh S. Plclnkinfon DIRECTOR OF STUDENT PERSONNEL If this auburn haired young lady never steered you into the right line of work, or found you a job, or a place to live-if she never smoothed out any scholastic or fi- nancial rough spots for you-then you just never went to Harpur. Miss Plankinton came here in 1946 as Women's Counselor, and became Director of Student Personnel in 1948. Before that she had been a co-ed at the University of Oregon, and a SPAR ensign in Washington. She received her master,s degree in personnel from Syracuse - hails from Oregon-sparks our campus activities and social life with their fabled informality. pdlddltftdz and M. ., John W. Addley couNsELoR OF STUDENTS These days the college boy no longer refers to a calendar in making his future plans, he uses a watch with a sweep-second hand. Seldom be- fore have students had such an urgent need for good advice, sound information, and someone-to-root- for-the-home-team. This is where john Addley comes in. Walk into his ofHce, make yourself comforta- ble under one of those gorgeous oil paintings, and give him the story. You soon find out what can be done. If you asked, you'd get this data: native Hudson, New Yorkg Air Corps tower operator, World War Hg B.S. and M.S., Syracuse, second year here. The paintings are Mrs. Addley's. 14 Michael N. Scelsi DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS When Harpur hits the headlines- this is the man behind it. The af- fable Mr. Scelsi returned to his native Endicott in 1949 to see to it that the world hears from us in print and on the air waves. Before that, he more or less made the grand tour, global style--getting his A.B. at Louisiana State Univer- sity . . . spending four years in the Pacific as a Marine Captain . . . working three years as a UN of- ficial in virtually every country in Europe. He cut his journalistic teeth on the LSU Pcl Mall, and it now devolves upon him to guide the assorted sooth sayers, oracles and bactotums who made up the staff of the Colonial News.

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GLENN G. BARTLE B.A., M.A., Ph.D. PRovosT OF HARPUR COLLEGE A student annual is always a record of the past but this one is also a forecast of the future. As a record it will always serve to bring back fond memories of student days. The outstanding character- istic of this institution in the five years of its existence has been the warm spirit of fellowship and good-will with which it has been permeated. Those of us who have lived together as students, faculty members and administrative staff do not need this printed word to tell us of the high morale of this college. But as time passes and as details fade from our memory, this book will have increasing value as a reminder not only of the events chronicled herein but of other more numerous and more personal episodes which are now a part of the background of each of us. The year 1950 brought about a change of our auspices and an extension of our horizons of fundamental significance. In February of that year we were accepted by the Board of Trustees as one of only two Liberal Arts colleges in the State University of New York. In September we started operation as a part of the State University and received our new name. In October we were dedicated as a new unit of the State University by Governor Thomas E. Dewey. It is the lot of very few students in any college to participate in such im- portant educational achievements of their alma mater. Under the auspices of the great State of New York we have some immediate and many long-time advantages, here- tofore denied us by circumstances. Although the cost of operation is increased, the tuition fee to students is reduced. The faculty-student ratio is dropped, making possible even more individual attention and a higher standard of teaching competence. Additional equipment can be purchased and ad- ditional space acquired. Unfortunately 19S0 also brought the threat of war and the rebuilding of the military organization, with its conse- quent deleterious effect upon college enrollments and upon the construction of college buildings. As this is written it is not possible to predict the date of construction of the new buildings which we so seriously need. We take comfort in the certainty that these buildings will be built just as soon as plans can be completed and building materials are avail- able. In the meantime we can continue to run an excellent college in our present temporary buildings. Under the State our earlier emphasis on Liberal Arts training is renewed and intensified. Other institutions within the State University will take care of the vocational emphasis, our job is the basic one. As Governor Dewey said in Octo- ber- I-Iere is a school of good citizenship, here is a school of ideas, here is a school by which we transmit the great fundamentals by which men have lived and worshiped and grown free and strong, the truths which have given them the courage to Hght and to die for their faith in God and their faith in freedom . . . 'I dedicate Harpur College, this solemn night, pledged to the truth. I dedicate it pledged to the idea that freedom shall never die on this earth, pledged to the concept that the dignity of mankind is more important than any other cause, pledged to faith in the right and in the sure knowledge that faith in the right will always triumph in the endf' Provost Glenn G. Bartle

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Gene S. Welborn DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS The Colonials went forth to do battle in six varsity arenas this year. They carried the Green and White onto the hardwood, across the hill- ocks, out on the diamond, down the cinder straightaway, onto the base- lined asphalt and over the fairways. The Wfelborn warriors hear their signal for attack in the drawl of the Hoosier state-the coach is a native Indianian. He got his M.S. in education at that state's Univer- sity after a sojourn among the Illini for the laavrulazrrwfzfs and a three year tour of Navy duty as a chief pharmacist's mate. He came here in 1947. Beniomin Hopkins Moses REGISTRAR AND DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Now marking his tenth year as a higher educator in the Triple Cities, Mr. Moses might be called advance guardian for the college. He ar- rived in Endicott in 1941 to direct the Syracuse Extension School, has been here since. A Scrantonian, he took his A.B. at Syracuse in 1934, stayed on at 'Piety Hill as assist- ant dean of men and received his M.A. there in 1939. As for his duties-- well, college means lots of things, but more than anything else it means studies, courses, curricu- lum. Getting the student in, keep- ing him in and getting him out on schedule is Mr. Moses' job-when the chips are down, he's your man. and Spam Herbert L. Leet LIBRARIAN Last fall a convoy of trucks rumbled northward, carrying back to Syracuse all the books from our library. Herbert Leet surveyed the empty stacks, drew a quick mental picture of the lot of us slowly dis- appearing in the abyss of illiteracy, and went to work. The library now has nearly 20,000 volumes. This gentleman who has staved off the extinction of intelligence in our milieu came to us in 1947 with an A.B. and B.1..S. from Syracuse after service in the libraries of a number of public schools in the state. He now operates from higher-ceilinged headquarters in Harpur,s newest campus acquisition-the ex-public library. 15 Somuel P. Douglass BUSINESS MANAGER Those of you who do not pay tuition, attend Harpur's brightest social functions, have a taste for the sharpest in 1vy League togs, or know anything of life at our college may not be familiar with the keeper of the college treasury, Sam Doug- lass. Otherwise, you know him as the young man who runs our phy- sical plant and complex monetary machinery. He took over last sum- mer after a yearis good service teaching finance to Harpuris future captains of industry. He got his B.S. and M.B.A. from Syracuse- navigated a B-17 during the war . . . admits to having been a second lieutenant.