Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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an enlarging circle for Indeed, the circle of alumni is increasing dramatically for ISU-considering the large number of graduates of the past few years. And the circle is en- larging for HyQu. Enlarging, that is, for Hyou tthe studenti be- cause more alumni means more support for the university. For example, 1975 saw ISU conduct its fourth an- nual Telefund, an Alumni Association effort to gain financial support for the ISU Fund from alumni living in Vigo and Ver- million counties. About 140 local alum- hi and university staff served as volunteer call- ' ers, working in teams of 25 to 30 each evening hoping to reach the 5,200 area alumni who are list- ed on the records of the Office of Alumni Affairs. . ALUMNI HHelIo, this is iSU call- ing! was the message heard by those local alumni during the March effort. Richard Everett was general chairman for the Vigo-Vermillion Telefund, heading a group of 10 captains who recruited volunteers for specific evenings ofduty. The major portion of the alumni contributions, about 47 percent. is for student scholarship aid; another 35 percent is used for individual school and department projects; and the remaining 18 per cent goes to general op- eration costs and special capital projects. The local Telefund was one of 14 ISU conducted during the year e which involved over 400 volun- teers who attempted to reach about 18,000 alumni. Other areas where Telefunds were held were Vincennes, Indianapolis, Evansville, Columbus, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Hammond, St. Louis, Chi- cago, Sullivan, and Rock- ville. Alumni come to the forefront of ISU's atten- tion when four are given the HDistinguished Alum- ni Awards each year dur- ing Homecoming. As part of Homecom- ing 1974 activities, Delby C. Humphrey, Frank L. Miklozek, Allen Sharp, and Tom Trimble receiv- ed the award. Humphrey, president of Schutt Manufacturing Co., Litchfield, Ill., heads a firm which is the origi- nator and manufacturer of faceguards used by football players. Miklozek, executive di- rector, National Associa- tion of Postmasters, Washington, DC, is a 1936 graduate of ISU who formerly held the job of postmaster of 'Terre Haute for 24 years. Sharp, United States District Court Judge, Northern District of Indi- ana, Hammond, was elected to the bench of the Appellate Court of Indiana at 36 and was appointed US. District Judge in 1973 at the age of 41. Trimble, CBS television art director. Los Angeles, Calif., won an Emmy award for his work on the daytime serial called HThe Young and the Rest- less. ALUMNI 15

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Alpha Phi Omega 14 ALPHA ETA RHO A national professional pilot or- ganization, Alpha Eta Rho conduct- ed a banquet for the fall induction ceremony, had a guest speaker tWiI- Iiam K. Kershner, author of flying handbooks; sponsored an air race, and held a spring banquet with a speaker from McDonneI and Doug- las Aircraft. Alpha Kappa Delta, a national honorary, aims to promote an in- terest in sociology, research in so- cial problems, and activities leading to human welfare. During the year the group con- ducted a banquet and a picnic and co-sponsored a departmental tDe- The sponsorship of the Wabash Valley Press Conference for high school students is the main activity each year for the members of Alpha Phi Gamma Journalism Honorary. The conference provides speak- ers and work sessions for high school journalists who participate, as well as a judging service for news- Seeking to promote brotherhood through service to the campus, community, country, and chapter, Alpha Phi Omega members con- ducted a number of projects during the year including: -The building of the Homecom- ing bonfire; eWorking with handicapped bowling leagues and sponsoring a The group conducted meetings on call throughout the year. Officers included Robert Porter, president; Chris Wright, vice presi- dent; Fritz Wagoner, treasurer; and Tom Mottox, secretary. Sponsors were Dr. Roy Bucking- ham and Dr. Ivan Bates. partment of Sociology and Social Workisymposium. Officers included David L. Arnold, president; Richard A. Jimison, vice president; Samuel L. Allen, trea- surer; and Jay I. Bank, secretary. Faculty sponsors were Dr. Arthur F. Kline and Dr. Harold G. Cox. papers and yearbooks. Alpha Phi Gamma also awards three honors e outstanding senior journalists, the Claude Billings Award, and outstanding freshman journalist. Officers included Peggy Mascari, Donna Meyer, Dia Edgerton, and Kathy Kennedy. team; eAiding with SGA elections; -Working as Heart Fund volun- teers. Officers included Mark Kessans, Jack Hogan, Jon Adams, Kennedy Robinson, Joe Aldridge, Lee Shei- man. Dave Armes, and Larry Hen- ning.

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ANTHROPOLOGY excavation uncovers indian village dating back 2000 years 6199?? Il'lt 16 ANTHROPOLOGY Diggin' in the dirt? Salvaging the remains of a large prehistoric Indian village is more than that e as anthro- pology students at ISU discovered dur- ing the summer of 1974. For a second year, the National Park Service provided substantial sup- port for the archaeology program of the ISU Anthropology Laboratory e including an $8,000 grant earmarked for excavations at a former Indian village in Sullivan County. There was an urgency about the operation since a planned rebuilding of the Island Levee along the Wabash River threatened to destroy parts of the once thriving Indian village. Dr. Robert E. Pace of ISU's Anthro- pology Laboratory directed the sum- mer excavations. These took place during the first summer term, when college students could earn six semes- ter credit hours while learning field and laboratory methods of archaeo- logy. During the second summer session talented high school students partici- pating in the ISU Summer Honors Seminar in archaeology took part in the excavation. Assisting Pace were Jerry Kline, an ISU graduate who then attended Ari- zona State University. and Gary Apfel- stadt, a student in anthropology at ISU. Several other anthropology majors were employed in the excavation and in laboratory analyses of information recovered from the village. Through excavations that began in 1969 and have continued each sum- mer since, archaeologists have iden- tified the inhabitants of the village as the Allison-LaMotte Indians, who oc- cupied it at intervals from around the time of the birth of Christ to 600 AD. It is believed that the Indians would live at one of the village sites until plants and animals they used became scarce, when they would move to an- other viHage, eventually returning to the first site when plant and animal life had once again become abundant. Although different and powerful Indians are known to have lived to the immediate south and north, they failed to penetrate or appreciably influence the Allison-LaMotte Indians. Maintaining their particular way of life for some 600 years, these people mastered the Wabash environment and resisted pressures from aggressive cultures around them. Finding no evidence of fortification, archaeologists believe that the Allison- LaMotte Indians were a peaceful peo- ple and that their contacts with others were peaceful. For reasons not yet understood, they were influenced more in some ways by Indians from the Ohio River to the southeast than by adjacent mid- west Indians. The secrets of their cultural stability and contacts with the southeast was one of the objects of the summer's excavations. ltWhether participating as students or paid employees, the young men and women involved in the project twerel contributing to our knowledge or pre- history, said Pace describing the program. ltln a most practical manner, those who choose archaeology as a career will be preparing themselves for an increasing number of salvage jobs, as more of our prehistoric sites are threatened by levees, strip mines, reservoirs, and other land use develop- ments of our age, he added. he ldirti