Montclair State College - La Campana Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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Our economy may be in the doldrums and our foreign affairs in a depressed condition, but Montclair State College is alive and well. Improvements in the physical plant are evident all about us. The artificial turf on Sprague Field is beautiful and even more serviceable than anticipated. On the northern rim of the campus the earth has already been turned for an addition to the Student Center; this and the adjacent Lawton Blanton Dormitory will together provide another quadrangle. Work is also beginning on the greening of the quarry. Playing fields, a small building for lockers and showers, more and safer parking lots and new landscaping are under construction. Before the end of the summer a renovated Life Hall will provide at long last good facilities for television instruction and a new art gallery. Already resplen- dent in its spring beauty, our campus will be even more beautiful and considerably more useful by fall of 1981.

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Reorganization 109 Classes 110 Cooperative Education 124 SGA Election Results 127 Concerts 129 Organizations 147 Sports 185 Graduation 227 Seniors 235 Who ' s Who 324 A Short History of MSC 325 Staff 330 Afterword 333 Credits 334

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More important yet are new developments in our curriculum. New concentrations are now or soon will be available in Applied Sociology, Community and Industrial Psychology and Bilingual Legal Aide programs. Before summer we expect the Board of Higher Education to approve new graduate programs: a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Education. Currently, some faculty members are hard at work shaping a new General Education program to assure that all our students are profoundly and broadly educated and not merely well trained in marketable skills. Within the next year the Board ' s requirement that all students be tested to assess their competence in basic intellectual skills will assure that our graduates will be proficient in computation, the English language and clear thinking. From external funds the Department of Curriculum and Teaching has developed two programs to provide services to secondary teachers in Newark. By September a new Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and possibly four new Deans will be at work to spur curriculum reform and lively intellectual exchange among our faculty and students, heralding a new decade of intellectual vitality for this college. The activities of our faculty of national note attest to the continued respect by outside profession- als tendered our professors. Two members of our English Department were chosen for American Council on Education administrative internships. Two members of our staff already possessing the PhD completed Doctor of Jurisprudence programs. For the fourth decade in a row one member of our Mathematics Department has been President of the American Mathematical Teachers Associa- tion. Another faculty member was named Chairman of the Association of Black Psychologists. Over the years our faculty has changed in emphasis and grown in size, but its high quality is always amply demonstrable. This has been a notable year, too, for extracurricular activities. Our football, lacrosse, and women ' s soccer teams have had superlative seasons while debating and public speaking teams have been successful in numerous tournaments. Musical, dramatic and journalistic groups are better than ever. Certainly there is much important work still to be accomplished. We are far from our ideal of achieving intergroup understanding and trust. We still must exist on short rations from State coffers. We have not yet accompHshed what we should in a variety of services to the community. Yet on the whole, this has been a good year. Accordingly, on May 28 some 10,000 people gathered to honor our 1980 graduates will have abundant reason to Hail Montclair. David W.D. Dickson President, Montclair State College