tl19590918-000 "TOWER LIGHT Vol. XII, No. 1 State Teachers College, Towson 4, Maryland September 18, 1959 PRESIDENT IN More New Faces- Approximately two dozen new faculty members, possibly the larg-est suth group in the history of the college, have accepted appointments at the college for the 1959-1960 year. In the Art Department, Mrs. Le-kora Schwartz of Philadelphia will be substituting for Mr. Miller while he is on leave to work toward his boetor's degree. She has taught art 14 Philadelphia and has assisted Dr. kargaret Mead at Columbia Univer- CtY and in New Guinea. She holdS a Master's degree for the University of Pennsylvania. Also new is Miss Alma Bent of rdner, Massachusetts, former fa-ty member at the New Paltz, New ork State Teachers College, who es to the Kindergarten-Primary ivision of the Education Depart-nt. She replaces Dr. Fitzgerald, hop was announced last as succeed-g Dr. Smith as Director of the ententary Division. Miss Bent is pleting her doctoral program at eachers College, Columbia Univer-tY. Joining the staff in the Junior igh School Division will be Mr. arnes A. Phillips, a former resident f Maryland who is completing his 0etoral work at Michigan State Lliversity. Mr. Phillips has a Mas- 's degree from the University of arYland and has taught in the altirnore County Schools. kr. Neil Dean Wilson of Linden- 4rst, New York, comes to the Psy-logy Division of the Education ePartment. He is a graduate of the tale Teachers College at Brockport, e�v York, and is working toward a tor's degree at Columbia Uni-eNty. He has taught in the public ools of New York State and in Navy Training School at Bain-dge, Maryland. Also assisting in hology will be Mr. Robert K. tIg of Greenville, North Carolina. IVIT. Perry M. Kali& has been ap- 'Ited a vice-principal of the Lida e Tall School. Mr. ICalick has a ster's degree from Brooklyn Col-e, and is completing his doctoral �gram at Teachers College, Co-. bin University. He has recently ri teaching in the public schools llew York krs. Rita Iskowitz has been ap- Ited as supervising teacher in the grade of the Lida Lee Tall 001. Mrs. Iskowitz is a graduate tbe University of Pittsburgh and eived her Master's degree in entary Education from George a4lingtcri University where she is taking advanced work toward boctor's degree. She has re-ly been teaching first grade in Dublic schools of Prince George's rity. kill. Mary Norris Lynch has been 'ted to fill one of the third 'le vacancies in the Lida Lee Tall �III- Mrs. Lynch is one of our 14tes and has on two previous occasions taught in the Lida Lee Tall School. Four individuals and as many graduate schools are involved in ap-pointments to the English Depart-ment. Dr. Marjorie Henry whose Doctor's degree is from the Uni-versity of Washington, comes to us from a position on the faculty of Shepherd College in West Virginia. Because of her background in the speech arts, she will teach public speaking as well as English compo-sition and literature. Mr. W. E. Page of North Carolina, who has a mas-ter's degree from Florida State Uni-versity, has a special interest in re-medial reading as well as the teach-ing of English. Mrs. Elaine Hedges whose master's degree is from Rad-cliffe College, will teach on a part-time basis. To the Health and Physical Edu-cation Department, Miss Lois Jen-kins of Muskegan, Michigan, has been appointed. Holding degrees from MacMurray College and the University of Nebraska, Miss Jenkins has taught in Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan and in London. Following the resignation of Dr. Mueller, Miss Margaret C. Zipp of Baltimore has been appointed to the Mathematics Department. Miss Zipp has taught recently at the Essex Community College following ex-perience as a mathematics instruc-tor and member of the Registrar's Office staff at Rutgers University. She holds a Master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and has taken additional graduate study in a number of other universities. Mr. Robert E. Laubach of Baltimore who has a master's degree from the Uni-versity of Michigan, will teach one course in Mathematics, at least for the first semester to provide for time for Dr. Vopel to teach a course for graduate students in the Towson graduate program. Mr. Laubach for-merly taught at the McDonogh School and at the Baltimore Poly-technic High School. A new member of the Music De-partment faculty will be Mrs. Esther Coulange, who for the last several years has been assistant professor of voice at Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina. She has pre-viously taught in public schools and at the Indiana, Pennsylvania, State Teachers College. She holds a Mas-ter's degree from New York Uni-versity and has done additional study at a number of schools of Music. When Dr. Stewart left to accept a position at New York University, Dr. Howard Erickson of Indiana, Pennsylvania, was appointed to the faculty. He holds a Master's degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Doctor's degree from Cornell University and has been on the in-structional staff of both institutions. PHILIPPINES Another Biologist coming to the De-partment is Mr. George W. Belden of Hamburg, New York. Mr. Belden has taught in the New York public schools for many years. His Bache-lor's and Master's degrees were taken at Cornell and New York Uni-versities respectively. A third ap-pointment in science is Mr. William T. Morefield of Baltimore, for sev-eral years a teacher of Physical sci-ence in the Baltimore City Schools. Mr. Moorefield replaces Dr. Ravelli, who has resigned to accept a science consultant appointment in Africa. Mr. Moorefield holds an under-graduates degree from Johns Hop-kins University, a Master's degree from Loyola College, and is working toward a doctorate at the Univer-sity of Maryland. The Social Science Department has added two history instructors and a teacher of sociology. Mrs. Betty C. Ryburn of Aberdeen, Maryland will become the college's first full-time instructor in sociology. She holds a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in this field from Marshall College and Ohio University. Mr. Herbert D. Andrews, formerly of Portland, Maine will be an instructor in Euro-pean History. Mr. Andrews has been a graduate assistant at Northwestern University where he is working to-ward a Doctor's degree. His under-graduate degree was taken at Bow-doin College. To allow Miss Kahl opportunity for one-semester leave of absence, Mrs. William G. Rose of Baltimore has been appointed to teach history for the first semester. Mrs. Rose has completed course work for a Doctor's degree at the Johns Hopkins University. Miss Florence Pressman of Chel-sea, Massachusetts, has been ap-pointed Assistant Director of Resi-dence, succeeding Miss Wolfram. Miss Pressman is a graduate of Sim-mons College and recently received her Master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University, with a major in guidance and student per-sonnel administration. Two new Assistant Librarians have been appointed to fill the vacancies left by the retirement of Miss Wins-low and the death of Mrs. Hazard. Mrs. Frances Moore of Bel Air will be filling the position formerly held by Mrs. Hazard. Mrs. Moore has served on the Pratt Library staff for several lyears. Mr. Herbert Paerstl, of St. Louis, a recent graduate of the Library School at Rutgers Univer-sity, has accepted the position for-merly held by Miss Winslow. TOWER LIGHT OPEN HOUSE SEPT. 24th For the first time in 12 years, President Earle T. Hawkins will not be on campus to greet both old and new students when they arrive for the opening of the 94th college year. Dr. Hawkins has been requested by the Philippines Government to join a group of five other educators from venous parts of the country who will spend five months in the Philip-pines evaluating all phases of the Philippine school system�financial, administrative, vocational, elemen-tary, secondary, and teacher educa-tion. Dr. Hawkins will give prime attention to the last named feature of the program. Three members of the team are from California, one from Oregon, one from Alabama, and President Hawkins from Mary-land. Dr. Hawkins has been in Manila since September 6. He left Friend-ship Airport on August 28 by jet plane for Los Angeles. On the way to Manila, he spent a day in Hono-lulu, two days in Tokyo, and two days in Hong Kong, to get in a bit of sight-seeing before settling down to the work of the survey. As most people are aware, the Philippines have been an independ-ent country only since 1946. They came under the control of the United States after the Spanish- American War and had been a terri-tory under the protection of the United States until 1946. During that period, much had been done for education in the Islands through the importation of a number of teachers and administrators from the United States who advised the Filipinos in the improvement of their school system. However, the last complete survey of the whole public school organization was carried on in 1925 and the Philippine authorities are anxious to have a complete study made at this time which will point up their particular needs and chart their progress for the next decade. The Philippines are not a wealthy country and although they are in-tensely interested in education and spend a larger proportion of their income on education than do many other countries, including our own, they are still lacking in many fa-cilities that would be commonplace in this country. One member of the visiting team will, therefore, give prime attention to the financial structure of the entire school sys-tem. There is a shortage of qualified teachers, a shortage of adequate facililties, and a shortage of mate-rials of instruction. There is also grave concern because large num-bers of pupils drop out of school long before they have finished the elementary grades. Dr. Hawkins and the other members of the team will, therefore, face some major problems in helping the philippine authorities chart a line of progress for the next decade which will bring the results they so ardently desire in the way of education for all their people. The six-man survey team is going to the Philippines under the spon-sorship of the International Cooper-ation Administration of the United States Government (ICA) through its Operation Mission to the Philip-pines (USOM). The team will have is headquarters in the ICA building in Manila which is direcly across the street from the United States Em-bassy. The Philippines Government has many competent educators on its official staff, but they were desirous of bringing in a group of outside specialists who could survey the en-tire situation without any form of political pressure and make recom-mendations which would perhaps have more weight because they would come from persons who had no political connections. The govern-ment is particularly anxious to de-velop a program of education which will take into account Philippine culture. Mrs. Hawkins, accompanied by a college friend, will leave in Novem-ber by boat through the Panama Canal for the Philippines, arriving in Manila shortly before Christmas. After the survey is completed, Dr. and Mrs. Hawkins plan to take a month to return to this country ""around the other side of the world,"" returning home by way of southern Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa, and southern Europe. They will be back in the United States about the first of March, and Dr. Hawkins will then resume his post as President of the college. During his absence, Dr. Browne will be acting president and Dr. Harold Moser acting Dean of Instruction. 1963 This year's Freshman class num-bers about 545 students. This will 'bring the total enrollment of the college to somewhere between 1450 and 1470 which is an increase of 100 students over last years enrollment. The Freshmen, both Day-hops and Dorm students spent three days in the dorms together, from Sept. 13 to Sept. 16. They took the usual Fresh-men tests and were oriented to the different aspects of college life. Freshmen Please Note: It is ntvewary that your class elections be held prior to September 30 at the latest so that your class officers may attend the Leacieeship Conference to be held October 2 and 3. "
