tl19660930-000 "Vol. XIX, No. 2 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE, TOWSON, MARYLAND Dr. Falco Appointed Dean of The College Among the many changes at Towson State is the promotion of Joseph A. Falco to the po-sition of Acting Dean of the College. Dr. Falco has been in Towson's history department since 1957 and served as its chairman last year. The office of the Dean of the College is responsible for the entire academic program. Assisting Dr. Falco is As-sociate Dean of Instruction Charles Haslup. Dr. Falco is very much in- Policy Change Instituted For Prof Absences A major policy change has been instituted this year re-garding the absence of teachers from class. In the future, stu-dents will have to wait 20 min-utes in the classroom after Which a student should go to the teacher's office and see if he is present. Following this, a check should be made in the department's office to see if another member Of the staff will take the class. Tile final procedure is to send a student to the Dean of the College's office and await in-structions from the Dean's �Mee. terested in developing a strong academic program. He wishes to continue emphasizing excel-lence in teaching and maintain-ing high academic standards. For the future Dr. Falco says, ""I hope in a few years we can realize a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (all scholastic honor so-ciety) and I will work towards the installation of one here."" Several years ago Dr. Falco was instrumental in getting a branch of Phi Alpha Theta (national honor society in history) on the Towson cam-pus. Holding a B.A. from Duquesne University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Dean Falco belongs to many organizations, includ-ing the American Historical As-sociation, the Economic History Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Executive Board of the Council on Economic Education in Maryland, and the Maryland State Teachers Association. Dean Falco doesn't have much spare time, but when he does he likes to travel with his wife and son, usually taking an ex-tensive trip each August. Auditions There are available positions in all sections of the TSC or-chestra. Practice is held in S-7 on Monday and Thursday ev-enings from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Astronomical Society Inspects Planetarium h_on Monday evening, Septem- ,7 19, the Baltimore Astrono- 'meal Society met in the Smith Science Building to conduct its l'egular.monthly meeting and to e a special demonstration of wie Smith Hall Planetarium. The Baltimore Astronomi- Cal Society, which is a sec-tion of the Maryland Acad-eolY of Sciences, was invited to Towson by Mr. Elmer Kreisel, a new member of the TSC science department. b Mr. Kreisel, who received his Z'S. from Johns Hopkins and M.E. from Loyola College, is also the president of the BAS. After a short business ses- 81On, the crowd of approxi- IllatelY thirty amateur astro- Owners were taken up into tittle Planetarium, where Mr. 'treisel demonstrated the various features of the Spitz projector. Present at the meeting was Mr. Paul S. Watson, Curator of Astronomy at the Maryland Academy of Sciences and a well-known Baltimore astronomer. Mr. Watson was very pleased with the operation of the new instrument, stating that it per-formed excellently. He is the Director of the Maryland Academy of Science's Davis Planetarium where he has given over 7,000 demonstra-tions over the last 18 years, a record for planetarium lecturers. The meeting closed with the amateur stargazers agreeing with Mr. Kreisel that the plane-tarium is an excellent device with which to familiarize sci-ence students with the problems of astronomy. September 30, 1966 Towson Tiger Tops Tower Light A nationwide oil company popularized a tiger in its inten-sive advertising campaign last year by employing a tiger along with the now hackneyed state-ment: ""Put a tiger in your tank."" Tower Light, hoping to popularize the mascot of Towson State, and hoping to build a new image for the newspaper, has placed its very own tiger in the con-spicuous location between the words, ""Tower Light."" The differences between last year's masthead and this year's are readily apparent. Last year's consisted of a drawn ""Tower Light"" with an insert of the Centennial Seal. This year, however. the staff of TL decided that the time was ripe for a change of face, and what better way than to start with the mast-head? The professionally-made mast-head was furnished through the Newman Folksinging Mass And Rally Bring Turnout A Folksinging Mass was cele-brated on the grounds of the new Newman Center on York Road on September 18. Father Thomas Stracke celebrated the Mass while Father Joseph Mc- Manus, Newman chaplain, de-livered the Homily. The guitarist for the Mass was the Rev. Mr. Phillip Eb-berwein, a seminarian in the Archdiocese, who wrote the music for parts of the Mass that were sung. After the Mass a rally with guest speakers was held around an old fish pond on the property. A weeny roast was held after the rally. Among the invited speak-ers was Sister Mary Con-sillia of the Newman Aposto-late of Millersville State College in Pennsylvania. Sis-ter Consilia spoke on ""The Challenge of Faith."" Another speaker was John Witeck, a student at the Univer-sity of Virginia. He is the chairman of the Middle Atlantic Province of Newman Aposto-lates, of which Towson is a part. Mr. Witeck spoke about Newman work and the chal-lenge it offers college students. Turnout for the event was very good with over 100 stu-dents attending. Also pre-sent were Dr. and Mrs. Earle T. Hawkins, Dean Or-rielle Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Slowinski, Dr. Lois Odell, and Father Manuel R. Roman, the Archdiocesan Director of Newman Aposto-late in Baltimore. Meanwhile, work has been progressing toward the renova-tion of the Newman Center. On Thursday, September 22, Father McManus and Sister Mary Faith met with the contractor, Mr. James Casserly, to outline the planned improvements. It is hoped that the Center will be finished within two months. Upon its completion an open house will be held. Sister Mary Faith and Father Joseph McManus inspect the plans for the new Towson Newman Center, located across York Road from Stephens Hall. efforts of Paul Case, Director of College Relations, and Harold Schull, an artist for the Balti-more News American, a local daily newspaper. Mr. Case, a former report-er for the News American, contacted the Art Editorial Department of the news-paper and arranged to have a cartoonist produce a tiger for TL. The artist who developed the new masthead is Harold Schull,. who was born in Hornell, New York. He attended the Mary-land Institute for two years, and has been with the News American for only a month. A resident of Baltimore for the past 18 years, the 2-1- year old cartoonist gradu-ated from Baltimore City College and started in car-tooning and animated car-tooning with Monumental Films. He took the Famous Artists correspondence course in art and, as a hobby, he draws por-traits. At the News American, Mr. Schull works under Tony Frisino, art director for the newspaper. His department is responsible for all of the newspaper's photography. Asked how he became inter-ested in cartooning, Mr. Schull answered, ""I always did car-toons in high school and, when. (Continued on Page 4) Glen Players Announce First Play At 8:15 on the evenings of October 20, 21 and 22, the Glen Players will entertain the public in the Stephen's Hall Auditori-um with their first play of the fall semester, ""And People All Around"", by George Sklar. The play is a love story complicated by its civil rights background. The lov-ers are portrayed by Harvey Bovine as Don. and Gloria Baublitz as Jean Portugal. These leads are supported by Judi Salkin as Betty. and Bill Schultz as Sherig Plun-kett. The Glen Players rehearse Monday through Friday from 7-9 P.M. and are directed by Mr. Whitney LeBlanc, who has also done the scenery and de-signed the set for the play, while the lighting was designed by Mr. Robert Levin, a new member of the staff. Mrs. Georgia Baker designed the costumes. (Continued on Page 4) "
