The_Rambler_1965-11-16

              I^RMINGDALE/NY "I1735
LIB^RARY/SEmALS DEFt
STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE
FARMINGDALE, L. I., N. f .
VOLUME XXXVI NO. 2 NOVEMBER 16, 1965
The Womenfolk Are Coming Nov. 1 9
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S.U. A.T.C. Hosts
Peace Corps Week
The Week of November 29
will be "Peace Corps Week"
here at Farmlngdale. The annual
visitation of the Peace Corps
team from Washington D.C, will
take place Monday, Nov. 29th
throu^ Friday, December 3rd.
Peace corps staff members.
Including returned volunteers,
will be on hand to explain the
purpose, programs and future
plans of the Peace Corps and to
accept applications from in-terested
students.
Peace Corps information
centers will be located in Roose-velt
HaU and Whitman Hall Lob-bies
each day and manned by
the Peace Corps team through
out the visit.
Non-competitive aptitude tests
will be given several times daily
to applicants. These tests re-quire
no previous knowlege of
a foreign language, and are not
the kind you study for. Ap-plicants
do not fail or pass them
as they are used for placement
purposes only. Optional Spanish
and French language achievment
tests will also be administered.
Peace Corps questionnaires
must be completed before taking
the above tests. Those thinking
of applying should immediately
fill out a Questionnaire and sub-mit
it to one of the Peace Corps
team members. Questionnaires
are available at most Post Of-fices
and may also be obtained
from Mr. James R. McCllntock,
Coordinator of Student Aaivities,
or Miss Mulligan, Assistant Dean
of Students.
If an organization, group or
club wishes to have a Peace
Corps representative speak and
answer questions, arrangemrats
should be made at <»ice by con-tacting
Mr. McClintock.
Leading the team, for the sec-ond
straight year, is Mr. Bert
Swanson, Agricultural Desk Of-ficer
of the Peace Corps, who
is coordinator for the New York
State Task Force for Agriculture,
The Task Force may be of speci-al
interest to Farmlngdale agri-culture
students.
Nearly 10,000 Volunteers are
either overseas or. in training
for service in 46 countries in
Africa, Asia or Latin America.
Training programs begin in al-most
every month of the year
but are especially concentrated
during February and the summer
months. Those who apply during
the Peace Corps team visit, will
be informed of their eligibility
within approximately two months.
Farml^dale students have
been actively involved in the
Peace Corps since its inception
in 1961. Some thiny Aggie grad-uates
have either completed
Peace Corps volunteer service
or are currently overseas. A
complete list of Farmingdale
Peace Corps volunteers is avail-able
in Mr. McClintock's office,
Roosevelt Hall, Room 116.
Farmingdale In
Europe 1966''
Day students, faculty,
staff and their families
and friends are cordial-ly
invited to join FARM-INGDALE
IN EUROPE,
1966, second in the s e -
ries of European tours
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66
On November 19th the Inter-dormitory
Council is presenting
an evening of folk music pro-vided
by a nationally known sing-ing
group called the Womenfolk.
This group is made up of five
young ladies with five guitars.
te)eviston' shows including Ed
Sullivan, Holly wood Palace, Shin-dig,
and numerous others. They
have also appeared at the Hungry
I where they recorded an album
called the «Womenfolk at the
Hungry L"
This group is being supplied
to the council by Mr. Ken Roberts
of Seton Hall University. He has
a great resourse of entertain-ment,
pending a success, there
i s no limit to the amount or
quality of entertainment ^ c h
may be presented at Farming-dale.
This is part of a program
launched by the IDC to provide
recreation and entertainment on
campus to give students who are
residing in the dormiitories on
weekends things to do. We hope
that this program will give the
students going home weekends
^ the desire to remain on campus
for an enjoyable weekend.
We hope to see you all at the
concert to be presented in the
Allard Field House at 8 pm Fri-day,
November 19. Tickets are
$1.50 per person or $2.50 per
couple.
MUSICAL FIVESOME
"Musickand women I cannot but
give way to, whatever my bus-iness
i s ." So wrote Samuel Pepys
: in his Diary on March 9, 1666.
Samuel Pepys would have been
utterly overwhelmed today.
nearly three hundred years later,
by a combination known as The
Womenfolk, five charming and
talented young women whose
pleasure it is to make music -
and mighty exciting music at that.
In a more up-to-dj^
SVomenfoik' in performance at
The Garret in Los Angeles last
fall. "It's aU there, "wrote Var-iety's
reviewer, "power and
light-touch, humor and serious-ness,
the real folk stuff and the
updated - so there's only one way
for (The Womenfolk) to go - up,"
Since then, the Womenfolk have
indeed gone up. Their RCA Victor
albums have won a solid core of
fans for the fivesome, and their
in-person performances have
won resounding cheers and shouts
for more whenever and wherever
they have appeared.
Making up the diverse charms
which are the Womenfolk are five
individually delightful young
ladies, each a talent in her own
right, each a winning performer.
Together, they combine the many
charms which are the way of
women.
Alphabetically, they are Jean
Amos, Leni Ashmore, Barbara
Cooper, Judy Fine, and Joyce
James.
These are the five young ladies,
the single units who have com-bined
their feminine charms to
form The Womenfolk. They sing
old folk songs and new, and what-ever
they sing, they bring to their
songs a unique blend of enthus-iasm,
femininity and talent. They
are virtually irresistible - to the
ladies as well as the menfolk,
and they do Indeed make music
surpassingly well.
Nursery Education
Course Proposed
A two-year Nursery Education
program leading to the Associate
in Applied Science degree has
been approved by the Board of
Trustees of the State Univers-ity
of New York for the Agri-cultural
and Technical College
at Farmingdale, according to an
announcement by Dr. Charles
W. Laffin, Jr., president of the
college.
The new program, which will
enroll an initial class of 50
students in the fall of 1966, is
designed to provide post^Wgh
school training for persons plan-ning
careers in day nurseries
and nursery schools operating
under public or private auspices.
Positions for which graduates
of the Farmingdale Nursery Ed-ucation
program will be quali-fied
Include assistant teacher
in a nursery school, assistant
teacher for the physically handi-ciqpped,
attendant in a school
for the mentally retarded, coun-selor
in a children's home, re-creation
leader, and summer
camp I counselor.
In making the announcement.
Dr. Laffin said that "A contin-uing
increase in the number of
nursery schools in the Long I s -
land a ^ metropolitan New York
area has created a scarcity of
qualified personnel in this
important field of preschool ed-ucation.
On Long Island alone
there are now more than 200
nursery sdiools representing a
collective enrollment reaching
well into the thousands. It is
our hope that through the estab-lishment
of a Nursery Education
program at Farmingdale the need
for competent assistants in nurs-ery
schools will be met."
To qualify for the Nursery Ed-ucation
program a student ^ u s t
be a high school graduate with
at least one unit of Elementary
Algebra and two units of science.
Biology recommended.
Course work during the two-year
program will include a bal-ance
of English, psychology, phy-siology
and sociology with speci-alized
work in human growth
and development, child and com-munity
health, child guidance,
equipment and play materials,
creative activities, and study of
child care agencies.
In addition, students will gain
actual experience in working with
nursery-age children through in-training
programs with local
nursery schools registered with
the State Education Department
and represented on the Early
Childhood Education Council of
Nassau and Suffolk.
"An advisory comminee com-prised
of recc^nized leaders in
Nursery Education is now being
formed to assist Farmingdale
in maintaining close contact with
current techniques and develop-ments
within the field," said
Dr. Laffin.
Blood Bank
Jeopardized
by Evie Lolos
For many years the Blood
Bank^ has helped many pecq;>le
old. It has yet to turn anyone
away because of race, color,
and creed. When former students
of S.U.A.T.C. decided to make
our school a member of the blood
bank, more than 10 years ago,
with only one thought in mind -
to make our school a proud and
permanent member.
In the past years ^ e n the
attending students of this col-lege
were less than half of this
year's attendance the Blood Bank
collected more than 500 pints
of blood at each of the 2 annual
drives. Unfortunately our more
recent Aggies were not able to
boast about such an accomplish-ment
for the simple reason that
not even 200 pints were collected.
No one seems to realize the
valuable advantages such a dona-tion
can bring to you. If you donate
blood you become a permanent
member of the blood barJk for the
rest of your life. Besides you,
your family also becomes a per-manent
member. Blood will be
given to any of the members and
their families if there is need
for it. If the blood bank has an
abundance of blood your relatives
may also receive it through your
membership. There i s no money
involved anywhere in this invest-ment.
All you have to do i s give
blood at one of the annual drives.
When you have to draw blood
from the bank get in touch with
Mr. Gerald Allard at (me of these
numbers: College: MY 4-7800;
Home: CH 9-2108. The next blood
bank will be held on December
3, between the hours of 10:00
AM and 4:00 PM.
There are only a few require-ments
you must fulfill In order
to give blood. You must be 21
years of age or oyer. If you are
under 21 but over 18 you may
still give blood by obtaining a
permission slip, which will be
made available to you by your
Student Senate representative and
having your parents sign it. You
must weigh 110 pounds or over.
There are also certain food regu-lations
you have to follow on the
day of the Blood Bank. Do not
eat any fatty or fried foods 3
hours prior to the time which
you intend to give blood. You
may have coffee with no milk
fruit, juice, or toast with jelly
but no butter for breakfast. If
these rules are not observed,
your blood will be of no value
since it will be ftiU of fat. There-fore,
the Blood Bank will be
forced to throw it out and you
wUl be wasting your own time
and raergy.
Let us put all of our strength
and win together to make this
school really proud of us. Keep
in mind, that if we don't fill the
200 pint quota we will loose tlie
blood bank permanently and all
the alumni who have already
donated blood will loose their
membership. The blood bank is
tremendou^ Important and it
i s designed to serve you. Please
give It the support It desenresi
"The Blood You Give May Save
Your Life."