The_Rambler_1957-09

              STATE
UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L. I., N.Y.
IKHNOUL . H K ' I I TS
Vol. xxvni No. 1 September, 19')7
INCREASED ENROLLMENT
BRINGS MANY CHANGES
This year, Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute
has a tremendous increase of enrollment in many sections. As
a result, more teachers have been added to the staff, there have
been many minor changes in schedules, and there are many
more women able to aettend the Institute than ever before.
The First and Best Meal Served on Campus
FRESHMAN ORIENTATION
PROVES HUGE SUCCESS
The culmination of an entire summer's planning was brought
forth on Sunday afternoon, September 8th, when the Freshmen
Orientation was begun an informal reception in Knapp Hall for
the dormitory students and their parents. That night there was
a coffee hour in the Student Union for all the students living
on campus.
After registration on Monday
moining, orientation was for-mally
initiated by Chairman
Carl Ahlers. Dr. William Medesy
and Bill Wells, President of Stu-dent
Council, spoke to the fresh-men
in front of the Administra-tion
Building. Guided tours, ar-ranged
by the seniors were then
given to acquaint the incoming
freshmen with our S U A TI
campus.
The traditional chicken bar-beque,
competently arranged by
Mr. Hickish, was held behind
the hanger Monday evening. An
abundance of chicken and var-ous
other good foods wrote the
recipe for a successful event.
To make the evening complete,
Bill Wells narrated a talent
show presented to the fresh-men
after the chicken had been
consumed. Entertainment in-cluded
the "Four Freshmen"
singing the Alma Mater, return-ing
A1 Blau singing "The Old
Dutch Mill", and Marilyn Zim-merman
singing her rendition of
"Blue Moon". The show was
climaxed with a Freshmen
Beauty Contest and the Tennes-see
Wig Walk done by Jane
Larson, Pat Raven, Marge We-dell
and Gail Rappold.
On Tuesday morning, orienta-tion
resumed with the "History
and Traditions of the Institute"
with Ken Deedy presiding as
chairman. Mr. Raynor Wal-lace
and Alice Keinonen, Sec-retary
of Student Council spoke
at this meeting. At one P. M.
"This Is Your Student Govern-ment"
was presented by Bill
Wells, Carole Berger, member
of the Senior Board of Gover-nors,
and Ed Styke, chairman of
the Institute Council of Clubs in
front of the Administration
Building. This described Stu-dent
Council, its functions, and
its importance to each and every
student at the Institute.
Following the government pro-gram,
Chairman Skip Hassil-dine,
president of the Varsity
Club, presided over a sports
rally. Mr. Watt, Mr. Vining,
Mr. Hartman and Mr. Rolnick
spolie about their respective
sports and the expectations of
their seasons. The captain
of the Cheerleaders, spoke
about school spirit and sup-port
of various athletic events,
which was then followed by
a short pep rally. The students
then dispersed to their various
curriculums to meet their fac-ulty
advisors.
Tht evening at the hanger,
due to inclement weather, the
freshmen dance was held from
7:30 - 11:00. Even though the
night was rainy, the dance was
a huge success due to the
friendliness of the freshmen and
the good music provided.
An All-Institute Assembly was
called at 11:00 A.M. on Wed-nesday,
after classes had start-ed
to enable Dr. Medesy to for-mally
introduce the administra-tion
staff to the new Class of
1959.
Orientation Week was clim-axed
by the Howdy Hop held at
the hanger on September 14.
Hazing continued until Kang-aroo
Court, which was held on
September 26.
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New Chairman
Reginald C. Smith
On September 7, Governor
Harriman designated Regionald
C. Smith, who was previously
an attorney from River head, as
the new chairman of the council
of the State Agricultural and
Technical Institute.
This council meets here once
a month with Dr. Medesy. It
acts like a consulting board to
discuss Institute affairs. There
are nine members of the coun-cil,
each with three-year terms
I before reappointment.
Let's Take a Trip"
Visits Farmingdale
Sunday, September 15, The
Long Island Agricultural and
Technical Institute was visited
by Sonny Fox and two little
children Joan and Jimmy from
the television show, "Let's Take
a Trip". Bach week Sonny Fox |
takes the children to a different
place of interest for the au-diences'
enjoyment. Here the
attraction was fall crop har-vesting.
This project was started in
May of this year, but the ac-tual
work wasn't started until
August. The script and set up
for this show was woi'ked to-gether
by Mr. Smalley, Mr. Pat-terson,
Mr. Davidson, Mr. Den-nison
and members of the tele-vision
staff. Jerry Warner, a
graduate of the Institute brought
in a potato rig to be used in
the show. Many of the stu-dents
worked as technical as-sistants
such as J im Gerst, Ken
Proctor, Steve Messineo, Bill
Ehrenberg, Amy Tamel, Bill Fox
and Joe Visco. The Animal
Husbandry department had tried
to arrange the animals so they
would be seen in the picture.
The day of the show, the en-gineers
and camermen started
work at 1:30 A.M. At 6:00 that
morning rehearsals were begin-ning.
The previous Saturday
the cast had worked seven
straight hours.
The show itself came out very
good. At the opening of the
show Dr. Medesy indicated that
out of 1,500 students, 350 stu-dents
were majoring in agri-culture.
Various faculty and
students were then on the air.
Mr. Fairbanks demonstrated
plowing, harrowing and seed-ing.
Mr. Smalley talked of the
corn sequence, and Mr. Denni-
I son talked about the potato se-quence.
Fred Hofman, an aggie
senior, talked of his training
at the Institute and what he
personally hoped to achieve.
This show turned out to be
quite an advertising medium as
it was being received simultan-eously
on 242 stations from
Portland, Maine to St. Peters-burg.
P^lorida and Portland, Or-egon
to San Deigo, California.
Clinic Now Open
For Student Use
The Dental Hygiene Clinic,
which is part of the free health
service of the school will be
opened on September 24.
All students are urged to come
in for a check-up and a free
cleaning, which are done by the
Dental Hygiene seniors. The
doors will be open on Tuesdays
and Thursdays. Appointments
can be made with any Dental
Hygiene senior or at the clinic.
There will be a very nominal
fee for fillings in cavities. This
will be done by a dentist assist-ed
with one of the students.
Disaster Hits LIATI
Labor Day Weekend
It seems the Labor Day week-end
brought disaster to the
campus. One of the cow barns
caught fire on Sunday night.
Most reports state that the
fire was started from spontane-ous
combustion in the hayloft.
Because the wind was coming
from the west, the dairy lab-oratory
was almost completely
demolished. However the west
side was undamaged.
At present, the barn is being
rebuilt and the remainder of
the cows are living there. All
of the black Jerseys have been
sold.
Since this fire occurred over
the summer, complete informa-tion
is not yet available as it
is still being investigated.
Some of the classes that have
been increased are TSA, TSI,
and TAA, all with an increase
of 25. The art course has gone
approximately from 125 students
to 200 this year. Another sec-tion
of puipls were also added
to Highway and Bridge and
Dental Hygiene.
The changes in scheduling are
quite evident. Physical Educa-tion
has been dropped as a re-quirement
in the senior curric-ulum
because of lack of facili-ties.
Various subjects are now
being taken in the different
buildings. The general educa-tion
courses for the most part
are all in the General Educa-tion
Building etc.
This increase in students
means there must also be an
increase in teachers which there
are. Among our new teachers
are Mary Ford, assistant pro-fessor
of Admissions and Coun-seling,
Vladas Merkyls, assistant
professor of Construction Tech-nology,
John Raffaele, assistant
professor of Electrical Tech-nology,
Alexandra Lakacs, as-sistant
professor of Ornamental
' Horticulture, Robert Hartman,
assistant professor of Health
and Physical Education, Irving
Levine, assistant professor of
Modern Community, William
Rielly, assistant professor of
Modern Community, Theresa
Branciforte, instructor of Busi-ness
. Technology, Ann Hooper,
instructor of Community Skills,
Russell Tuthill, technical assist-ant
in Art, Bob Schramm, tech-nical
assistant in Animal Hus-bandry
and Dairy Industry and
finally Alfred E. Fischer, tech-nical
assistant in Math and
Science.
Fire Hits Campus