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FARMINGDALE, L.L, N.Y.
VOL. XXIX, No. VI February 27, 1959
CHARLIE KOLLAR
Presiflent of the Circle "K"
CIRCLE K ON
CAMPUS
The International organization
of Kiwanis is sponsoring a Cir-cle
K club on the SUATI cam-pus.
Kiwanis is an international
service organization of leading
business, agricultural, istitution-al
and professional men who
sponsor activities which promote
high business standards, interest
in public affair, community ser-vice,
youth service and the
American way of life.
The Circle K on this Campus
is being sponsored by the Ki-wanis
of Farmingdale under the
direction of Dr. DiGiovanni, and
Mr. J. Purcell. The officers of
the club are Charlie Kollar,
President, and Stuart Miller,
Vice President.
The aims of the Circle K are
as follows:
To emphasize the advantages
of the American way of life.
To provide an opportunity for
leadership training in service.
To cooperate with the adminis-trative
officers of the education-al
institutions of which the clubs
are a part.
To serve on the campus and in
the community.
To enccurage participation in
group activities.
To promote good fellowship
and high scholarship.
To develop aggressive citizen-ship
and spirit of service for
the improvement of all human
relationships.
To afford useful training in
social graces and personality
development.
To enccurage and promote the
ideals of Kiwanis.
An organization meeting of
the Circle K will be held on
Monday, February 23, in room
IOC in the Commercial Building.
Freshmen are especially asked
to attend. The starting of such
a club on campus gives this
school a really good service or-ganization
to work with and
should be a club every male on
this campus should belong to.
Our Professor
Is Back
Wednesday, January 22, 1959,
a normal day, a normal class,
in walks a normal professor.
Then, like thunder, a spon-taneous
burst of applause. The
reason? Mr. Barke is back!
The well - loved, round - faced
Hort. Professor is back after six
weeks of absence due to a
serious illness.
Prof. Harvey Barke was taken
sick on December 6, with an
upper respiratory infection. For
two weeks he was confined to
bed. Despite the efforts of his
doctors Mr. Barke contracted
Bronchial Pneumonia.
On December 27, when Mr.
Barke was visited by a group
of seniors, they all commented
on how well he 1 ooked, and
ironically, on the following day
he had to enter the Brunswick
General Hospital in Amityville.
Mr. Barke spent two weeks in
the hospital, during which time
he had to take 16 pills a day.
One of these pills was a sleeping
pill which he took at 11 p.m.
At 12 p.m., due to the mysterious
ways of hospitals he was awak-ened
to take his medicine! Mr.
Barke was also made a guinea
pig for a new antibiotic that was
flown in from the mid-west and
had to be administered intra-venously.
In order to keep himself oc-cupied
while in the hospital, Mr.
Barke wrote an article for the
New York Times.
His New Year's Eve was
riotous. He listened to the radio
until 12 p.m. and went to sleep.
At 1 a.m. the nurse woke him
with a pill. "Happy New Year!"
After being released from the
hospital, Prof. Barke spent two
more weeks at home. Upon his
return to school Prof. Barke was
a s k e d w h a t his foremost
thoughts were during his illness.
"Getting back to school," he
said, "I miss teaching the most."
Prof. Barke would again like
to thank all those who sent him
cards, books, and flowers while
he was sick.
Now back to school. Prof.
Barke is on a restricted diet
which consists mainly of pills.
He gave up a two week Florida
vacation to get back to school
faster.
You're a terrific guy, Mr.
Barke — Welcome Back!
Announcing The
Luhinest Ball
The nowly formed Interfaith
Council is planning a ball for
one and all. It's the Luhinest
Ball which will take place on
Saturday night, March 14, at
the Knights of Columbus Hall
in Baldwin, L. I. The dance,
sponsored cooperatively by the
religious clubs on campus (New-man
Club, Hillel, Lutheran Fel-lowship
and Student Christian
Association) is featuring a four
piece bana plus singer, refresh-ments
and a real blast for only
$2.75 per couple. A fabulous
door prize will be awarded.
C.I.S.G.A. On January 31, Vice-presi-dents
from Delhi, Alfred, Erie
Tech, and the Fashion Institute
of Technology met with the
President of C.I.S.G.A., Bill Her-man,
to discuss the forthcoming
convention scheduled for March
19, 20, and 21. Seventeen dif-ferent
Community Colleges and
Technical schools will be repre-sented
at the convention which
will be held on our campus. At
this convention, problems of
government, activities, sports,
and publications will be dis-cussed.
The benefits which are
derived from these discussions
are just one of the many ways
in which Student Council aids
the students.
The Student Council, and the
members of the C.I.S.G.A. com-mittee
request that the student
body give their cooperation dur-ing
the convention.
Further information concern-ing
C.I.S.G.A. will appear in the
future.
BUS NESS TECH
SEN ORS SURVEY
NEW YORK
Both TSA senior sections are
rapidly increasing their knowl-edge
of New York City's Adver-tising
agencies. The first group
to go into the city was the TSA
2-2's. They visited B.B.D.O., one
of the largest agencies in the
city. The TSA 2-1 group toured
J . Walter Thompson, another
large agency on January 30.
Both groups were accompanied
by Professor James Purcell,
The TSA 2-2 section was
greeted at B.B.D.O. by Miss
Gloria Luppo from the Person-nel
Department, who gave a
brief resume of the procedures
at that agency. Miss Joan
Johnston and Miss Roselind
Schaubel, two 1957 TSA grad-uates,
conducted a tour through
the various departments.
At J. Walter Thompson, the
TSA 2-1 section toured the
many departments, guided by
Miss Mary Vorse and Miss Ann
Gallagher. Some of the students
actually viewed the screening of
a television commercia 1 in a
special projection room.
In spite of the rainy weather
on both occasions, the class
benefited greatly by the experi-ence.
Noma Banquet
Shows Business
Enthusiasm
The National Office Manage-ment
Association held its Sec-ond
Annual Banquet in Knapp
Hall on February 10. The pur-pose
of the Banquet was to ac-quaint
businessmen of the met-ropolitan
area (Long Island
NOMA members) with the fa-cilities
and employee sources
available here at the Institute.
The Business Technology cur-riculum
were heartily represent-ed
by over 100 Alpha Chapter
members. The wonderful turn-out
served as an inspiring illus-tration
of the interest and spirit
of tomorrow's businessmen and
women.
When the Long Island Chapter
members arrived at 5:00, they
were treated to a guided tour
of the campus. A Coffee Hour
in Knapp Hall Lounge followed.
This informal hour enabled the
students to become acquainted
with and speak with the busi-nessmen
in a relaxed atmos-phere.
A regular business
meeting followed the Coffee
Hour. Dr. William A. Medesy,
our director, spoke to the group
about the expected future en-rollment
at the Institute and the
increasing demand for tech-nology
courses such as ours. Dr.
Medesy was followed by Mr.
Thomas Whyte, president of the
Long Island Chapter of NOMA,
who complimented the students
on the charm of the affair and
expressed the gratefulness of the
businessmen for the wonderful
training that is making our busi-ness
graduates the most sought
after.
When the business meeting
concluded, dinner was served in
the Dining Hall. After dinner,
NOMA Alpha Chapter members
provided some refreshing enter-tainment.
Barbara Hurwitz,
TSA senior, and her ventrilo-quist
dummy, Rusty, introduced
TV INVADES CAMPUS
Prof. Dougner, Prof. Senyk and Prof. Amidon
On Monday, February 2, State University Agriculture and
Technical Institute at Farmingdale became the fir.st two-year
college in New York State to offer an accredited college
course over television Channel 11, Station WPIX. The course,
entitled "Living Today", has
Harriet Molese (TSA frosh)
who gave an excellent rendition
of "Hello, Young Lovers". She
was accompanied on the piano
by Homer Baumgarten, who
then played an enjoyable old fa-vorite,
"Tea For Two".
The entire affair was very
well planned and certainly show-ed
the enthusiasm of not only
NOMA members, but business
students and faculty as well.
Special words of praise and
thanks belong to Asst. Prof.
Jack M. Purcell and Asst. Prof.
William Kingkade, NOMA fac-ulty
advisors, and to Anthony
DiVincentis,a nervous but ex-cellent
president.
No Pain Felt At
Sweetheart Swing
She's the Sweetheart of the
Sweetheart Swing. The title,
honor and prizes deservedly
went to Nancy Martini, TSA
Frosh. Nancy, a graduate of
Hempstead High School where
she was captain of the cheer-leading
squad, is known for her
bubbling personality.
This was the climax of the
hours of fun and dancing en-been
planned by three members
of the Institute's faculty, Pro-fessor
Horton Amidon, Chair-man
of the Department of Gen-eral
Education, Professor Anna
Senyk, and Professor Ronald E.
Dougher. Using a life situation
approach, they will present a
survey of typical post-college
problems such as selecting and
applying for employment, job
ethics, acquiring and financing
a home, economic shopping
principles and techniques, con-s
u m e r protection, insurance,
banking, loans, and investment
services.
Three hundred students, or ap-proximately
one-half of the
senior class at the Farming-dale
Institute, will take the TV
course for credit. The other
half will take the course in the
traditional manner during the
Institute's Spring Term. Al-though
the program is designed
to present areas of value to the
general public, it will not carry
college credit for this group.
It can carry college credit only
for students matriculated at the
Farmingdale Institute and at
other colleges who wish to co-operate.
"Living Today" will consist of
32 one-half hour programs, pre-
, sented from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m.,
joyed by all present at the an-1 Monday and Tuesday after
nual St. Valentine's dance of ^^ons, beginning February 2.
the D.H. Club.
The theme was ably repre-sented
by decorations through-out
the Bethpage Country Club,
setting the festivities still talked
about and rehashed in the minds
of all in attendance.
On February 13, at 9 o'clock
the dance was scheduled to be-gin;
but long before the ap-pointed
hour, the revellers be-gan
to arive, each King with
his Queen of Hearts.
By mid-evening. Tommy Car-ter
and his real hep band had
everybody rocking and rolling,
and exhibiting the latest Latin
American steps. The hits of the
evening w e r e Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas doing the latest varia-tions
of the Cha Cha, Mr. and
Mrs. Purcell doing a real hep
lindy, and Mr. and Mrs. Kunz,
Mr. and Mrs. Schwerin and last
but not least Dr. and Mrs. Di-
Giovanni tripping the light fan-tastic.
At one o'clock, the dance was
scheduled to end, but it took a
lot of persuasion and promise of
more good times in the future,
to convince the revellers that
even country clubs have a cur-few.
Few of these sessions will .be
straight lectures, but, using two
or more people, will include in-terviews
and panel discussions.
Film strips and slides will be
used to illustrate these discus-sions.
In addition to Institute
faculty representatives, eight
guests will participate as re-source
people in considering
insurance, social security, con-sumer
problems, wills, and, cred-it
bureaus.
The program is presented by
the Institute in cooperation with
the New York State Board of
Regents, under whose auspices
Channel 11 is currently operat-ing
as an educational television
station.
Newman Club Sponsors:
DAILY
ROSARY RECITATION
at 12:00
in Room 130, Tech BIdg.