The_Rambler_1961-04-26

              VOL XXXII No. 14 STATE UNIVERSIJY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AT FARMINGDALE April 26, 1961
Open House
Planned for
Friday, Sat.
Now that Open House is under
way, perhaps a brief review of
what the whole panoranna con-sists
of, will encourage all to
work harder. From 10 a.m. to
10 p.m. on both Friday and Sat-urday,
April 28 and 29 SUATI will
be demonstrating its finest.
The Industrial Technical Build-ing
will house the following ex-hibits;
all classrooms and la-boratories
will be on display.
In room 113, the General Ed-ucation
department will have a
display with the theme GENERAL
EDUCATION DEVELOPES
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND
ABILITIES FOR EFFECTIVE LI-VING.
Visitors may test their pro-ficiency
in communicating with
others while speaking, writing,
reading, and listening.
The Dental Hygiene clinic and
classrooms will be open with a
special exhibit for the children.
In room 115, the Photographic
Equipment Tectaology department
wUl have COLOR, for their theme.
Color photographs taken and pro-cessed
by the students will be on
display. These pictures Will Il-lustrate
the different techniques
used in professional color pho-tography.
The latest mass pro-duction
and automatic processing
equipment will also be demon-strated.
Visitors may see convential and
jet engines if they visit the Air-craft
Operations laboratory. These
engins include many makes and
models.
A full size house may be seen
in the Construction Technology
laboratory. This house is being
constructed by the students
learning the practical application
of their theoretical education in
residential building.
In the Chemical Technology de-partment,
students this year are
demonstrating new equipment pur-chased
by the Institute through a
$11,000 grant by the U. S, Atomic
Energy Commission for the study
of radio isotopes.
Another novel attraction this
year is an art exhibit and sale
conducted by the Art Association
students, near Conklin Hall. Work
by faculty and students include,
oil paintings, water colors, pas-tels,
prints, silkscreen art, sculp-ture,
and artistic crafts, both dec-orative
and functional.
Also in Conklin Hall, the Busi-ness
Circulums will have splendid
exhibits of the modern office and
all up to date equipment.
The Dairy Industry processing
plant will be on display along with
the dairy chemistry laboratories
and ice cream manufacturing
equipment. Visitors may purchase
ice cream manufactured andpack-
. aged by Dairy Industry students.
In room 218 of the Administra-tion
Building there will be a con-tinuous
film on Dairy Industry.
The Frozen Food exhibit will be
located near the Dairy Industry
plant. There will be a display of
frozen foods products which were
processed by the students. Near
this display there will be students
who major in Frozen Foods avail-able
to answer inquires from
housewives and offer suggestions
concerning the preparation of
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Act Comedy Scheduled
May 19-20;Ticket Sale
Starts Fri, in Tech BIdg.
Leadership Program
Scheduled for 3 Tuesdays
Dr. Laffin
Takes Over
Presidency
Dr. Charles W. Laffin Jr., of
Garden City, has been ai^inted
President of the State University
Agricultural and Technical In-
Institute at Farmingdale.
Dr. Laffin has been Vice-Presi-dent
of Nassau Commtihity College
in Mineola, N.Y. since 1959. Prior
to that, he was Vice-President of
New York City Community Col-lege
in Brooklyn.
A gradate of Colgate Univer-sity,
Dr. Laffin recived his Mas-ter's
degree at Syracuse Univer-sity.
He was awarded his Doc-torate
in Education at New York
University in 1959.
Dr. Laffin served with the in-fantry
and Air Corps duing World
War II as a Captain.
He became associated with New
YOkr City Community College in
1946 as Head of the General Edu-cation
E)epartment. Two years
later, he was appointed Assist-ant
Director and, in 1953, Dean
of the college. He was appointed
Vice-President in 1958.
Since 1954, Dr. Laffin has been
visiting Professor at the New York
University School of Education.
He is consultant to the newly-fonned
Community Colleges in
Bronx and Suffolk, a past presi-dent
of the New York State As-sociation
of Junior Colleges and
of the Junior College Council of
the Middle Atlantic States, and is
active in nnany professional, social
civic and religious groups.
Dr. Laffin is the author of sev-eral
professional studies includ-ing
a Survey of Technical Insti-tute
Education under a grant frorr
the Carnegie Corporation and Stu-dent
Attrition 1953-58, a study by
the Fund for the Advancement of
Education.
Dr. Laffin will reside in the
President's Home on the Farming-dale
campus with his wife, the
former Dorothy Maybury of New
York, and his six chUdren, Dell,
18, a student at College of Educa-tion,
Oneonta, NY.; Alice, 14,
Dorothy, 13; Charles, 12; Tim-othy,
6; and Patricia, 5.
Dr. Laffin releases this greet-ings
to the faculty, students and
staff of the State University:
"As I assume the responsibil-ities
of Farmingdale's President,
many pleasant thoughts of pre-vious
associations here run though
my mfnd.
When 'irst state-widecon-
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The Fourth Annual Leadership
Training Program is to be held on
three Tuesday evenings, May 2,
May 9, and May 16. This program
i s being set up by a committee
of ICC consisting of Tom Tonry,
Linda Smolkln, Marianne Schen-one,
Linda Sutera, Miles Bier-man,
Jim Daly, and StanAmborzy.
The purpose of these meetings
is to guide and motivate next
year's club officers toward effic-ient
and constructive leadership.
As in the past, the four incoming
officers and the present president
of each club on camfxis are in-vited
to these meetings. The first
two meetings will be held in Knapp
Hall and the third at the Log Cabin
at 7i00 p.m.
Each of tbe three meetings will
be c h a i r s by' a general chair-man
and there will be four guest
speakers scheduled. Following the
speeches and question and answer
periods, cake and coffee will be
served.
Tom Tonry will chair the first
of these meetings and will also
give a talk on the role of tiie In-stitute
Council of Clubs. Following
him will be the new president of
our school. Dr. Charles Laffin,
who will introduce himself to die
leaders of next year and tell them
what leadership is to him. Dean
Willenborck will enlighten the aud-ience
on the subject of student per-sonnel
and the clubs. Tony Adamo
will round off the evening with a
speech on the role of the Student
Ciouncil.
Chairing the second of these
meetings will be Chris Christie,
ex vice-president of Student Coun-cil.
He will give an introduction
of the second meeting and point
out the beforehand. Speakers at
this meeting will be Mr. John Pur-cell,
Business Technolgy Depart-ment
speaking on the spirit of join-ing
and participating; Mr. Abbat-iello
speaking on the role of the
faculty advisor; John Tiemey, ex
president of Newman Club talking
on religious clubs on campus; and
lastly, Mr. Wallace speaking on
how to run a meeting.
The third and last of these
meetings will have StanAmborzy
as its general chairman. He will
introduce the speakers, give an in-troduction
to the third meeting, and
will give a resume of the two pre-vious
meetings. Here, too, minutes
will be handed out of the prev-ious
meeting. Mr. Haas will start
off the evCTing with a talk on the
Studoit Faculty Association per-taining
to the clubs. Linda Sutera
will follow with a speech on Sched-uling
for clubs on campus. Adver-tising
i s a big part of getting people
to know what is being offered on
campus and theis subject will be
covered thoroughly by Jim Daly
and Mr. Tavemler, our public
relations man. Jim will talk on the
advertising on campus and Mr.
Tavemier will cover tiie public
relations of our campus on the out-side.
At the end of these meetings,
it is the hope of the Leadership
Committee that the officers of Ae
year to come will have gained
something in order to help make
this college a better one tiirough
its organizations as well as its
academic status.
The audience will be able to have
a question and answer period fol-lowing
the speeches at each meet-ing
and are requested to write down
any questions coming to mind while
the speeches dre being given. After
that cake and coffee will be served
for the enjoyment of all.
The newly organized Theater
Club will present the three act
comedy hit "The Man Who Came
to Dinner," by George F.Kaufman
and Moss Hart, on May 19 and 20
at the Weldon E. Howitt High
School.
George Morgan, Aircraft Opera-tions
Senior, stars as the vitrio-lic
Sheridan Whiteside.
Co-starring are Dianne Wads-
Worth, AAD Sr., and Sue Olsen,
TSA Sr. The supporting cast in-cludes
Joseph Geosits, BC Sr.;
Anthony Ricca, ET Fr.; Marcia
Berkowitz, AAD Fr.; Alan Bell,
AAD Fr., Evelyn Topping, AAD
Sr.; Anthony Grima, ET Sr.;
Ralph Geronimo, Agr. Sr.; James
Daly, AAD Sr.; Richard Butcher,
Frozen Foods Fr.; Ginny Barrett,
TSA Fr.; Douglas Simpson, Oh
TSA Fr.; Douglas Simpson, Oh
Fr.; Patricia Sperber, TSA
Fr.; and Susan Brand, TSI Fr.,
as Harriet.
Others in the cast are Ron
Ptacek, AAD Sr.; Larry Ruder-man,
TAA Fr.; Don Sherry, AAD
Sr.; Richard Anderson, AAD Sr.;
Vincent Mauceri, H&B Sr.; Chris-
NEWLY ELECTED officers of the Inter-Dormitory
Council are, left to right, William Coakley, Treas-urer,
Gary Knapp, President, and Zoran Koviacic,
Vice President,
tine Madaio, AAD Sr., Ken Baker.
Agr. Fr.; William Henning; John
In^agliazzo; Tom Koolen; Robert
«
Reinhard; Mike Bracco; and
George Egor.
Tickets for the play will be on
sale to the faculty, student body,
staff and guests beginning to-morrow,
April 28, in the main
lobby of the Industrial Technical
Building.
Admission is $1.25 per per-son.
Each student and faculty
member, however, may secure a
free ticket by presenting an iden-tification
card at the box office.
Payment for these tickets will be
made by the Faculty Student Corp-oration
from the student activities
fee collected from students dur-ing
September registration week.
All "free" student tickets must
be secured prior to the perfor-mance
dates. Tickets at the thea-ter
will be sold for $1.25 each.
The box office in the Industrial
Technical Building will be open
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on both
days of Open House from 12 noon
to 1 p.m. each weekday there-after.
Stage manager for the production
is Walter Golbin, ET Sr. assisted
by William Coakley, OH Fr.
The production staff includes
Jewell Meschkow, AAD Fr., scenic
designer and program chairman;
Sharon Moffett and Gill Egelman,
AAD and Jan Turner, Srs,, prop-erties;
Charles Bloss, BC Sr.,
Set Construction chairman; James
Daly, AAD Sr., publicity; and
Stan Ambrozy, TAA Sr. business
manager, .Betsy Smith, DH Sr.,
Usherettes.
Charles Kehoe, President of the
Theater Club, will be house man-ager.
The production is under
the direction of Prof. William
Lattimore, General Education
depanmeni. Assistant directors
are Lina LaMacchia and Susan
Rosenbaum, DH freshmen.
Pictures on Page 4