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FACULTY BULLETIN
"SPECIAL MID-SUMMER ISSUE"
Vol. IV, No. 1 Philadelphia 41, Penna. July 28, 1961
V.P., ACADEMIC AFFAIRS:Faculty Leave Program
The first two recipients of grants in the recently inaugurated faculty leave program will be pursuing research in the coming year. Joseph Mooney of the Economics department will study capital formation in the economically under-developed country of El Salvador; the work will be utilized as a doctoral dissertation at Penn. As part of his Ph.D. work at Georgetown, Joseph Mihalich of the Philosophy department will pursue a study of the relationship of certain epistemologies to the ontological structure of reality. Another proposal before the Committee on Faculty Leaves was also submitted to the American Council of Learned Societies which awarded Dr. Ivan Rudnytsky a grant to complete a history of Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
If they are not already doing so faculty members are encouraged to
begin planning now for any research project they may wish to submit next year. As the original statement of policy made clear, postdoctoral projects will be received; any project may be for a semester, semester and summer, or full academic year. Discussion of project with the Department Chairman should include the feasibilty of substituting for the teacher. There follows a re-printing of the leave policy from the Faculty Bulletin of October 14, 1960.
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Research Leave PolicyToward the immediate objective
of encouraging academic progress among the faculty,in recognition of the frequently difficult financial problems of a devoted lay faculty, and for the long range objective of supplying the College with a permanent care of loyal and superior instructors, the Committee on Academic Affairs proposes that the College formal
Faculty Bulletin - cont'd Page Twoize its policy on research leave according to the following recommendations:
1. That considertion be given primarily to instructors who have pre-doctoral status and who are under contract to the college.
2. That qualities of manifested loyalty, professional competence and unusual promise for the future of La Salle be criteria;3. That the financial need of
each applicant be the determinant of the amount of the grant;
4. That the research grant for one individual not exceed his instructional salary ( Day and Evening Divisions);
5. That no more than two full teaching loads (or their equivalent) be suspended in any one year;
6. That there be composed a committee of the Academic Deans and at least four faculty men who will be appointed by the President on recommendation of the V.P. for Academic Affairs, who will serve as chairman of this committee;
7. That this committee have full judgment within these present limits upon the candidates to receive this assistance and the amount of the assistance;
8. That each candidate prepare a formal application, approved by his Department Chairman, which must be submitted to the committee by the first day of November.
9. That screened applicants be called before the committee for oral presentation of their academic plans;
10. That decisions of the committee be announced by the first day of February.'
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Curriculum CommitteeThe Curriculum Committee hopes
to submit to the faculty in the near future a proposal for modifications of the "Core" curriculum, that is, of courses generally required of all students.
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Dr. Ward on RadioDr. Thomas Ward participated in
the radio panel discussion Analysis last Sat. (Jul.22) on WRCV radio at 9:30. The discussion dealt with the Resumption of Nuclear Tests.
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La Salle Endowment Foundation Grants
The La Salle Endowment Foundation has awarded grants totaling $4600 to four College departments for research projects and equipment.
The foundation is now seeking to support projects in faculty development, library expansion, and Science Building equipment.The La Salle departments and
Faculty Bulletin - cont'd Page Threetheir respective awards are:Biology - $2500 for equipment
for micro-biological research.Chemistry - $500 for a research
project in Circular Paper Chromatography.
English - $300 for a research study of area high school and college curriculums.Psychology - $1300 for a study
of the ecology of (La Salle) College. "This research seeks to identify the educationally and psychologically functional environment of La Salle College.....
BIOLOGY DEPT.:Credit for CBS Course
A selected group of 37 sophomores, who had done satisfactory laboratory work in General Biology but failed to achieve a final passing grade for the course,have been granted the option of participating in the early morning TV course entitled The New Biology, starting Sept. 26.
The program is sponsored by the Learning Resources Institute of New York, and is under the direction of Dr. Ray Koppelman, of the University of Chicago.Students who pass the prepared
examinations will be given credit at La Salle for Biology 117-118.
COUNSELING CENTER;Mr. Cashin Joins Staff
Mr. William E. Cashin joined the Counseling Center's staff on July 1. He will work as a fulltime counselor during the coming academic year.
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Bro. Austin at Catholic U.Brother E. Austin, F.S.C., as
sistant professor of Psychology and assist ant director of the Counseling Center, is teaching at Catholic University during the summer months.At the convention of the Ameri
can Catholic Psychological Assoc. in New York in August, Brother Austin will read a paper prepared by himself and Dr. Thomas M. Mc Carthy. The paper deals with problems of invasion of privacy in psychological testing.
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Miss Cattie ResignsMiss Mary Cattie, secretary -
psychometrist in the Center since 1953, will resign Sept. 8 to pursue graduate study in library science at Western Reserve University, Cleveland.
Faculty Bulletin - cont'd Page FourDEVELOPMENT:
Centenary ActivityLa Salle College's Faculty
Wives Club, represented by Mrs.Betty Halpin, has presented a pledge of $2,500 to the Centenary Fund drive.The Centenary Fund, a four-year
effort by the students, alumni, and friends of the College to raise $2 million by the centenary year — 1963, announced this week in a progress report pledges totaling $474,388.79, as of June 15, 1961.Corporations and business pled
ges totaled $134,994.17 , while alumni (including faculty) pledged $148,435.75. Among the student body, Day Division students pledged $63,637 and Evening Division students $29,934.13.
ECONOMICS:Mr. Kane to Dept.
Joseph Kane, a 1956 graduate of the College, joins the Economics Dept, staff in Sept.
Mr. Kane, who earned his M.A. at St. Louis University, served two years at Pius XII College in Basutoland, Africa, where he taught Economics.Dr. Flubacher, chairman of the
department, remarks that Kane "was a Peace Corps man before there was a Peace Corps."
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Mr. Mooney on WRCVMr. Joseph P. Mooney, assistant
professor of Economics, participated in a WRCV radio panel discussion, "Analysis," on the topic "Is the U.S. Becoming a Social Democracy," on Sat. July 15.
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To Harvard Summer SchoolFrancis X. Gindhart, Class of
1963 Economics major, was awarded a tuition scholarship to Harvard University, where he is attending summer school.
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Dr. Sadnicki To PisaDr. Bronoslaw S. Sadnicki, lec
turer in Economics, is lecturing this summer at the University of Pisa (Italy), and participating in a seminar with professors fromthe universities of Rome and Pisa.
* * *NOTE: See Peace Corps selectee item under "General" news.
INDUSTRY;Sampter Text Published
"Motion Study," a German edition of a text by H.C. Sampter, of the Industry Dept., has recently been published.
Faculty Bulletin - cont'd Page FiveSOCIOLOGY:
Graduate StudiesAwards for graduate work have
been recieved by two recently- graduated Sociology majors.
Francis Helverson is attending the Boston School of Social Work under a grant from the Mew York State Division of Child Welfare.Frank Calidonna is working to
ward a master's degree in special education of deaf children at the Crooked Mountain School for the Deaf, in southern New Hampshire.
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Bro. Augustine to ConclaveBrother D. Augustine, F.S.C.,
chairman of the Sociology Dept., will be a panelist at a convention of the American Catholic Sociology Society at St. Louis (Mo.) University, Aug. 28.The Catholic group meets in ad
vance of a meeting of the American sociological Association in that city Aug. 31 - Sept. 2.Mr. John F. Connors, assistant
professor of Sociology, will also attend the August sessions.
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Seven to NFCCS CongressSeven La Salle College students
will represent the College next month at the National Congress of
the National Federation of Catholic College Students to be held in Pittsburgh.Governor David L. Lawrence is
expected to address the Congress.Ten area colleges will send ova:
40 delegates from the Philadelphia region, of which Brother Augustine is moderator.Delegates from every state in
the nation will take part in the conclave.
GENERAL;Alumnus to Peace Corps
Francis T. Froschle, an Economics major who was graduated with the Class of '61, has been chosen for training for the Peace Corps.Froschle, who was president of
the Economics Club as an undergraduate, will report to Pennsylvania State University today (Sat. July 29) to begin a seven-week course in preparation for service in the Philippine Islands as a teacher of general science and English in the lower elementary grades for two years.
Froschle earned his way through the College, working as a bricklayer, painter, and pharmacy clerk.
Faculty Bulletin - cont'd Page SixRodden in Summer stock
If current plans materialize for summer theater on the La Salle campus next year, this may well have been the last season in summer stock for Dan Rodden, associate professor of English and director of the College's theater group, The Masque.
Rodden, who returned this week to teaching summer school, had principal roles this season in "The Fantasticks" and "Teahouse of the August Moon," two smash successes at the Olney (Md.) Theater.
"Teahouse," starring Myron McCormick, broke all attendance records at the summer theater,while "Fantasicks" was the biggest season-opener in Olney history.
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Dr. Bogacz on WPENRev. Dr. John Bogacz, assistant
professor of Biology, and Ronald L. Eisenberg, a senior at Central High School, were guests on the Frank Ford Show last night (July 28) on WPEN radio.Dr. Bogacz and Eisenberg, the
latter one of 24 students chosen for the College's current science training program,were interviewed concerning the National Science Foundation-sponsored program for "outstanding high school science students."
Fulbright GrantJohn K. de Francesco, Jr., in
structor in Italian, has been chosen by the state Department's board of foreign scholarships for a 1961-62 Fulbright Educational Exchange Grant.Mr. de Francesco will study
and observe courses in Italian literature and language in Italy at an as yet unamed university.
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Record Summer EnrollmentA record La Salle College sum
mer enrollment of 825 students began classes last Monday (June 24), when the second and final summer session semester opened on the Olney ave. campus.La Salle's evening summer
courses,the first in the college's 98-year history, have been acclaimed a success by Brother Francis Emery, F.S.C., director of the summer program. More than 200 of the record enrollment are taking evening courses.
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October Faculty BulletinThe deadline for material for
the October issue of the Faculty Bulletin, scheduled to be published on the 16th of that month, is Tuesday, Oct. 10.
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