Adelphi Evening News 1954-06-14

              Juno
Is
Busti*
Third
Year
Of
Publication
Vol. VI, No. ;i Monday, June 1-1, ID;,{ (Jnnlcn City, Now York
370 DUATE AT 58th COMMENCEMENT
Evening News Reporter Gets Story
"At Home" - Interviews Dr. Kosler,
Paper's Faculty Director
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During its three your- of publication, the . Ir/r//;///' AW/,;//'/
;\rirn has turned its reporting sights outward for its presenta-tion
of faculty personalities. Professors in all departments,
from Business to Xoo|o«ry, jmvo i,(1(.n jn(<.r vjewed. The time
has at last arrived to look homeward and to introduce Dr.
Donald X. Koster, Assistant Professor of Kni/lMi, and director
of tho evening paper sincn its h i r th three years a^o.
Dr. Koster's association with tho .U/W///// l''m,tnf/ .\>?/v?
is a logical c i H i l i n i i a i i n n of (MM- of hi< main' inteiot.s. lie
bepin his college nuvor at the ("nivcrsily of Pennsylvania as
a journalism -Indent, worked for tho /V,/Wr//////'// AV/vW,
un<l devoted many hours to the writing of articles and nlavs I * *
and tho direction and supervision of art projects in
same years.
Although a great deal of his i , v- • .
life has been spent in Pennsyl-vania,
Dr. Koster is a native New
Yorker, born and schooled in
Manhattan. He attended Trinity!
High School in Manhattan and i
the Irving Preparatory School in
Tarrytown before his mnlrlcula-tlon
at the University of Penn-sylvania,
when he was seventeen.
In his freshman year, the rangy
Mr. Kosler caught the attention
of Rusty Callow, now head coach
of Navy's varsity crew, and then
seeking lo build the University of
Pennsylvania's
The result
ment to the
However,
dlx grew from
to assume a more serious condi-tion
and the unfortunate circum-stance
soon curtailed Dr. Hosier's
athletic career.
His freshman career in college
had u more significant aspect
however. At a fraternity dance,
Dr. Koster was introduced lo a
young lady who, in I wo years
time, became his wife. Next year,
Dr. and -Mrs. Kosler will cele-brate
their 25th wedding anniver-sary.
They have two sons, ihc
elder, Donald Jr., being n student
nt the University of Penn>ylvanln,
where he played as a regular this
year on the freshman basketball
team.
$ ATTENTION $
Mr. John R. Zutt of tho Treas-urer's
Office, wishes to call the
attention of evening students who
are at present Indebted to the col-lege.
Unless all outstanding in-debledness
is paid before the final
examinations are given, those stu-dents
owing money will not be
permitted to take their examina-tions.
The Business Office will be open
until the last day of examinations
to accommodate these students.
ISInEv'n'gDiv.
Dnnulil N. KiMtrr
'er Workshop
n
The Speech and Drama depart-ment
of Adelphl College will hold
rt Speech Therapy Workshop this
>iur.mer from July 7 through Au-gust
l.'i. Tho group will meet
daily from nine lo one. A maxi-mum
of six credits may bo al-lowed
OM either I he graduate or
undcrgnidualo level.
This !s :o be a clinical and
theoretical uo:J<,si;op for classroom
The following students of the
Adelphi Evening Division will be
candidates for graduation In Aug*
ust, 195-1:
Aileen Davis Barmen
B.A. Education
Alexander Baurle
B.S. Psychiatric Nursing
Ida Casey
B.S. Nursing
jJohn A. Connolly, Jr.
B.A. English
Mary DeDeyn
B.S. Nursing
Vincent DeGennaro
B.S. General Studies
Harold DePalma
B.A. General Business
Mary ITeJmle
B.S. Nursing
Floyd Jones Kenyoi:
B.A. History
Fred Kraft
B.S. Business
John Charles Megan*
B.S. Business Administration
Ralph Peiscoj)
B.A. History
Constance Poillion
B.S. Nursing
Irving Uothman
BS. Nursing
Margaret Shaw
B.S. Nursing
Nancy S. Silkes
B.A. Psychology
Leo Weill
BS. Nursing
Lawrence R. Wiiunie!
13.S d-nenil Studies
Dr. Koster acquired much . .o. f Ii l,»...u,-.i . ; r s nnd for speech and hear-his
journalism experience while
A still an undergraduate. As a col-legian,
he worked for the Phila-delphia
Record in both the clrcu- !
ing ihernpisls. The areas of study
w;ll include speech development,
clinical siudy, observation and di-
The topics to be covered
lation and editorial departments. | wijl jnc|U(jc stuttering, cerebr
j palsy, menial retardation, pre-ventive
programs and community
resources.
Criteria for selection of pa-tients,
group screening, parent-teacher
programs, and, especially,
rr.oUvaUoji and testing, will be
considered.
Lectures hy visiting experts In
ir.edlcine, psychology, speech path-ology,
nursing nnd psychiatry are
also scheduled.
The workshop fee Is $120.00.
For f u r t h e r Information or npptl-eailon.
please cnl! or write to Mr..
Franklyn Klllott, Director, Speech j
and Hearing Center. GArden City
3-2200.
Indeed, Dr. Koster hnd studied
English In order to further his
Journalism career. However, j»rad-
I* uatlon duy for the class of '31
* did not betoken smooth sailing or
an easily won success, for that
was tne year that seemingly
stable newspapers failed and
. bankers sought to escape their
I creditors by leaping from office
windows. During that year, only
ten per cent of the University of
Pennsylvania's graduating class
i found employment. Evaluating the
situation, Dr. Koster decided to
,. fashion a dual career and to pre- i JL '
f (cont on p. 4, col. 4)
A. & 5. Retailing
/ Judge Froessel of New York Court
of Appeals To Be Main Speaker-
3 To Gel Honorary Degrees
Adelphi Collcf-re will present Its ;1st|i nnnnal roinmenco-
11 icnt ceremonies on the rumpus on Wednesday, Juno 10 at
JO;;HI A.M.
Dr. l-'raiM-K K. H i i l l j i i i u * . I)c;in of l l i o College, will confer
decrees in t l i c various courses to .'57(1 candidates,
Tin- principal address w i l l be delivered hy Jud<ro Charles
\V. I'Yoossi-l, justice of the New York State Court of Appeals
* .
and a member of the New York State and the American Bar
Astoria! ions.
. I i i d - r c 1'Yoi's-cl has earned a position of prominence in
(he le^ral arena. lie has served as a district, supremo, court
j u s t i c e and as a j u s t i c e of the City Court of Xe\v York, as well
a> an assistant district attorney in Queens County.
He has been Intimately affiliat-ed
with community Interests as
tiie president of the Queens
Council for the Boy Scouts of
America since 1930, tho vice-presi-dent
of the regional executive
committeee of the BSA, and ns
an executive of the Boy Scout
Foundation.
In 19'JO, Judge Froessel organ-ized
the Queens County Big
Brother Movement. Prior to that
he was active as a special assist-ant
lo the U. S. Attorney General
in a slum clearance project.
Judge Froessel is a resident Of
Jamaica, where he is president
of the board of trustees of the
RidKowood Presbyterian Church
and director of the Queens Feder-ation
of Churches.
As a Freemason, he has served
ns a master and grand master in
Charles \V. Krorssrl
Many Workshops
for Summer
Abraham & Straus, Garden City,
will offer six Retailing Scholar-ships
to Adclphi College next fall.
Two scholarships amounting to
$250 each for freshman year are
available to high school seniors
who plan to major In retailing.
Two Adelphi retailing majors
who have completed their JunJor
year will receive scholarships of
$250 each and tho opportunity of
part-time employment at Abraham
& Straus during the school year.
Two scholarships of $150 each
nr<? open to high school seniors
who, upon graduation, take full-time
Jobs with Abraham & Straus,
Garden City, and who wish to ex-tend
their education through night
courses In retailing.
Qualified students who are an-xious
Jo obtain graduate or un-dergraduate
credit during the
.summer months may do so by
taking advantage of the summer
workshops which are being of-frrrri
by Adeiphi College. It was
announced reeeni :y liuil work-shops
In the fields of Natural Sci-ence,
Art, Dnr.cc. and Pupil Per-sonnel
S(»r\ ire will be xi\e»n dur-ing
June. July and August.
The Workshop offered by the
Natural Science Division will con-cern
itself with "Applying Recent
Advances In Science to Classroom
! Tcnchin^". It will run from July
\G lhr<nr/h July IB, nnd is open to
] members of ihc- New York Slate
| Science Teachers Association and
I other q u a l i f i e d applicants. Adelphi
' f a c u l t y members and guest scient-ists
will bo featured as lecturers
for tho workshop, which will in-clude
field trips to Industries, lab-oratorios,
museums and other sci-entific
institutions. Two semester
hours of graduate credit may be
gained.
The Art and Dance Workshops
will be given from June 14 to
July 2, and July 7 to August 13,
respectively. A maximum of six
undergraduate credits will be of-
(cont. on p. 3, col. 3)
Lod^e 9Z3 and the New York
Stale chapter respectively.
i>ur;nK World War I, he was
active In the U. S. Naval Reserves
nnd is now a retired reserve offi-cer.
Judge Froessel was one of
I he founders and the first com-mander
general of the Masonic
War Veterans.
Three honorary degrees will be
conferred by Dr. Paul Dawson
Kridy, President of Adelphi Col-
! Jegc.
An honorary doctor of law de-gree,
his third, will be awarded
Mr. Preston Basset!, president of
Sporry Oyroscopc Company, Great
Nerk. Mr. Basseit is a resident
! of HockvlMo Centre, Is president
of the Nassau County Historical
Society, associate trustee of Adel-phi.
a me:Mi;<v of t h p College's In-dustrial
Council, nnd the chair-man
of the board of trustees,
Polytechnic I n s t i t u t e of Brooklyn.
A doctor of law degree will i>>
honornrlly bestowed on Dr. Ed-ward
M. Bcrnecker, M.D. of For-est
HIlis, administrator of Hos-pital
Services at New York Uni-versity.
Dr. Bernecker Js a Fellow of
the Academy of Medicine In iho
American Medical Association. Ho
serves on the medical advisory
boards of the National Multiple
Sclerosis Society, the New York
Hotel Trades Council and Hotel
Association and the Amalgamated
Laundry Workers' Health Center,
(cont. on p. 4, col. 1)