The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 17, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1969 Page: 1 of 7
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Distinguished AlumnL Receive Awards Friday
Southwestern honored five of its
distinguished alumni Friday.Digni-
taries from all over Texas added
importance and color to the recep-
tion and luncheon which honored
Mrs. L. Howard Grimes (nee John-
nie Marie Brooks) of Dallas, Tom D,
Fowler of Midland, W. E. “Brick"
Lowry of Huntsville, David T.
S earls of Houston, and Senator John
G. Tower (in absentia) of Wichita-
Falls.
The activities began with a recep-
tion for some 700 guests, faculty
members, students andhonorees in
the Lobby of the Fine Arts Bldg.
This was followed by a luncheon in
the University Commons.
Presiding at the Luncheon was
E x-S tudents Assoc. P resident Rob-
Administrators Study
Liberal Learning
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (CPS) — College presidents and adminis-
trators flocked to Pittsburgh in large numbers last week for an
American Association of Colleges conference on “Liberal
Learning and the Social Revolution." But with nearly a dozen
colleges exploding under pressure from black student groups
at the same time, more seeming inevitable, student protest
was on their minds.
Nearly every speech, panel and discussion during the two-
day conference ended in debate of the issues surrounding black
student revolt, and their implications for American education.
Mayor John Lindsay of New York City opened the meeting by
telling the administrators they should listen to their students-
and then work with them on “their worthy demands.”
1968, Lindsay said, was a year tual."
in which “colleges and universi-
ties were plunged - willingly or
not - into the mainstream of con-
temporary politics - the ultimate
source of reform in a democracy."
Students want more relevantinsti-
tutions, he said, which will bring
them closer to the issues of modern
life.
Lindsay told his audience they
“are going to have to do a far
more imaginative and aggressive
job of renewing, redesigning and
revitalizing our institutions if we
are to meet the requirements of
today.” Such redesigning would
include substituting “creative, in-
terdisciplinary thinking" for de-
partmental structure in many in-
By such a change in the direc-
tion of curriculum, he said, col-
leges could “respond to the new
cultural spirit among students."
In such a synthesis, “the col-
lege and university best serve
the city and best serve civilization
as the intellectual base for action,
rather than as the arena of action"
-thus comforting those who dis-
approve of political disruption on
campus.
Between the two major address-
es, the presidents and deans at-
tended discussions heavily weight-
ed toward the problems student dis-
ruptions have pointed up in recent
weeks. Nathan Hare, one of the
prime faculty movers in the San
VISITORS GREET MR. AND MRS. TOM FOWLER
AT RECEPTION IN FINE ARTS GALLERY.
ert (Skip)Morse of Georgetown. The
invocation (backed by a jazz rendi-
tion of “Goldfinger" in the back-
ground, though not by intention) was
given by the Rev. M ilton Dare, Aus-
tin Ex-Students Assoc.president.
Dr. Durwood Fleming, SU Pres-
ident, had special remarks con-
cerning the role and problems fac-
ing higher education today. Dr.
Fleming noted that he was speaking
to. a cross-section of citizens who
were interested in higher educa-
tion (those present). Even those
being honored, he said, were rep-
resentative of various interests and
involvements in Texas higher edu-
cation, but all ar^ he noted, “gath-
ered together at the basis for our
future — the young people.
Dr. Fleming went on to note the
new partnerships necessary to high-
er education in the state. He com-
pared the pluralistic state institu-
tions and the church related pri-
vate institutions of today, and not-
ed that the two different types
have similar problems and simil-
ar goals — all of which must be
See Alumni, pages 4 and 5.
Chas. A. Siepmann
Danforth Lecturer Wilt
Discuss Communications
stances; revamping admissionspol- Francisco State College BlackStu-
icies which “automatically dis-
criminate against minority group
students, “hiring more stimulating
teachers.
At the close of the conference,
Martin Meyerson, President of the
State University of New York at
Buffalo, gave the delegates his sol-
ution to one of the problems posed
by students who tell the colleges
their courses are “irrelevant,and
want learning directed to actfon."
Meyerson proposed “a synthesis
of liberal and professional educa-
tion - so that so-called ‘traditional
academic studies’ will be more
service-oriented and socially con-
scious, and professional education
will be more humane and intellec-
Former SU President
Dies in Missouri
King Vivion, president of South-
western University from 1928-1985, HLj ^
died Monday morning inSpringfiel<V
M issouri.
Vivion was 72. Funeral services
were scheduled Tuesday afternoon
in Springfield.
Vivion was born in Southwest
City, Mo., on February 16, 1896.
He received his A.B. from Drury
College in 1916 and his A.M. and
B.D. from SMU hi 1919. He did
further graduate study at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, Northwestern
University and Union Theological
Seminary.
Vivion received his D.D. from
Centenary College of Louisiana in
1930.
He was ordained in 1914.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Harriet Vivion of Spring-
field and three daughters.
dies Program, explained black stu-
dent demands to an interested (if
not fascinated) audience. Other
panels deliberated on the “prob-
lems of the minority student on the
campus," “racial insularity and
the national purpose," and “ex-
tending educational opportunity to
high-risk students and the cultur-
ally deprived."
The administrators, who often
spend their time at such national
conferences congratulating each
other or complaining about poor
financial support from alumni or
government, seemed at least super-
higher education’s central prob-
lems.
The one that got most attention
was, “Who is higher education in
America for?" Most of the presi-
dents were willing to admit, at
least by their silence, that college
education is now only for the rich
middle-class, and -that
while a big deal is made of schol-
arship programs and while poor
kids on scholarship are paraded to
the community and the students,
education is in fact if not in theory
closed to the poor and the “un-
prepared."
What can they do about that?
M any of them question the assump-
tion that education should be uni-
versal - at least education in the
classical liberal sense. They scoff
at the demands of black students
that all minority students who apply
be admitted to colleges.
But black educators and other
speakers (whom the conference or-
ganizers supplied in abundance)
gradually got them to admit that
See Liberal Learning, page 7.
Charles A. Siepmann, commun-
ications consultant, writer, lectur-
er and broadcaster, will be on
the campus of Southwestern Uni-
versity on Feb. 3 and 4 as a Dan-
forth Visiting Lecturer. &
Dr. Siepmann will give a public
lecture on “Propaganda: The Lan-
guage and the Logic" at 8 p.m.
tonight in the main lounge of the
union, and a convocation address
on “Freedom of Speech and Cen-
sorship" at a required assembly
9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The visiting lecturers program
under which Dr. Siepmann comes
here was initiated in 1957 by the
Arts Program of the Association
of American Colleges, and is sup-
forth Foundation. Its purpose is
to assist colleges in their efforts
to strengthen liberal education.
Each year several men and wom-
en of outstanding intellectual sta-
ture from this country and abroad
are made available to colleges and
universities. They remain on cam-
pus from two days to a week.
Until his recent retirement, Dr.
Siepmann was for 21 years Chair- *
man of the Department of Commun-
ications in Education at New York
University. A native of Great Bri-
tain, he was educated at Oxford Uni-
versity. He was a vice-president of
the British Broadcasting Company,
serving successively as director of
adult education, talks, and program
planning. He came to the United
States in 1939 as a lecturer at
Harvard University and an adviser
to President Conant.
From 1942-!6,Dr.Siepmann ser-
ved with the Office of War Informa-
tion, and latterly was deputy direc-
tor of its San Francisco Office re-
sponsible for broadcast propaganda
to Japan, China and to Japanese
occupied territories.
SIEPMANN WILL SPEAK TONIGHT.
Dr. Siepmann is author of “Ra-
dio’s Second Chance," “Radio,
Television and Society," “Televi-
sion and Education in the United
States" (a UNESCO publication)
and “TV and Our School Crisis."
For this last publication he was
recipient of the first Frank Stan-
ton Award for meritorious research
in the Communications field.
Currently, Dr. Siepmann ispro-
ducing and presenting twenty pro-
grams on “Communications and
Education". The latter, available
from the Great Plains tape distri-
buting service, has been widely
shown on ETV stations throughout
the Country. Both series were spon-
sored by die New York State De-
partment of Education.
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