Teachin
Ble
by Phyllis Schaeffer
The 1975 recipient of
James Jordan Award
Teaching Excellence
Barbara Bleau, an instrui
in the Mathematical Sc
ces Program.
This award is presented
the student body to
Capitol educator who exi
plifies quality teaching.
It is given in honor of
James Jordan, a humani
professor who died in
boating accident in 1971
Bleau has been at Capi
for three years. She h
graduate of Ohio Wesley
Case Western Reserve
the University of Illinois.
She previously taught at
Baldwin Wallace College in
Ohio and Marshall University
in West Virginia.
An attractive soft-
42 Recipie
Third Annual
Leadership Awards
Presented Today
by Gerry Achenbach
Student Leadership
Awards, in the form of
certificates, will be present
ed for the third consecutive
year at this June’s com
mencement exercises.
The awards, given to those
students who exhibited
outstanding qualities of
leadership during their Cap
itol years, will go to 42
graduating seniors this year.
The student leadership
awards were originated two
years ago by the Student
Government Association to
recognize those students
who have contributed to and
worked for the welfare of
their fellow students.
This year’s winners were
chosen by two groups; the
first included Mike McAllis
ter, president of the student
government; Dave Nicholas,
chairman of the Social
Committee on campus;
Mike Mastracchio, president
of the Meade Heights Board
of governors; and others
familiar with student affairs
on campus. The second
group included Mike Mc-
Allister, Jamie Whitty, editor
of the yearbook; and Dave
DeLong, president of Head
Shop.
At both meetings names
of possible candidates for
the awards were suggested
in an informal manner and
the final decision of 42
recipients was taken from
these suggested names.
Those considered were
presidents of organizations
and other students who were
most visible and most active
on campus, and therefore
well-known by the majority
of the students.
The decisions were sub-
Excellence Winner Now Unemnlo
spoken woman, Bleau said
she was thrilled to receive
this honor.
The ironic twist, however,
is that Bleau was informed
of the award within the same
day she was told she would
jective and came from
students rather than faculty.
Mike McAllister expressed
his apologies to anyone who
felt they had been over
looked, but added that this
possibility was slight in that
anyone active .on campus
would probably have been
known to the two groups
which determined the win
ners.
This recipients of
the Leadership Awards are:
April Black, yearbook
(Capitolite)
C.C.
Reader
Job Coslett, Student Court
David DeLong, Head Shop
Bernard Dymond, lEEE
Brian English, Student
Government Association
Mark Fey, Student
Government Association
John Fisher, Photo Club
Fred Flurry, WZAP
Spencer Hampton, Black
Student Union
Dennis Heck, he
Frank Hemming, WZAP
Kenneth Hession, Resident
Assistant
Russell Hogg, Student
Government Association
Richard Hood, Meade
Heights Board of
Governors
Edward Jennings, Good
People’s Productions
Horace Jones, Black
Student Union
William Jones, Beta Chi
Allen Kerchner, Student
Court
John Klock, XGI
Eugene Laratonda, Student
Government Association
Richard Lippincott, XGI,
Meade Heights Board
of Governors
Michael Mastracchio, Meade
James Bollinger,
not be rehired next year due
to the severe economic
conditions.
The nominees for the
award are selected by
write-in votes from students
during the spring student
Heights Board of
Governors
Michael McAllister, Student
Government Association
Thompson McMillen, XGI
Roderick Minaya,Chess Club
William Nehring, lEEE
David Nicholas,. Student
Government Association,
Social Committee
Cont’d. on p. 5 Awards'
To The Class Of 1975:
It is with pleasure that I extend to you, on behalf of the
faculty and staff, congratulations on the completion of
your academic studies at Capitol Campus. I sincerely
hope that, as a result of your stay at Capitol, you have
gained some of the wisdom and insight necessary to meet
the ever-changing challenges of today’s world.
Capitol Campus, during this period of fluctuating
enrollments nationally, has maintained relative stability
There is, however, much to be done. We anticipate the
ground-breaking for our new building, which should give
us the necessary space for expansion of programs and
community-wide activities.
We need your continued support and hope you will visit
the campus frequently, participate actively in the Capitol
Campus Alumni Association, and offer any suggestions
you may have for the improvement of the campus
Good luck!
an Award
'ernment elections
according to senior Mark
, a member of the James
lan Award Selection
imittee, the six teachers
receive the highest
iber of votes were
Jdered by the Commit
as nominations.
is year's 5 finalists
Mr. John M. Jones,
Philip G. Buchanan and
Hugh M. Spall from the
ministration and business
iram; Dr. Joseph
Jla from the Math/
(nee Program; and Dr.
les L. Knestrick from the
ial Science Program.
The Selection Committee is
composed of students, this
year representing five aca
demic programs.
Fey said, “We had six very
excellent professors. It was
a very difficult kind of choice
Reed Previews
In an interview with the
C.C. Reader, Stephen R.
Reed, democratic Represen
tative to the Pennsylvania
legislature, highlighted
some major points that he
plans to deliver in the 1975
graduation address at the
Penn State-Capitol Campus
commencement.
At the outset of the
interview Mr. Reed stated
that he is baffled at the fact
that most guest speakers at
commencement exercises
take the attitude, “that
students are suddenly
emerging from a cocoon at
R. E. McDermott
Provost
to make.”
Since its inception by the
Student Government Assoc
iation in 1972, the James
Jordan Award has been
given to Ambrose Klain,
associate professor of re
gional planning (1972);
James L. Knestrick, assist
ant professor of social
science and psychology
(1973); and Thomas J.
Knight, associate professor
of social science and history
(1974).
In his eulogy address
delivered at Dr. Jordan’s
funeral, Dean Wolf said,
“Each of our lives is better
for having known him. .All
of our lives will be better if
we never forget him.”
The James Jordan Award
is Capitol’s way of remem
bering such teaching excel
lence.
Grad Address
by Mark Switzer
that point into a world that
they haven’t known here-to
for.”
He will present the idea
that because society’s ex
pectations of the individual
are greater than they were in
the past, there is a
resurgence of the “rugged'
individualist” that character
ized the frontier American,
only today’s frontiers are
internal to society.
One of the new frontiers is
in the cities, with Harrisburg
as a prime example.
Representative Reed said
that new career opportuni
ties are opening up in urban
areas, and students can take
facets of their college
educational experiences and
apply them to these new
fields. Today young people
are in the process of literally
rebuilding the city of
Harrisburg.
Mr. Reed plans to touch
upon certain areas of
governmental need by pre
senting what he feels are
major problems in the state
legislature. He maintains
that “the legislature is
unprepared to deal effec
tively in its revenue raising
responsibilities and its res
ponsibilities to make sure
the tax dollars have been
properly spent.”
This situation exists be
cause the executive branch
controls the facts and
figures for the analysis of
state programs, and the
legislators are only reacting
to the executive branch’s
proposed budget. He added
that this has created a
“hodge-podge” which is very
expensive to the taxpayers.
Mr. Reed says he believes
that the college and univer
sity students of Pennsyl
vania are the victims of their
educational institutions.
This is due to the fact that
Cont'd. on p. 5 see JReed Speaks'