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This weekend, the administrations of seven regional
private or ‘‘non-tax-supported” colleges presented a tele-
vised news conference to show their alarm at what they
felt to be unnecessary expansion, or rather reported plans
for expansion, of Penn State University into the full college
baccalaureate field.
This weekend, out at Hayfield Farm, Lehman, coinci-
dentally, Penn State was directing a parents’ tour of its
newly-acquired future campus.
Present plant is on N.
Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre.
The Dallas Post was the only Luzerne County news-
paper in evidence at either
occasion.
Briefly, the situation is this: The University of Scran-
on, College Misericordia,
unior,
Kings, Wilkes, Lackawanna
Keystone Junior, and Marywood, say they fear
duplication of their existing course offerings by Penn State
could drive them out of business and would also be an un-
necessary tax expense.
At the Avoca TV conference this issue substantially
overshadowed any others which may have been attendant
to it in the original seven-college report, such as the area's
deficient ‘‘student enrollment.”
The report, a digest of which was presented to the state
in Harrisburg last week by Father Edward J. Sponga, S. J.,
president of Scranton University, included this citation:
“
. . . It is hard to market a product at a fair price when
down the street someone is giving it away.”
(For clarifica-
tions the extension school tuition is $525 a year; private
from $800-$1000.)
There is always a danger of over-simplifying, but the
Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
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broad statement of the Northeast Penna. college group is
that the locally-oriented small community college plays an
indispensable role,—that there are two kinds, state and
private in liberal arts,—and that “no Community College
projection should a priori enjoin coverage of all possible
programs lest wasteful duplication of extant curricula
ensue’.
If that’s too much wordage for you, it means “each to
his own, and stay in your own territory.” (Quotes mine).
The NEPIC colleges feel they are doing their job adequately.
If the state wants to spend money, it was made clear at
Avoca, let them continue their program of providing state
scholarship money to students who want to go to privately
owned colleges.
A DEFICIENCY ?
An outside source mentioned to the Dallas Post the fact
that the opportunities for graduate study in northeast Penn-
sylvania were woeful, and that this lack discouraged in-
dustry from locating here.
This is a concern acknowledged at the Avoca confer-
ence. The regional colleges, however, do not plan any
doctoral programs in the immediate future, but rather want
to strengthen their undergraduate programs first in hopes
of raising the total educational level of the region. With
this, the report makes it clear, the colleges would also like
to see betterment of high school and secondary schools in
general. The Wilkes College spokesman added that doctoral
programs were never within the capability of extension
schools, either. That meant they were not within the capa-
bility of Penn State extension at Hayfield.
Of course, no direct conflict exists as yet, because no
Hayfield House
®pens Doors To
Droves Ot Folks
" Fabulous Homestead
Will Be New Campus
For State By 1966
The Grandeur of Hayfield House Shown To Students’ Parents
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Seven Small Colleges: Will State Duplicate Free?
by Leighton Scott
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direct challenge has been issued to Penn State itself, nor
1s one ever likely on the local level, or even, in the near
future, on the state level.
The issues are in purely prospective form, as defined by
Father Sponga to the State Council of Higher Education in
Harrisburg last week. Other facts in the report included
the youth population boom, relative to schools, and this
region’s below-average educational level.
OUT AT HAYFIELD
Out at Hayfield Farm on Sunday, we were able to touch
only briefly on this matter of Penn State expansion with
George Bierly, regional campus director, as he had his hands
full with what must have been a thousand parents and
friends who were issuing in and out of the cavernous caken
halls of the mansion. Mr. Bierly’s knowledge of the inde-
pendent colleges’ complaint was necessarily restricted, on
this short notice, by reports of Father Sponga’s Harrisburg
address.
‘I'he director did feel, however, that fears of the Lehman
extension of Penn State expanding into the field of liberal
arts, with duplication of facilities and courses, were un-
founded, and that the intention of the university branch at
present was solely to get its schoo] plant moved from Wilkes-~
Barre, where it is being evicted, to Lehman by 1966.
In his presentation of slides and data to Penn State
parents, Bierly said that the Lehman campus development
would lead to addition of the following courses to the pres-
ent curriculum: Instrumentation, Computer Science, and
probably Forestry (The Conyngham arboretum is more
complete than the one at State College).
These are technical courses, and they comprise the ‘‘im-
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ALLAS POST
| Enother Seminary
Merit Finalist
|ary, in addition to the two girls |
| mentioned last week, brings Back |
| Mountain
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| Scholarship competition in that in-
| stitution, up to three. |
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Fear Sub-campus Like Lehman
mediate” outlook for expansion of the university extension
at Lehman. They are not liberal arts courses, although
there is always the chance that the powers-that-be in Harris-
burg might add liberal arts courses in the future, it might
be added.
Father Sponga said at Avoca on Friday that the small
community colleges do not find Penn State’s local develop-
ment in the “technical vocational” field objectional, but
only possible competition in the “liberal arts” field.
Penn State’s present offering at the Wilkes-Barre ex-
tension is restricted to a two-year course with an Associate
in Engineering degree.
The NEPIC report they have heard the Wilkes-Barre
campus, like the Hazleton campus, will add baccalaureate
type courses. “Penn State Center at Hazleton presently
offers both technical-terminal and baccalaureate parallel
courses. The Centers at Wilkes-Barre and Scranton cur-
rently engaged in technical institute and technica] associate
level courses are reported to be planning college parallel
offerings”.
Apparently to avert this possibility before it happened,
the regional colleges aforementioned, four Catholic admini-
strated four-year institutions, two non-denominational jun-
ior colleges, and one non-denominational four-year, began
conferring about a year ago and sent Father Sponga to
Harrisburg with his message last week.
The problem is of. particular interest to people of the
Back Mountain, because the recent bequest of Hayfield
House in Lehman to Penn State is thought by some sources
tc have been a catalyst to this opposition move. And, of
course, College Misericordia is in Dallas.
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VOL. 76, NO. 9. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1965
‘House Destroyed
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In Sweet Valley
Another senior Wycming Semin-
Merit Firebug Is Thought
Responsible For It
finalists in the
Lawrence Joos joins Sharon Phil-| Fire, thought to have been de-
lips and Debbie Rogers in that sel- | liberately set, consumed the un-
lect
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group.
| occupied but furnished home of Mrs. |
J | Lawrence lives on Sutton Road. Jean Hunter, on the Nevel Hollow
Missive « Hayfield House, | the | His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William | Road, ‘just below the village of
B palatial: home of the Conyngham | Joos, have a son Richard, who went | Swicet Valley at about 4 a.m. yes-
; family until the death of Mrs. John
* Conyngham in New York, and deed-
y ed tp Penn State University exien-
i sion for its new home, opened its
| doors to nearly a thcusand people
i on Sunday.
) Visitors to the 48 acre portion of
i estate in Lehman, site of the future
t campus, were parents and friends
of students now attending school at
the Guthrie Building, North Wash-
t ington Street, Wilkes-Barre. They
‘were guided through the more than
ty rooms, over a dozen bathrooms,
“And closets which meet present FHA
requirements for a ‘room’.
| straight into M. I. T. from Dallas-
| Franklin High School, ;and’' is now
in Rome, studying architecture on
a Fulbright Fellowship.
Reporter on the Opinator, active
{on the school yearbook, member
of the Athenian Society, as well as
| playing basketball, taking part in
| track events and intramural sports,
Richard has kent wp a fabulous
| scholarship record. He hag leanings
| toward mechanical engineering.
terday morning.
Home was uninsured.
Sweet Valley fire company re-
sponded, but were unable to stem
the quickly advancing flames. Build-
ing was an old one and a half story
farmhouse.
Many personal effects of Mrs.
Hunter were lost in the fire. A wi
ow of about four years, the woman
resides’ in the winter with her
daughter at 32 Sheridan Street,
PRIA SCT mE | Wilkes-Barre.
‘E.R. Kerlin Chosen | Her brother-in-law, Luther Hunt-
g . | er, of Sweet Valley, said there was
Craftsmen President
"At ‘the end of their tour, they
“were -séted refreshments, and
shown slides by campus director
George W. -Bierly, who extended
them welcome and told something
of the estats and Penn State plans
for it.
Cars wera
boys on the
No. 6 and’
were driven
in a special
parked by Pern Stats
grounds betwe ir Barn
the mansion, parents
up the long driveway
car, past the rambling
walks, rhcdedendron. and hand-
hewn stone walls, the’ arboretum
said to be more complete than the
one at State Colleze,” and other
fire appointments which help make
Hayfield House and surrounding
acres worth the “conservatively es-
timated” one million dollars.
Some of the beauty of the house
can be seen in the accompanying
Dallas Post staff pictures, which
were taken with available light.
4 In the main room downstairs, Mr.
1erly explained the following about
4c house:
SS Tt is solid steel frame from the
ground up, and measures 173 feet.
six and =a half inches across the
front, and 125 feet down the ser-
vant’s wing (sixteen servants’
rooms, each with wash basin).
There is a nineteen-car garage
which will ba converted into two
electric labratories and a physics
lab.
“Project Hayfield”, he explained,
will convert the upstairs into six
classrcoms, and the downstairs ‘will
house a library, cafeteria. and office.
Eight mare classrooms will be need-
ed. Every effort will mo made dur-
ine the conversion to praserve the
home as it is. Fire towers at each
end of the bnilding will pcse some
problem in this cespect.,
There is no fund or endowment
aveilable for the half milion dollar
conversion which will be needed. As
in other communities, the
explained. it is hoped that local
people will help with the develop-
ment.
Wiices showed the exterior of the
“stone s home: the geranium beds
which ccit $5000 a year to main-
tain (“There will be no more ger-
anium beds’); the Persian rug for
thz main recom which brought about
$40,000 at auction in New York re-
cently; the wall for the main room
which was brought from a European
castle. as were the craftsmen who
installed it; the imported 17th cen-
tury Dutch fireplace and its replica
at the other end of the room.
Mr. Bierly told of the family por-
traits, including one of: Mr. Convng-
ham destroved ©. his niece, Mrs.
Richard I. Robinson, denor of the
estate to the ccllege. She did not
like that particular picture.
Bierly also spoke of such appoirt-
ments as 800 complate dining room
dinner sets, a specially cased set
of blueprints of the housa which
showed the size and placement of
everv slate shingle in the roof. and
the bank vault door in the base-
ment which led to three storage
rooms, one each for furs. silver,
and wine. In the basement also is
| instruments {or
director |
These pictures were taken in-
side Hayfield House by the Dallas: contained many items of interest : right; the enormous cld ste.2 in the |
Post camera during a parents’ tour and value, most of which were sold | kitchen whose size can be comp:
The fine steecl-structured mansion
of the new Lehman campus cf Penn at fabulous prices: in New York
State extension. (No flash was
used.)
Postmaster Endorses
Area Schoel Savings
Postmaster Ed Buckley said to
day he had just been instructed by
Postmaster General John A. Gron-
ouski to extend all cooperation pos-
sible to students, educators, bank-
ers, and other volunteers in
moting and servicing the Treasury's |
School Savings program in Dallas. |
after Mrs. @onyngham’s death.
Still remaining: A 16th century
Rumor Of Knife
A rumor circulating to the effect
that one or more members of the
| Lake-Lehman High School faculty
was threatened by a student with
PTO-| 3 knife last Thursday is dzfinitely
untrue, although .a scuffle did take
place, according ‘to principal
“I am pleased to carry out Mr. | thony Merchakitus.
Gronouski’s instructions”, he said, |
“because any wBrogram whicn stim- | town
ulates. young Americans to
The 16-year-old student from Ide-
was constrained physically
save | by the principal, aided by teacher
these days, is for the good of tha | John Zaleskas, after a question of
country and for thems:zlves’.
rule infraction in the hallways, but
The School Savings Prograr dur- | there was no knife incident.
ing World War II; he noted. pro-
vided one of our most effective]
teaching thrift and |
asap.
An adequate supply of Savings
Stamps an! hocks and promotional |
material, he said, will be on hand
to meet the reeds of the students
and the comr:unity in carr im: ou
the Stamp Consignment plan i
The Stamp Consignment plan, has
in the past, greatly eased the bur-
den borne by cur school systems.
The plan eliminates the financing |
problems of the school savings pro-
gram which cui schools have had |
to handle.
good citiz
a school-sized boiler and a walk-in
storage freezer for whole steers, and
removal elevators.
Many of the upstairs rcoms have
their c¢wn bathrooms, and there
are separate dressing rooms
fireplaces in most, several of which
are antiques.
hardwood, placed with wooden pegs
rather than nails, and a: geod deal | |) J FPorough tullding, bat Anding
of the downstairs will be part of
the library.
Mr. Bierly said afterward that
is ; ; jends | ; :
the number of parents and friends | seek his advice.
considerably, |
exceeded the plans
and that there were some 800 reg-
Many walls are fine |
| Avenue,
[of the
| bv the Dalias Post.
| thought was contrary to regulations.
The bov’s parents came in en the |
matter, the principal said, and the |
problem was worked out with the
administration.
Mr. Marchakitus s=2id he had re-
ceived a phone call from a mamber
beard of education askin
much , the same question as mh sed
The official was
relieved to hear that the “knife”
rumor was unfounded
Incident started when
the bhov,
whose name is known to the Post. |
made overtures to a girl in the hall
in. a manner which the wnrineinal
Find Dynamite Caps
A groun of exvlorer scouts on a
25-mile hike Saturday found a
| cache of about 30 dynamite caps in
and |
the vicinity of Huntsville Dam.
Several of the scouts,
Ronny and Tonv Groblewski., sons
of Dr. E. A. Groblewski, Overbrook
and brothers Mark and
Jimmy, first sought police help at
no one there at the time, went to
the home of William Wright, Or-
chardview Terrace, a friend, to
Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Wright was
home at the time, so the state
|
explorers
fireplace imported from France, top
red
| to the modern range to the left of
iit; the. fine wrought stairc: to
ithe main hall, bottom
se
left;
‘Back Mountain Area
Ambulance Logbook
Dallas Community
| Dallas ambulance took Elizabeth
| Farr, White Birch Trailer Camp, to
| Nesbitt Hospital, Thursday, Len
Harvey, Bob Besecker, and Gilbert
| Morris attending.
| Keith Sutton, 36 Franklin Street,
| was taken from accident on high- |
An- |
way, Sunday a.m., to Nesbitt Hos-
| pital, Les * Tinsley, Besecker, and
| Bob Stephenson as crew .
| Mrs. Mary Thompson, Overbrook
Avenue, was taken to and brought
home from Wyoming Valley Hos-
pital on Monday, Al Williams and
| Hayden ’ Richards attending.
Lake Township
Lake ambulance took
Humphrey, Harveys Lake, to Gen-
eral Hospital on Friday, John
Stenger, Jim McCaffrey, and Lee
Zimmerman attending.
| On Sunday, Rita Wilkes, Queen
| of Peace road, was taken to Gen-
eral Hospital, Stenger and Zim-
| merman as crew.
Marie Gallagher was taken from
Harveys Lake to General Hospital
on Monday, Stenger, Zimmerman,
| and McCaffrey attending.
Franklin-Northmoreland
Franklin - Northmoreland ambul-
ance took David Perry, Carverton,
to Nesbitt Hospital Tuesday night,
Walter Mekeel and Malcolm Baird
attending.
Kingston Township
On Friday Kingston Township
Ambulance took George Williams,
Lehigh Street, to Wilkes-Barre Vet-
erans Hospital. Crew was Andrew
Roan, Joseph Youngblood and Wil-
liam Frederick.
the
{a half hour operation, the surgeon
any
|on the severely torn fingers and a
| Morris Lloyd, Spring Street, was |
| taken to Nesbitt Hospital on Sun-
day evening with Marvin Yeust,
| Roan and Youngblood attending.
On Monday morning Emily Berger,
| Pioneer Avenue, was taken to Gen-
ister signatures and prcbably many | police were called, and they took | eral Hospital for X-rays and return-
. . | |
who did not sign. i
the live caps away,
‘ed home, Harry Smith and, Walter
| by ‘a motorist traveling the same
Samuel |.
} a
marble cased bathtub in “gold bath- right, a chariot statue at the head
of the main staircase, backlighted
room”, that of the mistress of the
hcuse; visitors marvel! at the bril-
liant oriental decor of one of the
porch parlor rooms; and at bottom
‘with sunshine.
These are the first
pictures of the interior.
—Dallas Post Staff Photo
Malkemes Hurt |
Near Mt. Kenya
Fred Malkemes, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Malkemes, Shavertown, |
and a teacher in Kenya, East Africa,
was injured in an automobile accid-
ent in that country on January 20.
The young man was taking a
trip with visiting friends and a
fellow teacher to Mt. Kenya. when
the car went out of control .and
turned cover three tmss.
With four fingers of his left hand
badly’ mangled, Mr. Malkemes wa-~
1
rushizd tc a small hospital at Nanuki
route. | There he ‘was given {first
aid "by the nurse in charge and a
doefor summoned. ‘After a two and
zaid he would be unable
further assistance.
The conscientious nurse offered to
drive the patient to Nairobi. cap-
ital of Kenya. where expert medical
ention cculd be given, and wi
boy - friend going along .to as
sist in the driving, the injured man
was transported 120 miles to the
care of a list.
On reachi
Hospital,
a half hou
to “give
specie
Princess Elizabeth
: i, another two and
operation was performed
cast applied.
His parents are anxiously await-
ing the outcome, pending ancther
letter from Fred;
NOXEN FIREMEN
n fireman will m
p.m. at’ the fireh
grcundwork
N
at: 8
Mm
to lay
for the horszshiow.
Mrs. Sophie Eckert, Carverton Light pole
Road, was taken to Wyoming Valley
Hospital on Monday with H. Smith | hanging on its own
and W. Davis as crew.
Tuesday evening, Stanley Simon, road hard enough to split it at
Shagbark Drive, was taken tg Gen- base.
eral Hospital, William Kreischer i
and J, Youngblood attending.
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Davis ' attendants. |
| wires,
Driver Keith
Franklin Street,
1
published
snapped off in the
middle by plummeting car is shown
which
also pulled a phone pole across the
the
“Bud” : Sutton, 20,
is improving at
RD 1, ‘was elected president inf the
Craftsmen of the Endless Mountains
la lot of furniture and other fur-
E. BR. Kerlin, of Kunkle, "Pallas feen who . was killed in the war...
| “everything she had’, as Mr. Hunt-
% z h ler said.
| in the year 1965, at a meeting Feb-| © guoot valley firemen said the
rary: 24. vo |‘ blaze rendered the building a total
Mr. Kerlin is a well-known weav- | loss, and was unmanagabla even
{er of rag rugs. and handbags and |p. id time they got there.
other items, at his home in Kunkle. | ° ¥
| eral
events, displays, and s-les 2 ionably. There has been some f
northeast, Pennsylvania Saring ahs bug activity in Sweet Valley in the
| sumrrier menths and vacation time. past year or so. Light power had
| ested in crafts in any w
| tact any of the offi
Mr. Hunter was of the opinion
SL hai : 1 SL k
Plans are underway to hold sev-|yu.¢ the fire had been set, unaue
ste
Craftsmen welcome anyone inter-
ay to cen-
s or steering
been cut off for the winter, and the
phone put on extended service.
| committee. There is a place for 5 -
actual participating members and Heights Carfire
also associate members interested ; i
i 3 nr . Laing Fire Com-
lin ~ success of the northeastern Dr. Henry M. Laing F i
| pany, Dallas, responded to a call
craftsmen.
TRUCKSVILLE FIRE PRACTICE
Half A Light Pole
i Nesbitt: Hospital, after cracking up
the 1957 Ford convertible,
pany will hold the weekly practice
at’ the
at 7:30:
on Parrish Heights Sunday after-
noon, when a car owned by Charles
Elston, Parrish Street, caught fire.
Flames had been extinguished im-
mediately and the company | was
I not needed.
Trucksville Volunteer Fire Com-
Fire Hall Tuesday evening
After Wreck!
(in Dallas. 3
which Pole was 35 feet high. Car land-
apparently had a blow-out, hit the | ed upright, and there were no pas-
pole about
Bill Berti is looking here, and then
sems to have rolled an indetermi-
nate number of times, around 2 a.m.
Sunday, just below the Gulf Station |
where | sengers. Dallas Police investigated,
helped by state police, and Dr.
Henry M. Laing Fire Company men
who swept the highway.
eight feet up,
photo by Kozemchak
| nishings, including a picturé of her