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Angus Nicoson Elected President Angus Nicoson, director of athletics and head basketball coach at Indiana Central College, was elected president of the National Association of Inter- collegiate Athletics at its business meeting in Kansas City March 11. He had just completed a year as first vice president and has been a member of the NAIA executive com- mittee for several years. As a student at Indiana Central, “Nick” became one of its great athletes of all time. Five years after his graduation in 1942 he returned to his aha mater as basketball coach and again made an en- viable record At Central he earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education and social studies after com- pling a fabulous college athletic ecord. He was named to the all-state basketball team one year and the all-conference team two years. In his senior year he captained the Greyhound basketball team which won 16 consec- utive games and was ranked fifth in the Midwest and ninth in the United States. That same year he was cap- tain of the baseball team also. Upon graduation from Indiana Central he became basketball coach and athletic director at suburban Franklin Central High School. His cagers won 98 games and lost 28 for a .766 average. The school, then known as Franklin Township, won the 1945-46 and 1946-47 Marion County championships, and it was Capital District champion in 1944-45, 1945-46 and 1946-47. In the fall of 1947 he returned to Indiana Central as basketball coach and physical education instructor. Two years later he became director of athletics as well. He still is head hardwood and track coach and athletic director, and associate professor of physical education and chairman of the Department of Health and Phys- ical Education. Nick’s Greyhound coaching record at the end of the 1965-66 basketball season (not counting the team’s elim- ination in the NAIA tourney at Kansas City March 8) was 331 games won and 162 lost for a percentage of 673. Nicoson’s Greyhounds have been in 12 District 21 playoffs for the right to represent Indiana in the NAIA national tournament, and they ad- vanced to the championship meet at Kansas City four of those seasons. His basketball teams have won the Hoosier College Conference title seven times and placed second eight times since the league was formed in 1947- 48. Central’s athletes, under Nick’s tenure, won the HCC all-sports trophy eight years, placed second six other times, and never finished lower than third place. In his early years of coaching at Indiana Central Nicoson also directed football teams which won the conference championship twice. The baseball team has earned six HCC titles under Nick’s athletic directorship. Many honors have come to Nick. They include his selection for 14 con- secutive years to coach the Indiana High School All-stars who play a similar Kentucky team each June in a basketball charity series. He has been voted Hoosier Conference basketball coach of the year seven times, and he was the first person to be honored as coach of the year by NAIA District 21, in 1963-64. Master’s Program Ready The curriculum for the master’s degree program is now ready and wait- ing for approval by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Though inspectors from the Association will be on the campus sometime during the month of May, it is not expected that this accrediting agency will meet before August 1. Even then some changes may be made in the curriculum. This is a master’s degree program designed primarily to meet the needs of students seeking to fulfill the re- quirements for permanent professional certification in the state of Indiana on the elementary level. As it is now planned, it is designed for the needs of classroom teachers. A sheet giving full information is being sent to all ICC alumni holding a bachelor’s degree and living within a radius of 50 miles of Indianapolis. Any one desiring further information, either within or without the radius of 50 miles, should write to: Dr. Robert McBride Director of Graduate Division Indiana Central College Indianapolis, Indiana 46227 141 34 Nursing Students Received Caps On February 8 thirty-four fresh- men at Indiana Central College received caps in a ceremony symbolic of their satisfactory completion of the first semester of the two-year associate-degree nursing program. The Reverend William Hogsett, chaplain of Community Hospital, which cooperates with the college in training nurses, spoke at the program at 3 p.m., Sunday, February 20, in Ransburg Auditorium on the Indiana Central campus. One of the students is a boy, Donald Carrell, of Beecher City, Illinois. Those from Indianapolis who par- ticipated in the capping service are Pat Blume, Rosella Shrader, Donna Steffen, Judy Survance, and Gloria Wilkinson. Cap recipients from other Indiana cities: Linda Adkins, Clay City; De- lane Bone, Portland; Linda Reichard, Portland; Kathryn Buse, Seymour; Kirby Carey, Pendleton; Pamela Davis, Pendleton; Georgann Carpen- ter, New Albany; Trudy Catron, Frankfort; Ruth Cooper, Wabash; Donna Forney, Etna Green; Ruth Gahman, Craigville; Mrs. Janet Golla- day, Lebanon; Karen Owens, Lebanon; Susan <strong>Hill</strong>samer, Anderson; Charlotte Jones, Westport; Carolyn Kelsey, Crawfordsville; Linda McClure, Am- boy; Mrs. Patricia Miller, Acton; Mrs. Helen Norton, Greenwood; Cheryl Overholser, Elkhart; Linda Plummer, Greenfield; Susan Spence, Galveston; Carol Stoops, Richmond; and Wanda White, Fountain City. Students from other states, besides Carrell, who received their caps are: Nancy Bowers, Columbus, Ohio; Kay Cook, Fisher, Illinois; Donna Dial, Decatur, Illinois; and Jeanne Touby, Annandale Virginia. Miss Virginia Sims, director of nursing education, and other members of the Nursing Department faculty took part in the capping. Alumnus Becomes Citizen John E. Katsaropoulos ’63 was sworn in as a U.S. citizen before the District Court of Judge Cale Holder March 22, 1966 with Dr. James A. Weber as witness. John was born in Aigaleon, Athens, Greece. Mrs. Kat- saropoulos is the former Mary Geb- hardt, ’61.
I I Special Training Program For Professional Youth Leaders To Be Inaugurated A new program designed to train young people for professional youth . . leadership wiil be inaugurated at In- diana Central Col- lege this fall in co- operation with the American Hunian- ics Foundation. Indiana Central is the fourth college in the United States and the first in a metropolis to be selected by the foundation to offer such a program. The others are Mis- souri Valley College, Marshall, Mis- souri; Salem College, Salem, West Virginia; and High Point College, High Point, North Carolina. Young people selected to enroll in the program will take basic courses in liberal arts, sociology and psychology and also receive special training in such areas as social work, administration of social agencies, group dy- namics, inter-group relations, community welfare organizations, financing social agencies, institutional relationships, child and adolescent develop- ment, social group work theory and practice, field methods and statistics, public relations, recreational and camp leadership, rural and urban sociology, and social psychology. Graduates of the foundation’s program already are serving as professional staff personnel in Boy and Girl Scouts, YMCA, YMHA, YWCA, Boys’ Clubs, Camp Fire Girls, Junior Achievement, 4H, probation work, cor- rective institutions, rehabilitation, children’s hospitals, church youth camps, and public park recreation. The foundation supplies faculty and underwrites an accompanying program of field trips and professional relationships. It also gives loan fund assistance to upper classmen who cannot complete college without such help. The four-year program leads to a bachelor of arts degree. Dr. Robert E. Cramer, academic dean of Indiana Central College, said in commenting on the establishment of the new hu- manics program: “The program of the American Hu- manics Foundation fulfills an impor- tant need in our society. We need professionally trained, ethically sen- sitive, and socially dedicated young men and women to assume roles of leadership in the various voluntary youth organizations of America. The course of study for this program is excellent. It calls for a liberal arts core as well as a major in human relations. We feel honored that Indiana Central has been selected as one of the few schools to offer this course.” Professor Ross Ludwig has been ap- pointed to direct the program and joined the Indiana Central faculty on April 1. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in health and physical education and a master of arts degree in education administration, both from West Virginia University. He will direct preparation for starting this new program in September. Since 1931 Ludwig has been working with youth in various ways, as high school teacher and coach, as juvenile probation officer and as Boy Scout director for 19 years. During World War I1 he spent four years in the Army, being discharged as a lieutenant colonel. Taken From Indianapolis Goodwill News “Miss Mary Ellen Grace exempli- fies the spirit of workers who re- habilitate themselves at Goodwill with the facilities provided by the public . . . people who ask, ‘not charity, but a change.’ Miss Grace supervises the material collection department where you often hear her friendly voice when you telephone for a Goodwill truck. “You don’t cry today . . , tomorrow . . . or ever . . . because you have been sentenced to a life in a wheel chair. You enjoy the good things and count the blessings they bring you. “Miss Grace has been selected as Indianapolis Goodwill Worker of the Year for 1966. It is an honor bestowed on that person who has done the most to overcome his (or her) handicap on his own. “She had completed two years of teacher training at Indiana Central College, (from which she graduated in 1937), was on a regular job at Indi- ana Bell Telephone Company, when -in 1944-she was stricken with polio. “She came to Goudwill on her own and said she was willing to take any kind of job assignment. . . “Through various jobs, although handicapped herself, from her wheel chair she trains other people for a useful life.” Wide Variety in College’s Annual Fine Arts Event Four musical programs, an illus- trated lecture on art, three one-act plays and an art exhibit constituted the varied events in the 11th annual Fine Arts Festival at Indiana Cen- tral College. The festival opened Sunday, March 27, and ended Saturday, April 2, except for the recent paintings by Mar- tha Slaymaker of Indianapolis, which were on display in the Art Gallery through Friday, April 22. The paintings were on display in the Art Gallery in the Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center of the Administra- tion Building. Students of the Music Department gave a recital at a convocation in Ransburg Auditorium at 9:35 a.m. Monday, March 28, and at 8 that evening the Symphonic Ensemble, conducted by Lowell Boroughs, chairman of the department, with soprano Miriam Ramaker as soloist, per- formed. Miss Ann Abbinanti, curator of education at Herron Art Museum and art critic of the Indianapolis Ob- server and Courier, gave a lecture with colored slides at Wednesday’s 9:35 convocation. Her subject: “Your Generation and an Old Frank Sinatra Song.” At 8 p.m. Wednesday, also in the auditorium, the Indianapolis Civic Or- chestra presented a concert with Mrs. Dorothy Munger, assistant professor of music at Indiana Central and pian- ist for the Indianapolis Symphony Or- chestra, at the piano. The orchestra is composed of campus and community musicians and is directed by Professor Boroughs. The Wind En- semble played again Friday morning at convocation, at 9:35 a.m., in the auditorium. An Evening with Edward Albee closed the festival at 8:30 p.m. Satur- day when three one-act plays were presented by the Department of Speech and Drama and directed by Lawrence F. Fisher, an assistant professor. Students appeared in “The Zoo Story,” “The Death of Bessie Smith” and “The Sandbox.” All of the events during the festival were open to the public and all were free except Saturday night. Secretary Joins Alumni Staff An addition to the secretarial staff of Indiana Central is Mrs. Wanda Stohry, who joins the Alumni Staff.
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