ALUMNI NEWS - Frederick D. Hill Archives
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Special Training Program<br />
For Professional Youth<br />
Leaders To Be Inaugurated<br />
A new program designed to train<br />
young people for professional youth<br />
. .<br />
leadership wiil be<br />
inaugurated at In-<br />
diana Central Col-<br />
lege this fall in co-<br />
operation with the<br />
American Hunian-<br />
ics Foundation.<br />
Indiana Central<br />
is the fourth col-<br />
lege in the United<br />
States and the first<br />
in a metropolis to<br />
be selected by the foundation to offer<br />
such a program. The others are Mis-<br />
souri Valley College, Marshall, Mis-<br />
souri; Salem College, Salem, West<br />
Virginia; and High Point College,<br />
High Point, North Carolina.<br />
Young people selected to enroll in<br />
the program will take basic courses<br />
in liberal arts, sociology and psychol-<br />
ogy and also receive special training<br />
in such areas as social work, adminis-<br />
tration of social agencies, group dy-<br />
namics, inter-group relations, commu-<br />
nity welfare organizations, financing<br />
social agencies, institutional relation-<br />
ships, child and adolescent develop-<br />
ment, social group work theory and<br />
practice, field methods and statistics,<br />
public relations, recreational and<br />
camp leadership, rural and urban so-<br />
ciology, and social psychology.<br />
Graduates of the foundation’s pro-<br />
gram already are serving as profes-<br />
sional staff personnel in Boy and Girl<br />
Scouts, YMCA, YMHA, YWCA, Boys’<br />
Clubs, Camp Fire Girls, Junior<br />
Achievement, 4H, probation work, cor-<br />
rective institutions, rehabilitation,<br />
children’s hospitals, church youth<br />
camps, and public park recreation.<br />
The foundation supplies faculty and<br />
underwrites an accompanying pro-<br />
gram of field trips and professional<br />
relationships. It also gives loan fund<br />
assistance to upper classmen who<br />
cannot complete college without such<br />
help. The four-year program leads to<br />
a bachelor of arts degree. Dr. Robert<br />
E. Cramer, academic dean of Indiana<br />
Central College, said in commenting<br />
on the establishment of the new hu-<br />
manics program:<br />
“The program of the American Hu-<br />
manics Foundation fulfills an impor-<br />
tant need in our society. We need<br />
professionally trained, ethically sen-<br />
sitive, and socially dedicated young<br />
men and women to assume roles of<br />
leadership in the various voluntary<br />
youth organizations of America. The<br />
course of study for this program is<br />
excellent. It calls for a liberal arts<br />
core as well as a major in human re-<br />
lations. We feel honored that Indiana<br />
Central has been selected as one of<br />
the few schools to offer this course.”<br />
Professor Ross Ludwig has been ap-<br />
pointed to direct the program and<br />
joined the Indiana Central faculty on<br />
April 1. He holds a bachelor of arts<br />
degree in health and physical educa-<br />
tion and a master of arts degree in<br />
education administration, both from<br />
West Virginia University. He will di-<br />
rect preparation for starting this new<br />
program in September. Since 1931<br />
Ludwig has been working with youth<br />
in various ways, as high school teach-<br />
er and coach, as juvenile probation<br />
officer and as Boy Scout director for<br />
19 years. During World War I1 he<br />
spent four years in the Army, being<br />
discharged as a lieutenant colonel.<br />
Taken From Indianapolis<br />
Goodwill News<br />
“Miss Mary Ellen Grace exempli-<br />
fies the spirit of workers who re-<br />
habilitate themselves at Goodwill<br />
with the facilities provided by the<br />
public . . . people who ask, ‘not<br />
charity, but a change.’ Miss Grace<br />
supervises the material collection de-<br />
partment where you often hear her<br />
friendly voice when you telephone for<br />
a Goodwill truck.<br />
“You don’t cry today . . , tomorrow<br />
. . . or ever . . . because you have<br />
been sentenced to a life in a wheel<br />
chair. You enjoy the good things and<br />
count the blessings they bring you.<br />
“Miss Grace has been selected as<br />
Indianapolis Goodwill Worker of the<br />
Year for 1966. It is an honor bestowed<br />
on that person who has done the most<br />
to overcome his (or her) handicap on<br />
his own.<br />
“She had completed two years of<br />
teacher training at Indiana Central<br />
College, (from which she graduated in<br />
1937), was on a regular job at Indi-<br />
ana Bell Telephone Company, when<br />
-in 1944-she was stricken with<br />
polio.<br />
“She came to Goudwill on her own<br />
and said she was willing to take any<br />
kind of job assignment. . .<br />
“Through various jobs, although<br />
handicapped herself, from her wheel<br />
chair she trains other people for a<br />
useful life.”<br />
Wide Variety in College’s<br />
Annual Fine Arts Event<br />
Four musical programs, an illus-<br />
trated lecture on art, three one-act<br />
plays and an art exhibit constituted<br />
the varied events in the 11th annual<br />
Fine Arts Festival at Indiana Cen-<br />
tral College.<br />
The festival opened Sunday, March<br />
27, and ended Saturday, April 2, ex-<br />
cept for the recent paintings by Mar-<br />
tha Slaymaker of Indianapolis, which<br />
were on display in the Art Gallery<br />
through Friday, April 22.<br />
The paintings were on display in<br />
the Art Gallery in the Leah Ransburg<br />
Fine Arts Center of the Administra-<br />
tion Building.<br />
Students of the Music Department<br />
gave a recital at a convocation in<br />
Ransburg Auditorium at 9:35 a.m.<br />
Monday, March 28, and at 8 that<br />
evening the Symphonic Ensemble,<br />
conducted by Lowell Boroughs, chair-<br />
man of the department, with soprano<br />
Miriam Ramaker as soloist, per-<br />
formed. Miss Ann Abbinanti, curator<br />
of education at Herron Art Museum<br />
and art critic of the Indianapolis Ob-<br />
server and Courier, gave a lecture<br />
with colored slides at Wednesday’s<br />
9:35 convocation. Her subject: “Your<br />
Generation and an Old Frank Sinatra<br />
Song.”<br />
At 8 p.m. Wednesday, also in the<br />
auditorium, the Indianapolis Civic Or-<br />
chestra presented a concert with Mrs.<br />
Dorothy Munger, assistant professor<br />
of music at Indiana Central and pian-<br />
ist for the Indianapolis Symphony Or-<br />
chestra, at the piano. The orchestra<br />
is composed of campus and commu-<br />
nity musicians and is directed by<br />
Professor Boroughs. The Wind En-<br />
semble played again Friday morning<br />
at convocation, at 9:35 a.m., in the<br />
auditorium.<br />
An Evening with Edward Albee<br />
closed the festival at 8:30 p.m. Satur-<br />
day when three one-act plays were<br />
presented by the Department of<br />
Speech and Drama and directed by<br />
Lawrence F. Fisher, an assistant pro-<br />
fessor. Students appeared in “The<br />
Zoo Story,” “The Death of Bessie<br />
Smith” and “The Sandbox.”<br />
All of the events during the festi-<br />
val were open to the public and all<br />
were free except Saturday night.<br />
Secretary Joins Alumni<br />
Staff<br />
An addition to the secretarial staff<br />
of Indiana Central is Mrs. Wanda<br />
Stohry, who joins the Alumni Staff.