ALUMNI NEWS - Frederick D. Hill Archives
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Four to Receive Honorary<br />
Degrees at Indiana Central<br />
Building Dedication<br />
Four honorary degrees will be con-<br />
ferred at the dedication of the new<br />
Louis Schwitzer Center at Indiana<br />
Central College on Saturday, April<br />
30.<br />
The ceremony will be held in Rans-<br />
burg Auditorium of Academic Hall at<br />
2 p.m., after an invitational luncheon<br />
in the spacious main dining room of<br />
the new building, which will be the<br />
center of much of the non-academic<br />
activities of students.<br />
Louis Schwitzer (pronounciation:<br />
short i as in Switzerland), Indianap-<br />
olis industrialist whose generosity<br />
made the Center possible, will be<br />
honored with a doctor of laws degree.<br />
A retired veteran of the Indiana<br />
Central faculty, Miss Virginia Cra-<br />
vens, will receive a doctor of humani-<br />
ties degree. Doctor of laws degrees<br />
will be conferred also upon a historian<br />
and teacher, Dr. Donald F. Carmony,<br />
and an Indianapolis lawyer, Harry T.<br />
Ice.<br />
Four students will voice the appre-<br />
ciation of their associates instead of<br />
having a visiting speaker for the<br />
occasion. They are Stephen Maple of<br />
Speedway, retiring president of the<br />
Central Council, the student govern-<br />
ment of the campus; Mrs. Marydee<br />
Meyer West, formerly of Corydon but<br />
now of Indianapolis; Miss Michelle<br />
(Mickey) Stoneburner of Indianapolis;<br />
and sophomore Gregory Michael of<br />
Hartford City. Dr. I. Lynd Esch, pres-<br />
ident of the college will preside and<br />
offer the invocation. The college’s<br />
Concert Choir will sing, and Miss D.<br />
Colleen Johnson, assistant professor<br />
of music, will be at the organ console.<br />
Dr. L. L. Huffman of Dayton, Ohio,<br />
chairman of the board of trustees of<br />
the college, will conduct the ritual of<br />
dedication, and the dedicatory prayer<br />
will be spoken by Dr. Robert W.<br />
Koenig of Terre Haute, an Evangel-<br />
ical United Brethren Church confer-<br />
ence superintendent. Dr. Koenig is a<br />
former minister of the University<br />
Heights EUB Church, and on July 1<br />
he will become executive secretary of<br />
the Church Federation of Greater<br />
Indianapolis.<br />
After the benediction by Dr. Robert<br />
E. Cramer, academic dean of the<br />
college, there will be an open house<br />
and reception in the new $1,250,000<br />
center, with tours for visitors.<br />
Mr. Schwitzer, whose name the<br />
Center will perpetuate, founded the<br />
Schwitzer Corporation, which manu-<br />
factures precision products for the<br />
automotive industry, after World War<br />
I. He came to the United States from<br />
his native Austria before the war, in<br />
which he served on the engineering<br />
staff of the Motor Transport Corpora-<br />
tion.<br />
As a young man Schwitzer was in-<br />
terested in automobile and motorboat<br />
racing. He participated in the first<br />
500-mile race at Indianapolis Motor<br />
Speedway in 1911, as well as earlier<br />
and shorter contests on the then new<br />
track. He became a member of the<br />
Speedway’s technical committee in<br />
1912 and was its chairman from 1919<br />
to 1945.<br />
Schwitzer pioneered the super-<br />
charging of internal combustion en-<br />
gines and was responsible for many<br />
developments in turbocharging. His<br />
interest in the fine arts was shown<br />
by his being a eo-founder of the Indi-<br />
anapolis Symphonic Choir and a pa-<br />
tron and a member of the board of the<br />
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.<br />
While the exact amount of Mr.<br />
Schwitzer’s gift to Indiana Central<br />
never has been announced, it was<br />
stated that it was the largest single<br />
contribution ever made to the college.<br />
Miss Cravens, now a professor<br />
emeritus, was dean of women and<br />
assistant professor of (English from<br />
1927 to 1949. Before that she had<br />
taught in schools in Washington<br />
County, Bloomfield, Orleans and De-<br />
catur, and was high school principal<br />
at Redkey and Hardinsburg. She<br />
earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and a<br />
bachelor of arts degree at DePauw<br />
University in 1910 and a master of<br />
arts at Indiana University in 1938.<br />
Upon her retirement from teaching<br />
and administrative duties 17 years<br />
ago she was elected executive sec-<br />
retary of the Alumni Association, a<br />
position she still fills.<br />
Dr. Carmony has been a member of<br />
the faculty of Indiana University<br />
since 1939. At present he is professor<br />
of history and editor of the Indiana<br />
University Magazine of History. He<br />
also is chairman of the Indiana Ses-<br />
quicentennial Commission, and is<br />
writing a book, “Indiana in the<br />
Pioneer Era,” the third volume in a<br />
series commemorating the state’s<br />
150th birthday this year.<br />
Carmony received his bachelor of<br />
arts at Indiana Central College in<br />
1929 and his master of arts and<br />
doctor of philosophy degrees from In-<br />
diana University in 1931 and 1942,<br />
respectively.<br />
He taught history at Indiana Cen-<br />
tral from 1929 to 1939. He is the<br />
author of other historical works and<br />
eo-author of a two-volume history of<br />
Indiana.<br />
He is a member of the American<br />
and Mississippi Valley Historical<br />
Associations and a past president of<br />
the Indiana History Teachers Asso-<br />
ciation and the Indiana Association<br />
for Adult Education.<br />
Mr. Ice has been a partner in the<br />
law firm of Ice, Miller, Donadio and<br />
Ryan since 1934. He received a bache-<br />
lor of arts degree from Butler Uni-<br />
versity in 1926 and a bachelor of<br />
laws degree from Harvard University<br />
in 1929.<br />
He is chairman of the board of<br />
trustees of Butler University, a<br />
trustee of Christian Theological Semi-<br />
nary, and secretary of the Board for<br />
Fundamental Education. He is a<br />
former president of the Butler Alumni<br />
Association and of Flanner House, an<br />
Indianapolis social service center, and<br />
an ex-vice president of the United<br />
States Junior Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Ice is a member of the boards of<br />
American United Life Insurance<br />
Company, Merchants National Bank,<br />
WIBC, Central Indiana Council of the<br />
Boy Scouts of America, Indianapolis<br />
and Indiana Chambers of Commerce,<br />
the United Fund of Greater Indianap-<br />
olis, Indianapolis Civic Progress As-<br />
sociation, Indianapolis Hospital De-<br />
velopment Corporation, and the Na-<br />
tional Municipal League.