June 25, 1971vol. 6, NO. 5L1I HARPER HAPPENINGS

CommuniQr residents interested in fly andbait casting will have to wait until next sununerto take the course, but for those interested inoil painting, keypunch operation, Frenchgourmet cooking, advaaced astrolog5r, conver-sational Spanish, and advanced calligraphy,there is still time to register for summerclasses.

A1l are non-credit continuing educationcourses being offered for the first time ina summer schedule at Harper.

Two courses start on June 28. Students canlearn to be a keypunch operator in only twoweeks in course CEB022-001. An eight-weekcourse in six three-hour sessionsn studentswill attend classes from 9 a. m. until noon onMondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays foronly two weeks.

The second course beginning June 28 isgourmet cooking under the guidance of Harperrsmaster chef, Siegfried Stober, which willconcentrate on classic French cooking. Sessionswill be held from 7 to I p. m. on Mondays a^nd

Wednesdays for four weeks. CEH014[-001gourmet cooking will give students the contin-ental touch and holds promises for sometasty high calorie sampling!

Four courses are scheduled to start in Ju1y.CEH023-001(painting tr - oils) begins July 13

and will be held on Tuesday and Thursdaymornings from 9 to 1L a. m. for four weeks.Emphasis will be on the technical process,drawing, and the use of color while shrdents

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Sign-ups continue for non-creditcourses starting late June & July

When summer school classes started onJune 14, 1971, more than 2,700 students hadregistered for courses at Harper. Lateregistration could add as marry as 200 addi-tional students to this figure. About 80 percent of the students are district residents.

Registrants include 2,237 sLud,ents enrolled ina tatal of 62 credit course offerings. Manycourses are offered in both daytime andevening sessions.

Continuing education courses accormt forapproximately 400 adults enrolled in 25 non-credit classes, most of which are held in theevening.

Another 100 students are taking graduatecourses conducted on an extension basis onthe Harper campus by Northern Illinois andBaIl State uaiversities. A total of sevengraduate courses (in business administrationand education) are being offered this summer.

A total of 2,156 students were enrolled inthe 1970 summer session. The increase innumbers this summer (about 25 per cent overlast year) is aceounted for primarily by thenon-credit continuing education cours es whichare being held in summer for the first time.

Out-of-district (charge-back) shrdents arevery low this year because Oakton CommunityCollege (Maine-Niles townships) cut off pay-m.ent of charge-back fees over a month ago.Students from the Oakton district have accountedfor Harperrs high out-of-district student bodyduring the past four years. With expandedcourse offerings at Oakton, charge-backstudents will be substantially lowered atHarper.

2,7OO students enroll for summer;note dip in charge-backs from Oakton

Published monthly for citizens of HarperCollege District #512 by the Community Rela-tions Office.

Robert E. Lalti, President

Board of Trustees

Milton C. HmsenPalatineChairmm

JessalJm M. NicklasInvernessVice Chairmu

Joseph C. MortonArlington HeightsSecretary

Richard L. JohnsonArlington Heights

Lawrence R. MoatsArlington Heights

Ross Miller D. Eugene NugentPalatineMout Prospect

Harper College HAPPENINGS

A standing-room-only gathering of Harpergraduates, their families, and the collegefaculty heard Dr. Bergen Evans of North-western University challenge Harperr sclass of 1971 in his commencement addressentitled tWhat Are You Going To Do About It?r'

The June 6 ceremonies were held in theDurante Ballroom of Arlington Park Towers.Harperrs class of 1971 included 420 studentswho were awarded associate degrees and 52who completed'rcertificatert programs of study.

Dr. Evans, a professor of English, author,and former TV personality, painted a wordpicture of the world today, complete withheroes and villains. AclcrowledgingAmerica's 20th century leadership in science,technologr, architecture, and literature,Dr. Evans paid tribute ?rto the heroes who bytheir imagination and energ5r had so wonder-fully transformed the world. " He thenidentified the same people as the "villainswho have created the dangers that threaten usas no human beings have ever been threatenedbefore. tt

This dichotomy was illustrated by Dr. Evansin eontrasting the splitting of the atom withthe destructive power of nuclear bombs, theconquest of disease with the population bomb,industrial progress with ecological pollution.I'Problems of this magnitude, if they can besolved at all, will require united effort on anunprecedented scale, tt the speaker stressed.

Dr. Evans identified the American universi-ties as rrthe greatest instruments for makingdemocracy a reality that any societ5r has yetdevised.tt Higher education, he pointed out,is where our societ5r re-examines our objec-tives and our concepts of justice and humanity.

The process of learning, he reminded hisaudience, does not stop at 20 or even 60.??And we of the older generation have thingsto teach ourselves, too. And one is thatunless a ma:n has the courage to maintain hisvirtues, he might as well not have the virtues, t'

said Dr. Evans.

Capacity audience of 1,500 hears

Bergen Evans' challenge to graduates

BERGEN EVANS AT COMMENCEMENTThe courage to maintain his virtues

Dr the fall of 1970, for the first time inAmerican history, the majority of all studentsbeginning their freshm€m year of collegeentered communit5r $unior) colleges, saysa recent publication of the American CollegeTesting Program (ACT).

Currently there are about 1,080 two-yearcolleges enrolling nearly 2.5 million students,By 1975 the number of institutions is expectedto increase tn 71225, with an enrollment offive million students.

TWenty-five per cent of all those attendingcolleges and universities are enrolled intwo-year communit5r colleges.

July 27 Lecfire: Mike Wallace, CBS newscorrespondent, will talk about'rThe Press --Credible or Incredible?tt Wallace is co-editor (with Harry Reasoner) of the TV newsshow rt60 Minutes, " and did the skilled a:rdcontroversial interrogations of Private Meadloand Captain Medina about the My Lai massacre.A gifted speaker and interviewer, WaLlace hasearned many honors. 8 p. m. , College CenterLourge. Admission: Adults $2.00, shrdents$1. 00. F?ee with I. D. card.

July 30 Concert: "The Cowsills, " hit-makingMGM recording group that also happens to bea family enterprise. June, 1967 markedtheir entrance on the national music scenewith their first MGM album containing thegroup's first million-dollar seller, 'rTheRain, the Park, and Other Things. "8 p. m. , College Center Lounge. Admission:$2. 00. Free with I. D. card.

Freshmen favor community colleges

Harper has made a breakthrough in thebewilderment of high school shrdents who areundecided about a career goal.

This fall, district high school sfi.rdents maysample two of Harperts career programs:engineering tecbnology and health occupations.

While receiving high school credit for thesurvey courses, students may also be able todecide if they w"ish to continue their educationat the collegiate level in either field throughtwo-year degree programs offered at HarperCollege.

The engineering technology program is a-n

extremely important one today since graduatesof two-year communit5l college technologyprograms are being hired at a faster ratetharr graduates of four-year engineeringprograms. The survey course will includesamplings of electronics, mechanicalengineering, and numerical control technoli-gres.

The hea-lth occupations orieutation survelrcourse was chosen by Harper since healthcare facilities in the area are rapidly increas-ing in size a:rd number, and there has beenno existing adequate source providing enoughpara-medical personnel to fill new job openings.Harper and high school district #Zl|willprovide teachers and coordinators for thecourse, wbile community health care facilitieswill be made available as clinical laboratories.

Students attending district high schools #211and #2L4 are eligible to enroll in either course.

Flrrther information may be obtained by call-ing the career program office at 359-4200,e><tension 269.

High school students eligible forHarper career survey courses in fall

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are learning interpretation and expressionthrough the use of oil Paints.

Calligraphy tr begins on Tuesday, July 13.

The course (CEH041-001-) covers advancedpractice and study of calligraphy with empha-

sis on italic capitals, broad and smal1 nibpens, and wtcial scriPt. Four weeks,

Tuesdays ald Thursdays, from 9 to 11 a. m.

Astrology II (CES023-001)' with a startingdate of July 14, is a lecture-discussioncourse dealing with the process of synthesis,interpretation of the natal chart (generaland particular), and predictive astrolog-ri-Classes will be held from 7 to 9 P. m.on Mondays and Wednesdays for four weeks.

Advanced conversational Spanish (Spanish II,CEC004-001) will also start July 14. Heldon Monday and Wednesday evenings from? to 9 p. m. , the course will include eighttwo-hour sessions.

Registration for these non-credit coursesis held in Buiiding A, Room 213, betweenthe hours of 4 and 9 p. m. Mondays throughThursdays and from 9 a. m. until noon onSaturdays. There is no Friday registration.A student may also register by coming earlythe first night of class.

To complete registration, it is necessaryto lccow your social security number arrd

show evidence of district residence.

District tuition is $10.00 for all courses,except the keypunch operator class, wbichis $15.00. Gourmet cooking has a $3.00 labfee. Atl students pay a $1.00 parking fee.

Sign-ups continue for non-creditcourses starting late June & JulY

What is the teaching philosophy of a mannamed most outstanding instructor by hisstudents ?

FYank L. Oliver, assistant professor ofsociology, received the outstanding instructoraward for 1970-71 by vote of the Harperstudent body last month.

"I want my students to develop values,attitudes, and critical thinking as well as

developing intellectually, " Oliver stated.I'I want them to blow their minds.'r

He continued, "It is said that once a mindhas been stretched, it never returns to itsoriginal shape. "

When the bearded Oliver stands at the lec-turn to teach his sociology classes, it is due

to a fluke of fate. Teaching was not hisoriginal intent.

"I can understald how a student can be un-

Meet the mind strecher: Frank Olivernamed most outstanding Harper prof

decided about a career, ?t Oliver mused, ttbe-

cause I didnrt lmow what field I wanted toenter for some time. t'

Oliver, who was born in Montana in 1936

and raised in the midwest, changed hiscollege major from theology to pre-med andthen to history before settling on education.

t'My mother was a teacher from a long lineof teachers, and there was pressure for meto become one -- maybe thatts why I wasfighting it, " Oliver exPlained.

A two-year period of teaching (six elemen-tary grades in a one-room school) to earnfunds to continue in college helped to makeup Oliverts mind. He liked the experienceand eventually decided on a teaching career.

Oliver obtained his bachelorfs degree atAndrews University in Berrien Springs'Micbigan and his masterrs at Illinois Instituteof Technolory in Chicago. Besides hiselementary school experience, he has taughtjunior high and high school students atThree Oaks, Michigan and a summer termat Crane (now Malcolm X) Coilege. He hasbeen on the Harper faculty for ttrree yearsand a teacher for 11 years.

Irr addition to lectures and discussions, FrankOliver keeps his classes stimulating by theuse of films, tapes, and records -- and oftencalls in outside speakers. [r a recent class,the lyrics of contemporary music selectionswere read and pondered by students whilerecords of the same selections were beingplayed.

Harper student Marty Masters of Barringtonis convinced that Ftank Oliver is the rhest

teacher around. " Mar$r noted that in soci-olory class, "instead of just lecturing,Oliver would get some good discussionsgoing with the shrdents. " And he noted, t'He

listens.tt

Oliver, who lives in EIk Grove Village withbis wife and three cbildren, is currentlyinvolved in the Harper instruction workshopstudying student behavior and making decisionsas to what students should be able to do inclassrooms. The purpose of tbe workshopis to make teaching more effective.

Harperrs outstanding instructor for 1970-71said, ttl try to take a sincere interest in thestudeat as an individual. The importantthing is, what can be done to help othersbecome better human beings ?"

FRANK OLIVER AT WORKWhat can be done to help others become

better human beings?

"Older people can learn rapidly if motivatedand provided with good instmction.rr

This statement was made by Harper counselorDr. Robert V. MoriartSr when he spoke on thepsychological aspects of aging and retirementto employees of the Defense Contracts ServiceAdministration at their OrHare headquarters.

The performance of older students in the com-munity eollege was cited as an example. t'The

elderly are more reafistic. They no longerfeel a need to dream the impossible dream, I'

he said.

Dr. Moriart5r presented research generaliza-tions about such psychological aspects as themild depression resulting from a sense ofisolation, anxiety caused by the death ofspouse or friends, ald the loss of identitystatus.

On the positive side, he noted that thereappears to be no evidence showing arry suddendecrease in the capabiliff of the old.

Employees were advised to begin preparingfor their sixties and seventies while in theirforties and fifties. "The best prospect forretirement is a man or woman with somethingto retire to, not merely on, " Dr. MoriartSrnoted.

Mrs. Irene Sander associate professorof French, recently served on the NorthCentral Association team to evaluate GlenbardNorth High School in Wheaton.

Dr. Robert Tvsl. associate professor ofspeech, and his Harper Studio Players com-pleted a second successful season of plays oncampus with Jean Anouilhrs r?The Lark.?rDr. Tys|s group will present a playby }IaroldPinter for a Schaumburg civic group thismonth.

Mr. Michael Bartos chairman of the commu-nications division, has been named chairmanof the education committee of the board ofeducation of Maine Township High School.Mr. Bartos was elected to the board inApril, 1970.

Mr. Dorm Stansbury, director of admissionsand registrar, has been appointed to theJunior-Senior College Relations Committeeof the American Association of CollegeRegistrars and Admissions Officers. Thepurpose of the committee is to promotecommunication betvireen two-year andfour-year institutions, to ease the problem oftraasfer from two-year to four-year colleges arrdto promote research on junior-senior collegerelations. One of the first projects of thegroup will be to survey the states to deterrninethe status of two-year college degrees andcertifieates as currency for tralsferringshrdents.

Harper counselor Moriarty says a(p

is no barrier to rapid learning

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