Vol.jE 9S
Tuesday, September 1, 1970
No. 1
John Scali 1970 Orientation
Speaker; 8:00 P.M.Thursday
Seven New Faculty Appointed
A number of new professors
and faculty members have been
added to the teaching staff at
Stetson University this year.
Some have located in the community during the summer
months and many arrived as late
as this week; however, all will be
orientated and ready for students
when classes officially begin at 8
a.m. on Monday, September 7.
In making the announcement of
new faculty members Dean
Robert Chauvin, Acting Dean
School of Liberal Arts, stressed
how fortunate Stetson is to have
such a distinguished group of
educators joining the university
and DeLand community.
Dr. Francis M. Knapp arrived
this summer and has taken the
position formerly held by the late
Dr. Elmer Prichard as chairman
of the biology department. Dr.
Knapp received his A.B. degree
from the College of Idaho, M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Southern
California. He and his wife,
Jacquelyn and two children, are
living at 223 W. Minnesota.
Also joining the biology
department are Dr. David Stock
and Dr. Elaine Norman. Dr.
Stock received. ;three degrees
including B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
from Michigan State. He has
been at the Baylor University
College of Medicine where he has
served as a micro-biologist.
Dr. Elaine Norman, who with
her husband, Dr. Edward Norman, reside in Maitland, is
joining the department as
assistant professor of biology.
She received a B.A. degree from
Hunter College, M.A. at
Washington University in St.
Louis and a Ph.D. from Cornell
University.
Joining the economics
department will be Professor
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ABC Newsman Known
For Role in 1962
Cuban Missle Crisis
John Scali of ABC news will speak on Thursday, September
3 at the First Baptist Church of DeLand.
The Washington commentator is the guest speaker for
Orientation Week. The topic of his speech will be "Washington
Wondei'land — The Peculiar View from the Nation's Capital."
This puts into perspective how politics, personal ambition and
pride have helped thrust us into a war in Vietnam which has
grown to nightmare proportions. Mr. Scali pulls no punches in
exposing mistakes but also gives credit where it is due.
John Scali is the only Washinton commentator who has
accompanied President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers on
all their overseas travels. In July, he accompanied the
President on his round-the world tour of eight nations,, beginning in Manila and winding up in Romania. Enroute, he went
with Nixon to Saigon, it was Scali's eighth visit and Nixon's
third.
Scali is on a first-name basis with Nixon even though Mr.
Nixon knows he did not vote for him either time he ran for the
presidency. However, the President respects him as a
knowledgeable, fair-minded reporter, dating back to the days in
1959. when Scali reported Nixon's Kitchen debate with Nikita
Khrushchev in Moscow.
In keeping with his reputation, his report is a balanced one,
avoiding the most frantic accusations of the Doves and the
nuclear jingoism of the Hawks. Nevertheless since Mr. Scali's
Vietnam credentials are excellent, he warned, in 1964, against
committing American troops in South East Asia.
"Make no mistake," he said, "victory in Vietnam would be
just as expensive, perhaps more so, than the quarter of a million
casualties we suffered in Korea. If and when we won, we would
find that victory would have been built on quicksand. Unhappily,
we would find the same quarreling Vietnam politicians, ambitious generals, fanatic buddhists and millions of illiterate
peasants who are not interested in choosing sides, but only in
enough rice to feed their families."
Secretary of State Rogers' opinion of Scali's ability is shown
by the fact that he asked Scali to be his Assistant Secretary of
State for public affairs, the chief state department spokesman, a
post Scali declined so he could continue as a reporter of national
and international developments.
Col. Chitty HeadsROTC
Colonel John H. Chitty, Jr., has
taken the post as Professor of
Military Science and director of
the Army ROTC program at
Stetson University following the
departure of Lt. Col. David D.
McCorvey, who directed the
program for four years.
Stetson President John E.
Johns appointed Lt. Col. McCorvey chairman of the Stetson
University Brevard Center, the
University extension study
center in Brevard County in early
June of this year.
A native of Millen, Ga., Col.
Chitty attended public schools in
Savannah and Cedartown, Ga. He
attended Georgia Junior College
in Dahlonega, Ga., prior to entering the United Statew Military
Academy at West Point in 1944.
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