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INDIANA U. TOGreater Facilities Needed Says the PresidentAn addition by Indiana university to its present facilities in Lake county constructed either as an ad-diF to the existing building in East Chicago or elsewhere in toe Calumet district was announced by President Herman B. Wells as a part of the university’s postwar development program.The development program which has been formulated by the university's board o£ trustees, headed by Judge Ora L. Wildermuth, of Gary, includes a larger and stronger faculty, an expanded curriculum, and new buildings to be constructed over a ten-year pi iod - and to involve a total expenditure of approximately $25,00(J,000.Adopt a ResolutionThe I. TJ-. trustees in a formal resolution made public by President Wells have called on the university’s academic officers to give careful attention to employment of skilled teachers and scholars of distinction and to develop new courses of study jn keeping with war experience and the state'; rapid economic progress.The building program proposed will cover a ten-year period and will be financed by individual gifts, issuance of bonds to he retired from earnings, and legislative grants.The need for expansion of facilities in Lake county is foreseen by the university to meet the growing demand for instructional and other services in the area.Established in 1932The Calumet center of the university’s Extension division was established in 1932 to give a fuller program of university extension service to the northern pan of the state, not only to students who are working toward a college degree but also to adults who may profit by the courses as non-credit students. More than 11.non persons have taken advantage of the opportunity to continue their educational training through the Center since its estahl.shment.H. W. Norman, executive secretary of the I. V. center, announced recently a registration of 1.nti4 Calumet region students this semester. an increase of 20 percent over last fall. Twenty-three cities and towns in Lake and adjoining counties are represented with student? coming from each town a? follows* Hammond. 321: East Chicago. 273; Garv, 135: Whit in 121: CalumetCity, 43; Chicago, 21; Munster, 17; Lansing, 12; Crown Point, 12; Highland, 8; Valparaiso, 8; Harvey, 6; Hobart, 6; South Holland, 6; Griffith, 5; Chesterton, 2. and one each from Dyer, Hebron, Knox, Michigan City, Schererville, and Wheeler.The present building; of the /*il* umet center, situated 'at 3901 Indianapolis boulevard, East Chicago, was erected in 1939 and while believed at the time adequate for future ‘needs of the c ter, has already become insufficient in point of space to meet the growing demands of the area.SENIOR PLAY ATuRamshackle Inn” To Be a ThrillerOn December 6. the senior class of Roosevelt high school will p *€ sent a mvstery farce by George Batson called “Ramshackle Inn.The play had a run in Chicago this summer with Zasu Pitts playing the lead.Ruth Curtiss will take the lend in the R. H. S. production.The stage crew has almost mm-nleted t’-e set which will have a real balcony.There are three .thrill packed, spine-tingling acts. The action takes place in Ye Olde Colonial Inn, not far from Gloucester. Mass.Everything happens in one evening with two murders occurrii.g in the fi-st act.Members of the cast are:Ruth Curtis?. Belinda Pryrle; Bob Warshaw. Arbuthnot; Bob Miller. Patton; Katherine Kotsiakos, Marne Phillips; Evelyn Steiner. Joyce Rogers; Constable Small, Pick Williams: Commodore Lucius Towser, James Severn?: Gail Russell, Judy Fein: Dr. Russell. Paul Birkell; Alice Fisher. Olea Giz3; Rill Phillips. Mickey Horoda; Mr. Temple. Gerald Seifert: Marv Temple. Gorr'e WooUHp^- r’sihooley, Jay Given; Fred Porter. Mark Pyken.The chairman of properties 1? Ruth Ann Steen. Olga Gize will watch entrances.CPL. BARCZAK IS GIVEN RELEASECamp Hood. Texas.—Cpl. Stanley J. Barczak of 3804 Butternut St., East Chii f'To Indiana, who for the past 2 years and 4 months has served in the Army ASK forces will raven to Inac- * ■■ 20,1945. Col. R. F. Delamater, Jr.. cotn-nv ling officer of Camp Hood, announced.Bar '• will return tn East Chicago before resuming his civilian occupation, that, of asst, water tender.
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East Chicago Calumet News
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, Nov 19, 1945
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Lake C.
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