This picture was just posted on a (new?) IU South Bend facebook site.
Lester Wolfson, in the middle, was English professor and IUSB Chancellor. It’s a great image for the Poetry Prize and Student Writing Awards named in his honor.
From the FB caption: This picture was taken for the first issue of Analecta, in the late 1960’s or early ’70’s. From left to right: Walt Risler, Dean of Faculties; Lester Wolfson, IUSB’s first chancellor; and Al Beutler, head of student services.
(Wolfson’s shoeless too?!)
I miss Lester, my best professor!
I miss you, Lester, my best professor.
Three incredibly decent men and excellent academics. As the “radical editor of the campus newspaper,” it was my role to “battle” Dr. Wolfson and to say he was doing all wrong for the students. However, as all who made it through IUSB do, I owe that man a debt of gratitude.
The late ’60s and early ’70s were turbulent times on all college campuses — even IUSB. During one session where students were shouting complaints, I remember Dr. Wolfson trying to be sympathetic to the demands, but adding, “There are things that need to be learned, and the Nile will always be in the same place.” He was attempting to commicate that there are some constants that need to be learned, and not fought over.
He, and Dean Risler and Dean Beutler, dealt with an exceptionally diverse student body, and they were dealing with college students who, but for IUSB, likely would have had no chance for a college education and no chance for a bachelor’s degree. I owe them a great debt. When I “knocked on the door” for graduate school at a major state university, my degree from their “Necessity U.” (as we used to call it) worked just fine, and it worked fine for law school also.
I salute all three.
Alice Marie Beard
Thank you for your comment! I’ve passed it on to my colleagues, who will try to share it with Chancellor Wolfson while he is in town.
[…] would have had no chance for a college education," as Dowlut's wife, Alice Marie Beard, later recalled. Dowlut tried to recruit fellow vets to come to IUSB. As the 28-year-old told Beard for an article […]
[…] would have had no chance for a college education,” as Dowlut’s wife, Alice Marie Beard, later recalled. Dowlut tried to recruit fellow vets to come to IUSB. As the 28-year-old told Beard for an article […]
[…] would have had no chance for a college education,” as Dowlut’s wife, Alice Marie Beard, later recalled. Dowlut tried to recruit fellow vets to come to IUSB. As the 28-year-old told Beard for an article […]
[…] who "likely would have had no chance for a college education," as Dowlut's wife, Alice Marie Beard, later recalled. Dowlut tried to recruit fellow vets to come to IUSB. As the 28-year-old told Beard for an article […]
[…] would have had no chance for a college education,” as Dowlut’s wife, Alice Marie Beard, later recalled. Dowlut tried to recruit fellow vets to come to IUSB. As the 28-year-old told Beard for an article […]