1969-03-21

              ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Volume 75 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, March 21, 1969 Nu nber 22
PRoberrt Se. EcSkley, itoe be ntH arvaRr.d UOniversbity ein 1r948t a nd S. AreEa Cocuncikl ofl Cehuryches, and
gurated as 15th president 1949. was president of the Board of
WU Saturday, came to TWU HE THEN took a position as Trustees of the Bradley United
considerable experience in assistant professor of economics Christian Foundation and on the
ields of business, economics at the University of Kansas Board of Stewards of the First
education. from 1949-51. Methodist Church of Peoria.
Dr. Eckley received a bache-lor's
degree in economics from
Bradley University in 1942, and
the following year received his
master's degree in business ad-ministration
from the Univer-sity
of Minnesota.
FROM 1943-46 the new presi-dent
served as a Lt. (jg) in the
United States Coast Guard Re-serve
aboard the USS Daven-port.
Eckley taught at Bradley
University the summer of 1946,
and received a master's degree
and doctorate in economics from
Eckley's next post, 1951-54,
was as industrial economist at
the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City.
HE JOINED Caterpillar Trac-tor
Co. in Peoria in 1954, and
came to Wesleyan after thirteen
years as manager of the Busi-ness
Economics Department.
Eckley served on the Bradley
National Alumni Association
Board from 1960-63, and on
Peoria Mayor's Commission on
Human Relations from 1962-
63.
HE SERVED A two-year per-iod
as vice-president of Peoria
The new president was the
recipient of a 1966 Phi Kappa
Phi Alumnus Award from Brad-ley
University.
He is the author of several
articles and publications on eco-nomics,
and is a member of the
American Economic Associa-tion,
National Association of
Business Economists and Amer-ican
Statistical Association.
Dr. Eckley is married to the
former Nell B. Mann of Hous-ton,
Texas. They have four
children-Rebecca, 11; Paul, 14;
Jane Ann, 16; and tRobert, 17.
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be formally invested with the office of
the presidency by Paul Allison, president
of the Board of Trustees. He will be as-sisted
by former IWU President Dr. Lloyd
M. Bertholf.
PRESIDENT ECKLEY will then deliver
his response. His topic title, 'taken from
the Book of Psalms, will be "That We May
Apply Our Hearts Unto Wisdom."
After "Alma Wesleyana" is sung, Dr.
James Kerr White, district superintendent
of the United Methodist Church, will de-liver
the benediction.
The ceremonies will come to a close
with the recessional march, "Holdigungs-marsch"
by Edward Grieg.
Inauguration day festivities will close
with a reception for the Eckleys in the
library immediately after the ceremonies.
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Robert S. Eckley will officially become
Illinois Wesleyan University's 15th presi-dent
in inauguration ceremonies to be
held Saturday.
Registration for official delegates will
open at 9:30 a.m. in the television room
of Memorial Center and last throughout
the morning.
C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson,
Pirie, Scott & Co. and a member of the
IWU Board of Trustees, will preside over
the luncheon, which begins at 11:30 a.m.
"THE ARTS ON THE Campus-Avant,
Avante Garde, Gotterdammerung" will be
the topic of the luncheon address by Ro-bert
Hargreaves, former IWU faculty
member and president of the National
Association of Schools of Music.
Inauguration ceremonies will begin at
2:30 p.m. in Fred Young Fieldhouse.
MACE BEARER Everette Walker, dean
of the university, will lead the procession-al
into the Fieldhouse following the sum-mons
of the University Orchestra's "Fan-fare
for an Inaugural."
The special fanfare was written by Dr.
Bedford Watkins of the music school in
honor of Dr. Eckley. Richard Hishman
will direct the orchestra.
FOLLOWING THE "National Anthem,"
Bishop Lance Webb of the United Metho-dist
Church will deliver the ceremonial
invocation. A choral response will follow
by the IWU Collegiate Choir, under the
direction of Robert Donalson.
Edward Dirks, Alumni Association pres-ident;
Mark Sheldon, Student Senate
president; and Dr. Carl Neumeyer, facul-ty
chairman of inauguration, will present
salutations to 'the assemblage. Collegiate
Choir will then sing the anthem, "Let
God Arise," by George F. Handel.
WILLIAM BLACKIE, chairman of the
Board of Directors of Caterpillar Tractor
Co., will give the inaugural address. His
topic will be "Improvement Through Edu-caFtioolnlo."
wing the address, Dr. Eckiey will