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PAGE TWO THE GOLD BUG Miss Winkleman: Directs publicity by Cindy Thayer Have you ever noticed that among the staff members listed in the. newspaper, you find woman in her position with CBS. In 1958, WM'C "special thanks to Miss Nancy Winkleman?" asked her to be Director of Publications for the Who is Miss Winkleman? She is the Director of college, and she has worked here since then. Publications 'for Western Maryland College. Miss Winkleman's work here includes "the After graduating from here in 1951with a B.A. in publication of undergraduate and graduate French and English, she remained here for her catalogs, the January term catalogs, monthly master's work, and received her M.Ed. by newsletters, the magazine that comes out six working with the deaf. She explored techniques times each year, and brochures, as well as all which could be used in teaching the deaf to write, ?ther .college publicity. She likes the variety of her applying her methods first to the high school J~b smce every article involves working with students of the Maryland School for the Deaf. different people, places, and ideas. She also After Miss Winkleman's article concerning her enjoys the freedom she has under President work was published in a national magazine, she Ensor. Sometimes her position puts her into was asked to use her techniques with primary emba_rrassing situations. "If I don't know students. Today she works with graduate something before a reporter does, it gets a little students here at Western Maryland. sticky, ... not necessarily for myself, but for the Before working at the college, Miss college." Miss Winkleman gets stuck with the Winkleman worked on a newspaper; she was the explanation. first woman on that particular staff, much to the During January term, Miss Winkleman is editor's apprehension. But eventually, he teaching the workshop in journalism. She has changed his mind about women newswriters, taught a one-hour course of journalism in the and sent her out on some great stories. Next she past, but her main interests lie in publications wrote news reports for television, being the first and in teaching the deaf. This week, Gold Bug's PROFILESfocus Flickrnger: Keeping busy his secret ger, and WMC'sDirector of Publications on a visitinglecturer, Dr. Floyd Flicken- and Publicity, Miss Nancy Lee Winkleman. .by NellieArrington Third in a series. Dr. Floyd Flickinger may have retired from colleges. For some time he worked with the full time teaching, but, as any of his students will National Park Service in historical development readily agree, he has not let time slow him up in and preservation of areas of the South, and helped his interest of history. restore such landmarks as Jamestown, A summa cum laude graduate from Lafayette Yorktown, and Appomattox Court House. In College with hours in history, political science, addition, he was cofounder of the Greater and literature and a Phi Beta Kappa key, Dr. Baltimore Arts Council and the Council of the Flickinger received his master's degree from Alleghenies, as well as belonging to historical the University of Virginia where he was a societies on local, state, and national levels. Dupont FeUow in History and won the Society of Now, he is working on a biography of General Cincinnatti Award for his thesis on General Daniel Morgan, the leader of riflemen in the Daniel Morgan. He took his doctoral work at Continental Army, and is the historical program University of Maryl,and and Johns Hopkins chairman of the Maryland Bicentennial University, concentrating in what is now known Celebration Committee. as American studies. In his spare time, Dr. Flickinger likes to bike, Presently, Dr. Flickinger teaches the course, boat, swim, canoe, garden, and to add to his "Colonial life and Culture," during January extensive collection of antiques and books, Term here. A specialist in colonial history, he manuscripts, booklets, engravings, and prints of came to supplement the regular history teaching colonial America. staff. He is impressed by the leadership at Dr. Flickinger feels the secret of a long and Western Maryland, and is somewhat sorry to see happy life is to keep busy at something one likes President Ensor retire, feeling him to be one of a without slowing his pace merely because of "vanishing breed" of college administrators. Dr. advancing age. "As I see it now, if I die at the age Flickinger said he also feels at home. here, and of one hundred, I have enough work to keep me likes looking out of bis classroom window at the busy until then." It is this philosophy which rolling countryside, a change from his view at persuaded him to teach the colonial culture hili Baltimore City home. course this term, "That's just my theory of Dr. Flickinger has not always taught in area geriatrics!" , Dorm Parents Reflections Atheys bridge age' gap Jan. term by NellieArrington "I think the biggest reaction has been to the baby carriage in the lobby," laguhed Ed Athey. to tell them not to do something." The Atheys are at home when with either the He's probably right. After all, no other director administration or the students. especially since of a men's dorm at Western Maryland has ever January term is a time of reflection. Like had a baby daughter, as well as a wife, before. many of the professors are fairly young and the eye of a hurricane, it is a time to look Ed and his wife, Cathy, graduated several therefore close to their age group. "The professors here don't seem to have the "Ivory back to the chaos that has been, and that yet years ago from Catawba College in North Tower" outlook as much as at some of the other to come. Motion slows from 45 to 33 1/ 3. Carolina, an institution they feel closely colleges," noted Ed. . WMC. Ed almost parallels became a dorm Quieter dorms, shorter meal lines, more director here a few years ago, but at that time Rouzer's dorm parents think the residents are class discussion; all this helps to make his draft status was uncertain. Meanwhile, he accepting the responsibility for Open House January term a deep breath, a thoughtful has coached high school athletics at Chestertown well. Ed stated, "I wouldn't mind seeing pause. .High School and isnow taking education courses twenty-four-hour Open House because I think the students can control it themselves and it should But there is more; something untapped, a here. be controlled by the students. Here, especially in safety valve that operates slowly. It is the Ed and Cathy feel they have little contact with some sections of the dorm, it's really self- mere presence of tranquillity and the ab- many of their charges. Ed commented, "It governed.' , sence of pressure. Pressure which is, un- seems that the freshmen tend to look at me as an One thing Ed would appreciate is being called fortunately, often -times self-induced. The old man and the only time I'm around is when Ed. "Several of the students I've taught are here value of January- term "ties in its "ability something goes wrong, so every time I go around a as freshmen and they find it very hard to call me I'm everyone figure slams doors ....They to let us turn around without really looking disciplinarian but actually I'm not." He sees this Ed. It's still Coach or Mr. Athey and I think that over our shoulders to see who is chasing us. as somewhat due to an age difference. "It's carries over because they have some of the others calling me that. It makes me feel like I'm probably since they're just out of high school and eighty years old!" CCN an older person in high school is usually the one