When Morris became president in 1948, enrollment at SIU was 3,013. By the end of his career, enrollment on the two campuses totaled nearly 35,000. He instituted Ph.D. programs and created family housing. He lobbied for and got the TV station, the FM radio station, the university press, the news service, and outdoor education. Long before it was fashionable he promoted ecology, just as he provided facilities for the handicapped years before society demanded them. He brought to the school such luminaries as R. Buckminster Fuller. Through it all he demanded that SIU be an integral part of the southern Illinois community.

Delyte Morris of SIU

Biographies & Memoirs

Mitchell, Betty

Professionals & Academics

Southern Illinois University Press

THE BEGINNING 1869-1913;SIU IN COLOR;216 PAGES

Southern Illinois University: A Pictorial History

G. Bradley Publishing

It all began when my sister, Betty, and I were in a downtown St. Louis coffee shop. We had been shopping and had stopped off to get a coke and refresh ourselves. While in the coffee shop we were approached in a very mannerly way by two gentlemen dressed in grey suits, who managed to interrupt into our private conversation. As they spoke to us we found that they were from a huge mother-craft orbiting the planet Earth, and that their names were Elen and Zelas. They told us that we had been very closely watched by the Space People for the last eight years, and that our progress had been noted off and on from the time of our birth. Betty and I were both inclined to think that someone was playing a silly joke on us and we laughed when they told us this, but they were not laughing and were serious and stern. We were strangely shocked, however, when they told us of a few incidents in our childhood that no one could have possibly known except the family. They told us that we had been selected as contacts by the people of space to serve as channels through which they could give certain information to Earth, and that we had been carefully watched, as I stated before. They told us of the reasons why the space people were coming to Earth and that they were here to guide Earth along the lines of Brotherhood and Science.

We Met the Space People

Religion & Spirituality

Mitchell, Helen

Occult & Paranormal

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JUNE OF THE CORN HUSKERS BALL

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Xlibris

In this classic of the UFO literature pantheon, Helen and Betty Mitchell are approached by humanoid space aliens at a coffee shop in St. Louis, Missouri in the late 1950s. Taught how to communicate with the Space People from Mars and Venus, they receive messages from their new friends. Finally they are taken on a space ship voyage. This is the account of their experiences and the messages they were given by the aliens: abolish nuclear weapons, create education television programming, and become vegetarians, or possibly face extinction.

We Met Valiant Thor and The Space People

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