Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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of stu- arKan- ioc class wttbeir reshmea Entscn- change a three lioority. 1 school pictuie semester. This was nearly 300 more than were on hand at the start of the spring semester last year. Kansas State also had its largest number of teaching personnel on the payroll. The budget for the current fiscal year provided for 508 members of the teaching faculty. This provided for a ration of 1 instructor to every 14.5 students. The ration last year was 1 to 20. The administrative machine was also increased and improved. The college set f orth on the largest building pro- gram in K-State history. The new small animal labor- atory was completed — as were two home management houses. Work was begun on the new $1,775,000 field- house and an addition to the chemical engineering building. Plans also were advanced for a new class- rcxjm building, an addition to Engineering Hall, a connecting wing between the two ag buildings and new women ' s domitories. GOVERNORS, SENATORS and multi-starred generals were among the visitors during the year. The Eisenhowers entertained continuously. FACULTY MEMBERS meet frequently during the year. A record num- ber of teaching-faculty was on the Kansas-State payroll this year. SENIORS WALK IN THE SNOW TO MID-WINTER COMMENCEMENT. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER discusses plans for the year with a small faculty forum at the start of the 1948 spring semester. ARTS AND SCIENCES Dean Rodney W. Babcock meets with his department heads and faculty members in a Willard Hall classroom.

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COMPLETING his sixth year as chief executive at Kansas State College, President Milton S. Eisenhower continues to take an active part in national and international affairs as well as college administration. QUofU i Otte. ADMINISTRATION iJc -FLOYDSAGESER NCE again this year, a record number of stu- dents jammed classrooms and laboratories at Kan- sas State College in quest of knowledge. A senior class of 650 students left the ivy walls last spring but their places were more than filled by an influx of freshmen and transfer students. An all-time enrollment high of 7,435 students en- rolled for fall semester classes. But there was a change apparent on the campus. For the first time in three years, veterans of World War II were in the minority. However, they were replaced by younger high school graduates who found their niche in the college picture with surprising rapidity. Before the start of the spring semester, college offi- cials all over the country were predicting a large drop in second semester enrollments. But at Kansas State this was not true. A record enrollment of 6,945 stu- dents answered roll call at the start of the second ADMINISTRATION HEADS LEAD THE COMMENCEMENT PROCESSION, FOLLOWED BY GRADUATING SENIORS FROM VARIOUS SCHOOLS. •- § F ir -J 9 %?-H. % y ys

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SMILING K-STATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY ENJOY A NOON MEAL AT ANNUAL STUDENT PLANNING CONFERENCE AT CAMP WOOD COMMITTEE HEADS at the SPC meet this summer were — Back row: Don Alexander, Jack Roth, Joyce Pratt, Jim dinger, Dale Relihan. Second row: Norville Gish, Dick Lindblom, Ted Volsky, Lewis Fairbanks. Fro it row: Hardy Berry, Joan Beggs, Dick Winger, Ruth Kelling, Harold Peffly. Standing: Bob Weatherbie. Chairmen read the report for their groups in an all-srhoo! assembly this fall. S P C FORMS CAMPUS ACTIVITYJ A N active part in the administration of Kansas State is played by the Student Planning Committee. Far reaching changes in campus life ranging from a system of pre-enrollment to the expansion of the intra-mural program have been proposed by SPC members. Nearly 80 percent have been incorporated in the K-State pic- ture after getting the initial boost from the SPC. Nearly 100 students and faculty members journeyed to Camp Wood, near Elmdale, for a thre e-day confab lasting from August 30 through September 1. Campus problems were discussed in committee meetings before being brought up in the general assembly. SfcuEMiasBi MWea Kwastepla Organizec group indui Mtatives fr Meers; anc Among t «tt reco iepiirchas lislied next nJorganc 20