Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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ir. ' .- ' . ' jba-crjjf; New Developments at KSU Dr. Roy Wenger, professor of education, demon- strates a Magnacorder to Robert Lede and Betty DeBout. This machine is used in the Department of Audio Visual Education. It is one of the new de- velopments in the department. Beginning as a Normal School, whose chief aim was to prepare students for elementary teaching, the College of Education has soared from an enrollment of 291 to 1700 students. Many new developments have taken place since Kent began as a small normal school. Today she can boast of being the largest single source of teachers in the state of Ohio. 24

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That ' Casual Look ' They run around in jeans and smocks and just have that casual look. And they ' re excused for it because they are artists. The Art department at Kent started on the unpaved road to success in 1913. Today, it is known as one of the out- standing departments here. Having access to the new fa- cilities in the Industrial Arts building, art majors are ac- quainted with any branch of art. A 1 2-manned staff has a full time job teaching the young idealists how to put their abstract ideas into something concrete. Their success in doing so has made the department what it is now. Left to right are Bette Dunn, Harold Kitner, assistant professor of art, Nancy Mehl and their guide in Mexico. During the summer of ' 52, the professor and some Kent art majors parti- cipated in this field trip to Mexico. David Hambleton and Charles Babcock are in the aeronautics laboratory at the Industrial Arts building. Both students, avia- tion technology majors, are checking instruments on an amphibian plane donated to KSU by Goodyear. 23

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Dr. Charles Perkins, assoc. professor of psych- ology, is showing an experiment in the psych- ology clinic. This experiment, along with many others are also shown to all the classes in psychology. By turning on the machine, he causes electrical currents to go through the cage the rat is in. It is testing the reflexes of the rat from its reaction to the electricity and also to the sound of a bell which rings. A Service and Aid for Students Dr. Charles Winslow, professor of psychology, is giving o hearing test to Carol Propper, 7-year old girl of Kent, Ohio. Dr. Winslow is director of the KSU psych clinic. The fall of 1947 was a very significant time to the expansion of KSU. The great influx of students in that year required larger educational departments, additional faculty and improved facilities. Among these growing departments was the Psychology department, which obtained four new faculty members and established the Psych clinic. This clinic, founded as a service and an aid to the students, is an accomplishment KSU can be very proud of. It serves as a lab for practical train- ing in addition to giving personal guid- ance to students, as well as offering aid to other people in this locality. 25