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

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DEMONSTRATING SOIL testing at the University Bog Is Dr. Green, Jerry Butchko, Bill Stallar, Beng Ho, Richard Gilchrist, Ralph Dexter, biology professor. Class members ore, l.-r., Ramon Jane Taylor, Shirley Hoover and Maryland DeWltz. Diversity Is Fundamental At Kent State AN ESSENTIAL tool of artist Dale Tener is a jar of brushes. PART OF BECOMING a teacher involves gained It first hand as part of the student getting experience, and Muriel Lundy teaching program. 19

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ASPECTS OF physical science were discussed by Ronald Spacht, part-time professor. Though he is a chemist at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in AI ron, physical science class at night. Spacht has time to teach a University Increases Classroom Space WITH THE TOOLS of her trade beside her, Ann Maksir labored over a problem behind a drawing board. 18 Clicks of typewriters and business machines, smells from cooking and chemicals and sights of busy students are all familiar at Kent State University. Classroom buildings are equipped to handle each aspect of study offered at the University. Additional information is gained through student teaching, intern- ships and field trips. Increased enrollment has developed new problems at Kent State. By enlarging buildings and by transforming other structures, the University has been able to meet the growing demands. Students have access to 130,000 volumes and more tiian 800 current periodicals at Rockwell Library. The Library is being enlarged to facilitate additional books and more students. Construction is scheduled to be completed by fall quarter of 1958. More classes and clinics will be a ailable in the pro- posed three-and-a-half million dollar speech and music building. The structiue has been approved by state of- ficials, and construction is to begin next fall. By providing facilities, the University is helping the students develop skills and acquire knowledge which Avill be needed in their futme careers. One himdred and eighty acres have been piuchased since 1948 to meet the need for classrooms and buildings. Expansion seems to be the keynote at KSLT.

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TV CAME TO Kent as, l.-r., Dorothy Widicon, Carol Patterson and Meitzer. Dr. Koller, of the sociology deportment, and the students Dr. Marvin Koller performed before WAKR-cameraman Fred were featured on a Marriage ond Family program. Useful Subjects Taught At University THE COEDS were slightly bewildered as Prof. Victor Moore ex- plained the art of fishing in a fly and bait casting class. PREPARING TO be a good housewife was Edna Dixson as she threaded her sewing machine in class. 20