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

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R. G. ROTZEL Director of Admissions. FRED HEAD AND MRS. LINNARD Assistants to the Registrar. CAROLYN WILES AND DR. ATKINSON Registrar and his secretary. A basic, yet anticipated, disadvantage of a progressive and conscientious administration is that through its work present facilities and procedures become inadequate. An expanding enrollment inevitably resulted in tight quarters for the reg- istration and admissions staffs. Because of the booming num- ber of students during Dr. Bowman ' s term of office, from 900 in 1944 to 10,000 at present, the offices of Registrar Charles E. Atkinson and Director of Admissions Richard Rotzel outgrew their base of operations in the Atrium. Last year they relocated on the first floor of the new Arts and Sciences Building to handle the thousands of letters from prospective students and class schedules they process an- nually. DR. BRAILEY AND STUDENT Director of Orientation.

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VICE PRESIDENT BUNN In charge of Business and Finance. FINANCEMEN DUNN, BERG AND BAUER Comptroller, Treasurer, Business Manager VICE PRESIDENT WHITE A man of perception. MRS. MAKINSON Secretary to the President.

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The measure of a University is not how many buildings or how much land it has, nor is it the number of students who enroll. Rather, it is the quality of the student and the ca- pabilities of his instructor. Academic yard- sticks now restrict the admission of below-av- erage high school graduates. This improves the quality of the raw material and has re- duced the number of failures. To increase the caliber of instruction, the emphasis for the hiring and promotion of faculty members is placed on advanced degrees and practical experience in the field. The apex of Presi- dent Bowman ' s efforts to advance the academ- ic climate of the University was reached in 1961 when a doctor of philosophy program was inaugurated. When a university has the resources to offer the Ph. D., it signifies that it has matured. Another mark of a univer- sity is a museum. Kent State University does not have one, but it does have a committee that was set up by President Bowman this year to study the practical need for a mu- seum. The establishment of this committee again shows President Bowman ' s awareness of the balanced growth pattern of a flourish- ing university. SYMBOLIC OF THE PH. D. Attainment of the highest academic honor. Museum Committee, clockwise from bottom: Joseph Morbito, Sherman B. Barnes, Walter B. Barbe, Robert Morrow, John B. Nicholson Jr., William Taylor, Roy E. Wenger, Henry A. Christopher, Jordan A. Hodgkins. Members not pictured are Ralph Dexter and Glenn Frank.