Arkansas Tech University - Agricola Yearbook (Russellville, AR)

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JIM R. WEST, BA ED WILWERS, MFA Instructor Department Head Music Art terests and appreciation for music. Mrs. Joan Wainright is director of the orchestra. MR. ED WILWERS shows the beginning art students some of the BUBBA MADDEN, Roy Campbell, and Don Voker portray their true artistic features located about the Tech campus. roles as convicts in the play My Three Angels. 29

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VOlTA ANDERS, RUTH BRANNON, EDWARD CONNELLY, MM MM Instructor Instructor Associate Professor Music Speech Music VICKY KIEHL, BA HELEN MARSHALL, WALTER MICHELE, Assistant Instructor MS MM Music Associate Professor Associate Professor Art Music 1i STEPHEN NAEGLE, JOHN NELSON, DALE OLSEN, MFA MFA PhD Instructor Instructor Assistant Professor Music Art Music WILLIAM R. JOHN STOVALL, MA JOAN WAINRIGHT, SPANTON, MFA Acting Head Instructor Speed: Assistant Professor Music Music 28 s,v.,v...,u....,.. ammunad .s.....sm. MK.w.....i,i.g..h-... The Division of Fine Arts includes the depart- ments of music, art, and drama. The division provides many cultural activities that build student apprecia- tion in the fields of music, art and drama. Dale Olsen was appointed to the music depart- ment and is teaching Music History and Woodwind. A new instructor in Music Theory during the fall semes- ter was Martin Farrin. Three new courses added to the music department were Music Appreciatibn, which stressed the development of musical perception; So- cial History of American Music, a study of the Amer- ican musical trends; and Marching Band Techniques. The art department received a new instructor, Stephen Naegle, who taught Introduction to Art, Painting and Print making and drawing courses. The department also reinstituted architectural rendering. The speech department instituted three new courses: Argumentation and Debate, which is a study and practice of debating techniques; survey of Speech and Drama, an introductory course into the major areas of speech, Debate Workshop, case pre- paration and participation in public debate. ONE of the most admired and liked faculty members, Chief Wither- spoon introduces the band and football spirit :1 the Green-Gold game.

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Liberal Arts Makes Additions GENE BOYETT, MA Assistant Professor History JOHN BURCH, MA WALTER CARR, MA Assistant Professor German Assistant Professor Political Science JOYCE DEMPSEY, E. SUE 0055, PhD GERALD EDGAR, MA Professor MA Assistant Professor English Associate Professor English MARY MAUDE Journalism JOHN GUENDLING, CLARENCE HALL, GALLAGHER, MA MA MFA Instructor Associate Professor Assistant Professor English Philosophy English ANN-IE lAU RE Blll. HUTMACHER, MA JAGGERS, MA Assistant Professor Assistant Professor English English 30 CHARLES JONES, Department Head Psychology Dr. Kenneth Walker replaced Dr. Tom Wilson as head of the Division of Liberal Arts. Dr. Wilson mov- ed to the position of vice-president of academic af- fairs. The Division of Liberal Arts includes a wide choice of majors e English, foreign languages, his- tory, journalism, political science, philosophy and so- ciology. The field of Social Rehabilitation Service has been added to the psychology department this year7 the only undergraduate curriculum in the state. Among changes which have been made in the Liberal Arts Division are courses for a combined English and speech major and honor courses in freshman English and social studies. History majors are required to have 12 hours of foreign languages for graduation instead of the previously required 18. The Junior Proficiency Test has also been changed. Previously, students had three chances to pass the test, now they have only one. Many new. courses have also been added. Addi- tions are: in English, Chaucer and 'French and Eng- lish Usage; in Geography, Geography of North Amer- ica, Geography of Latin America, and Geography of Asia; in hostory, The American Frontier; in psychol- ogy, Industrial Psychology and Problems in Psy- chology. . DR. KENNETH WALKER heads the liberal ans division at Arkansas Tech. Besides being a history professor, Dr. Walker is the author of several historical books.