Bowling Green State University - Key Yearbook (Bowling Green, OH)

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,R 'iii '11 3 is if Presidenlr Frank J. Prour believes in living a well-balanced life, mixing adminislralive dulies wilh occasional periods of relaxalion. A+ home he 'fakes a 'Few minules +0 read lhe day's news or he chals wilh Mrs. Proul and his daughler, Kalhleen. Nolhing delighls PrexY's hear+ more lhan an exciling game or an oufing on lhe lalce al Sandusky. A+ loollaall and baslcelball games, he's lhere in 'rhe bleachers: and if i+'s a lolosler loalce or a fishing lrip, You couldn r lceep him ,away if You fried. ,sum

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To lhe Senior Class of l94O: Recenlly l had +he privilege of examming each of +he KEYS lhar has been published. ln quile a delinile sense 'rhey fold of Jrhe growlh of fhe Universily. Each was a liHle larger Jrhan lhe one be- fore il: somelimes direclly, more ollen indireclly. each chronicled The gain in buildings, in sludenl' populalion and in sludenl aclivilies. So lhis KEY of l94O becomes a new mileslone. ll will 'fell 'rhe s'rory ol a grealer inslilulion. l do hope 'rhe members of 'rhis class, and of +he sludenl body in general. will appreciale Jrhe lremendous elilorl of Jrhe edilor and her assislanls lo make 'rhis KEY excell all olhers. lvlay il ever remind You of lhe happy college days Jrhal have been yours! Sincerely,

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Dr. James RoberT Overman, dean oT The College of Liberal ArTs and professor oT maThemaTics, has been aT Bowling Green STaTe UniversiTy since iTs beginning as a Normal College in l9l4. l-Te was appoinTed dean oT The College oT Liberal ArTs when iT was esTablished in l929. Dr. Overman was insTrumenTal in The Tounding oT Book and MoTor, honorary scholasTic socieTy, and is a member oT Phi BeTa Kappa, naTional honorary scholasTic TraTerniTy, Phi DelTa Kappa, naTional hon- orary scholasTic TraTerniTy, and a Fellow oT The American AssociaTion Tor The AdvancemenT oT Science. l-lis wriTings include books on The Teaching oT maThemaTics, a series oT maThemaTics TexTs Tor high school use, and collaboraTion on a series oT grade school ariThmeTics. Dr. Clyde l-lissong, dean oT The College oT Edu- caTion and chairman of The commiTTee on graduaTe insTrucTion, came To Bowling Green STaTe UniversiTy in l923. l-le was named dean oT The College of EducaTion when iT was creaTed in l929 aTTer serving as direcTor oT The Training school. ii Dr. l-lissong received his bachelor's degree aT Miami UniversiTy, his masTer's aT Columbia and his docTor's aT Ohio STaTe UniversiTy. Beginning as a grade school Teacher, Dr l-lissong has had wide ex- perience in The educaTional Tield beTore achieving his presenT posiTion. l-le is acTive in The Kiwanis Club and is, aT presenT, lieuTenanT-governor oT di- vision number one oT Kiwanis lnTernaTionale. Dr. l-lissong has wriTTen widely in The Tield oT edu- caTion. l-Te is The auThor oT a book on The acTiviTies movemenT in The public schools and co-auThor wiTh his wiTe, Mary C. l-lissong, of a TexT on educaTional philosophies. ArTicles wriTTen by him on varied subiecTs have appeared in a wide range of maga- zines. Dr. Ralph G. l-larshman, TirsT and only dean of The College oT Business AdminisTraTion, assumed his ex- ecuTive duTies aT B.G.S.U. SepTember l5, I937. Under his able direcTion, The College has expanded from 50 sTudenTs in i937 To ZOO aT The presenT Time. Dean l-larshman Teaches courses in markeTing and salesmanship in addiTion To acTing as dean and serv- ing on The ExecuTive, The Library, The GraduaTe ln- sTrucTion and The PlacemenT CommiTTees. l-le is also acTive on The Policies Commission, which Tor- mulaTes plans Tor The TuTure expansion oT The Uni- versiTy. BeTore coming here in l937, Dean T-larshman was proTessor oT economics and business adminisTraTion Tor six years aT MT. Union College. Previously, he had been successful as sales Training direcTor oT The STandard RegisTer Company aT DayTon and as edu- caTional direcTor Tor The McCaskey RegisTer Com- pany aT Alliance.