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

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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.

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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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A. B. Conklin came To The UniversiTy in SepTem- ber as Dean oT Men aTTer 24 years of public school work. For The lasT I3 years he has served as super- inTendenT oT The Bowling Green Public Schools. ln The second semesTer, he became Dean oT STu- denTs. which is The execuTive conTrol of boTh men and women in The Tield oT personnel. IT is Through his office ThaT The new absence rul- ing has been execuTed. During The second semesTer, he visiTed many homes, making a survey oT The housing condiTions oT The sTudenTs. l-le also visiTed high schools, meeT- ing seniors who were inTeresTed in aTTending The UniversiTy. Mrs. Maude F. Sharp has been oi greaT service To The UniversiTy in her capaciTy as Dean oT Women. She came here in SepTember, l9l8, when This Uni- versiTy was Then a normal school Tor Teacher Train- ing and has remained Tor Zl conTinuous years. She was chairman oT The Social CommiTTee Tor 20 years, during which Time a well inTegraTed social program was gradually developed. During This period The W.S.G.A. and Y.W.C.A. were organized Tor women sTudenTs. The more recenTly innovaTed OrienTaTion Course Tor Treshman women during The TirsT semesTer and individual conferences in The second makes iT os- sible Tor Mrs. Sharp To know The individual ancljbe bypTTer able To assisT in her adiusTmenT To college li e. SevenTeen years ago Mr. C. D. Perry, who was Then SuperinTendenT of FulTon CounTy Schools, was appoinTed RegisTrar of Bowling Green STaTe Nor- mal College. When l arrived on This campus. There were Tive buildings noT including ShaTzel Hall which was under consTrucTion, sTaTes Mr. Perry. Born on a Tarm in souThern Michigan, Mr. Perry received his grade school educaTion in a one-room counTry schoolhouse and his high school Training aT FayeTTe Normal. FayeTTe, Ohio. ATTer graduaTing Trom Ohio Wesleyan in l905 and Taking graduaTe work aT The UniversiTy oT Chicago, he TaughT Tor six years aT FayeTTe Normal. lncidenTally, This iovial keeper oT UniversiTy rec- ords likes To go Tishing and enioys reading. l-le is prominenTly known in educaTional circles and is This year's presidenT oT The AssociaTion of Chio College RegisTrars.