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

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jl.,f4 ' 4 ,iff 04 f gf Flrst im pavement north edg proved campus ended at the e of the Circle a gravel road completing the way to Rudge Street -1 , . fig: Qljglv - . ' , 4:1-f. l lli -5 I A . 35' l 0 if XWOWZ X T HE few members of the faculty who were here when the University began will chuckle over the album pictures of the early campus, when a gravel road con- nected Ridge and Wooster Streets, cows grazed in a pasture where the Practical Arts Building now stands, and the Ad- ministration Building was just being com- pleted. Another 30 years will find us, just as amused at scenes of 1945. In 1975 those who view this album will recall with plea- sure the scene on the opposite page, of the May afternoon when Mr. .7lIcFall and Dr. Dickerman mowed the grass in the Circle for the World Student Service Fund benefit. N 'C I I f'i. il 'PSM ' ' ' v ' -J .--- if cf, . 55' . v' , C S Qfloremcof ood fo to iuuerfo bfi, em

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DR. FRANK J. PROUT President HE oft' quoted phrase Hdemocracy in action characterizes Dr. Frank J. Prout, president of Bowling Green State Univer- sity, who daily exemplifies the democratic principles upon which the University is founded. During the Christmas season he and Mrs. Prout opened their home to the students for their annual Y MCA-YVVCA Silver Tea which has become one of the nicest campus traditions. In return, student serenaders always included the Prout residence in their itinerary for the welcome at Prouts' was warm. Almost every evening, Dr. Prout spent some time visiting the patients at Johnston Hospital, cheering them with his consideration of their plight. He rarely missed the opportunity of an evening stroll to call at the residence halls as a matter of routine, checking on repairs and building improvements. In March, excited as any student, Dr. Prout frantically can- celled appointments and kept his secretary busy phoning for reser- vations when he decided to make the trip to New York to see the Falcon basketball team play against DePaul University of Chicago in the final game at Madison Square Gardens. Dr. Prout made the transition from a civilian to semi-military campus an impetus to the continued growth of Bowling Green State University to one of the most outstanding universities in the state. He has seen the return of former students and the coming of vet- erans of World VVar II to a campus which will fulfill their needs as a training ground for future living. His encouragement and cooperation in the past six years have resulted in the establishment of eight national social fraternities for both men and women which have been influential in broadening the scope of interest and contact of the students. He has been in- strumental in' obtaining housing improvements, such as Sorority Row, and already is working on the final designs for Fraternity Row, as well as further facilities for housing an ever increasing enrollment on the campus. Dr. Prout's keen interest and sympathetic understanding of all phases of campus life provided a uniting inliuence for the student body. Problems, whether large or small, individual or group, were his problems, too. His attitude of personal interest in everyone and everything about Bowling Green State University made him an integral part of the memories of collegiate life.