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

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4 ----........... John W. Bunn, Ervin I. Kreischer, Paul F. Leedy, Emerson C. Shuck. I. William Miller, Paul W. Iones. Faced with many problems that the increased enrollment presented, the administrative heads succeeded in overcoming all handicaps and kept the university running smoothly. John W. Bunn, registrar, directed the schedul- ing of classes and recording of grades and helped to solve problems of schedule conflicts. All records of schedules, grades, and credits were under his care. Ervin J. Kreischer, business manager, balanced the university budget and approved all purchases for campus residents and univer- sity supplies. His staff collected student pay- ments of fees, room, and board. Under the direction of Dr. Paul F. Leedy, librarian, the library staff distributed the larg- est number of books in the history of the uni- versity. More study space in the library was provided for the larger number of students. The graduate division was changed to the graduate school this year and was headed by Dr. Emerson C. Shuck. Under his leadership more facilities were made available for graduate study. l. William Miller, director of Alumni Rela- tions and Director of the Bureau of Appoint- ments was the contact between the university and the alumni association and was in charge of the alumni magazine. Home town newspapers of Bowling Green students were never lacking in news about the students. Under the direction of Paul W. Jones the News Bureau sent out publicity on the students and maintained an up-to-date display of clippings from these papers posted in the Well.

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' mmm ciaL0QanA, Responsible for the classroom work of the university are the three academic deans, direc- tors of the three colleges of Liberal Arts, Busi- ness Administration, and Education. It is their aim to keep the academic standing of Bowling Green at a high standard. Always willing to help straighten out the problems of the future teachers is Dr. Herschel Litherland, Assistant Dean of the College of Education. He studied at Greenville College, Illinois, University of South Dakota, and the University of Cincinnati, and came to Bowling Green in 1941 from a county superintendents position in Lima, Ohio. Dr. Litherland admires the continuous challenge of growth at Bowl- ing Green. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. James R. Overman has been at Bowling Green since 1914. Besides his many other duties, Dr. Over- man is chairman of the Activity Fees committee and head of the mathematics department. He Herschel Litherlund. Ralph G. Harshman. Iumes Robert Over- man. received his degrees from Indiana University, Columbia University and the University of Michigan. Dean of the College of Business Administra- tion, Dr. Ralph G. Harshman received his de- grees from Ohio Northern and Ohio State uni- versities. As chairman of the Student Union Committee, Dean Harshman had a difficult job trying to find sufficient room for the Nest- ology course with the increased enrollment on campus. He enjoys almost every sport and is an enthusiast of traveling and the theatre. The other side of university life, the social, is supervised by three social deans, the dean of students, the dean of women, and the dean of freshmen. They see to it that Bowling Green has a well-rounded university life. Dean of Freshmen, Kenneth H. McFall has devoted much of his time to aiding the veterans in their adjustment to college life. He claims Mount Union College and Western Reserve Uni- versity as his alma maters, but likes the friend- liness of Bowling Green. He enjoys good fun and is noted for his hobby of collecting jokes and humorous stories. Since he joined the faculty in 1939, Dean of Students Arch B. Conklin has been faced with the numerous problems of the university's con- tinous growth. The largest of his problems was that of housing the students. He studied at Wooster College and Columbia, but he likes everything about Bowling Green-it's home to me. Dean of Women, Audrey Kenyon Wilder, will always be remembered by the- freshmen girls for her helpful suggestions in freshmen orienta- tion classes on how to get along at B. Gf' One of the biggest problems that she faced this year Kenneth H. McFcll, Audrey Kenyon Wilder, Arch B. Conklin. as a result of our increased enrollment was finding space for the program of the Social Committee of which she is chairman.

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J J A scholarly lecture in the classroom, a cheer- ful smile and friendly 'fhello in the corridor, a helpful conference in the office, a joking chat in the Nest-that's what Bee Gee profs meant to us. For, busy as they were, these professors were always ready to give us a helping hand and be a regular friend. Just as everything else during this second full year of peace, Bowling Greenls faculty grew from 104 teachers the previous year to 175 for the past year. New names and faces were seen in every department. Many of the new faculty members had been in the service, while others came from unique places, such as Miss E. Eloise Whitwer from teaching at the University of Rangoon and Miss Virginia Myers from grad- uate school at Cambridge University in England. The professors had their growing pains too. Nearly four thousand students were registered each semesterg a maze of new faces greeted them in classg new courses were conductedg classes Birth of the soap opera . . . and the singing commercial. were held under unusual conditions, from seven in the morning till ten at night in all places, from the high school chemistry lab to the Rec Hall: many new faculty members had trouble finding personal lodging. Sometimes artists are Zofuelier than models. To relieve temporarily some of the congestion in the various departments, work started on several buildings from Camp Perry. A science building equipped with freshman chemistry laboratories was started early in the school year just east of the Women's Building. Plans were made for a smaller building containing class- rooms and offices and a Fine Arts building to be built beside it. On Thurstin Avenue, across from Shatzel Hall, construction also started on a fourth building brought from Camp Perry to be known as the Campus Gate Theater-an experi-