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

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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-

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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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mental laboratory, speech classrooms and, even- tually, a radio studio. Through the combined efforts of the faculty and the administration, degrees were granted in fields not before offered. In the business ad- ministration department, where the percentage increase of students has been phenomenally great in the past ten years QZIOOCXQJ, a curricu- lum was added in real estate and insurance. The speech department offered for the first time a degree in speech and hearing therapy, while the art department offered a major in art and grant- ed degrees in art for the first time. This year brought also a physics department with Mr. Willard E. Singer as acting chairman and a political science department with Dr. Charles A. Barrell as acting chairman. Up to this time, those departments existed as a part of the chem- istry and history departments respectively. Un- der Mr. Daniel J. Crowley, a graphic arts de- partment, the first in Ohio, was added to the university. With the arrival of some of the newly purchased equipment, the department did a major share of the university's printing as class projects. Courses were added in nearly every department. One of these was an experi- mental freshman course in sociology called American Dating , while plans were also made Spring at the River Lab, for an experimental undergraduate seminar' course in the history department. Another major step the past year was the creation of the Graduate School, with Dr. Em- erson Shuck as director. The university had previously offered graduate degrees, but as an extension of the work of the three undergrad- uate colleges. The new graduate program, oper- ating under revised regulations, has brought to a total of ten the number of fields in which the advanced degree may be earned, and has estab- lished the degree of Master of Science in Edu- cation to supplement the Master of Arts degree, thus allowing candidates a wider choice of areas of specialization. Busy with all this and their regular teaching load, many professors found time for various projects and research. Dr. Martha H. Gesling of the department of education studied cases on various curriculum reading problems, while Dr. John E. Gee became a good-will ambassador for education as a vocation by conducting forums before various high school and parent groups. In the speech department Mr. Frederick G. Walsh wrote a one-act play which received honorable mention in a nation-wide play-writing contest, while Miss Adeline E. McClelland and Mr. Jay Cherry conducted a speech and hearing