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

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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

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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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The organ is a noble instrument. survey on campus. Meanwhile, Dr. Gilbert W. Cooke and Dr. Benjamin L. Pierce collaborated on an introduction to business book which they hope to have published soon. Numerous others Wrote articles during the past year for maga- zines, encyclopedias and journals: among them were Dr. Clare H. Bennett, Dr. Edwin G. Knep- per, Dr. Rea McCain, Mr. Paul K. Meyers, Dr. Paul F. Muse, Dr. Emerson C. Shuck, and Mr. Frederick G. Walsh. In the music department several members gave recitals during the past year: they were Dr. James Paul Kennedy, Mr. Hadley Yates, Mrs. Emily Derrer, Miss Myrtle Dinner at eight , . . in the practice apartment.