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

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Don Christopher heats an iron bor while Bob Cole pounds the end of another flot in the Industrial Arts building. 2:4 lf.. .1 Head of the graphic arts department, Daniel J. Crowley, came to Bee Gee in 1918. A New Yorker, he wcis graduated from Co- lumbici and the University of Wisconsin. Prior to appointment at the University Mr. Crowley taught industrial arts in California and New Jersey. Dr. Grover C. Platt, newly appointed head of the history department, come to Bee Gee in i947 as an assistant professor of history. , A Texan, Dr. Platt attended the Uni- versity of Iowa and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy cit Tufts College. -ef-f 'mmm Mfffi, ,.,, fi, ..., ,, ., , ,W Q , ,- f V M 1-1

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Dr. Cecil Rew, a native of England, com- pleted his education at the University of Chicago and the University of lllinois. He also attended the University of Paris. After serving on the university language faculty since l935 Dr. Rew became head of the de- partment in l947. One of Bowling Green's most respected fac- ulty members, chairman of the Geography and Geology department, Dr. Samuel May- field came to the University in l936. l-le attended Berea College, Kentucky and received his Doctorate in Geology from the University of Chicago. After 25 years of continuous service to the University Prof. John Schwarz retired from active faculty duty at the beginning of the past school year to become professor em- eritus of history. Along with his retirement was his subsequent resignation as advisor to the Emerson Literary Society which he had headed for 23 years. Although not active in classroom work Professor Schwarz continued work on his new book and added to his series of well- known lectures.

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3552353322 Included in Who's Who in Education , Miss Laura Heston, chairman of the Home Economics Department, has been affiliated with the University since l9l8. She has degrees from Ohio State, Chicago, and Columbia Universities and holds mem- bership with the American Home Economics Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Society. IliBi5STl?l?li. SETS Associate professor ot industrial arts, Roland M. Torgerson, received his appoint- ment to the University faculty in l947. Previously he had headed the Industrial Arts Department at State Teachers' College lMinnesotal. A native of that state, Pro- fessor Torgerson did undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, receiving BS and MA degrees. He served as on instructor tor both the Army and Navy during much of World War ll. .5GUiiltRl.lSlli The Journalism Department, largest in the College of Liberal Arts was headed by Prof. Jesse J. Currier. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan and later Ohio State University, Professor Currier came to Bowling Green in l94O, He previously worked for the Columbus Dispatch and served as correspondent for a number of Ohio news- papers. Mr. Currier is a member of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism honorary, Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary, and the North- western Ohio Newspapers Association. He is also a member of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism. H E cc Laboratory