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

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The University Theater presented Yield of the Foun tain, written by Frederick G. Walsh, associate pro fessor of speech, in the spring of l948. Dr. Charles Barrell, chairman ot the Politi- cal Science Department came to Bowling Green in l94O. During l946 reorganization of his department was completed largely under his direction. A graduate of Hampden Sidney College, he holds MA and PhD degrees from the Uni- versity ot Virginia and Ohio State University respectively and is a member of the Ameri- can Political Science Association. Dr. John E. Wenrick, associate professor of psychology, matriculated at Ohio State Uni- versity and did graduate work at the some institution. Mr. Wenriclq came to BeeGee in l947, previously having served as an assistant dean in the College of Education at Ohio State and chairman of the department ot psy- chology and Philosophy at Otterbein. During the war he was a disaster represen- tative with the American Red Cross. Chairman of the University Sociology De- partment, Dr. Samuel Lowrie is the conductor of the first American college course in dating, Dr. Lowrie was appointed to the depart- ment chairmanship in l938 attendant with his arrival on campus. l-le matriculated at Rice Institute receiving his BA degree and later completed graduate study at Columbia University earning MA and PhD degrees.

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Miss Gertrude Eppler, head of the women's Physical Education Department, was ap- pointed to the faculty in l94l. ln preparation for a university position, she had formerly served as director of physical education in the Owosso, Michigan public schools and as recreation guidance director in the community center of the same city. She was graduated from Michigan State Normal college lYpsilantil and the Uni- versity of Michigan, holding an MA from the latter school. Genial Harold Anderson, justly famous as a basketball coach, completed his 6th year as athletic director and head of the men's physical education program. Andy, a graduate of Otterbein college and the University of Michigan, received initial recognition as a high school coach and later gained national prominence at the University of Toledo before coming to BeeGee in l942. r,J5,.,.. With the reorganization of the Chemistry and Physics Department into separate units in l946 Dr. Willard Singer was appointed head of the Physics Department. He received his BS, BEE, and MS degrees at Ohio State University also attending Capital University and the University of Michigan. Mr. Singer came to Bowling Green in i927 gfter work as a graduate assistant at Ohio tate.

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Dr. Elden T. Smith, chairman of the Speech Department and head of the University Theatre, was awarded the Rockefeller Foun- dation Fellowship for graduate study by the National Theatre Conference in i9-46. A native Ohioan, Dr, Smith was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and has MA and PhD degrees from Western Reserve Uni- versity. He joined the faculty in l94O. The six-weeks Summer Speech Clinic offered group lessonsrand individual therapy to chil- dren from the ages of six to i6 from four surrounding counties. ,Instruction was handled by faculty of the speech department and students observed the classes.