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

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l Preface

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In Memoriam Mrs. Frank J. Prout On April 19, 1953 the University community learned with deep sadness of the death of Mrs. Frank J. Prout resulting from an automobile collision. The 1954 KEY staff dedicates this page in memory of Mrs. Prout, a friend to all who knew her at Bowling Green State University. At the time of Mrs. Prout's death, the Alice Prout Scholar- ship Fund was set up so that all who wished to give tangible expression of their friendship and feelings could do so by giving to this fund. Four days later the fund had grown to 32186.50 from money and pledges of 226 contributors. Shortly afterward, Dr. Prout contributed S150 which enabled the scholarship fund to become available immediately. President McDonald named a special committee to decide the amount and the qualifications for making the first award l A on Honor's Day of 1953. Outstanding character, scholar- ship, need, and the necessary capabilities to do good college work were considerations in the choice. On Honor's Day, Junior Patricia Pietras received the first S150 award. This memorial to Mrs. Prout has been made in perpetuity, with S150 a year expected to be the annual interest yield. The total amount in the fund up to the spring of 1954 was 55300. This expression of love and esteem for Mrs. Prout and her husband, President Emeritus Frank J. Prout, who was iniured in the same accident, shows our affection only slightly in com- parison to the very deep feeling we all experienced at the time of Mrs. Prout's death.

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We have tried in this 1954 KEY to create a setting for you .... as freshmen, you approached the door to your college career doubtful but eager to see what the next four years would bring .... once inside the door, your academic and social life took on vast proportions which at times looked unconquerable .... but your life inside the door was not so large that you could not look out into the nation and world and observe war, prejudice, hatred, starvation, death .... now, as you pass through the door again, this time to leave college behind you, you look ahead to your future of playing a part in this world and its betterment ....