Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Mrs. William E. Pierce, Colonel William M. Ruddock, Mrs. James W. Mock; Standing: Joseph H. Sheriff, John W. Neff, Steele Clark, Cyrus W. Davis. President of the College: Dr. Willis E. Pratt. Unavailable of the time the group picture was taken: Dr. Albert R. Pechar It is indeed significant that the issue of the college annual this year is devoted to Indiana ' s progress. The College was founded eighty years ago as a private school which provided preparatory courses and others designed for the first year or two of college. During its early history the large majority of students were girls. Today the College enrolls approximately 700 men and 900 women and the years ahead will likely bring an even larger student body. Only one small building provided for both instruction and housing in part of what is now John Sutton Hall. Today the College has thirteen major buildings and twenty-five other structures located on a campus of almost sixty acres. A comprehensive plan for the future development of the College envisages a number of addi- tional buildings, additional land and a student enrollment even larger than that of today. For the past twenty-eight years the College has been an ac- credited degree-granting institution and has assumed its rightful place among the colleges and universities of the country. It has high hopes that it will soon be permitted to oflFer a fifth year of work on a graduate level leading to the master ' s degree. This new era in which the College finds itself is even more signif- icant, however, because of the changes which have taken place in providing educational opportunities at the college level for so many of our people. Eighty years ago only those of considerable financial means could afford to attend an institution of higher learning. Today this opportunity is open to almost any young man or woman who has the ability and desire to attend. While private colleges will always have a place in the American educational scheme, public demand for increased opportunities for a higher education for more of its youth should predict an even brighter future for Indiana. yC- { ' t: L Dr. Ralph E. Heiges, Dean of Instruction, and Ralph E. Beard, Assistant Dean of Instruction. Willis E. Pratt President 10

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Dean Schnell and Dean Faust. administration Miss Mary L. Esch, Registrar House Mothers: Mrs. Calvin Beam Mrs. Elva Longwill; Standing: Mrs Jessie Butler, Mrs. Gladys Skinkle