Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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M. D. HELSER Diiettor of Personnel J. R. SAGE Registrar is to study and pass on the budget for the coming year. It costs over 12 million dollars each year to operate the school. Actually, it costs almost twice as much for each resident student as he pays in registration fees. Funds for operating the college come from state appropriations, some federal funds, registration fees, and gifts and giants from the sale of commercial products such as the famous Iowa Blue Cheese. It is the Administrative Board that decides when final exams weeks will begin and the ne v quarter open. If the students demand a change in the calendar, it nuist go to this gioup of staff members. If the scrapbook of a 1900 graduate vas opened and the pages slo vly ttuned, the views of the campus Avoidd be strikingly different from those we know today. Most of the major btiildings on campus ha ' e been built in the past half ceiuury. At the present time, a . 110,000,000 building progi am is underway. This includes the new Electrical Engineering build- ing, the complete overhauling of the physical plant, and the fotu- additions to the atomic research. The addition to Friley Hall comes luider this plan and drawings are being studied for science and agronomy buildings. It was due to the foresight of President I- ' riley that the college has the first television station operating in Iowa. When T V was first being talked about bclorc the var, he recjuested that application be made for a license and a frequency. Fi e years ago, WOI was known only as a radio station, l)ut they now have a three-fold program in o[K ' ration, . M, F M and T V. And if we could look iiuo the future, we might envision new home management hou.ses. an auditorium and field houes and a new atliuinistralion building to lit itic needs of tliis ever growing and dcxeloping (ollcge, Iowa State. 28

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College Adiniiiistration Sunshine sifting through the Venetian blinds cast bars of soft spring light on ilic rust colored rug. A group of men and vonien, chatting ([uietly. walked slowly in, pidlcd back the maroon upholstered chairs and languidly sat clown. A moment later, a heavy set man in a grey suit strolled in, waited patiently for con- versations to cease and prepared to address the gi-oup. Unmindful of the meeting going on in Room 114, Beardshear Hall, gioups of students hur- ried past to ten o ' clock classes. Inside this Con- ference Room. President Cliarles E. Friley had gathered his .Administratixe Board and mem- bers of his standing committee to appro ' e the name of each prospective graduate. For it is in this room that the most important decisions of the administration are weighed and dis- cussed And if you coidd step through the mirror into the past, you might find President W. M. Beardshear puzzling over many of the same problems of gix:)x ' th and expansion that face oiu president today. T he seventy-five members of his staff be- lieved, as did the founders before them, that the college shotild dexote her thoughts, talents and energies to the achancement of the agricul- iinal resources of Iowa. And there were then, in 15)00, 771 students enrolled on the collegiate level with 28. ' ) on the non-collegiate level. Since that time, more than 30,000 men and women ha e been graduated Irom Icjwa Slate. From liie l,Or)() in 1000 the student body has grown to 4, ()()() in 1020, by H 10 it had almost doubled when it reached a total of (S.OOO. The peak enrollement was reached in 1018 with 12,000 students and since has dropped until 10,000 were registered at the beginning of iO. ' iO. To keep tip with this growing mass of sttidents, the Administraticm now has a staff of over 800 people. Btit the individual student is not forgotten when the president calls his Administrative Board together. Each is represented by the deans and directors in teaching, research and extension. Also on the board are the directors (jf the various service activities: the registrar, business manager, directors of the student health, library, physical plant and many others. Besides these, he has an adviscjry cotmcil and cotmcils on athletics, mtisic, research and safety. These staff members draw up and present the plans for graduation, the college calendar and decide on matters pertaining to scholarship and personnel. One of their most difficult jobs Room 107 Beardshear, information center of Iowa State. More questions are asked at this counter in a day than in a Psych, hour quiz. Center of the lost and found department, dispenser of grades, and nerve center of the administration, every student has crossed the threshold of this room sometime in his college career. wm •■-WISBBI

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R. W. ORR Library Director B. H. PLATT Business Manager DR. J. G. GRANT Student Health Director Thousands of books pass over the checkout desk in the College Library every year. The complexity of the stacks, the priceless knowledge stored in the thousands of volumes, and the information available on any subject make the library one of the most frequented spots on central campus. 29 I