Iowa State University - Bomb Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Regents Oversee ISU ' Business ' - $55 Million Worth The Regents examine all budget requests from the University before sending them on to the governor and the legislature for consideration. The Iowa legislature then determines the final appropriation after consideration of all recommendations of the Regents, governor, and university officials. Aside from the budgetary process, the Regents also make final decisions on university personnel, programs, and ad- mission standards. Iowa State president. Dr. W. Robert Parks, beheves the most important action by the Regents last year concerning ISU was approval of the reorganization of the extension services. Front Row: Wilbur C. Molison, Mrs. Josph F. Rosenfield, Stanley Redeker, Melvin H. Wolf. Back Row: Jonathan B. Richards, Casey Loss, Thomas A Louden, Ned Perrin, William B. Quarton. 29

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Governor ' s Duties Are Board of Regents, Budget Requests Iowa Governor HAROLD E. HUGHES Running a university is big business. Last year alone, some $55 million passed in and out of the Iowa State coffers. Overseer of this operation and that of five other state state educational institutions is the nine-member State Board of Regents (which includes two ISU grads — Ned Perrin and Wilbur Molison). Governor Harold Hughes appoints board members — with approval of the Senate — to staggered six-year terms. He also recommends a level of state support to the five institutions in his biennial state budget. In the fiscal year ending June ' 65, the ISU portion of state appropriations came to more than S12 million (22 per cent of total ISU income). 28

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Dr. James Hilton formally passed on his office as chief admin- istrator of America ' s first land grant college on July 1, 1965. President Hilton proudly looks over an architect ' s model of his main project while president, the Iowa State University Center. Hilton ' Retires ' to Post of Director of Development On July 1, 1965 Iowa State rung out the old, rang in the new — president. Dr. James Hilton, after twelve years of service gave the reins to W. Robert Parks, who ' d been vice-president for academic affairs since ' 61. Dr. Hilton retired — to the university ' s director of development post, where he ' ll keep an eye on the growth of the Iowa State Center. He had come quite a way since he first came to Iowa State back in 18 as an agriculture student. He was the first Iowa State graduate to hold its highest office, perhaps adding another dimension to the addage that any ' boy can become president. Certainly the Hilton years produced an abundance of the things all good universities are made of — enormous gains in enrollment, construction, research, service, student aid, salaries and now the Center — all signs of Iowa State ' s plunge into the age of bigness. Perhaps the most prestiguous acknowledgement of the gains of the Hilton years came in ' 58. That was when the Association of American Universities asked Iowa State to join its ranks as the only college member. Looking back, it doesn ' t seem as if his new job is new after all. He ' s had it all along. An oil portrait of President Hilton was a gift to the university from the combined senior classes 1965—66. 30