Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Galleae Ca pxi HAian Pnxxanxi n Ga44Aei. Kafxid Q iawtU And fi ncj l (lecand-B a zUtf Baxifet a $9,iOO, 000 Ruiiiimi; a CDlleyc- isn ' t a ont- man Milton S. Eisenhower can well testify, rent year a budget of S9,l()( ,()()() has C. 0. Price, assistant to President Eisenhower, aids the President with administrative, per- sonnel, policy and related problems. Price helped three State presidents in this position. He is secretary of Council of Deans and a member of several all-College committees. and a considerate legislature as well dent are needed. job, as President During the cur- been established. In the last five years the col- lege has expen- ded more than $32,800,000. The manage- ment of a pro- gram involving such large sums of money de- mands top level administrators. When an edu- cational institu- tion expends such amounts, an interested Board of Re- gents, a sympa- thetic governor, as a skilled presi- Before the last war started, Kansas State ' s physical facilities were rapidly proving inadequate for the num- bers of students enrolling. During the war it became evident that post-war enrollments would be tremendous. All indications showed that enrollments in the period after the war woud stabilize at about 50 per cent above prewar levels. Need for Growth Foreseen President Eisenhower and his administrative staff realized Kansas State must grow physically at a rapid rate if the college was to continue to be one of the outstanding educational institutions in the Middle West. A list of the minimum necessary construction projects was drawn up; plans were made; and from the plans the Campus of Tomorrow developed. Accompanying the physical growth of the college was an even larger growth in the number of problems to be solved. New courses were added, new faculty mem- bers were called in, but the problems only mounted faster. War surplus buildings and equipment were re- ceived from all parts of the nation. To cope with the shortage in housing facilities for 468 families were established on college owned property; barracks for 384 men were erected; part of the stadium was converted to dormitories; and 1,000 beds were procured and loaned to householders to encourage them to take student roomers. An estimated 2,000 students used the housing office files each year to find a place which they could call home while at school. Huge Vet Influx More than 8,300 veterans came to Manhattan to attend K.S.C. Along with them came several thousand non-veterans who also real- ized the impor- tance of a col- lege education. Every depart- ment from the Cafeteria to the President ' s Of- fice met with difficulties and had to expand. A typical pic- of the rapid de- velopment o f facilities is seen in an examina- tion of the Stu- dent Health A. L. Pugsley, Dean of Administration and Director of Summer School, has myriad duties. He is in charge of faculty welfare, development of instructional program, ac- crediting educational standards, commence- ment, assemblies. Library, and many prob- lems which come to the President ' s office. i 12

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IN A NEW ROLE HEN the last war came, Kansas State College was an average-or-better state agricultural school, enrolling about 4000 every year and feeling no need for new building or expansion programs. Faculty and students thought it was fine the way it was — and they were probably right. But when the draft hit, depopulating the ag and engineering schools, leaving fraternity houses in a vacuum shortly to be filled by faculty couples and coeds, striking repeatedly at the ranks of the faculty — then the pleasant, rather drowsy College routine was picked up, shaken thoroughly, and discarded forever. A new President, in midwar 1943, looked ahead to the war ' s end and decided that K.S.C. would be feeling severe growing- pains before long, unless some advance planning was done. So he got a program going. Curriculums were revised . . . negotia- tions for veterans ' housing began ... a long-range building pro- gram was drafted to take care of skyrocketing enrollments. . . hundreds of new faculty and administrative positions were created — a totally new Campus of Tomorrow was drafted, in ideas as well as in cubic footage of classroom space. Though realization of the plan looked a long way off when the first G.I. wave hit the enrollment lines in ' 45, it progressed. Splinterville and the Comprehensives appeared in the same year — both signs of growth. Room was somehow found for 7400 students. And today, at the end of K-State ' s adolescent period, life is becoming normal again. Everyone connected or affected by that program, conceived back in 1943, can point with pride to the evidences of its success — the steel-and-stone bulk of the fieldhouse, the growing part played by SPC, the intangible but invaluable national reputation Kansas State College now pos- sesses. Our thanks to the administration — for a vitally important job well done . . . Left — An architect ' s visiiulization of Kansas State College ' s proposed new Student Union.

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Service records. Before the war a clinic was maintained in Anderson Hall and a small hospital, now the hospital annex, was available. Now a three-wing temporary hospital with five doctors, nineteen nurses, and three laboratory and X-ray technicians cares for more than SOO sick students annually. Last year 35,668 office calls were made by students at the Student Health Clinic. In 1945 the inventory of supplies and equipment for Student Health Service -was $18,444. At the close of the last fiscal year the inventory had grown to $30,660. This figure did not include the new X-ray unit for tuberculosis diagnosis which will add an additional $9,000 to the inventory. Problenns Aren ' t All Big All of the expansion problems, however, aren ' t con- cerned with the big things on the campus. As the con- struction program advances, hundreds of small trouble spots also arise. As an example of the expense of little things involved in making the Campus of Tomorrow become a reality today it is noted that light bulbs for the new field house will cost the college $570. Plans for the future of the college had been drawn up before President Eisenhower announced his resig- nation. These plans, which might be called the six year plan, specify the order in which the legislature would be asked to approve construction at Kansas State. Next biennium it is planned to build the Student Union if the legislature will supply one fourth o f the two million dol- lars needed. An addition to the Library and a building for the Extension Serv- ice are also planned. For ihe next legislative ses- sion after this, plans call for requesting funds to build either the Student Hospital or put an extension wing on the Veterinary Hospital. $100,000 for the Student Hospital is already available. An ani- mals Industries Building is also planned for that period. Two years later it is hoped that the new Auditorium can be built. The present Auditorium will be converted into a music department building. Both mens and women ' s housing will be advanced during the six year period as funds become available. Permanent men ' s residence halls will be built on the present site of veterans housing units. Governor Frank Carlson has been one of the College ' s staunch boosters during the period of expansion. The Governor has been a fre- quent Campus visitor during this year. The Kansas Board of Regents, who have helped make the Campus of Tomorrow a reality today: Seated. Fred M. Harris, Mrs. Elizabeth Haughey, Lester McCoy, Jerry Driscoll, Betty Reed, former stenog- rapher. SltiiiJing. Hubert Brighton, secretary. Willis N. Kelly, Drew McLaughlin, Grover Poole, Dr. L. B. Spake, and Oscar S. Stauffer. 13