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

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September. A third women ' s housing unit is also well underway. When it is completed the emphasis will shift to dormitory space for men. A new wing for Engineering Hall was started, just one month after work was begun on a connecting wing between East and West Ag. Work on the Arts and Science building was well underway, and of course the big news for Kansans as well as Manhattan was the completion of the new $2,000,000 Fieldhouse, to be used in many campus activities as well as those of the athletic department. More serious budgetary problems faced the College than in any of the wartime or postwar years. Loss of veterans reduced revenue from the Government under the G. I. Bill by an estimated $400,000, a loss not reflected in decreased operating costs. President McCain pointed out in his budget message to the Board of Regents that most of the overhead costs are fixed, not affected by enrollment. He anticipated a loss of about fifty faculty members before next Sep- tember, but added that he expected this number t o be lost through normal retirements, resignations, and re- lease of temporarty staff members. Increases in the budget were asked for the Extension Service and Experi- ment Station. MAURICE D WOOLF, Dean of Students, is responsible for coordi- nating extracurricular activities. Responsible to him are the Counsel- ing Bureau, the Dean of Women, and the secretaries of the YMCA and YWCA. Enrollment second semester reached 5,400, much higher than had been expected. It indicated that enroll- ment would level off near the 5,000 mark, barring all- out war. THE FACULTY COUNCIL ON STUDENT AFFAIRS is the chief agency through which the College deals with the Student Governing Associa- tion. Members of the Council are: Dean H. Howe, Norma Awe, Dean M. Woolf, Prof. T. Avery, Prof. W. Tripp. Prof. S. Whitcomb. Prof. Leone Kell, Dean Helen Moore, Prof. Kathryn Geyer, Prof. V. Foltz. Prof. A. Edwards, Dean A. Pugsley. 23

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EDWARD F. ARN succeeded Frank Carlson as Governor of Kansas in January. He appoinrs the Board of Regents. year. Walter S. Fees of Iola was appointed to the vacancy left by the death of Chairman Fred Harris of Ottawa. Lester McCoy of Garden City was named chairman. Other Board members are: Jerry E. Driscoll, Russell; Drew McLaughlin, Paola; Willis N. Kelley, Hutchin- son; La Verne B. Spake, Kansas City; Oscar S. Stauffer, Topeka; Mrs. Elizabeth Haughey, Concordia; and Grover Poole, Manhattan. Hubert Brighton of Topeka is secretary to the Board, and Ed Burge, Topeka, is business manager. Dr. McCain ' s energy and experience stood him in good stead. His arrival coincided with the beginning of the crisis into which this nation was plunged when North Korean forces drove across the 38th parallel into South Korea. That crisis had a particular impact on educational institutions. There were problems above and below that 3 Sth parallel on this side of the globe, too, and President McCain dedicated the College to the task of finding solutions for them. He conceives the land grant college as a service center to the people of the state. He believes that civilization is a race between education and catas- trophe, and that the atom bomb has put catastrophe out in front. The Korean war threatened to be a complete catastrophe for many educational institutions. With the peak of veteran enrollment past, September saw enrollment dip to 6,000, and many of the men were either reservists subject to call or nonveterans liable to be drafted. The uncertainty prevalent over the nation as to the extent of American involvement in war was reflected in a sense of bewilderment among the students who didn ' t know their service status and could find no answers in the welter of conflicting statements from public officials and service personnel. Dr. McCain allayed much of the unrest with a letter to the students urging them to remain in school, continue their educa- tions, and thus improve their capacities for service if and when they were called. He predicted that govern- ment policy would permit deferment of students whose work showed they benefited from continuing their educations. Much of the tension on the campus was relieved, and the situation improved even more when the govern- ment confirmed Dr. McCain ' s prediction with a liberal policy of deferments. President Eisenhower had a variety of problems, but most of them stemmed from the need for hasty expan- sion of facilities and staff to provide for the thousands of veterans seeking to enroll. Even with prewar enroll- ments of 4,000 and under, the building program had been unable to meet fully all the requirements. Bar- racks and trailers went up on the campus to house vet- erans and their families, single men, and faculty families for whom there was no housing available in Manhattan. Today ' s problems are similar — expansion of facilities never caught up with enrollment — but the housing difficulties are changing. For example, Splinterville, along Anderson Avenue, was torn down. Demand for the barracks apartments in Goodnow, Elliott, and Hill- top Courts dwindled, although all were full during the year. Completion of a sister unit to Van Zile Hall will permit all freshman and transfer women students to spend their first year in residence halls, beginning in 22

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PRESIDENT EMERITUS F. D. FARRELL retired in 1943, but remained at the College as a professor of Rural Institutions. He guided the growth of Kansas State during the 22 year period from 1921 to 1943. Kansas State Admi assist students, College and State A. THORNTON EDWARDS became director of housing in 1946. His problem is to find places to live for five thousand students plus wives and children of many of them. KENNY L. FORD traveled thousands of miles this year in his job as Secretary of the Alumni Association. He is responsible for the procurement of endowment funds. It takes a lot of offices to run a college. The popular idea of a college consisting only of boring professors and sleepy students has had to make way for the con- cept of increasing college facilities and of college servi- tude. The administrative officers on these pages are in a large way responsible for many of these services. They are a few of the many people who help the stu- dents to take their place in the life of Kansas State College, and the College to take its place in the life of the land. The newest of these offices is that of Director of Public Service. It was created in 1949 to coordinate the many College programs and increase the impact of these programs to the citizens of Kansas. Operations were speeded up faster than ever before in the Registrar ' s office this year as the use of Inter- national Business Machines became integrated in the work of the department. Increased service to both in- dividuals and organizations became possible. Individual grade reports from the office of the Registrar were sent to students for the first time during the spring semester. Other offices playing a direct role in the life of the student include the Director of Admissions, who notifies high school students that they have been accepted for admission to the College. ARNOLD R. JONES, lower left, keeps track of the eight million dollar College budget. He came to Kansas State as professor of accounting in 1929 and became comptroller in 1945. Gerald C. Kolsky, center, is completing his first year as registrar. Installation of IBM machines has made it possible for his office to give many added services to the students. Dr. B. W. Lafene, right, is head of the Student Health Clinic and the Student Hospital. This is his third year in that position.