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

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Kansas State ' s President James A. McCain directs the many activities of the College and its associated agricultural and engineering experiment stations from his remodeled office in Anderson hall. Dr. McCain is the tenth Kansas State president. McCain Brings 3-Year Building Boom During the administration of President James A. McCain, Kansas State college has continued a program of educational and physical expansion unequalled in its history. New buildings on which work was begun dur- ing the past two years include the $375,000 addition to the Library, a $500,000 veterinary hospital, and a $60,000 greenhouse. Also initiated was the construction of a pilot feed mill for which approximately $200,000 was contributed by the nation ' s feed manufacturers. Construction of the $1,500,000 Student Union build- ing was begun in the spring. In the summer of 1952 Kansas State obtained the first television channel and construction permit allo- cated by the FCC to a college or university. The Col- lege has received an offer of 3100,000 from the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation to assist in constructing a television transmitter and prospects ap- pear excellent that K-State will be one of the pioneer institutions in the use of educational television. The President regards Kansas State as more than a 18

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ADMINISTRATION Congratulatory messages, a huge cake, and a greeting from President Eisenhower helped Kansas State college cele- brate its 90th birthday last February 16. As one looks back over K-State ' s ninety years of service to the state and to the nation, one sees a school to be proud of. From one of the first land grant colleges established under the Morrill Act, K-State has grown to the second largest school in the state, and ranks high in the nation in many fields. Its School of Home Economics is the only one in the state, and ranks high nationally, it claims one of the outstanding Schools of Veter- inary Medicine, the second largest fieldhouse, the only de- partment of milling industry in the world, a top-ranking basketball team, and an Olympic star. The future is sure to be as successful. Happy Birthday, K-State, you ' ve come a long way!

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campus-bound college. It is hoped that through the use of television and the already well-developed facilities of the College extension service that Kansas State can do an even more effective job of making available to all the people of Kansas the knowledge and culture obtainable at Kansas State college. While the President is directly responsible for the activities of the College, a large and important part of the work done by Kansas State is determined by the caliber of personnel appointed for the school. The responsibility for these appointments and other decisions affecting general campus policy is handled by the State Board of Regents. Present members of the Board of Regents include Walter Fees, lola, chairman; Oscar L. Stauffer, Topeka; Lester McCoy, Garden City; Drew McLaughlin, Paola; Mrs. Elizabeth Haughey, Concordia; Arthur W. Hersh- berger, Wichita; Willis N. Kelly, Hutchinson; La Verne B. Spake, Kansas City; and Grover Poole, Manhattan. Hubert Brighton, Topeka, is the secretary of the Board. Edward F. Arn was re-elected Governor of Kansas in the 1952 election. Long a loyal booster of the College, Governor Arn has even more interest in Kansas State now than formerly, as his daughter Barbara enrolled as a freshman here last fall. Students, faculty, alumni, and other visitors wait their turn to see the President while seated in the outer office. Mrs. Grace B. Lindquist, the President ' s secretary, has the task of directing the many visitors into the President ' s private office.