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

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McCain Tours European Schools President James A. McCain is completing his eighth year at Kansas State this spring. With enroll- ment increasing annually. Dr. McCain is faced with an increasingly heavy load of responsibilities in guiding K-State to the fulfillment of its administra- tive and academic duties. More buildings have been added to the campus during his administration than under any other president. President McCain holds four degrees: Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Laws from Wofford College, Spartansburg, S. C; Master of Arts from Duke University, Durham, N. C. ; and Doctor of Education from Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Last year, Dr. McCain was selected to travel and study abroad under the Eisenhower Exchange Fellow- ship. He was on leave of absence from April through October, during which time Dean A. D. Weber was Acting President. During the six-month tour, the Mc- Cain family visited 13 European countries using Switzerland as a base of operations. Dr. McCain studied European educational methods. He is pres- ently working to incorporate the best features he ob- served during the tour into K-State ' s educational program. An active president means a busy secretary. Mrs. Grace Lind- quist handles Dr. McCain ' s correspondence and appointments. President and Mrs. McCain and daughter Sheila view the sights of Venice from their hotel balcony while in Europe. During his eight years at Kansas State, Dr. Mc- Cain has helped triple the quantity of research so vital to the improvement of any institution of higher learning. He helped organize the Faculty Senate in 1952, making it possible for faculty members to take a more democratic part in all phases of college poli- cy-forming and organization. Before the formation of the Senate, the faculty met only three or four times a year. Dr. McCain ' s primary function as President is to provide leadership for the college. Another function is to develop financial support for K-State by work- ing with the legislature and other state representa- tives. Dr. McCain feels he has the duty of interpret- ing the college to the public. In meeting this re- sponsibility, he makes over 100 speeches a year throughout the state. The President also meets fre- quently with faculty members and student groups and visits college activities off the campus. He is chairman of many charitable organizations and was selected to head the Kansas Mental Health drive this spring. So much activity occasions much correspondence and many appointments. Keeping track of these presidential necessities is Mrs. Grace Lindquist, who has been Dr. McCain ' s secretary since he came to K-State. 23

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Dr. James A. McCain is now completing his eighth year as president of an annually expanding Kansas State College. 22

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Faculty Senate Determines Policy, Approves Candidates Assistant to the President, Max Milbourn, heads Kansas State ' s public relations program and sees that K-State problems, as well as successes, are well known by the right people. Tagged the President ' s right hand man, Milbourn co-ordinates College mat- ters with the State Legislature and the Board of Re- gents. His duties have been compounded with the opening of the 1958 budget session of the Legisla- ture. He also works closely with the press and is the man responsible for much of the K-State publicity carried in Kansas newspapers. In addition to his public relations function, Milbourn is chairman of the General Scholarship Committee which awarded over $65,000 to 257 Staters during the 1957-58 school year. He also heads the Radio and Television Policy Committee, the Public Relations Council of the Faculty Senate. The primary job of the Faculty Senate is to facili- tate faculty participation in the establishment of poli- cies involving academic, faculty, student and certain all-College affairs. Candidates for degrees, both graduate and undergraduate, must be approved by the Senate. Two senators are elected from each of Assistant to the President, Max Milbourn ' s unofficial posi- tion is at the opposite end of the President ' s buzzer. the five schools and the Extension division, plus one additional senator for each 35 faculty members. The Senate approves and disapproves curriculum changes and new curriculums. It also sets and reviews profes- sional standards required of faculty members. Glenn Beck, director of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion is chairman of the Senate. FACULTY SENATE— TOP ROW: A. B. Cardwell, Holly C. Fryer, Leon R. Quin- tan, Embert H. Coles, Abraham Eisenstark, Harold Howe, Russell L. Herpich, L. D. Morse. SECOND ROW: M. A. Durland, Dean S. Folse, Daniel Beatty, J. Adair Hodges, Grayce E. Goertz, Gwendolyn Tinkien, Doretta Hoffman, Joseph E. Ward. THIRD ROW: John A. Johnson, William Baehr, Ellsworth M. Gerritz, Abram Hosteller, H. J. Beck, Russell M. Kerchner, Dallas Nelson, Linwood Hodgdon. BOTTOM ROW: Glenn Beck, Paul Young, Sumner Morris, Louis H. Douglas, Arthur Flinner, Kling L. Anderson, Boris Leaf, Milton Raville, Herbert Wunderlich. 24