Kansas Technical Institute - Liasion Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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Administration KTI - The hope for Tomorrow The spirit of enthusiasm of the KTI student body is most encouraging. With many schools plagued b problems, some even faced with possible cllosing in the next few years, KTI has a hope for an exciting future. Why? Several reasons come to mind, but there are two important reasons for a cheerful, opti- mistic outlook on campus. First, KTI is a new school, with new ideas and with students deeply involved in "Building and Institutional Image" . Second, KTI is a Technological Center - a new emerging concept in higher education that has a promise of a bright future as we move toward and into the 21st Centmuy. In both reasons, there is purpose - a purpose for students that is real and challenging and a purpose for an institution which will play an important role in the technological society of the future . Isn't it great to be a part of something with such a purpose? Thomas F . Creech President Robert E. Brown Don Buchwald , Frank Gray Asst. Dean of Admissions Asst. Dean of Academic Affairs Director of OPe1'21f1On21 Affalrs

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John F. Mahan Dean of Academic Affairs Linca McCall Asst. Dean of Public Affairs Herb Petracek Dean of Student Services james O. Thompson Past President In Memory Of James 0. Thompson, Jr. James O. Thompson, Jr. became the second President of Kansas Technical Insti- tute on October 4, 1971. He resigned, as President, on june 30, 1976 because of his declining health. His progressive illness bgaxaght about his death on February 13, During his tenure as President of the In- stitute he was successful in preserving the school through many a political struggle which threatened to close or relocate the Institution. The last year of his administrative duties was marked by legislative action which transferred control of the Institute from the State Board of Education to the State Board of Regents. Although retired, he lived to see the fulfillment of long years of hard work by the faculty and administration in the action of E. C.P.D. accreditation of the programs at KTI . It is only fitting to pay tribute to Mr. Thompson's contribution to KTI's develop- ment during its early years of sLu'vival.