Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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THE CAMPUS HETHER dressed in autumnal browns, winter white, or spring green, Kent State University ' s campus presents a lovely land- scape of rolling slopes, old oaks, maples, and elms, and winding paths. And all year around the campus is dotted with students making the most of their free time. In the warm late spring and summer they study in the welcome shade of the large trees. In the winter they tobbogan and ski and sled on the numerous hills. Set high on the hilltop is the semi-circle of original buildings. Leading directly to the Administration building is the main walk starting at the University corner and winding under traditional Prentice gate and past the seal of the former and still respected Kent State College. On the crest of the hill also are the two oldest class room buildings — Merrill and Kent halls, Down the slope stand Lowery and Moulton halls, formerly dormitories for wo- men and soon to be returned for use by wo- men students after serving over a year as barracks for the Army aircrew. McGilvrey hall, the million dollar science building, completes the semi-circle. Hidden from view of the main thoroughfare is the newest women ' s dormitory, Engleman hall, named after the University ' s late president- emeritus, James O. Engleman. Completing the physical equipment of the University is the heating plant which houses the industrial arts department, and, of course, Rockwell Library, situated in the hollow in the front of the campus. ADMINISTRATION IR. RAYMOND M. CLARK stepped from his role as professor of Psychology to take over the leadership of the University in the spring of nineteen forty-three. As act- ing president he has managed to keep the affairs of the University well organized through a trying situation. The task of or- ganizing and arranging the details of a past administration into comprehensibility for a new administration has not been easy. The assumption of new duties has not closed the door of his office to the comparative trivialities, the personal problems of the stu- dents. Instead they have found an audience behind the huge desk, a small man with a large capacity for listening. In the management of the front office Dr. Clark ' s invaluable aid has been the versatile Miss Alice Carter, the president ' s secretary. 10

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HIS IS KENT STATE UNIVERSITY in nineteen hundred and forty-four. This, a time when all of us found changes everywhere . . . saw khaki uniforms and many un- familiar faces where we had remembered fraternity men in tweeds and horrible neckties . . . watched enrollment drop to just seven hundred . . . missed some of our favorite professors who were no longer facing their classes. Varsity athletics became something again remem- bered and upper classmen in nostalgic retrospect related to eager freshmen about past tri- umphs, like last season ' s victory over Akron U. after thirteen years. Instead of the carefree existence that had been such a part of us in othe r years, many were working in war industries, studying the map making course the government offered, or teach- ing recreational activities to the children of war workers. All of this, and even more vividly the casualty lists that included our former classmates, and at last we realized that we were at war. It had taken more than time to make us aware of it. Time became more important to us than ever before. Time that moved too slowly when we waited for letters or that someone ' s furlough. Time that speeded by too quickly when the furlough came, when a term paper was due, or when we realized that the quarter was nearly over. And because it became so much more important than ever before, the nineteen forty- four Chestnut Burr has based its theme on time. The mornings, afternoons, and evenings that make up each day, and week, of this year. These pages are your story of the seven hundred who came back and carried on, to keep alive that indescribable some- thing that has always been Kent. It will take more than war to quell that spirit. This year has shown that we can keep it in spite of adversity. We know that in the years of peace that will come someday, perhaps others will be thankful to those who helped to keep alive that feeling. We must keep on doing our part to keep it alive, yet of the outcome, time alone can tell.

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who has been responsible for general oflSce efficiency. On July first, 1944, Mr. George A. Bow- man, will be inaugurated as president of Kent State University, and Dr. Clark will return to his life work, the teaching of psychology. OFFICIALS IRST to greet anxious freshmen in the fall at registration is Emmit C. Stopher, Uni- versity Registrar. He patiently listens to the endless woes of conflicting schedules that comes from upperclassmen as well as new students. Across the atrium is O. B. Law ' s office. This year again, he acted as advisor to the student allocations committee, and through his able guidance they allocated all student activity fees. Dr. De Weese, director of the University health service, and his assistants. Dr. Leggett, Dr. English, and nurses, Mittie Smith and Mary Jane Slates, offered help for everything from a sore throat to a case of measles. Supervising maintenance of University property was Larry Woodell. He and his staff were constantly behind the scenes of every dance and basketball tournament. Last spring Dr. Weldon Williams, former English professor, was appointed as University Libra- rian. Since his appointment many changes in organization have come about in Rockwell Library. Director of Student Placement is the posi- tion ably filled by Dr. Lester Munzenmayer. Through his efforts a greater percentage of students than ever before have been placed in schools in Ohio and other states. He has ar- ranged interviews with representatives from many national companies that resulted in placement of Kent men and women to posi- tions of responsibility. SCHOOL HEADS I LADING the School of Art is Miss Nina Humphrey who injects into her stu- dents all the enthusiasm she has for her de- partment . . . Mr. Fred Marbut, other than his work as acting head of the School of Journalism, has guided student publications and supervised and edited University bulletins and publicity. Professor Denker held the baton that led the School of Music through another success- ful year while in the directors chair of the University Theatre was E. Turner Stump, chairman of the School of Speech. 11