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

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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

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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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D E N lUCH of the credit for the reputation of fine teachers turned out by Kent State University goes to Dean John Blair, of the College of Education. His classes are inspira- tional because of the originality and wit he uses in conducting them. Dean Arden Allyn, College of Business Administration leader, has helped to develop the scope of business training offered in the University curriculum. Offering a broad cultural background the College of Liberal Arts is headed by Dean Earl Crecraft. Much of its success is due to his consideration and understanding for mem- bers of the college. Their poHtical campaign was gigantic. Under the leadership of sophomore council representatives, Gloria Cianciola and Don Wargowsky, they organized early in the Fall and later elected Jim Elliott, president, Sue Alstot, vice president, and Barbara Berkey and Barbara McDowell secretary and treasurer. They delved into dramatics with The Family Upstairs, and contributed the talents FRESHMEN jEARLY three hundred freshmen en- rolled in the fall quarter and, small but mighty, the Class of Forty-eight started its college career with all the enthusiasm that Freshman classes have had in years past. They went through registration with comparative ease as they listened dubiously to the stories upper classmen told of previous years when it took more than patience to wade through the endless streams of students waiting in lines. They found college life a little different than they had imagined, but they soon adjiisted and became a part of it. An important part too, because they could be the class that would first see Kent in the peace time to come. of thespians, Dave Ryan, Joan Shremp, and Betty Gervin and Edwin Suvanto, to Univer- sity Theatre productions. The Stater groomed some of them into budding journalists, and the names of John Thomas, Carol Linder, Helen Piatt, Kay Tolt, and Ted Phillips made frequent by-lines. One of their number was shy George Yamashiro, Japanese rehabilitation student, enrolled in the College of Business Adminis- tration. In the spring, with chairman Sue Alstot, they climaxed their activities by joining the Sophomore and Junior classes in presenting the Popularity Ball, where the Most Popular Man and Most Popular Woman were pre- sented. 12