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

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Each year the Ohio Senate consents to the Ohio governor ' s appointment of one man for a five-year term to the Board of Trustees of Kent State University. He belongs to a group of six members, and one is cm ex- officio member, Columbus ' s Clyde Hissong, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who doesn ' t attend the meetings. The five members meet once each month, usually in President Bowman ' s office, or occasionally at the Board treasurer ' s office. They direct, and officiate at Kent State University affairs, and each also works actively and successfully at his busi ness or profession in Ohio. Their problems include the budget, honorary degree grants, contracts for building, and tentative appointments for the approval of the Board. The president of the Board, whose term expires in 1953, is John R. Williams. He is the Lake County Super- intendent of Schools, resides at Madison, and has a Painesville office. Joseph B. Hanan is the vice-president of the Board until 1952. He resides in Akron and is a retired B. F. Goodrich official. Until 1949 the secretary for the Board is Robert C. Dix, who resides in Kent, and publishes the Ravenna Evening Record and the Kent Courier-Tribune . 1950 ends the term of Otto J. Korb, Ph.D., as the Board treasurer. He superintends the East Cleveland Public Schools. Also a Board member is Charles H. Lake, LL.D. He now serves as an advisor to Cleveland ' s Superintendent of Public Schools. SEATED: John R. Williams, Otto J. Korb, Pres. George A. Bowman, Robert C. Dix, Charles H. Lake. ABSENT: Joseph B. Hanan. 21

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Dr. George A. Bowman PRESIDENT Serving his iifth year as ad- ministrative head of the uni- versity, Dr. George A. Bowman, combining a genial personality with progressive ideas, has be- come symbolic of the univer- sity ' s expansion and rise to eminence as a scholastic insti- tution. Under his guidance there has been a tremendous expansion of housing and classroom facili- ties to handle the increased enrollment of recent years. Dr. Bowman was instrumental in bringing national sororities and fraternities to this campus, and also see- ing to it that only the better ones be permitted to come on the campus. As a student of education at Western Reserve, Columbia, Chicago and Harvard Universities, he achieved a broad background for his teaching. Since Dr. Bowman has been President the school has increased in acreage as well as enrollment. Three buildings are almost completed, which include a men ' s dorm, a student union, and a new hospital. Helping the President with his many and varied tasks is Mrs. Alice Makinson, Secretcrry to the President. With her assistance, students and faculty communicate their problems to the President. Dr. George A. Bowman Mrs. Alice Makinson 20

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DI John Reed Spicer Arden L. Adyi Dr. John Reed Spicer came to Kent State from Westminster, where he also held the position of Dean. His versatility and sympathetic under- standing of undergraduates ' needs and prob- lems have made him one of the most popular administration staff members. As Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Spicer has made every effort to accommodate the several thousand students who account for the arts college lead in enrollment at Kent State. Sensing the need for more thoroughly trained students in graduate schools, Dean Spicer has been concentrating on the pre-professional cur- ricula in his college, along with a revised sys- tem of faculty advisors. In the last dozen years the College of Busi- ness Administration has earned a place of its own at Kent State due primarily to the work of Dean Arden L. Allyn. When Dean AUyn first came to the University back in 1934, the College of Business Administration was practically un- noticed, but at present it has fifteen major fields of study possible for students interested in business. Dean Allyn is the only pre-war academic dean still serving the university in that capacity. The reputation of the BA college has prospered in outside business circles to a great extent since the year 1934. Dean Raymond E. Manchester has held the office of Dean of Men since 1920. Dean Man- chester is probably known best for his ingenuity in establishing imaginative traditions. The buggy wheel that was supposed to have been lost scores of years ago by the founder of our neighboring university is probably the most famous. It seems that this wheel was lost in the mire where Kent State now stands. This wheel was recovered and painted and is now used for a trophy for the winner of the Kent State-Akron University football game. The wheel must bring good luck to the university because it has been hanging in the genial dean ' s office for the last two years. Dean Manchester has capably handled the overflow of male students on the campus in his usual easy and likeable way. naymond E. Manchester 22