Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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on campus today is a smooth highly eration. FronVthe permanent studio on the top floor of the radio production classes,,assisted in the control room trainees. yend forth a defies of newscasts and cultural hat karps the area jytfblic in constant contact with the the College. ased wire to both local stations, (KOAM, watts) hi-ihe-T Pnter of our most active t always the smooth organization it is today. irties when faculty members and gan akmc weeKiy trips to v ,0Trrrville, ninety miles away, broac asts oN r KGGF. 10,0( WattsS k power were turned into Radio Station downt vn PittsfeHm, new broadcasting opportunities e uoiieg k with cam 5 programs now being able to renter audiccce than possible earlier, and without the needed wh« Coffeyville was the nearest broadcasting lie mid-forties, the Pittsburg Publishing Company and ications opened up a community station with 250 KSEK. ring this period that the recording room on the top was remodeled into a studio, control room and lore than $9000 was expended for radio equipment, ised wires to the downtown stations were installed, ost of the physical needs of the radio department had now the facilities, under the direction of Robertson ) expand, with recordings going out to a multitude area. Parsons, Nevada, and Joplin were among the first lil schedule and many more have been added, the g from one scheduled broadcast a week in 1947 is now broadcasting schoolroom classes for grades of programs billed as “Book Trails.” Also, a new called “Coffee-Time Book Chat” is being aired English classes in high schools in a fifty mile ) today airs such programs as “News Behind The Concert to a listening audience of over a million g through 25 stations in the four state area, tor of the radio broadcasting training division of iterature department.

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Social Science Faculty: Back row—left to right: Mrs. Etelka Holt Vincent, J. C. Straley, Ralph Smith, Robert Noble, and S. L. Householder. Front row: Keith a Bohlander, Dr. Alvin H. Proctor, head of the department; Dudley T. Cornish, and O. F. Grubbs. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES HISTORY ECONOMICS POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY GEOGRAPHY PRE-LAW SOCIAL WELFARE One of the most completely modernized departments of the College, the Social Science Department has a reorganized curriculum which now provides for two new majors within the department. Courses which emphasize broader study of the twentieth century world have also been added. Students may now major in political science and sociology as well as the usual 40-hour social science major and the 30-hour history major. Minors are offered in history, sociology, and geography as well as the 24-hour general minor. New courses— Education for Family Living, Modern World Politics'’ and Geography of the USSR ’—have been added, primed for the general education of the modem citizen as well as the future teacher. Students needing pre-jaw work find the department has excellent offerings and pre-professional teachers in social work are able to be well grounded in their field. The department also sponsors a Great Issues ’ series with speakers from around the world. This has received much community as well as student response.

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Directed by Roland Fenz at the master mike, four members of the radio production class cut a recording of a story for children which will be aired at a later time ovei one of the local radio stations. The programming, production, and casting of the many programs originating at the campus studios all are done with the personnel of the radio classes. In spite of the humorous intent of this picture, there is the story of radio in it for radio program- ming is a series of checking and double-checking even to the pronunciation of some of the language we use (or mis-use) in our every day conversation. 1 Iere Director Fenz and Dr. Robertson Strawn, head of the department, discover that there is an “ain’t,’’ hut it’s marked with the caution that being in the dictionary doesn’t mean it’s good English. “Okay, so there ain't no ain’t . . There is more to radio than talking into the mike and singing commercials. In the control room lies the heart of radio. 1 Iere the tone of your voice can be made better or worse and the level of the music or the conversation made listen-able or “something to turn off.” Here again, Director Fenz and a student worry over a tape recorder and whether or not surgery is needed. take a screw-driver