University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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sity would issue bonds for building the houses, and retire the bonds with the room rent. The athletic department was revamped to get ready for the new half century. Otis Douglas was signed as head football coach, leaving John Barnhill free to devote all his time to being ath- lictic director. He planned to build up sports in all its phases throughout the state. Presley Askew became head basketball coach in the transition year. Plans were enacted to build a new field house and add 5,000 seats to the west side of Razor- back stadium. The field house would be big enough to seat all the student body and other spectators also. It would have a swimming pool inside. A new coliseum, soon to be built in Little Rock, would help put basketball on a paying basis. Academic life got its boost for the new half century. A month before 1949 went out, Presi¬ dent Jones announced to the state that the Uni¬ versity would begin offering work leading toward the Ph. D. degree in September, 1950. Fifty assistantships were offered for graduate study in the coming year. More money from the Gen¬ eral Assembly brought in more and better teach¬ ers to improve the quality of instruction. Prospects for an Improved Arts and Science college were assured as a million dollar Fine Arts building went up at mid-century. The building was designed to house the departments of art, architecture, music, and dramatics. One section was to house an experimental theater. Other buildings were planned for the coming half century. Lawyers we,re to get a new, mod¬ ernistic style building in which to house their studies. An auditorium big enough to seat the entire student body was hoped for within the decade. This would bring more important lectur¬ ers, bands, and entertainers to the campus. The Student Union was enlarged in 1950. The new addition was to house the post office and book store, leaving more room for other func¬ tions in the older part of the building. The new was developing, but the old was not forgotten. Historic Old Main got new stairs, an elevator, and decision to retain it indefinitely. Campus publications started off the new era by purchasing a $60,000 printing plant. It was used to print the Arkansas Traveler and other publications. Next step for the Traveler was to get a news service and begin daily publication. All signs pointed to a continued, stable growth for the University. A future generation of stu¬ dents celebrating the 100th anniversary in 1971 could look back and call this the year when their University shifted in high gear. It looks now as if the going will be speedy, steady, and sure. DR. LEWIS WEBSTER JONES President of the University

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The Big Wheels of the President ' s Cabinet—left to right—Henry Harold Kronenberg, Education; George Francis Branigan, Engineering; Robert Allen Leflar, Law; Virgil William Adkisson, Gradu¬ ate; Thorgny Cedric Carlson, Vice-President and Treasurer; Lewis Webster Jones, President; Jeanette Scudder, Dean of Women; Paul W. Milam, Business Administration; Guerdon David Nichols, Arts and Sciences; John Earl Shoemaker, Dean of Men; Lippert Spring Ellis, Agriculture. THE UNIVERSITY AT MID-CENTURY T HE new half century began at the University of Arkansas with planning for greater growth in the next few decades. President Lewis Web¬ ster Jones was in his third year as head man at the University, and was rapidly making plans for its continued growth. The transition year 1950 saw the University in its 77th year of operation. From its one-building beginning Arkansas ' s only University had grown to an investment of $8,000,000. Indications were that the Ozarkian school would grow as much in the next half-century as it had in the last. Although the main campus of the University remained in Fayetteville, its influence had far exceeded those boundaries. The long arms of the University extended over the state as exten¬ sion centers were established at Little Rock, Har¬ rison, and El Dorado. These centers were giving opportunity of education to high school teachers and others who could not come to the Fayette¬ ville campus. Extension centers promised to bring education closer to home in the new half- century. Agricultural extension was doing its share to extend the boundaries of the campus over the state. Already firmly established it was expand¬ ing more yearly. Experiment stations throughout Arkansas were doing much to make the farmer realize the University ' s significance. While the University was in its transition year, enrollment remained at its peak of nearly 5,000. S. I. enrollment was dropping at the rate of nearly 700 a semester, but a large influx of fresh¬ men kept the total high. The University population was rapidly shifting. Fresh high school graduates were replacing vet¬ erans, and Agriculture and Education students were replacing Engineering an d Business stu¬ dents. Total enrollment, however, was little re¬ duced. Blue Key, honorary fraternity, carried on a campaign to keep enrollment high. It publi¬ cized the University by sending student speakers over the state, showing a color movie of the campus, and sending out records of school songs. If enrollment remained high, provision would have to be made for living accommodations. Housing was not forgotten in plans for continued growth. The University agreed to finance con¬ struction of Greek houses under a new plan which brought three fraternity houses and a sorority house in one year. The plan, which was likely to attract other Greeks, provided that the Univer-

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The Vol Walker Memorial Library • . . START WITH THE RUGGED BEAUTY OF A CAMPUS NESTLED IN THE OZARK HILLS A S the snow and bare lines of winter give way to the fresh greenness of spring, the towers of Old Main look down on a scene that is ever-changing and ever-lovely. Facing across Fayetteville to the hazy Boston Moun¬ tains, the campus combines traditional beauty with modern functionalism in a most agreeable manner. And to the students who slip and slide across its icy surface in January, or stroll in its shade in May, it is still what one Univer¬ sity board of trustees called it, 76 years ago, a campus surpassingly beautiful. THINGS TO LOOK Agriculture Building Greek Columns ifjnwi m -