University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Ad QI Jfelfkf Olflllfl, . . . June, 1948, meant graduation for seniors at the University, and it was the last commencement exercise in which Rowland Haynes was an ac- tive participant. Here he receives his tloctor's degree from the late Will johnson, Board of Regents' President. President Milo Bail first visited the O.U. campus during the sum- mer of 1948. Official receptions were given at the University to allow both the faculty and the student hotly Il chance to meet the man who was to he their new Presitlcnt.

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During the thirteen years Mr. Haynes served his University as President, many im- portant improvements came to pass. ln 1936, the campus moved from 24th and Pratt to its new million dollar home at 60th and Dodge. Through the efforts of its President, the University was admitted to the North Central Association in 1939 and two years later was accepted by the Association of American Universities. Under his leadership, the School of Adult Educa- tion was established in 1938, the two separate colleges in 1940 and the Technical Institutes only four years later. During the war years, the University trained more than six thousand persons for work in the Glenn l.. lwartin plant as well as for other war industries. Wliile Mr. Haynes held office, enrollment increased 350 percent and the tiaculty, 100 percent. The University is indebted to its President Emeritus 1- -a debt which it can pay only through progress in the future. 15