University of Wisconsin Superior - Gitche Gumee Yearbook (Superior, WI)

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college of business and economics countdown . . . With the start of the Liberal Arts Program in 1947, a major in Applied Economics was offered for the first time. The staff consisted of two full time and one part time teacher. Offerings were expanded in 1952 to include some Business Administration. By 1960, Secretarial Training was added and Business Education became a major. The Department of Business and Economics was officially created in 1962. By 1964, a student could choose a major in Business Education, Secretarial Training, Accounting, Marketing, Management or Economics. In 1966, The Department of Business and Economics was separated from the School of Letters and Sicence and became independent. Recent interest has been responsible for adding a minor in Recreation and Resort Management. In the summer of 1971, the name was changed to the College of Business and Economics which now has 16 full time staff members and 475 majors. A graduate program for Business Education teachers was inaugurated in the mid-1960's and has grown steadily. Chairman of the department is Dr. Cleo Casady. 29

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r biology department probes into life's mysteries . . . From a course designed for elementary teachers, the Biology Department branched into medical technology and a biology major minor program. From 1896 until 1920 there was no real biology department. Courses were mostly of the nature study type with some elementary grade courses. By 1925 it became a full-fledged department. In 1925, the Normal School became a Slate Teachers College and the Biology Department was needed to help prepare teachers for medical schools. Many doctors received their early training here. The present chairman. Dr. Stanley W. Oexemann has been at UW-Superior for 22 years. He taught the first graduate course in the sciences in 1950, when he was the only scientist with a doctor's degree. 28

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chemistry is . . . test tubes, acids, formulas Since the Chemistry Department first began it has been on the move. In 1958 the department had one classroom in Old Main and two labs in the basement. After WWII they moved to an old army surplus building where they had a freshman laboriory and storage space inside. This building was taken down during the 1967-68 school year. There were was no freshman lab until the completion of the science building, Barstow Hall in 1969. We have found that Superior graduates compare well with students from the Big Ten schools in their performances in graduate school. We hope to see more of the better students in our department, remarked Edwin Vedejs, assistant professor of chemistry and a member of the Admissions Committee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Howard Thomas is the present chairman of the UWS department. He has taken two leaves of absence since he became chairman in 1958. The first was in 1964 to be a visiting professor at a college in Louisiana and the other was in 1968 to be a visiting professor in Africa. 30