University of Wisconsin Stout - Tower Yearbook (Menomonie, WI)

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DR. VERNE C. FRYKLUND President The Stout Institute (Hill COLLECE I K E S I II E T Dr. Verne C. Fryklund is the third president of The Stout Institute, having received this position in 1945. His coming to Stout was not an entirely new experience to him, however, since he graduated from this school in 1916. In addition to having graduated from Stout, he received the degree ot Bachelor of Arts from the Colorado State College of Education, the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Missouri, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. When Dr. Fryklund arrived at Stout, he noticed the need lor improvement and modernization of college facilities and equipment. With this aim in mind, he started a building and modernization program in 1946. By the beginning of the school year 1949-50. the improvements completed included the following items: The foods laboratories and kitchens have been remodeled with the newest and latest equipment. As a result the laboratories and kitchen are among the most modern in the country. Tlie industrial arts division has received new A.C. equipment in many of the shops in the school. A new switchboard has been installed, and the electrical connections were rewired in 1949 to provide the campus with the long awaited alternating current, so necessary here at Stout. Nelson Field has been improved by the addition of new bleachers which increased the seating capacity ; The Student Union has been completed and provides the students with a place to spend their leisure time. A large veterans housing development has been built and provides veterans with adequate housing fa- cility The number of faculty members has been increased in order to give the enlarged student body the neces- sary help and training for which Stout is noted. In addition to these improvements, plans for the future include the already begun street closing projects which will remove the streets intersecting the campus, and the construction this summer of an urgently needed library building. The Stout Institute is indeed indebted and obligated to Dr. Fryklund for his interest in modernizing and improving the college. Cio]

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FACULTY h w V. ' . ' Sr lV r«3 1 yy J Nineteen Fifty Tower

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A IWESSAIJE TU THE SE IIIKS To the Class of 50 The Stout Institute Within the covers of this yearbook are frequent references, in word and photograph, to the uniqueness of The Stout Institute. Those of us who know and love the college realize that such a theme is indeed an apt choice, for uniqueness is defined as the state of having no like or equal, unequalled. You, as members of this year ' s graduating class, have completed four years of training on our campus. We who have taught you are confident of your success as you put that education to work, for we believe that you possess from Stout a training which is truly unequalled in thoroughness and practicality. You have been trained in America ' s great tradition of free, democratic education, so you possess a tolerance and breadth of thought invaluable to your potential learners; you have been taught by skilled, humane teachers, so you in turn will demonstrate those vital characteristics; you have worked in the most modern of shops and laboratories, so your technical skill and knowledge will be without peer among those with whom you live. As you leave us, we ask in all sincerity that you aid us in keeping Stout unique. That power is yours by the technical advancements which you contribute to your field; by the personal example, in classroom, community, and family life, which you set for all whom you may contact; by the pains- taking acknowledgement of vocational aptitudes evident among your learners. Now you have achieved your goal, graduation; now you will go forth. I too feel the mood of a graduate, for I have completed a four-year course as president of The Stout Institute and have begun what might be termed post-graduate work in that field. Together, in these fleeting years, we have worked toward individual goals and toward making our college ever-stronger. We have both attained graduation. We part now; and to you, in equal measure with those of us who remain behind, falls the solemn obligation to keep our college diligent, resolute, and unique. Sincerely yours, Verne G. Fryklund President CUD