Wayne State College - Spizz Yearbook (Wayne, NE)

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WS Foundation Aids College The Wayne State Foundation, the non-profit corporation that provides special funds and grants for the college, recorded its most impressive year in 1964-65. Trustees, in October, adopted a budget of over Si0.000 and special fund drives raised an excess of that amount, providing $60,000 in National Defense Student Loans after government matching. $1000 in student and faculty scholarships, awards and grants. $1000 for purchase of a major art collection, and funds for the restoration of a one-room country school building on campus.. Foundation donations come from several sources — Wayne business and professional men. alumni, faculty, students and their parents. Students this year raised over $500 in dormitory collections and sandwich sales. Trustees of the Foundation (pari of them pictured above) set aside this year, as they did last year, funds for the installation of an FM radio station on campus. The purchase of a print collection of original works of art by famous artists is perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the Foundation’s growth. Trustees were able to purchase works by Goya. Chagall. Cassatt. Toulouse-Lautrec. Moore. Klee and Rouault, among others, for Wayne students. The collection was framed as the gift of Trustee Julian Torgerson of Sioux City. Iowa, and is on permanent exhibition for Wayne State students. The one-room country school project was undertaken in order to permanently record a phase of education to which Wayne State made an early contribution. Alumni responded enthusiastically to the project in the donation of books, maps, furnishings and other items for the building, purchased in June. Trustees of the Foundation arc former Wayne students who are elected for three-year terms. Val Peterson, former Governor of Nebraska, is president of the Foundation and Henry E. Ley. state director of banking, is vice-president. Adon Jeffrey, president of the First National Bank in Wayne is secretary-treasurer and Wayne attorney Kenneth Olds is resident agent. Paul McCluskcy of Wayne is executive secretary. Members of the Board of Trustees elected three years ago arc Senator Gale W. McGee from Wyoming; Jim D. Reynolds, vice-president of Reynolds Metals Company in Richmond. Virginia; Frank Brokcnicky in Schuyler; Mrs. Helen Bressler in Wayne: Esther Boelter Johnson in Des Moines: educator Earl Schrocr in Omaha, and Palmer Root. Richfield, Minnesota, attorney. Trustees elected two years ago arc Hugo Srb. clerk of the Unicameral Legislature: Mrs. Marion Seymour Petersen of New York City: Rev. Frank A. Jackson of Redmond. Washington; Mrs. Reba Smith Blakkolb of Glendale. California; Wayne attorney Budd B. Bornhoft. and Julian Torgerson of Sioux City. Iowa. Trustees elected this year are James Keogh, assistant managing editor of Time magazine: Mrs. Margaret Hasc-broock. president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in Washington. D. C.; Mrs. Vera Kalal Falconer in New York City: Dr. Howard D. McEachcn. superintendent of schools in Shawnee Mission Kansas; Curtis DeWitz. general agent of Mutual of Omaha in Orlando. Florida: Mrs. Maxine Gauthun Jensen of Wayne; Dr. Lyle Seymour of Wayne and W. Ward Rcynoldson. Osceola. Iowa attorney. 7

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Our Governing Board Wayne State College and its three sister state colleges arc governed by the Board of Education of State Normal Schools, composed of six members appointed by the Governor and an ex officio member, the state commissioner of education. Dr. Floyd A. Miller. Pictured in front row: A.D. Majors, Omaha; E.K. Yanncy, Lodgepolc; Henry I. Freed, Chadron; and E. Albin Larson, secretary to the board. Standing: President W.A. Brandenburg of Wayne State, President E. Clark Elkins of Chadron State, Carl Spelts, Kearney; Dr. Freeman B. Decker, coordinator of state colleges; Dr. Gordon Shupc, Wayne, and President Milton Hassel of Kearney State. Board Member Bernard Spencer of Nebraska City is not pictured. Mr. Spelts retired from the board this year and was replaced by James M. Knapp of Kearney. 6

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Activity, Progress: Wayne State has maintained a steady pace in construction within a decade. Now its newest building makes WSC a true Pacemaker among Nebraska colleges. Photo at left shows why ... the colorful crane a skyline symbol of the nine-story O. R. Bowen Dormitory rising as a landmark to Wayne State’s progress. Laying of the dormitory’s cornerstone June 28 provided traditional Masonic rites: a col-