Wichita State University - Parnassus Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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,M 'an' Ranma 2 x xx .im Mm- -,M Alumni President Eugene Coombs, SECOND FROM LEFT, presents awards to FROM LEFT: Dr. Emory Lindquist, Miss Phrone Wilkie, Major General Alonza Tower, and Dr. Cramer Reed. Using a giant telephone to kick off the annual alumni telephone fund campaign are Carnot Brennan, Nancy Short, and Ethel jane King. Frederick Sudermann, Director of Research and Government programsg George I. VVorden, Director of Informational Servicesg C. Edward Carroll, Director of Lihraryg Josephine B. Fugate, Dean of VVomeng Laura M Cross, Associate Director of Admissions and Records. :Qef -af' , 1, iq Q A -rl' 'W ,X ali? K x ll ll 3 'Kai 1 J 1 5-A K 7 iffy' ...R F 1 . ' '52 'Q' A J l X 4 I J 1-gl - , s Y 23

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Dr. Carl C. Fahrbach, Director of Admissions and Records. Roger D. Lowe, Assistant to the President for Finance and Operations and Business manager. 41 Dr. james I. Rhatigan, Dean of Students. Administration Offices Begin 73rd Year Here The administration began operating in 1896 making it as old as Fairmount College. President Nathan 1. Morrison ran an almost one-man branch for the first few years. The administration began departmentalizing into different areas in the early 1900,s. Now its separate departments include Admissions and Records, Informational Services, Student Services and the Alumni Association. The Alumni Association has, for the past 19 years, had an annual money raising telephone campaign for various projects. This year the amount pledged was over S9,000.

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Liberal Arts Claims Long Campus Tradition The orgin of Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences goes back to February 12,1892, when it was organized in Wichita as the Fair- mount Institute. Although Fairmount Institute was established as a coeducational school, Fairmount College, the title of the original charter, was designed for women only, the Vassar or Wellesley of the Ar- kansas valley and the great plains, a womanis col- lege ofthe highest rank. This Vassar of the great plains was reorgan- ized under a new charter on March 30, 1896. Its first official graduating class received their hon- ors in 1899, all seven of them. Fairmount College soon prospered and on April 24, 1926, by vote of the citizens of Wichita, was incorporated into the Municipal University of Wichita. Today, the College of Liberal Arts and Sci- ences remains as in the past, a college of ideas and tradition. Switchboard operators Alycc Hickman, Mary janzen, and Edna Bartel appear determined to trick everyone on Halloween. Dr. j. Kelly Sowards, Dean of Liberal Arts Henry Malone, Associate Dean of Liberal Art