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Ohio University — 7945-55

(~\hlE COLD, dar}{ January mornvii^ ten years a^o,

a man got off the westbound B H O, was met by two new Athenian friends and escorted to a little afiartment where no brea}{fast waited. Before daylight, he was at wor}{ counseling with his newlyadopted associates on how to do a job that very much needed to be done.

His arm was in a slmg favoring a br()l{en adlar- bo}]e, a)id the biLsine.'^s he had come to liclf^ was in a sling, too.

It is something of a mystery why this newcomer elected to do these things. He was not in the need of a job, and had he primarily wanted to change occu- pations, the country was full of positions begging for just stich talent. He could have had any one of them by making his availability \nown. Positions requiring one'tenth of the energy, one-hundredth of the patience and persistence, one-thousandth of the worry.

The blea\ness of that January morning did not clear for this man for some time. The situation did immediately begin to clarify, but a broken bone kjiits slowly, and building an institution to a maximum of service to the state and nation is not done in a day, nor a year.

There is no record of the exact time after this long-ago morning when the rose hue began to be seen. It doesn't matter. What does matter was the in- exorable progress that began that day and has con- tinued for ten years with results so infinitely desirable, and so many, they defy enumeration.

The answer to the question 'why?' probably lies in this man's realization of the fundamental worth- u'hileiTess of the wor\ the i)istittitio)T had done and was desti7ied to do, linked with a profound belief in what could be done to mal{e it better. Even those who were and are directed by law and by professional drive to want the best done, did 'not set up any re- quirements of achievement nor standards of perform- ance. They left it entirely in this mans hands just how hard he ivould worl{ at the job, and hoiv he would go about it.

Good as the basic structure was, and loyal and able as were its people, there was crying need in every direction one turned. It m'ust have been hard to de- cide where to start. A program may have been in his mind in a general way, or it may have been just an extraordinary sensing of the future, coupled with a

singular determination. Whatever the method, it wor}{ed well.

7^0 one could have l{n()wn that this time coin- cided with the birth of a great post-war boom which saw unprecedented numbers of people and millions of dollars become available to the business of education the nation over, but, without an imaginative mind, a courageous determination and a happy staff and faculty to ta\e advantage of the situation, much of the physical and spiritual growth could have been missed. And, with each succeeding year, the pressure of competitioyi and new requirements have demanded an excess of drive and a clearness of vision to match the changing situations.

With persons willing and able to be led and their quality improving with their numbers over the years, the results generate a great sense of satisfaction. This tooX some doing on this leader's part, and on the part of his supporters, and, for that matter on the part of the youthful customers themselves.

With success comes, among other things such as personal satisfaction and encouragement, recogni- tion. The state and nation have not been blind to this outstanding performance. Honors have been heaped upon honors, but the recipient is unchanged by them.

The objective of all this has been the steady raising of standards, and securing compliayice with them. With participation of the faculty and the students in shaping policy and in administration, there can be no question of the soundness of the method, and no doubt as to the life of these improvements.

If we were to as\ him what is in his mind now, we thin}{ he u'ould say that he is profoundly pleased with the institution as a ivhole, with its staff and faculty, its students a7Td its many friends; that what we have today is tvorth all the struggles of the past, and worth the sacrifices, too. Other co-u'or\ers. then and now, ivould acclaim the worth of his efforts.

He recently said, "We see in the future of Ohio University more of the past. We believe this uni- versity should be a place of beauty, a home of freedom, a source of wisdom, and an institution of excellence."

With ten successful years of the ISO of Ohio University's history behind, and with the vision of many years to come, we congratulate John Ba}{er, president, and wish him well on this anniversary.

THE ATHENS MESSENGER

May, 1955

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	THE		VOLUME	13, NUMBER 8
^	OHIO			MAY, 1955
A L U M N U S
	The Magazine ol The Ohio University Alunnni Association
	Editor
	David N. Keller,	'50,	MS '50
	Photographer			Publisher
E	DWARD E. Rhine, '55		Martin L. Hecht. '46

CONTENTS

5 Ohio University— 1945-55

7 The Enrollment Story

8 College of Fine Arts

9 College of Applied Science

10 College of Arts & Sciences

1 1 College of Education

12 College of Comnnerce

13 University & Graduate Colleges

14 The Student Point of View 16 $1,000,000 A Year

20 A Tribute to Leadership

22 OU's First Lady

23 Two Right Hands

24 Pattern For The Future 28 The Bobcat Roundup 30 Annong the Alumni

35 Dear Alumni:

THE COVER

Ohio University has taken on .1 new look during the past ten years, hut the heart of the cam- pus, "The College Green," re- mains a familiar sight to alumni from all years. This month's cover photograph, taken by Tom Richards, a junior major- ing in photography, looks up the familiar walk to Cutler Hall.

OFFICERS OF THE OHIO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

(Member of the American Alumni CouiiciU

Russell P. Herrold, '16, President

Gail Fishel Kuts, '21, V. Pres. C. Paul Stocker, '26, V. Pres.

Martin L. Hecht, '46, SecreUry William H. Fenzel, '18, Treas.

Members-at-Large of Executive Committee Ralph W. Betts, '29 Florence Miesse Steele, '12

THE OHIO ALUMNUS is published monthly from October to June, in- clusive, by The Ohio University Alumni Association. THE ANNUAL SUB- SCRIPTION RATE of $3.50 includes membership in The Ohio University Alumni Association. Remittance should be made by check or money order payable to The Ohio University Alumni Association, PO Box 285, Athens. Entered as second class matter, October 3, 1923, at the post office at Athens, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Printed at The Lawhead Press, Inc., Athens, Ohio.

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the table round

ON THE FIRST floor of Cutler Hall there is a large round table centered in a white paneled office. At times the table is almost obscured by the volumes of correspondence, official papers, archi- tect's drawings, and other material v^'hich constitute the day's business.

But to the man seated behind that table, no paper is so important that it cannot be set aside while a student seeks advice on a personal problem or a member of the faculty expresses his opinion on a particular course.

In the past ten years this circular table has be- come a familiar sight to a great many persons. Some have been leaders in business, education, industry, or government, come to discuss specific plans for Ohio University or the overall movement of higher education. Many others have been students, visiting alumni, or friends, stopping in to say hello.

Each has left with the warm feeling that he plays a significant role in the progress of Ohio University.

President John C. Baker's sincere belief in the people of Ohio University is manifested in the ad- vancements that have been made in the past ten years. It is seen in such things as the program of joint faculty-student committees, alumni survey re- port, and continuous faculty studies of curricula.

But President Baker sees the accomplishments of the past ten years not as a separate effort, but as a continuation of the progress that has gone on since the beginning of the LJniversity. It is a feeling evi- denced by a statement he made a few years ago:

"... no pride of accomplishment today should blind us to the enormous debt we owe to those ad- ministrators, faculty members, and students of by- gone years without whom such accomplishment would be impossible. To them we are indebted for the traditions, the broad curricula, the modern organization, that have attracted a well-balanced stu- dent body from all parts of the state and nation. Many of these persons who so ably served the university in the past are still in our midst. Many others are loyal alumni and are widely scattered. To all of them I wish to extend my deep thanks for their great services to the university. I also hope that our present day contributions may be worthy of the tradition which they have passed on to us who are identified with Ohio University today."

This issue of The Ohio Alumnus is a report of the contributions which have been written into the history of Ohio University in the years 1945-5^. It is dedicated to the man behind the circular table, Dr. John C. Baker.

next month

THE JUNE ISSUE of the Alumnus will feature photographic coverage of Commencement and alumni reunion events as well as several special articles and the regular news of alumni. Because Commencement is held on June 11, publication date of the issue will be late.

The Ohio Alumnus

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IF ONE WERE to attempt to name the most important achievement at Ohio University in the past ten years, he would have a difficult task of selection. Many observers would certainly single out the tremendous building program that has completely changed the appear- ance of the campus.

Others would name the increasnig emphasis on "quality education," the sesquicentennial scholarship fund drive, or perhaps the development of student participation in university administra- tion. Still others could truthfully con- sider as most important the program of continuing examination by the faculty of Ohio University's basic objectives, cur- ricula, and teaching methods. Perhaps some of the new courses such as "Human Relations'" or "Citizenship In The Modern World" would seem most im- portant to many persons.

Probably the most prevelant opinion, however, would be that Ohio University progress has resulted from a combn- ation of these integrated phases of Dr. John C. Baker's presidency.

A true report of the past ten years

at Ohio University therefore becomes the story of alumni, students, faculty, administrators, trustees, and friends working together to achieve the objec- tives of the university. It is the sum- mation of individual and group contri- butions of all kinds, large and small.

The story finds its beginning on May 11, 194^, at the inauguration of a new Ohio University president, Dr. John C. Baker. Significantly, that year marked the beginning of a new era throughout the country. It was the beginning of the conversion from war to peace. And it was the year of the planned explosion in Alamogodo, New Mexico, which ushered in the "atomic era."

This new era — one of concentrated power which could be developed only by highly-trained scientists — brought a new challenge to American universities. It would be their duty, not only to train such men, but to educate thousands of leaders upon whose vision and under- standing would depend the social and economic policies of a world ever threatened by the new-found power.

Immediately, Ohio University, under

the leadership of its new president, set about to accept its share of that respon- sibility. Needs for housing, classroom space, increased research, a larger, well- trained faculty, seemed overwhelming, but they were somehow met.

Athens citizens opened their homes to students to help relieve the housing pro- blem. Special committees solved a seem- ingly endless number of details such as the purchase of 17,000 badly needed books and periodicals for the library. The faculty was increased from 221 in 1945 to 302 in 1947.

Certain trends were becoming evident — the stressing of basic courses such as English, speech, mathematics, psy- chology, government, and philosophy; in- spiring students to self education by de- veloping their natural curiosity; and teaching methods which would lead to more student participation in class work.

One of the most noteworthy celebra- tions of the 10-year period was the re- dedication of Cutler Hall on October 18 and 19, 1947. Amidst plans for the fu- ture, the rededication of the historic building served as a sincere reminder of

May, 1955

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The Ohio University Board oj Trustees, appointed by the gover- nor of the state to determine poh' cies of the University, has been a husy group during the past ten years. Meeting four times each year, the trustees yna\e the final decisions on all mat- ters concerning the operation of Ohio University. Com- mittees i n cl u d e those of Faculty Relations, Fviance, Athletics and Pub- he Relations, Exec- utive, Inter-Univer- sity Relations, Li- brary, and Plan- ning, Building and Land Purchase. Members shown in the photograph from

osEPH B. Hall

left to nglit, are: Fred H. Johnson, Columbus; Fred W. Crow, Pome- roy; Harvey B. fordon, Pittsburgh; Don C. McVay, Leroy; OU Presi- dent John C. Ba\er; Gordon K. Bush, Athens; Carr Liggett, Cleve- land; and John W. Galbreath, Co- lumbus. All except Mr. Liggett are serv- ing on the current board. T^ot included in the group picture are Joseph B. Hall. Cmcinnath chair- man of the board; and H. E. Frederick. Marysville. The co- operation and sin- cere efforts by the Board of Trustees have been major fac- tors in the advance- ment of Ohio U.

the pioneers who opened up the frontier eountry and established the institution which has served thousands of students well for many decades.

Enrollment, which soon hit an all'time peak at OU, maintained a high level, and the largest building program in the university's history was launched. Stu- dents and faculty members served to- gether on committees working for better scholarship. By 1949 there were 1.^1 student organizations on campus.

In December 1949 a University Re- view Committee was appointed by Presi- dent Baker to study any or all policies and practices then in effect at OU and to offer suggestions for their improve- ment. It was selected on a university- wide basis to insure a broad and im- partial investigation.

The committee met throughout the year, directing its attention chiefly to financial matters, promotion policies, en- rollment problems, course offerings, and sizes of classes. Many of the recommen- dations by the committee were put into immediate effect.

Meanwhile activity on the alumni front was given new impetus by the work of a committee appointed to sur- vey, without limitations, the entire alumni program as well as the relation- ships between the Alumni Association and the university. As a result, new clubs were established and alumni in- terest in OU recreated in places where it had been too long neglected.

The Ohio University Fund, Inc., or- ganized during the first year of Dr. Baker's presidency, grew rapidly, and

today is an indispensable source of sup- port for research, student aid, library, travel, special equipment, and other functions not supported by lcgi.slative appropriations.

The Korean conflict brought a feel- ing of uncertainty to the university. Ad- ministrators could not be certain that it was wise to plan a normal academic pro- gram for a year in advance. However, the effects proved to be less disturbing than expected.

Rapidly increasing in importance has been the foreign student program, a strong contribution to world democracy. Ohio University's foreign student body grew rapidly from three in 194') to 76 this semester. These students not only have gained knowledge from their studies at the university, but have con- tributed first-hand information as con- sultants or informal lecturers in govern- ment, history, geography, and languages.

By 19'i2 the building program was moving steadily. Johnson Hall, first of the East Green dormitories was com- pleted and others started. A great many programs inaugurated by President Baker to improve the scholastic standing of the university were underway. Such things as a faculty lecture series, designed to bring to the faculty, students and com- munity an opportunity to benefit from the scholarly work of outstanding mem- bers of the faculty were proving popular. The first Ohio Workshop on Economic Education, a program of broad public education, was brought to the campus. One or more members of almost every department of the University were en- gaged in some field of research of cur- rent interest, including atomic and nu- clear research.

When Ohio University reached its sesquicentennial year of 1954, the re- sults of these combined efforts since World War II were plainly visible. Alumni who returned to share in the celebration found an unbelievable change in the appearance of their alma mater and an enlivened educational program.

Needs for the future are still great. But Ohio University has received the assurance that the trends of the past de- cade will continue. Two new dormitories have already been opened this year, and several more are under construction. A new commerce building is going up rapidly. And perhaps, most important of all, the university has received the back- ing of all those associated with it through the unprecedented alumni sesquicenten- nial scholarship fund.

These then are the advancements that have marked the past 10 years of Ohio University. Each is a story in itself. And each plays a prominent role in the his- tory of the oldest university in the Northwest Territory.

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The Ohio Alumnus

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By Robert E. Mahn

ON DECEMBER 2, 1945 the Uni- versity held an impressive memorial service for its 221 sons and daughters "who gave their lives for the cause of freedom" in World War II. The ma- jority had entered service during or fol- lowing the spring semester 1943, a part of the mass exodus of about 2000 students.

The return of the veteran began in 1944. It reached flood tide in 1946. The return of former students, along with those whose entrance to college had been delayed by war service, was to bring the University's war depleted enrollment of 1306 students in 1943, and of 2030 stu- dents in 1945, the first autumn of the decade on which we are reporting, to the post-war inflated total of 5611 in 1948. This all-time record has but a short life ahead of it.

Hopes in 1948 for a rapid return to ,i normal pattern of enrollment were short- lived. At the same time that War II veterans were completing their studies, high school students and recently-ad- mitted students were entering service, for the Korean Conflict was under way. In 1951 enrollment was 3944. This past fall it was 5 238, a third greater than in 1951. Of greatest significance for the immediate future was the number of freshmen, 1887, the same number as en-

tered in 1946 when the flood of veter- ans was at Its peak. Was this predict- able? Statistically, No; practically. Yes. for with full recognition of the fact that a university lives because of its students and for the sake of its students, a pro- gram of bringing students the environ- ment which their parents wanted and which the University felt they should have was carried forward in spite of world conditions that to many made planning even a year ahead appear futile. It was a program designed to make students want to come to Ohio University. They came. This fall they came from every county in the state, from 3 5 other states, the District of Co- lumbia, the Territories of Alaska, Ha- waii, and Puerto Rico, and 32 foreign countries. They will want to continue to come.

Look again at the photograph cap- tioned "Ohio University 1955" on page 2 of the February Alumnus. How many of you ten years ago visualized an Ohio University that could be impressively portrayed from East Green where an outstanding dormitory development is under way? How many visualized a fine Health Center? How many visualized the natatorium, golf course, and University Center, which are but the beginning of a great social and recreational facility?

Art by Bob Richardson

These are but a few of the things that comprise the new evironmcnt. Add to it other things that have been reported to you in the Alumnus. The Sesquicenten- nial Scholarship Fund; The Ohio Uni- versity Fund, and the things it makes possible, as for example the Fund Awards to outstanding students, and the Annual Ohio History, Government, and Citizenship Competition; Faculty Lec- ture Series; Summer Workshops for stu- dents, business, and professional men that provide a medium for broad public education; Advanced Management Courses in Industry; Foreign Study Program; Curricular advances, as in Human Relations; student participation on faculty committees; and great advances in teaching, research, and facilities as evidenced by the accredita- tion during the decade of Chemistry, Journalism, Music, Commerce, and Engi- neering by their respective national accrediting agencies.

That is the report on enrollment for the decade 1945 to 1955. That it is in large part a documentation of factors making for an environment in which quality education can prevail and of which parents want their sons and daughters to be a part is significant. For it is this that is making Ohio Uni- versity a distinguished university.

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Dean Earl C. Seigfred

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TN THE OVERALL structure of a university the College -L of Fine Arts holds a unique position. It must be con- cerned not only with providing the best possible training for students working toward the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, but with the responsibility of making an important contribution to the cultural welfare of the university community as well.

These objectives are manifested in Ohio University's diversified Fine Arts program which has been expanded in all departments of the college during the past ten years.

While the physical facilities of the college have been greatly enhanced by such additions as modern tape recording and photographic equipment, a complete etching press, and most important of all, the well-equipped Speech Building, a corresponding growth of the campus and community-wide cultural offerings has been much in evidence.

Outstanding personalities like Charles Laughton, Dr. Ernst von Dohnanyi, Violinists Francis Magnus and the late Albert Spalding, Actress Blanche Yurka, LIFE MAGAZINE

Photographer Philippe Halsman, Artist Charles Burchfield, Playwright Marc Connelly, and many others have been brought to the campus as visiting lecturers and artists.

There has been a steady increase in the number of dramatic and musical presentations by nationally known groups. Painting, sculpture, and photographic exhibits, many of them including the works of top artists, are shown each semester.

In addition, projects such as the Ohio Valley Summer Theatre, special painting classes, a great play series, a music therapy program, the Athens Chamber Music Society, a radio- debate workshop, a high school drama clinic, opera and ele- mentary music workshops, and photo-journalism conferences have b;cn organized with success.

These progressive moves, together with other special events and changes in the regular curriculum, provide the story of the College of Fine Arts since 1945.

In that year, when Fine Arts adm'nistrators faced the task of a post-war re-examination of all course offerings, the college, like others in the university, faced an acute shortag; of facilities and faculty personnel.

Dean Earl C. Seigfred was perform'ng not only the duties of his deanship, but also those cf acting director of the School of Dramatic Art and Speech — <i full time position in itself— and was teaching 112 students.

The first years after World War II, therefore, brought many advancements in the .idministrative as well as academic organization.

Curricula changes brought a shift in the emphasis on minor requirements toward academic r.ithcr than practical work. OU"s Photography Department had .i sudden increase in enrollment, and has gained nation-wide attention.

The School of Dramatic Art and Speech underwent more physical changes than the other schools, because the Drama Department was forced to vacate Ewing Hall while the building was being renovated. Temporary quarters were set up in the Student Union Building.

Noteworthy among the changes in the School of Music were a drastic reorganization of curricula, the adoption of placement tests and jury examinations in applied music, the establishment of standards of achievement for various levels, and higher standards in all divisions. Course offerings were reduced by approximately 1 1 per cent, and in certain areas such as music theory and composition, courses essential to a well-rounded program were added.

In December, 1947, the School of Music was accepted into full membership by the National Association of Schools of Music.

When the new Speech Building was opened in 1950, all activities in Dramatic Art and Speech, including the University Theater, were brought under one roof. Campus radio station WOUI, which had grown every year in its quonset hut quarters, was put into operation in the new building.

The high calibre of the present Fine Arts program was evidenced last year during the sesquicentennial celebration. Through the cooperation of students and faculty, "The Green Adventure" by Charles Allen Smart proved to be one of the year's high points. The School of Music contributed to most sesquicentennial events. Especially notable was the premier performance of Dr. Dohnanyi's "American Rhapsody" by the University Symphony Orchestra, with the composer con- ducting. The School of Painting and Allied Arts sponsored a half-million-dollar exhibition, "American Painting, 1804- 1954," in which were assembled 50 paintings by outstanding American artists.

Today the College of Fine Arts continues to grow in academic development and reputation. Its graduate program is becoming increasingly important, and the possibilities of television training are no longer remote. Meanwhile, the efforts of its three departments are greatly enriching the cultural life of the entire university.

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The Ohio Alumnus

ONE OF THE most strikmt; examples of Ohio University's progress during the past ten years ean be found in the aeadcmie accompHshments of the College of Applied Scienee, whieh ineludes the Schools of Engineering and Home Eco- nomics, and the Department of Industrial Arts.

The College of Applied Science had been held in high esteem before World War II. Maint.iining that standing, and perhaps improving upon it by obt.iining a top accredited r.iting, however, posed a grave problem after the war.

The faculty was composed of excellent men and women, but was seriously understaffed. With enrollments skyrocketing, the School of Engineering still had no building it could call its own. Scores of scientific developments during the war brought about a minor engineering revolution, and Ohio University's laboratory facilities were inadequate.

In view of this situation, efforts were concentrated simultaneously on acquiring physical facilities and qualified faculty members to meet the demand for the training of engineers. One of the first things that came about in 194') was the addition of mechanical engineering, which became a department two years later. Engineering Drawing, formerly included in Civil Engineering, became a separate department in 1947. The first degrees in Mechanical Engineering were ,1 warded in June of 1949.

Completion of the first wing of an engineering building in 1949 marked the first step in a long range plan to bring the major activities of the school into one building. Since the successful teaching of all branches of engineering depends so heavily on adequate mechanical equipment, the new building with its four laboratories and much needed classrooms brought a sudden change in the engineering outlook. A second wing, scheduled for construction soon, will be equally important.

Meanwhile, temporary' buildings on Richland Avenue have been filling in as quarters for engineering drawing and various laboratories of the Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Electrical engineering power laboratories are located in the ground floor of Science Hall.

While the building program was progressing, admini- strators of the college were making a determined drive to have members of the engineering faculty secure professional licenses. In 1950, 100 percent registration of faculty mem- bers was reached, making the college one of only two in the state to achieve that goal.

In the spring of 1951, a committee representing the Engineers Council for Professional Development, only recog- nized accrediting group for engineering schools, visited OU. As a result cf their study, the School of Engineering was accredited for work in architectural, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering. By 195 3 another objective was reached — that of the full accreditation of all curricula in the school.

As a result of this recognition, other h<5nors were re- ceived. Ohio University was made an institutional member of the American Society for Engineering Education. The American Socety of Civil Engineers approved the establishment of a student chapter of that organization at OU. And the Tau Beta Pi Association elected the Ohio University honorary society. Pi Epsilon Mu, to membership.

One of the major developments in the School of Home Economics has b;en the introduction of a "core" curriculum, with the aim of mak-^ng available to all interested students courses in home and family living. The curricula has been revised, beginning in 1950, to serve not only the home economics majors, but also majors in other fields who desire such courses.

To do this, 15 courses were dropped and eight new "core" courses introduced. Subject matter was critically re- viewed and courses merged wherever possible.

Some physical space was acquired for home economics when the Department of Health was moved from the Agricul- ture Building to its new quarters. However, additional space.

especially an equipment laboratory, is .still the most critical need of the school.

An important development com|-)leted this year in the College of Applied Science is that of a four-year curriculum leading to the degree of bachelor of .science in industrial technology. This innovation in the Department of Industrial Arts comes as the result of integration of industrial arts courses with courses offered in the Colleges of Arts and Science and Commerce. The objective is to produce men capable of taking minor management (and sometimes not so minor) positions in industry. Previously students majoring in in- dustrial arts received their degrees through the College of Education.

With a decided shortage of qualified engineers available for the country's growing industrial force, Ohio University's College of Applied Science looks forward to an increasing responsibility in future years.

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L^olleae of

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DURING THE YEARS of World War II, liberal edu- cation was temporarily eclipsed by the concentration on training students for more effective participation in the war effort. Many educators even predicted that liberal edu- cation would never return to its former prominence in the universities.

It was with these facts in mind that administrators of

De.an Rush Elliott

OU's College of Arts ii Sciences faced the task of redevelop- ment in 1945.

They felt that a broad program of humanizing subjects was essential to the proper education of young men and women for responsible living in a democratic nation. Conse- quently, they were determined to build an academic program in a manner consistent with their extensive obligations in the fields of the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Their feelings were soon shared by educators throughout the country.

As in other Colleges, the most pressing needs were for more classroom and laboratory' space and additional high- calibre instructors. The Department of Chemistry, for ex- ample, had its temporary headquarters in the basement of

Ewing Hall. The Departments of Botany, Zoology, and Physics had similar problems.

The situation was relieved greatly in 1947 when the renovation of Science Hall was completed. The next year saw the complete remodeling of classrooms and laboratories of the Department of Botany. Then in 1948 a modern new chemistry building was put into full operation, giving the university, for the first time in its history, outstanding facilities for instruction in that important area.

Academically, the 18 departments of the College were making equally as impressive a record. Because of high quality of instruction and rapidly increasing amount of re- search, the Chemistry Department was placed on the accredited list of universities by the American Chemical Society. Today it is among the top in the Mid-West, and will probably become one of the first OU departments to offer a doctorate.

It had been observed for many years that a large pro- portion of those graduating from high schools and colleges were poorly trained in the use of clear, concise, correct English. To meet this problem, definite requirements were worked out and approved after consultation with students and faculty members. Three courses at the freshmen level were designed to assist the student in the improvement of his writing. At the end of the sophomore year, students were required to take an over-all proficiency test in English, and those who failed were required to enter an "English Clinic" operated by the Department of English. This program has continued, with modifications, and has shown encouraging results.

To better inform students of important political issues at stake in the world today, a new course entitled American Democracy was introduced in 1948. It stresses the develop- ment of democracy in the U.S., the opportunities and obli- gations of citizens, and the ways of preserving a free society.

One of the most important changes in the past decade has been the establishment of a new Department of Human Relations. A relatively new area of educational endeavor, the study of Human Relations was started at OU in 1946. In it students develop by the case discussion method, skills of human analysis and a better conceptual scheme, or way of thinking. Members of the faculty received extensive training in this new field at Harvard University before establishing the OU department. Received enthusiastically by students. Human Relations is now being carried into industries which have sought help from Ohio University in the training of supervisory employees.

Other important additions in course offerings have been ■'Humanities" (Great Books) and "Social Science" (Citizen- ship in the Modern World).

Other departments have made similar strides in the expansion and improvement of curricula to meet the needs of the times. The Department of Physics expanded its re- search and instruction in cosmic rays. A foreign studies pro- gram whereby students and faculty members make summer tours of Europe has added a great deal to the Department of Romance languages. Two new courses, the Geography of Africa, and the Geography of the USSR, were added to the Department of Geography and Geology in 1952. An animal laboratory was completed for the Department of Psychology.

In 1951 Dr. W. S. Gamertsfelder, who had been dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 19,^6 (except for 1943,4') when he served as acting president, then president of the university) retired from the deanship and returned to teaching in the Department of Philosophy. He was succeeded by Dr. George W. Starcher. Dr. Rush Elliott became dean when Dr. Starcher was named president of the University of North Dakota last year.

Under the direction of Dr. Elliott, the College of Arts and Sciences continues to build its program of liberal education for students of Ohio University.

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WHILE THE COUNTRY h.is witnessed ;i serious drift of college students aw.iy from the teaching profession in the years since World War II, Ohio University's College of Education has not only increased in size, but its total en- rollment has comprised an increasing percentage of all students in the University.

Although enrollment .ilonc affords no exact test of a college's worth, this trend certainly suggests that OU has taken important steps to meet its social responsibility of pre- I'.inng qualified teachers.

Several changes in the academic structure of the college have occurred in the past ten years, and have been widely approved by faculty, students, and schools employing Ohio University graduates.

One major change was made 'n 1946 when the numb:r of courses taught by the faculty of education was sharply d;creascd. This reduction broaden :d, rather than restricted the instructional program by reducing overlapping, eliminating duplications, and permitting the telescoping of courses. It also increased the effeetiven:ss of instruction and perm.ttcd the offering of professional courses in new areas.

One of the important aspects of the new program v. as dual certification of graduates for either elementary or second- ary school teaching. Another was the emphasis of training teachers to be potential leaders in education — not so much specialists as educators, prepared to sec the overall problem-; of the public schools.

The program, first of its kind in Ohio, was quickly en- dorsed by the Ohio Department of Education.

Also introduced in 1946 was a two-year cadet plan which is still in effect. Sponsored in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Education, the plan offers a streamlined trainin^; program to help relieve the emergency need for teachers.

Students completing the two-year training are eligible to receive state certificates which permit them to teach in grades 1-8 for four years. In that time they are able to complete their work at Ohio University toward a degree.

During the 1947-48 school year the Ohio University Center for Educational Service was established. A co-ordinating agency for services to the public schools of the state, the center not only aids the schools served, but is of real value in providing the OU teaching faculty with firsthand knowledge of current problems which students will meet in public school work. The service rendered varied from consultation with teacher groups concerning specific individual problems to city and county-wide workshops on broad questions of policy, surveys of school systems, and school district reorganization. Another function is an extended health education project financed by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation.

In May of 1951 the College of Education obtained the support of the United States Joint Council on Economic Education to sponsor a Workshop on Economic Education in Ohio. The workshop, held the following summer, was so well accepted by teachers and representatives from different segments of economics, that it has become an annual event. It also has led to the organization of an Ohio Council on Economic Education with headquarters at Ohio University. Primary objective of the council is developing in the schools competence in the area of economic citizenship.

The college's program of observation and student teaching was broadened extensively in 1950. A student previously spent an hour each day during one semester of observation and an equal amount of practice teaching the following semester. Under the new plan the two are combined, with the student spending approximately one-half day throughout a semester in observation and teaching. This has enabled the OU student to have experience with more than one group of youngsters, as well as the opportunity to observe more than one teacher. At present the plan is being further broadened to include facilities in various cities of Ohio.

Sever.il .sjieci.il contributions to Ohio education have been developed or sponsored by the OU College of Education. Among them are the Ohio History, Government, and Citizen- ship Awards Competition for high school students, held an- nually since 1947, and the Southeastern Ohio Schoolboard Association which was formed in October, 1950, under the guidance of the university. The latter organizatifjn has at- tracted wide attention in its program of bringing about a more effective organization of the public schools and encour-

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aging the most effective working relationships among school boards, school administrators, teachers, and the public.

The task confronting those responsible for the preparation of teachers is enormous in the face of the continuing teacher shortage. But Ohio University's College of Education is helping to lead the way in finding new ways of improving our educational system.

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CHANGES IN curricula requirements of the College of Commerce, Ohio University's largest degree-granting college, have by no means brought about a sharp academic alteration in the past ten years. But there has been a steady development of courses which is consistent with the basic philosophy of stressing broad culture, fundamentals, and a maximum of electives through which the individual student's needs and interests can be developed with the guidance of faculty counsel.

A decade ago the prime academic objective of the college was to obtain full membership in the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business. Such recognition would mean a top accredited rating for the college.

Rigid standards for courses offered, teaching quality, and facilities had steadily risen since the Association assumed full accrediting functions, and an average of only one full membership per year had been granted since 1930.

Ohio University's College of Commerce was admitted to full membership in 1950, becoming one of 70 colleges in the country to be so recognized.

During that five-year period there had been several significant advancements leading to the recognition. One was a noticeable increase in the number of doctorates among the faculty. Physical facilities were greatly improved with the completion of the renovation of Ewing Hall. A laboratory equipped with machines, tools, and films for a new course, "Production Management," and an old course, "Time and Motion Study," had been set up.

The School of Journalism had been, in 1949, accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism in two fields, writing and editing, and advertising. For the first time, a complete curriculum in public relations was being offered.

Another important event of 1949 was the transfer of the Department of Agriculture from the College of Applied Science to the College of Commerce.

The death of Dean A. H. Armbruster in 1951 took from the university a most valued administrator who had worked tirelessly to bring about the accrediting of the College

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of Commerce. During the next three years Associate Pro- fessor William H. Fenzel, senior member of the college faculty, served as acting dean.

Although there were few major changes during that interim, the college continued to grow, and several special projects were introduced. Ohio University students finished in the upper ten percent in a nation-wide accounting achieve- ment test for first year students. Visiting lecturers were brought to the campus to speak to Commerce students.

In 1951 the School of Journalism established a summer internship program by which undergraduates receive vacation jobs on various newspapers throughout Ohio. Another sum- mer journalism project, the High School Publications Work- shop, was expanded from a two-day conference to a 10-day affair. It has continued to grow rapidly, and last year was attended by more than 700 high school students and teachers from 202 schools in 10 states.

On July 1, 1954, Clark Everett Myers, of the Harvard Graduate School of Business, became dean of OU's College of Commerce. Also that summer the college played host to the first annual "Ohio School of Banking," to help train young bank employees for executive futures.

This year, for the first time, the College of Commerce is presenting an Executive Development Program from July 10 to August 6. Designed to supplement company training pro- grams, the four weeks of training will give a group of business executives an opportunity to study together intensively. In- structors will be Ohio University professors, professors from other universities, and executives from business and industry.

These special projects not only provide a service to the economic life of the country, but serve also as valuable aids in the continued faculty study of current problems which students will face after graduation.

Today the College of Commerce includes the School of Journalism and ten departments, accounting, advertising, agriculture, business law, economics, finance, management, marketing, secretarial studies, and statistics.

The outlook for the college has never looked brighter than today, as it prepares to move into a new, modem - equipped building scheduled for completion in June of 1956.

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THE UNIVERSITY Gillcgc was established at Ohio University to insure that students coming to OU from high schools of greatly varying standards and capacities will enter the degree colleges on approximately an equal footing.

As the university has progressed in the past decade, course offerings of the University College have been carefully huilt to afford the student the greatest possible opportunity in liberal education before he embarks on a specialized field.

An important revision was made in 1946 in the form of a broadening of the variety of subjects from which students could choose courses to fulfill certain general requirements. Natural and social science requirements were reduced in order to include philosophy and fine arts. Students also became eligible to enter degree colleges before all University College requirements were completed, provided they have completed two full semesters.

Through the years, the system of counseling freshmen has been expanded lo a point where more than 220 counselors, or about two-thirds of the faculty, are engaged in this service. With the varied and unpredictable problems which beset freshmen, this expansion of the counseling program has proved to be a welcomed improvement, and is believed to have a great deal to do with the decrease in the number of capable students who drop out of school during their first year.

In 1948 a new program was introduced by the University College for the benefit of students who are unable to pursue a four-year degree. Designated "The Two-Year Terminal Program," it has attracted wide attention and favorable re- sponse from school administrators and prospective students. The curriculum is designed to achieve two fundamental pur-

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poses: general education carried en at the college level, and a coherent pattern of courses arranged to prepare the student for some vocation or career. Those completing the two year study are awarded associate in arts diplomas at the regular commencements.

These and other innovations have marked the progress of the University College under the three deans who have served since 194'i'. They are Dr. George W. Starcher. Dr. Rush Elliott, and Dr. Gaigc B. Paulsen,

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De.an Don.ald R. Clippinger

THE IMPORTANCE of advanced degrees in certain fields of endeavor has become increasingly evident in the years since World War II, according to the records of OU's Graduate College.

Although many young people throughout the Nation are being diverted from graduate study by the high salaries immediately available when they receive their bachelors de- grees, Ohio University's Graduate College shows a progressive growth.

One definite trend can be seen in the number of graduate degrees in the field of Education. This trend has resulted in an expansion of the Graduate College's summer program in education. Another field in which advanced degrees have b^'come extremely important is science, where new develop- ments, almost beyond comprehension, are being presented to the public every day.

In 19^1 the course offerings for graduate study at Ohio University were reorganized and renumbered. Under the new system the line has been more sharply drawn between strictly advanced undergraduate studies and those providing graduate credit only. Requirements for admission to candidacy have been made more rigid, and in recent years graduate research has been enhanced by funds given to the University for this purpose.

Since 1936, the Graduate College has been headed by two deans. Dr. W. S. Gamertsfelder served as dean from 1936 to 1951 and was succeeded by Dr. Donald R. Clippinger, the present dean.

Today 34 fields for graduate study have been approved by the Graduate Council. In all but two of these the student may pursue major work. It is the intention of the Council to broaden, as far as may be practical, the graduate offerings in order to provide more opportunities for study in allied fields.

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THE CAMPUS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, official executive committee of extracurricular life, is com- posed ol students and faculty members, each having equal voting power. This year's members are: seated, left to right, Marilyn Paulsen, Virginia Hoyne, Charles L. Smith, Julia J. Nehls, Dr. Roy- mond H. Gusteson, and Fran Growhosky. Standing, some order, ore Dean Maurel Hunkins, Art Aspengren, Robert Strawser, John Schwob, and Dean Margaret Deppen.

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This article on student responsibili- ties in the administration of Ohio University affairs is the result of the combined efforts of Dean of Men Maurel Hunkins and Students Art Aspengren, Art Williams, Jean Zerck- el, and Evangelos A. "Lucky" Kofou.

THE TERM "student government"' has long been misunderstood in scholastic circles. Students often feel it should mean authority, final decision, ,uid power in its final form. Adminis- trators, on the other hand, sometimes re- fuse to recognize the fact that a univer- sity exists first and foremost to serve students. Too often they look askance at student government because of its po- tential conflict with faculty or adminis- trative authority.

The result in such situations very often leads to a spirit of uncooperative- ness or even open belligerence on the part of both sides.

The basic conflict of misunderstanding devolves from the fact that authority is vested in a board of trustees and exer- cised through a president and his ad- ministrative assistants who may or may not welcome student opinion. In a state university the line of authority is per- fectly clear, going back to the people of the state who elect a governor, who ap- points a board of trustees, which selects a president responsible to it.

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only as important a force as the univer- sity organization allows. It can be set up at a psuedo governing level, or can be established in the actual line of auth- (irity, helping in a responsible way to "run" the university.

During the past ten years there has evolved at Ohio University a working solution somewhat unique in collegiate circles which may be designated as stu- dent participation at the highest levels of administrative action. This plan has taken the form of joint faculty-student policy making committees.

One of the first important steps came in 1947 when a panel of students re- ported at a full faculty meeting on the effectiveness of university instruction and made recommendations for improve- ments. Another group of 12 students and four faculty members prepared that same year a code of social conduct to be observed by students.

Since then, the program has grown to include 14 important faculty-student committees directing extra curricular affairs, commencement, convocation, fra- ternity affairs, the health council, the library, Ohio University Center policies, radio, scholarship encouragement, stu- dent financial aids, the university col- lege, career day, faculty evaluation, and last year the sesquicentennial program.

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tical week, Homecoming, the Campus Chest, migration day, mother's weekend, and dad's day. Chairmen of these com- mittees are selected by a council screen- ing committee.

Through such participation, it has been found that students gain experience and contact with the faculty, while the faculty and administration gain valuable expressions of the students' point of view.

The student's role in administration is clearly shown by these committee func- tions. On the library committee, for in- stance, students help regulate study con- ditions and research facilities in the li- brary. On the Convocation committee they help select artists and lecturers to appear before OU audiences. The Uni- versity Center committee regulates hours, prices, dress regulations, and other facets of policy at the Center.

An example of the way Ohio Uni- versity students have responded to this policy of actual administrative respon- s-'bility can be seen in the development of Student Council, brought about solely by the students.

To better carry out its purpose of coordinating campus social and extra- curricular activities, and channel matters of campus-wide welfare to the proper groups. Student Council has undergone a reorganization which makes it a more representative group.

Under the new system, each member

Student participation in administering affairs of the University, involves a phi- losophy. This philosophy is based upon the idea of sharing responsibility among the various elements of a University family. The reasoning behind this phi- losophy is summed up in the words of Dean of Men Maurel Hunkins:

"A student body at a given time is apt to forget a continuity beyond itself, which is aifected by both its formal and informal behavior. Former students as well as the teaching and administrative staffs all have an important relationship to the university picture as a whole, and are affected for better or for worse by contemporary occurrences.

"Part of the function of an adminis- tration is to protect these longer term interests against short term injudicious- ness. On the other hand, students have a right both to the educational experience, and the sense of justice in the expres- sion of the student point of view, to a degree of self-government.

"The philosophy of student-faculty administration seems to me to allow for the freest expression and oppor- tunity for self-education, while still pre- serving the obligations and continuity of a permanent administrative regime."

Under the joint committee program at Ohio University, students are proving that this philosophy is sound.

of Council represents a group of at least 400 students. This eliminates individual representation of each club or organiza- tion not primarily concerned with the majority of the campus. To bring about this change to a more workable size, many members had to vote themselves off the council.

Other changes worked out by the stu- dents involve holding Student Council meetings in the dormitories to acquaint other students with council operations, and the introduction of a weekly radio show "Sound Off" which deals with campus complaints.

The results have been more partici- pation in student government. Last semester, the first under this new system, there were 1 5 applications for committee positions, compared with 30 the previous year.

Last year the students, on their own initiative, drew up a student creed which they presented to Ohio University at the June, 19'i4 Commencement.

Directing and co-ordinating the entire program of extra-curricular life is the Campus Affairs Committee, a central executive group of students and faculty members under the co-chairmanship of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. Five student representatives, who hold elective campus offices, serve with five faculty members on C.A.C.

A JOINT Faculty-Sfud«nt Committee screens applicants for the position of advertising manager for next year's Athena. Seated, left to right, are Chuck Corpenter, Canton; Prof. A. T. Turnbull; Prof. Charles L. Smith; Prof. L. J. Hortin; Art Aspengren, Watervliet, Michigan; Morilyn Paulsen, Athens; and Larry Harper, Mansfield. Dick Graybill, Dayton; standing at right, is presenting his qualifications for the poslion.

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ALUMNI WHO return to the Ohio University campus for the first time in 10, or even five years, find it difficult to believe what they see. For the Hurculean transformation that has taken place in the past decade is clearly exemplified in the results of a 10-million dollar construction program.

To get the full significance of this enormous program which is still con- tinuing at a rapid pace, it is necessary to call to remembrance the year 194'>.

When John C. Baker became presi- dent the last new classroom building had been Super Hall, constructed in 1923 when enrollment was approximately 2,- ')nO. Moreover. Ohio University had never been able to construct even a small traction of the dormitory accommo- dations needed for its student body.

Figures from the last pre-war school year of 1940-41 showed that no more than 87^ of the ?,^00 students lived in University buildings. Sororities and fra- ternities housed 402; 24^ were Athens students living at home; 116 commuted; and some 1,850 were dependent for housing upon private homes in the city.

That is the picture that faced adminis- trators and trustees as they began pre- parations for the sudden post-war influx of students. There were far too few buildings, very little money available, and insufficient land on which to build.

To help meet immediate needs, a com- mittee of faculty, townspeople, and vet- erans was formed to survey the possi- bility of additional student accommo- dations in private homes. House-to-house

ONE OF THE MOST striking examples of Ohio University's building program of the past decade is East Green,

already nearing completion.

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ResponsihUity for the handling of fmanccs during the ten year building program has fallen on the capable shoulders of Ohio Univer- sity's treasurer, Paul R. O'Brien. An OU graduate of J 932, Mr. O'Brien also serves as secretary of the Board of Trustees. He repre- sents the University and President John C. Ba\er in all financial prob- lems, and has worked out extensive negotiations for loans which have enabled the program of expansion to continue.

A tireless wor\er in Ohio Univer- sity's building program has been Gordon K. Bush, publisher of The Athens Messenger and chair- man of the OU Board of Trustees' planning, building, and land pur- chase committee. Mr. Bush is an Ohio University graduate of 1924 and a former chairman of the Board of Trustees. His efforts iyi negotiating for land purchases have been important factors in the success of the expansioyx program.

Architectural developments of buildings that are added to Ohio University's campus are managed hy Luverne F. Lausche, business manager and part-time associate professor of mechanical engineer- mg. An architect and an engineer, Mr. Lausche supervises the pro- gram of selecting locations for buildings, chec\ing construction plans, and dealing with architects who ma\e up the final drawings. He wor\s closely with the Board of Trustees in planning future construction.

campaigns were made, and every avail- able room registered for student housing.

Early in 1946 The Federal Public Housing Authority allocated to OU 25 two-family temporary houses, and several more were added later. That spring the university was able to get $40,000 for land improvement and tiling of an area then known as the "Garden Area," later "Hog Island," and finally "East Green." This far-sighted venture added 14 acres permanently to the OU campus, and led to the men's housing unit which will soon include 1 1 modern dormitories.

Housing campaigns continued in 1946. Buildings were bought or leased and made into temporary dormitories. By doubling up in many rooms, accommo- dations were increased as much as 50 percent. For a few weeks in the fall of 1946 men students were temporarily quartered in the Ohio National Guard Armory and the Men's Gymnasium.

In all, the government temporary units, both housing and educational, to- taled 73 buildings by the end of the 1946-47 school year. These included 37 temporary apartments, 23 temporary dormitories, six quonset huts, a recre- ation hall, three classrooms, a cafeteria, an office building, and a maintenance shop.

Meanwhile, the permanent building program was beginning to show results. The rehabilitation of Science Hall marked the beginning of an effort that was to produce, within 10 years, the ad- dition of 14 new major buildings, 13 permanent auxiliary structures, and $917,000 worth of major repairs to eight other buildings. In that same period of time no less than 93 semi-permanent buildings such as apartments and office buildings have been constructed.

Total cost of the permanent con- struction for the ten-year period, in- cluding the $864,000 College of Com- merce building now under construction, is $9,485,000. For semi-permanent con- struction the cost is $363,000. Three other dormitories now being built on East Green, will cost approximately $2,- 000,000 more.

Trustees, administrative officers, and faculty members who have served on the various building committees have kept in mind three important objectives. They strive (1) to erect modern, specialized buildings so that the educational pro- gram will not be hampered in future years; (2) to treat all departments as fairly as possible, keeping in mind both present and future needs; and (3) to consider the contribution that any build-

ing will make to the general welfare and well-being of the entire University.

Since the emergency period in 1945 the building program has not only con- tinued, but accelerated. The years 1947' 48 saw the renovation of Cutler Hall, the modernization of the power plant, and the construction of a temporary engi- neering classroom building and several three-room apartments. These were fol- lowed soon by Bryan Hall for girls, an engineering-science building, health cen- ter, natatorium, and many others.

The absence at Ohio University of an adequate and modern social and recre- ational center for students, faculty, and visiting alumni had been keenly felt for at least a quarter of a century, and when, in 1954, the new $1,700,000 University Center was opened, the enthusiastic spirit of the entire expansion program reached its apex. The beautiful structure quickly became, not only a center of cul- ture and recreation, but a symbol of the movement that had been increasing in momentum since the end of World War II.

There is still a great deal of improve- ment needed in the physical plant. But the past ten years have left little doubt that the necessary work will be accomplished.

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A Tribute

A new Ohio University building will honor the man who founded what is now the College of Commerce.

Professor C. M. Copeland

OHIO UNIVERSITY'S next class- room building, scheduled for com- pletion sometime in 1956, will be named for the man who founded the college it will house. By recent action of the Board of Trustees, the College of Commerce building, being constructed at the corner of Court and President Streets, will be known as Copeland Hall.

Charles Moffatt Copeland was btirn November 1, 1868 in Tappan, Ohio, a pioneer community no longer existent, the site having been submerged in a water conservancy project.

He attended Hagerstown Academy and Scio College, and taught in rural schools of Harrison County from ISSS to 1893. In the latter year, he entered Ohio University and was appointed a

part-time instructor in "commercial branches" the first day he was on the campus. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy in 1896.

Continuing his teaching at Ohio Uni- versity, he was made principal of the Commercial Department in 1898. When the department was reorganized into the School of Commerce in 1914, he was selected to be its head. He retired in 19.^4 because of ill health, after 41 years as a member of the faculty of his alma mater. The honorar>' rank of professor emeritus of accounting was conferred upon him by the Board of Trustees in 1941.

At the time of his retirement. Presi- dent E. B. Bryan remarked that "no man has ever exercised a more whole-

COPELAND HALL, Ohio University's next new classroom building, will resemble this architect's drawing when it is completed next year. The building will house the College of Commerce.

some and permanent influence over a student body than did Professor Cope- land."

Paraphrasing Ralph Waldo Emerson at the time of Professor Copeland's death in June, 1944, Dean E. W. Chubb, a long-time colleague, said: "The College of Commerce is the lengthened shadow of Charles Moffatt Copeland . . . From a small department with one instructor -himself — he left it as one of the strongest colleges of the University. He was more than a teacher, he was the interested friend of every student and professor."

Professor Copeland took an active interest in alumni affairs of the Univer- sity, and in 1941 was awarded the Alumni Association's Certificate of Merit. Active also in community affairs, he taught the "Copeland Class Num- ber 6" of the First Methodist Church which at one time grew to be the largest men's Sunday School class in the state and one of the largest in the world. He was a member of the Athenian Lit- erary Society as well as a member of civic and social organizations.

Professor Copeland and his wife had three children, all of whom graduated from Ohio University. They are Mrs. Merrill F. Cooley (Nelle Copeland, '15), of Warren; Dean B. Copeland, '20, a vice president of the Mellon National Bank and Trust Company, Butler, Pa.; and W. Frank Copeland, '16, now de- ceased. A brother, the late Dr. W. F. Copeland, '02, was a professor emeritus of agriculture at the time of his death in 1950.

A portrait, being financed by contri- butions from former students and friends of Professor Copeland, will be hung in the new building.

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Dr. Walter S. GAMERTSi-iiLDiiR

DR. WALTER S. GAMERTS- FEEDER, thirteenth president of Ohio University and now a trustee pro- fessor of philosophy and ethics, has been honored by the Board of Trustees through the naming of a men's dormi- tor>'. The dormitory, one of three now under construction on East Green, will he known as Gamertsfeldcr Hall.

It is the first time during the con- struction program of the past ten years that an Ohio University building has been named for a living person.

The other two East Green dormitories have been named "Washington Hall" and "Tiffin Hall" in honor of the first president of the United States and Ed- ward Tiffin, first governor of Ohio and president of the first Ohio University Board of Trustees.

Dr. Gamertsfelder served as acting president of the University from January 1, 1943 to July 1, 1943, and was presi- dent from July 1, 194.3 until February' 1, 194^. He has served as dean of twD colleges and is the only person to hold the title of trustee professor.

A native of Warsaw. Ohio, Dr.

Gamertsfelder graduated from Brink Haven (Ohio) High School and received the A.B. Degree" from North Central College, Naperville, Illinois. He then at- tended the Evangelical Theological Semi- nary in Naperville, receiving the B.D.

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Degree in 1912. In 1920 he was awarded the Ph.D. Degree from Ohio State Uni- versity.

Dr. Gamertsfelder held the position of professor of philosophy at Hohart Col- lege, Geneva, New York, before accept- ing a similar position at Ohio University m 1921.

From 19.36 to 1951 he was dean of the Graduate College and of the College of Arts and Sciences, except for the two years he served as president of the uni- versity. Upon his retirement from the deanships in 1951, he returned to the teaching of philosophy and ethics.

GEORGE WASHINGTON died five years before the founding of Ohio University, but he knew and gave his support to the men who settled this

region. He was interested througlmut liis life in the development of the c(iiintry beyond the Ohio.

In June 1783 he heartily endnrscd ,uid transmitted to the Continental Congress General Rufus Putnam's petition on be- half of officers and .soldiers in the Conti- nental Army for grants of land in the "unsettled western country." This in- cluded the arc.i later assigned to the Ohio Company.

Washington was the hero and idol of many of the men who helped establish Marietta and the settlements farther west. When the Territorial government established the first county in Ohio in

1788 they named it in Washington's honor. The town of Athens was laid out in 1799 in Washington County; not until February 20, 1805 was Athens County established.

EDWARD TIFFIN was born m Carlisle, Cumberland County, Eng- land in 1766. He came to Virginia with his parents in 1784 and attended Jeffer- son Medical College in Philadelphia. In

1789 he married Mary Worthington, sister of Thomas Worthington, with whom he moved to Chillicothe in 1798.

He held various public offices under the Territorial government and was a member of the legislature. In 1 802 he presided over the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and the following year t(.iok office as the first governor of the new state.

When Ohio University was founded a year later he served as president of the first Board of Trustees. In 1812 he be- came Commissioner of the Land Office in Washington, and was later named Surveyor General of the Northwest. He died in 1829.

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THERE'S NEVER a dull mumcnt as president's wife," says Mrs. John C. Baker, "with a lot of party giving and the chance to meet a great variety of people." A day never passes without guests at the Baker home according to Mrs. Baker who as president's wife does a great deal of entertaining.

She describes her life as the first lady of Ohio University

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as interesting and fun. She feels that Doctor Baker's job as president is one of the few kinds of jobs in which the wife can share so much.

She recalls that before the Ohio University Center was in use and the Guest House was inadequate, her home was at times practically a hotel for university guests.

Not only does she feel that it has been a privilege to meet the many important guests of the university, but she feels that it has been worthwhile for her children as well. Among the dignitaries whom she has enjoyed meeting most, she especially remembers Governor Frank Lausche, Senator Robert Taft and President and Mrs. Bevis of Ohio State University. Also the Bakers always greatly enjoy the annual visit of the Dohnanyis.

Of course she has had the opportunity to know all of the trustees of the university since she and Doctor Baker have been at OU. Contrary to generalizations made about trustees of any university, Mrs. Baker claims that "there are no stuffed shirts on the Ohio University Board of Trustees," but that instead they have been interesting, able people and she has enjoyed knowing them.

Above her responsibilities as president's wife, Mrs. Baker feels that her first responsibility lies with her children.

Betsy, who is the oldest daughter, is a junior at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, EUic is a freshman at Radcliffe College in Massachusetts, and Anne, the youngest daughter, is a sophomore at the Athens High School.

One of the most exciting events of recent years was accompanying Doctor Baker to Europe two years ago. The Baker family spent the summer of 19';j at the Geneva Con- ference in Switzerland where Doctor Baker was head of the American Delegation to the Social and Economic Council of the United Nations.

She says that Dr. Baker's chief recreation is riding, ,ind he enjoys riding with his daughters although his busy schedule does not allow time for this often.

Mrs. Baker, who is originally from New Jersey, attended Smith College in Massachusetts for three years. She wanted to study music, however, and so she left college to study in New York for three years.

During this period she met Doctor Baker who was at the time assistant dean of the School of Business Administration at Harvard. The Bakers were married in 1933.

Since 194") when the Bakers came to Ohio University, Mrs. Baker has been interested in music, theater, and french. She plays the piano and has acted in a summer theater pro- duction and a faculty operetta.

At one time she enjoyed greatly promoting square dancing for some of the youngsters in town. Although she has to keep her membership in organizations to a minimum because of her home responsibilities, she has been active in the Women's Music Club, the Faculty Wives Club and the Newcomers Club.

Mrs. Baker, like Doctor Baker, takes a great interest in the students of Ohio University and enjoys entertaining student groups. In the ten years in which they have been at Ohio University she says that she has seen an increasing number of student-sponsored activities and the growth and acceptance of student-faculty committees.

As she looks back over the ten years they have spent at Ohio University she feels that Doctor Baker's two most outstanding characteristics which have enabled him to do his job have been his great "energy and enthusiasm."

"One idea has permeated throughout his ten years at Ohio University," states Mrs. Baker, "and that is the import- ance of high quality in all areas."

"Doctor Baker's whole idea," she continues, "is to en- courage a spirit of cooperation among members of the admini- stration, faculty and student groups."

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MENTION THE TITLE of assistant to the president when speaking of the Eisenhower administration and the name of Sherman Adams eomes to mind. Mention the same title at Ohio University and invariably you 11 hear the name of Brandon T. Grover, one of the un'vcrsity's most familiar and colorful personalities.

Grover is to President John C. Baker what Adams is to the nation's top executive — a right hand man and a close and trusted adviser. He has been a mainspring at the univers ty for 3'' years and hasn't yet started to unwind.

li he isn't speaking at a banquet or presiding over a dinner in absence of President P)aker, then he's either iuisy arranging conferences, helping deans solve disciplinary prob- lems, meeting notables arriving at the OU campus, or assigning policemen to direct heavy traffic during one of the university's big days.

Ever since he entered the university |"iortals as a freshman in 1915, Mr. Grover has given unselfishly of his services in one capacity or another — first as top athlete in h:s under- graduate days, as a basketball coach for 15 years, and then as public rel.itions director before assuming his current position in 194 .V

Of his assistant. President Baker has said "Ohio University has been blessed in recent years with a large number of able, loyal, and enthusiastic faculty and administrators. Of these, Brandon T. Grover personifies the university officer who goes beyond the line of duty in all of his work. We cannot praise or thank such men too much for their contribution to our welfare."

Last June the Alumni Association honored Mr. Grover with a Certificate of Merit for "his time and service to the

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cause of Ohio University." The citation came as a complete surprise to him, but no one figure at Ohio University could have been more deserving of such recognition.

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TEN YEAR anniversary is being celebrated by Mrs. Martha Cleveland, secretary to the 945 when Doctor Baker became president of

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Ohio University, Mrs. Cleveland was promoted to the position of private secretary to the president.

How much has she had to do with Ohio University's pro- gress in the last ten years? If the job of keeping President Baker's appointments scheduled and of informing the president of all arrangements which have been made for him has in any way helped then Mrs. Cleveland has had a vital part in the accomplishments of the last decade.

Although she has been President Baker's secretary for ten years, she has worked in the president's office in Cutler Hall since 1940. She calls it "a terrific undertaking" to keep the president's calendar straight and to make all arrangements for him.

In the president's office she also supervises the work of two other secretaries who must handle the great amount of corres- pondence and information going through the president's office each day.

"Because President Baker is so busy," Mrs. Cleveland says, "others around him have a great deal of responsibility." Npt only does the President's secretary make all appointments and arrangements, but she has the opportunity to meet all of tthe speakers and honored guests who come to the Ohio LIniversity campus and she claims that "it is a great honor to meet and attend functions with these guests."

Mrs. Cleveland is an attractive woman who came to Ohio Un'versity from Wellston, Ohio in 1938 to major in secretarial studies. At the end of her sophomore year she started to work in the president's office. She continued her studies, however, and was graduated from Ohio University in 1943.

Mrs. Cleveland resides in Athens with her husband Clark B. Cleveland, '47, an Athens insurance man.

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PROF. ALBERT C. GUBITZ, left, director of OU's branch program, chats with Ellis Miracle, ville High School teocher and one of the three assistant branch directors. In front of Zon modern new school building where branch classes are conducted In late afternoons and ev

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ALTHOUGH OHIO UNIVER- SITY'S Branch Colleges have met etfsttevely the objective for which they were originally established in 1946, they exist today as the university's partial an- swer to Ohio's present and future edu- cational needs.

The off-campus colleges were insti- tuted at Chillicothe, Portsmouth, and Zanesville at the end of World War (I to meet the heavy enrollment that con- fronted Ohio U at the time. For the past nine years they have been offering suc- cessfully college level training to classes th.it meet in the afternoons and evenings 111 the high schools of the three cities.

Enrollment figures for the first few years provide a measure of the program's effectiveness in meeting the veteran's educational needs. When first started, the branches handled an enrollment of over 850 students. A peak enrollment of over 1000 students was reached in the 1947-48 academic year. More than half of this number were veterans. In the first six years, 553 students moved to the main campus as facilities became avail- able and degree requirements could no longer be met at the branches.

As late as 1949 the off -campus col- leges continued to handle an enrollment that was largely veteran in composition. In that year, however, due to a decline in enrollment, the Board of Trustees was confronted with the question of the future of the branch program. It voted to continue the branches if the need for them was recognized by the cities con- cerned.

Become Self Supporting

Meeting with citizens committees of Chillicothe, Portsmouth, and Zanesville, President Baker and Branch Director A. C. Gubitz explained to each group that due to the general decline in enrollment, OU would not request financial aid from

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A BRANCH CLASS in chemistry works under the supervision of Edwin L.

Roe, Zonesville teacher. Mr. Roe is one of several instructors who have

been with the branch program since it was started.

BRANCH STUDENTS gather in front of the Chillicothe High School build- ing after a class in 1952. Four of last semester's 13 Phi Beta Koppa initiates began college work at the Chillicothe bronch.

the State Legislature to support the branches. After a discussion of the mat- ter as it affected them individually, the citizens committees urged Ohio U. to continue the branches and announced plans to support them.

Since 1952 the branch units have been self'Supporting. All maintenance and operation expenses are paid from the tuition and fees collected from branch enrollees. Previously, legislative appro- priations were required to maintain the branches.

This year the branches boast an en- rollment of 771 students and a faculty of some 70 instructors. The professors are selected by Gubit:: on a voluntary basis front the OU cimpus, from Mus- kingum and Marshall colleges, from high schools, and from industry.

As in the early years of the branch project, the quality of instruction and study continues to compare favorably with that on the main campus. Four of the 13 Phi Beta Kappas on the OU cam- pus today had their start at the branches. In addition, many of the branch-trained students have made enviable records for themselves in the world of business and industry.

The Branch Curricula

Offered on the freshman and sopho- more levels, the majority of the courses are in the fields of liberal arts, education, and commerce. In explaining the branch curricula, Professor Gubitz commented "We offer two years of work in every area in which we can do a satisfactory job. We never go beyond the point where it isn't being done right. If it can't be done right, we just won't do it."

In the early years of the program, student activities at the branch centers were patterned after those on the uni- versity campus. They included partici- pation in scholarship programs, athletics.

and social clubs. Regular convocation programs were provided, and concerts were given at each branch by the uni- versity band and orchestra. More recent- ly, however, social and cultural programs have been limited since 95 percent of the students are employed either full or part- time.

The high degree of community in- terest manifested in the branch program has been expressed in several days to date. High school buildings have been offered cost free. Money has been raised in each community to support a certain number of scholarships.

Scholarships Offered

Last year several industrial firms and a fraternal organization in Chillicothe combined to establish a scholarship foun- dation to aid young people in that area who attend the OU-C branch. Valued at $22,500, the scholarships afford stu- dents the opportunity to continue study at the university after they have com- pleted the two-year course at the branch.

At Zanesville, the newly-built high school contains an ofBcc especially de- signed for use by the branch school ad- ministrator and the instructors.

To express its appreciation of this en- thusiastic support, Ohio U. this year will make a gift of $1,000 in books to the high school libraries of each of the branch areas.

Aside from the past contribution the branches made in accommodating the in- creased post-war enrollment, today they are helping to ease the teaching shortage within the state. The Cadet Teaching Program, innovated at OU some time ago, was introduced to the branch col- leges in 195.3. This year the first classes of cadet teachers will be graduated by the branches. Scholarship awards have been introduced to attract competent students in the branches to take advan-

tage of these offerings. Sixty scholar- ships are offered annually under the branch program.

The branches will also be in a position to make a valuable contribution in the future, according to Director Gubitz.

Future of Branches

"Tliis program could prove very valu- able to the university in view of the state-wide outlook for increased enroll' ment," said Gubitz who organized the branches and has been their adminis- trative head ever since. "With nine years of experience behind us, Ohio Uni' versity will be in a position to establish a pattern for other institutions to follow in solving future enrollment problems."

He ventured the prediction that "with- in 10 years there will be a great many branches operated by other colleges and universities throughout the country." Although other Ohio institutions oper- ated similar programs after the war, Ohio U. has been the only one to con- tinue its branches.

In the opinion of Professor Gubitz, the greatest contribution made by the branches has been the opportunity they have afforded individuals for a higher education.

"They opened a vista for higher edu- cation to thousands of high school stu- dents who economically or otherwise would never have realized a college edu- cation," said Professor Gubitz. "Today some of the top men in industry owe their start in higher education to the branch program."

With its roots imbedded in the past, OU's off-campus colleges today stand ready to serve Ohio's educational needs whenever they arise. In addition they offer stay-at-home students the same ad- vantages which Ohio U's students have enjoyed for the past 1 5 1 years.

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The Bobcat Roundup

By Rowland Congdon, 49

WITH VISIONS OF one winter sports championship in wrestling in the background and fond hopes for the future from the other two, swim- ming and basketball, Ohio University sport* followers have turned their at-

tention to four Bobcat spring sports aggregations.

Two of the quartet are defending Mid-American titleholders. The golf team has held the title — or at least a part of it — for the past four years.

BASEBALL COACH BOB WREN Inspects the broken arm of last year's star outfielder Did Murphy, who visited the campus after being injured in a spring exhibition gome between the Cincinnati Redlegs and the Chicago White Sox. Murphy was hit by o ball pitched by Chicago's Joclt Harsh- man in the game at Tampa, Florida. He has since been released by the Redlegs and signed by Nashville of the Southern Association.

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They shared it with Kent State last season but held it alone the previous three years.

The baseball team is after its third straight crown and its fifth under the seven-year tutelage of former Bobcat great. Coach Bob Wren.

The track and tennis teams are still working toward their first conference crowns and no better time to win them than this year since the tournaments deciding the championships in these sports and golf will be decided in the annual spring meets at Athens, May 20 and 21.

Golf

The golf squad was the first of the quartet to inaugurate the season. Their scheduled match with Marietta College at Marietta was transferred to the Athens Country Club when the Pio- neers" course was not in shape to play.

Coach Kermit Blosser, attempting to find a pair of sophomores to accompany hn all-veteran top five on the southern trip, used all underclassmen against the Pioneers. They emerged from the match with a 27-0 conquest of Marietta. And Dudley Kircher, and Don Todd, both Dayton sophomores, won trips south.

Two victories and two defeats were p eked up on the trip south which took the touring linksmen to North Carolina State, Duke, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and Virginia Milit.iry Institute.

Lettermen Dick Smail, Jack Algeo, Jim Leonard, Dave Moore and Jim "Scotty" Russell led the Bobcat group. Small emerged as low scorer in three of the matches for Ohio U. while Algeo was low in the fourth.

North Carolina State and Duke both handed the Bobcats defeats. NCS won, 201/2-91/2 and Duke, 24/2-2J/2.

At the West Virginia resort, OU met Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and won, 28-2, and defeated VMI, S-1.

Since returning to Athens, the golfers have lost to Ohio State, 22J/2-13K2. on the Columbus course, and defeated Denison, 17-7, at Granville. So by April 20 they held a 4-3 won-lost record.

Baseball

The baseball team opened its season in the south. The Bobcats this year were honored by being invited as one of eight participating schools in the

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OHIO university's defending champions in varsity golf ore, left to right. Coach Kermit Blosser, Tom Welch, Jerry Knox, Jock Algeo, Bill Foppe, Jim Leonard, Dudley Kircher, Dave Moore, Roy Leonard, and Dick Small. Warren Worthley, Jim Russell, and Don Todd were not present (or the

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first annual Dixie Baseball Classic held ,\t Duke University in Durham, N.C.

On the way to Durham Wren's squad stopped <it Blackshurg, Va., to hand VPI a 9-1 loss.

In three games at Duke, the Bobcats were defeated 6-1 by North Carolina State, .V2 by Notre Dame, and 6-1 by North Carolina. Ram forced cancel- lation of a second engagement at VPI and postponement of a game at Charles- ton, W. Va., with Morris Harvey on the return home.

Though losing three of the four southern games, the Bobcats learned much and Coach Wren found out a great deal about the squad that cannot always be ascertained in pre-season workouts.

The trip confirmed the coach's sus- picions that this was one of the weakest hitting Bobcat clubs he had ever taken south.

He did learn, however, that he can count on effective hurling this year and in the future from two sophomores, Jerry Driscoll and Bill Hinkle. Along with letterman John Bier, they will do most of the starting for the Bobcats this season.

Cleveland, Columbus and Sandusky are the hailing po-'nts of this trio, re- spectively.

Other seniors on the Bobcat nine, besides Bier, are found at the four infield positions. They are Bill Frederick, Day- ton, third base; Don Lundstrom, Canton, shortstop; Dick Fishbaugh, Pickerington, ■second base, and Andy Chonko, Cleve- land, first base.

These and Jay Hornsby, Cincinnati,

left field; Ron Nakatsuji, Honolulu, Hawaii, centerfield, and Ray Thompson, Canton, right field, make up the letter- man aggregation. That may look like a veteran nine, but all were not regulars last season at their 195^ positions.

Frederick, after a sophomore season at third base, was switched to catcher last year, and back to third this season. Lundstrom was utility second baseman last season while Nakatsuji understudied All-American Dick Murphy in center- field.

(Incident.illy, Murphy, signed by the Cincinnati Redlegs, h.is visited the Bob- cat campus recently while recuperating from a broken arm suffered when struck by a pitched ball in spring training. If the service does not grab him before. Murphy will report to Nashville, Tenn., a Double A club of the Southern Association.)

Since returning from the South, the Bobcats have won two of three games prior to opening defense of their con- ference crown in a weekend series aga'nst Miami at Oxford, April 22 and 2.1. OU split with Pittsburgh, losing 6-4, and winning 9-2, in their home jpeners, and then downed Xavicr, .i-2, at Cincinnati, in a lO-inning affair.

This gave them a .V4 won-lost record to open conference play.

Tennis

The tennis squad was next to open its season, losing to Wisconsin, 9-0, on the home courts. But Boh Bartels, new tennis coach, was quick to explain that

this should not be an indication of things to come since his squad had not rounded into .shape as rapidly as he had hoped due to inclement weather. Bill Lagoncgro, Elmira, N. Y., senior; P.iul Cowen, Elkhart, Ind., junior; Cirl Hutchison, Thoma.sville, Ga., junior: John Kemp, Mt. Vernon, senior; Dick Nellis, Athens junior, and Joe Saggicj, Clevel.uid junior, were the Bobcat players.

Track

Jim Johnson's tr.ick squad traveled to Delaw.ire to engage Ohio Wesleyan in the season opener. The Bishops won, S2-45.

Big point-getters for Ohio U. were Frank Nixon, with first place wins in the one and two-mile runs; Dave Lund- b;rg, with a first in the 440 and a thirc in the S80; Rudy Koletic, with wins in both the low and high hurdle events, and Erland Ahlberg, with seconds in the 100 ,ind 220 yard dashes, and thirds in the low hurdles and broad jump.

Ahlberg IS Ohio U.'s All-Ohio half- back, while Lundberg was an end on the Bobcat football squad last season. Both are expected to see much action at their respective positions next fall.

Nixon IS a Lakewood junior: Lund- berg, a junior from Dayton: Ahlberg. junior from Conneaut, and Koletic. a junior from Cleveland. Ron Ranlow, Cleveland was the lone senior — there are four — to gain points. He took a second spot in the pole vault.

RUDY KOLETIC displays the for made him one of the leading point getters on Jim Johnson's trock squad. The Cleveland jun- ior, who competes in the high and low hurdles, was recently elected captain o( the 1955 thin- dads.

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SAN FRANCISCO ALUMNI CLUB members preparing o meeting at which OU President John C.

Baker will specie May 20 are, seated left to right, Fronk Fribley, '38, president; and Art Cameron,

'26. Standing, same order, are William H. Keplinger, '25. chairman o( the May meeting; Al

Bergesen. '37; and Jim Claymore. '42.

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1904

James Alexandhr Ly(jn. M.D., F.A.C.P., has announced the removal of his office from 1801 Eye Street, Northwest, to 1028 Con- necticut Avenue, Northwest, in Washington, D.C.

1909

Jacob A. BADtRTscHER is a professor emeritus of anatomy at the Indiana Uni- versity School of Medicine.

Jean Forrest Hawkins, who is now teaching voice in Nelsonville, is a well-known concert artist. Her stage name was Jean Forrest. When she made her Chicago debut, she was acclaimed by some of Chi- cago's best critics. A former student at the Palace of Fontainebleau, France, she had the leading role in the Barber of Seville on Napoleon's Imperial Stage as Rosina, playing opposite Harold Luckstone of New 'Vork City as Figaro. She has studied in New York and Paris and was once a concert soloist for a Mediterranean Cruise. One of her later concerts was held in Toledo in the Coliseum for the Eurydice Club. Aside from her concert work, she has taught voice culture for a number of years.

1910

John J. Richeson and Mrs. Richeson celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary February 10 at their home in North Jackson. Ohio. Mr. Richeson, a former dean of the Ohio University College of education, has been in the real estate business since he

retired from school work. Mrs. Richeson has been in the hospital for several weeks with a broken hip but is expected to return home soon.

1912

Charles F. Sharp, a member of the Kiwanis International Key Club Committee, has travelled more than 13,000 miles in the past year attending some 200 Kiwanis and Key Club meetings.

1913

Judge Lewis H. Miller is judge of the .■ith Judicial Circuit of West Virginia. His home is in Ripley.

W. E. FuLWiDER, Sr. teaches industrial arts at Philo High School.

19)5

Stanley M. Hastings, who retired from the Atlanta, Georgia, Public School system last fall. IS doing organizational work for the Atlanta Kiwanis Club.

1916

James L. Hupp, professor of education at West Virginia Wesleyan College, was elected a member of the Board of Managers of the West Virginia Society of the Sons of the Revolution, at the annual meeting February 22. Professor Hupp is also presi- dent of the West Virginia Historical Society and president of the Upshur County His- torical Society.

William J. Secrest, chief electrical engineer of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, is in California on a special assignment for his Company. He and Mrs. Secrest, the former Helen Duncan, are living in South Gate during their stay in the sunshine state.

Chloe Henry George (Mrs. Willis R.) teaches at Newcomcrstown, Ohio.

1918

Leighton E. Aumiller, of Columbus, has been elected secretary of the Ohio State Federal Savings and Loan Association in Columbus. Mr. Aumiller, who has been a.ssistant secretary in charge of loans, also was elected to the board of directors of the association.

1920

John W. Galbreath and his wife, the former Mrs. Russell Firestone, will be inter- viewed on Edward R. Murrow's "Person to Person" on June 12. They will be visited at their New York City home.

1922

Paul banker i

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attorney and

Elizabeth Walter will retire at the end of this school term after 41 years of teaching in the Massillon area.

1925

Dr. T. H. Morgan, Athens, has been appointed a member of the Blue Cross Medical Advisory Committee, representing the Athens County Medical Society.

1930

Martha E. Cole, a Spanish teacher at Col. White High School in Dayton, spoke

GORDON W. HARROLD. '24, has been elected vice-president in charge of research and engi- neering for the Anchor hHocking Glass Corp- oration, Lancaster, hie has been with Anchor Hocking since 1927 and has been plant man- ager of the corporation's Salem, N.J. and Connellsville, Pa. plants, general factories man- ager of the Package Division, and head of general engineering. Mr. and Mrs. Herrold hav3 two daughters who graduated from Ohio University. Joan, '52, is a feature writer lor the Pittsburgh Press and Joyce, '54, Is studying ct the Cincinnati Medical School.

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p. F. "PETE" GOOD, '26, Athens, has been awarded the Phi Kappa Tau Palm Award, high- est national recognition of the (raternity. A member o( the notional council for several years, Mr. Good has served on various com- mittees and has been instrumental in publica- iion of a notional magazine. Only five Palm Awards for meritorious service hove ever been given by the fraternity.

on Japanese art at the annual dniner meet- ing of tfie Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors Marcfi 21. She was formerly a teacher in Japan. Another Ohio Univer- sity graduate, William R. Gray, "41, is president of the society.

Dorothy Beadle Winchester (Mrs. John) is a physical education instructor at Mahoning Junior High School in New Castle, Pennsylvania.

1931

THt Rev. Robert E. Leake, rector of the Episcopal Church in Bexley, and his wife, were the subjects of a recent feature article in the Columbus Dispatch, because of their unusual collection of porcelain. Some of the articles in their collection date back several centuries.

1934

Arthur B. Briocs is vice president and treasurer of Samuel Moore 6? Company. Mantua, Ohio.

Clyde A. Voris is manager of the em- nolyee relations department of the Albers Super Markets Corporation, Cincinnati.

1935

John W. Foster is with the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Rev. Waid Radeord, minister of the Methodist Church of Piketon, made a trip to Palestine last fall, visiting England, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Vatican State, France, and making additional plane stops at Sidney. Nova Scotia, Germany, Switzerland, and the Azores. He travelled more than 23,0(10 miles, took 1200 photographs, and wrote 24.'i pages of notes on the trip, made possible by a member of his church, fudge G. W. Rittenour, with whom he travelled.

Dr. Leonard Montag is a nhysician in Santa Monica, California.

Mahii Ki tron Williams (Mrs. Wendell) leaches at Brighton, New Jersey. Her hus- band is principal of nearby Millville, New Jersey, .schools.

1936

Mokry Raiun is on the news desk of the Long Bedc/i (California) Independent Press Tclegrdm.

Virginia Hoover Franklin, a teacher of Spanish, general language, and social studies at Indianola Junior High School in Columbus, is leaving the United States in July for an air trip through Europe and Asia. She will spend a month in Saudi Arabia with her brother, Tom N. Hoover, Jr.. '3 3 and his wife. Accompanying Mrs. Franklin on the trip will be Miss Susan B. Hoover, a sophomore at Denison University.

1937

Ruth E. Allbee. a captain in the Women's Army Corps, recently graduated from the Armed Forces Information School at Fort Slocum, New York. She is now stationed at Fort Jay, New York, with the 1201st Area Service Unit.

Joseph A. Gould is principal of Reed School in Campbell. Ohio.

Dick A. Irelan is supervisor of training and public relations repre.sentative in Waynesville.

Col. Edward A. Bailey, now at the Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, has been assigned to the Head- quarters of the First Armed Division Artil- lery, Fort Hood, Texas, effective June 16.

1938

R. J. RoTHERMEL. owner of the R. G. Studios, San Antonio, Texas, and a retailer of contemporary furniture, is exranding in the field of contemporary interior design by doing commercial interior installations in the Southwest.

Doris Siegeried Erdle (Mrs. H. R.) is teaching music in the Vancouver, Washing- ton, schools.

1939

Kenneth D. Cunningham is a design engineer for the American Bridge Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Robert Paul White, an airline transport pilot, has transferred to European runs out of New York, after spending 12 years flying out of Miami and New York down the east coast of South America to Buenos Aires. He is a captain for Pan American World Airways. Mrs. White is the former Alva Brudwick, '38.

Jay Nimon has been named manual arts teacher at Laurelville High School for the 19.'i.'i-.'i6 term. A veteran teacher, he has been on the staff of the Union Furnace schools .since 1932 and has been principal of the high school there for the past six years.

1940

Frederick M. Krecker is staff writer for the Hammond (Ind.) Times. He pre- viously was with the Ashtabula Star-Beacon.

Roy W. "Bill" Schletzer has been promoted by Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. to the position of district sales manager in Minne- apolis, Minnesota.

ViRinNiA F(jsTj.R Amblf.r is a primary school teacher in Chula Vista. California.

Donald F. Potter is assistant United States Attorney at Rochester, New York.

Carl H. Ott is a member of the senior .staff of the Automotive Products Depart- ment, Airfoam Division, of the Goodyear Tire ^ Rubber Company. His office is in Cleveland.

F. W. Bloom has been appointed works controller at the Midland, Pennsylvania plant of the Crucible Steel Company of America. He was previou-sly chief cost accountant.

1942

Mary McGarey, a member of the Columbus Dispatch editorial staff since graduation from Ohio University, last month received top national honors "for year-around coverage of education and interpretation of education at the local level." She received the award from the Education Writers Association at its annual awards luncheon in Washington, D. C. In addition to cover- ing the Columbus school "beat, " Miss McGarey writes a column, "In The Schools," three times a week. Her writings include school activities from kindergarten through college. She also covers the Columbus and Franklin County Board of Education, and is now reporting the progress of the many bills affecting education before the State Legislature.

Incrid Olson Vargo (Mrs. Anton) teaches school at Painesville. The Vargos have four sons.

James Claymore is a newspaper adver- tising representative for Moloney, Regan ii Schmitt, Inc., San Francisco.

K. E. Scherer is an industrial engineer for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Cleveland.

INFORMAL REUNION of alumni was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Mereness, Alexandria, Virginia, recently. Shown standing, left to right, are William Radford, '41; Gus Saridakis, '41; Mrs. Saridakis (Helen Alex, '42); Mrs. Don Zook (Terry Fuetterer, '41); and Don Zook, '40. Seated are Mrs. Radford; Mrs. Mereness (Koy Games, '45); Ed Darby, '42; and Mrs. Darby (Garolyn Rendle, '42). The Radfords and Saridakis live in Silver Springs, Md., the Zooks in Bethesda, Md., and the Darbys in Washington, D.C.

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WILLIAM B. EDWARDS, '31, Is superintendent o( schools at Peoria lllllnols. A well known speaker as well as educator, Mr. Edwards was superintendent of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Schools in the Cleveland area before going to Peoria. Mrs. Edwards is the former Elizabeth Schuize, '32. They hove two daughters.

1944

Lt. Col. Glenn M. GARnhNER recently participated in Exercise Sting Ray. a training maneuver, with the Seventh Army in Ger- many. He is chief of the intelUgence section at Army headquarters, and has been over- seas for 3 2 months.

1945

M.\R,I0RIE WlLLL-\MS IS director of con- tinuity for Radio Station WMRN, Marion. A member of the WMRN .staff since 195 2. she also serves as a continuity writer and has a daily program with the director of women's activities.

1945

Mildred Frankel is a medical technician at Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

Wallace R. Metsger is personnel director of the Superior Foundry in Cleve- land. He and Mrs. Metsger, the former Mary Hopkins, '44, live in Warrensville Heights.

E. Jane Porter teaches third grade at the Cross Creek Memorial School, Winters- ville.

1947

Charles W. Betz received the degree of Master of Business Administration at the winter quarter convocation of Ohio State University March 18.

Robert Brown, who is secretary treasurer of the Wholesome Dairy Corporation of El Paso, Texas, will be in charge of a new company dairy in Anthony, New Mexico.

1948

William Alexander is a teacher in the Roslyn, New York, public schools. He and Mrs. Alexander, the former Christine Spar- huber, "49, have a daughter, Terry Lee, .'i and a son, William Michael, 2.

Nancy Westbrook is a service observer for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Columbus.

Charles Dautiel has been named assist- .mt general counsel for the Eagle Pitcher Corporation, Cincinnati, manufacturers of paints, zinc, and other items. Mrs. Dautiel is the former Isabel Francis, "46.

Frank K. Wodarsky. a member of the Cleveland firm of Touche, Niven, Bailey ii Smart, passed the Ohio certified public accountant examination in November, 19.'i4.

James A. Davis has accepted a position as sales engineer for the Neff Perkins Com- pany in Cleveland. Mrs. Davis is the former Marilyn Emsley, '46.

Lorin C. Staats, Jr. is an assistant pro- fessor of special education at the University of Tennessee.

Bob Baur was one of the referees work- ing the Ohio Class A basketball finals this year.

1949

Mary Roadpouch Holtzapple (Mrs. Jack) teaches mathematics and physical education at Morrow High School in Warren County.

Robert Boyd Willis is a junior account- ant in the firm of Willis, Willis 6? Osmond, Mansfield. He was tormerly in Dallas, Texas.

Virgil Jakeway is insurance manager for the Artesia Investment Company in Artesia, New Mexico.

Donald E. Traver is a sales representa- tive for the Shell Oil Company in Columbus.

Charles L. Smith is a statistician for the National Lumber Manufacturers Associa- tion in Washington, D. C.

Lib-Mary Riebel Reie (Mrs. Louis E.) teaches elementary vocal music at Lancaster.

Walter F. Hauck is an account executive for Helen A. Kennedy Advertising, Oakland, California.

Marie Petrovic Thielman (Mrs. Clay- ton C.) is secretary to the paymaster of the Addressograph-M u 1 t i g r a p h Corporation, Cleveland.

1950

A. J. (Jack) Hauschulz has been named the leading agent in the Canton district for the Prudential Insurance Company. Mrs. Hauschulz is the former Joan Kramer, "49.

Henry J. Mysliwiec received the degree of Master of Science from Ohio State Uni- versity in March.

Eugene W. Schoch. M.Ed. "51, dormi- tory manager at the University of Toledo, has been awarded a state certificate in guidance counselling from the State Depart- ment of Education.

Carl Palagyi is sales manager of the Kirby Sweeper Company, with offices in Columbus. His territory covers six counties of Central Ohio.

1951

First Lt. Howard Nunnemaker, Jr.. after a year and a half in Japan with the Air Force, has been assigned to Wheeler Field in the Hawaiian Islands, where he will be assistant director of intelligence.

Frank E. (Babe) Topole has joined the staff of the USAFE Athletic Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was recently released from the Service. He will serve as an athletic consultant. The former OU baseball player became a familiar figure on the USAFE sports scene in Germany, directing a baseball clinic at Erdmg and serving on the USAFE basketball tourna- ment committee. He was a personal ser- vices officer at Neubiberg for two years.

Donn Van Stoutenburg received the Master of Science degree from Ohio State University March 18.

Robert H. Bryan is an instructor of electronics at Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado.

Charles Donchin has gone to Europe where he plans to do free lance photography for magazines.

Charles E. Hawkins is a personnel in- terviewer for the Peter Kiewit Sons Company, contractors on the Portsmouth AEC project.

1952

George L. Knox has joined his father in the Knox Insurance Agency m McArthur. He previously worked as a flight test in strumentation engineer for North American Aircraft, Columbus.

Lt. D. D. Campbell has completed a sixteen-month tour as supply officer tor the .■iVth Air Rescue Squadron at the Air Trans- port Station of the Azores Islands. He is being reassigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a production-procurement officer.

David C. Miller was released from active duty with the Army April 1. From Febru- ary 19.S4 until his release he served as public information specialist for the Pennsyl- vania Military District in Pittsburgh where he plans to assume a position soon.

Fred H. McKaig is a labor standards observer for the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. His home is in Birming- ham, Michigan,

ROBERT L. HATSCHEK, 'SO, formerly assistant markets editor of the metals magazine Iron Age, has joined the public relations staff of the Reynolds Metals Company. fHe will be located in the New York City office.

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The Ohio Alumnus

Donald E. StKFiiNS. recently discharged from the Army, is a field clerk for the J. A. Jones Construction Company of Charlotte, North Carolina. He is working on the Ohio Turnpike at the present time.

Marvin W. LIlmir .m instructor in speech at the University of Connecticut, plans to return to the University of Illinois this fall to resume work on his doctorate.

Carol Herb, a teacher of journalism and English at Uhnchsville High School, is one of ten members of the Northern Ohio Scholastic Press Association Advisory Council which represents 80 schools of that area.

1953

Oliver L. Welsh is speech and hearing therapist at the Executive Division of the Speech and Hearing Center in Greenville, South Carolina,

First Lt, David E. Jackson is stationed with the Army's 71st Infantry Division in Alaska,

Rene Aybar is an architectural draftsman for Bodman y Murrell 6? Smith Architects, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

David L, Brown is an electrical engineer for Goodyear Aircraft in Cleveland.

Donald C, Long, a radar air control operator, is stationed in Japan.

Lt. John Richard Buziarh is stationed in Pyongyong, Korea, as supply officer with the 547th Ammunition Service Supply Depot of the Air Force. Mrs. Buzzard is the former ViRGiNA Lee Davis,

Lt, George L, Carruthers. a photo- radar intelligence officer, has been sent to Germany, where he is with the 497th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron.

Vernon L. Ahrendt has been made a representative of the Ohio Oil Company in Columbus, after completing a sales trainee program in Dayton. Mrs. Ahrendt is the former Eleanor Z. Brown, '^l.

1954

Janet Anne Maxton is teaching in the Cleveland Schools,

Harold "Doc" Daugherty is medical officer for the 31st Field Artillery stationed in Korea. He and the former June Cotner, "33, were married June 19, 19,34.

Jack H. Kugelman teaches in a Ports- mouth junior high school,

Lt, Harold C, Bolton recently arrived in Germany where he is stationed at an Engineers depot at Heidleburg.

Janelle Adcock and Dorothy L. Brandeberry share an apartment in Colum- bus where Janelle is a kindergarten teacher at Glenmont and Indian Springs schools and Dorothy teaches commercial subjects at Crestview Jr. High School.

Hubert M. Meeker is stationed at the Headquarters of the Army in Alaska.

Cpl. Richard E. Main, an air operations clerk, recently participated in extensive field training maneuvers in Germany.

Diana Schliltz appears regularly on the Spade Cooley TV show originating in Hollywood, Her professional name is Diana Hale. She is rooming with a former OU classmate, Victoria Francis.

By Robert J. Richardson, '55

BENEFITS TO mankind, not bene- fits to oneself, are the measure of a man's success, Arthur A, Brainerd's contributions quaHfy him as a success with all the force of this philo.sophy.

Dr, Brainerd was graduated from Ohio University in 1915, was ap- pointed Illuminating Engineer of the Philadelphia Electric Co, in 1928, and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from his alma mater in 1954; these are the high- lights of his career. However, as in a painting, highlights depend on the middle tones, which in Dr, Brainerd's case have been testing, teaching, in- venting and writing,

A native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hartford High School, he became a test engineer after re- ceiving his B,S. degree. He left this work in 1918 and entered the teach- ing profession as head of the electri- c,d department of the Danbury State Trade School in Connecticut,

Further progress took him to the University of New Hampshire in 1920 as an instructor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Four years later he became assistant illuminating engineer for the Philadelphia Electric Co,, where he has contributed his in- ventiveness for the last 27 years.

During the period 1924-28, he con- ducted several original investigations on the effect of light on sales and the effect of light on production. His paper on "Quality Industrial Light- ing" won the James H, McGraw Award as the best paper on an engi- neering subject in 1927,

Dr. Brainerd was appointed illum- inating Engineer of the Philadelphia Electric Co, in 1928; he still holds this title, and during the succeeding years these major contributions emerged:

He has had over 200 articles pub- lished on various phases of lighting and has presented many convention papers, including school lighting, be- fore the Commission Internationale de

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I'Eclairage (CIE) in Holland in 1939. He has engineered many unusual effects and he has originated .several new practices, such as combining mer- cury and incandescent lamps in one luminaire and the use of light finishes of varying hues and all-luminous ceil- ings for the improvement of industrial lighting. He has written and produced four motion picture films on lighting subjects, three of which have received wide-spread use both here and abroad.

A recent development by Dr, Brainerd is the toll highway lighting unit which is the first of its kind. It was judged the "Big Idea of the Month" by a Philadelphia TV station on March 8, and is designed to take the hazards out of high-speed night driving.

Dr. Brainerd is currently president of the United States National Com- mittee of the CIE, and chairman of the International Papers Committee and International Program Commit- tee, He plans to attend the 195'! inter- national sessions at Zurich, Switzer- land, this June. He has also held many offices and committee chairmanships in other engineering and scientific organizations,

Mrs, Brainerd is the former Zella Knoll, '14.

Lt. John Barry Smith, a navigator, is at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas.

Sally Antoinette Richards is assistant buyer for the Higbee Company, Cleveland,

Robert Keith Lehman is in pilot train- ing at Graham Air Force Base, Florida,

Allan S. Baillie is an engineer for the Boling Airplane Company, Seattle, Wash- ington.

Joyce Ma.mne Young is a recreation leader for the Air Force, stationed on Okinawa.

Lt, William L, Wolfe recently gradu- ated from the Infantry School's basic officers course at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

PvT. Charles M. Frank is stationed with the Ninth Division Band at Goeppingen, Germany.

Richard Judson is with the 7th Army Band, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. His fiancee, Jo Anne Jarvi. will go to Germany next month, and the couple will be married at Stuttgart June 18.

1955

Lt. Donald Gray Seymour is stationed at Ft, Bragg, North Carolina.

Theodore Lotz is a sales trainee for the Anchor Hocking Glass Company in Lancaster.

John J. Bounds has joined the advertising staff of the Columbus Dispatch.

May. 1955

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Elizabeth Louise Snow. "54, Elyria, to Lt. Glenn E. Romanek. '?4, Akron, Dec. 26, 1954.

Roberta Wohlberg, Rockville Center, to David Levine, '48, Forest Hills, L. I., N. Y., Dec. 12, 1954.

Patricia Fleischer, "51, Brooklyn, N. Y., to Leon H. Cohen, Syracuse University grad- uate, Apr. 3, 1954.

Elizabeth H. Manwell, '50, San Fran- cisco, Calif., to Arthur G. Falk, San Fran- cisco, Dartmouth graduate, January 8.

Kathryn M. Strohmeyer. "51, Dayton, to Donald F. Williams, March 5.

Lois Weinbrecht, '55, Springfield, to Michael Nichols, April 9.

Janet Linscott. '52, Amesville, to Virgil E. Scott, Athens, R. D., April 9.

Jeri Stein, Columbus, to John Bowman. '55, Columbus, March 20.

Diana Mae Johnson, Columbus, to Wil- liam P. Hedl, '51, Leetonia, March 19.

Loretta Anne Fink, Mansfield, to Gordon H. Ensmincer. '32, Mansfield, February 5.

Shirley A. Cody. "50, Rocky River, to Rodney C. Barrincton. '51, Lima, Jan. 22, 1954.

Evelyn Werline, Cincinnati, to John Lion. "55, Cincinnati, March 5.

Ruth E. Coffman. "45, Marietta, to Wil- burn C. Garrett, Marshall College graduate, Culloden, W. Va., March 26.

Ardeth Diane Schultz, Des Moines, Iowa, to Arthur W. Engelhard. '50, Bellbrook, March 26.

Lois Marie Gumming, Gates Mills, to William A. Elton. '52, Cleveland, March

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Twin girls, Janet Dee and Marian Louise, to Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Mueller (Hallie Smith. '46), Reed City, Mich., March 23.

Alice Jane to Stuart M. Rich. '50, and Mrs. Rich, Louisville, Ky., March 4.

Amy Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wachspress (Natalie Gross, '52), Schenec- tady, Aug. 27, 1954.

Robert Cady to Howard C. Lacy, '45, and Mrs. Lacy, Lorain, January 10.

Mary Beth to DoNALD P. Taylor, '41, and Mrs. Taylor, Jeannette, Pa., March 9.

Robert Louis to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Manuele, (Marian Pollina, '52, M.A. '53), April 2 3. 1954.

Beth \n-n to Lt. and Mrs. Paul Hamelman (Marilyn Brown. "52), Bethesda, Md., February 4.

Joseph Kramer to A. J. "Jack" Hau- schulz. '50, and Mrs. Hauschulz (Joan Kramer, '49), Canton, April 7.

Amy to Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Jones (Amy Kingsland, '37), Jackson, Dec. 7, 1954,

David Charles to Royal D. Fritz. '53, and Mrs. Frits (Jane McLeod, '52), Columbus. February 28.

Debra Lynn, to Paul M. Mowen, Jr.. "54, and Mrs. Mowen, Eau Gallie, Fla., March 28

Joseph March to John Yao and Mrs. Yau (Eleanor Yu. "49), Chicago, 111., March.

Jodie Ann to Donald B. Brill. '54, and Mrs. Brill, Houston, Tex., Nov. 13. 1954.

Michael Ray to Harry Osbun. '53, and Mrs. Osbun, Greenville, Miss., January 6.

Denise Lyn to Richard E. Graham, '53, and Mrs. Graham, Marion, February 24.

Paula Parks to William Howe. "34, and Mrs. Howe (Martha Pergrin. '36), Nel- sonville, March 7.

Margaret Theresa to Edward J. Coyne. '52, and Mrs. Coyne (Johanna Dauoherty, '47), Cleveland, March 9.

Julie Ann to W. Dale Crites. '48, and Mrs. Crites, Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 22, 1954.

Auditors Needed

A critical need for civilian audi- tors exists with the Army Audit Agency. This agency is responsible for the performance of internal and contract audits for the Department of the Army. All positions are filled hy Federal Civil Service appointments and include such fringe benefits as an- nual and sick leave privileges, a re- tirement program and optional group life insurance coverage.

Vacancies exist in Baltimore, Pitts- burgh, Philadelphia, Columbus, and Cleveland, as well as in other major cities of this and foreign countries. Starting salaries range from $4,21)5 to $9,600.

For information write to the Staff Manager, Philadelphia Regional Of- fice, Army Audit Agency, 2800 South 20th Street, Philadelphia 45, Pennsylvania.

Donald Jr. to Donald Koran, '48, and Mrs. Koran, Long Beach, Calif., January 6.

Twin sons, Gary Edward and Larry Arthur to Edward H. Gross. '54, and Mrs. Gross (Esther Dietz. "54), Ft. Lee, Va., February 28.

Charles Louis to John L. Stahl. "51, and Mrs. Stahl (Mary Drobnic. "47), Albany. February 7.

Michele Kay to Paul James Lewis. '39, and Mrs. Lewis, Athens, March 13.

Vernon Lee II to Vernon Lee Ahrendt, '53, and Mrs. Ahrendt (Eleanor Brown. '51), Dec. 11, 1954.

Timothy Robert to Robert Scheel. '50, and Mrs. Scheel (Jane Grover. '50), Forest Park, 111., March 7.

Deborah to Robert Mathias, '50, and Mrs. Mathias (Phyllis Slothers, '48), Cleveland, March 9.

Jeffry Michel to Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Rogers (Betty Hines. '45), Maple Heights, January 13.

Deborah to George Novotny. Jr.. '50, and Mrs. Novotny (Emo.iean Greene. '49), Lakewood, February 7.

Michael Kevin to Herbert Nolo, Jr.. '49, and Mrs. Nold (Marcella Lonergan. '49), Euclid, February 15.

Deborah Elizabeth to Peter Billy, "51, and Mrs. Billy (DoROTHY Howden. "52), Olmsted, January 25.

Robert Charles to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mohlar (Betty Evans, "44), Cleveland, January 10.

John Philip to Raymond A. Strekal. "51, and Mrs. Strekal, (Annabelle White. "46), St. Louis, Mo., February 25.

Susan Kay to John E. Barker. "49, and Mrs. Barker, Middletown, November 9.

David Fielding to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Faulkner (Margaret Nesbitt. "53), Urbana, March 19.

Jessica Louise to Rene Aybar. '53, and Mrs. Abyar (Janice Gates. "53), Baton Rouge, La., January 17.

Lynn Elizabeth to John R. Buzzard, "53, and Mrs. Buzzard (Virginia Davis, '53), Marietta, March 8.

Carl Thomas to Anthony Cavallaro. "41, and Mrs. Cavallaro, Metuchen, N. J., April 5.

William Coate to Tony Smith, '50, and Mrs. Smith (Sarajane Coate, "52), Parma, March 6.

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Joel B. Draper, '48, Athens County prosecuting attorney, died March 18 from internal hemorrhages caused by cancer. He had been in ill health for two months, but his death was unexpected. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Dalrymple, '49, a son, Joel Clark, 21/2. ^ daughter, Mary Jo, lYl, his parents, a sister, and his grandfather.

Charles D. Giauque, former Ohio University instructor of physical education who wrote the words and music to the song "Beloved Ohio," died March 30 at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D. C. He was 63. Mr. Giauque's composition, one of the favorite Ohio University songs, was copyrighted in 1931. At the time of his death, Mr. Giauque was minister of music for the Rockville Baptist Church in Washington.

Henry Y. Wilson, "29, died January 16 at Coral Gables, Florida. He leaves his mother, Mrs. H. M. Wilson, and a sister, Sara Wilson, "34, of Coral Gables.

Freda Wood. '28, died March 28 at Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis. She was on leave from the faculty of Cheshire Schools during her illne.'is.

Fred WRUiHT, '41, Nelsonville insurance agent, died April 16 while being taken to the hospital following a heart attack in his home. Mr. Wright had taught in Hocking County schools until five years ago when he entered the insurance business. He is survived by his widow, his mother, and three sisters.

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The Ohio Alumnus

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umni:

May I extend to you and to President John C. Baker my sincere congratulations upon ten years of brilliant and devoted service to Ohio University.

The benefits that have accrued to not only the University but to all of the State of Ohio as a result of Dr. Baker's leadership are manifest.

The development of outstanding students, the success of OU's teaching program and your contribution to higher edu- cation have brought great credit to our University. Without dynamic leadership I feel certain that the vast expansion program which includes the beautiful University Center, dor- mitories, and education buildings would never have advanced as far as they have in such a short period of time.

I wish Ohio University continued success.

Sincerely, Don Campbell Athens County Representative to Ohio's General As>;emb!y

Many people look at the physical plant of Ohio Uni- versity and remark upon the splendid improvement that has been made during the ten years that Dr. John C. Baker has been president. Not only has much progress been made but plans contemplate further expansion.

The fundamental purpose of a university is in the field of education — and even greater accomplishments have been made in this field. The enrollment figures indicate the ever increasing acceptance of the continuing improvement in the level of teaching. This has culminated in the accrediting of more and more academic courses.

All of us associated with the University can be proud of the progress which has been made and can look forward to even greater accomplishments under the direction of President John C. Baker.

Sincerely yours, Joseph B. Hall President of The Kroger Co. Chairman of the Ohio University Board of Trustees

It is certainly a pleasure for me to represent the students of Ohio University in a tribute to our president. Dr. John C. Baker.

In a material form, through Dr. Baker's supervision, we students see such things as the East Green dormitories. Uni- versity Center, golf course, and many other improvements being planned and started. His attitude toward student government has made Ohio University known across the United States.

The right for student participation in faculty committee, judicial, and student governmental procedures, together with his respect for student opinion, has strengthened the con- fidence of the students of Ohio University. His sincerity and desire to work personally with students have helped to make him the respected president he is.

Sincerely,

Art Aspengren

President of Student Council

Your Association is honored to have the opportunity to report to you on the occasion of Dr. John C. Baker's tenth anniversary as president of Ohio University. As alumni I know you will share with me and the other officers representing you the pride and the accomplishments that have resulted from his leadership. We pay tribute to him for his devotion to our alma mater and for the spirit of friendliness and the emphasis of quality that continues to make Ohio University a great institution.

As alumni we share in this unprecedented ten years, for it was during this period that the revitalization of the alumni program took roots and received his encouragement and the administration's financial help so necessary at that time. His confidence in alumni of OU and his desire to meet with them throughout the country, have given impetus to a renewed relationship which all of us are enjoying today. I'm sure I speak for all alumni when I express appreciation to him for extending this leadership to the Alumni Association.

We look to the future of Ohio University with a great deal of enthusiasm. I say with confidence that President Baker has the support of all of us in the years ahead, and that this support shall be exemplified in the interest shown by alumni in the affairs of the University and the Association.

Sincerely,

Russell P. Herrold

President, Ohio University Alumni Association

The tenth anniversary of Dr. John C. Baker's presidency is indeed a major milestone in the history of Ohio University. It is an appropriate time to review the achievements that have been made during this decade of Dr. Baker's leadership. That tremendous progress has been made in the develop- ment of the physical plant is evidenced on every hand. And no one would minimize the importance of adequate buildings and physical facilities. There are, however, other realms of accomplishment which, though less obvious, are even more crucial in the building of a great university. It is in certain of these areas that members of the faculty are e-specially cog- nizant of the contributions made by President Baker.

I believe that the following are worthy of especial mention :

1 . His determinations that Ohio University shall be an institution where quality is of greater concern than quantity. 1. His recognition of the fact that good teaching must always remain the primary concern of the University. .V His wholehearted and continuous efforts to in- voke the fullest participation of the faculty in the determination of University policies. The past ten years have been marked by great accom- plishments. The faculty — along with students, alumni, trustees and all friends of Ohio University — look forward to an era of even greater achievement under President Baker in the years ahead.

Sincerely,

Ray H. Gusteson

Chairman

Faculty Advisor)' Council

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