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Wright State University CORE Scholar WSU NEWS Office of Communications 1-12-1973 WSU NEWS November-December, 1973 Office of Communications,right W State University Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/wsu_news Part of the Mass Communication Commons Repository Citation Office of Communications,right W State University (1973). WSU NEWS November-December, 1973. : Wright State University. This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Office of Communications at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in WSU NEWS by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. N cTES E vENTS WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY November - December, 1973 Volume 4, Number 7 Dr. Robert Kegerreis inaugurated as Wright State's second president (see page 2) 2 Inauguration - dedication More than 1000 persons see Kegerreis inaugurated Robert J. Kegerreis, 52, was conventional students, but we must 1969 as dean of the College of inaugurated November 27 as the keep trying." Business and Administration. He had second president of Wright State Kegerreis received his Ph.D. from been chairman of the marketing University before a crowd of more Ohio State University in 1968, department at Ohio University. than a thousand persons gathered in following a successful career which The University Library, a triangular the University's new $5 million included service with the Federal four story concrete building, was Physical Education Building. Reserve Bank and in management of a completed this past summer at a cost The inauguration was part of a joint chain of retail stores in eastern Ohio. of $5 million. It has a capacity of ceremony which included the With his wife, Kay, a native of 320,000 bound volumes and includes a dedication of the new University Dayton, Kegerreis lives in Rockafield separate wing to house the University's Library. Governor john J. Gilligan was House, the official presidential television facilities. the principal speaker for the residence on the University campus. The library this month became the dedication. They have two children. repository of the personal papers of Kegerreis took the oath of office Kegerreis assumed the presidency Orville and Wilbur Wright, including from Robert S. Oelman, chairman of on July 1, 1973, following two years scientific texts used by the inventors the Wright State board of trustees, and as the University's vice president and of the first successful powered donned the gold trimmed black director of administration. A Detroit airplane, family documents and presidential robe. native, he came to Wright State in memorabilia of their careers. The president, in his inaugural address, made the first announcement of receipt of the largest gift in the nine year history of the University. The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation of Dayton has donated $500,000 to the Wright State University medical school, now in its final planning stages. (See story opposite page.) Elsewhere in his inaugural address, entitled, "The University in the Un certain Seventies," Kegerreis outlined four immediate objectives for WSU: further to refine our undergraduate programs; to enlarge judiciously our graduate educational programs; to develop greater capabilities in the health sciences; and to make sig nificant strides in offering lifelong educational opportunity at Wright State. The last point he called "perhaps the greatest challenge on the horizon for higher education- the growing real ization that lifelong education will become a virtual necessity by the end of the century." He went on to say that "at Wright State we realize that we're probably going to encounter some new prob lems as we make higher education With a little friendly help from Robert S. Oelman, (right) chairman of the available and attractive to non- WSU board of trustees, Dr. Robert J. Kegerreis dons his inaugural robes. 3 WSU attempting to press plans for med school FORDHAM MEDICAL LIBRARY WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY President Robert J. Kegerreis re Architect's Conception sponded to press reports that the Governor's Task Force on Health Care will not recommend the creation of a WSU medical school at a recent meet ing of Wright State's Academic Council. "Officially and privately we are attempting to press on with the de velopment of our medical school," Kegerreis told the body. He said the advisory search com mittee evaluating candidates for medical school dean has submitted the names of more than 15 persons for interviews. "We are very impressed by their qualifications and philosophies," University gets its largest gift he said. "Most come from existing medical schools which they think are for Fordham Medical Library not responding to needs. We are reas Announcement of the largest gift ever part of a medical sciences building, sured that our proposal can attract received by Wright State University one of only two new buildings to be people of quality to head our school." was a surprise part of the inauguration constructed for the new school. Those Responding to reports that the task ceremonies of Dr. Robert J. Kegerreis two buildings, plus existing facilities force favors graduate education as the University's second president. on campus, will be used for the centers instead of new community Kegerreis revealed that the Thomas pre-clinical training of the medical based medical schools such as Wright B. Fordham Foundation of Dayton students. All clinical training will be State's, he said: "The depressing part is has donated $500,000 to the Wright conducted in hospitals, clinics and their reasons. They claim our proposal State University Medical school, other health agencies in the greater is too costly and does not attack the recently approved by the Ohio General Dayton area. problem of retention of physicians in Assembly and now in the final "This gift will be used to accelerate the area. These arguments are phony planning stages. acqu1s1t1on of library holdings," and they offer no data to support "This magnificent gift," Kegerreis Kegerreis said, "and will enable us to them." said, "will be used for the provide a first rate library much faster Capital costs for the WSU program establishment of the Fordham Medical than we had hoped. To have this gift are $6 million for two buildings on Library at the new school." volunteered before we had any chance campus. The General Assembly has Thomas B. Fordham, who died to inform the community of ways it already appropriated the money. about 20 years ago, was an executive could support the medical school is 'This is not particularly dis at the Frigidaire Division of General the kind of investment and couraging," the president concluded. Motors. The Foundation was encouragement that we appreciate "It's mainly infuriating." established by his family in his very much." memory. In making the announcement to the "Mr. Fordham was vitally more than one thousand persons in interested in education and was a civic attendance at the inauguration, leader in Dayton," according to Kegerreis noted that the University Chester Finn, a trustee of the w a s born after a $6 million foundation. "His family believes the community fund drive in 1962. The Wright State medical school is a fitting Fordham Foundation gift, he said, way to perpetuate those interests." recognizes "that a high level of The medical library is to be built as community support continues today." 4 WSU acquires Wright Brothers papers )IH.UHll't< T•!f'.I.\ ~n .-r. \\utlwr. .91-r ~. ~ ~ .e,:;:o;. "i-Ui.. cff«_ ~ .~W:I' A,,.,,,,( ~ f~ · loaned by "''A:t:~,~~ 'f Ha- i::?~-e. ,,.,~ . • niece of the 4'J, (~J~...4~ brothers Af ~ ~...,.. - 'Jl"'~) ' Bishop Milton Wright, father of the ,,, Thrr \Vuthu. pioneer fliers, recorded the historic event of December 17, 1903, in his diary, now in the Wright Brothers collection in the Wright State Uni versity library. The brothers Wright were methodical opinions, and in some cases, their Church, kept a diary from 1857 to men. correction of work done by such 1917. His early career as a That observation is easily made eminent pioneers as Samuel P. circuit-riding preacher is vividly after only a brief examination of a Langley." described. In his later years, many significant new collection acquired by In addition to works by Langley, references are made to his sons' the Wright State University Library. the collection includes rare magazines experiments and to letters from them. Mrs. lvonette Miller of Dayton, niece and articles by Octave Chanute and "The diaries are an invaluable of Orville and Wilbur Wright, has Otto Lilienthal whose works record of the Wright family's named the University as repository of influenced the Dayton brothers. relationships," Nolan said. the brothers' personal collection of Another major part of the The world knows the Wright papers, books, photos, family collection involves the photographic Brothers as bicycle makers in addition documents and memorabilia. documentation the brothers made of to their aeronautical work but few Formal presentation of the each stage of their experiments. The know they also tried their hands at collection was held November 18, in negatives of these pictures are in the journalism . In 1888 and 1889 they connection with the dedication of Library of Congress, which also has an published a newspaper in Dayton Wright State's new $5 million library extensive collection of Wright known as the West Side News. From on November 27. material, but the Wright State copies in the Wright Brothers The collection dispels the popular collection has the brothers' original collection it appeared to have been image of the Wright Brothers as gifted positives. Since some of their negatives little competition to the principal amateurs who tinkered with the were damaged in the flood that hit papers in the city which probably airplane until it suddenly fl ew, Dayton in 1913, this collection has expains the newspaper's short life.