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~L,>}.·.~",?5)~i:.::;:\ 1 for the BIENNIU1VL ',"-,,>,"L/".'.,',I end.ing JUNE 30, 1.961. BALL STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE BULLETIN REPORT of the PRESIDENT 2 Introduction Instructional 3 4 Faculty .A.:ffairs 8 Grants MEMBERS OF 8 Burris School 8 Graduate Program THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE 9 Extended Services 10 Convocations BOARD Student 11 President A. M. Bracken, Muncie 11 Registrar and Admissions .A.:ffairs 14 Health Services Vice President Roberts C. Hill, Bruceville 14 Religious Activities Secretary Kenneth D. Osborn, La Porte 14 International Students 14 Counseling and Testing Assistant Secretary Thelma Ballard, Marion 14 Placement Bureau State Superintendent William E. Wilson, 14 Student Housing of Schools Indianapolis (ex-officio) 15 Student Activities 16 Student Financial Aids Consulting Treasurer Frank B. Bernard, Muncie Ball State Teachers College President John R. Emens, Muncie Public 17 Ball State Teachers College 17 Development .A.:ffairs 18 Publications 18 News Bureau 19 Display Service 19 Radio and Television 20 Alumni Relations 20 Conferences 20 Traffic, Safety, and Security BALL STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE BULLETIN Volume XXXVII Number 4, June, 1962 ::Business 21 Ball State Teachers College Bulletin published quarterly by Ball 21 Current Operations State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana. Entered as second-class .A.:ffairs 23 Capital Outlay and Rehabilitation matter December 10, 1932, at the post office at Muncie, Indiana, 23 Demolition under the act of August 24, 1912. 24 Gifts and Grants 1 To the State Teachers College Board and Other Friends of Ball State Teachers College Ten years ago, in my report for the biennium ending June 30, 1951, the words "the mushrooming enrollments now in ele mentary and secondary schools will reach the colleges beginning in 1960" served as a prelude to discussion of the pressing needs such increased enrollment would involve--needs for additional physical facilities, for selective recruitment of students to meet the increasing demand for public school teachers, for curricular changes and development of new areas of service, for further development of effective graduate instruction. In the ensuing decade, as Ball State Teachers College pre pared to meet these various needs, the many programs offered by the College were expanded. Expansion, in turn, necessitated reorganization, particularly in the area of instructional affairs. This reorganization was of central concern during the biennium ending June 30, 1961, which this report covers. The band rehearsal room is in the music area of the extension to the Music-English-Auditorium Plans were formulated to reorganize the instructional affairs Building. The extension, constructed during the 1959-61 biennium, .includes the coll~ge area, administered by the Vice President of Instructional Affairs theater and the communications area as well as the musIc rehearsal section. and Dean of Faculties, into three divisions under the direction of separate deans and into three staff program areas headed by associate deans. The Fine and Applied Arts Division includes Instructional the departments of Air Science, Art, Business Education, Home Economics, Industrial Arts, Library Science, Music, and Physi cal Education; the Education Division includes the department .A.:ffairs of Education, Psychology, and Special Education, as well as Burris Laboratory School; the Sciences and Humanities Division Innovations in the Instructional Affairs area at Ball State includes the departments of English, Foreign Language, Mathe Teachers College during the 1959-61 biennium have been numer matics, Science, and Social Science. The program areas are ous and varied, designed to meet the. challenges to higher edu Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Programs, and Instructional cation in the 1960's. Services. A distinct honor to Ball State Teachers College is that it is This organizational plan, the result of a series of studies by the first state teachers college to be given preliminary accredita faculty members and administrative officials, was authorized by tion by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary the State Teachers College Board to become effective September, Schools (NCA) to offer the Doctor of Philosophy in Education 1961, as most appropriate for Ball State Teachers College at degree and the Doctor of Education degree in social science this stage of development. teacher education and in elementary education. Granted in June, The report that follows summarizes many other significant 1961, the accreditation followed the visit in May of an NCA activities of the biennium-not all of them, but enough to illus team which evaluated the proposed doctoral programs developed trate the continuing dynamic development of Ball State Teachers during the preceding five years by the Graduate Council and its College. Respectfully submitted, doctoral subcommittee, in cooperation with the faculty and staff. The Honors Program, formulated in the preceding biennium to challenge the interests and abilities of the gifted student, was begun in the autumn quarter of 1959 with an enrollment of 94 freshmen; in 1960, the program was extended to the sophomore 2 3 class. During the 1961-63 biennium, the program will embrace RESEARCH AND Dr. Alfred H. Marks, associate professor of English, "The Progress of Vision mark," the junior and senior years. WRITING Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide, In 1959, the course Introduction to College Life was assigned January, 1960. Books Dr. Thomas R. Mertens, assistant professor to the academic area of the college. An unusual community contribution v¢'as of science, "Intrasomatic Selection of Radia To give beginning freshmen the opportunity to start college made by the college through the work of Dr. tion-induced Mutations in the Tomato," immediately after graduating from high school and complete a John W. Hannaford, head of department and pp. 229-31 in the book High School Biology: professor of social science, in his publication, Biological Investigations for Secondary School full quarter's work during the summer, the Summer Quarter An Economic Base Study of Muncie and Students (402 pp.), published by the American was introduced in 1960. Summer Quarter is a ten-week term Delaware County, 1960. Institute of Biological Science (A.E.B.S.) 1961. Dr. Evelyn M. Luecking, associate professor which operates at the same pace as does a regular quarter during Miss Ellen Nicholson, manager of dining of education, was coauthor of Education of service in residence halls, "An Easy Kitchen the academic year. Seventy-five students enrolled the first Sum the Gifted, published by Ronald Press. to Work In," College and University Business, mer Quarter; 150, the second. Dr. Richard A. Hoops, instructor of English March 1960. and out-patient clinician, authored Speech In 1960, Ball State Teachers College became one of the par Mr. Thomas G. Overmire, assistant profes Science, published in December, 1960. sor of science, "The Sixth Sense-Nonsense?" ticipants in the Midwest Program on Airborne Television In Dr. Robert H. Cooper, head of department Am. Biology Teacher, 23:139-40, 1961. struction. Participation included the assignment of a faculty and professor of science, was the author of Dr. Merrill Rippy, assistant professor of Christy Woods, published in 1961. social science, "Theory of History; Twelve member as coordinator of the public schools in the area receiving Dr. David Shepard, associate professor of Mexicans," The Americas, January, 1961. MPATI programs and the conduct of a workshop in July, 1960, English, was the coauthor of Handbook for Dr. Robert M. Swanson, head of depart Beginning Debaters, published in May, 1960. to acquaint school personnel with the plans for MPATI and to ment and associate professor of business edu~ Dr. Thomas Wetmore, head of department cation, "The Teaching of Bookkeeping," Mon provide training in the classroom use of televised instruction as and professor of English, authored Low-Back ograph No. 101 (coauthor) South-Western well as information on the equipment needed in each school. and Low-Central Vowels in the Eastern United Publishing Company, Cincinnati, 1960 (67 States, published by the American Dialect In recognition of the increasing importance of educational pages). Society, 1960. Dr. Anthony L. Tovatt, professor of English, research, an Office of Research was established in 1960 to co "Two Basic Convictions about Teaching Lit ordinate the total research program of the college. Articles erature," The English Journal, November, In 1960, the United States government designated Ball State Dr. Dorothy E. Crunk, assistant professor 1960. of business education, "Business Education Dr. Robert L. Tyler, associate professor of Teachers College as a depository for government publications. Conference," November, 1960, The Ball State social science, "In Lieu of Money," Journal Nineteen Indiana school systems joined with Ball State Commerce Journal. of Higher Education, April, 1960. Teachers College in January, 1961, to form the first Indiana Mr. Maurice J. Eash, assistant professor of education, "Non-class Activities," Review Public School Study Council, to promote continued improvement of Educational Research, February, 1960. NATIONAL AND STATE of educational programs and services. Dr. Lois T. Hartley, assistant professor of English, "Edgar Lee Masters, Biographer and PROFESSIONAL A major advance was made in 1960 by adding FORUM to the Historian," Illinois State Historical Journal, ACTIVITY publications of the

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