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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Alumnus Alumni Magazines 12-1-1976 Eastern Alumnus, Winter 1976 Eastern Kentucky University, Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/upubs_alumnus Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, Alumni Association, "Eastern Alumnus, Winter 1976" (1976). Alumnus. Paper 20. http://encompass.eku.edu/upubs_alumnus/20 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Alumni Magazines at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. sreRni e ALUM, LUME 15 / NUMB W (Mneconiiiig Dedusation Ahmuiioii leGame oftbe Riradet Largest ndtbe Laii9r Chaffin, ROriiC Enlbreemeiit f^hambers Enrollmeiit and Steii^art LETIN R, 1976 ^ I 25 The Eastern Kentucky University summer session Summer Session Dates offers educational opportunities to many who cannot attend during the regular term. An extensive offering May 10-June 4 Spring Intersessiji of undergraduate, level, graduate and special workshop Monday, June 14 Registrati and institute courses will be offered. For further Tuesday, June 15 Classes Be;)! information write the Dean of Admissions. Thursday, August 5 Commenceme|t Friday, August 6 Close of Classis August 9-21 August Intersessii ^nivQrsiiy EDITORIAL BOARD onald R. Feltner, vice president for public fairs; J. Wyatt Thurman, director of alum- affairs; Ron G. Wolfe, associate director • alumni affairs; Charles D. Whitlock, rector of public information; John innecke, radio-TV editor; Larry W. Bailey, lotography editor; Don Rist, art director; arl Park, sports information editor; Paul ambert, photographer. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1975-76 lannon Johnson, '61 , '65 President '68 ;tty Bell Mike, . First Vice-President Dm Bonny, '69,'73 Second Vice-President »n McCarty, '50 Past President jnley Manning, '56 President Elect uth Spurlock, '41 ... Vice President Elect )e Alsip, '34 Vice President Elect IRECTORS; Karl Frey, '70, '74; Bill aker, '67, '72; Jimmy Brown, '70; Gayle ines, '70, and the 1975-76 Senior Class esident. jblished biannually as a bulletin of Eastern entucky University for the Eastern Alumni ssociation, and entered at the Post Office Richmond, Kentucky 40475, as Second ass matter. Subscriptions are included in Esociation annual gifts. Address all corres- ndence concerning editorial matter or Eastern East- easTepn culation to: The Alumnus, ]n Kentucky University, Richmond, Ken- WINTER 1976 / VOLUME 15 NO. 1 Icky 40475. I I CONTENTS mn .Unami na CW^ omecoming '75 3 WcdMMd l.albrccinnn History was on parade throughout the annual weekend as the Colonels beat Western before a record crowd at Hanger Field. Ron Wolfe recounts all the excitement of '75's historical homecoming. aw Enforcement, Fire Science, Traffic Safety Center Dedication 10 Doug Whitlock focuses on the new complex and the many facilities I which make it a national model. Included within the article are speeches by Governor Julian Carroll, and Dr. John Rowiett, Vice I President for Academic Affairs. OTC-The Nation's Largest 18 This year Eastern's ROTC program topped the entire United States in enrollment. The reasons for the sustained growth of a program which has declined on many campuses are explored here. ABOUT THE COVER Jumni On Parade 22 Photo highlights of the contents adorn Sedley Stewart, Lillie Chaffin, and Wally Chambers are featured in this issue's cover. From left, the pictures this issue as alumni who have risen in their chosen professions. catch the excitement of a Homecoming booster; Governor Carroll and Henry hronicie 28 Stratton laying the cornerstone of the Paraded alumni, |he Campus 28 Sports .36 Stratton Building; our Lillie Chaffin, Wally Chambers and Sedley Stewart, the color guard of he Student Body 32 The Alumni . .38 and the Nation's largest ROTC unit. Ihe Faculty and Staff 34 Alumni Report .44 INTER, 1976 I Notes . From The Editor's Desk Two of the featured articles in this EKU Alumni should also be interested The enrollment figures showed lit issue of the Alumnus spotlight two as- in the fact that the University's enroll- the freshman class with an increasepf pects of the University of which every ment continues to grow both in terms of 532 students to 4,815 was the arealif Eastern graduate can be justly proud. numbers and in the geographic represen- biggest increase. Women outnumbed Since law enforcement education was tation of the student body. men for the first time in recent year'- begun at Eastern about a decade ago, the This fall's record of 1 3,430 students, a 6,769 to 6,661 — and the percentageiif University has been among the nation's 6.8 per cent increase above the previous out-of-state students remained at 1 leading institutions in what was then a year, represented all 120 Kentucky coun- percent. EKiSi fledgling academic field. Since law en- ties, 41 states, the District of Columbia, forcement education's humble beginnings the Panama Canal Zone and 26 countries. Wanted: One pot-bellied stove, wh here as the only such academic program President Martin credits Eastern's con- poker and coal bucket; old school dejs in the Eastern United States between tinued growth to "our commitment to and other items to equip an autherjc academic programs that fit the one-room school. Michigan and Florida, the field has broad- develop j its historic mission |f ened to many other campuses. modern needs of both young and adiilt Mindful of Eastern, a pioneer in the field, has students." teacher education and of the promimt continued to grow in state, regional, and place held by the one-room school in le national prestige, culminated this past history of public education in Kentuclr, summer with dedication of the $6.5 Eastern is issuing a call for assistare million law enforcement, fire science and from its alumni and friends for dozens f traffic safety center. Considered a na- authentic items to furnish a one-roip tional model for law enforcement educa- schoolhouse being reconstructed on lie tion facilities, it makes Eastern the only campus as a museum. campus in America to boast a center The schoolhouse, donated to the U- devoted exclusively for law enforcement versity by the Eli Sparks family of Esl and criminal justice research and County, is being restored by universe instruction. personnel to serve as a remembrance f And, alumni can also take special pride the period at the turn of the centii/ Eastern as a sti; in the fact that the fall's ROTC enroll- when was founded ment of 1,490 cadets placed Eastern's as normal school (1906) to prepare teachjs for the schools of Kentucky. the largest military science enrollment in | the nation and territories. "The one-room school will serve a^i Second place fell to the three-campus kind of museum in which the memor^ University of Puerto Rico, and Eastern's of this period of the development f total bested the combined Army ROTC public education can be preserved," I enrollments of all other Kentucky Martin said. institutions. "It is essential, I think" Presided Credit for this position of prominence, Martin said, "that every important peri' according to ROTC officials, should go to in the history of educational progress the fine relationship the University has preserved." He added that the one-rocli maintained with the ROTC program dur- school will be of significant interest ing its 40 years on the EKU campus. many thousands of persons, includi Eastern has always taken pride in its modern college and high school studeri ROTC program and even during the late and teachers. 1960's and early '70's, when the military No appropriated funds will be used was low in prestige, the University never the restoration of the school, except tl buckled in its support of the program. use of University maintenance personn No doubt as a result of this and other in its reconstruction. It will stand on tl factors, including the College of Law south portion of the EKU campus, ne Enforcement, Eastern was selected in the Stateland Dairy Center. 1972 as one of ten institutions in a pilot A list of the type of items beir program admitting women to ROTC, and solicited appears on page 44 of t(j the next year as only one of two institu- magazine. Donors of items will be appri tions to offer a branch material program priately recognized in the restored onl for the Military Police Corps. room school house. THE EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ALUMN^ HISTORY ON PARADE omecoming '75 was to have been But the most urgent "historical" event symbolized the kind of week it was for "History On Parade", and the featured the immovable force against the students, faculty, alumni and friends of H thousands who returned for it irresistible object. Eastern. /ere hoping that history would hold It was to have been Western's defense It had been six years since the Kidd ipecial things for them. against Eastern's offense, but after the Colonels had won over their rivals from For Roy Kidd and the football Colo- first 10 minutes of the game, it was Bowling Green. Western sported the lels, they were hoping that history defense against defense. stingiest defense in the conference (52 vouldn't repeat itself. Western had yards per game) while Eastern led the Deaten Eastern for six consecutive years league in offense (398 yards per game). ind the gridders weren't anxious to have But, it was Eastern's defense that ihe string extended. stoled the show as they shook off a first I For returning alumni, history was to quarter score by Western to hold the )e revived with the arrival of old faces Hilltoppers at bay for the last three ,nade a bit unfamiliar with time, and the quarters while intercepting three passes.