SPARTAN ALUM N I M A <? A L I N fc. MICHIGAN STATE MICHIGAN STATE CQUHfig UmARY COLLEGE Colorful Comments From the Papers A random sampling of the reporters' views on M.S.C. at the Rose Bowl PASADENA —Out this way they'll remember New Year's Day, 1954, as the day green lightning struck the Rose Bowl—the day Michigan State reeled, Alumni in Kansas City, Mo. welcome the Spartan marching band and present band then rallied and raced past U.C.L.A. in director Leonard Falcone with a scroll and key to the city. Left to right, M. H. Small, a touchdown eruption as dramatic per­ '22, J. J. Dobbs, Oldsmobile executive, L. P. Cookingham, city manager, Col. W. A. haps as anything ever staged below these Schulgen, '26, and Judd Cash, '25. hazy mountains. Bert McGrane After all the players had piled in, the stadium area. Des Moines Register Coach Biggie Munn blew his whistle. Automobiles flying the Michigan State His voice was choked and he was nearly colors made themselves heard throughout in tears as he told his team: the area. Cover "I've never been so proud of a game The homeward journey started for in my life. I want to thank all of you. many. Hundreds more will depart on There were gala days for Michigan There are tears in my eyes, but I can't Sunday, but a number who came here by State College in Pasadena and vicinity help it. I appreciate it so much. Let's motor car plan to take their time and during the holidays. And the most gala say a prayer." drive through Arizona, New Mexico, day of all was the big Rose Bowl game Texas, and other southern states on their The entire squad went to their knees with all its color and pageantry. The return trip. and some were weeping as they prayed. cover picture by Prisk Paddock, Pasa­ Lansing State Journal dena Star-News, shows the M.S.C. "God bless you," said Munn as the marching band in formation during the prayer ended. spectacular half-time show. Four extra Associated Press It was our pleasure to have luncheon pages have been added to this issue for Des Moines Register with President Hannah after the con­ complete coverage of Rose Bowl activ­ ference. Our host was an old friend, Russ Simmons, Michigan State alumnus, ities— the game, the spectacle, the They've got bigger things in cracker- alumni events. See pages 8 -13. former great sailing yacht helmsman and jack boxes than what Michigan State a top executive in the Sunkist Growers' put on the field yesterday. Association. There probably is no other college But never was anything crammed with There again Dr. Hannah proved his band in the country to compare with more heart and hustle than those little loyalty to intercollegiate athletics and the Michigan Staters. They play well, green-shirted guys from Lansing, the added to this his deep-seated theories march with the precision of West Point­ newest dot on the Big Ten map. that the success of our nation's future ers (if not with the same stately dignity) They were battered and beaten, phys­ rests with the proper administration of and engage in mid-field precision stunts ically and numerically, in the first half, our colleges and universities. which would make the Rockettes turn then gamely rebounded in the second We here and now apologize to Dr. green with envy. to soundly thrash UCLA. John A. Hannah for our too hasty con­ Alan Ward, Sports Editor Bob Hunter demnation of his work as chairman of San Francisco Tribune Los Angeles Examiner the American Council on Education's president's committee. The scene in the Michigan State dress­ The thousands who came here from We welcome the fact that he's a cham­ ing room after the Rose Bowl game was Michigan to witness the Rose Bowl game pion for intercollegiate athletics. as crammed with emotion as the game celebrated the Spartan victory far into Paul Zimmerman was with thrills. the night after the traffic cleared from Los Angeles TIMES Sports Editor THE RECORD Vol. 59—No. 1 DEAN BROWN, Editor January 1954 A. WESTLEY ROWLAND, Editorial Advisor DICK GOODROW, Editorial Assistant STARR H. KEESLER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, 27, Recorder; FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; TED EMERY, Assistant Sports Editor; JOHN MCGOFF, '50, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations; MADISON KTJHK and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians; EARL C. RICHARDSON, Agricultural Editor; BARBARA BROWN, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Informa­ tion Services. Campus pictures by WILBUR M. NELSON, BOB BROWN, WALTER E. THURN. Member of the American Alumni Council, THE RECORD is published seven times a year by THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Michigan State College. Entered as second class matter at East Lansing, Michigan, under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. 5510 The Campus in January, 1954 NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- ing these educational needs, continued FOUR arrived on a still campus; a efforts were made to provide as much campus barren of students, nearly barren individual attention as possible. For of faculty and staff members. It was example, the average class section in a ghost campus on January 1, 1954, just 1953 in the Basic College had only 32 as it is always on New Year's Day. students. There were 128 courses of But this New Year's Day was differ­ study offered during the year, 65 of ent—different than any New Year's Day them on the graduate level. in the history of Michigan State College. In the physical plant, continued build­ Students and faculty and staff were not ing was underway in 1953. Housing fa­ just at home for the holiday. They were cilities including new residence halls to in California this New Year's Day, repre­ house 2,700 men were under construc­ senting their university at the annual tion. The first unit, Butterfield Hall, New $b-million library Rose Bowl game. For suddenly it seemed was opened in late September. These that the whole campus had moved to units are constructed on a self-liquidat­ Pasadena—students, faculty and staff, ing basis and at no expense to the public. plus thousands of alumni. To those who Three 12-unit apartment buildings for attended the Rose Bowl game and to married students were under construc­ those who were there via television or tion with one completed and the other in spirit, it was obvious that another two to be finished in early 1954. In its milestone in the colorful history of December, 1953 meeting, the State Board Michigan State College was reached on of Agriculture revealed that it hopes to this New Year's Day. begin construction of a $l-million mar­ ried student housing project by April. This construction will also be self- liquidating without cost to the public. Qround'breaking Back on the East Lansing campus there was evidence of another milestone in Overseas the history of M.S.C. Between the exist­ ing library and Wells Hall, behind Beal will be located behind On the international scene in 1953, Botanical Gardens and the library annex, Michigan State expanded its services were mountainous snow-capped hills of and provided benefits of its experiences dirt, huge power shovels, great and and know-how to the people of many monstrous-looking earth-moving ma­ countries. chines. They were evidence that work The most recent endeavor was to help had begun on the much-needed, long- establish the first school of business awaited library—a library adequate to administration in Brazil. Participation the needs of more than 14,000 students. in this project by M.S.C. is being financed The Michigan legislature had author­ by the U.S. Technical Cooperation Ad­ ized construction and had appropriated ministration. Two members of the M.S.C. the first $1,000,000 of the proposed business school faculty will serve as $4,000,000-cost for the new edifice. It -present library buildings. technical advisors each year. will contain space for one million vol­ Other M.S.C. international programs umes, and will house 100 faculty research continued in effect at such widely scat­ rooms, 200 cubicles for graduate stu­ tered points as India, Colombia, and the dents and a specially-equipped reading Ryukyu Islands in the East China Sea. room for blind students. In a program unique in American educa­ Photographs in the center column of tion, M.S.C. "adopted" for the third con­ this page show the library site as earth- secutive year the University of the breaking was begun. College officials Ryukyus on Okinawa, America's "West­ hope the new building will be completed ern Gibraltar." Five M.S.C. faculty by 1955, M.S.C.'s Centennial year. members are serving at the infant uni­ There were many indications of con­ versity. tinued progress on the M.S.C. campus Ihe ninety-ninth year began with jubi­ as 1953 came to a close. On the threshold lation and the feeling that 1954 would of its 99th year, Michigan State main­ be another year of progress, and a tained its position as first-of-all a uni­ further realization of its heritage as a versity dedicated to the educational needs cosmopolitan university serving the peo­ of more than 14,000 students. In serv- ple of the state, the nation and the world. 853B43 'Dance Ballerina Dance' THE DANCE is never ended for dancers Piano Quartet, and the St. Paul's of Sadler's Wells Ballet company which Cathedral Choir from London.