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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-6-1947 Bee Gee News August 6, 1947 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "Bee Gee News August 6, 1947" (1947). BG News (Student Newspaper). 826. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/826 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. O'HH •<>!• ( "- N LIBRARY All IJM News that. Wc Print Bee Qee ^IIMOTIII ,0**- Official Stad«l PubJtcatWn M BuwS»g Green State OalTenrrr VOLUME XXXI BOWLING GREEN, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1947 NUMBER 11 Speech Department Enrollment Record Adds Graduate Work Predicted For Fall Dr. C. H. Wesley Speaks To Fall Curriculum Four thousand to 4,200 students are expected to set an all-time en- At Commencement Friday A graduate program has been rollment record this fall, John W. established for next year which Bunn, registrar, said this week. Dr. Charles H. Wesley, president of the state-sponsored will result in changes in the cur- The previous high for the Uni- College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce Uni- riculum of the speech department. versity was 3,9,18. versity, will be the Commencement speaker for the summer- term graduation to be held Friday, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m. in the Prof. Elden T. Smith, chairman Freshman and transfer students will report Sunday, Sept. 14. Up- Auditorium. of the department said. perelassmen who have filled out all Dr. Wesley, who received his degree at Harvard Univei- All courses in speech have been registration cards, but have not sity, was president of Wilberforce re-numbered to conform to an paid their fees, must report to pay from 1942 to June 1917. lie had them Tuesday, Sept. lti. Dr. C. H. Wesley orderly pattern, putting all courses done much to promote the educa Those who have completed reg- in a given span designated to a tion of the Negro. President F. .1. certain area. istration must report Tuesday af- ternoon to pick up class-admission Prout stated, "He is the most gin New courses for the fall cards. ed public speaker in the com- semester are an extra semester of Those students who have not be- mencement field and he always stage lighting, reorganization of gun to register should report to steals the show." speech clinic courses, ancient ora- their deans Monday, Sept. 16. tory and theories of speech, British Names of 7(i candidates for and American oratory, medieval Classes will begin Wednesday, graduation have been announced Sept. 17. at 8 a.m and renaissance oratory and by John W. Bunn, registrar. This theories of speech, principles of is an increase of 26 over lusl join speech correction, audiometry and English Department hearing aids, clinical practice in and the largest number .if August the public school speech, clinical Will Expand In Fall graduates In the history of the practice in the college speech clin- The English department will University. ic, procedures in the development lenius Tink ers have five new faculty members and of a speech and hearing program, five graduate assistants in Sep- Bachelor of Science in and history of the theatre. Way to Degree tember. Education Seminars for the graduate stu- Dr. Robert R, Hubach, Kansas Following is a list of the candi- dent will include: seminar in pub- City, Mo„ will be assistant pro- lic speaking, seminar in discussion A "tinkering fool" and "me- fessor. Instructors include: Fred- dates. Bachelor of Science in and debate, visual hearing, ana- chanical genius" from Urbana, erick Mcl.eod, Detroit, Mich.; Education: Margaret Baker, Helen tomy of the vocal mechanism, ex- will be honored at the Bowling Paula Nyyssoncn, Cleveland; Leone Blackburn, Vera O. Bonk, Green State University summer perimental phonetics, seminar in Grace F. Petrie, Oakmont, Pa., Barbara Bower, William Charles commencement at 10 a.m. Friday. and Clara J. Williams, Waban, voice science, seminar in speech Bradley, Lillian E. Brickner, Bci- pathology, seminar in hearing snd He is Warren G. Grimes, foun- Mass. Dr. C. H. Wesley will be guest deafness, seminar In drama, der and president of the Grimes speaker at Commencement ser- nice Bruns, Ruth Barnum Ed- special problems in drama, all in Manufacturing Co., which makes Gradual* Assistant! vices on Friday morning at 10 a.m. wards, Dora W. Eggers, Mert U. preparation for a master's thesis. more than 90 per cent of Ameri- in the Auditorium. Galbraith, Enid Glann. Winifred can aircraft liphts. Among the graduate assis- M. Goforth, Helen P. Groll. tants are: Robert Bayshore Jr., Dr. Frank J. Prout. university D. Jean Harkncss, Virginia Post Summer School president, announced today that Toledo; Sidney L. Freeman, Madi- have patience son, Wise.; Fransue Oagley, Cleve- Henry, Lois L. Hetrick, Eleanor I. Enrolls Ninety-Two Mr. Grimes will receive the honor- Hogan, Marian Horton, Marjory ary degree of doctor of engineer- land; Pauline Simkins, Mt. Cory, Grades for summer courses and John Henry Wilson, Los will be mailed home two days Hummon, Carlton C. Hutchinson, Ninety-two students plan to at- ing in aeronautics. Maxwell J. Ihrig, Dorothy May Ir- tend post-summer school, accord- Mr. Grimes has 24 patents, Angeles, Calif. after the close of the summer Dr. Hubach has taught at In- sessaion, according to John vin, Kay Puhl Knntor, Donna May ing to John W. Bunn, registrar. including the first aircraft posi- Krouse, Jean Lens, Helen Louise Courses selected by these students tion lights approved by the Civil diana University, the University W. Bunn, registrar. of Illinois, Whitworth College in Lieser; Viola C. Link, Betty mclude: sociology, English, geog- Aeronautics Administration, elec- Knccht Longworth. raphy, education, and journalism trically retractable landing lights, Spokane, Wash., and Illinois In- Ann McClain, .Margery Mayer, problems. ultra-violet cockpit lights, and air- stitute of Technology. Swedish Colleges His degrees are: A. B., Univer- Emily L. Meslcy, William Harding port ground lights. A flier, he Classes will meet for three sity of Kansas City, 1938; A. M., Offer Courses For Monroe, Wally Marie Neumann, personally flight-tests his inven- weeks, five days a week, three University of Colorado, 1939, and Virginia Ann Pcpple, Louise Plan- tions. American Students hours a day. Only one subject Ph. D., Indiana, 1942. son, Cosmo Alden Plotts, Donna In Urbana, Mr. Grimes is the re- may be taken by each student. Particularly interested in early Special courses for American Davis Robinson, Ralph W. Rotscl, Breakdown of the number of tiripg mayor, the organizer of the English literature, he has written Vera Seiler, Eileen I.aRue Silver, largest troop of Air Scouts in the students will be offered at the Uni- students registered for post-sum- several articles.. Mary Elizabeth Stark, Dorothy nation, the builder of "non-profit" versity of Stockholm and the Uni- mer is: 32 for sociology 202, 19 A 1946 Bowling Green graduate, Ann Turk, Opal S. Van Dorn, homes for veterans, the owner of for geography 102, 21 for educa- Mr. McLeod has been teaching versity of Goteborg (Gothenburg), Helen Louise W'lcox. both theaters and a dairy farm, tion 341, 301, and 18 for English while working on his master's de- both in Sweden, for the academic the donor of 'the $50,000 mu- Bachelor of Arts: Charles 202. Two students will be doing gree at the University of Detroit. year beginning about Sept. 15, Walter Ball, Constance Flynn, off-campus journalism problems. nicipal airport, university scholar- ships and money for the communi- 1947. Herbert L. Freeman. Marillyn Instructors for the courses in- Foreign Language Tutor ty hospital. The Stockholm course is intend- Grigg, Lorene Mathias, William clude: William C. Jordan, educa- Of Finnish descent, Miss Nyys- Newkirk, Kennan T. Smith, Robert tion; Lowry R. Karnes, geogra- He is a new member of the ed for students of social or poli- Ohio Aviation Board, which is co- sonen has received degrees the last G. Speck, David D> Thompson, ami phy; and Miss Dorothy Moulton, tical sciences, while the Goteborg sponsor of the annual state avia- two years from Cleveland College Robert L. Yaple. English. of Western Reserve University. course is planned with an emphasis tion clinic held at Bowling Green. Bachelor of Science Post-summer school will begin He is married and has three She has tutored in French and on history and the humanities. Aug. 11 and end Aug. 29. daughters. German. Tuition fee for either course is Bachelor of Science: Sally Lou Miss Petrie has taught at the Bowman, Doris Lorenz, Dale Mr- State Civil Service Exams) Born 48 years ago in Osborn. $260 for each of the two semes- Mr. Grimes spent his boyhood University of Pittsburgh, which Coy, Lauren E. Manhart, Juanita Given in Toledo, Aug. 23 in an orphanage at Tiffin. He awarded her degrees in 1945 and ters. Jean Neal, Janice Zemer, Betty left high school after one year and 1947. She is interested in French These courses are primarily Canfield Zorbach, William Werner State Civil Service examina- literature and language as well as tions will be given for all Univer- became a Ford apprentice in De- planned for graduate students but Zorbach. troit. English. outstanding undergraduates who Bachelor of Science in Business sity typists, stenographers and All the new graduate assistants have completed at least the sopho- Administration: John William secretaries on the Civil Service have studied at Bowling Green ex- payroll, Aug.
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