Wright State University CORE Scholar Athletics Publications Athletics 2-17-1979 Wright State Vs Akron Basketball Program 1979 Wright State University Athletics Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/athletics_publications Part of the Public Relations and Advertising Commons Repository Citation Wright State University Athletics (1979). Wright State Vs Akron Basketball Program 1979. : Wright State University. This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Athletics at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Athletics Publications by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Physical Education Building's main gym About Wright State is home court for the Raider basketball team, and the building also contains an aux­ The youngest of Ohio's twelve state univer­ iliary gym, a 75-foot swimming pool with a sities has come of age. Founded in 1964 as spectator capacity of 500, classrooms, a Farmers &Merchants Bank dance room, special exercise facilities for Full Service Bank of Fairborn the Dayton campus of Ohio State and Miami Universities with one building and 3,200 the handicapped, saunas, handball and students, Wright State University today squash courts, and a lab for physiology of serves more than 14,000 students from the exercise. Complete Banking Facilities Extended Hours for the Dayton area, the state of Ohio, and other The University Library has collections of checking and savings Drive-in Windows states and countries. books, journals, documents, and au­ night depo'sitory Mon Tue Thur 3 pm to 5 pm Wright State offers a comprehensive array of diovisual materials related to every teaching loans of all types Fri 2 pm to 6 pm programs through its nine major academic field, as well as special collections of rare member FAS Main Office Drive-in is also open and valuable documents and memorabilia, safety deposit boxes every morning at 8 am including divisions. Eight different bachelor's degree programs are offered in nearly eighty fields including the Wright Brothers Collection. deposits insured to $40,000 Wednesday from 8 am to 3 pm through the Colleges of Business and Ad­ The Television Center, adjacent to the li­ ministration, Education, Liberal Arts, Sci­ brary, has studios and production facilities. Regular Banking Hours at all ence and Engineering, and the School of Four Locations The Creative Arts Center is home for the fine Nursing. More than twenty programs lead­ Mon Tue Thur 9 am to 3 pm arts, including theatre, music, art, and art ing to the master's degree in many of those Fri 9 am to 2 pm 4 pm to 6 pm education. Besides classrooms, there are fields are coordinated by the School of Sat 9 am to 12 noon two theatres, two concert halls, and two art Graduate Studies. The School of Medicine galleries. has been enrolling students in its M.D. pro­ The Brehm Laboratory of Environmental gram since 1976, and the new School of Pro­ Sciences, the Biological Sciences Building, f essional Psychology will begin admitting and the Medical Sciences Building provide students to its Psy.D. program in 1979. The classrooms and laboratories for the universi­ university's first Ph.D. program, in biomedi­ ty's expanding programs in the sciences. Main Office cal sciences, will also begin admitting stu­ especially in the health-related fields. Wright and Main dents in 1979. The College of Continuing Drive-in Service and Community Education, located in the The Student Services Building, completed in 878-4661 downtown Dayton Kettering Center, offers 1977, brings together most of the offices noncredit courses and workshops and spe­ and services which exist to help students cial certificate programs in professional make the most of their Wright State educa­ studies. tion. An unusual feature of the campus is a tunnel system which links every major buil d­ The four oldest buildings on campus, com­ ing, providing both convenience and shelter pleted by the time university status was in case of emergencies. granted in 1967, comprise Founders Quad­ rangle, the hub of university academic and Wright State University has been built with a Beavercreek Branch administrative activities. The University philosophy of community orientation and is 878-4661 Center houses dining rooms, lounges, stu­ continually striving to improve its present dent offices, and the bookstore. Hamilton programs and activities, and add new ones, Hall provides residence facilities for 320 to serve community needs. The university men and women in separate wings. was founded as a resu lt of a community fund-raising effort in 1962. Bonomo Plaza Branch Drive-in Service 878-4661 Fairborn Plaza Branch Drive-in Service 878-4661 Robert J. Kegerreis, He is a director of several corporations and Don Mohr, His first coaching position was at Cincinnati a member of a number of professional as­ Reading High School where he was assist­ president sociations and honorary societies. director of athletics ant coach in football and basketball. He took over the head baseball job in 1951 and His current public service involvement in­ did scouting for the Los Angeles (then cludes: president of the Ohio College As­ Brooklyn) Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds dur­ sociation: chairman of the Ohio Board of ing the summer. Regents Advisory Committee on Lifelong Learning: member of the Executive Commit­ He was appointed principal at Reading in tee and president of the Dayton-Miami Val­ 1956. He remained head baseball coach ley Board of Directors: member of the Board until 1963 and left Reading in 1965. While at of Trustees and chairman of the Instruction Reading, he also received a Master of Edu­ Committee of the Methodist Theological cation degree from Xavier Unive rs ity in School in Ohio; member of the Soard of 1961 . Trustees of Otterbein College; member of Then came the move to Wright State in 1966 the Clarkson College Aqvisory Board ; as head of financial aid, placement, and the Robert J. Kegerreis is the second presi­ member of the Board of Trustees of the En­ Wright State is fortunate to have an athletic veterans office. He was asked to initiate an gineering and Science Foundation: member director who saw the "handwriting on the dent of Wright State University. He has held athletic program, which he did during the the post since July, 1973. of the Board of Trustees of the Dayton Art wall. " When Mohr. was planning the WSU 1968-69 school year when he started a soc­ Institute: and membership in other civic or­ athletic program, he included a women's After two years at Ohio University as profes­ cer team. In April 1971 , he was named Di­ ganizations and committees. program which equalled that of the men. sor and chairman of the marketing depart­ rector of Athletics. Sports which receive grant-in-aid money at ment, Dr. Kegerreis came to Wright State in Dr. Kegerreis holds four degrees from Ohio the present time are men's and women's Mohr's latest duty is chairman of the Division 1969 as dean of the College of Business State University. He was awarded two basketball and swimming, women's vol­ and Administration. In 1971 , he was pro­ bachelor's degrees in 1943, a Master of II Great Lakes Regional selection committee moted to a vice-presidency, and two years Business Administration in 1947 (after com­ leyball, soccer, and wrestling . for the second straight year in basketball. He had been a member of the advisory later was named president of the university. bat service as a naval officer), and a Ph .D. in Mohr has been associated with the world of committee for the previous four years in both His career as a teacher and administrator in business administration in 1968. sports since his days at Cincinnati North basketball and baseball. higher education followed extensive experi­ He and his wife, Katherine, have a son and a College Hill High School where he played ence in the business world. daughter. football, baseball, and basketball for four years, and ran track for two years. For that Creative Touch Do your banking · Belmont day or night with Bakery Wedding Cakes ... your key to the bank! 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