SPARTAN ALUM N I M A G A Z I N E AUGUST 1, 1950 v# *% ^ *j£ '1" # ^ C tjfUV i&aMjJ C, <4 MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Starr Keesler, '41, Is Named Alumni Director Starr H. Keesler, '41, is the new direc­ tor of alumni relations at Michigan Dr. Connor Smith Named State College, having taken over the reins from Tom King, who became dean To Board of Agriculture of students July 1. Dr. Connor D. Smith 30, has been Keesler at MSC Since 1943 appointed by Gov. G. Mennen Williams to the State Board of Agriculture, gov­ Another new face in the Office of erning body of Michigan State College. Alumni Relations is Jack Breslin, '46, one He replaces the late Ellsworth B. More, of MSC's all-time football greats, who '16, who died April 28. replaces George Guerre, '48, as assist­ ant director of alumni relations. Dr. Smith was born in St. Johns, Mich., October 6, 1907, and received his The 30-year-old Keesler first joined D.V.M. degree from MSC in 1930. the Michigan State staff in 1943 as an A member of the American Veterinary instructor in short courses. Following Medical Association, Dr. Smith now re­ a tour as an officer in the U. S. Navy sides in Standish, Mich., where he has in World War II, he returned to MSC been engaged in the veterinary medicine in 1946 as director of college housing. practice since his graduation. Prominent Since January he has become a familiar in civic affairs in Arenac county, he is figure to Spartan alumni all over the married and has two children. nation through his work as assistant director of alumni relations. His appointment to the State Board STARR KEESLER: Takes over of Agriculture was effective May 18, and Breslin Joins Staff he will serve the remainder of Mr. More's rapidly-growing Spartan alumni or­ Breslin won six letters in football, six-year term through January 1, 1954, baseball and basketball during 1944 and ganization. when he may run for reelection. 1945. The Spar­ tan fullback won the "Governor's Award" as the MioluXfGA* State 0<pe*t& fy&u/i l^eon, most valuable during the 1944 NubiinXf GuwUcuLtm 9*t S&ptenvh&i season, captained the 1945 football A new four-year course for training 60 at the hospitals where they take clini­ and baseball professional nurses will be started by cal training. teams and par­ Michigan State College in September, Named acting head of the new cur­ ticipated in the according to Lloyd C. Emmons, dean of riculum was Prof. H. J. Stafseth, who 1945-46 Shrine MSC's School of Science and Arts. is director of the MSC Division of Bio­ All-Star games. Breslin Nurses Needed in State logical Sciences. He will remain in this In addition, he was vice-president of The curriculum is the result of a sur­ capacity until a full-time director is the Varsity Club and president of the vey on nursing needs made by a special named. senior class and Union Board in 1946. seven-man committee, headed by Dean Many Cooperate in Venture Breslin came to Michigan State in Emmons, in consultation with hospital Between 15 and 25 young women are June from Allentown, Pa., where he was nursing staffs and local committees on expected to enroll in the course this fall, district manager for the Dodge division nursing located within a 75-mile radius Dean Emmons said. Until enrollment of Chrysler Corporation. of East Lansing. expands, he said, two hospitals will be King achieved an outstanding organiz­ The course will be a combination of used for the clinical phase of the ational record during the time he served academic study at MSC and practical course—Edward W. Sparrow Hospital in as alumni director. The number of training in near-by hospitals. It will be Lansing, and Butterworth Hospital in active alumni clubs in the U. S. have jointly administered by an MSC direc­ Grand Rapids. Graduates in the curricu­ almost trebled during this period, having tor of nursing and staffs of hospitals lum will receive the degree of bachelor increased from 30 in April, 1948 to 85 where students will take their clinical of science with a major in nursing. today. The present organization includes training. The course will be offered in Cooperating with MSC in setting up 59 Michigan clubs and 26 clubs in 16 the Division of Biological Sciences of the new course are: the W. K. Kellogg other states. In the process of forma­ the School of Science and Arts, Dean Foundation, the National League of tion are alumni groups in Hawaii, India Emmons said. Nursing Education, the U. S. Public and China, which are expected to be in Student nurses will earn a total of Health Service and the Michigan Board full swing by the end of this year. 200 credits, 140 at Michigan State and of Registration of Nurses. THE RECORD Vol. 55—No. 5 ALVIE L. SMITH, Editor August 1, 1950 JOHN C. LEONARD, '48, Associate Editor STARR H. KEESLER, '41, Director of Alumni Relations; GLADYS FRANKS, '27, Recorder: FRED W. STABLEY, Sports Editor; EDWARD M. ERICKSON, '48, Assistant Sports Editor; MADISON KOHN and JOSEPH G. DUNCAN, Historians: JOHN W. FITZGERALD, '47, Agricultural Editor; MRS. BARBARA CAHOON, Artist; W. LOWELL TREASTER, Director of Information Services. Campus photos this issue by EVERETT HCBY, RAY HUBY and RUDY HAETMAX. 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. Funds for Veterinary Streamlining of Course Offerings Building Are Approved Michigan State College prepared itself Brings Major Changes for MSC for further economy measures in oper­ Broad-scale administrative reorganiza­ ational expenses for the 1950-51 year, tion, designed to group existing areas following a net decrease of approxi­ mately $300,000 in legislative appropri­ of study more effectively and to moder­ ations over last year's budget. nize course offerings, went into effect at Michigan State College July 1. Operation Budget Cut Action included the revision of cur­ MSC received $7,213,773 to operate ricula in the School of Business and the on-campus teaching program, al­ Public Service, reorganization of the though college officials had requested a Continuing Education Service, and the net increase of $1,082,236 over the 1949- naming of department heads for the 50 budget of $7,513,254. newly-created Division of Conservation. The Michigan Legislature insured MSC Tack against further loss of operating revenue, Name Conservation Heads however, when it set aside $910,340 to be Four national authorities in the con­ joined the Institute staff, where he will used to make up the anticipated decrease servation field will serve under Prof. be brought into more intimate associa­ in income due to the rapidly-dwindling Paul A. Herbert, director of the Division tion with the public schools of Michi­ veteran enrollment. It still left Michigan of Conservation. They are Dr. Terrill gan, his primary field of interest. State with $299,841 less to operate the D. Stevens, forestry; Dr. Peter Tack, college than it had last year. fisheries and wildlife; Dr. A. J. Panshin, Create New Divisions Michigan State also received $1,400,000 wood utilization; and Prof. L. R. Shoen- The State Board of Agriculture also with which to begin construction on the mann, Conservation Institute. authorized the creation of two new new $2,400,000 veterinary medicine cen­ Dr. Stevens, who received his Ph.D. divisions in the School of Business and ter. The Legislature gave assurances from Yale University and was a former Public Service. They are the Division that the remainder of the money for the MSC faculty member, has directed the of Business which replaces the Depart­ building would be appropriated in the Department of Forestry at the Univer­ ment of Business Administration and near future. The building is expected sity of Alabama since 1947. Dr. Tack the Division of Hotel Restaurant and to be completed in the fall of 1951. received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell General Institutional Management, which succeeds the Department of Hotel Extension Funds Decreased University and has been on the MSC staff Administration. For its agricultural research and since 1940. Leslie W. Scott, '35, manager of the extension programs, MSC received: ex­ Panshin at MSC Since 1935 tension, $798,889, compared to last MSC Union since 1946, was named direc­ Dr. Panshin a 15-year member of the year's $840,936; Experiment Station, tor of the Divi­ MSC forestry staff, received his Ph.D. $785,000, compared to $750,000; and the sion o f Hotel, degree from the New York State Col­ Hope-Flannagan program of marketing Restaurant and lege of Forestry at Syracuse. He is research, for matching federal funds, General Institu­ co-author of two books on wood utiliza­ $180,000, the same as was received last tional Manage­ tion and has written numerous articles year. ment. The o 1 d in this field for professional journals. A number of economy moves have Depai"tment o f Prof. Shoenmann, a graduate of the been instituted by MSC in order to live . _*,»**» Hotel Adminis- University of Wisconsin, has been direc­ within the operations budget, according tor of the MSC Conservation Institute: to James H. Denison, administrative since 1937. A prominent author in the assistant to the president. Included will field of conservation, he held numerous be the limiting of the summer program, o u ment and Prof.