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October 1956 Vol. 2, No. I LETTER

Enrollment Up 13 < per cent; Now 6493 on Campus ^** r

Registering a 13 per cent increase :"4)U*~-..j~~ p2j in enrollment, Western Michigan >... *?. College outstriped legislative esti eg" mates of a year ago, which placed 14 '*. the 1956 fall enrollment on the cam V pus at 6,250. Registrar Clayton J. Maus has reported the current fall MSI enrollment at 6,493. Comprising this total are 1,834 "*w freshmen, 1,328 sophomores, 1,158 juniors, 989 seniors, 619 special stu dents and 565 graduate students. Those studying on a college cam pus for the first time number 1,490. " •'* * •*..*'• •* The graduate enrollment has in creased 21% per cent over the 1955 B> *•%* »*^» V£" ***,.» i total of 465. There are included 69 rifcAJLj^iV... ***** ..* •*••* g fulltime graduate students, also a record high. 'J1

Registrations in curricula pri Hfe .^^ ^-^ t marily concerned with the training of teachers moved along at an 11 per cent clip, climbing from 2,442 a Each pin identifies a community from which an undergraduate student has come to the Western Michigan College campus. The heavy Southwestern Michigan concentration (Turn to Page 3) will be noted, as well as that in Wayne County. Howson O'Hara O'Rourke Faculty Completed; Work for Next Year

The faculty has been completed degrees in 1955 and 1956. He is Dr. Frederic J. O'Hara is a new- for this year, with the announce married to the former Delores Lee. associate professor of librarianship. ment of the following group; but Another Western graduate, Ray A graduate of Boston College and already contacts are being explored mond A. Dannenberg returns to the Columbia University, Dr. O'Hara's for the large group of 1957-58 tea campus as an associate professor of experience has been gained at Texas chers needed in the face of an ex distributive education. He has taught State College for Women, the Uni pected 7,100 students. at Reed City and Royal Oak. Ray versity of Wisconsin, New York State Thus, we complete one year's received his BS in 1950, and took Maritime College, City College of work, and can only prepare for an his MA at the University of Mich New York and Harvard University. increased amount in the next few igan in 1953. He is married to the He is unmarried. months. former Mary Roberts '49, and they Capt. Michael K. O'Rourke is a Dr. Edwin Beal comes from the have two children. new assistant professor in the depart University of Bridgeport as an associ Melvin Howards joins the Paw ment of military science and tactics. ate professor in the School of Busi Paw faculty as a ninth and tenth A native of Iowa, Capt. O'Rourke ness. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan grade English teacher. He graduated came to Western from service at and Cornell Universities, Dr. Beal's from Drake University and Colum LaRochelle, France. He is a grad special field is collective bargaining. bia, and was director of student tea uate of the University of Denver, From 1937 to 1942 he was an inter ching at Upper Iowa University the married, with three children. national representative for the Unit last two years. Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson takes ed Electrical, Radio and Machine Adelaide Everett Howson is no over the campus school library, while Workers, CIO. From 1947 to 1949 stranger to the math faculty. A Miss Jean Lowrie is away at school. he was manpower advisor to the daughter of Dr. John Everett, who A graduate of the University ol office of military government in Ger retired in 1945 as head of the mathe Texas, she took her master's this many. matics department, Mrs. Howson last spring at Western. Richard Bryck is an instructor in takes the place of Jack Meagher, Howard Sanborn teaches science physical education and driver train who is on leave. She is the wife of in the Paw Paw high school. He is ing for the State High school. A a local dentist, Dr. Thomas W. How a graduate of Colorado A&M and native of Manistee, and former Bron son, and the mother of two State took his MA at Western in 1956. co gridder, Bryck received WMC High sons. For the last two years he taught at

Patterson Whatley Zoschke Graduate Faculty Enrollment Records (From Page 1) Booklets Ready year ago to the present 2,709. The most significant rise was the 28 per An outstanding new series of cent increase noted in secondary ed publications has been started by the ucation, up 243 to 1,101. School of Graduate Studies. Reviving Pre-engineering rose sharply, along the old name of "Faculty Contribu with business administration, paper tions," Dean George G. Mallinson Cox Randall technology and occupational ther has already brought out two booklets apy. In two-year areas largest gains this past summer. were in drafting and design tech Kalamazoo Central high. Married, The first is "The Role of Meaning nology and electrical and electronics two children. in Teaching the Fundamental Pro technology. New to the Hurd school is Keith cesses," authored by Miss Pearl Ford V. Stout, a Central Michigan grad and Dr. Herbert Hannon of the More out-of-state students are to uate, who has taught and been a mathematics faculty. be noted, along with a considerable principal in Mt. Pleasant elementary Following this was "Core," by gain in enrollments from Kalamazoo schools since 1953. Married, one son. Dr. Clara R. Chiara of the school County. It should be noted that the Mrs. Roberta Westra is the new of education. Designed as an ex most significant gains are coming kindergarten supervisor at Paw Paw. planation and handbook for use in from large urban areas. A 1945 WMC graduate, she has the core curriculum, Dr. Chiara out Kalamazoo County provides 1,564 taught at Galesburg and in Kalama lines methods, materals, evaluations of the undergraduate students this zoo. and teaching. year. Other leading counties are: Charles Whatley comes from Copies of these and subsequent Wayne 427, Calhoun 309, Kent 302, Louisiana to become an assistant books will be available from the Berrien 275, Van Buren 241, Oak professor of sociology. He is a grad School of Graduate Studies for a land 186, Allegan 178, St. Joseph uate of the University of Texas and nominal fee. 153, and Muskegon 132. is working for his doctorate at Tu- Among those from other states lane. Whatley taught at North Texas are: Indiana 113, Illinois 87, Ohio State College for two years, and Eighteen Honored 24, Wisconsin 19, and New York 13. was a research analyst at the South Eighteen Western Michigan fac A total of 22 states and two terri east Louisiana hospital, Mandeville, ulty members have been placed in tories have students here, with Ha for two years. Married, two children. the newly-published volume three waii sending 16. Milton Zoschke completes the of American Men of Science. This Canada sends seven, Ethiopia teaching faculty, as a fifth and sixth is concerned with social and behav three, Haiti and Korea two each, and grade teacher at Paw Paw. He is a ioral sciences. Those listed are Dr. single students from Brazil, Den Franklin College and WMC grad William J. Berry, Dr. Cyril Stout mark, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Iran, uate, teaching since 1953 at Niles. and Dr. William Brueckheimer, geo Nicaragua, Norway, the Philippines, Married, three sons. graphy; Dr. E. J. Asher, Dr. Frank the Netherlands, Costa Rica and Homer Cox comes to Western this Fatzinger and Dr. Richard Schmidt, Switzerland. fall as the new director of Frank psychology; Dr. Paul Horton, Dr. E. Ellsworth hall, and also directs Chester Hunt and Dr. Jerome Manis, Dr. Sangren Honored the Arcadia Brook clubhouse and sociology; Dr. Samuel Clark, Dr. cafeteria. Cox had eight years' ex Milton Greenberg, Dr. John Romani, Honors from the national com perience as a snack bar manager at Dr. Leo Stine and Dr. W. V. Weber, mission on teacher education and West Virginia University. Married, political science, and Howard Bige- professional standards of the Na two children. low, Dr. Robert Bowers, Dr. Theo tional Education Association have John William Randall is the new dore Carlson and Dr. Jared Wend, come to President Paul V. Sangren. director of food services, taking economics. The certificate which he has re charge of the complete residential ceived states "in recognition of food services system on the campus. Plan '57 Classes meritorious services to education as A graduate of Bucknell University, Two three-week courses in ad a member of the commission from Randall has had extensive experience vanced studies in paper technology 1946 to 1950, and for notable con in large scale food service operations are planned again for the summer tributions toward elevating the com at the Morton House, Grand Rapids; of 1957. Conducted in 1955 and petence and assuring the integrity Fisher body plant in Grand Rapids 1956, enrollments were filled long of the teaching profession in the and with the U. S. Navy. before classes opened. United States." WMCR Extends Air Time to 50 Hours WMCR, the FM radio station at Western Michigan College, began a new year of broadcasting in October, extending its daily schedule to 50 hours each week. In addition to a wide range of cultural and entertainment pro grams, the station continues to carry play-by-play accounts of all Bronco home athletic contests. Top programs for WMCR come from the tape networks of the Na tional Association of Educational Broadcasters and the British Broad Twice during this football season Bronco gridders have taken to the air, flying to games with Marshall College in Huntington, W. Va., and Washington University in St. casting Corporation. Louis, Mo. Such transportation, while costly, cuts down to virtually nothing the time lost Wallace Garneau, station mana from classes. The usual means of travel has been by college bus. ger, reports a growing interest in Southwestern Michigan, as an area people first into the intermediate with more than a 50-mile radius is New Math Test covered. Persons interested in receiv course his staff feels that more will ing regular publication of program First year mathematics students succeed. at Western Michigan College can notes should address Garneau. expect to be well tested before being admitted to college algebra classes Programs Praised Africa Reviewed in the future, says Dr. Charles But Much praise has again been ac ler, head of the mathematics depart corded Western Michigan College World Affairs week is to be ob ment. and a group of graduate students served at Western Michigan College As the result of experimental tests who spent six weeks this summer Nov. 14, 15 and 16, with principal run this fall, students were placed in inside the walls of the Southern attention to be focused at this time college algebra or intermediate alge Michigan Prison. on African problems. bra, depending on their test scores. Added also to such field programs Extensive correspondence during In previous years too many have fail this year was a training period at the last several weeks has assured ed to conquer the former course, the State Home and Training a wide representation of official in says Butler, indicating a lack of School, Coldwater. terest bv countries concerned. prior preparation. By moving such Both will operate again in 1957.

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Entered as second class matter at the post office at Kalamazoo. Michigan, Nov. 16, 1955. Published eight times a year—October, December, January, March, April, June, July, September—by Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo. Michigan. Russell A. Strong, Editor