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March 1960 Vol. 5, No. 4 MJKITEll

GRADUATE PROGRAM CONTINUES GROWTH Master of Business Administration Degree Approved

program in the School MBA program is designed to serve At the present time there are a of Business, leading to the Master the entire Southwestern Michigan number of graduate students in Busi of Business Administration degree, area. The rapid growth of the School ness, enrolled principally in late has been approved for Western of Business at Western Michigan afternoon and evening classes. Many Michigan University by the State with its present enrollment of 1,300 of these students are from businesses Board of Education. undergraduate students, along with in Kalamazoo and the surrounding For eight years Western Michigan increasing enrollments in business ad area. has offered the bachelor of business ministration in other institutions of Dr. Edwin Grossnickle has served administration degree, and since higher learning, has created a back as chairman of the graduate com 1953 has granted its own master's de log of students requesting graduate mittee for the School of Business grees. Until now only the Master of work in business, says the dean. which has been planning the pro Arts degree could be earned, starting The School of Business now in gram for the last three years, and initially in education fields but now cludes among its faculty specialists other committee members have been including 10 other areas besides edu in such areas as management, fin Dr. Fred Hartenstein, Robert Wet- cation. ance, marketing, statistics, produc night, Dr. Leo Niemi, Dr. Frances Dean Arnold E. Schneider of the tion, communications, law, and ac Hardin, George Cooper and William School of Business states that the new counting. Burdick. Festival of Arts Chooses 'Comic Spirit' as '60 Theme

The comic spirit in the arts will be the theme of the tenth annual Festival of Arts which is scheduled for the WMU campus between and April 15. Cock-a-Doodie-Dandy by Sean O'Casey will be presented in the University Theater , 18, 19 by student players, illustrating the Irish wit and fantasy of comic drama. The following week on , the faculty-student wood wind quintet and the Modern Dance club alumni will combine numbers showing satire and other comic at Galbraith Nahr titudes in music and dance. During these first two weeks of the festival, an exhibit of "Advertising Art in Three New Faculty Members Appointed 19th Century America" from the Three new faculty members joined Basic will work principally in Smithsonian Institution in Washing the University family for the opening the area of industrial engineering ton will occupy the galleries in Mc- of the second semester. bringing to the campus an immense Cracken hall. They are: E. Martin Basic, assis wealth of information gained from "The Golden Age of Comedy," a tant professor of industrial tech wide experience as an engineer and program of motion picture classics nology; Andrew C. Nahm, instructor manager in business. He holds de in comic cinema arts, will be featur in history, and Merle G. Galbraith, grees in electrical engineering and ed, with three showings (at 4, 6, and associate professor of mathematics. mechanical engineering from the 8) each day, Wednesday and Thurs Illinios Institute of Technology, and day, and 31, in the Audio- Flower,' " and the John Henry pieces has worked principally in the Chica Visual auditorium in Waldo Library and "Innocence." One critic has go area. He is married and has two building. said, "His sense of humor permeates daughters. The annual student art exhibit will nearly every work." Nahm comes to Western from open with a Sunday afternoon recep The final major event of the festi Stanford University where he has tion April 3, and will run through val will be the presentation in con been completing doctoral studies, April 15, in the McCracken galleries. cert form of the 16th century Italian working on Korean-Japanese rela Herbert Howarth, visiting pro madrigal comedy 'TAmfiparnaso" by tions. A native of Korea, Nahm took fessor from England, now at the Uni Vecchi, translated into English by his AB degree at Emmanuel Mission versity of Pittsburgh, will speak on William Ballard of Northwestern ary College and his MA at North "The Comic Spirit in Literature" University. The WMU Madrigal western. He has taught at the Uni the evening of April 7, at the Stu Singers, directed by Mrs. Dorothea versity of Wisconsin, the Army Lang dent Center. Snyder, will perform the music- uage School and Stanford. Nahm is On April 8, 9, 11 and 12 the child comedy April 12. married and has one daughter. ren's play, Tom Sawyer, will be Covers for all programs will be Retiring from Rutgers University featured at the University Theatre. printed in black, white, and magen at the end of the fall term, Galbraith Miss Ann Shaw will direct the pop ta-pink in a design focused around a joins the mathematics faculty. He ular comedy. jester's cap and bells, by John Kem first joined the Rutgers faculty in A nationally known sculptor, John per. All programs except Cock-a- 1926, after graduating form the Ren Rood of Minneapolis, will speak Doodle-Dandy and Tom Sawyer sselaer Polytechnic Institute. He April 11 on the comic spirit in sculp are presented without charge to the earned his MS at Rutgers and retired ture, in Kanley Chapel. Besides be public. there as an associate professor. Mr. ing a witty speaker, Rood is popular Dr. Clayton Holaday is chairman and Mrs. Galbraith have two child for the human interest in his sculp of the committee in charge of the ren. ture, which is "closely associated with festival. He is assisted by Kemper, that rare quality of sculptured hum Dan Kyser, Sterling Breed, Miss Ann Students have earned more than or, so evident in pieces like "Boogie- Shaw, Mrs. Helen Brown, and Miss $500 from their annual Carnicus Woogie,' 'Man with a Rake,' 'Night Thelma Anton. show to be used for charitv. Summer Program For High School Students Assured As in 1959, Western Michigan will again conduct a National Science Foundation-sponsored summer sci ence training program for outstand ing secondary school students in phy sical science and mathematics. A grant of $13,340 will be admin istered by Dean George G. Mallin- son to provide half of the necessary expenses for 40 students. Last year the grant covered all expenses. It will be open to students who have completed their junior year in high school and exhibited consider able ability towards and interest in a science career. Advanced chemistry, advanced physics and related mathe matics will be offered, as well as laboratory work. The studies here will not duplicate materials already taken or likely to be taught in high Dunbar, Powell Named to Head school courses. Faculty members will include Dr. Maloye Holmes, J. Bryce Lockwood, History, Mathematics Departments Lynn R. Thompson and Jacob Two new academic department Michigan Historical Commission. In DeWitt. heads will assume duties July 1. 1955 his two volume, Michigan They are: Dr. Willis F. Dunbar, Through the Centuries, was publish Physics Students to succeed Dr. Robert R. Russel, as ed. This past November the WMU head of the history department; and School of Graduate Studies pub Rate Preparation Dr. James H. Powell, to succeed Dr. lished his latest book, Kalamazoo Only one-half of Western's physics Charles Butler, as head of the mathe and How It Grew. students feel that their high school matics department. Dr. Russel is re His advanced degrees are from the physics courses were good or excel tiring in June and Dr. Butler has University of Michigan. lent preparation for college-level asked to be relieved of administra Dr. Powell is a native of Colum science courses. tive duties to return to full time bus, O., but lived most of his life at Dr. Haym Kruglak, professor ol teaching. East Lansing, where his father, James physics, makes this assertion in an Dr. Dunbar, a native of Hartford, E. Powell is a teacher at Michigan article appearing in the current issue is widely known through Michigan State University. All of his academic of the American Journal of Physics. as a historian and a radio commen work was at Michigan State. The poll on the campus showed tator, as well as for his teaching. He After completing his undergrad that a significantly higher percentage is a graduate of Kalamazoo College: uate study at MSU, Dr. Powell spent of students with high school physics from 1924 to 1928 taught at St. five years as a graduate assistant in earned honor grades in college phy Joseph, and from 1928 to 1943 was teaching and research there, and in sics as compared with students who on the faculty of Kalamazoo College. 1954-55 was an instructor at the had no high school physics. He then spent eight years as program University of . director for WKZO in Kalamazoo, Senior ROTC cadets have a new joining the WMU faculty in 1951 Gift Aids Faculty Travel honor to seek, with the announce as a professor of history. ment by the Fifth Army of an Army His work in Michigan history has A $250 gift has come to the chem and Navy Legion of Valor medal, been recognized, for he has served istry department from the Dow one of which will be awarded to the as president of the Michigan Acade Chemical Company to permit addi top senior cadet from among 19 unit^ my of Arts, Science and Letters, the tional travel of faculty members to in Indiana and Michigan. Michigan Historical Society and the professional meetings. The story of paper is graphically told in a new mural completed in colors and bold lines relate the fascinating history of this art so January in the auditorium of the Paper Technology Laboratories. vital to our civilization. The work was a graduate project of art From vat dipping to modern Fourdrinier paper machines bright student Jack Young.

Federal Grant Flourine Study Backed Cooper Renamed A $2,000 fellowship from the Up Backs Counseling, john Company will provide for a By Paper Committee Guidance Institute flourine analysis study to be directed Bert H. Cooper has been reelected by Dr. Robert Nagler. The work will chairman of the advisory committee A summer institute in counseling consist of the analysis of biological and guidance training is made possi for paper technology. He retired samples for fluoride content. Of the January 1 as vice president of the ble this year by a $40,000 grant sum, $1,500 will be used for a fellow from the U. S. Department of Kalamazoo Paper Company. ship from June 1 to Feb. 1, 1961, William A. Kirkpatrick, president Health, Education and Welfare, and and $500 for necessary equipment. will be directed by Dr. Arthur Man- of the Kalamazoo Paper Box Com ske, professor of education. pany, has been selected as vice chair The institute for 35 persons will signated as part time counselors by man, and Dr. A. H. Nadelman, head operate from June 20 to August 12. their school districts. Students will of the department of paper tech The general purpose of this pro be able to earn eight hours of grad nology, continues as secretary. gram will be to improve and increase uate credit and will receive basic The committee has acted to secure the qualifications of individuals de- stipends of $75 per week. alumni representation on its board.

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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 University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Russell A. Strong, Editor