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Bob Martin s Vision 'the story of the birth and maturation of a university (pase 23) Bulletin Summer 76 Reservations For "The Spirit of '76" Action Homecoming ACTION HOMECOMING To: Athletic Ticket Office ''The Spirit of 76" Eastern Kentuci<y University Richmond, KY 40475 OCTOBER 30 Please accept my order for the number of tickets Friday, October 29 indicated below to the EKU vs Murray State Action Homecoming football game. My check is *Annual Homecoming Dance enclosed, payable to Eastern Kentucky Univers/ty. 9-1 Keen Johnson Ballroom Saturday, October 30 tickets© $4.20each$. *Gala Homecoming Parade 10 a.m. *Homecoming Buffet Luncheon Name (Please Print) 11-1:30 Keen Johnson Ballroom ^Reunion Luncheon of 1967 Grantiand Rice Bowl Team Address (street) 11:30 Powell Cafeteria * Reunion Luncheons for 1966-1971 Classes 11:30 Powell Cafeteria (City) (State) (Zip) ^Homecoming Queen Coronation 1:30-Hanger Field Orders for game tickets will be filled according to *Homecoming Football Game the date of the order. You may expect your tickets EKU vs Murray to be mailed on or about September 1 , 1976. 2 p.m. *Alumni Reception following game Tickets for the Homecoming Dance, Buffet Herndon Lounge, Powell Building Luncheon, and Concert may be purchased at the door. EDITORIAL BOARD Jonald R. Feltner, vice president for public iffairs; J. Wyatt Thurman, director of alum- .ii affairs; Ron G. Wolfe, associate director |)f alumni affairs; Charles D, Whitlock, iirector of public information; John ^Vinnecke, radio-TV editor; Larry W. Bailey, )hotography editor; Don Rist, art director; (arl Park, sports information editor; Paul |.ambert, photographer. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1976-77 j ;onley Manning, '56 President ^uth Spurlock, '41 ... First Vice-President loe Alsip, '34 Second Vice-President '65 ilnannon Johnson, '61, . .Past President iill Raker, '67, '72 President-Elect yionty Joe Lovell, '68, '74 Vice-Pres. -Elect iheila Kirby Smith, '71 Vice President-Elect DIRECTORS: Jimmy Brown, '70; Gayle -lines, '70; Mary Doty Hunter, '43; Bill Jack .'arker, '73, and the 1976-77 Senior Class .'resident. ,'ublished biannually as a bulletin of Eastern (entuckv University for the Eastern Alumni Association, and entered at the Post Office in Richmond, Kentucky 40475, as Second Class natter Subscriptions are included in Association innual gifts Address all correspondence poncerning editorial matter of circulation to The pastern Alumnus. Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky 40475 Eastern Kentucky SUMMER 1976 / VOLUME 15 NO. 2 Jniversity is an equal educational opportunity nstitution CONTENTS Mumni Weekend—"The Spirit of Seventy-Six" 3 Ron Wolfe recounts the annual festivities which fcatureci the five reunion classes, the 1976 Outstanding Alumnus, and the largest graduating class in Eastern's history. Founders Day 14 The 1976 Founders Day was highlighted by the inclusion of 15 new graduates into the Hall of Distinguished Alumni and the posthumous recognition of 34 founders, including former presidents, governors, legislators, faculty and staff. Bob Martin's Vision 23 Vice-President for Public Affairs, Donald Feltner, reflects on the 16-year presidency of Dr. Robert R. Martin, and outlines the spectacular progress that has been made under his leadership. ABOUT THE COVER Public Service, Special Programs 47 Doug Whitlock takes a look at a rapidly growing area of the Robert R. Martin, who will retire after 16 University which received a boost from the recent groundbreaking years as Eastern's sixth President on for a building to accommodate its programs. September 30, 1976, is shown with the Powell Building, one of the maior con- struction projects of his administration, The Chronicle 50 in the background. Our cover illustration is a detail from an original acrylic that The Campus 50 Sports 60 was painted for the 1969 Milestone, The Student Body 54 The Alumni 63 where it appeared with the heading "Pres- ident Robert R. Martin: A Man With a The Faculty And Staff 58 Alumni Report 67 Vision." UMMER, 1976 Notes . From The Editor's Desk EARLY THE WEEK of March 29lh, planning announcement hit me with no less impact. It institution," he said. "It's not a perfect o for this issue of the Alumnus was tompleted. rivaled my saddest moments ... it was almost but we've built a fine foundation. It will b< Page-by-page assignments were made to staff beyond comprehension. real test for the faculty and administration members, institutional advertisements of special It was the announcement that Robert see how we will proceed. We can tear t interest to alumni were considered, and precise Richard Martin, one of the most forceful, most institution apart, or we can consolidate c layouts of a considerable portion of the maga- competent, and most respected university presi- progress in continuing to build a grt zine were completed. dents public higher education in the United University." The staff members who comprise the edi- States has ever known, was retiring. Almost immediately, tributes to Dr. Mar torial board of the Alumnus looked on in A few minutes later, before a stunned, began to appear in the slate's media. almost disbelief when I assigned early deadlines almost tearful audience of Regents, a couple of "Few educators in Kentucky's history h; to feature stories and the multitude of other newspersons, and interested faculty members left marks as deep as those carved by I facets of the magazine. I had iust decided, after and students, Bob Martin issued the following Robert R. Martin ... It is to be hoped that I nearly two decades, to follow my personal statement, as the first order of Board business: keen mind and interest in education will ct physician's advice and request a sabbatical leave "Eastern Kentucky University is a young, tinue to serve the state in years to come" — 7 for two summer months and I was attempting dynamic, developing institution that needs Courier-Journal, April 9. ". to insure that all the important deadlines were mature, experienced, and vigorous administra- . Dr. Martin, almost single-handed met prior to the first of June. tion to guide its continued development for the created the foundation and started little Ea We had pinned down most of the articles in next challenging decade. After a very close ern Kentucky State College on its road this issue, but there was one major feature connection with the institution over the last university status and to greatness ... In a sen about which we were apprehensive. No date twenty years (sixteen as president), I do not (he) will be irreplaceable, but he deser\ had yet been set for the dedication of the believe that I have the vigor, or at age sixty-five, relaxation and the adulation of colleagues a Robert R. Martin Law Enforcement, Fire the expectancy of time to give it the direction fellow Kentuckians." ~ The Lexington Leadi Science, and Traffic Safety Center because of that it needs. April 5, 1976. the persistent illness of renowned sculptor Felix "Accordingly, I am asking that the Board of "We must be comforted with the thoug W. deWeldon, who is creating a statue in his Regents approve my request to retire effective that Dr. Martin's accomplishments constitute Rome studio and foundry to stand before the September 30 and become President Emeritus. colossal monument to his administrative taler center's main facility, the Henry D. Stratton This is a decision that I have arrived at after and that he has laid a solid foundation f Building. If the dedication date came early several months of prayerful consideration. I future presidents of the great university local enough we planned to include coverage in the think the time, September 30, is appropriate as in our city." — The Richmond Daily Regist magazine and, therefore, had to retain some it will give me six months to push toward April 5, 1976. degree of flexibility. completion some of the unfinished business of "President Martin has had a hand in t My staff and I, during that editorial meet- the institution, but will also give the Board of formation of this regional university ... he c ing, were also trying to complete the many Regents six months to choose my successor. Six rest assured that he did more to make t post-Founders Day details and pre-Alumni/ months is generally conceded to be the opti- University what it is than was done by I Commencement Weekend plans, and I sensed mum time for the choice of a president. predecessors and probably will be done by t that I was assuming the role of a slave-driver in "I am sure that the Board of Regents will successors." — The Eastern Progress, April expecting so much from the staff. The Alumnus want to provide for representative, elected 1976. was only one of several dozen projects, all with committees of faculty and students to serve in And, at the Alumni Day banquet, M their own rigid deadlines. an advisory capacity in the selection of the new Mabel Kunkel, EKU's 1976 Outstanding Alui president." Signed: Robert R. Martin, April 3, nus, voiced the sentiments of those in atle ***** 1976. dance, when she said, "I love Eastern becau Board chairman, Robert B. Begley, carefully of the wonderful things that occur here, ar Saturday, April 3, was the date of what was selecting his words, spoke softly after what that, to many, go unnoticed, except by tl to have been an important, but routine, meet- seemed like minutes of silence.