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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1947
Page
1
Nationally known lecturer and author Rollo Walter Brown speaks on "A World We Can Create" at 8 15 tonight in the university auditorium. The program is free to faculty students and friends.
The Kent Stater will stop publishing for the summer sessions with this Friday's issue due to upcoming exams. Departments and schools must submit any vital notices by 12:00 noon Thursday so they can be written and edited before the deadline.
The Town Group changes tonight’s Kent city hall meeting to hear Rollo Brown speak on The World We Can Create in the university auditorium. A brief business session will follow for members and interested guests.
A student recital by music majors is set for Thursday August 21 at 7 30 p.m. in room 312 Mer rill Vocal selections by Dorothy Wallace and Jack Bernhardt will be heard along with piano solos by Esther Blake Ruth Carruthers and Barbara Dormody Raymond de Mattia with Fedora de Mattia will play a Telemann movement as accompanist a woodwind trio of de Mattia Ellsworth and Whitehead will perform two Bach fugues and two Shostakovich preludes
Dick Heller and Leslie A Morgan take over as traffic director and vehicle checker after Dale Rowe leaves for another university and Jack Britt becomes assistant football coach at Harvey High School in Painesville Morgan succeeds Britt as vehicle checker
Terrace lodgers voiced relief and dismay as Friday rain washed topsoil and grass seeds onto Kent streets. Superintendent Larry Wooddell said one day of work by six men should cover most losses and trucks will reclaim the land. Paul Harris quipped about Hopi legends and Shenanigans as dorm A residents watched the washout unfold.
Registrar Emmett Stopher announced an all time high of about 5500 students for the fall quarter beginning October 1, including roughly 1700 freshmen. Pre registration runs August 20 to 25. housing and room space in Kent area areas are reported tight with limited Ravenna rooms available.
Dr Louis V Newkirk industrial arts director of the Chicago board of education will speak at KSU Industrial Arts forum dinner meeting at Twin Lakes Country Club tomorrow at 6 30 p m His topic Industrial Arts in the Elementary School The event aids industrial arts students faculty area instructors and alumni Forum committee members include John S Beidler Clarence Eckert Charles Bailey and Richard Snidow.
Professor Emmet C. Stopher Jr. is named assistant professor of mathematics at Miami University Oxford Ohio He is the son of Mr and Mrs Emmet C Stopher of Kent He holds an AB from Miami 1932 BS in education from KSU 1934 and master and doctorate degrees from the University of Iowa He previously headed mathematics at Brockport State Teachers College and Ashland College He is married with three children.
A 17 cent tax on each ticket funds transport for an Akron Children's Home orphan to the Miami KSU game at the Rubber Bowl on October 4. This corrects an earlier Kent Stater report that stated 75 cents.
The speech and hearing clinic will close on August 20 and reopen in the fall quarter. Freshmen will receive speech and hearing tests during the last three days of fall orientation. exact fall dates will be announced later.
Tickets to the National Air Races in Cleveland on August 30 31 and September 1 can be bought at the Kent Automobile Club 175 East Main Street. This week is the final opportunity in Kent to purchase tickets.
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