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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1946
Page
2
Northwestern Life representatives urged the 1946 senior class to buy personal life insurance policies whose interest would fund a lasting university endowment. Annual gains would grow the fund, supporting athletics or scholarships in the future, with exploration of all angles before purchasing policies.
Several dozen new titles go on regular circulation tomorrow with works by Harlan Hatcher Louis Bromfield and Boris Sokoloff among others. Notable entries include history of American customs industry and Lake Erie region. Penicillin story. Five Hundred Postwar Jobs for Men. and Pilots of P 40s tale Damned to Glory.
The Kent Stater is a three times weekly student newspaper published in Kent Ohio with editors and staff listed including Norma KniseLy Clarence Tonka Carol Linder Ethel Schirmer Carl Austin Marion Cole and an editorial team. It notes publication days Tuesdays Wednesdays and Fridays with vacations suspensions and a 2.00 year subscription rate and 1927 post office filing details.
Dale Rowe reports from Ohio where Charles Buchanan Sumner assistant professor of biology grows bamboo in McGilvrey hall to test if its juice can rival whiskey. Plants were obtained during a Christmas trip to North Carolina to study their behavior in Ohio soil. A student joked about Professor Plum but corrected to Stump.
The Apple Ayres trophy once again returns to Kent State after a ceremony at the Akron rally. Roy Apple presented the plaque to Coach Trevor Rees, praising the symbol of KSA fighting spirit that ended Akron U’s 13 year jinx over Kent State teams.
A collection of letters from Kent State University servicemen mentions Saipan duties, Okinawa and Tsingtao postings, housing concerns for veterans, and plans to return to campus. Lt Eugene Clark notes Saipan service, Lt Wolcott works in China, and James Bleadingheiser expects to return by fall.
Russ Gillis profiles W. Charles Bell a Canton native and former Kent State student from the early 1930s who recalls the college as a state school, his social circle with Kappa Sigma Chi, and founding Kappa Rho Beta. He describes postwar life at Camp San Luis Obispo and fond campus memories. He notes wrestling as a calendar highlight and mentions KMK football figure Cocky Kilbourne.
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