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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1943
Page
2
The Kent Stater reflects on student journalists serving their alma mater while facing resistance from faculty and administration. The piece laments blocked cooperation and notes the newsroom’s effort to publish university news throughout the year.
A university paper laments delayed access to news as Major K C Leebrick provokes a minor war and dailies publish earlier stories, leaving student readers dependent on other papers for information. The piece frames student journalists as eager but blocked from fair, timely coverage.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m. EWT the Kent University group will hold its first formal concert titled Boogie-woogie of the Chamber Music Society of Lower DePeyster Street. Stan Mine and Sig Mayhew organized a student variety program in the auditorium at the corner of De Peyster and Summit streets.
The Kent Stater informs readers it is published three times weekly with gaps during summer terms and vacations. The notice notes production pauses on holidays and school breaks as part of the regular publishing schedule.
Dr. Raymond Clark, psychology professor, will become acting president of the University on June 15 and will also take over as Kent Rotary Club program chairman from Dr. K. C. Leebrick within three weeks. Clark has served 17 years on the faculty and will begin duties after commencement. Leebrick, inaugurated in October 1938, came from Syracuse and has held liberal arts leadership roles.
Lieut. Tom E. Bell, University alumnus and former Stater business manager, has been transferred from Roswell New Mexico to San Marcos Texas. Mrs. Bell, Jennie Jean White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 5 C White of Kent, accompanied him to San Marcos.
Dr. John F. Cuber of Kent State University will headline the Portage County Council of Health and Social Agencies annual dinner at 6 30 p m June 9 at the Robin Hood in Kent He will discuss Whats Ahead in Juvenile Delinquency and Why.
Don Elwood Walker of Vista, 24, former student, received an appointment as naval aviation cadet and transferred to the Naval Air Training center Pensacola for intermediate flight training. Earlier he completed elimination training at the Naval Air station Bunker Hill in Indiana.
Lieut Harry H. Ferenz and his wife Virginia have returned from Flint Michigan after a week’s vacation. Ferenz serves as tactical intelligence officer of the college training detachment.
A lively collage of campus chatter mentions Marty Galloway vacationing in the infirmary, a disputed KMK house water issue, Wilbur Adams backstage demolition, requests for saxophone and trumpet for a Chamber Music Society, regatta wins by the Gammas, Jane Burge’s Navy return, and assorted notes on dances, tennis matches, and aircrew returns.
A memo argues to persist with football in 1943 despite shortages and travel limits. It proposes a six game home and home schedule with Akron Hiram and Mount Union to maintain interest, noting nearby colleges face the same constraints and a weak team can still attract support.
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