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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1948
Page
2
The State College highlights a sample of seniors set to graduate in March. The column notes the college life shaping a typical class, with many students deserving full profiles but limited space forces a brief sketches series.
A letter questions if KSU requires students to inhale smoke before graduation, highlighting burning rubbish behind the heating plant as unsanitary and unsightly. The writer asks the university to stop the smokey nuisance and notes rubbish removal in the campus hub is timely elsewhere.
A reader laments that most textbooks are pedantic and hard to understand. Authors write to avoid expert criticism rather than to teach, with pages of technical quibbles that confuse students and reduce readability.
Matilda Davis 23 of Stow and Harlan McGrail 24 of Akron epitomize Kent State University’s 1947 graduating class. Davis treads toward a teaching career for the deaf with a master’s study after the degree, while McGrail, an art major, will join Lithograph Inc. in Sioux City, Iowa as office manager. Davis served Student Council and other campus roles. McGrail contributed to Chestnut Burr and Kent exhibits and fought through WWII service with the 7th Army. Davis plans marriage after graduation. McGrail is engaged to Louise Hawthorn of Castana Iowa.
A campus gossip column notes the temporary resignation of Bob Wentz from the Dirt-Digging desk and teases readers with juiciest items. It highlights Esther White activity, Frank Mesek and Mary Hoover at a blindfold marshmallow game, Big Red Hallock and Big Mac McDermott at the Big House, and Jean Gunder leaving marriage plans for Jack Quillman. It teases Marilyn Taylor and Red from Hiram, plus Stu Hull’s mood and a Shovels uncovering.
Veterans are urged to avoid erasures on benefit forms to prevent delays. Have forms checked by assistants over two weeks at Barich’s notary offices to speed processing. Dewey F. Barich offers free notarization and reminds to include six cents postage and a return address.
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