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#	Article	Article Summary
1	Appropriations and Construction	Appropriations for the next two years beginning July 1 were voted by the state legislature for the spring. The college will annually receive $2,636,500--about $400,000 more than the annual appropriation for the preceding two years.
2	Athletics	The college won all but one North Central conference championship . Its wrestling squad won its third straight National AAU title, a feat unheralded in the history of the meet. Clyde L. (Buck) Starbeck's football team finished in second place.
3	Construction	The face of the campus also took on changes during the year. A $655,000 expansion of the heating and power plant, begun over a year ago, is still under construction. The project includes new offices for the buildings and grounds department.
4	Diamond Anniversary	Plans for 75th anniversary commemorations were, and are, being formulated. The anniversary is Sept. 6, 1951. Tentative plans call for a diamond anniversary theme for thie year's Homecoming and Dad's day weekends and other traditional events.
5	Faculty	Forty new faculty members joined the staff in the fall to replace those who took leave, gained emeritus status, or resigned to accept other positions. Faculty additions the previous year numbered 95.
6	Fifty-two teachers from 29 Iowa counties have packed the first three-week session of the second annual Iowa Teachers Conservation camp at Springbrook	Springbrook State park near Guthrie Center was the sight of last Monday's opening day devoted to the study of the geological forces around the park's lake, said Camp Director G. W. Mouser.
7	New Curriculum	A major curriculum revision for degree students began with this summer's instruction. Daryl Pendergraft will coordinate the new program, which required seven years of faculty committee preparation.
8	New President - Dr. James William Maucker	Maucker became the college's fifth president in colorful inauguration ceremonies on September 15. He succeeded Malcolm Price who resigned after ten years in the presidency. Price has remained with the college as a professor of education.
9	Strayer report	Initiation of a graduate program at the college was a major recommendation of the report published in October. The report covered a survey of the three state institutions of higher learning--a surveyed commissioned by the state board.
10	Students	Pre-war enrollments averaged 1,800; post-war peak was 3,055 in the fall of 1948. A year later it had dropped slightly to 2,950. Quarterly registrations this past year were 2,457 in the winter and 2,288 this spring. This summer's registration was 1,260.
11	Television	In the communications field, the college made its debut in the mushrooming media of television. Since October, a 15-minute program, "TC on TV", has been telecast over WOI-TV. Herbert V. Hake dis the program director.
12	The college in her 75th year received approval to grant master's degree, and staged a presidential inquguration	The coming year will be required to set up graduate college policy, outline and develop new courses of instruction and establish the graduate faculty. Favorable action for authorization to grant the degree was granted by the state board of education.
13	Three blinker traffic lights have been installed at pedestrian crossings on 27th street, the road cutting the south campus of the college	A spokesman for the college's traffic committee said twenty miles per hour speed limit signs would also be installed on the 27th Street approaches to the blinker lights.