Viking_Yearbook_66

- l An $800,000 dispensation from the above fueled the Board's curricular machinery and freed the college to launch its first graduate programs-mathematics, physics, chemistry, ?P- plied science-in the fall of '66, and history, economics, and English in 1967. Among the curricular sub-headings, the Board approved: Portland State as center for teacher prepa- ration of the mentally retarded and physically handicapped, a Central European Studies Program, and a unique M.A. degree in Cerman. On the Board's PSC construction record for '65-'66: the Duniway playing field; two apartment buildings remodeled into faculty offices; the College Center wing, Science and Physical Education buildings completed; air-conditioning of College Center, library and South Park Hall; start of the first half of what will be a full-block, 1O-story library (open winter '67); srart of the second half of South Park (open winter '68); and expansion of the Parking Building-to house more cars to liquidate the debt on the first half, which isn't paying for itself this year. a The roll call of the "breakthrough" Board: Charles R. Hollo- wdy, Portland, chairman; Ralph E. Purvine, Salem; Ray T. Yasui, Hood River; Elizabeth H. Johnson, Redmond; J. F. Forrester, Pendleton; John W. Snider, Medford; Philip A. Joss, Portland; Ceorge Layman, Newberg; and john Merri- field, who was succeeded in 1965 by Ancil Payne. 33