Boise State College

When Boise College becomes a state-supported senior college on January 1, 1969, it will officially adopt the tide of Boise State College. Established as Boise Junior College in 1932, the institution rapidly expanded upon a 110-acre campus along the Boise River in Idaho's capital city, and in 1965 the state authorized the college to add upper division courses leading to the B.A. degree. In 1967 the legislature made the institution a part of the state system which had long supported Idaho State University and the University of Idaho. An institution serving nearly 6,000 students, the new state college comprises four schools of instruction: School of Business and Public Administration, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, and Vocational Technical Education and Area Vocational School. Its president is Dr. John B. Barnes. The general staff includes 310 persons, 225 of whom are teachers and administrators. Sixty-one faculty members possess the earned doctorate, and 104 have the master's degree. A five-million dollar building program has been initiated, with the beginning of actual construction planned for the spring of 1969. The first phase will consist of a high-rise classroom-office building, a 20,000 capacity stadium with physical education facilities, and a vocational-technical building. At present, there are twenty faculty members in the department of English and five in foreign languages and linguistics. With the recent appointment of Dr. William Klatte as professor of linguistics, however, the Humanities Division plans considerable expansion of the offerings in linguistics. Dr. Klatte comes to Boise State from the University of Alberta at Edmonton, where he instituted a linguistics program. The new chairman of the English department is Dr. John A. Bareness, a Western American literature scholar, who comes from a position at Montana State University. He has assumed the administrative post previously held by Professor J. Roy Schwartz, who returned to full time teaching after heading the department during the school's last years as Boise Junior College and throughout its development as Boise College. Other senior appointments in the department of English are Dr. R. Wayne Chatterton, longtime professor of nineteenth and twentieth century literature and comparative literature at The College of Idaho, and Dr. Eunice E. Wallace, formerly of District of Columbia Teacher's College, who is a specialist in English education. Dr. Barsness, Dr. Chatterton, and Professor Alan Crooks have long been members of the Rocky Mountain Modem Language Association, and they, along with the entire staff, welcome this opportunity to announce the entry of Boise State College into the large family of state colleges and universities in the Rocky Mountain area. —From R. Wayne Chatterton