Regents History: August 9, 1952
Board Membership
- Harry H. Hagemann, President, Waverly
- Maurice Crabbe, Eagle Grove
- Elsie Evans, Emerson
- Wilber Molison, Grinnell
- Alfred Noehren, Spencer
- John Oberhausen, Dubuque
- Stan Redeker, Boone
- Dannie Rosenfield, Des Moines
- Harriette Valentine, Centerville
Highlights
Ernest C. Ray, associate professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, was granted further leave to continue his work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Ray completed graduate and post-graduate degrees under the supervision of UI Physics Department Chair and space science pioneer James Van Allen. Ray’s 1956 paper Effects of a Ring Current on Cosmic Radiation ranks among the early work on the Van Allen radiation belts, which were proven to exist by Van Allen in 1958.
The Board appointed Robert C. Hardin as Dean of the UI College of Medicine. Hardin became VP for Medical Services two years later and was instrumental in the construction of the Bowen Science Building and a health sciences library. The library, completed in 1974, was named in his honor as the Hardin Library for Health Sciences following his death in 1988.
Contracts were awarded to Lovejoy Construction of Des Moines to begin construction of a new Communications Building on the Iowa State campus’s north edge. Construction was completed in two years when the ISU Communications Building opened for general use in 1964.
Board Secretary David Dancer presented a letter to the Board from the Iowa Beekeepers Association. The letter stated that the association was “concerned over the loss of the country’s most outstanding research man in apiculture…” The man in question, ISU professor of Zoology and Entomology Walter Rothenbuhler, had accepted a position at the Ohio State University. Rothenbuhler’s work on honey bee behavior is considered among the most important and impactful research in the field of apiculture.
