School of Communication Studies

Homecoming 2012Celebrating our 80th

Anniversary

Award Recipients

2012

Centennial Award Recipient

Dominic Infante, Ph.D., 1971

Distinguished Alumni Award

Deborah Easton-Bentley, M.A. 1983

Outstanding Young Professional

Adam Earnheardt, Ph.D., 2007

Outstanding Doctoral Student

Jenny Rosenberg

Outstanding Master’s Student

Kaitlin Banduch

Outstanding Undergraduate Student

Daniel Smith

Beginnings: 1932Department of Speech established by Board of Trustees: Minutes of meeting April 11, 1932. “It was

moved by Judge Rockwell, seconded by Miss Zinninger, that the Board approve Dr. Engleman’s

recommendation that a Department of Speech and a Department of Journalism be established as

departments coordinate with the Department of English. Up to the present they have been

subordinate to a part of the English Department. Roll was called; motion carried unanimously.”

Beginnings: 1932E. Turner Stump, A. B.,

A. A., is named Professor and Head of the

Department of Speech

Source: Kent State University Board of

Trustees. Minutes of meeting May 9, 1932.

Beginnings: 1932National honorary forensic

fraternity Kappa Gamma Alpha Chapter

founded at Kent State.

Sources: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-1960 published by Kent State University Press

1932 and 1933 Chestnut Burr yearbooks

Cherubs Speech Faculty and Students on Rockwell Hall Steps circa 1937

Image Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections Kent State University Libraries

Kent Communication Society in front of Taylor Hall.. The school’s 2011 version of the Cherubs of 1937.

BeginningsFor the 1935-1936 academic year, speech is among departments approved for a graduate minor by graduate council, the members of which included the president, deans of the colleges of education and liberal arts, the registrar, and the dean of the department of education and psychology.

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-1960 published by Kent State University Press (p. 140)

Beginnings: 1930

Oratory1930 was the first year Kent State College sent a student representative to a state contest in oratory.

The subject was “Peace.”

Pictured:James HolmRalph McGinnisPhil BarryEldon Scoutten

Source: 1931 Chestnut Burr

Beginnings: 1931National recognition

E. Turner Stump was elected president of Kappa GammaNational Forensic Fraternity.

Kappa Gamma members are chosen for outstanding performance in debate and speech activities.

Alpha Chapter formed at Kent in 1930.

Beginnings: 1930

The Men’s Debate Team was formed in 1929.

The 1930 team earned the distinction of being the only team in the Northern Ohio League to defeat the Akron University team.

Source: 1931 Chestnut Burr

Beginnings: 1930

The Women’s Debate Squad was formed in 1930.

Debates were held at Akron University, Hiram College and Mt. Union College.

“State Medicine”was the subject of arguments.

Source: 1931 Chestnut Burr

Beta SigmaShoveling speech and a sense of humor

Members:BullsCalvesIn Pasture

Motto:Moo, Moo, Moo

Source: 1931 Chestnut Burr

1932:Men’s Varsity DebateSquad

Source: Chestnut Burr

Growing years: 1938-1939

From Department to School

The School of Speech is established under the Division of Language and Literature.

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-1960. Kent State University Press.

Growing years: The 1940sCourses offered in the School of Speech included:

• Fundamentals of Speech• Argument• Voice and Diction• The Teaching of Public Speaking• The Rehabilitation of Speech• Psychology of Speech• Principles and Practices of Speech Correction• High School Institute in Speech

Source: Kent State University Bulletin, 1941

World War II yearsTraining U.S. Servicemen includes speech classesSpeech is among the subjects included in curriculum for training of 500 crewmen of the 336th College Training Detachment (Aircrew) when they arrive on campus March 30, 1943. With the coming of the 336th, the campus was virtually transformed into an army camp. During the next 18 months approximately 2,000 enlisted men completed the program at Kent.

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-

1960 published by Kent State University Press.

Photo from Kent State University Department of Special Collections and Archives

Baby boomer years1953: L. LeRoy Cowperthwaite named new head of School of Speech

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-1960.

Baby boomer years1957: Plans for Music and Speech building are approved. The $3.5 million structure will include a 500-hundred seat auditorium for the school of speech and facilities for radio and television broadcasting.

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State

University 1910-1960 published by Kent State University Press.

Baby boomer years1958-1959:Speech is seventh among top 10 departments in which the greatest increases in course offerings occurred. Curricular groups for speech included foundation and service courses, public speaking, dramatic arts, radio and television, and speech pathology and audiology.

Source: Phillip R. Shriver (1960) Years of Youth: Kent State University 1910-1960

published by Kent State University Press.

Students study in the main reading room of Rockwell Library, second floor.

Chestnut Burr, 1954

1953: Kent Debate Team is Top winnerKent Debate Team champions took first place in Carnegie Tech Tartan Tourney, Pittsburgh. Seated, left to right: Professor Jon Hopkins, Joan Webster and Gary Banas. Standing, left to right: Tom McManus, Ron Rice and Professor Robert Kent. Photo from Kent State University Department of

Special Collections and Archives

1956 and 1958: Women Debate Champions Ohio Women's Intercollegiate Debate Champions, 1956 and 1958. Left to right: Joan Koehler, Sheila Gethin, Anne Rankin and Treva Pamer.

Photo from Kent State University Department of Special Collections and Archives

Hyde Park Forum Speech Competition. Spring 2012

Hyde Park Forum Speech Competition. Spring 2012

1960: Music and Speech Building, new home to the School of Speech is completed. At the time, the building was the largest classroom building.

Source: Martin K. Nurmi, dean of Graduate School, in his chapter The Years of Growth, 1955-1970 published in A Book of Memories: Kent State University 1910-1999. Kent State University Press (1993).

1960: Doctoral program proposed.1968: Inauguration of speech as a doctoral program.

Kent State’s academic program follows national recognition of the discipline.

Kent State University has been a part of the growing area of speech and has initialed new programs and developments to meet new needs.

Source: Proposal for a Doctoral Program in Speech prepared by the Graduate Faculty of the School of Speech, College of Fine

and Professional Arts. June 1966)

The latest technology for the school of speech classroom in the 1970s.

More cutting edge technology for the school of speech classroom in the 1970s.

School of Communication Studies moved into Taylor Hall in 2008. Taylor Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places for the events of May 4, 1970.

1984: Cowperthwaite Lecture Series createdThe Cowperthwaite Lecture series is created after the retirement of Dr. L. LeRoy Cowperthwaite to honor his service, leadership and dedication to the School of Speech and the College of Fine and Professional Arts.

Each year a renowned communication scholar is invited to campus to present the Cowperthwaite Lecture and teach a graduate seminar in his/her area of expertise.

Visiting Scholar David R. Ewoldsen, Ph.D., far left, and Communication Studies graduate students gather for a photo op in front of Taylor Hall during August 2012.

1971: First Ph.D. graduate is Dr. Dominic Infante. 2003: Dr. Angela Planisek is 100th Ph.D. graduate.

From Graduation Day 2003, from left, are Dr. James Gaudino, Dean of the College of Communication and Information; Dr. Infante; Dr. Planisek; Dr. Rebecca Rubin, professor and dissertation advisor; and Dr. Carol A. Cartwright, President of Kent State University.

Kent Communication Society members assist with Homecoming 2011

The School of Communication Studies hosted a gathering in the MACC loge for a Kent State basketball game in 1997.

From left ,are alum Doug Grayson, and Dr. Johnny Miller, emeriti professor. Grayson was a star basketball player for the Flashes during the late 1960s.

Kaitlin Banduch and Phil Reed, graduate students and members of Communication Graduate Student Association in Spring 2012.

School of Communication Studiesmourns the passing of passing of D. Ray Heisey, Ph.D.

D. Ray Heisey, Ph.D., was Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of Communication Studies. He passed away May 20, 2011.

Heisey joined the Kent State faculty as an associate professor in 1966. He served as coordinator of the Division of Rhetoric and Communication from 1980 to 1983 and as acting director of the School of Speech Communication from July through December 1993. He was then appointed Director of the School of Communication Studies, a post he held until June 1996.

Kent Communication Society at Homecoming 2011

2012:Dr. Paul Haridakisis named director of the School of Communication Studies

The Centennial Award for 2010 was presented to Drs. Alan Rubin and Rebecca Rubin on behalf of the School of Communication Studies. From left, Alan Rubin, Rebecca Rubin, Dr. Paul Haridakis and Dr. Stanley Wearden, Dean of the College of Communication and Information. Alan Rubin and Wearden are past directors of the school. Haridakis is the present director.

A donation from Beth Brumbaugh, right, established the Elizabeth Brumbaugh Health Education Suite in the School of Communication Studies. Beth, picture here with her husband Greg Hackett, was honored during Homecoming 2011 for her gift.

Daniel Smith, left, was among the students recognized in the school’s first Senior Scholars Award presentation held in 2011. Presenting the award is Dr. Jeffrey Child, Undergraduate Coordinator for the school.

The Spotlight is on Senior Scholars for 2011.

Upsilon Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta celebrates 20th anniversary in 2012

Lambda Pi Eta is the National Communication Association’s official honor society at four-year

colleges and universities. The Kent State Chapter was founded in 1992.

Lambda Pi Eta inductees for 2012

Michael Dubetz ScholarshipAmong the scholarships offered by the school for undergraduates is the Michael Dubetz Scholarship.

Michael Dubetz was a 1947 graduate of Kent State University and a member of the speech faculty for 32 years until his retirement in 1980. He joined the KSU faculty as a speech instructor in 1948 and was designated an emeritus professor upon his retirement. He was a member of the Department of Rhetoric and Communication and also served as director of the Student Speakers Bureau for eighteen years.

Lambda Pi Eta induction reception, Spring 2011. Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association. 34 members were

inducted, the largest number to date for the school.

The 1970s started a t-shirt tradition that is still with the school today, as the next slide shows.

Senior Seminar Class members were so happy to be a part of the school (and ready to graduate), they had their own special t-shirts made.

Practicum students for Fall 2012: Khalil Dixon, Jonathan Jackson, and Michelle Griffin.

Music and Speech was home to the School of Communication Studies from 1960 until the school’s move to Taylor Hall in 2008.

Dr. Paul Haridakis, director of the school, presents the Research Award to then doctoral candidate James Ponder, now Dr. Ponder, during Homecoming 2011.

School of Communication Studies annual picnic. 2001.Dr. Nichole Egbert and her spouse Stephan.

School of Communication Studies joins CCI

Four academic programs united in July 2002 to establish the College of Communication and Information.

The Schools of Communication Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication, Library and Information Science and Visual Communication Design joined in one college to create a unique learning community in the fields of communication, information and integrative research.

School of Communication Studies faculty for 2011-2012 academic year.