Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 39, DeMotte, Jasper County, 27 August 1948 — JAMES ROWEN TO ATTEND INDIANA UNIVERSITY [ARTICLE]

JAMES ROWEN TO ATTEND INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 27. Students admitted to Indiana University for the school year opening next month include 14 from Jasper County. William H. Strain, University admissions director, in announcing today the students admitted to date said that the freshman class would be approximately as large as last year when the institution’s total enrollment reached an alltime high record of more than 14,000. Of the more than 2,000 admitted as freshmen 93 percent were graduated in the upper half of their high school classes and 175 were valedictorians or first in scholarship. Orientation activities for freshmen will begin Sept. 15 and will include on Sunday, Sept. 19, a special convocation for new students and their parents. Following the convo, they and their parents will be guests at a reception to be held by President Herman B. Wells. Jasper County students admitted to I. U. include: DeMotte: James R. Rowen. Remington: Mary Elizabeth Howard, Helen Jones, Max L. Waples. Rensselaer:* Mary Daugherty, Harry J. English, Lucilla George, Frank F. Hardman, Phyllis Reed, George E. Switzer, Robert F. Wood. Emma Zimmer. Wheatfield: Jack E. Foust, P.oaald G. Foust.