Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Second Row — Henry Kabn. Robert A. Long Third Row— Hash Th. Miller. George F. Quick Botlom — Albert G. Snider Inmbns; Arthur Jordan, Indianapo- lis ; Emsley W. Johnson, Chairman Alumni Endowment Committee ; Henry Kahn, Indianapolis ; Robert A. Long, Kansas City, Mo. ; Hugh Th. Miller, Columbus; George F. Quick, Indianapolis, and Albert G. Snider, Indianapolis. Merchants, lawyers, capitalists, publishers, churchmen and business men are in- eluded in the group of nineteen directors. Two additional members will be appointed in the near future. These men, all zealous partisans of the University, are extending every effort to furnish prospective students in Indiana and throughout the mid- dle west, an institution at Fairview which will possess a qualitj of struc- tural design equal to that of any American university. With the pre- liminary campaign for biiilding ruiids completed, the Board of Direc- t irs, functioning in committees, has hiunched upon a final drive with an energy which can not be denied. Ac- cording to a declaration of John W. Atherton, .secretary, construction of the first unit of the Greater Butler University upon the newly completed foundations at Fairview, will begin immediateh ' , so that the school may be ready for occupancy during the summer session of 1928. Death took a heavy toll from the Board during the past twelve months with the passing away of Louis C. Hue.smann, Indianapolis ; Zachary T. Sweeney, Columbus; Lex J. Kirk- patrick and Lora C. Hoss, both of Kokomo. Mr. Huesmann was Cliair- man of the City Endowment Com- mittee before his death and the other deceased members spent a goodly portion of their lives in furthering the advancement of Butler University. Page Eighteen

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Board of Directors HE Board of Directors of Butler University has about all the power that can be delegated in the administration of the in- stitulinn. It encourages gifts to endow chairs of instruction and en- dowment funds donated by benefac- tors of the institution come luider their hands to be applied as they will do the most good. The Directors choose the President. The.y approve the faculty. They plan the building programs, let contracts for the Uni- versity, and in general, supervise its operation in almost every way. BOTTOM PANEL first Row — John E. Canaday. James L. Clark Second Row — Pstry H. Clifford. Clarence L. Goodwin Third Row — Thomas W. Gcafcon. William G Ir«in TOP PANEL John W. Athc: Second Row — Cr, Third Row- No other institution in the country can boast a more capable or dis- tinguished governing group than that of the University. Members of the Board of Directors are : Hilton U. Brown, President of the Board of Directors ; John W. Atherton, Execu- tive and Financial Secretary of Butler University and Secretary of the Butler Foundation ; Crate Bowen, Arthur Y. Brown, Lee Burns and Scot Butler, all of Indianapolis ; John E. Canaday, Anderson; James L. Clark, Danville; Perry H. Clif- ford, Indianapolis; Clarence L. Good- win, Greensburg, Penn. ; Tliomas W. Grafton, Indianapolis ; William G. Irwin, Vice-President of the Board of Directors and President of the Butler Foundation, Chairman of the General Endowment Committee, Co- Pagc Seventeen

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President of the University When we look back over the liistory of Butler University, we find that many out- standing: men have been connected with it in an administrative capacity. The University ' s fifteenth president, Robert Judson Aley, came to Butler in 1921 from the University of Maine where he had been president eleven years. Since that time he has ably directed the activities of the institution and created for himself a position of enviable esteem by virtue of his ardent scholarship and capable leadership. President Aley took his degree of B. S. from Valparaiso I ' niversity in 1882, later attending- Indiana I niversity where he received his A. B. in 1888. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred upon him at the I niversity of Pennsylvania in 1897, and later he received the degree of LL. D. from that university. He also holds degrees of LL. D. from Franklin College, 1909, and from Butler Univer- sity, 1922. He has held professorships in the department of mathematics at Vincennes University, Indiana University and Leland Stanford Junior Uni- versity. In 1909 Doctor Aley was appointed Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, holding this office until his removal to JMaine, from whence he came to Butler University. In a message to students of tlie Universitj ' , the President recently declared : There seems to he two reasons why young people go to college. They go to get an education, or they go to engage in extra-curricular activities. Perhaps a better way to state it is, some college folk get an education, some get the activi- ties, and some get considerable of both. A proper and reasonable attention to both prevents stateness and mere bookishness. It also conserves health and insures a wholesome contact with present day affairs. Page Nineteen