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

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Lewis, Hunter, Peterson, Richardson, Jones. The two divisions of the college are the department of Business Administration and the department of Jour- nalism. The department of Business Administration faculty is composed of Dr. Ross, Dr. Bridenstine, Dr. Efroymson, Mr. Hays, Dr. Mehr, Mr. Shors, Mr. Steeg, Mr. Bomeli, Miss LaMar, Mr. Newton, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. Myers. Under the guidance of Dr. Mehr, Butler University has become one of the major schools in the field of life insurance training. The American United Life Insurance Company of Indianapolis has established an annual scholarship fund to be divided equally between Butler University and Indiana University. Through this scholarship, assistance and encouragement will be given to worthy students of at least junior standing, who are majoring in life insurance and interested and qualified to enter the marketing and service branch of the life insurance business. The staff of the department of Journalism is under the guidance of Asst. Prof. Rosamond Risser Jones and composed of Mr. Barnett, Public Re- lations Director of Butler University, Mr. Lewis, Mrs. Bur- gess who is in charge of copy desk, Mr. Richardson, W.I. B.C. news commentator, who is Instructing the new course in Radio Journalism, Mr. Peterson, who is teaching photography, and Mr. Hunter, instructor in advertising. This year the Journalism department will hold Its thir- teenth annual Field Day for high school students. The members of the reporting classes publish the daily school paper The Collegian. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Established in 1937, the College of Business Admin- istration is the fourth college to be established within Butler University. Headed by Dean Maurice O. Ross, president of Butler University and Assistant Dean Mer- wyn G. Bridenstine the college is entering the period of its greatest activity with the return of the many veterans of World War II who are interested in the field of busi- ness. The courses offered in the College of Business Ad- ministration are designed to provide training in the methods, techniques, and principles underlying modern business and journalism, as a foundation for careers in these fields. A further and equally important objective is to equip students with a knowledge and understanding of the changing and developing character of economic society and the responsibilities that are laid upon edu- cated men and women engaged in economic and jour- nalistic activity. DEAN M. O. ROSS Mehr, Steeg, Shors, Bomeli, Lamar, Bridenstine, Ross, Efroynnson. COLLEGE OF

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Kershner, Andry, The School of Religion established in 1924 and situated in its new, graceful Georgian building, which was built in 1942 overlooking the campus, became the second college of Butler University. The School of Religion is under the energetic guidance of Dean O. L. Shelton and taught by a scholarly faculty experienced in the fields of the ministry. A graduate institution and an accredited member of the American Association of Theological Schools, the primary purpose is to train candidates for the ministry and for allied forms of religious service. The curricula of the school, also cultural in value, furnishes to students the knowledge and technique for productive work in the fields of pastoral, evangelistic, educational, missionary ministry, and in the vocations of social service. The School of Religion is one of the supporting institutions of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and Baghdad. These schools, supported by about fifty leading universities and colleges in America, have been founded to serve serious and qualified students who wish to study in the Near East. COLLEGE OF