Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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:-- L-- 1313.214 ' ' IITHE LAW SCHOOL is rated as one ot the best by all standardizing agencies, declared Martin A. Tolletson, who was appointed dean ot the law school in December. For the last two years he has been acting dean in the absence ot Arthur A. Morrow, Chiet Justice ot the High Court ot American Samoa. ln his slight Norwegian accent he tells ot tighting side loy side with the American doughboys in France. In l935 he re- ceived a tellowship trom the Harvard Law school. Dean Tolletson writes very extensively tor law reviews. This spring he published The Right ot lngress and Egress in the Illinois Law Review. He headed the committee ot deans to expedite administra- tive duties during the illness ot the President and acted as chairman ot this committee until the appointment ot Dr. More- house's successor. A tew hours atter his classes are through at the university. one can tind him in dirty overalls in the garden on his tarm home just a tew miles from town. . . 1 5. , .5 13 25 ALTHO DEANS pi-ll BETA KAPPA and Kappa Delta Pi are just two ot the organizations that include Dean John H. Gabrielson on their membership list. He is on so many committees that he can scarcely list them all, but he's never too busy to counsel students. For two years betore he accepted the deanship he served as a Des Moines high school superintendent. ln I937 he was named dean ot men and immediately all the personal problems ot Drake's young manhood became his. Debate N.Y.A. student council and the construction ot the men's dormitory have constituted a tew ot his worries. He acts as adviser to many student groups and lends support to the selt-governing regime in the men's dormitory. He aids in planning the university's promotion work. He and Mrs. Gabrielson top the list ot guests at many student gatherings and are regular fellows as chaperones tor the debate team. UGH H. Leigh Baker has been dean ot the college education only two years, the department has re- sponded quickly to his etticient acceleration. ln his brisk, busi- ness-like manner he conducts one ot the most outstanding colleges ot its kind. An unusual requirement is that education students must tultill two years ot practice teaching. The basis tor his progressive ideas lies in the long tedious hours ot study at the University ot Illinois and at the University ot Chicago where he tired turnaces and worked in the library as monetary accompaniments to attaining his intellectual goal. His first study ot teaching techniques as a superintendent was experimental. From this he moulded his educational methods and standards to torm Drake's high standards. Working in close cooperation with Miss Cloe he is proud ot the high percentage ot graduate-teacher placements that Drake boasts.

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RS. CARRIE TAYLOR CUBBAGE came to Drake in the dark times ot l93O when everywhere else they were tearing things down, but at Drake they were going up-with the women's dormitory. Drake has continued to go up, and with it have come added duties to the ottice ot the dean ot women. She has the solution tor all housing problems, and tor the multitudinous questions ot all sorority women. Unattili- ated women tind her guidance and counselling invaluable. Mrs. Cubbage attended a convention ot the National Association ot Deans ot Women in Atlantic City, N. J., and brought back many practical answers to problems ot supervision ot women's extra-curricular activities. She is a member ot the Publications committee, tra- ternity attairs. and with Dean Gabrielson, constitute the taculty advisory board ot the student council. She possesses a love tor good music and takes pride in tollowing the protessional music career other daughter. DEANS rvi Pill! THE PROBLEMS and ditticulties ot hundreds ot students and taculty members are the everyday work ot Luther W. Stal- naker, dean ot the college ot liberal arts. who makes new friends with every problem he solves. With a 6.35 average at Drake, Helmet and Spurs and Phi Beta Kappa clamored tor him. Yale conterred upon him the doctor's degree atter intensive study ot the philosophy ot re- ligion. In i938 he was selected as one ot ten men by the Inter- national Council to lecture in European churches and audito- riums tor three months. Old World cities in Old World back- grounds nurtured his appreciation ot the arts and classics. ln i927 he began his career at Drake. The knack ot hav- ing everybody like him is just as much a part ot Dean Stalnaker's classes in philosophy as any ot the ordinary textbook tacts. DEAN Seth Slaughter was given a leave ot absence last sum- mer to accept the honor ot holding high Drake's prestige at the Ashram in Minnesota. The Ashram is a conterence ot recognized theologians conceived along the lines ot the annual religious conference in India. He collaborated with the Rev. E. Stanley Jones and they alternately delivered the evening ad- dresses. Erom his advanced ideas developed something new in the Bible college this year-a clinic. Students accompany pastors when they visit the homes ot members and report their observa- tions to Dean Slaughter. He also requires a report ot the prac- tice ministerial duties. A quick triendly smile, kindly counsel and dignified manner- isms personity Dean Slaughter, seventh dean to head the ac- tivities ot the Bible college. He relieves the Rev. Marvin O. Sansbury ot some ot the numerous problems ot the University Church ot Christ. 24

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La W ww. DEAN LYNDEN E. HOFEMANES famed humor was filed to its keen edge during his youth in his father's machine shop, Acting as flunlry in a sorority house en- abled him to attend the University of lllinois and to finish at the University of Chicago. Before entering his professorship here in I92O, he gained experience as a traveling auditor for a railroad and as principal of a high school. He enrolled in the law school during his professorship and was admitted to the bar in I934. His commonsense philosophy pervades his classrooms. A wide acquaintance of local businessmen enables him to understand their idiosyncracies and what motivates their wills. Dean Hoffman expresses his philosophy in the classroom as. The end of a commerce course is not to sharpen the acquisitive wits of the individual in order that he may profit at others' expense, but to provide him with the tools to render a service to his fellowmenf' Wie UNDERSTANDING and lcindliness have won for Dean Herbert Gould a popular position as high as his official' rank. After turning his back upon a school- master's career, he like many others, combined the aesthetic and the practical by shoveling furnaces to malre his way through the New England and Boston con- servatories of music, When the trend from solely music schools to those devoted to developing music instructors began, Drake followed suit. The University proffered Herbert Gould the cleanship as a fitting climax to his seven year operatic career. Cincinnati Conservatory had conferred upon him -an honorary B, M. in recogni- tion of his efforts toward the advancement of music in the United States before his coming to Dralce. During the last Christmas holidays he was basso soloist with the Swedish Choral Society in the presentation of The Messiah at the Chicago Orchestra Hall. BROWN eyes sparkle and reveal Dean Herbert W, Bohlman's boundless humor as he greets the counsel-seelring student. Early ambitions effected his enrollment in law school but when he viewed young lawyers tightening their belts to ease the gnawing, he changed into a more lucrative profession, His country called him to Naval Reserve duty in l9l8. Thoughts of traveling fascinated him but he laughs as he recalls leaving base only once for patrol duty-three miles out in Lalce Michigan! Beginning at Drake in I924 as professor of economics his ability raised him to the head of the department. Last spring he was appointed Dean of the Graduate Divi- sion to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Lewis Worthington Smith. Problems from Cowles Library find their way to him as chairman of the library com- mittee. Dean Bohlman's brilliant wit and friendly personality have won for him the rcspect and admiration of the student body. P HARMACY is so interesting that after thirty-two years Dean Elbert C. Kagy still thoroughly enjoys his classes. That is why his classes enjoy Dean Kagy. A brother-in-law influenced his beginning in this profession and Dean Kagy's en- thusiasm has prompted his daughter to fallow in his footsteps. He led the battle to establish the Des Moines School of Pharmacy. and was influential when it merged to become the college of pharmacy at Drake in the spring of '38. ' Last spring all of Kagy's graduates passed the pharmaceutical examination for the state of Iowa. The college itself received the high ranking approval of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education. Quiet, soft-spoken Dean Kagy has only words of praise for the comprehensive course offered at Drake. 26 ii iii