Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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BUSINESS ADIVIINISTIQATICDN THE UNIVERSITY was dealt its second administrative blow within a month with the death of E. C. Lytton. A recurring heart ailment was fatal to the man who had been Drake's business manager for 2I years. Lytton was in charge ot University publicity, advertising. and also arranging the football schedule. One of the achievements credited to Mr. Lytton was the installation ot night football at Drake in I92i8. Mr. .Lytton had been a personal triend ot Knute Rockne. famous football coach. His added duties included membership on the board ot publications and Drake Relays Committee. His everyday optimism, his ability to deal with a wide variety ot interests and his happy smile can never be replaced on Drake's campus. .fa--. W 1 I llIT'S TURBY WHO PAYS -and has been paying tor I9 years. I-Ie was one ot the men behind the scenes when Chautauqua was at its height, but was gradu- ated from these heavily padded gay-nineties 'figures to the head ot Drake's tinance bureau where tigures dety padding. He acts as secertary pro tcm tor the board ot trustees and is the exacting tormulator ot the university's budget. All student accounts are in his capable hands. Securities. real estate and cash on hand have to be balanced against pur- chases of everything trom thumb t-acks to student unions by this twinkling-eyed genial buclgeter. His kindly humor stimulates the whole business administration department and marks him as one ot the student tavorites. Gardening is his hobby and he is a self-christened Iowa dirt tarmer. GUARDIAN ot all academic directories, grades received, and entrance credits is young-hearted, white-haired Miss Emma J. Scott. She was one of tour sisters to be graduated from Drake and accepted the position ot Registrar in I9l7. Her lamily has been associated with Drake University since its founding. Miss Scott is the composer ot the words ot Drake's Alma Mater Hymn. For her memorials to deceased taculty and her impromptu verse she deserves recognition as poet laureate ot Drake. Her knowledge ot the University extends beyond the numerous volumes ot rec- ords in her ottice. Ask Miss Scott, has become the campus by-word, and almost every hour of the day some student or taculty member treads her threshold to ask her advice. W cess ot her ettorts. y than financial problems. 27 PLEASANT, helptul and very wise in employment matters is Miss ministrator of the service bureau. Miss Cloe accepted the position in I928. This service is entirely tree to all students and each year women earn thousands ot dollars through the service ot this bureau. Miss Cloe keeps a list of all calls tor work on tile and students tain whatever type ot work they wish by applying iat her ottice. Rhea Cloe, ad- as administrator Drake men and she says. usually can ob- Working in cooperation with the deans ot all colleges, she avails the graduates ot every opportunity to secure employment and chuck tuII tiles prove the suc- Even more treasured by students are her conferences that help them with more

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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

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIQN . , . ln the intricate web ot business administration. there must be someone to receive all the money and be accountable tor it. For seventeen years Miss Min- nie Bell Lucas has been perched on her stool be- hind barred windows and tor seventeen years she has trudged to the bank to de- posit the university's money. These seemingly unpleasant tasks have not dulled her personality. One even tor- gets the disagreeable part ot paying out his hard- earnecl money when he sees this tiny efficient person with her great big smile. . . . Young, pretty and capable Lela Lehman, sec- retary in the ottices ot the President, has held the po- sition tive and one-halt years . . . Besides executing the ottice orders, she links the President and the tac- ulty as well as the Presi- dent and the Board ot Trustees . . . Distribution ot scholarships is also in her hands. and she is a member ot the committee to approve N, Y. A. appli- cations. . . . Small. ctticient, tol- lower ot Harper's Bazaar, Miss Evelyn Sandy, alumni secretary, goes whipping through the administration building in a mad dash atter her lost alumni . . . Have they married? . . . Have they died? . , . Have they recently donated a building or two to their alma mater? . . . lt they have, her rat-a-ta-tat steps take her to the news bureau to announce it to the little world outside ot Drake. CP . . . Mrs. Esma Ewing, secretary to the auditor, explains with a good-na- tured laugh that she is unable to tell trom one day to the next what her work will be . . . Student accounts and clerical work are her principal headaches and tor tourteen years she has been reminding Mr. Turby to wear his rubbers . . . The tirst day ot every month is her signal to start wading through stacks ot university bills. . . . Secretary to the busi- ness manager is iovial Mrs. Florence Pearce who has been with the university since September, i929 , . . Was called here by Mr. Lytton in that year to aid in the Campaign to raise S500,000 tor the women's new dormitory . . . Provcd herself exceptionally ca- pable and has been the mainstay in the business ottice since . . , After ottice hours she and Sandy lthc alumni Sandyl are inseparable. . . , Helen Bentley, triendly and witty personnel secre- tary, not only engaged her- self in spreading good will tor Drake, but engaged a man with a ring on the lett finger . . . Hers was the duty ot greeting all new enrollees and making them teel at home . . . Familiar sight was Helen strolling on campus with frightened-eyed Mamas og- ling the buildings and Sonnys ogling the coeds . . . Helen joined a down- town ottice in early spring, ERE is a thumb-nail sketch ot those who make things tick behind the scenes . . . They are the ones who make the business end ot the University a smooth-working organization . . . Without their etticient, regular, precising-point pencil scribblings and their click-clacking calculators, there would be no material Drake . . . One tace is missing from this panel ot triendly souls, and that is Miss Belle Latham. purchasing clerk ot the University, who reigns supreme in the Ad. building corner where the winding, metal stairway bores up trom the basement . . . She fetuses-and always has- to have her picture taken . . . These are the etticient persons who have carried on through the tragic days ot the year, and maintained a smooth-running business department ot the university.