Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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h S l' B man II E Strin fellow, Dean Slaughter, Katherine Schutzc and Marvin O. Sansbury Left to right: A. D. Vearc . termg r ' , '. . g BIBLE IIULLEIEE DEAN SETH W. SLAUGHTER, who was graduated from Drake in 1916 and received his M.A. and B.D. from the University of Chicago in 1918 and in 1922 respectively, is completing his sixth year as head of the Bible college. Stronghold of the Bible college is Memorial hall. Ministerial students depend upon him for guidf ance, as well as prospective ministers in the college of liberal arts who also come to him for advice. Drake students have reason to be proud of the tall scholar whose leadership keeps the university's Bible college high in the religious circles of the country. Prefministerial students enrolled in the college of liberal arts took advantage of the accelerated warftime course of study offered in that college. Under this program, the student can complete his prefBible work in less than three years. Certain endowments and gifts from churches have made possible the granting to ministerial students loans and scholarships. Marvin O. Sansbury of the University Church of Christ lectures on pastoral problems and pastoral calling. He aids Dean Slaughter in a program which is individual among colleges of the Bible. Under this program ministerial students accompany Dr. Sansf bury and Dean Slaughter on visits in the homes of church members. During their undergraduate years they receive practice in the pulpits of Des Moines' churches. During the times when he is not Coordinating the work of the entire Bible college, Dean Slaughter instructs courses in the preparation and delivery of sermons, history of the Old Testament and pastoral administration of the church. DEAN SETH XV. SLAUGHTIER

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Left ro right: Walter G. Freclell, John B. Shumaker, and Earle Galloway PHA MAE DEAN GEORGE E. CROSSEN came to Drake last fall with an imposing list of degrees, This is his first year as dean of the college of pharmacy. The vigor and initiative he has brought to his position as leader of the pharmacy students has made itself felt beyond the confines of the science building and has given a lift to the entire campus. He has had extensive work in the formulating of curricula, assisting in the revision of the pharmacy college curriculum at Minnesota. A registered DEAN GEORGE E. CROSSEN Y EULLEEE pharmacist, he has had nine years' experience in retail drug work during which time he was a clerk, assistant store manager and manager of a drug store. For the past several years he has been faculty adviser to both graduate and undergraduate pharf macy students at the university. . Dean Crossen is chairman of the committee on drug standards of the Ivlinnesota state pharma' ceutical association. He is a member of the Amerif can pharmaceutical association and of Rho Chi, Phi Lambda Upsilon and Sigma Xi fraternities. There is a great demand for pharmacists in the armed forces, the dean said. The army and navy use pharmacists in all large camps, hospitals and bases. The dean believed the field of research to be the most important in which a pharmacist can work today. This was because of the great need -for work .on substitutes for valuable drugs that can be obtained now only in limited quantities due to the war effort. He has attempted to interest his students in research for quinine and atropine. Quinine which was shipped here from the Dutch East Indies is not available for public consumption and is needed by the army and the navy for control of tropical diseases such as malaria. Atropine, from belladona in Italy, is used for dilating the pupils of the eyes in eye examinations.

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HEPHESE TATI E TH STEE5 GARDNER CCWLES, JR., Drake trustee, told students in his Hrst public appearance following his 30,000fmile trip to the war fronts that the United States holds the most important position in the world today. These same words were warningly echoed by Wendell Willkie in his report to United States citizens one week later. With increasing bitterness becoming evident between China and England and Russia and Eng' land, America is the only country who will be able to make possible a workable peace. Willkie and Cowles shared the opinion that we were jeopardizing our position in the eyes of the Allies by our lack of concrete action. Cowles is associate publisher of The Des Moines Register and Tribune, president of Look magazine and assistant director of the domestic department of the Cilice of War Information. He works with other key men in Washington such as Robert E. Sherwood, playwright and author, who is in charge of propaganda broadcasts to Europe. This group has pledged itself to the truth in the utterances of war news. Military information that would aid the enemy must be withheld, but within that limitation we shall try to give the people a clear, complete and accurate picture, said Elmer Davis, Director of the Oiiice of -War Information. Mike Cowles is known among Des Moines' sportsters as the one who introduced squash to their courts. He has twice been crowned city chamf pion. Business necessitated his forsaking golf and allowing his private pilot's license to lapse. GROVER C. HUBBELL is chairman of the of- Hcial governing body of Drake University, the board of trustees. Onefthird of this board is elected annually by the incumbent members for a period of three years. This board determines the policy and directs the funds of the university. Members of the board serve on committees which act in an advisory capacity to the various colleges and aid in raising funds. This year for instance, the committee of the board on the Bible college, to give it its official title, launched a 5250,000 cam' paign for a new chapel building. While the activities of this group may be vague to the students who depend upon it for leadership, its individual members include prom- inent men from all parts of the country. In his prefinsurance days, Bob Evans, present vicefchair- man of the board, was a football star of the class of 1916. In the interim between the bifannual meetings .of the board of trustees, it is the executive committee that assumes control of the aifairs of the university. Besides Chairman Hubbell and viccfchairman Evans, David Kruidenier and Fred Swanson, treasf urer and secretary of the board respectively, are also members of the executive committee. The other six of the committee's ten members are men high in the business circles of Iowa and the nation: Fred Bohen, Herbert Horton, Oreon Scott, Gardner Cowles Ir., Arthur Kirk, and Dr. T. C. Denny. These are the men who in their monthly meet' ings control the personnel and guide the path of the university. i l l l