Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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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

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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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UE!-llll UF WIJMEN l DEAN CARRIE TAYLOR CUBBAGE has eff iiciently directed women's activities on our campus for thirteen years. She possesses a personal insight into the problems of the university, having been a leader in Drake women's groups during her underf graduate years. Her two daughters later brought home to her the university problems as they saw them. She fostered Won1en's League and they seek her advice on orientation problems, Career Confabs and distributing responsible ofdces to university women. She honors board members at a dinner in her home every year. Dean Cubbage also instructs classes in Latin, Greek civilization and Roman comedy in the liberal arts college. Leona Anderson assumed her duties as assistant dean two years ago. She guards the outer off lice and keeps a record of all women enrolled in the university. Together they supervise life in the dormitory and sorority houses. Disciplinary and Panhellenic questions are solved in this oilice. They have a very small amount of leisure time for even a lot of their noon hours are spent in munching sandwiches during committee meetings. The war has had its effects on this office. Uni' versity women have entertained men in the armed forces by dances sponsored through this office. They have learned and have taught us how to apply our energy to aid in the war effort. We also learned of opportunities in private industry to indirectly benefit our nation. Drake women have had capable leadership during these unsettled times. DEAN UF ME DEAN JOHN H. C-ABRIELSCN, popular dean of men, is a member of the combined facultyfstudent senate. He led in the reorganization of this group from the politically elected council of former years. A new constitution had to be drafted and the scope of student control determined. Students found him a staunch supporter of their demands for reason' able control in their own government. He has no assistant and on his shoulders falls the burden of advising university men during the most vital time of their lives. Their country needed them and it also needed brilliant unprejudiced lead' ers to write a fair peace after the war. The unif i versities were to provide these men. There was a housing problem for the dean of men when the WOH1C1l,S Army Auxiliary Corps took over the men's dormitory. Dean Gabrielson got busy and secured residences close to the campus to serve for the duration. He instructs classes in philosophy and debate. Varsity and intramural forensic tournaments are supervised and judged by him. Last summer he was selected to contact high school graduates and to publicize Drake's opporf tunities. The fact that the enrollment remained the same as the preceding year is evidence of his humor, sincerity and personality. During his college years at Drake, he was elected to Kappa Delta Pi, honorary education fraternity, and Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary. He returned to the university in 1937 from the principalship of East high school.