Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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The following year she l)C(amc the Dean of Women. Miss Halduin has been very active in the educational fields of the country. She is now serving in an advisory capacity to Miss Mc.Vfee. Clommandcr of the WAVES, as a in( ' ml)er of the Kdueational Advisory Council ui ' ilie Oflicc of National Personnel. Mrs. Schrakdkr, Mrs. VV. S. Persons, Uean . i.ice Baldwin, Mrs. Ruth Smith, Miss Marv G. Wilson .MRS. RL ' lll S. SMITH, A.B.. M.. . Assistant Dean of H ' orncn MRS. RUTH S. SMITH, Assistant Dean of Women, graduated from . gnes .Scott Col- lege in 1912. She received her Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1927. . ftcr her graduation from Columbia she came to Duke as the Assistant Dean of the Woman ' s College. She has had a very interesting back- ground for her present position, having visited schools in the Orient, Russia, and ILngland to stuch ihcir ineihotls. MRS. WALTER SCOTT PERSONS A.B., M.A. Assistant Dran in C iars e of Freslunen MRS. WALTER SCOTT PERSONS, As- sistant Dean in charge of Eresiimen, grad- uated from Duke University in 1922 with a Bachelor of . rts degree. She received her Mas- ter of . rts degree, also from Duke University in 1928. For the next two years she studied specialized sub)eets at the University of Penn- sylvania. She returned lo Duke in 19: 1 lo lie Secretary of the Commiiice on Admissions, and continues to hold this post, even after being ap- pointed Assistant Dean in charge of Freshmen. MISS M. RV CRAC:E WIL.SON A.H.. M.A. Dean of Residence MISS MAR ' CRACE WILSON. Dean of R(-siclcn(i-. graduate of Winthrop, lirst came lo Duke in 1929 as the .Acting Dean of Women during llie simimer session. W ' hen the Women ' s College was organized. Miss Wilson i)ecame the social director. In 19: 7. she was a|)pointed Dean of Residence and is Councilor for Brown House; dining the time she h;is been on the I ' ' acu]l ' . she has done mucii lo elaborate Duke ' s social program with originalily. MRS. ALINE SCHRAEDER, A.H., M.. . Assistant Dean nf Residence RS. ALINE SCHRAEDER, tiu- former -Miss DilieNson, came to Duke as House Councilor of Aycock in the fall of 1941. Siie received her A.B. at Carleton College in Xor- lield. Minnesota, and for a short time taugiit in Minnesota, returning then to school for her M.A. This she received at the Lhii crsiiy of Syracuse in 1941. In the fall of 1942, she was made Assistant Dean of Residence. M! MISS MARGARET PINKERTON, Dean of the School of Nursing H.S. Mif the School of Nursing, graduated I ' rom Columbia University with a B.S. degree in nurs- MlSS M. PlNKERTON ing. Before she assumed her present position in i9 ' 9, she .served in the University of West irginia. Our Sehool of Nursing was estai)- lished in 192-, at the same time as the School of Medicine. 18

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HAROLD CIRUSIUS BIRD, Ph. I)., c;.i:. I ' nifrs.wr oj Civil Hn iiniriuifi and Cliaii- iiian of I)i ' )iiiini( ' iil of C ' ivil Einiiiiicnni; PROCESSOR BIRD, a iiuinlKT ol (lie 1 )iikc faculty since 1926 as Professor of Clivil Engi- ncering, received his Ph.D. from ' nlr in 1908, H. C. Bird, R. .S. Wilbur, V. H. Hall, W. J. .Seeley his C.E. from Yale in 191 1. He is now con- centrating on the thorough training of competent civil engineers for service in connection with the war effort. He has been a leading member and officer of state and sectional engineering societies and has been a successful editor of Engineering Journals and Bulletins. WILLIAM HOLLAND HALL, A.B., A.M., B.C.E., M.S. C.E. Dean of tiie College of Engineering THE WAR ' S DEMANDS on the College of Engineering have been particularly great in the constant demand for technically trained young men by all branches of the armed services and by war industry. Dean Hall and his as- sociates have had to deal with the problems of increased enrollment, intensified courses of study, and the capacity burdens on teachers and facili- ties. Before coming to Duke in 191 5, he attended the U. S. Naval Academy and obtained his A.B. and A.M. degrees from Duke in 191 4. He re- ceived a B.C.E. degree from the L nivcrsity of Michigan in 191 5, and an M.S. in C.E. from the University of Wisconsin in 1927. RALPH SYDNEY WILBUR, B.S. IN M.E., M.E. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman oj the Department of Alechanical Engineering PROFESSOR WILBUR is chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Wilbur has served as chairman of the Raleigh SCI lion ol llic Nuriii (;,irolin,i I )islrict of American Society of Mc- lianical Engineers. Before coming lo Duke as . ssociale Professor in nyy], he oijtaincd his B.S. in M.E. and his M.A. degrees from Tufts College. He iiad also been engaged in mechanical engineering with commercial com- l anies and had taught at the University of Iowa, University of Pennsylvania, Lafayette C College, and at the United States Naval Post-graduate School at Annapolis. wai;ii:r jamils seeley, m.s. I ' lo esior and Head of Electrical Engineering Di ' ft rlnirn! MR. WALTER J. SEELEY has been at Duke in the College of Engineering since 1925 and has been professor of Electrical Engi- neering since 1929. Before coming to Duke, Mr. Seeley was an Ensign in the U. S. Navy working on the Special Board on Anti-submarine Devices, and an instructor in Electrical I ngi- neering at the University of Pennsylvania. In February of this year, Mr. Seeley was made Consultant to Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington, D. C. He spends one week in Washington and one week in Durham, his class- es being specially arranged. Dr. Alice M. Baldwin ALICE MARY BALDWIN B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Dean of the Jl ' oman ' s College R. ALICE MARY BALDWIN received her B.A. and M.A. degrees at Cornell Uni- versity. She earned her Ph.D. in 1923 from the University of C:hicago; in the summer of that year she came to Trinity College as the Acting Dean of Women for Summer School. D 17

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ALUMNI IN T H K S K R V I C E liininic W.ilkcr, 4J, forincr S.(J.. ice Prcsiclciil and xiiionnis cain- paitjiK ' r lor a |)la{ c lor llu iiuicjXMicl- (Mits in |)oliliis is now a I ' irsl 1 .iculcnaiU in the Marine Clor|)s sonicwhcrc in the l acilic. .Jini- niic has cariifcl his rciiarcl lor I )ukc wiiii him to Lt. Wili iam Ansboro 43 far South Pacific islands and wrote back of his first experience in combat: It ' s strange how three years can pass through one ' s mind in a few brief seconds, but somehow they do. I realize now just how many opportunities were presented to me at Duke University and the people there. Truly our fates have scattered us afar, and I am sure all of us turn often to our ' Alma Mater Dear. ' Joys of the past are reflected vividly during the excitement of action; and those of our college days give us moments of brief enjoy- ment. Even in the Pacific, the lighter side of college life is not forgotten, as Jimmie goes on to say: There are two Carolina men in this unit with me and I have really been in my glory over the double football victory. They hate to see me come around, they are so sore about the matter. Back in 1940 Ralph Smylc and Bernard Elias were fraternity brothers at Duke. Elias hobby had been photography and he had studied the subject in the physics department here and made Campus Eye shots for the Quadrangle pic- tures. Now Smyle and Elias have been to- gether on se eral photographic missions. All over the world, Duke men who were once stu- dents are now going into ser ice together, re- calling the old da s spent among the Ciothic building of their college campus. From London comes a hearty welcome to all Duke men arri ing in England. Jerry Bray, who graduated in ' 33 is now a Lieutenant C om- mander, Flag Secretary and aide to . dmiral Siark. Bray has had as llirilling a ca- reer as any Duke man in scivice. As aide to the Admiral he has met many of ihc ti ' uly great leaders of the Allied cause, among ihcni the King and Queen of England! . s more and more Duke men arri ' e in (ireat Britain, Bray looks forward to ihc day when it may be possible to establish an Alumni C hapter cj ' er there. In the meantime he ex|)resscs his wish to see Duke boys, assuring us that to all of them I will be most happy to extend a real ' southern ' welcome if they will just give me a ring at U. S. Naval Headcjuarters, London, England. Johnny and Martha Lane Forlincs are both in the service now. Johnny ' 39 is a Captain in the Finance Department of the Army while his sister is a gun toting communications officer at Charles- ton, S. C. Johnny was an A.F.S. instructor on the campus of his Alma Mater. When Duke University presented organizational colors to the A.F.S. Johnny acted as master of ceremonies while Don Perry, former Duke student then an Officer ' s Candidate in Finance accepted the Lr. JoH.N I ' ORI.INE S ' 39 AND E.NSICIS MaRTHA FoRl.INES ' 4I colors. Captain Forlines is stationed in Boston now lamenting the fact that the residents of that city — ha ing only seen such schools as Harvard — do not appreciate what a real college campus is like. 19