Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING DEAN WILLIAM HOLLAND HALL has been on the staff of the Engineering School since igif). He attended the United States Naval Academy, and in 1914 he received l)oth his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Duke Unixer- sity. In 1 91 5 he obtained his B.C.E. degree from the University, and in 1927 he received a M.A. in Civil Engineering from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin. Dean Hall ' s first position in the faculty at Duke was as an instructor in Engineering. Dean Hall is relieved of some of his responsi- bility by the chairmen of the three departments of the Engineering School — the Departments of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engi- neering. Dr. Harold Crusius Bird is Professor of Civil Engineering and Chairman of the Department. He received his Ph.D. in 1908, and his C.E. in 191 1 from Yale. He came to Duke twenty-one years ago as Professor of Civil Engineering. He is the editor of Engi- neering Journals and Bulletins. Professor Ralph Sidney Wilbur is Chairman of Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S.M.E. and his M.A. degree from Tufts Col- lege. He was engaged in mechanical engineer- ing with commercial companies, and taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Pennsylvania, LaFayette College, and at the United States Postgraduate School at Annap- olis, before to Duke. He has also William H. Hall served as Chairman of the Raleigh Section of the North ' Carolina District of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Walter James Seeley has been head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Duke since 1929. Until 1925, he was an Ensign in the U. S. Navy, working on the Special Board of Anti-Submarine Devices. He also tauglit electrical engineering at the Unixx-rsily of Pennsyhania. Because of the intiux of eterans, the enroll- ment of the Engineering School has jumped to over 400. To remedy this situation, a greatly-needed class building is being erected on West Campus. It will be twice as large as the four present buildings combined. Hakold C. Bird Ralph .S. Wilbur Waiflr J. Seelev q6

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SCHOOL OF NURSING THIS YEAR the Nursing School is under the very capable leadership of Miss Florence Wilson. Miss Wilson acquired her B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in 191 3, and her M.A. from Western Reserve University in 1928. In the summer of 191 8, Miss Wilson practised at the ' assar Training Camp for Nurses, and, in 1920, graduated from the City Hospital School of Nursing in New York City. Dean Wilson had a great deal of experience prior to her appointment this year at Duke. In 1923, she became medical supervisor at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. At the same time, she was an instructor of medical nursing at Western Reserve University. From 1932 to 1934, Dean Wilson was instructor and super- visor of medical nursing at the University of Nebraska, and from 1934 to 1937, she worked in the same capacity at New York Hospital ' s School of Nv irsing. In 1937, Miss Wilson became director of the School of Nursing and Nursing Service at Syracuse Memorial Hos- pital, and Syracuse University ' s Nursing School appointed her associate professor of nursing- education in 1943. From January 1946, to September 1946 Miss Wilson was executive Miss Florence Wilson secretarv of the New York State Nursinsj Council for War Service. Dean Wilson published Ward ' s Study Units in Medical Nursing, and collaborated in writing Smith ' s Principles of Nursing Care. She has also liad several articles published in the American Journal of Nursing. Dean Wilson is planning programs for gradu- ate nurses, to be held in the education depart- ment in West Duke on East Campus, the nurses to use Duke Hospital as a practice field. Nurses arc instructed in tlu- classrooms during the first two years. The second year, in- struction and duty are com- bined, and the third year is spent in working on the wards. 25

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11. C I.Al DE lluRACK SCHOOL OF LAW H. CLAUDE HORACK, Dean of the School of Law, has been on the faculty of Duke Uni- versity since 1930. He received his Ph.D. and LL.D. from Tulane Uni ersity, and served as President of the Iowa State Bar Association. Later he held the posts of secretary and presi- dent of the Association of American Law Schools. He also aiLended ilic International Congress of Comparative Law at the Hague. Since assuming the duties of the head of the Law School. Dean Horack has placi d special emphasis on close personal relation- ships with his students, stressing the impor- tance of knowing the students well. He be- lie es that a complete and sound legal edu- cation must include ability to reason inde- pendently and also a sen.se of responsibility to the pui)lic as well as the clientele. For any education there must be books, and the Law Library was founded for this need. It pro ides the innumerable books to which a law student must have access if he is going to accjuire an adequate legal education. The Law Library, consisting of approximately 75,000 volumes, is outgrowing its house; there arc more books than the shehes can hold. The Law Library has earnestly tried to find the best material for the needs of the law students, and in so doing it has acquired some valuable publications. Paralleling the increase in enrollment in the University as a whole, with the return of many old students and the admission of new ones, the enrollment in the Law School has swelled to enormous proportions. This first postwar class is well on its way toward being the largest class in the history of the school. Law students gather on the Law .School steps between classes to discuss the latest legal deci- sions. Ten minutes between classes gives them an opportunity for a short relaNation period. 27