Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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DIVISION OF ENGINEERING DEAN R. A. SEATON ' npHE Division of Engineering at Kansas • State is one of the larger engineering schools of this country. Of about one hun- dred and fifty engineering colleges in the United States only seventeen or eighteen have greater enrollments, and only three or four of these lie west of the Mississippi River. Its graduates hold responsible posi- tions not only in Kansas and the neighbor- ing states, but throughout the United States and in many foreign countries, as well. Instruction in engineering has always been considered one of the principal functions of this college. The basic law under which the institution was established provides for the teaching of ' ' such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and engineering and architecture constitute the highest phases of mechanic arts. In 1866, just three years after the in- stitution was organized as a land-grant college, a professor of mechanics and civil engineering was appointed. Growth of this work was slow, however, until a separate engineering curriculum was introduced in 1897-98. Since that time expansion has oc- curred at an accelerated rate, and it has been particularly rapid since about 1920. More than two-thirds of the two thousand en- gineering and architectural graduates of this college h ave received their degrees since that date. In recent years from 120 to 140 young men have been graduated each year. Top row: Morgan, Stutzman, Grant, Weigel, Seaton, Conrad Third row: Schwensen, Helm, Carlson, Pearce, Taylor, Durland, .vIellies. Second row: Kloeffi.er, Paslay, Morse, Cheek, Dawley, Pauling. Bottom row: Frazier, Jorcenson, Olsen, Graham, Koenitzer, Wichers, Ware Page St

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DEAN OF WOMEN THERE is a generally recognized place in every institution of higher education for a department of the Dean of Women. It is organized as are other administrative de- partments. The Dean of Women is responsi- ble for the program of work and for its exe- cution. The scope of the work varies in different institutions, developing in each w ith the traditions of the institution for the office and the number of students concerned. The Dean of Women at Kansas State Col- lege is concerned with the problems involved in the housing, health, part-time employ- ment, extra-curricular interests, and the cultural and social activities of its students. The routine duties of her office gives her the contacts with students which enable her to share with the other administrative officers of the college the responsibility of creating environmental situations which stimulate in students a desire for the best that college has to offer. Mrs. Van Zile, who thoroughly enjoys her work with Kansas State students, says, Joy in living is the result of the discovery that the ordinary experiences of life have wathin them great possibilities, that there is in every one something permanent, un- DEAN MARY P. VAN ZILE defeatable, a personality or a spirit that will live on in the minds and hearts of associates long after one is gone. The joy and chal- lenge in my work is and has ever been to strive to make of every personality I touch a thing of beauty, honesty, intelligence, and order. DR. A. A. HOLTZ MEN ' S ADVISER To BE counsellor, guide, encourager, helper in distress, occasional disciplin- arian, but always friend — this is the work of the Men ' s Adviser and Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. P roviding an outlet for the desire for service, aiding in Christian Fellowship, en- couraging contact with new ideas and growth through forums and discussions groups, mixers, dances, or Aggie Orpheum; provid- ing opportunity for spiritual development through retreat, discussions, and personal conferences — these are the opportunities of the Men ' s Adviser. To supply to the men guidance during their experimental college days is the object of Doctor Holtz ' s efforts. Page tt

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Eight separate curricula are now offered as follows: agricultural engineering, archi- tectural engineering, architecture, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical en- gineering, landscape architecture, and me- chanical engineering. Sound fundamental training in the basic sciences and arts and in their appropriate technical applications are provided in each of these curricula. Options and electives are included to permit some specialization in particular subdivisions of these general branches of the engineering and architectural fields. More than eight hundred students are now enrolled in these curricula. F or several years before the recent slump in college enrollments, due to the depression, more than a thousand students were enrolled each year. Graduate instruction has received increas- ing attention in recent years, and is grow- ing rapidly. Seventy-three of the eighty- three degrees of master of science in engineer- ing and architecture granted by this college have been conferred since 1920. Research work has been developed by the division along with undergraduate and graduate study. The Engineering Experiment Station has published thirty-two research bulletins and has prepared all or part of a number of bulletins and circulars published by other divisions of the college. Several additional manuscripts are now being pre- pared for publication by the station and work is being actively prosecuted upon thirty-two research projects. The general objectives of the division are: (a) To provide educational opportunities in the principal branches of engineering and architecture of such quality as will meet all reasonable and proper standards, both at the undergraduate level and also at the graduate level at least up to the Master ' s degree; (b) To conduct investigations and re- searches in the fields of engineering, archi- tecture, and the industries, for the purposes of securing new data and information of value to the industries and citizens of Kan- sas, and of stimulating instructors and stu- dents and developing in them the research spirit; and (c) To compile and present in readily available form information of value to the citizens of Kansas, and to assist in its dis- semination. Top row: Lynch, McCollum, Roberts, Sellers, Sitz. Pickett. Schumann. Third row: Fenton, White, Branigan. Zink. Mack, Robert, Jones. Second row: Hunt, Brenneman, Scholer. Hulburt, Barger, Crawford, Furr, Drayer. Bottom row: Smutz. Flinner, Gingrich. Kerchner. Brainard, Geauque. PagetS