North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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TQD On the whole, our student group is optimistic, and pretty level-headed too, says Dean Pearl Dinan, who should know. Dean of Women, Miss Dinan directly con- tacts at least ninety per cent of N.D.A.C. women students, whom she advises with an eye to their so- cial and scholastic welfare. She serves on such committees as those on student loan fund, scholarships, student activities, social enter- tainrnent. She regularly attends meetings of organizations like Senior Staff and Women's Senate. She is supervisor of the women's dormitory. F.E.R.A. aid means an additional job for the Dean. She has to in- QCIH O OHWQYI terview numerous applicants and make assignments. In the fall quarter eighty-eight girls got F.E.R.A. assistance, in the winter quarter fifty-seven. He characterizes the prevailing student attitude the future. T Q DQGYI O GFI At some time in his college career, every man student here has come or will have come into direct or indirect contact with Dean Smith. It is his job to ad- just personal problems in the way that's best for individual and group Welfare. An added duty of the Dean's this year was to ad- minister federal aid to men stu- dents, among whom he was assign- ed one hundred and three full- time appointments to apportion as he saw fit. Dean Smith reports cases where F.E.R.A. funds have been indispen- sable to college attendance, or where they have so lightened financial worries as to stimulate better school work. as hopeful, serious, and heedful of 4gz zm,

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e eq islmv Responsibility meets Registrar Parrott at every turn. Secretary of the faculty council, he is gen- erally considered the interpreter and enforcer of faculty regula- tions. He is chairman of such standing committees as those on attendance, curriculum, eligibility, and freshman orientation. His office admits and enrolls students, of each keeping a per- manent academic record. When catalogs, when analyses of aca- demic grades, are published, his office prepares and publishes them. It must be ready to sub- mit comparative studies of teach- ing loads, of faculty salaries and rankings, of departmental teach- ing costs. It answers many a questionnaire. When the Bison questionnaired him, Mr. Parrott revealed a Winter term enrollment of one thousand three hundred and thirty-six, and the biggest winter term freshman class in N.D.A.C. history-five hundred and thirteen. The Seceelo Pu The student who pays for a dormitory room, munches a meal at the college cafeteria, patronizes the bookstore, or settles up at the end of the term for breakages in chemistry lab-such a student con- tacts Secretary-treasurer Hagan's office exactly four times. Mr. Hagan's office hands pay checks to every state and federal employee on the campus. It buys all supplies for the institution. It is the custodian of all college property. It administers telephone exchange, bookstore, and cafeteria. For every penny of the million dollars that pass through the of- fice in a normal year, Mr. Hagan is accountable to the federal or the state government. ,QEQWJ was BISON mn., ..14...

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The complexities of organization of the mod- ern educational institution make the task of administration especially important. Unfortun- ately students often fail to understand the difficulties of administrative organization and the many obstacles in the path of college officials. Behind the scenes, guiding and directing the smooth running routine of the college is a group of able administrators. The administrative of- ficials also serve in an advisory capacity, attempt- ing to direct the individual student toward those pursuits in which he is best qualified and in which he is most likely to succeed. Through this yearbook We, as students, recognize the important role of our administrators in the life of this institution.