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

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ivision o ome conomics From last year's administrative reor- ganization the School of Home Economics emerged unmerged with any other School. It is the single department of the Divi- sion of Home Economicsg the Division's Dean is Miss Alba Bales. Home Economics registration during the year averaged around two hundred, leading last yearis figure by about twenty-five. The Dean and seven instructors do the teaching. More students registered for the Home Economics Education curriculum than for any of the other three, fArt, Foods and Nutrition, Clothing and Textilesj. Home Economics Education prepares students to teach Home Eco- nomics. Next most preferred course was Foods and Nutrition, which is predietetics work. Demand for this curriculum is growing rapidly, says Miss Bales. Clothing and Textiles is third most popular course. Dean Bales Solicitous about men who board themselves in housekeeping groups, the Department offered a new course this year in food preparation and menu work for men. Fifteen men, likewise solicitous, attended regularly. F.E.R.A. money allotted to the Division was spent for various purposes. Some of it compensated students who did clerical work. Some of it paid for gathering and filing material of pedagogical value. One student's job was to write every Home Economics graduate to learn of her post-N.D.A.C. career, and then to incorporate the results in a departmental register. Miss Ann Brown was added to the Art faculty to replace Miss Dorothy Hatch. Miss Edna Meshke took the place of Miss Helen Ewing, Clothing instructor. Ripley please copy: No married North Dakota Agricultural College Home Eco- nomics graduate had been divorced, revealed a survey made several years ago. Ceres Hall ami 1153 Tris-fCc?2n-, - 20 1

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ivision 0 nqineevinq Recent administrative reorganization has combined the Schools of Chemistry and Engineering to form the Division of Engineering, with R. M. Dolve as Dean. Associate Dean L. L. Carrick administers the School of Chemistry. In the Engi- neering section of the Division, enrollment this year has ranged around three hun- dred sixty, topping last year's mark by about twelve. Freshman registration in Civil Engi- neering was about one hundred per cent heavier this year than it usually has been. Dean Dolve thinks that increased federal employment of civil engineers may have contributed to the popularity e of this course. Dean Dolve As F.E.R.A. workers, some fifty students ffall term figurej in the Division undertook major departmental improvement projects. They built equipment for electrical, me- chanical, and hydraulic laboratories. They constructed a large sectional map of the campus, showing all its surface and underground details. They redecorated classrooms and laboratories. An old tractor shed they converted into an engineering materials laboratory, and an old cement laboratory into a classroom. Several personnel changes were made. Albert Anderson, a 1931 N.D.A.C. gradu- ate, was employed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of J. R. Van Dyke, Me- chanical Engineering instructor. To meet the demands of the expanded enrollment, a new teacher, A. M. Fitch, was added to the Civil Engineering faculty. The Division inaugurated a new course this year, a four year curriculum in Administrative Engineering. Engineering ,ggi 1936 BISON Egg., -19-

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IVISIOH 0 qmcullure, xpemmenl Slcllion on xlension Last year's College-wide administra- tive reorganization combined the School of Agriculture, the Experiment Station, and the Extension Service into one ad- ministrative unit, the new Division. In general charge of the three agricultural activities is H. L. Walster, Dean and Di- rector. P. J. Olson is Assistant Dean of Resident Teaching in Agriculture and Assistant Director of the Experiment Sta- tion. In the Extension Service N. D. Gorman is County Agent Leader, Grace De Long is Home Demonstration Leader, and H. R. Rilling 4-H Club Leader. Enrollment in Agriculture jumped sixty-four per cent this year over last. Popularity of the Forestry courses gained disproportionately. Special courses of- Dean Walster fered included those in practical agriculture during the winter term for temporary students. Recipients of F.E.R.A. aid in the fall quarter numbered thirty, in the winter quarter about forty. Some workers were employed in the barns on stock management projects. Others held clerical jobs. In addition, the Division was allotted much non-student F.E.R.A. and C.W.A. labor. Among recent staff changes are the resignation of Dr. C. E. Kellogg, associate pro- fessor of Soils, to head the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Soil Survey. Kenneth Ableiter succeeded him. F. E. Moore became chairman of the Department of Poultry Husbandry. Miss Ina Brayton was added on a half-time basis to the teaching staff of the Bacteriology Department. Agriculture ,,gEQ?Z1936 BISON Egg., -21-