Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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DEfln iRmn voigt Recognized as a capable leader for nearly thirty years, Dean Irma Voigt now stands ready in a time of kaleidoscopic change to guide Ohio University women to an active and intelligent participation in this war and in the future peace. With foresight born of wide knowledge, keen insight and time-honored experience, she looks for on alive, working group of specificolly trained women to serve in a peace army for post-war rehabilitation. She ' s a woman of action. Fostering the first college chapter of the American Red Cross, voca- tional conferences for women in a war-time world, a spirit of intelligent acceptance of war- time standards and social pressure against waste of time, energy, and brains, she continues to elicit confidence, to produce results. Fearful of winning only the war and not the peace, her message to Ohio women is to work for a continued and more intensive education in order to train themselves to cope with the present and future needs of community, country, world.

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DEfln L. 111. LnncE The Dean of men has no soft job in these troubled tinnes. On the one hand, greedy draft boards ore cutting the office and professorial personnel of the school, end on the other, the ramifications and delays of selective service are making the students rest- less. There is on air of uncertainty which causes the students to chase good times, forget classes, and grades hove suffered. It is vital to the future of this country that a body of trained and educoted men be on hand to help rebuild after the war, and it is the task of Dean Lawrence W. Lange to see that Ohio University does its share in turning out these men. In his 580 man class in College Problems, the Dean attempts to keep the students abreast of the latest world developments, but that isn ' t enough. There are many personal problems bearing on the old question of enlist-or-stcy-in-school, and it is these he wishes to solve. I like students to come in to see me, he says, and he does all he can to help them. 14

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Brondon T. Grover Clork £. Williams Don Peden Miss Anne Keofing EXECUTIVE fl S S I S T fl n T S Miss Irene Devlin George C. Porks At the elbow of the president is young, capable Irene Devlin. An O.U. graduate, she remains a perenniol student of the college ' s business in her copacity as chief assistant to the University ' s foremost adminis- trator. Don Peden is head footboll coach and supervisor of the University ' s athletic progrom. He continues to turn cut efficient, well-trained Bobcat elevens each year, is populor with his players, whose welfare he puts before victory. Director of Public Relations is ex-football coach Brandon T. Grover. His office keeps the outside world informed of Ohio ' s achievements; is known as Butch by faculty members and students alike. Be-spectacled, diminutive in stoture, but a giant of understanding in library technique, Miss Anne Keat- ing is director of Edwin Watts Chubb library. She and her staff make the University ' s 122,000 volumes ac- cessible to all students. The for sweeping effects of a world war found their way into the office of Alumni Secretary Clark E. Williams, guardian of over 14,000 names, addresses, and history — Ohio ' s alumni. This year, amiable, alert Mr. Williams and his staff compiled the Alumni War Edition, a record of all Ohio alumni in the armed service- One of the most responsible positions of all campus administrators is held by George C. Porks, Secretory of the Board of Trustees, Treasurer and Business Manager of the University. In private life he is an enthusiastic baseball fan, loves the outdoors. Coordinating academic learning sponsored by the University but executed outside the campus walls, J. Floyd Dixon is heod of the Correspondence and Ex- tension Division. His office keeps in contact with ap- proximately 1 500 students. The man whose office could hardly keep up with the swiftly changing enrollment figures due to the draft, who works to inform prospective freshmen of Ohio ' s resources, who moils bids to Dilley ' s Ball at mid- semester to delinquent students, is Registrar Fronk B. Dilley. J. Floyd Dixon Frank B. Dilley