University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Builder of youth and brick barbecue pits, member of numerous scientific literary societies, author—that ' s FRANK N. FREEMAN in a nutshell. As Dean of Education he plans the entire student-teacher program, scattering psychology throughout the agenda. For relaxation he mixes mortar Saturday afternoons. He is jovial, with a free and easy manner among his students. Noted for satility, E. T. GRETHER holds the positions of Dean of the College of merce, Professor of Economics, Chairman of the Committee of Courses, Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing, as well as Papa . The portrait includes two daughters and a thrt,e-year-old son who toddles in his father ' s footsteps. COLLEGE Winding up a trail which has led him throughout America and Harvard, DONALD McLAUGHLIN down last fall at this university as Dean of. the College of Mining. An expert in geological sciences, he has been delegate to the Pan-American Scientific Congress. tain climbing and photography combine exercise pleasure for the white-haired dean. To quote the Pelican, slightly misquoting the Daily Californian, quoting Dean of the College of Letters and Science himself, I am no actor who sumes now one role, now another. I am a professor, a chemist, a dean, an ex- army man, and yes, thank God, still a skier. The sum of the parts is equal the whole, JOEL HILDEBRAND. Here is a professor who never blows up in spite of continued proximity to ex- plosives. The Dean of Chemistry is editor of the Prentice Hall Series , member of the National Academy of Sciences, author of three and a handful of Little Willie jokes, and winner of three thousand Presenting WENDELL M. LATIMER.

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ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR this plan, high school graduates and Junior College transfers will he enabled to enter the University sooner, and may graduate in two and two-thirds years instead of in four. In January the administrative offices were moved into the new Administration Building, releasing California Hall for academic purposes. The Emergency Classroom Building also was occupied at about the same time. The Medico-Physics Building, which will house the cal research based on work of the cyclotron, is nearing completion while the huge new cyclotron in the hills above the campus will be completed during the next academic year. The dormitory for women, the gift of Mrs. Sigmund Stern, is under construction across the road from Founders ' Rock. Among honors which were bestowed on members of the faculties during the year, was the election of Pro- fessor J. Robert Oppenheime r of the Department of Physics to the National Academy of Sciences. This brings to twenty-seven the number of members of the University of California faculty in the Academy. Pro- fessor T. Harper Goodspeed was elected Honorary Foreign Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Retirements during the year removed from the fac- ulty Charles D. von Neumayer, Professor of Dramatic Art; Walter S. Morly, Associate Professor of lurgy; and Harriet G. Eddy, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Extension. Announcement has been made that some professors may be called from retirement to assist in carrying the load during the war. Despite the decrease in enrollment and the drain on the faculties caused by the war, the University of Cali- fornia will continue its work, carrying it on throughout the year but without any abandonment of its high standards, ready to serve the nation to the utmost of its ability. As Dean of Students, EDWIN C. VOORHIES meets more student personalities than any other trative officer. Partial to boys, this bachelor has adopted two sons, now graduates of Cal. Although a World War veteran, he has not yet been courageous enough to enjoy a sorority faculty dinner. He is a teacher, scholar, and adviser with sparkling eyes and a hearty laugh. RAYMOND C. GETTELL was one-time coach of an unbeaten, untied football eleven at Amherst College. Now, as Dean of Summer Sessions, he pushes the line toward visiting professors and tackles their ricula. When summer vacation is over, he coaches during the regular season in the political science department. Behind a massive desk and a moustache sits Dr. WILLIAM C. POMEROY, Registrar. Beginning life as half of a set of twins, he soon broke up the partnership to enter the staff of the University as a Physics Instructor. Later, as Administrative Assistant, he undertook the important duties of directing all campus N.Y.A. activities, and became Registrar this spring. Another love triangle—plant physiology, the graduate division, and football. Dean CHARLES BERNARD LIPMAN divides his time among the three sports. He claims to have found living bacteria in age-old rocks, living graduates in age-old textbooks, and living spirit in age-old alumni rooters. To others off campus he is known as director of several national foundations and associate editor of several scientific journals.

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DEANS This alumnus followed a four-year plan of study in Paris upon graduation from the night life of the local Arc Building. WARREN C. PERRY returned to the University as an instructor and eventually became director of the School of Architecture. His fingerprints are found on the blueprints of Edwards field. A bundle of practical and executive advice, CHARLES DERLETH, Jr., has been tied up in the University since 1912. Aside from duties as Dean of the College of Engineering, he has been a consulting engineer for the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and many campus buildings. He ' s credited with more constructive work as a judge of Homecoming floats. His rule is the slide rule. He ' s always digging around—in the materials of his European agricultural studies and in his flowerbeds at home. CLAUDE B. HUTCHISON, Dean of Agriculture and director of the Agricultural Experimental Station, has an alias that takes up three quarters of a page in Who ' s Who . But it doesn ' t say there that he is a mountaineer, a fisherman, and a pipe smoker who swears off periodically every few months. EVAN HAYNES entered college by examination, after spending high years at a trading post in Northern Canada. Dodging bullets in and prospecting in the Mojave Desert preceded his law school training. acting Dean of the School of Jurisprudence, he is writing books about Selec- tion and Tenure of Judges and Equity . SIDNEY B. MITCHELL ' S work covers books. From his shelf on the floor of the storehouse he deans the School of Librarianship which he He was once president of the California Library Association and is now head of the California Horticultural Society. He cultivates students, irises, daffodils.