University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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THE SCHOOL OF RELIGION M. WILLAKD LAMPE Director NO UNIVERSITY could have a complete curriculum which did not provide for the study of religion, and no state university has gone farther in this direction than the Uni versify of Iowa. The School of Religion, estab- lished in 1927, is a part of the College of Liberal Arts. Jews, Catholics, and Protestants have been members of its faculty. M. Willard Lampe, Ph.D., is administrative director, and George F. Kay of the College of Liberal Arts is dean. The courses are designed to promote an under- standing both of religion ' s rule in history and of its trends, activities, and values in modern life. The school maintains close relationships willi departments such as character education and philosophy, and with the voluntary religious groups of the campus. Classrooms, library, and offices for staff mem- bers are located in Natural Science building. An additional office is maintained at Iowa Union, where Prof. William II. Morgan serves as adviser to campus religious organizations. The labora- tories of the School of Religion are furnished by the churches of the community, the student groups, and the Christian association. The school provides conferences, lectures, and round table discussions of a religious nature. The School of Religion ' s constitution provide; for a governing board which insures cooperation between the university and the religion-; bodies of the state. This board consists of 15 men residing in cities of the state. Accepting as one of its maxims that religion is caught as well as taught, the School of Reli- gion seeks to encourage every form of adveu turous idealism and religious loyalty on the campus. TWENTY FIVE

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WITH the unlimited opportunities accord- ed by the variety of service rendered by the University hospitals, adequate pre- paration is iven for the careers open to the well- trained nurse. Departments and services of unusually variant character make the university School of Nursing, which is conducted in connection with the College of Medicine, an outstanding institution in the middle west. Seven student nurses comprised the pioneer class in 1898, while at the present time the enrollment has increased to 300 hundred student nurses. The University hospitals, including the Gen- eral hospital, Children ' s hospital, and Psycho- pathic hospital, serve as a practice field for the nurses, and here, during three years of con- tinuous instruction, they learn the scientific and practical elements of the care of patient s. With the opening of the new hospital and the subse- quent necessity for added student work new fa- cilities of the most modern sort were offered to the student nurses, and the enrollment has ac- cordingly increased during the last few years. Because she learns to do by doing, the nurse, on her entrance into the training school, imme- diately takes ii]) the duties of her profession. After three years of duty she receives the hospital pin and is granted the certificate of Graduate Xur.se. If she desires to combine her work with that of Liberal Arts she may take a preliminary three year course and a two year nursing course, acquiring on graduation the degree of Bachelor of Science and certificate of Graduate Nurse. All nurses, on matriculation, undergo four months preliminary instructions. TWENTY FOUR TH E SCHOOL OF NURSING

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THE ALUMNI DEPARTMENT THE ALUMNI association of the University of Iowa dates its existence from June, 1867. However, it was 1869 before its first con- stitution and bylaws were presented by a com- mittee on constitution, and signed by all alumni at a meeting held in the university chapel June 30. This first constitution, written in long hand, may be found today in a tattered calf-skin bound book at the Alumni office in Old Capitol. The Alumni office is one of the busiest and fastest growing organizations on the university campus today. Its purpose is to maintain close contact with the constantly growing family of 21,000 sons and daughters of Old Gold and to make the university of real service to them in whatever line of work they may be pursuing. Frederic G. Ilighee is the present secretary of the Alumni association. Under his able super- vision, service bulletins and pamphlets on activi- ties of the university regularly flow out of the Alumni office to graduates in every state in the union and to the four corners of the earth. The constantly changing file of alumni ad dresses is kept up to date. Information concern- ing graduates is furnished on request. Meetings of Alumni in Iowa and other states are organized and faculty speakers furnished. Class reunions are planned. During the last year the association has had designed and made available to alumni a set of university plates by Wedgewood ; and has car- ried on a campaign for life membership, the pro- ceeds of which have been invested in the student loan fund. TWENTY Six FREDERIC G. HIGBF.E Director