University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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LLIAM F.LASBY A MINER LELAN M1NNEsoTA's Dentis- try School has seen many improvements under its progressive Dean, WILLIAM F. LAsBY. Dean Lasby was appointed in 1929. At this time he was labeled uno radical, autocratic, grandstandn leader, and he has helped to make his school one of the country's best. Pho- tography and golf are sidelines to Dean Lasby, who claims his profession as his main interest. During the World VVar he served as schools lieutenant colonel in the Army Dental Reserve Corps. Cv I-IENEVER he is not busy being the Dean of Administration in the Institute of Technology, Dean ORA MINER LELAND is working to keep his golf library and museum up to date. Dean Leland has very recently been made a member of the museum com- mittee of the United States Golf Asso- ciation and is a life member of the Council of the Society for the Promo- tion of Engineering Education, by vir- tue of his having been a past president of that council. AN EXPERT in the ever more important Held of radium, SAMUEL C. LIND, Dean of the Institute of Technology, studied with radium's co-discoverer, Madame Curie, in I9l0. When Dean Lind was called to Minne- sota, he was in the midst of an impor- tant experiment, and rather than inter- rupt his labors he brought with him to the University the f1Sl00,000 worth of radium with which he was working. He is the inventor of the Lind inter- changeable electroscope for radium measurements, and he originated the ionization theory of the chemical effects of radium rays. Before the formation of the Institute of Technology, which combined all the technical schools, Dean Lind was director of the School of Chemistry. He has edited the Iournal of Physical Chemistry since 1933. TRUE to his Scotch ancestry, Director MALCOLM S. MAC LEAN of the General College has a de- cided partiality to plaids. His job is perhaps the only one of its kind in the academic world. Though he is one of the youngest of the administrative of- Hcers of the University, he has already had considerable experience. He bum- med his way to Europe, attended the Sorbonne, experimented with hot fudge delights at a drug store fountain, set up a press while in California and ran his own newspaper, The Laguna Beach Life. He also worked for some time on a local newspaper. Last year he gave the annual Inglis lecture at Harvard. SAMUEL C.LIND MALCOLM S. MAC LEAN

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WILLIAM T. MIDDLEBROOK EDWARD E. NICHOLSON BUSINESS IXIANAGER for one of Minnesotals largest concerns is WILLIAM T. MIDDLEBIzooIc, Univer- sity comptroller. Through his oHice are transacted all service enterprises, invest- ments, and trust funds. Over ten mil- lion dollars a year in business transac- tions are under the supervision of Mr. Middlebrook, When he is not busy keeping the University in the black, Comptroller Middlebrook enjoys the seclusion and rest afforded him at his cabin retreat, where he can idle, hunt, and golf. cc, . U 11-IE student aH'a1rs oFH:e, said Dean of Student Affairs EDXVARD E. NIC!-IKTLFON, like Topsy ljust growedf 5' Although certain broad disciplinary powers have been given him by the regents, it is as a liaison oflicer between faculty and students that Dean Nick'y enjoys working. He al- ways likes to remember the year 1910, when be was sent by Governor lohn A. Iohnson on a special mission to Swe- den. One of the most complete Hles of Gophers is that kept by Dean Nichol- son since coming to the University from Nebraska in 1897 as a chemistry in- structor. The dean once said that he wished he would have a grandson who would come to the University and look over the complete forty years of his File, a real history of student activity at Minnesota. DEAN 'WESLEY E. PEIK is one of the few deans to be born in Minnesota. He took over his job as Dean of the College of Education upon the death of Melvin Haggerty in the fall of 1937, which makes him the most recently appointed University dean. Dean Peik started as a country school teacher earning S535 a month. His doc- tor's thesis is considered the most im- portant contribution from any source to the analysis of college curricula for the training of teachers. KEEPING in contact with 40,000 alumni is the tedious but pleasant job of ERNEST B. PIERCE, alumni Secretary. Through his job as oflicial Hmiddlemanv between the Uni- versity and its graduates, Mr. Pierce has grown to know personally thou- sands of alumni from many colleges of the University. He does considerable travelling, planning and attending alumni reunions all over the country, and is a member of the National As- sociation of Alumni Secretaries. The Alumni lflfeekly and the Alumnz'Dz'1'ec- tories are published by Mr. Pierce. ESLEYE.PEI NEST B.PIERCE