University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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JOHN WEBER, M. E. Business Manager and Supervising Engineer TOHN Weber, as business manager of the University is financial supervisor of the Purchasing Department, the University Book Store, the Printing Department and the Cafeteria. He is also supervisor of the Building and Grounds Department. At the present time the greater part of his work is concerned with his duties as University Supervising Engineer. He has the pleasant though somewhat arduous task of acting as medium between the Chancellor and J. T. Klaudcr Co., architects for the Cathedral of Learning. He also acts as medium between the architects and Stone and Webster, contractors for the Cathedral. He is the interpreter of the Chancellor's ideas and of the architects plans. JOHN’ WEBER JOHN GILBERT QUICK, B. S. Registrar THE University officer who makes the first contact with the prospective student, the one who aids the high school graduate in selecting his course, who procures and evaluates the entrance credentials, who issues the admission certificates, who organizes and supervises the vast machinery of registration, who records and issues grades, and who prepares and transmits to the Chancellor the final documents of graduation is the Registrar. In addition to these duties, Mr. J. G. Quick is constantly engaged in conducting various studies and compiling research records for distribution among deans, instructors, and students. He is endeavoring to make of his office a real service department for students and members of the faculty. Mr. Quick is Secretary of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Secretary of the Advisory Board on Student Activities. His interest in the extra curricula activities of the student is shown by the fact that he is the Treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association and a member of the Point Scale Committee. J. GILBERT QUICK J. HOWARD DICE, B. A., B. L. S. Librarian MR. Dice, as University Librarian, quiet and unseen, has no slight influence on the movement of the University. With the Dean of each school he makes up the departmental budgets: this appropriation for history, that for economics. The budget being decided upon, his dutv is to carry out effectively, the suggestions of department heads in regard to the purchase and circulation of reference books. Although he has no control over the purchase of books for the graduate and professional school libraries, he directs their personnel. He is responsible for the availability and distribution of University Library books, and for inter-library loans. He selects periodicals for our informative and recreational reading and a number of non-reference books for our enjovroent. It is his duty to sec that all books and magazines are well bound and in good condition. His position calls for scholarship and administrative skill. J. HOWARD DICE

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SAMUEL BLACK McCORMICK, D. D. Chancellor Emeritus THE Chancellor Emeritus holds, perhaps, the most enviable position in the University. His chief occupation is to watch the wheels go round- usually from Florida in the winter time, but the rest of the year from his office in State Hall w here he feels that he is again a part of the living, throbbing, ever-expanding University and that it is his very own. The other chief duty of the Chancellor Emeritus is to stand behind the Chancellor and cheer him on. Better than all others, he knows the incessant toil, the anxious thought, and the watchful solicitude involved in the very office of Chancellor; and it is his particular privilege to afford all the encouragement and inspiration he can. For. after all, only as Chancellor Bowman brings his noble plans into realization, does the work of his predecessors have any permanent value. In lending a hand, therefore, and in seeing the University move forward, the Chancellor Emeritus fills a satisfying and useful office. SAMUEL B. McCORMICK SAMUEL BLACK LINHART, A. M., D. D. Secretary of the University THE Secretary's office is a clearing house for questions and information pertaining to every phase of University work. As Secretary of the Board of Trustees and its committees. Dr. Linhart is responsible for seeing that the actions of the Board and its committees arc carried out, and must keep an accurate record of all meetings of the Board and committees. As Acting Treasurer of the University he is responsible for seeing that its financial obligations arc met, and its revenues collected. He represents the University in its relations with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania concerning the biennial state appropriation. Financial transactions, real estate matters and legal questions make up a large part of his work. Many activities of the Secretary's office are concerned with the faculty and students of the University, such as notices cf appointments, the payment of tuition and questions which require reference to, or information from, the Registrar, Deans, and other departments. SAMUEL B. LINHART J. STEELE GOW, A. B. Executive Secretary THE chief duty of Mr. Gow. Executive Secretary of the University, is to assist the Chancellor in the guidance of the general educational program. His position is concerned with creating those conditions which arc most conducive to wise teaching and intelligent learning. He assists the Chancellor in his pioneer scientific research in the field of education. Sanely and modestly, problems arc met and programs devised for the most efficient furtherance ot scientific administrative methods towards an educational ideal. Not spectacularly, and with no regard for the bugaboo of tradition or rule-of-thumb, problems concerning the harmonious development into one unit of all schools and all courses are investigated and the results of these studies communicated to the various Deans in the form of recommendations and suggestions. J. STEELE GOW EvgfU TAr 1928 Oul »

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WILLIAM MORRELL, A. B. University Editor THE University Editor finds himself obliged to say yes or no to a multitude of questions regarding University affairs. It is he who must release all information regarding this great organization, who must edit the hundreds of bulletins, catalogues, dissertations and abstracts of dissertations; who must direct the writing of any information which goes to the newspapers of Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, and by a judicious handling of the advertising which the University requires, give to the general public its ideas about Pitt. Perhaps the most interesting part of his duties is his work with the student editors of campus publications, which he carries on in the manner of a big brother, acting as a medium between students and Administration. WILLIAM MORRELL CHARLES R. FOSTER, A. B. Graduate Manager of Student Activities THE Advisory Board of Student Activities budgets a portion of our individual twelve-fifties into rather sizable appropriations for a large number of non-athletic activities. Mr. Foster's duty as representative of the Advisory Board is to transmit the budget to the students and to assist them in their adherence to the budget. Into his office flows a steady stream of organization managers. The I cbating Club. Pitt Players, Chess Club, Pitt Week Committee, Band, Combined Musical Clubs. Pitt Weekly, Dance and Ring Committees, Cap and Gown, S. S. G. A., W. S. G. A., and even the Owl, send delegates to haggle with him over expenditures. He appoints or approves officers for all non-athletic organizations, and he rakes them over the coals when they arc lax. Such a position should cither keep him very young for a long time or make him grow old in no time at all. CHARLES R. FOSTER K. E. DAVIS ?• {,' y Tt ins Owl K. E. DAVIS, C. E. Graduate Manager of Athletics MR. Davis has unusual opportunities for knowing both the undergraduate and alumni aspects of university life. As Graduate Manager of Athletics, he has devised a system of student managership in which the manager is elected after three years of apprenticeship. Mr. Davis supervises the work of all managers and apprentices, whose duties range from serving meals at Camp Hamilton to the handling of guarantee money for the big games. With the Student Managers he makes up each season's athletic schedule. His policy is to remain in the background and to allow the students to exercise their own initiative and executive ability. He is directly responsible to the Stadium Committee, and to the Athletic Council, of which he has been Secretary for fifteen years. As Secretary of the Alumni Association, he has charge of all Alumni records. He edits the Alumni page in the Weekly, which 5.000 Alumni read, and handles all Alumni funds. His more personal duty is to promote Alumni activity. He endeavors to keep in contact with our twelve tnousnnd Alumni, who arc scattered throughout the known world. Over his desk is a framed collection of foreign stamps from the letters of those who have strayed farthest. His office secures for the Alumni everything from positions to theatre tickets.