University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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ADMINISTRATIVE CDF F ICERS IOHN WEBER IOHN G QUICK Secretary Reggsh-ar x ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY Iohn Gabbert Bowman, M.A., LL.D., Litt.D., Chancellor Iohn Weber, M.E., Secretary Stanton C. Crawford, Ph.D., Dean oi The College Elmer Allen Holbrook, E.M., Dean of the School of Engineering and of the School of Mines Charles Sanford Tippetts, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Business Administration Charles Edward Prall, Ph.D., Dean ot the School of Education William Thomas Root, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School Raleigh Russell Huggins, M.D., Sc.D., Dean of the School of Medicine Alexander Marshall Thompson, LL.M., Dean of the School of Law C. Leonard O'Connell, Phar.D., Dean of the School of Pharmacy H. Edmund Friesell, D.D.S., LL.D., Sc.D., Dean of the School of Dentistry Thyrsa Wealtheow Amos, M.A., LL.D., Dean of Women Vincent Wesley Lantear, Ph.D., Dean of Men Edward Ray Weidlein, M.A., Sc.D., LL.D., Director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research Iohn Gilbert Quick, B.S., University Registrar Iustus Howard Dice, B.L.S., University Librarian . George Stanley Rupp, University Bursar and Assistant Treasurer Frank William Shockley, A.B., Director of the University Extension Division and ot the Summer Sessions I. Lloyd Mahony, B.C.S., Director of the Evening Division Frank C. Iordan, Ph.D., Sc.D., Directorqof the Allegheny Observatory Bishop Brown, A.B., Director of the Research Bureau for Retail Training Ralph I. Watkins, Ph.D., Director of the Bureau of Business Research William Morrell, A.B., University Editor Robert X. Graham, M.A., Director of the University News Service H. Clifford Carlson, M.D., Director of the Student Health Service Auleene Marley Iamison, M.D., Director of the Student Health Service tor Women Iohn Lee Holcombe, Colonel, C. A. C., U. S. Army, Director of Military Science and Tactics V Iohn Dambach, M.A., Director of Physical Education Raymond L. Coss, B.S. in M.E., Superintendent of the Department ot Buildings and Grounds William Don Harrison, M.A., Director of Athletics Iohn Wilson Wishart Hallock, Ph.D., Secretary of the General Alumni Associa- tion William W. Mendenhall, M.A., Executive Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association Helen Claire Battrick, M.A., Executive Secretary ot the Young Women's Christian Association 25

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES i GEORGE H. CLAPP HON. C. D. SCULLY President of the Board of Trustees Mayor of the City ot Pittsburgh OFFICERS President ............. ............. .... G e orge Hubbard Clapp First Vice-president ...... ...... S amuel Alfred Taylor Second Vice-president ..... ..... C harles Wesley Ridinger Secretary ............... .............. I ohn Weber Treasurer .... ....................... C lifford Best Fergus Solicitors .... ..... P atterson, Crawford, Arensberg, and Dunn MEMBERS The Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania The Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh The Chancellor of the University Frank Reith Phillips Joseph Clifton Trees Edward Vose Babcock Norman MacLeod Charles Wesley Ridinger Hugh Thomson Kerr George Hubbard Clapp Howard Heinz Samuel Alfred Taylor lohn Francis Casey Andrew William Mellon lames Henry Lockhart CLASS I Leon Falk, lr. Arthur Luther Humphrey Arthur E. Braun William Watson Smith Edward Ray Weidlein CLASS ll William Penn Snyder, lr. Alan Magee Scaife Wilbur Darwin Hockensmith George H. Earle Howard Irish CLASS Ill Ogden Mathias Edwards, lr. lohn Hancock Nicholson 24 Roy Carnegie McKenna Andrew Wells Robertson Ernest Tener Weir Richard King Mellon

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ADMINISTRATCRS IOSEPH STOCKTON ROBERT BRUCE EORGE WELCH, first Principal of the Pitts- burgh Academy, introduced, in the year of 1789, a curriculum which included the regular classical subjects-elocution, literature, mathe- matics and natural science. For over a century these courses were the basis of higher education, although the first principal's successors, during the early years of the Academy, did somewhat enlarge this curriculum. The Reverend Mr. Arthur became the second Principal of the Acad- emy in 1795. He was succeeded in 1796 by the Reverend Robert Andrews who served as the school's head until 1800, The next head of the school was the Reverend Robert Steele who served for just one term. The Reverend John Taylor, Principal from 1801 to 1807 introduced a course in Astronomy. From 1807 to 1810, Rev- erend Robert Patterson, scholar and poet, guided the destinies of the Academy and he was fol- lowed by Reverend loseph Stockton, who headed the Academy from 1810 until 1822, when it be- came a university. Reverend Stockton, a lover of the classics, was the author of the first school- books used west of the Allegheniesz Western Calculator, and the Western Spe1ler. In 1822, the Western University of Pennsyl- vania was formally created and Robert Bruce, D.D., became its first Principal. He tried to per- petuate the classical tradition of his Alma Mater, the University of Edinburg, in the new Univer- sity and he established a very solid and compre- hensive curriculum in which both classical ,. Q! AQ: HERMAN DYER , ' , -'7 tt' . . .. .1 H Pittsburgh, with its 130 families, - 4s...,,' Q was a thriving little frontier town at the close of the Revolution. 1 Y 1 1 1 r tl Fr 1 1 I N '35 , f f- 1, iv y A 4' 1 - I , ll.. -. xi, at z iiliiiif , f is ' ' - .1 k j , .ff .v --if . 1 ou' 10- :is .3 X