University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Lawrence Turner Franks, Dean of Men Dean of Men The staff of the Dean of Men worked with groups ranging from fraternities, hous- ing, and student organizations to disciplining and enforcement of parking and traffic reg- ulations. This wide divergence of responsi- bility encouraged students and their families to turn to the Dean ' s office for counseling and information in many matters related to University life. In addition, staff members served on faculty-student committees and acted as advisers to several student groups. The general information provided by the staff was helpful to the new and return- ing student, parents, faculty, and alumni in- terested in the University, as were their re- ferrals to the appropriate office for more specific information. The staff included Dean Lawrence Turner Franks; Edwin Booth Price, coordinator of student activities; David Hil- dreth Thomas, student group adviser,- and Frank B. Campbell, student group adviser. Margaret Peck, Dean of Women 29

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STAFF: Frances L. McMath, Frank B. Campbell, Mary R. Smith, David H. Thomas, Margaret Berry, Edwin B. Price, Dorothy W. Dean. Responsible for the administration and coordination of specific areas of student life, particularly those related to the interests and welfare of women students, the Dean of Women staff worked with students, faculty, and administration for student success in aca- demic and extra-curricular areas of student life. Special areas of work including scholas- tic honoraries, service organizations, Uni- versity orientation, student-faculty-staff com- mittees, symposia and discussion groups, councils of the women ' s cooperative houses, Pa ' nhellenic, and Upper-class Advisors are as- signed to members of .the staff in addition to daily work with individual students. In the women ' s dormitories, the Dean of Women staff sponsored a program of peer advising through a council of 260 upper-class women. Through continual counseling with individual students, the staff endeavored to create an environment in which students may assume increasing responsibility, may experi- ence the values of self-disciplining, and may achieve major intellectual and personal goals. Members of the staff were Miss Mar- garet Peck, Dean of Women; Mrs. Frances Little McMath, special housing coordinator; Mrs. Dorothy W. Dean, Panhellenic Council and Orientation coordinator; Miss Mary Ruth Smith, Upper-class Advisors and cooperative residences coordinator; and Dr. Margaret Berry, special research study. Dean of Women 28

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Named as one of sixteen Bright Young Men with Designs on the Future by Fortune Magazine, Alan Y. Taniguchi fulfilled his title by participating on com- mittees and in activities outside his role as Director of the School of Architecture. Belonging to the American Institute of Architects, he served on their National Committee on Aesthetics and their Panel of Critics to the Housing and Urban De- velopment Department, as well as being chairman of the Austin AIA chapter ' s Com- mission on Education and Research. Last year, he worked for the Committee on Professional Education, a project of the Texas Society of Architects. Both a teacher and a scholar, Dean John R. Silber of the College of Arts and Sciences has received honors and done work combining the two fields: the Dan- forrh Foundation teaching award, a Fel- low at King ' s College of the University of London under a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1963-64, and was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, un- der a Fulbright grant in 1959-60. Belonging to both the Southwestern Philosophical Society and the Texas So- ciety to Abolish Capital Punishment, Sil- ber believed that education should not be eclipsed by research and scientism. A prime place of importance belongs to the individual in the educational program of the University which should give the student an opportunity to develop him- self to the fullest, he commented. George Kozmetsky, Dean of the Col- lege of Business Administration, also served as professor of management and as the Executive Associate for Economic Affairs for the University during the year. He joined the faculty in the fall of 1966, after leaving private business. The 49- year-old native of Seattle, Wash., has taught at the University of Washington, the Harvard Graduate School of Busi- ness Administration, and the Carnegie Institute of Technology Graduate School of Industrial Administration. He has re- mained as a consultant to private in- dustry. The author of many books, he served as president of the Institute of Management Science and has done re- search on that subject, automation, and Deans of the Colleges man-made methodology. He was also a member of the Presidential advisory com- mi ttee on the National Data Center. Celebrating his fortieth year at the University, Dean DeWitt C. Reddick head- ed the three-year-old School of Communi- cation and directed the University Inter- scholastic League Press Conference for high school journalists. Author of two journalism texts and an elder in the Presbyterian Church, he has served as president of the American Council on Education and Journalism for which he was awarded an honor medal from the University of Missouri along with UT-ex Walter Cronkite in 1964. He was selected as the first and only honorary member of the International Council of Industrial Ed- itors in 1966 for his contributions in ele- vating industrial editing to professional status in the Southwest. Wayne H. Holtzman, Dean of the College of Education for the fourth year, was instrumental in sponsoring the na- tional conference of education leaders held in Austin last year and still found 30