University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Next to The Boss ' s, Provost Frederick Thieme ' s job is probably the keynoter of the administration-a Little Bit of Everything. Thieme ' s job v as created in 1958 by the Regents and, technically, is that of chief academic officer of the University. He is, in effect, the vice-president, taking over when The Boss is away. A number of academic agencies, including admissions, libraries, and educational television are under his direct authority. 28

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•J ' , strong and cautious: a university president They call him Dr. O, and The Boss, and sometimes better and sometimes worse. He is Dr. Charles E. Odegaard, a univer- sity president, and one of the best. The Regents set the goals and he tries to get us there. He looks and acts like a university president: academic, distinguished, cautious, stern. He is a strong president, and his fellow administrators, nearly to the man, refer to him as The Boss. He is. r»f: )-=7yna«jE.- Dr. Odegaard ends another of the end- less string of conferences in his inner cfTice.

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Conrad ' s job: a lot of money Money at the University is a little like the weather- in reverse: a lot of people do something about it, but nobody talks about it. As Business Manager, Ernest Conrad is probably the least public of the University ' s top adminis- trators. Conrad, whose job includes all of the University ' s business dealings, is forced to think at three speeds at once-, today, next year, and ten years after that. The practicalities of educational dreams are Conrad ' s responsibility. He is a most pleasant fellow, but even when he takes a few minutes to chat he gives the impression that he ' s worrying about four or five major problems at once; and he probably is. Budget Director, Harold Jacobsen, quite simply, prepares the University ' s budget, which every two years is sent lamb-like to the state legislature. How much of the budget returns alive quite often de- pends on how well Jacobsen ' s figures hold up. Comptroller, John Look keeps track of the Univer- sity ' s money, not an easy task in a multi-million dollar organization. He is, by way of simplified definition, a super-bookkeeper. I I t . t9 1 Moneymen Jacobsen, Look, and Conrad: theirs are not easy jobs in the multi-million dollar educational process. 1