University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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PRESIDENT MIDDLEBUSH At 51, President Middlebush stands as one of the youngest college presidents in the country. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and after graduation from the University of Michigan started as a Michigan country school teacher and professor of history at Knox College. In 1926 he was made dean of the Missouri School of Business and Public Administration, and was appointed to the presidency of the University in 1935. He ' s an ardent sportsman, has written several books, is a director of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and a director of the Carnegie Foundation. We owe to him a great share of the credit for expanding Missouri ' s facilities in the years of his administration. Pagt 1 1

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BOARD or CURATORS Top Row: FRANK M, McDAVID; JAMES A. POTTER; HAROLD J. MOORE Middle: H. J. BLANTO N; JOHN H. WOL- PERS; TOM K. SMITH Bottom: JOHN HIRAM LATHROP; EARL F. NELSON, COWGILL BLAIR is absent Missouri ' s state constitution provides that the University ' s highest governing agency, the Board of Curators, be composed of nine members, appointed by the governor, to make all important decisions relative to University welfare. Our board works chiefly through two committees — one having supervision of the University in Columbia, the other over the Mis- souri School of Mines at RoUa. In order that the board may never be made up entirely of new members, the constitution provides that three member be retired and three elected every two years. Board memberships are allocated so that not more than five members can be of the same political affiilia- tion, and not more than two from the same congressional district.

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Miss Mills has been vitally interested in two projects since the begin- ning of her administration — better housing and recreational facilities for students. She has been working all year with the University Housing Committee. Early this fall the new Women ' s Residence Hall was finished under her supervision, and it is her hope that by next year each girl will be able to get board and room at a reasonable cost and among pleasant surroundings. Realizing the importance of the old saying, All work and no play — , Miss Mills has been active in formulating plans for a more inclusive social program. Included in this program are plans for better recreational facilities and more social functions open to all students. MISS MILLS DIRECTOR or STUDENT AFFAIRS FOR WOMEN Page n