University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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'D DIRECTQR CDF STUDENT AFFAIRS PCR WOMEN Miss Thelma Mills came to the Missouri campus as Director of Women's Affairs in 19384not as an inexperienced educator, but as a woman well-qualiiied for leadership in an ever changing world. On the Missouri campus, Miss Mills has put into application many popular ideas. It was through her efforts that the Women's Residence Hall was built in order to provide women students with favor- able low-cost living conditions. During the past year, she has traveled through- out the United States to attend various meetings of educators in order to bring every possible modern method to the University. Confidential reports from these meetings indicate that she has spread more of her ideas throughout the country than she has gained by attending the meetings! Page 24

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BOARD CDF CURATCDRS OFFICERS FRANK M. MCDAVID . H. J. BLANTON . . LESLIE COWAN . R. B. PRICE . Ptesiden t . Vice-President Secretary . Treasurer MEMBERS MRS. HENRY HASKELL JAMES A. POTTER J. H. WOLPERS H. J. BLANTON HAROLD J. MooRE EARL F. NELsoN FRANK M. MCDAVID ToM K. SMITH COWGILL BLAIR Independent authority and responsibility for the educational policies and administrative functions of the University are vested in the Board of Curators as provided by Missouri's state constitution. Membership to the board is for a term of six years, three members being retired and three elected every two years. Not more than five of the nine members can be of the same political affiliation, according to the constitution, and not more than two members can be from the same congressional district. Page 23 The members of the board are appointed by the Governor of the state. Administrative duties are divided between an Executive Board at Columbia, which has supervision over the University, and an Executive Committee at Rolla, which has supervision over the Missouri School of Mines. Two members of the board are from St. Louis and one each from Kansas City, Jefferson City, Poplar Bluff, Paris, Brookfield, Springfield, and Joplin.

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DIRECTCDI2 CD43 STUDENT AFFAIRS PDR Would-be B. M. O. C.'s might well look to Dr. Darwin H. Hindman as an example of a man with many activities. His interest in students and student affairs as well as being Director of Student Affairs for Men, Director of the Men's Physical Education Department, and an instructor in a class of Adminis- tration of Physical Education all help to account for his popularity among the students. Page 25 MEN In private life Dr. Hindman is a sportsman with many fishing tales, hunting trips, and sports and athletic accomplishments to his credit. He delights in telling guests in his home of hunting wild boar with a bow and arrow! In his repertoire of hobbies, Dr. Hindman in- cludes among his favorites traveling Cwhich has carried him to many foreign landsb, collecting china, and an ardent enthusiasm for art and various kinds of literature.