University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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BEAN . . lVIuIlLlRY LAW Glenn A. McCleary was named Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1940. Dean McCleary holds an A.B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan, a J.D. degree from Michigan, and an S.J.D. degree from Harvard. Serv- ing as an advisor to men students who come under the Selective Service Act and wish to join some branch of the armed forces, the dean also is a Professor of Law and has acted as the head of the Faculty War Board. The School of Law exists mainly to serve the state and its bar. The entrance requirements are such as to admit only those whose education and maturity fit them for serious study. The School of Law at Missouri was founded in 1872 and has grown from classes consisting of a hand- Pagc 25 ful of students and a faculty of two instructors to an institution in itself. At first the students met in rooms in the University Building, until it was de- stroyed by iire. From then until 1893 classes met in the Boone County Courthouse. In 1893, the present law building Was erected. Much of the credit for the accelerated program which permits law students to complete the three years' course in two and a fourth years, is due to Dean McC1eary. Torts is his favorite course, and his favorite diversion is gardening. It is Dean McCleary's belief that the field of law will offer the greatest opportunities of any profession after the war.

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, , V . 551 BEAN T. . H. IRIH A Missourian by birth, Dr. Theophil W. H. Irion, is the genial dean of the School of Education. Dean Irion practiced his profession before attempting to teach it, in Missouri and Michigan schools prior to joining the University faculty. Immensely interested in the impact of the war on schools and education, the Dean is busy directing the building of foundations for future teachers who will have a large responsibility in postwar days. The School of Education has set up retraining and supplementary training courses for teachers already in service, and the entire program has been acceler- ated. Upperclassmen students in Education School obtain actual practice-teaching in the University Laboratory School. Students conduct classes rang- ing from kindergarten through high school. Work was first offered in Education at the Uni- versity in 1856, suspended in 1859, and re-opened two years after the close of the Civil War, under the title, College of Normal Instruction. The depart- ment went through several other reorganizations be- fore it took the form of the School of Education in 1909. The present dean was elected in 1930. A thumbnail sketch of Dr. Irion is a likable man with a hearty handshake, a listening ear, and a wealth of information. Page 24

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COL. A. MCINTYRE THE ARMY AN Colonel McIntyre QBrig. Gen. Retiredj F.A. and his staff have had to train their students under the new concentrated program more thoroughly than ever before. Despite this extreme pressure, they have done a splendid job. The responsibility of turning out ofiicer-candi- date material of high caliber is the duty of the oflicers and enlisted men of the Military Department. This year the job has been speeded up even to the point of some students having to double up on their cur- riculum. Columbia, this year, has become a veritable army camp, with Air Corps students, A.S.T.P. students and advanced R.O.T.C. men. The advanced military students at one time re- ceived a six-weeksf training period at Fort Leonard Wood during the summers. The Military department, since the war, has become one of the most popular departments in the University. In past years the enrollment of military careerists was small, but now every male student in the University would give his eye teeth to be a cadet officer. Formerly the program at the University was split into two divisions-a mechanized unit and a horse-drawn unit in the iield artillery. Starting two years ago, all students were given instructions in both. Page 26