Western Illinois University - Sequel Yearbook (Macomb, IL)

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handles other kindred matters for the men of the college. Dean of Women Grote serves in the same capacity for the women of the college. Each dean has one important duty aside from the deanship. Mr. Thisted is principal of Western Academy, and Miss Grote is chairman of the calendar committee. All problems pertaining to the ad- ministration of the training school come to the at- tention of R. R. Simpkins, Who has handled this work for more than 20 years, coming to Wes- tern in 1912. He is assisted in the administra- t i o n o f t h e training school by Katharine Thomp- son, principal of the upper grades, DONNA DRAPER IPres. Secxj M. N. THISTED fDean of Menj I231 and Bessie Cooper, principal of the lower grades. In these offices there are employed each year a number of students who do a great deal I of the routine work. In the office of the reg- istrar, Hildreth Lovell is an im- portant clerk. She is assisted by H el e n Hed g - c o c k, W h J spends a part of her time in the oifice of the Dean. Mrs. Helen Graham is practically a full time secretary to the director of the training school, R.R. Simpkins.. Several students have assisted Miss Grote in the dean of women's oiiice this year. h O. L. CHAMPION fliegistrarj CAROLINE GROTE fDcan of Wfomenj

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The President of W6Sf6T1Z Illinois State Teachers College ' jWalter P. Morgan completes his twenty-second year as president of the college on june 17. Dean Currens DEAN H. F. CURRENS has been dean of the faculty for ten years. tinuously since 1913. Miss Donna Draper is the secretary to the presi- dent. She has held that position since 1925. This year Miss Draperis desk has been moved from the Registrars Office into the inner oflice occupied by Dean Currens before he moved into the Recorder's Giiice last fall. l'2 Western's two deans, M. N. This- ted and Caroline Grote, maintain more direct contact with the students than all the others of the administrative staff combined. Dean of Men This- ted issues all statements of absence. recommendations for irregular Work, advice for Working schedules, and 2 I

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SIMPKINS LINDER SCHLEIER VAN CLEVE KAPPA DELTA PI Anderson, Pauline Bacon, Dorothy Banks, James Blythe, Granville Bruninga, Harold Burgess, Lera Carrison, Helen Coffman, James Paul Dobbs, Grace Draegert, Gayland Good, Russell Graham, Helen Hermetet, Sue jean Houle, Buel Hunt, Wendell Jackson, James Kennedy, Earle Kirkpatrick, Ralph Loy, Arthur Metzger, Donald Oldknow, Frances Parnell, Georgia Robinson, Berwyn Smith, Fern Smith, Carol Strode, Curtis Crabill, Mary Fisher, Jimmae Lovell, Hildreth Zeis, Eleanor Vincent, Julia A. Hedgcock, Helen Sallee, Mrs. Roy Foster, Mary K. Shepherd, Susan Rodefeld, Wilma Yetter, Adah Brown, Carol H. Holden, Patricia Rogers, E. R. fCarthagej Hulson, Helen M. McDill, George Ogden, Louis Mullen, Annabelle Pyle, Everett Young, Robert Education The Education Department quite naturally occupies the space of foremost importance among the departments of the college, since it is the only department in which every degree student must take a major. The department came to this posi- tion through a process of development which com- menced several years after the school Was founded. President Alfred E. Bayliss organized the depart- ment of Education and Training in 1906, calling the eminent Frederick G. Bonsor as department head. Mr. Bonsor resigned in 1909, and Was succeed- ed by John E. McGilvrey. Mr. McGilvrey, after a short tenure resigned and W. P. Morgan took up his duties. Mr. Morgan was promoted to the presi- dency in June, 1912, and R. R. Simpkins, at present head of the department, Was secured to assume the directorship of the Training and Education Depart- ment. Today Mr. Simpkins is one of the select circle of twenty-year teachers at Western, and in the eyes of his many students embodies to a great degree the high ideals which he has so constantly advocated. A very capable group of teachers have served in the department and today the Education De- partment Faculty comprises one of the most com- petent groups in the entire faculty organization. Mr. Van Cleve came to Western as Director of the extension Work in 1912. More recently he has re- tired 'from the strenuous duties of extension Work and has been teaching regularly in the department. His place has been filled by George W. Gaylor, who came to Western in 1923. KAPPA DELTA PI E241 i I- l