Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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LIU uu UU 1917 THISTLE DEAN LEETE—A GREETING AND A FAREWELL The 1 i) 17 Thistle is Dedicated to JOHN HOPKIX LEETE, up to this month Dean of the School of Applied Science, and now Director ok Carnegie Library. IN the minds of the editors, Dean Leete lias furnished an example of manly sincerity and stability of character which all his students arc proud to follow. They have trusted him implicitly, for they have had faith in a judgment founded on thorough study of all the facts of every case, and then maintained unwaveringly until the course of events justified it. Experience led them to have confidence that when he made decisions they were right and would stand. His distinguishing characteristics have been his earnest desire for facts, his deliberateness to decide, and his firmness in carrying his solutions to their ultimate conclusion. Dean Leete has been connected with Carnegie Institute of Technology since its doors were first opened to students, and has presided over the destinies of the School of Applied Science for the past nine years. His entire professional career has been in the field of education. After graduating from Colgate in 1894, he studied a year at Harvard, and then entered the faculty at Penn State. He remained in the Department of Mathematics there till 1906, also performing the duties of Registrar and secretary of the institution for the last five years of his stay. In 1906 he came to Carnegie as Registrar, and served in that capacity for two years, after which he assumed the position of Dean. The entire growth of his school has taken place since he took charge of it. The physical buildings and equipment, the enrollment of students, and the standards of scholarship, have alike risen from tiny beginnings to a proud place among the educational institutions of the country. Starting with a mere handful of men in a small section of the present Industries building, the School of Applied Science now numbers several hundred. It is sending out about a hundred graduates this season from its day and night courses, trained for a worthy place in the commercial and scientific world and ready to compete successfully with their fellows from schools with many decades of development and generations of alumni behind them. This growth in plant, in standards, and in character reflects the individuality of its leaders, and none of them more faithfully than Dean Leete. Therefore the Board of Editors of this volume, proud of their association with him, take pleasure in dedicating it to him,confident that it is but one of the many testimonials of respect and honor which are justly his due for his work at Carnegie, and hoping that his successes here may be duplicated in his new field of service.

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M LfiJ UU CARNEGIE TECH EH HI ffl FOREWORD TO reflect and echo the life of our Carnegie Tech as it is, and to catch and transmit its spirit as future becomes present and present fades into past, that our readers may build better on its foundation the memories of their happiest years, has been the sincere and earnest purpose of the editors of this volume. We have striven hard to make the 1917 Thistle true and complete. Our success in pleasing you, our readers, will spell the measure of our reward. Five

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E13 El1 Fen CARNEGIE TECH JOHN HOPKIN LEETE. A.B.. D.Sc. 'Seven