Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Dean Walter T. Dunmore Walter Thomas Dunmore is Dean of the Franklin Thomas Backus Law- School of Western Reserve University. Dean Dunmore received his Bachelor if Arts and Master of Arts degrees irum Oberlin College in 1900 and 1905 respectively. He studied law at Western Reserve and received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1904. The following year he began to teach in the Law School in the capacity of an instructor. He was given a professorship, and in 1910 appointed Dean. Dean Dunmore has been very active in his office and has done much to improve the quality of the Law School. He is an authority in his field and has written legal treatises, among which are : Ship Subsidies and Exe- cutors and Administrators , in the Cyclopedia of Procedure. He is also a frequent contributor to legal periodicals. He is a member of the Order uf the Coif and Theta Lambda Pi. Dean Frank M. Casto Dean Casto was graduated from the dental department of Ohio State Uni- versity in 1898. Two years later he was given the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After two more years of study at the Angle School of Orthodontia he was graduated and came to the Western Reserve Dental School as Pro- fessor of Orthodontia in 1904. However, it was not until 1917 that Dr. Casto assumed the responsibilities of Dean. At this time the school was still undergoing a transition and reconstruction, which only the Dean and his assistants can appreciate. He has successfully guided the school to a positii n which today is not only an enviable one, but which overshadows the discouraging and trying existence of yesterday. He ever encourages the progress of dentistry and the school by bringing, not only men from the different branches of dentistry who have benefitted by years in their private practices, but also men from the most modern and scientific laboratories of research. As a result of the efforts of Dr. Casto and his assistants the training has been placed on a par with that of the best dental schools in the country. Dental students receive instruction which is complete, thorough, and explicitly modern. Dean Alice S. Tyler Miss Alice S. Tyler, Dean of the School of Library Science, graduated from the Library School of the University of Illinois, in 1894. Following graduation, she became acting librarian of the Decatur, Illinois, Library. In 189.S she came to Cleveland as Catalogue Librarian of the Public Library, but left to take the position of secretary of the Iowa State Library Commis- sion, in 1900. She was director of the Iowa Summer Library School, at the University of Iowa until 1912, when she came to the Library School of Western Reserve University. She has been Director of the School of Library Science of Western Reserve since 1913. Miss Tyler has also been President of the League of Library Commissions, and affiliated with the Ohio Library Association, the Association of American Library Schools, the American Library Association, and the Cleveland Lilirary Club. She contributes to many library periodicals. 16

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THE DEANS 1)i:an W im-i;i:i (i. Liu ' TXHR Winfred George Leutncr, Dean of Adelbert College since 1012, is also Professor of Greek and Latin at Adcllx;rt. Dr. Leutncr received his A. B. degree from Adelbert College in 1901. I ' -our years later he took liis Doctor of Philosophy degree from Johns Hripkins Lhiivcrsity, after spending a year there in the capacity of Fellow, l ' urtlier stndy in Greek and Latin was pursued at the American Schools of Classical Stuciies at Rome and Atlicns. He held a chair during the year 1 ' )(I.t fi at Wittenberg College as Acting Profes.si r of Greek. Dr. Leutner came to Adelbert in 1906 as an instructor in Greek and Latin. He was given the position of Assistant Professor in 1909, and a full profes- sorship in 1915, and was chosen Dean of the College in 1912. He holds membership in the American Philological Association, The American Archaeological Association, The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and the Ohio College Association. The Article in Theocritus , was written by Dr. Leutncr in 1907. He is reputed throughi ut his large acquaintanceship in the community and in the college for his keen perceptions and his ready and sympathetic grasp of situations. Every student of Adelbert College knows where to find his fairest, squarest friend in time of difficulty. Dean Helen M. Smith Dean Helen Mary Smith received her Bachelor of Literature degree from the College for Women of Western Reserve University. After gradu- ation she accepted a position as teacher of English in Central High School, which she left to become Assistant Dean of the college from which she had graduated. In 1914 she was appointed Dean of the College for Women. For some years she was president of the Alumnae Association, and as an alumna she has had a complete understanding of the problems with which the College for Women has had to cope. She has stood for the individuality of the College, but has always seen the advantages of co-ordinatio,n. To her is due credit for the fact that no school in the country has a higher academic rating. Since her assumption of deanship, the enrollment of the College has increased one hundred per cent. The Household Administration department has grown and now has a separate building. The School of Nursing has been established, and is one of the few in the country where an academic course is given in connection with the hospital course. None of these progressive changes would have been possible, had it not been for Dean Smith ' s insight, and her power to judge accurately the advantages of new ideas. Dean Carl A. Hamann Carl August Hamann, Dean of the Medical School, was graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1890. Three years later, in 1893, he located his practice in Cleveland. During the years 1893 to 1912 he served as Professcr of Anatomy. In 1912 he accepted the chair of applied anatomy and clinical surgery. At present he is visiting surgeon at St. Vincent ' s Charity and chief surgeon at Cleveland City Hos- pitals. Dr. Hamann is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons ; a member of the American Surgical Association, the Associaton of Amercan Anatomists, and Alpha Omega Alpha. Appreciation for his present activity in the new medical library program deserves no small comment. To the students Dean Hamann ably fulfills his nick-name The King , — a quiet, always friendly, self sacrificing follower of Hippocrates, liolding a high place in the esteem of all who know him. Since the time of Dr. Hamann ' s appointment to his position the school has grown in importance until it ranks with the best and largest in the world. IS

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l)i:. , l ' ' .i)W. Ki) 1 . Spkask Dean Kdward T. Speasc, Pharmaciutical tHicmist and Bachelor of Science, was graduated from Ohio State University in 1905. Between the time of his gradnatidii and his affiliation with Western Reserve University School of Pharmacy he rose froin the position of Student Assistant in Pharmacy to the position of Assistant Professor in Pharmacy and the executive post of Secretary of the Ohio State School of Pharmacy. In 1916 Dean Spease came to Reserve and has been since acting as Professor of Pharmacy and Dean of the School of Pharmacy. As such he has been active in the promotion nf the interests of the school to such an extent that it has gained recognition among the best. Dean Spease has been particularly active in agitation for pure drug legislation in Ohio, and has appeared before legislative committees to present his case on numerous oc- casions. Dean James K. Cutler The School of Applied Social Sciences has as its Dean James Klbcrt Cutler. Dean Cutler received his education at the University of Colorado and took his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Yale. He has served as an instructor in the State Preparatory School of Colorado, in Yale University, at Wellesley College, at the University of Michigan, and at Western Reserve University since 1907, He has been dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences since 1916. Dean Cutler holds the commission of Major in the United States Army. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Sociological Society, the National Conference of Social Workers, the American Association for Labor Legislation, the American Association of University Professors, the National Institute of Social Sciences, and the American Association of Social Workers. Mr. Cutler is the author of Lynch Law, a noted authority on the history of lynchings, and a contributor to several popular reviews. Dean Louise M. Powell The new Dean of the School of Nursing is Miss Louise M. Powell. Miss Powell came to Western Reservie last fall and has already done mucli to vitalize the processes of the new school. Dean Powell received her diploma from -St. Luke ' s Training School for Nurses, at Richmond, Va., in 1899. She also received a diploma in Education from the Teachers College in 1910, and the degree of Bachelor of Science from Columbia University. Later she became Superintendent of the School of Nursing of the University of Minnesota and then Director of the same school. From there she came to Reserve. With the excellent prospects the school is facing in the completion of the Babies and Maternity hospitals, and the unsurpassed clinical opportimities affi rded, Dean Powell believes the school has a promising future. 17