DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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PRESIDENT QXNAM DePauw is the lengthened shadow of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. But the preservation of that silhouette from disintegrating into a shapeless mass of changing shadows rather than remaining a clearly outlined form demands a leader of the students and faculty who has similar firm convictions and powers. Those character- istics of leadership, understanding, cooperation, and sym- pathy that made John Wesley they leader of a band of de- voted followers likewise endears President G. Bromley Oxnam to the students, faculty, and alumni of DePauw. Through his energetic services to the University, President Oxnam has lengthened and preserved the shadow of John Wesley in making DePauw one of the outstanding schools of the Middle West. Eighteen

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ADMINISTRATION Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam has been president of DePauw University since 1928. He was graduated from the University of California in 1913 and received his S.T.B. degree from Boston University in 1915. His other de- grees are: D.D., College of the Pacific. 1925, LL.D., Ohio Wesleyan, 1929, Wabash, 1929, and University of Southern California, 1931, Litt.D., Boston University, 1930, D.Sc., Rose Polytechnic. Dr. Oxnam is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was a member of the Amer- ican delegation to Russia in 1926, and a member of the Japanese Educational Com- mission of the International Missionary Council in 1932. Dean Louis H. Dirks, Dean of Men at De Pauw University since 1926, received his A.B. degree from Indiana University in 1906 and his M.A. degree in 1925. He is a mem- ber of Phi Beta Kappa. Dean Dirks taught German in the Bloomington and New Albany High Schools in Indiana until 1911. He then became head of the German department at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and from 1919 to 1926, he was the assistant principal at Shortridge. In addition to his position as dean of men, Dean Dirks teaches several courses in the Education De- partment at DePauw. Mr. F. Russell Alexander has been Director of Publicity at DePauw since 1929. He was graduated with an A.B. degree from De Pauw in 1925. IIe is executive secretary of the DePauw Alumni Association. Mr. Alex- ander has taught classes in sports writing at the annual convention of the Indiana High School Press Association. Miss Veneta Kunter is registrar of De Pauw. She was graduated from DePauw in 1927 and became assistant registrar of the University the next year. In 1933 she gained her present position as registrar. Twenty