DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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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

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AND DEANS Dr. William Martin Blanchard, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been pro- fessor of chemistry at DePauw since 1901 and has held his present position of dean since 1927. He received his A.B. degree from Randolph-Macon College in 1894 and his A.M. degree in 1897. In 1900 Johns Hopkins University conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. He studied in Europe in 1912- 1913. Dean Blanchard is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the American Chemistry Society, and the National Economic League. Dean Robert G. McCutchan attended Park College in 1893-1894. For six years he was engaged in newspaper work. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1904 and Doc- tor of Music degree in 1927 from Simpson College. Dean McCutchan has studied abroad in Berlin and Paris. In 1911 he became Dean of the School of Music at DePauw. He edited the New Methodist Hymnal in 1931. Dean McCutchan was made a Doctor of Music in 1935 by the Southern Methodist University. Dean Katharine S. Alvord has been Dean of Women at DePauw since 1915. She was graduated with an A.B. degree from Mich- igan in 1893, received her M.A. degree from Columbia in 1908, and studied at Wisconsin and Cornell Universities. Dean Alvord teach- es Colonial History and History of the American Revolution. This year, since Dean Alvord is retiring after twenty-one years of service, the students and faculty pay tribute to her untiring efforts and her sympathetic understanding of the students' problems at DePauw. Dean G. Herbert Smith, Dean of Fresh man Men and Director of the Rector Scholar ship Foundation, came to DePauw in 1932 At Illinois University he had been Assistant Dean of Men for Iive years. He received his A.B. degree from DePauw in 1927 and his A.M. from Illinois in 1928. He is general secretary of Beta Theta Pi and has been national secretary of Phi Eta Sigma since 1928. Twenty-one