DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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President Postscripts Pearl Harbor Things have been cliFlerent at DePauw since December 7. The entrance of the United States into war has allected us all. Declining registra- tions with the resultant decline in income and the continued ellectiveness ol the educa- tional program are matters of concern to the administration. We are jealous and zealous about those standards ol excellence which are traditional at DePauw. We are glad that Locust Manor, Mason Hall, Harrison l-lalll Blackstock Stadium, the new health service, the greenhouse, and the new tennis courts were added before the era of priorities. We are glad that the University has operated on a balanced budget lor a number of years We face the Future in good physical and Financial condition. The faculty at DePauw has shown an unusual spirit of cooperation in this time of crisis. Members of the faculty are carrying extra loads,- they aregivinggenerously ol their time to counsel with students about their personal problems; they are relating their courses to the realities of life; they are holding the ideal and the real in steady balance. DePauwls strong Faculty gives the institution Faith anal courage as it laces the future. The students have taken the national crisis in stride. The nation will soon learn that its apparently gay and carelree youth will carry on in an emergency with skill, intelligence, Faith, and a stout heart. A member at last yearls class who is now co-pilot ol 0 Flying Fortress recently wrote me as Follows: ulhere is a slogan lkeep lem Flyingl, Your motto for Depauw should be lkeep ,em studyingl, Depauw students are doing just that. The administration and faculty of DePauw have confidence in the good breeding, the good sense, the Fine courage of our students Through the years, be it war or peace, DePauw goes on, and its alumni go out to assume places of helpfulness and dignity in the lite ol the world. There will always be a Depauw and a land of the lreeacarry onl tSignedl Clyde E. Wildman, President

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At the Helm During Five Years of Progress: Dr. Clyde E. Wildmon thv

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32 SeotedeThompson, Solzer, Bartlett, Smith, Giddings. Providing capable shoulders for the load of administrative prob- lems ore DePaqu deans. Sought at some time by every student, their offices are located in the HAd Building Best known to the feminine half oi the college enrollment is Miss Helen C. Solzer, dean of women. in a comparable position with the men of DePouw is Deon Louis H. Dirks, dean of men and prize yom-spinner. His assistant, in charge of Freshman men, is Dr. Glenn Word Giddings. Ranking next in importance after the president is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Edward R. Bartlett. G. Herbert Smith is dean of administration and director of the Rector Scholarship Foundationwhile Dr. Von Denman Thompson is director of theSchool of Music. Assistant Dean of Women, as well 05 resident head of Lucy Rowland Hall, is Miss R. Frances Smith, new to the DePauw campus last fall. Standing-Dirks.