DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Clear Vision... Having thetask of keeping the executive and financial cogs of the University turning smoothly, the joint Board of Trustees and Visitors exerts a marked influence in determining DePauw policies, despite the tact that it has assumed for itself a strictly backstage positions With a widely-scattered personnel, the Board, under the leadership of Roy O. West of Chicago, is composed of outstanding representatives, both laymen and clergymen, From various walks of life. It is through the nine Visitors, eminent lndiana ministers, that the University and the Church are kept in close contact. The entire Board meets semi-annually, although the greatest part oi its business is carried on through a number of small committees. One of the most -active of these, the Buildings and Grounds group, headed by Charles H. Barnaby of Green- castle, has recently been responsible For the erection of Mason and Harrison Halls and the ,laying of the new cement tennis courts. Other committees take care of investment and real restate, financial promotion and public relations, degrees, athletics, auditing and records, instruction and equipment, the Rector Scholarship Foundation, and other important details essential to the organization and carrying out of the University business. Although the members of the Board of Trustees and Visitors are greatly responsible For the smooth function- ing ofthe school administration, it is even more because of their individual loyalty to DePauw and their deep personal interest in the school that they deserve very much credit and appreciation. 17

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Hand onthe Helm... Cne of the BMOC's of the class oi 1913 was our own President Clyde E. Wildman. The range ol his activities while at DePauw would furnish a goal toward which aspiring campus leaders of today might well aim. ln those days when debate was as important in Indiana as basketball is now, Dr. Wildman served on the varsity debate team and was a member of Tau Kappa Alpha, Forerunner of the present debating honorary, Delta Sigma Rho. l'lis forensic abilities won him prizes in this country and while studying abroad. Also active in the field of athletics, President Wildman was on the volleyball team that was the regional winner in New Yorlc State. As cheer leader he led class yells in chapel, and he still remembers many of the intricate yells. During his senior year he be- came baseball manager. He was president of his sophomore class and a member of the YMCA For Four years, acting as treasurer one year and president another. It was his YMCA experience that prompted him to give up his law study in Favor of the ministry. Later he made his final voca- tional choice in the field of education. President Wildman was a member of the Commons Club while at DePauw and he capped his Four years of Liberal Arts education by earning a Phi Beta Kappa lcey. Now, as president of the University, Dr. Wildman has managed to lceep every bit of his youthful interest and enthusiasm in all of the phases of his alma mater's life. 16

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Dr. Edward R. Bartlett Dr. Van Denman Thompson Strength in Unity... Much of Dean Edward R. Bartlett's past does not seem to relate to his present position. He lived First in Fort Madison, l.owa,where he began worlc in a telegraph office and later in a shoe store. It was not long until he left lor Iowa Wesleyan to study electrical engineering- perhaps his lceen interest in the Santa Fe railroad instigated this study. While he was at this school, he changed his mind and switched to the ministry. During the last war, he was :lirector lor the northwestern branch of Y.M.C.A. He also served as director of religious education lor the councils of churches at Minneapolis and Detroit before he came to DePauw in 1923 as an associate professor in philosophy. The next year he became head ol the de- partment of education in which position he served until two years ago when he became dean of the University. Director of the Music School is Van Denman Thompson. His primary interests have been and always will be music, especially organ music. This he teaches by the hour, and yet he Finds time to compose pieces for our Wednesday chapel services. He is nationally lcnown: tor his adeptness at the organ, lor his compositions forthe organ, and For choral groups. Music is not his only interest, however. He liltes to attend the movies and is particularly londl of gardening. Evidence of this is his large Flower garden and his vegetable bed begun longi before victory gardens became fashionable. 18