Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Officers oi Administration Holland Holton Director of the Summer School A.B., Duke; J.D., University of Chicago. Professor Holton Is a native of Western North Carolina, and he was graduated from Trinity College in 1903. After a number of years ' experience in public school administration he became connected with Duke University, and since 1921 he has been director of the Summer School. Professor Holton is also head of the department of education of the University. He is considered by some students the most versa- tile man on the Duke University faculty, for there are few men here who are connected with as many student activities as is Dr. Holton. At the present time he is chairman of the board of directors of the college Y. M. C. A., and he deserves much of the credit for the achievements and successes of that organiza- tion during the past year. From 1912 to 1919, Professor Holton was instructor in public speak- ing at Trinity College, and during the absence of Assistant Dean Herring this year he has coached the Duke debating teams. An enor- mous amount of responsibility is placed on Professor Holton, but he has proven himself a most capable leader and executive. 29 William Henry Glasson Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.B., Cornell; Ph.D., Columbia. Dean Glasson was born in New York, and for several years he taught economics in Northern schools. In 1902 he came to Trinity College as professor of economics, and he has been defi- nitely connected with Trinity College and Duke University since that time. When the Duke University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was created in 1926, Dr. Glasson was chosen as dean. The Graduate School has progressed rap- idly, and it, like the other departments of the university has had an over-inctreasing enroll- ment. The students in the school represent practically every section of the United States, as well as several foreign countries. At com- mencement last June, the Ph.D. degree was conferred for the first time by Duke Univer- sity, and there are a number of candidates for that degree in the Duke Graduate School at present. In view of the fact that the duties of the dean of the school are being constantly augmented, Dr. Robert S. Rankin, of the de- partment of political science, was last fail ap- pointed assistant dean. There are a number of men on the Duke faculty who are recognized leaders in their fields, and they, under the direction of Dr. Glasson, are building a grad- uate school of national prominence.

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Officers of Administration William Hani- Wannamaker Vice-President in the Educational Division Dean of the College A.B., Wofford; A.M., Duke and Harvard; Litt.D., Wofford. Dean Wannamaker is a native of South Caro- lina, and a graduate of Wofford College. After doing advanced work at Harvard, he went to Germany for foreign study. Twenty -seven years ago Dr. Wannamaker came to Trinity College as professor of German, and in 1917 he became dean of the undergraduate school of arts and sciences. During his incumbency. Trinity College has advanced from the rather insecure position of a small Southern institu- tion to its present place as one of the coordinate colleges of the greater Duke University. No small part of the credit for Trinity ' s develop- ment and progress is due to Dean Wannamaker. He has a forceful and convincing personality, and he possesses a sincere regard for the eter- nal fitness of things. He is characterized as a capable administrative official and as a splen- did teacher of his beloved German. Dr. Wanna- maker is admired and respected, not only by those students who have attended his classes, but by scores of other men and women who have gone out from Trinity College and Duke University, Alice Mary Baldwin Dean of IVomen A.B., a.m., Cornell; Ph.D., Chicago, University of Dean Baldwin was born in Lcwistown, Maine, of distinguished New England ancestry. Her forebears played important parts in colonial af- fairs, and some of her ancestors were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. She studied in France after having attended several of the best-known colleges and universities in Amer- ica, Dr, Baldwin taught in Northern and West- ern schools for a number of years, becoming associated with Duke University in 1923 as dean of women and assistant professor of his- tory. She is a woman of rare grace and charm, and her ability as a college official has been recognized throughout the country. In a few years a coordinate college for women will be established at Duke University, which will parallel Trinity College for men. Trinity College and all of the graduate schools will be located on the new Duke campus, while the present campus and plant will be given over entirely to the work of the college for women. In the last few years the co-educational feature has become an Important element In the ad- ministration and the affairs of Duke University. 28

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Officers of Administration Elbkrt Russell Acting Dean of the School of Rcli(jion A.B., A.M., Earlham College; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Dr. Russell is a native of Tennessee, but he spent most of his early life in Indiana. Ho was employed a number of years in religious teaching in Northern and Western colleges, and he has lectured extensively in Europe and America. In 1924 and 1925. Dean Russell was special lecturer for the American Friends ' Serv- ice Commission in Germany and Austria. After the establishment of the Duke School of Reli- gion, Dr. Russell came to the University as pro- fessor of Biblical interpretation. Upon the resignation of Dr. Edmund D. Soper, first dean of the School of Religion of Duke University and now president of Ohio Wesleyan University, Professor Russell became acting dean, and he has ably carried forward the work begun by his distinguished predecessor. It was the desire of Mr, James B. Duke that special attention should be given to the de- velopment of the School of Religion in Duke University. At the present time the school has a faculty which includes some of the fore- most religious thinkers of the country, and its enrollment is constantly increasing. Dean Rus- sell has become recognized as one of the spir- itual leaders of the South, and he is consid- ered a very capable head of the Duke School of Religion. WiLBURT Cornell Davison Dean of the School of Medicine A.B., Princeton; B.A., B.Sc. M.A.. Oxford (Eng- land); M.D., Johns Hopkins. Dr. Davison, who was born in Michigan, was a Rhodes Scholar after his graduation from Princeton. He served in France and Serbia with the American Red Cross in 1914 and 1915, and from 1917 to 1919 he was an army officer with the American Expeditionary Forces. For several years Dr. Davison was connected with the Johns Hopkins Medical School as as- sociate professor of pediatrics and assistant dean. On coming to Duke in 1927 as dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, Pro- fessor Davison began the establishment of a Medical College which will be second to none in the south, and perhaps in the nation. In physical equipment. The magnificent hospital which is now under construction will have three hundred beds, and it should afford an in- creasing supply of clinical material for the students of medicine. A faculty composed of leaders in the medical field is now being se- lected by Dr. Davison and the other University officials, and the School of Medicine will open in the fall of 1930. It will be modern in every particular, and it will afford many advantages that should prove attractive to students.