Fenn College - Fanfare Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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I I PRESIDENT CECIL V. THOMAS Intelligence, Power and Personalityng in these three borrowed words lies the success of our President Cecil Vincent Thomas. Through a long and colorful career he has faithfully bestowed his wisdom on the ever increasing student body of Fenn. In his thirty years of service Dr. Thomas has seen the college .develop into one of the nationas larger cooperative colleges. For his splendid achievement in the Held of education, he was honored with an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from Baldwin Wallace in 1935. Dr. Thomas' staunch belief in Fenn College has been carried on by his family. His son Ted graduated from Fenn in 1939 and still takes an active part in college life as an interviewer in the Personnel Department. To the students of the college Dr. Thomas' friendly smile and cheery greeting are a sign of the Fenn spirit he has done so much to promote. Wfe are sure that under his leadership Fenn will continue to grow and maintain its high standards. Page T I1 rec

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CDea'icati0n '25 THE wheel of progress at Penn nearly stopped spinning during the war years, and the spoke of student activities was close to being on the bottom. A few people, however, kept a few activity groups moving. Clubs, sororities, fraternities, and all the other extra-curricular organizations may have had small memberships, but these memberships kept the organiza- tions going, maintained enough enthusiasm to keep them alive. They were responsible for a starting-point from which Fenn life turned again into a full and satisfying whirl. Those who were still in school were able to provide a nucleus for new mem- bers and ofhcers. It is to these few who kept pushing at the wheel that the 1944-46 Fanfare is dedicated.

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' 1 E -.1 :sgvwl DEANS AN HE last year of the war and the first of post-war found the administrative staff intact and prepared to make the many adjustments necessary. A number of changes in responsibility were occasioned, however, by Dr. Walter R. Goetsch leaving in December, 1944 to accept a position at the University of Iowa. Dean C. Nichols assumed additional duties as head of the teacher training program. Dr. Major B. Jenks, head of the Department of History, became also Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. William A. Patterson, who had taught in the mathe- matics department from 1936 to 1943, returned to Penn as Registrar. Dean Paul R. Anders, finishing up his vari- ous duties in connection with war training programs, found that the rapidly expanding School of Business Administra- tion would laeep him busy. Dean Max B. Robinson of the Engineering School, and Junior Dean Marion B. Tolar welcomed the termination of the special technical programs