Fenn College - Fanfare Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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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

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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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DMINISTRATIO and the opportunity to prepare for the many returning veterans interested in the School of Engineering. Finance Director Arthur P. Loegler and his assistant, Thomas Dwyer, experienced no let-up in duties, as the problems of a small student body and war contracts changed to those of a rapidly expanding student body with 11 majority attending under the provisions of Public Laws 16 and 346. Mr. James XV. Griswald, as Held representative of the Engineering, Science, Management War Training courses and Acting Director of the Department of Cooperative work, shifted his emphasis to the latter. Mr. M. C. Her- rick, Director of Admissions and Student Activities, and Mrs. Margaret Knowles, Dean of Woiiien, found the con- stantly increasing size of the student body a challenge in these areas, and in November, 1946, Mr. Bruce T. Brickley returned from the service as Assistant Director of Admis- sions. i