Fresno State College - Campus Yearbook (Fresno, CA)

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president's cabinet The president's cabinet, working as an advisory group with n Dr. Frank W. Thomas, president of the college, appoints all faculty committees, approves special or irregular pro- grams, approves graduation honors, waives specific requirements and formulates the school calendar. Members of the cabinet pictured above are President Thomas, Dean of Men Dr. Mitchell P. Briggs, Dean of Women Mary C. Baker, Dean of the Upper Division Dr. A. R. Lang, Dean of the Lower Division Dr. Hubert Phillips, and Registrar Mrs. Wilma Wight. All matters of discipline are handled by the dean of women and the dean of men acting in conjunction with the president of the college. A

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The office of the dean of men handles all housing, financial, delinquency, and curricular problems which face the men students at Fresno State. Dr. Mitchell P. Briggs, dean of men, is the counselor of all the men students in the college, and it is through his hands that all arrangements for male social and scholastic affairs are made. Women students find Room l l4 a helpful place to go when they are con- fronted by problems, because Miss Mary C. Baker, dean of women, whose office is there, is always ready to offer aid where it is needed. Miss Baker helps the women stu- dents plan their courses, finds suitable housing for them, and sponsors the women's affairs on the campus.

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Dr. Harry C. Burbridge, head of the physical science department, has been af- filiated with Fresno State College since 1921. He re- ceived his A.B. and Ph. D. degrees at Stanford Univer- sity and has done graduate work at Ryerson Physical Laboratory, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. He was an as- sociate physicist for the United States Bureau of Standards and research physicist for the Associated Oil Company. heads of Dr. Arthur C. Berdahl, head of the music de- partment, received his A.B. degree at Augus- tana College and his A.M. and Ph. D. at the State University of lowa. He has been a sum- mer session instructor at the State University of Iowa and the Sierra Summer School. He has been at Fresno State College since 1932. Miss Alexandra Bradshaw, who was graduated from Stanford University, is the head of the Fresno State College art department. She has studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Students League, Academie of M. Andre L'hote, Paris, and with Herr Hoffman of Munich. She is a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors and the California Water Color Society. She has been at Fresno State College since 1917. A. E. Culbertson, agriculture-biology depart- ment head, has been at Fresno State College since 1925. He received his A.B. degree from Emporia College and Yale University and his A.M. from Kansas University. He has been a graduate student at the University of Califor- nia, Hopkins Marine Station, and Stanford University. Marion A. Grosse, head of the industrial edu- cation department, has had 20 years practical experience in industry. He received a voca- tional arts diploma from the University of California, his A.B. degree from Fresno State College, and A.M. from Stanford University. He is a technical consultant to the U. S. Office of Education, division of visual education. He has been at Fresno State College since 1930. Dr. Guy B. Colburn received his A.B. and A-M. degrees from Brown University and his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a graduate student at Rome, Paris, Madrid, Harvard Uni- versity, and Princeton Uni- versity. He has been at Fres- no State College, where he is the head of the foreign language department, since 1922.