Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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Although Lehigh is primarily an undergraduate school, it offers graduate courses and degrees in many fields, both engineering and arts. Dean of the Graduate school is Tomlinson Fort, who is also head of the mathematics department, and a professor in his subject. Dr. Fort, who received his first degree in 1906, from Georgia, has studied abroad, and has written several papers on mathematical subjects. His general task for the graduate school is supervision. Assisting Dean Fort in his many tasks is Robert P. More, who aids him as Executive Secretary of the Graduate Faculty. To provide for the students who from necessity or inclination decide to do part of their academic work during the summer months, Lehigh University maintains a Summer school, staffed for the most part by its regular professors and instructors, and offering courses for regular credit in over fifty different fields. Harold Prescott Thomas, head of the department of education, directs this Summer School. Dr. Thomas, who has a noteworthy war record, has here no job unique among his former experiences, for his career has included positions as an engineer for several companies, a superintendent of public schools, and a director of educational research. Women as well as men come to Summer school; Dr. Thomas must care for these timid entrants from another world, arrange programs of entertainment, and see that the leisurely life of his system does not become somnolent. Assistant Director of Admissions is Charles A. Seidle, who handles much of the work of that department, and helps to insure that Lehigh enrolls as good a crop of freshmen as possible. Performing a similar function for Mr. Curtis is James L. Shearer, assistant to the Registrar. Mr. Shearer, who graduated from Lehigh in 1939 and assumed his position here during the same year, is also adviser to the Cosmopolitan club. The job of Recorder is handled capably and efficiently by Miss Jeannette Cleaveland. The secre- taries, who are indispensable adjuncts to the general functioning of the Ad- ministration, work for the offices of the President, the Alumni, the Bursar, the Supply Bureau, the Registrar and the Director of Admissions. These are some of the people in Lehigh ' s Administration; but no outline here can give an adequate idea of the service they perform for the University. The academic machinery— the matters of discipline, of educational policy, of management— forms only a part of the vast system which must be made to run smoothly and well, in order that the University may hold together as a unit, and not disintegrate into groups striving for separate ends. above - Tomlinson Fort, Robert P. More, Harold P. Thomas. center - The Misses Beatrice Flickinger, Virginia Kirkhuft . below- James L. Shearer, Miss Jeannette I. Cleaveland, Charles A. Seidle. 13