Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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K WWL FINANCE COMMITTEE SAMUEL INSUL, JR. CHARLES F. CILARKE IVIATTHEXV J. IIICKEY NE' ?'f--Z? PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE EDWARD J. INIEHREN MARTIN J. QUIGLEY LAYVRENCE A. DOWNS BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE DAVID F. BuEMN1:1z EDNVARD A. CUDAHY, Ju. WALT1-:Ia J. CUMMINGS

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STUYVESANT PEABODY is chairman of the Adminis trative Council. EDWARD J. FARRELL is the legal adviser of the Ad ministrative Council. lHllllllSTfillllllE To direct the affairs of any large university requires a knowledge of business as well as of education. Recog- nizing the fact that men in religious orders oftentimes have not had the necessary training for the successful management of finances, Loyola's administrators in 1930 organized a small group of experienced, outstanding Chicago business men Who were both able and willing to give sound advice to aid in the solution of Loyola's business problems. Thus was begun the Administrative Council, a body which has time and again proved itself indispensable to the university. The Administrative Council is composed of a general chairman, a legal adviser, and three committees of three members each. These eleven men have unselfishly and unsparingly given of their time and counsel to Loyola. They are men who, having achieved great success in the business world, have not forgotten that period of training through which all men must pass, but rather, mindful of the Catholic traditions in education, they are freely aiding the furthering of those traditions by giving to Loyola that which is most dear to them, their own time and service. And to them Loyola owes a real debt of gratitude. The three committees are finance, public relations, and buildings and grounds. The whole council meets only once annually, but committee meetings are called more frequently, and the advice of individual members is sought whenever needed by the administrators of the University. General chairman of the council is Mr. Stuyvesant Peabody, of the Peabody Coal Company. Mr. Edward J. Farrell, of Brewer and Farrell, leading Chicago attor- neys, is legal adviser. Necessarily the most active of the three committees during the past several years has been the Finance Committee, of which Mr. Samuel Insull Jr., of the W. A. Alexander Company, is chairman. He is assisted by Mr. Charles F. Clarke, cf Halsey, Stuart and Company, and by Mr, Matthew J. Hickey, President of Hickey and Company. The Committee on Public Relations shapes the adver- tising and publicity policies of the University. Its chairman is Mr. Edward J. Mehren, of the Portland Cement Association. Its other members are Mr. Lawrence A. Downs, of the Illinois Central Railroad, and Mr. Nlartin J. Quigley, of the Quigley Publishing Company. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds advises on major problems connected with Loyola's buildings and other properties. It is composed of Mr. David F. Brem- ner, of Bremner Brothers Biscuit Company, chairman, Mr. Edward A. Cudahy Jr., of the Cudahy Packing Company, and Mr. Walter J. Cummings, of the Con- tinental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company. . ---.uv-A---1 - 1,-...fl .Q-lfgmugmz..-L fm- f--N -1

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THE REVEREND SAMUEL KNOX WILSON, SJ., chairman of the Academic Council. Perfect unity of government is essential to any university. Realizing that such unity is best achieved through the operation of a body of representatives from the several divisions of the university, in 1928 the Reverend Robert M. Kelley, S.J., then President of Loyola University, founded the Academic Council. The Council is composed of the President, all regents, deans, and assistant deans, and the general registrar of the University. At regular meetings, presided over by Father Wilson, it considers important aca- demic and student welfare problems affecting more than one division of the University. There is no doubt that the Academic Council has had a greater effect upon the coordination and cohesion of the various units of the University than any other single factor. The spirit of cooperation and of making the needs of one division subservient to those of the whole Uni- versity has spread down from the Council through the faculty to the student governing bodies, and finally to the students themselves, thus per- meating the entire structure of Loyola. 26 HEHIHMIE Among the things decided upon this year by the Academic Council was a reduction in tuition granted to all full-time employees of the University and their children in the various academic and commerce divisions of the University Cin- cluding Loyola Academyj. This Will extend to members of the faculty, clerical help, and the maintenance staff. Also approved this year was the beginning of student personnel work on the Lake Shore Campus, with the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences acting as personnel oflicer and being assisted by the assistant dean, the registrar, and a special clerk to make the materials and information needed for this work readily available. Among the changes made in the curricula was the abolition of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medicine, to be effective at the close of the present academic year. This degree Was given after the completion of three pre- medical work and the first year in the School of Medicine. A proposal Was made by the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences to arrange a special curriculum for a selected group of superior students Working for the Bachelor of Arts degree which would enable them to secure that degree after three years of college work and should induce them to go on into the Graduate School. If successful, this special curriculum might eventually be extended into Loyola Academy, so that outstanding students could begin it in their third year of high school. The Academic Council approved the experiment and when the details are Worked out it will be put into effect. Among other questions discussed but not definitely decided upon at the time of this printing were the abolition of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Dentistry and the discontinuance of the combined curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree after three years of college and one year of medicine. From the measures adopted by the council during the past year, it is rather obvious that at all times they have the best interests of the school in mind. To keep the school up to a high scholastic level, and at the same time main- tain the personal relationship of faculty and student that is characteristic of Loyola is one of its greatest problems. The Council has been responsible for the course of action that Loyola has taken for the past eleven years and, with this responsibility has been extremely successful. It is through the Work of this body, that the various divisions of the university have been enabled to work more as a unit and less as a separate school with no common ties to the rest of the departments. There can be little doubt that the Council will continue to be successful along these lines for many years to come.