Millikin University - Millidek Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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a on the Holt, Mills, Lee, Miller, Bass, Hamilton, Boland Board of Managers In order that the student body may have a greater appreciation of the organization and position of the Board of Managers of the uni- versity we have included this page in the 1945 Millidek. This body for- mulates the policies of the university and elects the faculty and staff. The chief duties of the Board are connected with the university budget, buildings and grounds, finance and investment, and the curriculum. The officers for the year were: President: Roy M. Hamilton Vice President: Ray S. Bass Secretary: William Ray McGaughey Treasurer: Charles A. Imboden Oth er members are: Lee Boland J. Sherman McClelland J. Reaves Holt A. Hubert Mills Charles E. Lee Henry M. Owen Regular meetings are held the second Monday night of each month m the round-table room. Special meetings are called when the need arises. 18

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reflect . . . . L M. Cole, Professor Emeritus Not only our teacher, but our friend In his capacity as an instructor rather than an administrator, Pro- fessor Cole was known to many of us better — that is, more intimately, than we knew the president. He could return a joke with us with the same dexterity that he could mend a door. We knew what they meant when they called him the grand old man of Millikin. Pop was grand and he was fun. He could always be counted on to mend cupboard doors in the Dec office, lend keys to students and faculty who had locked themselves out of rooms, help the girls in his home art classes get them- selves extricated from the complicated machinery down there, and there was always a wry comment about some of the stumbling efforts of stu- dents who were learning to put their hands to use for the first time. He never got out of patience, nor did he ever leave a student in his diffi- culty — he was always there helping, guiding, making it easier. A mechanical arts instructor who often boasted that he knew more poetry than anyone on campus — that ' s contrast, but that was Pop Cole. A grand old man. A big, fine person capable of commanding not only our respect but our love. 17

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lllillihin Gamp us Administrative Staff Clarence Lee Miller, Dean and Acting President Edward William Ploenges, Assistant Dean Ralph Yakel, Registrar and Professor of Education Raymond Rush Brewer, Director of Public Relations and Professor of Religion Mrs. Harold C. Hess, Dean of Women H. Robert Haupt, Acting Business Manager The war has made the present college year a difficult one, but students and faculty have worked together to preserve many of the usual aspects of college life. The publication of this book is a notable testimony. During the year we have been true to the past while building for the future. We want our Millikin men and women who are now in the armed services to find, when they return from distant fields, those things they cherish most still a part of the warp and woof of college life, along with an inspiring pattern for a finer Millikin. C. L. MILLER, Dean and Acting President. Standing: Brewer, Haupt, Yakel Seated: Hess, Miller, Ploenges 19