Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

Page 25 text:

After taking his degree at Dennison University, he held various teaching and supervisory positions in public school Work. The dean is well-known as a conductor of school choral groups, and gives many talks at teachers' meetings. Music school, too, has had its war-time changes, especially in its summer session. Due to the exodus of trained music teachers to the service, the school steps in to replenish the supply, said Dean Beattie, as summer school last year offered refresher courses for teachers. Training teachers for nursery and gram- mar school, high school, college, and adult education is the job of J. Monroe Hughes, Acting Dean of School of Education since 1941. Dean Hughes joined N.U.'s faculty in 1924 as assistant professor in secondary school administration after twelve years of this work in Indiana, his native state. His special field of interest is personnel organization, including teaching persons to ill such positions as superintendent and principals of public schools. Following the war, the dean believes, there will be more vocational training, but not at the expense of classical education. Public school systems will continue to improve and must keep up with the chang- ing world after the war. i K fix i i f X iii ii. ,cl ' ii J., 'rig lg fbi 1 ,X Addison Hibbard became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1930 following eleven years as dean at Chapel Hill, N. C. Believing that the things of the mind and spirit are important, he continued the new emphasis which had been placed on Liberal Arts, at the same time, maintaining the essentials of classical learning. Dean Hibbard counts writing as his chief interest outside the college, and is now a member of a national committee to edit and publish an international bibliography containing important literature existing in the English language from all countries. His special charge for this bibliography is Korean literature. His background for this job includes teaching English in a government college in japan from 1905 to '14, The dean explains the largest problem of the college is to get students who want to learn in front of teachers who want to teach. Head of one of the leading journalism schools since 1938, Dean Kenneth E. Olson' has instigated the accelerated war-time system, fostered new plans for women in the journalistic field, and introduced teachers courses at Medill. In addition to the dean's work at the college, this year he headed the community chest drive on campus, teaches C.A.T.S. on the Chicago campus, attends press associa- tion conventions, and speaks at various meetings. At the school, he teaches and lectures in four classes, while supervising the general administration of the college. Dean Olson believes firmly in the future of women in journalism, and is training and graduating a corps of girls every three months for jobs left by men in the service. .4 19

Page 24 text:

THE DEAN S In 1939, Ovid W. Eshbach came here to face the difiicult job of managing the new six million dollar Tech Institute. His previous education and training, including service on the personnel staff of A.T. 81 T. quali1'ied him well for this position. Today N.T.I. is recognized as one of the foremost technical schools in the country. The Dean states the Institute's goals as being a high-quality undergraduate school on a cooperative basis and a high quality graduate school closely connected with present-day research. There are no definite post-war plans for Tech, but he believes it will expand with additions and with the many technical improvements after the war. His capable and direct, yet human and personal dealing with students has made him more than a dean. N. U. is noted for its speech school, which is the most cosmopolitan on the cam- pus, the students coming from greater dis- tances than do those of other schools. Thus James H. McBurney, dean, sum- med up the position of speech school on campus. Speech school, which places many stu- dents in radio and theatre each year, has a problem in public relations, according to the dean. Even though old concepts of teaching speech have changed, many people still don't recognize its worth. Dean McBurney who came here in 1936 as associate professor of public speak- ing, became dean two years ago. His own teaching is almost entirely limited to grad- uate students now. He also manages Northwestern Reviewing Stand, panel dis- dussion broadcast every week on WGN, and acts as its moderator. This year marks the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the School of Commerce. Homer B. Vanderblue, who took his present position as dean in 1939, now works mainly with the Navy. Appointed Educational Coordinator for the V-12 group last year, he now coordinates the regular academic courses with the Navy program. 18 After graduation from Northwestern, the Dean was professor of transportation here, then attended Harvard Business School, and was in business for ten year. His interests outside of the school liesin Pennsylvania, where he maintains a large farm, collects early American furniture and raises prize cattle and ducks. Dean Vanderblue believes there will be more people enrolled in Commerce School after the war- probably more than we can handle !' ! ' 'N I.. , .. , ff Q . ri I . - .1 I1 1 ll f LN, L-..--mi ' Mr 1-:M fa-, X4 5 -:fwfr 'Q -- 1 s . I. --: ' if '1 321 4215 --1,7-T: kk! jj,-TE? XL-L iqlj Ulf ms- i fm. y 'Q...,,.s 2 . i J' , f'ffL-Ga: i ' 'X llxxiiilkl wi, l iw ' S' ...-. .fx -. 1 1' 1 I 'i.SI? I 45:91-KJV-2f'PrW lfjx L 'Q - AX-:Ya xjfbfu-..'. ,QQ iw?- ix, .J-. j . Q. P I ' ,Hy i Q51 H' - x. A ..,...f 1 ,V - X , ,liftikrf ,FN 1 tglpl ' ..5. ij., , ,W . N 1. ,I .xp ,,.-f D Xxxl -Ji 3 -J . , flx SFX-X K-ff Z fix. f M XXX Tkf f Rv' 21 XX N Wa x ,f i Wa. y K U . 'Ly i l Ending his twenty-fourth year of teach- ing here, Frederick H. Heidbrink, now director of Summer Sessions, looks back on a long Northwestern career. Coming here as a freshman, he has been at N.U. in one capacity or another ever since, with the exception of two years in the business world. Dr. Heidbrink became summer session director last fall, after eight years as assistant dean of Liberal Arts. In this position, he has charge of summer ad- ministration, coordinating all schools on the Evanston campus. In addition to his duties as director, he has been on the Board of Publications twelve years, longer than any other member. He also teaches several classes in English. John W. Beattie, as dean of North- western's School of Music since 1937, heads one of the most widely-known colleges of its kind. Dean Beattie has had a long and varied training to qualify him for this position.

Page 26 text:

TECI-INCDLGGICAL I N S T I T U T E In December, 1943, the first graduating class left the Technological Institute, youngest of Northwestern's schools, and was immediately absorbed by the technological demands of acountry producing for war. The need for young men, trained in sound engineering practice and already wise to the methods of industry, justified the founding of an engineering school on the cooperative basis. Walter P. Murphy's gift to the University for the establishment of such a school was an expression of vision and a contribution to the needs of an increasingly complex industrial machine. More recently, a board of advisors composed of leaders in education and industry has been organized. It includes such famous men as Charles F. Kettering, Henry Kaiser, Karl Compton, Ralph Budd, and others who will keep the Institute apace with the swiftly moving mechanism of modern production. A teacher of long and varied experience and a former executive in business, Dean Ovid W. Eshbach has witnessed the com- pletion of the Institute and the installation of a progressive teaching program. A wise administrator, Dean Eshbach has worked hard to make the Technological Institute an outstanding school, yet he is never too busy to talk to students who stop by his office with their many and separate prob- lems. Good humor and restraint char- acterize his administrative methods, and his tireless devotion to a job extends even to his pitching duties on the faculty baseball team. Administrative secretary for the Tech- nological Institute and the dean's per- sonal secretary, genial Miss Skelly is quite as efficient as the dean in doing business, and the perplexed undergraduate often finds it unnecessary to take up the dean's valuable time, having found his answer in the outer office. 20 Traditionally turning out the largest group of the divisions, the Mechanical Engi- neering Department is headed by quiet- voiced and perpetually busy Professor Burgess Jennings, who still retains the eastern accent native to his former post at Lehigh University. Nationally known for his publications and professional work, he is frequently consulted and directs governmental research in the Mechanical Engineering laboratory. A protege of Professor Emeritus Phil- brick and a lover of bewildering questions, Professor Edward Obert is the Institute's expert on internal combustion engines. Used to a passive acceptance of material, the initiate in Professor Obert's class Ends himself slightly fiabbergasted when asked to repeat in different words an explana- tion which has just been developed by the class. Professor of Practical Experience and a strong believer in ten minute quizzes, Mr. Royal Bigelow, who has been teaching in the engineering school since 1920, is familiar' to every student in school who has taken machine shop or Industrial Production Methods. Equipped with fuel research engines, a low temperature cold room, air condition- ing equipment, and other testing facilities, the Mechanical Engineering laboratory is occupied by research projects of a varied nature. Youngest among the Tech family, the Chemical Engineering Department was at its very beginning represented in foto by I I A, . ,N .N ., W ,g W I V 01, .N ix H- I 4 Alia A, I 1, ' I 61.12, i ily ii 1 rt .. ,...x-