Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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JOHN KAISER President of the Board of Trustees HERBERT S. ATKINSON, popularly known as “Hub,” oper- ates the Atkinson Insurance Agencies in Columbus. He was graduated from Ohio State in 1913 with the degree of LL. B. While at the University he played Varsity basketball, was a member of Bucket and Dipper, Alpha Sigma Phi, and the Varsity ‘‘O” Association. He has served several terms as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. NEWTON D. BAKER has had an especially distinguished public career. Serving as Mayor of Cleveland from. 1912- 1916, he later became Secretary of War under President Wilson during the World War. In 1928 President Coolidge appointed him a member of the Court of International Justice at The Hague, Holland. He is interested in inter- national relations and in preserving world peace. At pres- ent he is associated with a law firm in Cleveland. Morrill Rightmire Laybourne Atkinson Pes BOARD OF TRUSTEES M. EDITH CAMPBELL, the only woman member of the Board, is Director of the Vocation Bureau of the Cincin- nati Public Schools. She has an M. A. degree from the University of Cincinnati and in 1931 was granted the first honorary degree ever given to a woman graduate of this university. She is widely known for her accomplish- ments in social work and in education. HARRY A. CATON is a farmer who lives in Coshocton. His present occupation is Secretary of the National Grange and he is also a member of the National Confer- ence Board on Rural Education. He is concerned with the problem of equality for agriculture in order that America’s basic industry shall have its proper place in the National picture. JOHN KAISER, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, is a real estate dealer in Marietta. A graduate of Marietta College, Class of 1890, he won first prize in Greek com- position, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, and delivered the Latin Salutatory at Graduation. His hobbies are astronomy and archeology. He has been a Trustee of Ohio State University since 1915. LAWRENCE E. LAYBOURNE has practiced law in Spring- field since 1902, the date of his graduation from Ohio State with the degree of LL. B. He has served on the Board of Trustees since 1921. He is very proud of his two sons, Everett B. and Lawrence E. Laybourne, Jr., graduates of Ohio State in 1932 and 1934 respectively. While in the University both of his sons were prominent in activities as Makio Editors. JULIUS F. STONE, who holds the position of director in ten companies, is very prominent in Columbus business circles. He is interested in all natural phenomena and scientific progress. He has traveled extensively in Mexico and Africa and many years ago accompanied a friend on a boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Baker Campbell Stone Kaiser Steeb

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he 1936 Makio is a book which every student will be glad to have. Its value consists not only in the great interest every student has in looking it over at the end of the year, but in the great pleasure which he will have in the coming years in turning to these pages. This is the only place of permanent record in the University publications for fellow students who constitute the athletic groups, the intramural groups and the society and fraternity and sorority memberships and for the large number of student activities which go on in the University year by year with great use and benefit to the student body. The compilation and construction and editing of the Makio is a very large and serious under- taking, and the book has very important University values. | am speak- ing from experience when | say that the Makio is a source of much interest and pleasure in later years and will recall many facts and situations and faces which will give to the reader very great pleasure. The University community gives highest commendation to the efforts of the Makio staff. GEORGE W. RIGHTMIRE President The Ohio State University s Vice-President of Ohio State University, J. Lewis Morrill is responsible for the public relations of the University and for such admin- istrative work as the President assigns from time to time. He is a graduate of Ohio State, having obtained his B. A. degree in 1913. He also spent two years studying in the Graduate School. While on the campus Mr. Morriil held the posi- tions of Assistant-Editor of the Sun Dial and As- sociate-Editor of the Lantern and was a member of Sigma Delta Chi and Phi Beta Kappa. His hob- bies are books, chess, and golf. He has had a most interesting career, having formerly served in the University as Secretary of the Alumni Associa- tion and as Junior Dean of the College of Educa- tion. Six years were spent working with the Scripps- Howard newspapers as reporter, desk man, political and legislative correspondent, and city editor of the Cleveland Press. During the World War he was Executive Secretary of both the United States Food Administration in Ohio and of the Ohio Branch J. LEWIS. MORRILL ; : Vice-President of the Council of National Defense. The. Ohio State University 23

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UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS Examiner JOSEPH A. PARK, Dean of Men, supervises the social and extra-curricular activities of the men of the Uni- versity, counsels with them on social, financial and per- sonal questions, and represents the administration in dealing with men students. He is a graduate of Ohio State, Class of 1920, and has an M. A. degree from this institution. While in college he was a member of Sphinx, Alpha Tau Omega, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., Commander of the University Post of the American Legion, and served on the Makio Staff. ESTHER A. GAW, Dean of Women, is concerned with the administration of all things in the University which affect the women students, such as housing, extra-cur- ricular and social adjustments, all aspects of social educa- tion, and vocational information. Mrs. Gaw attended Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, Stern Conservatory in Berlin, Germany, and received her Ph.D. from the State University of lowa. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Pi Lambda Theta, and Gamma Psi Kappa. Her hobbies are gardening and the study of Spanish. JOSEPH A. PARK Dean of Men BLAND L. STRADLEY ESTHER A. GAW Dean of Women CARL B. STEEB Business Manager BLAND L. STRADLEY, University Examiner, conducts all correspondence and business connected with the admis- sion of students to any division of the University, trans- fers students within the University, selects students for the cooperative clubs, Tower, Buckeye, and Alumnae House, and is director of the selection of students for the N. Y. A. He attended both Ohio Wesleyan University and Harvard University. His hobbies are horses and dogs. CARL E. STEEB, since his graduation from Ohio State in 1899, has served successively as accountant, purchasing agent, and now as business manager of the University. He is also Secretary of the Board of Trustees and since 1911 has been a member of the Board of Overseers and Treas- urer of the Ohio Union. As business manager, he is the financial officer for the University and is in charge of the officers and employees of the physical plant. Mr. Steeb’s outside activities include fishing and Rotary International. He is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.