Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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TUDENTS and faculty alike receive great pleasure from the Annual. We forget from time to time how many active and constructive and interesting student or- ganizations there are in the University; we are reminded by the Annual and we are also highly pleased to have a look at the pictures of the members of the senior class. The artistic work is always appealing and much factual information is carried in the Makio which otherwise would not be assembled for the reading public. The Annual also carries a message of good will to the people of Ohio, which is one of the very attractive ways of showing to the people what the girls and boys here do, aside from their strictly educational work. It is, as its name implies, a “Mirror” of student self-initiated interests and activities. As the years go on, every student in the University at a particular date will receive much stimulus from the Makio of his time and in looking it over will re-live much of his University experience. People are always interested in publications and pictures and memorials which bring back to them what they have been, and especially is this true if the time recalled is that of one’s youth. These University years are boundless in their effects on individuals and constitute a priceless heritage. President The Ohio State University ACULTY as well as students travel the path to the door of Vice-president J. Lewis Mor- rill in times of trouble. His years of experience on the campus as student, alumni secretary, junior dean, off campus as a newspaperman — have given him all those qualities so necessary for a wise counsellor and friend. Now, as Vice- president of his Alma Mater, Mr. Morrill is responsible for the public relations of the Uni- versity, and for that work which may be assigned to him by the President. He is a true Ohio Stater in every sense of the word — devoting the greater part of his career to the University. 19

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N September, 1889, a tall youth entered the office of Dr. William Henry Scott, then president of the University, and shyly announced his desire to become a student at Ohio State. Today, this same man occupies the president’s office, looking backward over nearly fifty years’ association with his alma mater, as student, faculty member, dean, and president. For other presidents, the major task has been winning public interest and secur- ing buildings. Under the present administration the finding of ways and means of making education fit the individual has been uppermost. In the little hamlet of Center Furnace, Lawrence County, Ohio, alumni have erected a monument marking the birthplace of President Rightmire—first Ohio State graduate to become president of his alma mater. But a larger monument stands to his honor in the affection of Ohio State students and alumni for one of their number who has devoted a life-time to the interests of the University, its students, and its faculty.

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20 i ¢ d gnson 1 Steeb Laybourn’ t s 1 Mo ll a Stone A k JULIUS F. STONE President of the Board of Trustees BOARD OF TRUSTEES ie Board of Trustees is the highest governing body of the University. Its author- ity is far reaching and covers every phase of administration. Its members, appointed by the governor for seven years, meet the second Monday of each month in an austere chamber of the Administration Building. The membership represents a collection of many varied occupations. The chair- manship of the Board is held by Julius F. Stone, who has been a member cf the Board for 28 years. He is influential in the business world as evidenced by the fact that he is a director of ten companies. The legal profession is represented by Vice-chair- man Lawrence E. Laybourne, Newton D. Baker and Herbert S. Atkinson. The opinion of the weaker sex in administrative affairs is voiced by Edith Campbell. Director of Vocational Bureau of the Cincinnati Public Schools. Harry Caton, Secretary of the National Grange, and Dr. Burrell Russell, a physician, complete the membership. At the meetings all these members gather around the long table in the Board’s chambers and discuss important issues or matters of temporary interest and render their decisions on both.