Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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Dean of Administration is Herbert P. Pat- terson, who is in charge of entrance regu- lations, requirements, and the giving of ori- entation tests for new students. A. A. Arnold, professor and head of the Foreign Languages Department and vice dean of Arts and Sciences, is on the admin- istrative staff and heads the college Social committee. Choosing and buying all college pur- chases is done by E. E. Brewer, purchasing agent. Clement E. Trout, editor and head of the Publications department and chairman of the Board of Publications, sees that A. and M. receives due publicity and assists in the editing of all college and departmental bulletins. King of barbecue chefs is l-l. Clay Potts, director of Short Courses, who acts as host to several thousand conference visitors an- nually. Dr. lcko lben, head librarian, oversees the central and departmental libraries of the college. Cn the student labor and rooms commit- tees is George Bullock, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, who works jointly with Miss Vesta Etchiscn, general secretary of the Young W'omen's Christian Association and adviser to fresh- man girls. A. Prank Martin, well known for his suc- cess with the innovation of the N. Y. A. En- tertainment Bureau, is adviser to freshman boys and director of the Student Employ- ment bureau. And after graduation, job hunting is done by A. C. Martin, director of the Place- ment Bureau and secretary of the Former Students Association along with publica- tion of the alumni magaine. B. B. Tompkins, director of Correspond- ence Study, conducts all education by mail activities. The long line for paying enrollment fees and for receiving monthly pay checks terminates in the office of T. B. McClendon, chief clerk. Besides acting as dean during Donnell's absences, George W. Whiteside, assistant to the dean of the Division of Engineering, is in charge of maintenance of all college buildings. The College infirmary, besides an effi- cient staff of nurses, is headed by Dr. W. C. Thompson, college physician for men, Dr. Eva E. Strahan, college physician for women, Dr. l. M. Wright, college surgeon, and Dr. Nicholas L. l-liniker, college dentist. Through the work of these thirty-one ad- ministrative officials, Cklahoma A. and M., the state's second largest educational in- stitution, is efficiently managed. McClendon, Tompkins, Trout, Potts, W'h1tes1de, Strahan Page 21

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fish Row One-Patterson, Albright, Brewer, Bullock. Row TwofEtchisor1, lben, Martin, Scroggs. College is not all students and professors -it is a small city within itself, and must have a capable supervisory staff to wield the rule. Oklahoma Agricultural and Me- chanical College has thirty persons on the Administrative staff besides Dr. l-I. G. Ben- nett, president. Policies and organization of this large institution are left to the presi- dent's control, while l. L. Sanderson, acting business manager, directs the physical eguipment and the staff transacting the fi- nancial business. Guiding the course of each of the seven schools included in the curriculum of A. and M. are the deans, each of whom is both a scholar and an executive. Present occupants of the deanships are W. L. Bliz- zard, Dean of Agriculture and director of the Agricultural Experiment station, who this year replaced Dr. Lippert S. Ellis, act- ing dean since the death of Dr. Carl P. Blackwell in l93B, Philip S. Donnell, Dean of the Division of Engineering, Dr. Napo- leon Conger, Dean of Education, Dr. Schil- ler Scroggs, Dean of Arts and Sciences, an old school with a new name, Nora A. Tal- bot, Dean of l-lome Economics 5 Raymond D. Thomas, Dean of the Division of Corn- merceg and Daniel C. Mclntosh, Dean of the Graduate School. Besides general supervision of all women students, Dean lulia E. Stout, dean of women, works with coed organizations in the development of leadership. Dean C. l-l. McElroy, better known as Dean Mac, does similar work as counselor of men. l-le is also professor and head of bac- teriology, physiology, and veterinary med- icine. Colonel Patrick I. Hurley works with the college as head of the Military Department and commandant of cadets although he and his staff are provided by the federal government. - During Dr. Bennett's absences, Earle C. Albright, assistant to the president, acts in that capacity. l-le is also secretary to the college and is familiar with its organiza- tion, policies and workings. When county and home demonstration agents in Cklahoma's seventy-seven coun- ties report, it is to Ernest E. Scholl, director of the Extension Division, which conducts extensive work among the rural districts. l Page 20 Mu. infix A

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Oklahoma A. and Mfs temporal rule and administrative Welfare rests in the hands of the State Board of Agriculture, a group of five men who give liberally of their time and talents toward the building of a greater college. The head of the board is elected by the people of the state every four years and the other men serving in the group are ap- pointed by the governor. Ending his second year as president of the board of agriculture is loe C. Scott of Oklahoma City. The other members of the group at the time of this Writing are: Z. l-l. Lawter, Oklahoma City, C. l-l. Mullendore, Miami, Orville M. Savage, Ponca City, and W. L. Hutcheson, Frederick. The group is primarily concerned with the administration of the four announced fields of the college, namely: research, di- rected toward solving of practical prob- lems, the Extension service which is oper- ated in an effort to send information con- uv, FORREST K. BURNS Secretary 1,-an lOE C. SCOTT President cerning the results of all scientific research throughout the state to those in need of it or who signify a desire for instruction in problems relating to agriculture generally or to any of its fields, and Public Service, directed toward the furnishing of expert advice, information and service to all citi- zens and firms in the state in the field of knowledge in which members of the college faculty or extension service are versed, the fourth field of service is resi- dent teaching which is directed to the tech- nological and vocational education of the next generation, due consideration being given to the inclusion in the curriculum of those students best making for a well-bal- anced, cultured personality. The board has always observed a policy of benevolent despotism toward the stu- dent activities on the campus except when, in its consideration, harm is being done to either the students participating or to the college. Page 22 .fx