Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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THE BOARD UP TRUSTEES George H, Earle, III . - - Governor of the Commonwealth - - - . - Harrisburg Ralph D. Hetzel - . - - President of the College - - - - - State College Lester K. Ade . - - - Superintendent of Public Instruction - - - - - Harrisburg J. Honsell French - - - - - Secretory Of Agriculture ' - ' - - Harrisburg APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR S. Forry Loucks, York, Pa. P. J. Denmon, Bradford, Pa. Frederick A. Heim, Williamsport, Po. Hannah McK. Lyons, Lincoln University, Pa. D. Glenn Moore, Washington, Po. J, Hole Steinmon, Lancaster, Pa. ELECTED BY THE GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION William L. Affelder, Pittsburgh, Pa. James Milhollond, Pittsburgh, Pa. J. H. M. Andrews, Philadelphia, Pa. J. Franklin Shields, Philadelphia, Pa. Hugh M. Clarke, Lancaster, Pa. Boyd A. Musser, Scranton, Po. George H. Deike, Pittsburgh, Pa. James G. White, New York City John T. Harris, Harrisburg, Pa. ELECTED BY DELEGATES FROM SOCIETIES E. S. Bayard, Pittsburgh, Pa. Vance C. McCormick, Harrisburg, Pa. John C. Cosgrove, Johnstown, Po. George W. Slocum, Milton, Po. Robert R. LeWis, Coudersport, Pa. John G. Benedict, Woynesboro, Po. Edwin W. Nick, Erie, Po. Ernest Jh Poole, Reading, Poh Henry D. Brown, Williamsporf, Po, Chester J. Tyson, Gordners, Po. Furmcm H. Gyger, Kimberton, Po. Frank P. Willits, Word, Pa. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. Franklin Shields - - - - - - - - - President James G. White - - - - - - - - - Vice President Ralph D. Hetzel - - - . - - - - - Secretory Samuel K. Hostetter - - h - - - - Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Messrs. Andrews, Bayard, Brown, Cosgrove, McCormick, Shields, and Tyson THE COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Dom Hetzel, LL.D. - - - - - - - - President Assistants to the President Adrian O. Morse, M.A., Executive Secretary, in Charge of Resident Instruction J4 Orvis Keller, MS., in Charge of Extension Samuel K. Hostetter, in Charge of Business and Finance Mary T. Nitzky, Secretary to the President twenty-seven

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l. FRANKLIN SHIELDS President of the Board uf Trustees As a member of the class of '92, J. Franklin Shields was active 05 an editor, football manager, and manager of general athletics. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Football Association. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and has been practicing law in Philadelphia for many years with the firm of Shields, Clark, Brown, and McCrown. It was his initiative that brought about the present system of electing alumni trustees; thereby increasing representation from three to nine members. He holds membership in the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Academy of Fine Arts, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Union League Club, Philadelphia Cricket Club, Phi Kappa Phi, and Beta Theta Pi fraternities. His faithful work over a large number of years proves him to be one of the most loyal graduates of Penn State. twenty-six

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Ralph L. Watts The School of Agriculture Robert L. Sockett The School of Engineering THE DEANS Ralph L. Watts, Dean of the School of Agriculture since 1912, has a longer record of service as the head of a School than any other dean in the college. Under his guidance the Departments of Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural Economics have been established and through his mediation the Department of Forestry at Penn State and the Mont Alto School of Forestry were merged into the Pennsylvania State Forestry School. Deon Sockett was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1891, where he received the degree CE. in 1896. After serving as professor at Eorlhom College and Purdue University, he was elected Dean of the School of Engineering in 1915. In this capacity he has been instrumental in having the School of Engineering recognized by the leading industries of the country. Charles William Stoddort, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, was born in Boscobel, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1877. He received his A.B. at Columbia in 1900,- his A.M., i901; and his Ph.D. at the University of Wis- consin in 1909. After serving in various positions on the faculty, he was elected Dean of The School of Liberal Arts. During his administration, the enrollment has increased greatly and the standard of the School has been raised by the organizing of the upper and lower divisions. Frank C. Whitmore, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics, is one of the foremost scientists in the country and come to Penn State in 1929 from Northwestern University. Dean Whitmore is now serving as president- elect of the American Chemical Society, and was awarded the 1937 William H. Nichols Medal for his study in metolIo-organic compounds. Under his Charles W. Stoddart The School of The Liberal Arts twenty-eight