San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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47$ $aaafw 14? 9591254222 Aithur 6. Peterson. Dean ot Liberai Arts. is one 0? those people that keeps continually busyshaving his picture taken didn't keep him from rearranging an index of cards. Seniors knOw him best trom their conteiences with him over theses. which he grades. Campus pohticians meet him as sponsor ot the student council. Four years at study at College 0t Pacific. San Jose. netted him his AB. degree. and a graduate year at Stantord University. added an MA. degree to his record. Coming to State Coltege in I92 Is Dean Peterson iett a position as vice-principal of San Diego High School. 6M J4me: and director 0t student teacher activities is Jesse W. Aulti Dean 0t Education. his job covering those work ing in the training school and those training in local junior high and high schools. Aztecs with heavy study loads have nothing on the college deans. one finds out atter talking to them. Dean Ault's tavorite Sunday pastime is golt. and he's been able to play just once this year. The grin with which he admits it. belies any idea that he minds. His hobby has always been to be in a position where he can work to improve educational methods. 6954252 x?egMXJm Dr. George E. Dotson. directs an ottice of tour sec- retaries and Five student helpers. and sees that comw plete records are kept ot every student who enters State. no matter how long he remains. Vigorous and young. Dr. Dotson is another who re- ceived his AB. on this campus. His MA. and EdD. degrees were awards of Stanford University. His arrival at State in I936 as registrar was preceded by six years in county high schools where he served as vice-principal. physicai education director and social science teacher. Aztecs see him striding about the campus. business papers in hand. with a ready smile tor everyone.

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5772M; Wmatm With a smile that invites coeds to visit her office again and again. Dr. Mary Mendenhail. Dean of Women. greets Aztec women when they enter college as freshmen. Her whole purpose as Dean. she out- lines. is to help women students at State become well adjusted to college atmosphere. Dean Mendenhall came to State three years ago well prepared tor her position, after holding similar ones at Whittier College and Riverside Polytechnic High School. School days were spent in part at the Unie versity of Colorado where she received her BA. de- gree. University 0t Southern California awarded her the NLA. degree, and Yaie University her PhD. A year of extra work in England at the University 0t Birmingham highiighted a tour of Europe. One look at her ottice and 6 Visitor can deduce her hobbyeitts tiowers. Dean Mendenhail's garden at her La Mesa home absorbs a majority of her spare time. Charles E. Peterson. Dean of Men, mentor ot the track team. sets as his goal every year to become ac- quainted with every student on campus. ThouBh the 2000 enroilment mark makes this not entireiy possibie. he does say hello to more students than any other Stater. Dean C. E. as the students call him, received his AB. degree right here at San Diego State and trav- eled north to the Claremont Colleges tor hi5 M-A- Betore taking the position of Dean 0t Men and physi- cal education director at San Diego State in I92I. he SEWEd as director ot the San Diego YMCA. He had held the same job previousiy in Berkeley and Salt Lake City. A sports enthusiast. his hobbies are track, golf and pecuple, His office is the scene of many a triendiy Satherlng 0t coliege men. who Hdrop in to say hellof' .3, H :WJh-L r -t-c hi. H F... .--r .xr' Iehq- .- ew. 1w? :c-xw i ?;w

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WRITE? w BUT ?Lense m: an omce-noy t DR. LESLIE P. BROWN poses in his office by one of the twin book- shelves which reach to the ceiling oacked ail the way with language hooks. Needless to say. he's head of the language department and protessor of French. BAYLOR BROOKS. OSCAR W. BAIRD. g rins beneath the working overtime. was MORRISh Hf ?RESS'JEdeEfEE warning posted for ail found preparing tor a mans p .351? educa Ft: 'd students entering his demonstration session men: armschaiijiedeua 55:31:35 b;- ottice. A former in one of his physics I i fb iii 3:3 C nfErence cham- Rhodes schoiar at Ox- classes. He's holding, 5: 6h eamb O tt ether in his tord University, he's we're toidi a scale and pIOI'IS rp was igges e termed exacting but teiescope. can this year. EVERETT GEE JACKSON spends ' . m spare moments collecting Ameri- can Indian curiosi of which he then makes analysis drawings like the: I ones shown here. He has some I Curios as old as 2000 years. Mr. ,' I Jackson heads the art department. I I inspiring by his geog- raphy students. Jig W; a 1 I DR. MYRTLE E. JOHNSON. head of the biology department. counts photography as her hobby. makes lectures graphic with actual ilius- trations. snapped on her many week-end field trips. Much of her materiai has been organized into IV- -' book form. E t 1: 3 Ah. EECCNHARLES B. GEORGE R. Liv1E 1- q ARD poses INGSTON. head 0 DRt.JOSEP1I;t S.+:KEENhEY seems t9 me gravely beside a map the mathematics de- ge more ugh fOITl IS stndents ' 0t Europe. Head of partment, likes to ifrmH-iargersH o?kmosghget irliK wnt- the history depart- keep up on campus hi? new Bab edisiuesht 5- :orh 621d meht' his SPQCiGItV i8 politics, does so by l the Engiish cie artieSt' 2 ea 5 United States expan- reading the Aztec. p ' 5'0 and poiitical sci- Visitors to his office enee. are fascinated by the array of wooden geo- metric figures. DR. CHARLES J. KREiGER. new- comer to the campus this year. serves as head of the astronom department. He showed the pho- tographer one of the many func- : e tions at the sunkto serve as sight - ' tor navigators. b