San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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ADMINIST RATION .- DEAN DU FOUR Vice-President and Dean of the College FOR the past five and a half years Dr. Clarence Du Four has served San Francisco State Teachers College in the capacity of Dean of the College, and in the latter two and a half years as Vice-President. Secur- ing his scholastic training at the University of Wisconsin, and later at the University of California, and his experience, as lecturer in history at San Diego State Teachers College, research associate in history at the University of California, principal of the Santa Cruz and Ferndale Union high schools, and as City Superintendent of Schools, Alameda, Dr. Du Four is well qualified for his present high position. He came to San Francisco State in January, 1928, as a professor in history and Dean of the College. Since 1931, he has been Vice-President of the College-a position which he has filled with great efliciency and distinction. Because of his intensive research work in the field of history and his extensive knowledge and interest in school administration, Dean Du Four has been called by many a truly literary man. In addition to his many administrative duties he finds time to enter enthusiastically into the plans of the students, who can always count on him as a friend and co-worker. Because we admire his courage and respect his knowledge we are proud of our Dean Du Four. I E3 420

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gggg NMI ,S T, lg 3 1 President of the College BEHIND every achievement, every institutional accomplishment, is a man with an idea. Sometimes the man and his idea are publicly iden- tified, but often the two become separated in the complexity of develop- ment which allows a small nucleus to surround and submerge itself in a vast body that, having conceived, it controls. For this reason We take keen pleasure in publicly reaffirming our loyalty to an ideal and to the man who made the ideal a reality. We know Dr. Roberts as a man of vision, a man who has mastered his dreams and inscribed them on paper to form the blueprints of Tomor- row's college. But in overemphasizing these plans for the future we are in danger of overlooking the even greater accomplishment of the past. In gazing at the towers rising out of the haze ahead, we fail to see the solid, impressive monument that surrounds us and stands today a tribute to one who saw the necessity and opportunity to wrest a progressive order out of chaos. But physical achievement is not overly important in the larger field of education. Building and organization are of value only as a means to an end, that end being the proper equipment of youth for a life of satisfaction, a life which combines happiness with service. The great educator, then, is one who focuses his attention on the finished product and subordinates administrative organization to the needs of scholarship. By this token, Dr. Roberts ranks with the greatest, and we, the products in various stages of manufacture, are pleased to acknowledge our in- debtedness to and friendship for our president. fl la !i I5 if Q5 5

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bgpmnmusrmrnom Dean of WOITIQI1 AFTER graduating from San Francisco State Normal School several years ago, Dean Mary A. Ward Went to Columbia University, Where she received a diploma of supervision and a B. S. degree. She followed this up with graduate Work at Stanford University. Drawn by a love for the old college, she returned to her alma mater to become Dean of Woinen, and for a While acting president of the college. Besides her educational qualifications, Dean Ward has qualifications of a wide range of experience and activity. Her work as supervisor of the teaching of arithmetic as well as her Writings on that subject have won wide acclaim. She is the only Woman director of a large college summer school in the United States. Dean of M211 DAVID COX, former Brigham Young and Utah State College athlete, came to San Francisco State Teachers College three years ago to take charge of the Men's Physical Education Department, but today he serves in a larger way the interests of the college as councillor to the men. Prior to his arrival at State to assume this responsibility he had served in the United States Army as an instructor in military tactics and science, and later at the United States Machine Gun School, Augusta, Georgia. With this background of varied experiences, which have contributed to his keen understanding of college men, combined with a love for his work, he has successfully met the difficult yet interesting duties of the Dean of Men. l ,E ' 1 DEAN WARD DEAN COX 2' LM-, tr ,, ,N ,-,, W-.- , ,,,..,,.,N.,--,.,-..,.-- ,.,., ---..---...-,-.,., W--