Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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SCHOOLS In the same way thai water cannot rise higher than its source, so is the grade of a univer- sity deternnined by the caliber of its faculty. Those who know and love Stanford have pride and confidence in the quality of its academic leadership. The deans of its seven schools are men of whom we are justifiably proud. Their activities during this year bear out this fact. Dean J. Hugh Jackson of the Graduate School of Business, President of Kiwanis In- ternational, conducted a nation-wide speak- ing tour during autumn quarter. The School of Education ' s Dean John Bartky, formerly President of the Chicago Teachers ' College and holder of the Legion of Merit for his development of the Navy ' s instructor-train- ing program during World War II, is also curriculum advisor to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Dean Frederick E. Terman of the School of Engineering, son of famed Professor Emeritus Lewis M. Terman, is au- thor of the four texts in radio engineering which are bibles of the profession. The only academic electronic engineer in the Na- tional Academy of Sciences and first presi- dent of the Institute of Radio Engineers from west of the Atlantic Seaboard, he re- ceived the Medal of Merit for his organiza- tion and direction of the government ' s Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard. Dean Clarence Faust of the School of Humanities and Sciences, largest academic unit of the University, in 1948 supervised the major re- organization which merged four schools, in- cluding twenty departments. Acting Presi- dent of Stanford for the first three months of 1949, he is at present also Dean of Faculty. Dean Carl B. Spaeth of the Law School, one of Stanford ' s youngest academic deans, had this year the task of moving the entire school into its new quarters. Dean Loren Chandler of the School of Medicine spent December and January in London as a member of a three-man committee of the American Med- ical Association, studying national medical education and the effect of the British Health Service Act on selection of faculty and stu- dents in English medical schools. In January, Dr. Charles F. Park, Jr. succeeded Dr. Irving Levorsen as Dean of the School of Mineral Sciences, which, during the two years of Dean Levorsen ' s supervision, grew 57% in enrollment. One of America ' s most distin- guished geologists. Dr. Levorsen will continue his teaching and research in petroleum engi- neering. Dean Park, who joined the Stanford ■faculty in 1946, has won international recog- nition as an expert in economic geology and metalliferous ores. DEAN J. HUGH JACKSON BUSINESS 17