Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Vice-ChanceMor Finia Crawford is always available to students. Above he confers with Joan Mittlemark. We are especially proud of the Class of 1949. Many of you had your education interrupted by military service and returned to the uni- versity to complete the requirements for your degrees. It has been like living in two worlds and the fine record you have made bears wit- ness to the splendid material of which you are made. I would like also to refer to the young women of this class. They have competed in classes with the returned G. I. ' s and have held their own academically. Whether you were in the armed forces or not you have contributed to the accomplishments of a distinguished class and we are sorry to have you leave the campus. My very best wishes go with you for success and happiness. Finla G. Crawford Not often can you enter one man ' s office and find the center of so many of a university ' s ac- tivities. But meet Finla G. Crawford. As Vice- Chancellor of Syracuse he is responsible for the university ' s educational program, for planning the curriculum, coordinating major courses and interviewing prospective new faculty members, a task of increasing proportions while Syracuse was trying to maintain the same ratio of stu- dents and teachers at the peaks of enrollment as before the war. Mr. Crawford is also Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, chairman of the political science department at Maxwell, where he teaches public administration, and author of several books and many pamphlets and ar- ticles on government. He is a busy man at Syracuse, but, even so, he is one of the friend- lier administrators on the campus. Vice-QUanceUo itiia C ' uuu o d 20

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chancellor Tolley, center with student government leaders Marge Hunt and Dick Loester QUancello WiUienn. Pea lon oUeif, 79

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K. J. Kennedy, Registrar Hugh Gregg, Business Manager Being Registrar of a university the size of Syracuse is no holiday task. Since Mr. K. J. Kennedy was an undergraduate, Syracuse has grown to a gigantic size. He and his staff find keeping students ' records, directing university bulletins, planning ahead for registrations and commencements is full-time work. Registration totals 20,000, but pre-registration in more colleges, wider use of machines at registra- tion, and the eventual slump in enrollment to about 12,000 on the main campus will reduce the work of the Office of the Registrar. In hope of seeing $15,000,000 pour into his office to enlarge Syracuse University, Hugh C. Gregg, Business Manager, has a load on his hands. The rebuilding of the men ' s gym, enlargement of the Bookstore, full-scale use of Thompson Road campus and Skytop took money out of the treasury this year. Plans are made for a Field House, a Women ' s Gym, a Student Union, more permanent dormi- tories, a hospital and a theater. Property on upper Saranac lake received this year is to be a center for the summer art program and student-faculty conferences. We are helping to finance a Museum of Art to be located near campus. This was a full year for Mr. Gregg ' s office. Back to the remodeled men ' s gym goes the Varsity Club this year, after its temporary location at 801 University Avenue since the Hill fire of ' 47. For fifteen years Aunt May Crandon, the Club ' s Executive Secretary, has been editing the Varsity Club News, planning the pre-Colgate smokers, and the annual team reunions such as this year ' s with the 1923 football team. The Club was first called into being in 1933 in response for planned alumni get-togethers for coaches and stars of other years with present-day athletes. Members are those men who won their Block S fighting for Old Syra- May Crandon, Secretary of the Varsity Club AdUnUUii ' uUlue Oj oe i. 21