University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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twenty- light UNIVERSITY is just as strong as the individuals who com- pose its teaching force are strong. Holding in its hands the plasticity of the students, the faculty might easily be conceived as the supreme influence which tears down or builds up the character and reputation of the institution. The Southern Branch has been favored in respect to its faculty. From a teaching staff of three members in the first days of the Los Angeles State Normal to the present faculty of some two hundred members, this institution has proved to be a lodestone attracting men and women who hold the highest respect in their field of work. From the Director down to the newly arrived Associate, it may be said that there is no mediocrity. No set back will come from the faculty of the Southern Branch. Such a thing is impossible. To the contrary, the teaching staff will act as an impetus and inspiration to the successful future of the University of California in the South.

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CALIFORNIA man himself, by birth and by the University, class of 1888, Charles H. Reiber, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, plays a considerable part in the development of California men on this campus. Aside from his work as Dean, his interest lies with the problem of transforming students who enter this University from all over Southern California, into California men. It is no small job. But beyond this, the Dean has the intention in the back of his head of making men on this campus distinctive: more than making them men of California he wishes to make them men of the Southern Branch. It is a task of distinction, a task for which he is fitted, and a task with which he is succeeding. i|N a similar way, Helen M. Laughlin, Dean of Women, through her work with the Associated Women Students, is making the Southern Branch co-ed one apart from the rest. Mrs. Laughlin has the well founded idea that a university woman is some thing other than the comic magazines would have us believe; that an institution of this type, in addition to an education should instill the refinements of culture and breeding. With good tact and common sense, the Dean of Women is exerting her influence to this end. The fact that Southern Branch women have nothing but praise and thanks for her efforts indicates in some measure her success. ]ARVIN L. DARSIE, Dean of the Teachers ' College, has succeeded in making that department an integral part of the Southern Branch. It would be easy for a division to grow up between the Teachers ' College and the rest of the University. The Dean has successfully worked against such a schism. He is planning, moreover, to make the Teachers ' College a hub around which the western field of education will rotate; he is fitting his department into the Southern Branch scheme of expansion. Dean Darsie, like the rest of the administrative officers, believes in the future of the Southern Branch and is working for that future. These administrative officers are the architects and engineers of student thought and activity in the South.

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ERNEST CARROLL MOORE A.B., LL.B. Ohio Normal University, 1891 and 1894 respect- ively; A.M., Columbia, 1896, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1898; LL.D, University of Southern California, 1916, Univer- sity of Arizona, 191}. Instructor in Philosophy, 1897-1898; Instructor in Education, 1901-1901; Assistant Professor of Education, 1901-1906; Dean of the Summer Session, 1905- 1907, University of California; Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles, 1906-1910; Professor of Education, Yale, 1910-1914, Harvard, 1913-1917; President of the Los Angeles State Normal, 1917-1919; Professor of Education and Director of the Southern Branch, University of California, 1919. GUY. G. PALMER Monmouth College, 1885-1887; Infantry and Calvary School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1897-1898; Field Officers ' Short Course, Langres, France, Fall of 1918. Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Companies I and H , 8th U. S. Infantry; Second Lieutenant, 1891; Captain, 1901; Major and Lieuten- ant Colonel, 1917; Colonel, 1910; retired at own request, August 31, 1910. Colonel of Infantry, National Army (World War), August 5, 1917-March 15, 192.0; Commander, 341st Infantrv Regiment, 86th Division (Black Hawk Division), National Army; Assigned Professor of Military Science and Tactics, University of California, Southern Branch, November II, 1910. Citation: Awarded silver star for conspicuous gallantrv in action in assault on Fort Juan de Cuba, July i, 1898, recommended for brevet for gallantry in action, Decem- ber 1 and 16, 1899, Luron, P. I. WILLIAM CONGER MORGAN B.A. Yale College, 1896; Ph.D. Yale University, 1899. Siliman Fellow, Yale University, 1896-1899; Professor ot Chemistry, Washburn College, 1899-1 901 ; Instructor of Chem- istry, 1901-1906, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1906-1913, University of California; Professor of Chemistry, Reed Col- lege, 1913-1910; Professor of Chemistry, University of Califor- nia, Southern Branch, 1910.