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

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Dean ( ' . H. Ruber Dean Charles H. Richer is a true Californian. He was born at Placerville, California, and has spent the greatest part of his life in the state. Dean Rieber received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley. He then went to Harvard, where he received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. When he returned to California, Dr. Rieber became Principal of Public Schools in Placerville. He soon went back to Har- vard, however, this time as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Upon his return to California, Dean Rieber served in the same capacity at Leland Stanford Junior University. From there he went to the University of California at Berkeley, at which place he not only acted as Assistant Professor of Philosophy, but also as Dean of the Summer Session. In 1918 Dean Rieber managed the Semi-Centenary at the northern institution, showing great skill in the management of it. Since he has been at the University of California, at Los Angeles, Dean Rieber has worked indefatigably for the Uni- versity. He not only formed the College of Letters and Science, of which he is Dean, but did much toward securing the four year term and the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Dean Rieber is very patient, but he is a firm believer in the fact that there is a time when patience ceases to be a virtue. Another wonderful personal quality which Dean Rieber possesses, is that of being able to understand the particular difficulty which the individual presents to him. These qualities have enabled the Dean to make many friendships, and to accomplish much among the students. The University owes much of its success in the past few years to the steady, thoughtful, guiding help of Dean Rieber. DEAN OF THE TEACHERS COLLEGE Dr. Marvin Lloyd Darsie, Dean of the Teachers Col- lege, is one of the leading educators in the United States. Dean Darsie received his degree of Bachelor of Science from Hiram ' s College in 1908. While at Hiram ' s, Dean Darsie made his letter in both track and football. He came to Cali- fornia in 1911 to attend Stanford University, where he ob- tained his degree of Master of Arts in Education in 1912. The following year, he taught science and coached athletics at Glendale High School. In 1914 he went to Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, where he likewise was an instructor in science and a coach of athletics. Before he became Dean of the Teachers College, Dr. Darsie was an instructor of Education in the Los Angeles State Normal School, and in 1919 became head of the Department of Education at the University of California, at Los Angeles. He served in this capacity for three years. In 1924 he gave up his duties for a year, during which time he obtained his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Stanford. Although Dean Darsie has many duties to fulfill at the University, he finds time to write num- erous articles, and has conducted various surveys in the past. One of the most important of the latter was a State Survey, conducted in 1921-22, on the intelligence and achievements of Japanese children in California. Another survey was that conducted in 1920 on the educational department of the Whittier State School. After this survey. Dr. Darsie directed the work of reorganisation in the same Dean Marvin L. Darsie [27]

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR This book is a trophy erected by a victorious army to signify to future days that it has triumphed here. You will re- call, at least some of you will, that a cer- tain writer frequently closes his story of a campaign by saying: After this battle the army erected trophies and withdrew into winter quarters. Strangely enough, some of those trophies erected by victorious Roman armies still stand to tell what they did in that now distant day. That is the point; this book is to last a long time and to tell you who make it and all others into whose hands it may come what you did here. It will do that, for whenever you turn its leaves it will call up in your minds thoughts of your class and your class- mates, of your instructors and your studies, of your struggles and your triumphs, and of the long, long dreams of youth which were yours here. The best of those dreams you are taking away from college with you to enact into the reality of your life. This volume will prompt you to meditate many times on just what you should value of all you have gained here. There are many answers to the question: What is the best thing the col- lege offers? Some say it is the opportun- ity it affords its students to make friend- ships which are worth keeping as long as life lasts. Others believe that its reason for being is not so much to introduce its students to each other as to introduce them to the best that has been thought and said by the human race since it began to be. Still others insist that it is what the student is constrained to think out and determine for himself while he is here that sums up the worth of our common en- deavor. I confess to that conviction. Fellow-students are ends in the same sense we are ends, but fellow-students and studies both seem also to be means to the end that we may find ourselves and become ourselves. You will find, I think, that you have been concerned here most of all in determin- ing what you care for, what you cherish, what you really mean to create and fight for as long as you live. Life, it has been said, is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. You will continue your public performance with all the patience, thoroughness, and skill which you have learned to put into it here — and your playing will grow better. Dr. Ernest C. Moore, PH.D.. L.L.D. ,hC h y M f - notr ' t, — [26]

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DEAN OF MEN Dr. Earl J. Miller came to the University of California, at Los Angeles, in 1923 as Assistant Professor of Economics. In 1910 Dr. Miller received his diploma from the high school of Indianola, Iowa. For two years after his graduation he taught in a country school. Then, m 1911, Dr. Miller re- turned to school, and attended Simpson College for the fol- lowing three years. He interrupted his college work for a year, during which time he travelled. He was graduated from Simpson College in 1916, and really started his career as an educator by teaching in the Indianola High School. He taught there until the entrance of the United States into the World War. During 1917 and 1918, Dr. Miller served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. On his re- turn to the United States, he entered the University of Illi- nois, where he received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in 1921 and 1922. After teaching Economics at Illinois for a year. Dr. Miller came to the local University where he became Dean of Men in 1925. Dean Earl J. Miller Dr. Miller ' s personal qualities admirably fit him for the position which he holds. During the two years that he has been Dean of Men, Dr. Miller has rapidly won the respect and friendship of all who have had the opportunity of meeting and knowing him. His deep interest in the various student activities has brought him in closer contact with the men of the University, and his excellent advice and assistance have brought about the solution of many of the problems which inevitably arise in every institution. Dr. Miller is a frequent visitor of the athletic field, and every contest finds him on the side-lines, an ardent supporter of the Bruin totem. DEAN OF WOMEN Mrs. Helen Matthewson Laughlin is of British extrac- tion, being a native of New Zealand. She came to America as a child and received her education in the California schools. She is a graduate of the Monrovia High School and of the Los Angeles State Normal School. In both institu- tions she was an honor student. Mrs. Laughlin has spent much time abroad and has taken advantage of the opportun- ity for advanced study in foreign lands as well as in the United States. Mrs. Laughlin is our first and only Dean of Women. When the Los Angeles State Normal School moved to the present site of our University in 1914, she was appointed its first Dean of Women. When that institution became the Southern Branch of the University of California, she re mained as Dean. Mrs. Laughlin served the Normal School in several capacities, and as president of the Alumni Asso- ciation, she raised the funds with which the granite corner stone for Millspaugh Hall was purchased. Dlan H. M. Laughlin Mrs. Laughlin ' s experiences in organizing and in organ- izations have been many and varied. Because of her ability to work with people in all walks of life, she is a popular and effective public speaker and her sen. ' ices are constantly in demand by women ' s clubs, girls ' leagues, and civic bodies of all kinds. Because of her experiences in life, the students of the University of California at Los Angeles find in their Dean of Women a woman of the world, broadminded, sympathetic, tactful — and possessed of a fund of good common sense to help them with their daily problems. [28]