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

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Last year on Charter Day Dr. Sproul announced to the world at large and the University in partic- ular that Dr. Earle Raymond Hedrick would fill the administrative vacancy leh by the resignation of Dr. Moore from the post of Provost and Vice-Pres- ident a year before. Since that time Dr. Hedrick has really taken an active part in the life of the University. He is an enthusiastic spectator at all sports events, and his attendance at social functions shows that he has really become an integral part of University life. Prior to his appointment he was chairman of the Mathematics Department. As head of this department he was very popular with those who studied the intricacies of the subject. He has become an international figure in his field, being known particularly by his editing and translating of a well-known series of books on mathematics. Dr. Hedrick proves his genuine interest in the University by leading the students in a cheer to the football team. 21

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PRESIDENT Robert Cordon Sproul asserts he began life as an infant in the San Francisco of the Cay Nineties — in 1891 to be exact — was pronounced a civil engineer by the University of California in 1913 — served as comptroller and secretary of the Regents for ten years — as Vice-President for five years — and arrived as President in 1930, at the age of thirty-nine — all this despite Pitkin ' s dictum that Life begins at forty. He doesn ' t remember having a fortieth year — it was instead his first in the presidency of one of the great- est of American Universities, and he was completely engrossed in carrying that University through a depression — concentrated, when at rare intervals he became conscious of self, on the consoling hope that the first hundred years are the hardest. Bookkeepers say he receives $13,500 a year for administering an organization with as- sets of $83,000,000 and a staff of 300 full time teachers and em- ployees. He says he receives $1,000,000 in personal satisfaction from directing the educational activities of 25,000 full time and 45,000 spare time students.

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DEANS Dean Helen M. Laughlin is noted for making friends of all who come to her. Besides her work as Dean of Women she has furthered in- terest in Phrateres and the Helen Matthewson Club and guided the Spurs, national honorary service organization, through another suc- cessful year. At intervals throughout the year Dean Laughlin has given informal vocational guidance talks to assist women students in choosing a career. A popular man anywhere is Earl ). Miller, Dean of Undergraduates. In 1925 he became Dean of Men at the univer- sity and during the ensuing eleven years he proved himself so cap- able in coping with the problems of U.C.L.A. men that in 1936 he was appointed to the newly-created position of Dean of Undergradu- ates. The important office of Dean of Graduate Students has been filled by Vern O. Knudscn since 1934. Formerly Dean Knudsen acted as head of the physics department. In addition to his work in sup- ervising students who wish to earn Master ' s or Doctor ' s degrees, he has conducted many far-reaching experiments pertaining to acoustics. I. h m- WMMMMMM ' 22