University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Mr. Walker rise J5 In managing the endless details accruing to the running of a University, the business department is perhaps the most tedious and exacting. In filling the position of Comptroller, Mr. Francis M. Walker has succeeded in demonstrating a great amount of skill and good humor. His is the task of the collection of all proper disbursements of the institution's money, in which capacity he is aided by his staff. Mr. Walker personally takes care of all buying, and a large office force is kept alert In maintaining perfect accounts. The recent advantages offered by new equipment materially facilitate the operation of the Comptroller’s office and the purchasing department. Dean Jones It would be an impossibility to pay the tribute to Dean Evelyn Wellington Jones that is her just due. Just as impossible would it be to list her duties and activities. Officially she defines her duties and privileges as being that of sponsoring the activities of the women students; of cooperating with other University officers in providing physical, social, and academic environment in which each woman can develop her maximum capacity: and of being generally responsible for their welfare. These duties she fulfills with a conscious pride of doing a task well, but her activities do not stop there. Dean Jones creates with each woman student a sincere and enjoyable relationship amounting to much more than official acquaintance. She has proved to be a personal adviser of the practical modern variety and cannot be too highly complimented upon her success, of which wc arc highly proud and for which we thank

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Dean Otis Mr. Arthur Hamilton Otis, as Dean of Men, has combined a sincere kindly interest with a strict judicial quality in fulfilling the many duties of his office. The ability to deal with young men in the numerous crises that naturally accrue to the Dean’s duties amounts to nothing less than an art, a capacity in which Doan Otis is strarngely adept. To establisn and further a healthy attitude on the part of the men students on the campus is his maim objective; in him we find not merely a stern judge in a penal court but a friendly counsellor with constructive ideas. He has succeeded in maintaining a friendliness among the boys themselves and with individual members of the faculty, an accomplishment as unusual as it is noteworthy. Mr. Lesher Acting as Registrar for the University of Arizona. Mr. Charles Zanor Lesher has proved his high qualifications through the positive attestations of the smooth working order in business operations. His duties began at the first of the year when he cheerfully and efficiently completed the tedious task of helping students to register. He it is who tends to the checking of senior units and requisites, who acts as secretary to the faculty, who presides over many University committees, and who serves on the Advisory Council. Perhaps Mr. Lesher’s intense loyalty to his Alma Mater has helped to equip him so well for the role of adviser and confidant that he is so constantly called upon to play. Of the many problems constantly coming to the attention of the registrar each receives interested consideration and a necessary rapid disposal. Pare 24

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 College of Arts and Sciences DEAN RIESEN Under the able leadership of its Dean, Dr. E. R. Riesen, the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences embraces the largest number of student enrollment of all the colleges offered in the University of Arizona. One reason for its acknowledged success as a popular and fundamentally important department is its rich and varied curriculum. On entering the liberal arts college the student is allowed an astonishingly large field from which to choose his subject matter. This college is not so largely business preparatory as it is a school offering a chance for the development of personal aptitudes and enjoyments covering a very wide range of subject matter. It maintains a degree of polish and culture not found in any other of the colleges, as well as a background for professional and artistic pursuits. The student is allowed in a great degree to choose what he feels will be of most benefit to his individual needs. rase 26