University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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I I Dean E. W. Jones Dean of Women” calls up impressions of scowls and spectacles; they are traditional. There is but one tradition growing up around Dean Evelyn Wellington Jones: she is Arizona’s enigma of youthful enthusiasm in combination with serious practicability. Her job— it is no mere office—is to sponsor women students' activities. co-operate with other officials to provide a complete and pleasant environment in which every individual woman can develop her abilities, and to be generally responsible for their welfare. That last phrase, “to be generally responsible . . implies the work of only about a thousand mothers in the care of their daughters. No wonder half the world’s Deans of Women are made up of scowling spectacles, and the other half of bespectacled scowls. Greater wonder that Miss Jones is, instead, the smiling, kindly, sympathetic person of pleasant and simple dignity whom the co-eds come immediately to love. Mr. F. M. Walker To have on his shoulders all the buying the University must do, making purchases in such a way as will achieve nineteen thirty-four economy and at the same time obtain prosperity-quality products; to be responsible for salaries and the various detailed accounts that go into the business department of a university, to be handed at once a reduced appropriation and increased enrollment, leaves Mr. Francis Marion Walker still smiling, his well-known good humor intact and in excellent working order. Wildcats owe much to the skill and efficiency of this man and his expert staff of assistants. They are making it possible to enjoy a growing campus well provided with splendidly equipped buildings and beautiful grounds. Pftf 2)

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Dean A. H. Otis The establishment and furtherance of a healthy attitude on the part of the men students on the campus, when there are several hundred of those men students, is task enough for any man. But in addition, Dean Otis heads the French department, does time as professor in the classroom, fills his place on the Advisory Council, and acts on the University Committees of Admission, Health, Residence Standing, Student Activities and Eligibility, and of Student Loans and Scholarships. That Dean Otis meets so many men’s problems to their full satisfaction is surprising; that he is capable of sincere personal interest and aid to so many is astounding: that his policies receive genuine friendly support in response is just as it should be. His fairness and generous broad-mindedness bring respect and admiration, plus the real affection of hundreds of Wildcats. Mr. C. Z. Lesher With a dozen committees and councils and odd jobs while he rests, Charles Zaner Lesher finds his days and part of his nights filled with assuming the worries of some two thousand students who want to get into school, stay in. or get out; want more classes or fewer; wish to vary their schedules this way or that: take too few units in one subject and too many fours in another: overflow a small classroom or fail to fill a large one; omit requireds and overload electives; and in general keep an industrious Registrar very busy. Mr. Lesher’s complex organization efficiently handles its perennial University business with a smoothness and dispatch that little reveals to the student the amount of work there is taken on for his or her convenience. The name Registrar but poorly implies the varied, extensive functions of the office. Page 22

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College of Agriculture The College of Agriculture, with its organization of five departments, seeks to train men and women in the work of aiding humanity in two of its most basic needs—food and clothing. There is in the production of agricultural commodities the perpetual problem of preventing and remedying the condition of worn-out soil; more yield must be had per acre. There is also the problem of bringing wastelands into utility; more acres must be brought into service for still greater yield. Then there is the need for improved breeds of livestock and for their care. Beyond lies the imperative requirement of economy in method ar.d operation of agricultural enterprise. A nation must be fed. But more: other nations must be supplied with those of our products which we can better produce than they. With the “business end” of farming-actual tilling of the soil and raising of the animals—growing more and more complicated, there is little doubt not only of the importance but of the necessity that the state, the nation, and society as a whole be provided with persons trained scientifically to give man a constant and assured supply of his elemental necessities. Doctor Paul S. Burgess, as Dean, heads the college. The five departments: Agricul- ture and Home Economic Education, Agricultural Chemistry and Soils, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, and Animal Husbandry, give study, research, and formal and direct instruction in agriculture: physics, chemistry, analysis and microbology of soils; shop practice, irrigation, and drainage on the farm; production and management of crops, forage, cereal, cotton, and alfalfa; crops judging; farm management; production, judging, breeding, feeding, nutrition, prevention of diseases, and marketing of livestock Each department conducts also courses in advanced research work on special contemporary problems. The college has especially adapted its work to the specific needs of Arizona, whose semi-arid condition, warm climate, and irrigation systems present certain problems peculiar to the Southwest. DEAN BUROK88 Fact 2