University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION When he can find time from his many academic duties, Dean Hotz likes to work on his lawn or in his garden. He is also fond of driving, but his real hobby, he says, is chess. Born at Scandi¬ navia, Wisconsin, Dean Hotz graduated from the Scandinavia Academy and the Oshkosh State Nor¬ mal School. He re¬ ceived his M. A. and Ph. B. at the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin, and his Ph. D. at the Teachers College at Columbia. A life member of the National Edu¬ cation Association, Dean Hotz is also active as a member of the Executive Committee of the North Central As¬ sociation. He is a member of the Arkansas State Committee of this As¬ sociation, and of the Commission on Secondary Schools. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Arkansas Educational Asso¬ ciation. In addition to his membership in these educational associations. Dean Hotz belongs to Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, and Phi Delta Kappa. Over half of the students who took higher degrees last year chose edu¬ cation either as their major or minor. Dean Hotz said, in pointing out that the College of Education is carrying by far the greater portion of the grad¬ uate instruction of the University. H. G. HOTZ Since he was appointed director of the Summer School Session five years ago. Dean H. G. Hotz of the College of Education, has had the satisfaction of seeing the enrollment of the Summer Session increase 50 per cent. The graduate enrollment of the school, moreover, has in¬ creased 325 per cent. The primary aim of the College of Education, according to its dean, is to provide qualified workers for the schools of the state. In carrying out this purpose, the College furnishes an opportunity for young men and women to prepare for professional service in teaching, supervision, and school administration. It further maintains a Teachers Placement Bu¬ reau, through which teachers are aided in securing their first positions, and subsequent promotions to better positions. For the past ten years, the Bureau has placed an average of 116 students each year. Most of the Education graduates remain in the state of Arkansas. 23

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING A true knight of St. Pat, even to his middle name, is George Patrick Stocker, dean of the College of En¬ gineering. After graduating from the Uni¬ versity of Wisconsin in 1909, Dean Stocker received his Master ' s degree from Iowa State College at Ames. Before coming to the University of Arkansas in 1919, he taught at New Mexico Agricultural College, Missis¬ sippi A. and M., and was head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Swarthmore College. He was also a member of the faculty of Cornell Uni¬ versity, at the time he was doing graduate work at that institution. In addition to his duties as head of the College of Engineering, Dean Stocker is also chairman of the Uni¬ versity Discipline Committee. Direc¬ tor of the CAA program. Dean Stocker is in charge of all the ground work. He was the first man on the campus to take an active interest in the CAA, and played no small part in obtaining the training course for this University. Very tricky and clever is Dean Stocker ' s Rhodes Gallery of the Engineering school. Each year he places the pictures of all members of the senior class of the college in a large multiple swinging picture frame, which stands in the corner of his office. This is Dean Stocker ' s fourth year as dean of the boys with the slide- rules. While he has great hopes for the entire engine school, he is par¬ ticularly interested in trying to build up the Department of Chemical En¬ gineering. G. P. STOCKER Dean Stocker also keeps very com¬ plete records of all engineering stu¬ dents in his files. He has a quite elaborate card index, which not only contains photostatic copies of the registrar ' s records, but also photo¬ graphs of the boys themselves, along with lists of all their activities. The dean believes he was the first to use this unique system, although he suspects one or two other deans of copy¬ ing his method. While Dean Stocker lists the CAA as his particular out¬ side interest at the moment (he ' s even considering taking up flying himself), he says that he really doesn ' t have much time to work at any hobby. 22

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS From its organization in 1926 as a two-year division of the College of Arts and Sciences to its present position as the most rapidly growing school on the campus, the College of Business Administration has been guided in CHARLES C. FICHTNER its destiny for thirteen years by Dr. Charles C. Fichtner. Pursuing a policy of progressive development, Dr. Fichtner this year saw the school move from the dilap¬ idated Commerce Building to quar¬ ters in the newly-erected Classroom Building. Extracurricular activities fostered under his guidance by the school in¬ clude annual summer seminars for businessmen of the Southwestern area, a series of monthly convoca¬ tions featuring addresses by promi¬ nent Arkansans, and the publication of the Arkansas Business Bulletin, a periodical survey of state business conditions which is distributed to several hundred Arkansas business¬ men. A Harvard graduate, Dean Ficht¬ ner was one of the youngest commis¬ sioned officers to serve in the World War. Awarded a field fellowship for his military service he remained abroad studying and traveling in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany. Back in America Dr. Fichtner spent the early post-war years as an in¬ structor at the College of William and Mary, varying his university duties by conducting student tours in Europe during the summer months. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Al¬ pha Kappa Psi, and Beta Gamma Sigma, Dr. Fichtner is contributor to numerous commerce, economic, and social science publications. He specializes in the field of money and banking, is working for the establish¬ ment of a business research bureau at the University of Arkansas. 24