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

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DIRECTOR OF PERSONNEL Allan S. Humphreys, personnel director, is one of the most universally well-liked faculty members on the campus. A combination of diplomatic adviser and skillful teacher, Mr. Humphreys has a sympathetic understanding of student problems. His remarkable ability to find time in his crowded schedule to chat with the fellow who drops into his office, his memory for faces and names, his friendly smile remind students that here is a teacher who is always in good humor. Mr. Humphreys carries on a dual role as director of personnel and assistant professor of chemistry. He says that he likes both types of work equally well. Genealogy heads his list of hobbies, and he has written books on the subject. He is a member of the Institute of American Genealogists. As for sports, he likes to paddle a canoe and fish, and remembers with pleasure a camping trip to south- Cln Missouri. Fond of games, he enjoys playing casino and biidge with the boys who drop in at his home during the evening. He has a particular preference for walnut furni- tuie, and would really like to cultivate flowers for a hobby, if he had more time. ALLAN S. HUMPHREYS Mr. Humphreys belongs to a long list of organizations from Phi Eta Sigma and ODK to the Society of Colonial Wars, the American Legion, and the Masonic Lodge. DEAN OF WOMEN As official representative of the women’s interests on the campus, Miss Jeannette Scudder does everything from supervising the housing and acting as adviser to the numer¬ ous women’s organizations to counseling students on their individual problems. Miss Scudder says that she believes that “every woman student should have a well-rounded experience consisting of good academic standing, active participation in a significant extra-curricular activity, and an opportunity for enjoying social life on the campus.” A graduate of Purdue University, Miss Scudder took her master’s degree at Teacher’s College, Columbia Uni¬ versity, where she was a Grace H. Dodge Fellow. Before coming to Arkansas, she served as Director of Residence Halls and adviser to Pan-Hellenic and student government at the University of Kentucky. Miss Scudder has spoken several times this year to school audiences and women’s groups in Arkansas and nearby states. Already well-liked among the students for her pleasing JEANNETTE SCUDDER personality, Miss Scudder’s interests are numerous. She was an amateur flier at Purdue and hopes to take up flying again at Arkansas. Tennis and swimming, the theater, and reading are her other leisure-time activities.

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MEN BEHIND THE SCENES The men behind the scenes are the wheels of the University. Without them the school would not be the smooth running machine that it is. Bunn Bell, manager of the beautiful new Stu¬ dent Union, is also director of student employment including NYA. Mr. Bell, an amateur photogra¬ pher, has been scoutmaster of a local troop for 13 years. T. C. Carlson holds three important posts—sec¬ retary of the Board of Trustees, manager of the University, and treasurer. He is custodian of all University funds. A Phi Beta Kappa, Mr. Carlson says he “gets blamed for everything Scabbard and Blade gets into” because he installed the local chapter in 1916. Fred L. Kerr, registrar, is the man who decides whether or not you can enter the University, the man who keeps your records while you are here, and the man who says whether or not you have completed work for your degree. Mr. Kerr, a Phi Beta Kappa, is an active member of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars. M arvin A. Miller came from New Hampshire to the University of Arkansas this year to become head librarian. In work or play, Mr. Miller will take books—primary interest, library administra¬ tion, and book-collecting, secondary. Cashier William Heffelfinger is the man who takes your fee checks and makes refunds—some¬ times. His assistant, Karle Friar, does the actual check-writing on a complicated machine made es¬ pecially for the University. Right, top to bottom —Bunn Bell, T. C. Carlson, Fred L. Kerr, and Marvin A. Miller Below —Karle Friar and William Heffelfinger

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GRADUATES Youngest on the campus and infant protege of Dean John Clark Jordan, the Graduate School of the University of Arkansas is surely and consistently expanding to the adult measurements of older colleges and divisions. This latest offspring of the University was established in 1927 after many years in which graduate w ork was under the administrative thumb of various undergraduate colleges, consisted merely of an extra year’s work plus a long paper of some kind. Now ' the Graduate School offers two degrees—Master of Arts or of Science, and professional degrees in the various engineering fields—and requires that its students take an oral examination, have a “B” average, and, with some exceptions, write a thesis. Since first being conceived and established by former president John C. Futrall, the school has grown steadily w ith nearly a double in enrollment during the last seven years. For the regular winter term of 1934 there w ere a scant forty graduates digging and delving after their advanced degrees; for 1941 there were seventy-five. And in the summer sessions, when the greatest number of prospective M. A.’s congregate, the enrollment has leaped from 96 six years ago to 373 in the summer of 1940. Cradle rocker, first and only Dean of the University’s youngest college, Dr. Jordan started out to be a pharmacist and says he was “supposed to grow ' up, go to college, and sort of inherit my uncle’s drug store”. Not until his senior year at Knox college did he develop an interest in English literature and decide to spend his life writing notes instead of prescriptions. Tossing aside all plans for drugs, uncles, and drugstores, Dean Jordan concentrated on English his last college year, and continued with it later in graduate work at Columbia. Now the man who intended to pass his hours behind a drug counter passes them behind a desk instead, and is one of America’s foremost educators. Calm, sar¬ donic, with a knife-edge wit, Dr. Jordan is also outstanding among the deans of graduate schools and regularly attends their meetings, w ' here, he says laughingly, he is “regarded as something of a radical.” Dean Jordan came to the University of Arkansas as professor of English in 1918, stopping en route to be an instructor at the University of Illinois and professor of English at Drury College. After several years he was made Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and held that position until the Graduate School was formed in 1927. Under his leadership the Graduate School has broadened and expanded stead¬ ily, increasing in scope of courses to be studied and in size of enrollment. Under his leadership have been furthered the aims which Dean Jordan holds for the Gradu¬ ate School—the promoting of a general liberality of policy and the giving of in¬ sight into the methods of research and independent scholarship. With the trend in American education tow ' ard more emphasis in graduate w r ork, with a field that is comparatively young, w ith a dean w r ho is cognizant of progress, the future of the University of Arkansas Graduate School looks bright. Born a lit¬ tle over a decade ago, the school is now in its adolescence. It should only take a little more time for the youth to reach maturity.