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

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i M 5 1 A 'J 1 U ,Q 1 1 ' ?'ifltl1lH HN i ...-.a .i. 1 -,al .. 1 .'-.1 ...4 Dr. George Patrick Stoker, Dean of the College of Engi- neering, has done his part to keep the College of Engineering in step with the war effort and to make it one of the leading engineering colleges in the Southwest. This is his seventeenth year as Dean of the college. Engineering has been one of the most outstanding courses offered by the University since its establishment on the campus in 1871. The first engineering training given by the Univer- sity was in civil and mining engineering, but in a short while mechanical replaced the mining, and in 1885 electrical engi- neering was added. The last addition was chemical engineer- ing. ln 1912 all the courses in CE, lVIlfi, Iflj, and Chli were combined into the College of Engineering. Forgetting classes for one day each year, the Engineers paint the campus with shamrocks on St. Pat's Day, and Erin Go Braugh becomes the password. The boys elect a Stl Pat and St. Patricia and the order of the Knighthood reigns for that day over all festivities, which include a bonfire, convocation, and dance. For weeks before this great day the boys vie with each other to see who can grow the longest beard, and on St. Pat's day the winner receives a kiss from St. Patricia. Dr. John Clark jordan, Dean of the Graduate School, heads the youngest school on the campus, established on the Univer- sity campus in 1927, under the direction of the late President J. C. Futrall and Dean Jordan, who at that time was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Before the graduate students were gathered together into their own college, they Were handled by a committee. Now they have a dean and a council to direct the curricula of the students working for their higher degrees. The original enrollment of the graduate school was only 34, but just before the War it had reached its peak when in 1941 the graduate student body had jumped to over three hundred. Requirements of a Masterls degree from the University of Arkansas are thirty weeks' residence, an oral examination, and in most cases a thesis. The University offers advanced degrees of Nlaster of Arts or Sciences, and professional degrees in four branches of engineering. Besides being Dean of the Graduate School, Dr. Jordan is head of the English Department and teaches a full time sched- ule of classes. This year he has acted as host in the Music Room in the Student Union, where classical music was played on request each afternoon. Page 24

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lllifilXllFif3 lllll Dr. Paul YV. Nlilam, Dean of the College of Business Ad- ministration, came to the University of Arkansas in 1930, as an instructor. He was made Dean of the College of Business Administration in Nlarch, 1944, after serving for six months as acting dean. The College of Business Administration is one of the newest on the campus. It was organized as a two year School of Business by the late President Futrall and Dr. C. C. Fitchner in 1926, and it was only in 1936 that it became a four year college. VVhen the ASTP took over part of the Commerce Building for its administrative offices, the members of the Business School did not mind, because they had moved most of their classes to the new Classroom Building. The College offers courses in the fundamentals of account- ing, commercial law, economics, finance, typewriting, short- hand, and bookkeeping. Outside work for these subjects is done in the College,s own library. Commerce students celebrate their own Commerce Day, noted for its dollar marks smeared all over the campus. On this day they elect a queen, ignore classes, hold a dance, and put out a special edition of the Guild Ticker, official publication of the College. i : V f , 1 l , - Dean H. G. Hotz heads the College of Education. Noted for belonging to practically every committee on the campus, Dean Hotz is chairman of the University committee on Post- war Education and chairman of the State Organization Com- mittee for Conference on Postwar Plans for Higher Education in Arkansas. The College of Education had its beginning in 1398, when it was entitled the Department of Pedagogy. Not until 1918 did it lose this title and become the Department of Education. Then three years later the name was changed again to the College of Education. Headquarters for the College are found in Peabody Hall, where the prospective educators act as teachers as well as pupils. In the primary and high school department of the Uni- versity Training School, headed by C. H. Cross, the student teachers forget their theory and struggle with practice. Also under the wing of the College of Education comes Agricultural Education, which has its own offices in the in- firmary building. An outstanding service of the College of Education is the Teachers' Placement Bureau, which annually helps find schools for the graduates. Page 23

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.tions, supervising the housing of the Women students, and inter- .i , ,Y . l.I Xl Niki Dr. Robert A. Leflar, Dean of the Law School, was a pro- fessor of law at the University of Arkansas until he left in 1942 for Wfashington, D. C., having been appointed to the Vvar Relocation Authority. He returned to become Dean in the summer of 1944. Dean Leflar graduated from the Uni- versity of Arkansas with a HA. degree, and received his LLB. and S.-l.B. at Harvard University. ln 1924, fourteen lawyers-to-be assembled in the basement of Old Nlain for their first law class with Julian S. VVaterman, Dean of the Law School until his death in 1943. Twelve years later, in 1936, the lawyers moved from their establishment in Old lVlain into the former Chemistry building, which has been known as the Law School ever since. The enrollment of the School of Law dropped considerably in the months following Pearl Harbor, but is now beginning slowly to return to normal. The Law library contains nearly 20,000 volumes at present. The Law School publishes the Arkansas Law Bulletin, contain- ing legal articles, comments on recent Arkansas cases, and dis- cussions of legislation. Two United States Senators, Claude D. Pepper, Florida, and William Fulbright, Arkansas, are former members of the Law School faculty. l Allan S. Humphreys, Dean of lVIen, also acts as associate professor of chemistry for the University. His regular duties as Dean include personal counseling, fraternity problems, stu- dent government advising, housing and employment. Besides all of this, Dean Humphreys has acted as advisor on the lVlilitary Services to all men students. He has helped pre- pare boys for the reserve tests, and kept campus men up to date on thelatest dicta of the draft boards. All deferments have been handled through his oflice, and he kept the reservists advised as to their status. Jeannette Scudder, Dean of VVomen, has taken a special interest this year in helping the women secure material about the various branches of the Women's military services, the Cadet Nurses Corps, and War time jobs for women in indus- tries. She has tried to help the women students to understand their responsibilities toward the war effort and post war work. Nliss Scudder does all of this in addition to her regular re- sponsibilities of counseling, advising various student organiza- preting their needs and interests to the administration and faculty. Page 25