University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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THE TASK of the Vice-President and Comp- troller of a university is not so much to educate as to keep the machinery of edu- cation in perfect order. He might be com- pared to the chief engineer of a great ship, an officer who seldom appears on deck, but who is responsible for seeing that the ship gets where the captain says it should go. He knows how much coal is consumed in keeping the ship in motion, and the cost of that coal to the owners. He knows that the passengers should make the most of their voyage by concentrating their attention on the realms of education through which the ship carries them ; for their passage is paid with that end in view. He knows too that unless each passenger steps from the ship at the close of its four-year cruise with a maximum of mental development and a taste for finer living, some of that coal has been wasted. HOBERT G. SPHOUL Vice-President and Comptroller B. S. (G. E.) University of California, 191S LL. D. University of California, 1936 THE office of the Dean of the Undergraduate Division is concerned in a general way with the problems of adjustment to university life that face undergraduate students. In close association and collaboration with the offices of the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women, it seeks to give to men and women undergraduates sound advice and wise guidance. It is charged with the administration of the minimum scholarship requirements, has admin- istrative responsibilities in connection with the making of loans to qualified students whose fi- nancial resources are slender, and administrative functions in connection with the award of the undergraduate scholarship. In this capacity and in one of friendly interest in any situation in which the student of the Lower Division finds himself in difficulty, this office extends a hearty welcome. FRANK M. RUSSELL Dean of the Undergraduate Division A. B. Stanford, 1914 B. S. Stanford, 1913 Ph. D. Stanford, 19 W t W, F XW fc W t --W t W fe- ' W [17]

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WALTER M. HART Vice-President and Dean of the University A. B. Haverford College, 189 A. M. Haverford College Ph. D. Harvard HIS BLUE AND GOLD is a record whose in- terest and value will increase through the years. It will recall a rich and happy experi- ence and the beginnings of many a lasting friendship. Undergraduate honors and achieve- ments are promises of what is to come: decades hence this volume will be consulted; some of those here distinguished wi ll have kept these promises ; some will not ; and others, now scarcely known will have achieved an unexpected great- ness. The Class of 1930, the classes that have gone before, the classes that are to come hereafter these are the Alma Mater. In the glory of one, all shine; in the disgrace of one, all are disgraced. This is the joy and the responsibility of member- ship in the University of California, a member- ship which, now attested in the BLUE AND GOLD, can never be terminated, never be resigned. CHARLES B. LJPMAN Dean of the Graduate Division B. Sc. Rutgers, 1904 M. Sc. Rutgers, 1904 M. S. University of Wisconsin, 1909 Ph. D. University of California, 1910 ,BOVE all other opportunities which the Graduate Division offers to students, and it affords many, it makes possible for them the opportunity to discover truth about things and about ideas. But, in addition, it offers something indispensable to discovery and that is an atmosphere of freedom in scholarship for those here who possess the geist, as far as it is humanly possible to pro- vide such an atmosphere. I hope that the undergraduates who read this book may look forward with eager anticipation to their welcome into the charmed circle of re- flective scholars and avail themselves of that opportunity and that atmosphere to which I have called attention. With this message to the student body, which the BLUE AND GOLD bears for me, go my hearty good wishes for a most successful volume.

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THOMAS M. PUTNAM Dean of Men B. S. University of California M. S. University of Chicago Ph. D. University of Chicago AISING students as to their personal rather than academic difficulties, acting as the agent of the administration in preserving continuity of policy, the office of the Dean of Men on the one hand is charged with the administration of loan funds, and is represented on the committees having to do with student welfare. On the other hand it represents the president on the Student Execu- tive Committee and in athletic matters; receives and makes effective the findings of the Under- graduate Student Affairs Committee. The conception of this office is that of an agency for individual and group welfare and counsel among the men students of the Uni- versity, and at the same time the interpreter of the student body and its problems to the administration. In this spirit the doors of this office open inward for those who care to come. LUCY W. STEBBINS Dean of Women B. A. University of California, 1904 THE offices of the Dean of Women there are six persons. Two are in the outer office to give information. The four occupants of the other offices cannot be seen from the corridor, but their welcome to all who come is none the less warm. One member of the staff is in touch with stu- dents ' living conditions and with loan funds for students. Another has a special interest in stu- dent self-support and in vocational problems. A third cooperates with the Infirmary and the Department of Physical Education for Women to help in making adjustments in cases of limited strength. A fourth is occupied with the plans of student leaders and with difficulties in scholar- ship. But the interest of each of them is to be to as many students as possible a means toward the fulfillment of a happy and profitable uni- versity life. IjUd i- [18]