University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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10 Registrar William E. Scott

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AboveeReth-ing Chairman of Board of Trustees, Edward L. Ryerson; SideeRe- partee between the Chancellor, Ryerson, and Glen A. Lloyd A trustee since 1923 and Chairman since June, 1953, he became an honorary trustee and continued his work with the University as chairman of the steering committee of the Universitfs campaign for $32,700,000. Ryerson was awarded an honor- ary LLD. as an . . . industrialist, humanist, and humanitarian, who, in the true spirit of all these capacities, exemplifies dedication to the progress of his time. As chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ryerson was succeeded by Glen A. Lloyd, 21 University alum- nus, who has previously served as president of the Law School Alumni Association. Recently elected members of the Board of Trustees are J. Harris Ward texecutive vice-president of Commonwealth Edison Companyi and John F. Merriam ipresident of Northern Natural Gas CoJ. Money not only talks, it walks, sings, builds, de- stroys, liberates, enchains, saddens, and delights. On the first floor of the Administration Building is located the center of money matters: the Bursar's thce. The Bursar tpronounced With two strong syllablesi is Albert F. Cotton, and with his two assistants, Madeline G. Irwin and A. Wayne Gies- man, he oversees the operations of bookkeeping for student fees, check distribution, and so on. The uOffice of the Dean of Students is a tricky title, implying as it does one office and one dean. In actuality this complex of operations has more effect on the studentas life than any other single unit. Under the one Dean of Students of the Uni- versity, Robert M. Strozier, the oFHceii is a multi- plicity of offices which record and regulate the ac-

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tions of all students lfrom high-school prospects to post-Ph.D. researchersl in all stations le.g., bOth potential draftees, and real veterans are consideredl in every way. There is one Associate Dean, John P. Netherton, and three AssiStant Deans, Mrs. Ruth 0. McCarn, Robert C. Woellner talso Director of Vocational Guidance and Placementl, and William E. Scott lalso Direcror of AdmissionsJ Working under Dean of the College McCrea Hazlett are the twen- ty-thtee advisers to students in the college tSenior Advisers: John C. Mayfield, Russell B. Thomas, Margaret Kraemer, Donald Mciklejohn, and Wil- liam C. Bradburyl. The position of Associate Dean was created this year, and to fill the vacancy left by Netherton as College Dean of Students, Hazlett was brought up from the English faculty. Stephen B. Wood remaincd assistant Dean of Students in the College. When Scott switched from his position as Regis- trar to that of Director of Admissions, young David L. Madsen, once assistant to the Registrar, took his place. Part of the work of the Registrar's OHice is the keeping of permanent records, receiving and sending out transcripts, Ievying registration fees, advising on selective service, planning and execut- ing Central Registration, and regulating Convoca- tions. For last year only Dean Strozier acted as Director of Student Activities, with Mary Alice Newman as Looking from a diEerent angle at regular transaction being made between John Lyon and cashier, in the Bursarls Oiflce 99 3g ' N 9.3: Jog ll? ' -6 it v , o .- oats; iiiid ' 49 w Evidently Mary Alice Newman funds that being Director of Student Activities has its lighter moments Miss Dorothy Demon, Auditor of all stu- dent acrivity accounts 11