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

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Business School Dinner. Among others seated at the Acting Dean Royal Van de Woestyne. Sitting at the speakers' table are Ger Zefn Robert 1.. Reid, Director Jim: table just to the right of Ilse rostrumt Acting of the ExeCutive Program; Heft of speakert Cban- Dean James H. Lorie cellar Kimpton; ithird right of speaketO former Work in the School of Business leads a student to the degree of Master of Business Administration. As the School emphasizes, the city of Chicago is itself an excellent location for getting an education in business, as it is the most important terminal market and railway center of the world and a ganglion of business activity. In addition to the program on campus twith its center in Haskell HalU the School maintains an identical program in a downtown school. The years 1955e57 was the time of the thirteenth group tsessiom in the Business School's so-called Executive Program. Members of this group came from a wide range of financial, industrial, and charitable organizations. tSome titles in the group: Deputy Director of Research and Development, Offlce Procedures and System Consultant, Sales En- gineer, Price Analyst; plus a squad of Lieutenant Colonels from the Army Ordnance Corsz Ezra Soloman, Associate Professor and Editor of The low- nal of Business 29

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Dean of the Law School Levy Law William Rainey Harper said that an education in law implies a scientiftc knowledge of law and of legal and iuristic methods. These are the crys- tallization of ages of human progress. They cannot be understood in their entirety Without a clear com- prehension 0f the historic forces of which they are the product, and of the social environment with which they are in living contact. A scientiflc study of law involves the related sciences of history, eco- nomics, philosophyethe whole field of man as a social being? Born from this idea, the University of Chicago Law School beCame in 1902 an organic member of the general University community. Since that year the Law School has been progres- sing in all manners of research and development. There are programs of research in Law and the Be- havioral Sciences, Comparative Law, and consider- ations of Law-Economics. Resulting from there and similar studies have been laws and renovation in the Chicago City government, Illinois State gov- ernment, and the us. National Government. The American Bar Center, on 60th across the Midway 28

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Social Service Administration Helen R. Wright retired in July, 1956, after serving the School for a quarter of a century as professor, and twenty years as Dean. Upon retire- ment, Miss Wright went to Munich for the meeting of the International Cenference of Social Work and on to India for a two-year assignment as chief of a technical assistance team, working with the Indian schools of social work. The School was very fortunate in securing Alton A. Linford to succeed Miss Wright as dean. He is not new to the School. Since 1945 he has been a valued member of the faculty, teaching courses in social security, public welfare and administration. He also holds tWO degrees from the Schoolethe A.M., received in 1958, and the Ph.D., awarded in 1947. Newr faculty members are Mary E. Burns and Josephine Di Paila, teacher-trainees, and Frank Breul, assistant professor in the field of public welfare. Above-Alton Linford, new Dean of Social Service Ad- ministration; Beiow-Helen R. Wright, former Dean is presented with a gift by James Brown, IV at the dinner in her honor