University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

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Business Administrator Charles E. Grubb LTHOUGH appointed to his present office of Business Administrator in April, 1936, Mr. Charles E. Grubb has been connected with the Uni- versity of Delaware for many years. In 1gr4, he was an honor graduate from the School of Engineering following an active campus career. While in college, he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi and was Editor-in-Chief of both the Review and Blue Hen. He was later elected to Tau Beta Pi. During the Commencement exercises of 1gio, Mr. Grubb was awarded an honorary Master's degree in Civil Engineering. From 1018 to 19130, he served as Chief County Enginecer of New Castle County and as the New Castle County State Highway Commissioner in which capacities he supervised construction and maintenance of roads and structures. In 1930, he became Engineer-Executive of the American Road Builders Associ- ation of Washingron, D. C. and in 1914, Assistant Director, Projects Division, F.E.A., with offices in Washingron. During all this time, he kept in close contact with the affairs of his University, s that in the shore time since his appointment to his present position, he has already greatly increased the efficiency of the Business Office. His sympathetic, vet business-like and efficient, trearment of student problems has established him firmly in the hearts of all those who know him. 1937 THe BLLIE HETD 1938 25

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24 The Deans Seevcer, Durron, McCus GEORGE ELLIOT DUTTON A praduate of the University of Delaware Class of 1904, Dean Dutton did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and at Harvard University where he recelved his Master of Arts Degree in tor1. At that time, he became connected with the English Department of Delaware which he has served in various capacities ever since. He was elected Dean of Delaware College in 1023. ROBERT LYLE SPENCER Dean Spencer was graduated from lowa State College in 1912, Following that, he taught for six vears and then engaged for a time in commercial engineering work. In 1928, he became Dean of the Engineering School of the University of Delaware, CHARLES ANDREW McCUE A native of the State of Michigan, Dean McCue received the Degree of Bachelor of Science in 1901 from the Michigan Agriculrural College. In 1915, he came to the University of Delaware as Professor of Horticulture. He was elected Dean of the Agricultural School and Director of the Experiment Station in 1919. 1937 T Bl e HEL 1938

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.+ . The Expansion THE Editor of the Brue Hen has asked for a brief summary of that part of the University's Building and Development Program' that seems possible of realization within the next five or ten years. That we have such a program and are steadily, even if slowly, advancing toward its fulfillment is doubtless known ro every one interested in the University, but in as much as a more wide-spread knowledge of the individual irems of the plan may hasten the final accomplishment of the whole, the Editor's desive to lay it before the readers of the Biue Hewn seems to the writer to be a wise and helpful one and should prove interesting as well. Triple program Any program of development of an American Cal- lege must take into account both the instructional needs and those of the physical plant. The rtwo are mutually inter-dependent, Neither develops in any marked de- gree without a corresponding advance in the other. Without adequare equipment and housing for educa- tional purposes it is obvious that instruction must suffer; and in a country such as ours with its many splendidly equipped institutions of higher learning it is extremely difficult for a poorly equipped college to command the interest and respect of prospective students or of the general public. Desirable teachers are unwilling ro transfer from a well equipped college to one in which there is inade- quate equipment in the fields of study in which they are interested. The class-rooms, equipment, labora- tories, and libraries that suthiced for the college of forty or fifty vears ago, are wholly inadequate 0 meet the demands of scholarship in the vast and growing realms of the knowledge of today. So the University has made a program in which it hopes to see a simultanecus development of its physical plant, its teaching strength, and its scholarly activity. In order to broaden and strengthen the curriculum and to provide for the rapid increase in the number of students it is planned to make additions to the staffs of existing deparrments and to establish certain much needed new departments as soon as funds are available for this purpose. MNew or separate departments greatly needed are the following: Chemical Enginecering and Geology, both of which have heretofore been added to the overworked department of Chemistry; Architect- ure; Political Science, now included in the department of History; a University department of Music to make this subject available to men and to enlarge the scope of the work heretofore provided for women; a Gradu- ate School to meet the growing demands for graduare instruction and to provide a greatly increased number 94 1937 THE BLUE HET by PRESIDENT WALTER HULLIHEN of advanced electives for undergraduates in their major fields; a School of Economics and Commerce in which our present offerings in this department can be ex- panded to give that large number of our students who plan to go into business or industry a more complete preparation for their careers. Orher departments in which the reaching staff should be enlarged and strengthened are: Sociology, Psy- chology, Mathematics, and Modern Languages, all of which are overcrowded, under-staffed, and conse- quently unable to offer the courses in these subjects which the college of today ought to give. The building program includes as its most urgent needs and those for which it is hoped provision can be made within a very few years the following: Completion of Memorial Library It is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of the library in a college or university, It is often, and propetly, referred to as the heart, the dynamic center, of an insticution of higher learning. It must cover many fields of knowledge and the building thar houses it must be large enough to take care of all the books as they are acquired year by year that are needed by students and teachers. Owur present library is rapidly approaching the limit of its capacity. In a very few years all the stacks will be completely filled. An attractive and satisfactory plan for enlarging Memorial Library has been made by the architect, It will include many new and desirable features in addi- tion to providing space for three times as many books as we have at present, There will be an enlarged peri- odical room, a browsing room, seminar rooms for many of the departments, carrels adjacent to the stacks for individual study, and many improvements in arrangements for supervision and service. Strucrur- ally the wings are to be lengthened abour forty feer and a second story is to be added which will greatly improve the appearance of the building as well as provide the required addidonal space. Class room and administrative office building This building, which will be placed immediately opposite the new Chemistry Building, will serve many purposes. It will centralize the administration of the University by placing the offices of the president, the business administrator, the dean of Delaware College, the dean of the Women's College, and many depart- ment heads under one roof. It will provide offices and 1938