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

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Program class-rooms, at a place convenient of access from all parts of the University, for those persons who teach in both colleges. It will provide proper meeting places for the classes of both colleges now being taught in the basement of the Library. It will bring most of the classes of the School of Arts and Science into a closer and more convenient relationship with the Library. A further and most desirable result may possibly be the conversion of Recitation Hall and Purnell Hall into men's dormitories since all the work now being done in those buildings will be transferred to the proposed new Class Room and Administration Building, MNew men's gymnasium and health center Srudies to determine the most desirable plan for this building are in progress. The plans of similar buildings in other universities and colleges have been studied both by personal visits and through blue prints of their arrangement. The question has arisen as to the possi- bility of incorporating the present gymnasium or parts of it in the new plan instead of erecting an entirely new structure at the north end of the Green where it was placed in the first development plan. A great saving might result through avoiding duplication of the exist- ing swimming pool, chlorinating plant, and other facilities, which might make it more possible to finance the undertaking. College Hall for Women's College This building will release space in Science Hall o Chemistry, Biology, and Home Economics that is badly needed by those departments. It will contain an Assembly Hall for the College's daily assemblies; offices and class-rooms for some of the work of the School of Education; the laboratories and auxiliary rooms for Physics; all of the class-rooms and work-rooms for the department of Fine and Industrial Art; and studios and offices for the department of Music. For Dramatics, the Assembly Hall, which is to seat three hundred and fifty people, will provide a little theater thar ought to give fresh stimulus and encouragement o work in this growing department. Improvement of Delaware College athletic fields Adequate seating facilities for spectators ar athletic events, completion of the grading, drainage, and seed- ing of the new athletic field, and construction of addi- tional tennis courts and playing fields for the enlarged intra-mural program are pressing needs. It is planned to try to meet them by an appropriation each year fram general income untl the task is completed; but the University will not refuse to any generous friend, who may desire to finish it all ar once, its prompt permission to do s0. Such a gifr would be a fine contribution to the welfare and progress of the college, 'J $ Such is the ambitious program to which the Uni- versity is addressing irself. It will cost a considerable sum: for the proposed expansion and strengrhening of the teaching staff, not less than seventy thousand dollars a year; for the physical improvements and addi- tions, nearly a million dollars. Its realization will depend in large measure upon the faith of students, alumni, and friends in the work the University is doing and is destined to doand upon their sincere and public proclamation of that faith. Architect's Drawing of Memorial Library with Proposed Additions 1237 THE BLLIe HeN 1238 27

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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

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Lieutenant Colonel Donald M. Ashbridge HE afterncon of December 14, 1935 should go down in the annals of the University of Delaware as marking a big step in its progress. At that time, the Board of Trustees of the University passed a motion to establish a Business Guidance Bureau for the students of both colleges. In the short time since then, the Di- rector, Lt. Colonel Donald M. Ashbridge, and his as- sistant, Miss Caroline Cobb, have ser up a highly successful Bureau. When the Trustees voted for this Department, they realized that its success was almost entirely dependent on their selecting the proper person to direct it. They needed a man who could devote his full time and effore to irs operation, a man who knew and would continue to know the students and faculty members, andmost important of alla man who could deal with execurives and personnel men so as to convince them thar Dela- ware graduates have the training and ability to make good employees. Unfortunately, part of his com- pensation would have to be derived from his interest in the Universitcy and its students, since his salary would necessarily be small. Department organized January, 1935 The position was immediately offered to Lieutenant- Colonel Donald M. Ashbridge Retired, formerly Pro- fessor of Military Science and Tacrics ar Delaware. His generous acceprance of the position was raken as Miss immediate assurance of the Bureau's success. o8 1937 THE BLAE HER Business Guidance by WILLIAM NOOMAN Caroline Cobb, a graduate of June, 1935, was ap- pointed his Secretary and Assistant in order to extend the Bureau's operation to the Women's College. Within a month after the Trustees' action, the new department was at work in its office in Old College, making contacts and securing interviews for rhe mem- bers of the class of June, 1g36. Of all those students who requested the aid of the Bureau toward geteing them positions, about ninety per cent were placed by graduation. The few remaining had jobs by September, The bureau has been extremely successful in its purpose of establishing contacts between potential employers and students of both colleges. It has made connections with over a hundred established concerns of good repute. This is good evidence that Colonel Ashbridge is convincing employers thar men and women from Delaware are worthy of consideration, Guidance given as well as jobs There is a second purpose of the Guidance Bureau to give seniors an idea as to how to go after a job. Suggestions on how to make a good impression on in- terviewers, explanations of fields of work available, advice on lifeework and the student's future all are available to the student through the bureau, Guidance is given in order to crystalize a man's ambitions so that he may face prospective employers with self-assurance. Either Colonel Ashbridee or Miss Cobb sits in on all interviews at the college, taking notes on the sru- dent's progress. Afrerward, he is given construcrive criticism on his methods of handling the interview, He is advised what to consider before accepting a position, just what his chances are of advancement, and whar standing the company has. The Colonel also pives instruction in phrasing letters to companies, to make the proper impression. Colonel Ashbridge now has an efficient organizadon whose most important asset, good-will, is rapidly in- creasing in value. Colonel Ashbridee's personable manner lays the foundation of that good-will. He makes the contact, gives the advice and instruction. The rest is up to the student. Dep-nrtment now well urglnized The Business Guidance Bureau is already an es- tablished organizaton at the University, thanks to the efficient direction of Colonel Ashbridge. Congratularions, Colonel! 1938