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

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Dean of the University FRANCIS H. SQUIRE, Ph.D. I guess you want to know my favorite actress, Dean Squire began when interviewed for the Blue Hen. It was a foss-up between Katherine Cornell and Greta Garbo. Mozart and Yorkshire pudding; Giotto, tennis, Gilbert and Sullivan; Gothic archi- tecture, metecrclogy, roast beef: Hardy and Haydn definitely nat Wagner: Eighteenth Century English landscape painting, Boswell's Johnson, John Donne, Jane Austenthese suggest the range of his interests. If a predilection for things British should be detected, Dr. Squire would deny that he is an Anglophile, although he will admit that he is rather optimistic abopt the future of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, As a student of Wallace Notestein, Yale's great English history scholar, Dr. Squire first became interested in the social history of Tuder and Stuart England and wrote his doctoral dissertation, appropriately encugh, on the English squire. He has com- municated his enthusiasm for the Tudor and Stuart eras to many H 317-18 classes and it is fo be hoped that, despite pressing administrative duties, he will always offer advanced courses in thess fields, Medieval France, the Italian Renaissance, the Ancient Woarldin fact, all humanistic studies interest Dr. Squire and explain hizs strang con- viction that new emphasis should be placed upon the Humanities, that progress in the liberal arts should be commensurate with prograss in the physical sciences, that, in fact, a college of Libaral Arts should be the central part of any university. The development of the individual and of the citizen rather than training for a specific career should be the primary duty of the univer- sity. The comparative smallness of the University of Delaware, Dean Squire believes, qualifies it to tulfill its obligation to the individual through close contacts between students and faculty, which mammaoth educational institutionsunless, like Yale and Harvard, they are organized in expensive house or college systemscannet offer. Cont'd on Page 18

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e o S LT S Before joining the faculty at the University of Delaware in May 1938, Dr. A, P. Colburn had been associated with E. L. duPont da Nemours Co. as a research chemical engineer. Until his recent appoint- ment as Assistant to President William S, Carlson, his interest was largely concentrated in the field of Chem- Assistani tc the Presideni ALAN P, COLBURM, Ph.D. istry and Chemical Engineering. Instrumental in the establishment of facilities for sounder and more special- ized research programs, Dr. Celburn has organized a Committee on Research for the purpose of sfirr'rdaf:'nq research activity on the Delaware campus and providing an effective lecture series.

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Dean of Women GWENDOLYN S. CRAWFORD, Ph.D. Dr. Gwendolyn Stager Crawford, Dean of Women at the University of Delaware from Sep- tember 1945 to February 1948, announced her resignation to be effective January 31, On Jan- wary 28, Miss Crawford was marriad te A. Randle Elliott, London correspondent for Business Week magazine. The first dean of women in the co- educational University and one of the most pop- ular in Delaware's history, Dean Crawford also served in the capacity of Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business Admin- itration. Dean of Men JOHN F. DAUGHERTY, Ph.D. The aim of hfgher education today is te see that the college trained individual is ready to take his place in the world in which he finds himself. Te do this his growth should ke in three directions, namelyMental, Physical, and Moral, All three of these are necessary for success. The office of the dean of men tries to see that a well integrated program of extra-curricular activities is maintained so that the above aim may be realized.