University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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| | | | | Truman Stacey Director of Publicity As a Catholic and Jesuit institution the University of Detroit seeks to integrate professional, technical, literary and cultural training with a philosophy of life that is recognized as valid by the Catholic Church. This basic aim is envisaged most fully in the College of Arts and Sciences, which is regarded as the heart of the University, and which provides as one of its essential features a well-balanced program of general education in harmony with the Catholic Lloyd Logsdon The Rev. J. Loftus, S. J. Moderator of Student Publications philosophy of life. This implies instruction and guid- ance in developing within the student a realization of himself and of his basic human relationships. It implies the integration of spiritual and moral with intellectual and physical living which is calculated to find expression later through participation in the spiritual, intellectual, civic and social life of the community. The first class building of the forerunner of the University of Detroit housed the Academy, 1877, which preceded the Arts School, 1879, leading to the Detroit College, 1881, and the University of Detroit, 1911. 23

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The Rev. S. K. Wilson, S. J. Director of Board of Admissions Registrar Member Board of Review North Central Association of moe The Rev. H. F. Smith, S. J. Colleges The Rev. O. C. Snitgen, S. J. Assistant Treasurer University Administrators The Office of Alumni Affairs, which keeps the gradu- ate members of the University in touch with one another as wellas with the campus, is headed by the Rev. Bernard A. Reddy, S.J... . Truman Stacey is director of the Department of Public Relations; his main duty is to keep the general public informed of campus activities . . . In the Engineering Building is located the Student Placement Bureau, where Jane Stephanus aides students in procuring employment ... The Rev. Joseph Loftus, S.J., as the moderator of student publications, supervises both The Varsity News and The Tower. The University of Detroit is a Catholic institution conducted by the Jesuit Fathers. As such, the Univer- sity adheres to the definite philosophy embodied in the Encyclical of Pope Pius XI “On the Christian Education of Youth” (1929) : “The proper and immediate en d of Christian Edu- cation is to cooperate with Divine Grace in forming the true and perfect Christian. ... For precisely this reason, Christian education takes in the whole aggre- gate of human life, physical and spiritual, intellectual and moral, individual, domestic and social, not with a view of reducing it in any way, but in order to ele- vate, regulate and perfect it, in accordance with the example and teaching of Christ.” The University of Detroit is one of a group of twenty-five Jesuit colleges and universities in this country. From the Jesuit Order the University re- ceives a permanent contribution of educational an d religious service, the appointment of its chief admin- istrative officials, the advice and supervision of the leading Jesuit educators—regional and national and a rich heritage of four centuries of educational experience. The Rev. D. M. O’Connel, S. J. Librarian The Rev. C. E. Schrader, S. J. Director of Graduate Division The Rev. B. A. Reddy, S. J. Acting Director of Alumni Relations

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Acting Training Supervisor John H. Wicks explains enrollment pro- cedure to Joseph Klosterman, Commerce junior, and other veterans. Veterans’ problems—vocational, educational, per- sonal, and financial, which are of vital importance to the five thousand and two hundred returned GI’s at the University of Detroit, are the direct concern of the University’s Veterans Bureau. The Veterans Bureau is a part of the Student Counsel Bureau, which is under the directorship of Professor Paul P. Harbrecht. It occupies three offices in the Science Building on the McNichols Road Campus; a branch of this office 1s also maintained in Dinan Hall on the Jeff- erson Avenue campus. The special problems of the veterans, who came to the Student Counsel Bureau for help and guidance early in the spring of 1944, brought about the establishment of the Special Veterans Division. Prior to that time the Student Counsel Bureau devoted itself entirely to pre- college guidance and counsel to etvilian high school grad- University Veterans Bureau Prof. Paul P. Harbrecht heads the University Vet- erans Bureau .. . forms, letters, headaches and prob- lems flow over his desk. Stanley L. Vihtelic, training officer under public law 346, eliminates. excursions to the downtown office of the Veterans Administration by solving non-academic problems on campus. uates and adults desirous of entering the University. One of the objectives of the Veterans Bureau is to keep the returning veteran informed concerning his edu- cational rights and privileges under the various federal laws. The Bureau also acts as the coordinating agent between the veteran, the University of Detroit, and the Veterans Administration. It is continuously in touch with the Registrar, Bursar and the Deans of the Uni- versity’s Schools and Colleges in regard to veteran prob- lems. In order to service veteran’s problems of a non-aca- demic nature, the Veterans Bureau established in June, 1946, a branch office of the Veterans Administration on the MeNichols Road campus. The branch office now occupies Room 104 in the Science Building and adjoins the two counseling offices of the University’s Veterans Bureau.