University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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General Extension Division Previous experience in organizing extension divi- sions at the Universities of Indiana and Arkansas stood B. C. Riley in good stead when he was called upon to establish the University's General Extension Division in 1919. The founder of Blue Key honorary service fraternity, Dean Riley is a past president of the Extension Association of Southern Colleges and Universities and a past vice president of the National University Extension Association. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, Rotary and Phi Delta Theta. - Dean WlNS'l'0N W. LI'r'rLr1 Dean B. C. RILEY A.B. flowal. B.S.A. fMissou. Dean of the General College Guiding and shaping the ever-changing com lhc General College from a spacious ollice in Lang Hull, lvinston W. Little draws for experience ul number of years teaching in public schools 0 state. He was principal of St. Petersburg School from 1921 to 1931, and during this tim ganized and was made first dean of that cityis ,I College. Dean Little came to the University in as instructor in education. Later he was made ciate dean of the General College, a position he until last year, when he was named dean. 11 Southern Association of Colleges and Secol Schools, he is head of the Florida committee chairman ol' the Standing Committee on Stan: 124:

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The College of Agriculture One ol' the leading agricultural scientists in lhc United States is VVilmon Newell, former stale plant commissioner, who became dean ol' thc College ol' Agriculture in l92l. Not content with thc full-time joh of College ol' Agriculture, lican Newell also directs the varied activities ol' the experiment station and agriculture extension. 'l'eaching scientific agricul- tural work is not the only function ol' thc College of Agriculture. lit also conducts research work in all phases ol' Florida farming and helps slate farmers solve their prohlems in a scientific manner. Dean Newell is a member ot' Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta. Gamma Sigma Delta and liappa Sigma. Dean Wfil.'l'blll J . Nl,x'i'lir:iil.v A.H. fWillir1rli. ,lcicfell tfollegel MA. fWushinglon University! Ileau. Wu.MoN Nizwifzu. lJ.5c. llowa Slllllf College! College of Business Administration A two-joh man for the past three years, Wziltcer J. Nlatherly this year resigned his post as acting dean ol' the General College to give full time to his duties as dean of the College of Business Administration. llean Nlatherly came here in 1926 to serve as director ol' the College of Commerce and Journalism, later divided into the College of Business Administration and the Department of Journalism. lle is a past president of thc American Association ol' Collegiate Schools ot' Business and a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, 'liau Kappa Alpha, l'hi Kappa l'hi, Beta Gamma Sigma and liluc lxey. Dean lVlatherly's social fra- ternity is Sigma Nu. '23'

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Dean .lossrrr R. Wen, Acting Dean of Students Wllell Robert Colder Beaty was named last sum- lller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late, beloved Dean B. A. Tolbert, his realization of the dilliculties of thc joh only resulted in an even llilrder effort. Today it can be truthfully said Dean Beaty has served well in a position that has not once been an easy one. Beaty graduated from Nlississippi College and received his master's degree at Vander- bilt University. He did further graduate work at a number of other colleges. It was in 1925, as secretary of the YMCA, that Dean Beaty came to the Uni- versity ol' Florida. Later he joined the faculty as an instructor in the department of sociology, and was Promoted in 1928 to assistant. dean of students. ,ln 1925 Dean Beaty was state director in Florida for the National Youth Administration. He is a charter member of the Florida chapter of 'Phi Eta Sigma, member National Association of Deans ol' Men, S0uthern Sociological Society, Blue Key and Rotary. 13,31 College of Engineering From head of the electrical department in 1929 to dean of the College of Engineering in 1938 is the story of the rise ol' energetic young Joseph R. Weil. XVhcn Blake R. Van Leer resigned as dean of the College of Engineering in 1937, Weil was named act- ing dean. This year the appointment was confirmed, and he was made dean. Giving engineering students a responsible background for their life's work is the aim of the College of Engineering, and Dc-an Wtail is actively interested in furthering this aim. Dean Ronlzlri' COLDER BEATY fVarulerbilL Uniwfrsityj