University of Hawaii Honolulu - Ka Palapala Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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UNIVERSITY OFFICERS As the Dean of Women Mrs. Bilger has under her supervision the obtaining of outside work for girls, the arranging of the daily calendar of rhe University activities, including the assem- blies in the Lecture Hall and the dances given in the Gym. Mrs. Bilger also teaches Organic Chemistry in the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture. Gerald R. Kinnear, Treasurer of the University, has put forth this year to the students a plan for the handling of the books and finances of all the 40 odd organizations on the campus by the University business office, under his supervision. Plans are still tentative and incomplete, but hopes are held for their inauguration before the end of the year. Thaync M. Livesay, Ph.D., has the double duty of Director of Admissions and Director of Summer Session. In the first cap- acity he directs the admission of all applicants to the University and selects those qualified to most profit by a university educa- tion. In the second, he plans the work of the six week course given during the summer, at which time visiting professors are on the University campus. Helen B. MacNeil, Registrar, has 1,670 regular and part-time students to look after and see that their transfering of creden- tials arc recorded and that the students receive their grades. Harold S. Palmer, Ph.D., Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Study will be able to award this year about 15 or 20 master degrees, having them in the fields of Agriculture, Poli- tical Science, Chemistry, and six or eight other subjects. Mary P. Pringle, the head librarian at the University, has under her care over 52,200 volumes, including an extensive collections of important Chinese and Japanese works catalogued in English. In addition there are on the shelves over 207,000 pamphlets, many of them bulletins of agricultural experiment stations and of the various departments of the federal govern- ment. The library is depository for government publications. The Institute of Pacific Relations also maintains a special library on subjects of its interest on the third floor of the same building. MARY P. PRINGLE HAROLD S. PALMER I 21 J LEONORA N. BILGER THAYNE M. LIVESAY GERALD R. KINNI AR HELEN B. MACNEIL

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t CHARLES F. HEMENWAY GEORGE II BROWN ARTHUR LYMAN DEAN MARY DILLINGHAM FREAK THE BOARD OF REGENTS The Act of Establishment of the University of Hawaii places its affairs under the general control and management of a Board of Regents composed of seven members, five appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, and two ex-officio, the President of the University and the President of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry. Named in the order of length of service the present members arc: Charles R. Hemcnway, Arthur G. Smith, Mary Dillingham Frcar, David L. Crawford, George I. Brown, Arthur L. Dean and Carl A. Farden. During the past year the University and the Board suffered a serious loss in the death of the Rev. Akaiko Akana. His counsel will be greatly missed. Although the pres- sure of his many duties prevented him from being as active as some other members of the Board, his interest in the University was very deep and his influence great. His place has been taken by a University alumnus, Mr. Carl A. Farden. Two other changes occurred during the past year. Mr. Bruce Cartwright’s resignation as President of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry and the reappointment of Mr. George I. Brown to this position automatically resulted in Mr. Brown’s again becoming a Regent. Dr. Charles B. Cooper felt it best to resign and largely through his influence Arthur L. Dean, formerly President of the Uni- versity, was named to fill this vacancy. The other members of the Board regretted the decision of Dr. Cooper to retire after many years of active service but they welcomed the appointment of Dr. Dean, to whose administration as president the Univer- sity already owes so much. Charged by law with the management and control of the affairs of the University, the Board meets monthly, and oftener if occasion requires, to consider and act upon all matters of policy. The questions brought before it for decision arc many and diverse. The broad policies affecting admission to the Uni- versity, instruction and research are passed on by the Board, but it delegates to the faculty the organization and management of them and all ordinary matters of student government and discipline. Matters of finance, personnel, buildings, grounds, personal and public relations—all pass in review.

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COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE FACULTY I DEAN K I: LI.I K LOUIS A. HENKE J. M. VESICATE EKANK T. DILLINGHAM CAKI. R. ANDREWS JOHN . DONACHHO ERNEST C, VE2ST1X HAROLD S. PALMER CARET D. MILLER ANNA B. DAHL WILLARD II. ELLER During the past few months, magazines and newspapers have printed many arti- cles attempting to show that the applica- tion of technical methods to the everyday problems of life is the cause of the present economic distress. It has become the work of the men and women trained along technical lines to justify their training by solving these problems. There is something wrong in a world that allows farmers in one section to burn grain while in another section coal miners are idle and starving, the storage bins full, no demand for coal and consequently, no bread. During the coming years, the present generation of students must solve these problems. The present trend in technical education is toward a better and broader foundation in the basic sciences, and, in Hawaii, such courses arc now being offered during the late afternoon and evening hours as well as during the morning periods. The tech- nically trained graduates must readjust our economic conditions so that there will be no future recurrence of the present un- fortunate situation. The students of this university will have a part in bringing about this readjustment. Arthur R. Keli.fr I 22 ) 1