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

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF burrmr II. Snyder l’rn idrnt

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Arthur R. Keller Dean K meritus College of Applied Sfirnrr Arthur Kipont Keller, Dean Emer- ii»i of the College of Applied Sciences, died on April 8. I%1. Dean Keller joineil I'll in 1909 when it was still railed the College of Agriculture and Mechanieal Arts as professor of engineering. He drew up plans for many of the early cam- pus buildings, lie and his students surveyed a large section of Manoa Valley and laid out a drainage sys- tem that embraced that entire area. When the College of Hawaii be- came the I diversity of Hawaii in 1920, he was appointed dean of the College of Applied Sciences. Ten years later, he was appointed the I 'diversity's first vice president, lie served as acting president during the months between the resignation of President Crawford in 1941 and the appointment of President Sinclair in 1942. Kven after his retirement in 1917, Dr. Keller continued to participate in offieial college events and once returned to campus to teach when an engineering instructor was suddenly called into government service. In September. 1959. Keller Hall was completed, and the engineering staff left the long inadequate en- gineering quadrangle to set up ojn-r- alions in the new four-story build- ing. Keller Hall, housing laboratories and classrooms which form the en- vironment of engineering students, is a fitting monument to Dean Miner- ilus Keller who played so vital a part in the growth of the (diversity of Hawaii—in the establishment and expansion of its physical plant, in the administration of its policies, in the solution of its problems of prog- ress. and most of all in the basic function of a university, the educa lion and guidance of its students. To the memory of Dean Emeritus Arthur Kiponl Keller, whose pioneer- ing. progressive spirit lives and will continue to live in the growth of ihi College of Kngincering and in its students, Kti I’ahifMila 1961 is dedicated. 5

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7 Ilnur K. While Vice I’rr'idcrt oml I Iran of Families William M. Wachter .lnmii«lr.iliw Virr I’residml