University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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IOWA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION D. D. MURPHY . W. H. GEMMILL . . President . Secretary MEMBERS GEORGE T. BAKER . PAULINE L. DEVITT . MERRITT GREENE . PARKER K. HOLBROOK . ANNA B. LAWTHER . D. D. MURPHY . EDWARD P. SCHOENTGEN W. C. STUCKSLAGER . CHARLES H. THOMAS . . Davenport . Oskaloosa Marshalltown . Onawa . Dubuque . Elkader Council Bluffs . Lisbon . Creston FINANCE COMMITTEE . Cedar Rapids . Des Moines . Des Moines WILLAM R. BOYD, Chairman . J. W. BOWDISH . W. H. GEMMILL . SCHOOLS OF IOWA State University ... ... Iowa City State Teachers College .... Cedar Falls College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts . . Ames School for the Blind Vinton School for the Deaf . . Council Bluffs Page Twenty-four

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I THE ALUMNI AND THE UNIVERSITY ONE of the greatest sources of satisfaction that conies to professors and adminis- trative officers of a great university arises from the filial affection of the alumni for their Alma Mater. One can not think of an American university without the alumni or conceive of its progress apart from their interest. From the old colonial days, with the founding of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, down to the present day the alumni of our university have played a prominent role. They are the fruits of the university ' s efforts; by them the institutions are to be judged. The alumni form an integral part of a university; you can not get away from this fact. The University of Iowa is proud of her sons and daughters and of the part they have taken in the life of the Commonwealth and of the Nation. Some of them stand at the very summit of state and national and world affairs. Those who have not attained to the heights have, in their modest way, served as leaven to elevate mankind. The University has served them well, and they are handing on the torch to genera- tion after generation of students. In the current Directory of Living Graduates of the University of Iowa upwards of 12,000 men and women are listed, and we are sending forth more than a thousand new graduates every year. Among them are doctors and lawyers, preachers and teachers, scientists and artists, bankers and farmers, engineers and merchants, writers, nurses, soldiers, homemakers they have entered into every field of human endeavor. Their influence has not been merely potential it has been very real. They are beloved of Old Gold. I sometimes wonder how many alumni realize to the full the service which they can and should render to the University. In the conferring of degrees the phrase- ology is employed : With all the rights, privileges, and obligations pertaining thereto here and elsewhere. These rights and privileges are tangible; so are the obligations. The fact is that the obligations of any educated person are very definite, particularly those of a graduate from a state-supported institution. The State of Iowa expends its millions upon the University because its people believe in the power of education in a commonwealth. In return the State has a right to expect something more than perfunctory service; men are too apt to take the state ' s bounty for granted. Not least among the obligations of the graduates and the former students of Iowa is the duty to maintain an understanding sympathy with the effort of the State to educate its citizenry. Fortunately the romantic bond which ties an alumnus to his Alma Mater tends to perpetuate this sympathy and make it effective. So long as such filial love continues, the power of the University to serve will live and increase. The University of Iowa believes in her alumni. I am much pleased that the editors have dedicated the 1926 Hawkeve to them. Page Tvitnty-thrtt

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ON July 1, 1909, the management and control of the State University of Iowa was assumed by the Iowa State Board of Education. This board consists of nine members, who are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. Three of the members of the board were appointed for two years, three for four years and three for six years. Offices are maintained by the board at the state capitol, as well as at each of the institutions under the control of this board. The board is required to have four regular meetings each year and may hold additional ones on the call of the president or secretary. The state board of education is vested with the power to elect a president and treasurer for each of the institutions under its control, and professors, instructors, officers and employees; to fix the com- pensation to be paid to such officers and employees. It is the duty of this board to make rules and regulations for the government of these schools ; to manage and control the property belonging to these institutions, and to direct the expenditure of all appropriations the general assembly shall make to these schools. The finance committee, composed of three members, is chosen by the board from outside its own membership. The board appoints one of the members of the finance committee as chairman and one as secretary, and the secretary of board. The secretary has charge of the general offices and of all books and papers of the board. The members of this commission visit each of the institutions once a month and familiarize themselves with the work being done there. Page Twenty-five