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

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ADELAIDE L. BURGE, Dean of Women DEAN OF WOMEN As early as 1868 an advisory leadership for women was instituted when Miss Susan E. Hale was selected Preceptress and was given oversight over all the young ladies in the University, a total of one hundred and seventy-three women in the Collegiate, Normal and Preparatory Departments. In 1900 the Board of Regents appointed Miss Alice Young to be the first Dean of Women under that official title. Mary Sleight Everts succeeded Miss Young in 1904, followed by Mrs. Mable Montgomery Volland in 1906. Miss Anna M. Klingen- hagen entered the office in 1909, remaining until 1918, when she was succeeded by Mrs. Nellie Slayton Aurner of the Department of English who served as Dean of Women until 1921. Mrs. Adelaide Lasheck Burge, L. A. 1900, who had been Assistant to Mrs. Aurner, assumed the responsibility of Dean of Women fourteen years ago. From her office in Old Capitol she guides and directs the individual and group activities of nearly two thousand girls. While the University has expanded and the number of students increased, the problems and difficulties as well as the achievements and successes of each girl have remained as real and important as ever. Freshman Lectures are an important aspect of the program in helping freshman girls to realize the oppor- tunities and resources of a college education, and of the role they must play in the campus community. The Freshman Orientation Program is a plan in which, under the direction of the Personnel Counselor, Miss Genevieve Chase, thirty faculty wives and sixty upper classmen combine in thirty trios to provide opportunities whereby the freshmen can make friendly contacts with both students and faculty members. Many of the interests of women students are expressed through campus organizations and activities. These or- ganizations, by working through the office of the Dean of Women, cooperate to achieve both the goals of the administration and the students. The influence and leadership of the Dean of Women is reflected in all branches of the university. Whether the problem be academic, social, financial, disciplinary or the adjusting of a detail of every day living, each student is given careful thought and consideration, with the hope that such interest and friendship will approxi- mate the guidance by the parents were she living in her own home. The main function of the office is to provide the human, personal touch in campus life and to offer to each young woman the opportunity for the development of a fine personality. [18]

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MESSAGE i! Wxwtory ' a. But if -e life of - read h .!. Lfl |(il w wi stude nt acti- fcfcawd figures of tee K t 3 fde Campus lAWKEYE . loits fiqrwsinvslueastlie Tte. . - H - Sena ' EUGENE A. GILMORE President, State University of Iowa

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omen . .- -wwioed - B0 wd Bty upper ; ? Of: DEAN OF MEN Recuperated from a year ' s illness, Dean Rienow re- turned last fall to take up the responsibilities of his office which had been taken care of during his absence by the assistant dean, Prof. Lonzo Jones. With the work all up to date, Dean Rienow was able to step back into his job without any loss of time or efficiency. Dean Rienow is the first and only Dean of Men, being chosen for this position in 1913 when the office was first originated. There are none but recognize him as a help- ful influence, and his organizing ability has kept his office a step ahead of the steady growth of the campus. Many who have been his assistants in the past have gone out to occupy positions similar to his in other universities. Not a problem arises that Dean Rienow is unable to meet and solve. Scarcely a man goes through the university without coming into direct contact at one time or another with this man who sits behind a desk in the basement of Old Capitol. With rare tact and genuine interest, Dean Rienow has made many friends among the student body whose affairs he watches over. If the male student fails to meet Dean Rienow in Freshman Lectures, a course designed to orient the new- comer with University conditions and regulations, he is very likely to meet him in one of the many other fields over which the Dean exercises supervision. Should the student live in the Quadrangle, a cooperative dormitory, or a fraternity, he is still under the wing of Dean Rienow, who is in charge of student housing. Should he seek employment or financial aid through the University, he will find that the Dean also administers these affairs. In case of illness, he will find that Dean Rienow is the man directing student health through a special division by that name. Few men indeed can graduate without being called into the Dean ' s office about some scholarship or disci- plinary problem, for these are things of which even the best of us run afoul occasionally. Dean Rienow listens with kindly interest and offers friendly, helpful advice and real assistance. ROBERT E. RIENOW, Dean