University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Mean Anne D. Bln dean of women Friend, counselor, helper: it is in these roles that Anne Dudley Blitz. Dean of Women, appears before the women of the University of Minnesota. Her interests are as numerous, her activities as legion as the number of women enrolled on the campus. Their problems are her problems. A desire to promote and maintain the highest standards of university life guides her decisions and helps her to solve problems of academic life. In a great urban university, where approximately one-half of the women students reside at home, it is an arduous task to develop 3 unified purpose, a spirit of co-operation, and a harmony of interest essential to progressive university living. Problems involving student living conditions, vocational guidance, student self-support, student loans and scholarships are referred to the dean. As a means toward realization of her aims, there are three units on the campus co-operating with the dean: the Women s Self-Government Association, which unifies the interests of all women: the Y. W. C. A., which adds spiritual values to the mass of activities: and the Women's Athletic Association, which encourages women s sports on the campus. The dean's office was created twenty-four years ago in response to a need recognized by the newly organized women. The advice given by the office has helped women students in fields of activity loo numerous to mention. Encouraging women to higher scholarship is one of the dean's most constructive services. 21

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Dean E. E. Nicholson dean of men A dual purpose guides the decisions of Edward E. Nicholson, dean of student affairs, who is the official advisor to the students on the University of Minnesota campus. On the one hand he gives advice to groups and to individual students, and on the other, he guides the welfare of the men students of the University. Matters of discipline are also handled in his office. The office of the Dean of Student Affairs was inaugurated at Minnesota ten years ago. but during this time it has rendered a wide variety of services to the student body. The office was created because of the need of intelligent counsel in the process of education, and because the University of Minnesota wishes each graduate to go out into the world an experienced individual. Campus activities in which the welfare of the student is involved, whether it be student publications, social life, athletics, dramatics, or student government are under his supervision. It is in this connection that the dean cordially welcomes all who seek his advice. The dean attempts to coordinate the several parts of the University for the good of all and to interpret the student body to the faculty and the administration to the students. In determining the constructive values of extra-curricular activities and of social life, the dean attempts to give the student an understanding of his place in relation to the fundamental purpose of the university. Dean Nicholson, in this role of mediary. has proved himself a capable executive and a staunch friend of the student body. Dean Nicholson is aided by Otis C. McCreery. assistant dean, who has charge of fraternity regulations. Mary P. Skinner, assistant to the dean, and Jabez L. Bostwick, student service fellow. 20

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Hon. IreJ B. Snyder board of regents Hon. Egil Boeckmann Mon. Ciias. R. Butler Hon. Julius A. Coi.LER Hon. W. H. Gemmlll Hon. O. J. Hagen Hon. William J. Mayo - St. Paul - Mankato - Shakopec • Brainerd • Moorhead - Rochester Hon. A. J. Olson - - Renville Hon. Rueus R. Rand. Jr. Wayzata Hon. Fred B. Snyder Minneapolis Hon. John G. Williams - Duluth Hon. J. V. Williams - Marshall Hon. Bess M. Wilson - Minneapolis 22