University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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PRESIDENT ON LEAVE of absence this year because of illness, our fifth president, Dr. l.otus Delta Coffman, has done more for this university than would seem humanly possible for one man. Since H120 when he became president the enrollment has increased one hundred per cent, and the Univer- sity has become recognized as one of the best in the country. The president, who left for Tuscon, Arizona, in January to regain his health, has been very ill since a heart attack last summer. He Wants to get well soon so that he will be all ready in the spring for golf and fishing. Catch' ing 300 pound marlin is a favorite sport of his. Taking President Coffman's place this year is Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, dean of the Graduate school and a professor in law. LOTUS D. CGFFMAN GUY STANTON FORD My IDEA of two students on the knoll in May, 1938 paging through this new Gopher: lV1essage from the Acting President. VVhat about? Skip it. Did you see my picture in the Chi Alpha Tau group? Isn't it t-e-r-r-iab-l-e? 'KBut look at me. VVould you know it. Pm a perfect f-r-i-g-h-t l D If my enthusiasm about college annuals seems somewhat torpid, even anemic, the able and hardworking editors of this contribution to college memories and printers' profits will understand. Gur family attic contains a fractional ton of them representing four different college generations and there are nephews and grandchildren still to educate. I can at least report that reduced to the symbolism of an annual and the senility of passing years Gophers and Badgers sleep peacefully side by side in their shrouds of cobwebs and dust. I do want to repay the courtesy and labors of the editors of this year's Gopher by expressing two hopes. I hope that their book will help you, its readers, to recall now and ever pleasant associations with your fellow students during years of opportunity such as will rarely come to any of you again. My second hope is that out of these years you have derived things more precious than can be compassed by any college annual. To the generous appreciation of what is best in your fellows I hope you have added a day by day loyalty to what is best in yourselves and to the values that lie in personal integrity, tolerance and the open mind. If you and your generation relegate these things to the attics of your mind you and we, your friends and teachers, will have failed. GUY STA'N'roN FORD flrfizzg Presiflwzf

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College students are all right,'J claims Regent RAY QUINLIVAN of St. Cloud. The war veteran says he is opposed to Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan and does not favor branch universities. KUppe1f leflj. Proud of his Main Street QSauk Centrej is joking banker BENJAMIN DuBois, who neither fishes, hunts, nor plays checkers. The staunch Democratic New Deal supporter marvels at the universityls size. fUppe1f' middlej. For twenty-three years he has been secretary-treasurer of the Nlinnesota State Federation of Labor and the former Shoemaker, GEORGE LAWSON, believes Every child has a right to an education. flfpper rigfzrj. The youngster on the Board, LEWIS LOHMANN, who is forty-two years old, is an active American Legion worker. The St. Paul attorney claims fishing as his favorite hobby. fCem'e1f ffiglzlj. A proponent of branch colleges, DR. VVILLIAM JAMES MAYO is best known for his work in the Rochester Mayo clinic. He has been a regent for thirty-one years. fCenre1f midcilej. Present day college students are very good, sensible American citizen, says FRANK MURPHY, a Wheatoii, lVlinnesOta, law- yer, but he just can't help thinking of those students as children. KCM1- fer rigfzzj. President of the Olson Clinic, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons is DR. ALBERT E. OLSON of Duluth, a regent since 1933 and a marked liberal. fllofwer Zeffj. A national guard ofhcer for seventeen years is ALBERT PFAENDER. The free-lance Democrat prefers wild west stories and says Students don't feel that the world owes them a living. fLower middlej. The newest member on the board and the second farmer is O. M. PETERSON or the 'fAlbert Lea dirt farmer. He says, 'fThe University is doing a good job. fL0wer righlj. 8 REGENTS He looks very much like Vice President Garner. But Otter- tail County's MARTIN GLSON said it still doesn't help him to learn any solution for the farmer's difficul- ties. fBeZow righlj He fled from Russii after reading Kar Marx. The newly ap pointed GEORG. LEONARD, Minneapc lis attorney, onc turned down the ollic of Chief Justice ofth lVlinnesota Sup rem Court. fBel0w left, The oldest member of the Board of Regents FRED SNYDER who is also Chairman of t Board. A staunch supporter of the Universi since 1875 when he entered, he is now knot as the f'University spokesman. He wears t Phi Beta Kappa key and is a Nlinneapolis la yer. Appointed to the Board of Regents Governor A. O. Eberhardt, the seventy-eig year old chairman knows he has a big job t wouldnlt graduate for anything. ffilelow Amie i l i i L... L.

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SHE doesn't like radio crooners, nor listen to jazz bands. Our Dean of VVomen, ANNE DUDLEY BLITZ, doesnlt even waste time on 'fSkum. She's too busy. Supervisor of all cam- pus women's activities and women's residences she concentrates on im- provement of sororities in her spare time once mothering the idea of one house for all sororities. But no matter how many interests she has, her heart still lies with her Pekingese, antique furniture, jewelry and glassware. fUppe1f Zeflj ROYAL R. SHUMWAY hasn't read a Gopher since 1903, that makes it safe to tell the real zruzh. Officially he is chairman of the Student Work com- mittee. In reality he is campus Dean of the Woodshed, noted for his Dutch Unclel' reprimands, severe but just. He specializes in registration, in private sessions with misfits, pro- bationers and delinquents. But even those whom he meets in the line of duty like him-his smile gives him away. fUppe1f righzj As a lad he wanted to become a cue star, as a collegiate he was afraid of girls, when he grew older, he was presented with a non-droppable land- ing net with wrist-chain attachment. Our Dean of Student Affairs, EDWARD E. N1cHoLsoN, idealist and reaction- ary, once defended the student body against charges of being dreamy and impractical? He defines education as the gathering and maintaining of an active interest in things going on around one. fLo'wer Zefzfj He may be called the father of the Extension department movement, for RICHARD R.PR1cE in 1909 created the Extension division of the Univer- sity of Kansas, the Hrst educational department of its kind in the United States. In IQI3 he was lured to Min- nesota to help organize and to head its Extension department which has enjoyed twenty-five years of profit- able activity, all under his direction. ln these years he has handled every- thing from embalming to meta- physics. fLofwer righzfj li