University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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IN 1857 Dean VVilley's grandfather came to Nlinnesota as a pioneer and seventy years later lX'1AI.C01.M XVII.- LEY came to Minnesota as an asso- ciate professor of sociology, later to become University Dean. Though he manages convocations, has charge of the Federal Students, and is the as- sistant to' the president, Dean lVilley thinks he lives a rather prosaic life. Of convocations, Dean NVilley says that the one Where Alexander VVool- cott spoke attracted most attention. fUpper leffj 'When he graduated in 1939 the office he now holds did not exist. Whether or not it was created for CARROLL GEDDES it has helped cam- pus organizations tremendously. Prominent in activities not long ago, this member of the administration Whom almost everyone calls by his first name, now uses his previous ex- perience in keeping all organizations in the black. He also keeps harmony in campus politics and advises publi- cation heads. fUpper riglzfj ALUMNI SECRETARY, ERNEST B. PIERCE, keeps 40,000 alumni in touch With the University. In addition to publishing the Alumni VVeekly and Alumni Directories, he plans class re- unions and alumni reunions all over the country and attends many of them. He belongs to the National Association of Alumni Secretaries and knows personally thousands of alumni from all classes. Mr. Pierce thinks the most delightful contact he has re- ceived from his job is knowing all five presidents intimately. fL0we1f Zefzfj Service enterprises, investments, trust funds, the printing department, and all other departments affecting the University financially are headed up by WILLIAM T. MIDDLEBROOK, Comptroller of the University, who manages all of the business side of the University, which means he runs a ten million dollar a year plant. A graduate of Dartmouth, and formerly Comptroller at Purdue, Mr. Middle- brook's log cabin, and his hunting and golfing allord him relaxation from high finance. fLo'wer rightj