University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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A Scotchman from Prince Edward Island, Ev13R13'r'r FR.-xs12R's favorite song is 'fAuld Lang Synef' The Dean of the Law School prefers camping, fishing, and hunting to working. He says that if he were not a law instruc- tor, he would like to be an economist. Dean Fraser achieved national dis- tinction in his field when he was cho- sen as the best qualified man in the country in common law and was asked to restate America's real prop- erty laws. fUppw' Ivffj Although EDNVIXRD lNfI. FRIQEM,-iN is dean of the College of Agriculture and a Phi Beta Kappa, his real bid to a spot in the Hall of Fame is as orig- inator of the Little Red Oil Can, Christmas award to the most out- standing farm campus student. The Freeman hledal for Student Leader- ship, annually awarded for notable school service, was established by for- estry students in recognition of its Dean's Work in developing a whole- some campus atmosphere. fUpper riglztj VVhen DEAN lVlELVIN 1-1.-XGGERTY of the College of Education died October 6, 1937, the University lost not only a man accomplished in his field but also a man With broad cul- tural interests and a keen enjoyment of life. He said he did a little of everything, meaning fishing, tramp- ing, golfing, playing bridge. He once led a research committee studying teaching methods, devised a new method for rating schools, and spoke in every state on educational pro- grams. KL0fwe1f leftj A Lieutenant Colonel in the Den- tal Reserve Corps of the Army, DEAN WILLIAM LASBY of the School of Dentistry claims his profession his primary hobby. As a member of the Senior League golf team he also likes golf along with photography. The vice president of the honorary dental fraternity was elected presi- dent of the Association of Dental schools in 1934, but claims more pride in the number of prominent gradu- ates of his school than in his own laurels. fLowe1f righzfj

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CHEERY, round-faced DR. RUTH BOYNTON, Director of the Student Health Service, says that gardening and photography are her hobbies. Her main enthusiasm is flowers with the delphinum her favorite. Her photography is usually miniature. Between health examinations she car- ries on medical research to improve university conditions, acts as secretary of the American Student Health As- sociation and works with the League of Women Voters. She believes there is room in Medical Research for cap- able women. flfpper riglzzfj SHE does not keep a diary, she keeps a journal. Miss KATHARINE DENS- FORD, director of the school of nurs- ing, who is now on sabbatical leave, went to Europe last July for the ln- ternational Council of Nurses, re- turned to Columbia for a quarter in September, and was off on a trip around the World in February. Trav- eling is her hobby, nursing, her work. She formerly taught history, but dur- ing the War started nursing at V assar's training camp. fUppe1f Zefzj Sending a President of these Unit- ed States the araspberryn has no doubt been the desire of plenty of people for many years, but it took WALTER C. COFEEY, Dean of the Department of Agriculture, actually to do it in 1928 and to receive, as his reward, an invitation to dine at the White House. The President was Calvin Coolidge. And the raspberry was of the world-famed Latham variety raised on our university experimental farm. fLower riglzlj Tennis and teaching led DR. HAR- oLD DIEHL, Dean of Medical Science to study medicine. Always in college activities, he spent summers working at Atlantic coast resorts, was a street car conductor and night garage man- ager. He taught mathematics and coached athletics in high school where he played tennis with a doctor, be- came bored with teaching and decided to study medicine. His most fascin- ating experience was helping recon- struct Poland with the American Red Cross after the World War. KLofwe1f Zeflj

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THROUGH him Minnesota is the first institution of its kind to give flight training to aeronautical engineers. ORA MINER LELAND, Dean of Ad- ministration of Architecture and En- gineering has a mountain named after him on the Canada-Alaska boundary which he aided in determining along with that of Panama and Costa Rica. In 1933 he was elected to the National Land Grant Colleges and Universities executive committee. But Albie,', an albino squirrel who breakfasts on the Leland doorstep, is the Dean's newest problem. fUppe1f Zefzj A TROUT fisherman and mountain climber whose specialty is the study of radium is DR. C. S. LIND, Dean of the College of Chemistry. He ought to enjoy himself when he goes to the International Union of Chem- istry in Rome next summer! In honor of his radium studies he has served on the national committee in- vestigating the deaths of women painting radium dials on watches and also worked with Otto Hahn and the late Madam Curie. fUpper ffighzfj A PARADOX to all S. L. SL A. students is MALCOLM S. MACLEAN. He once owned a newspaper in California, has been an English instructor here and now directs the General college so competently that other Universities are calling on him to help them estab- lish similar ones. Harvard extended the most recent recognition of his doc- trine that 'fnon-specializing students should take a practical curriculum, not a classical one by asking him to give their annual Inglis lecture this Winter. KLofwer Zefzfj KITHEY call me wall-eyed, says DR. W. E. PEIK, Acting Dean of the College of Education, who, inciden- tally, likes very much to fish. The kind of fishing doesn't matter, just so it isn't at the same place. He says he never works, that there is nothing he enjoys more than education. Begin- ning as a country school teacher earn- ing S35 a month, he has gained na- tional prominence through his sur- veys of teacher training in colleges and universities. KLOTXJEV riglzzfj