University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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FRED BEAL SNYDER FEW STUDENTS would recog- nize Fred Beal Snyder, 78-year-old president of the Board of Regents, if they saw him. Still fewer realize that Fred Beal Snyder has devoted nearly his whole life to the interests of the University. It was late in the last century when Mr. Snyder took over the activities relating to the University of his busy father-in-law, Governor Iohn S. Pillsbury, the 'Kfather of the Uni- versityf' Ever since that time, Regent Snyder has been fighting the enemies of academic freedom. As a mem- ber of the state legislature from 1895 to l90l, he kept before that body the ideal of a liberal, progressive state-supported school. Recognition for his services came in 1912 when Mr. Snyder was appointed to the Board of Regents. Two years later he was elected president of the board, a position he has held for twenty-Five years through the administrations of three University presidents. fPz'czurcd abozfaj regents IAMES FORD BELL DISTRICT 3, WAYZATA DANIEL C. CAINEY DISTRICT I, oWAToNNA GEORGE W. LAWSON DISTRICT 4, ST. PAUL GEORGE R. LEONARD DISTRICT S, IvIINNEAPoLIS DR. E. E. NOVAK DISTRICT 2, NEW PRAGUE A. I. oLSoN DISTRICT 7, RENVILLE MARTIN OLSON DISTRICT Io, VININC RAY I. QUINLIVAN DISTRICT 6, ST. CLOUD DR. E. I. RCCSTAD DISTRICT 9, DETROIT LAKES SI-IELDoN v. WOOD DISTRICT 5, MINNEAPCLIS HAROLD E. STASSEN HAROLD E. STASSEN, University Law school graduate, is the baby among governors. He is 32 years old, has broad shoulders, red hair and blue eyes. He Weighs 210 pounds and has a contagious smile. ln the last election cam- paign his youth and energy carried him over 20,000 Minnesota miles in his car bellowing into a back seat dictaphone between speeches. Result ..,. governor- ship for him and victory for the Republi- cans. fPiczu1'ed belonznj governor

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GUY sT.xNroN iforzn has been in the held of education all his life. I-Ie started teaching in the public schools of VN7isconsin after he had graduated from the University of VVisconsin in 1895. After a ycar's work at the University of Berlin, he got his Ph.D. at Columbia University. In 1933 he won the degree of Doctor of Literature from his alma mater. the Uni- versity of VVisconsin. having been honored in 1927, by an LL.D. from Lawrence col- lege. During the Wforld XVar President Ford was with George Creel's Committee on Public Information as director of civic and educational publications. I-Ie has taught history at Yale, the University of Illinois, and the University of Minnesota, where he was history instructor and Dean of the Graduate school for 25 years. In 1933, President Ford was awarded the diploma for distinguished service to sci- ence by the Minnesota chapter of Sigma Xi. He has twice been acting president of the University, in 1931 and 1932 and again in 1937 and 1938. I-Iis activities are many. For six years he was chairman of the board of editors of the American History Re- view. I-Ie was on the advisory council of the Guggenheim Foundation and on the staH of the Laura Spelman Rockerfeller Memorial in 1924 and 1925. This is the background and experience of the fifth president of the University of Minnesota. GUY STANTON FORD MLM A YoUNc impetuous fellow and you'd better keep your eye on melu said Guy Stanton Ford to the Board of Regents when he accepted the presidency last fall. And though his acceptance had climaxed a turbulent afternoon for the regents, there was rejoicing on the campus. President Ford is a favorite person with Minnesota students, few of whom have ever seen him except at a distance, but all of whom know him by his good works. Presi- dent Ford hates onions and cabbage and all foods that smell. Quote Mrs. Ford, Otherwise he doesn't pay much attention to the food he eatsf, The white-haired head of the University likes airplanes. It pleases him to be able to Hy from place to place, for he is a busy man. For relaxation give President Ford a good sym- phony or an opera. I-Iis wide knowledge and Hne appreciation of music add to his enjoyment of both. I-Ie looks like a philosopher and he speaks the lan- guage of this generation. I-Ie is what some of his students call, a swell guy.