University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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1 ,-. ...hy ,Q Jw ,fn 1. TI A P-g .L-Q, 35,1 My 1.. nk, Back 1-owzsheldon V, Wood, Dr. F. J. Rogstad, Daniel C. Gainey, A. J. Olson, James F. Bell, Dr. E. E. Novak, Albert Pfaender Front row: R. L. Griggs, William T. Middlebrook, President Guy Stanton Ford, Fred B. Snyder, George W. Lawson JAMES F. BELL DANIEL C. GAINEY RICHARD L. GRIGGS GEORGE W. LAWSON ALBERT J. LOBB E. E. NOVAK A. J. OLSON ALBERT PFAENDER RAY J. QUINLIVAN F. J. ROGSTAD FRED B. SNYDER, P1'esirle11t SI-IELDON V. XVOOD AROUND THE LONG TABLE in the conference room just down the hall from the president's office University policy is made. It is the meeting room of the Board of Regents, the twelve appointees of the Governor of Minnesota who represent the people of the state in the direction of their University. Law- yers, businessmen, dirt farmers, natives of the lake ports, the prairie towns and the cities, they leave personal interests behind them when they discuss administrative problems with the president and the faculty and student representations who come before them. As advisers they present the opinions of those who are away from the scholastic atmosphere of the University, they do not stoop to arbitrary rule nor needless interference with the action of the school,s directors. Last year they authorized construction of six new buildingsg they ac- cepted gifts for a variety of projects, they established the University civil service and the group hospitalization plan for faculty and staffg they declared again the freedom of the faculty from coercion and censorshipg and they passed the scores of acts and resolutions that keep their campus com- munity of more than 20,000 people working harmoniously for the good of the school and state. MINNEAPOLIS OWATONNA DULUTH ST. PAUL ROCHESTER NEW PRAGUE RENVILLE NEW ULM ST. CLOUD DETROIT LAKES MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS 1945 1943 1945 1945 1941 1943 1943 1941 1945 1943 1941 1941 REGENTS, PR ESIDE FRED B . SNYDER

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IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN the day before yester- day. President Ford didn,t get up early, he doesn,t like to. So he didn't get to the of- Hce until ten o'clock. His desk was already stacked high with mail and memoranda, the day's schedule mapped. The parade of visi- tors began-a dean to discuss a gift to his department, a father to explain why all of his four children had become university problems, the inevitable reporter, Comp- troller Middlebrook already planning the 1941 budget. Invitations and requests, three chances a day to sing a song of social sig- nificancef, as he says, at major gatherings. Across the city after lunch to confer, to recommend, to listen. And afterward he played a game of golf with young-hearted, white-haired Dean Thomas. At dinner his wife and his St. Paul newsman son, the fam- ily's grandmother and a nephew in Arts college shared the gleanings of their varied days on the one night of the week that they dined at home and alone. Long after the evening concert was ended' he was still awake reading a gift copy of a recent history book, or K-iffy Foyle. Tonight he may read Thomas Mann. LAYJX ED AND S620 Waite-Hiaiiile YIKESXDEN eva,-.wh I ,- I .,..,,f .mv f- 1, ,J - - ,-.,, I i lffiwilwl ill ---5. '11, 1 'i fxawl ,. . , . 1, .. -.. .. Y... ..,., ra. .Lac . THE DAILY ROUTINE OF ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS IN JUNE, 1892, the eighteen-year-old teacher of a one-room school in Bremer county, Iowa, put away his primers and spellers, stacked the erasers and locked his schoolroom door, determined that he would not be the one to open it in the fall. Guy Stanton Ford liked schoolmastering, but he wanted an education. He was not satished with what he had learned in his farm childhood, his smalltown youth, his years at Upper Iowa University. He was not yet satisfied when, a graduate of Wisconsin, he was made a superintendent of schools at Grand Rapids. At twenty-five he was back at Madison again, laying a foundation that was to bring him recognition as a historian and writer as well as an educator. When he had exhausted Mid- west source material in his field of European history, he studied abroad at Marburg and Berlin. While he prepared his doctorate, he returned to the pedestrian task of schoolmastering Yale's 'undergraduates and in 1903 received his Ph.D. at Columbia. From Yale to Illinois and in 1913 to Minnesota he brought his broad and alert interpretations of history and education. As Dean of the Graduate school at a time when the University was expanding and reorienting itself in research and advanced work, he helped guide policy and practice along 'constructive lines. The University Press, the General College, cooperative research, the University College and innumerable forward- looking projects owe their acceptance to his influence. He had no desire for academic honors, Only a fondness for the Uni- versity and a faith in the work it will do led Guy Stanton Ford to accept the presidency of the University of Minnesota in 1938 and to enliven it with the spirit of his own scholarly humanity.