University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Aidiaainisttratiota ANNE DUDLEY BLITZ frigblj THERE is NO DAY OF REST for Dean of Women Anne Dudley Blitz. Even on Sunday she has the troubles of 7,000 women on her hands. Parties and house rules, student govern- ment and jobs for working girls all come under her watchful eye. Her most thrilling achievement of the year is the building of the new women's dormitory, for it has been one of her pet projects for years. It is a strange week when she gives less than three talks, she says she wishes she were the Dionne quintuplets. Her hobbies-one Pekinese dog, one Angora cat, a collection of early American glass, and her own antique jewelry that she makes of silver and semi-precious gems. DR. RUTH BOYNTON lrigblj DR. RUTH BOYNTON just grew up with the Student Health service. She was serv- ing her internship at University hospital during the World war influenza epidemic when fraternities, partially emptied by enlistment and the draft, were used to house patients. She was here during the second epidemic in 1922 when the base- ment of Pillsbury was filled with beds for women and the Union with beds for men. As the University grew, Dr. Boyn- ton increased her staff and its facilities until she is now director of a health cen- ter nationally known for its experimental studies. Busy as she is, she still has time for the League of NVomen Voters, pho- tography and gardening. WALTER C. COFFEY Q Ucfll culture under his supervision, Walter C. Coffey, dean and director of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, has more than a Campus unit to administrate. He directs the activities of the College of Agricul- ture, Forestry and Home Economics, the four schools of agriculture and six ag- ricultural experiment stations located throughout the state, the fourteen short courses for men and women actively en- gaged in farming and allied industries, and the state-wide extension division which has agents in every Minnesota county. His own major field is sheep husbandry which he taught at the University of Illi- nois before coming here in 1921. WITH EVERY PHASE of University agri- w RALPH D. CASEY jbelowj PROPAGANDA IS HIS SPECIALTY but Ralph D. Casey, chairman of the department of journalism, is no propagandist. Instead he writes text books and edits the Journalism Quarterly. Since he left active reportorial work on the Seattle Post-I1zie1Iige11fm', he has been a professor of journalism and student of public opinion. Two years ago as holder of a Guggenheim fellowship, he spent a year abroad studying public opin- ion in England. His most recent work is a chapter, Public Opinion in Wartinie in the book XVar in the Twentieth Cen- turyf' He is chairman of the editorial committee of the Board of Publications, governing body, and of the Minnesota Editors' Shortcourse.

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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.

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EVERETT FRASER fbvloiul WHEN DEAN EVERETT FRASER began to study law, he intended to be a politician. But before I was half through, he said, I knew that politics was no place to try to combine money-making with honesty. After serving his apprenticeship with a law firm in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he be- gan teaching law and studying economic and international affairs after class hours. In 1917 he came to the University as a professor of law and in 1920 he became dean of the law school. In 1928 he pre- sented the case for the University fUni- versity vs. Chasej in which the constitu- tional status of the school was determined, and the freedom of the University from legislative control established. Administration KATHARINE DENSFCRD llfffl THE TRADITION of the Lady with the Lamp has presented an ideal and a challenge to every generation of women since the beginning of professional nursing. Katharine J. Dens- ford has met that challenge ever since her first practice work sent her to Vassar Training camp for war nurses in 1918. She did not intend to be a nurse when she graduated from Miami University and went on to get her M.A. at the University of Chicago, but since leaving her academic teaching position at Bismarck, North Dakota, she has devoted herself entirely to the nursing profession. She came to the University as director of the school of nursing in 1930. HAROLD S. DIEI-IL llfffi BORED WITH TEACHING mathematics and athletics, Harold S. Diehl, Dean of the Medical Sciences, found in medicine a constant challenge and stimulus to his mind. There is always something new to learn, he says of his profession. Dr. Diehl was with the hospital unit in France in 1918, and stayed with the American Red Cross to help in the rehabilitation of Poland after the World XVar. Director of the Student Health Service from 1921- 1935, he is deservedly proud of its de- velopment. For five years he has been studying colds and their prevention. The tennis coach here at one time, his present recreations include sailing, fishing, and camping in the mountains. EDWARD M. FREEMAN frigbil IT ISN,T THE FAILURES who are most interesting to Edward M. Freeman, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics. I-Ie prefers to help and advise the bright students who are actually on their wayf, At the recogni- tion assembly in the spring he makes sure that everyone who has done outstanding work receives some honorary mention. I Wfhen he himself was a senior, he began teaching botany in the Arts college. His work on wheat rust took him to the United States Department of Agriculture but he returned to the University as head of the school of plant pathology. For twenty-two years he has combined that position with administrative work as dean.