University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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.A.eClI'Jr'1u1.1i11SilffIdi1Q11 CARRCLL S. GEDDES frigbtl BLACKSTONE XVAS NEVER A 1X4ATCH for activities in the tug-of-war for the time and talents of undergraduate Carroll Geddes. Dean Fraser finally ugaven him to the Uni- versity by suggesting that the law was not for Carroll. Now his hobby and his business are the same-people. His experience on the Union Board of Governors, the lnterfra- ternity Council and the Senate Committee on Athletics and as 1927 Homecoming chair- man led to his position as financial adviser and brother confessor to student organizations. He believes that the student body is wiser and more serious today than it has been in the past, but it still has plenty of problems for him to solve. WILLIAM F. LASBY I rigbll PHI BETA KAPPA and a member of the International Association of Dental Re- search, Dean Wfilliam F. Lasby of the School of Dentistry admits that his voca- tion is his favorite hobby, and he always has time to show visitors around the large dental clinic which he helped to plan and build seven years ago. Since he began teaching at Minnesota in 1908, many of his students have taken prominent teach- ing positions in the United States and foreign countries. Dean Lasby's prize pos- session is a portrait album of the present faculty of the Dental School given to him this year when the alumni gathered to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the school's founding. SAMUEL C. LIND llfffl THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY can thank pure chance for its twinkle-eyed, smiling Dean Samuel C. Lind. His inter- est in the field of physical science began almost by accident. During high school he had majored in languages-Old Eng- lish, Greek, French, Spanish. In his senior year he took a course in chemistry just to H11 the natural science requirement. It fascinated him so much that he decided to go on and today he is a recognized scientist. He is especially noted for his research in the field of radium. Although his fellow students at Leipzig called him uJenny,', he denies any relationship to the singer and admits that he can't sing a note. ...V.ff-yeas ., --.-. , V aaa-my ifK.-Q.-f-ima,aaa-Q-Asa-.ati fs.: fjav--.f... .. ai, WY.. is- . 1, .. a Zgjzfifi, s a sh we wif Q Q 0 g3?36g..wg X, g.. W X tio M . , gg 4 1. ORA M. ORA MINE? tration of . can talk fol museum. lr act of the prohibiting the men vs practice! 1' Michigan a in geodetic termining t and Canada taught civi astronomy versity befi 1920. He s1 a clear ni gl

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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.

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DXVI HT E. MI NICH G N lllulowj BIOLOGY IS so INTERESTING that after twenty years Dwight E. Minnich, chair-- man of the Department of Zoology, still thoroughly enjoys his classes. That is why his classes enjoy Mr. Minnich. During the summer he continues his Zoological re- search at Mount Desert Island Biological Station in Maine where he is studying the physiology of animal behavior. His cur- rent project is investigation of the re- action of lower animals to light, but he isn't interested in Zoology alone. He is a collector of a great many things--among them antique furniture and Hne prints of natural history subjects that date from the seventeenth to the nineteenth cen- turies. EDWARD E. NICHOLSON Administration MALCOLM S. MAC LEAN llfffl A HLORD or THE PRESSU before he became a faculty man, Malcolm S. MacLean, Dean of the General College, once was owner-editor of the Lagoona Beach Life in California. H: filled so many editorial and reportorial positions on the Minneapolis T1'ib1z11e that he understands every phase of newspaper work as thoroughly as he does the problems of education. This is his twenty-first year at the University. He is no mere amateur with a camera although he does photographic work purely as a hobby. Several of his prints have been shown in the International Salon exhibits, but he still likes best of all to take pictures of his old dog Sox. ' I' 'NVILLIAM T. MIDDLEBROOK as Ilefij A A BIG-BUs1NEss LIAN with education for sale is XVilliam T. Middlebrook, Univer- jdfiff? . sity Comptroller, whose duty is to keep his ten million dollar enterprise well in the black. Six new buildings in a single year are financial problems enough for one man, but he has more than museums and dormitories to worry about. Securities and real estate and cash on hand have to be balanced against purchases of everything from thumbtacks to telescopes. XVhen his books are in order he likes to slip away to his camp on Whiteish Lake to hunt, or Esh in the wilds for muskies. His favorite campus project-a snow week bigger and better than that of his old school, Dart- mouth. Ifiizbfl WHEN EDXVARD E. NICHOLSON, chemis- try instructor, began helping solve stu- dent problems back in 1895, he would never have believed that forty-four years later there would be 10,000 people com- ing to him for advice in a single year. But that is the number of students and par- ents who are helped annually through his office. In 1916 his counselling experi- ence led to his appointment as first Dean of Student Affairs. Since then not even hunting and fishing have been able to compete with student problems for his wholehearted interest. He is proud that of the thousands who talked things over with Dean Nick last year only seventy- live had to come to him for discipline.