University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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.

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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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Adminmtrefion WESLEY E. PEIK I rigbfl I HAVE so MANY HOBBIES that I don,t have any, declared Wesley E. Peik, Dean of the College of Education. He might have added that he is in so many organizations and on so many committees that he himself can scarcely list them all. His Hrst study of teaching techniques was experimental. He had just finished his senior year in high school when he was hired as the only teacher in a country school that had sixty pupils. His educa- tional methods and standards have changed a good deal since then. ln the meantime he has completed his education at Columbia and at Minnesota and done independent work in educational research. ERNEST B. PIERCE lrisbfl FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND ALUMNI keep in touch with the growing University through the alumni ofhce and its active secretary, Ernest B. Pierce. He first came into close Contact with the students as registrar of the University from 1904 to 1920. He points with pride to the Presi- dents, trees on the lower knoll whose planting he supervised when he was chair- man of the Committee on University Functions. An alumnus himself, he was a member of the 1904 national champion- ship basketball team and still keeps up his own athletic program. It was his class that contributed the University hymn, Minnesota, Hail to Theef' Today he is a leader in the Coffman Union drive. RUSSEL A. STEVENSON llfffl TO KEEP FEES DOWN is my main ob- jective, says chairman of the Fees Com- mittee Russel A. Stevenson whose oflicial position is Dean of the School of Business. A professional accountant before he be- came a professor, Dean Stevenson believes that accounting is the best fundamental training for a business career. He also worked in the evaluation of public util- ities. Whenever he can, he spends his vacations climbing mountains and he has already topped many of the peaks in the Rockies and Canadian coastal ranges. Last summer he tackled Mount McKinley in Alaska, but he did his climbing the easy way, in an automobile, and he never did reach the top. ROYAL R. SHUMWAY lbelowj THE MAN XVHO KNOWS all the reasons why students fail is Royal R. Shumway, Assistant Dean of the College of Science, Literature and the Arts. As head of the Student XVork Committee he gets his in- formation first hand-from the quak- ing students who answer his little White notes. Genial, fatherly, with an undeni- able resemblance to Irvin S. Cobb, Dean Shumway just smiles at the old excuses and looks behind every failure for the ugermsu that breed E's and E's. Thirty- seven years of teaching and counselling have made him wise. A dealer in failures, he is a success himself not only at work but in one of the rarer carpentering skills, master cabinet-making.