University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Dean nf Students Dean Edmund G. Williamson's office was the hub around which nine student service bureaus revolved . . . the ofhces covered every phase of a student's extracurricular life . . . a freshman was referred by the Housing Bureau to a rooming house gleaned from a list of available housing in the area . . . he climbed Hights to the attic of Folwell for a test at the Speech Clinic . . . headed for the student coun- seling bureau, which, with the Veterans, Counseling bureau, carried on testing, diagnosis, and counseling of vocational, educational and social probems. Sooner or later he became acquainted at 209 Eddy Hall . . . the Student Activities Bureau, handling the problems and paper Work of over 270 campus or- ganizations . . . advice was available on how much of which activities to participate in . . . all foreign students Were interviewed by Forrest Moore to aid them in adjusting themselves to the University . . . George B. Risty of the Bureau of Student Loans and Scholarships administered all grants, loans and schol- arships . . . and was ready with financial advice for any who asked . . . a mobile speech clinic under Miss Laila Larson toured the state testing high school students. It was the job of the Dean of Students' office to coordinate these services . . . and to see that they reached the greatest number of students possible. Edmund G. Williamson, dean of students, gets things in order before going to Germany tall quarter. Theron Johnson became acting Dean of Students in Dean Williamson's absence. FRONT ROW: Viola May Brandon, acting assistant director, Barbara Robertson, Joan Clark, Theron Johnson, director. BACK ROW: Howard Jensen, James Hall, Robert Zumwinlxle, Edmund Babcock, all of the Student Activities Bureau. Q Y,,,, 'li .Qi 11: , Page 25

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The Ag campus was as crowded as the rest of the University this year . . . but a well-knit de- partment kept the schoolis informal atmosphere . . . gave a record 1860 students extensive and thorough training in agriculture, forestry and home economics. Although nine out of ten students were vet- erans, the campus resumed a prewar aspect . . . most professors were back from war . dor- mant campus organizations mushroomed by the score . . . the Department of Forestry was back to normal size. It was the aim of the department to carry edu- cation to the farmer as well as teaching under- graduates . . . 4-H club leaders and home dem- onstration leaders of the Minnesota Agricultural extension service worked with county agricultural agents . . . the department published carloads of pamphlets on every phase of farming, forestry and homemaking . . . claimed it could answer almost any question . . . and found itself doing just that . . . short courses on a bewildering vari- ety of subjects were crammed . . . the department of Agriculture mapped a road to scientific and productive farming for the Minnesota farmer . . . and lightened his wife's work with helpful hints on homemaking. THE EVER-JOVIAL Dean Henry Schmitz of the College of Agriculture Forestry and Home Economics, exhibits his serious side. Dean Schmitz besides his regular duties, finds time to act as President Morrill's repre- sentative on the Board of Publications, and talre part in activities of the Ag Union Board, Senate Committee on Student Affairs, the Gen- eral College Advisory Committee, and the All-U Library Committee A FACULTY MEMBER dips into the punch bowl at the student-faculty reception held fall quarter at the Ag school. Page 27