University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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COLLEGE OF DEAN O. I. FERGUSON To the Students: Tradition, that which through the years gives individuaUty and personality to colleges end insti- tutions, has many things to say about the College of Engineering. It designates our courses as difficult, and our curricula as exacting, it relates that our students are hard-working and consistently depend- able; that our instructors are able and responsive. It asserts that we have always made the best use of our opportunities and facilities, find it rates our graduates as men of parts, who are adequately pre- pared to do arduous tasks and assume tremendous responsibilities. Our present students must needs do well, if they would perpetuate this tradition which our alumni have established. They have attained national renown for bridge-building; for highway construc- tion; for electrical apparatus design and construc- tion; for manufacturing of engineering equipment; for research in magnetic alloys; for application of engineering to agriculture; for mine operations; for management of public utilities; for leadership in engineering education; for statistical engineering studies. Their many successes are undeniable proof of our assertion that, despite our meager and inadeauate equipment, and although we are in part shabbily housed, our graduates rank with the finest from other colleges, upon the campus, and in their work abroad in both our own and other lands. Our graduates constitute our chief pride. Sincerely,

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DENTRISTY The Dentistry library, with Miss Martha Hoover in charge Dental College juniors and seniors gain experience here. THE head of the Dental College was bom on a farm in Pawnee County, February 18, 1880, and remembers distinctly the blizzard of 1888. His education began in DuBois and Paw- nee City schools, con;inued with a D.D.S. acquired at the Lincoln Dental College in 1912, and was completed at the University of Nebraska in 1923 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Dr. Grubb has also the distinction of being a Fellow of the International College of Dentists. His work has involved him in many activities of the dental field, and it is to be especially noted that he has attended annual sessions of the American Dental Association for seventeen successive years, those sessions being held from Minneapolis to New Orleans, from Los flngeles to Boston. Various offices in the city of Lincoln and the state of Nebroska dental societies take up much spare time, if a busy dean of a personally supervised college and clinic can be said to have such. The Dental College of the University of Nebraska has been in its present modem quart- ers onlv since 1928. Previous to that time, it had been affiliated with Cotner College until 1904, when it became associated with the University; in this capacity it occupied downtown rented quarters, floart from training dentists for the state, the College of Dentistry gives general dental service to tne public, does x-ray work for dental practitioners, and exchange service with the Lincoln health department. Since August, 1933, the school has carried an A rating with the Dental Educational Council of America, the national rating body. One reason for this high standing is the constant increase in work required for entrance into pro- fessional work. In 1900, entrance to the three- year professional study could be made with only one year of high school work, but by 1906, the requirement was increased to four years. In 1921, one year of work in a liberal arts col- leqe was made a prerequisite. For the year 1937, two years of liberal arts will be demanded, making an advance of almost one year of school work in every six years. Through trial and tribulation, Dr. Grubb has watched the school grow and flourish. A recent survey shows graduates of the lest several years established in seventeen slates as prac- ticing dentists. A study of the personalities and abilities of his students has been both vocation and avocation for Dr. Grubb through the years, and any of his students will testify to the fact that his time has not been spent in vain; he is both critic and confidante, and a master in both capacities. His reputation is not in Nebraska alone, but throughout fh ' i Middle-west. U of N

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ENGINEERING EnqinaerinQ students exp«ritnenling in machonics. A view of the reirigeralion apparatus in the laboratory. DEAN Ferguson is a native ol flnnawan, Illin- ois, but most of his life and education have been in Nebraska. His high school days were spent in Dorchester; he was graduated in 1903 from the University of Nebraska. For the two years following, he was employed by the Gen- eral Electric Company in Schenectady, New York. His masters degree in electrical engi- neering was received at Union University, also in Schenectady. For the next seven years, Mr. Ferguson was an instructor of electrical engineering at Union. He recalls with pride that he worked there immediately under Dr. C. P. Steinmetz, chief consulting engineer for General Electric, who is widely known as the wizard of Schenec- tady . Mr. Ferguson came to Nebraska in 1912 tc become chairman of the department of elec- trical engineering, and in 1918 when Dean Stout went into war service, Mr. Ferguson became acting dean of the College of Engi- neering. During this period, the engineering college had control of and included in its curriculum practically all the war-training courses. Mr. Ferguson was civilian director of educational war-training courses and from 600-1,000 men were housed, fed, and trained. Sosh served as barracks , he said, and we also used Nebraska hall, fig college, and rehabilitated the old reform building southwest of Lincoln . From June to November, 1918, 2,404 men were enrolled in the three months short-training courses, fit present. Dean Ferguson holds the rank of ma)or in the reserve officers signal corps. After Dean Stout ' s resignation in 1920, Mr. Ferguson succeeded him as dean of the Col- lege of Engineering. For 40 years. Dean Ferguson ' s hobby has been the study of family geneological records. His search for facts has led him to libraries in New York, Boston, Chicago and the Congres- sional library in Washington. Mr. Ferguson says, however, that right now my work on the side has to do with engineering education and I ' m serving on various national committees in that field . Dean Ferguson is the author of two textbooks, Elements of Electrical Transmission , and Electric Lighting . Among the organizations to which Dean Fer- guson belongs are Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, of which he is a past vice president, American Association for Advancement of Science; American Interprofes- sional Institute; Sigma Xi, national scientific honorary fraternity; Americn Association of University Professors; and Sigma Tau, national honorary engineering fraternity. He is also a member of the Student Selection and Guidance committee of the Engineering Council for Pro- fessional Development; and a former vice pres- ident of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. U of N