University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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 BOARD OF REVIEW... Hon. Wayne O. Reed Staic Superintendent of Public Instruction Lincoln, Nebraska Placing our college in the army would change the State Normal Board to a Board of Review with duties similar to ones al- ready done by the members. Appointed by the governor, approved by members of the legislature, and serving without salary, with payment of traveling expenses only, the six members, and mem- ber ex-officio State Superintendent of Public Instruction, meet at six week intervals to formulate the policies of the four state teachers colleges in Nebraska. At the six weeks meetings members hear reports from each of the four state teachers college presidents. Members do not at- tempt to handle the full policy of each col- lege. Only the major policies such as adopting local budgets, selecting heads and faculty members of each college, and legis- lative committee appearances. These com- mittee appearances concern requests for, and expenditures of, legislative appropri- ations and other business.

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SEPTEMBER . . . This is the month William Jeffers, newly elected rubber czar, an- nounced gasoline rationing news. Campus registration passed the 500 mark and Mens Dorm was filled to the last room while the Yanks won the World Series. McPherson and Ritter joined our faculty and Colegrove and Morse left. Britain claimed capture of three ports in Madagascar while Doughty directed an all-girl choir. o -,o58‘)

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COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF HERBERT L. CUSHING Commander-in-chief of our college at war is Herbert L. Cushing. The one officer known to all buck privates, privates first class, corporals, and lieutenants is the six-foot five-inch man whose blue-carpeted office is never closed to his men. Commanding officer Cushing is from Ord, Nebraska; took a normal training course in high school and taught two years in the rural schools of Valley County. Following his position as cashier in a hardware and implement store, Chief Cushing attended the Grand Island College. While in college he worked at Wol- bach's store; paraded horses into a salesbarn on Saturdays; debated; served as business manager and ed- itor of the college paper; and was president of Y.M.C.A. and the liter- ary society. His Master's degree work was done at the University of Chicago and the University of Ne- braska, while he earned his Doctor of Education degree from Wesleyan University. A big man intellectually, physically, and spiritually, of- ficer Cushing is as modem as unrationed playshoes. His youthful outlook is continually brushed up by his son. En- sign Herbert L. Cushing, his daughter Margaret, employed in a bomb factory in Wahoo, Nebraska, and his wife, with whom he dances at every college dance they chaperone. A familiar figure m Ins strolls about the camp- us. in and out ol classrooms, he in- variably addresses his men by their lirst names. . . . (tide de campe — Commanding; officer Her- bert I.. Cushing:, issues written orders to His rish! hand woman, Miss Dorothy Williams. Page 13 Without his aide-de-campe, Miss Dorothy Williams, commanding of- ficer Cushing would be lost. Ask Mr. Cushing first, and if he does not know Miss Williams will! ■■