University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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Ma.x.u dL -fiddmi The vice-president of 3the Univer- sity of Nevada is a man of rare per- sonality, kindly disposition, and by nature a peacemaker, calm, and inter- ested in helping others. Since his coming to the University in 1906, he has held the position of Professor of Chemistry, but as he acquired more administrative duties and became in- terested in research work with the essential oils found in sagebrush, he has given up certain of his teaching- duties. In January, 1936, Dean Adams secured a leave of absence of six months during which he is devoting his time to travel and study. The lure of the Hawaiian Islands has beckoned and our Arts and Science Dean is now restoring his health. cotae S. Mtown In 1927 Mr. Brown became a mem- ber of the Board of Regents and in 1929 he began his duties as chairman. Previously he was admitted to the Ne- vada Bar Association in 1897, was graduated from Brown University, and completed a two-year graduate course at Columbia Law School. Five years after he began practicing law in this state he was judge of the Fourth Ne- vada Judicial District and served until 1911. At the present Mr. Brown devotes considerable time to his posi- tion here on the Nevada campus and by his interest in students and their welfare has recognized and solved their problems of vital concern. 27 5

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lid ' 1 Koatd o-k eaent6 he constitution of the state of Nevada, by provision for the election of five citizens at large, one at each state election, to serve a term of ten years and known as the Board of Regents, created the governing body of the University of Nevada. The board, since 1917, the time of the last amendment to the constitution when the membership of the board was established as it is today, has controlled student affairs from a distance. Mr. George S. Brown of Reno, in addition to the im- portant task of acting as chairman of the Student-Welfare Committee, officiated as chairman for the group. Mr. George Wingfield of Reno, Mr. A. C. Olmstead of Wells, Mr. Frank Williams of Goodsprings, and Mr. Silas Ross of Reno, com- prise the remainder of the board. For the past six years these men have had the additional responsibility of piloting the University ahead in the face of the long and difficult depression, lower valuations of Nevada state property, and decrease in the dividends from securities. Despite these adversities the plant and grounds of the campus have been steadily and notably improved. In addition, the service personnel both in the teaching staff and public service division staff have been maintained at their former high standards. 26

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la ' i WlWWM ' a eani dtacLt t L. Mack Miss Margaret E. Mack, Dean of Wo- men of the University of Nevada, is worthy of sincere and genuine admira- tion for the active interest she has dis- played in the welfare of students and for the efficient administration of her office. Not the least of her services to the campus at large has been the ar- rangement of the social calendar, and the providing of many students with part-time employment. Among the women, as a member of the Pan Hel- lenic Council and as executor of the A. W. S. Loan Fund, Dean Mack has contributed much to the welfare of wo- men students. Her helpfulness and kindly guidance has been of the utmost value to freshmen women adapting themselves to the college curriculum. % ' lyean I nompion Student activities have found a friend and counselor, generous in his encour- agement, tolerant in his thinking and personal in his idealism in Dean R. C. Thompson, head of the philosophy de- partment and Dean of Men. Placing scholarship as first among those things to be achieved, he has established a re- volving trophy for the fraternity hav- ing the highest average for each sem- ester, thereby creating an intense and far-reaching interest in the attainment of higher knowledge. An advocate of participation in student activities, and vitally interested in raising the stan- dards of student citizenship. Dean Thompson has ably filled the position of friend and advisor to the men stu- dents of the University of Nevada. 28