University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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REGENTS Biggest task facing Board of Regents during the past year was the selection of a new president to succeed the late Dr. Leon W. Hartman. Chosen to serve as president is Dr. John O. Moseley of University of Tennessee. Silas E. Ross served as chairman of the board. JEANETTE C. RHODES, Registrar Students wait patiently in line in final step of registration Board of Regents, left to right: Leo McNomee of Las Vegas, Mrs. Anna Wardin of Reno, acting President Charles H. Gorman, Chairman Silas E. Ross of Reno, Paul Sirkegian of Ely, Chris Sheerin of Elko

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MISS ALICE TERRY, Secretary to the President JOHN O. MOSELEY, new administrative head of the University of Nevada as one of the training centers for these detachments and was thus enabled to do its bit in the war effort. When it is considered that, in addition to these war programs, the usual peace-time courses for civilian students were in no way curtailed, the self-sacrifice and the patriotic devotion of our greatly reduced Faculty in carrying out this immensely enlarged University program proves our State to be not just words but a living thing: All for Our Country. . . . No other period in the University ' s history has witnessed the expenditure of so large a sum on permanent construction. Through the action of a far-seeing legislature and a sympathetic and understanding Governor, the University was provided with a new gymnasium that cost $300,000, an engineering building that cost $175,000, and in addition $75,000 was made available for the modernization of the heating plant. . . . The Regents and Faculty have no easy task as builders of this University. Doubts and disappointments will often arise to haunt them. In these hours of doubt and disappointment they shall often ask themselves, What is all this building for? Why do we spend our money ' for that which is not bread, our labor for that which satisfieth not ' ? Why all this demand for books and teachers, for halls and funds? Nor are they alone to ask these questions. . . . The State, before renewing its appropriation — the parents, before sending us our students — will often ask, What for? Let us have our answer ready. The ideas and ideals of this University are to fit our young people for careers, satisfactory to themselves and useful to mankind; to bring before the society of today the successes and failures of societies of the past; to dis- cover and make known how the forces of nature may be made to serve mankind; to hand to those who come after us the torch of experience by which we have been enlightened. Let us enable this University to endow the young people of our State with the power to distinguish the useless, the false and the fragile from the good, the true and the lasting. Standing for these ideas and ideals, let the University render grateful recognition to the citizens of this commonwealth for the generous provision they have made, enabling us to expand the University ' s sphere of usefulness. . . . May the University in its lite and work be their eternal justification. ... To the Students and Alumni this University should be as a family ' s glorious old mother, to whom you are always anxious to return and by whose hearth you always love to sit. Love her. It does one good to love noble things, to attach one ' s self to noble allegiances and so it is good to be loyal to the University which stands in our lives for the loftiest ideals. . . . And so I say cheer for her; love her; it will do your heart and life good.

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DEANS Top row: Alice B. Marsh, Stanley G. Palmer. Second row: Reuben C. Thompson, Fred W. Traner. Bottom row: Fred. W. Wilson, Fred. Wood