University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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MILITARY ADMINISTRATION 7 ORTY-EiGHT HOURS bcforc the bombing of Pearl Harbor Captain W. S. Popham, Commandant of the V-12 School here, left Honolulu to come to Carolina as head of the N.R.O.T.C. unit. A Naval Academy man, Captain Popham has spent the last 32 years of his life in active Naval service. From 1914-20 he spent three years on the Battleship Texas as an Ensign, was Executive Officer of a large war training camp, served aboard the Gunboat Nashville, and later commanded a Sub for 18 months. He is from Annapolis but is one of the best Carolina men on campus. Marine Commanding Captain James Marshall knows why his men are being trained. For fifteen months he was on active duty with the fleet in Central America. Three months after receiving his degree in economics from Furman he joined the Marine Corps. At Carolina he has charge of 220 Marines. Captain Marshall is a soft-voiced South- erner, but he is also a Marine and is training his men in the tradition of the Marine Corps. Captain J. G. Skinner, Commandant of the Pre-Meteorology School, is an old Carolina man, the Class of ' 32. From the last of March until September Skinner was in charge of 242 students who prepared for the study of weather here under combined Army- Weat her Bureau di- rection. Commandant of the Army Specialized Training Program on cam- pus is Captain E. V. Horton. Under his supervision are 250 foreign area and language and 50 medical trainees. Captain Popham Captains Skinner and Horton Captain Marshall 11

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' Dr. Frank ' i PRESIDENT GRAHAM Q . N THESE DAYS of war when Carolina more than ever needs guidance, inspiration and foresight, it turns to Dr. Frank Graham. For the problems that seem beyond solution he finds answers, drawn from his under- standing of people and principles. He was a Marine in the last war and he knows how to fight. On the War Labor Board in Washington, he wages a personal fight for justice. On week- ends he comes home to Chapel Hill, to set the University in order, to give Caro- lina the faith it needs for today. During this period of disintegration and confusion his influence is a binding force. His patience, his gentleness, his firm beliefs, bring people and forces together in cooperation, where only discord existed before. His endurance, his vitality and his wisdom are directed towards winning a total war, a total peace in the days that follow for Chapel Hill, this nation and the world. 10

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DEAN DF ADMINISTRATION a Li ean House ' s personality is as many sided as the jobs he has to do. He is forthright and honest, determined and hard- working when he knows he is right. But he is the first to admit when he is wrong, the first to listen to someone whom he considers more capable. On moral issues and social movements, says Dean House, I put complete faith in Frank Graham. But when it comes to farm problems, I ' m pretty much of an authority myself. I was born on a farm, you know. Dean House is the son of an Eastern Carolina Sheriff and farmer, but he reads Greek in the original and keeps up with the best in current and classic literature. When it comes to enjoying the human every day things of life, Dean House has no equal. He sees the humor in every situation and he has a down to earth love of living. He is a leader to be admired and respected, a friend to enjoy and remember. DEAN OF STUDENTS JJ. E THINKS a problem through, and he analyzes it from every angle before he acts ; and when Dean Bradshaw begins some- thing, it is carried out until that something is accomplished. The planning for a wartime Carolina was done in a great measure by Dean Bradshaw. With foresight, he realized what lay ahead for universities like Carolina and went to work to prepare for these days of war. Democracy, learning, teaching: these are his three great battlefields. He started work on them in his undergraduate days when he was a pillar of Student Government. He has continued that fight throughout the years that have followed. He is loyal to Carolina, its students and for what this University stands. With Dean Bradshaw at work, Carolina need have no fear of war days or the days that follow the Armistice. DEAN DF WOMEN OI OR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY Dean Stacy has been supervising Carolina coeds. She has watched them grow from a hand- ful of several dozen to an organized body of 800 women. She has cam- paigned for funds to build dormitories, and she has had personal super- vision over the decorating of all the girls ' dormitories that have been built here. In 1913 Mrs. Stacy came to Carolina as a bride, the wife of Dean M. H. Stacy, back in the days when the University had but one Dean. At his death in 1918, President Chase offered her the job of looking after the coeds and she ' s been doing that ever since. As the number of coeds has increased, so have Mrs. Stacy ' s duties and responsibilities. It has been her job to place girls in the crowded dormi- tories, to solve the roommate and three girls in a room problem. Throughout her years at Carolina, Mrs. Stacy has not wavered from her goal: higher education for women. Disregarding her emotions and personal feelings, she sticks to her principles and strives to set up for coeds the kind of college life she sincerely believes is best for them. 12