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

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Johnson — General College Wettach — Law PiERSON — Graduate HoBBS — Arts and Sciences DEANS :z HE Deans of the Uni- versity schools this year have faced many problems. To them has fallen the job of running Navy and civilian classes concurrently. Throughout the confusion of a com- bined Navy and civilian university they have continued to work efficiently, con- scientiously. The routine of Carolina classes, taken for granted by all stu- dents, runs smoothly because of the hard work that these Deans have done. While other phases of life here run riot, they keep the academic part of Carolina on an even keel. In a year of confusion, they have done their part in simplifying and organizing our daily college existence. Berryhill — Medici ■ fs- •i P 3 W 1 m 7 ' I ' M m i M M i P i ■ 1 ■ H i K -»- i 1 Ife -• im i ;■ Carroll — Commerce Beard — Pharmacy Akers — Library Science 13

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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

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FOREIGN GUTMANN o. HE FACULTY of the University of North Carolina represents on a small scale the aim of the United Nations. Here as teachers men from every corner of the earth meet and work together for higher education. When Hitler came to power in Germany Munich born Dr. Franz Gutmann saw what was happening to Ger- man education. He had been a full professor at the universities of Breslau, Jena and Goettingan and director of the institute of economics and private insurance at the latter. In 1939 Gutmann accepted a call to Carolina, where he would be able to teach students in his special field of government and banking and economic theory according to his own beliefs. I like the students here, he says, for both civilians and V-12 boys possess natural sympathetic qualities that makes it easy to really know them. I like Chapel Hill because it is so conducive to research. In the last war Gutmann was a captain on the German side. In this war his age prevents him from fight- ing for the Allies, but he is doing his part by training the next generation for the economic problems they will have to face when peace is made, by preparing the next generation for advancement. Early in 1939 Prof. E. P. Hexner and Hitler were in Prague at the same time. By the fall of that same year Hexner, his wife and two boys were in Chapel Hill. Unwilling to have his sons educated according to Nazi theories Hexner sent them to England, then brought them to the United States. A Czech by birth, a political scientist by profession Hexner is an authority on the serious wartime problem of international cartels. At one time he was coordinator of the Czechoslovak steel industry and he has written a book on the International Steel Cartel. In Europe and in America Hexner has published several books on political science. As professor of civilian and V-12s Hexner knows many Carolina students. I ' m not the kind of professor who appeals to students, he says, with a sad twinkle in his eye. But his students . . . coeds, sailors and 4-Fs just grin. They know better. From the Far East comes Dr. Y. K. Wong, math professor from the University of Chicago. Born in South China near Hong Kong, Wong studied from his freshman year until he received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. After he received his master ' s degree Wong returned to China to teach in the National University of Peking in North China. Dean of the school at that time was Hu Shih, now Chinese diplomat to the United States. Wong has done research at the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, and has worked on the manu- scripts of the late E. H. Moore, head of the math department of Chicago. At Carolina is a research associate, and is now teaching for the first time beginning mathematics. To Caro- lina he brings the new ideas of the Middle West, the scholarship of the Chinese, the friendliness of a hospitable Southerner. 14