University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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is UHIVERSIIY Emiiuvmini I ii MABEL DAVIES DALE NORDOUIST Mabel S. Davies direcTs and Dale NordquisT assisfs in solving problems of sTudenT employmenf. Working Their way Through college are nearly one-half oT The l,965 sTudenTs enrolled aT This UniversiTy. A big TacTor in securing empIoymenT Tor Them is The work oT The sTudenT empIoymenT bureau headed by Mabel S. Davies. Dale NordquisT is her assisTanT. I-Iis special TorTe is down- Town parT-Time work. Miss Davies is direcTor Tor The NaTionaI YouTh Admin- isTraTion on The campus. Records OT sTudenTs who have received NYA help speak weII Tor her seIecTion meThods. NYA sTudenTs have consisTenTIy been above The Univer- siTy scholarship average. IT is TurTher inTeresTing To noTe ThaT The IasT Two Rhodes Scholarship Winners have been Tor a Time aT IeasT under NYA assisTance. ApproximaTeIy 230 sTudenTs have parT-Time NYA jobs. Vifork clone by These sTudenTs range Trom building and grounds deparTmenT helpers To IaboraTory assisTanTships. SERVICE DownTown empIoymenT is cared Tor by Dale NordquisT. I-Iis work is The job oT TerreTing ouT jobs Trom downTown business men and Then finding The sTudenTs To Till Them ouT on The campus. AbouT I9O persons do This sorT oT work every year. In addiTion To NYA and downTown work sTudenTs are employed To serve The 600 sTudenTs who eaT daily aT The Commons and 38 more work Tor Their rooms in Camp Depression. I OTher sources of empIoymenT aparT Trom The Employ- menT olzfice include The various deparTmenTs of The Uni- versiTy where sTudenTs draw maps, correcT papers, and prepare maTeriaIsq and The diTEerenT TraTerniTies and sororiTies where men are employed as waiTers.

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IJEHH UF FRESHIHEH ,J si. DEAN WITMER Adviser fo hundreds of wondering and wandering freshmen is Roberf Bonner Wifmer, recenfly appoinfed Dean of Freshmen. Problems of every imaginable sorf come before fhis alumnus of fhe Class of '22, who acfed as scholarship adviser fo firsl year sfudenfs prior fo appoinfmenf as fheir dean. Dean Wifmer's is nof a iob fhaf is done when regisfrafion is complefed, even fhough freshman orienfafion is one of fhe biggesf jobs on fhe campus. He is called upon fo adiusf schedules and puf freshmen on The roads fo success fhroughouf fhe enfire year. Affer receiving his degree in elecfrical engineering in 1922, he wenf on fo complefe work for a lVlasfer's degree four years lafer. Af fhe Universify of Michigan in l934 he fulfilled requiremenfs for his fhird educafional degree, and was granfed a docfor of philosophy in physics. l-le has been a member of fhe Universify faculfy for eighfeen years. This physics-'reaching dean is well able fo undersfand fhe problems of beginners af fhe Universify because he is a Norfh Dalcofa producf himself. l-le was born af Bafhgafe of American parenfs, and has lived a complefely normal Norfh Daliofa life. l-le is married fo a member of Phi Befa Kappa and an honorary member of Sigma Epsilon Sigma, and has an eighf-year-old daughfer. -2i.

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Big even? of flue Summer Scluool session is flue laculfy-sfudenr Srealc Fry. Here Dean Breilwieser furns flue beef over Hue oufdoor Ereplace on flue banks of flue coulee, FH U U l. Muclu ol flue preslige llue Uniyersly ol: Norllu Dalola enjoys can be laid direclly lo Els ltorwarcl-seelcinq lacully. These more or less Hlorqoflen men on llmis Campus lmparl muclm more lluan mere book knowledge lo lluousands of sludenrs every year. All llmis cornes In lace of low salaries and all loo ellen poor sludenl Cooperalion, To lluern belongs a True lribule lor real SERVICE. .j3.