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

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Formerly a department of the college of science, literature and arts, the school of commerce was created in l924 as a sep- arate unit. lts graduates hold ranking pof sitions in business firms throughout the nation. lohn Hancock, who each year re- turns to his Alma Mater for homecoming and in l932 was awarded an honorary degree, is a prime example. Graduating from UND in l9U3, he taught school for a while, then entered business life after a period of service with the Navy. Now he is a Lehman Brothers partner, director in over l5 major business firms. The school has its share of professional groups-Beta Alpha Psi for accounting men, Phi Chi Theta for women in com- merce, Beta Gamma Sigma, the commerce school Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Pi for men in commerce. Then to top it off, theres the Association for Marketing Be- search. 20 I schoolof IIMMERCE Fundamentalist, precisionist, ever-busy is Dean E. T. Towne, who heads the University commerce school, Writer of books, traveler, Dean Towne lays a groundwork of business laws and axioms for beginning economists, lets other teachers put up the educational frame, and then draws on his experience and studies here and abroad to put on the finishing touches in advanced courses. Ever on the alert for opportunities to aid his students, Towne finds time in the summer to indulge in camping and fishing. ll ii!

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college of GI EERI Hardly a week passed since Pearl Harbor that Dean L. C. Harrington, affectionately known as the lron Duke of the engineering college, failed to acquire a new job, have new responsibility pushed onto his broad shoulders. Director of CAA, faculty air force advisor, director of the UND part in the Navy's V-l pro- gram, and so on and on and on. l-le wades through them all in the same manner that he grows whiskers-with speed and thoroughness. -...--yvr'-f-v-7-:ff-rg:-vw-1-ww'--A., - 5 '- N A. 1 .2 A fall .r-.Q . .. ,J X 1 .-1 it X .. aff '- . The Universitys five engineering de- partments have been nationally credited for so long that even Dean Emeritus E. F. Chandler, first state engineer, must reach back into his memory for the date. The engineers are really proud of the fact, and also of their famous alumni, men mak- ing their mark from the oil fields of Arabia and the Persian gulf to the copper mines of Chile. lt takes three whole buildings and part of a fourth to house the welter of machines and equipment that slide rule boys use in lab classes. An airplane once used by the Marines, a nickel plated chassis of a car, huge motors, rows of forges, a com- plete ceramics department serve for some of the students, while others appear on the wide open campus spaces at the first sign of spring, bringing along their transits and tapes. And in the spring also, comes Engineers Day, that great open house to which some 2,500 people come each year to be mys- tified at the wonders of engineering. 19

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ACULTY Photography is Dr. Olivers hobby and his geography stu- dents are glad of it. The slides he prepares make classes a technicolor show. Educator Overn is all agog over new ideas in teaching. His spare time is spent recording his own voice-not ego, just science. Dr. Abbott is never tired ot talking chemistry, and relaxes while putting it into simplest terms for radio fans. We come now to the in' evitable collector of match cov- ers-resttul, colorful hobby of Accountant Koppenhaver. Prof. Gill ot industrial arts takes a few minutes after stu- dents leave to turn a bit of work on the lathe himself. Many students think they take courses from old fossils, but geologists know so. Prof. Laird displays a few of the hun- dreds he collects. Biology's Wheeler sorts his seeds in anticipation ot a soul- satisfying garden come the spring. Labs are fun, says Doc Coon of chemistry, who loves to think up new gadgets with the en- thusiasm ot a kid.