University of Northern Iowa - Old Gold Yearbook (Cedar Falls, IA)

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 ddminiitra tori BUILDINGS GROUNDS Superintendent Eldon E. Cole is the man behind the scenes at Teachers College. Over a hundred acres of grounds, twenty-seven major buildings and efficient modern ma- chinery are under his care. The college maintains an area of seven acres which is devoted to horticultural and botanical gar- dens and a forty-acre golf course. Campus policing and building maintenance, repair and remodeling are also Mr. Cole's responsi- bilities. Mr. Cole is in charge of the building pro- gram which saw the completion this year of the new addition to Lawther hall and the Arts and Industries building. This program proposes a new men's dormitory, a college garage, a campus school and a health center. The general attractiveness of the campus is due in no small degree to Mr. Cole's plan- ning and constant effort to keep it looking its best. ALUMNI SERVICE Albert C. Fuller is the director of the Bureau of Alumni Service which has two purposes: it supplies the new' graduates or the various departments with information about the old graduates, and. also sponsors and directs all the alumni activities both on and off campus. One of its special events of the year is its annual springtime reunion on the campus. At this time two groups are recognized, the persons graduating twenty- five years ago and those graduating fifty years ago. The national average for any class reunion is about ten per cent of the total living class. In the past an average of fifteen percent of the past graduates have been present at this reunion. The Alumnus, a thirty-two page maga- zine. edited by the Bureau of Publications, is distributed four times a year to all graduates. It contains college information and alumni new's. Pag» 17

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BUSINESS MANAGER Philip C. Jennings, as business manager of Teachers College, has a very responsible job. Mis office must keep track of tuition payments, dormitory room rents, and other college fees, as well as the many details of veterans’ tuition. All items of expenditure and income are carefully checked by the staff of mathemat- ical experts employed in the Business office. Trust funds for more than one hundred stu- dent and faculty organizations are handled annually, and all financial enterprises such as publications, the fountain room and food service arc directly responsible to this office. Among the many other duties are the pur- chasing of supplies- accomplished through a system whereby materials are requisitioned. Students as well as faculty and administra- tion employees arc very conscious of Mr. Jennings' capacity as payroll administrator! REGISTRAR Registration days, those immediately fol- lowing. and the day grades come out. find the Registrar's office a beehive of activity. Marshall Beard who is the head of this office is in charge of classification, registration and compilation of credits. Among the records kept by Dr. Beard is the scholastic standing of each student in college. Dr. Beard's office lets the student know where he stands by the publication of his “credit balance sheet when the student is in his junior year. One of the many prob- lems of the staff in the Registrar’s office is making sure that all elusive errors are cor- rected so that the student is assured of grad- uating with the correct number of credits, his requisite grade average, and his correctly recorded certificate. In addition to all of this, the office supplies many records for former Iowa State Teachers College students. Administrators Page 16

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HEALTH SERVICE During the hustle and hustle of registra- tion in the fall, each student hies himself over to the Student Health Service to be checked for tuberculosis and diphtheria, and to be vaccinated for smallpox. This, how- ever. is only a small part of the major over- all program of the center. The hospital, staffed’by Miss Haines and three nurses, has twelve beds, an X-ray unit, and handles all minor surgery and simple fractures. All those requiring major surgery or having a long illness arc sent home. Dr. John S. Gif- fin. who started the year as director of the health service, resigned in January to accept a position at Oregon State college. Dr. Don- ald H. Boettner was engaged to fill the va- cancy caused by Dr. Giffin's resignation. Nurses in the dormitories assist the director of the health service by taking care of the many minor ailments of students in the dorms. A new health center has been pro- posed to fill the needs of the increased en- rollment. EXTENSION SERVICE The Extension Service, headed by Dr. E. L. Ritter, guides the outreach of the col- lege by giving opportunity to every teacher in Iowa to improve his or her instruction. This service was organized to give assistance to schools of the state, from the smallest one- teacher school to a large city system. Among the types of services offered are: consulta- tive. evaluative, remedial, extension class and advisory. These services are free to those who ask for them. Members of the staff are drawn from the regular campus faculty for a term or two or even a year. They are selected on the basis of need in the field and are scheduled ahead for a quarter by the extension office. All ex- penses while in the field are paid by the college. The industrial mobile arts unit was in the field for the first time this year. It has been quite popular and effective: it has worked mostly in rural schools and with rural teach- ers. 4clmini5trator5 Page 18