University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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f University Affairs Ably serving as dean of administration is Dr. Roy Gittinger, veteran educator who is now in his thirty- eighth year as a member of the University faculty. Having twice served as registrar, he has been a dean since 1915, and dean of administration since 1925. The work of his otlice is two-fold: passing on all matters of admission of students to the University, whether to freshman or advanced stand- ing, and publishing the catalogue and all other oilicial bul- letins of the Univer- sity. DR. Rov f1I'I I'INGER Formerly an instructor in physics at Texas A. 8: NI., where he organized the utilities department of that school, Xvalter VV. Kraft, B. S., !V0l'llI'Zi.'t'.YlUl'1I, 191-if, was named to head the University's physical plant here in 1926. lle took over the task of reorganizing the decentralized system then in operation and consolidated the care ot plant and equipment under a utilities depart- WAXLTER W- KRAW ment, which is now the largest single department within the University, having on its payroll seventy-live regu- lar employees and operating on a maintenance budget ranging from 560,000 to SS100,000 annually. N111 Kraft, as head of the department, is responsible only to the president, to xvhom he has the same responsibility as a dean of one of the educational departments. J. L. Llxnsiev tirozzcs F. XVADSACK STEVV.-XRT 11-XRRAI. N112 1.indsey has been comp- troller ol the University since 1912. Nlr. 1Yadsack, appointed to a University position in 1919, be- came the registrar in 1926. hlr. Ilarral has been director of press relations at the Univer- sity since 1936. 4 ,J

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, L Finn. R. KRAETTLI . . came to the Uni- versitv in 1913 and is the ollicial secretary ol the v l, n the 'Board of Regents. and assistant to the president. 21 l' t I.1'f1' fa rigfff - Carson, Reavcs, Gittinger, Johnson, Moririet, Salter, VVardell, Bizzell, Kraettli, Stephenson, Collings, Dodge, Findlay, Adams, and VVaclsack. iversity, secretary of 15-t131W1lN'lf5Y?E.ATU1iS Somewhat analagous to the cabinet system employed by the president of the United States, the University Administrative Council is set up to coordinate the activ- ities and policies of the various departments, and to aid the president with regard to administrative and dis- ciplinary problems which he may refer to it for con- sideration. The council is composed ol the president ol the Uni- versity, the dean of men and counselor of women, the deans of the L'niversity's schools and colleges, the regis- trar. and the president's assistant. A. Grant lfvans, president of the University from 1908 to 1911, is credited with having started the Coun- cil, defining it as a 'lcommittee to advise the president on the Ht'l'11'.Y of the University. Vllell skilled in the art ot administrative technique 1 e these two top-ranking assistants to the president. lLmil R. Kraettli and Dr. Nl. l,. lvardell. bflr. Kraettli is specifically concerned with such mat- ters as preparing the budget and in carrying out admin- istrative orders of the president. Dr. Vllardell, professor ol' history at the University since 1925. was appointed to the ollice ol' assistant to the president in September, 1937, and he is in charge of the Universitvs forthcoming semi-centennial celebra- tion to be observed in 1942. l le has been assigned the task of studying educational methods in other colleges and universities with the purpose of applying these modern ideas to life and training at the University of Oklahoma. DR. M. L. WARDELL

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Dean of in To untlcrstantl comraclcship, to know the limitations of clisciplinc, antl yet to cmploy both in inaturc wisdom -thcsc arc characteristics ol' the one who ahly occupics thc otlicc of Dcan of Nlcn, Dr. .lamcs lf. l intllay. A gracluatc ol' Cirinncll Collcgc, hc rcccivcnl his hlastcns clcgrcc from thc Univcrsity ol' Chicago: his Ph. D. from Ncw York Univcrsity. Vllorking upon thc prin- ciplc that all pcrsonal contacts shall hc upon a planc most contlucivc to thc promotion of cclucational Valucs, hc has tlcvclopccl a sympathctic conccrn for stuclcnts ancl instructors alilic. anal hc is always cagcr to aitl thc stuclcnt in thc solution ol' any prohlcm. Dcan lfincllay also supcrviscs the work ol' thc Nlcnls Council, othcial mcnls stutlcnt sclf-govcrnmcnt associ- ,xsneg I . Ifiximiaw - - 1 - - 'l N ation ol thc L nivcrsity. Hcsiclcs an cxccutivc hranch matlc up ol' its prcsinlcnt anal sccrctary, thc hf'lcn's Council contains livc mcmhcrs rcprc- scnting thc Collcgc ol Arts anal Scicnccs, four from thc Collcgc ol' lfnginccring. thrcc lirom thc Collcgc of Busi- ncss Aclministration, two from thc School of l,aw, anal onc cach from tht- Collcgcs ol' l5inc Arts anal lftlucation antl thc Ciracluatc anal Pharmacy Schools. rlihc Council is primarily intcrcstccl in prcscnting thc C stutlcntls point ol' vicn' to tht- atlministration anal inccts wcclaly to tliscuss possihlc llllpI'1JYClHCl'lfS oli lfnivcrsity tacilitit-s. Ions V.XV11izi,xx .lohn Y. XYliclan. Picalmont. scnior in ' - . - . . W., 'Hun fmw thc Collcgc ol Business Atlmimstration, is prcsitlcnt ol' thc Nlcnls Council. Davitl l.oclllcr, liristow, is sccrctary. Front roms, Irfl In rigflzl-D. C. Mathews, Bill La Rue, John XVhelan, David Loef- Fler, Dolph Carmichael. Rack f0QL'1R1llPh Bowen, VVallacc Taylor, -Tosh Evans, F. P. Litchfield, C. C. Cody.