University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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REGENTS THE BOARD OF REGENTS Officers of the Board J. E. Davidson Chairman Frank T. B. Martin Vice-Chairman Col. George A. Skinner Secretary Edgar A. Baird Treasurer Hyrd Stryker Dr. Floyd J. Murray Mrs. James E. Bednar Alvin E. Johnson H. A. Jacobberger 1 1 1 1 if

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THE UNIVERSITY G 1 its perpetuity must be made possible through the organization of a Municipal University, financed from public funds. To this end, the Legislature of Nebraska passed a bill in 1928 authorizing cities of the metropolitan class to vote on the question of the establishment and maintenance of municipal universities, and the people of Omaha on May 6, levied a one-mill tax for the support and development of the Muni- cipal University of Omaha. In compliance with the provisions of the statute a Board of Regents, composed of nine representative citizens of Omaha, was appointed by the Board of Education of the city and inducted into office July 1, 1930. The Board of Regents, however, was enjoined from levying a tax for the support of the newly established institution, and the Municipal University of Omaha did not come into reality until January, 1931, when the State Supreme Court upheld the right of the Board to levy a tax for the maintenance of the Municipal University. The properties of the University of Omaha were then surrendered by its trustees and were accepted by the Board of Re- gents of the new Municipal University of Omaha. Dr. Daniel E. Jenkins was the able leader of the University for the first eighteen years ending in 1926. Then followed Dr. Karl F. Wettstone and Mr. Earnest W. Emery in the presidency. During the year immediately preceding the opening of the new municipal school, the University of Omaha was administered by Dr. W. Gilbert James. Then the late Dr. William E. Sealock was called to the presidency from the University of Nebraska. Since the municipalization of the University of Omaha the late Dr. Sealock with exceeding courage has initiated a new plan of instruction and has done much to ' add to the University ' s prestige in the North Central Association. Twenty-seven new in- structors were added to the faculty, and over 20,000 volumes were added to the library. But Dr. Sealock ' s greatest dream, that of a new spacious campus for the University in a quiet neighborhood, was not realized when death took him in the summer of 1935. And thus the Municipal University of Omaha has become a reality and the dreams and aspirations of its founders and predecessors are being fulfilled as the years pass.

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I JOSLYN HALL Do you remember the time when you timidly walked up the steps of Joslyn Hall, stepped over the threshold and by such action discarded the late glory of the lordly high school senior to become a green and worried college freshman? Do you remem- ber when you madly dashed up the stairs of Joslyn Hall to make your eight o ' clock class, or skiddled nervously down the corridor to a dreaded final exam, or peaked wistfully into the Registrar ' s office to see if the grades were in, or determinedly marched in to the Bursar ' s office to settle a minor pecuniary matter, or sauntered out to the steps to bask in the warm spring sun, or lazily viewed the bulletin board for no special reason? And finally do you remember when you strolled out of the door of Joslyn Hall with a diploma in one hand and a want ad in the other? You enjoyed doing those things, didn ' t you?