University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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Governor Charles A. Sprague is a versatile man. Beside being a good Republican, he has been a teacher, superintendent of city schools when only 26, bank organizer, and newspaper publisher. Since his coming from the Midwestern to the Northwestern states in 1910, it has been said that in the five cities in which Governor Sprague has lived he has built something into each one which is sym- bolic of his quiet energy and steadfast indus- try. Governor Sprague worked his way through Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois, by a part-time newspaper reporting job and two years of teaching. Prom his col- lege he won a bachelor of arts degree, a letter in intercollegiate debating and a letter in football. Last spring Governor Sprague took time off from official state duties to administer the oath of office to the newly elected execu- tives of the Oregon student body. In his first visit to the Eugene campus, this honored and popular personage left this brief message with the assembly of University students: Books and a faculty and laboratories equal a univer- sity, but a university must do more than that . . . it must interpret the mental climate of a specific generation and the future of a people. t ' if iv ,fflgff OVSIIIOI' PIB. UC 7

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Board of Higher Education A-wv-5,-4 nr-1 Seated: E. C. Sammons, Charles D. Byrne, Robert W. Ruhl, Lillian Holm Csecretary to Chancellorl, Iessie Smith, Edward C. Pease, Willard L. Marks, Beatrice Walton Sackett, F. E. Callister, Herman Oliver, Edgar W. Smith, Chancellor Hunter, C. A. Brand. Sfflndinqi l- A- ChllIC1'1i11, PTGSidGI1f-Gmefih-IS of OCE: C. A. Howard, President of OCEJ Walter Redford, President of SOCE: Pres- ident Donald M. Erbg George W. Peavy, President Oregon State College, Walter E. Pearson, Oregon State Treasurer. Last spring's meeting was the first that the State Board of Higher Education has held in Eugene during school time since 1935. This board, created by the State Legislature in 1929, took the place of four groups, which formerly had full jurisdic- tion over the several state institutions of higher learning. These were: State Board of Higher Curricula, and the Boards of Regents of the Oregon State College, the Normal Schools and the University of Oregon. The members of the present Board of Higher Education, their residences, and the offices they hold, are: Willard L. Marks, Albany, presidentg Edward C. Pease, The Dalles, vice-president and chairman of commit- tee on public relations: E. C. Sammons, Portland, chairman of finance committee: F. E. Callister, Albany, chairman of building committee, Herman Oliver, Iohn Day, agriculture experiments committee chairman. Other members include Beatrice Walton Sackett, Marshfield, who has been secretarY to three Oregon governors and who is the only Woman mem- ber of the Board: C. A. Brand, Roseburgp Robert W. Buhl, Med- ford, and Edgar W. Smith, Portland. Secretary to the Board is Charle D. Byrne, Eugene. Miss lessie Smith of Eugene is assistant secretary to the Board. These members serve for this worthy cause entirely without salary. Some of the many duties of the Board are: to approve a budget for the academic year, hear recommendations by the finance, the insurance, and the building commissions. For this year the Board allotted to the University approximately S9l6,847.UO. An additional sum of 35329297.00 went to the University Medical School. The Board also established a new Department of Religion this Year.

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..f es YE 1 CHA CELLCDR FREDERICK .HU TER Suffering from acute educational-experimental pains, Ore- gon's higher educational system took a change for better with the coming of Chancellor Frederick M. Hunter in 1936. This Phi Beta Kappa football letterman from the University of Nebraska has been president of the National Education Association, superintendent of schools in Oakland, California, chancellor of the University of Denver, and author of many books on edu- cation and numerous educational papers. From headquarters in Iohnson Hall, the smiling gentleman keeps the State Board posted on the latest developments and needs of the institutions.