University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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DEPARTMENT M. ELMER II. C. CARLSON T. M. FINNEY White collared hours for the faculty can he put on the list of memories of Pitt ante helium .... our professors teach the maximum twenty hours today . . . . often dividing their time between the army and civilian students. Because the common denominator of all the stair is realness, we have . . . . friendly cooperation and understanding .... each sharing his hit of wisdom with us . . . each maintaining the ever important sense of humor necessary to keeping balance when working at a nerve shattering pace. Influencing policy and course content, combining administration with teaching are these, the department heads: I)r. Howard Carlson, head of men's Student Health Service .... I)r. Manuel C. Elmer, sociologist .... Dr. Theodore Finney, music .... Dr. Elmer draper, political science . . . . Dr. Walter R. Hovey. line arts .... Mrs. S. II. Jamison, head of Women’s Student Health Service . ... Dr. C). K. Jennings, biology .... Dr. Henry [24] E. 1). GRAPER W. R. HOVEY A. M. JAMISON

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Alt limit'll tlu amount of space occupied l .v the offices of the Dean of Men has diminished, then is still the friendly pat on the hack, the i crsonal conferences, and the “helpful hand that Dean Theodore Biddle and his staff personify. (■one are the eighth floor lounges, the men's Tuck Shop, the vast offices of the Publications. The Dean of Men's office, too, has been moved to the first floor, but with no lessening of its keynote, “Welcome' . Mr. William Daufcnhack. assistant to the Dean of Men. supervises all marshalling work. Miss Hetty Maloney. Miss Irene Thomas, and Mrs. Alice II. Dorfield arc the friendly secretaries who arc always ready to stop their work for a kindly greeting. May lie the space has diminished, hut the things that the Dean of Men's ()fli e stands for at Pitt have grown. [ 23 ]

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Leighton, geology .... Professor Frederick Mayer. English .... Dr. Marion McKay, economies . . . , l)r. John Oliver, history .... Mr. Carroll Reynolds, Acting I'niversity Librarian .... Dr. William T. Root, psychology and Dean of the Graduate School . . . . Dr. Whitford II. Shelton, modern languages . . . . Dr. Frank W. Shockley. Director of I'niversity Extension Division .... Dr. J. (I. Quick, I'niversity Registrar .... Dr. Alexander Silvermen, chemistry . . . . Dr. James Stinchcomh, classics .... Dr. James S. Taylor, mathematics. A list of names, many and highly different fields .... yet each name and every subject connotes something different to those students and soldiers who know our department heads. Perhaps a favorite joke, perhaps a method of expressing facts, or maybe an individualizing physical trait .... the name becomes the person . . . . many times a person we'll never forget. M. K. McKAY [25] O. E. JENNINGS II. LEIGHTON F. P. MAYER