University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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l14l After the war- is the keynote of our faculty, a keynote tangible and alive to them, something to shape and build now for the Pitt that is to follow. . . . Texas-reared Vincent Lanfear, Dean of the School of Business Admin- istration, is looking upward with plans for an advisory committee of businessmen who will cooperate with the school's faculty by keeping them in touch with the changing problems and events of the post-war business world .... A member of the National Education Board, Dean S. P. Eranklin of the School of Education can see the national, over-all changes in the edu- cational field. Therefore, the School, under Dean Eranklin, is looking for- ward to educational testing labs and workshops that will bring more real- istic training to students of teaching. . . . Erom indications, studies made among the armed services prove that large numbers of returning veterans will be interested in engineering courses and Dean Elmer Holbrook of the Engineering ci Mines School is keeping posted on new trends in na- tional engineering education to pre- pare E. ci M. for the expected increased enrollment .... The College, under Dean Stanton Crawford, has carried on a large teaching program in both the liberal arts and the sciences. Both have been heavily burdened during the war, but Dean Crawford is busy planning new programs that will be timely to serve the special interests of the veterans and civilians .... The Research Bureau for Betail Training is visualizing a future in which young men and women returning from the armed services will be vocational- minded and will look with interest toward a program that offers special- ized training for the retail field. Direc- tor Bishop Brown and the Bureau staff are glad to be back on the regular two- semester year, because the Bureau course is a concentrated one for a normal year at best and reached posi- tively hectic proportions under war- time acceleration .... The Law School with ludson A. Crane as Dean, is ex- pecting a greatly increased enroll- ment after the war is over and is join- ing with other law schools and bar associations in planning refresher and retainer courses for the 'lawyers of Western Pennsylvania who will return from the Service .... lncreasing de- mands for trained social workers have been the main war problems for Dean W. l. Newstetter of the School of Ap- plied Social Sciences. However, the School is looking forward with a post-war aim of meeting the need for competent social science graduates trained on the regular two-semester plan .... Though off immediate cam- in Robert L. Arthur v Mrs. Alice Dortield, Miss Betty Maloney Raymond F. Brittain

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our freshman into their first social con- tact with Pitt where they meet the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men. Freshmen find first that Pitt women are cz tradition. They are young ladies who are complimented on the grace with which they meet strangers, their poise when theylserve tea from the impressive samovars, and their ability to organize and to work together. lt is the helpfulness of our Dean of Women's Office that earns them this reputation. All who have come to know them appreciate Miss Ruth Becker and Mrs. Lucy Millard, the two secretaries, for their cheery greetings: Miss Adrienne Hill's help with housing and employment problemsg Miss Harf riet Glasser's aid with outside activi- ties, Miss Elizabeth Teal's training of the Nationality Boom hostessesy Miss Alison Stewart's management of the Heinz Chapel, Mrs. lune McDowell's assistance in the Information Boom. In the room across the hall, Miss Helen Pool Bush, Dean of Women, lends a spirit of grace and dignity to the hurry-scurry of our city university. Her dreams for new dormitories, with a special wing for commuters to spend a night and the re-opening of the twelfth floor are her pet issues for Pitt's future. The whole department is looking upward because, in reality, they have just begun .... But they're not the only ones. ln addition to the continuation of the work assigned to the Dean of Men's Office, the boys in there have grinned and tackled even more. Pitt has kept in closer touch with the service men and women than any other school in the country, and the credit can easily be attributed to the fact that every eight weeks Dean Bid'- dle's staff plays post office, mailing seven thousand news-letters to Pittites in the armed forces. Pitt men enjoy their informal meetings with Dean Theodore W. Biddle, former Hall ot Fame man, and his ability to put them at immediate ease has won him their confidence. As Director of Personnel Services for Veterans, Dean Biddle helps returning service men to become happy members of our University family. Assistants to Dean Biddle are Bobert L. Arthur, as special advisor to veterans and counselor to student activities, and Baymond P. Brittain, as special advisor to fraternities. Mr. Arthur finds in the re-establishment of the band and orchestra an indication of the spirit of peace time Pitt, and Mr. Brittain sees great hope for mature leadership through participation in fraternity life. William Daufenbach, on duty in the information room, is the Dean's assistant who trains the mar- shals of the Cathedral, and he, too, has victory year training in mind. The secretaries of the office, Mrs. Alice Dor- field, Miss Lois Bowbottom, and Miss Betty Maloney are always prepared with a pleasant Hello and immedi- ate problem aid. Here is another office that is looking upward today for their students of tomorrow. But, there are many others on whom we depend. The chief of these are the deans of our schools, for to them be- longs the responsibility of directing our educational program and growth. lf there is any development in Pitt's search for unattained heights, it must come from these men and women. Iohn Weber. Secretary 13

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Harriet Glasser und Betty Teal Ruth Becker and Lucy Millard pus, the extensive reach of the Nursing School and the Cadet Nurse program is recognized every time we stop to admire the gray and red of their pass- ing uniforms. Dean Ruth Kuehn is ac- tively looking upward by serving as a member of the Post War Planning Committee for Nursing Education .... The School on the Boulevard is a part of Pitt too. Pharmacy School with Dr. C. Leonard C'Connell as its Dean, is proud of its four hundred and fifty members serving the armed forces. Many will return to a School prepared to offer them vocational readjustment in the form of review and advanced courses .... Since fifteen members of the teaching staff of the School of Dentistry are in the Service, the faculty, as Well as the students, has been ex- tremely busy. But with all their over- load, Dean l-l. Edmund Eriesell and his faculty have not forgotten to plan for the time when some nine hundred alu- mni of the School will return to civilian life and the practice of dentistry for Adrienne Hill, Iune McDowell cmd Alison Stewart civilians. A complete program of grad- uate study ranging from short refresh- er courses to courses leading to grad- uate degrees is ready to function when V-Day comes .... Med School, and all of Pitt, is very proud of the Universitys General l-lospital Number 24 in New Cfuinea. lt is staffed with forty-five of the Medical School's faculty and one hundred nurses from local teaching hospital staffs. Dean Bill McEllroy as anxious as the hopeful M.D.'s to return to normal semester schedules and he is planning extensive graduate courses and increased hospital resi- dencies as Medical School's contribu- tion to a bigger and better Pitt. Our social life, our educational pro- grams, and surely our class Work all contribute to a spirit of Pitt, a Pitt which could easily mean nothing more than splendid architecture. But Pitt does mean more than that and department heads closest to us scholastically have helped foster that spirit in us. Each has post War plans We can outline here .... Professor Theodore Finney, 15