University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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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

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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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1 Vincent W. Lanfecxr. S. P. Franklin, William T. Root Iudson A. Crane Bishop Brown H. Edmund Friesell C. Leonard O'Connell music, expresses a part of that feeling when he said, l am definitely looking upward, from the crypt of Heinz Chapel to something higher in the Cathedral. . . . Dr. Manuel Elmer be- lieves that sociology's aim is social adjustment in the community, nation, and world .... Dr. lames Taylor hopes for fuller realization of mathematics as a creative, imaginative, and inspiring art and science .... Dr. George lones, psychology, expects new research fol- lowing war stimulus .... Dr. W. H. Shelton, modern languages, has said, Under the startlingly successful in- tensive method, students will speak and understand as never before. . . . Professor Frederick Mayer, English-- We will keep alive the idea of the en- joyment of literature as a part of a satisfying life. . . . Dr. Elmer D. Graper, political science--- We will continue to offer opportunities for training in successful leadership. . . . Dr. 0. E. lennings, biology, looks forward to having all laboratories on the tenth floor. Dr. lames Stinchcomb, classics, ex- pects elementary Latin taught in col- lege and increased interest in Greek literature .... Miss Zoe Thralls believes geography courses will be remodeled by changing phases of aviation . . . Dr.