University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Faculty Administration

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The Semi- CetiteiDiial Celehratioji ' he University of South- ern California celebrates its fif- tieth anniversary by an entire week of festivities in the month of June, 1930. One hundred and seventy-eight outstanding foreign universities have been invited to send representatives to Los Angeles to participate in the event. Some of the fea- tures of the Semi-Centennial program are the educational ex- hibits, scientific studies, and aca- demic demonstrations ; a histor- ical pageant to be presented by the School of Speech ; a colleg- iate chorus that will present the oratorio Elijah ; the Golden Jubilee Banquet ; the dedication of the new buildings ; the laying of the cornerstone of the new Library Building; the presentation of the University Ode; the unveiling of the emblematic Trojan statue, The Spirit of Troy. The chairmanship of the Executive Committee is held by Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt; other members are Emory S. Bogardus, vice-chairman; Hugh C. Willett, .secretary; Ruth Brown, James McCo) ' and Charleii Seaman. The Alumni Committee is headed by James McCoy, chainnan, and Frank Hadlock, Allen T. Archer, Linton Smith, Helen AL Morehouse and Everett ALittoon complete the committee. The Associated Students committee is composed of Leo Adams, chairman. Bob Beardsley, Art Neeley, Sam Newman, Isabel Loftus, Janet McCoy and Dorothie Smith. The members of the Entertainment Committee are Francis Bacon, chairman, Bruce Baxter, Louis Wann, Dean Crawford and Ruth Brown. Charlotte Brown is the chairman of the Exhibits Committee; her assistants are Dr. Irene McCul- loch, Ray MacDonald, C. A. Johnson, Clayton D. Carus and Willard S. Ford. The Music Committee is headed by A. M. Perry as chairman ; Horatio Cogswell, Alexander Stewart, Harold Roberts and J. Arthur Lewis are the other members. The Printing Committee is composed of H. W. Dean ' Rockwell D. Hum Hill, chairman, Josephine C. Wice and Roy T. Thompson. The Program Committee is made up of R. D. Hunt, chair- man, E. S. Bogardus and Hugh Willett. The Publications Commit- tee consists of Emery Olson, chairman, Grace Walker, Gladys Wadsworth Tuttle, Gwynn Wilson, R. L. French, and Esther Shelhamer. The Reception Committee is composed of Roy Malcolm, chairman, Francis M. Baldwin, Delia T. Early, O. W. E. Cook, T. D. Cooke, Justin Mil- ler, Ray K. Imme ' l, V. H. Brown, C. M. Case and Edith Johnson. These committees have outlined one of the most brilliant celebration programs ever undertaken by an educational institution. Visitors from great uni- versities throughout the world received invitations to attend the Semi-Centennial celebration. A Cour- ier Committee, composed of faculty members and prominent alumni, visited Europe in the summer of 1929, and delivered personal invitations to celebrat- ed friends of the universitv in everv nation of the Old World. Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heinck, Alice Gentle and Laurence Tibbett, singing in the ora- torio, Elijah, are only three of the famous per- sons whose efforts assisted in the success of the plans of the committee. Every student enterprise during 1929 and 193(1 has also been directed toward the great June program. Those faculty members of the university staff whose terms of service exceed the quarter century compose an honorary committee. The members of the committee, all veterans in the service of South- ern California, are: President Emeritus George Finley Bovard, Dean Laird J. Stabler, Dean Walter F. Skeele, Dean Lewis E. Ford, Charles E. Pem- berton. Dr. Albert Ulrey, Margaret G. ]?orthwick. Dr. J. F. Mauer, Frank M. Porter, dean emeritus of the Law School, Dean Ezra A. Healy, Adelaide Trowbridge Perry, and Dr. James Main Dixon. This Silver Committee, as it is known, represents almost every college in the university. Each of its members has distinguished himself in his field. [22]

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I Gf.orgf. Finlev Bovard Because he aiiUd a small, growing university through the dangerous period of the war, and because he was the moving spirit behind the rapid expansion ivhich carried that university to the heights during the year inimediatdy foUoiving the war, George Finley Bovard, President Emeritus of the University of Southern California, rightfully deserves a place of honor in the history of Troy. His was a task as difficult as that which faced Marion Mc- Kiiilcy Bovard in his efforts to build a university from the tiny institution trhich occupied a small tract of land on Wesley Avenue in 1R90: and the completion of that task made Southern California ready to step into its place as the great university of the Southicest. [24]