University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Crilfithi COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS Meany E OR two years Dudley David Griffiths as a student at Simson College in Iowa, was captain of the track team. He managed to spend h is spare time as athletic reporter on the Simsonian, college publication, as a member of Epsilon Sigma, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Chi, and Alpha Tau Omega. As dean of the college of liberal arts, his hobbies are golf and gardening. He is the author of An Interpretation of the Legend of Good Women, Bibliography of Chau- cer, and The Origination of the Griselda Story. He took his A.B. degree at Simson and his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Edmond Stephen Meany is known to the Washington student body as the grand old man of the University. and Washington ' s keeper of traditions. He is typically a Uni- versity of Washington product, as he was graduated from the old Territorial Univer- McCilvrey sity in 1885, and became a professor at Washington in 1897. Oldest in service to the college of liberal arts. Professor Meany has a B.S. degree from Washington, a Litt.M. from the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, and a LL.D. from the College of Puget Sound. He is an honorary member of Sigma Nu, a member of Oval Club, one of the six foundation members of Washington ' s Phi Beta Kappa, and a Chev- alier of the Legion of Honor. His hobby is mountain-climbing, and he has been pres- ident of the Mountaineers of Washington for twenty-three years. Jack McGilvrey, senior student and Eng- lish major, was selected as the outstanding student in the English department, the main division of the liberal arts college. McGilvrey, a Japanese, is the adopted son of H. P. McGilvrey of Seattle. Liberal Arts Quadrangle

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UNIVERSITY ADMIN- ISTRATION John Padelford D. ' EAN DAVID THOMSON reads detec- tive stories when he isn ' t serving as vice- president of the University. His chief college recreation was playing association foot- ball — soccer. Dean Thomson was made a member of Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities on the Washington campus, as he received his A.B. degree in honor classics at the Uni- versity of Toronto, where there were no fraternities. ;Jt ;j; National recognition has come to Fred- erick Morgan Padelford, dean of the grad- uate school and assistant vice-president of the University, for his work on the poetry of Edmund Spenser. Dean Padelford was editor of the humor magazine at Colby College, Waterville, Me., in 1896. He was also on the Colby track team. He received his doctorate from Yale University and in 1901 joined the Univer- sity of Washington faculty. He has spent a year of research in the British Museum in England. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Between puffs on cigars, members of the board of regents, supreme executive body, speak the final words on University admin- istration. They meet in the regents ' room in Education Hall for once a quarter to blow a smoke screen over their plans. They are: Paul H. Johns, Tacoma, ap- pointed 1926; James V. Paterson, Seattle, appointed 1928; J. D! Farrell, Seattle, ap- pointed 1926; Roscoe A. Balch, Spokane, appointed 1926; J. M. Perry, Yakima, ap- pointed 1926; William Neal Winter, Seattle, appointed 1930. The Regents Meet Here

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AD- MINISTRATION Cairney McMahon Fo OOTBALL, debate, and class politics were interests of Shirley Jay Coon while he attended Beloit College, Wisconsin. Now his recreation is fishing. Beginning as a high school history and economics teacher. Dean Coon then advanced to economics instructor at Ohio State College, price expert for the Ohio food administrator during the World War, and finally professor and dean of the college of business administration at Wash- ington. He is a member of Pi Gamma Mu, Beta Alpha Psi, Pan Xenia, and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities. He received his A.B. at Beloit, his M.A. at Ohio State, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. H! 5! :f: 5t: Novels, to Mrs. Theresa Schmid Mc- Mahon, professor of economics in the col- lege of business administration, are heavy reading. But for a really relaxed evening she delves into bulgy, small-lettered works on world economics. Oldest in service to her college, Mrs. McMahon has been on the fac- vdty for twenty years, teaching classes eco- nomic theory and labor problems. She has published two books — Effect of Industrial Changes on the Status of Women, and Social and Economic Standards of Living. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and took her A.B. and M.A. degrees at Washing- ton and Ph.D. from Wisconsin. Ralph Cairney, senior in the college of business administration, was selected by members of the B.A. Council as the out- standing student in his college. Outside of his scholastic activities he was this year ' s captain of the University basketball team and also won letters in football and track. His B.A. major is water transportation. Agony of Accounting