University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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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

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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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COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Fo OUR years ' work in Paris as a Bohe- mian artist in a paint-daubed smock, are vivid memories to W alter F. Isaacs, dean of the college of fine arts. While there, his paintings were exhibited in both the autumn and spring salons. In 1909, while in college, he was a track star, and was interested in a literary society, The Philomatheans. After taking an A.B. degree in fine arts at Milliken University, Decatur, Illinois, he went to the Art Stu- dents ' League of New York, from there to the Paris Academy, and then back to Colum- bia University. At Milliken he was chapter president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Dean Isaacs wrote the University chapbook The Painter Looks At Nature for Professor Glenn Hughes ' series, and has contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, and to art magazines. Hennessy Like the mail-man who takes a walk on his day off, Ambrose Patterson, professor longest with the college of fine arts, spends his spare time making color block prints, all of the wor k being done by hand. Professor Patterson received his art training at the Colorossi and Delacluse academies in Paris under Lucien Simo, Jean Paul Laurens, Benjamin Constant, and Mucha. His paint- ings are exhibited in five national galleries including the Royal Academy in London and the Societe Nationale Des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1903 he became a societaire of the Autumn Salon in Paris. Albert Ernest Hennessy, senior, winner of the Fontainebleau Scholarship for 1930, was selected by the fine arts faculty as the outstanding student in that department. Hennessy ' s major is architecture. The An Attic