University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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DEPARTMENT OF OCEAN- OGRAPHY R ' fg T« I HE director of Washington ' s new ocean- ographic laboratories and professor of chem- istry, Thomas Gordon Thompson, wears a wedding ring, calls his wife the Supreme Court of Final Decision, and is the father of two boys and a six-months-old daughter. His greatest thrill, he declares, came when in 1930 he was appointed director of the oceanographic laboratories. Dr. Thompson has had forty-three articles published in scientific journals — twenty-eight of them on the chemistry of water. In 1930 Dr. Thompson was granted a travel grant by the Rockefeller Foundation. He studied at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, later finishing at the Univer- sity of Washington with a Ph.D. in 1918. George Burton Rigg, professor oldest in University experience on the new oceanog- raphy staff, played left guard on the Univer- sity of Iowa football team while in college, and edited the paper. Dr. Rigg, here since 1909, taught Prof. Thompson his p ' s and q ' s when the present oceanography director came to Washington. His own textbook, College Botany, is used here, and its subtitle — With Special Reference to Liberal Educa- tion — marked the beginning of ten years ' work by Dr. Rigg to put botany in a closer contact with other fields of knowledge. Henry Wirth and Martin Johnson were selected by Dr. Thomas Thompson as the outstanding oceanography students in the new department. Both are graduate students, working for doctor ' s degrees. Although their grades are high the selection was based on their contributions to the field of ocean study. Both have had many articles pub- lished. Oceanography Lab — Brand Neva

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COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Goodrich w. HEN he works, he works, and when he doesn ' t work, he works, has been said of Charles Willis Johnson, dean of the college of pharmacy. Having no other hobby than pharmacy. Dean Johnson devotes all his odd moments to research. He has made such progress in this work that last year he and Henry Aug- ust Langenham, professor of pharmacy, were elected to the United States Pharma- ceutical Association. Dean Johnson is a member of Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Rho Chi, a pharmacy honorary installed in the University last May. =;. Umbelliferous plants are hobbies to For- est Gardiner Goodrich, professor longest with the college of pharmacy. At present he is conducting a research in this subject. Fish- ing and hiking he considers good pastimes. Professor Goodrich took his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington, from which he was graduated. During the war he did chemical research as a state officer. He devotes a good deal of his time to the drug gardens, of which he has charge. He is a member of Kappa Psi social fra- ternity, and Sigma Xi, science honorary. 5)= Rodger D. Dille was selected as the out- standing student in the college on the basis of scholarship alone, for laboratory work takes so much time that the student has no freedom for campus activities, Dean C. W. Johnson of the college explains. The Chtm Lab

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I ' M SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Bolton K lOUSEKEEPING was a college activity for Willis Lemon Uhl, dean of the school of education. He married when he was a soph- omore at Northwestern. He is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, edu- cation honorary, and Phi Mu Alpha, musical fraternity. Right now Dean Uhl ' s hobby is trying to find time for his interest in music. He took an A.B. degree from North- western, Ph.D. from the University of Chi- cago and has been at Washington since 1928. Dubbed the man with the open door by his students in education. Dr. Frederick Elmer Bolton, professor and dean emeritus of the school, is proud of his title. Dr. Bolton worked his way through Wis- consin University by farming, teaching, re- porting on a newspaper. Now he has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Old bottles and bones look pretty good to Harry Edwin Smith, director of the Univer- sity extension service and antique collector. Smith received his A.B. degree at Depauw University, and Ph.D. at Cornell. ' J- ' P ' i When you go in to see Henry Alfred Burd, director of the summer school, visualize him as a former editor of the University of Illi- nois newspaper, an intercollegiate debater, and an actor in college dramatic produc- tions. He took his Ph.D degree at Illinois. -P H ' P 5? To assist students and graduates of the University in obtaining positions in educa- tional work, the University bureau of ap- pointments is maintained in cooperation with the school of education, under the direc- tion of Mrs. Roberta W. Limbach, who has been connected with the University since 1917.