University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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BOARD of REGENTS MACBRIDE BALMER MILLER MONTGOMERY RUPP SHEMANSKI RYAN Five new buildings, to cost approximately $3,500,000, will have been added to the University at the completion of the extensive building program being carried on by the Board of Regents. The construction of the new women ' s dormitory, chemistry and pharmacy building, infirmary, wind tunnel for aeronautical engineering, and recently completed library wing will cost half as much as the buildings erected in the previous seventy years of the University ' s life. The projects are financed by a federal loan and grant, a state fund, the University building fund, and a rental fund. In addition to the building project, $450,000 is being spent on building renovation and campus improvements. The University has received an unusually large number of bequests this year, headed by the $400,000 E. W. Ames endowment for the betterment of teaching faculties. Philip Macbride, President of the Board of Regents, is a Seattle lawyer and an alumnus of the University of Iowa, of which his father was president. Thomas Balmer has served t wo years on the Board of Regents . A Seattle resident , he was western counsel for the Great Northern Railway and is now chairman of the Finance Committee. WiNLOCK Miller possesses an honorary law degree from Whit- man College and is at present a retired attorney. Besides being chairman of Buildings and Grounds Committee, he is also a Whitman regent. Robert Montgomery, publisher of the Puyallup Valley Tribune, is also well-known as a writer and editorialist. He is chairman of the University Welfare Committee. Werner A. Rupp lives m Grays Harbor where he publishes the Aberdeen World. He is chairman of the University Lands Committee. Edward P. Ryan, recently married, is a graduate of New York University. A Spokane business man and mining property executive, he was formerly president of the board. Alfred Shemanski, Vice-President of the Board, is head of a large Seattle retail clothing store. He serves on the Finance and Executive Committees, and participates in civic affairs. • U

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DEANS Part al rcyhcancnt oj the lecture system hy lutiii ' itluai study and conjennc:s was a loca ' .ed ())■ President Sic in his address to oiteruii students last fall. The new plan allcws the stucknt. with his instructor ' s vermission, to concentrate on the .siihcct most interesting to him each ijuarter. The University College offers training for leadership or professions to those with majors. Those without majors return whence they came — be it farm or factory — well-rounded in education and versed in many fields of knowledge, according to Dean Edward Henry Lauer, who is also Dean of Faculties, handling the University ' s administrative matters. Dean Henry Landes, vice dean of the University College and chairman of the com- mittee on course of study, handles all changes and revisions in the curricula of the 5700 University College students. Dean David Thomson aids students in planning their schedules and assists them in academic difficulties. With his staff of faculty advisors he is especially concerned w ith freshmen and those who have not chosen their majors. The College of Economics and Business, headed by Dean Shirley J. Coon, promotes research in the common problems of the business world. More than 150 speeches on w orld problems were given by faculty members last year. 19 •