University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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CHARLES DOLLARD Assistant Dean of Men When Charles Dollard became assistant Dean of Men at the beginning of the second semester of this year, he stepped out of one busy office into another. After over five years as assistant house director of the Memorial Union, he took a new position created this year by the Board of Regents. Dean Dollard—“Chuck” to hundreds of students—had been employed under Porter Butts in the Memorial Union since its opening in the fall of 1928. Dean Scott H. Goodnight, his immediate superior in the new office, has been campaigning for the creation of the new job for several years, and Dean Dollard fitted into it as naturally as he had into the Union. Working with fraternities occupies much of Mr. Dollard’s time, lightening Dean Goodnight’s load a great deal. Since he has the viewpoint of a man older than the members of the fraternities but young enough to appreciate their problems, he is having definite success in working for the benefit of the organized men. Administrative work covering the whole fraternity field demands a faculty officer with deep interest in the men, and in Mr. Dollard it seems to have found the man. Since the University Summer School, one of the largest in the Middle West, is managed by Dean Goodnight, Mr. Dollard is also Assistant Dean of the Summer Session. In this field, his part has been handling correspondence in connection with the school. Mr. Dollard’s work will be expanded in the next few years as it becomes more evident where his help will he needed and what he can do best, according to plans of the university. With the large jurisdiction of the office, which handles elections, publications, fraternities, and many other student activities, there is considerable room for a young man who wants to keep busy. Page 29

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RAY I- HI LS EX HOFF Student Financial Adviser Handling an annual volume of business of almost §300,000 and acting as guardian angel for the finances of almost 60 student organizations, Ray Hilsenhoff, student financial adviser, has made his new office felt as an important factor in campus affairs this year. Mr. Hilsenhoff, who for several years held this position outside of the regular office hours of his position in the university business office, was the logical choice when the office was put on a full-time basis and made an official part of the university administration. Formerly paid by the organizations he worked with and acting as an optional convenience the organizations could use if they wished, Mr. Hilsenhoff is now paid by the university from funds supplied by the student groups; all student groups handling money except fraternities and sororities come under his jurisdiction. Although the new system has been in effect less than a semester, it has proved its value. An outstanding example is the Class of 1937 Junior Prom, which showed a profit of §1200. A large part of the improvement in dance management was due to the pressure from Mr. Hilsenhoff and Scott H. Goodnight, dean of men, for a reduction in the number of complimentary tickets and a more careful estimation of expenditures. The success of the system is shown by the fact that the university booking service for orchestras has been brought under it and that several fraternities and sororities have sought admission. Discounting the stories of graft in publications and other activities, Mr. Hilsenhoff says that he sees the chief value of his office in providing some sort of administration which lasts from one year to the next; similarly, the information gathered by all organizations may be pooled to help in the formation of financial policy. Page 28

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EDWARD ASAHEL B1RGE President Emeritus I A WORD FROM THE PAST “Sixty years since”—for I met my first zoology class here on Wednesday, January 5, 1876. My appointment dates from the preceding commencement, but the University saved a little much needed money by starting my teaching with the second term. The University? Well, there was a faculty of 20, half professors, half instructors; 276 “students in college studies”; 32 seniors; a Law School “down town” and meeting the “Hill College” only at commencement; a good-sized bunch of “Preps”. For buildings—all classes in the small center of Bascom; North and South Halls, outwardly as now, but then men’s dormitories; a small part of Chadbourne; a wooden shed of a Gym, near the present Bell Tower. You of today may well walk over the Campus, count the gifts that years have brought to you and ask of the altered temper of the State which has so changed the Campus. For sixty years ago it was still an open question whether the duty of the State extended to a University, though the authorization of Science Hall in 1875 foreshadowed the decision. The University of today is the visible reply of the State to the wider question. Doubt changed to assurance; assurance brought action; action yielded results which gave greater confidence and determination. Faith in education as the path of progress for citizen and State; determination that this path should be an open way in Wisconsin, and a way open to ever greater heights—these were the forces which, all over the State, became incarnate in countless men and women for whose own youth no such open way was present. Their spirit kindled in Governors and Legislators the courage and the faith to build and maintain an open way for you. S. 61. Page 30