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

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PERHAPS no faculty member represents so com- pletely the University of Wisconsin to parents and citizens of the state and country as the Dean of Men. The nature of his office brings him in daily contact through interview and correspond- ence with men and men students whose problems are of every kind and type. As Dean, Scott hi. Goodnight presides as chairman of the Committee on Student Life and Interests, directs student loans and scholarships, supervises and approves housing for men, acts as advisor to the freshman men ' s honor fraternity. Phi Eta Sigma, of which he is national president. Such work makes him the over- seer of all out-of-the-classroom activity, fraternity and extracurricular, in which men students partici- pate. The only man in the country to hold such an office in addition to a Deanship, Dean Goodnight is known also as Director of the Summer Session. Long hours of preparation, during the winter, of reports and budget, as well as careful choosing of faculty, are a regular portion of his organization and directing of the six weeks summer school. Scott Goodnight, a native of Jackson County, Kansas, came to Wisconsin as an instructor in German from Eureka College in Illinois, and earned his Ph.D. here. The years 1898-99 saw him study in Europe, and in 1906-7 he attended the great Uni- DEAN OF MEN Scott Holland Goodnight versity at Leipzig, Germany. The duties of German School Director were taken over by him in 1911, those of Associate Professor of German in 1912, those of Dean of Men in 1916, which duties forced his resignation from active teaching several years ago. Beyond the official life of the University, Dean Goodnight delights in shouldering a gun and chas- ing cottontails through Wisconsin woods; enjoys smoking a corncob pipe while fishing near his lodge on Black Oak Lake in Michigan; scratches his head many times to remember the many people who greet him and honor him In every part of the coun- try; chuckles at the suggestion that he is known In Deans ' meetings as a dangerous adversary; is very proud of his dog, Mickey, his title, Faculty Bil- liard Champion, his activity in undergraduate days in football, basketball, and baseball. As a speaker before student groups in hig h schools and colleges, before Alumni groups, and before other gatherings of every nature. Dean Goodnight has made clear the aims and activities of this University to citizens of this and other states. 26

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CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA THE Universify of Wisconsin has been sending students and graduates into the world since the time of our great grandfathers. This is a long and honorable record. It is more — it is a distinguished record. During many of these years a Badger has been published to conserve for suc- ceeding generations and for our memories the pictures and the happen- ings of the years as they pass. • The 1937 Badger will recall to many of you during the years to come some of the incidents of the year now closing. It will bring back to you recollections of old friends, teachers, and students. Because these things are so and because associations and contacts outside the classroom are of real importance in university life, I commend this enterprise as a worth- while expression of student interest and activity. • I am glad for this opportunity to greet the students of the University of Wisconsin in this volume dedicated to a portrayal of their activities. C. A. DYKSTRA .25 .

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DEAN OF WOMEN Louise Troxell Greeley THE University of Wisconsin is indeed fortunate to have for its Dean of Women as versatile a personality as Louise Troxell Greeley. To just say that Mrs. Greeley is qualified for her all-important post is not putting her good qualities strong enough. Those who have come in contact with her — regard- less of the capacity in which she may have acted — • are unanimous in exalting her aptitude as an execu- tive as well as her most pleasing personality. Like her counterpart, Dean of Men Scott H. Goodnight, Mrs. Greeley too comes from Kansas, Cottonwood Falls to be exact, where she attended the public, primary and secondary schools. Later she matriculated at the University of Kansas, majoring in Chemistry. After a very successful career as an educator, she married and then continued to broad- en her education through extensive travel abroad. After 14 years of housewifing it, to use Mrs. Greeley ' s own words, she returned to the education field and for the past 6 years has most capably served the citizens of Wisconsin in her present position. Always very active in women ' s organizations, dur- ing the past year Dean Greeley was chairman of the University section of the National Association of Deans of Women. Mrs. Greeley has much faith in the present gen- eration and is especially interested in a program of personnel work to include the education for and development of mental hygiene. In addition to her very strenuous activity in preserving the dignity of the University ' s Women, she also finds time to dine with her husband and to address various women ' s organizations throughout the state. Although an ardent hiker, golfer, swimmer and baseball enthusiast as well as an accomplished con- tract bridge player, Mrs. Greeley ' s chief hobby is gardening, hler flowers have never failed to place in a flower show, and she expresses the hope that some day she may be able to own her own farm — • and really garden as I do so love to do — she briefly puts it. 11