University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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PBCMINENT ALUMNI 17 3,000 at the present time, we find the names of people associated. both with our own University and the business world. The first graduate of the Uni- versity was john I-Iipp, a member of the class of 1884, who for many years after his graduation was a prominent lawyer in Denver. The class of 1885, which actually was graduated with the class ten years later, was made up of three men, all of whom have been or are lawyers in Denver. These men were Earl Montgomery Cranston, George C. Manly, and William A. Moore. In 1888, William Seward Iliff, who for many years was a banker in this city and who endowed thewlliff School of Theology, and Charles Kinlin Durbin, who was manager of the Den- ver Tramwaycompany for a period of years, also graduated from the Univer- sity. In 1890, john Mortimer Brink was graduated from Denver University, and soon took his place in the business world as a Credit Examiner and Legal Adjuster in Brooklyn, New York. In this same class were William E. Lewis, a musician in Key Stone, Nevada, and Orville E. Shattuck, who was a lawyer in Denver. According to the records, the sole graduate in 1892 was Arthur M. Edwards, who was both an attorney and a banker. I. Stanley Edwards, who is an insurance man in Denver, Frank Dennis Burhans, George Benja- min Huene, Frederick T. Krueger, and Alva B. Adams, who was one time gov- ernor of Colorado, made up the class of 1894. The classes from that time on were larger, and no complete records of tl '3 members of them have been kept, however, in 1898, Frank McDon- ough, who is a prominent lawyer and judge in Denver, was graduated from the Law school and in 1898 Clarence E. Lea, who was a Member of Congress from California, received his diploma. The year 1899 saw nine volunteers from the University enter the Spanish- American war. In 1900, at the turn of ' ,r . '.V:4.J4.5 Y . '. The snow added dignity- The background for lantern night The Iliff School of Theology adds a religious atmosphere to campus life.

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MATER W. Collins is at present dean of that branch of the University. William T. Chambers, who was replaced by Hiram A. Fynn in 1915, was the outstanding dean of the Dental school, while the Music college has had several direc- tors, among them Frederick Schweiker, Charles F. Carlson, Oliver Howell, and Samuel A. Blakeslee. The first dean of the Law school was Lucius W. Hoyt, who was succeeded by -Arthur E. Patti- son, George C. Manly, an alumnus of the University, and Roger H. Wolcott. At the Art school we find the names of Henry Read, the first director of the de- partment, Vance Kirkland, and Cyril Kay-Scott as dean of the school. For several years Duncan headed the Graduate school before the position was given to Wilbur Dwight Engle, present head and Dean of the Summer school and School of Science and En- gineering, and over which he has been the head for years. Dean Howe was also the director of the Chamberlin ob- servatory from its establishment until his death, when Albert Hecht, the cur- rent director, took charge. Malcolm G. Wyer is recognized as the dean of the School of Librarianship, a position which he has had since the school was founded in 1930. The principal of the Warren academy was Owen B. Trout, who later became registrar of the Uni- versity. ln 1911, a temporary dean of women, the first one to hold that position, was appointed. This was Ella Ruamah Metsker, who was replaced later in the same year by Anne Mclieene Shuler. Miss Shuler was assisted by Miss M. E. Eigler at the School of Commerce. In 1928, Gladys C. Bell was appointed to take Miss Shuler's place and h'er assist- ant at Commerce was Mary E. Kotz, who was there until the post was aban- doned as an economy measure in 1934. From the student body, which has in- creased steadily since 188O, when there were sixty-one students, -'to well over

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18 ALMA MATER Mayo hall, first of the newer buildings, and the home of the classics. the century, Gerald Hughes, who is a lawyer in Denver, received his degree in law. Stanley K. Hornbeck, who was chief of the Far Eastern division of the De- partment of State during the Hoover administration, was graduated in 19037 Roger Toll, former head of Rocky Mountain National park, left the institu- tion in 1905: Wayne C. Williams was graduated with the class of 1906, and Roger H. Wolcott, who is Dean of the Law school, received his diploma from that school in 1907, as did Wilbur Dan- iel Steele. In 1908, Charles O. Thibo- deau, superintendent of the Methodist church, was graduated, as was Iames Grafton Rogers, who was head of the University of Colorado law school and is now at Yale. Robert W. Steele, a District court judge, was graduated in 1910, and in 1911, MacPherrin H. Don- aldson, who received the Rhodes schol- arship from Colorado, was graduated from the College of Liberal Arts, while Clem Collins, the present dean at Com- merce, received the first degree given from that school. ln 1913 came Lowell Thomas, who has attained prominence in the field of newspaper and radio since his graduation. In 1919, when there was again a fair-sized class after the years of the war, came Russell Shetterly, who is a federal judge in Shanghai. 1922 was the year in which Teller Ammons, the governor of Colo- rado, graduated from the University. 1923 saw Thomas I. Morrissey, who is the district attorney for the federal gov ernment, graduatedp and in 1924 Edgar Kettering, one of the newly elected dis- trict judges, graduated. Roy Byers, who is coaching the football team at Manual Training high school, finished his college career in 1931, and Dick lorgensen, who is the new baseball coach at South high school, was grad- uated in 1934. There are many Denver