University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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© o 8 Fe TSE SEEEEEE OTHE HEESE SHEET E TOES ECT SEHETE RES ESEs AA 2° Dean of Women Permeal J. French ONE OF the most important administrative sections of the University from the standpoint of relations with the people of the state is the position of Dean of Women. This office includes contact with innumerable aspects of college life and offers one of the best means by which high school students may be interested in the University of Idaho. Much of the valuable work and a good deal of the promi- nence of the position of Dean of Women is made possible by the woman who has held that post at Idaho for a number of years. Miss Permeal J. French is the Dean of Women at the University of Idaho. The efficiency of her work is best spoken for by the smoothness with which her department performs a great amount of import- ant administrative work for the University. under the control of the Dean of Women. She also has supervision over the two ¥ Either directly or indirectly, every phase of the social life of the campus comes i women’s halls and the many sorority houses on the campus. In addition to regulation of the social life of the campus, Miss French, in her i years at Idaho, has been directly responsible for the establishment of a number of the University’s most cherished traditions. Among the most important of these has been her connection with the annual Campus Day. Many other traditional forms have been materially helped by Miss French’s interest. The Dean of Women also makes important contacts for the University in her trips throughout the state. Each spring she visits the larger high schools of the state, meeting high school students and giving them information in regard to the University of Idaho. r24)

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; b , M Administrative Officials John R. Dyer THE ADMINISTRATIVE work of the University is entrusted to a staff consisting of five department heads and several important assistants. To the administrative officials go such duties as management of registration, financial control, preparation of publications, library administration, and supervision of the buildings and grounds of the University. These officials are responsible Lo the President of the University. Dean John R. Dyer succeeded the late Martin Fuller Angell as Executive Dean of the Southern Branch of the University of Idaho at Pocatello. Dean Dyer came to the Southern Branch from the University of Kansas, and has just completed his third year as head of the Branch. The officials are Frank Stanton, bursar; Ella L. Olesen, registrar; Oren A. Fitz- gerald, university editor; Mary Belle Sweet, librarian; and R. W. Lind, superin- tendent of buildings and grounds. Administrative Staff

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pee eeee Dean of Faculty Jay Glover Eldridge THE POSITION of Dean of the Faculty is honorary, in that it is held by the dean who has been longest in the service of the University. But in addition to that, it is a position that has attached to it a great many functions of utmost importance and responsibility. That importance is emphasized, too, by the fact that the office is held by Dean Jay Glover Eldridge, who has been with the University thirty years. The work of the Dean of the Faculty is largely administrative and of a general nature. To him falls the duty of aiding the President of the University in the process of running the departments of the University. To him, also, goes the work of corre- lating the various policies of university departments. One of the most important duties of this officer is the general administration of the University when the President is gone. At such times the Dean of the Faculty presides over the academic council and the various other faculty boards and com- mittees. The work of the present year has differed but little from any of the previous normal years. Whenever there is a vacancy in faculty deanships the Dean of the Faculty is called upon to administer that department, but this year such extra work has not been necessary. This has made it possible for Dean Eldridge to devote most of his time strictly to the duties of his own office and to his teaching. Dean Eldridge is professor and head of the modern language department at the Univer- sity. He is regarded as one of the outstanding language professors in the United States, and recently has established Icelandic as one of the languages offered in the University curriculum.