Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Page 2 I Faculty Administration Osmar L. Weller V ice- President D R. O. L. WALLER affiliated himself with the State College in 1893 as Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering, taking the Vice-Presidency in 1909. He received his Ph. D. and Ph. M. degrees from Hillsdale College and studied Law at the University of Michigan. In June of 1929 he received an LL.D. degree from Washington State College. A study of the history leading up to the founding of land-grant colleges, of which the State College is one, shows conclusively that the old universities were not meeting the scientific needs of the great industries, and that after half a cen¬ tury of debate, propaganda, and memorials the land-grant act was passed by Congress providing scientific and applied scientific education for the industrial classes. Until the passage of the land-grant act, applied science had poor stan d¬ ing in the field of education. This legislation has placed applied science, in the form of agriculture and engineering, upon a level with the other professions. Under the new education, industrial classes came to believe that education applied to their life’s work was as much their right as it was the right of the favored professional class. They insisted that science should be put into work¬ ing clothes and be made to help solve the prevailing industrial problems. In Europe science was compelled to go to work in the eighteenth century. Not until after the land-grant colleges came into existence in the nineteenth cen¬ tury were the sciences compelled to earn their living in America. The State College of Washington was organized in 1890 under the land- grant act, and since that time has graduated many hundred students trained in applied science. Many of them are actively employed in the world ' s work. Their training has made them useful and valuable citizens.

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Faculty Administration W. A. RITZ, J. H. HULBERT, F. J. WILMER, E. O. HOLLAND, WALTER R. ROWE ARTHUR W. DAVIS, The Board of Regents npHE personnel of the Board of Regents consists of men prominent in the state who are interested in education in general and the State College of Washington in particular. Each member of the board is appointed by the governor of the state of Washington and is chosen from among well-known business and professional men. The duties of the board consist in the administration of the State College of Washington. All questions concerning the policy of the college come under its management; all financial and executive problems important in the progress of the institution are taken care of by the Board. This year, as in the years past, a number of difficult executive ques¬ tions have been ably worked out. Members of the Board are: J. H. HULBERT, Mount Vernon President Arthur W. Davis, Spokane Vice President W. A. RlTZ— ...Walla Walla R J. WlLMEft Rosalia W. R. Rowe - - Naches

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Faculty Administration Page 22 Dean Annie M. Fertig Dean of Women There is nothing too good for women of the State College. Our desire is to give them the training, both physical and mental, which shall help to make them worthy and influential citizens of the state. Signed, Mrs. Annie M. Fertig. npo GIVE counsel to each young woman enrolled at the State College; to guide each in achieving a more nearly perfect sense of values in dealing with her academic and personal problems; and above all, to be a friend of every individual; these are but a few of the duties of the Dean of Women. Mrs. Fertig received her B. A. degree from the University of Chicago, and her M. A. from Columbia. Her previous experience in girls ' affairs as well as her excellent work since she has been here have made her services invaluable to the State College.