Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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4 Dean A. A. Cleveland School of Education Dean H. V. Carpenter, College of Mechanical Arts and Engineering Sclr ool of Education D ean Alfred A. Cleveland came to the State College of Washington in 1907 when the depart¬ ment of education was created and was elected Dean of the School when it was established in 1917. The purpose of the School of Education is to train teachers of the various high school sub¬ jects, supervisors of special subjects, principals, and superintendents. Es¬ pecially valuable to the student is the opportunity offered to do cadet teach¬ ing, either in the local high school or in one of the senior or junior high schools of Spokane. College O fMech ante and Engineering I N HIS thirty-three years here with the College of Mechanic Arts and Engineering, Dean Carpenter has been instrumental in establishing the high reputation of the State College Engi¬ neering School which claims nation¬ wide recognition. Dean Carpenter is vitally interested in communication—the radio, tele¬ phone, and power transmission, and in Electrical Engineering, his special field. The Engineering Department, civil, mechanical, electrical, and archi¬ tectural, together with physics and mathematics are under the direction of Dean Carpenter. — 18 —

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9 olle e of Sciences and Arts Sell oo ol Alusic and Fine Arts D ean C. C. Todd of the College of Sciences and Arts and Head of the Department of Chemistry, is charac¬ terized by his gracious poise and genial personality in dealing with present-day college problems. Dean Todd received his Ph. D. de¬ gree from the University of Chicago with Phi Beta Kappa rank. Opportunities for specialization in the languages, literature, history, phi¬ losophy, economics and the physical sciences are included in the College of Sciences and Arts. D ean Herbert Kimbrough of the School of Music and Fine Arts, was educated at Springfield Nor¬ mal in Missouri. His later training in music included study under masters in Berlin, Germany. Coming to Washington State Col¬ lege in the early days as a piano in¬ structor he was made Dean of the Schools of Music, Fine Arts, and Speech in 1918. One of the first deans to be appointed, Dean Kimbrough has watched Washington State grow from its pioneer days. The three depart¬ ments under his guidance show the re¬ sult of earnest effort successfully di¬ rected. 17 —

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i Dean E. C. Johnson Director Agricultural Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture Dean Florence Harrison, College of Home Economics ure College of Hi ome Ec conomics T O HEAD the College of Agriculture for the State of Washington calls for a man to whom the entire state looks for leadership. Dean Johnson fills this dominant position with marked ability. Under his direction research fitted to the needs of Wash¬ ington farmers has been studied and many of the problems solved. As a boy in Minnesota, Johnson grew up on a farm, proud of his Swe¬ dish ancestry. Besides getting a bache¬ lor ' s and master ' s degree from the Uni¬ versity of Minnesota, he did extensive research work under the U. S. D. A. in Washington D. C., during the war period. U NDER the able leadership of a woman so vitally interested in her field of work as Dean Harrison, the College of Home Economics is now listed among the finest of its kind. Following her undergraduate work at the University of Illinois, Miss Harrison received her master’s degree at Columbia University in 1918. She assumed her position as Dean of Home Economics at Washington State in 1919. Since that time national atten¬ tion has been turned to the College of Home Economics, particularly toward the extensive research in Household — 19 —