Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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COLLEGE OF HOME ECONOMICS Dean Velma Phillips . . . Head at Home Economics Department . . , Received her Masters Degree at the University of Chicago . . . Active in instructing com- mittees on tood requirements during war times . . . Likes a game of golf as well as meeting new people. COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE E. E. Wegner . . . Dean ot the College of Veterinary Medicine . . . Has been with the Veterinary College tor 33 years . . . Hobbies are fur farming, and duck hunt- ing . . . Has done much to assist the Veterinary maiors to secure their commissions as Second Lieutenants in the Medical Administrative Corps, so they may finish their training and receive their degrees. STATE COLLEGE LIBRARIAN W. VV. Foote . . . State College librarian . . . Once taught singing and voice . . . Took undergraduate work at Oberlin College . . . Librarian since I9I5 . . . Has built the library to its present ranking as the largest land grant college library in the West. ty-five

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COLLEGE OF MECHANICAL ARTS AND ENGINEERING DEAN ROYAL R. SLOAN Dean Sloan is head of the College of Mechanical Arts and Engineering . . . Graduated from the University of Montana . . . Assistant engineer officer on the U.S.S. New Mexico during World War I . . . Taught at Montana State and Yale before ' coming to Washington State College. Top row: Langdon, Snyder, Knebelman Bottom row: Anderson, Smith ' Howard H. Langdon . . . Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering . . . Coordinator of the former Civil Pilot Training, now CAA . . . Supervises research on two different war projects . . . Doesn't have much time at present for his hobbies, photography and fish- ing. Morris S. Knebelman . . . Head of Mathematics De- partment . . . Princeton graduate . . . Elected to an associate editorship of the magazine, Tronssection of American Mathematical Society . . . Likes bridge and golf in his spare time. Stanley A. Smith . . . Head of Architectural Engineer- ing Department . . . Rounding out his twentieth year gr' Twnnlg-four here . . . Has been architect or assistant architect for half of the campus buildings . . . Spends vacation time . fishing and photographing old Indian missions. Morris K. Snyder . . . Head of the Civil Engineering Department . . . In his fourth decade of service for the State College . . . Served fourteen years as city engineer and two years as mayor of Pullman . . . ln- tensely interested in world history. Paul Anderson . . . Head ofthe Department of .Physics . . . Graduate of the University of Illinois . . . Received Ph.D. from Harvard . . . Former head of Physics De- partment at Yenching University, Peking, China . . . At Washington State since l93I.

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Twz-iz scHooL or BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION R. B. Hetlebower, Dean of the College ot'Business Administration and Economics . . . Took graduate work at the University ot California . . . Is now on leave to do OPA work at Denver . . . Is a very enthusiastic booster ot Cougar athletic teams , . . Well-known for his studies on banks and banking policies. DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SCIENCE Lieutenant Colonel Morrison . . . Head of the Military Department . . . A veteran ot World War I . . . Served overseas for eighteen months and received the Distin- guished Service Cross, Croix de Guerre with palm, and the Purple Heart . . . Graduated from the University I of Colorado in I9l2 . . . In May, I942, he was appointed Commander ot Corps of Cadets. fi,- ' sci-iooL or EDUCATION Dean J. Murray Lee . . . Head ot the School ot Edu- cation and director ot summer sessions . , . Combines business with the unusual hobby of reading children's books and preparing their titles for a publishing com- pany . . . He received his doctorate from Columbia University.