Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Dean Adele Chomeau Starbird Dean of Women and head of McMillan Hall. Has a Russian samovar and an English bulldog named Buster in her apartment at McMillan Hall. Issues regulations governing all women on campus, listens to unhappy co-eds, advises all womens honoraries, teaches French in her spare time. Dean Douglas Vass Martin Dean of Men and head of the Public Rela- tions office. Has two sons in the navy. Wrote a book about his experiences as a father, called UExpectant Fathers, Their Care and Feeding. Suggestion: since Dean Martin has firsthand experience with all the publications on campus, he might write a book about 'Exasperating Ecli- tors, Their Care and Feeding. -Ck Harry Brookings Wallace Dean Ioyce C. Stearns President of the University Board of Dean of Faculties and of Graduate Studies Directors. Served as Acting Chancellor of Likes to be called Mister constantly giving Washington University during 1944 and 1945. speeches on atomic energy all over the country even in Kansas

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111.3 ......-- ....---' ...ui-' ....-- Eh::tEEE?E7iziaiaaattiiliuiat'213 . . 3131. 'HYfEE:EEE:::::::::23g .. -.mm--i-1-,1-.-'... , ' v,-.-.-,i.z'.xa.. - Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton ,fgcfminiri fra ford Dr. Arthur H. Compton, atomic energy scientist, and winner ot the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927, yvas inaugurated as the ninth chancellor of Wash- ington University on February 22, 19-1-6. He was not, however. any stranger to the Hilltop, for he hadlserved as head of the physics department from 19211 to 1923. His family has long been known in educational and scientific lields-his father taught at YVooster College, Uhio, for forty-live years and the chancel- lor and his two brothers and one sister hold a total of forty-four college and university degrees and membership in thirty-nine honorary societies. Dr. Compton is also active in civic affairsg since 193-1 he has served as chairman of the Layman's Nlissionary Movement, and as co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews since 1939. He has been a member of the National Can- cer Advisory Board since 1937 and a regent of the Smithsonian Institute since 1938. At the time of the announcement of his appoint- ment as chancellor by Harry Brookings VVallace, president of the board of directors and acting chancellor, Dr. Compton declared that VVashing- ton University, as an urban university, held great opportunities for development, both as a training center for leaders in the held of science and in liberal arts. warding diplomas Mr. and Mrs. Compton Characteristic pose

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.jofminid fra Liam Thomas E. Blackwell Thomas Blackwell is a good man to know. He's the one who controls the money on campus- he's been Treasurer and Secretary to the Corpora- tion since l9-l2. XV. U. could not have picked a better man in whom to place their trust since Blackwell's specialty is the study of trusts. That's a joke, son. Your school schedules are even more of a worry and a problem to busy Registrar George VV. Lamke than they are to you. The Registrar has had much experience in handling registration problems, hav- ing taken his present position in l9l5. Before that he had served XV. U. as instructor in Electrical Engineering. Education, as it easily might, plays a dominating role in Dr. Frank Lee VVright's life. He is head of the YV. U. education department and director of summer school. Dr. VVright's special Fields of study center on teacher training and school board prob- lems. Active in community and national education affairs, he is president of the VVebster Groves School Board and is on the Citizens' Committee for Rural Education Study. VVashburne Denning Shipton plays Santa Claus twice a year when as chairman of the scholarship committee he gives away scholarships. Dean Ship- ton's special field of research centers on geology in particular and science in general. He has served as president and secretary of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. George W. Lamke Dr. Frank Lee Wright Washburne Denning Shipton