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

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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

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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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Dr. Arthur L. Hughes is head of the Physics Department, and has made significant contributions to the success of the atomic bomb... Dr. Frank W. Bubb, head of the Applied Mathematics Department. has charge of Washington's cyclotron . . . Friend of Secretary of Com- merce Wallace, Dr. Edgar Anderson hc-ids the Botany Department and keeps his advanced botany students busy studying sunflowers. Professor Harry G. Hake, head of th? Electrical Engineering Depart- ment. is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers. Outside of school he spends most of his time hunting and fishing. Dr. Bateman Edwards, head of the Romance Languages Depart- ment, plays the piano in his spare time for the St. Louis Film Society movies in Brown Hall.,.Dr. Lewis F. Thomas heads the newly- created Geography Department and acts as adviser to the Student Senate. ,JQQULGQU me 6Llf'flflfLQlfLf5 f P Dr. Arthur L. Hughes Dr. Edgar Anderson Dr. Frank W. Bubb Professor Harry G. Hake Dr. Bateman Edwards Dr. Lewis F. Thomas