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

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jlze mfaigng 3600! After four previous years under the wing of the Business School, the School of Retailing has now blossomed forth on its own. The school began with 35 undergraduate stu- dents, and now has an enrollment of 246 undergraduates and l2 graduate students. The School of Retailing was initiated by downtown retailers, who saw a need for such a school to give students the fundamentals of retailing. These retailers gave the school a grant of 375,000 to obtain a faculty and to get the school' started. However, college courses in retailing are not substitutes for practical experience. There- fore, in addition to classwork, retailing stu- dents work two days a week, on a part-time basis. They also work full-time during Thanksgiving and Christmas. At the present time, there are 100 students working in store service, as each student does this only three semesters of the four in retailing school. As to plans for the future, the retailing school is planning an expansion of the grad- uate program, and development of research work Csuch as job analysis and job evaluationi. The guestion might arise: Are there enough jobs for those who desire to go into retailing? The answer is an emphatic Yes. Retailing employs the third largest group of people in the country- 7,500,000 -and ten percent of these are executives. The retailing school trains its students so that they will be able to make rapid progress toward one of these executive careers. The retailing school is under the guidance of Dr. Wenzil K. Dolva, who came to us in l946 from the University of Denver where he was head of the University College program. Previous to that, he had been Dean of the Pace lnstitute Business College. l-le is assisted by an executive committee of six men, and an advisory committee of thirty men, all of whom are outstanding retailers in this area. Strictly business. A piiture of a pony. bw fy

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we guriinexn ,STAOJ There is a section of Wash- ington University, known as Duncker l-lall, where the fu- ture businessmen of the coun- try are getting their training. Since l9l7, when the School of Commerce and Finance was founded, students have been studying Accounting, Political Science, and Eco- nomics, just to name a few, with an ambition to advance towards successful practice in commercial and industrial fields. ln l926, the school's name was changed to the School of Business cmd Public Admin- istration, but the name is the only thing that has stood still these past 24 years. For, since the small beginning that the school had, it has grown to a total of more than 770 stu- dents, and a full-time faculty of twenty members. DLLIIQACE 'l -quid . W . W xv, ' Q.: ll - V-X FN., t F.. X -, wt ,9- V - W5 ' ' Q - 1 x up . if .- 1 t 51 1 ml rl As one might expect, the Business School still has an eye for the future. An advisory committee of twenty-one prominent St. Louis businessmen has been appointed to help formulate plans for the future. This job of expan- sion is bigger than it sounds, but the nucleus has already been formed, and things are beginning to pop. A graduate program in business and public administra- tion, leading to a Masters degree, is being planned. The Business School is under the able direction of Dean Leslie I. Buchan, who came to us this year from Tulane 'University No beginner in the administrative line, he held the position of Dean at Tulane for a number of years before coming to Washington University.

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Business is slow, nobody wants a haircut. liflakina faces. fmenfa! 3400? 4559 Scott Avenue houses a proportion- ately small, but very important and famous division of our university-the Washington University School of Dentistry. The building itself is well equipped with laboratories, classrooms, one of the best dental libraries in the United States, recrea- tional rooms, and of course several rooms which comprise the dental clinic. ln the clinic, which is frequented by St. Louisans, each junior and senior in the school has his own unit. This unit consists of a dental chair and two cabinets furnished by the school and countless numbers of instru- ments owned. by the student. Here the would-be dentist works as if he were in his own private office. l-le has regular patients 28 whose cases he diagnoses and treats under the supervision of a faculty mem- ber. The juniors and seniors also have their own laboratory where they practice making dentures. As for the freshmen and sophomores, they too have a labor- atory, but their work is mainly that of study and not practice. Because the dental school is phys- ically detached from the main campus of Washington University, the dental stu- dents have formed their own clubs and activities. There are four dental fratern- ities A three social CDelta Sigma Delta, Xi Psi Phi, and Alpha Omegal and one honorary CQmicron Kappa Upsilonl. Then too, there are other organizations. For example, a large percentage of the stu- dents are from Arkansas and have formed a club of that name. Overseeing all activities is the Dental Schools student council, which is entirely separate from that of the main campus. Thais gold in them thar cavte