michiqan Aa\e colleqe •? tC O •? D V \ V JANUARY EViErW MUMBE-FL 1951 THE Mill Mutuals Agency REPRESENTING THE Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. AND The Michigan Shoe Dealers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company MUTUAL BUILDING LANSING, MICHIGAN A. D. BAKER. '89 L. H. BAKER. '93 President Secretary-Treasurer January, 1931 THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD 3 Listening In The MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE [ADE a lot of money- needed a lot—spent a lot. In a nutshell, there is the financial story of RECORD the athletic associa­ Established 1896 tion for the year which Member of the American Alumni Council ended June 30. When Published for the alumni ami former students of the Michigan State College by the Comptroller W ilk ins M. S. C. Association. Published monthly throughout the year. and his auditors tracked the last entry Membership in the M. S. C. Association, including subscription to THE RECORD, to its lair and gave their adding $2.50 per year. machines a final punch, they noted Unless members request a discontinuance before expiration of their memberships, it will that the net profit of the 1929 football be assumed a renewal is desired. Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. S. C. Association. season was $24,351.13, which is entitled Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at East Lansing, Michigan. to a respectable salute if we are at all GLEN O. STEWART, '17, Editor GLADYS FRANKS, w'27, Alumni Recorder impressed with the gain made in this sport at Michigan State in the past few THE M. S. C. ASSOCIATION years. A more complete survey of the gray-covered brochure of the auditors Union Memorial Building is given on page 11 under the story OFFICERS—1930-31 "Where the Football Dollar Goes." R. Bruce McPherson, '90, President W. O. Hedrick, '91, Vice-President L. T. Clark, '04. Treasurer Glen O. Stewart, 17, Secretary URING the past month we were EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE discussing an old pledge with a D Earl E. Hotchin. '12, East Lansing, term expires 1931 ; L. O. Gordon, '06, Muskegon, prosperous looking alumnus in a near­ term expires 1932: E. Fred Edwards, '99, Lansing, term expires 1933; Harris E. by city, whose total contributions to Thomas, 'K5, Lansing, ex-officio : E. W. Ranney, '00, Greenville, ex-officio; the College during the past two decades Frank F. Rogers. '83, Lansing, ex-officio: A. C. MacKinnon,' would have bought him a new winter '95, Hay City, ex-officio: Margaret Zachariah, '26, hat. One of his arguments was that President of Alumnae League no one had intimated to him, while he Entered at the East Lansing Postoffice as Second Class Matter was a student, that he was not paying the full cost of his education; conse­ Vol. XXXVI No. 5 Kast Lansing. Michigan January, 1931 quently, the books were closed when he graduated, and he considered himself free from subsequent obligation to the In This Issue College. He was promptly assured that Clara Hantel Brucker 4 the College holds him under no obliga­ tion, explicit or implied, but the argu­ President Shaw Directs Varied Program 5 ment contains the germ of the thought. Freshman's Choice—List of Fraternities and Sororities at Michigan State.. ..,....: : 6 Who's Who Among the Alumni 7 A COLLEGE alumni association justi- ** ties its existence on the grounds Crowley Signs New Contract as State Mentor—Detroit Club that it is the best method for grad­ Announce Annual Party 8 uates and former students to keep in Alumni Given View of College Dollar. 9 touch with the education world after school days are over, and because the Another Spartan Basketball Season Opens...: 10 educational institutions realize that in Where the Football Dollar Goes ... 11 the alumni association there is a defi­ "Close Beside the Winding Cedar" .... 12 nite bond between the graduate, the college and the field of education. With Early Efforts In Pedagogy—Marriages 13 this thought in mind the fourth an­ Alumni Affairs ....; 14 nual College Congress conference will be held at the Union on January 30 and 31. In addition to President R. S. Shaw, who takes the alumni into his are Friday evening January 30 and TN compliance with the by-laws of the confidence in his characteristic manner Saturday forenoon, January 31. Any -*- alumni association, President R. at these important gatherings, John B. alumnus or faculty member is wel­ Bruce McPherson has recently an­ Fullen. alumni secretary of Ohio State comed. nounced the appointment of H. G. university, has been secured to talk on Cooper, '16. Lansing, and George "Carp" "Whither Football." Administrative O commemorate the progress made Julian, 16. East Lansing, to head officers of the College, deans, faculty T by President R. S. Shaw during his two committees to present nominations members, officers of local alumni regime as head of the administrative for the general elections of the alumni clubs and class secretaries will wel­ work of the College, the Record pre­ body next June. Each committee is come the opportunity to attend the sents in this issue a summary of the to present a full slate of candidates, annual College Congress, to become in­ new appointments and changes vitally each committee will be responsible to timately acquainted with the problems affecting the growth of the institution. the extent that all persons nominated of the College, to discuss the relation­ In measuring this program, President shall have agreed to serve if elected, ship of the graduate body to Alma Shaw and the College deserve the loyal and further that each committee shall Mater and to be enlightened by an support of all elements of our com­ confer on suggestions received in time accepted authority on what present monwealth who are interested in edu­ to publish their elections in the March day alumni are thinking. The dates cational advancement. issue of the Record. 4 THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD January, 1931 CLARA HANTEL BRUCKER A recent portrait of the First Lady TV/TRS. WILBER M. BRUCKER. a graduate <sl Michigan of the State of Michigan, wife of Gov­ **-"-*- State college with the class of 1930. is the first alumna ernor Wilber M. Brucker. who took to occupy this distinguished position. During the past two office January 1, years, while her husband held the post of attorney general, Mrs. Brucker continued her collegiate work in the liberal arts division, where she studied voice under Louis Graveure. At present Mrs. Brucker is working on her master's degree, confirming with music and French. The Bruckers have one child, Wilber, Jr., and are residents of East Lansing. January, 1931 THE MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE RECORD 5 President Shaw Directs Varied Program Personnel of Faculty Strengthened During His Regime TOURING the two-year regime of Soon after President Shaw took nized leader in the field of economics *~* Robert Sidey Shaw as president of office he was confronted with the and with the added emphasis being Michigan State college, there has been problem of dealing with women stu­ given the courses in business admin­ a decided strengthening and improve­ dents. Realizing that the solution to istration, his services have been found ment in the personnel of the faculty, the problem was the securing of a invaluable. woman of attainment and ability for a especially among the division heads. Home Economics and Engineering dean of women. Miss Elisabeth Con­ Illness has been a factor in necessitat­ Heads Change rad was named for the position. Miss ing changes among the deans in a few Following the resignation of Miss cases but the majority of the appoint­ Jean Krueger in 1929 as dean of home ments instituted by the present head economics, Dr. Marie Dye was advanced of the College have been made with a from associate professor of home eco­ definite view in mind of adding fresh nomics to the deanship. Dr. Dye has energy and younger blood to salient proved a capable, energetic head of the points that were tottering with old age division and is one more link in the and general inactivity. chain of institutional improvement initiated by President Shaw. When President Shaw first took over the task of directing the College in Following the illness and absence of George Walton Bissell, dean of en­ 1928 he immediately swung into a gineering, in 1929, Henry Bernhard program that was launched only after Dirks, professor of the mechanical careful study and weighing of facts, division, was named as acting dean of both as to immediate needs and engineering and acting director of the material at hand to fill the gaps. engineering experiment station, both No one can say that President Shaw's positions having been capably filled by appointments have not lived up to ex­ him. pectations and more. From home More recent appointments to heads economics to athletics and from agri­ of divisions are those of Dr. E. A. culture to a dean of women the indi­ Bessey, professor of botany, to dean viduals finally decided upon by the of the graduate school, and Dr. R. C. administration to fill the jobs have all Huston of the chemistry division, to been masters of their subjects not only full dean of applied science, after in sound knowledge but in many cases having served a short time in the have been able to lend inspirational PRESIDENT R. S. SHAW capacity of acting dean. Dr. Bessey guidance to their particular depart­ —is daily putting Michigan State on was formerly acting dean of applied ments that is daily putting Michigan the highway of success science. Both appointments are ex­ State more and more along the high­ pected to prove advantageous to the way of continued success and prosp­ Conrad was dean of women at Ohio welfare of the institution.