Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 4 | Increase in the Faculty at the U. of U. Indication of Progress at State School

Increase in the Faculty at the U. of U. Indication of Progress at State School NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF Uf AH. ivwwy4tefe liwfelwl Wmk j ' 1 u New and Old Instructors Who Are Chosen for the Coming Year. AMONG other signs of the progress pro-gress of the University of Utah is the increase in the faculty. The accompanying group picture pic-ture shows the old instructors, 'who havo been promoted, and the new ones, who have 'been added to the faculty. ' Prof. Milton Beunion 'was promoted to tako the placo of the, late William M. Stowart as head of the school of education. educa-tion. Mr, .Bennion is a graduato of tho University of Utah, and has since stit'died at the universities of Chicago, .Columbia and Wisconsin. Tic was tor seven years prior to .1000 principal of tho braneh normal school at Cedar City, and since then has been at the head of the secoudary training school at tho university. Prof. Iloward B. Driggs has been appointed ap-pointed diroctor of the secondary training train-ing school to succeed Prof. Bennion. Prof. Giles, who takes the placo of Squire Coop-as the head of the department depart-ment of music, has studied under the best instructors in Europe for the past six years. Comes From Nebraska. Weslev C. Becker is from the University Univer-sity of Nebraska, and will be associate professor in tho department of histology and. ombryology, Mr. Hunt is from Cornell college, Ja., and- did his graduate work at tho University Uni-versity of Chicago. Be will tako the place 'of Harold Goff as the associate professor of elocution. Lie has been conneclod with this kind of work in the Chicago high schools for tho past four years. , Miss" Laviua Parko is a former student stu-dent of the Utah Agricultural college and the Universities of Utah aud Columbia. Co-lumbia. She was formerly a member of 'lh'e Sa"lt"Lake high school faculty and is, now instructing in the domestic art school at the university. Mrs. Hollister was formerly primary grade supervisor in tho city schools off Butte, Jdout., and now becomes instructor instruc-tor in primary institute work at Utah. Is Prominent Kansan. Mr. Stciuer, who will assist Professor Lewis in tho agricultural aud industrial school, has been for several years a member of the faculty at the Kansas Agricultural school at Manhattan, Kas. Elbert Thomas is a graduate of the University of Utah, and for the past five years has been traveling in foreign countries. Uc will be an instructor in ancient languages. Dr. Fowler is a Ph. D. from Cornell, and was for many years in tho ancient language faculty of Lombard college at Galesburg, HI. B. R Cummiiigs is a former Utah student, stu-dent, who, because of his adaptability in modern languages, was asked to become be-come a member of the teaching force. He will toaeh German. Harold Stephons has just finished a three years' graduate, course in law at Harvard, and will be one of the lecturers lec-turers in the law school.