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])ean of F acuityDean EldridgeAmong the many duties of J ay Glover Eldridge arethose of dean of the University Faculty, professor ofModern Languages, head of the Department of ModernLanguages, vice-chairman of the Academic Council,and member of the Administrative Council for theJunior College. The position of Dean of the Facultyinvolves correlation of the work of various divisions,presiding over the meetings of the university facultyand the Academic Council in the absence of the president,and the filling of whatever vacancies arise infaculty deanships.Dean Eldridge's membership on the faculty, whichdates from 1901, gives him the longest service of alluniversity deans. He has, at one time or another, beenacting dean of most of the University's colleges andschools. He received his Bachelor's, Master's, andDoctor's degrees at Yale, and began his teaching there.In 1900 he studied in Germany; in 1927, on leave ofabsence, he studied in France. He was a Y.M.C.A.secretary with the A.E.F. in France in 1918. Amonghonors that have come to him are membership in PhiBeta Kappa and Grand Master of Masons of Idaho.~outhern ][)ranchThe former Academy of Idaho at Pocatello, establishedin 1901, became the Idaho Technical Institutein 1915 and the Southern Branch of the University in1927. The Southern Branch has the status of a JuniorCollege, offering a two-year course which parallels thatof the J unior College on the main campus. J unior standingin the Senior College of Letters and Science, theCollege of Engineering, or the College of Law is grantedto graduates from the respective curricula of the SouthernBranch. A four-year pharmacy course with thedegree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy is alsooffered.John Ruskin Dyer is Executive Dean and Directorof the Division of Letters and Science of the SouthernBranch. Dean Dyer received the degree of A.B. fromOhio State University and that of M.A. from the Universityof Kansas. Before he came to the SouthernBranch in 1929 he was Dean of Men and Assistant tothe chancellor at the University of Kansas. He has beenon the national council of the Young Men's ChristianAssociation, and is a member of Phi Delta Kappa andPhi Beta Kappa.Dean Dyer