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DEAN OF WOMEN• • • Permeal J. French, dean of women, hasserved the University of Idaho for more thana quarter of a century with an enviable understandingand ability. Her remarkable memory,interest, and alertness have made her one of themost widely known women in Idaho.Miss French is a true Idahoan, being educatedin the public schools of Idaho, and havingreceived her M.A. degree from the University ofIdaho. She became dean of women in 1907, afterservin9 as State Superintendent of PubUc Instruction.T}:lrough her activity in the administrative andsocial affairs of the campus, Dean French hasmade herse lf a vital and indispensable part ofcampus life .Permeal J . FrenchDEAN OF FACULTY• • • The dean of them all in point of strictlycontinuous service on the faculty, Jay GloverEldridge, came to Idaho in 1901, and was in 1903made dean of the university faculty-a title whichhe has never relinquished. From 1903 untill909he was the one and only dean at Idaho-directingthe "ags," the engineers, the scientists allstudents.Dean Eldridge, a professor of Modem Languages,presides at academic council meetingsin the absence of President Neale.Add to his Phi Beta Kappa key and a YalePh.D. degree his latest achievement in hhe scholasticfield- being initiated as an honorary mem·ber of Phi Eta Sigma, na tiona] scholastic honorary.J ay Glover Eldridge26 •