Officers of Administration

H. C. Byrd, LL.D., D.Sc., President and Chief Administra-
tive Officer

H. F. Cotterman, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty
Gordon M. Cairns, Ph.D., Dean of College of Agriculture
Leon P. Smith, Ph.D., Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
John T. Williams, Ed.D., President Maryland State College
Col. John C. Pitchford, U.S.A.F., Dean of College of Military

Science and Tactics
J. Freeman Pyle, Ph.D., Dean of College of Business and

Public Administration

Wilbur Devilbiss, Ph.D., Dean of College of Education
S. S. Steinberg, B.E., C.E., Dean of College of Engineering

and Aeronautical Sciences

Ronald A. Bamford, Ph.D., Dean of Graduate School
M. Marie Mount, M..A., Dean of College of Home Economics
Lester M. Fraley, Ph.D., Dean of College of Physical Edu-
cation, Recreation and Health

Joseph M. Ray, Ph.D., Dean of College of Special and Contin-
uation Studies

J. Ben Robinson, D.D.S., F.A.C.D., Dean of School of Den-
tistry

Roger Howell, LL.B., Ph.D., Dean of School of Law
H. Boyd Wylie, M.D., Dean of School of Medicine
Florence M. Gipe, M.S., R.N., Director of School of Nursing

and Superintendent of Nurses
Noel E. Foss, Ph.D., Dean of School of Pharmacy
George H. Buck, Ph.B., Superintendent of University Hos-
pital

James M. Gwinn, Ph.D., Director of Extension Service
Irwin C. Haut, Ph.D., Director of Agricultural Experiment

Station

W. J. Huff, Ph.D., D.Sci., Director of Engineering Experi-
ment Station
Paul E. Nystrom, Ph.D., Director of Instruction, College of

Agriculture

Geary F. Eppley, M.S., Dean of Men
Adele H. Stamp, M.A., Dean of Women
Alma H. Prienkert, M.A., Registrar
Edgar F. Long, Ph.D., Director of Admissions
Charles L. Benton, M.S., C.P.A., Comptroller
Howard Rovelstad, M.A., B.S.L.S., Director of Libraries
Harry A. Bishop, M.D., Medical Director
George W. Fogg, M.A., Director of Personnel
George O. Weber, B.S., Business Manager (on military leave)
Frank K. Haszard, B.F.S., Director of Procurement and
Supply

College Park Telephone: Warfield 3800
Lombard and Greene Streets, Baltimore 1 Telephone: Plaza 1100
University Hospital Telephone: Lexington 0320

The University

The University of Maryland is the State university and the "Land-
Grant" institution of Maryland.

The present University of Maryland is the result of the merger of
the former privately owned University of Maryland located in Balti-
more with the former Maryland State College at College Park. The
first institution was founded in 1807 as the College of Medicine of