Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-11
DEAN OF COLLEGE OF EDUCA
TON MADE PRESIDENT OF
STATE UNIVERSITY. =
BOARD LOOKS FAR, ~.
THEN SELECTS HOME MAN
Dr.. Macbride, Retiring President, Made
President Emeritus-Dr. Jessup Had
Endorsement Of Members Of Faculty
and of President Macbrde-Urani-
nous Choice Of Board Of Education.

Des Moines, Aug. 11.-Dr. Walter n.
Jessup was elected president of the
State University Of Iowa, and President
Thomas H. Macbride was elected presi-
dent emeritus, at the session of the
state board of education held in Des
Moines on Wednesday.
Announcement was made last even
ing. after members of the board had
conferred with DR.. Jessup and received
his acceptance, and had communicate ed
with DR.. Macbride, who is visiting his
son in Seattle.
DR.. Jessup is at present dean of the
college of education of Iowa university.
He, assumes his new duties on Sept. l.
Maebride Suggested Jessup.
President Macbride rendered his res
ignation to the board last June, to be-
come effective whenever the board
should be ready to select his successor.
Dr.. Macbride was elected president
shortly less than two and a half years
ago, after the resignation of John G.
Bowman. He was chosen for an indef-
mite period, but informed the board he
was only postponing his retirement
from active work in order to aid the
university, and requested that the board
should prepare to relieve him within
two years.
DR.. Macbride was one of the first
men to propose Dr.. Jessup as his sue
ceSsor.
Has Faculty Support.
An unusual and wholly spontaneous
series Of Endorsements of DR.. Jessup
came from members of the Iowa faculty,
one of the members of the board of ed
ucation told a Des Moines alumnus of
the university yesterday. The board
did not ask faculty members what they
thought about DR.. Jessup, but request
ed suggestions as to what the board
should do in filing the presidency.
Deans of colleges and heads of depart
ments with widely separate educational
interests proposed DR.. Jessup for the
place.
The board looked up available men
all over the country and concluded it
was not necessary to go outside the
state to get the right man.
Praise For Maebride.
The members of the state board of
education heartily appreciate the CO.
operation they have had from President
Macbride." said D. D. Murphy, presi-
dent of the board. He told us when
he accepted the presidency that he was
doing so only to help us out, and he
has remained in office longer than he
wished"
DR.. Macbride is the first university
president to be honored with the title
OF president emeritus. His relation to
the school in that capacity is the same
as that Of David Starr Jordan to Lee
land Stanford. The board was Actual
ed in making the election both by ap-
probation of DR.. Macbrides recent
services and his thirty eight years of
active work as a member of the uni
versity faculty
The New President.
DR.. Walter A. Jessup came to the
State University of Iowa three years
ago from the University of Indiana
where he was dean of the school of ed
ucation. He became head of the de-
partment of education at Iowa, and
dean of the college of education when
that college was created two years
ago.
DR.. Jessup will be 80 years of age
tomorrow. He is a native of Richmond,
Ind, graduated from Earlham College
in 1903, and received the degree of Phi.
d. from Columbia in 1911. He married
Miss Eleanor Hines, of Noblesville Ind,
in 1898.
He acted as superintendent of schools
at WeStfield, Ind. from 1900 to 1909
then spent two years in a similar ca :
pacity at Madison, Ind, and upon the
completion of his work leading to the
degree of doctor of philosophy at CO.
lumbia, accepted the post at Indiana
University. which Immediately preceded
his removal to Iowa
Dr.. Jessup IS associate editor of Ed
vocational Administration and Supervis-
ion. and of Midland Schools. He is the
author of various books On educational
subjects.