Despite these efforts, American University has suffered severe disruption and other damages, and faces the prospect of incurring additional damages in the future. For this reason, the University filed an administrative claim with the Army on July 13, 2001 seeking damages arising from the Army's activities. We hope this hearing and members of Congress will assist the University, our Spring Valley neighbors, and all other affected parties by taking all necessary steps to ensure that the Army's remediation efforts are swift, comprehensive, and fully effective. Thank you for allowing me to address the District Committee. In addition to this testimony, I have submitted written testimony and supporting documents. Please feel free to contact me if American University can further assist the Committee. I would be pleased to answer any questions at this time. Camp Feach. D.C. I. Herewith are two files relating to the above subject, from which it appears that under date of April 30th, 1917, the following communication was sent to the President: April 30, 1917. In behalf of the Board of Trustees of the American University, The campus may be used either for a camping ground for troops, for guarding and raising products for the Anny, or for such other purpose as you may elect. There is a bountiful supply of city water on the promises, and the grounds are easily accessible by means of the Washington City trolley service. The character of the land is such as would make it available as an aviation ground. This offer was accepted, and the American University property was thereafter turned over by the President to the War Department, which gave the use of the property to the Chief of Engineers, who caused the erection of Camp Leach on that part of the property nearest Massachusetts The American University Courier Estared a second<lane matter February 1. 1909, at the Post Office at Washington. D. C. ander Act of July 16, 1994 Volume XXVII Washington, D. C., April, 1921 No. 3 The White House, Washington, April 8, 1921. My Dear Bishop Hamilton: I have received yours of April seventh, notifying me of my selection on the Board of Trustees of the American University, and am writing to advise you of my acceptance of the position. I do this with some misgiving as to the measure of active service I may be able to render because public duties in other directious are extremely engrossing. I shall hope, however, to be of some service and am taking this oppor tunity to assure you of my good wishes for the institution. The University is making special, unusually special, preparation for Convocation Day, Wednesday, June 8th. The exercises will be most attractive and highly interesting. The meeting of the Trustees will be held in the College of History at ten-thirty o'clock in the forenoon. Luncheon for the Trustees will be served at one o'clock sharp in the University building. The exercises will begin with the flag raising. Some one or ones-"sure," no doubt about it-will furnish that flag. Major General William Mason Wright will preside. The presiding officer will make a brief address and request a representative of the Fixed Nitrogen Division to raise the flag. One of the city clergymen, assisted by others as aides, will act as chief marshal. The Chancellor will preside in the outdoor auditorium. Representative clergymen from the different denominations will conduct the devotions. Addresses will be delivered by the Honorable Warren G. Harding, President of the United States; the Honorable J. J. Jusserand, the French Ambassador, and the Honorable N. W. Rowell, King's Counsel and leader of his party in the Canadian Parliament. The music for the occasion will be furnished by the United States Marine Band. Arrangements are being made for extra trolley cars to run from the city to the University during the afternoon. Dr. Frederick Juchhoff, the dean of the new gradu. ate School of Business Administration, comes to us from the historic old. College of William and Mary, in Virginia, where, during the past two years, he has been professor of economics and heall of the school of business administration. During the summer sessions of 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920 he serve as professor of economics and finance in the University of Virginia. Dean Juchhoff is a graduate of Kansas City Uni-. versity, where he took the bachelor's and doctor's degrees, of the law schools of Ohio Northern University and the University of Maine, receiving the LL.B. and LL. M. degrees, and of the school of commerce of Northwestern University. He also pursued gradu. ate courses in the University of Chicago for several years. The career of Professor Juchloff as an educator has been unique. Beginning in 1906, he was for two years instructor in commerce in lierea College, Kentucky; for five years he was a teacher in the public high schools of Chicago, at the same time instructing in several of the evening law schools, of one of which he was elected dean. For one year he was associate professor of commerce and finance in, the James Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, and the following two years was head of the department of accountancy of the municipal University of Toledo, Ohio. In addition to the academic appointments mentioned, he has for several years held a number of professorial lectureships, among which is that in economics in the Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health and in jurisprudence in the Medical College of Virginia. He has been a regular lecturer in our school of Diplomacy and Jurisprudence since its opening. For several years he served as editor of the accountancy and law departments of the Business Journal, of New York. Dean Juchhoff is the unusual combination of the sound scholar, progressive educator, and keen business man. His practical business experience was obtained in the practice of public accountancy and in connection with one of the banking houses in St. Louis. He has been on the directorate of several corporations. The new school of business administration is, like the other schools already established, a professionalgraduate school, open to men and women who have received their bachelor's degree from an accredited college. The work of the school is divided into a number of major study groups, among which are accountancy, transportation, finance, banking, economic theory, foreign trade, etc. The staff of the school includes a number of the leading specialists and economists in the country, each devoting a few hours a week to teaching his specialty. Among these men are found former professors. in the University of Nebraska, Tulane University, Columbia University, University of Maryland, Dartmouth College, University of Kansas, and Northwestern University. The new school begins its work October third under most favorable conditions; already a number of applications for admission have been received. |