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Show ion. impression of unusual culture. He is physically strong and active. He goes immediately to his subject and talks readily and with ease. His inquiries are direct and to the point and he gathers information readily. I had asked Dr. Bunker while in the U. 8. Dept. of Education in Washington, some questions regarding University Presidents' salaries, and as showing the readiness with which he responds to a request for information, he prepared a detailed table of all state-supported colleges and universities having more than one thousand enrollment for the year 1920-1921, and had made the following generali- zations: (1) Among the 57 institutions, other than the . University of Utah, 4 pay their presidents lower salaries than Utah, 1 pays the same, and 52 pay more; (2) of the 22 instia tutions having smaller enrollment than Utah, 4 pay less and 17 more; (5) of the 16 institutions with larger enrollment, l pays the same and 15 pay more. Yet, when considering the| salary question, Dr. Bunker did not seem to take a mercenary view at all with relation to the possibility of his own chances for becoming President of the University of Utah. At my request, Dr. Bunker supplied me with a photograph of himself which I shall attach hereto. Also, at my suggestion, I had the opportunity of meeting with Mrs. Bunker, and at our second meeting, Regent Ray interviewed at length both Dr. and Mrs. Bunker. I regard Mrs. Bunker as an unusually capable woman. She is a college graduate and knows the West and South as well as the East where she was born and reared. She is a woman of delightful personality. In discussing with Dr. Bunker the men in business and educational pursuits who would be able to give an appraisement of him from personal and intimate contact, I obtained a number of references, and to avoid delay and expense, I requested Dr. Bunker to ask a number of these men to write us direct at Salt I am attaching hereto letters and telegrams refer~ Lake City. ring to him from the following named persons: ' S. V. Capen, American Council on Education, Wash.,D. C.; Julia Wade Abbot, Specialist in Kindergarten Education, Frederic Burk, Pres. State Normal School, San Francisco; Southern Branch. Ernest C. Moore, Univ. of Calif. Charles C. Hughes, Supt. and Sec.Sacramento SchOOI Dept. Montana; E. O. Sisson, Pres. State Univ. of Missoula, Thomas Alexander, Prof. Elementary Education, George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. Parke A. Holbe, Municipal University of Akron. George R. Twiss, Professor Principles and Practice of Education, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio. J. J. Didcoct, Prof. of Education, George Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn,; F. B. Dresslar, Prof. of Health Education, Peabody Col. Thomas M. Ballid, New York, N. Y. Frank E. Cooper, Supt. Seattle Public Schools, Seattle,W,y |
