This is a 1931 University of Wisconsin Badger yearbook in very good condition.  Nobel Prize Winner Edward Lawrie Tatum is shown twice, first on page 355 as a member of Phi Mu Alpha, Sinfonia, and then on page 418 as a member of Delta Sigma Phi.   Newman Thorbus Halvorson, a major figure in accountancy, is pictured on page 81. The accomplished artist A. Reid Winsey appears on page 149. There are individual photos of each graduate (Class of 1930) receiving an undergraduate degree.  There are many campus photos included in this  volume.  There are group photos of societies and sports teams, including the varsity football squad (pictured on page 221) and 1929 varsity baseball team (page 250).  A list of Phi Beta Kappa members is included on page 444. A list of Mortarboard inductees is shown on page 158.

There is a section for Wisconsin "co-eds"from page 193-198 that showcases a few of the female beauties of the University of Wisconsin.

Wikipedia writes:

Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American  geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg.   Tatum was an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  

Edward Lawrie Tatum was born on December 14, 1909 in Boulder, Colorado,  to Arthur L. Tatum and Mabel Webb Tatum. Arthur L. Tatum was a chemistry professor, who by 1925 was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Edward Lawrie Tatum attended college at the University of Chicago for two years,before transferring to the University of Wisconsin-Madison,  where he received his BA in 1931 and PhD in 1934.

Starting in 1937, Tatum worked at Stanford University,  where he began his collaboration with Beadle. He then moved to Yale University  in 1945 where he mentored Lederberg. He returned to Stanford in 1948 and then joined the faculty of Rockefeller Institute in 1957.

Newman Thorbus Halvorson: A native of Wisconsin, Halvorson graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1930. Thereupon he began his career with Ernst & Ernst in Detroit. In 1954 he transferred to the national office of the firm in Cleveland and remained there until he retired in 1972. Modest and self-deprecating, he was the firm's principal technical partner, representing Ernst & Ernst on prominent professional accounting and auditing committees. As a member of the AICPA Committee on Accounting Procedure (1956-59), the Committee on Auditing Procedure (1963-65), and the Accounting Principles Board (1966-73), Halvorson had considerable influence on accounting policy. A loyal pragmatist, he espoused Ernst & Ernst's views on those professional committees, which are clearly reflected in his dissents from, and qualified assents to, accounting opinions issued by the Accounting Principles Board.

Alexander Reid Winsey joined the DePauw art department in 1935 after working as a commercial artist in Indiana and Wisconsin and graduate work at Yale University. He was a native of Appleton, Wisconsin. Winsey attended Lawrence College one year and later received the B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin where he was awarded the Zona Gale Scholarship and was a three-letterman in varsity swimming. In 1932-33 Winsey was first assistant to Thomas Hart Benton during the preparation of the Indiana mural for the Chicago World’s Fair. He also studied with Elmer E. Taflinger. Winsey was responsible for developing DePauw’s art department as a separate academic entity shortly after he joined the faculty and was instrumental in its growth to a full-fledged department offering a major. He was serving as department head at the time of his retirement in 1970. Concomitant with campus art history instruction Winsey for over 20 years led summer history study tours to Europe, lecturing in over 40 European cities.

The yearbook:  The yearbook is in very good condition. There is a series of very nice photos of campus scenes at the front of the book, as well as colorful graphics throughout. There are no binding issues.  There is a book index (directing users to various clubs, fraternities, sororities, etc.) and  a personal index (directing users to persons represented in the book) at the back of the book.   It has 550 pages. The nicely embossed cover is silver fabric over hardcover boards. It measures  11 1/4"  tall by 8 1/2 " wide and  1 3/4" thick. "Jean Elliott" is embossed in small letters on the lower right corner of the cover.  Other than this, there is no writing and there are no loose pages.  It is volume 45.