Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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GUY EVERETT SNAVELY A.B., PH.D., LL.D., LITT.D. PRESIDENT A.B., Johns Hopkins Tniversity, 1901,- Ph.D., J. hns Hopkins University, 190S; LL.D., Emory University, 1925; Litt.D., Southern College, 1930; Cumberland University, 1932; Studied and traveled abroad for six summers; Graduate Scholar, Columbia I ' niversity, 1 914-15; Decorated by French Government as Officer d ' Academie, 1914; Taught Romance Languages at Allegheny College, 1906-17; New York and Columbia Universities, 1914-19; Organizer and Director Southern Division, American Red Cross, 1917-19; Dean and Professor of Spanish, Converse College, 1919-21; Editor Jehan de Vignay ' s Aesopic Fables, El Capitan Veneno, V ' aldes ' Jose ; Corresponding Member, Royal Spanish-American Academy, Cadiz, Spain; Lieutenant- Colonel, Alabama National Guard, Governor ' s Staff, 1922-26; Member Cosmos Club, Washing- ton, D. C. ; Director, Kiwanis Club, Birmingham, 1925, 1926, 1930; Former Director, Birmingham Community Chest; Director Alabama Sunday School Association; Member and Vice-Chairman International Sunday School Council; Member, National Committee in Charge of Investigation of Modern Foreign Language Study; Member, Birmingham News Loving Cup Committee, 1925; President, Alabama College Association, 1926-27; National President, Kappa Phi Kappa, 1927-31; Secretary-Treasurer, Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1926 — ; Executive Committee, American Council on Education, 1927-31, 33 — ; President Birmingham-Sou;hern College, 1921 — ; President, Association of American Colleges, 1929-30; Member, National Ad- visory Committee on Education appointed b - President Hoover; Director, American Life Insur- ance Company of Alabama; Director, Fairfield American National Bank; Member, Committee of Fifteen Directing Liberal Arts College Movement; Member, United States Commission on Teacher-Training Colleges; Director, Jefferson County Building and Loan Association; Chairman, Board of Christian Education in North Alabama Methodist Conference; Chairman. Alabama Y. M. C. A.; Member, Joint Methodist Hymnal Commission; National Vice-President of Omicron Delta Kappa. UM

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rom Dr. S navelu Last summer we had a pleasurable visit to historical Granada, the theatre of Moorish grandeur and Castilian history. Ever will abide in fragrant memory the visits to the ruined red Moorish Palace of the Alhambra and the most beautiful gardens surrounding the ruins of the Ganeralife Palace. The Alhambra Palace lies beautifully on a high ridge. Several hundred feet below along a precipitous cliff runs a feeble little stream called the River Darro. Across this river and near its bottom can be easily seen from the Alhambra and Generalife cliffs the holes cut into the hills used for several hundred years as the homes of the Gypsies. No light or ventilation comes into these hovels e-xcept through the apertures excavated in the side of the hills and considered as doors and windows by the denizens. The contrast in outlook, ideals, and ambitions as exhibited in comparing the Gypsies ' caves with the Moorish palaces is realized daily among people living in this day and age. My prayer is that every member of this college on leaving Alma Mater ' s study halls and frequented walks will ever strive to stay on the upper level. By high thoughts, noble deeds, and lofty lives of work and service, each one can more readily approach the high ideals which he must have gained and nurtured here. When one thinks of all the vice and corruption prevalent in many sections, not only in business but also in government circles, the challenge is greater than ever to a devoted and a consecrated leadership. Every member of this college should be most gravely con- cerned in this particular. With wars threatening abroad, economic unrest and distress prevalent everywhere, and an apparent increase in crime of all sorts, even an optimist is almost persuaded that history will record that the present era is already in the penumbra of a period analogous to the Dark Ages. May each and every one of you go forth as guides on the higher road that leads to happiness and success and not be laggards who will drift to the lower road leading to misery and distress.

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WYATT WALKER HALE 3.S., M.A., ED.D. DEAN AND REGISTRAR B.S. magna cum laude, Valedictorian, Birmingham-Southern Collegs, 1923; A.M., - 1926, Birmingham-Southern; Secretary to the President, Birmingham-Southern Col- lege, 1923-2+; Graduate student (one schjlarship) and Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, 1924-25; Registrar, Birmingham-Southern College, 1925-28; Graduate student (one scholarship) Columbia University, summer of 1927; Alumni Secretary, Birmingham-Southern College, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1932-33, 1933-34; Acting Director of Extension, Birmingham-Sou. hern College, 192S-29; Graduate study in Stanford University, 1929-30 and 1930-31; Holder of $1,000 Fellowship of American Associa- tion of Collegiate Registrars during 1929-30; Graduate study in University of Min- nesota, Summer of 1930; Appointed as Cubberlcy Fellow in Education, Stanford Uni- versity, for 1930-31; Holder of $2,500 Phi Delia Kappa Fellowship, 1930-31; Acting Examiner, University of Minnesota, Summer of 1930; Ed.D., Stanford University, 1932; Member of: Chi Chi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Kappa Phi Kappa, Theta Chi Delta, Sigma I ' psilon, Beta Beta Beta, Phi Delta Kappa, Fau Kappa Alpha, Amer- ican Association of Collegiate Registrars, Rotary International; Vice-President, liirmingham-Southern, 1928-30; Registrar and Professor of Education, Birmingham- Southern, 1930-33; President of Ensley, Ala., Rotary Club, 1933-34; Registrar and Dean, Birmingham-Southern, 1933; Articles published in: The Junior College Journal, The Phi Delta Kappan, Bulletin of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars.