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

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President ' s Home Uke First Family of The Campus Dr. Paty brought with him to our campus an ideal famiily. His lovely wife is already a charming lead- er in Birmingham. There are three young daughters, Martha Ann, Mary and Jane to whom we look for additional honors for our academic and social record.

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President Raymond R. Paty In nine months Dr. Raymond Ross Paty has won the loyalty and support which only a veteran college president usually has from the stu- dent body and faculty. If, twenty years ago, a man had been chosen to be trained to take over the presi- dency of our school in 193 8, he could hardly have secured better training than Dr. Paty has had. Every position and activity of his life in the field of education has con- tributed to better qualify him to be head of a liberal arts college. Dr. Paty received his undergraduate training at the University of Tennessee and Emory University and has done graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He held the position of Dean of Men at Emory University from 1933 until 1937, when he resigned that position to accept the p lace of Director of Fellowships for the Julius Rosenwald Foundation which position he held until we were so fortunate as to have him accept the presidency of our college. In our first La Rcviic since Dr. Paty ' s arrival we want to express our deep appreciation to all those who were instrumental in bringing so fine a man here to be our president, and we want to reaffirm the loyalty he won from us in his first vear here.

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Dean Wyatt W. Hale Dean Hale ' s achievements are listed in Who ' s Who in America , America ' s Young Men, and Leaders in Education . He ' s an O D K, a Phi Beta Kappa, a Kappa Phi Kappa, a — but since the entire Greek alphabet is involved, why go into the matter any farther? His strongest characteristics are absolute loyalty and dependability. But there is one shady spot on the Dean ' s record: In the summer of 1921, he actually studied at Hovk ard College. This bit of work is, however, well hidden in an avalanche of fellowships, scholarships and resulting degrees. 1923 — B. S. de- gree from Birmingham-Southern; ' 24- ' 25 — graduate work, Johns Hopkins; 1926 — M.A. degree from Birmingham-Southern; 1927 — graduate work at Columbia University; 1950 — graduate work at the University of Minnesota . . . and his Ed. D. is from Stanford University. We are wondering if Dr. Hale did not have for his slogan See America while being educated .