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

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m e U e n Tower Dapper, rotund J. Allen Tower, ex-officio, speaks five languages and is a stag line Romeo. Officially, though, in addition to teaching geography and meterology, he is a member of The South Today, is a radio commentator, and is a member of the Alabama Policy Committee. He likes to read his evening paper over a steak in the cafe- teria, and swings a mean foot at the college dances. Incidentally, he ' s a very nice person to know. Hazt ' k Students and faculty alike regret that the nasal twang and corny jokes that have typified Dr. Emory Quinter Hawk will not be heard again soon on the Birming- ham-Southern campus. Dr. Hawk resigned his posi- tion as head of the Economics department in January to join Uncle Sam ' s forces by doing government work in Washington. Seemingly bluff and austere, he was really one of the best-loved professors on the campus, and his going was a real loss. Poor Many a student has found, with surprise, that it is an impossibility to sleep in Dr. Russell Poor ' s geology class, for he intersperses his lectures with such wise- cracks and jokes that one listens to them if nothing else. Dr. Poor is head of the Natural Sciences division, but he doesn ' t stop there. He is also co-ordinator of defense courses, and this year had a distinct honor in being made a member of the American Association of Economic Geologists. [ 18 ]

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Newman Yeilding, Bursar Red to his friends, and general College finance chief BURSAR YEILDING N EWMAN MANLEY YEILDING is positive proof that it pays to learn business while you ' re young. Business manager of the Gold and Black while he was an undergraduate at Southern, he made good on his experience by becoming business manager for the college, and has been capably holding down the position of bursar since 1926. Affectionately called Red by the professors and fearfully referred to by the students as Mr. Yeilding, he is a familiar figure on the campus. Undergraduates are continually being astonished at finding that he is not a regular Scrooge, but a real friend, ready with advice and help, when he is needed. I 17 1

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OF THE YEAR Abernathy His perfect diction is one of the first things you notice about Dr. Cecil Abernathy, and rightly so, for he is a professor of English and the director of the College Tlieatre. Known to his students as Dr. Ab, said doctorate acquired last year at Vanderbilt Univer- sity, he has a passion for good plays, and consistently proves this by presenting such ones as The Male Ani- mal, and by his collaboration with Mr. Anderson in the production of the operetta Tolanthe. Mims Stuart Mims has as many activities as a mince pie has ingredients. In fact, you might say that he has a finger in every pie. From his secluded studio atop the Student Activity building, he teaches young hopefuls about the intricacies of radio work. Deeply interested m this subject, he writes plays and broadcasts from WAPI, and is a weekly commentator on his own. He identifies himself with the student life by being advisor for the AOPi ' s. Cadek Seemingly modest and retiring when he is quietly lunchmg with several of his pupils in the cafeteria, Ottakar Cadek is quite the opposite when he is con- ducting the college orchestra. The pieces the orchestra have played in chapel programs, and the contributions they have made to various dramatic productions are ample proof of Mr. Cadek ' s musical ability and capa- bility, for the orchestra has shown marked improve- ment under his direction. He also has the honor of being Concert Master for the Birmingham Civic Sym- phony Orchestra. I 19