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

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The death of Dean Wyatt Walker P ale on April 15 was deeply mourned by students and faculty alike. He had served the college in one cai)acity or other for more than twenty years, and his loss will he clee])ly felt. First as registrar, then as dean. Dr. Hale has been one of the mainstays of Birmingham-Southern. To the fac- ulty he has been a true friend and a real inspiration. To the students he has been a willing heljier and a con- scientious mentor. We shall miss him. Jjorotnu [AJebb, Jjean of AJoinen Three years of Ijeiiig Dean of Women have prepared Dorothy Webb for most anything, even being housemother at the Goon House and being called Dottie Goon. Straightening out sorority affairs, keeping the co-eds straight on which cadets are married and which are not, and teaching Latin have kept Miss Welsh busy during the past year. She has kept the social calendar of the scliool in good order, and has managed to arrange a tea for Stockhani for each Sunday. She has presided over tea tables and has chap- eroned innumerable dances. With all her work she has kept her sense of humor, and is the life of the party at bull-sessions in the Goon House. ewman Ujleidina, USu ufiar Newman Manly ( Red to his friends) Yielding receiv- ed his degree from ' Southern in 1922, and almost imme- diately settled down to keeping the business affairs of the college straight. While in school, be was a member of O.D.K. and president of the first student senate. Mr. Yielding is a home-loving soul. His hobby is farming and gardening, and he likes to raise flowers, vege- tables, chickens, dogs and children. Of the latter he has three — Manly, Ann and Fletcher. He ' s very proud of his dog, a Kerry blue terrier. I 13

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and lU J uitder6 [■ feiident Ljeorae r . Stuart f feiiaent ana ex-f- reiident When the University of Alabama called Dr. R. R. Paty to act as its president last Au- gust, automatic choice for a new president of Birmingham-Southern was George R. Stuart, Jr. Usually known as Jack , the genial president always has time for a coke and bull-session in the Bookstore, never seems rushed, yet gets an amazing amount of work done. When President Stuart moved into the presidential mansion, he brought with him a first family that was cjuickly accepted and loved by Hilltop students. Smiling Eloise Harris Stuart has graced all Southern functions during the year, added charm to everything in which she has participated. George, HI, and Sullins, the little Stuarts , have ])econie as much a part of the campus as Munger or the library. Mr. Stuart is an alumnus of Southern, having finished here in 1924. He received his Master ' s degree from Emory University. For several years he practiced law in Birmingham, and joined the faculty of Southern in 1939. He served first as assistant to the president, and became Dean of Men in 1941. I Vi 1

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ar kese men prepare DR. ERNEST VICTOR JONES has been on the fac- ulty at ' Southern about as long as any other professor on the Hilltop, for he was teaching chemistry wav back in 1912-13 at old Southern University. From 1913 until 1928, he was in China, heading the department of chemistry at Soochow University and teaching at the University of Nan- king. He returned to Birmingham-Southern in 1928 and has been teaching students to mix chemicals ever since. Mrs. Jones, who accompanied her husband to China, is almost as well-known to students as he is. She has an interesting collection of Oriental goods, and is good-natured about showing them to curious Hilltoppers. She and her husband are active workers in McCoy Church, the church of most Southern students, and their house is frequently borrowed for Sunday School parties. Canadian-born JOSEPH ROYAL, a new addition to the Hilltop facultj ' , still makes hearts flutter in the organic chemistrA ' lab, though the girls were warned that he was married to a very attractive wife. Born at Winnipeg, Dr. Royal went to the University of Manitoba, but came into the States to receive his Ph.D. from the University of Cali- fornia. Dr. Royal got to Alabama via the University, and in the Fall of 1942 came to Southern as a lecturer in chem- istry. His ability to make students understand the mysteries of organic chemistry is as much talked-about as his good looks. Somehow those complicated formulas become clear when he explains them in his Canadian accent. Besides lecturing at Southern, he works in town as a chemist, prov- ing that he knows what he is teaching. Hailing from the Corn Countrv , DR. RUSSELL SPURGEON POOR has been a bright spot on the campus since 1927. In spite of teaching at the University of Il- linois and receiving three degrees from that school, the genial head of the department of Geology and Geography is as southern as the true sons of Alabama. He ' s always ready to lend a student a dollar or tell a joke, and Hilltoppers find Dr. Poor the man to go to for advice, for two sons of his own have given him a good back- ground for the problems of students. Whenever his classes slow down in their work, lie belligerently reminds them that This is war! Mrs. Poor and the sons often wonder how the good Doctor is getting along, for at night he heads the defense classes, and after- noons when he gets out of lab he heads for the gym. [14]