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

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mfe6Sor6 mm indd tor modi em wari-are Celestial navigation, mathematics, engineering, airplane drawing, and appendicitis have taken most of the time of PROFESSOR W. E. GLENN this year, and the operation probably is the least talked about of all these subjects. Stars have a special fascination for Professor Glenn, and he man- aged to make the whole class see Venus when he pointed her out in the Alpha House one night. A handball fan, the professor has been using his time for sports to teach extra courses since the cadets moved in. Born in Georgia, Professor Glenn and his family have been at Southern since 1927. His official title is Assistant Professor of Mathematics, but he teaches a variety of other subjects. He is popular on the Hilltop because he is always friendly and smiling. Birmingham-Southern has been home to DR. JOHN MILTON MALONE for most of his life. Born in Wilcox County, Alabama, Dr. Malone is an alumnus of Birm.ing- ham-Southern, and has been on the faculty since 1910. As head of the Simpson Preparatory School, he got students ready for the Hilltop, then in 1915 he moved up on the cam- pus to teach them mathematics. Fond of the Education De- partment, Dr. Malone has taken the Alumni Scholarship winners under his wing, winning their friendship when they first come by feeding them steak. All three of his children have been students at Southern, and he has set them a pace in taking part in campus ac- tivities. This year he has advised the Executive Council, as well as making Theta Sigma Lambda one of the outstanding clubs on the Hill. In 1941 he was made head of the mathe- matics department, and is still making sines and cosines clear to unmatliematical minds. PROF. ALAN TURNER WAGER, who came to Southern i n January, 1942, is still trying to get accustomed to the South and the slow drawl of Southern students. But he likes the South as well as his home state of New York, and he ' s one of the few Yankees who gets along down in Alabama. His physics students like him so much that they didn ' t complain about doubling up on their work when the cadets moved in in Alarch. There are no children in the family; students find Mrs. Wager attractive and delightful. Since the army moved in she has been helping her husband grade the papers of cadets and students, and has proved such a help that Professor Wager still finds time to play volley ball or soft ball with the faculty teams. [15]

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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]

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