Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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FACULTY Some instructors are rather staid, however. Their classes are remembered only as credit marks when students are not receptive to their teaching. These same teachers, when given perhaps one student whose eyes show shining interest, will begin to bloom for that one student, and the whole class will come alive. Individual differences also seem to be what separates the more popular instructors from the rest. Most of these well-liked people have little quirks or idiosyncrasies which endear them to their students. Usually, too. they are the ones who can take almost any subject and make it interesting. In addition to teaching, the faculty maintain their homes, engage in professional work, and play prominent parts in community activities. It would be a long time before the city and area could find people to replace Sunday School teachers, club workers, or civic leaders. The faculty ' s record of service to the community is outstanding.

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FACULTY As a group, the faculty of Marshall College would appear to be a highly impersonal congregation to the person who is not acquainted with them as individuals. But should that same person see any particular faculty member from day to day in class, greet him when he passes by on the street, recognize him at the Artists Series, notice what he wears, how he talks, how he reacts, that person will realize that the faculty member is as human as he is. He will realize that his teacher is an individual, just as he himself is one. Before long he will notice the personal differences among the different faculty members. He will perceive that a few instructors are not averse to wearing a short shirt in the summertime, while some of the older school will never be seen without a coat, a tie, and in some cases even a hat. Occasionally these personal differences will result in unusual incidents. For example, although it had been forbidden to the students during last summer ' s heat, one professor of history strode into classes wearing Bermuda shorts.

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EXCEPTIONAL PERSONALITIES The following students do not include all the outstanding personalities on campus. There are many who have records almost as impressive, and to be sure there are many more whose personalities have made them as well known; but if a selection of students who have proven themselves exceptional must be made, then the following certainly would be included. They were chosen to represent Marshall in Who ' s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Their names and faces are familiar to dozens of peo- ple who have observed them in any one of the numerous groups they have belonged to. Add another group to that one, and that many more people know them, for one common characteristic the Who ' s Who members seem to possess is versatility. Chosen by a commit- tee appointed by the President of the Student Body and working with the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women, they were selected on the basis of their leadership abilities, their range of interests, and their academic record. Robert Paul Alexander The cheerful president of the student body proved himself to be one of the most likable persons on campus. A mem- ber of The Robe and Omicron Delta Kappa, he was respected for his impartiality. John Charles Barbour John Barbour was one of the few persons on campus who could not be thought of as be- longing to any one group. In- stead, it was the number and variety of his activities that made him a member of ODK. 30