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DEDICATION To Dr. Frank C. Bolton, who retired as president of A M on June 3, 1950 The influence of this one man, as teacher and administrator, upon the thousands of young men who have attended his college in the past 41 years, can¬ not be measured. While the thoroughness of his teaching and the high scholastic standards which he has required have been very important, they have not been his greatest contribution. More than one successful graduate will tell you that his example of forthrightness and integrity, of steadily plugging away at the job to be done and of unfailing loyalty to the institution he serves has been an example which they have long tried to follow. No finer example of uprightness, diligence and good citizen¬ ship could be found anywhere. In 1909, when he was 26 years old and still a fledgling pedant, Frank Cleveland Bolton joined the staff of the struggling 33-year-old Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas as its first head of the new department of Electrical Engineering. Frank Bolton graduated from Mississippi State in 1905 with a combination degree in Physics and Electrical Engineering. . . In addition to his undergraduate work at Mississippi State, he had done graduate study at the University of Chicago, Univer¬ sity of Wisconsin and Cornell before coming to Texas A. and M. In 1928 he took additional graduate work and received his Master of Science degree from Ohio State College. A few years later the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Aus¬ tin College. A quiet, scholarly, extremely modest man, he has stayed in the background most of the time, doing the endless tedious small chores of teaching and academic administration; making the hard, and often unpopular, decisions of hiring and firing, pass¬ ing and failing, which in the aggregate determine the educa¬ tional standards of a college. As a teacher and administrator, Dr. Bolton has served in practically every academic rank in the college. From head of the department of Electrical Engineering he moved to the post of Dean of Engineering. In 1931 he was promoted to the top academic post of Dean of the College. Fie became executive vice-president in 1937 and served as acting president in 1943 and 1944 in the interim be¬ tween two administrations. Scheduled to retire September 1, 1948, as vice-president and Dean of the College, Dr. Bolton was asked by the college board to postpone his retirement for a time, to serve as president dur¬ ing the adjustment period brought on by a reorganization of the statewide activities of the college and its branches to form the Texas A. and M. College System. Flis administration has stretched into two years, and has been marked by an aggres¬ siveness and liberality which has made it outstanding in the his¬ tory of the institution. Frank Bolton asks no quarter, expects no concession in Ids behalf, yet he will go far out of his way, almost to any length, to avoid the possibility of imposing on a member of the staff or student body. His humility and consideration for others tend to give an impression of timidity at times, until you realize that underneath there is a strength and determination which enables him to make innumerable concessions and still plod on to th goal he has set ahead. A Man and His College, text by R. Henderson Shuf fler. 4
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