Texas Christian University - Horned Frog Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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i' 1 ref Business Manager and Treasurer L. C. Wright Holding the ticklish job of purse string-manipulator of TCU is Business Manager L. C. Wright. All of University's monetary matters pass through his office in the Administration Building at one time or another. Wright probably knows better than any other person in the University the difficulty a church-related school has in meeting its financial obligations. the Dr. After he was graduated from TCU in 1910 with a B.A. degree in English, Dr. Wright secured a position with a bank in Dallas with which he remained until 1922. In 1922 he returned to Frogland as athletic director, a post which he held for 10 years. Named business manager in 1932, Mr. Wright has continued in this position until the present. In recognition of his extraordinary service to the University, he was awarded an honorary D.B.A. degree in 1951. The principal interest of the business manager is his small farm, which is located on the Old Granbury Road. Work with his stock and farm implements occupies nearly all of Dr. Wright's spare time. With all of the figures and calculations his job at the University necessitates, he is content in his leisure hours only to calcu- late the number of his cattle and the sum total of his acreage. Page 1 5

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Page 14 Vice President Denton Ray Lindley 1, 1953. By early spring of 1954, he had Dr. Lindley's rejuvenation of the vice president to devote his attention to such Dr. D. Ray Lindley became vice president of the University on june completely altered the average conception of the vice presidents position. presidency alleviated the burden on the presidents office and released the matters as promotion and public relations. As vice-president, Dr. Lindley's primary responsibility is administration of the campus program. He works closely with the faculty and students in matters of campus life concerning all academic, fiscal and personnel problems. While dean of Brite College of the Bible from 1947 to 1950, Dr. Lindley made significant advances in the enrollment and financial standing of the college. He repeated his administrative achievements as president of Atlantic Christian College in North Carolina during the 1952-55 school year. Dr. Lindley served as one of five Disciples of Christ delegates from the United States to a Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches at Lund, Sweden during the summer of 1952. At the confer- ence he was named chairman of the committee appointed to determine the degree of diversity possible in a united Christian church. By his unique and resourceful techniques, Dr. Lindley might be described as TCU's one-man committee appointed to determine the degree of achievement possible in a Christian university.

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Dean of Addfian College of Arts and Sciences Jerome A. Moore Dr. Jerome A. Moore, who was a premedical student during his undergraduate years at TCU, is dean of the Universityls largest and most varied school. Dean Moore, who came to TCU as dean of AddRan College of Arts and Sciences in 1945, has traveled thousands of miles in Europe and North America. Countries he has visited include England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzer- land, the Canary Islands, Spain, the West Indies and Mexico. Dr. Moore is particularly interested in Span- ish-speaking countries. For two years he served as honorary consul to Mexico and has been made an honorary life member of the Good Neighbor Commission of Texas. As interesting as Dean Moores travel exper- iences are his religious activities. He has served as pastor of many congregations and worked with D. Ray Lindley, who was then dean of Brite College of the Bible, in organizing the present undergraduate department of religion. It is significant that he has been a Brotherhood Week speaker in various Texas cities for four years. Dean Moore's activities indicate his intrinsical be- lief in the Brotherhood of Man. Page 16 Dean of the Graduate School A. T. DeGroot Each month more than 200 religious periodicals pour into the TCU Post Office and are gleefully accepted by Dr. A. T. DeGroot, dean of the gradu- ate school. Dr. DeGroot has one of the worlds most extensive collections of old and new religious maga- zines, Among the magazines, which represent almost every known Christian creed, is the largest collection of Disciples of Christ periodicals in the hands of a member of the denomination. When Dr. DeGroot was elected archivist for the World Council of Churches in 1955, his oppor- tunities for enlarging his collection was increased. His job is to collect and file all publications produced by the World Council. He came to TCU in his present capacity in 1949. During the 1955-54 school year he was also named chairman of the department of church history in Brite College of the Bible. Dean DeGroot frequently fills pastorates when he is needed. The epitome of his philosophy of life was presented in a volume published in the fall of 1955 entitled You Can Live Forever. The book is an outgrowth of his experiences as student, teach- er, historian and minister. lail KF 'gi y 1 p . 1 - 1 Nm... 1.