University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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m Rj A 2 © IRp B ‘A € IKJ 3 0 Ae State of Arkansas T HE present physical plant of the Uni¬ versity of Arkansas is one of the poorest physical plants of any state university. On the other hand the faculty ranks among the best in the nation. As regards the faculty, such high standards are not equaled by any of the southern state universities, many of which are more fortunate in their physical plants. It is the hope of the present members of the Board of Trustees that the next session of the legislature will provide the much- needed appropriations. In the recent session of the legislature there was the first interest shown in many years on the part of that assembly. Probably the most significant feature of this mani¬ festation was the firm stand of the present executive of the state, Governor Parnell. He not only promised his support, but lived up to his promises and worked for a greater University and education in general. In the person of Governor Harvey Par¬ nell, the University has not only a friend but a supporter and one that will mean much to the building of Arkansas educationally. Governor Harvey Parnell TRUSTEES’ STATEMENT OF THE NEEDS OF THE UNI¬ VERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR THE NEXT EIGHT OR TEN YEARS OVER AND ABOVE THE FUNDS THAT WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE PRESENT MILEAGE TAX. I. CAPITAL OUTLAY. (a) New Buildings. A Library Building. A Chemistry Building. Four buildings for Biology, Geology and Physics, Women’s Activities, Educa¬ tion, Political Science, etc. Total for six new buildings SI ,800,000.00 (b) Equipment and Improvements. Books and periodicals. $250,000.00 Scientific apparatus and equipment. 350,000.00 Engineering equipment. 125,000.00 Agricultural equipment. 125.000.00 Campus improvement (heat¬ ing plant, etc.). 150,000.00 State or Arkansas Executive Chamber Little Rock March 1,1929. As Governor of my native State, It has been my ambition first to relieve the burden of taxes where they hove hereto¬ fore fallen moat heavily; second, to place within the reach ol ' every bare-foot boy nnd Total for equipment and improve¬ ments. SI,000,000.00 II. ADDITIONAL MAINTENANCE PER YEAR. Summer School. $15,000.00 to $25,000.00 Operation of Plant. 15,000.00 to 75 ,000.00 Publications. 5,000.00 to 15,000.00 General Extension. 25,000.00 to 60,000.00 Graduate School. 10.000.00 to 50,000 00 Salaries and personal serv¬ ices. 50,000.00 to 300,000.00 Additional apparatus, books and equipment in later years of the decade .... 105,000.00 Miscellaneous. 10,000.00 to 50,000.00 Total additional maintenance. $130,000.00 to S680.000.00 The additional maintenance should increase gradually over the period. It would be needed to take care of additional number of students and of new activities in which the University should engage for the benefit of the people of the state. girl In this state a common-school education; and third, to make the University of Arkansas, together with the other educational Institu¬ tions of the State, an Institution of learning, of which we may not only be Justly proud, but one which will take first rank among the educational institutions of our country. l : r.Arthur B.Caldwell, the Knxorback of 1929, Fayetteville, Arknnsos Governor of Arkansas. 2az

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MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Harvey Parnell, The Governor of Arkansas . Little Rock J. P. Womack, The State Superintendent of Public Instruction . . Little Rock ELECTED MEMBERS Art T. Lewis, Fayetteville E. J. Bodman, Little Rock H. M. Jackson, Marianna J. S. Parks, Ft. Smith A. B. Banks, Fordyce W. L. Pope, Pocahontas John G. Ragsdale, El Dorado OFFICERS Governor Harvey Parnell . Chairman Thorgny Cedric Carlson . Secretary OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION John Clinton Futrall, President William Nathan Gladson, Vice-President Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Experiment Station John Clark Jordan, Dean of the Graduate School Daniel Thomas Gray, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricidtural Experiment Station Julian Seesel Waterman, Dean of the School of Law Virgil Laurens Jones, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences John Oscar Creager, Dean of the College of Education, Director of the Summer Session Charles Clifton Eichtner, Dean of the School of Business A dministration Martin Nelson, Vice-Dean of the College of Agriculture and Vice-Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station Giles Emmett Ripley, Dean of Men Martha McKenzie Reid, Dean of Women Arthur McCracken Harding, Director, General Extension Service T. Roy Reid, Assistant Director, Agricultural Extension Service Fredrick Laird Kerr, Registrar and Examiner Thorgny Cedric Carlson, Business Manager and Treasurer Allan Arthur Gilbert, University Physician Walter John Lemke, Director of University News Bureau Julia Ramsey Vaulx, Librarian Lawrence Leland Browne, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Page 25 2a

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Of the University of Arkansas T HAT a ‘‘Greater University of Arkansas” is not an upstart idea, and that the project has been well thought out and vision- ized, may be indicated in statements issued from the office of the president for years past. In 1926, after the legislature had ap¬ propriated $650,000 for the construction of new buildings, the president wrote: “With a foresight which has often been lacking in the management of universities, the Trustees first employed a competent firm of architects to make a group plan of the campus, projecting buildings that would ultimately be sufficient jor a University of eight thousand students. 1 o some this may seem like looking unneces¬ sarily far into the future, but we who have an abiding faith in the future of Arkansas do n ot think so.” ti .On the same subject in 1927 he states: With the adoption of a building plan and the completion of the first two units of this plan in the spring of 1927, the University enters upon a new period in its history. An over-ambitious program, however, should not lead us into distributing our efforts over so wide a field as to injure the quality of the educational work in those portions of the field m which the state finds the greatest need for service from the University. For a state university, which is the outgrowth of the President John Clinton Futrall Tho greatest Immediate problem that the University of Arkansas has before It Is the securing of an adequate physical plant. If the day ever existed when a good school consisted of close associ¬ ation between a student and a great man, that day has gone forever. The things that are done In libraries and laboratories are the life of the modern university. Lacking these, an institution, though It may have great men and great scholars In Its faculty, la unable to train students properly to meet the complex situations of life ns It exists today. The General Assembly of the state of Arkansas in 1927 formally adopted the plan for a University building program which had been worked out In the preceding year. Two of these buildings have already been constructed and equipped. May we not hope that a great state, inhabited b7 a great people, will not allow many more years to pass before several other almilar structures arise on the campus? President of the University hopes and desires of the people of the state, owes it to its constituency to look first to the needs of its own people. It should, therefore, be our aim to im¬ prove the institution that we have, strength¬ ening here, modifying there, until we have an institution which, while not one of the largest, will be conceded to be equal to the best in the quality of its output.” Concerning the president and his work for a greater University of Arkansas, the editor of the 1921 Razorback wrote: “Presi¬ dent John Clinton Futrall for eight years has devoted himself without reserve to the making of a Greater University. No man has a broader vision or a higher ideal for the future of the institution. He has laid the broad foundations for the Arkansas of tomorrow; he has attracted to the institution men of national standing and recognized ability; and he has made it not only a vital factor in the life of the state but he has brought it into national prominence. He has worked for building up the University, struggling with financial embarrassments and often with the most bitter opposition.” Page 27