University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Dr. ,lay F. W. Pearson Vice-President of the University Number two man in the University administration is Dr. Jay Frederick Pearson, Vice-President. Graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, he received his masters from the same school. Pre-masters work included sum- mer studies in the jungles of British Guinea, and study at the William Beebe laboratory of the New York Zoo- logical Society at Kartabo. He was graduated in absentia from Pittsburgh in 1925, while a member of the New York Zoological Society Arcturus Expedition to the Sargasso Sea and Galapagos Islands under Williain Beebe. Un recommendation of the National Research Council, Dr. Pearson was appointed Director of Biological Ex- hibits for a Century of Progress Exhibition in 1931. He obtained his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1932, after major- ing in ecology and entomology. Pearson came to the University of Miami immediately after the 1926 hurricane to open the Zoology depart- ment. He taught the first botany course here in 1928, and conducted the first under-water class. Under his guidance, courses in marine Zoology and Inarine botany were started here which established this institution as a leader in the field. In 1939 Dr. Pearson became Dean of the Administra- tion hut with the outbreak of the war, took leave of absence to assist in setting up an academic program for the Officer Candidate School in Miami Beach. He was transferred to the Air Corps Pre-Technical School in Boca Raton in 1943. After being promoted to Major, he was transferred first to Goldsboro, N. C. and then to San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Pearson returned to the University of Miami in 1944 as a professor of zoology. He served as director of Adult division and director of summer sessions, and was made vice-president in 1947. A member of the New York Zoological Association, Dr. Pearson belongs to Sigma Chi fraternity, the Ameri- can Society of Zoologists, Sigma Xi, the Society for the Study of Evolution, Omicron Delta Kappa, Tri Beta, Iron Arrow, Alpha Phi Omega, the Army and Navy Club of Coral Gables, and the Country Cluh of Coral Gables.