Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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noriam Such a man as Pop can nc cr be described adequately in words. A man ' s personality and spirit can only he portraxed to another throus h a medium no one has yet disco%ered. To those who knew James Grover Carroll, he was indeed a great factor in their lives, and to those who have only heard of him, he is a legend. A great teacher, a true scholar, and a gentle friend, Professor Carroll had that matchless spirit of humor and wisdom that is welcome in an circle, whether it be the company of the unlearned or the well educated. He retained a remarkable humility in the glow of his successes, and comiriunicated to others a faith unshakable in his difficulties. Not only will he be remembered for his work, but he will be remembered for the man that he was. For thirty-five years Professor James Grover C ' .arroll devoted himself to teaching mathematics at W ' ake Forest College. In the spring of 1955, town people, fellow faculty members, and students were saddened by his illness and death. Professor Carroll was affectionately known as Pop or Fess to his students. Although he had reached retire- ment age the previous year. Professor Carroll continued teaching mathematics by special request and planned to do so until the college moved to Winston-Salem. After graduating from Wake Forest with honors, Pop taught at Wingate High School for ten years and then at Clemson College. He received an M.A. degree at Co- lumbia University in 1920 and did graduate work at Duke University. Many of Professor Carroll ' s most valuable contributions were made outside his line of duty. For many years he served as chairman of the faculty-student committee on orientation. His familiar figure during the three day fall orientations was a welcomed sight to bewildered freshmen and harrassed upperclassmen. Pop Carroll ' s interest and support of the athletic program at Wake Forest has become almost legendary. In order to help athletes keep up with their studies as well JAMES GLOVER CARROLL as their games, he spent many hours outside the classroom coaching them. For seven years he served as graduate manager of athletics for the college. In connection with his love for athletics and athletes, Professor Carroll became the faculty advisor to the Mono- gram Club. One of the members of the club gave him the name Pop. The young athlete had lost his own father before he had a real chance to know him. Professor Carroll was a man so likable in his naturalness and consideration for others that he unconsciously won the boy ' s admiration and love. Before many weeks the young man began thinking of the Professor as his own father, and in more than a small way, he was a son. He told Professor Carroll, If I had a father. I ' d like for him to be just like you. In class he never mentioned cheating, but at the bottoiu of astronomy exams were printed these words, Confucius say: man no cheat when talking about heavenly bodies. Another favorite expression in partial explanation of a mathematical axioiu for which there was really no adequate one — Oh, that ' s just an old Spanish custom. Pop was an appropriate name for a man who would give what he termed a few tablespoons of encouragement to those who had become discouraged. His life was distin- guished by his love for people of all ages. He could usually see humor in an otherwise depressing situation. He in- stilled in those around him a determination and a spriit that is typically Wake Forest. He was a man of many names — Groser, John, Fess, and Pop —but of a single purpose, to live lo ing.

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1 The infinite character of a great man is always new and refreshing. Dr. Kitchin ' s work is the dociuiicnt of his wisdom, his leadership is the symbol of his integritx, and the good he did is the imperishable fruit of his failh. Dr. Kitchin became a member of our faculty in the fall of 1917. He was an eminent teacher, a distinguished dean, and a man of rare vision and wisdom. His record became so brilliant that, in 1930, faculty, students, trustees, alumni and others drafted him into the office of president. Dr. Kitchin could have achieved success in any one of several other fields. For example, his genius as a medical diagnostician was so amazing that he could have established the n-pulalioii of : .Sir William Osier in any great medical center. Bui, willi ihr wisdom and the lUlcr unselfishness of that peerless man who, at the close of the CUvil War, went to little Washington College in Virginia, Dr. Kitchin came to Wake Forest and gave his life to Christian edu- cation. Dr. Kitchin the builder was, first of all. Dr. Kitchin the man. He was a paragon of modesty and manliness. He treated any person — old or yotuig, cla laborer or states- man, illiterate or scholar, white or ecjioiecf — with imaf- fected courtesy. He was a peacemaker, but he never hesi- tated to fight in defense of a principle. He truckled to no man, and he treated no man as his inferior. Alwa s a physician at heart, he took his consuinni.ni- skill inio am home — prominent or destitute — where hi w.is needed, and he ne er charged a dollar for his work, lie g,i c sound advice to hundreds of students and a Imsi ol otlur people for he was a wise man who kniw a lliousand things. .• nd, along uith all these fine qii,dilic-s. Dr. Kitchin was SniWtl iIh- isscnee of luunilil . ' Ilie spotlight had n j lure for him; applause held no charge. . t the outset of his administration he rclused to ha e an inauguration; and at the close of his administration, while a friend praised him Dr. Kitchin walked alone among elms and oaks and magnolias. He so completely lost himself in what he tried to do that he forgot personal fame and prestige. The innermost secret of Dr. Kitchin was his Clhristian faith. Dr. Kitchin ' s faith was refined in the crucible of ast pidbleius and experiences. He was a scientist. He reflected u|ion nuclear energy; he pondered stellar galaxies oulslniehed in timeless time and spaceless space; and he re. id the nui,ssi e pages of geology, filled with records of plants and animals. With the perceptivencss of a John Stuart Mill, he recognized nature ' s impersonal forces. He was familiar with human history, and he noted the rise and the decline of civilizations. A keen student of human nature, he was aware of selfishness and benevolence, of justice anrl injustice, of saintliness and evil. As a physician, he observed birth and death, active youth and enfeebled old age, the glow of health and the agony of illness. He kni-w religion, and, with the insight of a William James, he distinguished between form and reality. Dr. Kitchin ' s failh was no product of wishful imagination; it rested upon the deep-seated conviction of the existence of unseen, enduring truth. His laith was not a public spectacle; it was a sacred reality. For Dr. Kitchin the CUiristian way was paved with luring truths. The paving stones of that way were justice, ratitude, mercy, com- pon thcni with as- 1 irtucs kindl passion, suranee, is the foi and he |: alr.iid. H s, humilit ' , s mpathy, i and niinistr . He -,ilkr( for In- knew that bene.ilh ndalio iw clos 1 of the l(»e )n to the end •l related are 1 them Christi, oodne if God; if th( irect and tens are music too, and k(e| jng imheard in hearts that wc

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Thii ytiir I if College will mnve i!i araduates mil ititu Ihr tvoild as usual, hut as it does it pxe- jniiis fill a miivi- iif its nicu. Tins movf las bdii in Ihr makitiu in Itii yrais and is t ie resull iif a ;ii ' at deal « fi uuniin; am t unia it nn l w pail iif II a , ' r l- ' iiifst ' s liustces, adimnistraliuii and fiiiutlv. T ir jniidud l iis will , IS a ntw campus wailiuii nn l h ' iiuls ,iits of W ' inston-Sa iin. Bui il IS alniiys pin itiitdi-. in , ' p,ilaliini iif l n- fnluir. In mi ir l r piiii iai- nf it-lrospirtiun. ]t ' a ,i l- ' uiisl las a iii i inilasii ' iv iii i will iiintinui- In linipn l ir (. ' nllrfJi ' s spirit ni rrais to come. WAKE FOREST HERITAGE the pride of accomplishment Nestlctl in llic (|uicl, rriencli - illauc of Wake Forcsl lies the magnolia-studded campus ol Wake Torcst College. This school is rich in colur, a hustling, crowded marketplace of thought and learning. Here each year approximately 1,400 young men and women gather for an experience that may lead them to the doors of maturity. In new buildini s. their briik still shiny, and in dim-hallcd old buildings, coxered with ivy and scuffed and worn by the tread of generations, students experiment, debate, memorize, and question. Thev grope . . . and sumi-iimes the ' lind. ThcN- an ' a -ital part of the growing educational picture in North C ' arolina. The removal of Wake Forest CloUege to Winston- Salem will be a major advancement in the history of an institution wliii h lias witnessed many changes. To trace the evolution of this school one must go back to the year 1833. North Carolina was a sparsely- populated agricultural state. Public education had not vet been inaugurated. Inadeciuate transportation and commimication facilities kept alive enmity be- tween the ricli. slave-holding east and the poverty- 10 .