Central Methodist University - Ragout Yearbook (Fayette, MO)

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,jiflfili ii Q IW PRESIDENT RUFF Dr. Robert ll. Hull' Came from the dec p south to Central College some years ago. With l1im he hrought that eongeniul manner that made him u friend and advisor to the student and ai president to he admired hy his fueulty. Last year ill health overtook hin1 and he eondueted College husiness from hedside und from lfloridu where he attempted recovery. ln September l9ll. incoming llI'PSlllllGll und most upperelussmen suw him for the lirst time. He was on the eampus and ut his desk. Soon he found it impossilmle to do the -jolm as he wished and he urrzmged to step down. ln Deeeinher. Dr. Hull' resigned us Centrul's president eifeetive in September 1912. ln elosing u most sueeessful period of administration he has instituted u war-time plain for the eollege and xxill in other ways Continue to foster udwineenient until Z1 sueeessor is nauned. Students. ulumni. faculty und inmnner- uhle friends will miss him. Page IA'

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An institution in himself, Dean Erastus Paul Puckett has guided the affairs of Central men sinee 1908, finding time also to conduct the other administrative duties of his office. Vlfhen the going becomes tough, he swings around in his Chair, thumbs through a volume of Kipling, or dreams of his ventures heside a mountain stream. As a nianeextremely likeable, horribly eflieient, and most frank. His mannerisms have won admiration of all students who have eome to know him as Central's grand old man. new ,Ag DEAN PUCKETT Page 19