Georgia State University - Rampway Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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. p ' lr . 4. v ll A , Wayne Sailley Kell, 'Di:jEqlai',219I3-1918 A A I iClasses commenced in the old Chemistry.- Building Basement, with an enrollment count of 47, hut later, by ,request of the students, Governor Nat E. Harris, Chairman, Board of Trustees, permitted them to begloeated down- town, and quarters were found in the Walton Building., ' ' A we A The first graduatinglclass had sevenmem- bers, it was the Classlof '1i6. The peak enroll- ment in those years was 159, in theeyear 1917,- 18. Mr. Kell, who had become the third, C1P.A. in Georgia, resigned to open his own businessg later hesbecame a vice President of.The Coca Cola Company. A ' ,V I Mri Kell 'realized his desire to see the classes Co-educational, as.Mrs.. Annie T. Wise, the first A woman student, yvaspermitted to enroll in 1917, graduating in 1920. g , ' , i ' - l 5' -' l sr . Mr. lKe1l, who taught' in the Chem- istry Deplartment, .Georgia --School of Technology, was interested in Aceount- ingy He vyas appointed by President Matheson and the Trustees, to take tharge of the evening classes in the new ,science of Business, the idea of which was the thoughtiof F. M. Fam- brough, Alumni president. A 2 X l THE FIRST GRADUATING CLASS g X 1 'A ffrontrow, L-Rj Wiley Trussell, George Blake, - . A ,W , y i freizlerj Burt Goodman, Sidney L. Dunng A sflfzrtfow Phineas L. Clower, Augustus C. Keiser, Charles Chalmers. y

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f 1 X A NA ,, X f , 2, 1 1 f i ' john Madison Watters, Difeclor I 1918-25 j Fred B. Wenn, Dqirertoi' f 1925-28.j ,f , , y , , V 4 I Yi b Q Professor John Madison Watters, Dean, School of Commerce, Georgia School Aof Technology, was made Director of the Evening College upon the resignation of yProfessoriWayne S. Kell, founder and firstkclirector. Called, Va hard-working, dedicated man, Dean Watters sawffthe infant college through the World War T days, and through the doldrums'i of the '20's.fTlies enrollment Was'1150 when he assumed his duties as Director, and -reached a peak of 440 in 1922-25. T g D Professor Wfatters resigned to teach in the Middle Wfest, at the end of the school' year cifN.192g5t. ' 1 , - . ' -, . ' '. ' , Mr. Fred Wenn, professor in the School of Commerce, Georgia School of Technology, became the third Director of the College in 1925, uponappointment by .President MT LQ flrittain. Hehad earned the Bachelor of Commercial Science ,degree at New'York-University. at I 4, T U W I The 'Terhnitq first school newspaperi was started. during his administration in journalism classes by George M. Sparks. This newspaper, usda-Several names during severalcycles of college life, is now knownasT1JeSignql,. 1 D gy f' , ,A y, li Ve 2 V . ' 2 I , - Mr. Wenn resigned at the end of theacademic year of 1928,fto devote full time to his iteaching -onthedaytcampusf - , n Y T f M A af 3 f 3. ,Z