Georgia State University - Rampway Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Georgia State's First Building Named For Kell rofessor Wayne Sailley Kell organized the commerce department at Georgia Tech in 1913. Kell, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines was originally employed by Georgia Tech to teach mineralogy and geology. However, since no students registered that year for those courses, Kell persuaded the administration to let him teach engineering students how to control the money they made. That began Kell's connection with the new courses in Commerce. ln 1914, he was named Dean. His personal objectives were to interest business men in Atlanta in an evening school where young men and women could study, to give himself a thorough training in business so that he could raise the standards of the school and to make the school co- educational eventually. Since he soon realized all of these goals and became Georgia's third Certified Public School of Commerce. initially, Kell was one of three regular instructors, and prominent business men were invited to lecture. ln 1917, Kell resigned his post as Dean and left the school to join the Coca-Cola Company but he still taught classes. At this time, the teaching staff had swelled to twelve. Naturally, when the school moved into the first building of its own, that building was named Kell Hall. Further, at the first Honors Day ceremony, May 26, 1939, Mary Hammond was given the W.S. Kell Award.

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Concerned Academician r. William R. Pullen is the man for whom the present library facility is named. He was not the first librarian, but he was the first professional librarian at Georgia State. He held both a B.A. degree and a B.S. degree and his Ph.D. was from the University of North Carolina. As one of eight library administrators, he was selected to participate in the Carnegie Project in Advanced Library Administration at Rutgers University. Dr. Pullen was much admired among the members of the administration and he genuinely cared about the library facility at Georgia State and its potential for growth. He managed to acquire more books for the library than any of his predecessors and his straight forward determination to provide the facility with the foundations of an active, informative library were admired by scholars both here and at other universities. Through all of the adversities of compiling research materials from the ground floor, Pullen managed to maintain a sense of humor that carried him through the early days. lt is to the credit of Georgia State that this school managed to attract such a man and in recognition, the current library is named for him. The Pullen Library, already outdated for the amount of growth experienced by Georgia State is a far cry from the room that is now the registration area. That room was the location of the early library of Georgia State. We owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Pullen and his efforts. ' ' .7.,. ' ' x X P .stag s+.Q1Q 5, A in .-4.5-A V H , 5' H' ' a ' I nn'