Memphis State University - DeSoto Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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SUPPORTING EXPANSION PROGRAM—are Dr. Cecil McLaugh- lin (1), Malcolm Aitken (2), Walter Chandler (3), Wylie Holeman (4), and Charles Morgan (5) all leaders of the Memphis U. T. Aiumni Association. Legislators Preuent Uniuersitv Efforts of educators and civic leaders to elevate MSC to university status met sudden death on the senate floor of the Tennessee legislature. The proposal began in Shelby county by the work of civic leaders and the college administrators. The plan was to incorporate MSC in the University of Tennessee and place certain courses now taught, on the plane of university status. The plan called for three colleges, Busi- ness Administration, Education, and Liberal Arts. On November 6th, a special U,T. faculty committee MR. RAINWATER— The distance between Knoxville and others parts of the state merits a university closer than Knoxville. MR. JAMES O. BRISTER— Students living within a seventy-five mile radius find it more convenient to commute to MSC than to attend the University of Tennessee. MR. ROWLETT PAINE — Shelby county financed John Gaston Hospital for the use of U. T. medical students. The distri- bution of taxes merits a university at Memphis. STUDENT DELEGATION TO TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE —are left to right: Austin Bush, David Williams, Alvin Holmes, Bob DeZonia, Betty Terrell Curtis Eldred, James Brister, Frank McGoffin, Bill Chumney, Bob Griffin.