Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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COL. ROSS AAcCAIN LYNN was one of the founders and has been the headnnaster at Memphis University School since its begin- ning. He received his AB Degree from Presbyterian College and his LLD in 1951. In 1948 he received his MA Degree in education from the University of North Carolina. Col. Lynn did graduate work at Memphis State University and Duke Uni- versity. During his college days he lettered in four varsity sports, was football cap- tain, was an all-state end, and held mem- bership in Blue Key, Honorary Scholastic Society, and Phi Kappa Alpha. He was graduated Cum laude. During World War II he served as a Lieutenant Colonel with thirty months in the Air Force in the Cen- tral Pacific and Southwest Pacific. Col. Lynn is listed in Marquis Who ' s Who in South and Southwest, Who ' s Who in Amer- ican Education, and Who ' s Who in Ten- nessee, and is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Memphis, American Legion, Mili- tary Order of World Wars, The Executive Club, the Memphis University Club, and the Memphis Athletic Club. He is the past president of the Memphis Association of Independent Schools, past president of the Southern Association of Independent Schools and president of the Mid-South Association of Independent Schools, and is on the boards of Lausanne School and Presbyterian Day School, where he was headmaster before coming to M.U.S. He is a member of the Reserve Officer ' s Associ- ation, and is Secretary of the Board of Southwestern College. Col. Lynn has been an elder of Second Presbyterian Church for a number of years and is active in church work. In addition to these many honors he has also received the Bronze Star Medal for exceptional service during the War. 12

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH The AA.U.S. Department of English is probably one of the most advanced in any Mid South high school. Beginning in the seventh and eighth grades, the student receives extensive exposure to litera- ture and practice in writing as well as the standard study in grammar. During the ninth and tenth grades all students study a comprehensive course in American literature as well as concluding their formal study of English grammar. In the junior year a student is given the choice of studying either English Literature or Western World Literature. As a senior the student completes the course which he began the year before. The Western World Literature course is an Advanced Placement course, i.e. a student can in some cases receive college credit and or advanced course placement in college. MR. WILLIAM HATCHETT, Chairman of the De- partment of English at Memphis University School, and holder of the Joseph P. Hyde chair of English, is an accomplished scholar and edu- cator. He has a wide range of experience, re- ceiving his B.A. degree at Southwestern College in 1949, his M.A. at Columbia University in 1951, and attending Cambridge University dur- ing 1953-1954. In 1954-1955 he taught at the Anglo-American High School in Athens. Since then he has been at M.U.S., teaching at present the junior and senior English literature courses and the Senior Western World literature course. While at Southwestern Mr. Hatchett was the edi- tor of the Sou ' wester. He has served as advisor to the paper and was the architect of the school history. Mr. Hatchett is the author of the Study of Books, a book of study questions for several of the classics. In his first teaching position, MR. WILLIAM BEN- NETT is teaching Sophomore English and Junior Western World Literature Course. Mr. Bennett has attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Missis- sippi. He received his B.A. with a major in Eng- lish and a minor in Latin graduating Cum Laude, Mr. Bennett is presently working on his masters degree at Memphis State. 13