Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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FACULTY ❖ D. M. Nelson, B.S., Ph.D. President and Professor of Physics William Herbert Sumrall, B.A., Ph.D. Dean of the College and Professor of Education Walter Fuller Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of English Arthur Eugene Wood, Ph.D. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry John William Provine, Ph.D., LL.D. Professor of Organic Chemistry and German Michael O’Rourke Patterson Th.D., D.D. Professor of Christianity Joel Reuben Hitt, B.S. Professor of Mathematics PAGE 22

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I the years 1 wo hundred and twenty-five are engaged in business pursuits, such as plantation managers, farmers, bankers, bank examiners, auditors, insurance men, oil experts, gov- ernment clerks, druggists, merchants, salesmen, brokers, real estate men, railway men, cotton buyers, editors, reporters, printers, managers of theatres, managers of tobacco companies, publishing houses, architects, employees of mail order houses, and jewelers. In another group — professional men — lawyers are the most numerous; one hun- dred and sixteen Mississippi College graduates are now engaged in law and politics. I his number includes federal attorneys, state supreme court judges, attorney-generals, governors, and congressmen. Seventy are now practicing medicine. This profession shows a decided increase among the alumni in the last few years. T hirty-three graduates are now in the technical professions: engineering, commer- cial chemistry, and commercial physics. One of these men did the principal work in developing cellophane. Some of the distinguished graduates whose pictures appear in this publication are: Or. J. B. Lawrence, Executive Secretary of the Home Mission Board; Dr. B. D. Gray, Corresponding Secretary of the Home Mission Board; Hon. Chas. H. Brough, ex-Governor of Arkansas; Mr. E. D. Kenna, head of the State Highway Commission ; Dr. H. M. Weathersby, Dean of Louisiana College; Dr. N. N. Puckett, Western Re- serve University; Dr. W. M. Kethley, President of Delta State Teachers College; Mr. J. G. Chastain, Jr., High School Superintendent; Dr. Lawrence T. Lowrey, President of Blue Mountain College; Mr. W. E. Holcomb, President of Mississippi Woman s College; Dr. Chas. D. Blassingame, surgeon; Dr. Charles D. Johnson, Presi- dent Ouachita College; Rev. J. L. Boyd, Pastor First Baptist Church of Vicksburg; Dr. E. God bold, Secretary of Baptist Association of Missouri; Dr. J. W. Lee, Pastor at Batesville; Mr. Robert Gandy, Insurance Agent in Jackson; Mr. W. A. Han- cock, Alumni Secretary; Mr. M. P. L. Berry, President of Hillman College; Hon. Albert S. Bozeman, Lawyer and Attorney; Dr. W. A. Sullivan, Pastor of Natchez l irst Church; Rev. J. G. Chastain, Missionary to Mexico; Hon. W. M. Whitting- ton, L. S. Representative; Dr. W. T. Lowrey, former President of Mississippi Col- lege; Hon. Greek Rice, State Attorney; Dr. O. M. Johnson, Head of the Department of Romance Languages of Leland Stanford; Dr. R. W. Hall, physician and spe- cialist in Jackson. I hese are only a few of the many who through the years have gone forth from this noble institution to write their names indelibly across the pages of human history. When they have left the stage, others will come, as Mississippi College continues to send out an ever-increasing Hood of w r ell-trained Christian manhood to hold aloft the beacon-light of truth and virtue. PAGE 21

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FACULTY ❖ Murray Latimer, M.A. Professor of Greek and Latin J. T. Wallace, Ph.D. Professor of History and Economics George Marion Rogers, B.S.C. - Professor of Business Administration Chester E. Swor, M.A. Director of Student Actirities and Assistant Professor of English Tate Lindsay, M.S. Professor of Physics A. A. Kitchens, M.A. Professor of Modern Languages Algernon Jasper Aven, M.A., LL.D. Professor-Emeritus of Latin PAGE 23