Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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ALFRED BENJAMIN BUTTS, PH.D., LLB. Vice-President and Professor of Government Dr. A. B. Butts is a graduate of Mississippi A. and M. College with the B.S. degree in 1911 and the M.S. degree in 1913. He received the M.A. degree at Columbia University in 1915, and in 1920 the Ph.D. degree at the same institution. He is a graduate of Yale University Law School, receiving the LL.B. degree in 1930. Dr. Butts became vice-president of A. and M. College in 1930, and was also made Dean of the Academic School and Professor of Government. He was ad- mitted to the Mississippi bar in 1928. Dr. Butts was visiting lecturer on government at Yale University for the session 1929-30, and has served on the summer session faculties of Mississippi College, Ohio Northern University, Duke University, and the Universities of Vir- ginia, Texas, Washington (Seattle) , and California at Los Angeles. f, , : PAGE 15 ■•• , Iffi ■ ■ ■ i ; ■ ■ ■

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' ' HUGH CRITZ. B.S. President President Hugh Critz received his B.S. degree from Mississippi A. and M. College in 1896. First as a teacher and later as superintendent of Starkville schools, Mr. Critz remained close to his alma mater, re- turning as an instructor in 1906. He became Dean of Education and Registrar before leaving in 1916 as Superintendent of Bolton College, an agricultural school at Shelby City, Tenn. Here he remained until he took over the reins of what is now known as the Arkansas Poly- technic College at Russellville. In 1923 Mr. Critz returned to A. and M. as director of the Service Bureau and remained in this capacity until 1925, when he became associated with the Mississippi Power and Light Company as Industrial Commissioner. Mr. Critz became presi- dent of Mississippi A. and M. College in the fall of 1930. PAGE 14

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