Ohio Mechanics Institute - OMIA Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

Page 8 text:

GEORGE COX McDIARMID. ggbggT IS with a feeling of privilege that the graduating 806$ classes of :23 dedicate the sixth volume of THE OMIA :42 to Professor George C. Me Diarmid. It is for those of og us who have enjoyed the advice and instruction of Mr. Mac, as he is more familiarly known to the student body, that this biography is written. Mr. Mac was born in 1871 in Little Rock, Arkansas, where his father had located after going there as a Major in the Union Army. Mr. Maris father was a lawyer and successful real estate dealer. On his motherts side we fmd the legacy of scholarly people. His mother was a school teacher before she married, and his grandfather a lawyer, educator, and surveyor. Mr. Mads forceful manner in teaching may be attributed to an inheritance from his great grand- mother, a United Brethern minister, who occupied the pulpit until she was Well over ninety years of age. As a boy, Mr. Mac was fortunate enough to see a great deal of the United States. These trips. were usually lengthy, and the McDiarmids GEORGE COX MCDIARMID, LL. B.

Page 7 text:

:95 3': thCifi-i, i7?:::::3w - ,7 7m - J57 3- 31 c1 H? De ication h JL TO I! H '11 I . . George Cox mcharmlcl. LL. 6.. NVho has won the lasting esteem of all who have known him during his many years at the Ohio Mechanics Insti; M tute, the Graduating Classes of Nineteen Twenty three m deem it a privilege to dedicate this volume of The Omia. T i? ii Lt a. 2:th . i 7. 11W: ' : MI.

Page 9 text:

would leave before school closed in the spring and return to Little Such a condition made tutoring and attending of private schools necessary. Later he attended the Preparatory Department of the University of Little Rock. Here he remained for some time, but as the possibilities of a Rock well after the fall session had opened. small college were limited, and as his love for travel was always active he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. During all his school work mathematics was his major subject. Some years later he entered the law college of the University of Arkansas then located in the state capital, Little Rock, with the purpose of studying real-estate law so that he might the better manage his fatheris estate. In 1895 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In connection with his studies at the college Mr. Mac says, uThis institution was perhaps the only one in the country offering its students the privilege of the Supreme Court library and direct con- tact with the Supreme Court judges. valuable to us because the judges often discussed current cases with This experience was very the students; thereby promoting a strong interest in the law. Prior to receiving his degree, Mr. Mac had taken a trip to Cuba With his mother. In the course of journey they stopped at De Funiak Springs, Florida, where he first met his future wife, Miss Evelyn Ellis. It was on her account that he first came to Cincinnati, and during the course of his several visits here he met Professor Shearer, who in- timated that he might accept the position of president of the Ohio Mechanics Institute. Shortly after this, September, 1893, Mr. Mac was married in Cin- cinnati and Went back to Little Rock to live. In 1900 President Shearer asked Mr. Mac to come to Cincinnati to take charge of the Depart- ment of Mathematics. At that time only night classes were held. Mr. Mac has taught both day and night classes for the last twenty- three years, having; had at times seven or eight assistant instructors under him. On acquaintance one notices his unusually broad mind and the Before he was old enough to read for himself, his mother read constantly to him. He has traveled in every state in the Union, in Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1907, he represented the Ohio Mechanics Institute abroad as an active interest that he takes in both literature and travel. Since, he has found reading his chief recreation. educational observer. The progress and methods which have made the mathematics department of the Institute more than locally known may be attributed to the observations gleaned from this trip. The giving of the best years of ones life to the work of teaching, sometimes thankless, yet often an achievement to look back uponi is a courageous service. The opportunity of having had Mr. Macis sound advice and instruction during our course here is indeed a privilege. Too much honor cannot be given to him for his endeavors.