Old Dominion University - Troubador Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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Students Give Reception to Honor President Wife The Webbs, by the portrait of President Webb in Student Center lobby. will bring me back to you in a much closer, personal relationship. Next year I hope to be a student—studying to refresh and expand my knowledge. The following year I will return to the classroom to renew friendships with fellow faculty members and to enjoy once again the pleasures of teaching . . . “My thanks go to each of you who have made this year one of progress and satisfaction as Old Dominion College moves into a new status as Old Dominion University.” 19 ACADEMICS □

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ACADEMICS □ become Professor Webb, teacher of physics. Although he is finishing his career in the same way he began it, no one can argue that during the interim President Webb did not revolutionize education at this school. President Webb stated that “It is very difficult to express my feelings, or even to properly judge them, as I leave twenty-three years of decision-making involved in guiding the destinies of Old Dominion College from a small, un-accredited, junior college to that of a large university. Let me say quickly that not by any means do I want to imply that I brought this about, as the credit should properly be given to hundreds of persons on our faculty and in the citizenry of our community whose combined efforts produced the result. I was fortunate to have been a part of this development, and I found it exciting and rewarding . . . I am, therefore, not giving a farewell message. I am . . . making changes that Mr. Webb explaining policy during the first “Time-Out day held in Marc 18

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□ ACADEMICS Whitten New Dean With the fall came many changes in the administration. Along with President Webb’s announcement of the new president, Dr. G. William Whitehurst, dean of student affairs was elected to the U.S. Congress. Dr. Joel B. Whitten, from Norfolk State assumed this duty in January. Mr. Glen Vought, of the counseling staff became it’s new director with the departure of Mr. Grady Whicker to Brevard College as it’s dean. Old Dominion’s business manager for 20 years, Mr. Hart Slater, headed for Virginia Military Institute. Mr. Slater became the Lexington school’s chief financial officer. Assistant business manager Ray Quirk, replaced Mr. Slater at ODC. New Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Joel Whitten during “Time Out” discussior Mrs. Rebecca O. White, Dean of Women 20 Dr. G. William Whitehurst, Dean of Student