Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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..--..-H . l PRESIDENT THOMAS V. NEAL I I I l l Having been at Howard only one year, accepting the duties of President June, 1932, Dr. Neal has made wonderful progress. He started work on a ten-year plan for reconstruction of Howard, and already has made many improvements. Con- struction has begun on the amphitheatre and the Science Hall remodeled and brick veneered. Dr. Neal came to our College when we were already in the throes of the financial depression. A man of ordinary strength could not possibly have made the record Dr. Neal has made and the record he promises to make. Where other col- leges have stopped construction, Howard promises more, and where other college en- rollments have been reduced, ours has increased. Dr. Neal has made it possible for students without ready money to attend school by accepting produce and labor for tuition. Not only students have worked for their tuition, but unemployed parents have been put to work on Howard constructions, thereby enabling them to send their boys and girls to college. It is his plan to make Howard grow in every possible way, and this can be done only through increasing the enrollment, new buildings, and endowment fundj This is his ten-year plan. This plan will have been fulfilled by 1942-Howard's hundredth birthday. The next step on the plan will be a new ad- ministration building. This building is to be built just to the right of Main and will house all administration offices, oflices of the professors and sororities. The small recitation halls are to be torn down to make room for larger buildings. Dr. Neal, besides being busy with all this work, still finds time to have interviews and A PAGE I4 V

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A I l ' I E DEAN PERCY P. BURNS THE LEADERS friendly chats with the students, to lend a winning smile and willing hand to each and discuss all student issues. Because we believe in him, appreciate his willingness and helpfulness, his whole-hearted interest in Howard's welfare and that of every student, we want to express to him our gratitude and love. Howard is especially fortunate in having a man like Percy Pratt Burns as its Dean. Having been at Howard in the capacity of student, professor, then dean, the history and progress of the College is closely related to the achievements of Dean Burns. Since his student days he has won a host of admirers and friends among the students. Always ready to hear and understand the problems of the stu- dents, never too busy to untangle some trying situation, a word from Dean Burns and the clouds disappear, one word of praise from him, and-well, it's a happy world after all. No person has quite the vocabulary to compare with that of Dean Burns, and many students will tell you that an informal tall: from Dean Burns at the chapel period always makes the rest of the day a little easier. He talks in an easy man- ner and always with a ready wit. Every student admires him, for no man more de- serves the well-termed praise, To lcnow him is to love him, than Dean Burns. A PAGE I5 V