Southern Methodist University - Rotunda Yearbook (University Park, TX)

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WM o ,Na 0 I'm doing precisely what I want to do, states junior John Dorie, and at sixty-eight years of age he is fulfilling a dream few could achieve. Forgoing college to be a navy pilot in World War II, he never had a chance to complete the education he had started. Though his wife, children, and brother-in-law are all SMU graduates he never had the time to go back to school. It was a rough deci- sion to return to Southern Methodist, and it was a goal his friends said he could not realistically attain. Mockingly he states, they gave me six months, after which I would rejoin them out on the golf course. Being a student is a lot more demanding these days than it was back in the fifties, but the course loads are balanced out by the higher quality of pro- fessors, not only are they more dedicated but they are also more competent. He often laughs at the confusion centered around his being a student. He often gets applications for car loans and credit cards through the mail by companies that do not realize that he has owned such items for forty years. He recalls the funniest experience to be when he was invited to attend a rush party. The invitation was delivered over the phone by a student who kept asking Mr. Dorie for his son, the student. When he finally explained what was happening, the student was perplexed and apologized, to which Mr. Dorie replied that he was flattered, but thought he should decline. He finds the entire student body receptive, friendly, and eager to help or assist. And as far as studies are concerned, At my age and gauging from my success in business, I expected to make straight A's, it was a bit humbling to find out that it is easier to make a living than to be a student. He boasts of never cutting a class because writing your own tuition check is a great motivator. Yet the school does offer its share of frustrations, the most aggravating of which centers around a common one, that of the registration process. He does not see how complicated the F. process of adding and dropping is, and he does not understand why the school makes the whole affair so difficult. Yet, with all the pros and cons he feels that the university cannot go any other way but up. john Dorie has distinguished himself not only by his accomplishments and his extreme openness to students, but also because he is doing exactly what he wants to and this attitude can only make the university stronger as a whole. xi