Stetson University - Hatter Yearbook (DeLand, FL)

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The 1961 Hatter is DEDICATED TO Edward C. Furlong, Jr. E. C. Furlong, Jr., from Morgantown, Virginia, has faithfully and tirelessly served the University for twenty-three years in many capacities. He earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stetson, then proceeded to do graduate study at the Case Institute of Technology. In 1938 he came to serve on the university faculty, whereon he now holds the title of Professor of Business Administration. During the past decade he has served as Dean of the School of Business and Business Manager of the University. Through these offices as well as the many local and state committees on which he works, the forty-eight-year-old administrator ' s business-like manner, coupled with a warm and sincere personality, has greatly aided Stetson in its many financial dealings. Dean Furlong now lives in DeLand with his wife Charlotte, also a Stetson alum, and their five children. So to express the respect, gratitude, and admira- tion of one who has given so much to the Univer- sity and asked so little in return, we humbly dedicate the 1961 Hatter to Edward Colson Fur- long, Jr. EDWARD C. FURLONG, JR. Dean Furlong listens intently to a remark at one of the faculty dinners in the Stetson Room. Dean Furlong poses in his office.

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THE UNIVERSITY stetson became a college in 1885, two years after its founding. It was named DeLand Academy after Henry A. DeLand, main founder of the town, and later became known as Stetson University in honor of the well-known hat manufacturer who generously endowed the college. The school added a college of music, one of law, and most recently, one of business to become a university. Thirty buildings on the seventy-five-acre DeLand campus house the university ' s varied activities. Elizabeth Hall, shown to the left, is the administra- tive and main classroom building. It also contains the principal auditorium. Stetson has perhaps the ablest faculty in the South, with approximately eighty per cent of the instructors having master ' s degrees and most o± that group also with doctorates. I