Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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HON. A. H. CARMICHAEL Hon. A. H. Carmichael, the son of Jessie M. and Mary Smith Carmichael, was born in Dale County and lived there until he finished college. His father was circuit judge for many years. State auditor twice, and president of the Convict Board. He attended the common schools of Dale County until he went to the University of Alabama, where he graduated with two degrees, A. B. and LL. B. He is a lawyer by profession and has held the following positions of honor: Solicitor of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Solicitor of the District Court; mem- ber of the House of Representatives and Speaker of the House Session, 1907. Member of the House of Representatives, and Speaker of the House Session 1915; member of the State Senate, 1919; Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in acquiring land for nitrate plants; member of the State Board of Education. The first State-wide prohibition law for Alabama bore his name and he aided in the passage of the Code of School Laws for Alabama in the year 1919. He is a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity and belongs to the following or- ders: Phi Beta Kappa, Masons, and Knights of Pythias. As a member of the State Senate he is chairman of the Committee on Education and he is proving of valuable service to our State in education and many other ways. HON. L. B. MUSGROVE Hon. L. B. Musgrove was born in Jasper, Walker County. Ala., December 13, 1859. He was everything from ploughboy to chairman of the National Campaign Committee of the temperance forces, which was responsible for the I 8th amendment. To his own people he has been, and always will be, the man who never refused to help build a school or church. He grew up with little opportunity for education; and in spite of these handicaps made a con- spicuous success as an editor, farmer, merchant, banker, and coal operator. He is responsible for scores of young people having a chance of a college educa- tion. He is trustee of the University of Alabama and a member of the State Board of Education. There is no greater friend of education in Alabama than ' Breck Musgrove. Eleven

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m gaBBmaaggBummmifflma MRS. ALBERTA W. BUSH Mrs. Bush, a native of Montgomery, Ala., has the distinction of being the first woman to be honored with membership on the State Board of Education. This was due to the fact that she has rendered excellent service to humanity along various lines and is recognized as one of the most cultured, intelligent, philanthropic women in the State. Montgomery, Mobile, Anniston, and Bir- mingham have all been her home at various times, and all have felt the in- fluence of her benevolent personality. Besides Mrs. Bush ' s membership on the State Board of Education, to which she was appointed when the Board was organized, she is also a trustee of the Boys ' Industrial School at Birmingham, and of the Baptist Widows ' and Orphans ' Home at Troy. . HON. ALFRED L. TYLER Mr. Tyler was born in Pennsylvania in 1 866. He is the son of Alfred L. Tyler, Norwich, Conn., and Annie (Scott) Tyler, of Macon, Ga. He moved to Anniston from Charleston, S. O, in 1873. He was educated in the schools of his various homes and in Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 188 7 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Since 1888 Mr. Tyler has had a continuous and very successful business career in his adopted home, as is proved by the fact that he is at present president and treasurer of the Anniston Manufacturing Company, a director in several textile and iron companies, and of the First National Bank of Anniston. He is also a vestryman of Grace Epis- copal Church and he has been a useful member of the State Board of Educa- tion since its organization in 1919. DR. DANIEL T. McCALL Dr. McCall was born at DeSotoville, Ala., Sept. 4, 1869. He was edu- cated at Cooper ' s Institute, Miss., and Snow Hill, Pushmataha, Furman, and the University of Alabama, from which he was graduated in 1887 with the A. B. degree. He then took a medical course at the University of Louisville, Ky., from which he was graduated in 1894. He next practiced medicine in Gaston, 1895-9, and Butler, 1899-1908. He spent the next two years in the medical schools of New York, Philadelphia, and Harvard, specializing in the diseases of children. Since 1910 Dr. McCall has devoted himself to this line of work in the city of Mobile, where he attained marked success. But while devoted to his profession, his broad patriotism has interested itself in kin- dred subjects. Witness his services as county health officer of Choctaw County, 1898-1908; member of Mobile Board of County School Commissioners, 1912-18, and president of the Board, 1918-19; president of Mobile County Board of Health, 1916-18 and 1 922-23 ; member of the State Board of Educa- tion, 1919-23; president of Alumni Association, University of Alabama, 1920-21 ; member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, 1922 . Dr. McCall is a Democrat, a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, and K. of P. Ten

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BmB5?gmiMimTi«ig? iiiiMiiiii!iini ■ miuta HISTORICAL SKETCH For the historical outline of the State Normal School prior to June 1 , 1919, see copies of the Palladium for the years 1912 and 1919. The essential thing since that time may be found in the following paragraphs: I. GENERAL POLICIES The most noteworthy development within the last few years is the rural extension work, which was begun in the fall of 1920. Professor C. M. Farmer has been in charge of this department since its inception, and the work has met such hardy response from the field that the school has not been financially able to meet the demand for classes in the various counties within its territory. It is not only enabling the Normals to reach the teachers in service, but it is greatly popularizing the State ' s teacher-training agencies. Another important change inaugurated in 1920 was a raising of the en- trance requirements for our two-year teacher-training course to four years of standard high school work. However, two years of pre-normal work were retained in order to care for a special class of public school teachers. The raising of entrance requirements mentioned above resulted in 1921 in the policy of granting pre-normal certificates to graduates of standard high schools who would complete certain short courses in the Normal School. Great numbers of these graduates have availed themselves of this opportunity, and have thus, not only recruited the teaching profession, but considerably raised its standard of effificiency. A third very important and far-reaching change was introduced in the fall of 1919, when student government was substituted for the old form of faculty government. The skepticism which attended the inauguration of this system soon gave place to enthusiastic approval. It has done so much for the morale of the student body that no other system would now be seriously considered. II. THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION The Legislature of 1919 abolished various boards, including the Normal School Board, and placed the Normals and all other units of the public school system under the State Board of Education. This board is composed of Gov- ernor Kilby, Superintendent Abercrombie, Hon. L. B. Musgrove, Hon. Jack Thorington, Hon. A. L. Tyler, Mrs. T G. Bush, Hon. A. H. Carmichael, and Dr. D. T. McCall. The placing of the various units of the public school system under one Twelve