University of Alabama - Corolla Yearbook (Tuscaloosa, AL)

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AUDITORS Louis D. and Mrs. Louise Boylan hove been Auditors at the Universi- ty since 1941 v hen they ere in- vited to estoblish an office here as independent public accountants to serve the various organizations and publications on the campus. They act as financial and house manage- ment advisors and have developed an accounting system which has been unique in its success. While operating under this uniform sys- tem the social organizations here have retired in excess of $200,000 in mortgages in nine years. Due to the increased demand for this serv- ice, four full-time employees have been added to the staff to facilitate the v ork of this office. THE BOYLANS UNIVERSITY NEWS BUREAU Press agent duties for the University of Alabama are carried out by the University News Bureau, of which J. Russell Heitman is director. Mr. Heitman, who is also field manager of the Alabama Press As- sociation, on informative and advertising center for State weekly newspapers, assumed leadership of these units July 1, 1948. Associated with Mr. Heitman is Norman H. Bassett, Associate Director of the News Bureau who has been on the University staff since 1946. A student staff is maintained. The News Bureau is the primary outlet for infor- mation about the University to the press of the State. The purpose of the Alabama Press Association is to serve as a clearing house for information and adver- tising for Alabama newspapers. Two statewide conventions and a number of dis- trict meetings ore held by APA for publishers each year. The Alabama Publisher, a quarterly magazine, has been initiated by Field Manager Heitman as the official publication of APA. Bassett, Heitman, and student assistants.

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DR. W. STANLEY HOOLE C. E. WILLIAMS DIRECTOR OF LIBRARIES Since he came to the University in 1 944, Dr. W. Stanley Hoole has held the position of Director of Libraries. Under his supervision, the libraries of the University have increased in size and scope, keeping pace with a larger enrollment. Today, the University ' s libraries include more than 350,000 books, two thousand books on micro- film, twenty-four thousand maps, fifty-five hundred phonograph records, and ninety thousand uncata- logued pamphlets and miscellaneous reports. DIRECTOR OF SUMMER SCHOOL C. E. Williams began his administrative service to the University in 1928 as Assistant Director of Summer School and since 1943 has served as Director. His office works with the various schools in planning all courses offered. Every effort is made to arrange the Summer School program in such a manner as to meet the needs of both regu- lar students and those who must do their work in Summer School alone. DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS Dr. James B. McMillan has directed the Uni- versity Press since it was established in 1945. He has been a member of the University faculty since 1931, and is now the head of the Department of Linguistics. He is also a member of the advisory boards for several national language study publi- cations and dictionaries. The University Press pub- lishes books of a scholarly nature and The Alabama Review, a quarterly magazine of Alabama history. iiiiiiili DR. JAMES B. McMillan Page 26

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DR. ROY R. KRACKE . ;- SCHOOL A The University Medical Center in Birmingham, now considered the fast- est-growing medical center in the United States, is a giart enterprise engaged in training Ala- bama ' s young men and women in all phases of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied occupa- tions. The Medical College operates with four full classes including more than two hundred students. The School of Dentistry now includes two classes with more than a hundred students. Within the hospital and clinics are found nearly a hundred young doctors pursuing postgraduate medical education in all fields. Well over a hundred nurses are registered in the School of Nursing, technical and auxiliary personnel are being trained in increasing numbers, and hospital superin- tendents are being trained. The College has a medical, dental, and nursing school faculty of over three hundred of the finest teachers of the professions. Three new buildings ore near completion. The nation ' s most modern Public Health building is finished. The frame- work of the magnificent Crippled Children ' s Hospital now stands directly in front of the Jefferson Hospital. The enor- mous five-hundred-bed Veterans Hospital, which will be Scene in Operating Room class in Gross Anatomy