University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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PRESIDENT RICHARD A. HARVILL I am pleased to extend hearty congratulations and warm greetings to seniors and other students who receive degrees in 1963. Your yearbook, the DESERT, contains much of the history of your class and records many scenes and events that occurred at the University which will always bring pleasant memories to you. The years that you have spent at the University will become more or less meaningful in the future, depending upon your own aspirations and endeavors. Education is always unfinished business. Changes in science and technology, in political systems, in the economic and social order and the increase in population are all inter-related elements of contemporary civilization. Transformations occurring in all countries of the world require much more than casual interest of citizens in a free society. For their understanding and resolution they require alert awareness and demand diligent study. Men and women of the University of Arizona are found in all parts of the world. They are assuming roles of leadership in every facet of human endeavor, and they are meeting the challenges that are presented by these unprecedented changes in a most exemplary way. I am confident than you who have just completed a phase of your educational endeavor will continue your educational experience in various ways and will add additional luster to the record of Arizona Alumni. Richard A. Harvill

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For the past twelve years Richard A. Harvill has been president of the University of Arizona. Dr. Harvill first came to the University in 1934 as an assistant professor of economics. From then until 1951, when he was appointed president, he held several positions here. From 1934-42 he was associate professor of economics and then Dean of the Graduate College from 1946-47. In 1947 he became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He served in that capacity until 1951, when on July 1 he was named presi- dent. Dr. Harvill was born in Centerville, Tennessee. He received his education at Mississippi State Col- lege, Duke, Chicago Uni- versity and Northwestern University. In addition to his un- ending responsibility to the University, he has found time to aid his community in many various ways. He is a member of Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, Ex- ecutives ' Club, Institute of International Educati on and The Council of Presi- dents of the American Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Uni- versities.

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SAMUEL C. McMILLIAN Serving as Vice President for Planning and Development at the University of Ari- zona is Samuel C. McMillian. Samuel McMillian received his B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1935 and his M.B.A. from the University of Chi- cago in 1940. Before being appointed vice president he served as consultant to the European Economics Corporation. VICE PRESIDENTS ROBERT L. NUGENT Dr. Robert L. Nugent is Executive Vice President of the University of Arizona. Upon receiving his B.A. from the Univer- sity of Arizona, Dr. Nugent was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. In 1928 he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at Cornell. He has since served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and of the Graduate College. WALTER H. DELAPLANE The position of Vice President of Aca- demic Affairs at the University of Arizona is held by Dr. Walter H. Delaplane. Dr. Delaplane received his A.B. and A.M. from Oberlin College and was awarded his Ph.D. at Duke University. He has served as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Texas A M and as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at South- ern Methodist University. 22