University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS From its organization in 1926 as a two-year division of the College of Arts and Sciences to its present position as the most rapidly growing school on the campus, the College of Business Administration has been guided in CHARLES C. FICHTNER its destiny for thirteen years by Dr. Charles C. Fichtner. Pursuing a policy of progressive development, Dr. Fichtner this year saw the school move from the dilap¬ idated Commerce Building to quar¬ ters in the newly-erected Classroom Building. Extracurricular activities fostered under his guidance by the school in¬ clude annual summer seminars for businessmen of the Southwestern area, a series of monthly convoca¬ tions featuring addresses by promi¬ nent Arkansans, and the publication of the Arkansas Business Bulletin, a periodical survey of state business conditions which is distributed to several hundred Arkansas business¬ men. A Harvard graduate, Dean Ficht¬ ner was one of the youngest commis¬ sioned officers to serve in the World War. Awarded a field fellowship for his military service he remained abroad studying and traveling in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany. Back in America Dr. Fichtner spent the early post-war years as an in¬ structor at the College of William and Mary, varying his university duties by conducting student tours in Europe during the summer months. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Al¬ pha Kappa Psi, and Beta Gamma Sigma, Dr. Fichtner is contributor to numerous commerce, economic, and social science publications. He specializes in the field of money and banking, is working for the establish¬ ment of a business research bureau at the University of Arkansas. 24