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

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THE GOVERNOR GOVERNOR HOMER M. ADKINS Governor Homer M. Adkins, who went into office on January 14, 1941, is a native of Arkansas. He once sold newspapers on the streets of Little Rock. Governor Ad¬ kins ' political career began when he was elected sheriff of Pulaski county. He was collector of internal revenue in the state prior to becoming the state ' s chief executive.

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SPEAKING OF FACTS AND FIGURES Giving a new angle on the inner workings of the University may be going off at a tangent from the regular circle and whirl of college life, but to a certain degree it helps round out that circle. About 350 employees at Fayetteville are instrumental in making the wheels go ’round for the students. Including the 415 men and women working at the Medical school and hospital, in the Agri Ex¬ tension service, and the four Branch experiment stations, a total of approximately 765 persons are aiding in the education of the students at Arkansas. The annual payroll is, in round numbers, $578,000. d ' he instruc¬ tional department—meaning the colleges and general extension— receives 91 per cent of this sum. And only 9 per cent goes for admin¬ istration employees (offices of the president, registrar, dean of women, personnel director, and the business office) and for those who keep up the plant. To estimate the annual income is to rise into the upper brackets, for it is almost one million thirty-two thousand dollars. The main source of revenue is the state which gives $515,000. Federal grants amount to $234,000, and student fees, $250,000. The remainder of the figure is filled by money from sales of products and from other miscellaneous sources. The student pays about one-fourth the cost of his education while the federal and state governments take care of the rest of it. Out of about 180 faculty members listed in the college catalogue as many as 78 have Ph. D. degrees. Largest number of Ph. D.’s is from the University of Chicago; there are three runner-ups—Cornell, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The teachers are paid on salary according to rank. The four ranks in order of descending importance are professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and instructor. Fifteen women and two men comprise the library staff. Two nurses are employed in the infirmary. When the two doctors serving there were called to the army, a system of calling local doctors in rotation by months was started. Many cogs in the huge University machine never become known to the students—but they keep on grinding out results.

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THE PRESIDENT AND THE BOARD President James William Fulbright is in his second year as the youngest head of a state university in the United States. And for all his youth the President has an alphabet o f degrees behind him. After receiving his A. B. from the University of Arkansas in 1925, he earned a master’s degree at Oxford University by means of a Rhodes scholarship in 1931. Three years later saw him with an LL. B. from George Washington University. In the District of Columbia Mr. Fulbright was admitted to the bar of the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Before returning to George Washing¬ ton University as a law instructor in 1935, he served for a while with the anti-trust division of the U. S. Department of Justice. Mr. Fulbright returned to his Arkan¬ sas alma mater in 1937 to teach law, and was named President of the University two years later. When a student at the University of Arkansas, “Bill ' ’ Fulbright, as he was called by his classmates, was president of the associated students and one of the outstanding football players of the day. The President is quite a motorist. Last year he traveled over 20,000 miles, has been to Washington, New York, and Chicago since the fall term started, spends a great deal of time making speeches about the University over the state. He drives to work every day from his home, called Rabbit’s Foot Lodge and lo¬ cated about twelve miles north of Fayetteville. As far as recreation is concerned the University’s chief executive says he pre¬ fers “conversation”. He believes in good scholarship for students, wonders about their self-discipline and intellectual curiosity. BOARD OF TRUSTEES The 1941 Arkansas legislature passed a bill providing for the removal of the governor and the commissioner of education from the Board of Trustees. Four vacancies were created on the Board by the expiration of the terms of Beloit Taylor, Little Rock attorney, and Dr. F. A. Corn, Lonoke physician, and by the resignation of Raymond Rebsamen, Little Rock automobile dealer and financier. The interim appointment of Mrs. Annie D. Futrall, widow of the late President J. C. Futrall, had never been confirmed by the Arkansas Senate. New appointments made by Governor Adkins were Marvin Hathcoat, Harrison lawyer who was president of his 1908 class at the University, Fred I. Brown, president of the Arkansas Foundry company at Little Rock and a graduate of the College of Engineering, and Dr. Euclid Smith, an Arkansas alumnus of Hot Springs. Dr. Smith is a member of the Arkansas Medical Society’s legislative committee. Present members of the Board of Trustees are: Harry L. Ponder, Walnut Ridge Brooks Shults, Fulton Will Steel, Texarkana Jay W. Dickey, Pine Bluff Louis McDaniel, Forrest City Fred I. Brown, Little Rock Henry S. Yocum, El Dorado Dr. Euclid Smith, Hot Springs Marvin Hathcoat, Harrison Page 22