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

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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

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THE STUDENT SENATE A. J. YATES.President MARION REED.Vice President EVELYN BUTLER.Secretary TOM GUTHRIE.Treasurer MEMBERS AND SCHOOLS REPRESENTED Henry Simpson, Arts Leon Johnston, Arts Verlis Rose, Agri Louise Eley, Agri Bill Couch, Business Lawson Cloninger, Business Marion Hilton, Education William Hathaway, Engineering Fred Johnson, Law Roy Thomas, Junior Class Parke Muir, Junior Class Florine High, Junior Class Bill Sawyer, Junior Class Reha Gray, Sophomore Class Tom Edminston, Sophomore Class Harvey Howington, Sophomore Class Jack Moore, Freshman Class Murrelle Watkins, Freshman Class For the first time the people’s choices sat in soft-bottomed chairs and argued affairs of state on Wednesday afternoons in the Student Union. And the august body, presided over by President A. J. Yates, found itself politically New Deal, except for two seats. To make the parliamentary procedure smoother and to make someone responsible for getting measures passed, the Senators elected a majority leader, voluble Bill Sawyer from the Law School, and a minority leader, likewise garrulous Fred John¬ son, also from the Law School. And they did most of the filibustering and yielding. Hottest meeting of the year came just before election time. The first question to settle concerned the student affairs committee, whose members had referred to the Senate on the subject of the Junior- Senior Prom and Military Ball. The prom committee had signed a contract for a dance band but wanted more money for the festivities of the day. The military ball committee hadn’t signed a contract and just wanted money. The Senators wanted a big name band for all students, and refused to give up the money to the other two. The triangle of groups covered all angles of the situation—finally recommending to th e student affairs committee that under no circumstances should a big student dance be sacrificed to the Jr.-Sr. prommers or to the military bailers, but that all money left over should be divided between the two. Tommy Layman and Dave Newbold of the prom committee were satisfied, but jingoist Porter Gammill was not. Then Minority Leader Johnson, with the constitution in his hand, brought up a question about interpretation of the venerable manuscript in an effort to have the election postponed. Although Yates agreed that there was enough disagreement to have the point referred to Final-Authority “Squire” Humphreys, the election w as not postponed—and the would-be political party behind the deal remained would-be. Yes, it was a memorable meeting. The “Keep Off the Grass” problem was turned over to the Student Senate in the early fall. It was still a problem even after the Senate saw to the posting of several signs. The signs, placed con- A. J. YATES . . . politically N Deal was the august body he presid