University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Seated, L to R: Hollis Rinehart, IF. Glenn Miller, Fred H. Kent. Standing: Ralph Miller, J. Broward Culpepper, ]. Lee Bollard, Chairman; John S. Allen, University of Florida Vice-President; Dr. Russell S. Poor, Health Center Provost; Dr. George T. Harrett, Dean of the College of Medicine. board of control board of education L to R: R. A. Gray, Secretary of State; LeRoy Collins, Governor, President, State Board of Education; Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General; J. Eduin Larson, State Treasurer; Thomas D. Bailey, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary, State Board of Education.

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governor Florida ' s newly elected governor, LeRoy Collins, has demonstrated his outstanding leadership and ability to gain the respect of others many times during his legislative career. His record, personality and ability are well and favorably known through- out Florida. Collins, a native Floridian, was born in Tallahassee in 1909. In 1934, 1936 and 1938, he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives. In 1942 he ran unopposed for the State Senate. In 1950, he stood for election to the Senate for the third time against two other candidates and won, receiving 74 per cent of the total vote. The father of four children, Collins has always taken an interest in the state school system. As a senator, he steered through Florida ' s famous education bill of 1947, which was the greatest forward step ever taken in the school system of this state. LeRoy Collins assumed his duties as Florida ' s chief executive in January. From his outstanding record and overwhelming popularity, there is every indication that he will be an excellent successor to the highly-regarded Dan McCarty . . . and a splen- did governor in his own right. 18

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dr. John stuart alien As acting President, Dr. John Stuart Allen assumed his duties upon the death of Dr. J. Hillis Miller on November 14, 1953. Dr. Allen, who once was the director of the Division of Higher Educa- tion of the New York State Educa- tion department, had served as Vice President of the University of Florida since February 1, 1948. A native of Indiana, Dr. Allen re- ceived his AB degree from Earl- ham College and his M.A. in As- tronomy from the University of Minnesota. His Ph.D. was con- ferred by New York University in 1936. In 1928-1930, Dr. Allen was an instructor in Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. For the next twelve years he served in various capacities with Colgate University before taking his posi- tion with the New York Depart- ment of Education in 1942. Since his vocation was once as- tronomy, it is not surprising that that science has become his major hobby. Besides the study of the heavens, he is an ardent amateur photographer and, whenever he can spare the time, a boating en- thusiast. His lovely wife, Grace, may often be seen visiting patients in the University Infirmary. Dr. Allen is the author of several textbooks on astronomy, and has published numerous bulletins and over seventy articles on that sub- ject, higher education, and vet- erans ' education. acting president 20