University of Houston - Houstonian Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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To the Students University or Houston -not ODUM BOLlXVAMn UOl’STON (.TEXAS om r or mr cjuvo.r.uoii TO THE S7UD2IT BODY: I an very pleased to note the these for the i960 HOUSTOKIAH: Ibe university of Houston, Houston's University.” The tbcae Is highly appropriate. It calls attention to the enoraous ani ever-increasing inportonco of our institution In this largest business and Industrial cosplex or the entire South. The University of Houston IS Houston's University In every oenee of the word, a giant training center offering instruction in some 73 separate areas. The inpact of the University Is very great. This vill continue to grow, as we serve the conaunlty, region, state, and nation by training the brain power that is absolutely essential to survival. And I hope that i960 will be the last year in which the University or Houston, located in a county that pays an estimated 20)1 of all state taxes, mst charge its students the necessarily high tuition now required. Surely the 1961 HOUSTONIAN can report that the thlvcrslty has aosuacd Its rightful place naong the fully tax-supported institutions Of higher learning in our great state. Oily In this manner can we continue to fulfill our basic objective: providing a sound education for the young rsen and wonen who for financial, personal, or other reasons cannot go elsewhere for university and college training. A. D. Bruce Chancellor 15

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Chancellor A. I). Bruce, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army (Ret.), took office as President of the University of Houston on September 1, 1954, and was elevated to the newly-created position of chancellor in December of 1956. General Bruce received a B.S. degree from Texas A M College in 1916 and an honorary LL.D. in 1946. He entered the regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in June, 1917. Serving in World War I in all ranks to Lieutenant Colonel (temporary), he later attended the Infantry and Field Artillery Schools, the Command and General Staff College, the Army War College and the Naval War College. General Bruce spent three years as an instructor at the Infantry School and for four and one-half years, served as professor of military science and tactics at Allen Academy, Bryan, Texas. While on the War Department General Staff he revised textbooks on doctrine, developed modem instructional aids, revised extension courses and initiated a section on research and development. In 1941, General Bruce conceived organized, built and administered the Tank Destroyer Center at Ft. Hood. Texas. While there he introduced several methods of instruction later adopted by the entire Army. During World War II General Bruce was in command of the 77th Division which participated in bitter fighting in the South Pacific. He served as the first governor of Hokkaido, Japan, while the division occupied that island, and later went to Korea. His war record is indicated by the many decorations he has received from the Army, Navy and Air Force and foreign governments, including the Distinguished Service Cross. In 1947, General Bruce became deputy commander of the Fourth Army at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. General Bruce came to the University after serving as President (Commandant) of the Armed Forces Staff College. Since his return to his home state, General Bruce has served as a director of many organizations including the Houston Chamber of Commerce, the Southwest Research Institute, the Scott and White Memorial Hospital, and the Houston Symphony Society. He also holds memberships in many Houston clubs. A. 1). BRUCE. Lt. Gen. U.S.A.. Ret. 14

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President DR. CLANTON W. WILLIAMS Dr. Clanton Ware Williams, nationally known historian and author who became the fourth I niversity of Houston President in 1956, began his academic career in 1929 when he joined the faculty of the University of Alabama, with which institution he was associated for twenty-five years. He received his A.B. degree from Davidson College; his M.A. from the University of Alabama: and a Ph.D. degree in History from Vanderbilt University. During World War II Dr. Williams served as the Army Air Forces Historian in ranks from captain to colonel. In recognition of his distinguished service, besides campaign ribbons, he was awarded the Army Commendation Riblxm with three oak leaf clusters, and also the Legion of Merit. In 1946, Dr. Williams was named special consultant to the Department of Defense. An appointment as consultant to the U. S. Commission of Education followed in 1918. Dr. Williams was recalled to active duty during the Korean War at which time he served as a staff officer of the Air University. Message to Students Into the social and economic bloodstream of the great metropolitan and industrial complex whose center is Houston, Texas—into the arterial system of Texas and the South nest and of areas far beyond— pours from a relatively young but pourrfid new university a steady infusion of new strength. An alphabetical listing of the many types of graduates who go forth from this institution of learning begins w’th accountants, agricultural economists, architects. artists. It ends with physiologists, psychologists, trade and transportation experts, zoologists. There are in fact 207 degree plans offered by this great seat of learning. It is difficult to analyze the imjxict of this university upon the area it serves. The expected earning power of its products because they did attend the I niversity of Houston is already in excess of a quarter of a billion dollars a year. And this says nothing about professional skills, technical competence, or culture in general. Nor can one weigh in dollars the influence of more than eight thousand school teachers who have been graduated from the University of Houston. And then there is the impact upon the whole of life wherever they be of tens of thousands of well-educated mothers whom the University of Houston is now proud to call alumnae. And you who read this are party to its future pride and accomplishments. 16 CLANTON W. WILLIAMS