University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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I ' lTSilll ' lll l ]llll ' l ' illlN DR. IliltlSV (I BIRD Dr. Byrd receiving the Board of Regents award. The University of Maryland is a monument to the man — Dr. H. C. Byrd — who worked and fout ht for its growth. Today, through Dr. Byrd ' s vision, the University of Maryland has the largest campus in the world, stretching; from Collet e Park to the snows of Green- land, to the sands of Africa, and in Maryland cover- ing the entire state. The whole policy of the University has been built on tile principle of service to the peojile. The Uni- versity of Maryland is a testimonial to Dr. Byrd ' s achievements, to his forty-three years of untiring efforts to make the University of Maryland one of the leading universities in America. He is a leader, an executive, and an educator, but to the stutlents he is best known as Curley — a friend. Ur. Byrd gets acquainted with a new student at his annual iTcshni.ui Reception.

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jlcting President THOIMS B. SYillO ' S The University of Maryland has a new president. But although the president is new to the campus, the man is not. Dr. Thomas B. Symons, who as acting president, has replaced the dynamic Dr. Byrd, is an old friend of the university. Hailing from the Eastern Shore, the tideland that seems to be as productive of university presidents as Virginia was for long years of national presidents. Dr. Symons entered the Maryland Agriculture Col- lege in 1898. Fourteen years later. Dr. Symons re- turned to the university as Dean of the Department of Horticulture. In 1914, when the Extension Serv- ice became a part of the university, Dr. Symons was appointed director, and four years later, his Alma Mater bestowed upon him an honorary doctor ' s degree. In 1935, Dr. Symons was made Dean of the Col- lege of Agriculture. When he retired from this posi- tion in 1950, Symons Hall, the Agriculture Building, was named in his honor. Returning to the university as top administrator from the position of public relations director of the Suburban Trust Company, Dr. Symons has done a topflight job of administrating the affairs of the university. 17