University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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Il HORACE B. BROWN, JR., hi ilif SchOOl OT Commerce and Businc-5 Admini TraTir1n, rrrrw ini in a HOlly Spring hardware sTcrre. He ha-. heen inhrf TWT ir. Business ever since he began wOrl' There when hr- wa lf? vears Old. A hOme-grOwn prOdOcT, he received hi BBC degree Tri rn Qle Mis: in I93l. He Became a MasTer in Bimini f. Adrnln ifTraTiOn The TOllOwing year aT NcrrThwesTern llniver iTr. Pr-e Turning TO Qle Misc, he wal made dean OT The crrmrnercr. T'-chOOl in SepTemhc-r, l932. ln I94l he re eived hif, PhD aT NOrThwesTern, AlThOugh The busines' wchOOl was Organized in lT?l7y ne-T TO The lasT TO be added TO The UniveriiTy, Dean Brcrwn Trace. ITS Origin loaclf TO The l87l-72 ser-iOn. when lwciiirlleeiring was TirsT TaughT here. When TirsT Opened. The ichOcil crTTered Only a limned number OT courses. Besides general cOur-re in panling, Tran - pOfTaTiOn and merchandising! cOliTicaI science economics. shOrThand and Typing were OTTered. Today si- Time. as many ccrurses are lisTed. The '2chOOl is secOnd in Qize Only TO The College OT Liberal ArTs. IT is accrediTed by The American AssOciaTiOn OT Schools OT Business, OT which Dean BrOwn is secreTaryeTreasurer. Il I A D U D L E Y ROBERT HUTCHERSON dOesn'T lnOw hOw he became inTeresTed in English. BUT The course has l3rOughT him TrOm The hills OT We'1.T Virginia TO The pOsiTiOn as dean OT The GraduaTe Schcicil aT Cle lvli i-iif, . A naTive OT BlueTield, VVesT Virginia. Dr. HuTcher'.On was awarded a BA TrOm Emory and Henry COllege in I923. ln l93l he received his masTeris degree TrOm The UniversiTy OT Virginia. He TaughT in high '5chOcili TrOm I923 TO IQB4. and in T935-HO he was an English insTrucTOr aT We-lefvan College TOr Women. He received his PhD Trcrrn The Univerv siTy OT Virginia in IQZO and came Tcr Qle Mi ,a The same year. Ten years laTer he was made dean OT The QraduaTe Srihi-pl. Lil-'e mOsT OT The OTher deansy Dr. HuTchersOn believes Thal The shOrTage OT money is hOlding up a mcire rapid expan- siOn OT Qle lvlis-A. AccOrding TO him, The UniversiTy need-. mOre mOney TO build classrOOms and dOrcrriiTOric Dean HuTchersOnis hobldies vary TrOm nmriri, reading and The TheaTc'r TO Tennis and TOOTT3all. He i a rnernlircir OT The lv1Odern Language aw1OciaTiOn, The COnTc-rani fi' OT Dc-ans OT SOuThern QraduaTe SchOOlf, and Phi BeTa lfai Via. The schOOl he heads was eiTabliihed in I927 ealTh.rngh cOurse5 in graduaTe sTudy had been crTT+irs-id a a IB7O. TOday The schOcrl cOnTeri The degree OT Ma.Ter OT ArTs. lv1asTer OT Science and lv1avTer OT Bri!-ines Aclmini'-Trae Tionl 36 degrees were awarded in TQLTB, and O45 gradliaTe degrees have been cOnTerred since Thc' -',r ghOOl was Opened. The presenT TaculTy cnrTfiizTf. OT 83 members.

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Il I A DAVID SCHULTZ PANKRATZ ol lhe School ol Medicine believed he could do more good in lhe medical prolession by leaching ralher lhan by praclice. l'le explains lhal lhe shorlage Ol doclors is lurlher hampered by lhe laclc ol medical leachers. l-le received his Doclor ol Medicine degree in l939 al lhe Universily ol Chicago. bul he worlced lor il lhe hard way. A nalive ol Cordell, Oklahoma, he was gradualed wilh a BA lrom lhe Universily ol Olclahoma in l923. From lhere he wenl lo lhe Universily ol Kansas, where he received his MA in l927 and a PhD in Analomy in l929, For len years lollowing he was assislanl prolessor ol analomy al lhe Universily ol Tennessee. Aller lhis he sludied lor his MD. Dr. Panlrralz came lo Ole Miss as assislanl dean ol lhe School ol Medicine in I945. The lollowing year he was made dean. ln lhe pasl year lhe medical school alone received a lolal ol 330.000 lor research granls, more lhan il has ever received in ils hislory. Mosl ol lhe medical slall are now engaged in aclive research. Under lhe oresenl acceleraled program, in which lhe slu- denl linishes lhe lwosyear course in one and one-hall years. 50 persons are gradualed each year. The lirsl gradualing class, in l905, when lhe school was lwo years old, numbered only six. Four-year medical inslruclion will be ollered sludenls in lhe slale as soon as legislalive approprialions are voled lor con- slruclion ol lacililies. ll E ELMER LIONEL HAMMOND has seen lhe enrollmenl ol lhe School ol Pharmacy lump from 60 sludenls when he came here in l928 lo 300 al lhe presenl lime. l-le received his pharmacy degree from lhe Universily ol Michigan in l92l. As a high school sludenl in Chicago he lirsl became inleresled in lhe profession when he worlced al a drug slore aller classes. l-le received his MS degree lrom lhe Uni- versily ol Michigan in l923. From l92I unlil l928 he laughl pharmacy al Wesl Virginia Universily. Dean l-lammond was a graduale sludenl al lhe Universily ol Chicago in l927-29, and during lhis lime he was made dean ol lhe Ole Miss pharmacy school, l-le received his PhD in l94l lrom lhe Universily ol Wisconsin. l-le boasls lhal his school is one ol lhe linesl in lhe Soulh, and he is especially lond ol lhe chemislry and pharmacy build- ing, lhe enlire lhird lloor ol which houses lhe school. ll is a lar cry, he recalls, lrom lhe lhree small laboralories which sup- plemenled lhe leclure rooms when lhe school was lirsl eslab- lished in July I908. Filleen sludenls applied lor admission lhen. There have been 537 graduales lrom lhe school since lhal day. and wilh an annual enrollmenl ol 300, lhe lolal num- ber ol graduales can possibly double in lhe nexl len years.

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