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

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DEAN McDONALD K. HORNE Dean McDonald K. Horne was appointed August 15, 1949 to succeed Dr. Horace B. Brown, Jr. as Dean of the School of Commerce and Business Administration. Dr. Horne is a native of Winona, Mississippi, and re- ceived his B.A. from Ole Miss in 1930. In 1942 he entered the United States Naval Reserve as a commissioned officer and served until June of. 1945. Upon being discharged Dr. Horne became director of utilization research with the National Cotton Council, with which he had served before. Dr. Horne returned to Ole Miss in 1947 and became chairman of the Department of Economics. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. The School of Commerce and Business Administration was founded at the University of Mississippi in 1917. In the beginning only sixteen courses were offered; but today over six times this number are available. After the preliminary degree has been obtained in this department, following four years of work, the degree of Master of Business Administration may be had with an additional year of study. DEAN DUDLEY ROBERT HUTCHERSON Dean Dudley Robert Hutcherson became dean of the Graduate School in 1946. Dr. Hutcherson received his B.A. from Emory and Henry College in 1923. In 1931 he received his master ' s degree from the University of Virginia. From 1923 to 1934 he taught in high schools, and in 1935-36 he was an English instructor at Wesleyan College for Women. Dean Hutcherson received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1936 and came to Ole Miss that same year. His hobbies vary from music, reading end the theater to tennis and football. The Graduate School of the University was established in 1927, but as early as 1870 courses of the graduate level were offered. A definite of graduate study with a minimum residence requirement of one academic year was set up in 1890. Before the official establishment of the school in 1927, graduate work was done under the direc- tion of the general faculty acting through a graduate committee; but the Board of Trustees elected a dean, charged with the responsibility for this work. The Graduate School is one of the fastest growing schools on the Ole Miss Campus today; and with the addition of the new library the Graduate School enrollment should greatly increase. BUSINESS GRADUATE

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PHARMACY DEAN ELMER LIONEL HAMMOND Dean Elmer Lionel Hammond took the deanship of the School of Pharmacy in 1929, and has served in that capacity since. He received his pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan in 1921 and his M.S. in 1927 from the same school. During the period from 1921 until 1928, Dean Hammond taught pharmacy at West Virginia University. In 1941 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His interest in pharmacy began while he worked in a drug store in Chicago during his high school days. Dean Hammond ' s hobby is the School of Pharmacy. In 1908, when the School of Pharmacy opened, there were applications for admission from fifteen students, a gratifying number considering the department had been organized only two months before school started. Prior to 1923 the department had been operating in inadequate, overcrowded quarters which made im-, provement and expansion practically impossible. With the erection of the Chemistry and Pharmacy Building in 1923 the School of Pharmacy was able to increase the number of laboratories and install new and improved equipment. The degree granted by the school for the successful completion of four years work is that of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. DEAN DAVID SCHULTZ PANKRATZ MEDICINE Dean Datid Schultz Pankratz has been Dean of the School of Medicine since 1946, and has done much to improve the administration of the school during his short tenure. Dr. Pankratz received his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1923. From there he went to the University of Kansas and earned his M.A. in 1927 and a Ph.D. in anatomy in 1929. For the ten years following 1929 he was assistant pr ofessor of anatomy at the University of Tennessee. After this he studied for his Doctor of Medicine which he received at the University of Chicago in 1939. The School of Medicine met with much difficulty during the first years of its early existence, not only be- cause of very inadequate facilities and quarters, but also because of opposition of physicians throughout the state to a medical school away from a large city. These difficulties were, however, overcome in a very few years. At the present time the Medical School is of only two years duration; but the legislation relative to a four year medical college is pending action at this time. A full, four year Med School would be a great addition to the University.

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