University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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' - 7 CAROLINA ALUMNI ASSDCIATIDN 2. HE University Alumni Association draws its membership from some 23,000 living alumni, ranging in age from Thomas S. Norfleet ' 69 to the youngest graduate of last June. These alumni live in each of North Carolina ' s 100 counties and in every state of the federal union. Basic units in the Association are the permanent classes and the local alumni clubs. Every alumnus is listed with some University class and each class ar- ranges reunions at commencement on a definite schedule. Organized alumni clubs exist in the ma- jority of North Carolina counties and in larger centers of alumni population outside the State. Active dues-paying alumni compose the Association ' s membership. General officers are elected annually by mail ballot of the members. Directors are chosen by class and club organizations. The individual member in addition to voting privileges receives the Association ' s maga- zine, The Alumni Review, which is published monthly during the academic year. The Association ' s Executive Secretary is J. Maryon Saunders ' 25, who also is Editor of The AluDiui Review and in charge of the Central Alumni Office at the Carolina Inn. Elected officers during 1939-40 are: President, C. W. TiUett ' 09; Past President, J. C. B. Ehringhaus ' 01; Vice Presidents, Fred I. Sutton ' 08, W. A. Blount ' 20; and Treasurer, George Watts Hill ' 22. Directors in 1939-40 are Wm. R. Kenan, Jr. ' 94 (Honorary), Dr. Hubert Haywood ' 05, R. C. deRosset ' 18, L. F. Abernethy ' 06, Leo H. Harvey ' 20, Charles R. Jonas ' 25, Ben Sloan ' 29, L. T. Hartsell, Jr. ' 22, George Stephens ' 96, D. Edward Hudgins ' 28, John W. Umstead ' 09, E. Earle Rives ' 21, Gordon Gray ' 30, Thomas Turner, Jr. ' 23, T. A. DeVane ' 13, Ben K. Lassiter ' 05, T. J. Pearsall ' 27, Dr. J. C. Tayloe ' 18, J. T. Gresham ' 28, ' W. B. Ellis ' 11, Lenoir Chambers ' 14, and W. D. Carmichael, Jr. ' 21. C. W. TILLETT FRED I. SUTTON W. A. BLOUNT J. M. SAUNDERS Alumni elected by the Association to the University Athletic Council are E. Earle Rives ' 21, Bowman Gray ' 29, and Dr. Foy Roberson ' 05.

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DEAN GRDVER BEARD; School of Pharmacy Since Grover Beard entered U.N.C!. as a freshman in iy(l3, he has been actively connected with the university. Besides this connection he has been secretary of the State Pharmaceutical Association since 1912 and managing editor of the N, C, Journal since 1919. He is a firm believer in pharmacy as a profession. Athletically he leans toward golf and can play a good game. At heart he is a farmer and spends much time after office hours in his garden at home. His great love is his Great Dane dog. DEANS DEAN W. deB. MacNIDER; School of Medicine Everyone knows Dr. MacNider ' s reputation and ability inside the laboratory, but few know that he is an ardent tiller of the soil. His garden as well as his collection of knives and baskets is the en y of every Chapel Hillian. A folksy man who is interested in everyone, his walls are covered with pictures of his friends. Happy in his work, happy in his hobbies, Dr. MacNider is probably happiest in the role of parent of Sallie. DEAN M. T. van HECKE; School of Law The fact that The Dean , supported by little Miss Shewmake, played third base in the recent Student-Faculty Day law baseball game is not indicative of his role in the daily routine of law school. His keenness of judgment is rivalled only by his never-failing good humor. He is as well-known for his friendly wink in the hall as he is for his Restatement of the Injunction Against Torts. DEAN W. W. PIERSDN; Graduate School Pontifical Pierson, who can strut sitting down. They may say that he lives on an academic diet, that he is adamant to student petitions, that he plays his cards so closely that he scorches his best. But for all this, the Dean, who hails from Alamaba, is an able administrator, an authority on Latin America, speaks Spanish fluently, appreciates the nuances of political theory, is possessed of a rare wit, an analytical mind, a profound store of general knowledge, and is a real human being. 27

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ALBERT COATES ' 18 Organization and service are overworked words but they have genuine meaning in Albert Coates ' dreams and designs. This University law teacher has founded and fostered the Institute of Government, which this year moved into its own building, as a laboratory organized to serve govern- mental units in North Carolina from constable to governor. GEORGE V. DENNY ' 22 The stage and platform have been George V. Denny, Jr. ' s career. With the Carolina Playmakers here he gained and developed technique that enabled him later to extend via radio in America ' s Town Meetings of the Air the freedom of discussion which has distinguished New York ' s Town Hall platforms. THESE HAVE FDUND A WAY T. HE four alumni pictured on this page represent more than twenty thousand living students. They are chosen from among grad- uates of the University in the period since the World War. Each of them has created a career that places him in a leading role on the stage of current happenings. As younger men they saw dreams which now they are realizing. The contributions of good example these men are making mark them for the present student generation. They have created from the mental pictures drawn by them- selves careers which are original and pioneer- ing in nature. The 1940 Yackety Yack is privileged for that reason to have them repre- sent University alumni on this page. PAUL GREEN ' 21 A Pulitzer prize winner on Broad- way who also spent a spell in Hollywood scenario writing, Paul Green deliberately has chosen to teach and work in Chapel Hill. Here he remains in the stream of dramatic trends with such no- table pioneering contributions as The Lost Colony and The Highland Call. KAY KYSER ' 28 Probably no other University alumnus is so widely known as Kay Kyser — whose name on his ' 28 diploma reads James Kern Kyser. Law gave way to the entertainment business he began in college, and Kyser since has created a career in dance music, radio entertainment, and motion pictures.