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

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DEANS OF THE ALLAN WILSON HOBBS Dean Hobbs, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics, is perhaps best known for his sym- pathetic help in untangling schedule difficulties and for his love of hunting and fishing. On his shoulders rests the respon- sibility of keeping up with some 1,100 juniors and seniors who major in one of the liberal arts or sciences — and he does a good job. CORYDON PERRY SPRUILL As Dean of the General College, Dean Spruill has the none- too-easy task of keeping tab on every freshman and sophomore in the University. An able Professor of Economics in addition to being dean, he carries out the tremendous amount of work which his office requires with thoroughness, with fairness, and always with a desire to see the student ' s point of view. DUDLEY deWITT CARROLL Dean of the School of Commerce, Head of the Department of Economics, and Professor of Economics, Dean Carroll is also President of the Board of Trustees of Guilford College. Not content with founding the Commerce School, he has watched it grow, under his guidance, into one of the tough- est schools on the campus and one of the best undergraduate schools in the nation. SUSAN GREY AKERS The School of Library Science, one of the smallest schools on the campus, is nevertheless one of the best; and the work of Dean Akers has been responsible in large measure for its success. Her energy, patience, and perseverance command the respect of her students, and have become as much a part of the school as has she, herself. 26

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7 OR all the years ahead your history and the his- tory of your University will know you as members of one of the war classes — just as are known classes of ' 17 and ' 18. What a historic period your life has spanned ! Many of you are sons of the First World War . Some are from homes affected by the hectic prosperity of the twenties or scarred by the crash of Nineteen Twenty-nine, the worst, and the first, world-wide de- pression. During your youth an American president has broken precedent and for three terms led the attack of the nation upon the colossal problems of our age. The New Deal, the American Way, Social Security, and the Four Freedoms are the familiar terms of a world-wide and blitz speed drama. You have seen the quiet grooves and pleasant ways of Chapel Hill gradually transformed with student pilots overhead, naval and military units on the fields. physical fitness programs for all, acceleration , speed-up , civilian defense, and post-war planning — until Alma Mater has become the home front . Now you go out to your duties — combat, supply, or civilian service; and Carolina goes with you. In your youthful vigor, in your civic conscience, in your mental alertness, in your liberal culture she will live and breathe all over the world and throughout our nation ' s historic destiny. And then when the victory comes, she will stand with you at the polls and in the peace conference, and she will pray that ' you may have learned something here which shall enable you so to feel and think and act that the class of 1967, your sons, will be known as a great class but need not be called, once again, a war class . With pride and affection your University grips your good right hand just before you go out upon the field ! Francis . uSradirn 9 OF 1942 DEAN BRADSHAW As Dean of Students, he has handled well the difficult job of easing friction between faculty and students . . . quiet and soft-spoken ... a keen, penetrating mind . . . anxious to help in solving problems, large or small ... a philoso- pher, but always a man . . . highly respected by students and faculty alike. 25

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UNIVERSITY JOHN GROVER BEARD A crack horseman and one of the foremost men in his field of study, Dean Beard heads the School of Pharmacy and is Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmaceutical Latin. A firm believer in pharmacy as a profession, he is particularly inter- ested in encouraging the growing of drug plants on a com- mercial scale here in North Carolina. WALTER REECE BERRYHILL Until this past year. Dean Berryhill has been Director of the Infirmary and Assistant Dean of the School of Medicine. With his elevation as Dean of the School of Medicine he continues to be one of the hardest working men on the campus. He has inaugurated this year a plan whereby medical students at the University may receive clinical training. ROBERT HASLEY WETTACH With the School of Law since 1921, and former Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina, Dean Wettach was ele- vated to the deanship in Manning Hall only last year. Inter- ested in his students and well-liked by them, he is Professor of Constitutional Law and Torts in addition to his many duties as dean. WILLIAM WHATLEY PIERSON Dean of the Graduate School and Head of the Department of Political Science, Dean Pierson finds time to give several courses in political theory. His intense interest in Latin Ameri- can relations has led him to lengthy visits to South American nations; and while in Venezuela last summer, he was made a member of the National Academy of Venezuela. He is now writing a history of that nation. 27