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

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DEFin ROBERT B. HOUSE J MADE a mistake, plain and simple. I exceeded my authority. And I want everybody who cares about it to know it. I am correcting that mistake, is a remark made in the case of a certain cause celebre by Bob House, to more than one person this year. This forthright admission indicates the admirable strength of character of the man who heads the University Administration. Since Pearl Harbor he has squarely met the multiplied duties which have come to his executive office without cringing or evasion. Just as the Dean ' s qualities of character have commanded respect and confidence, his warm humanness have won him wide affection. He loves good food, a melodious harp, enjoys home and good friends, admires lovely women, relishes a good joke, worships at the shrines of Shake- speare and Milton, loves the soil and the farm like a true son of Halifax County. He has about the same love for appeasers as have Carter Glass and Douglas MacArthur. Just as is true of Roosevelt and Churchill, the Dean acts when action is needed. If he takes the wrong road, he is the first to admit it; he just turns to the right and presses ahead. He has even secured action out of the most recalcitrant, word-slinging faculty meetings. Greatness of character, of heart, of idealism, of dreams and of courage are characteristic of the Dean of Administration — respected as a leader, cherished as a friend in a host of communities from Manteo to Murphy. 16

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President ; OTHING is considered settled at Chapel Hill until Frank Graham gives it his own unique touch. This is just, because he is head man, but not oppressive, because he always trans- lates authorit) ' in terms of democratic freedom. It is fruitful because he never fails to open fresh vistas in any situation. It is delightful because he is lovable and elicits Christian charity as the constructive way for persons. His genius in the personal field is total ; a rag picker or the President are to him nothing less nor more than persons. His technique is that of teaching. His influence runs through Chapel Hill, the Consolidated University, the General Assembly, the State, and more and more through- out the Nation. Clashing interests, in his method, become cooperating persons. His process is Nature rising to Spirit. He is as alert to practical opportunity as a Syrian peddler, infinitely patient of detail. He is hard as a rock on moral principle. He is orderly as the stars in in- tellectual analysis and synthesis. He is instant as the lark on the wings of his imaginative theme — a world more economically productive, more socially satisfying, more spiritually beautiful. Like Spirit he can be in two places at once. His work goes well in Washington and in Chapel Hill. His office is open and hospitable; his light still shines on Sunday nights for freshmen. His hand- shake grips the needs of the person present and the values of all persons everywhere. DEAN ROBERT B. HOUSE. 15

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DERD FRflnCIS F. BRflDSHRUU . EARED in a Presbyterian manse, Dean Francis F. Bradshaw stands as the restless, fearless, dy- namic exponent of democracy and education in action in all phases of Carolina life. Rarest and greatest qualities of THE TEACHER are his: brilliant intellect, genuine scholarship, vast and pro- found learning, amazing ability to impart facts, i deas and inspiration synchronously to his students — who bear spontaneous testimony that he is without a peer among their mentors. Far ahead of his confreres, he diagnosed the demands and adjustments with which a warring world challenged the University; even though few shared his prophetic vision, he planned, exhorted and slaved until Carolina went to war. DEflD ROLRRD B. PRRKER f OLAND PARKER, in the three short years since he came to the University from Darlington, has risen from General College Adviser and Social Science Instructor to Dean of Men. Actual friend to more indi- vidual students than a campus politician can call by name, he has never turned down a request for help or advice. By his interest and work he has become a sine qua noii in student government. His intense devotion to his job has made him essential to a University at war. 17