University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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I c u 6s THE GENERAL FACULTY The organization of the general faculty came into existence simultaneously with the organization of The Uni- versity of Texas. From a small group of learned men, the faculty of the University, like the State of Texas, has been constantly growing and moving forward. Today, in the centennial year of Texas, the general faculty is fifty-three years old and contains three hundred and seventy-eight members. These three hundred and seventy-eight members are divided into two classes: a voting class and a non-voting class. The former group, which is by far the larger, is made up of professors, associate professors, adjunct professors, and all instructors of three years standing or more. Those eighty-eight instructors of less than three years standing compose the remainder of the faculty. Regular meetings of the general faculty are on the second Tuesday in October, November, January, February, March, and May. In these six meetings the faculty may make recommendations to the Board of Regents on educa- tional policy, degree requirements, establishment of new degrees, and regulations of student activities. The Presi- dent of the University, Dr. hH. Y. Benedict, is, by nature of his office, also president of the general faculty and, as such, presides over it at all meetings. The only other general faculty office, that of secretary, is filled by Dr. M. R. Gutsch, who has served continuously in this position since his election in 1928. In order that the general faculty may function with maximum efficiency, it is divided into fifty or sixty standing committees. Every year these permanent committees are supplemented by ten or twenty special committees, created to deal with problems peculiar to that year. Each committee, permanent or special, investigates the problem assigned to it and reports back to the faculty. Just as that original handful of resolute scholars has progressed to this distinguished assemblage of university minds, so may the faculty of today move forward to an even greater faculty of tomorrow. Then, when The University of Texas has reached its centennial year, its faculty may well reflect its enviable record of achievement, just as the Texas of today reflects the glorious record of its heroes of yesterday. i?4 fe

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T E X A S Jester, McGill, Cross, Darwin, Pearcc Osteel, Halev, Stcnzel, Goldsmith, Adair THE UNIVERSITY CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AND THE TEXAS MEMORIAL MUSEUM As its part in the Texas Centennial Celebrations oF 1936, The University of Texas will present on the campus at Austin from June until December the University Centennial Exposition, to which the people of Texas and Centennial visitors from ail over the world are to be invited. The University itself — with its $20,000,000 plant, its famous libraries, educational collections, and museum materials; its scientific laboratories in which unique experiments will be demonstrated; and its many campus organi- zations which will join in the presentation of numerous special features — will constitute an important part of the Exposition. Other museum material and equipment, for which an appropriation of $225,000 was made in the Centennial appropriation bill passed by the Legislature, is being purchased to supplement the collections now owned by the University and the numerous gifts and loans which are being received. This material will be transferred into the Texas Memorial Museum, as soon as that structure is built. The Museum will be constructed on the University campus. The Congress has appropriated $300,000 for this purpose and additional funds required for the first and succeeding units will be secured through private gifts and the sale of Centennial commemorative coins. The sale of these coins has been sponsored by the American Legion Texas Centennial Committee since 1933. The Board of Regents of the University was designated by the Legislature as the Board of Directors of the Museum and they have now assumed the responsibility for the coin campaign, the American Legion continuing its cooperation. William L. McGill, chairman of the University Committee on Public Information, is acting as director of the University Centennial Exposition, while Beauford H. Jester of Corsicana is in charge of the Museum financial campaign, being assisted by Harry D. Cross, the campaign director. Faculty supervisors of the five main divisions of the Exposition are: D. B. Casteel, G. W. Goldsmith, J. Evetts Haley, J. E. Pearce, H. B. Stenzel. Regular members of the general staff include H. L. Darwin, R. L. Haynes, Billy Young, T. M. Dailey, Jr., W. L. Erwin, Cecil Cook, and Mildred X ellborn. The Museum Campaign staff includes Charles Harris, Mrs. Olga Bredt, Staley McBrayer, Thelma Gentry, Mrs. Pearl Kennedy, Beulah Mae Webb, and Niles Ball. A. Garland Adair is chairman of the American Legion Texas Centennial Committee.

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I ' ' T E X A S DEAN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES DEAN GRADUATE SCHOOL DEANS Dr. H. T. Parlin, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has constantly worked for a closet relationship between the student body and the faculty and for the advancement of liberal edu- cation as a background for the professions. In his unassuming and sympathetic manner he has instilled an admiration and respect in the hearts of undergraduates. A man of cultural and scho- lastic interests, Dean Parlin is president of the Austin Community Concert Association and a past president of Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. hi. W. hHarper, Dean of the Graduate School, is known and loved for his arterial blood- red bow tie, his perennial good-humor, and his amazing record of scholarly achievement. There are few subjects with which Dr. hiarper is not familiar and many in which he is unusually well- versed. Of these latter subjects, foremost are chemistry, medicine, pharmacy, biology, geology, and the Graduate School of The University of Texas. Dr. B. F. Pittenger, Dean of the School of Edu- cation, has achieved prominence as an educator, as author of ' An Introduction to Public School Finances, and as associate editor of The Nation ' s Schools. Dr. Pittenger, who for three years led his college debating team, is a frequent speaker before the Oklahoma Educational Asso- ciation, as well as other societies and organiza- tions. I DEAN cruorM r»c cniirATiriKi