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

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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

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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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DEANS Ira P. Hildebrand, Dean of the largest state university law school in the United States, has visited classes at eidelberg University and at- tended the Trial and Appellate Courts of Eng- land. Dean Hildebrand, a graduate of The Uni- versity of Texas and Harvard Law Schools, is co-author with Professor E. H. Warren of Har- vard of Cases on Corporations and is a mem- ber of the American Law Institute and of the American Bar Association. T. U. Taylor, Dean of the School of Engineering, has given forty-eight years of loyal service and devotion to The University of Texas. Since 1888 The Grand Old Man of the Campus has watched and participated in the rapid growth not only of the Engineering School but of every other department of the University. This year, Dean Taylor ' s last as active dean, has rounded out the ram ' s horn of perfection in his career at the University. Dr. J. A. Fitzgerald, Dean of the School of ' Business Administration, is a well-known author- ity in his field. Besides being a member of the National Committee of Monetary Economists and of the Business Research Council, he is consult- ing editor of American Business Practice and Grand President of Beta Gamma Sigma. During his long career as an educator. Dr. Fitzgerald has taught at Ohio State University and at Carnegie Institute of Technology. DEAN SCHOOL OF LAW DEAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION I 9 3 6 c A C T U s