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

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BOARD OF REGENTS DR. EDWARD RANDALL Left to right: PARTEN, MORGAN, STARK, WEINERT, C. D. SIMMONS, CALHOUN, AYNESWORTH, WAGCENER, FAIRCHILD.LEO C. HAYNES, RANDALL. The Board of Regents, consisting of nine members ap- pointed in groups of three every two years by the Governor with the consent and approval of the State Senate, is the governing body of the University. Fourteen standing com- mittees work continually on various phases of University administration. The retiring chairman of the Board is Dr. Edward Randall of Galveston, distinguished member of the medical profession and administrator of the famous Sealy-Smith Foundation. Other members are Major J. R. Parten of Houston, newly elected chairman of the Board and chairman of the legislative committee; Mrs. I. D. Fairchild of Lufkin, gracious and capable supervi sor of University building activities, and promoter of the fine arts program and cultural activities; H. J. Lutcher Stark of Orange, Texas, educational program leader, member of the General De- velopment Board and chairman of the auditing and the complaints and grievances committees of the Board. Leslie Waggener of Dallas, son of the first president of the University, is chairman of the finance committee; H. H. Weinert of Seguin, lawyer, banker, farmer, oil man, and civic leader is chairman of the athletics committee and the museum committee; Senator E. J. Blackert of Victoria is chairman of the public relations committee and Dr. K. H. Aynesworth of Waco is chairman of the library committee of the Board, and a successful physician; Dr. George Morgan of San Angelo, prominent geologist and holder of a Doctor of Philosophy degree, supervises the management and development of the 2,000,000 acre University land endowment. iirr ' .• ' I . ' ' Ti ' r ' l ' ■ jj ., if.iLiL iii-

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President-Elect HOMER P. RAINEY !■ DR. HOMER PRICE RAINEY, President-Elect of The Univers ity of Texas Dr. Homer Price Rainey, director of the American Youth Commission, has been appointed President of The University of Texas by the Board of Regents. He will take office on June 1. J. W. Calhoun has been serving as President Ad Interim since the death of President H. Y. Benedict on May 10, 1937. Dr. Rainey is a native Texan and is a graduate of Austin College at Sherman. He took graduate work at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the faculties of the University of Chicago, the University of Minnesota, the University of Oregon, and was for a summer term a member of The University of Texas faculty. Prior to his appointment as director of the American Youth Commission in 1935, Dr. Rainey was for four years president of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsyl- vania. The American Youth Commission is a non-govern- mental agency working under the supervision of the American Council on Education. As director of the Com- mission, Dr. Rainey has conducted extensive research programs on the problems of youth. t 4 - ' x rwr %9yfi m

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PRESIDENT ' S STAFF Leil to right: McMATH, RUBOTTOM. BACKSTROM The president ' s staff and the service it performs may rightfully be called the switch-box of the Main University. All personal contact work with regard to the instructors, the professors, the officers, and the Regents of the University is handled through this office. It is only natural that the detailed work of the President ' s staff should be closely tied to the work of the office of Leo C. Haynes, Secretarj of the Board of Regents. The three women who constantly strive to keep the activities of both offices running smoothly are Mrs. Frances Little McMath, secretary to the President; Mrs. Billy Ruth Rubottom, assistant to the secretary to the President; and Miss Florence Backstrom, assistant to the secretary of the Board of Regents. LEO C. HAYNES UJLJLJLJ v»,-i -gssr - ' ST ' saai