University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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DEDICATION John M. Houchens, a native Kentuckian, received a degree in physics from Georgetown College in 1926. After graduation he was employed by the Louis- vi11e Gas and Electric Company as a Maintenance Engineer, then for three years taught related science and mathematics at Ahrens Trade High School. At the invitation of Dean Bennett M. Bridgman, he went to the University in January, 1930 under the presidency of Dr. Raymond A. Kent to become Speed Scientific SchooFs first coordinator of the Cooperation V'Vork Program. During the war he was also director of adult education at the University of Louisville, directed engineering defense training, and served as instructor in physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, engineering drawing and descrip- k k k tive geometry. On December 1, 1948 he was elected Registrar of the University to take oHice on July 1, 1949 upon the retirement of Registrar Ralph E. Hill. His term as Registrar has coincided with the great growth of the University and the corre- sponding increase in voluminous records and admissions. He has worked con- stantly to increase the efficiency of the Registrars Office by more up-to-date forms and procedures and in line with the times is making everrgreater use of computing machines for speed and accuracy. He is an active alumnus of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and was instru- mental in the formation of the University of Louisville Chapter, which was installed in April, 1948. He was Faculty Advisor of the local chapter for some years. In 1956 he was awarded the much-coveted and rare Order of Merit by the national organization. . Mr. Houchens was tapped for honorary membership in Omicron Delta Kappa in 1958 and is now faculty advisor of the campus Chapter. He is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics fraternity and has been active in Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity. He is a past Chairman of the Louisville section of the American Institute of American Engineers and a past president of the Louisville Personnel Associa- tion. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Family Service Organization and has been a member of the Advisory council of the Merit System of the Kentucky State Board of Health. Last year he was President of the Southern Asociation of Collegiate Regis- trars, and is active in the State Organization of Registrars, and in the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions OH'1C61'S. We are proud to dedicate the nineteen hundred and sixty Thoroughbred to Mr. John M. Houchens, Registrar of the University of Louisville.

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THE PRESIDENT W'ith his diploma in one hand and his new wife in the other, Philip Davidson began teaching in-the high schools of Mississippi, where he remained for three years. He had graduated with a BS. from the University of Mississippi in 1922. From 1925 until 1927 he taught in the history department of the University of Illinois while working on his doctorate in history, which he re- ceived in 1929 at the University of Chicago. Dr. Davidson held positions as Professor of History and Head of the Department at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. At Vanderbilt Univer- sity he was Dean of the Graduate School and Senior College, and Provost of the University. The President came to the University of Louisville from Vanderbilt in June, 1951. In June, 1954 President Davidson received the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the University of the South. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, he has served on the Lectureship panel of this honorary, as well as the Board of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foun- dation. He is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and the Newcomen Society. 111 Louisville he is a member of the Norton Infirmary Psychiatric Council, the Board of Di- rectors of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Louisville Fund, the Board of Directors of the Louisville Philharmonic Society, the Louisville Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and the J. B. Speed Museum. A member of the Rotary Club of Louisville, Dr. Davidson was President of the Nashville Rotary Club from 1950 to 1951. He has served on various committees in St. Andrews Episcopal Church. He was General Chairman for Brotherhood Week in Kentucky tNational Conference of Christians and Jewsi in 1954 and 1959. From 1954 to 1958 he served as President of the Kentucky Branch of the English-Speaking Union. Dr. Davidson is the author of two books: History of Georgia and Propaganda and the Ameri- rm: Revolution. He also contributes to This Is the South. The Presidents chief relaxation, besides hunting and fishing, is found in his workshop, where he has turned out ambitious reproductions like an 18th Century cherry tripod table. He and his son Philip, in college at the time, even constructed a boat one summer. Philip is now mar- ried and has three children; the Davidsonls daughter also has three children, and both families live in Nashville, Tennessee. President Davidson and his wife have only one child left in Louis- ville: Splinters, their black cocker spaniel.