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Chapter 2

THE DEPRESSION YEARS: 1930 - 40

In the fall of 1930, nearly a year after the stock market crash, there was no pronounced effect of the depression on the number of students in the College. Enrollment was fairly stable, with 577 in the College, 234 freshmen, and 199 in the Graduate School. In 1931 the corresponding numbers were 561, 212, and 221. However, by 1932 there were fewer students living on campus and Winship dormitory had to be closed. The depression was gradually affecting the income of the University and after operating expenses had been trimmed as much as possible, it was found necessary to cut faculty salaries. Dr. English* tells of this decision as follows: “At a called meeting of the faculty, President Cox announced that the salaries of the faculty, administration and staff would be reduced on a graduated scale from five to eleven percent. Although there had been previous warning of the probable necessity of this step, the news was unwelcome and depressing. Nevertheless, Professor J. Sam Guy, the “Skipper” of the Department of Chemistry, famous for his pugnacious defense of the faculty against possible administrative encroachment, rose to propose a vote of full confidence in the President which was passed with but a single dissent. The strain had taken its toll of Dr. Cox, and he broke down, the only public show of emotion he was ever known to exhibit.”

*Thomas H. English, “Emory University 1915-1965 - A Semicentennial History”, Higgins-McArthur Co., Atlanta, GA, 1966.

In the fall of 1934 another salary cut was necessary, bringing the reduction to fifteen to twenty-one per cent. In 1935 a five per cent restoration was made and in 1937 salaries were restored to their original levels.
The 1930-31 Academic Year

By 1930 the faculties of most departments were fairly stable, and their names will be familiar to students of the 30's and 40's. In the Biology Department were Robert C. Rhodes, W.B. Baker and W.B. Redmond. Physics had W.S. Nelms and J. Harris Purks, Mathematics Douglas Rumble and J. Fred Messick. Other longtime faculty members were J.G. Lester, J.B. Peebles, Ross McLean, Herman Martin, E.H. Rece, W.A. Strozier, Prentice Miller and Ed Martin. Dr. Cox was President, Goodrich White Dean of the College and Graduate School, George Mew Treasurer, and Miss Margaret Jemison was head of the Library.

The nucleus of the Chemistry faculty throughout the 30's was Drs. Guy, Quayle and Jones. Robert Bond continued as instructor in the 1930-31 academic year but was replaced in the fall of 1931. There were now 13 majors offered in the department and 10 minors. Graduate courses numbered 5 majors and 17 minors. It is obvious that the faculty had full time teaching loads.

The cost to attend Emory College was now $75 per quarter, fall through spring. The $75 was considered to be $35 tuition and $40 fees, and a so-called tuition scholarship was worth $105. The summer quarter was run separately and the cost for three majors was only $50. Many students attended three summer sessions, graduating in three years and saving $105. A double room with three occupants in Alabama Hall cost $21 per quarter each. In Winship and Dobbs a double room with two occupants was $22.50 each. Requirements for graduation were unchanged and it was still possible to be admitted to Medical School with two years of college work.

In the fall of 1930 teaching assistants in chemistry were Algernon D. Alston, Donald D. Diehl, Harlan Foster, James T. McGiboney, W. Donald Thompson and Ray D. Williams. Full time graduate students numbered eleven, the above teaching assistants plus Estelle P. Boynton, Sarah W. Branch, Gatewood R. Bridges, Joe D. Clary, Glazier L. Crawford, Walker K. Loving and Richard T. Pursley. Students attending in the summer only were Marylou Britt, May J. Evans, Elizabeth Guinn, George D. Johnson, Wiley J. Moody, James L. Nease, John C. Rogers, Ruby M. Sherard, Henry T. Sherman, Sanford B. Smith, Ann E. Stanley, Jessie Trawick and Sam M. Withers.
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The 1931-32 Academic Year

In the fall of 1931 William Donald Thompson replaced Robert Bond as instructor in the Chemistry Department. Thompson had received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Emory in 1930 and 1931. He helped Dr. Quayle in the organic courses, and also taught the courses in advanced inorganic chemistry. Teaching assistants were Kenneth Boggs, Gould H. Cloud, Glazier L. Crawford, Fielding Dillard, Lee H. Elizer, Frank L. Henderson and Sanford B. Smith. Cloud and Smith held University Fellowships and Elizer was a University Scholar. Other full time graduate students were Thoburn C. Bond, Joe D. Clary and Paul M. Goudelock. Students enrolled for the summer only were Marylou Britt, Marion A. Gaertner, Jane C. Glenn, Elizabeth G. Guinn, Hale H. Kellogg, Catherine Mims, Wiley J. Moody, Richard T. Pursley, Ann E. Stanley and Jessie T. Trawick.

Bachelor degrees in the Spring of 1932 went to Hilland Allgood, William A. Bailey, Jr. (Honors), Margaret A. Belle Isle (Honors), J. Max Little and Lawson W. Mixon (Honors). William M. Murray, Jr. received the B.S. degree in August, 1932 and Charles T. Lester, future Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice President of the University, received his B.S. degree in December, 1932.
The 1932-33 Academic Year

In the fall of 1932 the Junior Colleges at Oxford and Valdosta had new instructors in chemistry. Trawick Stubbs, who had received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Emory in 1931 and 1932, was the instructor in Chemistry and Biology at Oxford. At Valdosta Thomas L. Gresham was the instructor in Chemistry and Physics. Gresham had received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Emory in 1928 and 1929, and had completed his Ph.D. at John Hopkins in 1932. Jobs were hard to find in these depression years, and Tom would teach at Valdosta until 1934 when he obtained a job in chemical industry. Trawick Stubbs would teach at Oxford until 1935 when he entered Medical School.

Teaching assistants helping Drs. Guy, Quayle (now a full professor) and Jones were Hilland Allgood, William A. Bailey, Fielding Dillard, Charles T. Lester, Fred F. Lester, J. Max Little, Lawson Mixon, William M. Murray, Jr., Raymond B. Squires, Clarence W. Sudderth and Waldemar T. Ziegler.

Regular graduate students in addition to the above teaching assistants were Leonard H. Coleman and Sanford B. Smith. Students attending only the summer session were Dorothy J. Brown, Belle B. Cooper, Sarah Gardner, Elizabeth Guinn, Walker L. Loving, Thomas Pursley, Jessie T. Trawick and Lena P. Williams.

Enrollment in the College was down to 503 with 182 freshmen. The number of graduate students held steady at 222.

The statement in the 1932 catalogue concerning religious exercises is somewhat more liberal than that in 1920. It starts out the same but after the statement, “a pronounced Christian life is urged upon all students,” the part about the Bible being studied in every class and that concerning morning prayers is replaced by, “All students are required to attend chapel services according to schedule.” Beginning in 1933 all students were required to attend chapel on Fridays at ten o'clock in the recently completed Glenn Memorial Church. This continued until the V-12 program began during World War II. It was canceled at that time because service men could not be required to attend religious services. In 1946 compulsory chapel was again required but only for freshmen and sophomores. The student body was so large by that time that lower division students filled the Glenn Memorial sanctuary.
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The 1933-34 Academic Year

As the fall quarter opened in 1933 a change in nomenclature was apparent in the College catalogue. “Majors were now called “courses” and “minors” were “half-courses,” designated by the letter h. For example, the quantitative analysis course for premeds was 113h rather than 113m.

The two advanced inorganic courses taught by Dr. Jones were now numbered 255, Principles of Inorganic Chemistry and 256, Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry. In the graduate offerings Chemistry 303 was entitled Advanced Physical Chemistry, and Dr. Quayle added a new course, Chemistry 309, Structure and Synthesis of Organic Compounds. Other courses added were 321h, Techniques of Physical Chemistry, 385h, Surface Chemistry, and a sequence of supervised reading courses, 350, 351 and 352.

The depression was in full swing by this time and many chemistry graduates were having trouble finding jobs in industry. Tom Gresham was still at Valdosta and Trawick Stubbs at Oxford. Dr. Guy had money for an instructor, but instead of using it for one person, he frequently divided it in two or three parts and used it for young men unable to find permanent employment. John D. Pollard, who received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Emory in 1926 and 1927 and his Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1934, and William Everett Land, who received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Hopkins in 1928 and 1932, were both listed as graduate assistants. Land taught the course in surface chemistry and ran the quant labs. Pollard ran the organic labs and taught a course called “Laboratory Methods in Organic Chemistry.”

Other graduate assistants this year were Hilland Allgood, Chester C. Crawford, Samuel Jackson Davis, Betty Hadley, Charles T. Lester, Mary Katherine Owen, Donald C. Sun, Abraham S. Velkoff, J. Samuel Whitaker and Waldemar T. Ziegler. Crawford, Hadley. Lester and Whitaker held University Scholarships.

Mose L. Harvey was named instructor in History in the fall of 1933. His field of expertise was Russian History and he was very popular with the students. He later worked for many years in the State Department as an expert on Russia.
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The 1934-35 Academic Year

By the fall of 1934 the courses in chemistry had undergone further changes and the numbering was consistent with the middle digit indicating the field: inorganic 0 or 5; quant 1 or 6; organic 2 or 7; physical 3 or 8; and industrial, reading, or seminar 4 or 9. The courses listed that fall were:

101, 102. General Inorganic Chemistry
113. Qualitative Analysis
171, 172. Introductory Organic
202. Descriptive Inorganic
211h, 212h, 213h. Quantitative Analysis.
215h. Chemical Calculations.
217h. Quantitative Analysis for Premedical Students
223h. Organic Chemistry (for premeds)
227. Advanced Organic Chemistry
242h, 243h. Industrial Chemistry.
251h. Inorganic Preparations
252h. Colloidal Preparations
275h, 276h, 277h. Advanced Organic Preparations
281. Principles of Inorganic Chemistry
282, 283. Physical Chemistry
287h. Laboratory Methods of Physical Chemistry
290. Supervised Reading

Graduate courses were:
321. Special Topics in Organic Chemistry
322h, 323h. Organic Reactions
326h, 327h. Structure and Synthesis of Organic Compounds
331h. Thermodynamics
332h. Surface Chemistry
333h. Advanced Physical Chemistry
336h, 337h. Atomic Chemistry
341h. Development of Chemical Concepts
361h, 362h, 363h. Advanced Quantitative Analysis
371h, 372h, 373h. Advanced Organic Preparations
381h, 382h. Techniques of Physical Chemistry
400h. Seminar
441, 442, 443. Research

Dr. Everett Land was listed as a regular instructor and taught the quantitative courses and the one in atomic chemistry. At Valdosta Dr. Lee Blitch was listed as Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biology. Frank N. Wilder, who had received his M.S. degree from Emory in 1930, is listed as a graduate assistant who had completed his Ph.D.

Other graduate assistants in chemistry were Wesley Brinsfield, Frederick Bellinger, Harriet Blomquist, McHoyt Bowman, Benjamin Herndon, Mary Katherine Owen, Simon Wender, and Nathan Yagol. Bellinger, Blomquist and Yagol were University Scholars. Graduate students in addition to the above were Wesley Bailey, Joe D. Clary and Foreman Hawes.

Enrollment in the College was up slightly to 549 with 206 freshmen. There were 217 in the Graduate School, 104 in the regular session and 113 in the summer of 1934.
The “Red Scare.”

In October of 1934 DeKalb County police raided the house of an Emory alumna where a small meeting was being held discussing the prevention of war. Dr. English describes the episode as follows*: “Six arrests were made on the farcical charge of inciting insurrection,' which under an old Georgia statute carried the death penalty. Among exhibits confiscated were copies of Liberty magazine, the Nation, the New Republic, and a problem in trigonometry which was interpreted as a code message relating to a Communist plot to overthrow the government of the United States. The prime movers in this ridiculous display of “oppression, suppression, and terrorism,” as it was characterized by Dr. Cox, were members of the legal department of Fulton County, who were permitted to prosecute the case in DeKalb. “A graduate assistant in Emory's Department of Chemistry was made the chief defendant. The hostess of the meeting and another guest were alumnae of the University, and those connections encouraged the prosecutor to utter wild and inflammatory charges that Emory was a hotbed of communism. Professor Guy came vigorously to the defense of his student, and a large deputation of the faculty attended the preliminary hearing**, at which, nevertheless, four members of the discussion group were bound over, to remain in the DeKalb County jail for three weeks until the grand jury convened.” When the grand jury did convene, it refused to indict the defendants.

*Thomas H. English, “Emory University 1915-1965 - A Semicentennial History”, Higgins-McArthur Co., Atlanta, GA 1966, p 40.

**The graduate assistant was Nathan Yagol. Dr. Guy also took a number of students to the hearing, the writer being one of them. Jacob H. (Jake) Goldstein., a sophomore at the time, also attended the hearing.

The incident was reported in the November 7, 1934 issue of the Emory Wheel. It ended up saying, “After spending nearly three weeks in the DeKalb County jail Nathan Yagol is ready to give up chess playing and go back to his test tubes. The Grand Jury failed to indict Yagol, Mrs. R.W. Alling, Alexander E. Racolin and Clarence Weaver on charges of “inciting to insurrection.” At the hearing Dr. Guy, Prof. Rumble, Dr. Quayle and Dr. Jones testified for Yagol. Said Yagol after his release, “I guess the only thing a student can do is to drop all interest in anything that isn't just so. I don't want to spend twenty years of my life in jail.”

Yagol had had another brush with the law about a year earlier. The incident was reported in the December 14, 1933 issue of the Emory Wheel as follows: “Vehemently denying the charges of being a communist and terming the accusation of `attempting to incite a riot' as ridiculous, Nathan Yagol a senior in the College, laughed at the entire affair of being arrested by the Atlanta police last Sunday night while attending a meeting.

“According to Yagol, he heard that there was to be a meeting at Holsey Temple, a Negro church at Boulevard and Chamberlain St., to raise money for a fund to be given to the `Scottsboro boys.' On attending the meeting he seated himself in the rear of the church and remained undisturbed until arrested by the police.

“As it developed, a group of Klu Klux Klansmen had assembled in front of the church and were picketing, so that a group of Negroes gathered across the street were afraid to enter. Someone called the police to get rid of the Klansmen, and as a result, when they arrived Yagol was innocently arrested. “Yagol's bond was first set at $1000 and later reduced to $300 when the charges were changed from `disorderly conduct and attempting to incite a riot' to disorderly conduct.' The next morning, on hearing the charges, the recorder released Yagol.”
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The 1935-36 Academic Year

In the fall of 1935 Dr. Everett Land was still the fourth faculty member along with Drs. Guy, Quayle and Jones. Charlie Lester was now the instructor in chemistry at Oxford, Trawick Stubbs having entered Medical School. Graduate assistants in chemistry were Harry F. Kline, Slaughter Lee, Henry Mobley, Mary Katherine Owen, Gene M. Roberts and Ralph W. Wager.

Enrollment in the College was again up slightly to 585 with 225 freshmen. There were 87 graduate students in the regular session and 138 in the summer of 1935.

There were no major changes in course offerings at the graduate or undergraduate levels. It is interesting to note that the Medical School catalogue now called its department Biochemistry (not hyphenated) rather than Chemistry.

Students receiving M.S. degrees in June, 1936 were Slaughter Lee, Henry Mobley, Gene Roberts and Ralph Wager.
The 1936-37 Academic Year

In the fall of 1936 the four regular faculty members were the same. Dr. Jones was now an Associate Professor. Charlie Lester continued to teach at Oxford and Lee Blitch at Valdosta. Graduate assistants in chemistry were: Edwin R. Andrews, Jack D. Hayes, Llewellyn Heard, Henry Grady Reed and Chessie E. Rehberg. William Elmer was also enrolled as a graduate student. (The writer was a teaching assistant in mathematics while working on the M.S. in chemistry.)

The two courses in Quantitative Analysis, 211 and 212, were now full courses, and the physical course in the spring, 283, was now three lectures and one lab per week. The introductory courses in general chemistry and organic now consisted of four lectures, Monday through Thursday, and one three-hour laboratory per week.

Enrollment in the College was steady at 588 with 182 freshmen. Graduate students numbered 81 in the regular session with 164 additional in the summer quarter.

Students completing the M.S. degree in 1937 were: June, Jack D. Hayes, Grady Reed and Chessie Rehberg; August, Edwin Andrews, R.A. Day, Martha Vaidee Guerry and James L. Neese. Jack Hayes took a job at the Hercules Powder Company where he later became vice president and member of the executive committee of the company. Grady Reed went with the Tennessee Eastman Company in Kingsport where he had a very successful career. R.A. Day entered Graduate School at Princeton and returned to Emory in 1940 as instructor in physical chemistry.
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The 1937-38 Academic Year

When school opened in September, 1937 Dr. Everett Land was no longer on the faculty. He had taken a position as research chemist at the American Zirconium Corporation in Baltimore. In 1939 he was made assistant research director and in 1942 he became a lieutenant in the Navy. Katherine Owen, who had completed her master's degree and spent a year at Bryn Mawr, took over the elementary courses in quantitative analysis and helped Dr. Quayle in a new course, Chemistry 273, Organic Qualitative Analysis. Harry Norton, who received his A.B. degree in 1936 and had worked for a year at Hercules, was a graduate assistant helping Dr. Quayle in the elementary organic laboratory. Other graduate assistants were W. Herbert Burrows, Milton R. Bush, Clay B. Dyar, Chessie E. Rehberg and Warren Williams. Reidus Ray Estes and Charles W. Smart were also enrolled as graduate students.

This was the year that Dr. E. Emmet Reid began his tours of several southern universities, consulting with faculty members on their research activities. He is listed in the 1937 catalogue as a research consultant in chemistry. Dr. Reid had retired from Hopkins after a distinguished career as Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Reid received the M.A. degree from Richmond College in 1892 and the Ph.D. from Hopkins in 1898. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Richmond College in 1917. Drs. Guy and Quayle, who knew Dr. Reid well from their years at Hopkins, were instrumental in arranging the tour. Dr. Reid deserves considerable credit for his input in the development of the doctoral program in the 40's.

The October 21, 1937 issue of the Emory Wheel reported that Dr. Reid would pay his first visit to the campus on November 2, and would continue his visits every six weeks. At Emory, the article said, Dr. Reid would supervise continued work on the formation of small ring compounds and the relationship between certain physical properties and molecular structure. This referred to Dr. Quayle's work on the attempted synthesis of cyclopropanones and his work on the parachors of organic compounds. Other schools which were included on Dr. Reid's tour were Furman, Birmingham-Southern, and the Universities of Richmond and South Carolina. Four of Dr. Reid's former students were members of the chemistry faculty at the schools he would visit.

Students who received the B.A. degree with honors in the Spring of 1938 were Ellington Beavers, Marion Clark, Ralph Giles, Charles Huguley, Luther Lockhart and Fritz McDuffie.
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The 1938-39 Academic Year

As the fall quarter opened in 1938 there was a new instructor on the chemistry faculty, Dr. Loy B. Cross. Dr. Cross received his bachelor's degree from Texas Technological College in 1929, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Texas in 1936 and 1938. This was the first time the faculty had two members with Ph.D. degrees in the same field, organic. (Dr. Guy's degree was in physical, but he had not taught in this area in many years.) The staff would continue to increase in the organic area as planning for the development of the doctoral program took place in the 40's. Katherine Owen was still a graduate assistant, teaching the introductory quant courses and organic qual, now numbered 226. Harry Norton continued running the introductory organic labs and Dr. Cross taught intermediate organic, now two courses, 225 in the fall, and 227 in the spring. Dr. Reid continued as research consultant.

Enrollment in the College was up to 726 with 252 freshmen. The Graduate School had 108 students in the regular session and 211 additional in the summer. There were seventeen students who were candidates for the MS in chemistry, the largest number ever in a single department.
The Sigma Xi Club

In the fall of 1938 Emory was granted a charter for a Sigma Xi Club and in November Dr. Quayle was elected the first president. There were nineteen Sigma Xi members on the Emory faculty at that time and a few years later the school would be granted full chapter status. The first inductees were W.C. Little, E.D. McCauley, and George Spring.
Dr. Quayle's Parachor Research

Dr. Quayle with his parachor apparatus, ~1939

This was also the year that Dr. Quayle published the first paper in a series on measurements of the parachors of organic compounds. It appeared in the November, 1938 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (60, 2716, 1938), and was co-authored by Katherine Owen and Reidus Estes. The title was “A Study of Organic Parachors I. The Parachors of a Series of Isomeric Esters.” A footnote said, “The authors express their appreciation to Professor E. Emmet Reid for his kindness in supplying the esters measured and for his valuable practical suggestions on the problem.” The material was abstracted from Estes' MS thesis.

The term “parachor” had first been used by Sugden in 1924 and is defined by the equation

[P] = M g 1/4 /r = Vm g1/4

where Vm is the molecular volume, M the molecular weight, g the surface tension, r the density of the liquid, and [P], the parachor, a constant. If the temperature is such that the surface tension is unity, then [P] = Vm, so that the parachor may be regarded as the molar volume of a substance when its surface tension is unity. A comparison of the parachor of different substances is thus equivalent to the comparison of molar volumes under such conditions that the liquids have the same surface tension. Since the molecular attractions, and hence the internal pressures, are then approximately equal, it is expected that the parachor should provide a better basis for comparing molar volumes than measurements at the boiling points.

Dr. Quayle would continue this work through the 40's, publishing nine papers on the parachors of several series of organic compounds. A number of the compounds were provided by Dr. Reid, including some tertiary alcohols which were described in the dissertation that John D. Pollard (B.S. Emory, `26, MS `27) submitted for his Ph.D. at Hopkins in 1934. Others were obtained from the American Petroleum Institute and the National Bureau of Standards, and some were synthesized by students at Emory.

Dr. Quayle's work culminated in the early 50's when he wrote a chapter in a book entitled “Physical Chemistry of Hydrocarbons,” A. Farcas, editor, Academic Press, Inc., New York, N.Y., 2, 81-98 (1953). This same year he was invited to write an article for Chemical Reviews on the subject. This was entitled “The Parachors of Organic Compounds. An Interpretation and Catalogue,” (Chem. Revs, 53, 439-589 (1953)). It was published in December, 1953, just a year before his death in December, 1954.

Dr. Quayle with group of Emory Chemistry graduates who worked in the Wilmington area around 1939.

Dr. Quayle, far right: Brodie Pendergrast, third from right;

Harry Norton, fourth from right; Frank Wilder, fifth from left. Other graduates of the 20’s and early 30’s.
Dr. Guy Wins Smith Medal

In February, 1939 Dr. Guy was named to receive the Leon P. Smith medal, awarded annually by the Crucible Club of Wesleyan College. The medal was given each year to one “who by his teaching and counsel has influenced the lives of students in the Southeast.” Dr. Guy gave an address on “Saints of Science” at the award ceremony. Dr. E. Emmet Reid received the medal in 1938, the first time it was awarded.
News of Students

In the spring of 1939 Paul Hartsfield, Josiah Clegg and Nat Robertson received BA degrees with honors. Nat continued graduate work at Princeton and received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Emory in 1970.

The largest class in the history of the department received MS degrees in 1939. By the end of the summer all had positions in chemical industry or places in schools for further graduate studies. The students and their positions were:

Herman Abernathy, E.I. DuPont Co.
Ellington Beavers, University of North Carolina
Daniel Basinski, Biochemistry, Emory University
Marion Clark, Instructor, Emory at Oxford
Robert Clarke, Instructor, Young Harris College
Cherry Emerson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Cherry received his MS in chemical engineering from M.I.T. and was awarded an honorary Sc.D. Degree from Emory in 1994.)
Ralph Giles, Instructor, Berry College
William Haygood, Industrial position in Columbus, Georgia
Sam Hopkins, G & A Laboratories, Savannah, Georgia
Fritz McDuffie, Princeton University
Harry Norton, University of Buffalo
Britt Pendergrast, E.I. DuPont Co.
D.C. Roddey, Magnolia Petroleum Company, Dallas, Texas
L.G. Ray, Columbia University
Charles Smart, Emory University
George Spring, Industrial Chemical Co., Atlanta
James Sutton, Southern Kraft Co., Georgetown, S.C.
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The 1939-40 Academic Year

The course requirements in the Lower Division were now as follows:

(1) Language, Literature and Fine Arts, 25 hours: English 100 and 101; 15 hours of a foreign language.

(2) Social Science and Bible, 25 hours: History 101 and 102; Bible 101; and 10 hours from Economics 101, Political Science 101, Sociology 101, Philosophy 101, Psychology 101, and History 103.

(3) Sciences, 25 hours: Math 100; 20 hours from Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology and Physics; must be in two fields with at least two courses in one field.

The faculty of the chemistry department on the Atlanta campus consisted of Drs. Guy, Quayle, Jones, Cross and Miss Owen. Miss Owen was now an instructor and Dr. Reid continued as research consultant.

At Oxford Marion Clark took over as instructor; Charles Lester was on leave of absence, working on his Ph.D. at Penn State. At Valdosta Dr. Blitch continued as associate professor.

Graduate assistants were Horace Brown, Josiah Clegg, Ethelfrieda Greene, Vernon Grizzard, Paul Hartsfield, James Keller, Charles Smart and Harry Stubbs.
Dr. Quayle' Research

Dr. Quayle published two additional papers in the parachor series in 1939. They were both co-authored by Katherine Owen and Ellington Beavers. The first was, “A Study of Organic Parachors II Temperature and III Constitutive Variations of Parachors of a Series of Tertiary Alcohols,” J.Am. Chem. Soc. 61, 900 (1939). The second was, “A Study of Organic Parachors IV. Constitutive Variations of the Parachors of a Series of Tertiary Chlorides,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 61, 3107 (1939).
Herty Medal to Dr. Guy

Dr. Guy received the annual Herty Medal on May 4, 1940 at the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville. He was honored for personal achievement as reflected through Emory's Department of Chemistry. The citation stated that in the past twenty years the department had graduated 216 students and that one out of every four had continued studies to obtain the Ph.D. degree in chemistry. More than half of the graduates had obtained MA or MS degrees. Graduates of the department held teaching positions in sixteen leading American universities, thirty-five were teaching in high schools and forty-five were research chemists.
Students and Enrollment

Students who received BA degrees with honors in the spring of 1940 were Gerald Cohen, Earl Royals and Harry Stump. Keith Hall, who received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Emory at the dedication of the new building in 1974, also graduated at this time. Also receiving BA degrees were Marjorie Gates and Antoinette Sledd. They were among the last few women who were graduated from the College until the early 50's. When the University Center plan was adopted in the late 30's, Emory made an agreement with Agnes Scott not to admit women to the College. In return, it was reported, Agnes Scott agreed not to undertake graduate work. It was only after the flood of veterans diminished after World War II that the decision was made to alter this policy. In 1953 women were admitted to both divisions of the College and this policy has continued through the years.

Students receiving MS degrees in chemistry in 1940 were W. Josiah Clegg, Ethelfrieda Greene, Paul Hartsfield, Horace Brown, Harry Stubbs, John W.D. Harvey and James L. Keller

Enrollment in the College was up to 775 with 241 freshmen. The Graduate School had 104 regular students with an additional 140 in the summer.
Doctoral Degrees

As in the 20's the number of chemistry majors in the 30's who went on to get doctoral degrees at other institutions was quite impressive. The following is a list of those students along with the principal place of subsequent employment where known.

Bailey, William A., A.B. Emory, `32, A.M. `33; University of Washington St. Louis, `33-'35; Ph.D. Hopkins, `37; Shell Development Co.

Little, J. Max, AB Emory, `32, MS `33; University of Washington St. Louis, `35-'36; Ph.D. Vanderbilt, `41; Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College.

Bellinger, Frederick, BS Georgia Tech, `26; MS Emory, `32; D.E. Yale, `40; Georgia Tech Experiment Station.

Lester, Charles T., AB Emory, `32, MA `34; Ph.D. Penn State, `41; Emory University.

Cloud, Gould H., AB Arkansas, `31; MS Emory, `32; Ph.D. University of Buffalo, `35; Humble Oil Company.

Murray, William M., AB Emory, `32, MA `33; Ph.D. Princeton, `36; General Electric; Southern Research Institute.

Ziegler, Waldemar, BS Georgia Tech, `32; MS Emory, `33; Ph.D. Hopkins, `38; Georgia Tech.

Whitaker, Joseph Samuel, AB Emory, `33, MS `34; Ph.D. Penn State, `40; Bakelite Co.

Crawford, Chester C., AB Arkansas College, `33; MS Emory, `34; Ph.D. Penn State, `40; Phillips Petroleum Co.

Wender, Simon H., AB Emory, `34, MS `35; Ph.D. University of Minnesota, `38; University of Oklahoma.

Hollister, John H., AB Emory, `35, A.M. `36; Ph.D.'40; Kendall Co.

Lee, Slaughter, AB Emory, `35, MA `36; Ph.D. Princeton, `39; Shering Corp.

Norton, Harry M., AB Emory, `36, MS `39; Ph.D. University of Buffalo, `42; DuPont.

Day, R.A., AB Emory, `36, MS `37; Ph.D. Princeton, `40; Emory University.

Tilford, Charles H., AB Emory, `37; MS Illinois, `38; Ph.D. Indiana University, `43; W.S. Merrell; Warner-Lambert.

Andrews, Edwin R., BS Presbyterian College, `36; MA Emory, `37; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, `41; W.S. Merrell Co.

Smart, Charles W., AB Emory, `37, MS `39; Ph.D. University of Texas, `50; Virginia Military Institute.

Lockhart, Luther B., AB Emory, `38; Ph.D. University of North Carolina, `42; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

McDuffie, Fritz, AB Emory, `38, MS `39; Ph.D. Princeton, `42; Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Clark, Marion T.,AB Emory, `38, MS `39; Ph.D. University of Virginia, `46; Emory University; Agnes Scott.

Beavers, Ellington, BS Emory, `38, MS `39; Ph.D. University of North Carolina, `41; Rohm and Haas Co.

Basinski, Daniel H., AB Emory, `38, MS `39; Ph.D. University of Rochester, `43 (Physiological Chemistry); Henry Ford Hospital.

Estes, Reidus Ray, BS Berry College, `36; MS Emory, `38; Ph.D. University of Texas, `44; A.E. Staley; W.M. Wrigley.

Ray, L.G., AB Emory, `38, MS `39; Ph.D. Columbia University

Robertson, Nat C., AB Emory, `39, Honorary Sc.D. `70; Ph.D. Princeton, `42; Gulf Oil; Air Products.

Clegg, William Josiah, BA Emory, `39, MA `40; Ph.D. University of Texas, `47; Tennessee Eastman.

Brown, Horace D., BS Berry College `39; MS Emory, `40; Ph.D. Iowa State, `47; Merck and Co.; Quaker Oats.

Hall, W Keith, BA Emory, `40, Honorary Sc.D. `74; MS Carnegie Institute of Technology, `48; Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, `56.

Royals, E. Earl, AB Emory, `40, MS `41; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, `44; Emory University; Pensacola Junior College.

Stump, Harry, AB Emory, `40, MS `41; Ph.D. Penn State; Newport Industries

Bill Jones and Marion Clark at Lakemont, late ‘30’s
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Endnotes to Chapter 2
Some Stories of Dr. Guy

His Cars
Sometime in the 20's Dr. Guy said he drove downtown, parked his car on the street in Atlanta, and did some shopping. When he got through he forgot that he had driven to town, boarded the trolley, and went home. (The trolley to Emory came right by his house on N. Decatur Road.) The next day, still not missing his car, he rode the trolley to town, was walking along the street with a friend, when he saw a car that looked just like his. He remarked on this to his friend and then realized that it was his car, unharmed, just where he parked it the day before.

In the early 40's Dr. Guy drove a long green Packard coupe. He said there was not another one like it in the Atlanta area. One Christmas season, as he was driving home along Ponce de Leon Avenue, he decided to stop at a package store to buy some holiday “cheer.” He said he did not want to park directly in front of the store since someone who knew him might recognize his car. He found a grocery store down the street, parked there and walked up to the package store. Just as he came out of the store with the bottle under his arm, whom should he meet walking up the sidewalk but Reverend Nat Long, his pastor at Glenn Memorial. According to Dr. Guy he said “Merry Christmas, Preacher,” and walked the other way.

Lakemont
Sometime in the 30's Dr. Guy bought a summer home on Lake Rabun near the little town of Lakemont. He had stopped teaching summer school and spent most of his summers there. He was most generous in inviting his friends and colleagues to enjoy swimming and boating on the lake. He often invited a group of faculty for a weekend in the fall, and Pi Alpha frequently had a weekend party there.

One spring I was with him when he opened the house and we went from Lakemont to Clayton to the grocery store. As he got out of his car in the parking lot, a local mountaineer called across the crowded lot saying, “Doc, I've got your moonshine. Where do you want me to put it?” Dr Guy told me that it was advisable to keep on the good side of the local people or you might find your house burned down during the winter. So he was playing it safe by buying moonshine from this fellow.

There was another mountaineer family who, according to Dr. Guy, had a new addition to the family each year. The last time I heard there were seven or eight children. Dr. Guy always took the new baby a present when he went up each summer. I learned from someone (not Dr. Guy) that nearly all of the children had strabismus (crossed-eyes) and the parents could not afford to have surgery to correct the condition. For several years Dr. Guy brought the children, one at a time, to the Emory Hospital and had their eyes straightened at no expense to the family.

The Interview
Dr. Guy had a friend who owned a small chemical company in Atlanta. He called Dr. Guy one day near the end of the school year and asked him if he had a young woman chemistry major whom he could recommend for a job opening in his company. Dr. Guy said he did and sent a young lady out for an interview. According to Dr. Guy the friend called him back a day or so later and said, “Sam, this young lady is too pretty. She won't be here six months before she'll get married and leave me. Don't you have some one not quite so attractive?” Dr. Guy said he did and sent him another candidate. After the interview the friend called again and said, “Sam, you didn't have to go that far!”

The Birthday
Alumni who knew Dr. Fred Messick, Professor of Mathematics, will remember him as a jolly person with a good sense of humor. Dr. Guy told this story about an encounter with Dr. Messick. It seems that Dr. Guy's second son, Sam Jr., was born on April 1, Dr. Guy's birthday. A few days later Dr. Guy met Dr. Messick on the campus and told him he had a new son, born on his birthday. He said Dr. Messick gave him a rather disgusted look, and said “You damn scientists,” and walked away.

The Parking Space
One of Dr. Guy's many stories concerned a student in his 8 o'clock chemistry class who was repeatedly late. Dr. Guy finally questioned him about it. The student explained that he was tardy because he always had trouble finding a place to park. “Where do you drive from?” asked Dr. Guy, thinking that he came at least from the other side of town. “Oh, from Alabama Hall,” replied the young man. Alabama Hall, of course, was only a stone's throw from the old Chemistry Building.
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Classroom Chatter

In the middle 30's the Emory Wheel had a column called “Classroom Chatter” which reported comments made by various professors in their classrooms. The following are some of the comments made by Drs. Guy, Quayle and Jones during that time. As one might expect, Dr. Guy was quoted most frequently.
Dr. Quayle

“Not meaning to diverge from chemistry, but take the new streamlined Chrysler for instance.”
“You would not think that the azo dyes were fast until you saw them run.”
“Women seem to have gotten an upper hand on men.”
“I've never been to San Francisco, but I'm quite sure it's there.”
“We won't go into the structural form of coal. It is a rather dark subject anyhow.”
“On account of how the Winter quarter draws nearer and nearer, we reach the end of the Fall quarter.”
“A hole is one of those things that get bigger and bigger when you burn it.”
“Silk stockings and dynamite are both spectacularly dangerous.”
Dr. Jones

“When I was a kid, I put phosphorus on my teeth to make them shine; this is also used for rat poison.”
“The only occurrence of tellurium is in freshman chemistry books.”
Dr. Guy

“Everything I ate for breakfast this morning was a carbon compound.”
“Men swim around in air like other fish swim in water.”
“There are some friends that the more you know them the more you like your dog.”
“There is no such thing as an accident. There is a reason for everything.”
“A foolproof solution is one that a fool can fool with and not be fooled.”
“This type of alcohol affects the gland in your head that controls your equilibrium.”
“Doctors have a habit of burying their mistakes.”
“A traffic light is a little green light that turns red as you approach it.”
“There is not much danger in hell any more. The WPA workers let the fire go out.”
“They can fool some people some of the time, but they can't fool me.”
“Ladies used to defend their honor with hat pins. I don't know what they use now.”
“Vinegar is made up of the stewed remains of dead bacteria.”
“I hear that they may move Emory to Wesleyan or Wesleyan to Emory. Either way suits me; I always agree with the women.”
“If we had to think to breathe we would probably have a smaller student body.”
“When I was a boy, sassafras tea, cream of tartar and sulfur, and calomel to blast the liver, were common remedies.”
“Spinning theories was a popular pastime in the days of the Greek philosophers.”
“When one notices that an irregularity is becoming regular, one wonders what is irregular about it.”
“All molecules are created free and equal.”
“In twelve bottles of six percent beer, there is enough alcohol to make any decent man drunk.”
“Santa Claus won't bring grades.”
“Occasionally you will find a man brave enough not to marry.”
“Electricity, like a student, follows the course of least resistance.”
“If you want cow glue on your stickum paper, go to it.”
“What a man says on a fishing trip is entirely different from what he says in chemistry class.”
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The Complete Angler

In the middle 30's there was a rack of chemistry charts (periodic table, atomic weights, ionization energies, etc.) fastened to the top of the blackboard in the Chemistry 401 lecture room. Each chart contained a hook by which it could be pulled down and displayed to the class.

In the February 22, 1934 issue of the Emory Wheel there is a story about Dr. Guy that goes as follows: Dr. Guy “performs expert angling exercises in his classroom. His rod consists of a long stick, with a paper clip which has been bent into a hook fastened to the end. Lacking a pike or rainbow trout to test his prowess, he finds a very excellent substitute in the form of chemistry charts, which are fastened in a rack at the top of the blackboard.

“Upon this object he daily practices, much to the delight of his class. Occasionally he lands the game fighter alone but more often he is forced to give it up as a bad job and calls on one of the class to `net' the prey by standing up on the top of the desk and pulling it down. So great is Dr. Guy's prowess that some of the students have been inclined to dub him `The Complete Angler.
The Halogen Family

The December 7, 1934 issue of the Emory Wheel printed a student's answer to a questions on the halogens in Dr. Jones' inorganic course. “Fluorine is the little child of the Halogen family. I mean by this that he is the most active. Like a little boy he is never still, and if there's an apple in the pantry, he'll get it. Chlorine is the next in order. Being a little older, he is not quite as mischievous or energetic. Bromine is content with letting the younger members of the family get the coal and bring in the wood, and he leads more of a life of ease. Iodine is the daddy, and has retired from active work. He doesn't do anything unless all the other members of the family are away.”
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Dr. Jones' Fly

Dr. Bill Jones was a very good lecturer. He was precise, articulate, and spoke slowly and clearly. I heard this story that occurred in the early 30's. This was before the days of zippers and a man's trousers were fastened with buttons. The story goes that Dr. Jones was lecturing when he suddenly realized that his fly was unbuttoned. He immediately turned to the blackboard, wrote down an equation, and when he turned back to the class, one button was fastened. He continued this procedure, turning to the board, then back to the class, each time having fastened another button. He finished the job without missing a word in his lecture.
The Benzene Rings

One of the favorite pranks of student assistants in the introductory organic lab involved benzene rings. Most newcomers to the lab had never heard of a benzene ring; aromatic chemistry came in the second quarter.

When students were first checking in their lab equipment an assistant would tell some unsuspecting victim that later in the quarter he would need some benzene rings in an experiment, and that he had heard they were in short supply. He would suggest that the student go to the stockroom and check out a few before they were all gone.

Of course, the student manning the stockroom window was in on the prank and would tell the victim that there were none in the stockroom but that he thought Dr. Jones had some he could spare. The student would go to the fourth floor where Dr. Jones would send him to someone on the second floor. This would continue until someone would finally tell the student what a benzene ring was.

One year a freshman was working in the stockroom and did not know of the prank. When a student came asking for benzene rings he searched all over the stockroom for them. The freshman finally asked a faculty member where they were and learned about the prank.
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Other Items From the Wheel

The Poll
The November 6, 1930 issue of the Wheel reported that Dr. Guy had been voted the favorite professor by the 1930 graduates of the College and Graduate School. The poll also revealed that chemistry was the favorite subject of the graduates.

Boners
The following boners from Dr. Guy's freshman chemistry classes were listed in the November 5, 1931 issue of the Wheel:

Sinclair Lewis wrote the Lewis-Langmuir Atomic Theory.
A molecule is the smallest atom.
An atom has “knuckles.”
Oxygen has an affection for carbon.
Madam Curie was the first woman chemical.

Politics
November 3, 1932: A straw vote of Emory students gave Franklin D. Roosevelt 65.2%, Norman Thomas 19.3%, and Herbert Hoover 14.9%.

The Accident
October 5, 1933: Drs. Quayle, Guy and Tom Gresham were slightly injured in an auto accident on the Chattanooga-Knoxville road while returning from the World's Fair. Dr. Guy suffered three severe cuts on the leg while Dr. Quayle had a cut on the forehead. Tom Gresham, the driver, was unhurt except for body bruises and a severe shake-up. Their car was crowded off the road on a curve by a large transport truck.

The Constant Temperature Bath
February 15, 1934: “A large tank, looking something like a copper-plated bath tub, and surrounded by an amazing complexity of switches, tubes, transformers, knobs and dials, has puzzled many visitor to the physical chemistry laboratory on the fourth floor of the Chemistry building. This weird contrivance, spread in wild confusion along one wall of the room, looks as though it might have sprung full-blown from the brain of Rube Goldberg in one of his moments of inspiration. This forbidding apparatus is called a "constant temperature bath." The article goes on to point out that the apparatus was built by Dr. Jones and graduate student, Bill Murray.

Science Here and There
November 15, 1934: A column called “Science Here and There” started in the Wheel, devoted to scientific notices and topics. It was being arranged for the Wheel by the Pi Alpha Chemical Fraternity in an attempt to provide a medium of expression for all interested in science in both the College and Professional Schools. One item reported was that Dr. Forrest D. Pilgrim, of the Tennessee Eastman Co., addressed the chemistry seminar on November 7 on the manufacture of cellulose acetate for photographic films and rayon. Dr. Pilgrim graduated from Emory in 1927 and received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Ulric B. Bray
January 17,1935: Science Service, in a review of the year's greatest achievements mentioned among 16 in chemistry the work of Dr. Ulric B. Bray. The first commercial application of Dr. Bray's method of petroleum purification was put into practice by the Socony-Vacuum Corporation in their new Moboloids.

Nat Robertson
May 9, 1935. Nat C. Robertson, of Covington High School, scored second highest score in the Emory University scholarship contest among 511 contestants and won a $300 scholarship.

Reidus Estes
February 3, 1938. Reidus Estes, `38G, was awarded a fellowship to the American Institute of Paper Chemistry, located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Estes is now working with Dr. Quayle on parachor measurements.

Industrial Trip
May 6, 1938. Dr. Quayle's class in Industrial Chemistry left on a two-day trip to visit chemical plants in Kingsport, Tennessee and Canton, North Carolina. At Kingsport they visited the Tennessee Eastman Co. which produces film, acetic acid, cellulose acetate, and other products for the photographic industry. At Canton they visited the Champion Paper and Fiber Co. Fifteen students accompanied Dr. Quayle.

Chessie Rehberg
May 12, 1938. Chessie Rehberg was awarded a fellowship to the University of Texas to work on his Ph.D. degree in chemistry. Rehberg graduated from Abraham-Baldwin College in Tifton and taught at Cairo High School from 1933-36. He is currently teaching mathematics at Valdosta Junior College, having replaced J.F. Jarrell who died January 3.

The Stray Kitten
April 6, 1939. The Wheel reported that Marion Clark, Sam Hopkins, Herman Abernathy and Kay Owen had adopted a bedraggled stray kitten and named it “Technical.” They were quite attached to the kitten and urged it to stay on the fifth floor. “They knew the sad fate of a wayfaring cat that walks into a certain biology laboratory below.” The article said that the chemists were working on the problem of divorcing “Technical” from her fleas, and that when this was accomplished they planned to dub her “Chemically Pure,” or just “C.P.”

Spring Holidays
A headline in the March 28, 1940 Wheel said “We Need Spring Holiday,” Students And Professors Cry. A campus poll revealed that both students and faculty were dissatisfied and reforms were advocated. On April 4, 1940 a headline announced “No School on New Year's, But No Spring Holidays.”
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Dr. Guy

An article entitled “Dr. Guy Wakes Frosh for Fun” appeared in the Wheel, March 11, 1937. It was written by Ed Brannen.

“If you should take as many bricks as there are atoms in a teaspoonful of water, you would have enough to fill 10,000 trains, with 100 cars to the train,” and you would be carrying out literally one of Dr. Guy's favorite classroom illustrations in freshman chemistry.

If you had taken over a department of chemistry 19 years ago, when it was composed of one and one-half courses in chemistry and one instructor, and had made of it the Emory chemistry department of today, you would have done what Dr. Guy and his collaborators actually accomplished for Emory.

Born the son of John Samuel and Margaret Hardee Guy in Chester, S.C., April 1, 1884, the scientist-to-be got his ground floor education in the county school there. In that school of two teachers and some 30 pupils, he completed courses in Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace.

“I was blessed. I'm sure, with sympathetic teachers,” Dr. Guy said. Whether the Latin had anything to do with it is not known, but at the age of 14, the educator decided he preferred an agricultural career to a scholastic one. His Civil war veteran father knew something about handling boys. He turned over to him a ten-acre plot and told young J. Sam to do with it as he pleased.

In addition to the land, his father offered him his choice of the mules in the lot. Forgetting that mules are used by farmers mostly for plowing and not to ride while overseeing, Sam selected a sleek young three-year-old because he looked good under a saddle.

“When I laid that farm by late in July,” Dr. Guy reminisced, “I was so sick of the whole business that I was perfectly willing to go back to school.”

Even then he had not decided to major in science. As he explained, scientific industries had scarcely begun to stir at that time.

Leaving behind him all agricultural aspirations, he attended Erskine College one year. While there he took another course in Latin.

From Erskine he went to Davidson College, getting a BS degree in mathematics in 1905. Not before he was offered a place as assistant in the Davidson chemistry department, while working on his MA degree in 1906, did he become interested in science.

“I had no science at all until I was a sophomore at Davidson,” Dr. Guy said. I concentrated in math with one other man. He was S.C. Williams, president of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, who succeeded Donald Richberg as head of the NRA.

Dr. Guy's pursuit of chemistry hung fire for three more years while he taught mathematics, “from arithmetic to calculus,” at Fredericksburg College, Virginia.

A glance at his schedule at Fredericksburg suffices to show why he had so little time to spend money that he was able to save $500 a year of his $50-a-month salary. He taught both preparatory school and college mathematics for the institution. It was probably during those years that he learned to convert water into molecules, into atoms, into grains of sand, into trainloads, into boxcars, into freshmen's heads.

At Fredericksburg, the then Professor Guy taught, in seven successive periods, three courses in preparatory school mathematics and courses in freshman, sophomore, junior and senior college mathematics. This was his schedule for Mondays. On Tuesdays he had two vacant periods, and on the other three days of the week, one each day. At one time he taught a history course on the side.

Those were just some of the things he had to do. On the college football team he played quarterback and on the baseball team, center field, “or something like that.”

“That was before the days of professional athletes,” he explained, “and in the small schools the faculty had to help complete the teams.”

Dr. Guy entered John Hopkins University in 1908 and got his Ph.D. degree in 1911. When he started his work at that university, he had the $500 he had saved while teaching; when he got his degree he had $1500.

After he left Davidson nobody contributed a dollar to his education. At Johns Hopkins, he had a scholarship his first year and fellowships the remaining two.

Until 1912, Dr. Guy worked as research assistant at Johns Hopkins. In 1912 he went to Germany to study a year at the University of Leipzig under the world's leading chemists. When he returned in 1913, he became head of the chemistry department at Agnes Scott, remaining there until 1916.

For the next two years he was head of the chemistry department at the University of Arkansas. And from there he came to Emory College one year before it was transformed from Oxford to the Atlanta campus to become Emory University.

At first Dr. Guy taught some 100 students in the budding chemistry department without assistance. Not a single chemical balance was included in the laboratory equipment at that time. When Emory migrated to Atlanta, the entire contents of the laboratory were brought in one automobile.

One of the first assistants Dr. Guy brought into the chemistry department was D.P. Weld, who, after being here three years, entered Johns Hopkins and upon graduating there became the head of oil research of the Socony Oil Company.

Of the chemistry graduates who entered Emory the year Dr. Guy took over the department, two of those who got Ph.D. degrees after leaving here were L.W. Blitch and U.B. Bray. Dr, Blitch is now head of the chemistry department of the Junior College at Valdosta, and Dr. Bray is head of the research department of the Union Oil Company, and is patentee of the “extraction method” now used in making all lubricating oils. By the end of this year some twenty or more graduates, most of whom have gotten Ph.D. degrees in chemistry, will have become employees of DuPont Powder Company and other corporations of Wilmington, Delaware.

All Dr. Guy's interests, however, are not centered in chemistry. While he reviewed high points of his life Sunday night, at his home on North Decatur Road, Sam Jr. practiced his trumpet. Sam is 11 years old, and in the fifth grade in the Druid Hills High School. Candler, 14, is a sophomore at Druid Hills, and Florrie Margaret, 17, is at Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Mississippi. Mrs. Guy is the former Allie Candler, daughter of Judge John S. Candler of Atlanta.

Dr. Guy's favorite hobby, next to keeping freshmen awake in class, is dahlia gardening. He is also fond of quail hunting, and always keeps several good bird dogs.

He has had three books published, two on “Absorption Spectra” in 1912 and 1913, and one, “A Course in Quantitative Analysis,” since he has been at Emory.

Chairman of the board of trustees of Druid Hills High School, Dr. Guy is also a member of the executive committee of the DeKalb chapter of the Red Cross, a member of the board of stewards of Glenn Memorial Church, and a leader in the DeKalb County Community Chest movement.

He thinks that journalists are mighty near as “hardheaded as bankers,” and that too much English grammar gets in the way of clear thinking and writing.

Dr. J. Sam Guy's methods of teaching are known to be attractive and effective; his personal interest in student problems is known to have been a boon to countless numbers; his contributions to Emory speak for themselves; but very few know what the “J” in “J. Sam” stands for. And of course nobody would guess that it stands for “James.”

Bleaching Pecans
January 27, 1938. Dr. Guy has patented a process to bleach pecans. They are bleached, graded, dyed, and sorted. A plant in Albany, Georgia uses this process to treat pecans at the rate of two to four million pounds annually.
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