DR. PRyoR smvEs AREA EXTENsivdy JOSEPH E. PRYOR, Ph.D., VicePresident of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, continued his outstanding service to the college and its students. On campus he served as chairman of four committees; Academic Affairs, Athletic, Rank and Promotion and the Distinguished Teacher Award Committees. He was the Co;sponsor of the TNT social club and the Arkansas Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi. He served for his 33rd year as faculty advisor to the Petit Jean. in New Orleans in February and chaired a panel on improving the activity of chapter sponsors for chapters of honor societies. He also served on the Executive Committee of ACHS. Pryor chaired the annual meeting of the Arkansas Deans Association in Conway, October 4-5, and served as vice-president of the Arkansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. He attended the yearly meeting of the Association of College Honor Societies Pryor served as Secretary-Treasurer of the National Council of Alpha Chi and attended the 1977 biennial meeting of Alpha Chi in San Antonio, March 17-19. He installed chapters of Alpha Chi at several colleges in Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia. He attended the annual North Central Association meeting in Chicago in April. He served as an elder of the College church of Christ and as chairman of the elders. 2 1. PRESENTING awards at the Arkansas Collegiate Press Association in Conway on Sept. 19, Dr. Pryor announces the winner of the General Excellence division. 2. JOSEPH E. PRYOR, Dean of the College. 3. LISTENING intently to Susan Alston, Dr. Pryor counsels on academic and personal matters. .. Christian education has played a tremendous role in my life. The four years that I spent as an undergraduate at Harding College were outstanding years. I participated extensively in co-curricular activities, obtained a meaningful educational base, formed enduring friendships that have blessed my life, and obtained a concept of and dedication to undenominational Christianity that has undergirded my life. Resources of Harding were meager then, the curriculum was limited, and faculty members were few; however, when I enrolled at one of the best graduate universities of the south, I found that I had excellent preparation for graduate study, better than most of my peers. I soon learned that I had been associated at Harding with some of the greatest people I have ever been associated with - outstanding teachers who were great men of God. Their example and their teaching was a great source of strength in many trying circumstances. When I was asked to return to Harding to teach chemistry and physics after completing the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry, I felt honored because of the stature of my teachers at Harding and because of the great challenge that Christian education provided. Even though I had had other professional goals since my high school days, in the providence of God I did return and the 33 years that I have now been a teacher at Harding have been very rich years. There has been tremendous improvement in resources, great expansion of the curriculum, and equally great increase in faculty, however, the great basic objectives of Harding remain unchanged. From my obseNation of current students and recent alumni, the same great impact that was made on me is still being made, perhaps to a greater degree than in my era as a student because of the large number of faculty members whose lives are truly dedicated to helping students achieve the same great goals in life that have meant so much to me through the years and that also have meaning for eternity. -Joseph E. Pryor VICE-PRESIDENT, ACADEMICS - 23
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