The Wall of Honor |
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The Wall of Honor was
established by the SMAB to identify and permanently recognize
those McMurry Alumni and Faculty who have provided distinguished
service to science and to McMurry. Below are the previous wall
of honor recipients. See the contact informatio below to submit
your nomination for a Wall of Honor recipient! |
Dr.
Virgil E. Bottom
BA, Friends University;
MS, University of Michigan;
PhD, Purdue University |
Dr. Bottom
was a pioneer in the field of quartz crystal research during
the critical period of World War II when development of reliable
communication technologies was necessary. He was a nationally-respected
research scientist and educator, who was recruited by industry
and served as a scientific advisor to President Eisenhower. Dr.
Bottom joined the McMurry faculty in 1958 and built an extremely
successful physics program. His involvement in students'
lives included weekend workshops
teaching quartz technology to young men who would eventually
become very influential in Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Quartzdyne,
and other industries. He retired in 1973, but continued to
be an influential contributor to a field that made cell phones
and other now commonplace technologies possible. Dr. Bottom
resides in Abilene. |
Dr.
W. Norton Jones
BA, Hendrix College;
MA, PhD, Johns Hopkins University |
Dr. Jones
joined the faculty at McMurry College in 1948. Under the
leadership of Dr. Jones the chemistry department flourished,
receiving grants from the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the
Public Health Service, and the Research Corporation. The
chemistry department received accreditation for its program
from the American Chemical Society in 1968. During his long
years as science and mathematics division chairman, Dr. Jones
built a formidable record for getting students into medical
and graduate school. Books he authored include "General
Chemistry," "Inorganic Chemistry", and "Textbook
of General Chemistry", as well as four laboratory manuals.
He also had published many articles in scholarly and technical
periodicals. The Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation honored Dr.
Jones in 1969 by naming him one of the ten Piper Professors
in Texas. In 1975 his alma mater, Hendrix College, presented
him with a Distinguished Alumnus award. Dr. Jones was
a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Gamma
Alpha, and the Hendrix chapter of Alpha Chi national honor
society, as well as an honorary member of Gamma Sigma Epsilon.
Dr. Jones died in May, 1976, at the age of 67. |
Dr.
Richard Dana Moore
BS, Olivet College;
MS, PhD, Michigan State University |
Dr. Moore was born in Battle Creek, Michigan,
in 1926. He double-majored in chemistry and biology at Olivet
College, receiving his B.S. in 1948. He received his M.S. (1952)
and his Ph.D. (1956) from Michigan State University in anatomy.
Richard taught at Hardin-Simmons University 1955-1966 and Albright
College 1966-1967. He came to McMurry in 1967 and retired in
December of 1988. He was a very demanding professor who exacted
the best effort from every student. Dr. Moore's interest in
medicine led him to become very active in health professions
advising, with many of his former students going on to become
highly respected physicians. He served several years as chair
of McMurry's Biology Department, and was an influential member
of the citizen's advisory board for the Abilene State School.
Dr. Moore resides in Iowa in a house that overlooks the Mississippi
River. |
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