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Audio Clip – Donham on doctorates
Transcript
Remember half the faculty came in from the outside business world as late as the early thirties. In fact, that's why I, when I got through college and said-- After I got through the Business School I said, "I want to go out and learn something about business and come back here or to some other school and teach business."
Dad said, "You can't do it that way unless you get your doctorate." I said, "Oh, come on. Half your faculty, some of them didn't even have AB's and MS's, I mean BS's."
He said, "No, times have changed. And you won't be able to come into this School from the outside without a doctorate." So I was number 12 or 13, I forget which, and I took it quicker than anybody else ever did. As I said, I was sick of going to school.
But he was right. By the next generation, when there were 100 or more DCS's then, around the country, available, then the faculty could turn academic. Which was also, I think, probably a result of some of the pressure across the river. I still think the School is better with mixture.
Dean Wallace P. Donham, whose two sons earned the DCS degree in its early years of existence