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[ Dr. Dero G. Downing ] - [ Dr. Frank T. Etscorn III ] - [ Larnelle Harris ]
In 1946, he returned to Western as a mathematics teacher and basketball coach at College High School, the high school division of Western's Training School, and completed his master of arts degree at Western in 1947. He gave up coaching in 1950 to devote full time to teaching mathematics and in 1956 was named director of the training school. Dr. Downing received his Ed. S. Degree in 1958 from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. He was named registrar for the University in 1959 and director of admissions in 1962 and served as dean of business affairs before being named vice president for administrative affairs in 1965. In 1969, Dr. Downing became president, a position he held until he resigned in 1979, being named president emeritus. From there he became president of the College Heights Foundation. Dr. Downing has received several honors, including honorary doctor of humanities degrees from Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro in 1970 and Morehead State University in 1974 and honorary doctor of laws degrees from Murray State University in 1972 and Eastern Kentucky University in 1979. Dr. Frank T. Etscorn III The nicotine patch, the concept for which he discovered after he accidentally spilled liquid nicotine on his arm, has earned Dr. Etscorn numerous honors including the first "New Mexico Inventor of the Year Award." The patch was hailed as one of the best products of 1992 by Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine. Dr. Etscorn's research has been featured on Good Morning America, CBS News, The Today Show, ABC News, Prime Time and The Discovery Channel and in articles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In addition to his musical career, Harris is very active in his home church in Louisville, where he is a deacon. He was part of the history making Moscow Project, sponsored by the International Bible Society and Youth for Christ International, during which more than 4 million Russian language New Testaments were distributed in the former Soviet Union. To culminate the project, Harris performed the first gospel concert ever held inside the Kremlin, only one week after the 1991 attempted coup.
Hull served in the Tennessee legislature, as a circuit judge and in the U.S. Congress. As a congressman, he helped pass legislation for a comprehensive income tax to replace the high tariffs that were isolating the U.S. After helping Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign, Hull was appointed secretary of state. It was in this post that Hull began trying to prepare the U.S. for involvement in World War II. He also began drawing up the United Nations Declaration and the "Charter of the United Nations," leading Roosevelt to call Hull the "Father of the United Nations." At the age of 73, poor health forced Hull to resign as secretary of state in 1944. In 1945 he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize, but was too ill to accept in person. He died in 1955.
Although well known for his research in heart-related medications, Dr. Woosley is currently working on aplan to create a national chain of centers to conduct pharmaceutical research independent of the drug companies. The plan, which Dr. Woosley hopes will fill a gap national health are reform, is commonly called CERT for centers for education and research in therapeutics. The centers would be based in major universities that have existing clinical pharmacology departments, would be funded by the federal government and would be equipped to take on a variety of research assigned by the Food and Drug Administration. The CERT's would also serve as educational and information centers so physicians, pharmacists and patients could get unbiased facts about drugs, including comparison of price, efficacy and safety. The list of Dr. Woosley's research activities, writings and professional memberships spans several pages and includes administering a $1-5 million five-year FDA sponsored clinical research unit grant. He eceived the Rawl's-Palmer Award of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and was elected representative of the Association for Medical School Pharmacology to the American Association of Medical Colleges. Dr. Woosley is married to Julianne Buchert Woosley, a native of Cincinnati, and they have a son, Raymond David, age 2. His two daughters, Kristin and Tyler, live in Washington, D.C. and Orlando, FL. His personal goal is to improve research and education in therapeutics for physicians, pharmacists, nurses and the public. He has published papers and spoken to legislators about the cost, in dollars and human suffering, caused by the inappropriate and unsound prescription of drugs that result from inadequate information about drugs being available.
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grew to be one the great influences in United States policy during two world wars and the great depression. In 1886, at the age of 15, Hull attended Southern Normal School in Bowling Green, predecessor of Western Kentucky University. He did his own housekeeping and his expenses for 10 months were $175, which included everything. In 1890, Hull became the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Clay County, Tenn., even though he was not old enough to vote. In January 1891 he entered law school. In June, after passing the final examination, he was graduated and admitted to the bar, all before his 21st birthday.