Autumn 2023 Buffalo Business 7
THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
CELEBRATES 100 YEARS
BY JACQUELINE GHOSEN
Building leaders,
changing lives
T
he year was 1923. Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president of
the United States following the sudden death of President Warren
Harding. In medicine, the whooping cough vaccine was developed
and, in Hollywood, German shepherd Rin Tin Tin became film's
first canine star. Gasoline was 22 cents a gallon and, thanks to mass
production, the price of Ford's Model T dropped to about $260.
In Buffalo, the UB Council's committee of general administration estab-
lished the evening session of Business Administration and Journalism. The first
classes were held downtown in Townsend Hall on Niagara Square.
The first Bachelor of Science in business administration was awarded
in 1927 and the council authorized a day division of the School of Business
Administration as a two-year course of study. Instruction was held in Hayes
Hall on the Main Street Campus.
Edmund D. McGarry, professor of marketing and economics, recalled
those days in a personal reminiscence he wrote in the 1950s.
"When I arrived in 1927, there were six of us on the faculty of the business
school. Dean Marsh, Dr. Epstein, Dr. Lockhart, Professor Burton, a man named
Born and myself. We had an executive committee, a library committee, a gradu-
ate committee and committees ad hoc ad infinitum. But as there were only six of
us, we were all on all the committees. When we changed from one committee to
another, we just changed seats. We had unbound enthusiasm, for we knew we
were building a new school."
