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Deans and Faculty
An
internationally-known textile technologist and educator, Thomas Nelson,
the Textile School's first Dean, oversaw the development of the program from
a "two -machine basement affair" to one of the largest
textile schools in the nation. He was born in Preston, England in 1872 and
was awarded a certificate for weaving and designing in 1891 by the City and
Guilds of London. He came to the United States and worked in fancy mills in
Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia. After a stint teaching at the Lowell
Textile Institute in Lowell, Massachusetts, Nelson joined the faculty in
1901. When Henry M. Wilson, then-head of the textiles department resigned in
1906, Nelson became professor of textiles and head of the textile
department.
In 1908, Dr. Nelson helped organize the
Southern Textile Association. In 1925 he was named dean of the newly-created
textile school. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from North
Carolina State College in 1926. He retired as Dean in 1943, the same year he
was elected first president of the newly-formed National Council of Textile
Deans in 1943. Dean Nelson continued to serve on the textile faculty as professor until 1949. He died in Raleigh in 1953. In 1954, the School of Textiles Building was formally named Nelson Hall in his honor.
Dean Malcolm Eugene Campbell, 1943-1967
Dr.
Shinn with Dean Campbell
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Left
to Right: Dame Scott Hamby, Ken Campbell, Jack Bogdan, E. B. Grover,
H. A. Rutherford, and Dean Malcolm Campbell.
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Dean Nelson's successor as Dean, Malcolm Eugene "Sandy" Campbell, improved the school's educational program and expanded textile research. Born in 1902 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he graduated from New Bedford Institute of Technology in 1922 and received his B.S. from Clemson College in 1930. In 1958 Clemson awarded him an honorary doctorate. He received three other honorary doctorates from New Bedford Institute of Technology (1956), Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (1957), and National University of Engineering in Peru (1959). From 1923 to 1926 he taught textile engineering at Clemson, leaving to engage in cotton quality research for the US Department of Agriculture for 17 years. In 1943 he became research manager for the Textile Research Institute in New York, but was there for only five months when he accepted the Dean position at State College in 1943. In 1954, Dr. Campbell directed the development of an artificial, knitted artery, invented by Professor William E. Shinn, that later helped save his life after he suffered an aneurysm in 1970. Dr. Campbell retired from NC State in 1967 and subsequently served on the Board of Directors of the Roberts International Corporation, based in Italy. He traveled extensively--often under the auspices of the US government--throughout the world studying and advising on cotton and textile production. He died in 1978.
Dean David Webb Chaney, 1967-1981
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Left
to Right: Dean David Chaney; Dr. Charles Goldthwait, who continued to conduct
research at the age of 82; and Former Governor Hodges.
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David
Webb Chaney became Dean of the School of Textiles upon Dean Campbell's retirement
in 1967. Born in Cleveland, OH in 1915, he received an A.B. in chemistry from
Swarthmore College in 1938 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1942. From 1943 to 1951 he worked for American
Viscose Corporation, and in 1951 he transferred to Chemstrand Research Center.
By 1960 he had been elected vice president at Chemstrand. He was a member of
the Governor's Advisory Council on the State Technical Services Act, the Governor's
Council for Economic Development, and the NC Engineering Foundation.
Dean Dame Scott Hamby, 1981-1987
As
Dean of NC State's School of Textiles, Dame Scott Hamby increased private financial
support, reorganized the curriculum, and forged closer links between the textile
industry and the university. A native of Macon, GA, he began his textile career
sweeping floors part time for a Goodyear cotton fiber plant in Georgia. He received
a B.S. in textile engineering in 1936 from Auburn University and began work
in 1937 at B.F. Goodrich Company in
Akron
as a textile engineer. In 1943 he moved to the Celanese Corporation of America
and returned to B.F. Goodrich in 1947. He received an honorary doctorate from
the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (now Philadelphia University)
in 1984. He joined the NC State faculty as a professor in 1948 and in 1956 was
named Burlington Industries professor and supervisor of the Quality Control
Division in the School of Textiles. In 1965, he was appointed head of the department
of textile technology and in 1972, director of textiles extension and continuing
education. After retiring from NC State in 1987, he continued his involvement
with textiles, working with Hamby Textile Research Laboratories and as part-time
director of the NC Textile Foundation, a private foundation that supports NC
State's school.
Dean Robert A. Barnhardt, 1987 to 1999
The
fifth dean, Dr. Robert A. Barnhardt succeeded Dean Hamby in 1987. Before coming
to NC State Dean Barnhardt was the executive vice president of the Institute
of Textile Technology (ITT), where he was hired in 1966 as dean and director
of education. Before joining ITT, Barnhardt was chairman of the Department of
Textiles at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (PCTS). Dr. Barnhardt
is active in professional organization including serving as an invited member
from the United States of the Groupe Européen d'éxchange d'expériences sur la
Direction de la Recherch Textile (GEDRT) and a fellow and medal awardee of the
Textile Institute in the United Kingdom. He
received a B.S. from PCTS in 1961. At the University of Virginia he earned a
master of education degree in 1970, and a doctorate in higher education administration
in 1974.
Dean A. Blanton Godfrey, 2000 to present
Dr.
Godfrey was the chairman and CEO of Juran Institute, Inc. before his appointment
as Dean of the College of Textiles at NC State University. He was an adjunct
professor at NC State from 1995 to 2000. Prior to is work at Juran Godfrey worked
in quality assessment and management at AT&T Bell Laboratories and taught
and lectured at universities such as Harvard and Columbia. Godfrey received
his bachelor's degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
in 1963, a master's degree in statistics in 1970, and a Ph.D. in statistics
in 1974 from Florida State University. Godfrey is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association, the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the World Academy of
Productivity Sciences.