Oral History Interview with Paul Smith, August 1, 1968 Page: 1

                                
Oral History Collection
Dr. Paul Smith

Interviewer: Dr. E. Dale Odom
Place of Interview: Denton, Texas

Dr. Odom:
Dr. Smith:

Date: August 1, 1968

This is E. Dale Odom on August 1, 1968, interviewing
Dr. Paul Smith on the search for a new president
for North Texas State University in the year 1968.
For the record . . . for this record, Dr. Smith,
would you briefly state the events when President
Matthews announced that he was retiring and
announced that we were going to have a mixed
elective and appointive committee to assist the
Regents in the process of selecting a new president.
Begin wherever you would like to there.
Well, I guess we all read the announcement in the
newspaper after which we were told that the Regents
had requested that a committee be appointed and
elected to represent the faculty and the admin-
istration in doing precisely two things: to determine
the functions that the president of the University
should perform as well as to stipulate his
qualifications. After some time passed, the schools