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Chairman Robert E. Lyons. Herman Briscoe would continue on to become Indiana University's first Dean of Faculties in 1939 and Vice President of Indiana University in 1940. Briscoe gave up his appointment as Chairman of the Department of Chemistry in order to focus on his administrative roles as Vice President and Dean of Faculties, in which he served until his retirement in 1959.
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and began teaching at his home high school in Shoals for three academic years before becoming principal of Shoals high school and later superintendent of Shoals school district. He returned to
Indiana University, earning his A.B. degree in chemistry with high distinction in 1917. Briscoe would then
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After receiving his Ph.D., Herman T. Briscoe was appointed assistant professor of chemistry at
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Briscoe married Orah
Elberta Briscoe (née Cole) in 1928. Orah, born in Liberty Center, IN in 1907, received her B.A. in Latin in 1929 and her M.A. in English in 1934. In 1929, their first child Catherine was born. They would have a total of 4 children.
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organic and inorganic molecules, supervised the graduate studies of 25 students, and published several general chemistry textbooks.
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