Biography:

Economist; university professor. Born– November 17, 1909, in Houston, Tex. Parents– Willard Scott and Mae Elizabeth (Thacker) Hawley. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1932; University of North Carolina, M.S., 1933, Ph.D., 1946. Served in U.S. Navy, WWII. Married– Marion House Scholl on January 28, 1933. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1932-1936, 1938, and 1946-1974, serving as professor and chairman, Department of Industrial Relations; Alabama Unemployment Compensation Commission, 1937; University of North Carolina, 1943-1945; labor arbitrator, 1947. Served as technical advisor to the Alabama Industrial Development Board; research coordinator for Alabama Business Research Council. Member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Industrial Relations Research Association, Southern Economics Association. Died July 3, 1993.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1976.

Publication(s):

Alabama’s Balance of Rail and Water Traffic, 1932-1937. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Business Research, School of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, 1939.

Negro Employment in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area. Washington, DC:  National Planning Association, 1954.

Net Commodity Movements into and out of Alabama: Rail and Water Traffic, 1928 and 1932-1937.  Birmingham, 1939.

A Survey of Accounting Procedures and Records in the County Governments of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 19–.

Wage and Salary Administration. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Manpower and Industrial Relations Institute, Graduate School of Business, University of Alabama, 1972.