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S. Paul Garner: Accountancy's Ambassador To The World, Gary John Previts, William D. Samson
S. Paul Garner: Accountancy's Ambassador To The World, Gary John Previts, William D. Samson
Accounting Historians Journal
Samuel Paul Garner spent nearly seven decades, as a student, professor, administrator, leader and visionary, enhancing the understanding and development of our academic community. Born in 1910, he studied at Duke University, then briefly as a non degree student at Columbia before teaching and then entering the Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Austin. At Texas, under the direction of George Hillis Newlove, he focused upon accounting. His interest in history had been kindled by a noted economic historian Earl J. Hamilton, under whom Garner had studied at Duke. His first post doctoral appointment would be his lifelong …