John Berry McFerrin is Emeritus Professor of Finance at the University of Florida in Gainesville.With the exception of three years during WWII when he was on active duty with the US Navy, Mr. McFerrin was a member of the University of Florida faculty from the completion of his graduate work at the University of North Carolina in 1937 until he retired in 1976. In his long career. While teaching finance and economics, he served, at various times, as Cairman of the Department of Business Organization and Operation, Directior of Graduate Studies and Acting Dean of the College of Business Administration. In 1970, he was appointed Associate Dean of the College, a position he held until retirement.McFerrin is a member and past-president of the Southern Economic Association. He is also a member of the American Economic Association and the Financial Analysts Society of Jacksonville. He has contributed several articles to the Southern Economic Journal.A native of Tennessee, McFerrin graduated from Southwestern at Memphis. Both his masters degree and PhD (1937) are from the university of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Caldwell and Company grew out of his doctoral studies.
