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{{Infobox person
|name=Hal Monroe Weathersby
|birth_date=September 21, 1895
|birth_place=Clinton, Rankin County<br>[[Mississippi]], USA
|death_date=August 15, 1965 (aged 69)
|death_place=[[Pineville, Louisiana]]
|spouse=Matalee Thompson Weathersby
|children=Hal T. Weathersby<br>
Scott M. Weathersby<br>
Rose Weathersby Normand
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
}}
'''Hal Monroe Weathersby''' (September 21, 1895 – August 15, 1965) was an American educator associated from 1911 to 1956 with the [[Southern Baptist]]-affiliated Louisiana College in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish, [[Louisiana]]. The Weathersby Fine Arts Building on the LC campus is named in his honor.
His parents were William M. Weathersby (1849-1926) and the former Hallie Henington (died 1919), who are interred at Clinton Cemetery in Clinton in Rankin County, [[Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Weathersby&GSfn=Hallie&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=12770788&df=all&|title=Hallie Henington Weathersby|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 27, 2017}}</ref> Weathersby obtained his [[Bachelor of Arts]] from Baptist-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton, and his [[Master of Arts]] from the [[University of Chicago]]. From 1911 to 1914, he was [[professor]] of [[history]] and [[Greek]]. He was the college dean from 1914 to 1956, after which time he was dean emeritus until his death nine years later just a few weeks before his 70th birthday. He was the LC acting president from 1941 to 1942<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site40.php|title="Weathersby, Hal Monroe", ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography''|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=September 27, 2017}]</ref>between the terms of Claybrook Cottingham (1881-1949) and Edgar Godbold (1879-1952).
Weathersby and his wife, the former Matalee Thompson, had three children: Hal Thompson Weathersby (1914-2012), a Bible scholar and professor of anatomy at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in [[Dallas]], [[Texas]], until his retirement in 1980;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Weathersby&GSfn=Hal&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=86840969&df=all&|title=Dr. Hal Thompson Weathersby|publisher=Findagrave.com from ''Dallas Morning News''|date=March 15, 2012|accessdate=September 27, 2017}}</ref> Dr. Scott Monroe Weathersby (1912-1995), who is interred in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]], Louisiana,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Weathersby&GSfn=Scott&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=171877550&df=all&
|title=Scott Monroe Weathersby|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 27, 2017}}</ref>and Rose Weathersby Normand (1919-1984).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Normand&GSfn=Rose&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=139561967&df=all&|title=Rose Weathersby Normand|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name=halt/> A Baptist, Weathersby died in Pineville and is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Ball, Louisiana.<ref name=bio/>
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