Maryville College - Chilhowean Yearbook (Maryville, TN)

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The men congregate for their Saturday even Ings. Above, Alpha Sigmas conduct their bu The boy and the girl: Bob Ramger and Lav looking like the typical MC couple who date, bu the steady basis. nia Lee t not on IIHI HI ' IHH[ ..4 people

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Students and faculty enjoy an evening together on the football field at the S.S.O. sponsored by the sophomore class for the benefit of graduating seniors.

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»% 1 Dr. Ralph W. Lloyd, a native of Friendsville, Tennessee, completes his 24th year as president of Maryville College in Novennber. 1954. He was graduated from MC with a B.A. degree in 1915. For two years following graduation he was instructor and athletic coach at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he met his wife, then teacher of French and German and dean of women at the college. They were married in 1917 and have two sons and two daughters. He received his B.D. degree in 1924 from McCormick Theological Seminary and an honorary D.D. degree from Maryville in 1929. He has two LL.D. degrees, one from Centre College and one from the University of Chattanooga. Dr. Lloyd was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in 1923 and has served as pastor to churches In Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania. He has been an interchange preacher to Great Britain two different years and has served on many church com- mittees, both Presbyterian and Interdenominational. He Is a member of the central or executive committees of the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches, the World Presbyterian Alliance and other bodies, and Is chairman of the Presbyterian Commission on Inter- church Relations. He has served as president of the National Confer- ence of Church-Related Colleges, the Pan-Presbyterian College Union and the Tennessee College Association, and has written numerous articles and addresses published In various educational and religious journals. He became president of Maryville College In 1930 and as such has the general oversight and direction of the college. During Dr. Lloyd ' s years of service many changes have been made at the college; Its curriculum has been reconstructed, its accreditation widely extended, and such programs as special studies, comprehensives and student gov- ernment have been Inaugurated. The college campus has been enlarged and most of the buildings have been remodeled. The most notable buildings erected are the Fine Arts Center and the Chapel, costing together more than $1,000,000. Plans are now underway for the con- struction of a new dormitory to house one hundred women students. President and Mrs. Lloyd ' s home, Morningside, Is In the College Woods. president RALPH WALDO LLOYD B.A., B.D., LL.D. Lloyd speaks to students i jral amphitheater during the « Easter Sunrise Service.