Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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DR. CHARLES KNOX MARTIN, JR. President of Radford College 23

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE “Doesn't anybody know how to stop this tiling? ' President Martin presides at weekly Administrative Council meeting. A special committee composed of Board Members and Faculty examined the stated purpose of Radford College and gave it not so much a change in direction as a clearer focus. This is bound to accelerate our progress toward this unclouded goal. Another committee appointed by the Board was instructed to study the new purpose and expected growth of the college and to recommend a campus plan for this development. It is most important to locate new buildings so that each fits into a campus plan which con-situtes a useful and aesthetic whole. The result will not materially expand the area of the campus, but does provide for more efficient use of our present campus. The economic use of this space will call for taller buildings—both dormitories and academic structures. While the new Radford College resulting from this planning will provide strange features, the real and most important concepts of permanent value, long a part of the Radford Spirit, will remain unchanged. The 1964-65 academic year has been a turning point in the history of Radford College. At this time the college administration felt much like a football half-back who had just broken through the line to find the field ahead clear for a substantial gain. This situation calls for increased effort and speed, and perhaps a sudden change of direction. The breakthrough at Radford came as a result of a complete shift of administrative control. The 1964 General Assembly gave this college a new and independent Board of Visitors, responsible only for the government of this college. Immediately this Board took a new. fresh look at the purpose of this institution of learning and its place in Virginia’s coordinated state system of higher education. 22

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RADFORD COLLEGE BOARD OF VISITORS The Board of Visitors, appointed by the Governor of the State of Virginia, coordinates the activities of Radford College. Seated left to right: Miss Mary lane Dudley. Mrs. J. Chambers Bristow, Col. Charles H. Rccd. Leonard C. Muse. Miss Elizabeth Ann Lawler, Mrs. Henderson P. Graham, Mrs. Donald C. Hall; standing left to right: Richard J. Holland, L. Lee Bean, Jr., Waldo Miles (representing Dr. W. V. Wilkcrson), H Wise Kelly, Jr., Francis Bell, Jr., and J. W. Stanley. 24