West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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ecUcAtcaa LAMAN C. SHINGLETON 1883 - 1948 page 7

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f949 TftuftmufimaHtU On April 6, 1948. death took from the membership of the Board of Trustees of West Virginia Wesleyan college one of its most loyal and active members. Laman C. Shingleton. He was born November 12, 1883, at Hebron, West Virginia. After gradu- ating from Marshall College, he moved to Clarksburg in 1909 to enter busi- ness there and immediately identified himself with the First Methodist Church. He achieved outstanding success as a business man. At the time of his death and for many years prior thereto he served as general manager and trea- surer of Shingleton Brothers in Clarksburg, as president of the Monon Valley Company in Fairmont, as secretary and treasurer of the Valley Orchard Com- pany in Belington. and as president of the Community Savings and Loan Company in Clarksburg. Despite his many business duties he found time to devote his splendid abilities and sound judgment to numerous civic activities. He served as a mem- ber of the City Council of Clarksburg and of the Firemen ' s Civic Service Com- mission. He was a past president of the Clarksburg Rotary Club and for many years served as a member of the Board of Directors of these civic organizations- However, it was to his church and its affiliated organizations that he gave the largest measure of his devotion and service. No busy layman could have done more for it than he did. Shortly after joining the church he taught a young men ' s Bible class. In 191 7 he was elected superintendent of the Church school and served in that capacity for twenty-one consecutive years. He was a member of the Official Board and director of the budget of the Church for many years, the chairman of its pastoral relations committee, and its Lay Leader. He was a member of the Board of Education of the West Virginia An- nual Conference of The Methodist Church and of the Conference Committee on Entertainment. One of his strongest loves was for West Virginia Wesleyan College, of whose Board of Trustees and Executive Committee he was a member for many years. His sound advice and wise counsel was constantly sought in the adminis- tration of its affairs. It is with a deep sense of loss that we at Wesleyan pay tribute to a strong leader and devoted trustee. page

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