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

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New President . . . From Nashville, Tennessee, Dr. Stanley Martin arrived on Wes- leyan ' s campus to assume the pres- idency of the college. Dr. Martin and his family began their new life during March. The Board of Trustees elected Dr. Martin to the presidency in mid-winter. He received his A.B. degree from Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois; and his S.T.B., M.R.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University. For the past seven years he has served as di- rector of the Department of Stu- dent Loans and Scholarships and of personnel for the General Board of Education of the Methodist Church. Dr. Martin has served on the faculty of Simpson College and of Boston University. DR. STANLEY H. MARTIN President of West Virgiiiin W es eya?! College New Professor . . . Dr. John Wright joined the faculty at mid-year as associate professor of chemistry. Dr. Wright comes from Newark, Delaware, where he was a research chemist for the Hercules Power Co. He fills the va- cancy left by Dr. Nicholas Hyma. JOHN C. WRIGHT— Chemistry— B.S., West Virginia Wes- leyan College, Ph.D.. University of Illinois. 12

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D e a n c t i P r e s i d e n Arthur Allen Schoolcraft — Dean of the College, Professor of Education and Psycholog) ' — A B., LL.D., Marietta College; S.T.B., Ph.D., Boston University. For a quarter of a century Dr. A. A. Schoolcraft has servecl West Virginia Wesleyan College. As a professor, as dean and registrar, and as acting president, he has striven to make Wesleyan a fine liberal arts college, related to the Methodist Church. Dr. Schoolcraft came to Wesleyan as professor of education and psychology in 1932. He be- came dean and registrar in 1944 and has served in that capacity for 13 years. Last fall he accepted for a second time the position of acting president when former President William J. Scarborough resigned to accept the presidency of Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. He was acting president after the death of Dr. Joseph Broyles in 1945 and before the appointment of Dr. Scarborough in 1946. Dr. Schoolcraft will continue as the ch ief executive until the Methodist Conference appoints a new president. Professor, dean and registrar, acting president — Dr. Arthur A. Schoolcraft. Joan Williams asks Mrs. Shirley Filosa, secretary to the dean, about a seniors application for a degree while Harriet Aveyard checks the student ' s registration card. Joan, Harriet, and Shirley Post are student secretaries. Miss Margaret Dean, secre- tary to the president, checks a letter for Acting President Schoolcraft.