Central Wesleyan College - Centralian Yearbook (Central, SC)

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REFSLEOTIONS HISTORY Ol: THE SCHOOL The Wesleyoh Methodist College ot Cehtrol, South Corolirio, ooeried school ori October l5th, l906 with the Rev, l.. l, Horrihgtoh os the tirst oresiderit orid with three other teochers. 'The school wos iricorooroted urider the lows ot South Corolirio orid wos estohlished hy the Corihectioriol lvlissioriory Society ot the Wesleyori Methodist Church. lts oriricipol ottice wos locoted ot Syro- cuse, New York. Chorles B, Smith, o loyrrioh ot the South Coro- liho Coritererice, wos corisidered the tother ot the rrioverherit. He mode the hegiririihg ot the school oossihle hy givirig o troct ot lorid hovihg T46 ocres iri it orid by otterihg to give two thousorid dollors. lri lOlWLlOVy, l909, the school wos chortered os o college, hut iri i928 the l.ocol Boord ot lvlori- ogers met ot the college with reoreseritotives ot the Coririectiohol Boord to reorgohize the work ot the school. The college deoortrrierit wos re- duced to o iuhior college except thot tour yeors ot theologicol worlq wos retoihed. The school wos detiriitely tourided ori oroyer.

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LCDCAL BCDARD CDF MANAGERS REV. E. L. SHIGLEY attended Alabama State Normal and then taught school for eight vears. Later he entered the pastorate, serving several churches in Alabama. For six years he was president of the Alabama Conference. He has been a member of the Board since l937. He is now pastor of the Vvesleyan Methodist Church at Springdale, Alabama. REV. GEORGE DAVIS graduated from the Theological Department at Central in 37. He also attended Atlanta Bible Institute. He is now president of the North Ceorgia Con- ference and pastor of the Atlanta VVesleyan Methodist Church. ln july, l943 he was elected to the Board. REV. DEXVEY O. BTILLER, recently-elected member of the Board and pastor of the Vvest Asheville Church in North Carolina, grad- uated from the High School Department of Central.College and studied one year in the College Department. He finished a theolog- ical course at Biltmore Junior College, Bilt- more, North Carolina. REV. R. C. KENDRICK, who attended Cen- tral College Theological Department about two years, has been a member of the Local Board of lklanagers for fourteen years. After serving as president of the South Carolina Conference for twelve years, he entered pas- toral work at Anderson, South Carolina. REV. F. D. CROSS of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the president of the Tennessee Conference, was elected to the Local Board of Managers in August, l943. REV. H. R. CUNBY received an A.B. degree from Central College when it was chartered as a Senior College, after which he took sne- cial course at South Ceorgia Teachers' Col- lege and Mercer University. He has been on the Local Board of Managers for six years. At the present he is pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Hortense, Ceorgia. REV. A. VVOOD attended Central College Theological Department for four years. He became a pastor in Alabama and served as president of the conference for three years. Later he transferred to Ceorgia, serving as Superintendent of Hephzibah Home for six years and as president of the Ceorgia Confer- ence for four years. Now pastor of the First Vlflesleyan Methodist Church of Castonia, North Carolina, he has beenon the Local Board of .Vlanagers for ten years. REV. W. D. CORRELL entered Central College in its first year, l906. He finished the Theo- logical Course which is now the Disciplin- ary Department, in the spring of l9ll, and entered pastoral work in the fall of same year. He served as President of South Caro- lina Conference for thirteen years and is now in his fifteenth year of evangelistic work. He has been a member of the Local Board of Managers over twenty years. Xpresident John Frank Childs is chairman of the Local Board of Alanagers. g. Y lit- l l 1 3 Q l e l i l I l 1 i l 1 1 i 1 5 I l i l U I l r '. Y l v D i 8 I . i l .l 4 I n X