East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Shaping Policy. ■ Senator Robert Morgan and East Carolina President Leo W. Jenkins consider new ideas and problems which will be brought before the Board during the year. Senator Morgan is Chairman of the Board. Mr. F. D. Duncan, Treasurer of the Board, Mr. Henry Oglesby, and Dr. Leo Jenkins relax for a few brief moments as the Board of Trustees prepares to begin one of its fall meetings. Some of the concerns of the college can be dealt with quickly and bate and discussion. The Trustees decide all College policy a ith little trouble, but others require long periods of de- d often must resolve involved problems.

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Dr. Leo W. Jenkins Much is required of a college president; obviously, a special kind of person is needed for the task. He must be able to compress days into hours and hours into minutes. Dr. Jenkins is that kind of man. The difficult and extra-ordinary are an integral part of his life. As president of East Carolina College he is many things — a scholar, a leader, a financier, a politician — and he is more. He is the organizational center of the College, the man around whom all decisions are made, all problems resolved. His office is his central working area, but his work is everywhere. The problems of the College — academic, social, financial — take him to Raleigh, to New York, and to any place where a solution may be found; but Greenville, Pitt County, and all of eastern North Carolina are where Dr. Jenkins must centralize his operations. He is gradually turn- ing East Carolina into the focal point and leading center of this area. Among the many things that a college president does, one of the most vital is his job of representing the school to potential supporters. In this state-supported college, the president also has the difficult task of presenting the needs of the College to the State Legislature. Speaking before this body on numerous subjects including the College bud- get, the proposed medical school, and the Speaker Ban Law, Dr. Jenkins has won far more support for East Carolina than it has previously had. Dr. Jenkins is a man who leads a full family life and a man who actively participates in the affairs of his community. Always on the move, he keeps the College on the move.