Fairmont State University - Mound Yearbook (Fairmont, WV)

Page 11 text:

rfdnti iC t%citia t v : -.. ' . ■ ♦: f v L 4BM 0 I , l Sitting, left to right— Otis H. Milam, Jr., Registrar; Margaret Ellen Copeland, Dean of Women; John W. Pence, President; Wayne S. Martin, Director of Student Affairs; Gilbert Kites, Librarian. Standing— E. E. MeWhorter, Business Manager; George K. Hunt, Dean of Instructions.

Page 10 text:

r ' Pie idcftt JOHN W. PENCE The President of a college is a big position and one which car- ries much responsibility. We can be proud of our president— be- cause he has served us faithfully as an administrator, and aims to make this a bigger and better college. John Wesley Pence first served as President of Fairmont State in 1952. He came to the college in 1926 as instructor in Political Science and Economics. From 1928 to 1947 he served as Dean of Men. During 1947-48 while President Joseph Rosier was serving in the U. S. Senate, he served as acting President. In 1947 he became Dean of the College until 1952 when he was appointed as President.

Page 12 text:

.di uvuf, S z First Row, Left to right— Ruth Yerace, Mary Alice Hupp, Dorothy Meyer, Patricia Tennant. Second Row— Adain Harris, Gilbert Fites, Librarian. %5ft Sitting, left to right— Nell Pritchard Carson, Elizabeth Meredith, Helen Glasscock, Retty Morris, Mary Ellen Radebaugh. Standing— Kathryn Smith, Maxine Howard, Emily Leaf, Anne Morgan. Unphotocraphed— Lenore Jacobs, Ruth Hawkins, Rose- mary Hess, Arlene McQuown, Rette Poleway.