Furman University - Bonhomie Yearbook (Greenville, SC)

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES laymen and Clergy The twenty-five member Board of Trustees is the policy-making body of the University. Its principal duties are transacting all business of the university, prescribing the courses of study, and electing all officers of the university. All trustees are members of the Baptist denomination and are elected by the State Baptist Convention. The compose twenty-live member hoard board is equally divided among lay- men and the clergy. Prominent South Carolina law makers, educators and businessmen hold membership on the board. Each member is elect- ed for a five-year term. The board has ten standing com- mittees which encompass all areas of the operation of Furman Uni- versity. Trustees are, FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Dorman, Proctor, Aiken, Slaughter, Blackwell Gregory Bristow Dennis SECOND ROW Baton Durst, Pitts, McCall, Self, Farris. THIRD ROW: Bagby, Marshall, Williams, Poole, Brace McAIister Bonner

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Another year of advancement recorded A native of Timmonsville, South Carolina, Dr. Gordon Williams Black- well graduated summa cum laude from Furman in 1932. He holds the lVl.A. degree from the University of North Carolina and Harvard and the Ph.D. from Harvard. In 1937 he re- turned to Furman as head of the sociology department, and four years later he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina. For two summers he taught at Columbia Uni- versity as a visiting professor, and in 1955 he was chosen to lecture in a Fulbright Conference on American Studies at Oxford. In 1957 he was appointed Chancellor of the Wom- an's College of the University of North Carolina, he served as presi- dent of Florida State University for four years prior to coming to Furman in 1965. In addition to such a busy teach- ing and administrative career, Dr. Blackwell has served in such capac- ities as director of the Institute for Research in Social Science. He has written more than fifty articles on a wide range of subjects, has co- authored several books, has edited the journal Social Forces, and has been active in many professional organizations. Dr. Blackwell believes that a uni- versity should expose the student to all areas of human experience and should clarify for him the ultimate values and philosophies by which men live, else, it has failed the stu- dent at a crucial point. As a student of human problems for thirty years, Dr. Blackwell gives to Furman perception and perspec- tive and, for alumni, faculty, and students, the immense challenge of active dedication to the highest pur- poses of education. President BalckwelI's duties continue long after classes are over for the day. Through the work of the President's Ad- visory Council student opinion is heard and respected by the administration. 19