Milligan College - Buffalo Yearbook (Elizabethton, TN)

Page 17 text:

-WWW ' WMMM jFacultp JAMES TRACY McKISSICK PRESIDENT AND ROBERT MILLIGAN PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY BELA HUBBARD HAYDEN DEAN OF BIBLE JAMES MILLER PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH CAMERON DONALD DAY PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS WILLIS BAXTER BOYD PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AND HISTORY DEAN OF MEN ELMA E. R, ELLIS PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE MARY HARDIN PROFESSOR OF FRENCH AND HOME ECONOMICS SARAH WILLIAMS DIRECTOR OF MUSIC SUSIE MAY PERRY DIRECTOR OF ORATORY MAE BENNETT PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT BESSIE DAIMWOOD DEAN OF WOMEN MRS. B. H. HAYDEN LIBRARIAN KATHERINE BURRUS DIRECTOR OF VIOLIN MRS, W. B. BOYD S. J. HYDER MATHEMATICS KIRBY SMITH ENGLISH BERTA HARDY HISTORY J. H. KEPLINGER AGRICULTURE L. M. BOTTS GRAMMAR J. W. PRATHER GERMAN U

Page 16 text:

WMW- ' WMMM, immediately elected to the presidenc) ' Dean Tyler E. Utterback, a native of Kentucky, graduate of Kentucky Unix ' ersitw Central University of Ken- tuck}-, and Columbia University, New York, a man of large experience, both as an educator and preacher. At the close of the year 1912-1913, President Utterback ' s resignation, which had been offered one year before, was accepted, and E. W. McDiarmid, a graduate of Bethany and of Hiram College, was elected president of Milligan College. After one year of fruitful work. President McDiarmid was called to a higher work, and James Tracy McKissick was elected president. James Tracy McKissick was born near Mt. Pleasant, Maury County, Tennessee, April 19, 1874. He attended Broadview High School until his sixteenth vear, when he went to Hillsboro High School, Williamson Countv, which was then taught by the now lamented William Anderson. After finish- ing High School and teaching a year, he went to Texas and attended South- western Normal College, Italy, Texas, and graduated from that school in 1895. The following fall he entered Add-Ran Christian University, then under the direction of Addison and Randolph Clark, and was graduated from that school in 1897. His first pastorate was at Marshall, Texas, where he served eighteen months, and resigned on account of ill health, and located at Marfa, West Texas, where two years were spent. From Marfa he was called to the Centra] Church, Weatherford, and there he preached for three and one-half years. Feeling the need of a more liberal education, he resigned and entered Texas Christian University, receiving the M. A. degree in June, 1904. The following fall he entered the College of the Bible and received the classical diploma the next June. He then went to Harvard and spen t a year specializ- ing in New Testament Greek and Church History. After some months of evangelizing he accepted a call from 1 7th St. Church, Nashville, and was there more than four years. He was called to be secretary of the Tennessee Christian Missionary Society in April, 1911, and continued in this work for more than three years. He came to Milligan in August, 1914, following the labors of Josephus Hopwood and his splendid successors. He stri -es to main- tain the same ideals which have characterized Milligan life. 10

Page 18 text:

Faculty