Millsaps College - Bobashela Yearbook (Jackson, MS)

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I Being a year of great change as 1979 was for Millsaps, it saw what was perhaps the most evident change of all. Edward Murrah Collins, the president of Millsaps College since 1970, resigned effective summer of 1978. Collins, better known among students as Slick Eddie , was a favorite of alumni and friends of the college. He was a polished speaker and well-set in the Millsaps Traditions. His relationship with Millsaps was a long one, starting as a student, returning as a Professor of Speech, and again returning as President. Upon leaving the College, he and his family went to Columbia, South Carolina to assume the presidency of another school there. Wonder if he carried his copy of the once famed Slick Eddie Dart Board with him? OLD HAT . . .

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NEW FACE . . . George Marion Harmon, eighth president of Millsaps College. The change did not stop with change in administrators. The Presidential Search Committee ended its search in mid-fall of 1978, announcing the name of Dr. Harmon as our next president. He moved into Sanders shortly thereafter and we began to know the new kid on the block . Obviously much different from Dr. Collins. King George (a name which he later was given) ate in the cafeteria, sitting at different tables every night, beginning the long hard task of putting names with faces, and most of all, being accepted. He unofficially took office January 1, coming to us as former professor at Saginaw Valley State in Michigan. A northerner surely would be hard to get used to— that in itself was a first for Millsaps! Business majors were surprised to hear that he hadn ' t even been to seminary and were elated to hear that he held a DBA from Harvard. Religion majors were shocked to find that our new man was Episcopalian— another first for this community. As time went on. President Harmon proved positively to be a man of change. In the early part of the semester, Harmon drew up a proposal to change the business department to the Millsaps School of Management, thereby expanding the present structure and inaugurating an MBA program to begin in the very near future. The Board passed it and plans were put into full-steam ahead. Though most viewed this major change (no pun intended) as an exciting opportunity for the now dead school to come alive, some were appalled. Not since the early days of the Millsaps Law Schoo l had there been a graduate program, and many felt that its revival would be the death of our traditional liberal arts thrust . Throughout the spring, storms brewed over every minor decision made by Dr. Harmon— it was like walking on egg shells for him. Well, as all things do, it all came out in the wash. The Harmons joined the United Methodist Church, and began their work as a team. Things are looking up for the old school— many of these changes are described on these pages, and most of them are concrete results born of Dr. Harmon ' s ideas and hopes for the college. ' Look how short he is. ' , exclaimed several students upon first viewing the new president.