South Carolina State University - Bulldog Yearbook (Orangeburg, SC)

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ROBERT SHAW WILKINSON, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. 191932 President Wilkinson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 18, 1865. He received his early training at Shaw Memorial School and Avery Institute of Charleston. He was appointed, by Congressman Miller, to West Point in 1884, and won first place in the competitive examination, but he resigned the position because of poor health. He graduated in the year 1891. He then accepted a position as instructor at Kentucky State University. On June 29, 1896, he was elected to serve on the first faculty of the Colored Normal, Industrial College of South Carolina. At the death of President Miller, he became President of the College. MILLER F. WHITTAKER, B.S., M.S., LL.D. 1932—1949 After the death of President Robert Shaw Wilkinson, Professor Miller F. Whittaker, Dean of the Division of Mechanical Arts, a member of the faculty for nineteen years, was named as Acting President by the Board of Trustees, March 14, 1932. On May 30th, the beginning of the new scholastic year, he was permanently elected President of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. He was a native of Sumter, South Carolina. President Whittaker accepted the presidency at the age of thirty-nine. He was the registered architect of all the buildings on the college campus except two. He held the B.S. and the M.S. degrees in architecture from the University of Kansas and the LL.D. from Allen University. BENNERICSRURNER: BAT LE Basle: 1950—1967 Dr. Benner Creswill Turner was born in Columbus, Georgia, and attended the. elementary schools of that city. He attended Philip’s Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from 1919-1923. He entered Harvard University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in 1923 and received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927. In September, 1927, he entered the Harvard University Law School and received the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1930. Allen University, Columbia, South Carolina honored him with the LL.D. degree in 1950. After graduating from Harvard, Dr. Turner worked in Pennsylvania and Columbus, Georgia. On January 1, 1943 he began services as Professor of Law in the Law School of North Carolina College, Durham, North Carolina. In 1947 he accepted appointment as Dean of the Law School of South Carolina State College. On August 1, 1950, Dr. Turner was appointed President of South Carolina State College. M. MACEO NANCE, JR., A.B., M.A., LL.D. 1968— Dr. M. Maceo Nance, Jr., Vice-President of Finance and Business of South Carolina . State College, was named Acting President by the Board of Trustees to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of President Benner C. Turner. He assumed the presidency June 29, 1968, becoming the first graduate of the college to serve in this capacity. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, he attended the elementary schools in that city and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He entered South Carolina State College in 1942 and left to enter the United States Navy in 1943 where he served until 1946. He returned to the College in 1946 and earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. He received the Master of Science degree from New York University in 1953. In 1968 he was awarded the LL.D. degree from Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. He returned to his Alma Mater as a clerk in the bookstore and has since held positions as Military Property Custodian, Director of the Student Union, Assistant Business Manager, and Business Manager. He was elected Vice-President for Finance and Business July 1, 1967.

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Presidents Of The College THOMAS E. MILLER, B.A., M.A., LL.D. 1896—1911 President Miller graduated from Lincoln University in 1872; the same year he served as School Commissioner of Beaufort County; in 1873-74, he studied law at the University of South Carolina and was admitted to the bar in 1875; in 1876-79, he served in the House of Representatives of South Carolina; he was elected to the U. S. Congress September 24, 1890, and served to March 3, 1891; he was returned to the House of Representatives of South Carolina in 1894; and in 1895, he was elected to the State Constitutional Convention. In 1896 he was appointed president of South Carolina Agricultural, Industrial and Mechanical College.

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The Original Board Of Trustees GOVERNOR JOHN GARY EVANS, Ex-Officio MR. C. D. KORTJOHN, Orangeburg MR. ARTHUR KIBBLER, Newberry MR. D. J. BRADHAM, Clarendon, Chairman DR. W. L. LOWMAN, Orangeburg, Secretary MR. A. C. PRICE, Chester MR. F. J. FLOYD, Kershaw The First esas Board Of Trustees Of The College (1966) Bri bil ‘ SEATED: MR. ELLIOTT ELAM, North Augusta; MR. W. C. BETHEA, Orangeburg, Secretary; ATTORNEY BRUCE WHITE, Union, Chairman; PRESIDENT BRENNER C. TURNER; ATTORNEY JAMES MOSS, Orangeburg College, Attorney. STANDING: MR. W. FELIX WHEELER, Columbia; DR. JAMES A.BOYKIN, Lancaster; MR. |. P. STANBACK, Columbia; MR. CHARLES A. JONES, Moncks Corner. The First Board Of Visitors Of The College (1961). RR oe j re — MR. WALKER SOLOMON, Columbia, Chairman; MR. C. C. WOODSON, Spartanburg; MR. REGINALD BARRETT, Charleston;- MRS. LARKAN WALKER, Greenwood: MR. BENJAMIN SANDERS, Greenwood; MR. ALLARD ALLSTON, Darlington.