Southwestern University - Souwester Yearbook (Georgetown, TX)

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ich; CHARLES McTUEIRE BISHOP President of Southwestern Uniuersitu. Charles McTyeire Bishop was born February 2, 1862, in Jefferson, North Carolina. He received the A. B. degree from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, in 1884, and two years later the A. M. degree was conferred upon him by the same institution. Three years later, on June 3, 1889, he was married to Phoebe Eleanor Jones, of Asheville, North Carolina. Phoebe, Mary Martha, Hendrix, Dorothea and Rose Boddie complete one of the happiest families to be found. In 1889 he was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He was appointed to the pastorate at Asheville, North Carolina in 1887 and remained there until 18S9, when he went to Kansas City, Missouri, holding pastorates there until 1896. He occupied prominent charges in Missouri at Lexington, Nevada, St. Joseph, Columbia and Mexico until 1910, when he was transferred to Texas and stationed in Wichita Falls. In June of the following year — 1911 — he was elected President of Southwestern University. In 1899 the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Central College of Fayette, Missouri; and in 1920, at the Diamond Jubilee of Baylor University, Waco, Texas, that historic institution conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Throughout his career as a minister he was recognized for his unusual ability by being made a member of the General Conferences of 1906 and 1910. During that quadrennium he was a member of the General Board of Missions. From 1901 to 1910 he was president of the Preachers ' Institute of the Missouri and Southwest Missouri Conferences. And when the Commission on Unification of the Methodist Churches was formed he was appointed to mem- bership in that responsible body. Dr. Bishop has the distinction of having been the only minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, outside the bishopric, who has ever been called to deliver the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University, which he did with honor in 1909. These lectures have been published in book form under the title: Jesus the Worker. Since his election as President of Southwestern he has continued to be active in leader- ship in church and state. He was one of the moving spirits in the organization of the Education Association of the church and was elected its first president in 1918. He is a member of the Association of American Colleges, and of the Southern Educational Association. He has been recently appainted a delegrate to the Ecumenical Conference which meets in London in September, 1921. President Bishop has been largely instrumental in planning- and forwarding the great Educational Campaign for properly equipping and endowing all the educational institutions of the southern Methodist Church, has given freely of his time and energies to the campaign, and its success will in large measure be due to nis statesman-like vision, rare good judgment, and energy in action. Throughout the entire period of his administration at Southwestern steady progress has been made in all phases of the life of the college. It has been his policy from the first to surround himself with the best faculty obtainable; to confine all academic work to the four college years, to which end the preparatory course was abandoned; to de- velop the physical equipment of the college, in pursuance of whi ch the Williamson County Science Building was erected in 1917; to increase the productive endowment, which has been accomplish to the extent that the institution is recognized as an A grade American College; to vitalize scholar- ship, in view of which the Southwestern University Scholarship society was founded in 1915; and above all to foster a true, religious. Christian spirit in the entire college community, and to this end he has lent his vigorous support to all the religious organizations of the students, has each year spent himself in religious campaigns, has devotedly, in private and in public, by word and by example, sought to show students the way to the higher life. Charles McTyiere Bishop is a big man, in body, mind and soul. He is a great father to his family. He is a scholar and a gentleman. Recognized as one of the strongest preachers in the south, he is esteemed and honored in church and state and nation. He is supported wholeheartedly by every member of his faculty. He is loved by all the students who know him, and respected by those who have not the good fortune to be intimately acquainted with him. If I were asked to characterize Charles McTyiere Bishop in a single sentence I would briefly say: He never did a small thing in his life. — William Paul Davidson The SOU ' WESTER 1921 -17-

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THOMAS FRANKLIN SESSIONS, Vice-President The SOU ' WESTER 19 21 GEZZ —18-