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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, June 4, 1970—PAGE 5 Promotions for college faculty Four faculty members at Newberry College have been promoted in rank for the 1970- 71 school year according to Dr. A.G.D. Wiles, president. Dr. John Wagner, assistant professor of music, will become an associate professor when the promotions become effective on September 1. He joined the New berry staff in 1965 after teach ing high school and elementary choral and instrumental music in Florida, Georgia and Ind iana. Dr. Wagner earned his bache lor’s degree at De Pauw Uni versity, Greencastle, Ind.; his master’s degree at Florida State University, Tallahassee, and his doctorate from the Uni versity of Indiana, Bloomington. Three of the promotions are from the instructor rank to as sistant professor. They are Jas. Felker, Jr., instructor in mathe matics; George Renwick, in structor in biology; and Will iam Shore, instructor in Eng lish. Felker has been teaching at Newberry since September 1967. He returned to his alma mater to teach after receiving a mas ter’s degree at Clemson Univer sity. He is currently working on his doctorate degree at the University of South Carolina. Renwick is also completing his third year on the Newberry College facultlyl. He joined the staff after teaching in Alabama and Florida high schools for 13 years. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Newberry College in 1954 and his master’s degree from Alabama College, Monte- vallo in 1963. He has also done graduate work at Columbia Col lege, the University of Florida and the University of Alabama. Shore is the newest staff mem ber of the quartet to be pro moted. He came to Newberry in September after receiving his master’s and bachelor’s de grees from Clemson University. In addition to his teaching res ponsibilities, Shore has also served as an assistant editor to Studies in Short Fiction, the academic quarterly magazine published by Newberry College. Three receive Sullivan awards Two graduating Newberry College seniors and the College Dean of Women received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan award at the College’s commencement exercises May 31. Hattie Belle Lester, a mem ber of the College staff since 1937 and the Dean of Women since 1939, received the award “as a loyal friend of the Col lege.” Student winners were Eleanor P. Burnette of Newberry and Douglas Kin Sturkie, III of Col umbia. Miss Burnette has been active in student publications and was the editor of the 1970 Newberrian, student yearbook, a member of three College vocal groups, and was elected by the faculty to Who’s Who Among American College and Univer sity Students, as well as a mem ber of several campus interest organizations. The awards are provided by the New York Southern Society to memorialize Algernon Syd ney Sullivan. A native South erner, he was a lawyer and churchman who spent most of his life in New York, but re tained his interest in the South. Citations and medallions go each year to a man and woman graduate and a friend of the College. ‘Professor of year’ is named Dr James Cummings, head of the department of education at Newberry College, was nam ed “Professor of the Year” at the College’s commencement ex ercises Sunday afternoon. The award, given by the Col lege’s Alumni Association, is given in recognition of his ac complishments as an imagina tive and outstanding classroom teacher. Dr. Cummings joined the New berry College faculty in 1960 and was named the head of the department of education in 1961. Prior to coming to Newberry he was on the staff of the Uni versity of Alabama where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees. Dr. James Cummings, head of the department of edu cation at Newberry College, received the Professor of the Year Award during Commencement exercises May 31. The award was made by the College’s Alumni Associa tion. Robert H. Stoudemire, a member of the class of 1942 and a professor of political science at. the Univer sity of South Carolina, presented the award to Dr. Cum mings. Ira 0. Fulmer Ira Olin Fulmer, 70. of Route 1, Prosperity, died Tuesday at White Rock. He was born in Newberry County a son of the late Will iam E. and Rebecca Connelly Fulmer. He was a member of Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran Church and was a retired merchant, textile employe and farmer. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Geneva Dominick Fulmer; two brothers, Lonnie F. Fulmer of Batesburg and Eddie Leroy Fulmer of Prosperity; and two sisters, Mrs. Lorain Finney of Bamberg and Mrs. Gussey Yon of Newberry. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran Church. Bur ial was in the church cemetery. CmOLLER GENERAL 2S years experience in STATE GOVERNMENT VOTE JUNES. IVliliral a.l jiaiJ for l>y Henry Mill*. ★ ... ★ 'tyettn, Iuhc . . . SOUTH CAROLINA MUST HAVE A LEADER WHO CARES ENOUGH TO ACT! ELECT EARLE MORRIS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DEMOCRAIK PRIMARY JUNE 9 *?*% 'PetfiU EARLE E. MORRIS, JR. 20 YEARS OF SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA 4 YEARS - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 16 YEARS - STATE SENATE £<vde TttowiU Spent >dc^eUnte Paid For By Newberry County Citizens For Morris, Elliott I), Thompson, Chairman