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Wiles made president emeritus When Dr. A.G.D. Wiles re tires as Newberry College’s president on September 1, he will have a new title: President Emeritus. Vol. 35—No. 19 Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, Sept. 2, 1971 $3 PER YEAR The newly created • honorary position at Newberry College was announced Sunday after noon by Hart Kohn, Jr., presi dent of the College's Board of Trustees, during a reception for the 65-year-old educator and his wife. It was strictly A.G.D. Wiles Day in Newberry Sunday as South Carolina educators, Lu theran leaders, residents of the Newberry area, and the faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the College came to the campus to honor Dr. and Mrs. Wiles. Dr. Wiles guided the College from 1960-1971 through the trou bled but also “golden years” of American higher education. During his eleven-year-tenure as president Dr. Wiles dedicated himself and the institution to a reaffirmation of the traditional goals and purposes of Newberry College. He outlined these goals in 1961 when he said during his inaugural address: “And so de dicated to the development of the whole personality of the stu dent through a strong liberal arts program, to the principle of work and self-denial, to the untiring search for truth, and to the glory of God as revealed in Christ, Newberry College will go forward, on this high hill beneath this kindly sky.” Mount Olive homecoming is Sunday During his tenure as presi dent, the physical plant of the College more than tripled in value with the construction of four new buildings and the pur chase and gift of property. A new music building, being erect ed at the present time at a cost of $650,000, will be ready for occupancy in the spring of 1972. The student body increased from 600 to over 800 and the faculty from 40 to 64 full-time members. The quality of the fa culty was also improved, with a higher percentage having earn ed doctorates, and with increas ed research and scholarly pro ductivity. The curriculum also underwent substantial revision during the decade, a major change being the introduction in 1969 of the 4-1-4 plan, which consists of two four-month terms (Continued on page 8) The annual Homecoming Ser vice at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church, Prosperity, South Caro lina, will be held on September 5, 1971, at 11:00 A.M. All mem bers and former members, and friends of the congregation, are invited to present on this home coming day, for the Service of Holy Communion. The Rev. G. B. Corley, will be the Homecoming speaker. He is remembered by many of the Newberry County people. He went to school at Lexington High School, Lexington. He is a graduate of Newberry Col lege, Newberry, and of the Lu theran Theological Southern Se minary, Columbia. Pastor Corley has served the following Parishes: Ehrhardt Memorial Lutheran Church and Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church, Ehrhardt. Also Trinity Lutheran Church, Georgetown, and Summer Memorial Luthe ran Church, Newberry. He is now serving at Resurrection Lu theran Church and Saint Mat thew Lutheran Church, Came ron, and is supply Pastor for Epiphany Lutheran Church, St. Matthew. The Rev. Corley is also known as the Business-Circulation Ma nager of the South Carolina Lu theran, a monthly paper from the Synod of South Carolina, for Lutherans and friends in terested in the work of the Church. Pastor Corley nas se/ved as Dean of the Southern District of the South Carolina Synod, as a member of the Board of Trus tees of the Lutheran Children’s Home of the South, and as chair man of the Calhoun District Boy (Continued on page 8) Irvin installed as college president Dr. Fredric B. Irvin became Post Office be closed Monday The Newberry, S.C. post of fice will be closed Monday Sep tember 6, 1971 in observance of Labor Day. There will be no window ser vice nor delivery of mail by city or rural carriers. Regular holiday lockbox service will be provided. Special Delivery and collec tion service will be maintain ed on holiday schedules. Holiday schedules will be ob served for the receipt and dis patch of mails. Calvin Crozier meets Tuesday Calvin Crozier Chapter UDC will meet September 7 at 4 p.m. at the home of Mrs. W. Rea Feagle. The associate hos tesses will be Mrs. John Sand ers, Mrs. John Epps, Mrs. R. E. Hanna, and Mrs. Ruby Trice. Mrs. W. Roy Anderson will give a program on “Jefferson Davis”. Rescue squad to sell barbecue Tickets are now on sale for Bar-B-Q chickens, and pork hash from any rescue squad member. Chickens and hash will be ready on Sat. Sept. 11, from 9:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. at Mollohon Park. Be sure and pick up your tickets from any Rescue Squad member. Now! the twelfth president of New berry College September 1; he succeeds Dr. A.G.D. Wiles who retired after serving as the Col lege’s president since 1960. Prior to assuming the presi dency Dr. Irvin was a foreign service officer of the United States government for eleven years serving as Cultural At tache in Berlin and Bonn, Ger many, and in Pawalpindi, Pa kistan, and also as Consul and Public Affairs Officer in Ham burg, Germany. He is no newcomer to teach ing and college administration, having begun his academic ca reer as a Special Teacher of English and German in the schools of Puerto Rico during the thirties. He served as the twelfth president of Thiel Col lege, Greenville, Pa. from 1952- 60; and as Professor of English and Vice-President of the And hra Christian College, Guntur, India, from 1947-1952. Both Thiel and Andhra Christian College, like Newberry, are institutions supported by the Lutheran Church in America. Dr. Irvin has also had experience in pu blic institutions, having served as an Instructor and Assistant Registrar at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., in the early forties. A native of Western Pennsyl vania, Dr. Irvin earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pitts burgh in English literature, and holds honorary degrees from Temple University and Thiel College. He has published in India and the United States in the areas of English literature, foreign missions, and compara tive education. Dr. Irvin and his wife, the former Ruth Mae McEIhaney, have two married daughters living in Fairbanks, Alaska, and one son, a freshman at Duke University, Durham. A. G. D. WILES DAY—Sunday was strictly A. G. D. Wiles day at Newberry College, when the school, the city, and public honored he and Mrs. Wiles upon his retirement as president of Newberry College. In the photo at left, New berry Mayor C. A. Shealy presents a photograph of Wiles Chapel to Mrs. Wiles. City Council also offered a resolution in honor of Dr. Wiles. In the second photo, A. Hart Kohn, chairman of the college board of trustees, congratulates Dr. Wiles upon being named Ptesident Emeritus of the college. Kohn also presented the Wiles a cashiers check for $4,000 from their friends. At right, Sen. and Mrs. Strom Thurmond were among the 800 guests who greeted Dr. and Mrs. Wiles Sunday afternoon at a recejgtion honor ing the veteran educator and his wife. Dr. Wiles retirement was effective Sept. 1.