Lycoming College Report, November 1975

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COLLEGE REPORT November 1975 / Volume 28. Number 9
UR. CHARLES E. WEYANT BOX 3
PRESIDENT HUTSON TO RETIRE
DR, HAROLD H, HUTSON, president of Lycoming College since 1969, was granted retire-ment
at his own request at a meeting of the college board of trustees on October 23, 1975.
The retirement will be effective at the end of the current academic year, June 30, 1976. when
Dr. and Mrs. Hutson will move from the residence provided for the college president at 325
Grampian Boulevard to their former home in Bethesda, Maryland.
W. Gibbs McKenney. Jr. , chairman of the board of trustees, expressed the board's regrets
at Dr. Hutson's decision to retire. He cited the retiring president for his academic and fis-cal
leadership during a period of severe change in American higher education. "Our college.
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Mr. McKenney said, "is one of the few small and independent institutions of the liberal arts
tradition which has maintained a strong financial and academic position during this period of
transition.
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The chairman recalled that in the six years, under the guidance of Dr. Hutson. the college
has liquidated more than $1,000,000 in short term notes issued for the construction of the
Academic Center and has built up its invested funds and reserves to assist with the financing
of the years ahead.
Dr. Hutson. who will be 62 in January, was born and raised in South Carolina, the son of a
Methodist minister. He graduated summa cum laude from Wofford College at the age of 18
and served as an instructor in second-year Greek for one term He earned the bachelor of
divinily from Duke University and the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
His teaching career began in 1936 at the University of Chicago, where he was a Fellow in the
Department of New Testament, He was professor of religion and philosophy at Birmingham-
Southern from 1938 to 1946 and professor of religion and chairman of the department of re-ligion
at Ohio Wesleyan University for the next six years.
Dr. Hutson's administrative career in the field of higher education began in 1952 when he was
appointed president of Greensboro College, a position he held until 1964 when he was named
provost and executive vice president of The American University. He remained at American
until coming to Lycoming in 1969.
While in WlUiamsport. Dr. Hutson has been active in numerous civic affairs. He has served
as a member of the Williamsport- Lycoming County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors,
the board of directors of the Lycoming United Way. and the board of managers of the Williams-port
Hospital. He is also president of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of The
United Methodist Church. Dr. Hutson's plans after retirement include serving independent
and church-related colleges as a part-time consultant from his home in the Washington area.
W. Gibbs McKenney. Jr. . has appointed 13 members of a selection committee comprised of
representatives of the trustees, faculty, administration and student body to begin the search
for and selection of a successor to Dr. Hutson
Chosen to the committee by Mr. McKenney from the board of trustees were Daniel G, Fultz.
ofPittsford. N. Y. ; William E. Strasburg, of Gwynedd Valley. Pa.; the Rev. Paul E. Myers.
ofHershey, Pa. ; Harold H, Shreckengast. Jr., of Jenkintown, Pa.; Walter J. Heim. of Mon-toursvlUei
and John T. Detwiler. Paul G. Gilmore, and Nathan W Stuart, all of Williamsport.
Kenneth E. Himes, of Williamsport, treasurer of the college, will represent the administra-tion;
Mrs. Gertrude B. Madden, associate professor of English, and Dr. Robert W. Rabold,
professor of economics, both of Williamsport, the faculty, and David A. Walsh, president of
the Lycoming Student Association, will serve from the student body.
Mr. McKenney will also be a member of the committee and he and Mr. Heim will serve as
co-chairmen of the group. They emphasized that all qualified candidates will be given con-sideration
and that the committee welcomes suggestions from the alumni, parents and friends
of the College. Anyone wishing to submit the name of a candidate shoiid do so in writing and
forward it promptly to the secretary of the selection committee,
Mr. Kenneth E. Himes
Long Hall
Lycoming College
Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17701,
The selection committee was convened for its first session immediately after the adjournment
of the board meeting to formulate plans for the search for Dr. Hutson's successor. The com-mittee
will meet from time to time and has been given a goal to conclude its work no later
than the annual spring meeting of the bo^rd of trustees in April. 1976.
About a thousand parents and other family
members visited the campus over Parents'
Week End. We hope they enjoyed spending
time with their sons/daughters. If you were
here, your picture may be in some of these
shots or on page 2. No? Sorry we missed
you!