Dr. Harold W. Tribble to Be Inducted As Tenth President Three Of
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Specialln~auguration Issue * ... * * * H. W. T. To Be . ' ' . Leaders Of .lOth President 109 Schools Tomorrow at Are Expected * "Volumne XXXVI, Number 10 * Wake Forest. N.. C., Monday, November 27, 1950 . * 'relephone 4056 Dr. HarOld W. Tribble To Be Inducted As Tenth President ·~. Three Of Nine Past Leader~· Formal Exercises In Chapel Have· Had Public Inaugurals To Be Followed By Luncheon . · By TOM CLARK . Delegates Of Many Institutions And Societies Nine men have held the office of president of Wake F,orest To March In Academic Procession ()ollege since:its founding in 1834. Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble, will officially assume the position. By PAULA BALLEW Of these nine past presidents, only three have_ had o~1e1al The Inauguration of Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble as president · public inaugurations. They were Dr. rhomas Henderson Pr~tch of Wake Forest College will take place at 10 :30 tomorrow morn ard Dr. William Louis Poteat and Dr. Francis Pendleton Games. ing in the College Chapel. Judge Hubert E. Olive, chairman of The phenomenal growth and progress of the College is due in the Board of Trustees, will .preside. r.o small degree to the leadership of its distinguished presidents. Dr. Olive Cromwell Carmichael, president of the Carnegie The beginner of anything Poundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be the prin-. worthwhile must always face cer c1pal speaker. Dr. Carmichael is one of the nation's leading edu tain inevitable difficulties. So it cators, having been a member of the Board ·of Trustees of the was with Samuel WaH, the first Pres~ Tribble Carnegie Foundation since 1938, a president . of the college who member of the Problems and Poli· served from 1834 to 1845. Dr. Wait cies Committee of the American a Northerner who. dreamed of a Top Ed~cator Council on Education, 1944-46, a college to train Christian young Not New Title member of the Advisory Commit men at a moderate cost, was in tee of the War Production Board, strumental in securing sup,Port for Both He And His Father 19441 and a member of the Presi such an undertaking. He raised To Be Speaker dent's Committee on Higher 'Edu- · funds to suppor-t the young insti Have Served As Head cation since 1946. tution and secured. a charter. It Of Institutions was Wait who laid the foundation Dr. 0. C. Carmichael To The formal exercises will be fol• I ,. upon which Wake Forest has By JEWELL LIVINGSTONE Deliver Main Inaugural lowed by a luncheon in the cafe grown. Tomorrow Wake Forest College teria for the special guests at 1 Hooper Succeeds Wait· is inaugurating a new president. Address o'clock. At 3:30 o'clock a recep · Dr. William Hooper, a South Ilis name is Harold W. Tribble, By Bed Barham tion will be held at the president's Carolina scholar, succeeded Dr. and to many people that name home. Wait :in 1845 and led the college Dr. Oliver Cromwell Carmich Academic Procession ·alone carries a great deal of sig ael, one of America's foremost ed :for the . next four years. He was nificance. But to those of us who An academic procession of 313 a schol!lll."ly, modest Christian Gen nave become familiar with more ucators, will deliver the chief ad persons will begin the exercises. tleman who sought to gain support dress at the inaugural ceremony This procession will be composed th•an the name, tll.e man himself, for Dr. Harold "Tribble. from the Baptist churches it holds a greater measure of of 44 trustees and former trus throughout the state for the young worth. Carmichael, who is now Presi tees of the college, 33 officers and Wake Forest. dent of the Carnegie Institute members of the general board of Dr. Tribble .has already become for the Advancement of Teaching, the Baptist Staofe Convention and When Hooper resigned at the more than a president to the col will play a principal role in the in the members of the Board of Trus end of 1848, Prof. John B. White, lege. He has endeared himself to stallation program of just the type tees of the Baptist Hospital, 119 a northerner, was elevated to the the school as an efficient admin of man he molded in his article, members of the Faculty of Wake presidency. Despite the ominous istrator, as a sparkling personality "What Makes a Good College Forest including the members of clouds or' sectional um:-est between and most of all as a sincere President," that appeared in the the faculty of Bowman Gray Noo1Jh. .. and· South,.· Wake' Forest £riend. .. .. • · New York Times Magazine sev School of Medicine, 24 delegates '· continued to grow, and ·under He is· fully aware of the signifi eral years ago. of learned societies and education White enrollment reached over cance of his task, and he views it Tribble Qualified al and professional organizations, 100, as a vast opportunity to expand To head a college Carmichael and 105 representatives of col wanted a man who possessed "the White resigned in 1853 and was and improve Wake Forest as a leges and universities throughout Christian college and as a leading President Harold Wayland Tribble ability to work with people; the the United States. followed the next year by Dr. flexibility, patience, and tolerance Washington M. Wingate. Dr. Win educational center of the South. Faculty marshals for the occa Son Of President needed to inspire the diverse ele gate was a well-known Baptist sion will be Grady S. Patterson, The distinguished son of a dis ments ·of the college community; preacher. Someone has said that knowledge and experience of cur Dr. James C. O'Flaherty and Dr. Dr. Wingate's deeply rooted tinguished father, Dr. Tribble fits Henry S. Stroupe. easily into the role of a college Kitchin Retires After 20 Years riculum, teaching, and personnel Chxistain faith gave him the cour •f/ president. His father was Presi counseling; and the business aoil Student marshals will be Lloyd age to lead the College through years, he produced two popular Abernethy, Libbie Lou Allen, dent of Columbia Ce~llege (now Former President Ends Former Doctor Returns ity necessary in the raising of the War for Southern Indepen absorbed into Stetson University) Efficient And Eventful books which reflected his undis . funds , for college maintenance." Charles Barham, Tom Clark, Cree dence and the dark days of recon at Lake City, Fla .. -Dr. Tribble puted knowledge of and undying To Teaching Post In So well does Dr. Tribble fit these Deane, Sterling Gates, Bob Hollo struction. After a life of service himself resigned as President of Administration interest in the medical profession: Biology Department qualifications tp.at it is altogether mon, Bet Isbell, Jewell Living to Wake Forest, he died in 1879. Andover - N e w t o n Theological 'Dle Doctor and Citizenship in 1934 fitting and proper that Dr. Car stone, Caro Moore Beverly Neil· Wake Forest Graduate As Dr. Harold W. Tribble of and Doctors in Other Fields in are too numerous to mention. michael should play a leading role son, Joe Newhall, Carol Oldham, School in Newton Center, Mass, to 1938, But even greater is his in To take hjs place, Dr. Thomas take his position at Wake Forest. ficially takes over- ,the reins as It is the case of an overworked in his inauguration. Lucius Pullen, Harriet Smith, Paul · H. Pritchard, a North Carolinian So being a college president is not President of Wake .Forest College terest in teaching, as he himself yet tireless leader who at last can Author And Educator "Tinker" Williams and Harry · by ·birth, and a graduate of Wake new to Dr. Tribble, but in coming tomorrow, Dr. Thurinan D. Kitch has pointed out by saying, "I like depart from the strenuous task In addition to serving as the Wright. Forest was chosen. Pritchard trav to Wake Forest he· states that in- retires after- an efficient and teaching better than anything." of using all of his many abilities author of many articles on the Order Of Delegates elled the state,· espousing the cause eventful 29-year administration, to The representatives of the watching an old college eXperience As he steps down from the pla·t to settle down to giving full at principles of secondary education ot 'improvements in the school a new birth under his administra return to his favorite vocation as tention to his favorite one. He this 59-yea!r-old educator has learned societies and the delegates plant. He was striving for Wake a teacher. form as a college president· who looks back over a long, fruitful served continuously since 1920 in from the universities will appear Forest's physical growth. Pritch tion is one •of the truly great ex has received state and nationwide periences of hi~ life. career as an educator in many one educational capacity or an ir- chronological order in keeping ard was the first Wake Forest The physician who never quite acclaim throughout 20 busy years fields. other. with the date· of the founding of of devoted active service, Dr. president to have a formal public T h e PreSident's exceptional got the "country doctor" out of Now he is a teacher in only From 1926-1935 he served as their school or organization. induction. The ceremony came on background pronoances him as a his blood happily retwrns to the Kitchin also resigns from. so many one field, and he is content. Members of the Wake Forest other important posts that they president of Alabama College, Wednesday, September 3, 1879, scholar of the. highest caliber. At classroom to share with students From there he moved to Vander College faculty whG have been· two days after the opening of the the age of 13 he decided tG be his knowledge of -merucine which Religious Education Club bilt U.niversity where be remained asked by their respective colleges College session.