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New President To Take Office
Dr. Grimsley Taylor Hobbs, 41, professor of philosophy
at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., has been named to suc
ceed retiring Dr. Clyde A. Milner as President of Guilford
College, according to Robert H. Frazier, Chairman of the
board of trustees.
The new president, elected by the board, is expected to
arrive on campus July 1.
He is no stranger to this area, having been born in
Greensboro, June 14, 1923, the son of Richard J. M. and
Gretchen Taylor Hobbs. His father was for many years pro
fessor of business law at the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Hobbs graduated from George School, Pennsylvania,
in 1941 and received his bachelor of arts degree from Guilford
College six years later. He earned his masters from Haverford
College in 1948 and his doctorate in philosophy from Duke
University in 1955.
As a graduate student, Dr. Hobbs held several assistant
ships and while at Haverford he was the recipient of the T.
Wistar Brown Fellowship in Philosophy.
He served in the Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
Sundry professional honors and citations have been be
stowed upon him through the years. He was a Ford Founda
tion Faculty Fellow for post-doctoral research in aesthetics
and literary cirticism at Indiana University in 1955-56; Earl
ham College presented him the Doan Distinguished Teacher
Award in i960. This enabled Dr. Hobbs and his wife, the
former Lois Ann Hunkele, to travel in Europe and Near East.
In 1963, he was a member of a non-western study tour of
Japan under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation. It was
during this journey that he spent five weeks in a Zen Buddhist
Monastery at Kyoto.
Dr. Hobbs joined the Earlham Faculty as associate pro
fessor of philosophy. He subsequently assumed full professor
ship. He holds membership in the Indiana Philosophical As-
The QuilfonScm
APRIL 25, 1965
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Dr. Hobbs
To Arrive
On Campus
July 1
S TUDENT LEGISLATURE President—Tom Taylor
Vice-President—Libby Voss
Secretary—Mary Penn Burton
Treasurer -Bob Backie
MEN'S STUDENT COUNCIL .President-Dave Mockford
Vice-President—Craig Wiggins
WOMEN'S STUDENT COUNClL„President-Gail Lassiter
Vice-President—Bede Walker
HONOR BOARD -Joy Purcell
CLASS OFFICES:
SENIOR CLASS President—Porter Dawson
Vice-President-John Burns
JUNIOR CLASS President—Dave Stansfield
Vice-President-Ma rt ha Lou Chilton
SOPHOMORE CLASS President-Rusty Maynard
Vice-President—Bill Hurt
sociation. He founded and edited the Earlham Review six
years.
The returning native son brings with him a respected
Quaker and Guilford College heritage. His great-grandfather,
Nereus Mendenhall, served as the principal instructor in the
boys department of New Garden Boarding School (with brief
exceptions) from 1839 to 1867. Mendenhall was superinten
dent at New Garden during 1849-50.
New Garden changed its name to Guilford in 1888, and
Dr. Hobbs' grandfather, Lewis Lyndon Hobbs, became its
first president. He held this position until 1915. Other mem
bers of the family have filled posts of responsibility there since.
Mrs. Hobbs, a native of South Orange, N. J., attended
Guilford College and received her bachelor degree at UNC
in 1949. The Hobbs have six children: Grimsley Taylor
Hobbs, Jr., 18, a freshman at Earlham; Louise 8., 15, a Sopho
more at George School; RufEin M., 13, Herbert J., 10; Richard
J. M., 8; and Elise M., 6. All are members of the Cedar Creek
Monthly Meeting of Friends in Richmond, Ind.
Dr. Milner, who has been president of Guilford since
1934, is the dean of college presidents in North Carolina. He
joined the faculty in 1930 and served as Dean of the College
until ascending to the presidency. He also has held the title
professor of philosophy and has been named to numerous
state and national educational boards and commissions.
Ernestine Cookson Milner, his wife, also retires this year,
stepping down as professor of psychology and chairman of the
department of psychology at Guilford. She is a past state pre
sident of the American Association of University Women, and
has held offices in Altrusa International, from president of the
Greensboro Club to international president, 1961 to 1963.
Guilford College was chartered in 1834 and founded by
the Society of Friends in 1837 as New Garden Boarding
School. It is the oldest co-educational college in the South and
the lone Quaker institution.