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TRUSTEES ELECT EDUCATOR AS 19TH PRESIDENT A 36-year-old educator has become Mitchell College’s 19th president. Dr. Barton Robert Herrscher of Durham, associate director since 1968 of the Junior and Community College Division of the Regional Education Lab oratory for the Carolinas and Virginia (RELCV), was nam ed by the Board of Trustees Oct. 20 and will assume full duties of his office Feb. 1, 1971. He succeeds President-Emeri tus John Montgomery in the administrative post whose prev ious occupants since the col lege’s opening in 1856 have included 14 men and four women. 5 Interviewed According to Board Chair man J. P. Huskins, the trustees’ five-member executive com mittee interviewed five pros pects from a field of "22 or 23” applicants before nominat ing Dr. Herrscher to the whole board of 30 persons for final approval. The filling of the position culminates a search that began last March when Mr. Mont gomery, who held the office for 23 years, announced that he would retire from the pres idency at the close of the 1969-70 academic year. Earned 4 Degrees Educated in the public schools of St. Louis, Mo., Dr. Herrscher received degrees from Harris Junior College (A.A., 1953) and Harris Tea chers College (B.A., 1956) in that city. He was awarded his M.Ed. degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, in 1957 and his Ed.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1967. At the latter instimtion he was a Kellogg Fellow and associate dean of students. He has held teaching posi tions at Southern Methodist University, University of Cali fornia at Berkeley, Junior Col lege District of St. Louis, Cali fornia State College at Long Beach, College of William and Mary, N. C. State University, Duke University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also served as associate di rector of the Institute in Junior College Administration at Duke University. President Herrscher has been listed in Who’s Who in Amer ican Colleges and Universities (1955), Who’s Who in Col lege and University Adminis tration (1970) and Commun ity Leaders of America (1970). Published Articles In addition to being a con sultant for the past two years at numerous colleges and uni versities, Dr. Herrscher was a field reader for the U. S. Of fice of Education in 1969. He has presented several papers ar professional conferences and has co-authored numerous ar ticles for publication, including "A Learning-Oriented System of Instruction” in this month’s issue of Junior College Journal. He is married to the former (Continued in Next Column) DEATH CAR AND CRASH SITE—Sue Nichoiar (inset) lost her life in this green, four-door compact car (left photo) shown in the lot of Yadkin Valley Motor Co. Inc., North Wilkesboro. Operated by John Williams, the auto was struck by an oncoming vehicle and came to rest against the telephone pole at this intersection (right photo). The spot is in Wilkes County about miles north of the Iredell County line. (Photos by Young and Rudy) JOINT SERVICES Rites Held Far Highway Crash Victim Memorial services for Miss Susan Jane "Sue” Nichoiar, 19, were held simultaneously Oct. 10 in Shearer Hall and in Swarthmore, Pa., home of the auto crash victim’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Vincent Nicho iar. Dr. Richard L. Morgan, col lege chaplain, officiated at after noon ceremonies here honoring the memory of the sophomore coed, who was killed instantly Oct. 4 in a four-car collision at the intersection of N. C. 115 and Balls Mill Road (rural road 2474) five miles south of North Wilkesboro and 27 mil es north of Statesville. Miss Nichoiar was a pas senger in a 1969 Simca oper ated by John Calhoun Williams III, 19, also a sophomore. Both were taken to Wilkes General Hospital, where Miss Nichoiar was pronounced dead on ar rival. Driver Injured Williams suflPered numerous lacerations of the body, includ ing deep cuts of the left arm requiring 40 stitches, college officials said. Hospital sources listed his condition as "satis factory” and discharged him the third day after his admit tance. According to a statement at tributed to Williams by Direc tor of Student Affairs D. E. Spencer, the fatality happened while Miss Nichoiar was sleep ing. The accident occurred on a two-lane, straight stretch of highway at 5:55 p.m., investi gation showed. Visited A. S. U. The couple reportedly was returning to Statesville from Boone after visiting Appala chian State University, where they had planned to transfer. They had been seen by several persons on the Mitchell campus earlier that Sunday afternoon. Highway Patrolman Terry R. Stokes reported that Wil liams slowed behind a 1968 Plymouth being driven by Wal lace Ballard, 28, route 2, States ville, as Ballard slowed for an unidentified car to make a right turn. Hit Head-on Patrolman Stokes’ investiga tion showed that the Williams’ vehicle was hit head-on in the chain reaction accident by a 1969 Dodge operated by Mrs. Rosezell Caudill Anderson, 44, Country Club Road, Wilkes- boro, who was injured and ad mitted to Wilkes General Hos pital. The Anderson car, which was being driven north, skid ded to the left and struck the Ballard auto in the left rear be fore colliding with the Wil liams car in the south-bound lane. The fourth vehicle, a 1962 Plymouth operated by Fred Lee Nash, 42, route 6, Hickory, ap proached going south, crossed the center line and went off the left shoulder of the road way, hitting an embankment in an effort to miss the pileup. The Williams car and the Anderson car were heavily damaged. Several hundred dol lars damages were estimated to the other cars. 7 Participants In addition to Dr. Morgan, participants in the Christian Science memorial service in cluded Mrs. Josephine Bunch, organist; Dean Kenneth Brad shaw; David Singletary, presi dent of the student body; Sid ney Lanier, president of the Student Christian Association; Mrs. Jean Duffy, soloist; and Williams. In addition to her parents. Miss Nichoiar is survived by an older sister. The deceased, a graduate of Swarthmore High School, at tended Mitchell College in 1969-1970 and resided in the Main Dorm. Last summer she studied at Community College of Delaware County in Media, Pennsylvania. c a m p u s VOL. XXIII No. 1 c 0 m m e n Mitchell College Statesville, October, 1970 College "T , N. C. V s Stephanie Fitzsimmons. The couple has one daughter, Step hanie Ashton, 6, who is in the first grade. According to Dean Kenneth Bradshaw, the Herrschers will maintain their residence at 3502 Randolph Road, Durham, until next summer when they will move into the college’s presidential quarters at 603 Walnut St. Although he will live in Statesville second se mester, the new president will commute to his home on week ends, Dean Bradshaw said. NEW PRESIDENT . . . DR. BARTON R. HERRSCHER QUIP OF THE DAY — From a South African textbook on criminology: "In extreme cases marijuana can so destroy a man’s character that he mixes freely with persons of another race.”
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