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  • THURSDAY OCTOBER 24, 1974 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page Robinson to take post Saturday ALONZO C. REYNOLDS WILLIAM E, BIRD ALEX S. POW There is a little valley here where Indians once lived. In the quite peace along the banks of the youthful Tuckaseigee River, they found in profuse splendor the flower to which they gave the name of "kullaughee." It remained for the white man to identify it as the Atamasco lily (Zephy ranthes Atamasco), which is not a true lily, but an amaryllis, common in the piedmont and coastal plain, but rare in the mountain region. And long after the Cherokee were gone, another rare sprig came to Cullowhee when a small, struggling school began in 1889. That budding of an educational seed was eighty-five years ago this fall and Saturday the flowering and flourishing of what has become Western Carolina University will be celebrated with the inauguration of Dr. H. F. Robinson as Chancellor and the observance of the First Founders Day. There never was much to the Cullowhee school in those early, primitive days except an idea that mountain boys and girls, deprived for generations, deserved a chance at education. The idea has grown and expanded, but there isn't much more to Western Carolina University than the notion that the people of Western North Carolina, along with all the people of the State, deserve an opportunity to improve their lives through education. The idea of the founders that the little school should belong to the people remains the idea of the inheritors who celebrate the 85 years of expansion with the belief that Western Carolina University—whatever else it may be—is a people's school. The growth of Western Carolina University since its founding in 1889 by the late Professor Robert Lee Madison has been termed "the progress of an idea." When Dean William Ernest Bird employed the phrase as the subtitle of his book, "The History of Western Carolina University," he told why: "The phrasing was due to more than a mere happy inspiration. Rather it came as a logical, if By The WCU News Bureau delayed, suggestion, after I had advanced well nigh to the last chapter of my story. In the earlier stages of the undertaking, my interest had been occupied largely with the efforts and the outcomes of the creative endeavors of those responsible for the institution's genesis, earlier growth, and later development... "Here, then, was a history, not so much of the corporeal founding and growth of an institution emphasized in its externals, as of the progress of an idea which had given it form and substance...a thought inherent in the founder's early gospel proclaimed to the people of the area. "This was that in order to educate the boys and girls living in the mountain regions we must first provide an effective program for the training of qualified teachers...to this end, not only Madison, founder and early builder, but every successor to the legacy which he thus established and which he left for others to enlarge upon has in like manner labored... "The idea itself, persistent, therefore even to the present, has nevertheless undergone its changes—all in conformity with the trends and progress of time. All this has come slowly as ana evolution—by growth from the simplest beginning in earlier days to the larger and more complex concept of today, harmonizing with current needs. "That is, to say, the idea itself has progressed." The "idea" of a school in the back reaches of early North Carolina to which Maidson "irrevocably committed" himself, was "to establish the kind of school that the mountain territory needed" for the education of its youth. Madison served as president of the school from 1889 to 1912, when Alonzo C. Reynolds of Asheville, superintendent of the Buncombe County Schools, Was elected president. Since 1905, the school had been formally recognized as a state institution, known by then as Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School. Under Reynolds' ad-« ministration, the institution made major strides, and when he resigned in 1920, Dr. Madison returned for a three-year period as president, and during this time, William Ernest Bird joined the faculty as dean of the academic program. In 1923, Dr. H. T. Hunter, then head of the Department of Education at Wake Forest, a man with strong family ties to Western North Carolina, became president. Under his direction, the school made rapid improvements, becoming, in 1925, Cullowhee State Normal School, and four years later Western Carolina Teachers College, a change that signified its becoming a four-year, degree- granting state college. Hunter led its increasing influence and fortunes until his death in 1947, when Bird became acting president. Two years later, Dr. Paul A. Reid was elected president and the institution entered upon a 20 year era of unprecedented growth and development, culminating in 1967 when it became a university. Dr. Reid was succeeded by Dr. Alex S. Pow in 1968, who further expanded the scope and mission of the institution until illness forced his retirement in 1972, when Frank H. Brown Jr., whose grandfather had served on Madison's original board of trustees, became acting president, and in July 1972, acting chancellor. In August 1972, Dr. Jack K. Carlton became chancellor and a year later, when he left to join the University of North Carolina staff in Chapel Hill (Western having become a branch of the UNC system), Dr. William Hugh McEniry became acting chancellor. Dr. McEniry, too, suffered an untimely illness and subsequently died, and Brown was again made acting chancellor. Following these unusually swift changes in administrative leadership, the Board of Trustees, UNC President William Friday and the UNC Board of Governors moved to find and appoint a strong academic leader to take over the administration of the institution and begin the task of moving the "idea" forward once more. HIRAM TV RUM HUNTER PAUL A, REID FRANK H, BROWN JR. JACK K. CARLTON ROBERT LEE MADLSON HUGH E. McENIRV
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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