Radford College. Office of the President.

A Missouri native, Dr. Charles Knox Martin Jr. (1952-1972) attended Southwest Missouri State College for his undergraduate and graduate studies. In the late 1930s he received his Ph. D. from Yale. Dr. Martin went on to teach at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va., both before and after World War II. During the twenty years that Dr. Martin served as president, he oversaw the advancement of Radford College as its own individual institution after separation from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. As a leader in teacher education in Virginia, Radford's student population increased sharply, 22 buildings and additions were added to the campus, and majors offered by the college more than doubled. In 1972, President Martin retired from the presidency and became the College's Chancellor.