Marsh, Charles F. (Charles Franklin), 1903-1984

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Charles F. Marsh became the seventh president of Wofford College on September 1, 1958. A 1925 graduate of Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, he took the Master of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1926, and the Ph.D. from Illinois in 1928. He was a faculty member at American University, and from 1930 to 1958, a professor of economics at the College of William and Mary. In his last six years at William and Mary, he was Dean of the Faculty. He was involved in civic affairs in Williamsburg, serving on several economic planning agencies. An active churchman, he was a member of several annual conference boards in the Virginia and South Carolina conferences and a member of the Methodist General Conference. Dr. Marsh also served as a member of the Methodist Commission on Church Union and as a member of the University Senate of the Methodist Church. Active in the affairs of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, he was a member of the SACS Executive Council at the time of the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Marsh retired from the presidency of Wofford in 1968, returning to Williamsburg to teach in the Graduate School at William and Mary.

From the description of Papers of President Charles F. Marsh, Wofford College : 1958-1968. (Wofford College). WorldCat record id: 709911523

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Death 1984

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