Papers of President Charles F. MarshMarsh, Charles Franklin
Papers, 1958-1968
4.6 cubic feet, in 6 boxes
Record Group 207
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.
Organization: Organized into six groups: 1: College Papers;
2: Church Papers; 3: South Carolina Higher Education Papers; 4: Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Papers; 5: Correspondence; 6:Inauguration,
Photographs, and Articles.
Access: Unrestricted
Summary: President Marsh’s office files contain
correspondence relating to numerous aspects of Wofford College
in the 1960s. Principally, the college
papers consist of correspondence with the deans, Philip Covington and Frank
Logan, with faculty, with alumni and donors, and with some students. Some of his speeches and statements are also
included in this section. Two folders of
his correspondence relate to the College’s 1964 decision to integrate. The church papers deal with his work on the
Conference Board of Education and with his service for the University Senate as
a counselor to two North Carolina Methodist colleges. His Southern Association work involved the
evaluation and accreditation of Pikeville
College in Kentucky,
and his service on the executive committee during the integration of the University of Mississippi. Of particular interest are letters he
received during the crisis from interested persons and his response to some of
those letters. In addition to his papers
are the records of his inauguration, a number of photographs, and newspaper
clippings.
Cite As: Papers of
President Charles F. Marsh
Location: Archives,
Sandor Teszler Library, Wofford College, Spartanburg,
SC 29303-3663
Related
materials: Records of President Paul Hardin III
Finding Aid: Folder
listing
Accessioned April
21, 1988, with further accessions in 2003 with the Joab Lesesne Papers.
Processed by Phillip
Stone on July 29, 1998 and completed on July 21, 1999 by Phillip Stone and
Peter Kay. Arrangement refined in
2005. Processing refined on July 6, 2011 by Phillip Mullinnix.
Folder listing
Folder Contents
1 Trustees
2 Wofford Associates
3 Dean
of the College Philip S. Covington
4 Faculty
5 Dean
S. Frank Logan and Student Affairs
6 Fraternity
Affairs
- Religious
Life and Donald Stanton
- Harold
Smithyman and Finance
- Edward
Sydnor
- Library
Correspondence
- Development
Planning
12 Alumni Affairs
13 Portrait Committee Report, 1963
13A Grace
DuPre and Mason DuPre Portrait
14 Glee
Club and John Coker
15 ROTC
16 Athletics
and Eleven Club
17 Publications
Board
18 National
Merit Scholarships
19 Danforth
Workshop and Foundation
20 Committee
on the Superior Student
21 General Electric College
Bowl
22 Commencement
1962, Controversy surrounding address by Charles Parlin
23 Commencement
1965
24 Speeches
and Statements
25 Woodrow
Ward Advocate Articles and response by Trustees and President Marsh
26 South Carolina
Conference Board of Education
27 General
Board of Education, the Methodist
Church
28 Methodist
Higher Education
29 1964
General Conference
30 Methodist
Higher Education Fund
31 University
Senate of the Methodist
Church
32 North Carolina Wesleyan College
- UMC Senate
33 North Carolina Methodist College
- UMC Senate
34 “Contributions
of Wofford College to Methodism,” Address on July
1, 1964
35 Historical
Society, SEJ, the Methodist
Church
36 Commission
on Church Union, the Methodist
Church
37 Colin
Simmons, Africa trip
38 South Carolina
Foundation of Independent Colleges
39 South Carolina
Association of Colleges
40-47 Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools papers and minutes
48 SACS
– Integration Crisis at the University
of Mississippi
49 Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools - Report on Pikeville College
50 Higher
Education Facilities Act
51 Integration
at Clemson
52 Kellogg
Foundation
53 Correspondence
Correspondence-Gosnell,
Cullen B.
53A Correspondence-Roger
Milliken, 1960-61
53B Correspondence-Roger
Milliken, 1962-64
53C Correspondence-Roger
Milliken, 1965-68
53D Correspondence-Lusk
Corp.
53E Correspondence-US
Steel Foundation
53F Correspondence-Gulf
Oil Corp. Foundation
53G Correspondence-Quaker
Oats Foundation
Correspondence-Demopoulos
Scholarship Fund
Correspondence-Pettis,
Charles S.
54 Integration:
Letters supporting
55 Integration:
Letters opposing
56 Articles
by Dr. Marsh
57 Inauguration
58 Inaugural
Greetings
59 Reports
(to S.C. Annual Conference)
60 Photographs
61 Marsh
Retirement and Honors
62 Personal
Additional
materials about Dr. Marsh, includes newspaper clippings, post-presidential and
retirement material. Also obituaries of
Dr. and Mrs. Marsh.
Subjects:
Wofford College--Education--20th
Century; Wofford
College--Administration; Marsh,
Charles Franklin; Methodist Church--Education;
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; University of Mississippi--Integration;