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May 1913

President Poteat reads to the Board his finished
report.

[Printed text attached to page]:

Annual Report of the President of Wake
Forest College

To the Board of Trustees:

I have the honor of presenting the following report of the session
of 1912'-'13, opening September 3, 1912, closing May 23, 1913:

[Sidebar: The Trustees]

Since your last annual meeting an honored member of your body
has passed away, Dr. James B. Richardson, of High Point. His
death occurred at his home September 7, 1912.
He had been a Trustee of the College since 1873,
and showed his unfailing interest in it by the
regularity of his attendance upon the meetings
of the Board and by a bequest for the improvement of its equipment.

In comformity with the action of the Baptist State Convention, December
5, 1912, the charter of the College was amended by the Legislature
of 1913 in the following particulars: (1) Members of the
Board of Trustees shall be composed only of members of Baptist
churches cooperating with the Baptist State Convention; (2) Vacancies
caused by expiration of term, death, or otherwise, shall be filled
by successors chosen by the Board of Trustees and confirmed by the
Baptist State Convention at its next session; (3) The present Board
of Trustees shall be divided into three classes, the term of the first
class to begin at a time fixed by the Board and to expire two years
thereafter; the term of the second class shall begin at the same time
and expire four years thereafter, and the term of the third class
shall begin at the same time and expire six years thereafter.

These amendments to the College charter make formal and legal
the bond between the College and the denomination which has been
heretofore informal and vital, but nevertheless close and real. Under
the unmodified charter, in which the word Baptist did not occur, the
suggestions of the Carnegie Foundation, to which the College was
legally eligible, were declined. Now it is well to recognize formally
and definitely that assistance from that quarter for retiring allowances
or for a library building need not be expected. If Baptists
are to maintain their own system of schools, it is now even more
certain than heretofore that they must themselves support it. I
have fresh evidence that Mr. Carnegie does not propose to "include
within his scope assistance to educational institutions of which the
trustees, by nomination, election, or confirmation, are subject to the
control of any particular church or church body."

[Sidebar: The Faculty]

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees in Raleigh, October 11th,
the resignation of Dr. Edgar E. Stewart as Professor of Anatomy
was regretfully accepted. The Board passed a
resolution expressing its appreciation of his loyalty
to the College and of the high character of
work which he had done since his appointment
in 1908. At the same meeting Dr. Edward S. Ruth was appointed
to succeed him. Dr. RUth was educated at the Mount Ridge High
School, Kansas; Bethel College, Newton, Kansas, and the University
of Kansas Medical School, where he took his professional degree in
1910. Beside his hospital experience, he was for one year Research
Fellow in the surgical department of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, where he worked in association with Dr. Carrel,
the winner of the Nobel prize in medicine for 1912. Dr. Ruth took
up his work here October 28th.

With the opening of the session Dr. Hubert McNeill Poteat,
elected August 8, 1911, to succeed the lamented Professor Carlyle,
began his work as Professor of Latin.

Additional appointments for the departments specified were made
as follows: Elias D. Johnson, Instructor in Chemistry, salary college
fees and $150; Clyde E. Rodwell, Instructor in CHemistry, salary
college fees and $125; Roy J. Hart, Instructor in German, salary
college fees; John W. Vann, Instructor in German, salary
college fees; Charles A. Farrell, Assistant in English, salary college fees;
Henry B. Conrad, B.A., Assistant in Biology; salary college fees;
Bernard F. McLeod, Assistant in History, salary college fees; William
A. Young, Assistant in Political Economy, salary college fees;
Durwood F. Mayberry, Assistant in Government, salary college fees;
Matthew D. Phillips, Jr., Assistant in Applied Mathematics,
salary college fees; Floyd C. Shugart, Assistant in Histology, salary
college fees; Edgar W. Lane, Assistant in Physiology, salary college
fees; Preston A. McLendon, Assistant in Anatomy, salary college
fees; and Richard F. Paschal, Assistant in Libray, salary colleg
fees. Mr. Roy A. Marsh and Mr. Oscar W. Sawyer were continued
in the positions held by them the preceding session, Latin and Physical
Culture, respectively.