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23-July-96 
 
 
96257                      College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
DAVIDSON, N.C.--Ernest E. Jeffries began his job as assistant dean of 
students and director of minority affairs at Davidson College June 10. In 
addition to his duties as minority students adviser, Jeffries will assist 
Dean of Students Tom Shandley in other student affairs matters such as 
leadership training, discipline, events planning and advising student 
organizations. Davidson holds a master's degree in education from the 
University of South Carolina. He and his wife, Terry Parkes-Jeffries, have 
one daughter, Haley. 
 
LAURINBURG, N.C.--Students at St. Andrews Presbyterian College will take a 
fresh approach to math and science thanks to a $147,437 grant from the 
National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant will allow faculty and 
students at the college to design a two-part course for nonscience majors 
that combines math and sciences as they relate to today's public issues. 
The new, integrated math and science general education course will be the 
first of its kind at the college level. The course initially will be taught 
at St. Andrews this fall. 
 
MARYVILLE, Tenn.--Maryville College (MC) was awarded a $20,000 scholarship 
grant recently by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation of Princeton, N.J. 
The college was selected because it continues to serve populations of 
minority and/or economically disadvantaged students. The new grant brings 
to $340,000 the total awarded to the college over the years and MC was one 
of 14 schools to receive the grant this year. 
 
DANVILLE, Ky.--A bequest to Centre College from 1929 graduate Golladay 
LaMotte of Hopkinsville, Ky., is expected to bring more than $1 million to 
the college's permanent endowment. LaMotte died in February, and his will 
specified that the bulk of his estate go to Centre to support endowment for 
student scholarships. Richard Trollinger, vice president for college 
relations at Centre, indicates that the exact size of the bequest will not 
be known until the estate is completely settled. However, Trollinger 
indicates that even the most conservative estimates have put the estate 
value well above $1 million. 

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