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11-December-1996 
 
96479                      College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
CLINTON, S.C.--A committee has been assembled to begin the search for a new 
president at Presbyterian College following the announcement by Dr. Kenneth 
B. Orr that he will retire at the end of this academic year. In a letter to 
the college's board of trustees, Orr said that this was a decision he had 
been contemplating for some time. Orr took office at Presbyterian College 
in mid-1979, becoming the 15th president since the institution was 
established in 1880. He has served on numerous state, regional and national 
boards and committees, including serving as president of the Association of 
Presbyterian Colleges and Universities and a member of the U.S. Secretary 
of Education Richard Riley's National Advisory Committee on Institutional 
Quality and Integrity. 
 
WOOSTER, Ohio--The College of Wooster registrar Glenn Davis has been 
elected president of the Ohio Association of Collegiate Registrars and 
Admissions Officers (OACRAO). Founded in 1926, OACRAO has a membership of 
110 private and public schools. In addition to providing a range of 
services for admissions, registration and records personnel, the 
association assists member institutions to promote the ideals of higher 
education. 
 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Cassie Jones, formerly a youth development program 
coordinator in Rhode Island, has been named director of Stillman College's 
Community Service Center. Jones, who began this fall, oversees a program 
that started at Stillman in 1994. Stillman, in partnership with the 
Tuscaloosa City School System and a broad-based coalition of community 
organizations in West Tuscaloosa, established the community service center 
to develop and coordinate a service-learning program for the college and 
city schools. 
 
WAYNESBURG, Pa.--Waynesburg College president Timothy R. Thyreen has been 
elected to the board of directors of Religious Heritage of America. Thyreen 
will serve a three-year term with the St.  Louis-based, interfaith, 
nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering religious values throughout 
the nation. Thyreen was a recipient in 1995 of the Religious Heritage of 
America Outstanding Educator of the Year Award, joining President Ronald 
Reagan, Elizabeth Dole, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, former University of 
Notre Dame president Theodore M. Hesburgh, John Cardinal O' Connor, and 
others honored for their religious leadership in various professions. 
 
WAUKESHA, Wis.--Carroll College has been awarded a $650,000 grant from the 
Todd Wehr Foundation Inc., Milwaukee, toward a $1.3 million renovation of 
the college's library. The grant will be the lead gift in an effort to 
raise the additional $650,000 needed, according to Dean A. Rein, vice 
president for college advancement. The renovated facility will be called 
the Todd Wehr Memorial Library in recognition of the grant, he said. The 
Wehr Foundation was established in 1953 by the late C. Frederic (Todd) 
Wehr. The foundation traditionally supports higher education and public 
facilities within the state of Wisconsin. 

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