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3-February-1997 
97042 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
STERLING, Kan.--The Sterling College Presidential Search Committee has met 
both on campus and by teleconference to collectively review the list of 
candidates whose application materials have been completed and to begin the 
task of identifying those candidates who appear best suited to meet the 
college's needs. It is the committee's goal, by the latter part of January, 
to make a final determination of those candidates who will be invited for a 
campus interview.  Applications are still being received and will continue 
to be accepted until the position is filled. The committee hopes to present 
three names to the college's board of directors at its March meeting. 
 
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.--Westminster College, one of the nation's leading 
independent liberal arts colleges, has selected R. Thomas Williamson to 
serve as its 13th president. Williamson, a 50-year-old Easton, Pa., native, 
is expected to assume leadership of the college on July 1, when chancellor 
Dr. Oscar E. Remick steps down. Remick, who has led Westminster College 
since 1987, will be honored with the title of president emeritus. 
 
WAUKESHA, Wis.--Carroll College has received a $2.3 million gift from the 
estate of an Ohio woman who graduated from Carroll in 1918. The bequest 
from Cordelia Pierce Hedges, Dayton, Ohio, is the largest in the college's 
150-year history, according to Dean A. Rein, vice president for college 
advancement, who made the announcement. The bequest will be administered by 
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Foundation for the sole benefit of Carroll 
College. In accordance with Mrs. Hedges' wishes, the gift will be 
designated for a professorship, scholarships and support for speech-related 
programs, Rein said. 
 
MONMOUTH, Ill.--Sue Huseman, the 11th president of Monmouth College, has 
announced that she will resign her position at the end of the current 
academic year to serve as vice chancellor for academic affairs for the 
University of Maine System. Huseman, who assumed the presidency in the 
summer of 1994, came to Monmouth from the University of Maine-Farmington, 
where she served as acting president. She previously had served as vice 
president for academic affairs and provost at UMF. The college will launch 
a search for a new president in the near future, with the goal of having 
the position filled by the beginning of the fall 1997 semester. 
 
LAURINBURG, N.C.--St. Andrews Presbyterian College has received a $100,000 
gift from Greensboro resident John M. Gillespie, Sr., for the Ernest E. and 
Mattie Lee Gillespie Scholarship Fund.  The scholarship fund was 
established in 1965 by Mrs. Gillespie in memory of her husband. After her 
death in 1974, her daughter, Lois Gillespie Ford, assumed responsibility 
for the fund. The first Gillespie Scholarship was awarded for the 1977-78 
academic year. Dr. Gillespie was a longtime executive of the Synod of North 
Carolina. He and Mrs. Gillespie supervised the home mission efforts of the 
Synod in Greensboro for 24 years. Dr. Gillespie died in 1958 at the age of 
89. 
 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.--Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College, has been 
elected chair of The Chamber of Commerce of West Alabama for 1997. The 
first African American to fill the post, Wynn served as chair-elect during 
1996 and assumed the position as chair Jan. 1. He was elected during a 
recent organizational meeting of the 1997 board of directors of the 
chamber. 

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