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4-February-1997 
97059 
 
                           College News 
 
                         by Julian Shipp 
 
WAYNESBURG, Pa.--Thomas Battenhouse has been appointed the new director of 
physical plant operations at Waynesburg College. He is responsible for 
overseeing all operations of the physical plant which includes care and 
maintenance, new construction, upkeep of the heating and cooling system, 
renovations and all major construction projects. Battenhouse is a 1972 
graduate of California University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor's of 
Science in Education. He is also a member of the American Society for 
Hospital Environmental Services, International Management Association, 
National Fire Protection Association and the American Society for 
Healthcare Engineering. 
 
KERRVILLE, Texas--On Feb. 22, Schreiner College will inaugurate Dr. J. 
Thompson Biggers as its fourth president since the school's founding in 
1917. He has been at the helm of the Presbyterian-related independent 
four-year liberal arts college since his election last spring following an 
eight-month national search. Biggers succeeds Dr. Sam McDowell Junkin who 
served Schreiner for 25 years and had been the longest-tenured college 
president in Texas. 
 
ELKINS, W.VA.--The Augusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins College has 
received a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The 
grant will support the continued preservation of the Appalachian culture 
through video documentaries of folk art, traditions and customs as well as 
the presentation of traditional artists at the Augusta Heritage Arts 
Workshop and Festival held each summer. 
 
CLINTON, S.C.--A new program in medical humanities will be established at 
Presbyterian College in 1997, thanks to a Fullerton Foundation contribution 
in the amount of $159,000 for the three-year program. PC's Medical 
Humanities program, according to the proposal presented to the foundation, 
will "prepare pre-medical students for a more compassionate and more 
broadly informed approach to medical study and practice and encourage the 
entire college community to be better informed about the ethical, economic, 
sociological, religious, and political issues in medicine." A key element 
in the program will be a partnership with the Medical School of the 
University of South Carolina. 

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