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26-September-1997 
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    College News 
 
    by Julian Shipp 
 
BRISTOL, Tenn.--King College recently received $25,000 from the Richmond S. 
Reynolds Foundation, which is one half of a matching grant challenge that 
will establish a scholarship for students from southwest Virginia. The 
Reynolds "Forging the Future" Scholarship Program will provide scholarship 
assistance during the 1997-98 academic year to students from the Cumberland 
Plateau in Russell, Tazewell, Buchanan and Dickenson counties. The two-year 
$50,000 matching grant challenge to establish the scholarship was approved 
by the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation in November as construction of the 
$34 million Reynods Metals Co. manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Va., neared 
completion. 
 
ST. DAVIDS, Pa.--F. Ardell Thomas, M.D., chairman of the board, is pleased 
to announce that Eastern College has appointed David Black as its new 
president. Black comes to Eastern College from Lakeland College in 
Sheboygan, Wis., where he served nine years as president. Prior to assuming 
the presidency of Lakeland College in 1989, Black held a number of 
executive leadership positions at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio; 
Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee; and Lee College in Tennessee. 
Black earned his Ph.D. in organizational development and psychology from 
Ohio University and his master of science degree in counseling from the 
University of Tennessee. His undergraduate degree in history and psychology 
was completed at Lee College. 
 
BLOOMFIELD, N.J.--The Princeton-based Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation has 
awarded Bloomfield College two grants totaling $48,000 for the 1997-98 
academic year: $23,000 in support of Newcombe Scholarships for Mature Women 
Students and $25,000 for Newcombe Scholarships at Presbyterian Colleges. 
These grants bring the cumulative total awarded by the Newcombe Foundation 
to the college in 17 years of funding to $695,000. The trustees of the 
Newcombe Foundation increased Bloomfield's grant for Scholarships at 
Presbyterian Colleges by $5,000 this year as a challenge to build 
scholarship endowment. "Bloomfield College gratefully accepts the $5,000 
challenge and will be diligent in matching this amount dollar for dollar," 
said college president John F. Noonan. 

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