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4-September-2001
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College News

by Evan Silverstein

MONTREAT, NC - Montreat College President William (Bill) W. Hurt has
announced that he will retire at the end of the academic year. His last day
will be June 30, 2002. Hurt has served the college since 1991. Under his
leadership, enrollment grew from 300 to 1,200 and campuses opened in
Asheville and Charlotte. The Rev. Bill Dudley, pastor of Signal Mountain
Presbyterian Church in Signal Mountain, TN, will serve as chairman of the
search committee named to find Hurt's successor, who will be only the sixth
president to lead the 86-year-old college.

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ST. PAUL, MN - A memorial service will be held next month for retired
Macalester College English professor Peter Murray, 73, who died of cancer on
July 21 in St. Paul. Murray, known for inspiring students with his knowledge
of subjects as diverse as Shakespeare and chemistry, taught literature at
Macalester for 30 years and served as chair of the English department from
1971 to 1977. He retired in 1998. In addition to his wife, Karen Olson
Murray, he is survived by four children and three grandchildren. A memorial
service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Oct. 6 in Macalester's Weyerhaeuser Chapel.

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BRISTOL, TN - The King College School of Business and Economics recently won
approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to offer a
Master of Business Administration degree beginning this fall. It will be the
first master's-level program in the college's 134-year history. The
Department of Education is seeking approval of a Master's in Education
Program, and the Peeke School of Christian Mission has applied for approval
of a Master's in International Health Care.

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NEW WILMINGTON, PA - A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy named Pesed recently
left Westminster College for the first time in 115 years. The mummy, and
more than 100 other ancient Egyptian artifacts from the Westminster College
Cultural Artifacts Collection, will be part of the "Egypt: Untold Journeys"
exhibit that opens on Oct. 20 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the
Arts in Harrisburg, PA.  The 90-day exhibit will feature stories of about 80
Westminster College missionaries who served in Egypt and the showing of an
Imax film, "Mysteries of Ancient Egypt."

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CARLINVILLE, IL - The Blackburn College Library has bought an Aladdin
Ambassador Pro Reading Machine that will allow visually impaired people to
"read" a variety of documents, including books, magazines and newspaper
articles, by scanning text and converting it to speech. The system enables a
user to search documents by character, word, line, paragraph or page, easily
finding key passages.

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PORTLAND, OR - The American Bar Association (ABA) has honored Lewis & Clark
Law School with its 2001 Award for Distinguished Achievement in
Environmental Law and Policy. The ABA noted during an Aug. 6 ceremony at the
Museum of Law in Washington, DC, that Lewis & Clark developed the first
environmental-law and animal-rights journals in the country and established
one of the earliest advocacy organizations to train public-interest
environmental lawyers.
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