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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1965
Page
3
Athens College projects a fall enrollment of 1050, a record, with 14 new faculty hires and a trimmed catalog. The trimester system, three 16 week terms, will shorten paths to BA or BS degrees in two and two thirds years. About 350 students will live on campus amid campus expansions.
Richard W. Couch will join Athens College as a professor in the science department next fall. He currently serves on the Auburn University botany and plant pathology faculty and holds a PhD from Auburn earned this year along with an MS from the University of Tennessee and a BS from Oklahoma State University.
Kenneth E. Goodson bishop of the North Alabama and West Florida Conference will lead the dedication of the Ninth Street Methodist Church sanctuary in Decatur this weekend. The mortgage will be burned after morning worship with the bishop presiding. The church recently paid off a $100000 note linked to the new sanctuary and parsonage dedication follows at 3 p.m. Sunday with Dr. W Nelson Ruthrie attending. The parsonage is at 911 Oak St NE and groundbreaking for Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in southwest Decatur is set for 9 a.m. Sunday.
A church group organized earlier this year plans to locate its building on Danville Road according to available notes. The location near Danville Road is cited as the site for the new church facility.
Governor George Wallace will be the main speaker at Courtland High School graduation Sunday night. Principal Donald Parker announced Wallace is slated to speak at Austin High School. A reception honoring the Bishop will be held at First Methodist Church Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m.
The article notes 26 graduating seniors with Betty Pyter as valedictorian and Don Gregg Parker as salutatorian, both from families listed in the piece. It mentions addresses and speakers including Tony Dewberry and June Sawyler as historian and presiding figures.
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