W.Hugh.McEniry.SACS

Lee McEniry

Stetson University, duPont-Ball Library, University Documents Collection

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W.Hugh.McEniry.SACS

University Archives, duPont-Ball Library, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida

Materials related to Dean W. Hugh McEniry's Tenure as President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

1962

Materials related to Dean William Hugh McEniry's Tenure as President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Dr. McEniry was born in Bessemer, Ala., in 1916. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1937 from Birmingham Southern College, his master's degree in 1940 from Vanderbilt University and his doctorate in 1942 from Vanderbilt University. He came to Stetson University in 1940 as an assistant professor of English. While at Stetson University, Dr. McEniry served as chair of the English department and humanities division, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and acting dean and later dean of the university. Dr. McEniry left Stetson University in 1967 to accept a position as vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, where he remained until his death in 1974. J. Ollie Edmunds, president of Stetson University during Dr. McEniry's years at Stetson, lauded him as one of the finest academic administrators the university has ever had. Materials included are a yellow folder with red and yellow ribbons presented to Dr. McEniry by representatives of Bethune-Cookman College on the occasion of the 1962 Trustee Convocation, images of Dr. McEniry dressed in academic regalia with an unidentified African-American gentleman also in academic regalia, likely taken at the 1962 Trustee Convocation, and two telegrams relating to segregation and Dr. McEniry's work with SACS.

William Hugh McEniry; J. Ollie Edmunds