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The president's office is located in Old Centre (pictured in 2005). [1]Centre College is a private liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, United States.It was founded by leaders of the Presbyterian Church, an affiliation it still loosely maintains, and was formally chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly on January 21, 1819.
George Madison Adams: member of the U.S. House of Representatives from KY–08 and KY–09 (1867–75), secretary of state of Kentucky (1887–91); Joshua Fry Bell, 1828: member in the U.S. House of Representatives from KY–04 (1845–47; first Centre alumnus to serve in Congress), secretary of state of Kentucky (1849–50)
This article comes as part of a series on Centre College's presidents that I have been working on for over two years now. After getting a handful of the biography articles to FA, I wanted to go ahead and try to get the list to featured as well - much of the format of this article was inspired by List of presidents of Georgetown University ...
Centre College, formally Centre College of Kentucky, is a private liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky, United States. Chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1819, the college is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities. It has an enrollment of about 1,400 students.
Thomas Arthur Spragens (/ ˈ s p r eɪ. ɡ ɪ n z / SPRAY-ginz; April 25, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was an American administrator who was the 17th president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Robert Johnston McMullen (May 18, 1884 – October 26, 1962) was an American pastor, missionary, and academic administrator. A graduate of Central University of Kentucky, now Centre College, and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he was licensed to preach in April 1909 and soon left the country to begin a period of more than thirty years in Hangzhou, China.
Source: Centre College: a Bicentennial History (Weston, 2019): "Thus it came about that in 1870 Ormond Beatty became the first president of Centre College who was not a minister.", and CentreCyclopedia: "...and even though a layman (he would become only the second lay president, Ormand Beatty [sic] being the first)..." Reviewed: Shel Kaphan
John Clarke Young (August 12, 1803 – June 23, 1857) was an American educator and pastor who was the fourth president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.A graduate of Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he entered the ministry in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828.