Atlanta Daily World

DR. KNOLES AT CLARK APRIL 21 AS COUNSELOR

Dr. Tully C. Knoles, who will be on the Clark College campus April 21 as lecturer and an administrative counselor, is widely recognized as a distinguished educator. He was born in Illinois but has spent most of his life in the West: first as a cowboy, then as a student, later as a professor and finally as a college president.

Dr. Knoles holds the A.B. degree from the University of Southern California and also an A.M. degree from that institution dated five years later. He has been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees including a D.D. from the University of Southern California, a LL.D. from the College of the Pacific, and a D.D. from the Pacific School of Religion. He is a minister and a member of the California annual conference.

For ten years he was head of the Department of History in the University of Southern California. He was elected to the presidency of College of the Pacific in 1919, and served in that capacity until 1948, at which time he retired and was elected chancellor of the college. He still carries responsibility for the internal operation of the institution.

Under his leadership College of the Pacific experienced large growth in enrollments and in the expansion of the plant and facilities. Today the beautifully landscaped campus is truly a thing of beauty.

One of the most important contributions Dr. Knoles has made to education, however, is the development of a unique relationship with a municipal Junior college. Under this cooperative and closely coordinated arrangement the junior college uses part of the College of Pacific plant and College of the Pacific centers its efforts upon instruction above the sophomore level. This includes the two years of undergraduate work and also work leading to the Master of Arts degree. This organizational pattern is worthy of study by other institutions, and may well become a rather widely accepted type of educational organization.

Dr. Knoles holds membership in a number of professional and learned societies, as for example, life membership in the National Education Association, membership in the Southern California Historical Society, and in the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity, Pi Gamma Mu, and Phi Alpha Theta. He is a Mason and a Rotarian. Up until 1948 he had held membership on the General Board of Education of the Methodist Church for many years.

Dr. Knoles is coming to Clark College as a part of a very extensive itinerary through the South, under the sponsorship of the Division of Educational Institutions of the Methodist Board of Education in Nashville.