Professor of Greek and Bible
Dr. Newman is the senior professor of the College. He is the only member of the faculty who has been with the College as a teacher since its organization. He came to the College while it was still the Graham school in 1888, and moved to Elon with the College. He served for many years as Dean of the college and acting president during the administration of Dr. W.W. Staley. He has taught almost every subject during his connection with the institution, but is now settled in the department of Greek and Bible.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and has studied in many of the leading universities all over the United States, including Yale and Chicago.
Dr. Newman is an ordained minister under the Christian Conference, but his life has been largely given to the work of teaching. In this way he has touched the life of practically every minister in the Christian Church in the South and has done more than any other living man to shape the thought of the Church. He stands for the important essentials of Christianity, and his life has been given to the teaching of these.
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PROF. A.L. HOOK
Professor of Physics and Dean of the College
Professor Hook is the successor of Dr. W.P. Lawrence as Dean of the College, and in that position has made many friends among the students. Dean Hook is one of the most popular members of the faculty, and he has well retained his popularity during his deanship.
Dean Hook is in charge of the physics department of the College, and has well prepared himself for this work by study in a number of leading Universities of the country, including Cornell and John Hopkins.
He was graduated from Elon in 1913 and began his work of teaching in the College in the same year. He is now entering on his tenth year of this work.
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DR. W.P. LAWRENCE
Professor of English
Dr. W.P. Lawrence has been a member of the Elon College faculty for 29 years. He began his work in the English department in the fall following his graduation, and has been with the College since that time.
Dr. Lawrence was graduated from Elon with the Ph.B. degree in 1894. He has since studied at the University of North Carolina, the University of Chicago, and Yale and Oxford, England. He holds the M.A. degree from Yale University, having received it in 1906. Defiance College conferred the Lit. D. degree on him in 1911.
Dr. Lawrence has been closely associated with the work of the Christian Church, of which he is a member, and with the affairs of the county and state in which he lives. He has served as president of the North Carolina-Virginia Christian Conference, and as a member of the Mission Board of the same conference and of the Southern Christian Conference.
He has held the office of county commissioner and represented Alamance in the General Assembly in 1921. He has served is town as mayor, and has been active in every forward-looking endeavor of the county.
From the Maroon and Gold, Elon College, N.C., Aug. 15, 1923
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