Presidents

When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate reputation with a thumping inaugural address. Roared he:

"Notwithstanding the incalculably valuable service of this institution to South Carolina for 132 years, I know of no other State university which in the last 50 years has been so often impoverished, so often the target for unjustifiable criticism, and so often discriminated against in the allocation of public funds. Now the university is taking the aggressive. . . ."

P: Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church.

P:Changing her scuffed, rubber-soled campus shoes for evening slippers, President Aurelia Henry Reinhardt of Mills College at Oakland, Calif, presided at a dinner celebrating two anniversaries, the 88th of the founding of Mills, one of the oldest colleges for women in the U. S., and the 21st of her successful presidency. That was modest President Reinhardt's concession to the Manhattan fund-raising firm of Tamblyn & Brown, who needed an Occasion to help them raise $1,000,000 for Mills's faculty budget. President Reinhardt invoked the memory of her predecessor, Missionary Susan Tolman Mills, whose husband bought the school in 1865 and who was its president until she resigned in 1909, aged 83. By week's end far-flung meetings of Mills alumnae, who include Mrs. Hiram Johnson and Mrs. William Edgar Borah, had pledged $252,000 to Mills's endowment drive, whose honorary chairman is Aurelia Reinhardt's friend Herbert Hoover.

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