Word: demorest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college presidents, James E. Walter of Congregational Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga. is probably the most tenacious. Since he first accepted a $500-a-month gift from an educational foundation started by antiSemitic, anti-Negro onetime Judge George Armstrong of Fort Worth, Texas (TIME, March 12, 1951, et seq.), students and facultymen have demanded again & again that he resign. Last week, as the academic year closed, President Walter was in the same old cauldron again...
...also all but destroyed the college. Of Piedmont's 30-man faculty, 28 teachers have either resigned or been fired; so have eleven trustees. Meanwhile, enrollments have dropped from 290 to 109, and last fall only about 30 new students showed up as freshmen. Even the town of Demorest (pop. 1,166) has joined in the protest. Last May the town council unanimously passed a resolution demanding "the removal of James E. Walter from our midst...