Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, July 6, 1990 TAG: 9007060358
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARK MORRISON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
He will begin Sept. 1, replacing Hollins President Paula Brownlee, who is leaving the college to head the Association of American Colleges in Washington.
Spencer will serve as interim president until the Board of Trustees appoints a successor to Brownlee, the school's president for nine years.
A nine-member search committee of trustees, alumnae, faculty and students is expected to place a candidate before the trustees by March 1.
The announcement of Spencer as interim president was made to faculty and staff at Hollins in the weekly summer newsletter distributed on campus Thursday.
Spencer was president of Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., from 1968 to 1983, following 11 years as president of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton.
A Davidson undergraduate, he received his master's degree and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and is the author of three books.
He was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Munich in 1965-66 and was appointed by former President Jimmy Carter to the Board of Foreign Scholarship, which oversees the Fulbright Program. He was its chairman in 1982.
From 1983-88, Spencer was president of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, a group that solicits financial support from corporations and businesses for 14 private colleges in Virginia.
He retired in 1988 and has been president emeritus of Davidson College since then.
"We are pleased to have the interim leadership of one who has the breadth of experience in higher education Dr. Spencer has," said Sion Boney, head of the Hollins Board of Trustees.
by CNB