ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, May 3, 1996 TAG: 9605030049
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Radford University will dedicate its new administrative building today in honor of Charles K. Martin, who served as Radford's president from 1952 to 1972.
The dedication will occur at 10 a.m. on the Norwood Street entrance of the new Martin Hall. James Stutts, vice rector of the Board of Visitors, President Douglas Covington and Edwin L. Martin, brother of Charles Martin, will speak. A reception will follow, along with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.
Martin, who died in 1987, was Radford's third president and one of the youngest in Virginia when he took the job at age 42. Earlier, he'd graduated from college in three years, earned a master's from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. from Yale University, served as a school principal and superintendent and as a Navy lieutenant commander in World War II. He was a professor at Mary Washington College before coming to Radford.
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