THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 17, 1996 TAG: 9605170469
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY PHILIP WALZER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld, dean of undergraduate studies at Florida State University, has been named president of Sweet Briar College.
Muhlenfeld, who will take over the women's college in August, will succeed Barbara Hill, who is retiring this summer. The school in Sweet Briar, Va., has about 600 students.
``Dr. Muhlenfeld was chosen because of her scholarship and her leadership,'' said Sara F. Lycett, chairwoman of the college's board. ``She has been a Pulitzer Prize nominee in her field of Southern literature, is widely recognized as a scholar and brings a strong emphasis on scholarship to this campus.''
Muhlenfeld said, ``I am so pleased to have the opportunity to serve a liberal arts college for women of the caliber of Sweet Briar College. For me, it will be both an exciting professional adventure and an intellectual `coming home.' ''
She received her bachelor's degree from Goucher College, a women's school in Maryland.
Meanwhile, Ladelle Payne, the president of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, said Tuesday that he would retire in June 1997.
By that time, he said, ``our capital campaign will be at a point where a substantial percentage of the goal will have been raised, the funds to pay for our new sports and recreation center should be in hand, and I will be in my 64th year. This date will give the college sufficient time to conduct an appropriate search for its 14th president.''
Payne has been president for 17 years. Under his leadership, enrollment has grown from 900 to 1,050 and the endowment has risen from $9 million to $44 million. by CNB