THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, January 6, 1997 TAG: 9701060056
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A3 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, S.C. LENGTH: 26 lines
The Citadel picked the headmaster of an all-male boarding school Sunday to lead the state-run military college into the era of coeducation.
John S. Grinalds, a retired Marine major general and West Point graduate, was voted in unanimously by The Citadel's governing board as the school's 18th president. He takes over this summer.
Grinalds, 59, said he didn't know enough to comment specifically about claims made last month by two female cadets that they were the victims of hazing that included setting their clothes on fire and being shoved with rifles. He said he wants to see the state and FBI reports first.
A Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Oxford University and Harvard Business School, Grinalds has served as headmaster of Woodberry Forrest School since 1991.
Woodberry Forest is a non-military school about 35 miles northeast of Charlottesville. Grinalds will finish the current academic year there before taking on his new duties.
Grinalds succeeds Claudius Watts, who retired in the summer after a seven-year term.