Morningside names speaker for Wright Lecture
Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008
SIOUX CITY -- Roger Henry Martin, former president of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., will be the featured speaker for the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the UPS Auditorium of Morningside College's Lincoln Center.
SIOUX CITY -- Roger Henry Martin, former president of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., will be the featured speaker for the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the UPS Auditorium of Morningside College's Lincoln Center.
Martin's address, "Whose Idea Was Morningside College Anyway? -- The Methodist Genius Behind an Iowa College," will touch on John Wesley's influence on American higher education. His appearance is sponsored by the Morningside College Wright Lecture series and the college's Academic and Cultural Arts Series. The event is free and open to the public.
While at Moravian, Martin presided over America's sixth oldest college. At Randolph-Macon, he was president of the oldest Methodist-related college in continuous operation in the United States.
He was president at Randolph-Macon from 1997 to 2006, during which time he took a sabbatical from his presidency in 2004 to enroll as a freshman at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He took classes and socialized with students in order to familiarize himself with student perspectives and was even a member of the college's crew team at the age of 61. His experiences and findings will be publicized in the book "Racing Odysseus: A College President Relearns the Joys of a Liberal Arts Education" scheduled to be published by the University of California Press in September of this year.
Martin holds a bachelor's degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., a divinity degree from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and a doctorate from Oxford University in England.
The Wright Lecture series, which started in 1981, brings outstanding preachers, religious leaders and prominent religious studies scholars to Morningside College. The lectures are funded by an endowment established by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Wright.
SIOUX CITY -- Roger Henry Martin, former president of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa., and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., will be the featured speaker for the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, in the UPS Auditorium of Morningside College's Lincoln Center.
Martin's address, "Whose Idea Was Morningside College Anyway? -- The Methodist Genius Behind an Iowa College," will touch on John Wesley's influence on American higher education. His appearance is sponsored by the Morningside College Wright Lecture series and the college's Academic and Cultural Arts Series. The event is free and open to the public.
While at Moravian, Martin presided over America's sixth oldest college. At Randolph-Macon, he was president of the oldest Methodist-related college in continuous operation in the United States.
He was president at Randolph-Macon from 1997 to 2006, during which time he took a sabbatical from his presidency in 2004 to enroll as a freshman at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He took classes and socialized with students in order to familiarize himself with student perspectives and was even a member of the college's crew team at the age of 61. His experiences and findings will be publicized in the book "Racing Odysseus: A College President Relearns the Joys of a Liberal Arts Education" scheduled to be published by the University of California Press in September of this year.
Martin holds a bachelor's degree from Drew University in Madison, N.J., a divinity degree from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and a doctorate from Oxford University in England.
The Wright Lecture series, which started in 1981, brings outstanding preachers, religious leaders and prominent religious studies scholars to Morningside College. The lectures are funded by an endowment established by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Wright.
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