Greene, Walter Kirkland, 1884-1961
Papers, 1942-1951
Record Group 205
6 cubic feet, in 6 boxes
Biographical note: The fifth president of Wofford College, Walter Kirkland Greene has, to date, been the only alumnus to serve as president of the college. Born in Greenwood in 1884, Greene graduated from Wofford in 1903, where he played on a championship baseball team. Taking graduate degrees at Vanderbilt before going on to earn a PhD at Harvard, Greene spent much of his career at Duke University, where he was dean under William Preston Few, also a Wofford graduate. An English professor as well as dean of undergraduate instruction, Greene would have been close to his old professor, Henry Nelson Snyder, and when Snyder retired in 1942 after a forty year presidency, Greene was called to succeed him. Greene’s presidency was not especially long, and it was complicated by war, by the postwar boom of students attending on the G. I. Bill, and by the need for facility and faculty growth. His presidency is remembered for athletic success, but also for controversy relating to Methodist deliberation on the future of Methodist higher education in the state. During his tenure, church leaders were making plans to merge the state’s Methodist colleges onto one campus, but instead, they took a half-step and put both Wofford and Columbia Colleges under one administration. Greene served as president of both colleges for about two years. The plan was abandoned early in 1951, and Greene finished his tenure as Wofford’s president later that year. After retirement, he moved to live in Ashland, Virginia with his daughter, where he died in 1961.
Organization note: The papers are arranged into 5 series, biographical; Methodist Church; Administrative; Athletics; and Correspondence.
Access note: Unrestricted
Summary note: The Administrative series makes up the bulk of the papers, and includes his correspondence with officers on campus, with students, and in general, contains the files maintained by his office. The correspondence series consists of letters he exchanged with individuals in higher education circles, with some faculty, and with members of the community. The Methodist Church files include correspondence with and memos from church agencies. Athletics consists of files relating to sports, sports facilities and fundraising, and attempts to form athletic conferences. The biographical series consists of articles and clippings about Dr. Greene.
Citation: Cite as: Papers of Walter Kirkland Greene, Archives, Sandor Teszler Library, Wofford College
Location: Archives, Sandor Teszler Library, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC 29303
Related material: Papers of President Henry Nelson Snyder, Papers of Dean Clarence Clifford Norton, Papers of President Francis Pendleton Gaines Jr.
Administrative notes: Processed July 2008 by Phillip Stone and Phillip Mullinnix. Processing refined in July 2011.
Box and Folder Listing:
Box 1—Biographical, Methodist, and Administrative Papers
Series 1 - biographical
Bio-Articles, Letters by
Bio-News Articles
Bio-Photos
Series 2 – Methodist Church
Methodist-Association of Methodist Colleges
Methodist-Commission on Rules and Organization-General Conference, 1952
Methodist-Consolidation Plan for Wofford College
Methodist-General Board of Education 1942-1944
Methodist-General Board of Education 1945-1946
Methodist-General Board of Education 1950-1951
Methodist-General Conference 1947-
Methodist-Generic
Methodist-Jurisdictional Council 1941-1951
Methodist-National Methodist Scholarships, 1948-1949
Methodist-SC Annual Conference
Methodist-SC Conference (General)
Methodist-SC Methodist Advocate
Methodist-SC Methodist College Foundation
Methodist-SC Methodist College Foundation (Administration)
Methodist-SC Methodist College Foundation (Director)
Methodist-Upper SC Conference
Methodist-Upper SC Conference—Board of Education
Series 3- Administrative Papers
Academic Scholarships, 1945-1951
Biology Department
Administration Building
Admissions, 1947-
Alumni Association
Alumni Association, 1946-1947
Alumni Association, 1948-1950
Box 2—Administrative Papers (continued)
Alumni Council 1946-
American Council on Education
Annuity
Association of American Colleges
Army Air Corps
Army Air Corps-Training Unit
Army Reserve Training Program
Audit, 1951
Band
Board of Trustees, 1948
Board of Trustees, 1949-1950
Board of Trustees, 1950-1951
Board of Trustees, Executive Committee
Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, 1948-1949
Board of Trustees, Local Committee
Budget, 1942-1943
Budget, 1949-1950
Budget, 1950-1951
By-Laws of Wofford and Columbia Colleges
Chamber of Commerce
Canteen
Campus Landscape Program
Carlisle Hall Cafeteria
Carnegie Foundation
Certificate of Honor Letters
Chapel Inquiry, 1947
Chapel Portraits
Chapman Family
Chester C. Herbert Fund
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Class of 1895
Class of 1909
Columbia-Wofford Million Dollar Campaign Fund, 1948-1951
Commencement 1943
Commencement 1944
Commencement 1945
Commencement 1946
Commencement 1947
Commencement 1948
Commencement 1949
Commencement 1950
Commencement 1951
Committee for the Improvement of Exams, 1948
Complaints
Committees 1950-1951
Contracts
Dance Rules Inquiries
Diploma Information
Discipline Committee
Engagements [1]
Engagements [2]
Expansion Account, 1948-1949
Expansion Account, 1949-1950
Expansion Account, 1950-1951
Box 3—Administrative Papers (continued)
Expansion Account-Undesignated Funds
Expansion Program
Faculty
Faculty Retirement Plan
Faculty Salaries
Faculty-Spanish Teachers
Federal Works Agency
Field House Project
Financial Campaign, 1949
Flight Record
Fraternities
General Education Board Foundation
Glee Club
Gifts, 1947-1948
Government Contracts---Civil Aeronautics Administration
Honorary Degrees 1942-1950 [1]
Honorary Degrees 1942-1950 [2]
Honorary Degrees, 1950-1951
Infirmary
Insurance
Insurance Contracts (Athletics)
Kresge Foundation
Letters Concerning Professor Nesbitt
Library
Lists
Literary Societies
Living Endowment [1]
Living Endowment [2]
Lyceum
Main Building
Memorial Auditorium
Military—Korea (1950-1951)
Newsletter, 1944-1945
New Dormitory-Furniture
New Dormitory Project
Box 4 Administrative Papers (continued)
Phi Beta Kappa
Postwar Planning
Publications Board
Public Relations and Alumni Affairs
Publicity
Promotion-Building
Purchases Approved
Relics
Recommendations [1]
Recommendations [2]
Reeves’ Foundation
Registrar
Reports
Reservations
ROTC 1942-1945
ROTC 1946-1947
ROTC 1948-1951
Rotary Club
Rules and Regulations of the College
Scheerer, William Woodrow
Science Annex
Science Hall
Senior Class (Duke)
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Address (1929)
Snyder Hall
Social Security
S.C. Association of Colleges
S.C. College Conference
S.C. Department of Education
S.C. Tax Commission—Beer Permit, 1950
Southern Association of American Colleges—General
Southern Association of American Colleges
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges-1938-1939
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges-1939-1940
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges-1940-1941
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Southern Association of Colleges-Work Conferences
Southern University Conference
Stadium
Student Affairs
Student Council
Student Christian Association
Student Social Life Committee
Surplus Property
Telegrams
TIAA-CREFF
United Nations Committee
U.S. Office of Education
Veteran’s Administration
Box 5 Administrative Papers, Correspondence, Athletics
Administrative Papers (continued)
War Matters
Wofford Day
Wofford and the Federal Government
Wofford of Tomorrow-1945 [1]
Wofford of Tomorrow-1945 [2]
Wofford of Tomorrow, 1946-1947
World War II—Campus Management
Series 4—Athletics
Athletic Association Equipment 1946-1947
Conferences
Intercollegiate Athletics
Intramurals
Scholarship Applications 1947-1948
Scholarship Applications 1948-1950
Scholarships Awarded 1947-1948
Scholarship Fund 1946-1947
Scholarship Fund 1947-1948
Scholarship Fund 1949-1950
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Athletics Studies
Series 5—Correspondence
Admissions
Alumni
Ariail, W.G.
Blake, Louise H.
Bob Jones University
Brown, Francis
Brown, Walter
Bryson, Joseph R.
Cannon, B.M.
Central Council of Baltic Students in Germany
Central Methodist
Chiles, James A.
Coates, K.D.
Condolence Letters-WWII
Colleges and Universities
Cox, Major Leroy H.
Cunningham, J.R.
Box 6—Correspondence (continued)
Davis, J.K.
Dibble, Fred W.
Dulles, John Foster
DuPre, A.M.
Dunlap, Lonnie L.
Facilities
Faculty
Finance
Ford, William H.
Fraternities
Garber, Paul N.
General
Gifts
Gravatt, John J.
Graves, John Temple
Graves, S.R.
Guilds, J.C.
Gunter, A.L.
Gwathney, E.M.
Hamer, L.D.
Hardin, Grady
Hardin, Paul, Jr.
Harmon, Nolan B.
Harrell, Bishop Costen J.
Harris, John W.
Helms, Inez
Herbert, Bryce
Herbert, T.W.
Honorary Degrees
Humphries, C.H.
Invitations
Jeffries, R.M.
Johnston, Olin D.
King, Carl H.
Kingman, H. Lester
Correspondence-L
Law, John A.
Lawton, Bob
Leavitt, Sturgis E.
Lever, Dr. O.W.
Library
McGregor, David
Maybank, Burnet R.
Methodist
Military
Mobley, Walter F.
Mount Union College
Neely, Anne E.
Newberry College
Norton, C.C.
Owsley, W.B.
Personal
Petoskey, F.C.
Price, Wilson
Promotion Program
Pugh, William L.
SACS
Shockley, Hugh T.
Sims, Henry R.
Sims, Hugo
Smith, Charles E.
Smithyman, Harold S.
Spartanburg
Stanbury, Dr. Walter
Student Affairs
Suggs, W. Kenneth
Sympathy
Tenis, LeGrand
Thomas, Morrell
Thurmond, Strom
Trawick, A.M
Walker, C.B
Wallace, D.D
Wannamaker, George W.
Wannamaker, W.H.
Watkins, Dr. Roy E.
Williams, Ransome
Woodward, Dorothy
Wright, L.S.