President Fleming also returned at the invitation of Roy McCuskey to serve as Vice President from 1938 to 1944, and to head up the Semi-Centennial Campaign to raise $1 million.
Born: December 22, 1872 (Cambridge, OH)
Died: June 30, 1952 (Buckhannon, WV)
Education:
- A.B. Muskingum College
- B.D. Drew Theological Seminary
- Ph.D. Columbia University
- L.L.D. West Virginia Wesleyan College
- L.L.D. Baker University
Occupation:
- Newark Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church (Trial: 1897, Elder 1899)
- North Patterson
- Bayonne
- Maplewood
- Taught Hebrew and Greek in the Theological Seminary of Drew University 1911-1915
Served:
- Faculty Committee: Administration 1942-1943
- Faculty Committee: Catalog (1917-1923)
- Faculty Committee: Library (1922-1923)
- President of the College 1915-1922
- Vice President of the College 1938-1944
- Vice President of the College, Emeritus 1945-1952
- Director of the Semi-Centennial Campaign for One Million Dollars 1938-1940
- Acting President 1942-1943
- Trustee Committee: History and Archives 1943-1949
- Trustee Committee: HIstory, Archives, and Fine Arts 1949-1952
- Trustee Committee: Investment 1942-1944
- Trustee Committee: Public Relations 1942-1950
Notes:
- Wrote: The West Virginia Wesleyan College Alma Mater (Alma Mater of the Mountains) in 1918.
- Memorial Address for Fallen Heroes in World War I, December 18, 1918. Atkinson Chapel.
- At the West Virginia Legislature’s memorial service for Roy Earl Parrish on January 21, 1919, President Fleming gave the prayer. Lieutennant Parrish was a member of the West Virginia Conference Seminary Class of 1908, and served in the legislature before voluntarily joining the Army and being sent to France.
- President of Baker University at Baldwin, KS 1922-1937
- Wrote: Guide Posts to Life Work: talks with young people on vocations: New York, Abingdon Press, 1924
- Wrote: Genealogy of a Fleming Family
Sources:
- Catalog: 1916-1922; 1938-1950
- Murmurmontis: 1917 – 1923; 1938-1940
- Travelers on the Long Road,, Volume 1, pages 254-255
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