Photo by Howard Hiner
Born: August 25, 1912 (Edina, Missouri)
Died: January 30, 1985 (Buckhannon, WestVirginia)
Education:
- 1931 High School in Quincy, Illinois
- 1936 B.A. Quincy College
- 1939 Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Boston University
- 1939 Master of Arts, Boston University
- 1954 Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University
Service:
- 1957-1972 President of West Virginia Wesleyan College
Career:
- 1938, Ordained as a Deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the New England Conference
- 1940 Ordained as an Elder in the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church
- Assistant Pastor and minister to students at the University of Iowa
- Chaplain and Professor of Psychology, Simpson College, Indianola, Indiana
- ____-1950 Chaplain and Professor of Religious Education, Boston University
- 1950-1957 Director of the Department of Student Loans and Scholarships of the Division of Educational Institutions, The Board of Education of the Methodist Church, Nashville, TN
- 1957 Member of the West Virginia Conference
Notes:
- Honorary Degree, Dr. of Humane Letters, from West Virginia Wesleyan (May 14, 1972)
- Past president and a member of the executive committee of the Association of United Methodist Schools and Colleges
- Member of the University Senate of The United Methodist Church, one of the older college accrediting bodies in the country
- Past president of the Buckhannon Rotary Club
- Member of the Buckhannon-Upshur Development Corporation
- Past president of the Buckhannon Chamber of Commerce
- Member of the board of the Buckhannon Chamber of Commerce and of the board of the West Virginia state chamber of commerce.
Sources:
- Catalogs
- Memorial Program: The Community Gathers in Memory of Stanley Hubert Martin, Thursday, April 25, 1985.
- Marsh, D.L. (1950) The Charm of the Chapel. Boston: The Boston University Press.
- Murmurmontis
- Remembering Stanley Martin (Sundial, Winter 1985)
- The West Virginia United Methodist (September, 1972, pages 7-8, 14)
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