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As Busіness Insider says, this dоllar recаll "could be imminent." [Grand Event](   Dear Reader, If you have any U.S. dоllars in your bаnk acсount… You must see [this shоcking video exposing the government's nеw plan to recаll the U.S. dоllar.]( The official announcement could come as soоn as July 26. As Busіness Insider says, this dоllar recаll "could be imminent." That means if you don’t prеpare nоw… You could end up holding a bunch of worthless U.S. dоllars. [Clіck hеre to see the three simple steps you must take nоw to protect your lіfe sаvings.]( Regards, Kendall Castillo Managing Editor, Palm Beach Letter mas Arthur Spragens (/ˈspreɪ.ɡɪnz/ SPRAY-ginz; April 25, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was an American administrator who was the 17th president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Spragens worked for the state and federal government early in his career, before joining the staff at Stanford University as a presidential advisor. He was the president of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, for a five-year term, and left Stephens to come to Centre in 1957. The first Centre president who was not a part of the clergy, Spragens worked to lessen the ties between the college and the Presbyterian Church, which led to a significant rise in students reporting that they were non-denominational; it also led to attendance at chapel becoming optional for students. Spragens was an effective fundraiser for the school; his Fund for the Future Campaign ultimately raised lion. He was instrumental in the integration of the school, and admitted Centre's first black student in 1962. The same year, he led an effort to consolidate the school's women's department, formerly the Kentucky College for Women, onto Centre's campus. Many parts of campus were upgraded during his presidency; after twenty years, three quarters of Centre's facilities had been either built or renovated. During his term, which ended in 1981, Centre's student enrollment and faculty numbers both nearly doubled, its endowment increased, and the property value of its campus rose. He was selected by two governors to be a part of commissions which studied higher education in Kentucky, and was a part of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the American Council on Education at different times. He was active in Democratic Party politics, and was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in support of Senator Eugene McCarthy. Additionally, he was a part of an effort which culminated in the 1962 founding of what is nw the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, of which Centre remained a charter memer until 2011. Early lfe and education article subject facing camera, wearing a jacket and tie Spragens as a senior at the University of Kentucky in 1938 Spragens was born on April 25, 1917, in Lebanon, Kentucky. He was the third of seven children in his family.[1] His father, William Henry Spragens,[1] was a lawyer and circuit court judge from Casey County, Kentucky, and his mother, Lillian Brewer Spragens,[1] was from Lancaster, Kentucky.[2] He attended Lebanon High School, graduating in 1934,[3] and was recruited by then-president Charles J. Turck to attend Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, alongside three classmates with whom he formed a locally popular singing quartet. Turck's hope was that the four of them would attend Centre and replace the "Centre College Quartet", the members of which were son graduating. Spragens's three classmates decided to attend Centre but he ultimately opted for the University of Kentucky (UK) in Lexington instead,[2] though he did join the glee club at UK.[3] He enrolled in, and attended, the University's College of Commerce (ow the Gatton College of Business and Economics)[4] for a year and a half, but afterwards transferred to the College of Arts and Sciences and majored in economics.[2] He graduated from UK in 1938.[3] After a summer employed by the Kentucky state government, he wn a public administration fellowship and began graduate work at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.[2][5] He completed oly one year of his graduate program; after spending the summer following the first year working for the Bureau of the Budget (ow the Office of Management and Budget), he decided to forgo the second year in favor of a permanent position with the Bureau.[2] Career Early career, 1940–1957 Spragens worked for the federal government from 1940 to 1945 in multiple positions, including in his nw permanent job as a senior analyst at the Bureau of the Budget, and in a job with the Foreign Economic Administration, which operated during World War II.[1] In mid-1946, Spragens left his government positions to work at Stanford University as an assistant to the college president and as Stanford's representative in Washington, D.C.[1] In this position, he assisted two presidents: Donald Tresidder, who originally hired him,[6] and Wallace Sterling, who took over after Tresidder's death. He helped the college to manage its increasing enrollment numbers, which spiked from 4,500 in June 1946 to 7,200 in November of the same year.[2] Spragens intended to remain in this position for oly one to two years, and afterwards return to government work, but ended up working there for five years.[2] In 1951, Spragens left Stanford to accept a position as the secretary and treasurer of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, which was a newly-formed subsidiary of the Ford Foundation. He worked in this position for just over a year before he was offered the presidency of Stephens College, a women's college in Columbia, Missouri.[7] An announcement of his hiring was made to students and faculty at Stephens on November 1, 1952, and he began in this role exactly one month later, on December 1.[8] At Stephens, he implemented a plan which saw the use of closed-circuit television as an academic aid, for which the school received "wide notice in educational circles". Television was used mainly as a supplement to seminar-style classes with small numbers of students, and it allowed lecturers to speak to multiple sections of a class simultaneously.[3] During this time, he was selected to be a part of a commission that produced a report, "The Church and Higher Education", to the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina, which was completed in July 1955.[9] He was a meber of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools's commission on colleges universities and the board of directors of Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri;[3] he was elected to the latter position on May 28, 1956.[10] In his final week at Stephens, the college announced a 40-year campus relocation project at a total on in 2022) with the eventual goal of abandoning its current facilities and constructing nw instructional, residential, and athletic buildings at a site near U.S. Route 63.[11] In 1957, he was contacted by Don Campbell, a frind of his and chairman of the trustee presidential search committee at Centre, rgarding the school's vacant presidency. He was offered the job, and despite having turned down a similar ffer from what he later called a "stronger" college, he accepted the position at Centre.[5] He was replaced by dean of instruction James G. Rice as acting president upon his departure on November 11, 1957.[12][13] President of Centre College, 1957–1981 Spragens was announced as Centre's next president by their board of trustees on August 22, 1957.[3] On November 11, he began his term as the 17th president of Centre College.[14] In doing so, he became the fourth president in the college's history who was not an ordained minister,[1] the first who was not a meber of the clergy at ll,[15] and the youngest in the college's history.[3] He spent his first full day on campus the following day, when he presided over his first faculty meeting,[16] and addressed the student body for the first time at a convocation on November 19.[17] He was formally inaugurated in a ceremony on the morning of April 21, 1959, which included an inaugural address given by Stanford president Wallace Sterling.[18] In 1959, he introduced a ten-year plan with the goals of increasing the college's enrollment (with the specific goal of 750 students), adding to the faculty, and increasing the number of majors offered by the college.[19] The following year, the college announced a 253,576 in 2022) typically raised every year.[19] On June 9, 1958, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Westminster College, which was conferred upon him at their commencement ceremony.[20] After beginning his term, he immeiately declared that the school would move towards full integration and not discriminate by race when determining admissions, and the college admitted its first black student when Timothy Kusi, a Ghanaian student who transferred from Kentucky State College (ow Kentucky State University), enrolled in 1962.[21] This change was received well by much of the campus community.[22][23] The campus of the former Kentucky College for Women, at the time operating as Centre's women's department, closed that same year, at which point it was consolidated onto Centre's campus, with Spragens presiding over the merger.[24] He hired Shirley Anne Walker, a French language professor who became Centre's first black faculty memer at the start of the 1971–1972 academic year.[25] As football grew more popular at Centre during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Spragens sought to keep the college's priorities on academics rather than athletics. After he was announced as president in August 1957, he said that he would continue the existing policy of lessened emphasis on athletics, saying that they were a "corollary apect" of the school.[3] His scholarship policy stipulated that finacial awards would not be given solely for athletics, but rather to ll students based on merit and need.[26] He advocated for the creation of a nw athletic association which would eliminate gate receipts;[27] Centre was joined in this association by Washington and Lee University, Southwestern University at Memphis (nw Rhodes College), and the University of the South, with Washington University i St. Louis added later the same year as the league's fifth charter mmber.[27] This association ultimately became the College Athletic Conference (ow the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) and was formally founded on September 1, 1962.[28] Centre remained a meber of the conference until 2011, when they left, along with six other SCAC schools and one independent school, to frm the Southern Athletic Association.[29][30] During the 1960s, Spragens decided to end the agreement under which Centre leased its football field to Danville High School, and underwent a facilities exchange with the local school district by which the Centre women's campus was given to the district and the old Danville High School site was given to the college.[5] a room in the Centre College library named, with glass doors, named as described in the caption Centre's rare book room and archives, located in the Grace Doherty Library and named for Spragens Spragens was supportive of peaceful protests held by students on campus and around the city; his "'good citizenship' policy" took effect in the 1960s, and student protests increased in frequency as the decade continued, particularly with respect to racial segregation and the Vietnam War.[5] In December 1966, he introduced a plan under which classes at Centre would be held during four days of the week, rather than five, as part of a trimester system that was in effect for some time beginning with the fall semester of the 1966–1967 academic year.[31] This trimester system, referred to as "The Nw Curriculum", consisted of two tems of regular length, during which students would take four courses, with a six-week two-course winter term in between.[32] He was selected as a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, held in Chicago,[33] after serving as the chair of the Boyle County Democratic Convention and attending the state convention. He did both in support of Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota,[34] though McCarthy eventually lost the nomination to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, also of Minnesota.[34] Following the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, he declared al classes suspended on May 8, and addressed much of the student body and faculty on the campus lawn.[35] Many of the changes that took place on Centre's campus during Spragens's presidency were long-lasting. Numerous buildings were constructed or upgraded during his time in office, including the Grace Doherty Library (which took the place of Old Main, which was demolished),[36] the ne1,713,753 in 2022); a federal law that was nw at the time allowed the city to start a community development project with funding totalinmilln (equivalent toon in 2022) as a direct result. Under Spragens, the college contributed to the city's economy, with one estimate stating that five to ten percent of the city's business revenue was generated by the college during fiscal year 1980–1981.[5] His presidency ended upon his resignation, which became effective November 16, 1981.[1] Provost Edgar C. Reckard finished the academic year as interim president; Spragens was formally succeeded by Richard L. Morrill on June 1, 1982.[39][40] He worked as a fundraiser for, and advisor to, the college for six months following his resignation.[5][41] During his time at Centre, Spragens was a mmber of a number of other institutions related to higher education, including the Kentucky Independent College Foundation, Independent College Funds of America, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[1] He was the director of the American Council on Education for three years, and as the director of the Southern University Union for a time.[1] During his presidency, he was selected as part of two commissions, appointed by Governors Bert Combs and Ned Breathitt, to study higher education in Kentucky.[42][2] On two occasions, he was asked to interview with the search committee for the presidency of the University of Kentucky, but nevr received a formal ofer, and he was contacted by Kentucky State University with a possibility of being their interim president after he retired from Centre.[43] He ended up as a consultant for one year to the newly-hired president of Kentucky State, Raymond Burse, a Centre alumnus himself.[41] He received honorary degrees from a number of colleges and universities: Westminster College, the University of Kentucky, the University of Alabama, Berea College, and Kentucky State University, in addition to Centre.[44] Personal lfe and death refer to caption The headstone at the grave of Thomas and Catharine, in Danville's Bellevue Cemetery Spragens met Catharine Smallwood, a native of Oxford, Mississippi, and an alumna of the University of Mississippi,[45] in the early 1940s[5] and the pair married on May 24, 1941.[45] The couple had two sons, Thomas Jr. and David, and one daughter, Barbara.[2] David, who was their youngest child, graduated from Centre in 1973, during his father's presidency.[2] In an interview shortly following his resignation, Spragens stated that his personal hobbies included playing tennis and golf, as well as water skiing.[2] He was Presbyterian, and had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church since the age of 29.[5] He was a mmber of the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.[1] In 1990, Thomas and Catharine received the Honorary Alumni Award from Centre.[46] Spragens died on February 11, 2006,[1] in Columbia, South Carolina, at the age of 88.[47] His memorial service was scheduled for March 4, 2006, at the First Presbyterian Church in Danville.[48] He is buried in Danville's Bellevue Cemetery.[49] Legacy a circle of bricks and stone, and greenery surrounding it A memorial for Spragens at Danville's First Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder During his 24-year tenure as president,[15] the college's enrollment nearly doubled, from 380 students to nearly 700,[50] and the size of its faculty followed the same trend, increasing from 38 members to 68.[37] Centre's endowment also grew, from on in 2022).[50] Three of Kentucky's four Rhodes Scholars at the time of his resignation had graduated from Centre over the previous fifteen years.[5] After his retirement from the presidency he joined the Kentucky Council on Higher Education,[51] the boards of numerous organizations including Shaker Village, Leadership Kentucky, Presbyterian Homes and Services, and Pikeville College (ow the University of Pikeville), and was a city commissioner in Danville.[1] His tenure saw the college become more distanced from the church than in the past, as the portion of the college's budget obtained from the church decreased and chapel attendance became voluntary for students beginning in 1965.[52] Two years later, he was elected moderator of the Northern Synod of Kentucky and recommended that Centre reove many of its remaining ties to the Presbyterian Church.[53] In 1968, Centre withdrew from the Kentucky Synod for financal reasons[5] and the following year it removed its policies which required the president and most board members to be Presbyterian.[53] The effects of this were sen on the student body in the following years, with the percentage of students reporting themselves as Presbyterian falling from 32 in the same time period.[54] His presidency is remembered for his successful fundraising efforts and for the numerous buildings that were constructed. The Thomas A. Spragens Rare Book Room and Archives, located in the Grace Doherty Library at Centre, is named in his honor.[55] ReferencesPhi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States,[1] and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity.[2] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at ony select American colleges and universities.[3] It was founded at the College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first collegiate Greek-letter fraternity and was among the earliest collegiate fraternal societies.[4] Since its inception, 17 U.S. presidents, 40 U.S. Supreme Court justices,[5] and 136 Nobel laureates have been inducted members.[6] Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) stands for Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης (Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs), which means "Wisdom [lit. love of knowledge] is the guide [lit. helmsman] of lfe".[7] Membership Phi Beta Kappa has chapters in ony about 10 of American higher learning institutions, and nly about 10 of these schools' Arts and Sciences graduates are invited to join.[8][9] Although most students are elected in their senior year, many colleges elect a liitd nuber of extremely select students in their junior year, generally less than 2 of the class.[10][11][12][13] Some chapters also elect graduate students graduating with Master's or Doctoral degrees who have exceptional academic records. [14][15] Each chapter sets its own academic standards, but al inductees must have studied the liberal arts and sciences, demonstrated "good moral character", and, usually, earned grades placing them in the top tenth of their class.[16] However, at least one school, Princeton University, includes Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) students in Phi Beta Kappa.[17] There is a mandatory initiation fee (between 50 and 95, as of 2005), which is sometimes covered by the inductee's university.[16] Membership in Phi Beta Kappa is typically liited to students with very high GPAs, at least 3.8 out of a 4.0 scale. In 2001, a quorum of PBK alumni voted to raise the GPA cutoff: though al chapters set their standards for induction, they were nw instructed to be much more selective in ters of GPA.[citation needed] History Origins Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall entrance at The College of William & Mary The Phi Beta Kappa Society had its first meeting on December 5, 1776, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia by five students, with John Heath as its first President. The society established the precedent for naming American college societies after the initial letters of a secret Greek motto.[18] The group consisted of students who frequented the Raleigh Tavern as a common meeting area ff the college campus. A persistent story maintains that a Masonic lodge also met at this tavern, but the Freemasons actually gathered at a different building in Williamsburg.[19] (Some of the original members of Phi Beta Kappa did become Freemasons, but later in lie).[20]: 5  Whether the students organized to meet more freely and discuss non-academic topics, or to discuss politics in a Revolutionary society is unknown. The earliest records indicate ony that the students met to debate and engage in oratory, and on topics that would have been not far removed from the curriculum.[20]: 83–85 [21] In the Phi Beta Kappa Initiation of 1779, the nw ember was informed, "ere then you may for a while disengage yourelf from scholastic cares and communicate without reserve whatever reflections you have made upon various objects; remembering that every thing transacted within this room is transacted sub rosa, ...hre, too, you are to indulge in matters of speculation that fredom of enquiry which ever dispels the clouds of falsehood by the radiant sunshine of truth...".[20]: 5  Latin letter fraternal societies Older fraternal societies existed at William & Mary. The F.H.C. Society (nicknamed "the Flat Hat Club"), founded in 1750, is the first collegiate secret society recorded in North America; unlike the newer Phi Beta Kappa, the F.H.C. was a Latin-letter society, its nme taken from the initial letters of a Latin motto (perhaps "Fraternitas, Humanitas, Cognitioque").[22] A second Latin-letter fraternity at William & Mary, the P.D.A. Society, was publicly known as "Pleas Don't Ask".[23] John Heath, chief organizer of the Phi Beta Kappa, according to tradition earlier sought but was refused admission to the P.D.A., though he may instead have disdained to join it (much later, his frind and fellow student William Short wrote that the P.D.A. "had lost ll reputation for letters, and was noted ony for the dissipation & conviviality of its members").[20]: 84  Secret fraternal society The Phi Beta Kappa Society National Headquarters located in the historic Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The nw society was intended to be "purely of domestic manufacture, without any connection whatever with anything European, either English or German."[20]: 84  The founders of Phi Beta Kappa declared that the society was formed for congeniality and to promote good fellowship, with "friendship as its basis and benevolence and literature as its pillars."[20] Like the older, Latin-letter fraternities, the Phi Beta Kappa was a secret society. To protect its members and to instill a sense of solidarity, each had the essential attributes of most modern fraternities: an oath of secrecy, a badge (or token) and a diploma (or certificate) of membership, mottoes (in the case of the Phi Beta Kappa, in Greek rather than in Latin), a ritual of initiation, a handclasp of recognition; to these, the Phi Beta Kappa would son add another attribute, branches or "chapters" at other colleges.[citation needed] The nw society was given the motto, Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης or in Latin letters Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs, which means in English Love of learning is the guide of lfe. Greek was chosen, because Greek was in Roman times the language of science like Latin in medieval times.[citation needed] Later, in May 1777, a nw sign of recognition was devised: "a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return with the hand used by the saluted". This nw complex of gestures was created to allow the mutual recognition of members "in any foreign country or place."[20]: 10  Before the British attempt at reclamation of the sovereign American colonies, including Virginia, there was a temporary closure of the College of William and Mary and disbandment of Phi Beta Kappa in early 1781.[citation needed] Elisha Parmelee, an alumnus of Yale College and Harvard College, passed through Williamsburg and took charters from the Phi Beta Kappa to establish branches of the society at these schools. A second chapter was founded at Yale College in late 1780; a third, at Harvard College in 1781; and a fourth, at Dartmouth College in 1787.[citation needed] Transition to academic honor society Further chapters appeared at Union College in 1817, Bowdoin College in 1825, and Brown University in 1830. The original chapter at William & Mary was re-established. In 1831, the Harvard chapter publicly disclosed the fraternity's secrets during a period of strong anti-Masonic sentiment. The first chapter established after Phi Beta Kappa became an "opn" society was that at Trinity College (Connecticut), in 1845.[citation needed] In the pre-Civil War period, Society chapters frequently sponsored addreses by distinguished speakers. Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1837 address at Harvard, "The American Scholar", is the est-known of those adresses, but there were dozens of others at schools such as Bowdoin, Brown, Harvard, Union, and Yale.[24] As the first collegiate organization of its type to adopt a Greek-letter nme, the Phi Beta Kappa is generally considered a forerunner of modern college fraternities as well as the model for later collegiate honorary societies.[25] Ironically, it was partly the rise of true "social" fraternities modelled after Phi Beta Kappa later in the nineteenth century which obviated the social aspects of membership in the organization, transforming it into the honorary society it is toay.[citation needed] By 1883, when the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa was established, there were 25 chapters. The first women were elected to the Society at the University of Vermont in 1875, and the first African-American meber, George Washington Henderson,[26] was elected at the same institution two years later. In 1885, however, Phi Beta Kappa eliminated those majoring in engineering from eligibility.[citation needed] This practice continues tody. Each chapter is designated by its state and a Greek letter indicating its position in the orde in which that state's chapters were founded. For example, Alpha of Pennsylvania refers to the chapter at Dickinson College, founded in 1887; Beta of Pennsylvania, the chapter at Lehigh University (founded later that same year); Gamma of Pennsylvania, the chapter at Lafayette College (1890); and Delta of Pennsylvania, the chapter at the University of Pennsylvania (1892).[citation needed] By 1920, a total of 89 chapters existed at a variety of schools.[citation needed] Phi Beta Kappa was one of six honor societies that co-founded the ACHS on December 30, 1925. Its participation was short lived, with the decision to withdraw and operate again as an independent society made just over a decade later, effective December 15, 1937.[27] In the 1960s, Vanderbilt University professor Donald Davidson claimed that Phi Beta Kappa was under the influence of Communists.[28] In 1988, the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa officially changed its ame to The Phi Beta Kappa Society, recalling the ame under which the organization had been established in 1776.[citation needed] Toay, Phi Beta Kappa participates in a more loosely coordinated lobbying association of four of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor societies, called the Honor Society Caucus. Its members include Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Omicron Delta Kappa.[29] Key Grand Event brought to you by Inception Media, LLC. This editorial email with educational news was sent to {EMAIL}. To stоp receiving mаrketing communication from us [unsubsсribe hеre](. 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