Enoch W. Sikes Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0323
The collection contains three black and white positive prints: one of Sikes and an unidentified boy; one of Sikes along with V. Dickson Sikes and four children (unidentified); and the other of Sikes with V. Dickson Sikes, Van[n] Sikes and unidentified women and a child. There is a newspaper clipping about E.W. Sikes' death from the Monroe Journal (North Carolina) dated January 10, 1941. The collection also contains a typewritten Sikes family history compiled by Robert A. Ragan dated June 24, 1983.
Enoch Walter Sikes was born in Union County, N.C. on May 1, 1868. His education culminated with a Ph.D. in history, government and economics from Johns Hopkins University. Sikes began his faculty career at Wake Forest where he met his future wife, Ruth Wingate. By 1916, Sikes had become president of Coker College, a women's college in Hartsville, S.C. Knowing Sikes' reputation for administrative ability and public speaking, Clemson College's Board of Trustees asked Sikes to serve as the school's sixth president in 1925. He guided the college through the Depression, took measures to stop much of the student unrest and protests, and added many new buildings and programs, such as a liberal arts curriculum. He stepped down as president in 1940, and died January 8, 1941.
0.1 Cubic Feet
English
Papers consist of one folder containing three photographs, one newspaper clipping and one typewritten Sikes family history.
Donated by Robert A. Ragan in 1988.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository