President Clemson College, Author
http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/archive/2005/summer05/cemetery.htm
The History of North America: The Growth of the Nation 1837 to 1860
by Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co, ISBN 1432631462 (1-4326-3146-2)
The Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Commonwealth by Enoch Walter Sikes Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Press, ISBN 0384553702 (0-384-55370-2)
DR. ENOCH WALTER SIKES was an American educator. He was born May 19, 1868, on a farm in Union County, North Carolina, the eldest of the seven sons of John Cuthbertson Sikes and Matilda Jane Austin Sikes. His parents were staunch Baptists and put a major emphasis on education – Walter attended a boarding school where he fine-tuned his writing skills and vocabulary with his classmates.
Sikes then attended Wake Forest College near Raleigh, where he was a star lineman on its first varsity football team and excelled as an orator and debater. Graduating in 1891, he accepted an appointment as director of physical culture at Wake Forest. He spent that summer at Harvard University and began teaching at Wake Forest in the fall of 1891. Continuing his education at Johns Hopkins University, he received a doctor of philosophy degree in history and economics in 1897 and returned to Wake Forest College that same year as professor of history and political science. In 1910, he was drafted to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate from Wake County but had no further political aspirations after serving for one term. In 1915, Wake Forest College selected him dean of the school.
In 1916, Sikes became president of Coker College, a private liberal arts institution for women in Hartsville, South Carolina. All the while, he was developing a reputation as one of the region’s most astute educators. In 1925, Clemson College [University] in Clemson, South Carolina, called him to become their new president. “Plowboy,” as the cadets nicknamed him for his slow, plodding gait, had the right mix of vision, compassion and perseverance to pull South Carolina’s agricultural and mechanical college through the challenging years from 1925 to 1940. During his term, Clemson received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His fifteen years as president had unprecedented success.
Dr. Sikes was a noted orator and frequent lecturer. He authored four books: The Transition of North Carolina From Colony to Commonwealth (1898), The Confederate States Congress (1905), The Growth of the Nation, 1837 to 1860 (1905) and a Supplement to Reinsch’s Civil Government for the State of North Carolina (1916). He served as governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis District in 1925.
In 1900, Sikes marred Miss Ruth Wingate (1875-1959), a daughter of Washington Manly Wingate, a Baptist minister and president of Wake Forest College during its early days and namesake for today’s Wingate University in Union County, North Carolina. They had one daughter, Ruth Janet Sikes (1904-1967) and one son, Walter Wingate Sikes (1907-1977).
So respected and well known was Dr. Sikes that when he died without warning on January 8, 1941, “the South Carolina Legislature adjourned and declared a day of mourning. Among the two thousand who attended his funeral were the governor of South Carolina and the presidents of the University of South Carolina, Furman, Winthrop, Meredith and Coker colleges. A color guard and a military band escorted his casket over the mile-long route to Clemson’s Cemetery Hill, flanked on both sides by gray-clad Clemson cadets. The Clemson town clock tolled mournfully every ten seconds. A bugler sounded Taps to end the ceremony at the gravesite, after a rifle squad had fired three volleys in tribute to the dead educator.” Sikes Hall, which serves as Clemson University’s administrative building today, bears his name.
Contributed by Robert Ragan, a great nephew, May 8, 2015.
http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/archive/2005/summer05/cemetery.htm
The History of North America: The Growth of the Nation 1837 to 1860
by Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co, ISBN 1432631462 (1-4326-3146-2)
The Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Commonwealth by Enoch Walter Sikes Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Press, ISBN 0384553702 (0-384-55370-2)
DR. ENOCH WALTER SIKES was an American educator. He was born May 19, 1868, on a farm in Union County, North Carolina, the eldest of the seven sons of John Cuthbertson Sikes and Matilda Jane Austin Sikes. His parents were staunch Baptists and put a major emphasis on education – Walter attended a boarding school where he fine-tuned his writing skills and vocabulary with his classmates.
Sikes then attended Wake Forest College near Raleigh, where he was a star lineman on its first varsity football team and excelled as an orator and debater. Graduating in 1891, he accepted an appointment as director of physical culture at Wake Forest. He spent that summer at Harvard University and began teaching at Wake Forest in the fall of 1891. Continuing his education at Johns Hopkins University, he received a doctor of philosophy degree in history and economics in 1897 and returned to Wake Forest College that same year as professor of history and political science. In 1910, he was drafted to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate from Wake County but had no further political aspirations after serving for one term. In 1915, Wake Forest College selected him dean of the school.
In 1916, Sikes became president of Coker College, a private liberal arts institution for women in Hartsville, South Carolina. All the while, he was developing a reputation as one of the region’s most astute educators. In 1925, Clemson College [University] in Clemson, South Carolina, called him to become their new president. “Plowboy,” as the cadets nicknamed him for his slow, plodding gait, had the right mix of vision, compassion and perseverance to pull South Carolina’s agricultural and mechanical college through the challenging years from 1925 to 1940. During his term, Clemson received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His fifteen years as president had unprecedented success.
Dr. Sikes was a noted orator and frequent lecturer. He authored four books: The Transition of North Carolina From Colony to Commonwealth (1898), The Confederate States Congress (1905), The Growth of the Nation, 1837 to 1860 (1905) and a Supplement to Reinsch’s Civil Government for the State of North Carolina (1916). He served as governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis District in 1925.
In 1900, Sikes marred Miss Ruth Wingate (1875-1959), a daughter of Washington Manly Wingate, a Baptist minister and president of Wake Forest College during its early days and namesake for today’s Wingate University in Union County, North Carolina. They had one daughter, Ruth Janet Sikes (1904-1967) and one son, Walter Wingate Sikes (1907-1977).
So respected and well known was Dr. Sikes that when he died without warning on January 8, 1941, “the South Carolina Legislature adjourned and declared a day of mourning. Among the two thousand who attended his funeral were the governor of South Carolina and the presidents of the University of South Carolina, Furman, Winthrop, Meredith and Coker colleges. A color guard and a military band escorted his casket over the mile-long route to Clemson’s Cemetery Hill, flanked on both sides by gray-clad Clemson cadets. The Clemson town clock tolled mournfully every ten seconds. A bugler sounded Taps to end the ceremony at the gravesite, after a rifle squad had fired three volleys in tribute to the dead educator.” Sikes Hall, which serves as Clemson University’s administrative building today, bears his name.
Contributed by Robert Ragan, a great nephew, May 8, 2015.
President Clemson College, Author
http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/archive/2005/summer05/cemetery.htm
The History of North America: The Growth of the Nation 1837 to 1860
by Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co, ISBN 1432631462 (1-4326-3146-2)
The Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Commonwealth by Enoch Walter Sikes Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Press, ISBN 0384553702 (0-384-55370-2)
DR. ENOCH WALTER SIKES was an American educator. He was born May 19, 1868, on a farm in Union County, North Carolina, the eldest of the seven sons of John Cuthbertson Sikes and Matilda Jane Austin Sikes. His parents were staunch Baptists and put a major emphasis on education – Walter attended a boarding school where he fine-tuned his writing skills and vocabulary with his classmates.
Sikes then attended Wake Forest College near Raleigh, where he was a star lineman on its first varsity football team and excelled as an orator and debater. Graduating in 1891, he accepted an appointment as director of physical culture at Wake Forest. He spent that summer at Harvard University and began teaching at Wake Forest in the fall of 1891. Continuing his education at Johns Hopkins University, he received a doctor of philosophy degree in history and economics in 1897 and returned to Wake Forest College that same year as professor of history and political science. In 1910, he was drafted to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate from Wake County but had no further political aspirations after serving for one term. In 1915, Wake Forest College selected him dean of the school.
In 1916, Sikes became president of Coker College, a private liberal arts institution for women in Hartsville, South Carolina. All the while, he was developing a reputation as one of the region’s most astute educators. In 1925, Clemson College [University] in Clemson, South Carolina, called him to become their new president. “Plowboy,” as the cadets nicknamed him for his slow, plodding gait, had the right mix of vision, compassion and perseverance to pull South Carolina’s agricultural and mechanical college through the challenging years from 1925 to 1940. During his term, Clemson received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His fifteen years as president had unprecedented success.
Dr. Sikes was a noted orator and frequent lecturer. He authored four books: The Transition of North Carolina From Colony to Commonwealth (1898), The Confederate States Congress (1905), The Growth of the Nation, 1837 to 1860 (1905) and a Supplement to Reinsch’s Civil Government for the State of North Carolina (1916). He served as governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis District in 1925.
In 1900, Sikes marred Miss Ruth Wingate (1875-1959), a daughter of Washington Manly Wingate, a Baptist minister and president of Wake Forest College during its early days and namesake for today’s Wingate University in Union County, North Carolina. They had one daughter, Ruth Janet Sikes (1904-1967) and one son, Walter Wingate Sikes (1907-1977).
So respected and well known was Dr. Sikes that when he died without warning on January 8, 1941, “the South Carolina Legislature adjourned and declared a day of mourning. Among the two thousand who attended his funeral were the governor of South Carolina and the presidents of the University of South Carolina, Furman, Winthrop, Meredith and Coker colleges. A color guard and a military band escorted his casket over the mile-long route to Clemson’s Cemetery Hill, flanked on both sides by gray-clad Clemson cadets. The Clemson town clock tolled mournfully every ten seconds. A bugler sounded Taps to end the ceremony at the gravesite, after a rifle squad had fired three volleys in tribute to the dead educator.” Sikes Hall, which serves as Clemson University’s administrative building today, bears his name.
Contributed by Robert Ragan, a great nephew, May 8, 2015.
http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/archive/2005/summer05/cemetery.htm
The History of North America: The Growth of the Nation 1837 to 1860
by Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co, ISBN 1432631462 (1-4326-3146-2)
The Transition of North Carolina from Colony to Commonwealth by Enoch Walter Sikes Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Press, ISBN 0384553702 (0-384-55370-2)
DR. ENOCH WALTER SIKES was an American educator. He was born May 19, 1868, on a farm in Union County, North Carolina, the eldest of the seven sons of John Cuthbertson Sikes and Matilda Jane Austin Sikes. His parents were staunch Baptists and put a major emphasis on education – Walter attended a boarding school where he fine-tuned his writing skills and vocabulary with his classmates.
Sikes then attended Wake Forest College near Raleigh, where he was a star lineman on its first varsity football team and excelled as an orator and debater. Graduating in 1891, he accepted an appointment as director of physical culture at Wake Forest. He spent that summer at Harvard University and began teaching at Wake Forest in the fall of 1891. Continuing his education at Johns Hopkins University, he received a doctor of philosophy degree in history and economics in 1897 and returned to Wake Forest College that same year as professor of history and political science. In 1910, he was drafted to run for a seat in the North Carolina Senate from Wake County but had no further political aspirations after serving for one term. In 1915, Wake Forest College selected him dean of the school.
In 1916, Sikes became president of Coker College, a private liberal arts institution for women in Hartsville, South Carolina. All the while, he was developing a reputation as one of the region’s most astute educators. In 1925, Clemson College [University] in Clemson, South Carolina, called him to become their new president. “Plowboy,” as the cadets nicknamed him for his slow, plodding gait, had the right mix of vision, compassion and perseverance to pull South Carolina’s agricultural and mechanical college through the challenging years from 1925 to 1940. During his term, Clemson received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. His fifteen years as president had unprecedented success.
Dr. Sikes was a noted orator and frequent lecturer. He authored four books: The Transition of North Carolina From Colony to Commonwealth (1898), The Confederate States Congress (1905), The Growth of the Nation, 1837 to 1860 (1905) and a Supplement to Reinsch’s Civil Government for the State of North Carolina (1916). He served as governor of the Carolinas Kiwanis District in 1925.
In 1900, Sikes marred Miss Ruth Wingate (1875-1959), a daughter of Washington Manly Wingate, a Baptist minister and president of Wake Forest College during its early days and namesake for today’s Wingate University in Union County, North Carolina. They had one daughter, Ruth Janet Sikes (1904-1967) and one son, Walter Wingate Sikes (1907-1977).
So respected and well known was Dr. Sikes that when he died without warning on January 8, 1941, “the South Carolina Legislature adjourned and declared a day of mourning. Among the two thousand who attended his funeral were the governor of South Carolina and the presidents of the University of South Carolina, Furman, Winthrop, Meredith and Coker colleges. A color guard and a military band escorted his casket over the mile-long route to Clemson’s Cemetery Hill, flanked on both sides by gray-clad Clemson cadets. The Clemson town clock tolled mournfully every ten seconds. A bugler sounded Taps to end the ceremony at the gravesite, after a rifle squad had fired three volleys in tribute to the dead educator.” Sikes Hall, which serves as Clemson University’s administrative building today, bears his name.
Contributed by Robert Ragan, a great nephew, May 8, 2015.
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