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This scrapbook begins with Stern's retirement from the Navy on 30 Aug. 1968, and on the same day the Board of the College of Charleston elected him President. The College at the time was a private institution with 485 students, and Stern spent much of the first two years seeking city, county, state, and federal funding. He succeeded in securing funds from the Federal Government for student loans, grants, and work study and for the construction of a new library and science building.

Scope and Contents The College became a State supported institution on 1 Jul. 1970, and by 1977 state funding enabled it to expand its enrollment to ten times what it had been in 1968. Other major buildings were added, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation presented a special award for the way in which historic buildings were made part of the campus. In 1976 Stern became Chairman of the Coordinating Committee to create the Spoleto Festival USA, and he helped to make the festival possible by...

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Presentation album entitled "Dedication of the Theodore Sanders Stern Student Center, March 22, 1975" with photographs of the ceremony, the printed program, a resolution by the Alumni Association, and clippings).