Isaac W. Waddell Profile

Isaac W. Waddell Profile - Isaac W. Waddell ( born October 6, 1849 in Marietta, GA ) was a Presbyterian minister in Brunswick, GA and the third president of the North Georgia Agricultural College ( now the University of North Georgia ). He is the grandson of a former president of the University of Georgia Moses Waddel.

early life

Isaac Watts Waddel was born in Marietta, Georgia on October 6, 1849. He is the son of Dr. Isaac Watts and Sarah Rebecca Daniel Waddel Waddel. He earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Georgia in 1870 and 1873 respectively. Waddel in 1882 was ordained by the presbytery of Savannah. He served as an evangelist in the rectory of Macon from 1890 to 1893.

Services in education

In 1893, facing pressure from the trustees, William Starr Basinger resigned from his post as president of North Georgia Agricultural College ( NGAC ) and was replaced by Isaac Watts Waddel. [ 2 ] During the four years of his presidency at school Waddell stay in hotel building, which remains a prominent building located in Dahlonega town square.

At the beginning of the Waddel presidency in 1893 NGAC male enrollment in college fell to ninety. Because NGAC asked to register at least one hundred male students, the school loses appropriation next year. However, at the end of the presidential Waddel male student enrollment in the school increased far above this mark and forfeiture to the college restored. Isaac W. Waddell Profile