PETIT JEAN GEORGE S BENSON M. A. , LL. D. President of Harding College Dr . Benson has se rved most capably as president of Harding College for the past two yea rs. H e is a graduate of the institution which he now directs, having received hi s B. A. degree from Harding College in 1925. The following year he received his B. S. from Oklahoma A. & M. and in 1931 he got his M. A. degree from the University of Chicago. He also holds on honorar y doctor's degree from hi s A!mo Mater. Pri or to his present position, Dr. Benson se rved for ten yea rs as a mis - sionary to Chino where he estab li shed the Canton Bible School. With the excep ti on of a furl ough , he was in China from 1925 until 1936, in the spring of which yea r he accepted the pres idency of Harding College, arr iving here the following fall to take over the work. H is work here has been choracteri zed by his abundance of energy and his resourcefulness. I 9 3
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