Ganus Serves University, Community 011 Friday morning, January 16, President Clifton L. Ganus appeared in chapel from behind the stage curtain near the close of the scheduled hym n sing. He had :::. poken that morning to the Academy student s in their chapel service and had hastened to the Benson Auditorium to announce that he had rece ived word the previous evening from the Mabee Fou ndation in Tulsa, Ok lahoma, that Harding Univers it y would receive $600,000 on the new Business Build ing if the remain ing $1. 1 mill ion were ra ised by June I. He ass ured the chapel audie nce that thi s challenge gran t had been accepted wit h genuine gratit ude and that he and the Development Office would work untiringly over the next five months to meet the challenge . Exact ly one week before, President Ganus had spoken in chape l on the ai ms and objec tives of Harding. The st udent s listened with rapt attention because they could feel that he wa s speaking from the depths of his heart to each student because he loved the Lord and loved each student. Quo ting from the speech that he had heard J. N. Armstrong, first president of Harding, make each year that he was a student, Dr. Ganus sa id , "It is the purpose of Ha rding to send each student home each evening with a tenderer consc ience. " Although an exceeding ly busy man with the responsibilities of rai sing $7S0,(X)() to meet the oper60 President ali ana! budge t for 1980-8 1 in additi on to $1.7 million for the new Bu sin ess Build ing and over $400,000 for an addition to the Science Building and serving as chief administrator of the Uni versit y. Dr. Ganus served as director of the American Srud ies Program whi ch the previous yea r had received the George Washington Medal from Freedoms Foundation in Va lley Forge as the out - standi ng student program of the nati on. He took students o n the American Srudies rour to New Orleans in the fall and to Atlanta in the spring. President Ganus maintained an "open door" policy to faculty and student s and invited anyone to come talk wit h him if he had a question about any of the policies and procedures. He was an avid supporter of the Bi sons and evi - denced a genuine interest in a ll other act ivities while encouraging excellence in academics. During the summer he spoke for C itizenship Seminars in Arkansas , Indiana, Mi chi gan, Missouri, and Texas, serving as director of the seminar on campus for 360 high school st udents from Alabama , Arkansas, Florida and TenrJ essee. He rece ived a cit ation and meda llion in the fall from South weste rn Baptist College in Boli var, Mi ssour i, for his work in citi zenship education. Dr. Ganus was act ive in various affairs. He was a member of the Noon Lions Club and the Cham- - SlIifj PhOfO ber of Commerce. He served as a director of the First Security Bank, Finest Foods in New Orleans, the Arkansas Foundation o f Associated Co lleges, and the Arkansas Counci l of Independent Colleges and Universities. President Ganus served as an elder of the College church of Christ and preached at the Co llege church four times during the year. Many Sundays during the year were spent preaching for congregations across the nation. This gave him an opport unity to emphasize the values of Christian education and to talk to prospeCtive students and their parents about the program at Harding. He spoke in the lectureships of Oklahoma Chri stian College and Nort heastern Christ ian Junior Co llege and in lec tureships in Pineville, Louisiana, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Severa l other Ch ri stian schools requested his serv ices in raising fu nds for them and he a lways gladly helped when hi s schedule permitted. Travels abroad took him to Engla nd, Germany, Greece, G u at~ ema la, and Italy. In London, he spoke in the European Lectureship and, in Florence, he consulted with It alian educators and government officials about the semester abroad program begun there in the fall of 1980. Everywhere he went he encouraged missionaries and studied the political, economic , and educational scenes. "It is a great privilege lO work at an institution where the staff and st udents work together with such wonderful spirit and with so much success," Ganus stated when asked to comment on his work at Harding. PRESIDENT C/;fton L. Gonus. Jr. rakes time out fo r a vigorous game of baseball with other f aculty members. - Uml flolluml
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