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News-Press, February 8, 1998, Page 52. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-press-obituary-of-rutherford-adkins/134643209/ : accessed November 4, 2023), clip page for Obituary of Rutherford Adkins, Fisk University President by user TaneyaKoonce
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Title News-Press, February 8, 1998, Page 52. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-press-obituary-of-rutherford-adkins/134643209/ : accessed November 4, 2023), clip page for Obituary of Rutherford Adkins, Fisk University President by user TaneyaKoonce Short Title Obituary of Rutherford Adkins Source ID S1005 Text Rutherford Adkins, 73, Fisk University president NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Rutherford Adkins, president of Fisk University, died Friday of cancer. He was 73. Adkins was appointed president of the historically black, private liberal arts university in February 1997 and had been serving as interim president since July 1996.
He was the school's 12th president since 1863, taking over for Henry Ponder, who resigned after 11 years at the university. Adkins previously had been Fisk's director of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and was the school's interim president from 1975-76. He was president of Knoxville College from 1976 through 1981.Linked to ADKINS, Dr. Rutherford Hamlet