Piedmont Uprising

The campus of Georgia's little (210 full-time students) Piedmont College had been in a turmoil ever since the news leaked out that the college was accepting $500 a month from antiSemitic, anti-Negro Judge George Armstrong's educational association, headed by Major General (ret.) George Van Horn Moseley (TIME, March 12). Last week the uproar boiled over. President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only thing I have to say about the money being tainted is--'taint enough."

But the faculty and student body had had enough. Ex-Treasurer Eddy sat down and drafted a letter demanding President Walter's resignation--"to spare the college . . . the necessity of our washing still more of your dirty linen in public." At that, the whole campus picked up the cry. By week's end, President Walter had received indignant letters signed by 106 students telling him to go. "We are not requesting," said the letters. "We are hereby demanding . . ."

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