Wilson Homer Elkins

Wilson Elkins
Wilson Elkins
	William English Kirwan
Personal details
Born	Wilson Homer Elkins; July 9, 1908; University of Texas, Austin (BA, MA); Oriel College, Oxford PhD)

Wilson Homer "Bull" Elkins (July 9, 1908 – March 17, 1994)^[1] was an American educator and university administrator.

Career

McKeldin Library

in 1958.

Elkins served as the

grade point averages were lower than a C. University administration sent 14% of students home, but by 1964, 82% of freshmen came from the top half of their high school classes, and Phi Beta Kappa

—which had turned down Maryland twice before—had established a chapter on campus.

Elkins supported the establishment of a faculty government and managed a major expansion and improvement of the physical plant, including the construction of the

McKeldin Library and the Computer Science Center. Elkins resigned in 1978 at the state's mandatory retirement age of 70. The Elkins Building, constructed in 1979, is located in Adelphi, Maryland

and houses the offices of the University System of Maryland Central Administration.

Personal life

Elkins was born on July 9, 1908, in Medina, Texas to Willie and May (Stevens) Elkins. He married Dorothy Blackburn in June 1938, and had two daughters, Carole and Margaret. Carole had two children: Jay And Heather Neal (B.A., University of Maryland College Park). Heather Neal Weitzel had three children: Sara, Noah and Matthew Weitzel. Margaret married Charles Thomas Frost and had four children; Jeffery (who married Michelle Boyd and had two children, Matthew Wilson and Taylor Anne), Patrick, Katherine, and Peter. After Elkins wife's passing in 1971, Elkins married Vivian Noh in 1972. Elkins died in Baltimore in March 1994.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Scholarships, University of Oxford Rhodes (1950). Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945. Oxford University Press.

Records of the Office of the President, University of Maryland
The Coach, Time, 3 August 1959, retrieved 14 January 2009.

External links

Wilson H. Elkins papers at the University of Maryland libraries

[1] Scholarships, University of Oxford Rhodes (1950). Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945. Oxford University Press.

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v t e Leaders of the University System of Maryland
Presidents	Wilson Homer Elkins (1970–1978) John S. Toll (1978–1988)
Chancellors	John S. Toll (1988–1989) Donald N. Langenberg (1990–2002) William Kirwan (2002–2015) Robert Caret (2015–2020) Jay A. Perman (2020–present)

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