June 17, 1913

When Dr. Alexander C. Millar resigned his second term as president of Hendrix College in Conway (Faulkner County), the board of trustees offered the position to Dr. John Hugh Reynolds, a Hendrix graduate who had refused the position three years earlier. When Reynolds accepted, he became the first non-clergyman to serve as president of the Methodist institution. Reynolds made significant accomplishments during his thirty-two-year tenure, including the initiation of the Arkansas Pastors’ School, which became an annual event. The college was admitted to the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, was approved by the American Association of Colleges, and, in 1931, became only the second college in the state to be approved by the American Association of University Women.