GDBlack

Reverend George Black received his education primarily in the pulpit, and his work in the Christian and Congregational ministry earned him an honorary doctor of divinity from Union Christian College in 1914. From 1892-1920 he served Antioch as a professor (English and Biblical Literature), college chaplain, vice president, acting president, and as a member of the Board of Trustees (1904-1920). He was thrust into the presidency when Senator Fess resigned due to the pressing needs of his public office. Black kept Antioch going through the first World War, a time of great difficulty for American colleges, by attracting a unit of the US Students Army Training Corps. From 1919 until his death in 1932 he wrote "The Farmer's Sermons," a regular and widely popular column in The Ohio Farmer.