A Missouri native, Dr. Martin attended Southwest Missouri State College for his undergraduate and graduate studies.  In the late 1930s he received his Ph.D. from Yale.  Dr. Martin went on to teach at Mary Washington College in Fredrickburg, VA, both before and after World War II.

During the twenty years that Dr. Martin served as president, he oversaw the dissolution of the Radford College-Virginia Polytechnic Institute marriage and the advancement of Radford College as its own individual institution.  During Martin's administration, Radford's student population increased sharply, 22 buildings and additions were added to the campus, and majors offered by the college more than doubled. 
 
 

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