appreciate the legacy of Dr. Crouch, and feel that his legacy at the college has impacted our own,” says Helen Carroll, Manager of Community Relations for Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, North America. These and other efforts would ultimately result in the raising of an impressive $101 million from various sources during his tenure. A former Baptist minister, Dr. Crouch is a man who takes his faith seriously and actively looks for ways to share it with others. He led tough negotiations with the Kentucky Baptist Convention in 2005 which resulted in the Dr. Crouch helps out annually at Move-In Day, a GC tradition. college’s amicable separation from the convention and its denominational control over the institution. “For the first time in its Crouch’s most valuable legacy is the relationships he history, we achieved a self-perpetuating board of trustees, cultivated with students and alumni and the time and energy which has been instrumental in the college’s growth he invested in their lives. “Dr. Crouch’s accessibility and and will continue to play a key role in its future,” Crouch personal involvement in my life, not only while I was a says. Though the separation was not popular with some, student but thereafter, has had a tremendous impact on others tout its benefits. “The fact that we were able to my development,” relates Jesse Hodgson ’04. Accordaccomplish the separation without strife or lingering ing to longtime assistant Judy Rush, “Students were Bill’s animosity bears witness to first and foremost priority. He Dr. Crouch’s leadership and opened doors for them that My fondest memory of Christ’s blessing on this would not have been possible Crouch was his early Dr. decision,” states trustee without his concern for their morning visits to the hospital future.” Guthrie True ‘82. Broadening the racial and As for his own future, Dr. to check on my sister, Anna, geographic diversity of the Crouch says he’ll spend it and our family, after her horrific car student body and faculty investing in the lives of young didn’t accident. He come for ‘show and became a priority. Dr. Crouch people. “My life’s calling is not underwent extensive cultural changing, I’ll just be doing it in tell,’ he came because he cared.” training and even co-authored a different place.” Though God Nancy Fraley Boatman ‘02 a book with Joel Gregory in hasn’t yet revealed the forum, 2010 entitled What We Love he trusts it will be made known. about the Black Church. The growth in the percentage of “Jan and I leave excited about Georgetown ethnically diverse students, from five percent in 1991 to College’s future and the impact for good she will seventeen percent in 2012, is a testament to his efforts. continue to provide for her students.” When asked about his motivation, he says it was threeSays trustee Reza Hashampour, “Dr. Crouch led fold: a diverse campus better prepares students for the Georgetown College through some of its most world; it differentiates the college from other regional challenging times with grace and dignity. He never institutions with uniform communities; and because of wavered in his resolve to transform it into an academic Proverbs 3:27, which reads: “Do not withhold good from institution well equipped for the 21st century. I will those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.” personally miss Dr. Crouch, but Georgetown College Though his statistical successes are many, perhaps Dr. will miss him more.”
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Baptist Scholars Program Formed
1994
Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching named GC Baccalaureate College I institution College receives largest gift ever ($1M) from Hughes Foundation of NY
Brown Foundation of Louisville awards GC $750K
1995
$12M Ensor Learning Resource Center project announced/ begun (most comprehensive building project in the century)
T. Vaughan Walker is first African American named to Board of Trustees
GC instrumental in formation of Mid-South Conference (Tom Dowling ‘62 as commissioner)
Harper Gatton Center for Leadership Development opens
GC named one of America’s Best Colleges (US News & World Report)