1958-1959: Bernard A. Daetwyler

Read about registration the way it was in 1959

A West Virginia native, Daetwyler attended Davis & Elkins College and received a B.S. in Business Administration from USC, where he also did graduate work.

He was in the Army Air Corps for 4 years during World War II, a fighter pilot in the Pacific, and served 2 1/2 years during the Korean War. He was later a major in the South Carolina Air National Guard.

Registrars from all over the state assemble in the Russell House for the 1959 S.C. Registrars Conference

After serving as assisant administrator at St. Agnes Hospital in Raleigh North Carolina, Daetwyler returned to USC in 1954 as Chief Accountant. He was named Registrar and Director of Admissions in 1958.

In 1960, he moved back to business and finance as Budget Director and Methods Supervisor and retired as Senior Vice President for Business Affairs in 1983.

1960-1972: Rollin E. Godfrey

A native of Missouri, Godfrey received his B.A. degree from Missouri Valley College, an M.A. from the University of Louisville, and a Doctor of Education degree from Columbia.

	Robert Dobron, honor grad of the senior class of 1960 is presented a plaque by Henry Ramseur of ODK. Dobron received the senior award for the highest scholastic average, 6.000. He was the first Summa Cum Laude grad of the University since 1953.

He was a high school teacher before serving in the Army Air Corps until 1946. At the University of Louisville, he taught and served in administrative capacities, from 1946 to 1952, then was a student at Columbia and consultant to the Ford Foundation for Advancement of Education until becoming Registrar at Woman's College (UNC) at Greensboro, N.C.

He became Director of Admissions and Registration at the University of South Carolina in 1960. He was active in professional associations, serving as president of SACRAO (Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers) and was a charter member of the Association for Institutional Research.

He studied the use of punch card systems in college admissions and registration procedures; he is remembered as a "well-organized" scholar, who believed in alphabetizing everything first.

On September 11, 1963, USC opened its doors to African-Americans for the first time since 1877. Here, (left to right) Robert Anderson, Jr., Henri Monteith and James Solomon, Jr., register for classes.

In 1970, Provost William H. Patterson reorganized the unit to separate admissions activities from registration. Dr. Godfrey became University Registrar, and, in 1972 became director of graduate studies and associate professor in the College of Education. Dr. Godfrey died in Columbia in 1994