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Allen Burton Wetherington first began teaching at age eighteen in a
one-room schoolhouse at Round Hill, Arkansas, in 1924. Four years later he
married Gertrude. Between the years of 1928 and 1933, he taught at several
rural schools in several different counties within Arkansas. In 1935, he
received his bachelor’s degree from Henderson State College while serving as
superintendent of Laneburg. He attained his master’s degree from the
University of Arkansas in 1938. During World War II, he joined the Navy
where he taught navigation to an advanced squadron. When he returned to
Arkansas, he worked for the Department of Education. In 1946, as Director of
School Transportation, he set up a plan to purchase a fleet of school buses
and developed a program to train school bus drivers. While serving as
director of school finance in 1952, he secured the passage of the Minimum
School Budget Law. He received his doctorate in school finance in 1959 from
North Texas State College and began teaching at Ouachita Baptist University
in 1961. He played a large role in the desegregation of Arkansas schools by
establishing the Arkansas Technical Assistance and Consultative Center (ATAC)
at OBU in 1969. This collection contains a number of papers and speeches
written or given by Wetherington and others at a variety of workshops. It
also contains a proposal for ATAC; some letters he wrote to his son for
several years on his son’s birthday; Sunday School lessons; deacon
information from First Baptist Church in Arkadelphia, which contains
pictures of the deacons’ families and their names; and many other
miscellaneous items including his son’s scrapbooks from church and the Cub
Scouts. Of particular interest are the papers he wrote while at North
Texas State College; a copy of the manual used for training school bus
drivers; copies of the Minimum School Budget Law; and a poll tax receipt.
Contact Us
Jacynda Ammons
OBU Box 3729
Arkadelphia, AR 71998
ammonsj@obu.edu
870.245.5332
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