Charles F. Marsh (Charles Franklin) became the seventh president of Wofford College on September 1, 1958 and served until his retirement in 1968. Prof. Marsh's appointments at William & Mary: Associate Professor of Economics and Business Administration, 1930-1933; Professor of Economics and Business Administration, 1933-1951; Director of Department of Business Adminsitration, 1940-1943, Acting Dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship, 1942-1943; Chancellor Professor of Economics and Business Administration, 1951-1958; Dean of the Faculty, February 1, 1952-1958; Lecturer in Business Administration, 1968-1973; Lecturer in Business Administration, Emeritus, 1973.
A 1925 graduate of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, he earned the Master of Arts from the University of Illinois in 1926, and the Ph.D. from Illinois in 1928. He was a faculty member at American University, and from 1930 to 1958, a professor of economics at William & Mary. In his last six years at William & Mary, he was Dean of the Faculty. He was involved in civic affairs in Williamsburg, serving on several economic planning agencies. An active churchman, he was a member of several annual conference boards in the Virginia and South Carolina conferences and a member of the Methodist General Conference. Dr. Marsh also served as a member of the Methodist Commission on Church Union and as a member of the University Senate of the Methodist Church. Active in the affairs of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, he was a member of the SACS Executive Council at the time of the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Marsh retired from the presidency of Wofford in 1968, returning to Williamsburg to teach in the Graduate School at William & Mary.