College hosts memorial service for President Emeritus Dr. Gerald Gibson

Family, friends, and Maryville College community members bid farewell to Dr. Gerald W. Gibson during a memorial service held June 11, 2021 in the Ronald and Lynda Nutt Theatre of the Clayton Center for the Arts. Led by the Rev. Dr. Anne D. McKee, campus minister, the service included readings and remarks from relatives and colleagues who knew him well.

Gibson, who served as Maryville College’s president from 1993 until 2010 and retired as president emeritus, passed away on May 20.

View the program for the service, which includes a poem written by Gibson.

Maryville College is a nationally-ranked institution of higher learning and one of America’s oldest colleges. For more than 200 years we’ve educated students to be giving citizens and gifted leaders, to study everything, so that they are prepared for anything — to address any problem, engage with any audience and launch successful careers right away. Located in Maryville, Tennessee, between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the city of Knoxville, Maryville College offers nearly 1,200  students from around the world both the beauty of a rural setting and the advantages of an urban center, as well as more than 60 majors, seven pre-professional programs and career preparation from their first day on campus to their last. Today, our 10,000 alumni are living life strong of mind and brave of heart and are prepared, in the words of our Presbyterian founder, to “do good on the largest possible scale.”