CSU Family Mourns Death of Jim Settle

Charleston Southern University is saddened to announce the death of retired Coach James "Jim" C. Settle, age 88, on Tuesday, April 14. Settle was one of the first 16 faculty members hired by the then Baptist College at Charleston for its first academic year, 1965-1966, teaching kinesiology. Classes for the 1965-1966 academic year were held at the First Baptist Church of North Charleston. Students were housed at the St. John Hotel (now the Mills House) in downtown Charleston, and Settle and his wife, Betty, served as the house parents for the students living in the hotel that first year. Settle...