Lancaster’s Dr. Jairy Hunter Retires As University President

By 1989, at age 42, Dr. Jairy Hunter Jr. had accomplished what he had set out to do as president of what was then called Baptist College at Charleston. In five years, the Lancaster native had rescued the school from financial crisis, charted it on a steady path and was ready for his next career move – perhaps returning to a larger, secular university. But all that changed when Hunter heard a passage from his mother’s diary, read during her funeral.