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Thanks to a nomination by Charles S. Harding '45, Lafayette has received one of seven J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Scholarships awarded by the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Harding returned to campus Aug. 15 to present a $2,500 check to Lafayette President Arthur J. Rothkopf '55.
Harding enrolled at Lafayette in September 1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in February 1942, but was able to finish his first year of studies before entering the service. He returned to Lafayette in 1945 after his military discharge, graduating in 1947 as a government and law major.
Lafayette's Placement Bureau (now Career Services) recommended Harding to FBI recruiters seeking candidates. Following training, his first three FBI assignments took him to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York before Harding settled down in the Atlanta office for 13 years. Much of his time was spent working in internal security cases, including supervision of an internal security squad and another team handling security and racial matters.
Following his retirement from the FBI in 1971, Harding worked 20 years as a fundraising and public relations consultant, including five years as regional vice president of a national firm and 11 years as president of his own company.
Presenting a check for the J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Scholarship to Pres. Arthur Rothkopf (center) are Charles “Chuck” Harding ’45 (left) and David Holmes, vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.