Clarence Gearhart Jackson (1842-1880)

Birth: March 25, 1842; Berwick, Pennsylvania

Death: May 13, 1880 (age 38); Berwick, Pennsylvania

Military Service: USA, 1861-65

Unit: Company H, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1860)

Clarence G. Jackson was one of the sons of self-made heavy manufacturer M. W. Jackson and his first wife, Margaret Gearhart Jackson. The younger Jackson grew up in Berwick and at fourteen attended the Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport. He then enrolled in Dickinson College, Pennsylvania at the age of sixteen with the class of 1860. He was elected to the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with honors along with his class.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1875-1880

George Henry Ketterer (1880-1958)

Born on February 21, 1880 in Somerton, Pennsylvania, George Henry Ketterer attended Dickinson Preparatory School before enrolling in the College in 1904. After graduating from Dickinson with a B.A. degree in 1908, he attended Drew Theological Seminary, where he received a M.A. degree in 1912. Following graduation, he served as a pastor for various churches in Newark, Philadelphia, and throughout Central Pennsylvania, finally settling in Warrior's Mark, Pennsylvania. It was here that Ketterer met Bertha Hutchison Curry, and on November 15, 1916, the two were married.

When the United States became involved in World War I in 1917, Ketterer enrolled in Chaplain's School at Camp Taylor, Kentucky. Upon graduation, he was transferred to Camp Meade, Maryland for active duty and served as a First Lieutenant and Chaplain. After the War, he returned to his work as a pastor, an occupation he continued until 1935. From 1935 until 1940, he served as superintendent of the Altoona School District.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1936
Trustee - Years of Service
1937-1958

Horatio Collins King (1837-1918)

Birth: December 22, 1837; Portland, Maine

Death: November 15, 1918 (age 81);Brooklyn, New York

Military Service: USA, 1861-65

Unit: Army of the Potomac, First Cavalry Division of the Army of the Shenandoah

Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1858); Trustee, 1896-1918

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1896
Trustee - Years of Service
1896-1918

Merkel Landis (1875-1960)

Merkel Landis was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to John B. and Barbara Merkel Landis on January 5, 1875. During his youth he lived at 136 North College Street and attended Carlisle High School and the Dickinson Preparatory School. Officially entering the College as a freshmen in 1892, Merkel began four years of study for a bachelor of philosophy degree under Dickinson's modern language curriculum. He was a member of Sigma Chi, Theta Nu Epsilon, the editor of the Microcosm for three years, an Allison Orator for four years, and the short stop for his class baseball team.

Graduating in 1896 at the age of 21 Landis worked as a clerk in the Carlisle Deposit Bank until 1897. He also attended the Dickinson School of Law and was admitted to the Cumberland County Bar on June 5, 1899. He worked at the Merchants Bank in Carlisle starting in 1901. Later the bank was renamed the Carlisle Trust Company and he retained positions there as treasurer and as president from the fall of 1921 until his retirement in 1937. During his years with the bank he developed the first version of the Christmas Savings Fund in 1910.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1930-1944; 1944-1960

Benjamin Crispin Lippincott (1827-1912)

Benjamin Lippincott was born the elder son of Crispin Lippincott and his first wife, Mary Ann Wilkins Lippincott, in Haddonfield, New Jersey on July 22, 1827. He prepared for college at the nearby Methodist-affiliated Pennington School. In 1855, he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania along with his half-brother Joshua Allan Lippincott. Benjamin was elected as a member of the Belles Lettres Society and graduated with his class in 1858. He then studied to become a Methodist clergyman.

Soon after graduation, Lippincott served as the principal of the Cumberland Institute in nearby Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He then moved to the West, where in 1860 he became head of the growing Puget Sound Wesleyan Institute in Olympia, Washington. Founded by local Methodists, the school was well-supported and was on the verge of being funded as a university when the Civil War halted proceedings. The territorial legislature instead elected Lippincott the superintendent of public schools for the entire territory. His later career is largely undocumented by available records. It is known that Lippincott returned to New Jersey by the end of his life. He also served on the Dickinson College board of trustees, once again along with his brother, for more than a decade beginning in 1891.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1891-1911

Joshua Allan Lippincott (1835-1906)

Joshua A. Lippincott was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on January 31, 1835 to Crispin and Elizabeth Garwood Lippincott. He prepared for college at the Pennington Seminary and enrolled at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1855, along with his older half-brother, Benjamin Crispin Lippincott. While at the college, Joshua Lippincott was elected to the Belles Lettres Society. He graduated with his class and his brother in the early summer of 1858.

Lippincott immediately took up a post at his old school and remained at Pennington Seminary teaching mathematics and German until 1862. At that time, he became a high school principal and superintendent of schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Lippincott then moved on to Trenton, New Jersey in 1865 to become principal of the boy's section of the New Jersey State Model School there. He moved again in 1869 to teach school in Baltimore, Maryland for three years.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Faculty - Years of Service
1874-1883
Trustee - Years of Service
1897-1906

Henry Logan (1889-1981)

Henry Logan was born on June 22, 1889 in Carrol Township, York County, Pennsylvania to John N. and Ella Mae Coover Logan. He attended York High School, graduating in 1906, and then entered Dickinson College. At Dickinson, he became involved in the Theta Chi fraternity. In 1910, he received a B.A. degree from the College, which he followed with a M.A. degree in 1912. After receiving his first degree from Dickinson, he embarked on a teaching career, but abandoned it after just six years to pursue law instead.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1977
Trustee - Years of Service
1953-1981

Charles Brown Lore (1831-1911)

Charles Lore was born in Odessa, Delaware on March 16, 1831 the son of Eldad and Priscilla Henderson Lore. He was prepared at Middletown Academy in Delaware and then entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1848. He was a member of the Union Philosophical Society and graduated with his class in June, 1852.

He went on to study the law and after a time as the clerk of the Delaware House of Representatives in 1857, was called to the bar in his home county of New Castle in 1861. He was the draft commissioner for the county during the Civil War. His political career blossomed after the conflict. By 1869 he was attorney-general of Delaware, serving till 1874 and then served two terms as a Democrat in the United States Congress between 1883 and 1887. In 1893, he was named as the chief justice of the state supreme court and was re-appointed in 1897.

He had married Rebecca Bates of Mount Holly, New Jersey on July 7, 1862. He was a life long Methodist. His health deteriorating, he retired from the bench in 1909. Charles Brown Lore died in Wilmington, Delaware on March 6, 1911, ten days before his eightieth birthday.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1894
Trustee - Years of Service
1896-1909

George Armstrong Lyon (1784-1855)

George Lyon was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on April 11, 1784, the son of William and Margaret Lyon. His father had been one of the patentees of the 1773 school and was a prominent Carlisle Presbyterian. Lyon attended the local Dickinson Grammar School and joined the Dickinson College class of 1800 in 1797. He became a member of the Union Philosophical Society at the College but did not complete his degree. He instead trained as a lawyer.

Lyon followed his family's prominence in Carlisle, operating a law practice, and was president of a local bank. He served as a member of the Dickinson College Board of Trustees between 1815 and 1833. He was also the president of the Presbyterian Church of Carlisle during the tenure of the well known "new light" minister, George Duffield. Conservative and rigid of principle, Lyon resisted Duffield's revivalist influence on his church. He also suspected and resented Duffield's perceived influence on the operation of the College and its President How. Lyon gathered evidence for a charge of heresy against Duffield and was instrumental in placing Duffield's 1832 book, Duffield on Regeneration, on trial before the Presbytery. Before that matter was concluded, however, Lyon had led seventy families out of the Carlisle church to form the Second Church of Carlisle. This permanent split was the fatal weakening of local Presbyterian support for Dickinson College and the institution closed its doors in the spring of 1832.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1815-1833

Robert Magaw (1738-1790)

Robert Magaw was born in Ireland in 1738. His family moved to Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and became prominent in local affairs around Carlisle. His brother Samuel was a Presbyterian minister who served as the Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, while Robert had built a prominent law practice. In 1774, Robert Magaw was a Carlisle representative to the Provincial Convention, but soon turned his attention to military duty, In June of the following year he was commissioned a major in Thompson's Regiment, which arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts as one of the first units outside of that colony to rally to the Revolutionary cause. By January 1776, he was in command of the Fifth Pennsylvania Infantry; in August his troops were to cover General Washington's retreat from New York from the strong point at Fort Washington, in what is present-day Harlem. Defeated in the Battle of Long Island, Magaw was forced to surrender his 2,700 men to Lord Howe in October 1776; he remained a prisoner of war for four years. Captured with him was also fellow Carlisle representative John Montgomery.

Released on October 23, 1780, he later served as a member of the state legislature from 1781 to 1782. In 1783, he became, along with Montgomery, a charter member of the board of trustees of Dickinson College in Carlisle and remained so until his death.

College Relationship
Trustee - Years of Service
1783-1790

Gilbert Malcolm (1892-1965)

Gilbert Malcolm was born in New York City on October 13, 1892 to Scottish immigrants, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duff Malcolm. Growing up in the city where his father was a well-known contractor, he attended the Horace Mann School. Among his young adventures was his notoriety as a very early motorcycle racer, setting a local record for an oval track of 70 miles per hour. He later suffered an accident while racing which ruled out any possibility of other athletic participation.

Malcolm entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1911. While an undergraduate, he began his long association with his fraternity, Beta Theta Pi and served as football manager. He had been expelled briefly during his sophomore year for breaching the College hazing regulations, but he graduated nonetheless in 1915. He graduated from the Dickinson School of Law in 1917 and took up employment as a journalist for the Harrisburg Patriot. During the First World War, he served in France with the 79th Division and was a delegate to the organizing meeting of the American Legion in Paris following the war. Malcolm returned to the newspaper, then worked for the Tax Audit Company in Philadelphia before returning to his alma mater in 1922 to begin a remarkable life of service to Dickinson.

Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
President - Years of Service
Acting, 1945-1946; 1959-1961
Honorary Degree - Year
1963
Trustee - Years of Service
1961-1965

James Andrew McCauley (1822-1896)

James Andrew McCauley was born on October 7, 1822 in Cecil County, Maryland to Daniel and Elizabeth McCauley. He prepared for college at the Baltimore Classical Institute in Maryland before entering Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a freshman in September 1844. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and he graduated with highest honors in 1847.

After graduation, McCauley entered the Methodist Episcopal Church and joined the Baltimore Conference in 1850. Shortly following this, he married Rachel M. Lightner on July 8, 1851, with whom he had a daughter, Fanny. He was granted a doctor of divinity degree from his alma mater in 1867 and joined the Board of Trustees in 1869. In 1872, McCauley accepted the position as the fourteenth president of the College, remaining as such for the next sixteen years.

Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
President - Years of Service
1872-1888
Honorary Degree - Year
1867
Faculty - Years of Service
1872-1888
Trustee - Years of Service
1869-1872

John McClintock (1814-1870)

John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.

McClintock joined the Dickinson College faculty in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1836 as a professor of mathematics. In 1840 he became professor of Greek and Latin. In 1847, the town of Carlisle charged him with inciting a riot over slavery. He was tried in the county court and was acquitted. A year later, he resigned from the College and became the editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review. McClintock did not cut all ties with the College and served as a trustee from 1849 to 1859. He also maintained his intellectual career, publishing many educational volumes and texts, especially in classical and theological literature.

College Relationship
Honorary Degree - Year
1859
Faculty - Years of Service
1836-1848
Trustee - Years of Service
1849-1859

Charles McClure (1804-1846)

Charles McClure was born on his father's farm at Willow Grove near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His father, Colonel Charles McClure, was currently serving as a member of the board of trustees at the local Dickinson College and his son entered the nearby institution with the class of 1824. He was a solid student, being named a sophomore sophister and was elected to the Union Philosophical Society. He also was one of the seven founder members of the Turkey Club, an eating club instituted on the campus in 1823. A fellow member was Andrew Parker, another local student and also destined to serve in the U.S. Congress. Short and stocky in stature, McClure was a practicing Methodist. Following his graduation with his class, he studied law and was admitted to the Carlisle bar in 1826.

A Democrat, he was elected as a state representative in 1835 and then served in the United States Congress when elected in his own right 1837-1839; he was elected for part of 1840 and 1841 to replace the deceased incumbent, William Sterritt Ramsay - a fellow Dickinsonian who had shot himself in October, 1840. He served as secretary of state for Pennsylvania between 1843 and 1845.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1833-1846

Louis Emory McComas (1846-1907)

Louis Emory McComas was born October 28, 1846 near Williamsport, Maryland where his father was in the hardware business. He attended Saint James' College and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1866 in 1863. His cousin, Henry Frederick Angle, was one of his classmates. They both became members of the Belle Lettres Literary Society. While Louis joined Phi Kappa Sigma, Henry became a member of Sigma Chi.

Louis graduated with his class in 1866 and then studied law, being admitted to the Maryland bar in 1868. His influential political career began when he was first elected to Congress in 1883 as a Republican and served several terms until his defeat in 1891. He was secretary of the Republican National Committee during the election campaign of 1892. President Benjamin Harrison named him, meanwhile, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. He was subsequently elected to the Senate for a six year term in 1899. At the time he was a professor at Georgetown Law School and continued to teach two courses a semester throughout his term in the Senate. He retired from the Senate and President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him to his last post as a justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in 1905.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1898
Trustee - Years of Service
1876-1907

David McConaughy (1775-1852)

David McConaughy was born on September 29, 1775 in Menallen, Pennsylvania, six miles from Gettysburg in what was then York County. He was tutored locally and attended the Rev. Alexander Dobbin's classical School in Gettysburg. He attended Dickinson College in nearby Carlisle. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society and graduated in September 1795 with the honor of being assigned the Latin Salutary. He continued his studies in theology under Rev. Nathan Grier and on October 5, 1797, the New Castle presbytery licensed him to preach.

After a time as a traveling preacher, he became the head of the congregation at Upper Marsh Creek in October 1800. When in 1813 the new Adams County seat was inaugurated in nearby Gettysburg, the church moved into town. In the ensuing two decades, McConaughy became an active figure in Gettysburg, founding a grammar school in 1807, which the county took over in 1812, as well as founding and serving as first president of the first Temperance Society in Adams County. His reputation as a teacher led Washington College to offer him the post of president in March 1830. Although he did not accept initially due to family difficulties, he accepted the trustees' second offer in December 1831. Installed in May 1832, he served Washington College through difficult times for more than sixteen years until his retirement at age 74 in 1849.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1802-1834

John McKnight (1754-1823)

John McKnight was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1754. He prepared for college at the Latin Grammar School in Carlisle and went on to study at the College of New Jersey (Princeton). He graduated in 1773 and went on to study theology under Reverend Robert Cooper. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Donegal between 1774 and 1775 and later was ordained in 1776 or early 1777, although the exact dates are not certain. In 1776 McKnight married Susan Brown of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, with whom he had ten children. In 1783 he was named a charter trustee of Dickinson College in Carlisle, a position from which he would resign in 1794 before moving to New York. After moving, he became both a trustee and a professor of moral philosophy and logic at Columbia University. Also achieving prominence within the Presbyterian Church, McKnight would be selected to preside at the Presbyterian General Assembly in 1795, which met in Carlisle.

College Relationship
President - Years of Service
1815-1816
Trustee - Years of Service
1815-1820

John McLean (1785-1861)

John McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey on March 11, 1785 as the eldest son and first child of Scots-Irish immigrants Fergus and Sophia Blockford McLean. By the time the young McLean was fourteen, his family had moved to Virginia, Kentucky, and finally to Lebanon, Ohio where the family finally settled to farm. He attended a neighborhood school and took on extra work clearing other farmers' land to pay for private tutors to buttress what had been a poor early education. At eighteen he left for Cincinnati and a two year indentured apprenticeship with John Stites Grano, Clerk of the Court of Hamilton County. He also studied law there with Arthur St. Clair. In 1807 he was called to the Ohio bar.

College Relationship
Trustee - Years of Service
1833-1855

George Metzger (1782-1879)

George Metzger was born on November 19, 1782, the youngest of six children. His parents, Paul and Susanna Maria Bower Metzger, were well-to-do residents of Hanover in York County, Pennsylvania. George was sent to study at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1797. He was elected to the Union Philosophical Society but he did not complete his studies and instead went to study law, first with an attorney in Lancaster, and then with David Watts of Carlisle.

In 1805 George was admitted to the Cumberland County bar. The following year he was appointed deputy attorney general for Cumberland and Adams Counties, and from 1813 to 1814 Metzger served as a Pennsylvania State Legislator. Not being particularly fond of public office, he resumed his law practice after only one term in office. He continued to make his home in Carlisle throughout his life, serving as a trustee of Dickinson College from 1825 to 1833, as well as acting as a founding trustee of Second Presbyterian Church. George Metzger died June 10, 1879.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Trustee - Years of Service
1825-1833

John Montgomery (1727-1808)

John Montgomery was born in 1727 in Ireland and came to America as a teenager, settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Among the citizens of Carlisle, Montgomery was well-known as a man of many talents. Over the years he served variously as a storekeeper, farmer, soldier, lawyer, judge, and a politician. He gained respect as an heroic Indian fighter along the western frontier during the French and Indian Wars of the 1750s. Shortly thereafter he was elected sheriff of Cumberland County, the first of many local responsibilities with which he would be entrusted throughout his life.

Although advancing in age, Montgomery did not hesitate to uphold his patriotic duty during the Revolution. Attaining the rank of colonel, he fought with Robert Magaw at the Battle of Long Island and was captured at the surrender of Fort Washington. Within months, Montgomery was released and returned to Carlisle and became involved with the political scene. He was appointed to the Council of Safety and later became a member of both the state legislature and Congress.

College Relationship
Trustee - Years of Service
1783-1808

James Henry Morgan (1857-1939)

James Henry Morgan was born on a farm near Concord in southern Delaware on January 21, 1857. He prepared at Rugby Academy and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September 1874 as one of a freshman class of sixteen students. He elected to take the Scientific Course, became a leading debater with the Union Philosophical Society, and sat on the editorial board of the Dickinsonian. He won the Pierson Gold Medal for Oratory as a junior and gave the Latin Salutory at his commencement in 1878.

Following graduation, he taught at the Pennington School and at his old school of Rugby, before being named in 1882 to head the Dickinson Preparatory School. Soon after, he joined the faculty as an adjunct professor of Greek. He was librarian from 1893 to 1900, consolidating the three College collections into Bosler Hall. In 1890 he was promoted to full professor and also married Mary Curran, an alumna of 1888. He received an honorary doctorate from Bucknell in 1892 and entered the Methodist ministry in 1895. Beginning in 1903 he was the dean of the College under Presidents George Reed and Eugene Noble.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
President - Years of Service
1914-1928; 1931-1932; Acting, 1933-1934
Faculty - Years of Service
1882-1933
Trustee - Years of Service
1931-1939

Jesse Truesdell Peck (1811-1883)

Jesse Truesdell Peck, the youngest of ten children of Luther Peck, was born on April 4, 1811 on a farm in Middlefield, Otsego County, New York. He was educated at Cazenovia Seminary and became a minister in the Methodist Church. He married Persis Wing on October 13, 1831, and in the following year he joined the Oneida Conference. In 1837, Peck became the head of the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in New York. He moved on to head the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont. In 1848, thanks to his fine record and his strong dedication to the Methodism, Peck was chosen to be the tenth president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, despite having no formal college education himself.

College Relationship
President - Years of Service
1848-1852
Faculty - Years of Service
1848-1852
Trustee - Years of Service
1852-1856

John Reed (1786-1850)

John Reed was born in 1786 on Marsh Creek, in Adams County, the son of General William Reed. He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1806 but left before graduation to study law with William Maxwell of nearby Gettysburg. Reed was admitted to the bar and began practice in Westmoreland County. He quickly made a name for himself there and in 1815 he was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate and served as Deputy Attorney General for the state. In July 1820, Governor Findlay named him the President Judge of the Ninth Judicial District, comprising Cumberland, Franklin, Adams, and Perry counties.

Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1830
Faculty - Years of Service
1834-1850
Trustee - Years of Service
1821-1828

Robert Fleming Rich (1883-1968)

Robert Fleming Rich was born in Woolrich in Clinton County, Pennsylvania on June 23, 1883. His parents were Michael Bond Rich, from the famous Pennsylvania textile family, and Ida Belle Shaw. He was schooled at Mercersburg Academy and the Williamsport Commercial College before he entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1903 with the class of 1907. He joined Phi Kappa Psi during his freshman year and played two years on the football team, but left the College in 1906 without graduating to take up a position in the family's Woolrich Woolen Mills. Thus began a long and successful commercial career which saw him become general manager from 1930 to 1959, then president and chairman of the board of Woolrich Woolen Mills. He also engaged in other ventures in banking, manufacturing and utilities.

Rich became active in Republican politics, representing his district as a delegate to the national convention in 1924. In November 1930 he was elected to the Seventy-First Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edgar R. Kiess. He served for the next twelve years until 1942 when he did not seek renomination, but he returned to the House of Representatives in the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1945 and served another three terms. He retired from politics in early 1951 and devoted himself from then on to his work at Woolrich.

College Relationship
Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
Honorary Degree - Year
1941
Trustee - Years of Service
1917-1968

Howard Lane Rubendall (1910-1991)

Howard Rubendall was born on May 14, 1910 in Williamstown, Pennsylvania to Charles W. and Lottie Row Rubendall. He grew up in the small ferry town of Millersburg near Harrisburg and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania from which he graduated in 1931. While at Dickinson he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity as well as the Omicron Delta Kappa honor society.

Following graduation Rubendall spent three years teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1935, he resumed his studies at the Union Theological Seminary, from which he received his B.D. in 1937. He then began to work in the position of chaplain and chairman of the department of religion at the Hill School until 1941 when he became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York. In 1944, he served as the president of the Northfield Schools, which included the dual positions as the headmaster of Mount Hermon School for Boys and president of Northfield School for Girls in Northfield, Massachusetts. He served in this capacity for seventeen years.

Alumnus/Alumna Class Year
President - Years of Service
1961-1975
Honorary Degree - Year
1945
Trustee - Years of Service
1961-1975