College Presidents
103 DARTMOUTH MEN HAVE HEADED INSTITUTIONS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD
A TOTAL OF 103 alumni of Dartmouth College, members of classes from 1771 to 1936, have served as presidents of 120 colleges and universities in this country and abroad. Fourteen of this number helped to found their respective institutions. This impressive evidence of Dartmouth's educational influence is contained in a special report compiled by Ford H. Whelden '25 of the Dartmouth Development Council.
Colleges and universities that owe their founding to Dartmouth men, wholly or in part, include: Bowdoin College (Joseph McKeen, class of 1774); Colby College (Daniel Merrill, class of 1789); Kenyon College and Jubilee College (Philander Chase, class of 1796); Norwich University (Alden Partridge, class of 1806); Batticola College, Ceylon, India (Daniel Poor, class of 1811); Louisville University (Benjamin F. Farnsworth, class of 1813); Illinois College (John M. Ellis, class of 1822); College of New Orleans (Erastus Everett, class of 1836); Bates College (Oren B. Cheney, class of 1839); College of California (Samuel H. Willey, class of 1845); Drury College and Fairmount College (Nathan J. Morrison, class of 1853); Storer College (Nathan C. Brackett, class of 1864); Montana College (Clinton H. Moore, class of 1874; and Fargo College (Edwin H. Stickney, class of 1878).
Seven Dartmouth alumni, listed in the report, are currently heads of institutions of higher learning. These are Harry W. Chase '04, Chancellor of New York University; Robbins W. Barstow '13, President of the Hartford Seminary Foundation; Samuel S. Stratton '20, President of Middlebury College; Ralph E. Noble '23, Pres- ident of Vermont Junior College; John S. Dickey '29, President of Dartmouth College; Evan R. Collins '33, President of the Albany State College for Teachers; and Louis T. Benezet '36, President of Allegheny College. A distinguished Dartmouth alumnus, Edmund E. Day '05, retired last year as Chancellor of Cornell University.
