Sir Frank Merry Stenton,FBA was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon England,a professor of history at the University of Reading (1926–1946),president of the Royal Historical Society (1937–1945),Reading University's vice-chancellor (1946–1950).
Howard Dietz was an American publicist,lyricist,and librettist,best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz.
Franklin Pierce University is a private university in Rindge,New Hampshire. It was founded as Franklin Pierce College in 1962,combining a liberal arts foundation with coursework for professional preparation.
Evelyn Erika Handler served from 1980 to 1983 as the University of New Hampshire's fourteenth,and first female,President. Handler was the first woman in the country to be named president of a publicly supported land grant university. She was credited with bringing in $15 million in federal grants for a science and engineering research center.
Edward Tuck was an American banker,diplomat,and philanthropist. He is known for funding the establishment of the Tuck School of Business at his alma mater,Dartmouth College. The son of Amos Tuck,a founder of the Republican Party,Edward Tuck served as the Vice Consul in Paris,and grew his fortune as a partner of the banking firm John Munroe &Co..
Charles Sumner Murkland was the first elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts following the college's move from Hanover to Durham in the United States. While a scholar and executive,his lack of an agricultural background made him a surprising choice for the position. While President,Murkland proposed adding preparatory classes and a two-year degree and during his first year Graduate study was also established.
Ralph Dorn Hetzel was the tenth President of the Pennsylvania State University,serving from 1927 until 1947. Prior to that he served as the President of the New Hampshire College,which became the University of New Hampshire in 1923,under Hetzel's tenure.
Edward Thomson Fairchild was the third elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Durham,New Hampshire from 1912 to January 23,1917,when he died in office at age 62. Prior to serving as President of New Hampshire College,Fairchild served as Kansas state superintendent of public instruction.
Kurt Damian Engelhardt is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Previously,he was the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
George Theodore Mickelson was an American lawyer,16th Attorney General of South Dakota and 18th Governor of South Dakota,and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. He is the patriarch of the prominent Mickelson family of South Dakota.
Arthur Stanton Adams was an American academic most notable for having served as the President of the University of New Hampshire. He also served as Assistant Dean of Engineering and Director of the Engineering Science Management War Training Program and Provost at Cornell. In 1948 he was appointed the 8th president of the University of New Hampshire. He was chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board at the United States Department of Defense from 1953 to 1955. From 1962-1965,he served as the second president of the Salzburg Global Seminar,a non-profit organization based in Salzburg,Austria,whose mission is to challenge current and future leaders to develop creative ideas for solving global problems. Dr. Adams co-authored The Development of Physical Thought and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics.
Wolf Jürgen Baron von Engelhardt was a German geologist and mineralogist.
John Stewart Bryan was an American newspaper publisher,attorney,and college president. He was the nineteenth president of the College of William and Mary,serving from 1934 to 1942. He also served as the fourth American chancellor of the college from 1942 to 1944.
William David Gibbs was the second elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 1907-1912,in Durham,New Hampshire,United States,which in 1923 became the University of New Hampshire. During his presidency student numbers tripled to 315,and the number of college buildings reached 15. He believed that students' time should be divided equally between cultural studies,pure science,and vocational studies.
Fred Lewis Pattee was an American author and scholar of American literature. As a professor of American literature at the Pennsylvania State University,Pattee wrote the lyrics of the Penn State Alma Mater. Pattee is sometimes labeled the "first Professor of American Literature",a position he held at Penn State from 1895 until 1928.
Eugene Sumner Mills was an American academic. He was the thirteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1974 to 1979. Mills attended Earlham College and Claremont Graduate University,earning a Ph.D. in psychology at the latter. He taught at Whittier College before coming to the University of New Hampshire. Mills was a member of the UNH faculty for 17 years starting in 1962 as professor and chairman for the Department of Psychology,finishing up with his presidency. Mills then went on to serve as the president of Whittier College from 1979 to 1989,and interim president of Earlham College from 1996 to 1997.
Gordon Arthur Haaland was an American academic. He was the fifteenth President of the University of New Hampshire from 1984 to 1990,and of Gettysburg College from 1990 to 2004. He was an alumnus of Wheaton College and the State University of New York at Buffalo,earning a doctorate degree in social psychology at the latter.
Harold Walter Stoke was an American college president. Stoke was President of University of New Hampshire,Louisiana State University,and Queens College in New York. Stoke was a trained historian and political scientist. In 1958,He wrote about the principles of college and university administration in "The American college president" published by Harper.
Eric T. Huddleston (1888–1977) was an American architect. Huddleston is best known as the supervising architect of the University of New Hampshire from 1914 until 1949 and as a prominent proponent of Colonial Revival architecture.
