Presidents
The college has only had six Presidents in its 116-year history. After the death of Ashley Johnson, Emma Johnson became president. Ms. Johnson was one of the first women to be elected and serve as president of any college in the United States. Dr. David L. Eubanks was the first President to retire from office. Prior to that, all other presidents of the College died while in office. They are buried in the College Cemetery across from the Old Main Building.
In 1896, during his tenure as the college's president, Ashley Johnson wrote the Condensed Biblical Encyclopedia.
| President | Term |
|---|---|
| Ashley S. Johnson (Founder) | 1893−1925 |
| Emma Johnson (Founder) | 1925−1927 |
| Alva Ross Brown | 1927−1941 |
| Robert M. Bell, Ph.D. | 1941−1968 |
| David L. Eubanks, Ph.D.* | 1969−2007 |
| Gary E. Weedman, Ph.D. | 2007−present |
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“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumbler and begin to poke around for rumours of another Messiah.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“A president, however, must stand somewhat apart, as all great presidents have known instinctively. Then the language which has the power to survive its own utterance is the most likely to move those to whom it is immediately spoken.”
—J.R. Pole (b. 1922)