Presidents
A number of individuals have acted as head of Mount Holyoke. Until 1888, the term principal was used. From 1888 to the present, the term president has been used.
- 1837-1849: Mary Lyon, 1st President (Founder and Principal)
- 1849-1850: Mary C. Whitman, 2nd President (Principal)
- 1850-1865: Mary W. Chapin, 3rd President (Principal)
- 1865-1867: Sophia D. Stoddard 4th President (Acting Principal)
- 1867-1872: Helen M. French, 5th President (Principal)
- 1872-1883: Julia E. Ward, 6th President (Principal)
- 1883-1889 Elizabeth Blanchard, 7th President (Principal and President)
- 1889: Mary A. Brigham, 8th President (President Elect - died in an accident)
- 1889-1890: Louisa F. Cowles, 9th President (Acting President)
- 1890-1900: Elizabeth Storrs Mead, 10th President
- 1900-1937: Mary Emma Woolley, 11th President
- 1937-1957: Roswell G. Ham, 12th President (first male head)
- 1957-1968: Richard Glenn Gettell, 13th President
- 1968-1969: Meribeth E. Cameron, 14th President (Acting President)
- 1969-1978: David Truman, 15th President
- 1978-1995: Elizabeth Topham Kennan '60, 16th President
- 1996-2010: Joanne V. Creighton, 17th President
- 2010–Present: Lynn Pasquerella '80, 18th President
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Famous quotes containing the word presidents:
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in “the people.” One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“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)
“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)