Bernard S. Adams

Ninth president

1966-1985

Bernard Schroder Adams was born July 20, 1928. He was a graduate of Princeton University, Yale University and the University of Pittsburgh, and he taught English literature and had a wide range of administrative responsibilities at Princeton, Pittsburgh and Oberlin College. At Ripon, he continued the expansion of the physical plant and continued modernization of the administration and the curriculum, overseeing the addition of off-campus, independent study, self-designed and interdisciplinary programs. The Wehr Learning Resources Center addition to Lane Library was completed in September 1974.