Eighth president 1955-1965 A graduate of Kalamazoo College and Stanford University, Pinkham previously was assistant to the president of George Washington University and executive director of the National Commission on Accrediting. He also was a teacher and lecturer. He helped expand the student body, faculty, administration and physical plant, and administrative procedures were modernized. His […]
Seventh president 1943-1954 Clark G. Kuebler was a scholar, lecturer and teacher of classics. Although he served as president of the Episcopal Church’s National Council of Churchmen for several years, he was Ripon’s first president without a ministerial background. He helped establish a national reputation for the College by conducting lecture tours across the United […]
Sixth president 1918-1920 He had been a student of law and divinity and president of Emporia College in Kansas before serving briefly as Ripon’s president between the two terms of Dr. Silas Evans. His skill in public speaking made a strikingly favorable impression, but health and personal problems often interfered with his duties. He returned […]
Fifth president 1910-1917 and 1921-1943 Silas Evans, a graduate of the Ripon College Class of 1898, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, retired as teacher of Greek and Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin to accept the presidency of his alma mater in 1911. He led Ripon College for the next 32 years — except […]
Founder Alvan Earle Bovay was a founder of both Ripon College in 1851 and the newly established Republican Party in 1854. He was born July 12, 1818, in Adams, Jefferson County, New York, where David Mapes also was living at the time, although it is not known if they knew each other there. Bovay graduated […]
Fourth president 1901-1909 He was a Presbyterian clergyman and teacher of psychology and was instrumental in designing and implementing a college curriculum at Ripon for the 20th century. Preparatory classes were greatly reduced and the educational program expanded to include most subjects comprising a modern liberal arts curriculum. The college expanded with the installation of […]