Phi Gamma Delta's College and University Presidents
The institution name is listed first, followed in parentheses by the previous name of the institution, if it differed during the brother's tenure as president. Send corrections/additions to the Curator of Archives. Also see our list of college and university buildings named after Phi Gams.
Acadia University - George Barton Cutten (Yale 1897) 1910-1922
Agnes Scott College - Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (Virginia 1940) 1973-1982
University of Alabama - John Morin Gallalee (Alabama Faculty) 1948-1953
University of Alabama - James H. Newman (Alabama 1929) 1957 interim president
Albertson College Of Idaho (College of Idaho) - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1939-1948
Albion College - John W. Laird (Syracuse 1909) 1921-1924
Alderson-Broaddus College (Broaddus College) - Elkanah Hulley (Bucknell 1892) 1906-1927
Allegheny College - James Montgomery (Allegheny 1877) 1902 acting president
Allegheny College - Wilbur Garretson Williams (Allegheny 1875) 1888-1889
Allegheny College - Chester Arthur Darling (Allegheny Faculty) 1947-1948 acting president
Arcadia University (Beaver College) - Nicholas Howell Holmes (Allegheny 1870) 1896-1898
University of Arizona - Alfred Atkinson (Iowa State 1904) 1937-1947
Athens College - Guy Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) c.1966 interim president
Auburn University - Ralph Brown Draughon (Auburn initiate) 1948-1965
Austin College - William Daniel Vinson (Washington and Lee 1870) 1881-1882 acting president
Baker University - Patterson McNutt (DePauw 1860) 1870-1871
Ball State University - Richard W. Burkhardt (Knox 1939) 1978-1979 acting president
Ball State University - Lemuel A. Pittenger (Indiana 1900) 1927-1942
Bethel College (defunct) - Leslie Waggener (Union 1856, Bethel 1860) 1876-1883
Bethel College (defunct) - James Henry Fuqua (Bethel 1858) 1883-1887, 1902-1903 acting
Birmingham-Southern College - Guy E. Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) 1921-1937, 1955-1957
Blackburn College - Thomas W. Lingle (Davidson Faculty) 1904-1908
Bluefield College - David W. Olive (Tennessee Tech 1985) 2007-present
Boston University - Daniel L. Marsh (Northwestern 1906) 1926-1951
Butler University (Northwest University) - William Francis Black (DePauw 1868) 1872-1874
University of California [system] - Richard C. Atkinson (Chicago 1949) 1995-2003
University of California, San Diego - Richard C. Atkinson (Chicago 1949) 1980-1995 chancellor
California Institute of Technology (Throop Polytechnic Institute/Throop College of Technology) - James A. B. Scherer (Roanoke 1890) 1908-1920
Carson-Newman College (Mossy Creek Baptist College/Carson College) - N. B. Goforth (Maryville 1854) 1859-1862 and 1870-1882
Carson-Newman College (Carson College) - William Allen Montgomery (Jefferson 1852) 1888-1892
Chaddock College, Illinois (defunct) - Harvey Cleveland DeMotte (Illinois Wesleyan Faculty) 1884-1887
Chaddock College, Illinois (defunct) - Malvern Porter Lackland (Illinois Wesleyan 1878)
Chatham College (Pittsburgh Female College/Pennsylvania College for Women) - James Black (Washington College 1848) 1870-1875
Chatham College (Pittsburgh Female College/Pennsylvania College for Women) - Nicholas Howell Holmes (Allegheny 1870) 1896-1897
University of Cincinnati - Charles W. Dabney (Hampden-Sydney 1873, Virginia 1878) 1904-1920
University of Cincinnati - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1955-1971
Clayton College - Julius Caldeen Gunter (Washington and Lee 1876, Virginia 1879)
Coe College - Samuel B. McCormick (Washington and Jefferson 1880) 1897-1904
Coe College - Harry Morehouse Gage (Wooster 1900) 1920-1941, 1956-1958
Colgate University - Melbourne S. Read (Cornell 1895) 1921-1922 president pro tem
Colgate University - George Barton Cutten (Yale 1897) 1922-1942
Colgate University - Franklin W. Wallin (Wisconsin 1946) c.1969 president pro tem
University of Colorado - George F. Norlin (Colorado Faculty) 1919-1939
Colorado University - Julius Caldeen Gunter (Washington and Lee 1876, Virginia 1879
Cottey College - Jon O. Hondrum (Minnesota 1942) c.1969
Crane College, Texas (defunct) - Charles Henry Wedemeyer (Baylor 1859) 1886-1887
University of the Cumberlands (Cumberland College; Williamsburg Institute) - Edwin E. Wood (Denison 1890) 1890-___
Cumberland University - Edward Powell Childs (Denison 1894) 1917-1920
University of Delaware - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1914-1920
University of Delaware - Edward A. Trabant (Occidental 1940) 1968-1987, 1988-1990
Denison University - Clark W. Chamberlain (Denison 1894) 1913-1925
University of Denver - William F. McDowell (Ohio Wesleyan 1879) 1890-1899(?)
DePauw University (Indiana Asbury) - Reuben Andrus (DePauw faculty) 1872-1875
Des Moines University - John W. Million (William Jewell 1887)
Dillard University (New Orleans University) - Louis G. Adkinson (DePauw 1871) 1887-__
Earlham College - Franklin W. Wallin (Wisconsin 1946) 1974-1983
Eastern Washington University (Eastern Washington College of Education) - Raymond Mylar Mosher (Idaho Faculty) 1953 interim president
Elmira College - Lewis Eldred (Williams 1933) c.1954
Emporia State University (Kansas State Normal College) - Rudolph Blair Welch (Illinois Wesleyan initiate) 1879-1882
University of Evansville (Moores Hill College) - Louis G. Adkinson (DePauw 1871) 1882-1887
University of Florida - Hadrath Harold Hume (Iowa 1890) 1947-1948 interim president
Florida State University - Milton W. Carothers (Alabama 1919) 1960 acting president
Fort Worth University (defunct) - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875)
Franklin and Marshall College - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1955-1956
Furman University - William J. McGlothlin (Bethel 1889) 1919-1933
Georgia Institute of Technology - Arthur G. Hansen (Purdue 1947) 1969-1971
Georgia Institute of Technology - Gerald W. Clough (Georgia Tech 1964) 1994-present
Gettysburg College - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1952-1955
Ghent College (defunct) - James Shannon Blackwell (Hanover 1868) 1877-1879
Goucher College - David A. Robertson (Chicago 1902) 1930-1948
Goucher College - Marvin Banks Perry, Jr. (Virginia 1940) 1967-1973
Granville Female College, Ohio (defunct) - Dwight B. Hervey (Jefferson 1857) c.1882-1893
Hampden-Sydney College - William H. Whiting, Jr. (Hampden-Sydney 1880, Virginia 1880) 1904-1905 and 1908-1909 acting president
University of Illinois - David Kinley (Johns Hopkins 1892) 1920-1930
University of Illinois - Arthur Hill Daniels (Illinois 1897) 1933-1934 acting president
Illinois Wesleyan University - William Henry Wilder (Illinois Wesleyan 1873) 1888-97
Illinois Wesleyan University - Harvey Cleveland DeMotte (Illinois Wesleyan Faculty) 1973-1874, 1880, 1904 acting president
Indiana University - John Merle Coulter (Hanover 1870, Indiana 1870) 1891-1893
University of Iowa (State University of Iowa) - James Black (Washington College 1848) 1868-1870
Jacksonville University - James J. Brady, Jr. (Jacksonville Faculty) 1989-1996(?)
Jubilee College, Illinois (defunct) - William Edward McLaren (Jefferson 1851) 1875-1878
Juniata College - John N. Stauffer (Wittenberg Faculty) 1968-19__
Kansas Wesleyan University - Edgar K. Morrow (Ohio Wesleyan 1905)
University of Kentucky - Frank LeRond McVey (Ohio Wesleyan 1893) 1917-1940
King College, Tennessee - Henry Weiser Naff (Hampden Sydney 1875) 1894-1895
Lafayette College - Guy E. Snavely (Allegheny Faculty) 1957-1958 interim president
Lake Forrest University - John Merle Coulter (Hanover 1870, Indiana 1870) 1893-1896
Lake Michigan College - Robert H. Plummer (Wabash 1937) 1966-1967
Lenox College (defunct; Bowen Collegiate Institute) - James William McKean (Jefferson 1859) c.1862
Lewis and Clark College (Albany Collegiate Institute) - Howard Whittlesey Stratton (Washington 1855) 1876-1878
Lewis College, Missouri (defunct) - Henry Godden Jackson (DePauw 1857) 1885
Lewis College, Missouri (defunct) - James C. Hall (DePauw 1867)
Lindenwood University - Harry Morehouse Gage (Wooster 1900) c.1940s
Lingnan University, China (Canton Christian College) - James M. Henry (Wooster 1901) 1924-1927
Linfield College (McMinnville College) - Leonard W. Riley (Denison 1894) 1906-1931
Longwood University (Longwood College) - James H. Newman (Alabama 1929) 1965-1967
MacMurray College (Illinois Conference Female College/Illinois Female College) - Reuben Andrus (DePauw initiate) 1855-1856
University of Maine - James Norris Hart (Maine 1882) 1910 acting president
University of Maine - Joseph Magee Murray (Maine 1923) 1958 acting president
Marietta College - Harry Kelso Eversull (Wabash 1919) 1937-1942(?)
Marshall College (Illinois) - Patterson McNutt (DePauw 1858), 1864-1868
University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Massachusetts Agricultural College) - Edward Morgan Lewis (Williams 1896) 1924-1927
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Howard Wesley Johnson (Chicago Faculty) 1966-1971
Medical College of Virginia - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1913-1914
Mills College - Lynn T. White, Jr. (Stanford 1928) 1943-1958
University of Minnesota - Lotus D. Coffman (Indiana 1906) 1920-1938
University of Minnesota, Duluth (Duluth State Teachers College) - Eugene W. Bohannon (Indiana 1890) 1902-1937
University of Missouri - James Shannon Blackwell (Hanover 1868) acting president 1891
Montana State University - Alfred Atkinson (Iowa State 1904) 1919-1937
Montreat College - Robert Campbell Anderson (Hampden Sydney 1885) 1916-1946
Murray State College - Charles E. Grady, Jr. (Oklahoma 1932) c.1969
Muskingum College - J. Knox Montgomery (Indiana 1888) 1904-1931
University of Nevada - Leroy Decatur Brown (Ohio Wesleyan 1874) 1887-1890
Newberry College - James A. B. Scherer (Roanoke 1890) 1904-1908
University of New Hampshire - Edward Morgan Lewis (Williams 1896) 1927-1936
University of New Mexico - William George Tight (Denison 1886) 1901-1909
New School University - J. Robert Kerrey (Nebraska 1967) 2001-present
New York University - L. Jay Oliva (New York 1967) 1991-2002
Normal and Collegiate Institute, Asheville NC (defunct) - Edward P. Childs (Denison 1894) 1909-1916
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College/North Carolina College for Women) - Julius I. Foust (North Carolina 1890) 1907-1934
North Carolina College (defunct) - Melanchthon Gideon Groseclose Scherer (Roanoke 1880) 1896-1899
University of North Dakota - Frank L. McVey (Ohio Wesleyan 1893) 1909-1917
North Dakota State University (North Dakota Agricultural College) - Edwin F. Ladd (Maine 1884) 1916-1921
Northwestern Michigan College - James M. Davis (Ohio State 1937) 1970-1973
Norwich University - Homer L. Dodge (Colgate 1910) 1944-1950
Occidental College - Arthur G. Coons (Occidental 1920) 1946-1965
Ohio Wesleyan University - John Washington Hoffman (Washington and Jefferson 1892) 1916-1928
Oklahoma City University - John Frederick Olsen (DePauw 1941) 1964-1969
Oklahoma College for Women/Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (now University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) - Charles E. Grady Jr. (Oklahoma 1932) 1962-1966
Oakland College, Mississippi (defunct) - George Shotwell Roudebush (Jefferson 1854) two years
University of Oregon - Donald M. Erb (Illinois 1922) 1938-1943
Oregon State University - Francois A. Gilfillan (Oregon State 1918) 1940-1942 acting president
University of Pittsburgh - John A. Brashear (Pittsburg initiate) 1901-1904 (acting)
University of Pittsburgh - Samuel B. McCormick, Sr. (Washington and Jefferson 1880) 1904-1920
Pomona College - Charles K. Edmunds (Johns Hopkins 1897) 1928-1941
University of Puget Sound - Crawford R. Thoburn (Allegheny 1885) 1892-1898
Purdue University - Arthur G. Hansen (Purdue 1947) 1971-1982
Queens College (New York) - John J. Theobald (Columbia 1925) 1949-1955
Raritan Valley Community College (Somerset County College) - Henry C. J. "Hank" Evans (Syracuse 1938, Rutgers Faculty) 1967-19__ (first president of institution)
University of Rhode Island (Rhode Island State College) - Carl R. Woodward, Sr. (Rutgers 1914) 1941-1958
Roanoke College - Julius D. Dreher (Roanoke 1871) 1878-1903
Rollins College - William F. Blackman (Yale 1880) 1902-1915
Santa Ana College - John E. Johnson (Occidental 1938) 1957-19__
Shimer College - Francis J. Mullin (Missouri 1929) 1954-1968
Shippensburg University (Shippensburg State Normal School) - John Frederick McCreary (Gettysburg 1860)
Silliman University (Philippines) - Charles Robert Hamilton (Hanover 1893) 1930-1932 acting president
University of Southern California - Marion McKinley Bovard (DePauw 1873) 1880-1892, first president
University of South Carolina - James Woodrow (Jefferson 1849) 1891-1897
University of South Carolina - Samuel Chiles Mitchell (Richmond Faculty) 1908-1913
University of South Carolina - William Spenser Currell (Washington and Lee 1874) 1914-1922
Southwestern College (Kansas College) - John E. Earp (DePauw initiate) 1886-1890
Stetson University - Lincoln Hulley (Bucknell 1888) 1904-1934
Stillman College - Samuel Burney Hay (Davidson 1916) 1948-1965
University of Tampa - Fred D. Learey (Ohio Wesleyan 1928) 1972 acting president
University of Tennessee - Charles W. Dabney (Hampden-Sydney 1873, Virginia 1878) 1887-1904
Tennessee College, Murfreesboro (defunct) - George J. Burnett (Bethel 1894) 1907-c.1923
University of Texas - Leslie Waggener (Union 1856, Bethel 1860) 1876-1883, 1884-1896 [first as head of faculty, highest University office prior to 1895 establishment of president, then as acting president]
University of Texas - William L. Prather (Washington and Lee 1871) 1899-1905
University of Texas - William S. Livingston (Ohio State 1942) 1992-1993 (acting)
Texas Wesleyan University - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875)
Thiel College - Henry Warren Roth (Gettysburg 1861) 1870-1887
Thiel College - William A. Beates (Muhlenberg 1872) 1887-1890
Thiel College - Theophilus B. Roth (Thiel 1874) 1893-1902
University of Toronto - Henry N.R. "Hal" Jackman (Toronto 1952) 1997-2003 chancellor
University of Toronto - Frank Iacobucci (British Columbia 1962) 2004-2005 interim president
Transylvania University (Kentucky University) - Alexander Milligan (Kentucky U. 1861) 1899-1901 (acting)
Transylvania University - Charles L. Shearer (Kentucky 1964) 1983-2010
Tullahoma College (defunct) - Thomas Coke Carter (DePauw 1875) four years (prior to 1886)
Union University - Duncan Hyde Selph (Union University 1852) 1868-1870
United States Military Academy at West Point - Robert L. Eichelberger (Ohio State 1907) 1940-1942 superintendent (analogous to president)
Upper Iowa University - Thomas J. Bassett (DePauw 1875) c.1903
Valpariso University - Thomas Bond Wood (DePauw 1863) 1867-1869
Vermont College - William L. Irvine (Maine 1942) 1966-1972
University of Virginia - Colgate W. Darden (Virginia 1918) 1947-1959
Wabash College - Daniel F. Evans (Wabash 1943) 1992-1993 acting president
Wagner College - Walter C. Langsam (Union Faculty) 1945-1952
Washington College, Maryland - Gilbert W. Mead (Allegheny 1911) 1933-1949
University of Washington - Charles Francis Reeves (Penn State Faculty) 1897-1898 acting president
University of Washington - Henry Schmitz (Washington 1914) 1953-1958
Washington and Jefferson College - James D. Moffat (Washington and Jefferson 1869) 1882-1915
Washington and Lee University - Francis P. Gaines (Richmond 1912) 1930-1957
West Virginia University - Frank B. Trotter (Roanoke 1890) 1914-1916 acting; 1916-1928 president
Westminster College, Missouri - William Webster Hall (Westminster Faculty) 1948-1955
Wheelock College - William L. Irvine (Maine 1942) 1972-1973 acting president
Whitewater College (Indiana; defunct) - William H. Barnes (DePauw 1857) prior to 1865
William Jewell College - John F. Herget (William Jewell 1895) 1928-1942
Willamette University - Charles Edward Lambert (Baker 1873, Northwestern 1875) 1879-1880
Willamette University - Thomas Van Scoy (Northwestern 1875) 1880-1891
Wittenberg University (Wittenberg College) - John N. Stauffer (Wittenberg Faculty) 1963-1968
University of Wyoming - Albinus Alonzo Johnson (DePauw 1875) 1891-1896
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