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Previous Principals & Presidents

Mary Lyon
Founder and Principal
1837–1849

Mary C. Whitman ’39
Principal
1849–1850

Mary W. Chapin ’43
Principal
1850–1865

Sophia D. Stoddard ’41
Acting Principal
1865–1867

Helen M. French ’57
Principal
1867–1872

Julia E. Ward ’57
Principal
1872–1883

Elizabeth Blanchard ’58
Principal and President
1883–1889

Mary A. Brigham ’49
President Elect
1889

Louisa F. Cowles ’66
Acting President
1889–1890

Elizabeth Storrs Mead
President
1890–1900

Mary E. Woolley
President
1900–1937

Roswell G. Ham
President
1937–1957

Richard Glenn Gettell
President
1957–1968

Meribeth E. Cameron
Acting President
1968–1969

David B. Truman
President
1969–1978

Elizabeth T. Kennan ’60
President
1978–1995

Joseph J. Ellis III
Acting President
Spring, 1984

Peter Berek
Interim President
Fall, 1995

Beverly Daniel Tatum
Acting President
Spring, 2002

Joanne V. Creighton
President
1996–2010

Note: Prior to 1888, the official title of the head of the institution was “principal.”

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