John McCardell Jr

John M. McCardell, Jr. is the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth president of the college. An anonymous donor of $50 million in the spring of 2004 asked that Middlebury's science center, Bicentennial Hall, be renamed John M. McCardell, Jr. Bicentennial Hall.

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Middlebury College - Middlebury, Vermont - 2004

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McCardell served at Middlebury during a period in which about half of the school's 23,000 living alumni have graduated. A 1971 graduate of Washington & Lee University, he did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins and then at Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1976. That same year he joined the history department at the distinguished Vermont liberal arts college.

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Johns Hopkins - Harvard - 1976

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Full Biography of John M. McCardell, Jr.

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Middlebury College Website

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Source: Middlebury College Website

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