# President and Trustees of Colby College

The President and Trustees of Colby College is an 501(c) organization which is the governing body of Colby College, a private liberal arts college located in Waterville, Maine, United States. As of 2017, the president is David A. Greene, and the chair of Board is Eric S. Rosengren.
The organization provides general supervision of the administration and property of the College, including appointment of the President.

## Structure

The bylaws of the corporation provide that membership shall consist of the current President, and not fewer than twenty-four nor more than thirty-five other Trustees. Not fewer than six nor more than nine of said Trustees shall be elected by the Colby College Alumni Association. The term of office of each Trustee lasts five years. The corporation meets three times annually. Both the faculty and the student body may elect two members each as representatives to attend meetings of the corporation, but not as voting members.

## Presidents

| Order | Name | Position(s) | Term Began | Term Ended | Alumnus/na? |
| 1 | Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin | President | 1822 | 1833 | no |
| 2 | Rev. Rufus Babcock | President | 1833 | 1836 | no |
| 3 | Robert Everett Pattison | President | 1836 | 1839 | no |
| 4 | Eliphaz Fay | President | 1841 | 1843 | no |
| 5 | David Newton Sheldon | President | 1843 | 1853 | no |
| 6 | Robert Everett Pattison | President | 1854 | 1857 | no |
| 7 | James Tift Champlin | President | 1857 | 1873 | no |
| 8 | Henry Ephraim Robins | President | 1873 | 1882 | no |
| 9 | George Dana Boardman Pepper | President | 1882 | 1889 | no |
| 10 | Albion Woodbury Small | President | 1889 | 1892 | 1876 |
| 11 | Beniah Longley Whitman | President | 1892 | 1895 | no |
| 12 | Nathaniel Butler Jr. | President | 1896 | 1901 | 1873 |
| 13 | Charles Lincoln White | President | 1901 | 1908 | no |
| 14 | Arthur J. Roberts | President | 1908 | 1927 | 1890 |
| 15 | Franklin W. Johnson | President | 1929 | 1942 | 1891 |
| 16 | J. Seelye Bixler | President | 1942 | 1960 | no |
| 17 | Robert E. L. Strider | President | 1960 | 1979 | no |
| 18 | William R. Cotter | President | 1979 | 2000 | no |
| 19 | William Drea Adams | President | 2000 | 2014 | no |
| 20 | David A. Greene | President | 2014 | present | no |

## Trustees
### Chairs of the Board

| Order | Name | Graduated | Elected | Left/Retired |
| 1 | Abner Coburn | n/a | 1874 | 1885 |
| 2 | J. Warren Merrill | n/a | 1885 | 1890 |
| 3 | Josiah Hayden Drummond | n/a | 1890 | 1892 |
| 4 | Percival Bonney | 1863 | 1902 | 1906 |
| 5 | Leslie C. Cornish | 1875 | 1907 | 1926 |
| 6 | Herbert Elijah Wadsworth | 1892 | 1926 | 1934 |
| 7 | George Otis Smith | 1893 | 1934 | 1944 |
| 8 | George Goodwin Averill | 1921 | 1944 | 1946 |
| 9 | Neil Leonard | 1921 | 1946 | 1960 |
| 10 | Reginald Houghton Sturtevant | 1921 | 1960 | 1965 |
| 11 | Ellerton Marcel Jette | n/a | 1965 | 1971 |
| 12 | Albert Carlton Palmer | 1930 | 1971 | 1979 |
| 13 | Robert N. Anthony | 1938 | 1979 | 1983 |
| 14 | H. Ridgely Bullock | 1955 | 1983 | 1991 |
| 15 | Lawrence Pugh | 1956 | 1991 | 1999 |
| 16 | James Bartlett Crawford | 1964 | 1999 | 2005 |
| 17 | Joseph F. Boulos | 1968 | 2005 | 2009 |
| 18 | Robert E. Diamond, Jr. | 1973 | 2009 | 2016 |
| 19 | Eric S. Rosengren | 1979 | 2016 | 2022 |
| 20 | Jane M. Powers | 1986 | 2022 | present |

### Other Notable Trustees

| Name | Graduated | Elected | Left/Retired |
| Mark Langdon Hill | n/a | 1821 | 1826 |
| Lucius Bolles | n/a | 1821 | 1842 |
| Adoniram Judson | n/a | 1821 | 1823 |
| William King | n/a | 1821 | 1848 |
| Mark Harris | n/a | 1821 | 1842 |
| Albion Parris | n/a | 1823 | 1826 |
| Joseph Torrey | n/a | 1829 | 1834 |
| Baron Stow | n/a | 1830 | 1852 |
| Jeremiah Chaplin | n/a | 1833 | 1840 |
| George Evans | n/a | 1837 | 1847 |
| Edward Kent | n/a | 1838 | 1847 |
| Samuel Francis Smith | n/a | 1840 | 1860 |
| Elijah Hamlin | n/a | 1841 | 1847 |
| Josiah Pierce | n/a | 1843 | 1858 |
| Abner Coburn | n/a | 1845 | 1885 |
| Hiram Belcher | n/a | 1847 | 1856 |
| Isaac Davis | n/a | 1847 | 1855 |
| Edgar Harkness Gray | 1838 | 1849 | 1853 |
| John Hubbard | n/a | 1849 | 1862 |
| Ebenezer Knowlton | n/a | 1851 | 1858 |
| Mark H. Dunnell | 1849 | 1858 | 1867 |
| Lot M. Morrill | n/a | 1862 | 1869 |
| J. Warren Merrill | n/a | 1862 | 1890 |
| Gardner Colby | n/a | 1865 | 1879 |
| Henry Sweetser Burrage | n/a | 1881 | 1906 |
| George Dana Boardman Pepper | n/a | 1882 | 1892 |
| Richard C. Shannon | 1862 | 1889 | 1921 |
| Albion Woodbury Small | n/a | 1890 | 1897 |
| Beniah Longley Whitman | n/a | 1892 | 1896 |
| Eugene Foss | n/a | 1897 | 1915 |
| Eugene Hale | n/a | 1897 | 1899 |
| George C. Wing Jr. | n/a | 1901 | 1931 |
| George Otis Smith | 1893 | 1903 | 1943 |
| Asher Hinds | 1883 | 1904 | 1919 |
| Forrest Goodwin | 1887 | 1908 | 1913 |
| Louise Helen Coburn | 1876 | 1919 | 1930 |
| Herbert Lord | 1884 | 1920 | 1925 |
| Franklin W. Johnson | 1891 | 1920 | 1955 |
| Warren C. Philbrook | n/a | 1923 | 1933 |
| Angier Goodwin | 1902 | 1932 | 1934 |
| Bainbridge Colby | LL.D. 1933 | 1932 | 1942 |
| Marston Morse | 1914 | 1933 | 1947 |
| Mary Louise Curtis Bok | n/a | 1936 | 1939 |
| Carl Raymond Gray | n/a | 1938 | 1939 |
| Guy Gabrielson | n/a | 1941 | 1959 |
| Sumner Sewall | n/a | 1945 | 1960 |
| Winthrop H. Smith | n/a | 1946 | 1958 |
| J. Seelye Bixler | n/a | 1957 | 1985 |
| Dwight E. Sargent | 1939 | 1958 | |
| Paul Donnelly Paganucci | n/a | 1975 | 2001 |
| Robert E. L. Strider II | Litt.D. 1979 | 1979 | 2010 |
| Levin H. Campbell | n/a | 1981 | 1999 |
| Robert E. Diamond, Jr. | 1973, LL.D. 2008 | 2007 | |
| Robert S. Gelbard | 1964, LL.D. 2002 | 2008 | |
| William R. Cotter | LL.D. 2000 | 2014 | Life Trustee |