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College News
04089
February 18, 2004

College News

by Evan Silverstein

MONTREAT, NC - Dan Struble, the vice president for principal gifts of the
United States Naval Academy Foundation in Annapolis, MD, has been named the
seventh president of Montreat College. He replaces John Lindberg, who
resigned last June.

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GLENSIDE, PA - Jerry M. Greiner, the provost of Hamline University in Saint
Paul, MN, has been named president of Arcadia University (formerly Beaver
College), effective July 1. Greiner, 54, who has a Ph.D. in psychology,
replaces Bette E. Landman, who is retiring after 18 years as president.

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ALMA, MI - Attorney and environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will
deliver the annual Honors Day Address at Alma College on March 31. Kennedy,
who represents the Natural Resources Defense Council and is president of the
Waterkeeper Alliance, also has helped indigenous tribes in Latin America and
Canada protect their homelands. He will receive an honorary degree on April
1.

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CALDWELL, ID - Jim Angresano, a professor of politics and economics at
Albertson College of Idaho, has received a second Fulbright Senior Specialist
grant to lecture on economic development and international economics at Cairo
University in Egypt for four weeks this winter. The goal of the program is to
advance understanding between people of the United States and other
countries.

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SITKA, AK - Dale Soden, a professor at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA,
recently presented a lecture at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka titled: "The
role of the Presbyterian College in the 21st Century." The Jan. 29 speech
represented the early steps of an effort by the two schools to form a closer
working relationship as the only Presbyterian-related colleges in the Pacific
Northwest.

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