(海狸下降, PA) As bwin体育大学 prepares to welcome its twentieth president, the institution looks back on the leaders who helped shape its 168-year history of providing an academically excellent, Christ-centered and affordable education. Geneva was founded on Thursday, April 20, 1848. But the origins of the college extend more than a decade earlier, to the work of Reverend 约翰·布莱克·约翰斯顿, who would go on to be named Geneva’s first president.
The foundation for Geneva was laid in the small town of Northwood, Ohio, during the winter of 1837. 约翰斯顿, the pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Miami, 当时的OH, began a Latin class in his study. Seven young men formed that first group of students, and when enrollment soon opened to women and the class size quickly grew, it had to move to the church and then to a log school in town. In 1847, the Lakes Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church authorized 约翰斯顿 to build a college. Within five months, he had built a five-room brick building and opened bwin体育大学.
Over the course of the Geneva’s history, the Lord blessed it with presidents who maintained its Reformed Christian heritage and commitment to leadership in Christian higher education for all people.
第一个 | 尊敬的博士. 约翰·布莱克·约翰斯顿 | 1848-1850 |
第二个 | Reverend William Finney George | 1850-1852 |
第三 | Dr. James Renwick Willson Sloane | 1852-1856 |
第四 | 尊敬的博士. John Calvin Knox Milligan | 1856-1858 |
第五 | Reverend John Calvin 史密斯 | 1858-1860 |
第六 | 尊敬的博士. Nathan Robinson 约翰斯顿 | 1865-1867 |
第七 | Dr. 塞缪尔·约翰·克劳 | 1867-1871 |
临时 | Reverend William Milroy | 1871-1872 |
第八 | Reverend Henry Hosick George | 1872-1890 |
第九 | Reverend William Pollock 约翰斯顿 | 1890-1907 |
第十 | 尊敬的博士. 威廉·亨利·乔治 | 1907-1916 |
十一 | 尊敬的博士. Renwick Harper Martin | 1916-1920 |
十二 | 尊敬的博士. Archibald Anderson 约翰斯顿 | 1920-1923 |
十三 | Dr. McLeod Milligan Pearce | 1923-1948 |
14 | Dr. 查尔斯·马斯顿·李 | 1948-1956 |
十五 | Dr. 埃德温·卡梅隆·克拉克 | 1956-1980 |
16 | Dr. Donald William Felker | 1980-1983 |
临时 | Dr. 埃德温·卡梅隆·克拉克 | 1983-1984 |
17 | Dr. 威廉Joseph McFarland | 1984-1992 |
十八 | 尊敬的博士. 约翰H. 白色 | 1992-2004 |
19 | Dr. 肯尼斯一个. 史密斯 | 2004-2015 |
临时 | 尊敬的博士. 威廉J. 埃德加 | 2015-2016 |
bwin体育大学 invites students to step forward with an academically excellent, Christ-centered and affordable education. It offers more than 40 traditional undergraduate majors, Adult 学位课程 (ADP) with online and campus-based options, 还有硕士学位. U.S. 新闻 & 世界报道 consistently ranks Geneva as a Top 10 Regional Best Value, with its undergraduate engineering programs as one of the Top 100 in the nation. Adhering to the inerrancy of Scripture, a Geneva education is grounded in the Reformed Christian faith. Its core curriculum and liberal arts majors are designed to prepare students to think, write and communicate well in today’s world; its professional programs prepare students for immediate entry to well-paying jobs.