Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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The Reverend Doctor Louis M. Hirshon Since Reverend Doctor Louis M. Hirshon’s inauguration as the nineteenth pres- ident of Hobart College, the campus and curriculum has broken from its stagnant condition, and made incredibly rapid strides towards becoming a respected small liberal arts institution. Dr. Hirshon’s rich and varied career are the obvious reasons for his dynamic leadership. Receiving his B. S. degree from Harvard University in 1922, he was ordained in 1925. From 1946 to 1956, he was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, Conn., and in 1956 received his S. T. D. from Berkely Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. President Hirshon has also been engaged in the business world. He was a salesman for Proctor and Gamble in Ohio, coached a professional foot- ball team for three years, and has been associated with the founding or trusteeship of several schools, two of which are graduate schools of theology. During World War Two, he was chairman of the Pittsburgh, Pa. Area War Labor Board Com- mittee and since 1950, trustee of the Inter-Professional Commission on Marriage and Divorce Laws of the American Bar Association. This is an unusually rich preparation for a college president. There is nothing hidden about Dr. Hirshon’s plans for Hobart in the future; they are to push in every concerned area, and to put the college into the forefront of America’s truly fine liberal arts institutions. 25