Lawrence University Trustee Jeffrey Ballowe
Cordially invites you to
A dinner to honor Richard Warch
During his 25th and final year as Lawrence University President
Saturday, March 20, 2004
6:30 p.m.
Home of Jeffrey Ballowe, '77
President Richard Warch
The second-longest serving president in the college's history, Richard Warch became
Lawrence's 14th president on September 1, 1979. Prior to that, he spent two years as vice
president for academic affairs and professor of history at Lawrence. From 1968 to 1977,
Warch was a member of the Yale University faculty in the history and American studies
departments and spent his final year there as associate dean.
In June, 1999, Warch was named to the Executive Committee of the Annapolis Group, an association of more than 100 of America's leading liberal arts colleges. In the 1987 study, "The Effective College President," a two-year project funded by the Exxon Education Foundation, Warch was named one of the nation's top 100 college presidents.
A native of Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J., Warch earned his bachelor of arts degree from Williams College in 1961, his bachelor of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1964 and his Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University in 1968.
He is the author of the book School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1710-1740, co-edited the volume John Brown in the Prentice-Hall Great Lives Observed Series and has addressed a wide variety of issues facing higher education in numerous published articles, reviews and commentaries.