Arthur E. Bestor

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Arthur E. Bestor (1879-1944) was an educator who served with distinction as President of Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York from 1915 to 1940. Bestor was a national force for adult education and under his twenty-five year administration, the Institution grew from an assembly for teachers and ministers with modest facilities to a wide-ranging summer program with a symphony orchestra, an opera company, a resident repertory theater company, and celebrated lecturers.