Willard F. Enteman

Willard F. Enteman

11th President of Bowdoin College
In office 1978–1980
Preceded by	Roger Howell, Jr.
Succeeded by	A. LeRoy Greason
Personal details
Alma mater	Williams College Harvard Business School Boston University

Willard Finley Enteman (born 1936) was the eleventh president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

Career

Enteman graduated from the Hotchkiss School in 1955 before attending Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. After having graduated in 1959, he attended Harvard Business School, where he received an M.B.A., and earned a Ph.D. from Boston University. Before teaching at Bowdoin, Enteman taught at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and was chair of the philosophy department at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Enteman was president of Bowdoin for only a couple of years, serving from 1978 to 1980. Notably, in 1978, he helped in the creation of a committee that recommended that Bowdoin remove its ties with companies deeply involved with South Africa and set up scholarship funds for South African students. He went on to teach philosophy at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island, and has served on the board of the Senior Initiative. Additionally, he has authored three books in his career.

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Preceded by Roger Howell, Jr.	President of Bowdoin College 1978–80	Succeeded by A. LeRoy Greason

Presidents of Bowdoin College

Joseph McKeen (1802–07)
Jesse Appleton (1809–19)
William Allen (1820–39)
Leonard Woods (1839–66)
Samuel Harris (1867–71)
Joshua Chamberlain (1871–83)
William DeWitt Hyde (1885–1917)
Kenneth C.M. Sills (1918–52)
James S. Coles (1952–67)
Roger Howell, Jr. (1969–78)
Willard F. Enteman (1978–80)
A. LeRoy Greason (1981–90)
Robert Hazard Edwards (1990–2000)
Barry Mills (2001–2015)
Clayton Rose (2015-present)

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