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He’s got character; he has integrity; he’s got an innate desire to serve. ... His personality is just very well suited for being a university president.” Miles Lackey, first associate vice president at Iowa State
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Retrospective of presidents 1868-83 Adonijah Welch Welch was the first ISU president.
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1883-84 Seaman Knapp
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Knapp continued development in agriculture courses. He conducted some of the first experiments in animal husbandry, dairy farming and farm crops.
1885-86 Leigh Hunt
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Filmmaker to present on Latino culturalism By Frances.Myers @iowastatedaily.com There will be a lecture Saturday, Sept. 15, just south of the Campanile on Central Campus. The lecture, “An Evening with Jacobo Morales,” will be at 7 p.m. There is no cost to attend. Jacobo Morales will be presenting as part of the Puerto Rican Student Association’s Cultural Night. This will run from 7 to 9 p.m. and will include traditional food and dancing. Morales is considered one of the most influential film directors in Puerto Rico’s history. He has had an eclectic career as a playwright, actor, filmmaker and writer. His first film, made in 1980, “Dios los Cria,” was selected as one of the 25 most significant films of Latin America. His third film, “Lo que le paso a Santiago,” was nominated in 1989 for an Oscar in the category of best foreign film. Hollywood credits of Morales’ include Woody Allen’s “Bananas,” as well as “Up the Sandbox,” with Barbra Streisand. The Puerto Rican Student Association is a multicultural student organization on Iowa State’s campus. According to the association’s website on the ISU clubs and organizations page, there are approximately 41 members. Their purpose and goals, according to their constitution, is to “foment and present a portion of the Puerto Rican culture to the students of Iowa State University by performing activities or discussions. Also to create union between the Puerto Rican Students at Iowa State University by creating a familiar atmosphere in which they may socialize.“ In the case that rain should occur, the lecture will be relocated to the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.
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Hunt had several jobs throughout his life including being a newspaper publisher, real estate developer, operator of a gold mine in Korea and a cotton grower in Sudan. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily ISU President Steven Leath shares his life story during an interview Tuesday at the Knoll. Leath’s formal installation as ISU president is Friday in Stephens Auditorium.
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This fourth president was a strong supporter of the fraternity system.
1891-1902 William Beardshear Beardshear was president of the university when the school colors were adopted as well as when the university became known as the Cyclones.
1903-10 Albert Storms Storms saw the addition of 18 new buildings and lifted the ban on fraternities and sororities.
By Lissa.Villa @iowastatedaily.com The word president implies a lot. It suggests everything from power to a suit, things that the average person does not deal with on a regular basis. The title can make its holder seem separate and distant from the typical individual. That’s not the case with Steven Leath, Iowa State University’s fifteenth president, who is anything but separate and distant from his students. Although President Leath began work during the second semester of last academic school year, Friday is his official installation. The ceremony will be held in Stephens Auditorium at 10:00 a.m. and will include an introduction by Erskine Bowles, a close friend of Leath’s. “An installation provides a president an actual opportunity to kind of lay out their priorities, their goals, for their tenure as president, both short term objectives as well as long term objectives,” said Miles Lackey, Iowa State’s first Associate Vice President. “He’s also looking forward to having the opportunity to tell the Iowa State community just a little bit more about himself.” Leath was born in Providence, Rhode Island, thirteen months after his older brother, with whom he would always have an especially close relationship. Both of Leath’s sets of grandparents were immigrants. His father’s parents were from England and his mother’s were from Italy. “I’m only second generation, so we had, I would say, a very ethnic upbringing,” Leath said, referring to himself and his three other siblings. At the age of two, the family moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Leath enjoyed an active childhood. During junior high the family packed up once again and moved to central Pennsylvania. There he took up outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing, as well as becoming active in school sports like wrestling and track. He also began working part time on local
1886-90 William Chamberlain
1912-26 Raymond Pearson Promoted graduate programs and growth in the support of athletics.
1927-36 Raymond Hughes Hughes had a strong impact on the growth of the university’s research capabilities.
1936-53 Charles Friley He guided the university through the Great Depression as well as World War II, in which the university aided in the Manhattan Project.
1953-65 James Hilton Hilton is thus far the only president to be a graduate of Iowa State. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily The 15th president of Iowa State, Steven Leath, stands with his dogs, Dixie and Quill, on Tuesday outside of the Knoll.
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1965-86 W. Robert Parks Parks developed the College of Design and the university’s main library was named after him and his wife in 1984.
1986-90 Gordon Eaton Eaton’s time at the university marked a growth in faculty salaries and significant increase in the support for research.
1991-2000 Martin Jischke
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University mace
Academic regalia
The chain symbolizes the history and traditions of Iowa State. The chain is bronze and silver and features the Campanile as well as Beardshear Hall.
The bronze, silver and tiger maple mace symbolizes the authority of the president. It shows the Fountain of the Four Seasons and the Campanile.
The cap and gown symbolize the academic achievements of the wearer. Two images of the Campanile adorn the front of the red and black gown.
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As the 13th president, Jischke set records in the amount of private funding that the university received each year.
2001-12 Gregory Geoffroy After being president for 10 and a half years, Geoffroy will soon begin to teach chemistry at Iowa State.
2012Steven Leath The 15th president assumed leadership on Jan. 16.
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