Samuel Somerville Stratton
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Samuel Somerville Stratton (b.1898 - d.1969) served as the eleventh president of Middlebury College, 1943 - 1963.
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of Newburyport High School in Newburyport, Massachusetts and Dartmouth College,[citation needed] graduating in 1920 after naval service in World War I. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard and served as a professor of economics and researcher there and briefly at the University of Pittsburgh.
Stratton saw Middlebury through most of World War II, when the institution hosted Naval V-12 units, and initiated an extensive program of construction while enlarging the student body and enriching the institution's liberal arts curriculum.
| Preceded by Paul Dwight Moody |
President of Middlebury College 1943–1963 |
Succeeded by James Isbell Armstrong |
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