Roswell G. Ham | |
Order: | 11th |
President of Mount Holyoke College | |
Term Start: | 1937 |
Term End: | 1957 |
Predecessor: | Mary Emma Woolley |
Successor: | Richard Glenn Gettell |
Birth Date: | March 11, 1891 |
Birth Place: | Lemoore, California |
Death Place: | Santa Barbara, California |
Alma Mater: | University of California, Berkeley Yale University |
Profession: | Professor |
Roswell Gray Ham (March 11, 1891 - July 20, 1983) was an American educator who served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1937 to 1957. He was born in LeMoore, California and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught at Yale for ten years before becoming the first male president of Mount Holyoke.