MSU Presidents

Use the list of MSU Presidents to answer the following questions.

1. How many presidents are women?

2. Who has the longest name?

3. Who was president for the longest period of time?

4. How many presidents have initials for first names?

5. Who was the only African American president?

6. Who was the first president?

7. How many presidents have beards?

8. Whose name is also a day of the week?

9. Whose last name reads the same forwards and backwards?

10. Who is the current president?

Name: _________________________________________

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MSU Presidents

Use the list of MSU Presidents to answer the following questions.

1. MSU turned 100 in 1955. Who was president for MSU’s 100th birthday?

2. Women were first admitted as students in 1870. Who was the president who allowed women to attend

MSU?

3. The first official football team was in 1896. Who was the president when our football team began?

4. MSU turned 150 in 2005. Who was president for MSU’s 150th birthday?

5. The first women were allowed in the Marching Band in 1972. Who was president when women were

allowed into Marching Band?

6. The first student newspaper was published in 1868. Who was president at the time?

7. The first hospital on campus was built in 1894. Who was the president that built the first hospital on

campus?

8. WKAR (radio) first broadcast an MSU football game in 1923. Who was the first president to be able to

listen to football games?

9. MSU Alumnus James Blanchard was elected governor of Michigan in 1982. Who was president of MSU

when Blanchard was elected governor?

10. “The Rock” was donated by the Class of 1873 after they graduated. Who was president at that time?

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Name: _________________________________________

Joseph R. Williams (1857–1859)

Lewis R. Fisk (1859-1862)

Theophilus C. Abbot (1862-1884)

David Friday (1921-1923)

Edwin Willits (1885-1889)

Oscar Clute (1889-1893)

Lewis B. Gorton (1893-1895)

Frank S. Kedzie (1915-1921)

Jonathan L. Snyder (1896–1915)

Kenyon L. Butterfield (1924-1928)

Robert S. Shaw (1928-1941)

John A Hannah (1941-1969)

Walter Adams (1969-1970)

Clifton R. Wharton Jr. (1970-1978)

Edgar L. Harden (1978-1979)

M. Cecil Mackey (1979-1985)

John DiBiaggio (1985-1992)

Gordon Guyer (1992-1993)

M. Peter McPherson (1993-2004)

Lou Anna K. Simon (2005-present)