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A Letter from Search Committee Chair Michael L. Gordon '66

Michael Gordon
Michael L. Gordon '66

January 28, 2013

To the Colby Community,

On January 9, President William D. Adams announced that he will retire at the end of June 2014, setting in motion a process that has occurred only 19 times in our history—the search for a new leader for Colby.

Colby’s 20th president will inherit a college that is indisputably among the finest in the world. By every measure, from the quality of its student body, faculty, and staff, to the achievements of its alumni, to its reputation in the higher education community, Colby is an exceptionally strong institution with an uncommonly bright future.

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