Durden Announces Retirement as Dickinson's President
Dickinson President William G. Durden ’71 today announced to
the board of trustees and campus community that he will retire
after 14 years of dedicated service and leadership, effective June
30, 2013.
Durden, 62, is the 27th president in Dickinson’s 239-year history and will become the college’s fourth longest-serving president, a record shared by Howard Rubendall (1961-75), who was president during Durden’s years as a Dickinson student.
“When I came back to Dickinson as president in 1999, I said that I would stay until I felt the time was right to depart. You just know when that moment arrives – as difficult as it might be personally – for transition in one’s life. Well, that time is before us,” Durden said in a letter to the campus community, alumni and friends of the college.
