RU History

Presidents of 
Radford University

(Click on the photographs below for
full-size photographs and brief biographies)

John Preston
McConnell
David Wilbur
Peters
Charles Knox
Martin

Donald Newton
Dedmon
Douglas
Covington
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The information found on the presidential biography pages is adapted from histories originally compiled by David Horton, Assistant Director of the Alumni Affairs Office from the following sources:

  • Radford College: A Sentimental Chronicle Through Its First Half-Century (1970)
    by Lanora Geissler Lewis Smith '43;
  • History of the State Teachers College, Radford, Virginia 1910-1930 (1932)
    by Dr. Mary Ledger "M'Ledge" Moffett;
  • and from the Radford University Archives.

Last Updated: June 17, 2003