John M. McCardell, Jr. is the president emeritus and a professor of history at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. He retired as president in June, 2004, after serving thirteen years as the fifteenth president of the college. An anonymous donor of $50 million in the spring of 2004 asked that Middlebury's science center, Bicentennial Hall, be renamed John M. McCardell, Jr. Bicentennial Hall. Middlebury College is a small, selective liberal arts college located in the small, New England hamlet of Middlebury, Vermont. ... Middlebury, Vermont Main Street Otter Creek Falls Middlebury is a town located in Addison County, Vermont. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

McCardell served at Middlebury during a period in which about half of the school's 23,000 living alumni have graduated. A 1971 graduate of Washington & Lee University, he did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins and then at Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1976. That same year he joined the history department at the distinguished Vermont liberal arts college. The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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