Eugene Sumner Mills (September 13, 1924 – August 18, 2020) was an American academic. He was the thirteenth President of the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ...

from 1974 to 1979. Mills attended

Earlham College Earlham College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. The college was established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has a strong focus on Quake ...

and

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, earning a Ph.D. in psychology at the latter. He taught at

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before coming to the University of New Hampshire. Mills was a member of the UNH faculty for 17 years starting in 1962 as professor and chairman for the Department of Psychology, finishing up with his presidency. Mills then went on to serve as the president of Whittier College from 1979 to 1989, and interim president of Earlham College from 1996 to 1997. He died in August 2020 at the age of 95 in Durham, New Hampshire. The University of New Hampshire built a residence hall named Mills Hall in his honor, it was dedicated on November 7, 2002. Mills was an early board member of Elderhostel, which became the Road Scholar program, a travel based education program.

Selected works

The Story of Elderhostel

References

External links

University of New Hampshire: Office of the PresidentFull list of University Presidents (including interim Presidents)
University of New Hampshire Library
Whittier College Past PresidentsPassings: Eugene Mills, Former UNH President
UNH today
In Memoriam: Bright shall thy mem’ry be
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