Samuel Somerville Stratton (February 23, 1898 – March 1969) served as the eleventh president of

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

, 1943 - 1963. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, he was a graduate of Newburyport High School in

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and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1920 after naval service in World War I. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from

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and served as a professor of economics and researcher there and briefly at the University of Pittsburgh. Stratton saw Middlebury through most of World War II, when the institution hosted

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V-12 units, and initiated an extensive program of construction while enlarging the student body and enriching the institution's liberal arts curriculum.

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