Roswell G. Ham
{{short description|American academic}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Roswell G. Ham
| image =
| order = 11th
| title = President of
Mount Holyoke College
| term_start = 1937
| term_end = 1957
| predecessor = Mary Emma Woolley
| successor = Richard Glenn Gettell
| birth_date = March 11, 1891
| birth_place = Lemoore, California
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|7|20|1891|3|11}}
| death_place = Santa Barbara, California
| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley
Yale University
| profession = Professor
}}
Roswell Gray Ham (March 11, 1891 – July 20, 1983) was an American educator who served as the 11th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1937 to 1957. He was born in LeMoore, California and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught at Yale for ten years before becoming the first male president of Mount Holyoke.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081215081412/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756308,00.html Man to Mount Holyoke] - TIME, 15 June 1936
- [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/rg4/rg4ni.shtml Biography]
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| before = Mary Emma Woolley
| title = President of Mount Holyoke College
| years = 1937–1957
| after = Richard Glenn Gettell
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Category:20th-century American academics
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