John R. Everett presided over Hollins College (later Hollins University) from 1950 until 1960. Reportedly the nation’s youngest college president when he assumed the office, he established a new curriculum and oversaw the near doubling of Hollins’s student body and faculty. Everett also instituted a study abroad program. He left Virginia to become the first chancellor of the Municipal College System of the City of New York and later spent nearly two decades as president of the New School for Social Research (later the New School) in New York City. He died in 1992. A scholarship was established in his name at Hollins following his retirement.
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