About the Author

Detail from artist Dean L. Pauls official portrait of Pres. William A. Kinnison, Wittenberg University archives. William A. Kinnison was the eleventh president of Wittenberg University, serving from 1974 to 1995. He grew up six blocks north of the campus in Springfield, Ohio, and graduated from the school in 1954. After military service at the US Army Language School at Monterey, California, and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin and the Ohio State University, he served Wittenberg for thirty-eight years in the admissions office as vice president and as president. He married Lenore Morris, class of 1959. They have three children and ten grandchildren and live just over a mile north of the campus in retirement. He has written extensively about higher education and Wittenberg. Publications include a centennial history of the Ohio State University, a history of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio, and a two-volume history of Wittenberg.