Hudson Taylor Armerding | |
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| Born | June 21, 1918 |
| Died | December 1, 2009(2009-12-01) (aged 91) |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, historian, professor, college president |
| Known for | President of Wheaton College (1965–1982), President of National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) (1970–1972), major building program at Wheaton College, steering a small liberal arts college through anti-war protests in Vietnam Era |
Hudson Taylor Armerding (June 21, 1918 – December 1, 2009) was President ofWheaton College,Wheaton,Illinois, from 1965 to 1982. He was also president of theNational Association of Evangelicals from 1970 to 1972.
Born inAlbuquerque,New Mexico, Armerding was the son of an itinerant preacher and grew up in a variety of places in the Southwest U.S. His high school graduation inSan Diego, California was in 1935. For two years after his high school graduation, he lived in Wellington,New Zealand, working on a farm.
Armerding earned an undergraduate degree inhistory from Wheaton in 1941, where he was a classmate and good friend ofBilly Graham (who had transferred in to Wheaton fromBob Jones University via theFlorida Bible Institute), and received a master's degree in international affairs fromClark University in 1942.
InWorld War II, Armerding served as a line officer in thePacific Ocean aboard the heavy cruiserUSS Wichita, which participated in 11 naval engagements, including the invasion of Okinawa. After the war, Armerding helped liberate a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp near Nagasaki.
In 1948, Armerding earned a doctorate (PhD) in history at theUniversity of Chicago.
From 1949 until 1961, Armerding taught and served as a dean and eventually acting president atGordon College andGordon Seminary in Wenham, Mass. In 1961, he was appointed Professor of History at Wheaton and a year later, in 1962, became Provost.
In 1965, Armerding succeeded the retiring V. Raymond Edman as Wheaton's president and Edman became Chancellor.
During Armerding's Presidency, Wheaton College constructed a new library and a new science building, eventually renamed Armerding Hall. Armerding retired from Wheaton in 1982.
Armerding served as a vice president of the Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community inQuarryville, Pennsylvania from 1985 until 1999.
In 2007, he was moved to Windsor Park Manor inCarol Stream, Illinois, where he battled with dementia until his death (in his home) in 2009.
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| Preceded by | President ofWheaton College 1965–1982 | Succeeded by |
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