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- Ormond Beatty (August 13, 1815 – June 24, 1890) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the seventh president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. An 1835 graduate of Centre, Beatty became a professor at the school the following year, and taught chemistry, natural philosophy, mathematics, and metaphysics over the course of his 54-year career. He was selected to fill the position of president pro tempore following the resignation of in 1868, and was unanimously elected president by the board of trustees in 1870. He led the school until his resignation in 1888, at which point he taught for two additional years before his death in 1890. Beatty involved himself in religious affairs as well, serving as a ruling elder in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches in Danville, as a commissioner to three Presbyterian Church General Assemblies, and as a trustee of the Danville Theological Seminary. (en)
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- Beatty photographed in 1880 (en)
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- Ormond Beatty (August 13, 1815 – June 24, 1890) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as the seventh president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. An 1835 graduate of Centre, Beatty became a professor at the school the following year, and taught chemistry, natural philosophy, mathematics, and metaphysics over the course of his 54-year career. He was selected to fill the position of president pro tempore following the resignation of in 1868, and was unanimously elected president by the board of trustees in 1870. He led the school until his resignation in 1888, at which point he taught for two additional years before his death in 1890. Beatty involved himself in religious affairs as well, serving as a ruling elder in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches i (en)
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