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(President, 1933-1952)

Albert Hatcher was born on 24 September 1886 in Moreton's Harbour and attended Methodist College, St. John's; McGill University, Montreal; University of Chicago; and Columbia University, New York. During the First World War, Hatcher served as a professor in the Royal Canadian Navy at Royal Roads in British Columbia and at the Naval College, Halifax. He was later a professor of natural science at Bishop's College, Lennoxville, and in 1925 he joined the staff of the newly created ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University College to teach mathematics. In 1933 he succeeded John Lewis Paton as president of the college, serving until 1949 when he assumed the presidency of ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University. He retired as president in 1952 for health reasons and died at St. John's on 30 October 1954.

For more information on President Hatcher see:
The Nine Lives of Paton College

[Source: Melvin Baker, "Presidents of ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University College and ÐÓ°É´«Ã½, 1925-1999," Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. XCIII, no. 1 (Fall 1999), 2-6]