Batesville - The Lyon College Board of Trustees has named Dr. Donald V. Weatherman as the school's new president.

Weatherman served as a Professor of Political Philosophy at Lyon from 1983 to 1999, before leaving Batesville to become vice president and dean of Erskine College in South Carolina. He also serves as a professor of politics at Erskine.

Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, who represented the Lyon faculty on the search committee, said, "Dr. Weatherman stood out from the other candidates because of the breadth of his leadership experiences, his knowledge of the Lyon community, and the respect the Lyon and Batesville communities hold for him."

The search for a new president began last fall with the appointment of a search committee. The committee received 90 applications for the job--although Weatherman was the only candidate invited to visit the Lyon campus.

"To do otherwise, we reasoned, would be disingenuous," said Ray LaCroix, Jr., chair of the Board of Trustees. "For while there were two or three others in the pool for whom support was expressed, none came close to the candidate who had received our unanimous support."

Weatherman--the 17th president of the college--succeeds Dr. Walter B. Roettger, who is retiring in June after 11 years.

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