Charles Hathaway Trout

Background

Trout, Charles Hathaway was born on November 3, 1935 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Charles Whyron and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Trout.

Education

Trout earned received his Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College and his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University.

Career

He served as president of Washington College for five years (1990–1995) and then president of Harcum College for four years. His teaching career began at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He joined the faculty of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1969 and became chairman of its history department.

While at Mount Holyoke, he was named a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow and a Charles Warren Fellow at Harvard University.

Trout moved to Colgate University in New York in 1981, where he served as provost for a ten years before becoming the president of Washington College in 1990. He later served as president of Harcum College for four years.

Trout was the author of Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (Oxford University Press, 1977). Trout died in 2006 from complications from blood cancer.

Achievements

• Charles Hathaway Trout has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (The Urban Life in America)

    (BOSTON'S EFFECTS OF COPING WITH THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF T...)

  • Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

Membership

Chairman board World Education Inc. Trustee Sultana Projects, Inc.

Connections

Married Margot Stevens, December 30, 1961 (divorced 1983). Children: Nicholas H., Benjamin C. Married Katherine Taylor Griffiths, October 6, 1984.

Father:

Charles Whyron Trout

Mother:

Elizabeth (Hathaway) Trout

Spouse:

Katherine Taylor Griffiths

Spouse:

Margot Stevens

child:

Benjamin C. Trout

child:

Nicholas H. Trout