Mellby Lecture

The Mellby Lecture Series is named for Carl Mellby who served the college as professor and administrator from 1901-1949. Dr. Mellby’s career exemplified the distinctive contribution that liberal arts colleges make to higher education: excellence characterized by comprehensiveness, intellectual rigor in both scholarship and teaching, and a creative concern for interrelationships and communication amongst disciplines. In honoring Carl Mellby with a lecture series in his name, we honor his successors among current faculty by inviting a faculty member who continues in Mellby’s tradition to reflect upon the significance of their own professional work and development in their chosen field.