Baird Tipson, 63, became president of Washington College in October 2004. He served as president of Wittenberg University in Ohio and provost of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He also taught religion at Central Michigan University and the University of Virginia. Tipson studied religion and history at Princeton University and earned his Ph.D. in religious studies at Yale University.

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