Sixth President of Ripon College, 1918-1920

Dr. Henry Coe Culbertson, a student of law and divinity and previously president of Emporia College in Kansas, served as Ripon's president briefly between the two terms of Dr. Silas Evans. In his first encounters with the Ripon College community, his skill in public speaking made a strikingly favorable impression. Unfortunately, however his health and personal problems seemed often to interfere with his duties. He returned to the ministry in 1921, and went on to an outstanding career as a pastor and preacher in California and Ohio.