Mount Union was founded in 1846 by Orville Nelson Hartshorn as an institution where men and women could be educated with equal opportunity, where science would parallel the humanities, where laboratory and experimental subjects would receive proper emphasis, and where there would be no distinction due to race, color, sex or position.
In front of a crowd of hundreds that featured students, faculty, staff, alumni, former institutional presidents and community members, Gregory L. King ’89 was inaugurated as the 14th president of Mount Union during a ceremony held on Friday, May 12.