Former Belmont president dead at 95

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on September 10, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Herbert Gabhart, who led Belmont for more than two decades and has been a chancellor of the university since 1983, died this morning.

When he arrived at Belmont College in 1959, the school’s enrollment was 360 students. When he retired as president in 1982, Belmont’s student population had grown by 500 percent to more than 2,000. He oversaw a budget increase from $480,000 to $8 million, and the campus also saw physical expansion with the addition of nine new buildings, including the Massey Performing Arts Center, Wheeler Humanities building, Hitch Science building, the library, and more. Belmont also expanded academically by adding many majors and degrees, including music, nursing, business and more.

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