Evan S. Dobelle

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

University President

Hailed as a visionary college leader, University of Hawaii President Evan S. Dobelle is an alumnus of the Boys & Girls Club of Pittsfield. While president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., he led a successful college-community partnership to establish the first Boys & Girls Club adjacent to a college campus, in the city where Boys & Girls Clubs began. In addition to the innovative leadership of four colleges, Dobelle’s distinguished career in higher education and public administration has included service as chief of protocol for the White House under President Jimmy Carter and two terms as mayor of Pittsfield.