Robert J. Wickenheiser (December 13, 1942 - November 23, 2015) served as president of Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland from 1977 to 1993 and of St. Bonaventure University in New York from 1994 to 2003.
[5] After serving as an English teacher at Princeton University,[6] Wickenheiser was named 21st president of Mount St. Mary's College near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1977.
[4][5] Following his announced intent to retire in 1993, he was celebrated by the Maryland State Senate, who passed a resolution to recognize "his exemplary leadership" of the college.
[1] The last year of his tenure had been marked by controversies which Wickenheiser indicated arose from "firm and difficult actions [that] had to be taken to place the Mount clearly on track with its mission".
[8][9][10] Wickenheiser began collecting works related to John Milton in the late 1960s, amassing over 6,000 volumes of books about the poet which he sold to the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 2006 for one million dollars.