Dr. Lon D. Randall served as President of Malone College from 1972-1981. With a B.A. in Religious Education from Fort Wayne Bible College and both a master's degree (Guidance and Counseling) and doctorate of education (Guidance) from Indiana University, he came to Malone with not only a strong educational background, but also two years of experience with the United States Operations Mission to Thailand (1962-64), two years at the Indiana Institute of Technology as Dean of Students and Assistant to the President (1964-66), two years at Spring Arbor College as Vice President for Development (1966-68), and four years at Seattle Pacific College as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer to the President (1968-1972) before being appointed President of Malone College in 1972 and inaugurated in 1973. During his tenure, he oversaw a balanced budget for eight years, increased faculty salaries by 67%, overhauled the curriculum to better suit current demands, added over 15 acres of land to the school's holdings, renovated the county home barn into a campus center building, and vastly increased endowments and unrestricted gifts. He left Malone on an early release from his contract after being offered the position of Associate Director of the Peace Corps in 1981. The collection consists of two cubic feet of papers and photographs from the office of President Lon Randall, including reports, memos, articles, correspondence and images generated both by and for the office of the president either during his tenure or shortly before; in some cases, papers of the previous president were kept by President Randall.
