Alumni Gazette

Graduate Named College President

LEADER: Astolfi is the new president of Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington. (Photo: St. Martin’s)

A Rochester graduate who has been an academic administrator for more than 20 years is the new president of Saint Martin’s University, a Lacey, Washington, institution founded more than a century ago by the Benedictine order of the Roman Catholic Church.

Douglas Astolfi ’67 (MA) had been serving as vice president for academic affairs at Saint Leo University, a Benedictine college in Saint Leo, Florida, before becoming president of Saint Martin’s on July 1.

Before that, he had served as dean of the undergraduate college at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and as vice president of academic affairs at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.

Astofli earned a master’s degree in history at Rochester before getting his doctorate in history from Northern Illinois University.