HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, Va.
You may be accomplished, and you may be cool. But step aside. You’re no Chris Howard.
As a teenager, Howard helped lead his team to a Texas state high school football championship. At the Air Force Academy, he was a standout running back, academic All-American, class president and Rhodes Scholar. He earned an Oxford doctorate and Harvard MBA, worked at two Fortune 500 companies, started a foundation for South African students. He won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan, survived a plane crash, and is writing a book. He rubs shoulders at the Aspen Institute, Council on Foreign Relations and Renaissance Weekend. He’s handsome, dresses like a GQ cover model, has a beautiful, charming wife, and benches 205.
Nobody who knew Howard was surprised when, just 40 years old, he added college president to that almost comical resume.
