K. Roald Bergethon

K. Roald Bergethon (June 18, 1918 – December 17, 2004) was a Norwegian-American academic administrator. He was president of the Lafayette College for twenty years. He was also president of New England College and a dean of the college at Brown University.

Early life Bergethon was born on June 18, 1918 in Tromso, Norway. His parents were Petra Ruud-Olsen and Maximillian Bergethon, Baptist minister. When he was eight years old in 1926, he came to the United States and went to school in New York City. He was a board member of the Delaware Valley Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Greater Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Planning Council, the Lehigh-Delaware Development Council, the Northampton County Community Council, the United Fund of Easton, and WLVT-TV.

Bergethon died in Easton Hospital on December 17, 2004, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.