Walter Roettger was inaugurated as Lyon College's sixteenth president in July 1998.  He is also professor of political science at the College.  Before coming to Lyon, he served as vice president of the college and dean of faculty at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.  Roettger earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Wallie is an elder in the First Presbyterian Church – Batesville, a Rotarian, has served as a chairman of the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce, and is the current president of Arkansas Independent Colleges and Universities.  Roettger was born in Champaign, Illinois, where his father, a former major league baseball player with the St. Louis Cardinals, was the head baseball coach at the University of Illinois.  His wife, Margaret Begley Roettger, is a former coordinator of community relations for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. The Roettgers have one son, Dan, who is fifteen.