Dr. Rosa Garrido Roberto Carter (1929-2010) served from 1977 to 1983 as the University of Guam’s 4th president and its first female president. One of the first CHamoru women to receive a doctoral degree, Dr. Carter, a life-long educator, taught at both public and private schools. She served the university as a professor and also as Registrar, Admissions Officer, Director of Registration, Financial Aid Officer, and Dean of Students. Beyond academia, she was part of Governor Manuel Guerrero’s Youth Council, the Government of Guam Retirement Board, and the Guam Community College Board of Trustees, among others. She received a number of awards including induction into the Guam Educators’ Hall of Fame (Guampedia and UOG Board of Regents Resolution No. 10-18).

Dr. Lee D. Carter served the University of Guam in various capacities as Professor of Sociology, Assistant to the Academic Vice-President, and as Assistant to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He also served in leadership of his sociology department, on the University Academic Affairs Committee, and in 1976 the founding Tenure Committee. In 1997, through the Micronesian Area Research Center he published volume one of Guam History: Perspectives, and then in 2005 volume 2.