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Don Edwards retired from the presidency of The American Boychoir School in January 2007, after
many years of service as trustee, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, and President.
During his eight years as VP and President, the School raised more than 12 million dollars in gifts
and grants to support a unique American educational and cultural institution – a fully-accredited
residential middle school for 80 boys in grades four through eight who made up the nation’s pre-
eminent boychoir.
Edwards’ work in arts education followed a long career at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey. After serving as Associate Dean of Livingston College and Executive Assistant to the
President, he became Vice President for Public Affairs & Development in 1976. In 1993, he was
named VP for Government Relations.
Edwards' volunteer activities have included service as a Warden of Trinity Episcopal Church in
Princeton, Christ Church in New Brunswick and St. Thomas’s in New Haven. He was a long-time
trustee of the Procter Foundation, which supports Episcopal campus ministries at Princeton and
Rutgers. He was President of Cranbury Housing Associates, a non-profit low-income housing
corporation and a charter board member of Elijah's Promise, Inc., which operates a major feeding
program for the poor in New Brunswick. He served two terms as a Trustee of St. Thomas’s Day
School. Since 2021, he has been President of Loaves & Fishes, New Haven’s largest food pantry
and clothing closet.
After graduating from Yale, Edwards did graduate work at Princeton Theological Seminary and
Rutgers before becoming director of intern programs in the New Jersey Department of Community
Affairs. Two years later, he came to Rutgers to help establish Livingston College and shape its
multi-racial, urban affairs mission.
