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Hood. As far as he knows, Joseph Henry Apple of the Reformed Church's Hood College has been a college president longer than anyone else in the U. S. Hood (enrollment: 422) was created in 1893 by the union of Mercersburg College's young women's division with the Frederick Female Seminary at Frederick, Md. Joseph Apple, 68, has been president from the start. This week he was to announce that on July 1 he will relinquish his office to the Rev. Henry Irvin Stahr, 53. executive secretary of the Reformed Church's Board of Christian Education, onetime pastor in Reading, Bethlehem and Hanover, Pa.