Accomplishments:
- First male president of all womens Manhattanville College
- Vice president of American Association of State Colleges
- One of first graduate students to get a PhD in chemistry at Howard University
Final word: “As an evaluator, he was (like he was virtually in all relationships) sympathetic to and understanding of what it was like to be in someone else’s situation, full of wisdom about challenges in higher education and about how they might be addressed—a careful, caring listener and sage adviser,” said Catherine Gira, president emerita of Frostville State University.
Reporting by Aly Kerrigan and Ethan Young.