Richard Wall Lyman

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Richard Wall Lyman (born October 18, 1923 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † May 27, 2012 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American historian , university professor and President of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980 .

Life

After attending school, Lyman did his military service in the US Army Air Corps between 1943 and 1946 during the Second World War and then began studying at Swarthmore College in Philadelphia, which he completed in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts . A subsequent postgraduate study of history at Harvard University , he completed in 1948 with a Master of Arts . During this time he became a member of the academic community Phi Beta Kappa and studied afterwards with the support of a grant from the Fulbright Program at the London School of Economics .

After his return, he took on a professorship at Washington University in St. Louis in 1953 and taught there until 1958. In addition, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University.

In 1958 he was appointed professor of history at Stanford University, where he taught until his retirement . During this time Lyman, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959 , was also Provost from 1967 to 1970 and President of Stanford from 1970 to 1980.

After completing this position, he was President of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980 to 1988 . In the course of his academic teaching and research activities, he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Philosophical Society , the American Historical Association , the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Historical Society .

During his presidency of Stanford he often faced student protests. He successfully campaigned for the admission of more black students and erased the representation of a North American Indian from the logo of the university's sports teams. He was a staunch member of the Democratic Party .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Richard W. Lyman. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 2, 2019 (with biographical notes).
  2. ^ Stanford News: Richard W. Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88.
personal data
SURNAME Lyman, Richard Wall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, President of Stanford University
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2012
Place of death Palo Alto , California