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ARCHIE C. EPPS
Archie C. Epps III, who served for 28 years as Harvard’s last dean of students, died on Aug. 21, of complications from heart surgery. He was 66.
Colleagues remember Epps as an advocate for improving student life, a dean who was unafraid to stand alone in policy debates and a central figure in improving race relations at the College.
During his tenure as dean of students, which spanned from 1971 until 1999, Epps presided over a host of changes concerning student life: Final clubs lost official College recognition, the Undergraduate Council was instituted, the first-year dining hall was moved from the Freshman Union to Memorial Hall and Loker...
Ledecky wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between black civil rights leaders and white businesspeople in 1960’s Atlanta. But even this academic interest traced back to extracurricular involvement, as it led him to work with then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps on the Harvard Committee...