Word: freedman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call him by his first name. "It's like being knighted when you reach the stage where you can call him George," says Choreographer Donald Saddler, who has worked with him on many shows and now enjoys that privilege. A few weeks ago, Abbott extended the invitation to Gerald Freedman, artistic director of the Cleveland troupe. The dumbstruck Freedman -- Sir Gerry now -- could only respond, "I'll try, Mr. Abbott...
Last week Dartmouth's board of trustees announced an "almost perfect" replacement: James Freedman, 51, president of the University of Iowa and a former dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Freedman's tone seemed promising. Issues should be debated in a "climate of civility," he said, which should include "tolerance of maddeningly different points of view...
Although students at Iowa said that Freedman's resignation from his post there comes as a "big surprise," he told The Daily Iowan that returning to his native New Hampshire was "a once in a lifetime opportunity...
...Freedman's major accomplishment at Iowa include developing an intensive language training program for teachers and supporting the university's Writer's Workshop, according to The New York Times...
...Freedman attended Yale Law School after graduating from Harvard. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania law school for 18 years and served as dean there in 1981 for a year before leaving for Iowa...