Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAVEN, Conn, April 19--Yale University was shocked this afternoon by the sudden death of A. Whitney Griswold, its 16th president. Griswold, who has been president since 1950, died of cancer in his home. He was 56 years...
Provost Kingman Brewster, Jr. will serve as head of Yale until a new president is appointed, the Yale Corporation announced today. Brewster, who has been administrating the university during Griswold's illness, is considered here to be a likely candidate to succeed the late president...
...Griswold's intimate friends had known for some time that he was suffering from incurable cancer, but, though hospitalized several times this fall, he refused to release any definite information on the nature of his illness...
...imaginative and forceful educational spokesman, Griswold was instrumental in reshaping Yale's curriculum and philosophy. In addition he solved the university's serious financial problems, tripling its endowment to $375 million during his 13-year tenure...
Speaking on behalf of the university, Wilmarth S. Lewis, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, said, "The death of President Griswold at the height of his career is a tragic loss to the university, its alumni, and its friends everywhere.... His influence will continue to animate the university and the memory of him will gladden the hearts of his friends...