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...Holland takes his stand with the assurance of a man whose curriculum vitae bulges with credentials of worthy, activist moderation. He is chairman of the board of the Planned Parenthood-World Population of Greater New York and a leading member of such organizations as the Red Cross, the United Negro College Fund, the Boy Scouts of America...
...educator, Jerome Heartwell Holland has had considerable experience mediating between radicals and members of the Establishment. As a highly successful black man, he has moved with ease and authority in predominantly white circles. Now Holland will begin exercising his diplomatic skills in another area. In an appointment designed to thaw out Washington's relations with Stockholm, President Nixon last week nominated him to be Ambassador to Sweden...
Many Swedes welcomed Holland's appointment, although the newspaper Expressen remarked cattily that every time a Swedish journalist asked the State Department for comment, its spokesman cracked, "Sorry, we really couldn't send you Eldridge Cleaver...
Bulging Curriculum. Jerome Holland, 54, is several thousand ideological parsecs away from any Black Panther. In an age of restive black-separatist movements, he is an almost evangelical integrationist with a resonant faith in competitive capitalist economics. Holland calls integration "my philosophy for living, as well as a practical reality." The black man's best hope, Holland believes, lies in education and job training...
Since 1960, Holland, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology, has been president of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a 201-acre waterfront campus occupied by 2,600 students-all but 250 of them black. Holland lives on the edge of the campus in a handsome white colonial house surrounded by magnolia trees. The living room is decorated with African masks and figures, Haitian paintings and other souvenirs of family travels to Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and even Sweden. Laura Holland is a good match for a college president. She has a master's in psychology from Radcliffe...