Word: knowleses
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But Knowles is also a sought-after speaker, whose remarks are painstakingly prepared during late nights or Saturday mornings at the office.
At eighteen, Jeremy Randall Knowles was an officer in the Royal Air Force, in command of troops twice his age and aircraft worth millions. At 62, he commands the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) $530 million annual budget and 631 junior and senior professors.
Knowles, who assumed the office of Dean of the Faculty in 1991, has earned the respect of colleagues and subordinates in cockpits, labs and classrooms for his dedication to the task at hand.
Those who have known Knowles best, including his family and former graduate students, call him "disciplined," "driven" and "highly reasoned." He considers his greatest achievement as dean--the elimination of the huge deficit he inherited in 1991--to have come largely through a capacity for saying "no."
On the star-studded list of his classmates and colleagues Wharton cites Jack Lemmon '47, the actor; Arthur A. Hartman '47, former ambassador to France and to the Soviet Union; S. Douglass Cater Jr. '46-'47, former Crimson business manager and later head of the Bloomingdale's department store chain...