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...John U. Monro '34-'35, who led Harvard's earliest efforts to recruit poor and minority students, left his prestigious post to become director of freshman studies at an impoverished black college in Alabama. He remained in the South and taught until he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years ago at age 84. He died last March...
...There are different kinds of deans of this College,” said former Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, whom Monro appointed as the College’s first black assistant dean. “There are some who just preside. But John was a man who brought about real change...
...1950s, as director of financial aid, Monro laid the groundwork for the Student Employment Office, founded Harvard Student Agencies to help needy students pay tuition fees and argued for a freshman seminar program...
...dean, Monro held informal meetings with students and in the 1960s helped found the Southern Courier, a paper written by Crimson editors focusing on civil rights issues in the south...
...Monro surprised his colleagues when he quit to work at Miles College in Alabama as the director of freshman studies. At the historically black college, he developed a first-year curriculum and taught students basic knowledge that would have been taken for granted at Harvard...