Word: monroes
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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...
...often the case that a dean of anything rises to the rank of hero, here or anywhere else," said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who said his own brief turn at teaching in the South had been inspired by Monro's example...
Richard E. Arrington Jr., former mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and Hubert E. Sapp '67, who worked with Monro at Miles College, described him as an administrator who involved himself in the lives of his students...
...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...