Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president of alumni affairs and development, yesterday decided to resign from Harvard, effective June 30, to assume the post of vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City...
Until President Bok took on Harvard's presidency in 1971, the University had only one vice president. Bok reorganized the central administration and appointed four vice presidents. Peterson is now the fourth of the original four appointees to resign...
...Peterson, a 48-year-old endocrinologist and native of Utah, said yesterday that after serving as a Harvard administrator for 11 years, first as dean of admissions and then in his current position, he decided it was time to "re-earn my medical stripes" and "return to the western Great Basin...
...Peterson had been the key figure in planning for Harvard's upcoming capital fund drive. He said that although he is proud of his achievement in his vice presidency here--including setting up a framework for the fund campaign--he does not feel that he is indispensible to the drive's success...
...Peterson said that if he stayed to launch the drive, he would probably feel obligated to see it through the entire five or six years. "I'm an atypical person to be here and 11 years is pushing it. It's time to get back to medicine," he said...