Education Of A University President

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s When i retired as president of Temple University in 1982, I had no intention of writing the story of my life. I was still too busy even to think about such an effort. However, some years later I was asked to write an article about my experiences in the 1960s as the white, Jewish president of the oldest black college in the United States, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Colleagues suggested that I had been at Temple University as vice president, president, and chancellor for a longer time and should include my life and work at Temple. Others suggested that I should at least summarize my early life and education and my World War II military service. Still others felt that I should include highlights of my retirement years. The result is this book. I’m grateful to a number of people who assisted me with suggestions and comments. Richard Severo read the entire manuscript and made helpful suggestions, as did Marshall Fishwick. The Lincoln University chapter was strengthened by Richard Winchester and by helpful comments from Emery Wimbish and Grace Frankowsky. I’m indebted to George Ingram for his gracious permission to make use of his unpublished piece about my presidency of Temple. He had consulted with me on that article and then made some excellent suggestions on an early version of my own chapter. Previously, George had worked with me on many of my speeches and my annual presidential reports. Consequently, his draft andmyTemplechaptercontainsomeofthesamefactualmaterialgleanedfrom those speeches and reports and also from news releases. David D. Randall made valuable suggestions about the Temple chapter. Herbert Bass, James Hilty, Stanton Felzer, and James Shea were also helpful. I am especially beholden to Dan Rottenberg, without whose editing I could not have shortened a much longer version of this memoir for publication . Lorraine Gardner also assisted me very much on that task, and in clarifying and editing the material. I appreciate very much the patient assistance of the staff of Temple University Press, including the editor-in-chief, Janet Francendese; the director, Alex Holzman; and the senior production editor , Jennifer French; as well as the assistance of the copyeditor, Susan Deeks. [198] acknowledgments Finally, I must express my deepest love and appreciation to my wife, Addie, for encouraging me to complete this memoir and for preserving many of my letters to her, as well as her year-end letters to family and friends. These helpedinassuringthatthechronologyandsubstanceofthestory–particularly the early years – were factually correct. ...