Richard Wall Lyman
| Richard Wall Lyman | |
|---|---|
| Seventh President Stanford University | |
| Term | 1970 – 1980 |
| Predecessor | Kenneth Pitzer |
| Successor | Donald Kennedy |
| Born | 19-Oct-1923 Philadelphia |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College, Harvard University |
| Profession | Historian |
| Spouse | (Elizabeth) Jing Schauffler |
Richard Wall Lyman (born 1923) is an American educator, historian, and professor at the Stanford University School of Education.
He served as the provost of Stanford University between 1967 and 1970. He then served as president of Stanford University from 1970 to 1980. During his tenure as provost and president, he confronted campus dissidents involved in protests against the Vietnam war and other social issues of the 1960s. In the spring of 1969, he called in law enforcement authorities to evict and arrest students that were occupying campus buildings and removing administrative files.[1][2] In referring to his leadership during his tenure, both of his immediate successors as president of the university have said that "Dick Lyman saved Stanford." [3]
In 1983 he founded the Stanford Institute for International Studies and became its first director. He was the president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1980–88.
Lyman earned his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and his master's degree and PhD from Harvard University. He was a Fulbright scholar at the London School of Economics from 1951 to 1952. He came to Stanford in 1958 as a professor in history.[4]
The Richard W. Lyman Award was established in 2002 by the National Humanities Center in honor of Lyman.[5]
He married Jing (1925-) in 1947 and they have four children. Jing Lyman was herself very active in the University and supported the founding of the Center for Research on Women (now the Clayman Institute for Gender Studies) in 1974.[6]
The Lyman Graduate Residence built in 1997 on the west side of campus is named for Richard Lyman and the Jing Lyman Commons Building within it for his wife.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Stanford University under siege", Palo Alto Online, Palo Alto Centennial. Wednesday, April 13, 1994
- ^ 'At the Hands of the Radicals', Stanford Magazine. January-February, 2009.
- ^ "The Stanford Presidency," at Stanford on iTunes (iTunes U:Stanford:Campus Life:Stanford History-Video), Donald Kennedy at 19:30 mark of video; Gerhard Casper at 37:00 minute mark
- ^ "Richard Lyman - FSI Stanford". Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/richardwlyman. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ The Lyman Award, National Humanities Center/
- ^ "Jing Lyman: A pioneering campus leader takes another bow". Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2010/05/jing-lyman-a-pioneering-campus-leader-takes-another-bow/. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- ^ "About Lyman". Stanford University. http://www.stanford.edu/group/resed/lyman/about.html. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
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| Preceded by Kenneth S. Pitzer |
President of Stanford University 1971–1980 |
Succeeded by Donald Kennedy |
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