1963 Presidential Search Committee of the Yale University Corporation Records, 1963.

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1963 Presidential Search Committee of the Yale University Corporation Records, 1963.

The records consist of material from the Corporation Search Committee for the Selection of a Successor to President A. Whitney Griswold.

2.5 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8022776

Yale University Library

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Yale University.

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Yale University. Corporation.

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In the early 1900s, Anson Phelps Stokes, secretary, and George Parmly Day, treasurer, won Corporation approval for the preparation of a general architectural plan for Yale University. Mrs. Frances P. Garvan, a benefactor of Yale, secured and offered the services of architect John Russell Pope. Pope's plan served as the stimulus for the general plan of the University which was adopted in 1924, after study and revision by the Corporation's Committee on the Architectural Plan and James Gamble Roger...

Brewster, Kingman, 1919-1988

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Kingman Brewster was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts on June 17, 1919. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1941 and his law degree from Harvard in 1948. Brewster taught law at Harvard from 1949-1960. He served as provost of Yale from 1961-1963 and was president of Yale from 1963-1977. Brewster was U.S. ambassador to Great Britain from 1977-1981. Kingman Brewster died on November 8, 1988. From the description of Kingman Brewster personal papers, 1920-1989 (inclusive). ...