Professor
Richard Wall Lyman
(
–
)
1923
2012
Stanford University
;
Stanford, CA
Historian; Educator; Foundation executive; Academic administrator
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Educational and Academic Leadership
Elected
1971
Research centered on the British Labour Party; more recent writings on higher education and on philanthropy. President of Stanford University, 1970-80, and of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1980-88. Chaired Association of American Universities, 1978-79; the Commission on the Humanities, 1978-80, and Independent Sector, 1983-86. Vice-Chairman of the national Endowment for the Humanities, 1980-82.
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