Curtis W. Tarr

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Curtis W. Tarr
Director of the US Selective Service System
In office
April 6, 1970 – May 1, 1972
Preceded byDee Ingold
(acting)
Succeeded byByron V. Pepitone
Personal details
Born(1924-09-18)September 18, 1924
Stockton, California
DiedJune 21, 2013(2013-06-21) (aged 88)
Walnut Creek, California
Political partyRepublican
Alma materStanford University (B.A.)
Harvard University (M.B.A.)
Stanford University (Ph.D., History)
OccupationAcademician, administrator, advisor

Curtis William Tarr (September 18, 1924 – June 21, 2013) was an American academic best known for his role in the reform of the

S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and as the twelfth president of Lawrence University
in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Tarr earned his B.A. from

and returned to Stanford to earn his Ph.D. in American history.

Tarr served in the

U.S. House of Representatives
.

Between 1963 and 1969, he was President of Lawrence University. He negotiated Lawrence's merger with Milwaukee-Downer College, increasing the endowment from $7,000,000 to $20,000,000. Toward the end of his Lawrence presidential term, he negotiated Vietnam-era tensions, creating the Lawrence University Community Council in 1968.

Tarr returned to government service in 1969, as an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. He was subsequently promoted to director of the

Lewis Hershey; historian David L. Schalk has referred to Tarr in this role as an "inoffensive bureaucrat".[3]

He then served as Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance and Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management.

After his second phase of government service, Tarr was vice president for management development at

Deere & Company, Moline, Illinois, a farm equipment manufacturer, until 1984, when he was selected to be Dean of the Johnson School, succeeding David A. Thomas.[4]

Tarr was the author of Private Soldier: Life in the Army from 1943–1946 and of numerous articles in professional journals, including Air University Review. The Curtis Tarr Scholarship of the Johnson School, a two-year merit-based award, is named in his honor.

He died in 2013.[5]

References

  1. archive.org
  2. ^ Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, by Conrad Black (via Google Books); page 626; published 2007 by McClelland & Stewart
  3. ^ A HISTORIAN’S ENGAGEMENT by: Schalk, David L., Peace & Change, 01490508, October 2000, Vol. 25, Issue 4], archived at Historians Against War; retrieved August 2, 2013
  4. ^ Deere Official at Cornell, N.Y. Times (Feb. 21, 1984)
  5. ^ "Curtis W. Tarr, Innovative Leader of the Draft, Dies at 88", The New York Times, June 29, 2013

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