Frank D. Fackenthal

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Frank D. Fackenthal
Acting President of Columbia University
In office
1945–1948
Preceded byNicholas Murray Butler
(president)
Succeeded byDwight D. Eisenhower
(president)
Personal details
Born
Frank Diehl Fackenthal

(1883-02-22)February 22, 1883
Columbia College

Frank Diehl Fackenthal (February 22, 1883

Brooklyn, New York.[3]

Biography

The son of the general manager of Brooklyn's Peter Cooper Glue Factory, Fackenthal graduated from the borough's

Pulitzer Prizes' non-journalistic awards from their inception until 1948; following his retirement, he received a special Prize in recognition of his service.[6]

Previously, Fackenthal received an honorary

Litt.D. from Columbia in 1929. Although he never completed an earned graduate degree, he was frequently characterized in the press thereafter as "Dr. Fackenthal." He subsequently received honorary doctorates from Syracuse University, Rutgers University, New York University and Union College.[7]

Between the retirement of Nicholas Murray Butler in 1945 and the installation of

School of General Studies (for nontraditional undergraduates and nonmatriculated students), the graduate-level School of International Affairs and the Harriman Institute.[9]

Following his retirement from the university in 1948, he served as educational consultant to the

Bushwick Savings Bank and remained a trustee of various institutions, including Columbia, Barnard College, Franklin and Marshall College and the Riverdale Country School
. His speeches as acting president were published by Columbia University Press as The Greater Power and Other Addresses (1949).

In December 1965, he was critically injured when his car collided with a truck in White Township, New Jersey, 35 miles south of his country home in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. As a result of his injuries, Fackenthal (who never married and had no legitimate children) was forced to permanently relocate from Brooklyn to Buck Hill Falls. He relinquished his trusteeship of Columbia in 1967 and died at Monroe County General Hospital in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, on September 5, 1968.[10]

Notes

  1. ISBN 9783598301865
    . Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  2. ^ "Frank D. Fackenthal 1968 - Google Search". Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  3. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  4. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  5. ^ "Columbia Spectator 2 April 1910 — Columbia Spectator".
  6. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  7. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  8. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  9. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".
  10. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes".

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Preceded by President of Columbia University
Acting
1945–1948 		Succeeded by
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