Richard Wall Lyman
Richard Wall Lyman | |
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7th President of Stanford University | |
In office September 24, 1970[1] – August 1, 1980 | |
Preceded by | Kenneth Pitzer |
Succeeded by | Donald Kennedy |
Personal details | |
Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | October 18, 1923
Died | May 27, 2012 Palo Alto, California, U.S. | (aged 88)
Spouse |
Elizabeth "Jing" Schauffler
(m. 1947) |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College (AB) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Profession | Historian |
Richard Wall Lyman (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an American educator, historian, and professor.
Biography
An historian of the British Labour Party, Lyman spent two years at the London School of Economics in 1951 and 1952, researching for his PhD on the first Labour Government. He spent the period 1954-1958 teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1957 his PhD was published as a book, entitled The First Labour Government, 1924. He joined Stanford in 1958.[3]
He served as the provost of
Lyman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971.[7]
In 1983 he founded the
In 1998, Lyman was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[8]
Lyman earned his
The Richard W. Lyman Award was established in 2002 by the National Humanities Center in honor of Lyman.[10] He posthumously won the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award from Hamden Hall Country Day School.[11]
He married Jing (1925-2013) 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
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.[15]
He died in 2012 of heart failure, aged 88.[16]
Notes
- Stanford Magazine. 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
- Stanford Magazine. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ^ "Richard W. Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88". Stanford Report. May 27, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2012.
- ^ "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 Wall Lyman". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
- ^ "Richard Lyman - FSI Stanford". Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
- ^ The Lyman Award Archived 2007-02-08 at the Wayback Machine, National Humanities Center.
- ^ a b "Meet Dr. Richard Lyman, Class of 1940, Recipient of the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award". 25 April 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
- ^ "Jing Lyman: A pioneering campus leader takes another bow". Clayman Institute for Gender Studies. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
- ^ Sullivan, Kathleen J. (November 21, 2013). "Jing Lyman, former 'first lady' of Stanford, dead at 88".
- ^ "Jing Lyman, 1925-2013", Times Higher Education, December 19, 2013.
- ^ "About Lyman". Stanford University. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
- ^ "Richard W. Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88". Stanford Report. May 27, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2012.