Dignity, Discourse, And Destiny

The Life Of Courtney C. Smith

BY DARWIN H. STAPLETON AND DONNA HECKMAN STAPLETON

Brief Description:
Educated at Harvard in the 1930s, took a Rhodes Scholarship, taught English literature at Princeton, and was the first national director of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program before becoming president of Swarthmore College in 1953 at the age of 36. His engagement with education, philanthropy, Quakerism and government over the next 16 years resonated with such major issues of the times as McCarthyism, the future of the liberal arts, and race relations. His skill at fundraising provided Swarthmore with a useful endowment. He died in office during a sit-in in January 1969.

University of Delaware 2004 253 PP Cloth

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