Fred hargadon biography

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  • Fred Hargadon was the Dean of Admissions at Swarthmore College from 1964-1969, Stanford University from 1969 to 1984, and Princeton University from 1988 to 2003.
  • Frederick "Fred" Anthony Hargadon.

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    Fred Hargadon

    Fred Hargadon was the Dean of Admissions at Swarthmore College from 1964-1969, Stanford University from 1969 to 1984, and Princeton University from 1988 to 2003. He was a national leader in the field of university and college admission. In 1984 The New York Times described him as "the dean of deans".[1]

    Early life

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    Frederick Anthony Hargadon was born in Ardmore, Pennsylvania,[2] on January 4, 1934,[3] the son of Bernard and Anna Hargadon.[4] He had two brothers, Bernard and John, and two sisters, Anne and Judy.[2] He attended Lower Merion High School,[4] and worked for the post office, where he had held odd jobs since he was 14 years old, and for the Atlantic Refining Company for two years. He served in the U.S. Army for two years, and then went to Haverford College under the G. inom. Bill of Rights.[1] He graduated in 1958,[4] and did postgraduate work at Harvard University an

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    Teachable Moments

    Donald Kennedy

    Professor emeritus of biology;
     University President, 1980-1992 

    If you are the president, you're kidding people if you claim real faculty status. But thankfully you can give some guest lectures, and in the spring quarter during the early to mid-'80s I got to teach part of the human biology core. I don't know what my students thought, but it was wonderful for me to sense the curiosity and enthusiasm of students in a program I had helped start 15 or so years earlier.

    Fred Hargadon

    Dean of admissions, 1969-1984

    To me, Stanford in the '80s was the Lake Lag version of Lake Wobegon: a place where all the students were good-looking, strong and above average, and where faculty, administrators and students alike had the uncommon knack for taking what they did seriously without taking themselves too seriously. Western style, it was a place of understated excellence. I enjoyed the Stanford Daily cartoonists' take on how I really mad

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    Stanford Oral History Collections

    The Stanford Historical Society's Oral History Program explores the institutional history of the University, with an emphasis on the transformative post-WWII period, through interviews with leading faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, and others.

    Title:
    Interview with Susan W. Schofield : Faculty Senate Oral History Project
    Author:
    Schofield, Susan W. and Marine-Street, Natalie
    Corporate Author:
    Stanford Historical gemenskap
    Description:
    Susan Schofield served as Stanford University’s academic secretary from 1996 to 2002. Describing the role of the academic secretary as a “facilitator of faculty governance,” Schofield provides details on the day-to-day operations of the Office of the Academic Secretary and the Faculty Senate. She describes the election process, the role of the Steering Committee in setting the agenda for the body, meeting procedures and traditions, and the work of the Committee on Committees (or nominat