- Wallace Sterling
John Ewart Wallace ("Wally") Sterling (August 6, 1906 – July 1, 1985) was an American educator who served as President of
Stanford University between 1949 and 1968.cite web
url= http://histsoc.stanford.edu/pdfmem/SterlingJEW.pdf
title= MEMORIAL RESOLUTION: J. E. WALLACE STERLING
accessdate= 2008-04-03
author= Susan W. Schofield
last= Schofield
first= Susan
date= 2003-11-09
year= 2003
month= November
format= PDF
publisher= [http://histsoc.stanford.edu/ Stanford Historical Society]Sterling was born in Inwood, Ontario. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the
University of Toronto .cite web
url= http://news-service.stanford.edu/pr/91/910812Arc1233.html
title= Former Stanford First Lady Ann Sterling dies at 85
accessdate= 2008-04-03
date= 1991-08-12
year= 1991
month= August
publisher= [http://news-service.stanford.edu/ Stanford News Service] and received a Master of Arts degree from theUniversity of Alberta . [cite web
url=http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/newtrail//pdfs/ntspring08.pdf
title= New Trail
accessdate= 2008-05-31
year=2008
month=Spring
publisher= University of Alberta Alumni Affairs]He began his doctoral studies in History at Stanford in 1932, serving on the research staff of the
Hoover Institution . Upon receiving a Ph.D. in 1938, he joined the faculty of theCalifornia Institute of Technology . In 1948, he left Caltech to head theHuntington Library and Art Gallery and shortly afterward was offered the Stanford Presidency.References
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