- Marvin Wachman
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Marvin Wachman (March 24, 1917 – December 22, 2007), a professor of American history, was president of Lincoln University and Temple University, and served as interim president of Albright College and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science.
Early life and education
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marvin Wachman was the son of immigrants from Riga, Latvia, and Minsk, presently in Belarus. He attended Northwestern University in Chicago, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois.[1]
University career
Wachman taught history for fourteen years at Colgate University, and was director of the Salzburg Seminar in Austria for two years. In 1961 he was asked to become president of Lincoln University, an historically black institution, which was having financial and accreditation problems. He hired new faculty, increased enrollment, and raised money to reestablish the university's academic standing. In 1969 he was appointed vice president for academic affairs at Temple University, and in 1973 became president. During his tenure he founded new campuses in Tokyo, Japan, and in the Center City of Philadelphia. He retired in 1983, and served as president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1989. During the 1990s he served as interim president of Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, now known as Philadelphia University.[2]
Wachman was the author of History of the Social-Democratic Party of Milwaukee, 1897-1910 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945). He published a memoir, The Education of a University President (Temple University Press), in 2005.[3]
References
- ^ Richard Severo, "Marvin Wachman, 90, Leader of Four Colleges," New York Times, December 31, 2007, p. A17.
- ^ Severo, "Marvin Wachman."
- ^ Severo, "Marvin Wachman."
Presidents of Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) John Miller Dickey (1854–1856) • John Pym Carter (1856–1861) • John Wynne Martin (1861–1865) • Isaac Norton Rendall (1865–1906) • John Ballard Rendall (1906–1924) • Walter Livingston Wright # (1924–1926) • William Hallock Johnson (1926–1936) • Walter Livingston Wright (1936–1945) • Horace Mann Bond (1945–1957) • Armstead Otey Grubb # (1957–1960) • Donald Charles Yelton # (1960–1961) • Marvin Wachman (1961–1969) • Bernard Warren Harleston # (1970–1970) • Herman Russell Branson (1970–1985) • Donald Leopold Mullett # (1985–1987) • Niara Sudarkasa (1987–1998) • James Donaldson # (1998–1999) • Ivory V. Nelson (1999– )
Pound sign (#) denotes interim acting president.Presidents of Temple University Russell Conwell (1887–1925) · Charles Ezra Beury (1926–1941) · Robert Livingston Johnson (1941–1957) · Millard E. Gladfelter (1957–1967) · Paul R. Anderson (1967–1973) · Marvin Wachman (1973–1982) · Peter J. Liacouras (1982–2000) · David Adamany (2000–2006) · Ann Weaver Hart (2006– )
Categories:- Presidents by university or college in the United States
- Presidents of Temple University
- Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
- Albright College faculty
- Philadelphia University
- Northwestern University alumni
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign alumni
- Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) faculty
- Colgate University faculty
- 1917 births
- 2007 deaths
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