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January 21, 2005
Frank Vandiver, r.i.p.
The New York Times obituary does a nice job with his administrative life* -- I'll be interested to read the Rice coverage. Vandiver had just left Rice for North Texas and then A & M (which transfer caused a certain amount of good-tempered mockery in the halls of the history department) and was still a great presence. My gosh - I wrote a term paper in high school using Ploughshares Into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance. I hadn't thought about that in years.*The Times even mentioned his mastership of Brown, which for some of us is more important than having been Grand High Poobah of Aggiedom.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at January 21, 2005 8:00 AM