Grayson L. Kirk
Grayson Louis Kirk was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations.
Kirk was born to a farmer and schoolteacher in Jeffersonville, Ohio. He originally intended to become a foreign correspondent, but fell into educational administration when he served briefly as a highschool principal in New Paris, Ohio during his senior year at college. He graduated from Miami University in 1924, earned a masters degree from Clark University, and studied at the cole Libre des Sciences Politiques before completing a Ph.D. at the University of WisconsinMadison in 1930. While a student at Miami, Kirk became a brother of the founding chapter of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. During his graduate studies, he edited his fraternitys national magazine, The Laurel, to earn money for tuition. He married the former Marion Sands, a schoolteacher and daughter of an official of the BampO Railroad, in 1925. They raised one son, John Grayson.
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