Edward H. Litchfield, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American academic administrator
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About Edward H. Litchfield
- Edward Harold Litchfield (April 14, 1914 – March 8, 1968) was an American educator and the twelfth Chancellor (1956–1965) of the University of Pittsburgh.
- He is best known for a major expansion of the university, but also a failure to raise sufficient capital to fund such growth, eventually leading to his resignation in July 1965. He earned the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
- at the University of Michigan.
- He taught political science at Brown University for a year, then from 1942 to 1945 taught public administration at the University of Michigan and also was Deputy Director of the Michigan State Civil Service Commission.
- In 1945 he served as director, civilian affairs in the U.S.
- Military Government in Germany, where he participated in the reconstruction of the occupied country.
- In 1953 he was appointed second dean of Cornell University's School of Business and Public Administration.
- His selection as Dean of the Johnson School coincided with a change in school curriculum, designed to bring the program into closer ties with the business community.Litchfield was born in Detroit, Michigan, and died in a plane crash over Lake Michigan.
- He was a member of the Executive Board of the International Political Science Association. Litchfield Towers, a set of three high-rise student residence halls on the University of Pittsburgh campus, are named in his honor.
- Virgil Cantini's 1966 steel with bronze and glass sculpture Ode to Space was commissioned as a tribute to Litchfield after his death.
- It sits outside the entrance to David Lawrence Hall and contains the inscription, labore ad astra or "to work toward the stars." [1]
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