May 12, 2006

Cheers for 'Jack Sawyer's U.'

By STEPHEN R. LEWIS JR.

When Catharine Bond Hill, provost of Williams College, was named president of Vassar College earlier this year, my second thought (after good wishes for President-elect Hill and Vassar) was that she was the latest graduate of what I have come to think of as "Jack Sawyer's University." The late John E. Sawyer was a transformational president of Williams College (from 1961 to 1973) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (from 1973 to 1988). Those who worked with him knew him as one of his

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