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Article: FORMER AMHERST COLLEGE PRESIDENT CALVIN H. PLIMPTON '39 DIES AT 88
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Amherst University issued the following press release:
Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton, a 1939 graduate of Amherst College who served as its president in the tumultuous decade from 1960 to 1971, and as president of the American University in Beirut in the war-torn years between 1984 and 1987, has died at age 88. He died at his home in Westwood, Mass., of complications after surgery following a fall. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Ruth (Talbot) Plimpton; children David of Brooklyn, N.Y., Polly of Boston, Mass., Tom of Leverett, Mass. and Edward of Amherst, Mass. and seven grandchildren. There will be a memorial service at Amherst College later in the spring.
Anthony W. Marx, the ...