Louis A. Toepfer
Louis A. Toepfer
Pronunciation: TEP-fer
(8/31/1919-3/6/2000)
Acting President, Case Western Reserve University, 10/6/1970-9/12/1971
President, Case Western Reserve University, 9/13/1971-6/30/1980
Education
A.B., Beloit College, 1940
LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1947
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University Awards
The Toepfer Room in Adelbert Hall was named for Toepfer to recognize his many contributions to Case Western Reserve University, 1984.
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Career
Second Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, 1942-1946
Assistant Dean, Harvard Law School, 1947-1959
Director of Admissions, Harvard Law School, 1947-1966
Faculty, Harvard Law School, 1959-1966
Vice Dean, Harvard Law School, 1959-1966
Dean, School of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1966-1971
Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1966-1980
Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Columbus, Ohio, 1980-1986
President Emeritus, Dean Emeritus of the School of Law, and Professor Emeritus of Law, Case Western Reserve University, 1980-2000
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University Numbers
1970/71 1979/80
Enrollment 9,209 8,104
Operating expense $69,035,000 $112,948,000
Full time undergraduate tuition $2,200 $4,250
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Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
1971 The three undergraduate colleges of Western Reserve University, Adelbert College,
Flora Stone Mather College, and Cleveland College, were merged into Western
Reserve College.
The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, lowering the
voting age to 18.
1972 First ARPANET email messages were transmitted.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 became law.
Five operatives for the Committee to Re-elect the President were arrested for
burglarizing the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate
complex, eventually leading to the resignation of President Nixon.
1973 The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade overturned state bans on abortion.
1974 The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act became law.
1975 The South Vietnamese capital of Saigon was captured by the North Vietnamese,
ending the Vietnam War.
1976 CWRU's first university-wide fundraising campaign, Resources, was launched. It raised
$215 million in five years.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple Computer Company.
1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant suffered a partial core meltdown.
1980 The University experienced the eighth consecutive year of operating budget surpluses.
The School of Management was named the Weatherhead School of Management.
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Regional Population
1970 1980
Cleveland 750,879 573,822
Cuyahoga County 1,720,835 1,498,400
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Caution should be taken when comparing financial data across long periods of time. Accounting practices have changed substantially during CWRU's nearly 200-year history. In compiling these numbers, we have relied on the most authoritative contemporaneous sources available.
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, March 2007.
