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  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.

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