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• 1 2022-04-27T19:58:01+00:00 Robert W. Morse 11 plain 2022-07-14T17:05:14+00:00
  Robert W. Morse
  (5/25/1921-1/19/2001)
  
  President, Case Institute of Technology, 9/1/1966-6/30/1967
  
  President, Case Western Reserve University, 7/1/1967-7/1/1971
  
  Education
  
  B.S., Bowdoin College, Mathematics
  
  Sc.M., Brown University, 1947, Physics
  
  Ph.D., Brown University, 1949, Physics 
   

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  Career

  Officer, U.S. Navy, 1943-1946

  Faculty member, Department of Physics, Brown University, 1949-1966

  Chairman, Department of Physics, Brown University, 1960-1962

  Dean of the College, Brown University, 1962-1964

  Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development, U.S. Navy, 1964-1966

  Professor of Physics, Case Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University, 1966-1971

  Director of Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1971-1973

  Associate Director, Senior Scientist, and Dean of Graduate Studies, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1973-1983

  Director, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, 1983

  
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  University Numbers
  
                                                     1966/67 (CIT)      1970/71 (CWRU) 
  Enrollment                                         2,701                            9,209
  Number of faculty                               233                              1,157
  Operating budget                       $17,449,000             $70,681,000
  Operating expense                     $17,093,468             $69,035,000
  Full time undergraduate tuition   $2,000                        $2,200
  
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  Milestones (non-university-related events are in italics)
  
  1966   National Organization for Women was formed. 
  
  1967   Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University federated. 
  
  1968   Urban and Environmental Studies Program, the first new post-Federation undergraduate 
                program, was established. 
  
               A successful two-year $5 million campaign for a new Law School building was started. 
  
               Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. 
  
  1969   The first University Undergraduate Student Government was elected. 
  
               The Case Western Reserve University faculty constitution was approved. 
  
               The military draft lottery was held for the first time since World War II.
  
               Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. 
  
  1970   The $17 Million Capital Campaign was successfully concluded, at that time CIT's largest
                fundraising effort. 
  
                The first Earth Day, featuring nationwide demonstrations about environmental problems,
                was celebrated. 
  
                Four students were killed and nine wounded by members of the Ohio National Guard on
                the campus of Kent State University. 
  
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  Regional Population
  
                                       1970                              
  Cleveland                  750,879
  Cuyahoga County   1,720,835                                                     
  
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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.

• 1 2020-01-30T16:08:27+00:00 200 Events in 200 Years: 1960s 9 This section provides detailed information about the university from 1960-1969 plain 2025-04-21T14:45:11+00:00 1960 1960
  The Case Institute of Technology Men's Glee Club released their first album, Case Men Sing. Featuring Case songs such as "Carmen Case," "Alma Mater," and the "Fight Song" the first edition sold out within a week.
  
  
  1961
  As shown here, substantial changes to the Case campus were made during the 1950s. During the 1960s the trend accelerated. Case and Western Reserve held groundbreaking, cornerstone laying, and dedication ceremonies for over 20 buildings in the next 4 years.
  
  
  1962
  In conjunction with the dedication of the John Schoff Millis Science Center and the Joseph Treloar Wearn Laboratory for Medical Research, a 3-day symposium, "The Living State," was held.
  
  
  1963
  Case Institute of Technology held its first annual Family Christmas Party for all faculty, staff, and their families in Emerson Gym.
  
  
  1964
  Western Reserve University established a University Archives. Ruth W. Helmuth was named University Archivist and began a 21-year career at the University.
  
  
  1965
  A protest was held in September over the 1965 Lux (the Western Reserve University yearbook). About 25 copies were mutilated and burned. Some students were unhappy that the traditional yearbook format had been abandoned. The 1965 Lux featured an introductory essay and pictures – with no captions.
  
  
  1966
  Homecoming has been a proud tradition for many years. Pictured are floats from the Homecoming Parade at Case Institute of Technology.
  
  
  1967
  Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University federated, creating Case Western Reserve University. Pictured are WRU President John Schoff Millis (L) and Case President Robert W. Morse (R) shaking hands over the fence that divided their two campuses.
  
  
  1968
  Robert W. Morse was inaugurated as CWRU's first president.
  
  
  1969
  The experimentation with yearbook formats continued with the publication of "the Cube," the 1968/69 yearbook. The captions and pictures were printed on several poster-sized pages and folded and packaged in a box.
  
  
• 1 2022-06-15T20:19:06+00:00 Robert W. Morse Picture Gallery 2 Pictures of Robert W. Morse plain 2022-06-15T20:38:37+00:00