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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.