Kingman Brewster, Ex-Yale Chief, Dies
Kingman Brewster, former Yale University president and U.S. ambassador to England, died today of a brain hemorrhage at a hospital in Oxford, England. He was 69.
Brewster was Yale president from 1963 to 1977. President Jimmy Carter appointed him ambassador to England, and he served there from 1977 to 1981. “Kingman Brewster was the pre-eminent university president of his day--a man who stood for equity as well as excellence, change as well as continuity and understanding as well as courage,” said Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
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