* Dick Weigle; Former President of St. John’s College

Dick Weigle, 80, former president of St. John’s College, the classic-oriented liberal arts school with campuses in Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.M. Weigle was named the 18th president of the Annapolis campus in 1949 and presided over the establishment of the Santa Fe branch in 1964, 16 years before he retired. Under his administration, the first minority student was admitted to the school in 1949 and the first woman in 1951. Weigle held a doctorate from Yale, where his father was dean of the Divinity School. He spent much of the 1930s teaching English in China, and in the early years of World War II was secretary to the General Staff of the Chinese Combat Command in China. At St. John’s, Weigle was credited with raising more than $40 million to ensure the future of the two campuses, which are patterned loosely after England’s Oxford University. In Santa Fe on Monday of complications of Parkinson’s disease.