Dr, Norman P. Auburn Died July 21, 2003

Former president of the University of Akron, then a municipally-funded institution with 3,500 students. For 20 years he stimulated the physical and academic growth of the university, adding four colleges and the School of Law, creating doctoral programs, shepherding the change in fiscal base from the city to the state, and aiding it to grow to an internationally-known institution of 18,000 students. In 1957-58, he took a sabbatical to become the Acting President of the Council for Financial Aid to Education in New York City.

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