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Author Boyd, Willard L. (Willard Lee), 1927-2022, author

Title A life on the Middle West's never-ending frontier / Willard L. "Sandy" Boyd
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages)
Contents My forebearers come to the Middle West -- Growing up in the 1930s -- Coming of age during World War II -- Back to school in a postwar world -- The Midwestern State University -- Studying, practicing, and teaching law -- Building community at the University of Iowa -- Vanishing into administration -- Turbulent times -- The buck stops here, 1969/1981 -- The colleges, 1964/1981 -- The big ten -- Advocating for diversity, 1963/1981 -- The Field Museum of Natural History -- Advocating for cultural and civic institutions -- The university serving the state -- People, not structures, make a great university -- Our never-ending frontier
Summary "Autobiography of Willard L. Boyd, former president of the University of Iowa"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 26, 2019)
Subject Boyd, Willard L. (Willard Lee), 1927-2022
SUBJECT Boyd, Willard L. (Willard Lee), 1927-2022 fast
Subject University of Iowa -- Presidents -- Biography
University of Iowa -- History
SUBJECT University of Iowa fast
Subject College presidents -- Iowa -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
College presidents
Presidents
Iowa
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019003424
ISBN 9781609386528
1609386523