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Passings: Historian Richard Storr was briefly acting president of York University

Posted on 17 March 2011

Passings: Historian Richard Storr was briefly acting president of York University

Posted on 17 March 2011

Professor Emeritus Richard Storr, a historian who was briefly York's acting president, died earlier this week at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto following a brief illness. Prof. Storr was born and educated in the United States, receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1949. After teaching at various American colleges, he accepted a position at the […]

York remembers Professor Harold Kaplan: Former arts dean and student supporter

Posted on 1 October 2010

York remembers Professor Harold Kaplan: Former arts dean and student supporter

Posted on 1 October 2010

Harold Kaplan, professor emeritus of political science and former dean of York’s Faculty of Arts, died on June 22 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie. He was 74. Kaplan joined the University in 1962 and served as acting chair of political science at the Glendon campus from 1964 to 1965. After his first sabbatical […]