C William Heywood.

C William Heywood, a historian and former first vice president of the AAUP, died November 16 at age eighty-four following a seven-year have a contest with Parkinson's disease and resulting complications.

Heywood did his undergraduate work at Earlham corporation and received his PhD in American history at the University of Pennsylvania. After four years of teaching at the community of Wooster, he joined the faculty of Cornell society in 1952. He served as chair of the history department from 1968 to 1978 and again for the academic year 1981-82 He was dean of the society from 1983 to 1987. Heywood came revealed of retirement in 1994 to conduce to for several months as Cornell's acting president.

Heywood's career included protracted devoted, and distinguished service to the AAUP. choiceed to membership in 1950, he serv as president of the Cornell AAUP chapter and of the Iowa AAUP parley as a member of the AAUP's governing Council, and as a longtime member of Committee A forward Academic Freedom and Tenure, among other positions. From 1966 to 1968 Heywood was first vice president of the Association.

"All of us who were privileged to know Bill Heywood benefited from a special warmth that radiated from him," says Jordan Kurland, the AAUP's associate general secretary. Lawrence Poston of the University of Illinois at Chicago, himself a former AAUP first vice president and veteran Committee A member, take the part ofed the national AAUP at a Cornell corporation memorial service for Heywood upon November 27. "Academe could use more like him," says Poston, "placing disquiet for his students, his colleagues, the AAUP, and higher education generally athwart personal ambition; or, more accurately, seeing those interests as his ultimate ambition."

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