Derek C. Bok
| Derek Bok | |
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| 25th President of Harvard University | |
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In office Acting July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Lawrence Summers |
| Succeeded by | Drew Gilpin Faust |
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In office 1971–1991 |
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| Preceded by | Nathan M. Pusey |
| Succeeded by | Neil Leon Rudenstine |
| 7th Dean of Harvard Law School | |
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In office 1968–1971 |
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| Preceded by | Erwin Griswold |
| Succeeded by | Albert Martin Sacks |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Derek Curtis Bok March 22, 1930 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Spouse(s) | Sissela Bok |
| Children | Hilary Bok |
| Alma mater |
Stanford University Harvard Law School George Washington University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator and the former president of Harvard University. He is the son of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok; the grandson of Ladies' Home Journal editor Edward W. Bok and Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist, founder of the Curtis Institute of Music; the cousin of prominent Maine folklorist Gordon Bok; and the great-grandson of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, founder of the Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post.
Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved to Miquon, Pennsylvania. He attended The Miquon School, a progressive school that his mother co-founded in 1932, and the UCLA Lab School. He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954), attended IEP Paris, and George Washington University (A.M., 1958).
Bok taught law at Harvard beginning in 1958 and served as dean of the law school there (1968–1971), in succession to Erwin Griswold on Griswold's becoming Solicitor-General of the United States, and then as the university's 25th president (1971–1991), in succession to Nathan M. Pusey. In the mid-1970s Bok negotiated with Radcliffe College president Matina Horner the "non-merger merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges that was a major step in the final merger of the two institutions. Bok currently serves as the faculty chair at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard and continues to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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