Leonard Lief
American academic administrator
About Leonard Lief
Lived 1924 – 2007 (aged 83). Leonard Lief was an American.
Leonard Lief (June 14, 1924 – July 30, 2007) was the founding president of Herbert H. Lehman College a Bronx institution that is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. Lief was the college's president for more than two decades, from 1968 to 1990, solidifying it as a college with a liberal arts focus on a tree-lined campus. and moved to the Bronx campus in 1963
Lief, an Elizabethan scholar, died after a long bout with Parkinson's disease at the age of 83, on July 30, 2007, at his Willow Towers home in New Rochelle, New York. The Lehman College's campus library is named Leonard Lief Library in his honor. His successor as president of Lehman College was Ricardo R. Fernández.
Lief wrote three English textbooks, "American Colloquy" (1963), "Story and Critic" (1963), and "Modern Age: Literature" (1967).
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Who was Leonard Lief?
American academic administrator
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Leonard Lief was born on 14 June 1924 in Brooklyn.
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Leonard Lief died on 30 July 2007 in New Rochelle.
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Leonard Lief was American.
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