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George Alexander Heard (born March 14, 1917, in Savannah, Georgia; d. July 24, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee)〔Birthplace and date from online database of Marquis Who's Who〕 was chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1963 to 1982. He was also a political scientist and adviser to U.S. presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Milhous Nixon. ==Biography== In addition to his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University, all in political science, Heard received 27 honorary degrees, including degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Bard College.〔Billy Ray Caldwell, (Heard Obituary ) on the Vanderbilt Alumni Association site, 2009 July 27 (accessed 2009 July 28).〕〔Vanderbilt University’s News Network. Vanderbilt University, 25 July 2005. Web. 28 Jan. 2010., ("Alexander Heard, Vanderbilt’s fifth chancellor, dies." )〕 While a student at UNC, he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Among his scholarly contributions, Heard in 1952 published ''A Two-Party South?'', in which he predicted the transformation of the southern United States from one-party Democratic allegiance to two-party Democratic-Republican rivalry. At the time the Republican Party was virtually nonexistent in much of the South.〔Alexander Heard, ''A Two-Party South?'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952); available on (Questia.com. ) The 1952 book was a revision of his 1950 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University.〕 On May 8, 1970, Heard was appointed "Special Adviser on the Academic Community and the Young" by President Nixon.〔John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project (). Santa Barbara, CA: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database), 〕 During his career at Vanderbilt, Heard was offered the presidency of other institutions including Columbia University, but consistently declined, returning to Vanderbilt. Along with his wife Jean, Alexander Heard is the eponym of Vanderbilt's Jean and Alexander Heard Library, and the university, annually since 1982, has given a faculty member who has demonstrated exceptional understanding of contemporary society the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award.〔Elizabeth Latt, (Alexander Heard, Vanderbilt's fifth chancellor, dies: Champion of the open forum, he led university through turbulent times ), 2009 July 25 (accessed 2009 July 28).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「G. Alexander Heard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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