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Winter 2003

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All my best friends are here

One giant molecule

I learnt to dream of Sicily

The Landscape Beautiful

Around the Pond

The truest friend




	Copies of the book are available to contributors to the Tippo Library Endowment, Friends of the Library, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9275.

THE FIRST “OCCASIONAL PAPER” published by the Friends of the Library at UMass Amherst is titled Oswald Tippo and the Early Promise of the University of Massachusetts. Based on 1983 interviews conducted with the former chancellor and provost by Education Professor Irving Seidman, the slim volume offers much to ponder about the transformation of a state agricultural college into a major research university.

Tippo, a botanist, graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1928, then a school with 800 students. In 1964 he became provost, then chancellor in 1970. He returned to teaching in 1971, retired in 1982 and died in 1999. He was an administrator during the time of the university’s greatest expansion, recruiting between 150-200 new faculty a year. Devoted to making the institution as great as it could be, he described himself as “a dangerous man,” because he held no ambition for higher office, but merely wanted to do his job well.

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