A small college turned into an engineering school
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Clarkson Institute of Technology, later Clarkson University, in Potsdam, New York. William L. Whitson was its tenth president, 1963–1966.
Clarkson's own record of his presidency describes ambitions for aerospace engineering and astrophysics curricula, expanded liberal studies, doctoral programs across eight departments, and a new campus on the Hill — the first academic building of which, the Cora and Bayard Clarkson Science Center, began construction under him.
There is a private lake there. Jonathan Hare's older brother was conceived in a canoe on it.
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