Calvin Plimpton

Calvin Hastings Plimpton
13th President of Amherst College
In office
1960–1971
Preceded by Charles Woolsey Cole
Succeeded by John William Ward
Personal details
Born (1918-10-07)October 7, 1918
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died January 30, 2007(2007-01-30) (aged 88)
Westwood, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality American
Spouse(s) Ruth Talbot
Children David
Polly
Tom
Edward
Alma mater Amherst College (1939)
Harvard Medical School (1943)
Harvard University (M.S., 1947)
Columbia University (Ph.D., 1952)
Plimpton House, Amherst College (1914)

Calvin Hastings Plimpton (7 October 1918 – 30 January 2007) was an American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut. He is known for appointing a commission in 1970 whose findings resulted in the admission of women to Amherst in 1975.

Plimpton was the son of George Arthur Plimpton, who was chairman of the Amherst board of trustees from 1906 to 1936. His mother was Fanny "Anne" Hastings, and through her he was descended from Thomas Hastings, who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Plimpton attended Phillips Exeter Academy and received a bachelor's degree from Amherst, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received master's and M.D. degrees from Harvard University and a Doctor of Medical Science degree from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army as a captain during World War II. He later taught at Columbia.

Plimpton was president of Amherst from 1960 to 1971 (Plimpton House, now a dormitory, was named in his honour), president of Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y., a division of the State University of New York, from 1971 to 1979 and president of American University of Beirut from 1984 to 1987.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Charles W. Cole
President of Amherst College
19601971
Succeeded by
John William Ward
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