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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. Lief wrote three English textbooks, "American Colloquy" (1963), "Story and Critic" (1963), and "Modern Age: Literature" (1967).

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  • Leonard Lief (en)
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  • 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. Lief wrote three English textbooks, "American Colloquy" (1963), "Story and Critic" (1963), and "Modern Age: Literature" (1967). (en)
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  • Leonard Lief (en)
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  • Leonard Lief (en)
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  • New Rochelle, New York, US (en)
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  • Manhattan, New York, US (en)
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  • Hunter College, Herbert H. Lehman College (en)
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  • Shakespearean scholar (en)
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  • Founding president of Herbert H. Lehman College (en)
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  • "American Colloquy" , "Story and Critic" , "Modern Age: Literature" (en)
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  • English professor; college president (en)
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  • 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. Leonard Lief was educated at New York University on the G. I. Bill, obtained a master's degree at Columbia University, and a doctorate at Syracuse University in 1953. He became a member of the Hunter College faculty in 1955, and moved to the Bronx campus in 1963 He later became the provost of the Bronx campus, before it was made into Herbert H. Lehman College. 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 . Lief wrote three English textbooks, "American Colloquy" (1963), "Story and Critic" (1963), and "Modern Age: Literature" (1967). (en)
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