Background
Bolling, Landrum Rymer was born on November 13, 1913 in Parksville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Landrum Austin and Carrie Mae (Rymer) Bolling.
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Bolling, Landrum Rymer was born on November 13, 1913 in Parksville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Landrum Austin and Carrie Mae (Rymer) Bolling.
Bachelor, University Tennessee, 1933. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1938. Doctor of Laws, Valparaiso University.
Doctor of Laws, Wabash College. Doctor of Laws, Oberlin College. Doctor of Laws, Alderson-Broadus College.
Doctor of Laws, Beloit College. Doctor of Laws, Rose-Hulmann Polytechnic Institute. Doctor of Laws, Haverford College.
Doctor of Laws, Waseda University, Japan. Doctor of Laws, Indiana State University. Doctor of Laws, Eastern Nazarene College.
Doctor of Laws, Denison University. Doctor of Laws, Campbell College. Doctor of Laws, Indiana University.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Anderson College. Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana Technology College. Doctor of Humane Letters, Earlham College.
Administrative assistant personnel division, Tennessee Valley Authority
also housing manager Town of Norris, editor Norris News, 1933-1936;
freelance writer, 1936-1937;
instructor political science, Brown U., 1938-1940;
assisted in organization, Community Service Inc., Yellow Springs, Ohio.
also editor public, Yellow Springs News, 1940-1941;
instructor to associate professor political science, Beloit College, 1942-1946;
war correspondent, Mediterranean Theater, 1944-1945;
foreign correspondent, Berlin and Central Europe, 1946-1948;
professor political science, Earlham College, 1948-1958;
general secretary, Earlham College, 1955-1958;
president, Earlham College, 1958-1973;
executive vice president, Lilly Endowment, 1973-1975;
president, Lilly Endowment, 1975-1977;
chairman, Council on Founds., 1978-1981;
research professor of diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, 1981-1983;
president, The Ecumenical Institute (Tantur), Jerusalem, 1983-1989. Journalistic, editorial assignments, New York, Europe, 1949, 52-53. Senior counsellor Mercy Corps International, since 1989.
Senior fellow Center for Internat.Policy, since 1991. Senior advisor Conflict Management Group, since 1992.
Member Governor of Indiana Commission on Post High School Education, 1968. Member President's Commission on 25th Anniversary United Nations, 1970. Chairman International Quaker Working Party on Middle East Peace, 1968.
Member American delegate Soviet-American Talks, Dartmouth Conference, 1974, 76, 78, 79. Life member board directors Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. Board directors Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1980-1985, Youth for Understanding, Friendship Force.
Co-secretary DeBurght Conference on East/West Dialogue on Human Rights, since 1988. Member Association American Colleges (board directors), Great Lakes Colleges Association (chairman board directors 1962-1964), Indiana Conference Higher Education (president 1961-1962), Council Foreign Relations, Cosmos Club, Century Club.
Married Frances Morgan, July 6, 1936. Children: Roger Landrum (deceased), Brian Austin, David Morgan, Rebecca Lucy, Daniel Wade, Sarah Middleton.