Background
Hereford, Frank Loucks was born on July 18, 1923 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. Son of Frank L. and Marguerite (Roussel) Hereford.
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Hereford, Frank Loucks was born on July 18, 1923 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States. Son of Frank L. and Marguerite (Roussel) Hereford.
Hereford attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate, where he wrote a sports column for College Topics (the precursor of the Cavalier Daily) and sang in the Virginia Glee Club. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1943, became a Physics fellow working under Jesse Beams in the years after the war, and received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University.
He died in 2004 at the age of 81. Among the hallmarks of his presidency were a major capital campaign, which increased the University"s endowment from $97 million to more than $250 million. And ending the traditional Easters Weekend party.
During the war years, he worked on research for the Manhattan Project with Doctor Beams, who called him "one of the best all around physicists with whom I have ever been associated."
He was appointed provost in 1966.
He was appointed Vice-President of the University (one of five newly created VP-level offices) in 1970, but resigned his posts of Vice-President and Dean to return to research in 1971. He was elected president to succeed Edgar Shannon in 1973 and took office a year later on the condition that he only serve for ten years.
He extended his term by one year to oversee the completion of the University"s first capital campaign, which began in 1981. Where his predecessor Edgar F. Shannon, Junior. had resigned from the club, Hereford stated that he preferred to remain and attempt to change the club from within.
His membership caused controversy at the University in 1976, resulting in one faculty resignation.
The incident became the catalyst for social change at the University including the establishment of an Office of Minority Affairs. The Hereford Residential College at UVA is named after him.
Board Governors Belfield School, Charlottesville, 1959-1962, 63-65, Chairman of the Board, 1962. Board directors St. Anne's School, Charlottesville, 1966-1970. Trustee Woodberry Forest School, 1968-1974, Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia, 1975-1985.
Fellow American Physical Society (chairman Southeastern section 1961-1962), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega.
Married Ann Lane, January 3, 1948. Children— Frank, Sarah, Robert.