{{short description|American educator, historian, and professor}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Wall Lyman | image = | order = 7th | title = President of [[Stanford University]] | term_start = September 24, 1970<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/at-the-hands-of-the-radicals|title=At the Hands of the Radicals|date=2009|access-date=December 1, 2023|website=[[Stanford Magazine]]}}</ref> | term_end = August 1, 1980 | predecessor = [[Kenneth Pitzer]] | successor = [[Donald Kennedy]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|10|18}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|05|27|1923|10|18}} | death_place = [[Palo Alto, California]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Swarthmore College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) | profession = Historian | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth "Jing" Schauffler|1947}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/man-in-the-middle|title=Man in the Middle|last=Jaroslovsky|first=Rich|date=2012|access-date=November 28, 2023|website=[[Stanford Magazine]]}}</ref> }} '''Richard Wall Lyman''' (October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012) was an American educator, historian, and professor who served as the seventh president of [[Stanford University]] from 1970 to 1980.
== Biography == An historian of the [[Labour Party (UK)|British Labour Party]], Lyman spent two years at the [[London School of Economics]] in 1951 and 1952, researching for his PhD on the [[First MacDonald ministry|first Labour Government]]. He spent the period 1954-1958 teaching at [[Washington University in St. Louis]]. In 1957 his PhD was published as a book, entitled ''The First Labour Government, 1924''. He joined Stanford in 1958.<ref name="Stanford Report">{{cite news|publisher=Stanford Report|date=May 27, 2012|title=Richard W. Lyman, Stanford's seventh president, dead at 88|url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/richard-lyman-obit-052712.html|accessdate=June 19, 2012}}</ref>
He served as the provost of [[Stanford]] between 1967 and 1970. He then served as president of the university from 1970 to 1980. During his tenure as provost and president, he confronted campus dissidents involved in protests against the Vietnam war and other social issues of the 1960s. In the spring of 1969, he called in law enforcement authorities to evict and arrest students who were occupying campus buildings and removing administrative files.<ref>[http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news_features/centennial/1960SD.php "Stanford University under siege"], Palo Alto Online, Palo Alto Centennial. Wednesday, April 13, 1994.</ref><ref name='stanfordmag-01-2009'>[http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2009/janfeb/features/lyman.html "At the Hands of the Radicals"], Stanford Magazine. January–February, 2009.</ref> In referring to his leadership during his tenure, both of his immediate successors as president of the university have said that "Dick Lyman saved Stanford."<ref>"The Stanford Presidency," at [https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-stanford-presidency/id385664533?i=85437240# Stanford on iTunes (iTunes U:Stanford:Campus Life:Stanford History-Video)], Donald Kennedy at 19:30 mark of video; Gerhard Casper at 37:00 minute mark.</ref>
Lyman was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Richard Wall Lyman|url=https://www.amacad.org/person/richard-wall-lyman|access-date=2021-12-03|website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|language=en}}</ref>
In 1983 he founded the [[Stanford Institute for International Studies]] and became its first director. He was the president of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] from 1980 to 1988.
In 1998, Lyman was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Richard+W.+Lyman&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-12-03|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>
Lyman earned his [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Swarthmore College]] and his [[master's degree]] and [[PhD]] from [[Harvard University]]. He was a [[Fulbright scholar]] at the [[London School of Economics]] from 1951 to 1952. He came to Stanford in 1958 as a professor in history.<ref name=fsi-bio>{{cite web|title=Richard Lyman - FSI Stanford|url=http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/richardwlyman|publisher=Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford|accessdate=December 13, 2011}}</ref>
The [[Richard W. Lyman Award]] was established in 2002 by the [[National Humanities Center]] in honor of Lyman.<ref>[http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm The Lyman Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208185746/http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/lymanaward/lymanaward.htm |date=2007-02-08 }}, National Humanities Center.</ref> He posthumously won the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award from [[Hamden Hall Country Day School]].<ref name="hamdenhall" />
He married Jing (1925–2013) in 1947 and they have four children. Jing Lyman was herself very active in the university and supported the founding of the Center for Research on Women (now the [[Stanford University Centers and Institutes#Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research|Clayman Institute for Gender Studies]]) in 1974.<ref name=crow>{{cite web|title=Jing Lyman: A pioneering campus leader takes another bow|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2010/05/jing-lyman-a-pioneering-campus-leader-takes-another-bow/|publisher=Clayman Institute for Gender Studies|accessdate=December 13, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001172108/http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/cgi-bin/wordpressblog/2010/05/jing-lyman-a-pioneering-campus-leader-takes-another-bow/|archivedate=October 1, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2013/11/21/jing-lyman-former-first-lady-stanford-dead-88/|title=Jing Lyman, former 'first lady' of Stanford, dead at 88|last=Sullivan|first=Kathleen J.|date=November 21, 2013}}</ref> She was a "leading national figure in initiatives promoting fairer housing, community development and women’s economic empowerment."<ref>[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/people/jing-lyman-1925-2013/2009910.article "Jing Lyman, 1925-2013"], ''Times Higher Education'', December 19, 2013.</ref> His granddaughter is radio producer [[Tina Antolini]].<ref name="hamdenhall">{{cite web|url=https://www.hamdenhall.org/news-detail?pk=573723 |title=Meet Dr. Richard Lyman, Class of 1940, Recipient of the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award |date=25 April 2011 |accessdate=4 January 2020}}</ref>
The Lyman Graduate Residence built in 1997 on the west side of campus is named for Richard Lyman and the Jing Lyman Commons Building within it for his wife.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Lyman|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/resed/lyman/about.html|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=December 13, 2011}}</ref>
He died in 2012 of [[heart failure]], aged 88.<ref name="Stanford Report"/>
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