"University of Kentucky" Herman Lee Donovan Signed 3X5 Card COA For Sale

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Herman Lee Donovan(March 17, 1887 –November 21, 1964) was an American educator and college administrator who servedas the fourth president of theUniversity of Kentucky(UK)from 1941 to 1956. During this period, the University of Kentucky faced manychallenges including the desegregation of both the graduate and undergraduatedivisions, an influx of veterans as a result of theG.I. Bill, and political interference fromlegislatorsinFrankfort. A nativeofMaysville, Kentucky, ontheOhio River, Donovan was the first student enrolled at theWestern Kentucky State Normal School (nowWestern KentuckyUniversity), graduating in 1908. He later attended the University ofKentucky,Columbia University, andGeorge Peabody School for Teachers (nowPeabody CollegeofVanderbilt University)inNashville, Tennessee, fromwhich he earned his Ph.D. At Columbia University, Donovan was firmly schooledin the educational idea ofProgressivism, and later he headed Eastern Kentucky NormalSchool (now calledEastern KentuckyUniversity) from 1928 to 1941 inRichmond, Kentucky, beforebeing called to head UK. Donovan believed that the state of Kentucky should beUK's campus, and he was fond of saying, "You cannot have a great statewithout a great state university." He wrote about his experiences as ateacher, builder, and administrator in the memoirKeeping theUniversity Free and Growing, published in 1959. Particularly notable isDonovan's chapter on integration, in which he discusses the case ofLyman Johnson, the Louisville history schoolteacher who wonthe right to attend the university's graduate school under court order in 1949.Donovan was married to Nell Stuart and died in 1964. He is buried inLexington Cemetery, notfar from the grave of CoachAdolph Rupp, who won several NCAA championships at UK whileDonovan was president.

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