Frederick Bohen, retired executive vice president of Rockefeller University in New York City, died March 15, 2015. He was 77.
Attending Harvard on a Navy ROTC scholarship, Bohen graduated in 1959. After Naval service, he received an MPA degree in 1964 from the Woodrow Wilson School. He was the Wilson School’s first assistant dean for administration and admission until 1966, when he joined President Lyndon Johnson’s domestic policy staff in the White House.
Bohen then worked in public television at WNET and at the Ford Foundation. In 1972 and 1974, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in New Jersey, losing to the formidable Republicans Peter H.B. Freylinghuysen ’38 and Millicent Fenwick. From 1978 to 1980, he worked at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
In 1981, Bohen became vice president and treasurer of the University of Minnesota, and in 1983 he joined Brown University as senior vice president. In 1990, Bohen became the executive vice president and COO of Rockefeller University, retiring in 2005.
He served on many corporate and charitable boards. For Princeton, he was the Wilson School’s well-regarded class agent for Annual Giving.
Bohen is survived by his daughters, Shawn, Kim, and Courtney; and eight grandchildren. He was formerly married to Halcyone Harger Bohen.
Graduate memorials are prepared by the APGA.